The No Man Village was originally named Bimen Village, and is located in Eguiling, a suburb of K City. Eguiling was originally called Hungry Ghost Ridge, which originally referred to the extremely bad feng shui of this mountain range, which had caused famines and starvation to many people for many years. At that time, almost the entire Eguiling was piled with bones, and all the families and children starved to death here. So it was also called Hungry Ghost Ridge, but later people thought the name was too evil, so they took the homophonic name Eguiling.
The Ergui Ridge is shaped like a big iron wok, and the sunken part in the middle is Bimen Village. Bimen Village is located in the center of Ergui Ridge, like a piece of meat being steamed. Because Bimen Village is far away from the city and the crowd, it is extremely inconvenient to enter and exit, so the villagers of Bimen Village moved out of the village one after another a few years ago. Bimen Village gradually became an uninhabited village, and the village is full of green plants. Ivy vines and other plants are all over the inside and outside of the buildings. From a distance, it seems like a kingdom of green plants.
It looks particularly beautiful from a distance, but only when you get close will you feel panic. A kind of deadly panic follows you like a shadow, coming from all directions, making you feel suffocated.
Chen Yang walked down the hillside. The road was a bit rugged and covered with fallen leaves. Du Shuo held Chen Yang's hand tightly to prevent him from falling accidentally. When Chen Yang heard Bimen Village and Hungry Ghost Ridge, he immediately said: "Xingdu Bimen, human meat wontons. Gongtun Yushui, born hungry ghosts. I don't know why, but when I heard these two names, I suddenly remembered this sentence."
Xingdu Bimen, Gongtun Yushui are eight of the twenty-four Caos in the Song Dynasty, namely the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Works. The original meaning of this sentence is that the Ministry of Justice could not receive "filial piety money" so it could only scrape some money from the poor people, called human meat wontons. The Ministry of Works was the poorest, shaped like hungry ghosts who were starving and thirsty. The names of Bimen Village and Eguiling are indeed somewhat related to this sentence. In those days when cruel officials caused famine, the people were the lowest-ranking hungry ghosts among all the ghosts.
However, when this sentence is combined with the deserted village today, it makes people feel inexplicably creepy.
Du Shuo said: "Ghosts are usually cunning, so you should be careful."
At this time, the two had already reached the entrance of the uninhabited village, and saw a large area of green vines. The architecture of the uninhabited village is very local, shaped like a fortress. Almost every building is a two-story tower, with a two-meter-high small door opening in the east direction. There is a half-meter-high window on the tower, and it is pitch black in the window, so it is hard to see what is hidden inside.
There is a big tree near the entrance of the village. The tree has intertwined roots and has planted its thick roots into the walls and towers. The thick and thin roots are winding and circling on the walls, densely wrapping around the big rocks. These seemingly weak roots have terrible power. They can quietly invade the hard stone, find gaps to drill into, and then crush the stone from the inside.
There are countless green vines entwined on the tower, which is completely covered by green plants. Now the sunlight is strong, so it feels like a dead silence. Once the sunlight is tilted and darkness falls, this place will be completely shrouded in gloom. The entire green plant kingdom does not make people feel lively. Without people and sunlight, all you can feel is the gloomy atmosphere.
Chen Yang took out the witch doll of Yi Wuzhang and a small bottle from his backpack. There was a drop of blood in the bottle. It was the blood from Yi Wuzhang's fingertips. The ten fingers are connected to the heart, so the blood from the fingertips can also replace the blood from the heart. Chen Yang poured the blood from the bottle, put it on the heart and forehead of the witch doll, and drew a spell in the air: "Command!"
The blood on the voodoo doll's forehead and chest melted into the doll's skin. The next second, the doll's eyes moved visibly. Then it blinked, and finally the doll sat up in Chen Yang's palm, holding Chen Yang's middle finger and shouting sweetly, "Yangyang, I am a doll."
The voodoo doll is a girl. She originally looks weird and ferocious, but becomes very cute because of her well-behaved temperament.
Chen Yang was immediately touched by the cuteness and greeted with a smile: "Hello, baby, I'm Yangyang."
The voodoo doll shyly lifted up her hair to cover half of her face, and said softly, "Yangyang, are you looking for Shengsheng?"
Shengsheng? Chen Yang quickly realized that the witch doll was called Yi Fusheng. In his impression, although Yi Wuzhang was a woman, she was serious and dignified, and responsible. She was definitely not a woman who liked to joke, let alone be associated with Meng. Yi Wuzhang and his brother, the master of the Changdao Temple in Sichuan Province, were two completely different people.
