615, Insect Culture (1/2)
The atmosphere fell into awkward silence for a while.
Master Chilong did not talk to Master Chilong, the old Taoist in golden robes. Mr. Tianshun stood in front of Master Chilong, neither walking nor stopping. After hesitating for a long time, he gave another salute to Master Chilong.
He turned to Su Wu, who was next to Master Chilong, and said, "Fellow Daoist Xuan Shezi, you and your master were the first to discover the strange things happening in the villages around Wutongdu.
The village elders claimed that dozens of people have gone missing in each village in the past three months.
And the missing persons are all pregnant women.
Fellow Taoist Xuan Shezi and your master once salvaged twenty pregnant female corpses from the Minjiang River. Fellow Taoist Xuan Shezi seems to have some preliminary understanding of this matter. I wonder if you can tell me something about it? "
Mr. Tian Shun called Zhenren Chilong ‘Brother Tao’.
Calling Su Wu a 'fellow Taoist' actually seemed to confuse the seniority.
However, at the moment, he didn’t know the order of Taoist names of Zhenren Chilong and Su Wu, so it was naturally difficult for him to rank them in terms of seniority. He could only use this common title to refer to them, but he didn’t care that this title would lead to three people. The hierarchy of the human world was temporarily confused.
‘Xuan Shezi’ looks handsome and quiet, and is not a difficult person to communicate with.
That's why Mr. Tian Shun turned his target to him and asked Su Wu. He may not really want to know the specific secrets of the "missing pregnant woman", but at least it showed that he was paying attention to the matter and would not give any advice. People use handles.
Su Wu looked at Mr. Tian Centi,
From the other party's behavior, he had already noticed that although the other party was born in the Tianwei Taoist altar and should have a relatively high status in the Tianwei Taoist altar, the other party should not understand the relationship between the Wutong God and various weird things. Secretly involved.
Tianwei Taoist Altar has clearly received messages asking for help from Jinxi Village, Zhangzhuang and other villages.
After roughly understanding the strange events that happened to the surrounding villages, they still sent a group of masters who did not understand the situation to solve the problems for the villages - what was reflected in this was somewhat intriguing.
Is it because the Tianwei Taoist altar doesn't pay attention to this matter at all?
Or is there someone in the Taoist altar who actually knows the situation, but wants to cover it up with an ordinary ritual?
"We are new here, and we don't know much about the situation here." Su Wu thought about it in his heart, and slowly said, "However, there are a few places that make me feel strange and worthy of investigation.
The twenty female corpses discovered now were all salvaged from the Minjiang River.
Even for the five prostitutes who crossed the river by boat, their boat never capsized in the section of Shaxi River with fast currents and many reefs. Instead, the boatman took the boat across the mouth of the Shaxi River. Once they reached the Minjiang River, where the river surface was wider, the water flow was gentle, and there were no reefs, the boat suddenly capsized.
Several prostitutes fell into the water, and their bellies suddenly swelled.
The boatman who carried them also rescued a prostitute ashore.
But then the prostitute jumped into the river on her own.
——It was as if something was attracting them under the river. "
Su Wu was not stingy and shared part of the information he had obtained with Mr. Tianshun. The other party presumably also heard rumors that the matter might be related to the God of Five Powers. Based on all the information, it depends on whether the other party dares to comply. I followed these clues to investigate.
The other party is really here to solve the problem.
It is better to brush off the problem and just watch what these red-headed masters do next.
"Could this matter be related to Jiang Longwang?" Mr. Tian Shun frowned after hearing what Su Wu said. Go and examine the female corpses that were pulled ashore,
Try to attract souls and see if you can use this to find out what happened to them before or immediately after their death, and what stages they traveled.
In case of other difficult situations,
I still hope that fellow Daoist Xuan Shezi and Master Chilong can spare no effort to help! "
After saying this,
Mr. Tian Centi said goodbye to Master Chilong and Su Wu, and led a group of red-headed masters, men and women, to leave in a hurry. Earlier, they aggressively greeted Su Wu and his group, but after learning about the identity of Master Chilong and his disciples, they His fierce arrogance suddenly slumped, and he never regained his strength.
This kind of behavior is seen in the eyes of the onlookers, and they can't help but murmur in their hearts.
——Could it be that these dozen Taoist priests from outside are the real dragons?
Can't even afford to offend the red-headed master of the Tianwei Taoist altar?
"If you share information with him, he will probably not be grateful to you, and will blame you for being nosy.
Do you see how quickly he walked?
I didn't take your reminder to heart at all.
Asking for clues from you and me is just to cover up his previous intention to use force to attack you and me. "Zhenren Chilong looked at the red-headed masters, surrounded by the golden-robed old man, and walked towards the female corpses that had been re-intermented under the river embankment. He curled his lips and said to Su Wu, "But what you did is not wrong.
Just have a clear conscience in everything.
Whether he takes your and my reminders to heart is one thing.
But this kind of thing is related to the safety of the surrounding people. If he asks, if you and I hide it and don't want to say more - then we have a problem. "
"Yes." Su Wu nodded and followed the crowd to gather the red-headed masters under the river embankment. He said, "Let's go and see how they attract souls?"
"He's been dead for two or three days.
Both the body and the soul have already become cold.
What's the use of summoning souls at this time? "Master Chilong obviously didn't think Mr. Centipede's method would work that day, but he still obeyed his disciple's invitation and led the disciples to walk down the river embankment.
The Taoist priests in Beilu Mountain were surrounded by the crowd and gathered under the river embankment.
in the open space,
The female corpses had been wrapped in straw mats and simply buried.
There were several coffins placed around them, all of which were brought by their family members. After the masters from the Tianwei Taoist altar here inspected the bodies, they collected the bodies and buried them.
