Chapter 033 Chapter 33
After entering the main hall, several people felt a chill.
Because it was cloudy, the temperature had dropped a lot, but it felt even colder after entering the main hall. It was a cold and damp feeling, as if I had entered a cellar instead of a temple's main hall.
No, to be more precise, it looks like a grave.
Li Wen had been to the Qing Tombs once when he was traveling with his parents. The underground mausoleum there was accessible, and he had been there once, but he only took a few steps and came out immediately.
Because it was too cold, not freezing, but chilly. That chill could penetrate deep into the bones.
Just like now.
Li Wen grabbed Qingtong's clothes in fear and almost pulled Qingtong down. Qingtong looked back at him with a questioning look, and Li Wen shook his head to show that he was fine.
He can do it, Lao Qin can do it, so why can't he?
It's just looking at a Buddha statue that can't be moved.
Li Wen looked up at the Buddha's face, and saw a large shadow cast on the Buddha's face. The eyes that were looking down were staring at him.
Li Wen was so scared that he pulled Qingtong's clothes tightly.
Looking at his shirt that was wrinkled by the ripping, Qingtong sighed and looked at the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man was walking in front of the group. He had already reached the back of the Buddha statue and was looking up at the back of the Buddha: "There's nothing carved on it."
Others also came over to look, except Li Wen, who stood to the side of the Buddha and stared closely at the face of the Buddha statue.
Those stone-carved eyeballs were indeed staring at him; it was not an illusion.
Beads of sweat were dripping down Li Wen's face.
After observing the back of the Buddha statue, the middle-aged man looked down and saw the wooden block at the base of the Buddha statue. After looking for a while, his eyes widened slightly and he wanted to reach out and touch it. After thinking of something, he said to Lu Ren, "Lend me the knife."
Lu Ren immediately handed him the folding knife without even asking what it was for.
The middle-aged man knelt on the ground, opened his folding knife, and pried the wooden base with the tip of the knife. His knife was steady, and he scratched something straight on the wooden block under the Buddha statue. Bits of gray debris fell down as his knife moved.
"Hey..." Li Wen said while staring at the Buddha statue, "The Buddha statue's expression is wrong..."
"Huh?" A tourist who came with him walked up to Li Wen and looked at the face of the Buddha statue with him, then screamed in shock, "Oh my god!"
Before, whether it was false compassion or mockery, it was just a slight change in expression. The face of the Buddha statue always had eyebrows stretched and eyes looking down at the ground. But now the expression on that face was extremely exaggerated, the eyes were wide open, the corners of the mouth were turned down, and the eyes were looking back as much as possible. If you only look at the expression, you would think it was a furious statue in the Yanwang Hall.
The Buddha is angry.
However, it was precisely because it showed anger that the male tourist felt a little relieved. The fact that it did not do anything to them despite being so angry showed that this Buddha statue was weird and it was really unable to move.
"It's open." said the middle-aged man.
There was actually a secret box hidden behind the base of the Buddha statue. After opening it, a huge pottery jar was seen inside. The middle-aged man was very cautious and did not touch it directly with his hands. Instead, he used the tip of a knife to pry open the pottery jar.
With a snap, the lid of the pottery jar broke into two pieces on the ground, but no one paid attention to this anymore. Everyone looked into the huge pottery jar.
"Grrrl..." One of them turned around and vomited after seeing this. He coughed several times and cursed, saying, "I don't know when I can go out for a meal. It's been less than half an hour and I've already vomited twice."
Previously, he had the misfortune to go to the hut with Guan Haoguang and his friends and saw the rotting corpse kneeling on the ground. Now, here he saw the corpse of a baby.
Yes, in the secret box hidden in the base of the Buddha statue, placed in the pottery jar, were the bodies of baby girls, and there were more than one.
"What a sin..." the middle-aged man said with a sigh, shaking his head.
"Why put it here?" Lu Ren asked, "Shouldn't we find a place to bury it?"
"Maybe they're afraid." The middle-aged man closed the wooden door of the dark box and said, "Even if you don't believe in Buddhism, you still believe in the underworld. In the past, there was a saying that babies who died before they grew up carried resentment with them, so they were not buried in the ancestral tombs or erected monuments, but were thrown into the wild and buried at random. The people in this temple may be afraid that they will be haunted by too many sins, so they want to put them under the Buddha to eliminate the resentment or suppress it."
"Those women are running towards the main hall desperately, are they also trying to find their children?" someone asked.
Everyone else was silent, so this was not impossible.
"So?" Lu Ren asked, "We take out the jar and give it back to them?"
"Before that..." Li Wen trembled, "Let's think about how we can escape first. Those women are coming!"
Qingtong, Lu Ren and others immediately poked their heads out from behind the Buddha statue, and as expected, they saw three charred human figures rushing into the temple gate, roaring and rushing towards them.
