Chapter 65 Night Rain Wild Temple (27)
"Mr. Yan said that the crisis has been resolved and he will come to us soon."
Even after hanging up the phone, the assistant director still had a silly look on his face, as if he hadn't recovered from the sudden surprise.
The staff members nearby, who had also heard Yan Shixun's brief explanation of what had just happened through the loudspeaker, all looked dumbfounded and frightened.
"My God, there were so many problems with the guest car."
The staff member who was frightened by the giant rat attacking the vehicle was complaining about the production team and his own luck, wondering why he had to encounter such a thing. But after hearing about the experience of the guest car, the staff member suddenly stopped feeling sad and felt thankful that he was lucky to have escaped.
"The statues in the mountain temple can attack people." A female staff member nearby shuddered. Although she had not experienced it herself, she was already scared just by listening to Yan Shixun's brief and emotionless description. She imagined the scene a little and felt that it was far more terrifying than what Yan Shixun said.
"But I think Mr. Yan is really amazing for defeating all those monsters and making such a light statement when he just mentioned it. If it were me, I would have probably peed myself out of fear right there."
"It seems that Mr. Yan is a college classmate of the director, and he is also a top student in the Economics Department of Binhai University."
The assistant director, who had a relatively harmonious working relationship with Zhang Wubing, knew more than the other staff members: "Although Mr. Yan is just an amateur in the program, his main job is not this. He only came here because of the director's request. Mr. Yan seems to be a ghost catcher and exorcist. He is the kind of master we would go to when we encounter unclean things. He is very powerful."
Some staff members who have been with us since the last episode couldn't help but explain the last episode to the new staff members, and they looked quite proud when they spoke: "Master Yan is very powerful. We encountered a lot of ghosts in Guishan last episode. When everyone thought we were doomed, it was Master Yan who led us out."
"Indeed, I didn't believe in ghosts. I always thought that those who talked about ghosts were all charlatans who wanted to cheat me out of my money, just like the charlatans on the street who said, 'I see that your forehead is black, you will have a bloody disaster within three days, only if you buy my talisman can you avoid the disaster.' But after seeing Master Yan, I realized that all of this was true, and Master Yan has real skills! He is different from those charlatans."
"That's right! After the last time, I begged Brother Yan for his private account and asked him to write me a house-guarding talisman to take home. Hey, don't tell me, my mother told me that after getting the house-guarding talisman, her insomnia problem was gone and she slept through the night. Brother Yan is really amazing. I am convinced."
The new staff member who joined this episode was stunned when listening to the popular science talk by the person next to him.
"Yan Shi...Mr. Yan is so powerful? I didn't know it before."
The old staff member next to him patted him on the shoulder and said, "You will understand after you work for two more sessions. Master Yan is really strong. Don't be fooled by his sullen expression and indifference to people around him. This is called the demeanor of a master! Only people with real skills dare to have this attitude. If it were a liar who wanted to cheat you of your money, he would have smiled at you in the morning."
"But will Brother Yan still be there next time? Isn't our show based on a last-place elimination system? What if Brother Yan is eliminated due to low popularity? Then we won't be able to buy Brother Yan's talismans?"
"Well, that's a good question. But I think you should be more concerned about whether this show will still be there than whether Master Yan will still be there. My goodness, two episodes in a row have had problems. What kind of luck is this director? I've been in this industry for more than ten years and I've never seen such an unlucky variety show."
"Hey! What are you afraid of with Brother Yan here? No matter what kind of monsters there are, they are nothing but a drizzle of cats in front of our Brother Yan. We are not afraid of them at all. Brother Yan is the pillar of our show. With Brother Yan here, we have no worries."
"You really trust Mr. Yan, haha. But I also think that I have worked in various variety shows and programs for so many years, and I have seen at least 8,000 celebrities of all sizes. I can tell who is popular and who is not at a glance. Mr. Yan's character is really impeccable. Don't think that Mr. Yan doesn't care about you, but if you sincerely ask Mr. Yan for a small favor, Mr. Yan will not refuse even if he looks impatient. He is also very meticulous, much more than someone like me who is used to doing logistics and worrying about everything. He thinks of everything."
