Onmyoji's Secret

Chapter 160

I listened quietly to Ding Man's narration, and the scene five years ago began to emerge following her words in my head.

It turned out that in December of that year, non-governmental organizations in Dujiangyan continued to hold a ceremony to worship the God of Insects in the Chonger Temple in accordance with past practices.But in the middle of the ceremony, when the spectators entered the main hall one by one to offer incense to the God of Insects, a middle-aged woman pushed through the crowd and rushed into the main hall.

The middle-aged woman rushed into the hall aggressively, found a man and a woman who were offering incense, and quarreled. During the quarrel between the two sides, it was only when the people around figured out their relationship and the reason for the quarrel.It turns out that the man offering incense and the middle-aged woman who rushed in to quarrel are a couple. The man secretly kept a mistress outside. The two of them came here specially to participate in the Insect God Festival this time. His original wife found out, and rushed over to catch him.

Maybe it was because the emotions of both parties were too excited, and the people around couldn't persuade them at all. The original wife rushed up and slapped the mistress a few times in anger. At that time, the man was also angry, so he stepped forward to face his wife. When they started fighting, although they were finally pulled away by the people trying to persuade them to fight, after some fighting, the original wife was also beaten with black nose and swollen face.But no one thought that this woman's character was also extremely vicious. Under her anger and sorrow, she actually swears a poisonous oath to the statue of the insect god in the temple. numb.

After the woman gave her husband and mistress a venomous look with her eyes, she rushed directly to the statue of the Insect God in the main hall. She hit the stone statue fiercely with her head, and she ended up with her head cracked on the spot. The splashed blood and brains splashed the faces of the surrounding people, causing chaos in the entire hall, and in this chaos, it is not known whether the impact of the woman caused the center of gravity of the statue of the insect god to be unstable. The idol fell and just hit the woman's body. In an instant, the bones were scattered everywhere, and the broken flesh was all over the ground. Among the stone god statues, the already ferocious god statues looked even more terrifying.

After experiencing an extreme chaos, the situation was finally brought under control by the police who arrived.Dead people are naturally not that simple. The man and mistress who had fallen into a sluggish state were taken to the messy hall to identify the scene at that time, while the woman who had been smashed into flesh was sorted out by the medical staff and put together. A stretcher was covered with a white cloth.

Ding Man stopped at this point and said no more, but I saw a trace of hesitation from her expression.

"Sister Ding, what's going on next? Could it be that man or his mistress was possessed by a female ghost?" I asked quickly. Generally speaking, the woman died with injustice, full of resentment, and it will definitely melt after death. As a ghost.

Ding Man shook his head and said, "I don't know, I also heard these things from other old drivers who often come here. It is said that the woman's smashed body was placed on a stretcher covered with a white cloth, but when a doctor When I opened the white cloth, a strange gray bird flew out of it, but the woman's skeleton disappeared."

"What! This is impossible, people are dead, how could the corpse turn into a bird?"

I said in horror, this thing is simply unimaginable, I can still believe that the woman turned into a ghost after death to take revenge, but the body turned into a bird, this is too mysterious, it is completely unreasonable.

Ding Man rolled his eyes at me, and said contemptuously, "How is that impossible? Haven't you heard the legend about Jingwei filling the sea? Even Jingwei can turn into a bird to fill the sea after death. This woman... ..."

"What happened after that? Could it be that strange bird killed someone?"

I hurriedly interrupted Ding Man's words. After talking for a while, I felt that Ding Man's personality was a bit chattery.

Ding Man gave me a blank look, and said, "I don't know, I also heard from others. I don't know exactly what happened afterwards, but I heard that on the second day, a group of people came from nowhere. The locusts swept across the entire Chong'er Temple, tsk tsk, I heard that the scene at that time was overwhelming, the entire sky was covered by locust swarms, and it was black and dense. Wherever the locust swarms passed, there was no grass left, and all the plants and food They were all eaten clean."

I frowned and asked in a low voice, "Is the person dead?"

Ding Man was taken aback, and then slowly said: "Of course, although the locust swarms can be seen from a long distance, the people nearby basically hid in their houses and closed the doors and windows, and escaped the disaster. But there are still many people who are too late to escape and are surrounded by locust swarms, and in that case, they will naturally have to die."

"Where's that man and his mistress? They probably weren't in the Chong'er Temple at the time. Did they have nothing to do in the end?" I asked, stretching out my car window and looking at the quiet mountains outside the road, feeling an inexplicable depression Feeling welling up in my heart.

"Dead. It is said that they were found dead at home. When the police entered, the whole house was full of locusts. A man and a woman were lying naked on the bed with hideous expressions. Later, the forensic doctor dissected their bodies and found The stomachs and chests of both of them were full of locusts, and the internal organs, flesh and blood were all eaten by the locusts."

