Nightmare Attack

Chapter 1048

A terrible conjecture took shape in everyone's minds, that the thing that left those footprints... carried away the coffin!

The temple is not too big, so Chen Hao walked around it quickly, he was looking for Pang Xiaofeng's body, but unfortunately he couldn't find it, "Chen Hao." Jiang Cheng stretched out his hand to him in a cold voice, "Look at this. "

Chen Hao came over and took a small item from Jiang Cheng. It was a rhino horn distributed by the watchman, but the difference was that there were burn marks on this polished rhino horn.

"I found it from the ground." Jiang Cheng looked at him calmly, "It's right in front of the incense burner."

There is no doubt that the person who burned the rhino horn here last night must be Pang Xiaofeng. He must have encountered something terrible. Holding the rhino horn, Chen Hao looked at the incense burner.

In the censer, there is only a small half of incense left, and the incense has long been extinguished.

And the candle mentioned by the watchman also burned out, leaving only an empty candlestick.

At this moment, Jiang Cheng and Chen Hao raised their heads and turned their attention to the statue. The statue was no different from last night, and it still looked like the fluttering clothes, but the two saw the clue.

Before he could open his mouth, he saw Yu Chengmu twirling his beard and walking over, "The two little brothers also saw something wrong, didn't they?"

"Although I don't know as much as the old man, this statue is too realistic." Chen Hao replied truthfully.

"Hehe, this is not a simple statue, but a specially built ghost altar." Yu Chengmu's voice changed, and it was a bit gloomy, "In other words, here...is a ghost temple."

"Do you know who the woman above is?" Yu Chengmu looked at Chen Hao and Jiang Cheng playfully, especially Jiang Cheng. He was very interested in this person.

But before he could continue to show off, Jiang Cheng stepped forward. Below the statue was a stone platform surrounded by a curtain cut from white cloth.

Jiang Cheng stretched out his hand to lift the white cloth, and Chen Hao's eyes suddenly changed. Countless waves were carved on the stone platform covered by the white cloth. A sense of boundlessness, a burst of unstoppable power burst out.

And on the vast waves, the Goddess is like walking on the waves.

"Empress Dahe." The name immediately appeared in Chen Hao's mind.

Jiang Cheng put down the white cloth and looked up at the goddess statue in front of him, "This temple should be called the Dahe Empress Temple, but I don't know what good things this Dahe Empress did for the villagers, so that the villagers are so grateful to commemorate her. A temple was built especially for her."

The marginalized Yu Chengmu couldn't bear it anymore, he was obviously showing off, no matter how forced he was, the kid surnamed Jiang pretended, "Hehe, little brother Jiang has good eyesight, it's a pity you only know one thing, but don't know the other The corner of Yu Chengmu's mouth twitched, and his eyes wandered around the temple, "This ghost temple has a strange origin. Judging from the surrounding layout, there must be some high-ranking people here to suppress the resentment of this ghost. "

Jiang Cheng really didn't know about these things, but his expression remained the same.

Yu Chengmu looked at him, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he seemed to see through everything, but in fact his heart was pounding, he couldn't see through Jiang Cheng more and more, he only felt that it was dangerous.

Not long after, there was another gong sound outside, and there were no more clues in the temple. The three turned and left, and went to join the crowd outside the temple.

When they learned that ghosts were enshrined in the temple, everyone's expressions brightened immediately.

Following the strange footprints, everyone left the mansion all the way. The most urgent task is to find the whereabouts of the coffin, and it is best to find Pang Xiaofeng's body. However, as they walked, everyone found that the village was surprisingly quiet, as if the entire village had disappeared. , which is not a good sign.

And the direction the footprints lead to is actually the direction where the gong sounded.

When they heard the third sound of the gong, they turned over a relatively high mound, and their vision suddenly opened up. A large river appeared in front of them, and on the bank of the river, hundreds of people gathered densely.

Looking at the clothes, they are the villagers who disappeared in the village.

The seven coffins were neatly placed on the bank of the river, and the lid of the coffin was lifted aside, and the corpses inside were gone.