"Unless everyone's aesthetic taste changes overnight, from aesthetic taste to ugliness taste. Otherwise, with Mr. Yan's appearance, the audience and fans will not let him be eliminated last. I have been a makeup artist for so many years, and I have never seen anyone so handsome. And he is not a beauty that comes from an assembly line. Mr. Yan has his own characteristics and style, which makes people unforgettable. When I first saw Mr. Yan, I was stunned for a long time and couldn't come back to my senses. Hahaha, later I posted on WeChat Moments lamenting that compared with this appearance, I am just a mud dot thrown by Nuwa, and Mr. Yan was molded by Nuwa herself."
"By the way, if you believe me, you can ask Brother Yan for a house-guarding talisman or a protective amulet later. Ask Brother Yan if he sells it to you. You can always carry it with you, and it won't go amiss."
The new staff member nodded blankly: "Okay, okay."
The staff members who were chased by giant rats and rescued by the old woman last night, after a hearty meal in the evening, all went to sleep in the corner of the old woman's hut, wrapped in clothes and blankets. Although it was not as comfortable as sleeping in a bed, overall they had a good rest as they had a place to sleep and were not disturbed by wind, rain or cold.
The staff were awakened by Yan Shixun's phone call just when it was almost dawn. They were not yet fully awake and felt that everything was unreal, whether they were in danger or escaping danger.
They were surprised and delighted to confirm the authenticity of the news with each other, cheered and stood up to pack up their things, thanked the old woman and prepared to leave.
But he was stopped by the old woman.
"The Yan Shixun you are talking about..." The old woman, with her skinny body hunched over, walked out from the shadows where she had just been quietly listening to everyone's conversation. Her wrinkled and old face still showed a look of astonishment and shock.
"Did he do anything about the mountain temple?"
The staff members were confused, looked at each other, and nodded.
The old woman fell silent, her face showing a complicated expression, a mixture of relief and hatred, which was extremely hideous for a moment.
But soon, she just sighed: "Enough, it's enough. The mountain god has held on for so many years...it's time for him to go. This is a relief."
Facing the surprised and puzzled looks of the staff, the old woman's drooping brows slowly calmed down, no longer as intense and ferocious as before.
"I want to meet that Yan Shixun."
The assistant director hesitated: "Mother-in-law, what are you doing..."
"Don't worry, I won't do anything else. I just want to see who it is..."
The mountain god who had been imprisoned for more than ten years was liberated.
The old woman didn't say the second half of the sentence, her face showing a heavy look of heartache.
When she was young, she was just a refugee who was fleeing during a famine and had no food to eat. After she lost her parents, she was so skinny that she wore rags that could barely cover her body and wandered around with a broken basin, looking pale and emaciated from hunger.
One day she was so hungry that she fainted at the foot of Wild Wolf Peak.
She thought she was going to starve to death, but when she opened her eyes again, there were wolves squatting beside her with obedient expressions, and in front of her were wild fruits and vegetables that the wolves had brought.
It was the mountain god who saved her.
From then on, she settled down in Wild Wolf Peak. With the help of the mountain god and her own strength, she built herself a thatched hut and lived like a human for the first time.
The mountain god taught her human writing and the language to communicate with the gods and animals. In order to repay the mountain god's kindness, she has been actively doing things for Wild Wolf Peak, saving injured animals in the mountains, warmly entertaining people who have wandered here and letting them settle down here, and promoting the existence of the mountain god to the villages that have gradually formed a scale, telling the villagers who can finally eat food that it is the mountain god who makes the crops abundant, the land fertile, and the weather good.
Gradually, more and more people gathered in the village. Because she was able to communicate with the mountain gods and animals, she became the village witch. She used the medical skills taught by the mountain gods to cure people's diseases, and also used the power of the mountain gods to exorcise evil spirits for people.
She watched the mountain god and the villagers live in harmony. The power of faith made the mountain god more powerful, and he was able to protect more and more land. New villages began to be built nearby. The villagers were grateful for the protection and help of the mountain god, and spontaneously built a mountain temple for the mountain god. They celebrated the mountain god's birthday every year and offered grain to the mountain god as a sacrifice to bless the harvest in the coming year. The mountain god used his power to protect the villagers and ensure the harvest.
This virtuous cycle made her feel indescribably happy.
However, when a person is able to eat his fill, he will forget who fed him and forget to be grateful when he was hungry.