"I have an idea." The middle-aged man whispered, "Let's push this Buddha statue in front of the three women. What do you think?"
Li Wen immediately turned his head and looked at the middle-aged man with a 'are you crazy' look.
However, the man was very firm: "The Buddha is weird, and so are those women. If they have a grudge against each other, why don't we let them solve it themselves?"
Of course, they also left the pottery jar behind, and they sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight.
Seeing the strange women getting closer and closer to the main hall, Li Wen looked at the fearful expression on the Buddha's face and gritted his teeth: "Fuck it. Let's go, push it out!"
The stone Buddha statue, which is one meter tall, weighs several hundred kilograms, but the men don't want to move it, they just want to push it. They use a half-meter high platform to pry the stone statue up from below, and then push it, and it will roll out by itself.
But even if they had agreed to take action, no one dared to touch the Buddha statue first.
The middle-aged man smiled and said, "I'm over 40 years old and the oldest. Let me do it." Then he put his hand on the back of the Buddha statue.
Everyone looked at him nervously and also stared at the Buddha statue.
But... nothing happened.
"It's okay if you touch this!" Li Wen shouted excitedly.
Qingtong poked the tip of the long-handled umbrella under the Buddha statue and pried it down. The middle-aged man lent a hand, and the others pushed hard, watching the body of the Buddha gradually lean forward.
A vague voice rang in the ears of several people: "Stop... Stop..."
Li Wen was frightened and his hand trembled and he loosened his grip. The Buddha statue swayed and almost sat down again.
"Keep pushing!" Lu Ren shouted.
"Oh!!" Li Wen used all his strength, not caring about the whispers in his ears, and pushed the Buddha statue forward desperately. Finally, when the three strange women rushed to the front of the main hall and were about to turn into ashes again, the Buddha statue broke the altar with a bang, fell to the ground, and rolled to the door.
With a crack, a crack appeared on the hard face of the Buddha statue.
Then something strange happened. The black ashes on the women's bodies, who were about to turn into ashes here, stopped corroding. They rushed towards the Buddha statue that had fallen to the ground.
Screams rang out, coming from the Buddha statue. Hoarse, low, and deep sounds overlapped with each other, sadly begging for mercy.
Soon the sound gradually became smaller, but the cracks on the Buddha statue became longer and deeper, and finally the stone statue cracked into several pieces with a snap. The expression on the Buddha statue's face finally returned to normal, with the usual compassionate expression of a Buddha statue, and it became a real dead object.
"Is this... gone?" Li Wen asked in disbelief, "Is this giant Buddha statue gone?"
"It seems that it has no other ability except staring to scare people," said Lu Ren.
The middle-aged man returned the folding knife to Lu Ren and said, "The statue that was once revered by people is now a dead object that can do nothing."
No matter how you worship, how you pray, or how much incense you burn, in the final analysis, it is just a stone carved to look like a Buddha, not the real Buddha.
After those strange women dealt with the Buddha statue, they staggered into the main hall. Li Wen, Lu Ren and others immediately retreated, bypassed them and left the main hall.
Without even looking at the people around them, they ran straight to the pottery jar under the base of the Buddha statue, then disappeared while holding the jar.
"Is this the end?" Li Wen said in disbelief.
Guan Haoguang, Qin Yi and others who were waiting in the side hall patted Li Wen and his companions on the shoulders, congratulating them for returning safely.
"I was so scared when I saw you guys were going to push the Buddha statue." A male classmate said with emotion, "You are so brave. Those weird women died if they touched it. What if this one also died if it was touched? Then we are doomed."
"You guys look so cool when you push the Buddha statue."
Li Wen shook his head in embarrassment: "I wasn't the first one to reach out, so I didn't dare to touch it."
"I can finally go home now." Bai Lin looked up and said, "I want to go down the mountain now and buy a cup of milk tea to calm my nerves."
"I want to eat something first. I'm so hungry."
"I want to go back to bed."
After their nerves were completely relaxed, a group of people gathered together and talked and laughed. Some people took out their mobile phones to report their safety to their families.
Then, a sentence came out, pouring cold water on everyone: "Why is there still no signal on the phone?"
Still... no signal?
The mood for chatting and joking immediately disappeared. Everyone took out their mobile phones, took a look at them, and then stood there in a daze.
Everyone glanced at each other, and in everyone's confused and painful eyes, they understood the current situation.
Although the strange woman and the giant Buddha disappeared, the story did not end there.
Their cell phones still had no signal, which meant that things might not be over yet.
"That little house..." Bai Lin's face turned pale, and she pointed at the little house with a trembling finger, "There's another one there!!"
Perhaps to echo her words, everyone heard the door of the cabin creak and be pushed open.
The dirty long hair covered her entire face. The female corpse finally struggled to free herself from the rope and stood at the door with her head down, facing everyone.