Chapter 1299
"Disappeared again?"
In the cold wind and rain.
The faint outline of the moon is looming in the rain lines.
Tao Zu, Hong Renkun, Jianzhen, Jiang Yingying, and the 'Yongjiro' who was knocked down by his mother earlier, all gathered around the dry well on the slope.
Hong Renkun frowned and muttered, then jumped directly into the well, but after a while, he climbed out of the dry well again.
Previously, everyone clearly saw Su Wu jumping into the well one after another with Mrs. Tsuichiro. However, after they followed, they were nowhere to be seen.
Regarding the scene before them, Tao Zu and Jianzhen looked calm, as if they had expected it.
Tao Zu raised his eyes to look at the gloomy Jianzhen opposite, without any trace of the Buddha statue, and said: "There was clearly a strange charm here before, but after we got closer, the strange charm has disappeared without a trace.
So Su Wu followed that mysterious charm and entered another world? "
"Namo Amitabha……
As your Excellency said. Jianzhen clasped his hands together and said, "To untie the bell, you still have to tie the bell. Now, Zhu Zhao is going to untie the 'bell'." "
Tao Zu nodded and looked up at Yujiro, who was completely soaked by the rain and was in a state of despair. His expression was calm and he didn't say anything.
However, Yujiro, who was lost and trembling, looked at the dry well just a short distance away with fearful eyes. He kowtowed to everyone and said: "I ate too, I ate too - I ate meat!"
"We've all eaten it!"
"Everyone - everyone in the surrounding villages! Everyone has eaten!"
When Jiang Yingying heard Yujiro's earth-shattering words, she was so shocked that she opened her eyes wide and was speechless at all.
Tao Zu finally showed a look of interest on his face. He looked down at Yujiro and asked with a smile: "You told us earlier that your father, brother, and mother ate the stew made from babies." Fish Soup', obviously removed himself from the matter...
Now it is said that you have also eaten flesh and blood...
This is how the same thing?
And...what do you mean everyone has eaten it? "
"My mother had given birth to two baby girls... The first baby girl was born before me. They told me that there was a famine at that time, and as a last resort, they exchanged the baby girl for a neighbor's child and made it. 'Fish soup'... But later on, my father's daily fishing harvest was small and he could barely survive on one meal a day...
The surrounding villagers are all like this...
So everyone discussed offering sacrifices to the 'Poseidon' again... My mother had just given birth to a baby at that time. I still remember that baby girl. Her face was full of wrinkles and her hair was sparse. She looked ugly, but she felt close to me - I followed. My father and brother went out to sea to fish, but the harvest was also very little, and they could not maintain food and clothing every day. At that time, they were worried about their future. After other villagers called for another sacrifice, my father agreed to join, and our family gathered together to discuss...
The elder brother followed his father and agreed to join the ceremony.
My mother firmly disagreed. I felt sorry for my sister and I didn't agree either. But my father reprimanded my mother and said that the baby girl she had given birth to was also eaten by her, but she didn't want to tell her the truth before. Such delicious 'fish soup' , can it be made by boiling ordinary sea fish?
After getting the truth, the mother fell into a coma.
I endured the persecution from my father and brother, and had no choice but to agree to join the ceremony...
During the ceremony, the village chiefs of each village required everyone in each family to eat 'fish soup'. Our family all ate that fish soup, which was boiled by the daughter of a villager from a neighboring village. ——I didn't eat my sister's fish soup, I didn't eat..." Yujiro spoke wildly, and the fear in his eyes as he looked at the dry well became more and more intense.
A golden cross appeared in Hong Renkun's eyes. He looked at Yujiro and while he was murmuring, he also said loudly: "Although you have thoughts of repentance, this thought is actually caused by fear and is not true repentance.
In your words, you also conceal a lot about your past - let me tell you the truth about the past!
The truth is - your brother was tortured by guilt all the time because he had eaten fish soup. He was already in great pain. After your mother became pregnant with your sister, he took good care of her, eager to atone for his sins.
After your sister was born, it was the day of the Poseidon Ceremony.
At that time, you were worried about not having enough food every day, so you discussed with your father to send this newborn baby as a sacrifice, share the 'God of Fortune's fish soup' with others, and get the 'God of the Sea' - what you call the 'God of Fortune' of blessing.
Your father and mother agreed immediately - after the last Poseidon Festival, they both gained huge benefits and lived a prosperous life.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to give birth to you and your sister.