So Chen Yang thought he had taken the wrong voodoo doll at first, mistaking this soft and cute voodoo doll for Witch Chief Yi. But now it seems that he really did not take the wrong doll. Chen Yang sighed: "I didn't expect Witch Chief Yi to have such a cute doll."
Du Shuo said: "I have heard Master Yi sigh countless times that girls change a lot when they grow up, and he was annoyed that his sister became cold and serious." The subtext of this sentence is that Master Yi was once a soft girl.
The voodoo doll blinked its big watery eyes and said softly, "Yangyang, I'll take you to find Shengsheng."
"Okay, thank you, doll." Chen Yang put the innocent doll on his shoulder and was about to let the voodoo doll lead the way when the voodoo doll's terrifying face suddenly became extremely hideous, and its watery eyes turned into lifeless indifference. It suddenly jumped out at such a fast speed that Chen Yang had no time to react.
Du Shuo stopped Chen Yang who was about to catch up and said to him, "It's okay. Don't worry about it."
The next moment, the voodoo doll jumped back onto Chen Yang's shoulder, its beautiful clothes turned into strips of cloth, and one of its arms was broken. Chen Yang glanced at the voodoo doll, then looked up at the fat man standing on the treetop, his fur all blown up into a ball. The two had obviously had a very quick and hearty fight just now, the voodoo doll had one arm removed, and the fat man's head was bruised into a Mediterranean sea.
The voodoo doll was full of hostility: "Cat ghost."
Dapang let out a deep roar from his throat, which was the sound he made when he encountered danger or an enemy. Chen Yang looked back and forth between the voodoo doll and Dapang, and then explained to both that they were friends, not enemies.
The Wu Gu Doll and Big Fatty both looked disdainful when they heard this. Big Fatty was too lazy to hide his feelings and showed them directly, but the Wu Gu Doll showed an aggrieved expression and said, "The doll doesn't like fat people."
Dapang almost wanted to crush the ugly voodoo doll with his 50-pound weight.
At this time, Du Shuo gave Wu Gu Wa and Da Pang a cold look, and the two immediately fell silent. Du Shuo said, "Lead the way."
The witch doll quietly led the way for Chen Yang, and the fat man followed behind them from a distance, but he was still afraid of Du Shuo. Du Shuo said, "They are all Gu, and Gu cannot see Gu."
Chen Yang suddenly realized that the so-called "no Gu meeting Gu" means that when two Gu Kings that have been refined and formed and have developed intelligence meet, they will become hostile to each other and must drive the other out of their territory or directly devour it to become nutrients for their bodies. The Gu King itself is formed through constant fighting and devouring, and it is instinctive to have the intention to kill when meeting another Gu King.
Fortunately, he and Dushuo are suppressing them, so the Wu Gu Doll and Big Fatty dare not fight. Although the Wu Gu Doll is soft and shy, and Big Fatty is as fat as a ball, they are both Gu Kings.
The witch doll led them deep into the deserted village, and after passing through several alleys, they saw the watchtowers that were also surrounded by green plants. The difference was that the watchtowers inside were better preserved than those outside, and even the doors were locked and not damaged. Outside the door was a large dark brown jar, which seemed to be used by people in the past to store dried radishes.
Some of the towers have large characters written on their wooden doors to warn thieves that if they steal, they will die, etc. It seems that there are still people living in these towers, if it weren't so quiet that even the chirping of insects could hardly be heard.
Chen Yang looked down and found a land temple. The small land temple was very dilapidated, and the clay head of the land god inside was damaged. In front of him, there were only incense ash, overturned oil lamps and dusty stone incense burners. It was probably because there had been no offerings for a long time that the land god had long been gone.
He looked back again, not knowing if it was an illusion, but he felt that the green plants were stacked up like mountains and seas, blocking the way ahead and surrounding them. Du Shuo asked in his ears: "Yangyang, what's wrong?"
Chen Yang shook his head: "I feel the atmosphere is weird, but I can't detect anything weird."
Du Shuo glanced at the large area of green plants behind him, then retracted his gaze and said, "Let's find Yi Fusheng and the others first."
"Okay." Chen Yang and Du Shuo continued on their way, and when they took three or four meters away, the dilapidated land god in the land temple behind them suddenly moved his eyes, becoming extremely weird.
