Chapter 113: bone meal
The book with only a dozen pages was quickly turned over, and there was not a single word in the book, but it was composed of bright and straightforward pictures.
The content is very simple, the gist is a story of a down-and-out sculptor who finally made a work that shocked the world after "tremendous hardships" and became famous in one fell swoop.
The work that made him famous was the sculpture on the cover, and the girl they saw lying in a pool of blood on the first page.
This sculptor completed his work based on the corpse of a young girl.
The prayer sculpture has a lively expression, as if it was really disturbed by something terrible, and prayed to the gods for peace. In fact, it is the girl's fear of death under the sculpture.
"I read similar thriller novels before I entered the horror game, and I was worried about whether I would encounter such a copy after I came in," a player said, "I didn't expect that the copy has not yet encountered. Arrived and saw this story again."
"Why didn't I come across it, isn't this copy the same?"
Retracting her gaze, Shen Qingcheng said, "Beauty beads were raised for the first time in the village more than ten years ago, and the patriarch at that time must have got the inspiration from this book."
Everyone is puzzled.
Lu Qi: "The formation of pearls is because foreign objects fall into the shell of the mussels when they are eating, and the mussels secrete nacre to wrap the foreign objects in layers, and over time they become the pearls we see. ."
"Artificial cultivation of pearls requires artificially stuffing foreign objects into the clam shell at the right time," Lu Qi thought for a moment, "The high temperature in summer can promote wound healing, as expected, it should be summer."
Shen Qingcheng cooperated with the little seal to applaud.
"Hiss," the previous player rubbed the goose bumps on his arm, "fortunately this is just a game."
Who doesn't see it as a picture story book? Only people who are not in their right mind can get inspired and actually do it.
Aunt Huang still doesn't understand, "But sculptures are sculptures, pearls are pearls, and a little bit of pearls can stuff a body into it?"
The patriarch got inspiration from the book, the foreign body should be a human corpse, but is the corpse so big that it can be stuffed into a clam shell?
Li Jiao also said: "I asked, and the villagers who cut pearls during the day said that the biggest pearls ever produced in their village were as big as a head."
But it wasn't enough to stuff a corpse either.
If they can take a look at the real beauty beads, many of their doubts may be answered.
"It's getting late, let's go eat first, and talk while eating." Aunt Huang greeted.
The group left Huang Pingwei's room and returned to the main room. The book was taken away by Li Jiao on the grounds that she found it first, and the others did not care about her.
Anyway, they already know the content, and they also know where the book is. When they need it, they can go to Li Jiao and ask for it.
At the dinner table, they discussed Huang Pingwei's current state, and most people thought that Huang Pingwei had suffered an accident.
Judging from the content of the book, the book belongs to the clan's secret. If he stole it, the clan chief will definitely not let him go.
Shen Qingcheng also remembered one thing. In the afternoon, Lu Qi asked Zeng Lingling if there were still beauty beads in the village. Zeng Lingling said that the beauty beads were kept in the basement of the patriarch's house.
If Huang Pingwei read the book and had the same speculation as them, he would definitely want to see what the real beauty beads look like.
If he finds the beauty bead hidden in the basement when he steals the book, then he will definitely go to the patriarch's house again.
Huang Pingwei died at the hands of the patriarch?
"But since this book is so important, why didn't the matriarch send someone to take it back? Isn't she afraid that we will see what's inside?"
She was not afraid because she had no intention of letting us go.
After the meal, the two washed up and returned to the room. Zeng Lingling took Xu Sen and climbed out of the trouser pocket.
Sitting on the cabinet, she said, "Your companion is probably more fortunate than fortune."
She doesn't need to say that Shen Qingcheng and Lu Qi also know that, in horror games, disappearance itself means unknown. They went to bed and took a nap for a while. After all the players fell asleep in the middle of the night, Shen Qingcheng was woken up by Lu Qi.
The two of them dressed and packed up, took two paper figures and rode the moonlight to the low mountain where the lunatic was.
When they were halfway there, they met the skeleton frame that night.
This time they saw clearly that the skeletons were crawling out of the ponds where the mussels were raised. Every pond had them, and the densely packed skeletons climbed up and ran in the same direction.
Zeng Lingling told them in a low voice that the rotten corpses that were thrown into the pond would almost be salvaged and taken to the mountains. Only the remains of her and Xu Sen were not picked up by her protection.
The area on the top of the mountain is not large, you can see all the environment at a glance, and a very simple wooden house is located in the middle.