When Ding Man said this, there was a look of joy on her face. She waved her small fist and muttered: "The adulterer died well, this is retribution, hum."

I felt a little cold, not because of Ding Man's attitude, but because of the story she told.I saw a locust plague once when I was a child. At that time, I only remembered that there were locusts everywhere in the back mountain and roadside as long as there was vegetation. I could trample a few of them to death with just one foot, but it was this kind of common insect. One day it will also become a weapon for killing people.

Is there really a worm god enshrined in that worm temple?

I thought to myself, I don't know if the story told by Ding Man is true or not, but there is no doubt that there is something weird in this Chonger Temple, otherwise the sacrificial ceremony that has lasted for hundreds of years would not have been interrupted because of this. deserted.It's just that Yang Kun and Cai Yawen are not clear about this matter. If they know, then their purpose of setting the location in this extremely weird temple is a bit questionable.

A gust of night wind blew over my cheeks, and there was a tinge of coolness on my body.

I looked at the sky, it was basically dark, and it was almost time to set off. Although it was still a few hours before twelve o'clock, it was my first time here and I was not familiar with the road conditions. Go to the Chonger Temple.

I opened the car door, talked to Ding Man and walked out.

"You really want to go up the mountain? Are you sure someone really asked you to meet at the Chong'er Temple on the mountain? It's really not a good place!" Ding Man shouted behind me.

I turned around and replied: "No way, I have to go this time, even if there is a dragon's pond and a tiger's den in front of me, I have to go through it."

After I finished speaking, regardless of Ding Man's reaction, I took out a flashlight from the schoolbag on my back that I bought just before getting in the car, turned on the switch, and suddenly a beam of bright light shot out far away, which was particularly attractive in the dark night sky. attention.

"Do you want me to go with you? It looks like you are not familiar with this place. I went to Chong'er Temple when I was a child. Let me guide you so that you don't go wrong." Ding Man unexpectedly said He opened the car door, stepped down and said loudly to me.

My heart moved. It was dark and windy at night, and I was not familiar with the road conditions. If someone who had been there would guide me the way, it would indeed save me a lot of effort.But then I thought about what was said in the photo that I had to go alone, if they found out that there were other people around me, they would attack Yaoyao and Li Xiaohui.

Immediately, I quickly rejected Ding Man's proposal. With her suspicious face, I walked along a mountain path by the light of the flashlight.

Although I have never been here, since many people worshiped this Chonger Temple every year, and even tourists from other places visited it, it must be in a place with convenient transportation. I will follow this right path It shouldn't deviate too much.

The night covered the earth, and a round of bright moon hung high in the night sky, scattering pieces of hazy brilliance.

Because few people came here in the past five years, the cement road under my feet was covered with a thick layer of dust. I followed the beam of the flashlight and looked around. desolate.I saw a few small things beating constantly on the side of the road, which seemed a little creepy. I took a closer look, only to find that those beating things were actually a few locusts.

Chong'er Temple, the woman who died unjustly, the strange bird, the locust, Yang Kun and Cai Yawen.

As I walked forward slowly, I sorted out these things in my heart.What Ding Man said about the Chonger Temple was very mysterious. If ordinary people listened to it, it might just be a ghost story. But for me, who has experienced countless adventures, the things in it are not necessarily true fake.At least it is a fact that the village near the Chonger Temple was relocated by the government. If the government hadn’t been able to control it, it would not have allowed all the surrounding villages that had existed for hundreds of years to move away, and I saw that the surrounding area was bare The earth and the locusts jumping under the light from time to time, I believed in what Ding Man said in my heart.

I walked about hundreds of meters, observed the surrounding environment and the road ahead with the help of the light, and then quietly turned off the flashlight in my hand.In such a dark environment, walking with a flashlight is too eye-catching. I don't want to attract Yang Kun's attention too early.If possible, I hope I can touch them quietly, and it is best to rescue Yaoyao and Li Xiaohui directly.

I recalled in my mind what I often saw on TV before, those big villains captured the protagonist's relatives or friends, and then used their lives to make the protagonist put down his weapon and catch him without a fight.Although this kind of matter was finally resolved by the protagonist, and the hostages were perfectly rescued.But that's because they are all the protagonists in TV dramas, but I'm different, so I've been a little worried if Yang Kun and the others threaten me with the lives of the two girls and let me catch me without a fight, what should I do at that time? option?

I walked forward while thinking wildly, and after walking a section of mountain road, a light suddenly flashed in front of my eyes.I was startled immediately, because this area has long been deserted, if there is still light at this time, if it is not me, then it is the person who kidnapped the two girls.

I was alert in my heart, and looked forward with vigilance, but then I was stunned, because a scene of thousands of lights appeared in front of my eyes, and in a mountain depression not far ahead, there was actually a I opened my eyes and looked carefully at the brightly lit village. There seemed to be walking figures under the lights...

(End of this chapter)