The whole thing gave me a weird feeling.
According to common sense, the puppet with a human head was looking for Guan Laotou to build a dome-shaped building. In Guan Laotou's view, something with bricks and stones below and a dome without beams above is a tomb. I guess the puppet is planning to use this kind of building to bring Shenmu Temple back to the world.
So why didn't the Jiangshan Iron Guards guarding the mountain stop it? Wasn't their goal to uproot the Shenmu Temple
While I was thinking, I tapped the armrest of the sofa with my fingers a few times. I didn't use any code words, but just tapped out the meaning of "a visitor is coming" according to the rules of the art.
After a moment, I really felt the sofa next to me tremble slightly, as if someone was sitting gently on it.
When I opened my eyes, there was no one around me. It was not until I opened my ghost eyes that I saw Chen Hanxing on the sofa. The latter said lightly: "Just send a message to me, I don't want too many people to see it."
I used my inner strength to transmit my voice: "The Guan family is building a temple in the mountains. Didn't you see it?"
"I saw it." Chen Hanxing said, "We knew it from the beginning, otherwise we wouldn't have killed their cooks and foremen one after another."
Ji Liping said that the first person to disappear was the chef at the construction site, and the second was the foreman. The chef's disappearance was still within the scope of ordinary people's understanding, but the foreman's death did seem like he died at the hands of an assassin.
I asked again, "What happened next? Why did several high-ranking officials of Guan disappear?"
"It was us too." Chen Hanxing said bluntly, "After they were controlled by the evil spirit, I killed them all on the mountain before they could become human-headed puppets."
"The ghost meeting was also our doing. At the time, we were standing next to Guan Qingyan and the others, and there were people holding phones and hiding under their feet. I was planning to scare them all away so that they wouldn't dare to enter the mountain. Who would have thought that those people would come back one after another."
I said in a deep voice: "You mean, those missing people are still in the mountains?"
"Build a house in the mountains!" Chen Hanxing said, "When those people came back, they didn't become puppets. We can't kill innocent people easily, so we can only put them in the mountains."
Chen Hanxing's words can be believed. The reason why the heroic souls are protected by heaven and earth is because the heaven has a standard for measuring them. If the heroic souls do whatever they want because of the protection, the heaven will not only take back the gift, but also punish them. In this way, Chen Hanxing and his team can only kill monsters, not people, and it is reasonable to let the workers go into the mountains.
Chen Hanxing continued, "For hundreds of years, we could only defend Shenmu Temple and could not destroy it because Shenmu Temple had a very special barrier. It was like it was sealed in a space outside the Yin and Yang worlds. No matter if it was a human or a ghost, as long as they entered that space, they would die."
Chen Hanxing clenched his fists unconsciously. "When those people entered the mountain, we could only watch them move forward. After they entered the barrier, we could only watch them get their heads cut off and put on wooden figures, like puppets to build the house. I have lived for decades and been a ghost for hundreds of years, but I have never felt so helpless as I do now."
I pretended to close my eyes and rest, but I slightly moved my eyes and looked at Chen Hanxing: "How advanced is the building now?"
"They still need to complete the roof." Chen Hanxing said, "All they lack is a blueprint. Without the guidance of a master carpenter, they can't build the roof even if they have enough materials. If a master carpenter comes to help, I estimate that they can complete the roof of Shenmu Temple overnight."
"I see." I simply closed my eyes and leaned back on the sofa. "Tonight, we go up the mountain."
Chen Hanxing was shocked and asked: "With the manpower you have now?"
"Almost done!" I said only one sentence and fell asleep on the sofa. I didn't open my eyes until Monk Shi called me.
It has gotten dark outside, and it will be completely dark in another hour or two. Now is the last time for us to enter the mountains.
Old Guan had prepared six container trucks as I had requested. I put Guan Qingyan and the others into the empty truck and sealed the door before I found Captain Xing. “Captain Xing, thank you for helping us so much. Things ahead are not for you. Let’s say goodbye now. I hope we can meet again.”
Captain Xing wanted to say something, but I reached out and shook his hand, then turned around, opened the door and got in the passenger seat: "Monk, drive!"
Not long after Shi Heshang started the car, Chen Hanxing appeared beside me strangely: "What are you doing?"
"Go up the mountain!" I said in a deep voice, "Instead of letting the ghosts chase us again and again, why don't we go up the mountain to find them."
Chen Hanxing frowned and said, "Just the two of you?"
"Don't we have you?" I said disapprovingly, "Do your people know how to drive? When we get to the bottom of the mountain, I'll let all the drivers go and you can just go up."