As the villagers of that time grew old, the young people who had never been hungry since childhood and had not experienced how happy and satisfying it was to have enough food to eat in an era of famine were no longer satisfied with just being rich by working hard on the land.
The disaster of Wild Wolf Peak also began from then on.
She had stopped it, she had scolded it, and she had shouted at the top of her lungs to those young people about the harm that would result.
However, the young people who were bewitched by evil spirits and blinded by greed for money did not listen to her at all. They just scolded her as "an old troublemaker who is still so superstitious in this day and age, and there is no mountain god at all" and pushed her away. They forcibly cut down the trees on Wild Wolf Peak, harmed the creatures in the mountains, and exploited the resources of Wild Wolf Peak.
She begged the mountain god with tears in her eyes, hoping that he would punish those people. However, the mountain god just sighed and did not punish those people. Instead, he silently bore the pain of weakening strength. Even when those people got lost in the mountains, he would still gently let the animals in the mountains guide them to find the way out of the mountains, just like when they were children.
But the mountain god's gentleness was exchanged for long-lasting pain.
The weakened mountain god had his throne robbed by the evil creatures that took advantage of the situation. He was so fragile that he would almost disappear soon, but the mountain god still couldn't bear to see the villagers suffer because of the invasion of evil spirits, so he still forced himself to protect the villagers to the best of his ability.
She watched the mountain god suffer, but she could neither scold those people to wake him up nor persuade him. She could only watch in pain as the mountain god weakened day by day and almost died, but was trapped in the Wild Wolf Peak day and night, unable to be freed.
Because she was the messenger of the mountain god's messages and the witch of Wild Wolf Peak, she had received the mountain god's deepest protection, so the evil creature could not do anything to her. Apart from the drastic loss of the mountain god's power, which made her age and become ugly rapidly, it had no other effect on her.
The witch who had given up trying to save the villagers watched coldly as those who refused to listen to her advice were possessed by evil spirits and then jumped into the fire and burned to charred corpses. There was only sadness and irony in her heart.
Those people whose eyes sparkled when they saw the rice and who cheered with the purest joy to thank the mountain god... are no longer with us.
How many of the elderly people who were grateful to the old people are still alive in the village? Do the children listen to the elderly people's advice? If they don't listen, it's useless.
Those people only wanted money, and they drove their supposedly expensive cars back to the village smugly, thinking that they were proving the old man was wrong.
But they didn't realize that danger was already approaching them.
After rescuing a young Taoist priest who was being chased by charred corpses from a pile of charred corpses, the witch drove him away in disgust, telling him that there was no one alive on Wild Wolf Peak except herself.
Here... there is no need to be saved anymore.
The witch lived alone in the deserted village. In her own hut, she watched coldly as wave after wave of Taoists came to exorcise the evil spirits from Wild Wolf Peak. She also watched coldly as the dead villagers wailed in pain and regret, but she could only be driven by the evil creature and there was no turning back.
It was not until this stormy night that a convoy broke into Wild Wolf Peak.
Out of a momentary kindness, she saved a stranger who was being chased by the evil creature's henchmen.
And the man named Yan Shixun in the caravan completely freed the mountain god.
The mountain god is dead.
But the mountain god will also be reborn.
"Mother-in-law? Old woman?" The assistant director looked at the absent-minded old woman and couldn't help but raised his hand and waved it in front of her.
The old woman came back to her senses from her memories and snorted unhappily: "I'm not old enough to become demented yet, so you don't have to be so rude. I'm still strong and I can live for another few decades without any problems."
“Didn’t you say you wanted to burn incense to the mountain god?” The old woman raised her chin towards the assistant director, looking energetic and full of energy, completely different from the ferocious and gloomy person she was yesterday. “Wait a few decades later, before I die, I will definitely let you burn incense to the new mountain god. Come then!”
The mountain god will not be reborn, and she will not die!
She will guard these mountains and waters on behalf of the mountain gods until the mountain gods gather again on this land.
Assistant Director: “Uh…”
I don't doubt whether you can live for several decades, after all, you look strong and vigorous when you are in shape, and you curse people with full energy. But I doubt whether I can live for several more decades... With the frequency of danger in this program, I always feel that even if I don't die from danger, I will be scared to death first.
But the assistant director was very polite and did not express his complaints out loud. Instead, he nodded and agreed to the old lady.