The old man they met last night was holding a black gong in his hand, standing in front of the coffin, because the distance was relatively far away, so they couldn't see his expression clearly.

In the crowd, a person in white filial piety knelt down not far from the coffin. A cold and damp wind blew in, and the low and hoarse cry of a woman could be faintly heard, as if she was crying for mourning.

When a group of people approached, they were found. The old man was carrying a gong, and with the support of a young man, he came over, his footsteps were trembling. After seeing Jiang Cheng and the others, his emotions could no longer be tense, "Masters, Our village is sorry for letting one of your masters lose his life for nothing!"

Zhang Junyu frowned when he heard this, and looked around for a week, but did not see Pang Xiaofeng's body, so he couldn't help asking: "How do you know that one of us is dead?"

Was there anyone else in the house besides them last night?

The watchman?
The old man's eyes were red, and his voice was hoarse: "Masters, look for yourself." The old man turned sideways and pointed at the river with his fingers trembling.

The river surface was very wide, and the entire river surface had a darkened color, and the visibility was poor. The position of the old man's finger was close to the middle of the river, where there was a not so obvious eddy.

And inside the vortex, there is something floating up and down.

Holding his breath, he looked intently. Du Moyu, who had good eyesight, suddenly frowned. He saw a pale and bloodless face, "It's Xiaofeng!"

"Yes, it's one of your masters." The old man expressed guilt and couldn't help sighing, "I only heard about it this morning, and I hurried over here."

"Who found the body first?" Yu Chengmu looked at the old man.

The old man beckoned and called a shirtless man with a dark complexion to introduce to everyone, "That's him, you can call him... Just call him Su Da."

"Su Da." Yu Chengmu said, "When did you find the body?"

"When it was daylight, I saw something floating and sinking in the vortex. After a closer look, it was a person." Su Da looked very honest, and his voice was muffled.

Zhou Qing sneered, "It's just dawn, what are you doing by the river, and now that it's bright, we can barely see the corpse. Tell me, how did you see clearly when it was dark?"

Seeing this, the old man explained: "Masters, don't be angry. It's like this. Su Da was arranged by the village. Every day at dawn, we have to arrange people to come to Dahe for inspection. It just happened to be his turn today."

Speaking of this, the old man showed a trace of bitterness on his face, and sighed deeply, "Masters are the benefactors of our village, I dare not hide it from you. Since this time, people have disappeared from time to time in the village at night, but as long as they are missing people, It doesn't take long for the bodies to come up in the big river, and every time it's around there."

The old man glanced at the river with some apprehension, and said in a low voice, "That's...that whirlpool you saw."

"The corpse in the coffin too?" Du Moyu asked.

The old man nodded, "Yes, both of them."

Chen Hao looked around, looked away and said to the old man: "Is there anything else for these villagers here? If there is nothing wrong, let them go back. We still have something to ask you."

The old man looked at Su Da, "You heard what the masters said, go, let them all go back." Before Su Da left, the old man stopped him again, "Wait, tell them, don't worry, With the masters here, the village will be fine!"

Su Da nodded his head, and agreed in a low voice.

But the last sentence made Jiang Cheng and the others frown. What do you mean there will be nothing wrong with us in the village? If the ghosts don't kill the people in your village, kill us instead?

Everyone knows in their hearts that [-]% of them are acting as a scapegoat again this time.

The most urgent task now is to find out what happened in the village, and what is the relationship between this ghost and this village.

When everyone was almost gone, Yu Chengmu took the old man's hand with a smile, and asked in a long voice: "Village chief, the temple we went to keep watch last night...who is enshrined?"

Yu Chengmu clearly felt that the old man's hand trembled.

Yu Chengmu clenched his hands even tighter, not giving him a chance to escape at all. The face like dead tree bark leaned towards him, with a smile on his face, but his two eyeballs were fixed on the old man's face, and he lowered his eyes. In a second, he suddenly said, "It's Empress Dahe, isn't she?"

