The atmosphere fell into an 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 saluted Master Chilong again.
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 Daoist Xuan Shezi and your master once salvaged twenty pregnant female corpses from the Minjiang River - Fellow Daoist Xuan Shezi seems to have some preliminary understanding of this matter. I wonder if I can tell Pindao a little bit about it?"
Mr. Tian Shun calls Zhenren Chilong "Brother Tao".
Calling Su Wu "fellow Taoist" actually seems to confuse the seniority.
However, at the moment, he didn't know the order of Chilong Zhenren and Su Wu's Taoist names. Naturally, it was difficult to compare them with each other. 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 generations in the 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 Temple has clearly received the help messages 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, so we don't know much about the situation here." Su Wu thought about it in his mind, and slowly said, "However, there are a few things that make me feel rather strange, and worth investigating.
The twenty female corpses discovered now were all salvaged from the Minjiang River.
Even for the five women who crossed the river by boat, their boat never capsized in the section of Shaxi River where the current was fast and there were many reefs. Instead, the boatman carried them across the river.
At the mouth of the Shaxi River, as soon as the river surface was wider, the water flow was gentler, and there were no reefs in the Minjiang River, the boat suddenly capsized.
Several vaginas fell into the water, and their abdomens suddenly swelled.
The boatman who carried them also rescued a woman ashore.
But then the *** jumped into the river on its own.
——It’s as if something is 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 follow suit.
I followed these clues and searched further.
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. He frowned and pondered for a moment, then raised his head and said to Su Wu, "Fellow Taoist Xuan Shezi, I'll go first." 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 Zhenren Chilong can help me without hesitation!"
After saying this,
Mr. Tian Shun bid farewell to Chilong Zhenren and Su Wu, leading a group of male and female red-headed masters
Gong, they left in a hurry - they had previously greeted Su Wu and his party with great aura, but after learning about the identity of Master Chilong, their aggressive aura immediately shrunk and they no longer cheered up.
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 or so 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 walks?
I didn't take your reminder to heart at all.
He was asking for clues from you and me just to cover up his previous intention to attack you and me with force." Master 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 people around us. 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 spirits."
"He has 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 that day would work, but he still obeyed his apprentice's invitation and led his disciples to walk down the river embankment.
The Taoist priests in Beilu Mountain were surrounded by the crowd and gathered under the river embankment.
open space,
The female corpses have 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 corpse, and examined various conditions on the female corpse.
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 as they examined the female body. Most of them looked through it casually and then ended their work hastily.
There was only a thin female master who examined every female corpse very carefully. From time to time, she took out a charcoal pen and wrote and drew on a piece of paper with low self-esteem, recording 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 become successful - because master Gai's career is in the "martial arts world", which requires bravery, female masters are generally unable to do this kind of martial arts battles, 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 in several village elders, 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, "Wutong Ferry" is marked.
And "Shaxi River", "Minjiang River".
——It was originally a sketch of the surrounding terrain on the disk.
Subsequently,
He took a half-foot-high wine gourd, opened the stopper of the gourd, and slowly poured out a shiny centipede. Mr. Tianshun nervously looked back at the Beilu Mountains.
Beilu
All the roads in the mountain have their eyes focused on their noses, and their noses focused on their hearts, without saying a word.
Mr. Tian Centipede secretly breathed a sigh of relief and let the centipede crawl around the body of the woman, 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, and swam from the mouth of the Shaxi River to the Minjiang River section to the embankment of Wutong Ferry, where it stopped.
Upon seeing this, the golden-robed old Taoist said,
Grab the centipede and place it on the second female corpse. After the centipede has climbed around the female corpse, place it on the edge of the disk.
His current behavior was full of mystery and strangeness, attracting the attention of all the surrounding villagers.
There was no noise in the venue for the moment.
They all stared closely at the movements 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 pulse" and the "wrong pulse"
, this kind of "insect-raising technique" can only appear in the Tujia Puppet Vein and the Wrong Vein.
He is now using the bugs he has raised for many years to contaminate the causal clues left by the female corpse during her lifetime.
Then let the insects reproduce those causal clues.
The first female corpse,
It 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 Master Tian Shun. It only depends on how many clues remain on the corpse. This insect-raising technique can occasionally be useful. Unfortunately, the method of raising insects must be cruel and vicious.
Spending such a huge price to raise such a small insect that even the old yamen workers and old policemen can't compare with 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 blankly for a moment, and then crawled back to the edge of the disk. After that, Mr. Tian Centipede didn't wait for it to be caught.
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, and went all the way from Wutongdu to the mouth of Shaxi River downstream, where we entered the Minjiang River!
After entering 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 road it had stayed on before***
Cross point!
"Where is this?!" The sharp-eyed villagers who were close enough noticed the intersection where the centipede stopped twice and couldn't help but ask.
Several village elders, Li Zheng, have the same problem as the villagers.
They squinted at the intersection, distinguishing the roads around them.
Suddenly, the people in Jinxi Village shouted solemnly: "Wutong Temple!"
"That's the Wutong Temple!"
The people around him 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 she died - but then it crawled out of the river again, climbed over the river embankment, and arrived at Wutong Temple.
,
This shows what?"
Su Wu and Master looked at each other.
They all feel a little cold.
The remnant soul of the deceased, the remaining consciousness of the deceased, returned to the Wutong Temple once again and "fulfilled his wish" in the temple!