Chapter 20 secret array

When Yun Jisang returned to Ouxingju, it was almost Haishi.Zhuo Anjie had already coaxed Ming Huan to sleep, and when he saw him come back, she hurried to the stove to get a simmering dinner and put it on the table, in case he would catch the cold, she specially warmed some shochu. Yun Jisang watched her senior sister fly in and out like a butterfly, busy to and fro, the uneasiness in her heart gradually turned into relief. "Okay, senior sister, I'm not very hungry, just deal with it." "The sky is big and the earth is big, and eating is the biggest thing. The case may not be solved, but the rice must be eaten. This is the millet porridge I boiled, with red ginseng in it, and the cold air on the mountain, if you are not careful..."

When Yun Jisang was moved, Zhuo Anjie filled a large bowl full of porridge and put it heavily in front of him: "I drank it all up! This is your senior sister's hard work all afternoon..." Yun Jisang looked at the big bowl like a small basin in front of him, his scalp was numb: "Senior sister, how can I finish this?" Zhuo Anjie said nonchalantly: "Today, you have followed Mrs. Ru for three hours. After following for so long, my body must be very weak, how can I not make up for it?" Yun Jisang smiled bitterly and said: "Senior sister misunderstood, I only followed Wang Biyan for a short while, but later I went down the mountain on a whim, which wasted time." "You went down the mountain? What's going on?"

Yun Jisang hurriedly recounted what he saw today, and finally said... "Now it seems that the relocation of the villagers at the foot of the mountain has a lot to do with the appearance of the faceless puppet, and the two murders in the past few days are also related to this incident." It's related. According to Luo Yankong, Zhang Chun's death was silenced by the murderer because of the secret investigation of the matter." "What about Linghu Tiangong?" "He may also know about this, no, for sure. He must know the secret and the identity of the murderer. Zhang Huang's death made him extremely afraid of the murderer, and he probably was afraid that the matter would be leaked, so he wanted the murderer to get rid of it secretly. Protect yourself, who knows..."

"Then you are talking about it, the murderer kills and kills, why did they poach their livers and kidneys away?" "This..." Yun Jisang hesitated slightly and shook his head.These kinds of questions really made it difficult for him to understand.It seems that the most crucial corner of the complex jigsaw is missing, and it is still unable to form a perfect picture. "Think slowly, I'll take a nap first." Zhuo Anjie stretched her waist, showing her graceful figure in front of her junior, then leaned against the head of the bed and dozed off . Yun Jisang shook her head with a smile, took the blanket, and gently covered her body, Zhuo Anjie shrank back, with a vague smile on her lips.

Why did the murderer dig up the kidney and liver of the corpse separately?What was the murderer's intention when he put the puppet curse into the corpse?Is it a warning?Or a memorial ceremony?What does this have to do with the matter at the foot of the mountain? Yun Jisang paced slowly in the room, rubbing his thumb and middle finger constantly, as if he was pinching something.Suddenly, he walked quickly to the bookshelf and carefully examined the books on it.It is a pity that no spell book similar to "Hua Ying Lu" could be found.If I had known it earlier, I would have brought back the "Record of Transforming Figurines". Yun Jisang shook his head, pulled out the "Mozi", and turned to the page with eyebrows again.

"Women make people out of loess, and the ancients thought they were gods; people made from loess are figurines. The so-called gods, who first made figurines? Today we use wood as figurines, and their faces are like living people. Are they gods? Is it a ghost?" Li Wuxin not only denounced Nuwa's theory of creating human beings as figurines buried with gods, but also compared them with the puppets he created.Aside from the arrogance in his words, Yun Jisang felt that his statement that "Nuwa created human beings were actually buried figurines" was quite innovative. When Mencius was discussing the way of coordinating the country with King Hui of Liang, he once quoted a famous sentence from Confucius: "The one who started the figurines will have no successors." The reason why Mencius said this is because of the "Book of Rites?Under the Sandalwood Bow> records: "Confucius said that those who are terracotta spirits are good, but those who are terracotta warriors are not benevolent. It is almost as good as employing people!"The figurines here are the pottery puppets used by the ancients when they were buried.

