Chapter 226: Hundred Ghost Tower (4)

"Boss Liu, how come this statue is neither human nor ghost? It looks like a mouse with a human face!" Xiao Li exclaimed.

"That's right, it's really a monster with the head of a rat and the body of a rat! It's normal for people in the world to respect heaven and earth and worship ghosts and gods. But I haven't heard anyone say that there are still people in this world who believe in rats!" Goudan stared at the statue and interjected.

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"That's not necessarily true! The five great immortals that people believe in are also called the Five Immortals. They refer to fox, yellow, white, willow and gray, that is, fox, yellow skin, thorn, python and mouse!" Boss Liu seemed to have something to say!

Said thoughtfully

, "I once heard people say that some people in the Buddhist country of India believed in rats and built rat temples; but in China, I only heard that there was a cult hundreds of years ago called the Rat Worshiping Cult. Unfortunately, it has long been banned.

Eradicated!"

"Worship the Rat God Cult? No way, Boss Liu, do you even believe in rats?" Seeing that Boss Liu was not joking, I was even more curious.

"Well, have you heard of the story about the Five Rats causing trouble in Tokyo?" Boss Liu looked at the rest of us and said.

"I said, Boss Liu, you are really talking nonsense. The five rats in Five Rats in Tokyo refer to the five heroes in Seven Heroes and Five Righteousnesses. They are Lu Fang, the Sky-Drilling Rat, Han Zhang, the Earth-Through Rat, and Xu, the Mountain-traveling Rat.

Qing, Jiang Ping, the river rat, and Bai Yutang, the golden rat, there are five of them. I have been with them since I was a child.

I know those storytellers by heart. Their nicknames are just related to mice. They are chivalrous people who value loyalty and have nothing to do with mice!" Before Boss Liu could finish his words, Xiao

Li bluntly accused Boss Liu of talking nonsense.

"Brother Xiao Li, it seems that you only know one and not the other. You don't know something about the story about the five rats causing trouble in Tokyo during the Song Dynasty. There are two stories about the five rats causing trouble in Tokyo. You said

Those are the five rats in martial arts novels," Goudan retorted to Xiao Li. "The other theory refers to the five rats who became spirits in the West and came to the Song Dynasty. One of them became Shi Jun, a scholar rushing to take the exam.

Young Master’s matter! This matter has always alarmed the Buddha in the West!”

"Okay, okay, stop arguing. In addition to the five rats causing trouble in Tokyo as mentioned by Brother Goudan, I think the real thing that may be related to this statue is the legend of worshiping the Rat God Cult in the late Ming Dynasty!" Boss Liu continued.

Said, "Listen to what people are saying, that at the end of the Ming Dynasty,

The world is in chaos, and all kinds of evil things have appeared in the world, causing harm to the world. Among the five immortals, except for foxes, yellow skins, thorns, and pythons that make a lot of noise in remote mountains and forests, the ones that really cause a lot of harm to people are among the five immortals.

The last rat spirit!"

Hearing what Mr. Liu said, I seemed to have some impression. It seemed that when I was a child, I had heard the legend of rat spirits harming people. Unfortunately, I was too young at the time and can no longer remember what happened.

I just heard vaguely that after eating the eyes of dead people, the old rats became spiritual, and finally thought of ways to eat the eyes of living people. Thinking of this, I motioned for everyone to sit down and ask Boss Liu to talk about it.

Talk, we can discuss what to do next.

"Time is tight, so I will briefly talk about it. It may bring some inspiration to us in dealing with today's affairs! This strange incident had a wide impact at the time. In addition to word of mouth, I heard that the unofficial "Notes on the Relics of the Ming Dynasty"

"It has been recorded in "!" Boss Liu looked around.

There was no movement, so I started to talk briefly: I heard that in the late Ming Dynasty, when the world was in chaos, the most unlucky people were the common people; whether it was natural disasters, man-made disasters, or evil spirits and ghosts harming the world, those who suffered the most casualties were not those who suffered the most.

