Maoshan Taoist priest

Chapter 43 Banquet (19)
But there was no response, and before Chen Shaoxian could speak again, Elena cried and said: "Brother, come out quickly, let's go home together, Mom and Dad are still waiting for us." After speaking, she squatted on the ground and wept.

"Little George, come back, uncle will take you home." Thomas said choked up.

Chen Shaoxian looked sideways at Thomas and Elena, this was beyond Chen Shaoxian's expectation, he did not expect the three to have such concern.

At this time, there was a whining cry from behind a grave, and then Howard's voice came, but Howard's voice was a little muffled: "I am no longer the original Howard, I just want to see you get out safely."

What Howard said reminded Thomas of the walking corpse that Chen Shaoxian said.

Thomas hurriedly walked up to Chen Shaoxian, knelt down with a plop and said, "Chen, please, please, for the sake of Howard leading us to escape, please save him." Then he kowtowed his head loudly.

"Uncle, don't do this, maybe only God can save me." Howard's voice came from behind the grave again.

Chen Shaoxian helped Thomas up, took out a fairly clean towel, pressed it on Thomas' broken forehead, and said, "I really can't do anything."

"No." Elena shouted loudly: "Brother, please, let me see you." After speaking, she fainted again.

"Sister." Howard stood up with a whoosh.

Seeing Howard's appearance, Thomas grabbed his hair in pain, roaring and tearing.

Seeing Thomas hysterical, Chen Shaoxian quickly hugged him, then took out a small green bottle and poured Thomas a few drops.

Thomas felt a fresh fragrance, which reached his mind from his mouth. This fragrance made Thomas wake up a lot, and then retched a few times, spitting out a mouthful of bloody phlegm.

The sober Thomas looked at Howard and said, "God, please punish me and let me replace my nephew." After speaking, he fell to his knees and prayed to the sky again.

Looking at Elena who was unconscious and Thomas who was almost going crazy, he sighed, then turned to look at Howard, Chen Shaoxian said in embarrassment: "I can't save him, but I can let him rest in peace, so he won't suffer any more."

After listening to Chen Shaoxian's words, Thomas knelt on the ground and became numb. Looking at the dark sky, his jaw kept shaking, as if he had aged ten years.

Chen Shaoxian has been waiting without urging, because Chen Shaoxian knows how difficult this decision is, other people have spoken, looked at the three foreigners sympathetically, the whole venue was silent only the sound of breathing.

"I agree." Howard stood there expressionless and said.

Thomas looked at Howard in a daze, and Howard was very calm: "Uncle, tell Elena to take care of Mom and Dad?" Then he looked at the others with a smile that was about to be relieved and said, "I really want to make friends with you, Chen. I'll go."

Everyone's eyes were sore after hearing this.Chen Shaoxian nodded with red eyes, and walked over.

Before he could reach Howard, a rotten smell rushed over his face. Howard's whole body was swollen with blisters, and he almost lost his original appearance. His bare skin was pitted, and corpse water flowed out.

Howard smiled awkwardly: "The fish in the river are really annoying."

"It's very annoying." Chen Shaoxian said in agreement.

Howard looked at Chen Shaoxian who was approaching and asked, "Chen, what should I do."

Chen Shaoxian replied: "Please lie down."

The conversation between the two was very calm, as if they were doctors and patients.

Howard lay flat on the ground, looking up at the sky, muttering: "I will go to heaven."

Chen Shaoxian squatted beside Howard, and said from the bag: "Yes, I know your God very well, and you will go up for my sake."

Howard continued to look at the sky and said, "Then I want to thank you, but unfortunately I can't buy you a drink."

Chen Shaoxian took out the paper bag and said to Howard, "Why not, you go up and open a bar, and I will come over in a few decades."

After hearing this, Howard laughed out loud, ""Chen, you are so humorous.

When Chen Shaoxian took out the paper bag, he unexpectedly found that there was still some wine left in the plastic bottle, so he took it out and handed it to Howard: "I'll treat you to a drink first."

Howard took it, and didn't get up, but directly unscrewed the cap, poured it in one gulp, and then made a painful expression: "It's so spicy, Chinese wine is strong enough." Then he said with a smile: "My bar There will definitely be a lot of this wine.”

Chen Shaoxian opened the paper bag with a heavy expression on his face: "Brother, is there anything else you want to say?"

Howard looked at the sky and took a deep breath. Before he could speak, Thomas ran over, grabbed Howard's hand and cried, "Little George, Uncle, I'm sorry."

