Manual of the Monster in City

5 Rainy Night Exploration

"Is there something wrong?"

It seems that the problem in this temple is more serious than imagined. Jia Qingming began to wonder how he spent that night peacefully last night.

Uh... Meeting a ghost and meeting a man who behaves like a puppet... It wasn't a peaceful night from the beginning, right?!

"This ancient temple originally had walls, but it has now been completely demolished. There are much negative energy here."

"What do you mean?" Jia Qingming looked dazed.

Xiao Hei sighed and started to explain for Qingming, holding his arms. "The outer wall itself is a symbolic thing, that is, a mysterious barrier... Temples often have outer walls, or other things with a similar symbolic thing, such as the torii at the entrance of a Japanese shrine, and the trees tied to nearby trees. They all are mysterious barriers. Crossing the barriers means stepping into a realm where humans and spirits coexist…”

Xiao Hei whispered in his mouth to explain to Qingming while taking out her cellphone and taking pictures around, leading her looked like a tourist who had arrived at the scenic spot and was ready to post to friends.

"But when the barrier is broken, the negative energy that was trapped inside is completely vented outside..."

"Let's go to see the main hall of the temple, which is the place where the gods are enshrined. According to the current situation, it cannot be ruled out that it is the earth's spirit." Xiao Hei beckoned to him and walked directly into the temple.

One person, an umbrella, and black clothes, this posture is almost like a killer in a movie going to kill people.

She was a girl, but she was too handsome.

Jia Qingming looked at a broken wall not far away. He felt a shadow flashing from there just now, looking like a person from the outline. But after responding to Xiao Hei's words, when Qingming looked in that direction again, the shadow had disappeared.

Jia Qingming didn't think much, and followed in Xiao Hei's footsteps and walked into the ruined temple.

According to the rules of horror films, those who fall behind will suffer a terrible death.

Fortunately, when he rushed over, Xiao Hei was still in the temple and fine.

This temple is big, but the main hall is small and the hall's roof is very high. There is no modern lighting in the corridors on both sides, so it is sunken in darkness, looking like a deep cave.

In the afternoon, Jia Qingming saw some old books in the school library. It is said that in ancient times, the temple often provided free meals and lodging for passing scholars and business travelers, but no one knows it now.

The main hall of this temple is obviously more rags than the room he stayed last night, the incense burner is crooked and deformed, and the clay statues have long been broken. Qingming walked closer and covered his mouth and nose with the sleeves of his school uniform to prevent him from being choked by the dust raised by his action. He squatted down and rummaged in these broken clay blocks.

He can vaguely see the outlines of some figures from some fragments. Generally, the statues that are commonly found in places are cast in mud and clay, while the lifelike deities on the surface are drawn with gold powder. from.

But obviously, it took too long, or it was artificially scraped off by someone, and now only some traces remain on it, which is blurred and unrecognizable. And because of long-term dampness and weathering, most of them have become slag, and there is no clue at all.

So Qingming's exploration ends here.

As for Xiao Hei, her exploration method is simpler and rude——

She had a solemn expression on her face. She was shooting around in the temple with her mobile phone in one hand. In addition, she had her hands in her pockets, and she was spotlessly dressed in black among the ruins.

"Did you find anything?" Xiao Hei asked him.

"No."

"Yeah. I didn't find anything." Xiao Hei continued his words very naturally.

"Hey hey hey! You are a professional! Senior Black!"

Xiao Hei raised an index finger and held her face pretentiously: "In general, although there is a waver of negative energy lingering here, I can't feel something special. Maybe it is simply because of its location. This place is indeed located in the negative veins of the mountain. It is reasonable for such things to happen. So—"

It seems to be a closing statement: "So I plan to take a photo at the scene first, take it back and let Ms. Bai Ling have a look at it before I can confirm it."

This is totally unconvincing rhetoric!

Besides, if this is the case, why not let Bai Ling come in person?

The beautiful face of Bai Ling appeared in Jia Qingming's mind. However, he was indeed a cunning face of the exploiting class, and the image of "classical beauty emerging from ancient paintings" was disillusioned when eating food.

He just wanted to complain, his eyes were suddenly attracted by something in the corner.

It was a wooden box whose outline could barely be seen in the dim light.

But in this ancient temple, everything is in tatters, but this crate looks intact, but there is some dust on the surface. The so-called something abnormal must have a reason. It is worth investigating no matter what. Right?

