Chapter 22: Collapse
The weather is good today, the wind is bright and the cloudless.
Get it!
The sound of horse hooves sounded, and a team of people came to the foot of Mangniu Mountain. Without stopping, they drove their horses up the mountain.
The leader of the horse team was Zhao Sanye, wearing a strong outfit and a solemn expression; next to him was Zhan Yangchun, wearing a gossip Taoist robe, without holding a banner in his hand, and carrying a peach wood sword on his back, with an ancient shape.
"Huh, this is it?"
When he arrived in the mountains, Master Zhao San looked up and couldn't help but be stunned.
On the clearing ground, the mountain temple collapsed and fell down, becoming a pile of ruins.
Mr. Zhao was very surprised: "I was fine yesterday, why did it collapse?"
Zhan Yanchun turned over and got off the horse, walked closer to take a look, circled around, stopped for a while, took out a compass, and gestured; he shook his nose and smelled something.
After he finished, Master Zhao San asked in a deep voice: "Master Zhan, have you ever seen any clues?"
Zhan Yangchun looked strange and hesitated for a while before saying, "There is no evil spirit here."
Mr. Zhao San said "Ah": "How could it be? I really can't find any artificial signs that happened yesterday."
Zhan Yangchun said: "Maybe the other party has left."
"So the mountain temple was destroyed and the corpse was destroyed?"
"If there is really evil spirits, which are connected to the mountain temple and are inseparable, in principle, only when the evil spirits are destroyed will the temple collapse."
Zhan Yangchun explained.
Mr. Zhao was a little confused: "What do you mean is it destroyed by someone? Who destroyed it?"
Zhan Yangchun shook his head: "I don't know this."
As he said that, he walked around the open space and began to survey carefully again.
Where the three horses fell to death, the horse's corpse had disappeared, and there was no trace on the ground, as if nothing had happened. This way, Mr. Zhao remembered the experience of the team of escort car personnel, and it also disappeared out of thin air, but three escort carts were left behind.
When he arrived at the rear of the Mountain God Temple, Zhan Yangchun suddenly stood up and looked blankly at the jungle behind him.
"Dao Master has discovered it?"
Mr. Zhao San stepped forward and asked.
Zhan Yangchun nodded and said, "San Master, please let someone cut open these trees and see."
At the order of Master Zhao San, several escorts from the escort agency came over with knives and axes and slashed the dense bushes.
"ah!"
Not long after, someone screamed.
It turned out that there was a big pit behind it, but it was usually blocked by Linmu, so it was impossible to see at all. Now, after Linmu was cut open, it was clear that the corpses in the pit were everywhere and were thrown there one by one, which made people frightened. In addition to humans, there were also three corpses of horses.
Master Zhao San went up to see it and quickly recognized it. It was the missing corpse of the missing Song Zhengshi and others. Although it was beyond recognition, it was not difficult to identify the clothes. He turned his head and couldn't bear to look at it more. He couldn't help but clench his fists.
Zhan Yangchun observed and sighed: "There is no flesh and blood, so it does not smell bad. It is indeed caused by evil spirits."
He paused and said, "This staff member must have just become a climate and needs a lot of blood and energy to replenish, so the staff member Song and his party were killed."
Mr. Zhao San asked: "The believers who usually come to burn incense?"
Zhan Yangchun said: "It's not surprising that ordinary people are not good at their health and energy, and this evil spirit doesn't look down on you."
When Master Zhao San thought about it, he felt relieved.
Generally, believers who come to worship are either women or elderly people. Most of them are old and weak, and their bodies are thin. However, people who follow the fortune escort agency, whether they are escorts or scramblers, even if they are sloppy martial arts, are ultimately the people who practice martial arts. Their qi and blood in their bodies are naturally far more than those of women and children.
Master Zhao San asked: "Master, in your opinion, how did this evil spirit form?"
Zhan Yangchun shook his head: "I am not very clear about this. The causes of evil spirits are complicated, and the phenomena are obscure and strange... Alas, there are many troubles in the near future, so it is not a good thing. Third Master, you should remind your subordinates to go out for escorts and pay more attention. The evil spirit of Mangniuling has just taken shape and has not yet become a climate, and has not killed many people. If you encounter some old monsters, it will be serious. Yesterday you may not be able to escape the poisonous hands."
Speaking of this, he said, "Ben Dao wants to meet those two scholars."
Mr. Zhao San said, "Okay, I'll go with you."
He asked again: "Master, how should these corpses be handled?"
Zhan Yangchun said: "It is best to pile up firewood and burn it with one handful of fire. By the way, there are also things in the mountain temples that I have picked up here and burned them together."
Mr. Zhao had no objection to this, so he immediately ordered someone to take action, picking up firewood and searching for the ruins. It took about half an hour to complete them all, and began to ignite the fire and burn.
Looking at the fire, Mr. Zhao was in a heavy mood. The staff of the escort agency were damaged, so a large amount of pension was naturally inevitable. More importantly, after this incident was spread, the escort agency was frightened, panic, and its business was greatly affected.
He instructed several subordinates to keep them here and wait until the fire was burned before leaving. He rode down the mountain with Zhan Yangchun and went to Chenjia Village to find Chen Tang.
Zhan Yangchun heard Mr. Zhao tell the story of what happened yesterday, saying that the evil spirit had attacked Chen Tang, but suddenly chose to retreat. This made Zhan Yangchun feel curious, so he wanted to meet him.
With Mr. Zhao’s connections, it is not difficult to find Chen Tang.
It was almost afternoon when the two arrived in Chenjia Village, asked someone for directions, and soon came outside the door of Chen Tang's house.
Su Ling was cooking outside the house when she saw someone coming on a horse. She was shocked and hurriedly called Chen Tang.
At this time, Chen Tang was studying the velvet paper in the room. He felt that since this object is matched with the Heavenly Man Sword Box, perhaps in addition to the portrait, there may be other mysteries hidden in it.
Unfortunately, I spent half an hour trying to find nothing, so I just needed to burn it with fire.
Perhaps, this object is used to depict portraits. The portrait is absorbed from energy and turned into invisible, leaving a piece of peel paper, and it has no effect.
Hearing Su Ling's call, he walked out with the paper and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Chen Xiucai, it's me."
Master Zhao San got off the horse and greeted him with a smile.
"So it's the Third Master."
Chen Tang gave a gift.
In the morning, he went to the city to find someone, but he didn't find him. Unexpectedly, Mr. Zhao came to the door now. No need to think about it, it must be related to yesterday's evil spirit. Looking at Mr. Zhao, he probably didn't encounter any weirdness last night. If there is something wrong, he had to be Chen Tang.
Could it be that monster favors him?
Chen Tang was quite puzzled and puzzled.
"San Master, Master Zhan, please sit in the house."
Chen Tang greeted.
Chapter completed!