After Chen Yang and Du Shuo left, the land seemed to come alive, with countless demons and monsters stationed here, talking to each other. From time to time, there was a loud laugh with an echo in the empty air, which was terrifying and weird. The leaves made a "crackling" sound, and the fat man landed on the ground and walked forward slowly, swinging his tail. His mandarin duck eyes glanced at the tower behind the green plants, and when he passed the land god temple, he stopped and stared at the statue of the land god for a long time.
Da Pang stretched out his claws and knocked off half of the head of the local god with a "snap". After shaking his claws, his figure flashed and disappeared quickly and swiftly in the jungle. When he left, the local god statue with only half of its head left moved the remaining half of its eye, and the corner of its lips turned down, showing displeasure.
Suddenly, a black shadow jumped extremely fast in the forest, on all fours, agile and fast, dry black and deformed like a monster. It disappeared into the tower, making a sound similar to the chirping of insects.
A few seconds later, something was thrown down from the window of the tower. It was a shrunken rabbit, with no flesh and blood, only skin and bones. If you stepped on it, you would crush all the bones. There was a "puff" sound, like a deflated football.
Chen Yang moved his feet and looked down: "What is this? A dried animal corpse?" Under his feet was a dark brown leather object, like a dried corpse, and judging from its shape, it should be a cat.
The voodoo doll whispered in his ear: "A lifeless cat corpse."
"Huh?" Chen Yang was puzzled, so Du Shuo explained to him: "The energy of a cat that has been sucked out of its body is stored in its flesh and blood, which means that all of its flesh and blood has been sucked dry. So only the cat's bones and skin are left. Once you step on them, the bones will all be crushed into powder. Only the cat's skin is left, and it looks like it has been dried."
Chen Yang used his toes to push aside the leaves, revealing two dried cat corpses underneath. "It seems that there are creatures in the uninhabited village that specialize in eating essence. Most of them are spirits, but it is not ruled out that some evil spirits specialize in absorbing essence to cultivate."
Du Shuo: "Let's go, those things will come out after dark."
Chen Yang nodded, and the two continued to walk forward. The voodoo doll led them to a building that was different from all the previous towers. It was also a tower, but the main door was in the front. Unlike the towers they had seen before, the doors were all on the side. The main door was locked, and there were paintings of gods and ghosts on the door. They had faded a lot, but you could still vaguely see the exquisiteness and beauty of the paintings.
The door could not be opened because a large crossbar was placed behind it to lock the door. When it was pushed, the door did not move at all. The witch doll whispered in Chen Yang's ear: "You can't break the door."
Chen Yang and Du Shuo looked at each other and said, "I'll go in and take a look first."
Du Shuo: “Okay.”
Chen Yang took a few steps back and looked at the wall and the big tree next to it. There were murals of gods and ghosts carved on the outside of the wall. Although they were a little faded, the carvings were still intact. He stepped on a protruding wall to use the force to jump onto the big tree, and then jumped back to the eaves with his toes touching the roots, and then jumped down from the eaves. He went around to the door, pulled out the crossbar, opened the door, let Du Shuo in, and put the crossbar back.
The building in front of me is a small hall at the entrance, with rooms on both sides and a small patio in the middle. There is a well in the center of the patio, with a wooden barrel next to it and fallen leaves on the ground. There is a big tree outside the building, and its branches and leaves cover the sky above the patio, so even if the patio is opened, it is still very dark inside.
After the patio, there was a hall with several tables. On the last row of tables was a large incense burner, with numerous small incense burners beside it. Many incense sticks were stuck on the incense burners, some of which were extinguished or broken in half, and covered with spider silk. Behind the incense burners was a large altar, with countless tablets densely placed from top to bottom.
In the darkness, I suddenly saw countless dark tablets, as if they were being stared at by countless ghosts. If it were an ordinary person, he would probably scream out in fear. Chen Yang: "This is the ancestral hall."
The table, incense burner, altar and countless tablets all indicate that this is the former ancestral hall of the uninhabited village. The ancestral hall is a place for offering sacrifices to immortals, no wonder it is far away from the entrance of the village and there are no towers around. After all, it is a place for worshipping ancestors, and the surrounding area is not suitable for living.
Chen Yang walked forward, intending to see the tablets, but he saw that there was an empty space behind the altar. So he walked around the altar to see, and found four dark coffins parked in the empty space behind.
When he was about to open the coffin, Du Shuo held his hand and said, "I'll open it." As he opened the coffin lid, he said, "I don't know how long these coffins have been there. If there are corpses inside, there should be corpse gas."
