Chapter 149 Four-Faced Buddha

Chapter 149 Four-Faced Buddha

Chapter 149 Four-Faced Buddha

The story of Azhen and Aqiang ends here.

Azhen died in the back mountain, and Aqiang was mentally ill when he was found by the police. After more than half a year of counseling by a psychologist, he recorded a relatively complete transcript, but there are still too many confusing things.

Why did the stone Buddha, which was supposed to be placed in the courtyard, appear in the middle of the road?
After further investigation by the police, it was confirmed that there were only Azhen and Aqiang in the town on the day of the incident, and the couple was live streaming in front of the camera throughout the whole process. Until their mobile phones were smashed, they never left the sight of tens of thousands of viewers in the live broadcast room.

So how did this stone Buddha move from the center of the road to outside the collapsed courtyard wall while the two were live streaming?
Why did Aqiang insist in his statement that his car was missing even though the police who arrived later clearly found their car parked under the tea tree?

If Aqiang did not kill anyone, then who was the woman who returned to her sleeping bag and slept in the arms of her boyfriend after Azhen accidentally died at the entrance of the air-raid shelter due to falling rocks?

If it was Aqiang who killed the person, why was his method of covering up the crime so clumsy and full of mistakes?

...There is no shortage of discussions about this matter on major online forums, and even now you can still find the heated posts from that time. There is no strange blocking of the news or anything like that.

Some people think that Aqiang is a murderer who murdered his girlfriend and used unfounded supernatural events to cover up his murder. Others believe that this uninhabited town called Zanju does hide some supernatural secrets, and some supernatural phenomenon led to Azhen's death and Aqiang's mental disorder.

In the days that followed, many anchors who wanted to take advantage of the popularity went to the place where the murder had taken place to try to solve the mystery of that year, but the air-raid shelter on the back mountain had been completely sealed with concrete poured by the authorities, and there was no way to verify the scene of that year.

No matter if they are bloggers who are trying to take advantage of the popularity or individuals who are keen on supernatural events and commit suicide, the most they can do is to imitate what Ah Zhen did back then and play the game of "one, two, three, block" with the Bodhisattvas and Arhats in the town.

This is also one of the live broadcast plans of today's five anchor teams.

Two SUVs and an RV drove along the overgrown gravel road outside Zanju Town - perhaps it can no longer be called a road - the white walls and gray tiles in the distance were already visible, and there were still many two- or three-story self-built houses that had withstood the test of wind and rain and had not collapsed.

From a distance, you can see a blue-gray "skull" poking out from the cluster of houses. It is a huge "Buddha" statue.

At this time, the two split-screen live broadcast rooms on Park Changfan's monitor had become five. Xiao Ke and Tang Xin waved to the audience in the Xiachong live broadcast room and got out of the car. Deep Love Brother walked out of the car door holding a selfie stick, placed the huge Buddha head in the center of the town that was taller than the roof in the center of the screen, and introduced:

"Look, folks. This is one of Taoyuan City's most famous unfinished projects, the Eight-Armed Four-Faced Buddha. It is said that during the Qing Dynasty, the governor of Qinzhou was a devout Buddhist pilgrim. When he was young, he received ordination in the Guichen Temple and spent half his life as a monk with hair."

"In his later years, he spared no expense to transport huge stones from Gubei Town and ordered craftsmen from Zanju Town to build a huge Buddha statue 18 meters high to prove that he was a devout Buddhist and could cure terminal illnesses... However, the court died before the statue was completed."

"During the war years, the craftsmen in Zanju died or fled, leaving behind only this large lump of stone that even the invaders didn't bother to consider. The world was peaceful afterwards, but the governor who paid the craftsmen in Zanju Town was gone, and this unfinished four-faced Buddha has been sitting in this town until now."

Du Diao Hanjiang, who was standing nearby, glanced over here and said to the audience in his live broadcast room:
"It is called the Four-Faced Buddha, but it is actually the Three-Faced Buddha to be more precise. The Buddha statue was originally planned to have four faces, overlooking the four directions of east, south, west and north, implying that the Buddha's light shines upon all living beings in the world. However, due to the war, only the faces of the Buddha in the east, south and west directions were carved, while the northern face was only carved with an outline, without even the facial features."

That is to say, among the four sides of the 'Eight-Armed Four-Faced Buddha' sitting in the center of Zanju Town, only the side facing north has no facial features.

At this time, several comments were floating in the live broadcast room. The audience who lived in the north joked that it seemed that the Buddha's light, which shone everywhere, did not shine on his home.

Diaodu Hanjiang laughed and agreed to the camera: "Azhen and Aqiang were not in the picture either." The back mountain where the air-raid shelter where the murder took place is located in the north of Zanju Town.

As they were talking, the logistics team parked the two SUVs and the RV under an old tea tree in the south of the town. Yes, it was the place where Azhen and Aqiang parked their cars back then.

This is a live broadcast based on urban legends, strange events and the beauty of the female anchor, so there are no photographers following the filming. The logistics staff will camp outside the town, and their team has specially hired two experienced former fire brigade police officers who are ready to deal with possible accidents at any time.

The sunset in the sky is as red as blood. It is now August 2018, 08, at 10:18 in the evening. A total of five anchors, two men and three women, separated and entered the town alone from different directions with satellite phones, starting today's "super thriller live broadcast".

Xiao Ke and Tang Xin chose the shortest way and walked directly into the main road of this deserted town from the south town gate. Two rows of red brick houses with low heights stood on both sides of the road like welcoming waiters, but their standing posture was not very good. Some buildings were still standing upright, while others had already collapsed.

Xiao Ke is nearsighted and wears a pair of tortoise-shell-framed glasses on his face.

Tangxin has good eyesight and wears a pair of decorative plain glasses on her face.

In short, both of them are wearing glasses, the only difference is that one is really nearsighted and the other is just for decoration, one has twin ponytails and the other has short hair. Both of them have professional sweet smiles on their faces, chatting with the audience in the live broadcast room while continuing to walk along the main road in the center of the town that is overgrown with weeds.

They walked in tacit understanding on the left and right sides of the street, with a street about 5 meters wide between them. This did not violate the rules of the "acting alone" activity and allowed them to take care of each other.

"The next intersection ahead is the T-junction where Aqiang found the stone Buddha. My family members think I might encounter something there. I feel a little scared..."

"There are many collapsed walls on both sides of the street. Every household in Zanju Town is a jade craftsman or stonemason, so there are stone carvings everywhere..."

As she spoke, Tang Xin pointed the camera at the house across the street. In the camera, she saw Xiao Ke, who was wearing a pink miniskirt, walking slowly past a dilapidated window across the street. In the setting sun, she could vaguely see shadowy figures inside the house. They must be stone sculptures abandoned here.

The sun sets slowly, the dusk deepens, and the RV and logistics parked outside the town have long disappeared from sight.

From here on, it's just me.

Xiao Ke stood in front of the window, the slanting sunlight made her shadow in her little skirt very long.

She extended her selfie stick into the house and took a picture of the dozen stone sculptures standing inside. Then she turned around, facing away from the dozen pairs of eyes that were either kind or ferocious, closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and whispered:
"One, two, three, wooden man."

Ever since Ah Zhen died here, One Two Three Wooden Men has become a must-see activity in Zanju Town. Every adventure host who comes here will play a few rounds of the game with the stone sculptures in the town.

Of course, these wooden figures have never moved once.

(End of this chapter)