"Uncle, tell mom and dad, and Elena, I love them, I love this family." Howard looked at Thomas and said.

Thomas cried so much that he couldn't speak, so he could only nod heavily.

Howard turned his head and said to Chen Shaoxian: "Send me away, brother."

Chen Shaoxian spread the incense ash in the paper bag from Thomas's chest to his lower abdomen in the sun, sprinkled it from his left shoulder to his right shoulder to form a cross, then closed his eyes, crossed his hands, pressed his index and middle fingers together, and put his thumbs on Howard's forehead, sticking softly: "Break the spirit, return to life, formless, reincarnate." Then Chen Shaoxian snorted softly.

Looking at Thomas who was closest, he could see the air above Howard's forehead twisted, and there were countless streams of air flowing, and then all of them got into Howard's body.

Howard's consciousness began to blur, and there was an indescribable calm in his heart. A halo of light appeared in front of his eyes, and the halo was getting bigger and bigger, attracting himself to walk slowly.Suddenly he felt his body lighten, as if he was floating up, and when he looked back, he saw Chen Shaoxian pressing his head, while his uncle was crying beside him, and just about to speak, he merged with the light circle.

But this is not the case in the eyes of others. They can clearly see a blue figure emerging from Howard's body, and then the incense ash on Howard's body emits white light, and soon the blue figure merges with the white cross. One, then disappeared.

At this time, Chen Shaoxian opened his eyes, looked at the dead Howard with a tired face, and said softly: "Rest in peace, brother." Then he stood up and helped Thomas who was still crying.

Chen Shaoxian walked up to the crowd, looked at them and said: "The dead go, where the living go, each person has his own destination, our destination is to go home."

Song Yumu nodded and said, "By the way, it's time for us to go home." Then he helped Chen Shaoxian make another simple stretcher.

Chen Shaoxian walked in the front, followed by Song Yumu, leading a group of people to find their way home.

Because of Howard's matter, everyone's heart was a little heavy, especially Thomas lowered his head and rubbed forward step by step.

Walking out of the tombs, the road began to go uphill, and the accumulated earth and rocks formed a huge mound. Chen Shaoxian held a bamboo spear to explore the road step by step in front. Fortunately, the earth and rocks were piled up very solidly, and a group of people quickly climbed to the top .

Chen Shaoxian straightened his waist, and illuminated the way down with a flashlight. The ground was foggy, and the light from the flashlight only formed a short beam of light.
When everyone came up, Chen Shaoxian went down first.

Suddenly there was a crash from behind, followed by someone shouting: "Be careful." Then there was the sound of rocks rolling down. Fortunately, the rocks were not very big, and the people in front collectively moved a few steps to one side and avoided it.

The stone rubbed against everyone's sides and rolled down. Chen Shaoxian looked at his watch, waited for the sound of the stone falling to the ground, and calculated the time for a full minute.

Chen Shaoxian turned around and said, "Everyone, be careful, it's deep down."

The people walked down and groped step by step. The slope of the mound was very steep, and a stone would be thrown out from time to time. What happened just now, the group of people could only bypass the stone.

The more you go down, the thicker the fog, and the more wet your feet, Chen Shaoxian stopped, turned his head and said to Song Yumu: "Brother Song, here is a signal flare."

Song Yumu quickly fired a signal flare.

The signal flare illuminated the sky with its tail flame, and Chen Shaoxian saw that the distance below was not far from the light of the signal flare, and the bottom was full of potholes, and there was still water in some places.

Seeing the situation clearly, Chen Shaoxian led the people down, the air below had a faint smell, but luckily it wasn't strong, and it didn't smell like marsh gas, otherwise Chen Shaoxian and the others would have come to Dunhuang Flying Sky with the signal flare just now.

Chen Shaoxian saw that the potholes on the ground seemed to be dug out by tools such as shovels, because the traces on the ground were obvious, and he suddenly remembered what Grandpa Nie told him, and said to Song Yumu: "Brother Song, maybe the Japanese army report it is true."

Song Yumu looked at the ground and agreed, "If this is the case, we should be more careful." Then he turned around and said, "Everyone, be careful, this place is unusual."

Then a group of people walked forward cautiously. Everyone explored the road with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Occasionally, they saw thick tree roots protruding from the ground.

Song Yumu accidentally stepped on a small puddle, and there was a clicking sound as if he was caught by something. He looked down and was shocked. There was not much water in the puddle, and Song Yumu stepped on it and splashed it out. There were only some thin mud left, but in the mud there was only a human hand with dry bones left, and it was this human hand that stuck Song Yumu's foot.

