MTL - I Was an Abbot in Ancient Times-Chapter 41

"How many are?"

"We have something to ask you, are you going out?"

The woman gave a "hmm" and said in a weak voice: "If you have anything to do, please come back in the afternoon. We are going to the cemetery now, and it is not convenient to receive them."

"Has the deceased been buried?" Liu Yanqing was a little surprised. The custom here is to arrange a burial for seven days after the death of the dead. According to the inquiring news, the two died for five days.

Because his tone sounded a little anxious, the woman looked at him in astonishment, her eyes were already more guarded.

Seeing that the woman was avoiding her and was about to leave directly, Lin Zhao directly expressed her intention of coming. "I don't know if you have ever suspected the cause of your family's death, we just got some clues..."

The woman's face turned pale when she heard the words, and the old lady who had been silent next to her even yelled loudly.

"That's because they offended the mountain god! The mountain **** got angry and took them away! It's their fate, don't ask me any more! Get out, get out!" The old woman raised her hands and slapped her daughter-in-law with great force. Can't stop it.

Liu Yanqing heard this foolish words, couldn't help but sternly said: "The mountain **** protects a mountain, how could he do such a thing as taking away human life!"

Shocked by his stern shouting, the old lady stopped talking.

"Actually, we encountered a shadow yesterday. I wonder if you two have seen it?"

The woman and the old woman turned pale when they heard the words. They had indeed witnessed the hideous shadows flashing over their sons/husbands on the day of their death, and comforted themselves that they were wrong.

"Yesterday Lu Daqiao attacked us. After he was subdued, an ink-like shadow emerged from his body, and that shadow was killed by us."

Lin Zhao knew from their expressions that he had seen them before. In order for them to cooperate, he had to explain the matter clearly to them from the beginning to the end, and let them know that the matter was not only related to their family.

"Shadows can reside in the human body and devour the host's three souls and six souls. Now I don't know how many people in your village are not possessed by shadows."

While talking, Lin Zhao signaled that he would go back to Lu's house and find Lu Daqiao to prove it.

It was only when Lu Daqiao, an acquaintance in the village, came forward to tell the story, that the woman and the old lady believed what he said, and the impression of Lin Zhao and his party changed from being a swindler to a swindler.

The main reason is that their combination of monks and priests looks really weird and unscrupulous.

In order to find out the truth and fear that other people in the village would suffer, the woman and the old woman agreed to take them to the cemetery.

In front of the tombstone, Lin Zhao vaccinated them in advance.

"You two, although the dead are the most serious, but now your family members have died unclearly, and the real culprit continues to harm other people. In order to find the real culprit, I hope you don't mind."

"I know, master, you just let go and do it."

The old woman's voice was suppressed and gloomy. She thought it was the fate of her sons, but now she knew that their lives should not die, and the life that she could have expected for three generations under one roof was completely ruined by that sneaky creature. Ash.

So Huitong and Lu Daqiao dug the grave and opened the coffin.

Everyone was shocked when they saw the dead body.

"How did this happen? It was buried two days ago..." the woman murmured.

At room temperature, plaques will appear four to six hours after death, and decay will begin a day later.

It has been two days since the burial, but the body is still alive and vivid.

If it weren't for the lack of breathing, they would suspect that the people inside were just asleep.

Lin Zhao rubbed his chin, why does this look so much like a preserved wax figure?

Women and old women don't understand the common sense of modern medicine and biology, but they also know that it is impossible for a person to be buried so well after being buried, after all, it is underground.

When it was placed in the mourning hall before, other experienced villagers also wondered why it had been almost three days, and the corpse had not changed at all. Everyone thought it was because there was no burial.

Fearing that an accident would cause the corpse to change, he didn't follow the custom of stopping the dead for seven days, but hurriedly buried him directly.

After reburying the dead in the ground, several people went to the village together to carry out the visit as planned yesterday.

As for how to investigate, Lin Zhao didn't have any special solution, so he decided to try his own willpower.