More than ten masters walked in the open space, lifted the straw mat covering the female body, and examined various conditions on the female body.
Spring has arrived,
These corpses have been floating in the river for an unknown amount of time.
It was fished ashore and after being parked for a day, it gradually began to smell like a corpse.
The masters frowned and covered their noses while inspecting the female body. Most of them looked through it casually and then ended their work hastily.
There was only a thin female master who inspected each female corpse very carefully. From time to time, she would take out a charcoal pen to write and draw on a piece of paper with low self-esteem, and record it very carefully.
Women are not uncommon among Taoist sects.
Nanlu Mountain Tianwei Taoist Temple initially inherited the Taoist tradition and included many female disciples.
However, there are not many female masters who can succeed - Master Gaiyin's career in martial arts fighting requires courage, and female masters are generally unable to do this kind of martial arts fighting, and they mostly work behind the scenes in ceremonial and civil service .
More than ten masters gathered around the golden-robed old Taoist.
The golden-robed old man whispered to them for a while.
The female master also presented everything she had recorded to Mr. Tian Shun. Mr. Tian Shun glanced at it casually, handed the papyrus book back to the woman, and ordered his disciple to bring a large round porcelain plate.
He placed the large disk on the ground, took some sand soaked in corpse water from around a female corpse, and spread it evenly on the disk.
He also called a few village elders, Li Zheng, and while communicating with them, he drew a horizontal line on the disk, and drew some crosses on one side of the horizontal line to mark 'Jinxi Village' and 'Zhangzhuang'. Waiting for the specific location of the village.
On the other side of the horizontal line, the 'Wutong Ferry' is marked.
and ‘Shaxi River’, ‘Minjiang River’.
——It turned out to be a sketch of the surrounding terrain on the disk.
Subsequently,
He took a half-foot-tall wine gourd, opened the stopper of the gourd, and slowly poured out a shiny centipede. Mr. Tian Centiped looked back nervously at the Beilu Mountain crowd.
All the Taoists in Beilu Mountain observe their eyes with their noses, and their noses with their hearts, without saying a word.
Mr. Tian Centipede secretly breathed a sigh of relief and let the centipede crawl around the female body, then placed it on the edge of the disk.
The centipede walked along the edge of the plate a few times, then suddenly began to walk into the plate. It swam from the Minjiang River section of the Shaxi River mouth to the embankment of Wutong Ferry, and then stopped.
Upon seeing this, the golden-robed old Taoist said,
He grabbed the centipede and placed it on the second female corpse. After the centipede climbed around the female corpse, he placed it on the edge of the disk.
His current behavior was full of mystery and strangeness, attracting the attention of all the surrounding villagers.
No one was making any noise at the moment.
They all stared closely at the movement of the centipede beside the plate.
Chilong Zhenren looked at Mr. Tianshun's actions, suddenly smiled, and said to Su Wu in a low voice: "If nothing else, the Tianwei Taoist altar must have some connection with the 'Puppet Vein' and the 'Zhi Vein' , this kind of 'insect-raising technique' can only appear in the Tujiao Puppet Vein and the Wan Vein.
He is now using the insects he has raised for many years to contaminate the causal clues left by the female corpse during her lifetime.
Then let the insect reproduce those causal clues.
The first female corpse,
He only showed him the causal clue that the female body had been moved from the Minjiang River to the Wutong Ferry.
——This clue of cause and effect should be that we salvaged the female corpses from the Minjiang River and placed them at Wutong Ferry.
look,
Now the centipede has walked from the Minjiang River to the Wutong Ferry.
What we did before was repeated again.
How many clues of cause and effect it can reproduce does not depend on the individual skills of Old Taoist Tian Centi, but only on how many clues remain on the corpse - this method of cultivating insects can occasionally be useful, but unfortunately, the method of cultivating insects must be cruel and vicious. Spending such a huge price to raise only this kind of little bug that can't even be compared with the old yamen boss and the old policeman is really not worth the gain! "
Su Wu listened to Master Chilong's explanation and stared at the disk.
After the centipede on the disk crawled across the line 'Minjiang River-Wutong Ferry' for the second time, it paused for a moment, and then crawled back to the edge of the disk. After that, Mr. Tian Centipede caught it before it could Then contaminate the causal clues left by the third female corpse,
It crawled on its own again,
This time,
It first walked along the road from "Zhangzhuang" to an intersection. The intersection did not have a specific name.
Then, it turned back to Zhangzhuang and stayed there for a while.
Then we crossed the river embankment along the road from Zhangzhuang, from Wutongdu to the mouth of Shaxi River downstream, and from there we entered the Minjiang River!
After being thrown into the Minjiang River,
The centipede shook its head and tail, then crawled out of the river,
It did not return to the edge of the disk, but once again climbed over the embankment of the Minjiang River, walked through many paths on the disk, and once again returned to the intersection where it had stayed before!
"Where is this?!" The sharp-eyed villagers who were close by noticed the intersection where the centipede stopped twice and couldn't help asking.
Several village elders and village heads had the same question as the villagers.
They squinted at the intersection and distinguished the surrounding roads.
Suddenly, the Jinxi villager said solemnly: "Wutong Temple!"
"That's Wutong Temple!"
The people around were in an uproar!
Chilong Zhenren narrowed his eyes slightly and said in a low voice: "The centipede was thrown into the river, which means that the female corpse really drowned in the river before her death - but it then crawled out of the river again, climbed over the river bank, and arrived at Wutong Temple.
What does this mean?"
Su Wu and his master looked at each other.
Both felt a chill in their hearts.
The residual soul of the dead - the remaining consciousness of the deceased, once again returned to Wutong Temple and "fulfilled the wish" in the temple!