Chapter 19 You are still alive!
Chapter 19 You are still alive!
"Rich? Last name Liu? A child of the Liu family?"
Chen Shi just felt that the name was somewhat familiar. Suddenly, his head buzzed and he opened his eyes wide and looked at the thin boy in front of him.
He remembered that Sanwang once said that the last missing child was from the Liu family and his name was Fugui!
And the child in front of me is called Liu Fugui!
Are there two Liu Fugui in this village?
I'm afraid not!
The thin boy named Liu Fugui walked towards the village. Seeing that Chen Shi didn't move, he waved to him and said with a smile: "Chen Shi, come over here, I'll introduce you to some good friends!"
Chen Shi hesitated for a moment and followed him into the village.
He originally thought that he would have a real friend, but now it seems that this friend is not so real.
"Master Chen Fu!" Sanwang shouted loudly.
Chen Shi turned a deaf ear and continued to follow Liu Fugui, while Hei Guo quickly followed Chen Shi, feeling uneasy.
The thin boy walked very fast, and the other people in the village seemed to be unable to see him, allowing him to trot all the way to the center of the village. The houses in Huangyang Village were built around the godmother like in other villages, forming concentric circles.
Chen Shi looked forward and saw a temple standing in the center of the ruins of an ancient palace.
The temple should have been built later. Although it is very old, it should still be very young compared to the ruins.
There is a bronze statue sitting cross-legged in the temple. It is unknown when it was left. The statue is a strange deity with indigo skin and fangs in its mouth. It is more than six feet tall when sitting. If it stands up, it is probably more than ten feet tall.
It is the godmother of Huangyang Village.
Chen Shi followed Liu Fugui into the temple, but saw that the bronze statue was piled with various offerings, including chickens, ducks, geese, fish, shrimps, crabs, melons, fruits, pears and peaches, which was very rich.
Behind the offering sat a fat man with a fat head and big ears. He held a water chicken in one hand and stuffed it into his mouth with oil dripping from his mouth. In the other hand, he held a melon and looked around with his eyes, fearing that someone would snatch his offering.
This chubby, fat man should be the divine form formed by extraordinary power.
Chen Shi looked towards the corner of the temple, where a few children were hiding and talking to Liu Fugui.
"His name is Chen Shi, his nickname is Xiao Shi, and he can see me!"
Liu Fugui was very excited and said to the children, "My parents can't see me, and the villagers can't see me either. Only he can see me! He can definitely see you too!"
The children immediately looked at Chen Shi with hopeful expressions.
"Brother Xiaoshi, my mother is going crazy looking for me and has been crying for a long time!"
A child came to Chen Shi in a hurry, tears rolling down his cheeks as he spoke, choking with sobs, "I saw my mother crying, and I wanted to cry too. I hugged her legs and told her, 'Mom, I'm here,' but she couldn't hear or see me! Can you help me find my mother?"
Another child's eyes turned red: "My parents can't see me either!"
The child behind said, "My mother is crying her eyes out!"
Chen Shi's heart sank. These four children should be the four missing children.
They have turned into ghosts, which means I am still too late.
All four children died.
"As a godmother worshipped by the villagers, shouldn't you have the responsibility to protect the villagers?" Chen Shi turned around and looked at the fat man who was eating and drinking behind the offerings.
The fat man stopped feeding himself and turned around with a ferocious look.
Hei Guo rushed to Chen Shi quickly, baring his teeth and making a humming sound in his throat.
The fat man snorted, "I am only responsible for exorcising evil spirits. Other things have nothing to do with me! Little devil, for Chen Yindu's sake, I will spare you this time! If you speak rudely to me again next time, I will eat you up and Chen Yindu won't dare to say a word!"
He turned back and continued eating and drinking.
Chen Shi was slightly startled: "Other things have nothing to do with you. Could it be that... the one who killed these four children wasn't an evil spirit?"
The godmother in the village has the responsibility to exorcise evil spirits, but if the one harming people is not an evil spirit, then there is no need for the godmother to take action unless the villagers offer sacrifices.
Chen Shi had originally found it strange when he heard that evil spirits were happening during the day.
My grandfather told me that evil spirits only appear at night because there is a strange power in the moonlight.
It is extremely rare for evil spirits to appear in broad daylight.
The fat man turned a deaf ear to his words and did not answer.