Regarding the record of "terracotta" in the Book of Rites, the great Confucian Kong Yingda once quoted the saying of Huang Kan in the Southern Dynasty: "Intelligence is mobilized enthusiastically, so it is called a figurine." This is almost the same as Zhang Yi's explanation of the figurines in "Picang" .That is to say, the figurines in ancient times were used as puppets for burial, not only lifelike, similar to living people, but also jumping and moving. Then, in ancient times, if Nuwa created a puppet that could move by itself, the world might misrepresent it as a stranger.And it's not surprising that someone like Li Wuxin, who is extremely proud, considers himself a god.

Wait, the instigator, "Record of Transforming Figurines", transforming figurines... Could it be that Li Wuxin really wanted to create living figurines that could have life?Yun Jisang got up abruptly, turned around quickly, and stopped suddenly.Mei Zhaoxue said that Li Wuxin wanted to reproduce the mysterious puppet Da Heitian that was sealed back then.Could it be that the reason why the Daheitian puppet was sealed was because it possessed human spirituality?is it possible? But in this way, those mysterious spells make sense.He definitely wanted to borrow Taoist means to reincarnate figurines and make puppets spiritual.Judging from the records in (Hua Ying Lu), it is obvious that he failed.Such a thing against the heavens, how can human beings do it?Yun Jisang shook his head, comforting himself.But for some reason, he was always uneasy.That feeling was very similar to the mood he felt when he lost a bet with his senior sister when he was a child, and went to the mass grave to visit ghosts alone late at night.

At that time, he was walking alone on the road in a trance, with fear that penetrated into the bone marrow. That is the nature of human beings when they face mysterious and unknown things. Distraught, he pushed open the door and came to the courtyard. Unknowingly, the sky has gradually darkened.Everything melted in the misty night mist, and a silent black chaos was precipitated.A pale moon trail hangs silently in the sky, cold like an ominous omen.This is the fourth night since I arrived at the Puppet Gate.On such a night, what will happen? Yun Jisang suddenly heard footsteps, and immediately came to the gate of the courtyard, looked sideways, and was surprised to find that it was that crazy old man Ouyang Gaolun again.He hunched over, leaning on a cane with a dragon's head, chanting that familiar mantra, and walking towards this side.

"Where's the thread? Where's my thread..." Yun Jisang frowned, and was about to close the door, but the old man's crutches came in through the crack of the door early.He could only sigh helplessly, and opened the door. "Elder Ouyang, what are you doing here again? Didn't you say last time that there is no line you want here? Ouyang Gaolun ignored him, but raised his head, staring blankly at the warehouse where the puppets were.Then he tilted his head, looking distressed, as if he was remembering something. Wait, does this old man know something?That's right, he only went crazy a few years ago, maybe he knows something about Li Wuxin, the last time he came here, he even mistook me for Li Wuxin.Thinking of this, he slowed down his voice, and said slowly: "Elder Ouyang, this is the residence of your grand nephew Li Wuxin, do you remember Wuxin?"

