Day and night tour

Chapter 166 Madman Temple

"That shepherd can turn old ladies and old men into old sheep. I guess all the sheep monks in Qiye Temple are the work of the shepherd. We need to find out where the shepherd lives first!"

Zhou Xuan placed the breakthrough point of Qiye Temple on the shepherd. Siming said, "There's no need to check. He lives in Litian Village, at the southwest foot of Qiye Temple."

"How did you know?"

"People from our hall often come to Qiye Temple to worship Buddha... Some disciples always tell me that they will meet a shepherd on the mountain gate road, and then be led by the shepherd to Litian Village to eat sheep. They say that the sheep there tastes very delicious. Now think about it..."

Siming felt more and more uncomfortable the more he spoke.

Most of the disciples in his hall ate sheep like those of "old ladies and old men".

"Then let's go to Litian Village." Zhou Xuan said.

……

Every year, Qiye Temple receives a huge amount of donations from the "Thief" Hall. In addition to repairing the temple and expanding its scale, it is also used to reclaim land.

The temple was actually also a landlord, with a lot of fertile land around it, but the monks did not engage in production, so naturally the land was rented out to tenants.

Litian Village is a gathering place for tenant farmers.

The monks on the mountain are rich. In order to maintain their image as eminent monks, they do not exploit their tenants too much. The tenants' lives are still acceptable.

Litian Village is full of blue-tiled houses, and its economic conditions are considered good among the remote villages in Jingguo.

When Zhou Xuan and his two companions arrived at the wooden archway at the entrance of the village, they saw a hunchbacked old man lying on a long bench, basking in the warm afternoon sun.

"Uncle, I heard that someone in the village is making a lamb feast?" Zhou Xuan asked the old man.

"Oh, you mean Mr. Yang. He doesn't make mutton banquets very often. I wonder if he has any in stock today."

The old man's face was pressed against the bench, talking to Zhou Xuan.

"I went to his house and heard from my friends that his mutton is delicious."

"Walking along the village road, every household does not hang lanterns, because they think it is troublesome to light the lamps and waste wax. Only his family is rich, so he hired a long-term worker to hang lanterns and light them from day to night."

When the old man talked about "hanging lanterns", he envied the shepherd.

Following the old man's instructions, Zhou Xuan quickly found the shepherd's house, a large blue brick courtyard that was kept clean.

There was a carriage in the corner of the yard, but there were no horses on it... The horses were eating hay in the stable, and a slightly fat man in a coarse cloth shirt was chopping hay with a scythe.

Hearing footsteps, the man looked up at Zhou Xuan and the others and asked, "Who are you?"

"Go find the sheep boss and eat some mutton." Zhou Xuan took out a piece and handed it to the man.

The man smiled brightly, took the money and said, "You guys go find the boss. I'm his long-term worker, my name is Liu Jiao, and the boss hasn't come back yet."

"Then we'll wait for him."

"Easy to say, easy to say."

Liu Jiao went inside, carried two stools, put them in the shade in the corner of the yard, and said, "Sit down first, the boss will be back soon."

Zhou Xuan and the other two sat on a bench and waited.
After waiting for more than half an hour, Zhou Xuan finally heard footsteps.

The shepherd came back. As soon as he entered the yard, he began to pick on Liu Jiao's hair. He pointed at the grass on the ground and said, "Look, this yard is too dirty. I'll deduct your wages."

"Look at my carriage, it's not cleaned at all. If I take this carriage to pick up the girl, she will laugh at me. I will deduct your wages..."

"Boss, there are customers waiting to eat lamb." Liu Jiao pointed to the shade.

"Where are the sheep now? They've all been taken by Qiye..." When the shepherd got a clear look at Zhou Xuan and the other two, his complaints stopped abruptly.

He had seen these three people in Qiye Temple. Now that they were suddenly found at his door, it was not as simple as just eating sheep.
He turned around and ran outside.
"run?"

Siming threw the cigarette in his hand away, and lowered his body as if he was burrowing into the ground.

Zhou Xuan saw Siming disappear completely, but after a few moments, Siming crawled out from the soil at the courtyard gate.