Just in time, an old lady walked up to her, and the woman behind her took the initiative to greet her.

"Aunt Ah Chun, where are you going?"

Then he turned around and introduced to Lin Zhao and the others, "This is Aunt Chun, the matchmaker in our village."

"I'll go to the neighboring village to ask for a matchmaker." As expected of a matchmaker, Aunt Chun spoke sharply, answering her while pouting behind her, implying why there were so many monks and priests behind her.

"Oh," the woman was obviously familiar with this set of code words, and she understood, "Please come and help me with the matter."

While they were talking, Lin Zhao mobilized his willpower and said to Aunt Chun, the matchmaker:

"All appearances are illusory; if you see all appearances and non-appearances, you will see the Tathagata."

As soon as this proverb, which contains the power of the will of all living beings, came out, a dark shadow loomed on the face of the matchmaker Chun.

The woman directly opposite saw it at a glance, and was terrified in her heart.

Seeing that it was effective, Lin Zhao recited it several times more vigorously.

The black shadow on Matchmaker Chun's face was already like duckweed, trying to get out of the water and then go back, pulling back and forth.

As Lin Zhao's willpower increased, he was directly forced out of his body.

The black shadow matchmaker Chun called out "Jie" and moved quickly. Seeing that she was about to pounce on the woman in front of her, Liu Yanchun quickly took out the peach wood sword and knocked her out.

Both the woman and the old woman were startled.

Unexpectedly...there is such a thing attached to the human body!

Was it Aunt Chun or that ghost who was talking to me just now? If it was that ghost, why did the tone of voice be exactly the same as that of Aunt Chun!

Lin Zhao raised his eyebrows. Although it was a bit rough and simple, the effect of the spell was surprisingly good.

Afterwards, he recited this spell along the way, and the shadows in the villagers' bodies would be forced out, and Liu Yanqing was responsible for piercing through or attacking their shadows with a small mahogany sword.

Some villagers were forced out of their bodies, and they still had the consciousness of survival, but there were varying degrees of their souls being swallowed up, and some of them became idiots directly.

And there are some who have been engulfed for too long, and their three souls and six souls have been swallowed up. After the shadows dissipated, they became a body, exactly the same as the old woman's two sons.

"The shadow will find a body to possess, gradually devour the three souls and six souls over time, and then replace them, and their aura and fate will also be stolen.

But even the spirit of the imprisoned person will completely dissipate in the world, and there is no chance of karma in reincarnation. "

Liu Yanqing expressed his conjecture with a solemn expression, and this conjecture was confirmed in the shadows forced by the killing as he visited each family.

Except for the women and old women, the whole village has been possessed by shadows!

After resettling the villagers who had regained their consciousness, the group was quite tired and sat and rested in the lobby of the last family.

What exactly is a shadow? This question is on everyone's mind.

the other side.

In the deep cave with dripping water.

Lin Zhao and the others thought that the fourth child who had disappeared endured the pain of losing part of his body, shrunk into a coin-sized ball in a corner, and reported what he knew without daring to say a word.

In the deepest part of the cave, a huge, viscous, surging and twisted colloidal ink shadow hangs in the air. Its tentacles extend all over every corner of the cave. The blue fire in the center of the viscous black ink flickers. The black tail and the others know that this means the owner is angry. up.

This is the critical moment of transformation, but the fourth child has stabbed such a big basket, it is considered kind of the master not to kill him directly.

"Heiwei, you go."

The black shadow made a vague and weird sound, which would be distorted and harsh if others heard it, but it sounded very clear to Black Tail's ears.

"Yes, master."

The skinny old man Heiwei walked out of the cave with a group of huge umbral monsters, and a fox demon with nine red fox tails fluttering behind him appeared in the depths of the cave.

"I'll go and see what kind of powerful monk it is. If Heiwei and the others can't beat him, I can help."

The fox demon's voice is charming, with a slightly raised tail, and the obviously normal tone sounds a little provocative and ambiguous.

Sombra didn't speak, but he didn't stop her either.

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