"Wuxin..." Ouyang Gaolun murmured, a flash of life suddenly flashed in his cloudy old eyes, "Yes, it is Wuxin, Wuxin hid my thread! Where is the thread? Wuxin, where is my thread?" As he spoke, he staggered towards the warehouse. Why did you come back again?Yun Jisang smiled wryly, but it was hard to stop him, so he could only watch him push open the door of the warehouse and get in. "What's the matter? What happened?" Zhuo Anjie heard the noise outside and got up to come out. "It's nothing, Elder Ouyang is looking for his line again." "Ouyang Talun? That crazy old man? Why does this old man like to run around and scare children?" Zhuo Anjie frowned and looked around, "Where are the others?" "In the barn, maybe Li Wuxin hid his thread there..." Zhuo Anjie glanced at the barn: "Let me go and have a look. Don't let the old lunatic burn the house down." Then, Go straight to the warehouse. Yun Jisang shook his head, went back to the house to fetch candles, and followed. In the darkness of night, the barn is particularly eerie Under the candlelight, the dust danced like countless tiny golden gnats.The puppets are like pilgrims, looking at the skylight, quietly bathed in the golden candlelight. "Junior brother, come here..." Zhuo Anjie leaned out half of her body from between the two puppets, and waved to Yun Jisang. Yun Jisang walked over and found that Ouyang Talun was standing in front of a puppet, staring at it obsessively. The puppet was a young man with slender limbs and a well-proportioned figure. In the vermilion eyes, a faint golden light flowed faintly.It was the puppet that had a mysterious spell engraved in its eyes that night. Ouyang Gaolun looked at the puppet, said something vaguely in his mouth, and then stood there, as if waiting for the other party's answer.When he found that the puppet was still indifferent, he became impatient and stretched out his hand to push the puppet. Zhuo Anjie was about to step forward to stop her, but was stopped by Yun Jisang. Ouyang Talun continued to push the puppet: "Speak up, Wuxin... I know, as long as you open your mouth, I can get my thread back, give me back my thread, Wuxin, my thread... ..." "Speak up, speak up, a sneeze blows this old lunatic to Hulin to become Feilai Peak (crazy)..." Zhuo Anjie whispered. Yun Jisang glanced at her in surprise, Zhuo Anjie said indifferently, "Why, he has scared Ming Huan several times." Yun Jisang shook his head, stepped forward, and carefully observed the puppet's face.Suddenly, a look of joy appeared on his face, and he lightly touched the puppet's chin. With a soft "click", the puppet's mouth opened slightly.Yun Jisang looked inside, then put his hand into it and began to feel for it.Suddenly, he pulled it out hard, and there was a thin metal wire in his hand. :f The puppet "clicked" and suddenly raised its right hand, pointing to the northeast.As if driven by its movement, the two puppets next to it also raised their right arms at the right time, pointing to the northeast.Then, this movement spread like waves among the puppets, and one arm after another was slowly raised, pointing firmly to the east. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of puppets in the barn raised their arms and pointed towards the east.Hundreds of expressionless faces are facing the east, hundreds of fingers are firmly pointing to the northeast, hundreds of pairs of indifferent eyes are quietly staring at the direction they are pointing... They are like a silent army, an army from The army of ghosts in the underworld swear their oaths to the supreme demon king. How is this going?Looking at this thrilling scene, Yun Jisang was at a loss. The welcome puppets, guide puppets, wooden cows and horses, watering puppets, cats and mice, and even golden lotus Buddha sons of the puppet gate, Although these puppets were full of strange things, after he had seen them, he had a general understanding of their structure.But the weird and spectacular scene in front of him was completely beyond his imagination. What kind of ingenious ingenuity and shocking wisdom can create this mysterious group of puppets?Could such a uniform chain reaction really be caused by the force of the mechanism? "These puppets are still full of hearts. What are they doing? Are they trying to curse someone to death?" Zhuo Anjie was surprised, but not as shocked as Yun Jisang, because she had no understanding of mechanism techniques. Wait, "Thousands of people accuse you of dying without illness." It is a slang term recorded in "Han Shu".Li Wuxin set up this puppet formation, did he really want to curse someone to death?Northeast, who is in the northeast?Yun Jisang walked to the window and looked northeast. Under the silvery moonlight, a golden