After breaking up, I picked up a beautiful vampire girl

Several people looked in the direction she pointed and saw an open space in the black woods.

Six Buddha statues stood prominently on the open space.

But what is terrifying is that these six Buddha statues all have no heads.

"The little girl has never seen the world. It's just a few stones, why are you so scared?"

The old policeman said with a smile.

Rhea and Sherlock came to the open space and carefully observed the stone Buddha statues.

"I don't know when these stone Buddhas were placed here. Thirty years ago, when I first came here with Director Yang Yi, these Buddha statues still had heads."

The old policeman held his waist and walked to the Buddha statue to introduce it to the people.

"These six are the famous Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva statues. Look, from left to right, they correspond to the six realms."

"The Bodhisattva of Hell, the Bodhisattva of Precious Jewels in the Hungry Ghost Realm, the Bodhisattva of Precious Seal in the Animal Realm, the Bodhisattva of Dhritarashtra in the Asura Realm, the Bodhisattva of Purification of Obstacles in the Human Realm, and the Bodhisattva of Sunlight Ksitigarbha."

Sherlock smiled and looked at the old police officer and said, "You know a lot about Buddhism."

The old police officer smiled and waved his hand: "I don't believe in these things, but I don't know why Director Yang Yi is a great believer in Buddhism. He tells me these things every day, and I've been influenced by them."

“When were these stone Buddhas beheaded?”

"It was not long after I first came here, about a year later, yes, it seemed to be 1994, yes, it was 1994."

"How do you remember it so clearly?" Leia asked with a smile.

The old policeman thought for a long time but couldn't come up with an answer, so Sherlock spoke directly.

"Because in 1994, another big thing happened in Tannoyama, right?"

The old policeman immediately came to his senses after this reminder.

"Yes, yes, yes! It was a day in 1994. I remember it very clearly. Suddenly one day I heard Director Yang summon all of us to go into the mountains. I heard that several college students were missing. Alas, we searched for a whole month and only found four headless corpses and a crazy female college student."

"Then I saw that the heads of the six stone Buddhas were chopped off. When Director Yang Yi saw this, he knelt down on the spot. I don't know if he was scared or angry. His body kept shaking and he kept muttering something like Amitabha Amitabha."

[In 1955, an old folklore professor was murdered in Danye Mountain. In 1993, Director Yang Yi claimed to have met a female college student who escaped from the mountain. In 1994, five college students disappeared in Danye Mountain, four of them died and one went crazy.]

Li Muhan said on the other side of the screen.

Suddenly, something occurred to him.

[Leya, check the current situation of the crazy female college student. Sherlock, please check Director Yang Yi's diary to see if there was any female college student missing in 1993, and her itinerary happened to go to Tanye Mountain]

Leia and Sherlock remained calm, but were already doing what Li Muhan had instructed them to do.

Soon the two looked at each other and gave Li Muhan a report.

In 1993, a female college student from Kagoshima University did disappear in Isehara, and her parents reported the case to the police, but the child returned to school a month later.

She claimed that she eloped with her boyfriend, but ran back in shame after being abandoned.

So the police dropped the case.

The student's name is Suzuna Haru.

What really made Li Muhan shudder was that the only female college student who survived from Mt. Tanno in 1994 was none other than Suzuna Haru.

The day after she was rescued, she died in Isehara City Hospital from biting off a blood vessel in her wrist.

【It’s a bit interesting...】

"It's a bit interesting..."

Li Muhan and Sherlock said this almost at the same time.

Chapter 929 Chapter 8: Headless Buddha

At noon, led by the old police officer, the group finally arrived at this ancient village deep in the Danye Mountains.

At the entrance of the village, two scarecrows stood there quietly. They were sculpted to look lifelike, but because of the lack of vitality, they looked particularly gloomy in the dim forest.

"What the hell is this place?" the young female police officer muttered softly, her voice trembling slightly.

The old police officer stopped, turned around, glanced at her with a smile, and said, "This is Black Spring Village. The last time I was here was half a year ago. Looking at it now, it seems basically unchanged. Sigh."

His voice stopped abruptly, and he seemed unwilling to say more.

They continued to move forward, and as their footsteps got closer, an indescribable feeling of oppression gradually enveloped the entire team.

There seemed to be an ancient curse in the air, causing everyone's heartbeat to accelerate involuntarily.

The scarecrow at the entrance of the village seemed to be watching them go deeper into this dead and silent place.

The houses in the village are dilapidated, and the cracks and peeling paint on the walls reveal the traces of time.

Occasionally, an old man would stick his head out of the house and look at these uninvited guests with cloudy eyes.

"Hey, old man."

The old policeman walked up and greeted an old man who was carrying a hoe and wearing coarse cloth.

The old man slowly turned around and looked at everyone without saying anything.

The old policeman stepped forward, his tone somewhat disdainful, it seemed that he looked down on the people in this village from the bottom of his heart.

"These are the masters from Tokyo. They are here to investigate. Tell us what you know."

The old man slowly turned his head and looked at Leia and others.

What made Li Muhan feel confused was.

The old man's eyes didn't look as awkward as if he had seen a stranger. Instead, they looked like he was examining a commodity.

What made Li Muhan feel even more strange was the old police officer's attitude towards these people.

Although it seems crude, it is very natural.