Chen Hanxing said angrily: "No! We are cooperating, shouldn't you tell me what you are going to do?"
I pointed to the cars behind us and said, "Those cars are full of liquefied gas tanks and the gas used for mining. The gas tanks are in our car. If five cars explode at the same time, no matter how solid the temple is, it will be razed to the ground."
Chen Hanxing exclaimed: "Is it useful for you to do this?"
I smiled and said, "Since Shenmu Temple is going to rebuild the temple, there must be a purpose behind it. Otherwise, it could just come out directly. Why did they have to create such a thing? Therefore, I think that temple that is similar to a tomb is the key to the birth of Shenmu Temple. Blowing up the temple can at least keep us safe for a while."
"Peace for the time being?" Chen Hanxing glared, "You are only treating the symptoms and not the root cause!"
Monk Shi, who was driving the car, said without even turning his head: "We only have so many people, and we have already reached the limit of treating the symptoms. Are you still thinking of treating the root cause?"
"But..." Chen Hanxing only said two words and stopped. After hesitating for a long time, he changed his words and said, "Well, I hope your judgment is correct!"
Chen Hanxing stopped talking, and Shi Heshang followed the navigation and drove the car into the mountain pass. Not long after our car entered the mountain, there was a slight "creaking" sound from under the car. Shi Heshang let go of the steering wheel, but the steering wheel turned by itself.
When I looked at Shi Heshang's feet, he had already taken his foot off the accelerator, and the car began to climb up the mountain road without control. Shi Heshang and I sat up gently, leaned against the backrest, and reached out to push the door. The door of the truck was completely blocked, and I pushed the door several times but it didn't move at all.
I looked at Chen Hanxing and asked, "Did your people replace the driver?"
"Not yet..." Chen Hanxing said only two words and suddenly disappeared in front of me.
Soon we heard the roar of a car behind us. Shi Heshang whispered, "The car behind us is accelerating!"
Our car had long since gone out of control and we couldn't even move to the side, let alone avoid the impact of the truck from behind.
Monk Shi tilted his head and glanced in the rearview mirror: "We can't dodge, what should we do, jump out of the car?"
I said in a deep voice: "Wait, I don't believe the car behind us can hit us!"
As soon as I finished speaking, there was a loud crash from behind the car. Monk Shi and I were both thrown up from our seats. We reached out our hands to push against the windshield, and with the rebound force, we sat back on our seats.
As soon as we were seated, the second violent shock came, and the car we were in suddenly began to accelerate and rushed straight to the top of the mountain. Monk Shi turned his head twice in succession: "The car behind us is pushing us up the mountain!"
I smiled faintly and said, "We have to go up the mountain anyway, so it doesn't matter when we go up."
Monk Shi was stunned: "Old Wu, why aren't you in a hurry at all?"
I said in a deep voice: "With a person in our hands, nothing will happen to us, unless the other party wants to kill him as well."
Monk Shi exclaimed, "Who are you talking about?"
I was just about to speak when the front of the car, which had been moving upwards, suddenly sank and pressed onto a flat road. Looking out from the cab, there was a cliff not far ahead.
The car behind us kept pushing us forward madly. When I saw the front of the car getting closer and closer to the cliff, I reached out and pulled out a dagger, stabbed the windshield with one blow, grabbed the upper edge of the window with both hands, climbed out of the cab and climbed onto the top cover of the container.
Monk Shi jumped up and asked anxiously, "What are you doing up here?"
I pointed ahead and said, "When the car falls off the cliff, you will try to run into the cargo box. Do you understand?"
While Monk Shi and I were talking, we could already see the circular building below the cliff.
The altar-like building built on a three-story platform has no roof. When viewed from the mountain, it looks like a giant wellhead, as if it is emitting a strange chill in the night, and going down from the wellhead is the bottomless underworld.
I just glanced over there, and the car under me suddenly accelerated and rushed straight towards the cliff.
A moment later, the front of the truck suddenly sank under our feet and rushed straight to the bottom of the cliff. Fortunately, there was no open space behind the cliff, but a steep slope. The front wheel of the truck landed on the ground only one meter after rushing out of the cliff.
"Jump—" I pushed the car body with my left foot and jumped sideways out of the car. Then I immediately got up from the ground and ran down the mountain following the madly falling car.
After I took a few steps, the dust raised by the wheels rushed towards me. The rolling dust blocked my vision at the same time, the sound of three wheels rolling on the ground suddenly arose behind me.
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