Song Yumu shook his head, and said to himself: "It's unlucky for people to drink cold water and stuff their teeth." Then he wanted to break free, but the harder he struggled, the withered hand actually grabbed Song Yumu's foot and dragged it down, and the strength became stronger and stronger. bigger and bigger.

Song Yumu felt that the bones of his feet were about to be crushed.

When the others found out about Song Yumu's situation, they quickly grabbed Song Yumu's legs and pulled them up together. The strength of so many people barely kept Song Yumu from sinking.

Chen Shaoxian, who was walking in front, heard the voice behind, turned around and saw a group of people hugging Song Yumu's leg, and the whole foot was sunk in the mud, ran over quickly, asked about the situation, and hurriedly dug Song Yumu with the evil knife in his hand. Dirt at the feet.

Song Yumu's feet were soon exposed, and then the withered hand was dug out.

The withered hand was a little afraid and loosened its fingers. Everyone took this opportunity to pull out Song Yumu's foot, and at the same time, the withered hand retracted into the ground.

The front end of Song Yumu's military boots was pinched and deformed, and his feet hardly dared to touch the ground.

Chen Shaoxian, who was squatting on the ground, took off Song Yumu's military boots and socks, and saw that Song Yumu's five toes were deformed. Chen Shaoxian touched it with his hands, then looked up at Song Yumu and said, "Fortunately, it's just dislocated."

Chen Shaoxian then found a roll of adhesive plaster in his bag, tore off five pieces of adhesive tape, and stuck one to each toenail. Chen Shaoxian pinched Song Yumu's little toe with his left hand and said, "Brother Song, hold on." Holding the adhesive tape with one hand, with a jerk and a bang, Song Yumu's little toe was pulled back to its original position, followed by four more bangs.

Chen Shaoxian helped Song Yumu put on his shoes and socks, stood up and said, "Take a few steps."

Song Yumu wiped the sweat from his forehead, and tried to walk a few steps. Although he was still a little swollen, he did not delay walking, and said with a long breath, "It's okay, grandma, what is it?"

"The soul is born in vain, and I am looking for someone to take the place of the dead ghost. Be careful, everyone, don't step on the puddle." Chen Shaoxian said to others, but Chen Shaoxian thought in his heart: "Those Burmese laborers or Japanese soldiers may have disappeared like this." See Walking on the wet dirt road, Chen Shaoxian felt a little cautious: "How many of these things are there down here?"

A group of people cautiously circled the puddle on the ground. Chen Shaoxian, who was walking in front, kept probing the road ahead with the bamboo spear in his hand, turning his head from time to time to remind the people behind to pay attention to their feet.

The speed of the crowd was very slow, and there were more and more puddles in front of them. The group of people had to disperse first, and each picked a place to stay.

The more you go in, the more tree roots grow on the ground, and in some places, the exposed roots even reach the thickness of an adult's thigh.

"Ah!" Thomas exclaimed, then pointed to a place and shouted, "Chen, look there."

Chen Shaoxian looked in the direction of Thomas' finger, and saw a curly tree root protruding from the ground. The curly part actually clamped a person. Only the skeleton of this person remained, with legs and hands inserted into the ground.

Chen Shaoxian walked over and saw clearly that this person's skeleton was almost crushed by the tree root, but the crushed part did not fall off, but was embedded in the tree root. At the part that entered the soil, the bone actually shook a few times, and at the same time, the tree root made a creaking sound and tightened, and the main and auxiliary skeleton was crushed by the waist with a rubbing sound.

While the skeleton was shattering, the part inserted into the soil was instantly pulled into the soil by something.

There was a chill down the spine of everyone, as if there was a big mouth waiting to devour them.

Chen Shaoxian knew that he couldn't wait any longer, so he hurriedly led everyone forward.

After walking about 50 meters, a towering giant tree appeared in front of everyone. This big tree has existed for an unknown number of years. Trees pulled in a circle.

The root system of the big tree was dug out of the ground a lot. What surprised them was that the root system of the big tree contained many human skeletons, and there were countless snakes wriggling back and forth in these root systems. These snakes were of different sizes, and the big ones could have The size of the mouth of a bowl, the small ones can reach the thickness of a human forearm.

It makes people numb from the heel to the top of the head.

Chen Shaoxian spat in disgust, turned his head and said to the others: "Go around, go around."

Everyone nodded quickly in agreement.

A group of people started to walk around the big tree, but Chen Shaoxian and the others walked around, but the snakes came running towards them.

For a while, there was a hissing sound and the rustling of the snake swimming and rubbing against the ground.