But your brother refused to obey. He took the child and ran away secretly--and fled to this well--"
Boom!
Along with Hong Renkun's words, a bolt of thunder suddenly tore through the sky, reflecting everything pale around!
Villagers from the surrounding villages, with faces washed clean by the rain, gathered around this slope. They stood all over the mountains and fields, all casting gloomy eyes on the outsiders on the slope!
"At that time, when you chased after him, your father surrounded Tupo from the other direction.
The desperate brother hugged the baby and jumped into the well that had dried up.
——He was later fished out together with the baby. From then on, your brother became dull and silent, and your sister was finally sent to the Poseidon for sacrifice. "Hong Renkun spoke with a cold face. He moved his eyes away from the lost Yujiro and turned to look at the many villagers gathered around him. He continued, "Actually, you were not forced to carry out the cannibalism because of 'famine'. Sacrifice——
The Poseidon Festival has been going on in your village for countless years.
It is a fixed ritual!
You sacrifice to the evil spirit that eats people, and you also turn yourselves into the evil spirit's supporters, or even become the evil spirit itself - you carry indelible evil from your roots!
Isn’t it almost time for what you call the ‘Fushen Festival’?
Tsuichiro's wife has been missing her period for several months. She thought she was pregnant with a baby again and was waiting to eat the delicious 'Lucky Fish Soup'...
It's a pity that she couldn't make it this time.
You can't catch up either. "
Buzz!
When Hong Renkun's words fell to the ground, the rotten smell of sea fish rushing in like a sea wave was mixed with strands of weird rhymes like gangrene attached to the bones, floating out from the heads of the villagers - these weird rhymes gathered together and became more and more... The more it comes, the more intense it becomes!
The internal organs of the villagers rotted, and their skin and flesh became more and more swollen, turning into drowned corpses.
But these drowned corpses were all covered with shriveled heads. Countless heads gathered together with wisps of strange rhyme, turning into a spindle-shaped shadow.
This spindle-shaped shadow holds up countless densely packed heads. Those heads grow on the back of the spindle-shaped shadow, just like the pustules on the back of a toad, or like the ribbed armor on the back of a crocodile. Shape-shaped shadows held up countless shriveled heads, and suddenly hit the void!
It holds on to that rich and mysterious charm and sneaks into that other world!
At this time, Jianzhen loudly announced the Buddha's name: "All living beings vow to kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!"
Endless troubles, vow - end! Break! Break! Break! Break!
The boundless vows of the Dharma - broken! break! break! break! break!
The supreme vow of Buddhism—annihilation! Destroy! Destroy! Destroy! Destroy! "
Amidst the sound of the Buddha's trumpet, violent obsession surged out from the center of Jianzhen's eyebrows, entangled with the invisible charm of heaven, turning into pitch-black chains, and wrapping around Jianzhen's figure!
But Jianzhen's figure became more and more illusory as his obsession became stronger!
Wearing a blood-red cassock, the dark and illusory body with chains wrapped around the body, the 'Pitch Black Ksitigarbha Buddha' sits in the void. The chains, which are fiercely obsessed with the evolution of heavenly principles, are all facing this statue. Go into Zao Buddha's mouth!
The head of Ksitigarbha Buddha is getting bigger and bigger and more ferocious under the many chains, with blue veins protruding and connecting to form a grimace!
Jizo, the giant grimace, opened his mouth and bit into Li Wei, who swam into the other world like a crocodile!
"Do you also want to see the other world?" Tao Zu watched Jianzhen transform into the terrifying Ksitigarbha, intending to swallow the spindle-shaped Ligui into his mouth. He raised his eyebrows and suddenly pointed out -
Taozu turned into a red sun on this slope of earth in an instant!
This red sun embraces the heaven and the earth, evaporates the dripping rain, and covers the bright moon in the sky!
The red sun lies in front of that Li Wei, facing the terrifying Ksitigarbha!
The terrifying Ksitigarbha opened his bloody mouth and bit into the blazing sun on the spot - his bloody fangs flew out, and half of the ghost's face was scorched by the scorching sun!
Everything is back to normal.
Only the fusiform Ligui finally sneaked into the other world.
The terrifying Ksitigarbha has transformed into Jianzhen's figure again, but his figure is now becoming more and more pale and illusory, and may disappear in the wind at any time.
