Artisans in Tunli

Chapter 66
"How is it? Have you seen them?" I asked Qingfeng beside me. She had a serious expression and squinted her eyes to search carefully for the figures of Master and Mistress.

When we got up, it was already dark. I didn't expect the two of us to sleep for so long, so we got up quickly and went outside to observe the situation in the village.But found that a team of people in the village were looking for something with torches.

I thought to myself, what age is this, and torches are still used.So he called Qingfeng out and let her see the excitement.She didn't take it seriously after seeing it, saying that in many villages here, it was still customary to use torches, which was more practical.

"Let's go in and ask, it seems that something happened." Without waiting for her to answer me, I turned around and walked into the temple, put on the Taoist robe, picked up the backpack, and prepared to enter the village.

When entering the village, he just bumped into a person.He was not surprised when he saw us, maybe it was because of our clothes, we looked like Taoist priests.

"Brother, do you know what happened inside?" I asked.

As soon as he heard that my accent didn't look like a local, he immediately became vigilant, frowned and took two steps back and asked, "You guys? What are you doing here?"

Seeing his reaction, I hurriedly explained: "Don't be afraid, we are not bad people, we are Taoist priests from Maoshan. The two priests who came here today are our master and wife."

"What? They are your masters? Come on, hurry up, I'll take you to meet the village chief!" After hearing what I said, he turned around and began to trot.

I thought to myself that something had happened to the master and the others, so I chased after them.

Before I got close to the group of people holding the torches, I heard them yelling something, "I didn't see it", "I didn't" and similar words.

The elder brother introduced us to the village chief. After hearing this, he quickly approached us and said with a sad face, "It's a good thing you didn't come together. Daoist Zhang and the others are missing!"

The village chief told me about what happened after the master came to the village. After they arrived, they did not go to the village chief directly, but went to the Mu family who adopted the master back then.

After he learned that the master was coming, he hurried to Mu's house, and then told the master and his wife about the discovery of the zombie.

After watching from a high place, the two claimed that there was a missing well and they had to check it out.But after going out at noon until now, he never came back.The village chief was afraid that something would happen, so he quickly sent a militia team to search for it.

"You said they went to find the well, where is the well?" I asked.

He scratched his head and said in non-standard Mandarin: "The well is still there, but it was covered by the Sun family's barn."

I hurriedly asked him to take us to have a look. He arranged for several people to continue searching, and found a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy named Niuzi to follow us to the location of Gujing.

When I heard the child's name, I couldn't help but burst out laughing. This is a vocabulary that only people in the Northeast understand.

When I came here, I saw that there was indeed an ancient well similar to the one in another part of the village.The diameter is very large, and the top of the potter's wheel has disappeared, leaving only a wooden bracket that has been eroded by wind and rain for an unknown period of time.

"Did you find it below?" I stared at the dark well and asked without looking back.

The village head rushed over and said, "This well is very deep. During the severe drought, we kept digging it down. Later, the village got tap water, and the well dried up and no one used it. It should be impossible for the two of them." At the bottom of the well?"

Hearing this, I thought that the master must have been taken down by the mistress with imperial energy, because I could feel that there was a burst of hostility in the well, spreading out of the well.

"Hurry up and call your militia team back, and all of them are on standby here. They must be below, and quickly prepare the rope! Make it stronger, and the longer the better." After I finished speaking, I immediately took off my Taoist robe, turned it over and put it on .

The village chief saw that I was working hard, so he didn't dare to be sloppy. He ordered Niu Zi and a few strong men to find the rope, and he ran to the village to gather the militia.

"Thirteen, do you really want to go down?" I was preparing something to use, when I heard Qingfeng talking to me, I turned my head to look at her, and noticed the expression on her face, which seemed a little scared.

I put down what I was doing, grabbed her hand and said, "Why don't you help me up there? Besides, you don't know any magic. I'm afraid that I won't be able to take care of you after I go down."

She looked into my eyes, and then said seriously: "It's okay, I'd better go down, more people have more strength."

Although the expression on her face changed, I knew she was terrified to death.Me, so why not?
"You should stay on top. I need your cooperation to seal this place with a magic circle." Seeing my serious expression, she stopped insisting.

After more than ten minutes, the rope and people were all there.I touched the rope, it was the kind soaked in oil, and it would take an hour or so to cut it with a knife, so don't worry about it breaking.Then he ordered everyone to fix one end of the rope and let everyone guard it here.

Take out the ink fountain, use the ink fountain thread to seal the top of the well mouth into a "well" character, stick eight corpse-resisting charms on each thread end, and paste them on the well mouth according to the directions of the eight trigrams, leaving an entrance in the middle for convenience Go in.

"After I go down in a while, you stick the other four corpse talismans on the four crosses in the middle." I pointed to the word "well" in the middle.

"My name is the 'Twelve Gods and Fiends Formation'. It was improved according to the master's formation. If there are zombies below, it is absolutely impossible for it to come out of here. You can rest assured here and wait for my news."

When I finished speaking, a white light suddenly flashed in the sky, followed by a thunderclap.Xu Qingfeng, who listened carefully to my words, was taken aback by the thunder and screamed.

I thought to myself, no, it will be troublesome if the talisman is wetted by the rain.He hurriedly asked the village chief to look for something like an oilcloth to cover the barn. If the talisman gets wet, it won't work.

