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Chapter 378 The Demon Monk
This is an indescribable music, it catches people's ears in an instant, and makes people's mind intoxicated, like immersing their senses in water, they can't hear everything around them, but they can feel that there are countless hands tearing around Looking at himself, unable to break free and unable to escape, his eyes were immersed in the darkness.

When I was completely immersed, the miserable screams from around came, someone scolded, accused, disgusted, and all the negative emotions suddenly emerged. I just wanted to hug my head and hit the wall hard, trying to wake myself up, but But it sank again and again, and finally fell into the abyss.

Li Xiruo glanced at Su Youxing and Xiao Wu, who were already immersed in the music and couldn't extricate themselves, kept crying with their eyes wide open, as if their souls had been ripped out of them, and only their bodies remained stiff.

She closed the music box, and the "bang" made the two of them wake up completely. They looked at Li Xiruo blankly, but found that their face was wet. Xiao Wu quickly touched it, and said in embarrassment: " Where did the water fall?"

Su Youxing gave him a disgusted look, wiped away the tears on her face and asked Li Xiruo, "This music is weirder than the last time I heard it. I just felt goosebumps at the time, but now it seems like My whole body has been drained of strength, and I can only be manipulated by others."

Li Xiruo looked at the box in his hand: "This is not an ordinary tune, something has been added to it, so you can't resist it."

Su Youxing glanced at Tan Shuya's room: "It's no wonder Xiaoya became like this. Listening to this kind of music every day, it's no wonder people aren't crazy."

They have just listened to it for about half a minute, but they feel that they have experienced a century, as if they have crossed over wars, concentration camps, spiritual explosions, and are on the verge of suffocation.

Li Xiruo said to them: "I'll go and find out the origin of this box first, and you guys will stay here and wait for me to come back."

Xiao Wu said nervously: "Then what if Tan Shuya wakes up later and still looks like that, she was too anti-human just now, we can't control it."

"I cast a calming spell on her, and she will lie quietly on the bed until I come back if nothing happens."

Xiao Wu wanted to breathe a sigh of relief when he heard this, but suddenly thought: "Then what if something unexpected happens..."

"Make up your own mind."

Xiao Wu saw that Li Xiruo disappeared into the air before he could finish speaking.

If Li Xiruo was looking for the antique market in city A, there are all kinds of teachings and nine schools here, so she must know more news than her.

She turned around and entered a shop with the wooden box. She had bought some copper coins and town house beasts here before, and she was also a regular customer of the boss.

Seeing her coming, the boss greeted her very warmly: "What news does the Celestial Master want to buy today? I just got a treasure, and I can share it with the Celestial Master."

After all, if some things are consecrated by Li Xiruo, the price will double again if they are taken out to the town house.

Li Xiruo took out the wooden box and put it in front of the boss: "Look at this thing."

The boss nodded and put on his eyes to measure with the naked eye. He looked back and forth for a while, and was about to open the box, but was held down by Li Xiruo. , but it is a modern thing, the production of the box is the current mechanical technology, and the advantages are probably only the extraordinary carvings on it."

Li Xiruo pointed to the engraving on it: "There are so many treasures that come and go to your hands every day, can you tell who made them?"

The boss took a closer look, thought for a while, and pointed the way to another house: "If you want to study woodcarving, Tianshi can go to the small shop on the corner. Although his house is small, he has a lot of things to collect. , if I remember correctly this kind of carver, I seem to have seen it once in his house."

He looked at the statues on it, and confirmed again: "That's right, the boss once collected more than a dozen wooden statues of gods. I heard that they were all made by one person. The carvings are exquisite. It’s all from the Tang Dynasty.”

Li Xiruo thanked the boss and walked out. After walking for a while, he saw the house on the corner. His location was relatively remote and unobtrusive. It passed in a blink of an eye.

If Li Xi walked in, he saw a thin man about 30 years old, and when he saw the visitor, he just asked lightly: "What do you want to look for?"

Li Xiruo looked at his face, his cheekbones were darker, his tears were swollen, his lips were blue, his overall face was yellow, and he looked sickly.

"I heard people say that you have more than a dozen wooden statues here. I am very interested in woodcarving. I wonder if I can take a look first."

The man shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I don't sell those wood carvings."

Li Xiruo found it interesting, the wood carvings were from the Tang Dynasty, the carvings were exquisite, and each one was worth a lot of money, but this store bought them all, but they didn't plan to sell them, so what did they do with them?
"Then I have something here, why don't I ask you to see it first?"

