Chapter 164: Sacrifice to Three Corpses
Chapter 164: Worshiping the Three Corpses
The silent gaze is chilling.
At the end of the downward stairs, there are four pale faces looking up to the sky with clear facial features, indicating that these stone statues had been stored indoors and had not experienced the ravages of wind and rain.
They stood there quietly, just standing there, without any other movement.
"Relax, at least they won't move when we're watching them."
As Ning Zhe spoke, he walked down the stairs and came to a stone statue. He came face to face with it at close range and looked carefully at the traces of artificial carving on the white stone with great interest.
Xia Yubing stood there in a daze, not daring to move.
The emotion called fear crawled all over her body like maggots, making her shudder. Xia Yubing's shoulders trembled slightly. She looked down at Ning Zhe's back standing at the bottom of the stairs. For some reason, she remembered the evil ghost mask with a green face and fangs.
Xia Yubing pursed her lips, and suddenly her mind echoed what Ning Zhe had said to her not long ago:
"You've come to the wrong place. Zanju Town is not some popular tourist attraction suitable for live streaming and checking in. Instead, it is a portal to a strange world. The opening time of this portal may be regular or irregular, depending on luck. If you come here at the wrong time, you will be involved in strange events that you should not be involved in..."
Xia Yubing thought of Jiang Han who was panicking on the phone before, Xiao Ke who had lost his vital signs upstairs, and the stone statues in front of her that were secretly moving when she couldn't see...
Is this the strange incident he was talking about?
Xia Yubing mustered up the courage to walk down the stairs, came to Ning Zhe's side, lowered her head and asked in a low voice: "You said before that you can take me away from here, right?"
——Even a burly man like Lin Zhiyuan, who is over 1 meters tall, is still almost a head shorter than Xia Yubing.
"Yes, your aunt paid for it." Ning Zhe said lightly, "I will do my best to ensure that you can get out alive, provided that you can be obedient and don't cause trouble for me like before."
"...Okay." Xia Yubing nodded.
Shen Qing stood on the stairs and watched the two people whispering to each other below. He felt even more uneasy. Until now, he was still confused and didn't know what had happened. He hadn't figured out the current situation, but he knew it was not a good situation.
Who knows if this supernatural live broadcast that was done just to attract traffic can actually lead to encountering ghosts.
Oh, right, live broadcast.
The equipment previously used for live broadcast was broken during the dispute with Xiao Ke, and the live broadcast was temporarily interrupted. The discussion area is probably a mess now. When the news of Xiao Ke’s death gets out, it is estimated that public opinion will ferment into who knows what.
When Shen Qing thought of this, he felt a headache.
It's better to contact the production crew to come to the scene and clean up the body. And Xia Chong can't make this call, it's better for him to do it himself.
However, his travel bag containing the satellite phone and spare phone was still upstairs, and he didn't have time to bring it down. Shen Qing said to the people downstairs, "I'm going upstairs to get something." Then he turned and went upstairs.
However, just after reaching the stairwell on the second floor, before he had taken a few steps, Shen Qing was forced to stop.
The door leading to the rooftop was open, and the snow-white moonlight poured down the stairs. Looking up through the square door frame, one could see the silent face of the Four-Faced Buddha in the distance.
And the slender figure standing in the moonlight.
"Xiao, Xiao Ke..." The corners of Shen Qing's mouth trembled slightly, and the tone of his voice changed a little.
Xiao Ke's dress had been put on neatly by Xia Yubing, but the makeup on her face was a little smudged, and her bloodless skin looked especially white under the moonlight. She slowly opened her eyes that had been closed by Xia Yubing and walked straight downstairs.
"I'm so hungry..." A dry voice came from the woman's silent throat.
"So hungry..."
“…I’m starving…”
She walked down the stairs step by step. The scent of jasmine perfume mixed with the strong smell of blood slowly approached. Shen Qing wanted to escape, but he could not move.
When people are extremely frightened, they will lose control of their bodies. It was a pity that he didn't collapse to the ground with his legs going limp. Shen Qing's lips trembled, and his upper and lower teeth made uncontrollable clacking sounds. Under the moonlight, the slender figure in the reflection of his pupils was getting closer and closer.
"So hungry..."
"Do you want to eat Snickers?"
A hand stretched out from behind Shen Qing. It was a woman's hand. Her snow-white skin was as smooth as newly woven silk. Her five sparkling fingers were holding a chocolate bar in a dark brown package, which had already been torn open.
The young woman wearing a demon mask walked out from behind Shen Qing and handed the chocolate bar in her hand to Xiao Ke: "If you don't want to eat it, I'll eat it myself."
Then Shen Qing saw the pale-faced Xiao Ke silently lowered his head and opened his mouth to bite the chocolate bar in his hand, and the crushed peanut kernels made a crackling sound.
Ning Zhe took out another Snickers from his bag, pulled up his mask to reveal the lower half of his face, tore open the package and started eating.
For a moment, the only sounds in the moonlit stairwell were the faint sounds of chewing food and Shen Qing's rapid heartbeat and breathing.
The Buddha's face outside the door had his eyes lowered, looking down at everything in front of him without saying a word, with no sadness or joy.
Shen Qing's legs went limp and he fell to the ground.
Xia Yubing's voice came from behind, cautiously: "How do you know that just feeding her will do?"
Ning Zhe finished a Snickers bar, stuffed the rest of the packaging into his bag, and said, "There is a saying in the Taoist classics: People eat five grains to fill their stomachs, and three corpses and nine insects reside in their stomachs."
"When a person is alive, the three corpses are invisible and reside in the belly. After a person dies, the three souls ascend to heaven and the seven spirits return to the earth. Only the three corpses leave the body and wander around the world. Their appearance and clothing are no different from when they were alive. They are called ghosts."
Just as he finished speaking, a crisp sound of footsteps came from the corner of the stairs behind Xiao Ke, and a slender figure walked down from upstairs.
clatter--
The pink puffy skirt, the bloodless pale skin, and the makeup smudged by tears and blood were enough to reveal its identity. Ning Zhe didn't need to say anything more.
"Two! Two Xiao Ke?!" Shen Qing exclaimed.
"Maybe three." Ning Zhe said as he took off a crystal clear and round pearl necklace from his neck, and then took off the milky white jade bracelet on his wrist.
She handed the two pieces of jewelry to Xiao Ke, who had just come down from upstairs. Xiao Ke, who was eating, also chewed up the last bite of Snickers and swallowed it.
The moment the pearl necklace in Ning Zhe's hand fell into her palm, the figures of the two Xiao Ke gradually faded and disappeared.
"Solved." Ning Zhe clapped his hands and continued:
"Before the New Year's Eve every year, my grandmother would boil a bowl of maltose and smear it on the mouth of the Kitchen God's portrait. After the Kitchen God ate the honey, his mouth became sweet, and he could not say bad things about my family when he went to heaven for the Spring Festival.
But compared to the Kitchen God, the three corpses in the human body are more difficult to deal with - the upper corpse is greedy for treasures, the middle corpse is greedy for delicious food, and the lower corpse is lustful. If their three desires cannot be satisfied, the three corpses will bear a grudge and kill people. "
"Why do you say there are three corpses?" Xia Yubing opened her eyes wide, a little confused: "Didn't we just meet two of her?"
Ning Zhe shook his head and put the mask back on: "There were three. But the lower corpse had already been fed by Shen Qing, so I didn't see it."
But Terang saw it.
(End of this chapter)