"Okay, mother-in-law, call me when the time comes. If I'm not dead, I will definitely come."
"You said you wanted to meet Mr. Yan." The assistant director scratched his head. With the level of respect he had for Yan Shixun, he really didn't dare to call Yan Shixun directly and treat him like his subordinate or junior. That would be too disrespectful.
He struggled for a long time and finally came up with a solution: "How about this, mother-in-law, after we go back and meet up with Mr. Yan, we will drive over to thank you, and you can also see Mr. Yan, okay?"
The old woman raised her head in agreement: "Then you guys hurry up and don't run to Wild Wolf Peak unless you have something to do. You guys are crowding into my little house. It's almost collapsed by you guys, humph."
Although she said this, a strong light burst out from the old woman's eyes, as if she couldn't wait to see Yan Shixun.
Even she had completely lost hope in Wild Wolf Peak and was prepared to die together with Wild Wolf Peak and the mountain god, but she didn't expect that all these unsolvable deaths would be resolved by a foreigner named Yan Shixun!
She wanted to see who Yan Shixun was.
She wants...
Express your gratitude to him in person.
The staff paid no attention to the old woman's bad tone.
After listening to Yan Shixun's story about the experience at the mountain temple, they realized how dangerous it was to be chased by a giant rat yesterday, and naturally they were more grateful to the old woman who saved them. And even though the old woman had a bad tone and looked down on them, she still protected them last night and allowed them to sleep peacefully in a place without wind or rain.
People should know how to be grateful.
After placing some of the food and medicine in the car in the old woman's little house, the staff restarted the car, waved goodbye to the old woman, and prepared to wait for Yan Shixun and others on the road.
The rain has stopped and the sky is bright.
All danger fades away in darkness.
…
Yan Shixun did not return to the guests' rooms, but just called to confirm their safety.
He strode towards the main hall with a sharp aura and a solemn look.
Human faith is the most solid source of God's power. Without faith and support, God's power will drop significantly.
That was why the mountain god lost his power and the evil creature found an opportunity. Now that the souls of all the villagers who were manipulated have left, the only ones who believe in the evil creature in the entire Wolf Peak are the actresses Rourou and Anthony who were bewitched before. This is the time when the evil creature is at its weakest.
Just as the evil creature treated the mountain god in the past, now it is its turn to be treated the same way.
Under the cycle of cause and effect, everything repeats itself again, there is no way to escape.
Yan Shixun had a sneer on his lips. As he walked, he picked up a wooden stick placed beside him. The corners of his clothes fluttered violently, and his aura was amazing.
With such a good opportunity, of course we should take advantage of it - to kill it while it's sick!
To cut the grass, you must remove the roots!
Although the evil creature disappeared after taking the opportunity to escape, Yan Shixun could still guess where it would be hiding.
Zhang Wubing reminded Yan Shixun that he was in a mountain temple that was so dilapidated that it was almost collapsed.
This is not the temple of the mountain god at all, but the "temple" built after the evil creature seized the throne of the mountain god.
Because it came from an improper place and was originally a dirty evil, the evil creature was even afraid and stayed above the statue in the main hall. Any uninformed people who worshiped the statue that looked like a regular one would actually be worshipping the evil creature, which satisfied the vanity of the evil creature and made it feel complacent, and also allowed it to gain strength from the faith gained through deception.
This is enough to show how scared the evil creature is.
Besides, Yan Shixun remembered the middle-aged Taoist priest he met at the first time.
But he was not a Taoist priest at all. His face was not younger and more energetic than his peers like a Taoist priest, but old and ugly. His facial features were more like a mouse than a human, and his hair was tied up in a way that was not at all like a Taoist priest's. All these showed that he was not even a human, but a follower of the evil creature who transformed into a human and pretended to be a Taoist priest in order to increase outsiders' trust in this place and let down their vigilance.
The middle-aged Taoist priest lived next to the main hall, and it seemed that he was guarding the evil creature's lair nearby.
In this case, the main hall, which is the core of the entire temple and the place where all power is ultimately gathered, is where the evil creature will stay.
Therefore, Yan Shixun ran straight to the main hall without hesitation.
He looked like he was going to have a fierce fight, so fierce that the audience in front of the screen trembled and dared not speak.
But the evil in hiding is far more frightening than anything else.