Chen Shi asked, "Fugui, how did you die?"
Liu Fugui was startled and said timidly, "Brother Xiaoshi, am I dead?"
"Don't be afraid. Think carefully about how you were kidnapped."
"I was peeing, and then the world started spinning around, and I didn't know anything. I must have fallen asleep, and I don't know how long I slept before I woke up. Then I heard my parents calling my name..."
Chen Shi perked up when he heard that. Hearing his parents calling his name meant that the accident was not far away!
Liu Fugui said, "I climbed over the wall and went out. I saw my parents looking for me, so I told them I was here. They couldn't hear or see me. Brother Xiaoshi, am I really dead?"
Chen Shi asked in confusion, "You climbed over the wall? Whose wall did you climb over?"
"It's the deserted house in the village where no one lives."
"The abandoned house of the Tian family?"
Liu Fugui nodded and said, "Yes, that family's surname is Tian. I met them at the Tian family." He pointed to the other children.
Chen Shi looked at the other children and suddenly said, "The four of you come with me, let's go to the Tian family's abandoned house."
He walked out of the temple with his four children. Outside the temple, there were crowds of people. The villagers gathered outside the temple, staring at him without even breathing.
Chen Shi looked back, but saw that only Liu Fugui followed him. The other three children were trapped by the threshold of the temple and could not jump out.
Chen Shi returned to the temple and said, "Come with me, let's go to the scene and take a look."
One of the children said, "I can't get out. When I got to the threshold, it kept getting higher and higher, blocking us!"
The other two children nodded repeatedly.
Upon hearing this, Chen Shi looked at the fat man behind the offerings.
The fat man lazily said, "Others eat meat while I drink soup. These three little ghosts are dead, and their souls have been sacrificed to me. You can't take them away."
Chen Shi wondered, "Why can Fugui leave?"
"He's not dead yet, his soul has left his body."
The fat man said, "When he dies, his soul will belong to me."
Chen Shi looked at him deeply, and did not try to take the other three children away. He said to Liu Fugui, "Let's go to the Tian family's abandoned house!"
As he walked out, the villagers made way for him and Liu Fugui quickly followed him through.
"Is this little talisman master any good?" someone asked worriedly. "There's nothing in the temple, he's the only one talking to himself, maybe he has mental problems."
Chen Shi turned a deaf ear and asked Liu Fugui to lead the way, and soon brought him to the deserted house of the Tian family.
This deserted house also has earthen walls, without a single brick. It is made of mud and ash, with simple beams and pillars laid out and covered with straw to form the front hall.
The door to the front hall was locked with an iron chain that was already rusty.
There is an old locust tree in the yard. It is very tall and lush, almost covering the entire yard.
If you go further inside, you can't see clearly.
Chen Shi was not in a hurry to go in. He put down the bookcase and took out a knife. Hei Guo hurried forward and asked him to prick him with the knife to draw blood.
"Black Pot, I'm sorry for wronging you. I don't have any exotic beast meat here. I'll go back and compensate you."
Chen Shi ground the ink, mixed the cinnabar and black dog blood, and without using any talisman paper, he went straight to the door of the deserted house of the Tian family and picked up a pen to draw talismans on the door.
He activated the Three Lights Righteousness Art, and starlight came all around him, transforming into the Big Dipper around him. A divine light suddenly appeared behind his head, condensing into a shrine.
Chen Shi held his breath, and his mind and energy flowed to the tip of the pen. He held the pen in one hand and drew a picture of Yu Lei on a door panel with great vigor. Then he exhaled in a breath, and the divine light behind his head dissipated, and the shrine disappeared.
He is currently unable to retain his true energy and can only rely on a breath to make his shrine appear. When the breath dissipates, the shrine will also dissipate.
Chen Shi took another breath, licked his brush and ink, the shrine reappeared, and he painted another picture of Shentu.
These two pictures are the door god talismans drawn on peach charms.
As the two pictures formed, a faint divine light burst out from the door, and then became fainter and fainter, blending into the air and becoming difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.
Chen Shi exhaled and said, "The peach charms didn't react at all. It seems that there is no evil spirit in this deserted house."
If there is an evil spirit, the peach charm will surely be activated, and the two door gods on the peach charm will jump out and drive away the evil spirit!
Now the peach charms have not been triggered, which means there is no evil spirit in the deserted house.