The village chief thought for a long time and asked me if plastic sheeting would work.I thought they might not know about plastic sheeting, so I smiled awkwardly and said it was fine, as long as it could keep out the rain.

After carrying the backpack, he told Qingfeng to be careful in everything, if the zombies came up, don't worry about anything, just run away.

I don't know if it's because I'm dazzled, but I saw her eye circles were red, and she seemed to be about to cry.

"Don't cry, be strong. Don't you still want to see the outside world? In the outside world, people are much scarier than ghosts." I comforted.

"Are you trying to comfort someone?" She rubbed her eyes, then leaned up to me and kissed me tenderly on the face.

Grandpa bless, don't let me die here!

He picked up the rope and threw it down, then looked back at everyone, all of whom looked confused.

"what happened?"

"It's okay, you kid, you are quite strong. Be careful when you go down the well. The walls of the well are very slippery. Take care!" the village chief said sincerely, and I nodded.

First fix the torch on the head with the rubber band prepared in advance, then hold on to the rope tightly, jump over the edge of the high stone well, and climb down slowly.

This well is quite old and was probably drilled when Yin Yang Tun was established.There is no moss on the well wall above, probably because it has been abandoned for a period of time.

However, the stone was so smooth that the feet couldn't step on it at all, so they had to hook the rope with their feet and slide down the rope slowly.

How deep is the well?I can't help but ask myself.

I reckoned, at least it has been down for more than 20 minutes, and I still can't see what the bottom of the well looks like.Although I have often haunted similar scenes before, the space here is a little narrower, and there is an invisible sense of oppression in my heart.

What's more, the master and the others have been down for several hours, and they might encounter some danger.

Sweat was already dripping from my forehead, and Sha couldn't even open her eyes. After a while, I'm afraid I'd be exhausted.Don't dare to think too much, let's breathe in quickly.

But inhale now, it seems a bit late.I can feel the emptiness in my body, the hunger fills my brain, and I have to hurry up.I hooked my feet tightly to the rope, then opened my hands, looking for a familiar feeling.

Maybe it's because I'm in the well, I can only feel the breath from my head, and it's not much.

"Thirteen, are you in the end?" It was pitch black above the mouth of the well, and occasionally a little starlight could be seen, maybe Qingfeng was holding a flashlight to shine down.

"No, it should be soon", I shouted loudly, almost deafened by myself.

At this time, my body lost my balance all of a sudden, and I hurriedly grabbed the rope with my hands, but it was too late.It fell straight down, it was too dark in here, the flashlight above the head was flickering, and I couldn't see where the rope was, so I could only scratch around.

Fortunately, I still caught it, and I cursed myself secretly, why not add a safety rope?
After calming down his frantically beating heart, he was about to continue sliding down. When he looked down, he was only two meters away from the bottom of the well.

It may be because I came down suddenly just now, and I didn't look carefully at the surrounding environment, and found that the well-polished walls had turned into rough rocks.

This should be the position where it was deepened in the later stage. Thinking that modern people are really impetuous, they can't carve these stones properly at such a distance.

Finally landed, and I felt a lot more at ease.There is still a little water under the well, just a shallow layer.The walls of the well were also covered with moss, and a musty smell rushed over.There are some scattered stones on the ground, but there is no moss on them.

I took out the Snickers bar I carried with me and put it in my mouth. Every time I go out, I habitually wear some snacks in case of emergency.

At the same time, I followed the direction of the stone with the light of the flashlight, and found a cave on the wall. I don't know who dug out a cave.If Master and the others come down, they will definitely enter from here.

I rested a little, took some more breath, and was ready to start walking toward the cave.

Suddenly, I seemed to smell a foul smell, which was rushing towards my face.I quickly pinched my nose, wondering what the hell was in it, and it started to hurt my eyes.

In fact, this can't be regarded as a hole, it is almost a crack in the wall, but it is different from the stone outside.

The stones on both sides of the wall are neat and smooth as jade.At first glance, it looks like someone deliberately built a secret passage, and I don't know what it is for. Judging from the current taste, it is definitely not a good thing.

As my steps progressed, the width of the walls on both sides gradually expanded.I no longer need to walk with a cat waist, which is much more comfortable.But the further you went inside, the stronger the smell, and some animal-like bones appeared on the ground.

The skeletons also gradually transformed into the broken limbs of animals with a small amount of flesh and blood, and there seemed to be some mixed in that looked like human limbs.

I used the flashlight to probe into the distance, and saw the reflection on the ground inside, which was a sign of water, so I wanted to go there quickly, and if I stayed like this for a while, I would suffocate.

But before I took the first step, a hand suddenly stretched out from behind me and covered my mouth tightly.I quickly turned around to look, and it turned out to be the master.

"Master!" I couldn't help shouting when he let go of his hand, and he quickly made a silent gesture.

I hurriedly lowered my voice and said, "Master, where's Mistress?"

He told me that, in fact, they had just come down not long ago.After they found this place, they came in.As a result, he walked to the front, and a black shadow jumped out, knocked the master flying, and then kidnapped the teacher's wife.

When he was about to chase after him, he heard a voice behind him, so he hid, but he didn't expect it to be me.

(End of this chapter)