This is the thief's five-stick incense trick, the "Five Elements Escape Technique". All thieves' tricks in the world come from the five elements.

As a thief, his strength lies in his hands, but in the first four incense sticks, he did not have any magical skills, only the light body skills, and it was difficult to get close to the opponent. After mastering the five elements escape technique, he can be invisible and escape in gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. Only after this incense stick of fire can he be considered a true thief.

At this time, Siming stood still with a calm expression, and he was holding a bloody calf bone in his hand.

This was what he "stole" from the shepherd's leg while burrowing underground. It was a master thief's three-stick incense trick of "stealing while the going is good", which allowed him to steal bones and take meat. His technique was so fast that Zhou Xuan was not paying attention and did not see the process of stealing bones clearly.

The shepherd's left leg was empty. He was missing a leg bone and lost his balance. He fell to the ground and slid forward a distance due to inertia.

"Hiss..." The shepherd only felt the pain now and grimaced.

Siming grabbed the shepherd's chest, threw him into the yard and closed the door.

Liu Jiao was so frightened that he was stunned. Only after he recovered did he begin to beg for mercy.

"Go stay in the house. If we don't let you go out, then don't go out, otherwise..."

Zhou Xuan warned Liu Jiao, but Liu Jiao dared not say anything more and closed the door as soon as he entered the house.

"Yuer, keep watch." Siming commanded.

"it is good."

Si Yuer walked to the front of the house, jumped up lightly, and when her toes stepped on the wall, she pushed continuously. The four-meter-high wall became as flat as the ground in front of her.

She was already crouching on the roof at this time, with her eyes and senses out to prevent any irrelevant people from approaching the yard.

The trick used by the thief Erzhuxiang is "the gentleman on the beam", who moves with one hand and moves as lightly as a swallow.

Zhou Xuan stepped on the shepherd's chest and asked, "Do you know how to turn into a sheep?"

"I...I don't understand!"

"You still dare to deny it?" Zhou Xuan winked at Siming.

Siming lowered his hand slightly, and an eyeball appeared between the two fingers of his right hand.

"Ah...ah..."

The shepherd reached for his right eye with his left hand, but felt only an empty eye socket, and could not help but scream.

"If you don't behave yourself, I will take off all the parts of your body one by one."

Siming threw the eyeball into the stable.

The horse didn't know what was on the ground. It leaned its head over, snorted twice, then sucked the eyeball into its mouth and started chewing it in big mouthfuls.

Seeing his eyeballs being chewed, the shepherd cried out in pain again and begged for mercy, saying, "I... can turn into a sheep. I'm a veterinarian!"

"Veterinarian?" Siming tore the shepherd's clothes and saw many secret compartments on the inner layer of his clothes. Each compartment contained some medicine bags.

"As expected, he is a veterinarian. He does things that turn people into animals every day."

"If people take these medicines, will they turn into animals?" Zhou Xuan asked Siming.

"Yes, mix it in soda or cook it into soup. If a normal person drinks it, they will become animals. Depending on the type of medicine, they will become sheep, cows, pigs, or dogs. This kind of medicine is also called animal-making medicine.
People like us who worship the gods in the underworld have strong senses. We can tell that there is something wrong with this medicine after just one sniff and will not drink it. "

When Zhou Xuan heard this, he stepped on the shepherd and asked, "Did all the sheep monks in Qiye Temple turn into sheep after eating your medicine?"

"No! No!" the shepherd denied it quickly.

"You deny it again!"

Siming was about to take apart the shepherd's parts again, but was stopped by Zhou Xuan. He only took one part off at a time. How many parts does a person have? There would be nothing left to take apart later.

Moreover, most of the things the shepherd knew were bizarre. If he made up some lies relying only on intimidation, it would be hard to verify.

Get smart,
Zhou Xuan's tone became gentler. He said to the shepherd, "You are just a veterinarian. Although you prepared the medicine, the crime was forced upon you by the monks of Qiye Temple. It has nothing to do with you. I only arrest the main culprits. If you tell me everything you know, I will let you go..."