phoenix was shining brightly, ready to fly. That is... Qiansitang? Li Wuxin wanted to kill Cao Zhong?In this almost ridiculous way?Can you?But if that wasn't the case, what was the use of this puppet array he set up?In a trance, Yun Jisang heard a soft sound from the east of the hall again.Crashing, like the sound of marbles falling, one after another, intermittently like a leak. When Ouyang Gaolun heard the sound, a puzzled look suddenly appeared on his dull face, and he staggered towards the sound.Yun Jisang and Zhuo Anjie looked at each other and followed. —Wherever they passed by, all the puppets pointed in their direction, as if they were showing them the way. "It's amazing that this old lunatic can find this mechanism." Zhuo Anjie whispered as she walked. "He has been looking for his thread, and it turned out that Li Wuxin used it as a puppet trigger." Yun Jisang also sighed, "Maybe it was because he was crazy that Li Wuxin didn't guard against him, so he discovered it. The secret of the secret room." When they walked out of the group of puppets and saw the source of the strange sound, they were stunned. It was the huge Avalokitesvara statue with thousands of hands and eyes that made the strange sound.At this moment, on Guanyin's thousand palms, one eye after another kept opening.The black glazed eyes kept turning, like reincarnated gods and Buddhas, staring at all living beings coldly. The sound of the marbles became more and more urgent. After a burst of rapid noise like a shower, it finally quieted down. Avalokitesvara's thousand eyes were all opened. There was another complicated mechanism sound, and Guanyin, who was sitting cross-legged, turned slowly.On the Sumeru lotus seat, a black hole was exposed. The secret room... Li Wuxin's secret room... Unexpectedly, Li Wuxin actually built a secret room here, and the way it was opened was so incredible.Since it is a secret room, it must contain his most ulterior secret.Perhaps, the truth behind the tragedy lies in this... - Zhuo Anjie was about to go in, but was stopped by Yun Jisang. "I'll go in first," he insisted.Li Wuxin is too powerful, the secret room is dangerous and unpredictable, he doesn't want senior sister adventure.Before Zhuo Anjie could answer, Yun Jisang jumped into the hole first. Zhuo Anjie shook her head and followed in. Inside the cave was nightmarish darkness.Underfoot, the spiral wooden steps made a distorted moan, like an echo of darkness.Although there is air movement, it can be said that it is filled with a rotten wood smell JL. Yun Jisang took out the fire book, opened it, and held it in front of his eyes.In the golden firelight, white cobwebs lined up one after another, against the thick darkness, it was particularly gloomy. The secret path was so deep and narrow, the two of them walked very carefully, for fear of being ambushed.Fortunately, the journey was very peaceful and there was no abnormality.When they finally walked through the secret passage and came to the secret room, they were stunned by everything in front of them. This is an extremely deep and wide underground cave.Huge stalactites hang upside down from the top of the cave, like white ice cones, which seem to stab down ferociously at any time.There are thick wooden frames up to several feet on all sides of the cave.Some bottles and cans were placed on the south-facing side, and the rest were piled up with the stumps of puppets. The head of a female puppet was facing Yun Jisang, with a hint of sadness in her eyes.Thousands of discarded yellow sheets of paper are scattered all over the ground, layered upon layer, like autumn yellow leaves. Zhuo Anjie looked around, amazed: "Unexpectedly, there is such a dense cave under the Evening House, Li Wuxin is quite capable." While lighting the torches on the cave wall one by one, Yun Jisang turned around and said, "This project is so vast that no one, no matter how talented, can't complete it alone. It should be the painstaking efforts of successive generations of the Puppet Sect, which was accidentally discovered by Li Wuxin. " "No wonder the hole is so big..." Zhuo Anjie reached out and picked up the head of the female puppet, and patted it lightly, "The puppet here is very similar to the one above, so they are all the masterpieces of Li Wuxin, right?" "It's possible, Mrs. Cao said, Li Wuxin went crazy and wanted to rebuild Daheitian. These puppets are probably experimental products. " "Manpower is sometimes poor. He built so many puppets by himself. No wonder he exhausted his energy and died of serious illness." "Yeah, I'm alone after all..." Yun Jisang said with a complex expression, while leaning over to pick up a piece of yellow paper. Strange incantations are written on the paper: "Secretly