The man looked at Li Xiruo suspiciously, and when he saw her take out the box in her hand, his complexion changed slightly, his blood surged up, and he couldn't help coughing.

He coughed for a long time before weakly asking Li Xiruo, "Why do you have this box?"

Li Xiruo stepped forward and said, "You know each other?"

The man glanced at her, took out a statue of a god from inside, pointed to the lotus throne on it and said, "Look at the carving technique of this curve, it's the same as that on this one."

"Is this the woodcarving from the Tang Dynasty?"

The man nodded: "I already have eighteen such wood carvings."

Li Xiruo didn't ask where the source of his goods came from, but just asked: "Why do you collect so much?"

The man picked up the Buddha statue and revealed the lettering at the bottom, which read "Bao Yuan".

"Do you know Baoyuan Temple during the Tang Dynasty?"

"Coincidentally, I've heard it a lot recently."

The man said: "About Baoyuan Temple, there is a rumor that the monk inside is a living Bodhisattva who helps the world and saves people. The people at the foot of Baoyuan Temple are often harassed by diseases. The illness makes them miserable, but they have no money. Go to the doctor, and this disciple becomes their only salvation, but some lonely people cannot get out of bed when they are sick, and they cannot go to see this disciple for medical treatment, so this man came up with a trick, he carved a lot of The statues of gods are placed in the homes of those people, and once they are sick, as long as they sincerely pray to the gods, he will definitely appear."

"What's the name of the person you're talking about?"

The man shook his head: "He's not a human, he's a demon. His name is Bai Ran, and the people behind him call him a demon monk."

Li Xiruo didn't expect to meet people who knew a little about what happened back then in the antique market.

She asked: "I have checked the county records back then, but they have been destroyed. What happened to Bai Ran back then that made him disappear completely, and why did one of his senior brothers, Wu Xu, also disappear?"

"I only know about Bai Ran. According to previous rumors, he showed his real body one day when he was seeing a doctor and frightened people to death. However, the subsequent rumors are that he killed that person. People were afraid of monsters in their hearts, so they smashed all the statues carved by him, and now I can only collect Tao."

Li Xiruo looked at the man gently touching the statue: "You collected these to pray and want him to appear again to heal you?"

The man looked at Li Xiruo: "Did you guess it?"

The two zygomatic crows are metal-generated water, because the cheekbones are located at the intersection of metal and wood among the five elements, his eyes are swollen, phlegm and cough, it can be seen that the body lacks fire, water is prosperous and fire is weak, so even though he is He is in his prime, but he looks sick and dying, so it is no wonder that he believes in the legend, collects all the gods, and only wants to pray that Bai Ran will appear again, so that he can rejuvenate and heal people.

"However, nearly a thousand years have passed since this incident. How can you think that it will appear again just by relying on a few statues?"

"Because I've seen it." The man was a little excited, gasping for breath, pointing to Li Xiruo's box and said: "The music in this box was made by my dad. Back then he found a statue and begged Bai Ran to show up and heal him. disease, Bai Ran's condition was to make a sound box for him, even though I was only ten years old back then, the scene at that time is still vivid in my memory."

"Since you have seen him, what does he look like, and where has he gone now?"

Speaking of appearance, the man said a little uncomfortable: "He has been covering himself very tightly, and I have never seen it before, but his hands look like fish webs, and his fingers are connected by a thin net. Together."

From this point of view, Bai Ran at that time was the monster from the No. [-] Bell Tower, but he seemed to have never recovered his human form.

"At that time, he cured my dad and took away the music box. Unexpectedly, 20 years later, I would suffer from the same incurable disease as my dad."

Li Xiruo pointed the sound box at him and opened it, the lotus inside turned, and the disturbing music sounded again. The man felt unwell, and hurriedly closed the box: "It's different, the sound is different, the previous one Music is good for sleeping, I'll take a look."

Enduring the discomfort, he opened the sound box again, took tools to disassemble some parts, but said with a weird face: "It's so strange, the metal pieces inside haven't changed, and logically the song shouldn't have changed either."

Li Xiruo already knew what she wanted to know, and closed the box to leave, but the man stopped her: "Since you have his box, even if you don't know where he is, at least you have a chance to meet him again." No, if you see him again, can you..."

Li Xiruo knew what he was thinking, turned around and said, "Do you still remember the story you told? He used to help everyone selflessly, but when he helped his father heal, he exchanged one thing for another. Although you I only used two or three sentences to summarize the people's fear of him back then, but perhaps he couldn't forget the harm those people did to him back then."

The man was startled when he heard this, and could only watch Li Xiruo leave.

(End of this chapter)