The shepherd didn't say anything, he didn't believe Zhou Xuan.

"If you don't believe me, we can sign a blood contract."

"Snapped!"

The wake-up stick wrapped in several layers of sleeves was knocked with very light force, giving rise to a dream that was only for the shepherd...

Zhou Xuan took out his notebook, tore off a page of paper, and wrote a document.

"The document has been written. Your duty is to tell us everything you know. If your account is incomplete, or contains omissions or lies, you will be devoured by thousands of demons.

My duty is, after you have finished your confession, I will not take your life, I will let you go, and we will shed blood as a bond..."

The shepherd took out the document and read it carefully before he felt relieved. He and Zhou Xuan shed blood to sign the contract. After the contract was formed, he simply went along with it and really regarded himself as a victim.

"It was the monks from Qiye Temple who forced me to do it."

"How did they force you?" Zhou Xuan asked.

"them……"

"If you don't tell the truth, be careful of being devoured by ghosts." Zhou Xuan reminded with a smile.

"They...they...forced me to turn the pilgrims into sheep, and they paid me 500 yuan for each one."

Zhou Xuan sneered, this Qiye Temple has pushed you too hard.

"Why does the monk of Qiye Temple want a sheep transformed from a human?"

"I don't know the details, but I heard some rumors that the Qiye Temple often performs very evil rituals that require the use of human blood and bones. However, they are monks, so it is psychologically difficult for them to accept them directly..."

"What kind of ceremony?"

"I don't know, but this ritual seems to have a long history. We veterinarians have been working with the Seven Leaves Temple for several generations."

"How many people must have been killed by that ritual?" Zhou Xuan couldn't help but sigh.

"They are all the evil monks from the Qiye Temple. They are not human. They are not human."

"Don't be so quick to scold them. Can you tell me when the ceremony is usually performed?"

"I don't know the exact time, but it seems to be related to the forbidden pagoda in the Qiye Temple! And every late night, the forbidden pagoda will make the monks in the temple... go crazy!" said the shepherd.

"What kind of madness?" Zhou Xuan asked following the topic.

"I haven't seen it myself."

The shepherd said, "The walls of the Qiye Temple are very high. The entrance is closed at night and guarded by monks. Outsiders cannot enter. This is all I know. What I said is true. You must follow the contract and release me."

"Answer me first. After taking your animal-making medicine and turning into an animal, is there any possibility of turning back?"

Zhou Xuan asked the shepherd.

"No...no, it's irreversible."

"Understood!" After Zhou Xuan stood up, he hit the shepherd on the back of the head with his elbow.

……

It was late at night. Zhou Xuan, carrying the shepherd's body, appeared in front of the sheep monk's wooden house in Qiye Temple with Si Ming and Si Yuer.

Just as the shepherd said, the Qiye Temple was heavily guarded at night, but Si Yuer and Siming were expert thieves, and with their light body skills like "gentlemen on the beam", they easily climbed up the nearly ten-meter-high wall!
The two men climbed up the wall, threw down a rope, and pulled Zhou Xuan, who was carrying the shepherd, up.

After the group entered the temple, Zhou Xuan went straight to the sheep monk's wooden house.

He walked to the door, knocked gently, and called out, "Master Dezhong, Abbot Dehai is looking for you!"

The monk guarding the wooden house was called De Zhong. Zhou Xuan heard Master De Hai calling his name during the day.

As the door opened, a monk in a cassock stuck his head out. Zhou Xuan used his bone teeth to pierce his throat.

The strong smell of blood awakened the fainted shepherd.

He glanced at the sheep monk's wooden house and immediately became anxious, questioning Zhou Xuan: "We signed a blood contract, you can't go back on your word, or you will be devoured by thousands of ghosts!"

"Let me show you the contract."

Zhou Xuan took out the contract document he had signed with the shepherd. It only stipulated that the shepherd must not lie or conceal anything, but did not contain any provisions regarding Zhou Xuan's responsibilities.

"This...how...why is it different from the blood contract I saw."

“It’s different.”

