Manual of the Monster in City

12 A Story Without End

    Yes, the story is not over yet.

    After that, I went back to the temple and lived with a young girl named Jiang Zhi. I take care of the large and small affairs in the temple, receive guests from afar, accompany her in the temple, or pray in front of the funny face painted on the tree, of course, I just watched.

    A serious girl is always beautiful, and she has such an indescribable charm.

    This kind of life is very peaceful. I suddenly discovered that although the world is big, there are railway lines that are always dissatisfied, and there are faraway that cannot be sailed by steamboats, but what people are looking for in this life is only a corner of peace of mind.

    Such peaceful days lasted only half a year, but it was the happiest and most reassuring time in my life.

    Until one day, I saw a familiar face in the temple, my old classmate when studying abroad, named Zhao Hao. I immediately knew his intentions, and always wanted to drive him away. But Jiang Zhi just didn't agree. She said that she was a guest from afar, and this person is my old classmate and friend, so he should be treated well.

    So Zhao Hao stayed in the temple. He came in a car. Even in the modern area of the trade port in that era, drivers were either rich or expensive. He brought a lot of mechanical gadgets along with him, as well as bundles of drawings, such as pocket watches and desk clocks.

    He wears gold-rimmed glasses, is gentle, and his suit and top hat are spotless.

    "I have sent the report back. Hasn't the tutor read it? Why continue to send you here?" I finally couldn't help asking Jiang Zhi while he was going to make a fire and cook.

    "You're not the first day to be a student of Johnson's mentor. For the old drunkard who is greedy for money, the most important thing is to greedy more money in this project." He smiled shrewdly.

    "Railway diversion requires the production of more standard rails, which is expensive and troublesome. The wages of workers in the city are now not as low as they were at the beginning. In addition, transportation costs must be removed. But excavation The tunnel is different. Workers can forcibly recruit. The Qing court has taken pills. The recruitment of migrant workers is just a matter of foreigners, and conflicts can also be handled by the local government. But I hope this matter can be handled peacefully. I still need to pay for the maintenance of the year. Gentleness can make money."

    In fact, his plan is the same as mine.

    It’s just that Zhao Hao is more suitable to implement this plan. He is born with a clever tongue and is good at dealing with people. Although his grades are not the best, he is the favorite student of his instructor. He relies on his ability to speak well.

    He goes to the village every day and gives the gadgets he brings to the children of the village to play with. For those villagers who take a break from sunrise to sunset, mechanical gadgets may not be useful things, but This is not the case for young people and children in the village. They were so excited to get a pocket watch that could be turned continuously by relying on a mechanical movement as if they had obtained a magic weapon from a fairy.

    He humbled and asked for warmth everywhere, and he was very generous. Such people would be welcomed everywhere, and soon he became a celebrity in the village. He went to see the simple water supply facilities of the villagers, and took out the advanced blueprints of foreigners, and carried out a simple preliminary transformation of their facilities.

    Of course, this is the charm of science and technology, people called it "Mr. Sai".

    The young man was fascinated by the mechanical products he brought, and Zhao Hao also disassembled a pocket watch for them, allowing them to see the internal movement and the slowly rotating gears.

    Adults cheered for the techniques he used. Traditional old methods always have limitations. Foreigners' techniques in various fields have already created great miracles. He brought these things to Shenting Village, as if omnipotent.

    He gave young people vivid descriptions of those western cities and countries where big machines were booming. He talked about the sophisticated machines and the intricate railway network. Sitting on a steam locomotive is like flying in the sky. You can’t walk anywhere in your life. It can be reached within an hour.

    He told the middle-aged people in the village that there are actually more advanced irrigation and water conservancy machinery. He is happy to bring those convenient tools to the village, but he needs a bigger machine to complete it. Such a heavy machine, horsepower, and cattle power can not run, unless there is a more powerful means of transportation, such as a railway.

    What he said is right. I can't refute his theory. I also believe that mechanical civilization will change everything, but I have found my life.

    The village chief quickly approved him, and the discussion on whether to build a railway was also put on the agenda. Although many village elders still objected to him, they are no longer opposed to the same as before.

    Of course, Zhao Hao knew that there was still the most critical step to be completed.

    That is also the biggest obstacle in the hearts of the elders in the village.

    The ancient gods in that temple, the gods who have been worshipped for generations in Shenting Village.

    Finally, he took out the silver bright Holy Cross.

    He described the West as a city of steel and machinery everywhere and described the villages in the West as a paradise with good harvests every year. All this is because of their mechanical civilization. Zhao Hao said. And their mechanical civilization is actually attributed to their religion.