He knew these people.

Sherlock sent a message to Li Muhan in text form.

[I think so too] Li Muhan said.

[Be careful, this village may not be as simple as it looks] Li Muhan warned again.

"Investigate...what?"

The old man spoke in a weak voice.

"Investigate those who died in the mountains!" the old policeman said loudly, fearing that the old man couldn't hear clearly.

"So! Old village chief! Quickly gather everyone together!"

"Okay... okay."

The old man left with his hoe on his shoulder, his body trembling.

The old policeman stood with his hands behind his back, seeming satisfied with his arrangement.

About an hour later, the villagers gathered in the dilapidated square.

Leia and others also learned about the backwardness of the village.

There is no electricity or water in the village, and everything seems so primitive and backward.

The villagers live entirely on subsistence farming, growing a small amount of crops and raising a few skinny livestock.

As night fell, there was no light in the village, only the occasional fire flickered in the dilapidated windows, like hope struggling in the darkness.

"Is this kind of place...really habitable?"

The female police officer complained in a low voice, with a hint of uneasiness in her voice.

The whole village was shrouded in a strange atmosphere, and everyone could feel the invisible pressure.

A solemn expression also appeared on Yagyu's face. He knew that something was hidden in this village, and this thing had been staring at them in the dark.

The villagers told everyone.

This village is not the original Black Spring Village.

The real Heiquan Village should actually be called Heiquan Shoushen Village. It is just a small village rebuilt by some descendants of Heiquan Shoushen Village who came back to express their gratitude to their ancestors.

"There are no young people in the village... As you can all see, no young people can survive here."

The old man, leaning on his cane, spoke to everyone.

[These people did not come here to build a village out of nostalgia for their ancestors]

Sherlock sent a message to Li Muhan in his mind.

[How to see it]

[If they were grateful to their ancestors, why didn't they just settle down in the Black Spring Hunting God Village, but instead found another place to live?]

【So you think it might be? 】

[Based on their age, I guess this group of elderly people are trying to avoid the conscription order during the Fuso War]

That sinful battlefield will be the eternal pain of the Chinese people. One nation could actually do such cruel and inhuman things to another nation.

Even the local gods of Fusang feel disgusted and scorned by him.

When asking about the six stone Buddhas with their heads chopped off in the forest outside the village.

The villagers hesitated for a moment, but finally the old man sighed and told the story of Danye Mountain.

In the ancient legend of Mount Danye, there is a creepy story.

The villagers' reverence for the forest is like their devotion to the gods. When night falls, the villagers will not set foot in the forest, because it is the territory of the headless mountain god, a cursed place.

According to legend, long, long ago, Mount Tanye was a peaceful place.

However, due to the invasion of bandits, many lives were lost.

The bandits chopped off the head of a samurai who was protecting the village and hung his body from a tree.

That night, a cold wind blew violently, and the headless warrior transformed into a mountain god and killed all the bandits.

From then on, the mountain god protected the creatures in the mountain and the villages at the foot of the mountain with his compassionate heart.

However, after Kamakura Buddhism, Shintoism became popular, and a group of foreign monks, with their obsession with Buddhism, believed that the mountain god was an evil demon if he did not enter the six realms of reincarnation, and decided to suppress him with the power of Buddhism.

They carved 107 stone Buddhas of various sizes, each with a face that expressed solemnity and compassion.

The monks placed these stone Buddhas deep in the forest to seal the power of the mountain god.

Since then, the tranquility of Mount Danye has been broken, and the anger of the mountain god has turned into endless resentment, permeating the forest.

Originally, because the stone Buddha was there, even if the mountain god was angry, he could do nothing.

But for some reason, the stone Buddha's head was suddenly chopped off.

What surprised everyone was that the first time the stone Buddha was chopped down was not the time thirty years ago when Director Yang Yi took the old police officers up the mountain.

Instead, it happened during the war in Fuso.

[So that's how it is. I think I understand.] Sherlock said.

[What do you understand? ] Li Muhan asked.

[Those stone Buddhas were probably cut down by the villagers at the foot of the mountain at that time]

[How do you say that? ] Leia asked with a smile.

[It is so easy to understand, Miss John, please use your brain which is good for nothing except being pretty, otherwise it will get rusty]

Rhea glared at Sherlock angrily.

[During the war, in order to give soldiers an almost inhuman will to fight, Fuso abolished Buddhism and deified the gods, and promoted the former emperor as a living god, the highest god in Shintoism. The Yasukuni Shrine, which is now despised by everyone, was born in such a twisted and ugly belief.]

[That is to say, during that period, even if you worshipped gods other than the emperor, it was a crime. Fanatics even destroyed many temples with statues of gods. I think the gods and Buddhas in this mountain might have been destroyed by fanatical militaristic Shinto believers at that time.]

[And not long after the statue was destroyed, in 1955, the first headless murder case in Danye Mountain occurred] said Li Muhan.

[In other words, this is indeed an act of an alien? Because the Buddha statues in the mountains were destroyed, the mountain god's imprisonment was gradually lifted, so he killed people to vent his anger?] Li Muhan asked again.

Sherlock smiled and shook his head.

[The more this happens, the more I feel that this is man-made. It has been a long time since I have come across such an interesting case. I really want to see with my own eyes what kind of person is behind this.]