Yan Shixun's guess was correct. After running away from the main hall, the evil creature fled to another place, making it impossible for people on the ground to see its trace.
It was none other than another small temple hidden beneath the main hall.
In the dim and cramped underground temple, the sound of water dripping on the ground could be heard from time to time. The walls were covered with moss, revealing a cold and moldy smell.
Around the temple are animals carved into various gestures.
Upon closer inspection, the animal statues, whose outlines were slightly illuminated by the faint light from bottom to top, all had fat bodies more than one meter tall, with disgusting knotty muscles, covered in gold and silver, and had wretched and ugly faces.
Although the movements and postures are clearly imitating those of gods, there is an lingering feeling of shrinking and gloom, which is as ugly as a simple imitation of a beautiful woman.
But the eyes of the animal statues were the only ones that were carved to be lifelike, with a fierce look in their eyes, as if they would come alive in the next moment, rising from the stone platform covered with dust and moss.
The evil creature that had previously appeared in the mural in a colorful image was now running back and forth anxiously in the underground temple, squeaking and roaring in annoyance, revealing its fear and anxiety.
Anthony, who had been missing for a long time, stood at the edge of the temple with a dazed look on his face, looking at the evil creatures running back and forth on the altar with eyes of fanatical worship. His originally handsome face was now distorted, which made the split-screen viewers shudder when they saw him like this, and they kept saying that Anthony was really crazy.
"Lord Mountain God, when will you teach Yan Shixun a lesson? Let him know that you are someone he cannot afford to offend. As one of your followers, I know the same thing!"
Anthony shouted enthusiastically, "You are omnipotent. You can make my wish come true and let me become the top star in the entire entertainment industry, trampling everyone under my feet. Please make my wish come true now. I can't wait to see the faces of Yan Shixun and An Nanyuan crying and begging for mercy!"
The evil creature, which was already irritable and fearful due to its weakening strength, heard the voice, raised its red eyes, and looked at Anthony viciously in the darkness.
Anthony had no idea that his "god" had murderous intent towards him, nor did he notice that his eye sockets were sunken and his face was dark blue.
Because the evil creature had lost its power and was eager to replenish its strength, it took away Anthony's yang energy nearby, causing his vitality as a living person to rapidly decline. His breath was as weak as that of a dying person. However, because he was so obsessed with the scene in his imagination of Yan Shixun and An Nanyuan being trampled under his feet, he did not notice his own weakness at all.
Looking at Anthony, the evil creature's red eyes revealed murderous intent.
Anyway, there is no extra yang energy, so why not just kill him? Human flesh will be a great tonic.
The evil creature thought about it, and immediately flew towards Anthony from the altar, extending its claws as sharp as daggers, flashing an ominous luster.
Closer and closer.
The evil creature looked at Anthony, who was in a daze and unaware, with greedy joy in his eyes.
but--
"boom--!"
A loud noise was heard.
Bricks, tiles and stone statues placed along the walls all shattered and collapsed with the loud noise. The flying debris mixed with the scattered dust was blown all over the underground temple. Even a huge rock flew out and hit the evil creature directly as if it had eyes. It was hit unexpectedly in mid-air and before it could resist, it was crushed to the ground by the weight of the rock.
Anthony was also hit by a stone, and was knocked out and hit the wall, then slid down.
A slender figure with great power jumped down from the huge hole in the underground temple, penetrated the ashes in the temple, and landed steadily on the ground. The Martin boots stepped on the boulder with great force, making the evil creature, which was already squeaking madly and resentfully under the pressure of the boulder, even more unable to move and struggle.
"Oh, it seems that you are living very happily hiding in the gutter." Yan Shixun looked down at the evil creature under his feet with cold eyes, revealing his disgust undisguisedly.
"It really is just a rat that can only hide in the corner. It is too ugly to be worth looking at."
The evil creature let out a hissing sound from its throat, its red eyes looked upwards with resentment, and it struggled to squeeze out human language.
"You, what are you?"
"You ask me?"
Yan Shixun raised his eyebrows proudly and sneered: "I am your ancestor, and I came here to kill you, a rat who steals food and houses and does many evil things."
"Is it clear enough? Can you understand what people are saying? Hmm?"
The evil creature was frightened on the spot by the murderous aura that Yan Shixun swung towards it.
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