In the crowd, Lu Shan sat in the soul sedan chair with a double-faced Buddha jade statue in his arms, and the sedan curtain hung down, and no one could see the scene inside.
The sound of suona sounded again, and the noisy music team knocked and walked at the front of the team, the soul sedan chair was lifted, and the half-red and half-white sedan chair was carried forward on the dirt road of the village by four male villagers.
The procession of welcoming the gods moved, and the villagers wearing paper masks danced exaggerated dances, clustered behind the soul sedan chair, they wore red and green, waved their sleeve robes, and threw the decorations on their bodies at will at the old houses on both sides.
We three outsiders were also in the group, and the crowd was so crowded that we had no chance to escape, and mixed among them to make our way to our next destination.
"How many steps does their welcoming ceremony consist of?
We've been tossing and turning for most of the night.
Feng Minglong complained quietly.
"Now we can only wait, didn't the people in the village say that they would take us away when the welcoming ceremony is over?
Wait with peace of mind.
"Missed the best opportunity to escape, and was at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, Wang Shi had given up resisting.
I was the only one of the three who didn't say a word, my eyes constantly scanning between the villagers, and I secretly wrote down the physical characteristics of each of them, although everyone wore paper masks and couldn't see their faces, but the state of their bodies could also provide me with what I wanted to a certain extent.
I compared the memories of police officer Lao Wei in my mind, the policeman who was about to retire was thin and not tall, and there were almost no people who matched his appearance and characteristics.
"Lao Wei is missing, according to my speculation, he should have come to the Yin and Yang Room, and he is very likely to be mixed in the village."
I thought silently on my own: "Before the live broadcast started, his voice on the phone only pointed out that I was going to save him, which shows that his situation is not optimistic, and he should be imprisoned somewhere." ” If he is a villager, it is not in line with his status as a helper, which is the most crucial point.
"Lao Wei has always insisted that he is in the well, and it seems that I need to go to the dry well outside the village to have a look."
If Lao Wei was really imprisoned somewhere in the village, then I couldn't do anything even if I wanted to, and in this ghost place, the villagers had an absolute numerical advantage.
As I walked through the village, I shuddered and turned my head to see an old man wearing a paper mask behind me.
"He was following me?"
I am very careful about my surroundings, and I am naturally not taken lightly when I am in a dangerous environment, so I always pay attention to everything.
"We three outsiders were squeezed into the back of the line, and it was originally all women and children, how could there suddenly be an extra old man?
There didn't seem to be any old people in the team, right?
” I remember it very clearly, and I looked at the old man a few more times in my doubts.
He also wears a paper figure mask, but the mask is worn and yellowed, with some wrinkles, causing the baby's face to look particularly weird with a smile on it.
"It always feels like something is wrong."
I secretly informed Wang Shi and Feng Minglong, telling them to be careful, speed up their pace, and keep their distance from this old man who seemed to have appeared suddenly.
The ceremony of welcoming the gods continued, and the noisy group and the four people carrying the soul sedan chair walked to the head of the village, and then walked around the village, and then something strange happened.
Originally, there were two rows of white ash dotted on both sides of the dirt road in the village, and the firelight was swaying.
As a result, now, after the procession of greeting the gods passed, the white ash on both sides was automatically extinguished, as if someone was controlling it on one side.
"The candles went out, and something seemed to come out of the house."
Wang Shi whispered to me, I shook my head and didn't say much, but Feng Minglong, who was walking at the back, had a trembling voice and quietly grabbed me and Wang Shi's sleeves: "Do you two feel that the line of welcoming gods seems to have become longer?"
Are there so many people behind us?
” Being reminded by Feng Minglong like this, Master Wang and I both turned our heads to see that the position of the three of us outsiders was at the back of the team, but now it has become the front of the team.
"The speed of the Yingshen team has not changed, and the three of us have not accelerated, shouldn't there be such a situation?"
Feng Minglong looked at the team behind him, and no one knew what kind of faces were hidden under the paper masks.
"The length of the line in front of us hasn't changed, and it seems that many more people have joined in the middle of the ceremony."
Wang Shi secretly turned his head to look at the swaying figure behind him, and there were more and more people who were inexplicably following behind.
The white ash behind them kept extinguishing, and the darkness affected their vision, so the two of them didn't see the truth.
At this time, I had already wet my back with cold sweat, and I could see clearly through the darkness that these extra people had come out of the houses on both sides, from those broken houses with coffins, no thresholds, and only a few pieces of furniture.
I have already seen many houses when I entered the village, and the interior space is not large, and there is no trace of living people in it except for coffins.
But now one by one the "people" wearing paper masks came out of the house, where they were hiding before, the answer is self-evident.
They are most likely the Lu clan members who are lying in the coffin and have died!
This question had a clear answer when the welcoming procession passed by the stone building where Lu Shan lived for the second time.
I noticed in particular a rickety-backed old lady staggering out of the door, small in stature and wearing a shabby paper mask that seemed to have been pressed under the bottom of the box for years.
Although I can't see this old lady's face, judging from her size, I am 90% sure that she is the grandmother in Lu Shan's mouth.
"The Dead Resurrected ......"
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Although I had been mentally prepared for a long time, I still felt great fear at this moment, the line to welcome the gods had grown several times longer, and the number of dead people in this village far exceeded the number of living people.
"In the ancestral hall of the Lu clan just now, I clearly saw that the moment the white jade Buddha statue was pressed on the offering table, all the tablets trembled to varying degrees, allowing the deceased to move freely for a short time, could this be the role of good and evil relics?"
I have some understanding of why the people of the Lu clan believe in the Double-Faced Buddha, this means of reaching the heavens, which is really surprising.
But when I think about it, this is not the yang world, but the weird yin and yang world, which itself belongs to the dark side of the yang world, and it is not surprising that there will be all kinds of miracles that cannot be seen in the yang world.
In front of the procession, gongs and drums were beating, singing and dancing, the soul sedan chair was jolting and shaking, the long white silk on the top of the red sedan chair was floating in the air, and the middle of the team seemed much more deserted, only some village women and children occasionally writhed their bodies in line with the noise.
Beyond that, there was a dead silence, the ash on the side of the road had been extinguished, and countless figures in the darkness were moving.
It's too dull, it's too depressing, and the three of us outsiders don't dare to say a word, things are going in a direction that no one can predict, and the fate of the three of us is no longer under our control.
When the procession appeared at the entrance of the village for the second time, there was no light in the ruined village.
And just when the team was about to leave the village, the sound of suona suddenly stopped, and then the sound of gongs and drums gradually weakened, and the noisy crowd was like an invisible hand choking the neck, and the whole team became quiet.
"Is it the end of welcoming the gods?"
I was still some distance from the head of the line, and I couldn't see anything through the crowd.
"I don't know, there must have been some accident."
It didn't take long for a few screams and angry scoldings to come from the front of the procession, and the sedan chair that was originally raised high was also lowered, and the top of the sedan chair could not be seen, only a fluttering white silk could be seen.
"What's going on?"
I was worried that I could not find a way out, and at this time there was a turmoil in the procession of welcoming the gods, and I was overjoyed, and after determining the location of the wellhead, I quietly moved through the procession.
"Mr.
Lu, where are you going?"
"Shut up and don't talk."
No villager noticed my unusual behavior, and seeing that I was getting closer and closer to the deep well, I couldn't hold back the joy in my heart and quickened my pace.
"Bang!"
Just as I was about to step out of the procession, a bloodied local took a few steps back and fell right in front of me.