"Ah!" Hearing these words, the old man was so frightened that the gong in his hand fell to the ground, and the blood on his face faded completely.

After reacting, the old man's legs softened, and he knelt on the ground with a puff, and said in a crying voice: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, masters, I didn't mean to hide it from you, I really... really dare not Let me tell you, the masters we recruited in the past all hid away as soon as they heard this name, and they would not come if they were given any money."

Lei Mingyu was furious when he heard this, he raised his legs and kicked the old man and fell down, "If others refuse to come, you lie to us, you old bastard, your life is your life, but our life is not your life !"

Worried that Lei Mingyu would do more things, Du Moyu stepped forward and pulled him behind. Lei Mingning stared at the old man with staring eyes.

Jiang Cheng figured it was almost done, stepped forward to help the old man up, and helped him dust off his body, "We don't have to pursue the matter before, but now you have to explain to us what is going on with this Empress Dahe, and What's the matter with the strange things in the village?"

The old man was kicked by Lei Mingyu until he was out of breath, sat on a big rock for a long time, and finally said: "You are right, that temple is called... Dahe Niangniang Temple. built by the eldest lady."

"That house, the one you lived in last night, was the former Wu family's mansion."

"It's a long story." The old man shook his head slightly, his eyes slowly cleared, "You may not believe that 10 years ago, our village was the wealthiest village in the vicinity. Next to this crossing river, which is called the lifeblood."

"But suddenly one night, the Dushui River swelled wildly. The flood broke the embankment and poured into the village. Many people were drowned, and many others were swept away by the river. Even the bodies could not be found."

"At first we thought it was because the embankment had been in disrepair for a long time, so we started to reinforce the embankment, and such a thing has never happened since the establishment of the village, and we just thought it was a bad age."

"Unexpectedly, this is just the beginning." The old man's voice fluctuated, and his expression became frightened, "After the flood, more and more strange things appeared in the village. , I can’t even catch a single fish.”

"Someone didn't believe in evil, contacted more than a dozen fishing boats, and jointly laid a huge net to see what was going on in the water."

"But after waiting for a long time, there was no movement at all."

"Seeing that the sun was about to set, everyone was going to pull the net up, but when they pulled it, they found that something was wrong. The net was very heavy, very heavy, as if it had caught something under the water."

"I often fish in the river, and everyone has experience. No matter how much you pull something under the water, it will not move. This must be a dead thing, and it is very large."

"An experienced old man analyzed that it might be that after the flood, the river bed was washed away, exposing a large rock with a strange shape, which caught the fishing net."

"In this way, no one dares to talk about it. After all, the fishing net is a guy who eats. If it is broken, it will be terrible. So someone suggested that before it is dark, go down and touch the underwater situation."

"A man with good water skills volunteered, took off his clothes, and plunged in with a single savage."

"He went down for a long time, so long that everyone worried that he was in danger, but after a series of blisters, the man finally emerged from the water."

"According to the man, the net got entangled in a large rock underwater and he couldn't solve it alone."

"After finding out the situation, two more men took off their clothes and went into the water without saying a word. But after a while, the three of them surfaced one after another, urging a few more people to come. The situation under the water is worse than expected. It's complicated."

"At this time, it was already half dark. The old man in charge of the boat looked at the sun with only the last twilight, and had an ominous premonition in his heart. Although the villagers grew up by the river, as long as the sun sets, they will not Someone will go into the river, this is the rule."

"But some people were reluctant to part with their own fishing nets, and planned to take the time to retrieve the nets before it was dark, as long as they moved quickly, so they didn't listen to the old man's stop, and jumped down four people."

"This time, 7 people floated up, and then they have to go down to help, right?" Hearing this, Du Moyu had roughly guessed the next direction of the matter.

The old man nodded with a painful expression, "That's right, that's how it is, but this time, it's completely dark, and the people who stayed on the boat also realized that something was wrong."

"They refused to go into the water, and they wanted people who were in the water to get on the boat, fishing nets and so on, and wait until tomorrow morning."

(End of this chapter)