"Wait."

He was about to walk over to investigate the strange box, but Xiao Hei stretched out a hand to stop Jia Qingming, and then looked at her serious and solemn face.

"What's wrong? Senior Hei, what did you find?"

Xiao Hei took out his phone again, "I'll take a picture first."

As if noticing Jia Qingming’s distrustful eyes, Xiao Hei tilted his head and snorted, “What do you know? By then, you will destroy the scene. If this thing is contaminated with humanity, it will be difficult to judge.”

The flash of the mobile phone instantly brightened the wooden box. In the continuous flashing, Qingming found that one side of the wooden box was covered with a layer of cloth, which was somewhat damaged due to age, but half of the cloth was exposed on the edge of the cloth. Knuckles of bones!

"That's—skeleton?!"

Lightning flashed across suddenly.

"It really seems to be a corpse." Xiao Hei said, as if explaining to the child the merchandise on the supermarket shelves, he walked over and lifted the cloth from the corpse, lying half and half on the wooden crate. His bones were exposed in front of the two of them, and then—

The click of the camera and the flashing light baptized this ancient skeleton.

Jia Qingming observed the skeleton from the side, and the completely exposed corpse was not as mysterious and terrifying as when holding the pipa half-hidden, and his special eyes did not see the "spirit" on the skeleton, it seemed to be completely dead. .

From the posture, the corpse seemed to be protecting the contents of the box with its body. The bones had already changed color due to time, some bones had been broken, and yellow stubble was exposed at the fracture.

"I see." Qingming said.

"What do you know?" Xiao Hei raised an eyebrow.

"The reason why this ancient temple is haunted... must be in this wooden box."

"Then you can open it and take a look." Xiao Hei hugged his arms and looked away, as if it had nothing to do with him.

Qingming carefully pulled open the bones above, but the bones that were too old were touched like this, and they fell to the side with a crash.

Jia Qingming looked around like a thief and opened the dusty wooden box after making sure that he didn't see anything unscientific.

The dazzling bright red poured into his eyes, and the sealed things in this wooden box seemed to have gone through several years. Although they were old, the colors were still as bright as new.

Inside, there is a neatly folded set of women's wedding gowns, big red with gold thread woven lines, and Fengguanxiapi is placed on top. This meticulously placed look makes people feel the strong girlish heart in it. Presumably, the girl must wipe it frequently, take it out to smooth out the wrinkles, fold it neatly, and put it back in the baby-like box.

The wooden box is equipped with camphor insect repellent, which is probably why in the ruins of this temple, only the clothes in this box can still maintain such bright colors.

Jia Qingming felt that there seemed to be a force driving him, driving him to reach out and touch the bright red wedding gown in the box. This time Xiao Hei didn't stop him, his fingers trembled, and soon, the delicate touch of silk ran across his fingers, he gently stroked the cloth, suddenly—

A sharp pain pierced the finger. Jia Qingming made a sound with pain.

"What are you doing?!" Xiao Hei's face became serious, and she rushed over to grab Qingming's wrist.

But it was too late.

His fingers were cut by the sharp hairpin, and the blood was falling drop by drop, like a broken thread, falling on the bright red wedding gown.

Jia Qingming, who has only watched horror movies, also knows that something like this happened while exploring the yin house, which is definitely a big evil.

He also knew that this red wedding dress appeared in such a terrifying atmosphere, and it was absolutely something that should never be touched, but he still touched it. He just couldn't control himself.

Xiao Hei looked at the door alertly.

Sure enough, there was a sudden gust of wind outside the temple, lightning flashes and thunder, and the wood door panel that had been moth-eaten for a long time was directly blown away by the strong wind and smashed onto the broken idol.

In the pouring rain outside the temple, under the shining of lightning, Qingming saw the ghost again, but it was so fast that it screamed towards Qingming's direction.

"Meow--"

Xiao Hei let out a long cry, a certain force was expanding outward from her body, and a pair of cat ears and a soft cattail were quickly born on her human body. At the same time as this change, there was a wave of energy. The powerful spiritual pressure opened up quickly like a realm.

Tensions.

But in the next second, the ghost had entered Qingming's body, Qingming slowly raised his head, a strange blue light faintly revealed in his eyes.

He was possessed. Xiao Hei couldn't cope with this situation.

Sweat dripped from Xiao Hei's forehead.

"Get out of here! The farther the better! This is not something you should care about!"