Zhou Xuan pressed the shepherd to the ground, pulled out the bone tooth from De Zhong's throat, used the tip of the tooth to cut the shepherd's hand and foot tendons, and threw him into the sheep pen.

Hundreds of human-sheep people became agitated at once.

They all recognized who the shepherd was. Their eyes turned red and they surrounded the shepherd, biting him one after another.

The shepherd wanted to shout, but his face was bitten by several sheep, so he couldn't make a sound...

"I'll give you some more ingredients!"

Zhou Xuan also threw De Zhong's body into the sheep house.

Balls of white surrounded the two men and devoured them completely, even leaving out the bones - chewing them with a loud crunching sound.

Only then did Siming understand why Zhou Xuan insisted on carrying the shepherd so far despite the slippery road after just a light rain.

"Let's go to the forbidden tower."

After witnessing the sheep eating up the shepherd and De Zhong, even licking up the blood, Zhou Xuan gently closed the door of the sheep monk's wooden house and went to the direction of the forbidden tower with Si Ming and Si Yuer.

The forbidden tower is built on a mountain and has a total of five floors.

Because of the high terrain, Zhou Xuan and his companions were able to see the entire view of the Seven Leaves Temple as soon as they approached the forbidden tower.
The three of them could see Tianwang Temple, Shanmen Road, Thousand Buddha Forest... and other buildings at a glance.

At this moment, suddenly, a strange sound came from the forbidden tower, like someone chanting.

But the chanting was not done properly, with a halting sound and occasional sounds of women's singing.

The singing and chanting became ethereal, echoing in the Qiye Temple, and the Thousand Buddha Forest suddenly...

……

On the weather observation platform on the distant mountain of Qiye Temple, the weather observer swept away the boredom of the day and looked excitedly at the "air" above the temple.

People have seven emotions and six desires, and their beliefs include Buddhism, Taoism, and witchcraft.

Every kind of desire and every belief has its own unique aura, and these auras appear as different colors in the eyes of an aura master.

For example, Buddha's energy is golden, Taoist energy is purple, and witch's energy is blood-red. When people are angry, black energy rises to the sky; when people are depressed, blue energy flows slowly.

Every color stimulates the nerves of the fortune teller, and the temple is now colorful, with several colors flowing and interweaving.

The dreamlike colors gave the fortune teller an inexplicable psychedelic feeling, which was very enjoyable.

He felt like he was getting drunk, drunk in these colorful colors, the dizziness and hallucinations squeezed out the boredom in his body.

"Life is long, enjoy it while you can..."

The Qi Gauge began to laugh crazily, as if he had also become a member of the crazy Qiye Temple.

……

"Oh, what are these? They are so eye-catching."

Si Yuer only took a quick look down the mountain and then covered her eyes, unable to bear to look.

Zhou Xuan and Siming were also frightened. Is this still the Qiye Temple? Is this still a Buddhist temple?

They only saw

In the Thousand Buddha Forest, the monks who chanted like machines during the day took off all their clothes and danced naked in the forest like drunkards.
The pilgrims who were staying in the temple's side rooms also rushed towards the Thousand Buddha Forest without any clothes on, as if intoxicated.

Men and women, all kinds of people, when they meet, they hug each other and release their crazy desires.

Zhou Xuan only saw white flesh-colored bugs everywhere in the Thousand Buddha Forest, looking extremely crazy.

The love affairs between men and women are the main melody of Qianfolin, but there are always different melodies intertwined.
Some people started fighting, punching each other.
Someone is biting people like crazy, biting whoever he sees.

Some monks may not meet female pilgrims, so for a while, monks just get along with other monks...

"Is this the fucking Wuzhai Conference?"

Zhou Xuan was stunned.

"I donate one million dollars a year to these crazy people?"

Siming felt more and more angry.

At this time, calling Qiye Temple a lunatic asylum was an insult to the lunatic asylum, because people in lunatic asylums were not that crazy.

Zhou Xuan pointed to the forbidden tower in front of him and said, "The singing and chanting sounds coming from this tower are the batons of the crazy monks in Qiye Temple. We are getting closer and closer to the truth about the madness of Qiye Temple."

(End of this chapter)