Stop Secretly Stop Shebra" Dorokatiha Sapoha. "What kind of curse is this?" "This is the Dahei Tian Shenfa, one of the most mysterious incantations in Tantric Buddhism." Yun Jisang's voice was as low as a raving, as if he was afraid of waking up something. "I only know the Four Heavenly Kings, but which god is Da Hei Tian?" "The Four Heavenly Kings are the Dharma protectors of Buddhism, and Dahetian is the Dharma protector of Esoteric Buddhism. Their status is similar to the Four Heavenly Kings, but their personalities are far worse." Yun Jisang recalled the article "The Story of Shen Kai" that he had read. ", ""Shen Kai Ji" records that Dahetian lived in the corpse forest of Samashina in the east of the city of Ushini Kingdom. It has the great freedom of transformation of Moyi Shouluo, and has great power. Can fly, like to parade in the corpse forest at night. There are countless treasures around him, and there are secret medicines of invisibility and longevity. Daheitian likes to trade with people with the secret medicine made by himself, but it does not want money, only the living people Flesh and blood, exchange medicine with the other party according to the catty of flesh and blood." "How do you know these messy things?" t "When I went to Jiaxiang Temple, I read Tang Monk Shen Kai's notes, which recorded a lot of things about Mahakala, and among them was this Mahakala Divine Law." "You know a lot." Zhuo Anjie snorted, looked around, and her eyes fell on a huge stone platform. On the stone platform, a puppet lay quietly, as if sleeping.She stepped forward, took a look, and her expression changed drastically: "Junior brother, come and see this..." Yun Jisang walked over slowly.Every step he took, the puppet got closer, and the uneasiness in his heart deepened.It seemed that what he was about to see would be an extremely terrifying fact. - Gold, purple, black, white, and gray—the five bewildering colors that come into view.They display dazzling light and sparks of color.Those rays of light and sparks cooperated, intertwined, and chaotic in his eyes, like a great ensemble that was soaring and full of sense of life. Heart of pure gold, lungs of copper, kidneys of black lead, spleen of gray tin, liver of silver. Yes, the body of the puppet turned out to be made of metal internal organs!Its form and scale are exactly the same as real people.The dense metal pipes are like fine ditches, cleverly linking the internal organs together to form a perfect whole. Yun Jisang held his breath, and lightly touched the puppet's heart. As if a certain balance was broken, all of a sudden, the internal organs of the puppet convulsed, and his right hand suddenly raised straight up, pointing upwards! Yun Jisang took a step back in shock.My heart was shocked: The puppet actually responded!This... This is actually done by human beings... Could it be that human wisdom can really reach such a level?No, it's impossible.The reason why people are human is precisely because of their unique spirituality and life.And puppets, puppets will not have life, absolutely not! "Junior Brother..." Zhuo Anjie was obviously also extremely surprised by the scene before her, and couldn't help but whispered. Yun Jisang took a deep breath, stepped forward again, and gently pulled out a copper pipe, a stream of silver liquid immediately flowed out of the copper pipe, dripped on the stone platform, and turned into countless tiny silver beads rolling around. . "It's mercury again?" Zhuo Anjie asked in surprise. Yun Jisang remained silent, quietly observing the flow of mercury.Those quicksilver beads rolled for a while, opened Beginning to gather towards the puppet's right hand one after another, constantly adsorbing on its fingertips. "What's going on here?" Yun Jisang didn't answer, took out the dagger that he carried with him, touched the puppet's fingertips, and immediately felt a suction sticking to the blade. "Sure enough... Li Wuxin mixed iron powder into the mercury, and installed magnets in the puppet's fingers. When the puppet's finger moves, it will drive the mercury to roll in the body, change the entire magnetic field, and drive other puppets to make corresponding movements. It's really clever..." Yun Jisang let out a long breath, feeling more at ease. The weird and spectacular scene in the warehouse and the mutation of the puppet in front of him made him terrified.Now that I understand the reason behind it, although I am still shocked by the ingenuity of its conception, I no longer have that unbelievable feeling. Tap, tap, tap... Slow footsteps suddenly sounded behind him.In this empty dense cave, how could there be footsteps coming?The two of them looked at each other with a creepy feeling in their hearts.