The skeletons swarmed in groups and did not stop. They rushed towards the man under the lamp one by one, and then silently annihilated into powder at a distance of about one meter from the man.
Of course this is just an illusion, and there is no real powder sprinkled, but ordinary people can see it, and men can obviously see this scene.
However, he remained indifferent and did not react at all.
Zeng Lingling covered her mouth and sobbed softly, she couldn't control herself, and every time she saw this picture, her heart ached. Her A Lin was so young when she was sent to the mountain, how scared he should have been at that time.
"A Lin..." Zeng Lingling couldn't help calling out.
Shen Qingcheng and Lu Qi climbed the top of the mountain and appeared in front of the man. The man who did not respond to the sound of "A Lin" moved and said hoarsely, "...Outsiders."
The man had a chain tied under his feet, but if you look closely, you can see that the other end of the chain has been cut off, which means that Xu Lin is actually free, and he can leave the mountain at any time.
Xu Lin voluntarily stayed on the mountain? Why?
Shen Qingcheng squinted to see where Xu Lin raised pearls, but after a long time it was still dark, he pulled the person beside him, "Did you see the pond?"
Lu Qi: "Behind the wooden house."
So Shen Qingcheng asked the person opposite directly, "Mr. Xu Lin, I heard that you are the best pearl breeder in the village, can you ask how you raised beauty pearls?"
It is very polite.
His indifference made Zeng Lingling even more uncomfortable, she hesitated to get closer, and called again, "A Lin, I'm a mother..."
Shen Qingcheng thought for a while, released Zeng Lingling and Xu Sen's souls from the paper figurines, and gave them a little ghost, so that they could appear and talk to Xu Lin.
Xu Lin finally reacted when he saw Xu Sen's soul body.
Afterwards, the two went to the cabin again, and Xu Lin stopped them before entering the cabin, "The more you know, the more dangerous it is."
To this, Shen Qingcheng only said: "I don't know now that we are in danger."
Then he and Lu Qi entered the room, Xu Lin did not speak again.
In the house, they saw Huang Pingwei's body - hung on the wall, half of the body was shaved so that the bloodshot skeleton below could be seen.
Lu Qi covered his eyes for the first time, but the **** picture still lingered in his mind, and the smell of blood mixed with rancidity penetrated into his nose.
Shen Qingcheng held his breath, and finally couldn't take it anymore, he pulled down the hand covering his eyes, covered his nose and mouth, and took a deep breath.
"Does Xu Lin have no sense of smell? How did he live with such a smell?"
Could it be that Huang Pingwei did not go to the patriarch's house, but came to this mountain?
"You forgot? Someone will stop you from going up the mountain during the day." Lu Qi pinched the tip of his nose and glanced at the degree of stiffness of the corpse, "Died in the morning."
Huang Pingwei couldn't go up the mountain by himself during the day, so he could only be sent up the mountain after his death.
space.
It is a clay sculpture.
There are all kinds of clay sculptures on the wooden shelves, the small ones are no bigger than a thumb, and the big ones are the size of an adult fist.
And they are all in the shape of ancient beauties, some are lying down for a nap, some are holding their cheeks to enjoy the scenery, and some are dancing on tiptoes.
And these clay figures are not wearing clothes.
Lu Qi frowned. In the afternoon, Li Jiao showed them the clay figurines of her and Feng Tianrun. According to her own words, the two statues were mixed with a little pearl powder. a lot of money.
But the two little statues gave them a completely different feeling than the ones in front of them.
Shen Qingcheng: "Will you add bone meal?"
They searched the house and found a stone mortar in the corner
It turned out that the skeleton skeleton they saw on the mountain was annihilated into powder near Xu Lin. This is what it means.
Human bone powder, pearl powder, mixed with clay to make beauty clay sculptures of different shapes, and these clay sculptures are obviously inseparable from beauty beads.
"I seem to know how beauty beads are raised," Shen Qingcheng said, "I'm more curious about what real beauty beads look like now."
Although Xu Lin did not cooperate, their purpose of coming to the mountain was barely achieved.
After that, I went to the matriarch's house to see the true face of the beauty bead.
Before going down the mountain, Shen Qingcheng asked curiously, "I heard from the villagers that you don't like outsiders, is it true or false?"
Xu Lin, who recognized her family, had a better attitude and replied, "Really."
"Why?"
And whoever it is, he will gladly kill him, pluck his flesh and grind his bones into powder.