    The existence they call God is a symbol of fraternity and sacredness. He loves people in the world. Even if they are blinded by false gods, he is waiting for their conversion. Those who do not convert to true gods but worship false gods will fall into hell and burn their bodies after death. Those who believe in him will enjoy eternal bliss like the holy angel.

    Moreover, he is tolerant, he brings all the good to the world, including advanced civilization and technology, but does not ask for any return. He doesn't need any tributes, he doesn't need to kill chickens and cows, and he doesn't need to contribute a woman from each generation to cruelly let her leave her parents and live in the temple forever.

    To worship the true God, you only need a church and a saint who listens to confession.

    Once the wheel of history is opened, it will never stop.

    Jiang Zhi tried hard to persuade them to keep the temple, but people shook their heads and said, girl, you have been confused. There is no such false god at all, now you are free.

    The new village chief quickly approved the plan to open a mountain and build a railway, and also planned to organize the villagers to build a platform so that more advanced technology can come to Shenting Village. Machinery and manpower are all transferred one after another.

    Besides...

    Qing ZF decided to send officials to cooperate with the railway company in the demolition of the land temple in Shenting Village. This matter was approved by the village head and the villagers and plans to build a church on the original site after the demolition.

    On the day when the construction started, people dismantled the outer wall in a rush. On that day, I felt a powerful force rising in the temple, and a violent earthquake swept the entire Shenting Village.

    The world revolves, the world changes color.

    Jiang Zhi knelt in front of the idol, whispering in tears: "Master God... please don't... don't do this..."

    But nothing seemed to be able to calm the burning anger.

    After the earthquake stopped, the angry young people in the village took up their hoes and gathered in the temple halfway up the mountain, saying that they must smash the image of this haunting false god.

    Said that what is enshrined in this temple is clearly a devil who rushes to life.

    They climbed up the altar, smashed the statue, and angrily identified Jiang Zhi as the demon girl who bewitched people's hearts. They didn't know that it was them back then... It was these people who made this innocent girl for the vain sense of peace in their hearts. Sent to the temple to be the wife of the gods for life.

    They all seem to be in madness.

    I don't know why this happened, so I can only do my best to protect Jiang Zhi from being hurt. Jiang Zhi was crying, the clay statue was already broken, she was protecting the last wedding gown, those yelling, this is a demon and evil thing that deceives people's hearts, to be burned.

    In the end, I only remember that I was knocked unconscious, and Jiang Zhi was too.

    People clamored excitedly as if they had just killed God.

    Flames surrounded the temple.

    When I woke up, I had become a house ghost in this temple. The fire had disappeared. I don't know why, but I heard the voice of Lord God from among the clay fragments.

    It said that Jiang Zhi and I were both dead and killed by people in the village. It wants me to take revenge for it, and it wants me to destroy this ugly village. It taught me to draw a spiritual formation, which will give me strength.

    However, I always remember Jiang Zhi's words——

    "Master God...absolutely...absolutely exists! It actually...actually has always been guarding everyone in the village."

    I would never do that to avenge people in the village.

    The god in the clay was very disappointed with me, but the spirit circle could not be lifted, instead, it became my noose to contain it. It wants to find someone to possess, and I know this, so I desperately prevent anyone from living here.

    I once scared away a lonely girl who used this place as a secret base, but I heard that she was too frightened and committed suicide by jumping off the building.

    I blame myself, but I can't let it go, I can only keep going. What’s more frightening is that my memory and consciousness gradually blurred, and in the end, only the strongest obsession was left--

    I don't allow anyone to stay in this temple.

    Later, your companion came to live in this temple, Yuan Boyang, he couldn't see me, he had an aura that was inaccessible to me. I made a lot of weird wind noises and all kinds of horror incidents, such as opening the door where he put the plug, but he didn’t seem to feel anything weird at all, so he walked over and closed the door without fear at all. .

    You came in again, and I was also determined to scare you away, but that night, I suddenly discovered that something was awakened in your body, a sky eye that can see things on the other shore. I took advantage of the clouds to chase to your school. I want to tell you, let you take Yuan Boyang away and go together. But my consciousness is in a trance, and it is difficult to speak completely.

    Because I must tell you to walk away.

    My mana is already too strong as a house ghost, and it has caused the catastrophe. I am determined to meet the hatred god on the day when the catastrophe arrives...

    Die together.

    ————

    The house ghost finally finished his story.

    however--

    But this is useless at all? ! How to deal with this monster!

    Jia Qingming shouted wildly in his heart.

At this moment, he was standing in front of the wooden box with the wedding gown. Even if it was too late for him to escape, he could only desperately watch the clay giant's hard fist grow bigger and bigger in his eyes.