"So, who is it that takes away the bed-wetting child?"
Chen Shi held the brush and ink in one hand, and with the other hand, he gently broke the iron chain that locked the door, pushed the door open and walked into the courtyard. ——Although he had no magic power, his strength was getting stronger and stronger.
Hei Guo and Liu Fugui hurriedly followed.
The villagers stopped outside the door and didn't dare to come in.
The yard was full of weeds and trees, the largest of which was the locust tree.
Chen Shi came to the locust tree, picked up the brush and concentrated, using the true energy that had not yet dissipated, he drew the Five Mountains House Guarding Talisman on the locust tree.
He caught a glimpse of a dry well in the yard, and immediately went up to it and drew a well symbol on the edge of the well.
In this way, with the peach charm in front to drive away evil spirits, the Five Mountains charm in the center, and even the well sealed by the well charm, the Tian family's deserted house became as solid as a rock, and no evil could enter. If there was an evil spirit in the yard, it would feel suppressed by the Five Mountains and could not move.
Chen Shi put down his pen and asked, "Fugui, where did you wake up from?"
"In the main room!"
Liu Fugui walked quickly into the main room and said, "This is it!"
Chen Shi followed, but there was no sign of Liu Fugui.
The main room was empty except for the altar table, on which stood eight pitch-black spirit tablets. The table and chairs were covered in dust, and there were cobwebs in the corners.
"Wealth, wealth!"
Chen Shi called out loudly, but Fugui, who had just rushed into the main room, had disappeared.
Chen Shi came to the side room on the left and suddenly felt a chill. He saw four black coffins parked in the side room, neatly arranged on a bench.
He bravely walked up to it and saw that the nails on the coffin were still there, which meant it must have been there for a long time.
Chen Shi thought about it and didn't open the coffin.
He then came to the side room on the right, where there were also four black coffins, also placed on benches, not on the ground.
Chen Shi frowned slightly. These eight black coffins should be the coffins of the eight members of the Tian family. For some reason, they were only coffined but not buried.
There were no signs that the coffin nails had been removed.
"Fugui clearly came in just now, how come he suddenly disappeared? Unless..."
Chen Shi's eyes fell on several coffins. He hesitated for a moment and was about to go forward to open the coffins. At this moment, the sound of barking dogs was heard. Chen Shi returned to the main hall, but saw Hei Guo parked outside the hall. He did not come in, but just raised his head and barked upwards.
Chen Shi looked up and was stunned.
The roof above the main beam of the main hall must have been renovated. It was no longer made of thatch or straw, but was replaced with extremely flat wooden boards, arranged in the shape of a human. The boards were very thick and were planed to be extremely shiny. There were extremely complex talismans drawn on them with the blood of someone unknown, and they were extremely bright red!
The talismans are extremely large, each one is more than ten feet square, and there are five talismans in total.
The structure of the talisman is very strange. When you squint your eyes, the lines become blurry, and it seems as if you see five hideous heads with bloody mouths and tongues more than ten feet long, like ghosts!
Five chains hung from the mouth of the talisman ghost head, and a child was tied to each of four of the chains. The children's hands and feet were trapped and they were hung upside down on the roof.
The upper and lower eyelids of these four children were hooked with fish hooks, which lifted their eyelids. Their noses were also hooked with fish hooks and pulled upwards.
Their mouths, with their upper and lower lips hooked at the four corners by four fish hooks, were stretched in different directions, making their mouths look very big.
They were upside down, their bodies hanging at an angle, and their tongues in their mouths were pierced by an iron hook and pulled downwards.
The iron hook was connected to a thin iron chain, at the end of which was a small tripod the size of a palm.
Their tongues were stretched out.
The blood that flowed from their tongues flowed along the hooks and chains into the small tripod.
"Wealthy!"
Chen Shi saw the face of one of the children, and it was the thin boy who wanted to make friends with him just now. He hurriedly shouted, "Liu Fugui! Wake up! Wake up!"
The child seemed to hear his call and rolled his eyes dazedly.
A feeling of ecstasy surged into Chen Shi's heart.
"Alive!"
"you are still alive!"
"Don't touch Fugui! I'll rescue you right now!"
——The talismans used by Xiao Shi in this chapter will be put in the chapter description later, welcome to read it!!
(End of this chapter)