The corpse of the real Jianzhen is stored in Rashomon. The current Jianzhen is just a residual body of the real Jianzhen.
Tao Zu looked at Jianzhen, wiped his face with gestures, and spat in his mouth: "Bah, bah, bah! The old monk's stinky saliva!"
He was busy for a long time before he stopped, looked at Jianzhen with a smile and said: "Wu Zi has told me a long time ago that I have to be careful of you, the monk - if you want to follow that Li Cui to pick up the machine and swim into the other world, put him there." Do you hold the 'Ten Destruction Swords' and the 'Original Form of Prison' in your own hands?
You want to go! "
"This trick in this world is nothing more than an incomplete trick.
After swimming into the dead Dongliu Island, he will turn into a 'sea god' - with Su Wu's power alone, it would be difficult to deal with this trick... The poor monk just stepped in to help him share the burden. "Jianzhen lowered his eyebrows and replied calmly.
When Jiang Yingying heard Jianzhen's reply, she couldn't help but worry about Su Wu, so she looked at Tao Zu worriedly.
Tao Zu couldn't stop laughing: "You didn't say anything about helping him long ago, but now you suddenly have good intentions.
Bald donkeys like to trick people, this is the truth! "
Even the gloomy and indifferent Jianzhen was choked by Tao Zu's words and fell silent for a long time, before he said coldly and quietly: "I am not a complete me.
When I find Rashomon, I hope I can have a good time with you..."
"No matter what, I am still an elder.
Qinglian Baiouben's family, Taishang Xuanyuan is regarded as an ancestor by your Buddhist sect at this time - I am older than you, you should call me your elder, you should ask me for advice, what is the right thing to do? 'Have done one'? Hidden sects are just like wild religions, nondescript! "Tao Zu seized the opportunity and scolded Jianzhen again.
Everything he said was reasonable, and Jian Zhen couldn't refute it at all.
Jianzhen could only clasp his hands together and chant the Buddha's name, and no longer paid attention to what Tao Zu said.
…
The moon is bright and the stars are few, the brightness is clear and cold.
Su Wu walked down the slope and followed the narrow path to the high slope ahead. On the high slope, wooden houses were clearly outlined in the moonlight.
The air was filled with the strong stench of rotting sea fish. Even though the scenery was quiet and the moonlight was beautiful, the travelers who accidentally walked in here had no intention of appreciating the beautiful scenery. They just wanted to speed up their pace and get out of this seemingly quiet but terrifying area.
Candles occasionally lit in the rows of houses on the high slope.
Su Wu walked into the candlelit house, but could only see the oil lamp flickering on the table, but could not see the owner of the house.
Judging from the furnishings in the house and the residual body temperature in the mattress, the owner of the house should have left here not long ago.
Where did they go?
Su Wu walked into several houses in a row and found all kinds of fresh traces left by people living there, but he could not see the people in the house. This village seemed to have gathered all the villagers in a very short time and went to an unknown place.
Su Wu held his breath and walked out of the room.
The stench in those houses was several times stronger than that in the outside world.
But he checked every corner of the room and did not find any rotten fish or shrimp.
Su Wu continued to move forward along the continuous upward slope. At the top of the slope, a wooden sign was crookedly inserted into the soil. The two Chinese characters "Haijin" were vaguely engraved on the wooden sign.
The topography here is the "Haijin Village" where Su Wu resides in reality, but the current house layout and village building materials are very different from the "Haijin" in the present world. Most of the houses in this village are beautiful houses made of wood and stone, which are much better than the hill-like houses he saw in the present world, which are mostly made of vines for walls and straw for roofs.
The Haijin Village in the past seemed to be richer than the Haijin Village in the present world.
Su Wu suddenly remembered that Yongjiro had said that there had been a famine in Haijin and the surrounding villages. Could it be that famine that caused the once prosperous Haijin Village to become increasingly poor?
He frowned.
There were too many secrets hidden in the words of Yongjiro and the old villagers around him, and their words could not be used as evidence.
Moreover, Su Wu found dried fish and stored rice in the few houses just now, as well as the lush weeds and trees along the way, which did not look like a famine at all. If there was a famine, people would want to scrape the ground three feet, and even peel off the bark of the trees to eat them. It was impossible for such a lush environment to remain.
Su Wu gathered his thoughts, stood at the highest point of Haijin Village, and looked around.