The heavy rain that had passed in the sky was still falling. Just when Fangzheng turned his head to look at the shopping building, at this time, he was in another dark and small house in this Southeast Asian city.
In the darkness, there was a little fire flickering on and off, and it seemed to be faintly visible that it was the fire light from a stick of incense.
At this moment, this stick of incense was inserted in an antique incense burner in front of a shrine.
As the incense burns, incense ash is sprinkled from time to time, and...the air emits bursts of rotten smell like the stench of corpses.
And this smell of rotting corpses comes from the stick of incense in the darkness.
rustle...
This is the swaying sound of tree shadows being blown by wind and rain. On the glass windows outside the house, strangely shaped black tree shadows are reflected, like human hands clinging to the glass windows and twisting back and forth.
At first, I thought it was the shadow of a tree, but if you look carefully, you will find that there is a shadow of a tree in one area, which is very strange, as if it is the outline of a human face, motionless, unlike the shadow of a tree that is blown back and forth by wind and rain swing.
Awesome! It was a human face, and it didn't know when it was stuck on the glass outside the window, motionless, as if the whole face was lying on the outside of the glass window in the dark night, as if it was constantly peeping into the house.
It was only because there were no lights in the house, and it was raining heavily outside the house, and it was dark at night, that's why we didn't notice the existence of the human face at first.
It was also because of the darkness at night that I couldn't see the face clearly...
But this is still the weirdest thing. The weirdest thing is that the face only has a head, but no body below the neck... It doesn't look like someone is peeping outside the window at all!
It's more like, a head lying directly outside the window to peep! ! It left the body and floated in mid-air! !
This is a very weird scene, with a head without a body, in the dead of night, at some point, lying on the outside of the glass window and peeking into the room, the more I think about this situation, the more it makes me shudder.
However, at this moment, the voice of an old woman came from the room.
"snort!"
The old woman snorted dissatisfiedly.
"Huawai barbarians are Huawai barbarians. They are not civilized at all, and they don't know etiquette."
"Didn't your adults teach you to know the etiquette when you meet people, and don't kill the cat because of curiosity?!"
The voice of the old woman was like the shrill roar of a wild cat, which was extremely harsh and unpleasant.
In this room, there is actually another person.
It was only because the lights in the house were not turned on, and it was especially dark on a rainy night, that it was impossible to notice someone in the house at the first time.
But the most surprising thing is that what the old woman said was actually Chinese, not a Southeast Asian language.
She is from China.
rather than natives of Southeast Asia.
rustle...
The tree shadow outside the window was still swaying in the wind and rain. Only the outline of the human face hidden in the tree shadow kept its original movement lying on the glass window, motionless.
"I heard a rumor... that it was in the east... that there was a big snowstorm..." Outside the window, a sinister middle-aged man's voice sounded.
The middle-aged man also spoke Chinese, but his voice was not as smooth as that of the old woman before. He speaks Chinese very badly, very awkward, with a strong accent of Southeast Asian locals.
And listening to the sound source, it seems to come from the direction of the floating face outside the window.
The gloomy voice continued: "At that time... because of the cold weather, no matter what seeds were planted in the fields... they couldn't survive... leading to famine... many people died, and people ate up all the animals and wild vegetables in the mountains. So I started to go deep into the mountains to find food... Later, a hunter went deeper into the mountains to hunt... No one knows what this hunter experienced in the deep mountains, and he didn't return for three days... "
"Just when the hunter's family thought that he was killed in the mountains, he must have encountered tigers, bears, wolves, leopards and beasts. As a result, on the third day, the hunter brought back a lot of food, which saved the lives of the whole village... From that day on, the village It’s changed, they don’t go out all day, everyone closes their doors, they chant scriptures, burn incense, and worship gods at home all day long... No farming, no work, no hunting, but the whole village can’t starve to death, you say Is it strange?"
"At that time, people who were famine began to wonder if this village had surplus food in the past. There was a lot of food, so they couldn't starve to death? Then some people started sneaking into the village, trying to steal food. As a result, guess what happened? Those who entered the village The people actually returned to the village with carts of grain. From that day on, those villages became exactly the same as the first village. They didn’t have to work or go out. Can't starve to death."
"Ha..." The sinister voice outside the window suddenly let out a short laugh, which seemed to be ridiculed and ridiculed.
"Until one day, a Taoist priest passed by these villages, and his expression changed drastically. He immediately went to the local government. Do you know why the Taoist priest's expression suddenly changed?"
The old woman in the room did not speak this time, but the sinister voice outside the window continued to speak.
"I heard that Taoist priests and government officials drove several vehicles, and the corpses were transported out of those villages non-stop. It took several days and nights to transport all the corpses of the villagers."
"It turns out... hehe, the villagers in those villages have already starved to death, turned into mummified corpses, and they didn't know that they were dead, so they locked themselves in the house, burning incense and chanting scriptures all day long...they worshiped Not a god, but a shrine."
"What food, what to eat, until the Taoist found out that everything was fake. Later, the Taoist led the way and led a lot of troops into the mountains to search the mountains. No one knew the situation in the mountains, only the mountains. There was a big fire, and the forest fire burned all day and night...”
"It turns out that there is a group of people who want to continue to practice to survive when their spiritual energy is exhausted. They spread believers everywhere, believe in them, worship them, and use incense to practice. In this way, they will not be in the special age when their spiritual energy is exhausted. Because they cannot practice , leading to physical collapse and death. However, I recently heard a rumor that most of those people died, and only a few escaped from the siege and fled to Southeast Asia, where they have been hiding until today."
"I think the shrine in this house is similar to the shrines worshiped by the villagers in those villages... You are not one of those people, are you?"
silence.
"How much do you know?" The voice of the old woman in the room sounded again.
The sound is erratic in the room, and it is always difficult to locate the exact position.
The sinister voice outside the window said: "I also heard that... these people will also practice the "Seventy-two Fragrances of the Earth Demon". One of the incenses in "Er Xiangpu"? What are you going to do when you light the "Disha Seventy-two Fragrances" in the city? What is the purpose?"
(end of this chapter)