Chen Shaoxian couldn't see it well, so he quickly took out three small bottles and two oiled paper bags, set aside an army bag for food, mixed the powder in the oiled paper bag with the green medicine in the three small bottles, and packed them into the army bag , Then took out the lighter and lit the things that had just been packed into the military bag.

Thick smoke came out with a puff, and Chen Shaoxian spun around indiscriminately carrying the smoking military bag, with snot and tears dripping down the side of the wheel.Others smelled this smell and started to "cry bitterly" like Chen Shaoxian.

Song Yumu asked while blowing his nose: "Shaoxian, what the hell is this?"

"Thai-style incense. Damn it, I've used it all over the house." Chen Shaoxian said in pain.

"Snake, retreat." Yang Xiaoang said holding the flamethrower.

Sure enough, the snake retreated, and the snakes seemed to smell this smell, turned around and retreated.

Chen Shaoxian saw that the snake had receded, threw the bag on the ground, and jumped on it vigorously. Soon the smoke was gone from inside the bag. He picked up the bag and opened it to test the temperature. Then he took out a handful of black ash and touched it on his own. On the neck, and then touched everyone's neck, the spicy smell made a group of people sneezed, but the smell shook people's spirits.

Chen Shaoxian looked at Song Yumu who was wiping away tears and said, "Brother Song, add my Thai-style ecstasy to the authentic Thai-style incense, how cool it is."

Song Yumu blew his nose: "Damn, it's so cool." Then a group of people walked away while "crying".

A group of people walked around the big tree not far away, and a concrete platform appeared in front of it. The concrete platform was not very high, but it could be about a foot above the ground, and there was a altar seat on the platform.

Chen Shaoxian was the first to go up, and the altar was very close to the big tree, almost built next to the big tree, and there were many dishes on it, but the things inside had been dried, and Chen Shaoxian was surprised that there were no roots on this side. a snake.

In addition to the tribute dishes, there was also a table of shrines on the altar. Chen Shaoxian looked at the things in the shrine and said "Hey", the things inside were exactly the same as the ones he got in the Bird Garden last time.

There was a question mark in Chen Shaoxian's heart, and after observing carefully for a while to make sure there was no mechanism, Chen Shaoxian took out this copper brass from the altar, looked at it for a while, and it was exactly the same as the one he got.Use your hand to press the bump under Bi Xi's neck.

There was a click, and the belly split open from the abdomen. Chen Shaoxian saw that there was also a ring inside, took out the ring and Chen Shaoxian found the difference, the texture engraved on the outside of this ring was actually like a flame.

At the same time as Chen Shaoxian took out the ring, the sound of rustling leaves came from above. Chen Shaoxian raised his head in surprise and thought: "This big tree is still alive, and it is automatic without wind."

Chen Shaoxian suddenly remembered something, turned around and asked Thomas: "Thomas, do any of those murals say that the gods created a monster?"

Thomas nodded.

Chen Shaoxian looked at the big tree in front of him, sorted out everything quickly, and said in surprise, "Is this the big tree that the Japanese want?"

"Chen, isn't that right? The mural is obviously sitting on a mountain." Thomas retorted.

Chen Shaoxian shook his head and said: "In the absence of sunlight, this big tree is still alive, there must be something we don't know about it, but looking at the potholes on the ground just now, those Japanese soldiers obviously wanted to Dig out the whole tree."

Thomas asked back: "It's also possible that there is something they need under this big tree."

Chen Shaoxian scratched his head, and said naturally to himself: "The Burmese laborers and those Japanese soldiers mentioned in the materials." Then he patted his forehead: "I see, those people were all blocked by this big tree."

Before he finished speaking, Chen Shaoxian suddenly felt something blowing at him from behind, and then saw other people pointing at his back with pale faces.

Chen Shaoxian turned his head slowly, cold sweat broke out, and a face the size of a millstone appeared behind him.

This face seemed to be smelling something, made a chi-chi sound, and then slowly moved up.

"Grass." Chen Shaoxian yelled in his heart: "This is fucking Mahuraka."

The python god in Mahoraka Buddhism has a well-known myth in China, Nv Wa mends the sky.

Of course, this is just a fairy tale. The real Mahuraka is actually a giant python, because the pattern on the top of the head is in the form of a human face. At first glance, it looks like a human face and a snake body. The sex is the same, but this heterogeneous species is extinct.

Chen Shaoxian didn't expect that the huge python facing him was actually Mahuraka, who sniffed at Chen Shaoxian with a core as thick as a baby's arm.

(End of this chapter)