Most people would get seriously ill if they inhaled corpse qi, and even a Heavenly Master would get seriously ill if he inhaled corpse qi without taking precautions in advance. After all, corpse qi is both toxic and yin, and is not good for the body.
After the coffin lid was opened, the stench of decaying coffin and corpse wafted into his nose. Chen Yang covered his nose with one hand and Du Shuo's nose with the other hand and said in a muffled voice, "It stinks." He looked inside the coffin and saw a corpse, "It's rotten to the bones, and the color is black. The head seems to have been bitten off by something. The legs are also gone, one leg is missing to the crotch. Judging from his clothes, they should be the latest style. He is a person who accidentally walked into the deserted village and died."
Du Shuo saw that Chen Yang was holding his nose and trying to examine the body, which was quite strenuous. So he took the initiative to stand behind him and hold his nose for him. He also looked at the body in the coffin and said, "It looks like it's half eaten." He saw that only a small piece of the face was left, the facial muscles were all rotten, and corpse worms were crawling around and crawling out of his eye sockets.
The eye sockets of the corpse were empty, as if the eyes had been dug out. But from the hand gestures of the remaining half of the corpse, it can be seen that "when half of the body was eaten, he was still alive."
Half of the body was eaten alive, so the remaining half was tense and in a weird posture. Chen Yang said, "He should not have been eaten here, but outside... somewhere with fallen leaves." He saw a lot of fallen leaves on the body. The coffin was placed behind the altar, and the fallen leaves could not get in, so the only possibility was that the fallen leaves were brought in from outside: "But it is also possible that the thing that ate him had a lot of fallen leaves on his body, but I don't understand why he was placed in the coffin... as a reserve of food?"
Du Shuo: "Not likely. They should have dragged the body back from outside and put it in the coffin for the time being. Since those creatures eat living people, it means they don't eat rotten meat, so there's no need to store it."
In the past, the ancestral hall was a place for worshipping ancestors, and it was also a place for weddings, funerals, birthdays, and celebrations. In particular, funerals are no longer held in ancestral halls in some places, but funerals are definitely held. Therefore, coffins are placed behind the altar for funerals. Now there is a rotting corpse in the coffin. Since it was not the work of some monsters in the uninhabited village, it must have been someone else who put the corpse in the coffin.
Chen Yang tilted his head and asked the voodoo doll: "Did Chief Yi and his men do this?"
The voodoo doll shook its head: "The doll cannot speak."
Can't say, not don't know. Chen Yang suddenly remembered that there was a passage in the "Book of Cursing Ghosts" that mentioned witchcraft. Witchcraft is very loyal to its master. Some are loyal out of sincerity, while others are loyal out of necessity. No matter which one, the loyalty of witchcraft to its master is necessary, and compulsory loyalty cannot be avoided during the refining process.
The voodoo doll melted the blood of Yi Wuzhang, and it was her voodoo doll. The voodoo doll had only one mission, which was to lead Chen Yang to find Yi Wuzhang, and no other information about Yi Wuzhang could be revealed.
Chen Yang figured this out and asked from another angle: "Was this done by the Heavenly Master who entered the uninhabited village?"
Voodoo doll: “Yes.” It has melted the heart blood of Witch Chief Yi, and can sense the memories of Witch Chief Yi when his emotions fluctuate violently.
"Who was the deceased? What killed him?"
Voodoo Doll: "I don't know who is seeking death."
Chen Yang: "It seems that Chief Witch Yi and his men still don't know what is causing the trouble."
Du Shuo looked past Chen Yang and stared at the half-dead body in the coffin. He looked at the bite marks and seemed to remember something. His eyes turned cold. The voodoo doll sensed fear and trembled as it tried to slip from Chen Yang's shoulder into his pocket. Du Shuo's cold eyes swept over it and it dared not move.
Du Shuo silently ordered "Go back and stay there", and the voodoo doll timidly climbed back onto Chen Yang's shoulder, sobbing silently and shedding tears while thinking that the partner next to Yang Yang was so scary. Yang Yang was so pitiful, he would definitely be bullied.
"I have some guesses, but I'm not sure yet." A calm and pleasant female voice suddenly came from behind. Chen Yang and Du Shuo looked back and saw a woman about 27 or 28 years old standing at the door of the hall.
