Chapter VIII Worship to God
"Sweet potato, what are you doing? Come here!"
Xiaohu shouted at him a few times, but the sweet potato seemed to be unable to hear it, and he was lying outside the temple and knocking it non-stop. Xiaohu was a kind-hearted person. He couldn't bear to throw his companions in such a place, so he plucked up his courage to propose and go ahead to see what was going on.
Although He Weican was so scared that he was dying, he saw that the sweet potato was in a state that was really wrong. If something really happened, he was responsible and had to bite the bullet and agree.
The two children walked forward carefully and found that the sweet potato was dirty and lying on the ground.
Faced with the dissuasion of his companions, sweet potato did not respond at all. He faced the temple gate, slowly pressed his head against the ground, and then stood up suddenly in an extremely exaggerated posture, raised his hands above his head, and shouted something He Weican and the others couldn't understand. After shouting, sweet potato took another step back, then knelt down again, then stood up again, repeating the actions just now...
He Weican only realized at this time: sweet potatoes are worshiping the gods. However, all his actions are completely opposite to those of normal people. It is obvious that he is worshiping the gods upside down.
Looking inside through the crack in the door, Xiaohu found an orange fire in the yard, and a photocopy was on the wall. It was the woman just now. He Weican tiptoed over and lay down by the door with Xiaohu, peeking at the situation inside.
Under the moonlight, the woman was wearing a dirty gray robe and stood barefoot in the yard with her back to the two of them, muttering something vague in her mouth, and her body was constantly repeating the same movements as sweet potatoes.
Her limbs are slender and thin, as thin as dry wood, but her body is like a mollusk without bones. Every time she kneels, the woman's body will be folded in half at an extremely exaggerated angle. As she gets up again and again, her black and dirty hair will also swing with her body, and the whole picture looks extremely strange.
He Weican noticed that there was a strange statue of god in the hall directly in front of the woman.
When I was a child, my grandfather said that the temple was probably worshipped by Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. However, because of the age, the valuable things inside had been looted by bandits, and even the statue of Ksitigarbha was smashed. More than 40 years ago, the village chief at that time brought people to see him. There was nothing in the hall except for the broken statue of the gods, some abandoned wood and stones.
Originally, a village cadre proposed to flatten Tallinn and demolished the temple to expand the orchard area; but on the day the project started, a villager who was working was killed by a sudden broken crossbar on the roof.
In the following time, strange accidents occurred one after another. The people involved in the demolition of the temple either suddenly fell ill or were injured accidentally. Until one night, Lao Qian, who was responsible for guarding the orchard, the second uncle of sweet potato, disappeared inexplicably. Three days later, he was found hanging on the high beam of the temple, and the village was completely in panic.
Everyone said that the Tallinn area was too evil and could not move easily. In desperation, the village chief had to terminate the original plan and instead ordered people to lock the temple door and prohibit everyone from getting close to Tallinn.
At this moment, He Weican only regretted that he was obsessed with the ghost and actually forgot the adult's advice and insisted on going to such a dangerous place.
But now it is useless to regret it now. He forced himself to concentrate and squint his eyes and looked at the extra statue in the temple. Only then did he realize that it looked so strange that it could no longer be described as strange.
The thing was made of unknown material, and it looked like a deformed body with a big head and a small body. Its limbs and torso were particularly short, with different thicknesses on both sides of the left and right arms, with six slender fingers each. The statue raised his hands high, and his fingers were spread out exaggeratedly, as if he was trying to catch something.
As for its face, He Weican's heartbeats faster and his mouth is numb:
On its forehead, there were more than a dozen pairs of eyes, which looked like a beehive, making people stand upright; the entire face of the statue was very swollen, as if it was about to be burst, and the part of the mouth was like an eel's mouth. There were three oral cavity inside and outside, and many sharp teeth were distributed.
He Weican became more and more frightened as he looked at it. Although he was still young, he realized that he could not stay here at the moment. While the woman was still muttering something to worship God, he and Xiaohu quickly turned around to find sweet potatoes, trying to secretly take each other away.
But at this moment, sweet potato suddenly screamed "ah". His eyes kept rolling up, his body twitched like an electric shock, and he stretched out his right hand and pointed behind the two of them.
He Weican subconsciously looked back and his scalp exploded:
Through the crack of the old door, he finally saw the face of the woman in gray robe just now: under the messy hair, her facial features were like dough that was being kneaded, and were spread out in a mess, and her two turbid eyes grew near her chin.
The moment when He Weican's eyes collided, a gap broke in the center of the woman's face, revealing the yellow teeth inside, as if she was smiling at them. She used her hand covered in black mud to snatch the crack of the door, hunched over, and still shouted the strange syllables that she couldn't understand, leaning towards them little by little.
Seeing this terrifying scene, He Weican suddenly remembered his grandfather's words: A boy's urine can drive away ghosts and evil spirits. He mustered up the courage to take off his pants, and peed at the entrance of the temple without saying a word.
Sure enough, the woman screamed, and the foot that she had originally stepped out suddenly retracted.
Seeing this, He Weican hurriedly greeted Xiaohu. The two of them ran wildly with sweet potatoes until they saw the firelights in the orchard and their parents anxiously looking for their figure. Only then did he feel that his eyes turned dark and he lost consciousness.
"Later, all three of us were seriously ill. Xiaohu and I were burned for seven days before we woke up. The sweet potato was even more unlucky. After more than a month of illness, we were all thin and we lost our skin. What's worse is that after he recovered from the illness, he became stupid and dull, as if his brain was burned out. Compared with sweet potato, Xiaohu and I were lucky." He Weican said with a wry smile.
Thanks to my sister He Ling who went down the mountain that night, she found her parents. She heard that the naughty children had gone to Tallinn and several families reported to the village chief, so she hurriedly ran into the mountains.
They first met Zhao Gang and his group. When they heard that there was a terrifying woman in the abandoned temple worshiping the gods, several parents who did not find their children were immediately anxious.
Zhao Gang is usually very powerful, but when faced with adult questions, he cried and even said something unscrupulous.
It was one of the children named Su Wende who had recovered from their senses first, and he stumblingly told everything that happened in the back mountain, and pointed out the adults' way.
Several parents followed along and met He Weican and the other two who were unconscious in the orchard.
Knowing that this time the evil thing happened, it was related to the lives of several children. Village Chief Zhang Songqing didn't care about the rules and led people down the mountain overnight.
Chapter completed!