The faint outline of the moon is looming in the rain lines.
Tao Zu, Hong Renkun, Jian Zhen, 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 something, 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 in front of them, Tao Zu and Jianzhen looked calm, as if they had expected it.
Tao Zu raised his eyes and looked at the gloomy Buddha statue opposite, which had no trace of authenticity, 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 rhyme and entered that other world?"
"Namo Amitabha……
Just as your Excellency said." Jianzhen clasped his hands together, "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, the stunned and trembling Yujiro looked at the dry well not far away with fearful eyes. He suddenly 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 completely speechless.
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 it was your father and brother and your mother who 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 very 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 rebuked my mother and said that the baby girl she gave 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 cooked 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 frantically, and the fear in his eyes became more and more intense as he looked at the dry well.
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 and was eager to atone for his sins.
After your sister was born, it happened to be 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 received 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 then fled to this well - "
Boom!
Accompanied by Hong Renkun's words, a bolt of thunder suddenly tore through the sky, reflecting the paleness of everything around him!
Villagers from the surrounding villages gathered around this slope with faces washed clean by the rain. They stood all over the mountains and plains, all casting their 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 Ceremony." Hong Renkun said with a cold face,
He moved his eyes away from the lost Yujiro, turned to look at the many villagers gathered around him, and continued, "Actually, you were not forced to hold the cannibalistic ceremony because of 'famine' -
The Poseidon Festival has been going on in your village for countless years.
It is a fixed ritual!
You are offering sacrifices to man-eating evil spirits, and you have also turned yourselves into supporters of the evil spirits, or even become the evil spirits themselves - you carry indelible evil from your roots!
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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 tide 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 were rotting, and their skin and flesh became more and more swollen, turning into drowned corpses.
But these drowned corpses were all covered with shriveled heads, and 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 its rich charm and sneaks into that other world!
Jianzhen proclaimed the Buddha's name at this time: "All living beings vow to kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!"
I vow to have endless troubles - cut it off! Cut it off! Cut it off! Cut it off! Cut it off!
The infinite vows of the Dharma - break! break! break! break! break!
The supreme vow of Buddhism - annihilation! annihilation! annihilation! annihilation! annihilation!"
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 black and illusive Ksitigarbha Buddha, with chains wrapped all over his body, sits in the void. The chains, whose fervent obsession is mixed with the divine charm and evolution, 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!
This red sun encompasses 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 mouth full of bloody fangs collapsed and flew away, and half of his ghost face was scorched by the scorching sun!
Everything returns to its original state.
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 exists in Rashomon. The current Jianzhen is just a remnant 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: "Wuzi 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
Do you hold the 'Ten Destruction Swords' and the 'Original Form of Hell' in your own hands?
You want to go!"
"This kind of weirdness is nothing more than the weirdness of incompleteness in this world.
After swimming into the dead Dongliu Island, he will turn into a 'sea god' - with Su Wu's power alone, it will be difficult to deal with this trick... The poor monk just stepped in to help him share the burden." Jianzhen lowered his eyebrows,
He 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 even say you would help him, 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 you done something'? It's like a hermit sect, nondescript!" Tao Zu seized the opportunity and scolded Jianzhen again.
Everything he said makes sense, and Jian Zhen cannot refute it at all.
Jianzhen could only clasp his hands together, chant the name of the Buddha, and no longer pay attention to what Tao Zu said.
…
The moon is bright and the stars are few, and the brightness is clear and cold.
Su Wu walked down the slope and followed the winding path towards the higher slope ahead. On the higher slope, the wooden houses were clearly outlined in the moonlight.
There is a strong smell of rotting sea fish floating in the air. Even though the surrounding scenery is quiet and the moonlight is beautiful, the travelers who accidentally walk in here have no intention of appreciating the beautiful scenery and just want to speed up their pace. From this seemingly quiet place, but deep
Escape from the terrifying area.
In the rows of houses on the high slope, there are occasionally candles burning.
Su Wu walked into the candlelit house, but could only see the flickering of the oil lamp on the table, but could not see the owner of the house.
Judging from the furnishings of the house and the residual body heat in the mattress, the owner of the house must have left the place not long ago.
Where did they go?
Su Wu walked into several houses in succession and found all kinds of fresh traces of human habitation, but only no one could be seen in the houses. This village seemed to have gathered all the villagers in a short period of time.
Went to nowhere.
Holding her breath, Su Wu retreated from the room.
The putrid smell in those houses was several times stronger than outside.
But he checked everywhere in the room and couldn't find any rotten fish or shrimp.
Su Wu continued to walk forward along the continuously upward slope. At the top of the slope, a wooden sign was crookedly inserted into the soil. The two Chinese characters for "Haijin" were vaguely engraved on the wooden sign.
The topography and landform here are the "Haijin Village" where Su Wu lived in reality, but the current layout of the houses and the materials used in the village construction are very different from the "Haijin" in the real world. Most of the current villages are made of beautiful wood and stone.
The houses were much better than the hill-like houses he had seen in the real world, which were mostly made of vines for the walls and straw for the roofs.
The Haijin Village of the past seemed to be richer than the current Haijin Village.
Su Wuxuan recalled that Yujiro once said that there had been a famine in Kaijin and surrounding villages - could it be that famine that caused the originally prosperous Kaijin Village to become increasingly poor?
He frowned.
There are too many secrets hidden in the words of Yujiro and the elderly villagers around him, but their words cannot be used as evidence.
Moreover, in the few houses just now, Su Wu also found dried fish, accumulated rice grains, and the scenery of lush weeds and lush trees along the road, which did not look like a famine at all - if
If there is a famine, people will be eager to scrape the ground and even peel off the bark of trees to try to eat it. It is impossible to leave such a lush environment.
Su Wu gathered her thoughts and stood at the highest point of Haijin Village, looking down in all directions.