She was wearing a slim-fitting ethnic minority costume, a red and black short skirt, cloth shoes, and a silver chain, silver bracelet, silver earrings, and a silver collar. She wasn't very pretty, but she had a special style and temperament that made people ignore her appearance and be attracted. She had a blank expression and was quite indifferent: "Chen Yang?"
Chen Yang nodded and recognized her: "Witch Chief Yi."
Chief Witch Yi's expression softened slightly, and she nodded to Chen Yang. Chen Yang felt a little strange about her attitude, as if she didn't know him and had to confirm it. But they had met before, and Chief Witch Yi was one of the ordination masters when Chen Yang was ordained. They had contacted each other several times afterwards, so he shouldn't have failed to recognize her.
Chief Witch Yi saw Chen Yang's doubts and said, "There is something in the No Man's Village that can pretend to be someone else. It pretended to be you before and tricked me out."
Chen Yang nodded and said with a smile: "Witch Master Yi, aren't you afraid that I am also pretending?"
Chief Witch Yi: "You have my witch doll and," she bowed and nodded towards Du Shuo, "Du Ju."
Du Ju also nodded in greeting.
Chief Witch Yi: "Wa Wa, come back." Wa Wa refused to come back and held Chen Yang's clothes and refused to leave. Chief Witch Yi frowned, looking serious and unhappy, but Wa Wa was stubborn and refused to leave.
Chen Yang said, "Let it stay on my shoulder. It's fine with me."
Chief Witch Yi: "Voodoo dolls are hard to control. If they are not your own, they will easily generate curse power, which is not good for you."
"I know." Chen Yang said with a smile: "Its curse power will not affect me, don't worry."
The witch doll was originally a doll used for curses. It was made for the purpose of cursing, so it has the ability to curse to a certain extent. Chen Yang is also a descendant of the ghost way, so he naturally understands these. The reason why he is not afraid is that the curse of the doll has no effect on him. The ability of the witch doll depends on the owner. Chen Yang's words can only mean that Chen Yang's attainments in the ghost way are not lower than Yi Wuchang.
Chief Wu Yi was pleased and wanted Chen Yang to return to the Wu Clan and officially recognize him as a member of the Wu Clan. This would ensure that the next chief of the Wu Clan would be appointed, and the Wu Clan would not fall into decline. She said, "Come with me."
Chen Yang and Du Shuo followed her through an inconspicuous door beside the ancestral hall. Outside was a narrow alley that could only accommodate one person. Above their heads were green plants that blocked out the sun, which also blocked the sunlight but at least allowed some light to penetrate. After walking for about four minutes, they arrived at a tower without green plants. Wu Chang Yi knocked on the door and said something.
The door was opened from the inside, and a man with a goatee in his forties opened the door. When he saw Witch Chief Yi and Chen Yang and Du Shuo behind her, he immediately smiled and said, "Du Ju."
Du Ju nodded calmly without replying. The man and Yi Wuzhang were both used to it, and locked the door after letting them in. The man with the goat beard introduced himself to Chen Yang: "My name is Liu Quanning, the abbot of the Beimiao Palace, and also the president of the Guangyue Taoist Association."
Chen Yang: "My name is Chen Yang, Director of Dafu Branch."
"I've heard that she has solved many difficult tasks at such a young age. She is also a rare successor to the ghost way. Witch Chief Yi always brags to me that she has a successor." Liu Quanning said with a smile, stroking his goatee.
Chen Yang felt that Liu Quanning was very similar to Ma Shanfeng, not in appearance but in smooth temperament. Witch Chief Yi interrupted their conversation and said, "Let's talk inside, don't stand at the door." When he entered the hall, he said to Chen Yang, "You only need to believe three-tenths of Liu Quanning's words, and the other seven-tenths are all exaggerations."
Liu Quanning said, "I am just being polite. Speaking is an art. Fellow Daoist Chen, don't believe what Witch Chief Yi says. Believe me, it is easier to get things done by saying nice things than by making sarcastic remarks."
Chen Yang touched his nose and walked in silently, shoulder to shoulder with Du Shuo. With Du Shuo beside him, Liu Quanning at least restrained himself and didn't say anything more outrageous.
There were two Heavenly Masters and nine ordinary people in the hall, including a baby. Chen Yang was surprised: "Didn't they say eight young men broke in? How come there are nine people, and a baby?"
Chief Witch Yi said: "Three of the eight young men died, two were missing and the remaining three were missing. The remaining six people, including the baby, were lost because a bus accidentally broke in. No one knows whether they are dead or alive."
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