Ordinary people without money or power?

The big rats that had been underground for a long time at that time also took advantage of the autumn of troubled times to come out to make trouble. Some of them became addicted to eating the eyeballs of dead people. Over time, they became spiritual and gradually

The idea of ​​​​living people came up.

According to legend from generation to generation, big rats at that time were swarmed in large groups, and they dared to roam the streets in broad daylight. Cats could not be restrained and chased away endlessly; more importantly, some big rats that had eaten many dead people’s eyeballs for a long time,

Even when traveling to Sichuan, when encountering a lone old man or child, he suddenly jumped out, biting the person's throat and injuring his life. His ferocity was comparable to that of a tiger or a wolf!

What’s even more shocking is that those rat spirits that take human lives do not eat human flesh, but only eat the two eyeballs of people! So many strange corpses appeared later: the two eyes turned into black holes

The bloody hole!

In the later stage, those rat spirits that eat more human eyeballs have greatly increased their spiritual awareness and their spiritual awareness. They understand that in addition to the eyes, there are also brains on the human body, which helps their spiritual awareness grow; Jier gnaws away

Human skulls, sucking human brains!

At that time, people were panicked and did not dare to walk at night. The old, weak, sick and disabled were even more precarious. If they were not careful, they would be killed by giant rats, which would gnaw out two eyeballs, break their skulls and suck out their brains!

In the end, those rat spirits that have done so much harm to people can actually transform into humans and show up to confuse everyone. This attracts some ignorant people with evil intentions to worship those monsters and evil creatures that harm the common people as great gods, allowing them to be driven and act as accomplices.

Those foolish people, just like today's traitors, betrayed their own kind and took refuge in evil things. Over time, believers gathered and formed their own sect, with the rat spirit as their leader and claiming to worship the rat god!

Ever since there were some scum who helped the tyranny, those rat spirits have done even more harm to people, so much so that they don’t want any other offerings for worship, but just wait for the foolish believers to steal children under the age of seven for their food, and only take the eyeballs and brains, not the heart or heart.

flesh!

And those scum of believers also relied on the magical power of the rat spirit to be lawless and harmed many people. It can be said that they worked together to cause trouble in the late Ming Dynasty.

The most heinous thing is that a good man who lived in a neighboring temple went to the temple to offer incense on the eighth day of April that year to celebrate the birth of the Buddha. When he returned home, he found that all his family members who were worshiping the Buddha at home were killed, and every eyeball was missing.

It turned into a bloody black hole; the skull was cracked, and the top of the head was covered with red blood and white liquid!

The Tanyue believer who had been doing good deeds for many years saw the sudden death of his entire family. He was so angry that he smashed all the idols and incense burners at home, thinking that his family had always built bridges and roads, and that Tzu Chi had done a lot of good.

A person can give alms to the monks, pay homage to the Buddha and chant sutras, but his merits and deeds cannot be perfected and his descendants can be blessed. In the end, his family is ruined and his body is left intact! How can he not be filled with regret and anger?

The layman smashed all over his house, but still couldn't understand his hatred. He rushed back to the temple and tried to set fire to the Mahavira Hall. He was stopped by the monks. When asked why, the layman cursed and said that he thought that he was practicing worshiping the Buddha in vain and could not get the Buddha.

Pusa’s blessing.

This farce in which a layman almost burned down the temple shocked the entire Buddhist community in the Ming Dynasty, and attracted the eminent monk Zibai Zhenke to personally deal with it.

Master Zibai Zhenke is not an unknown person, but one of the four eminent monks in the late Ming Dynasty (Yunqi Zuhong, Zibai Zhenke, Hanshan Deqing, and Ouyizhixu). He has learned the essence of Buddhism and has profound cultivation.

﹑High magic power.

Master Zibai Zhenke took a few disciples and invited a magical cat from somewhere. He killed many rats that became spirits, subdued the leading rat spirits, and imprisoned them one by one.

They are sealed and stamped in pottery jars. They are either sunk in rivers or buried deep in uninhabited places, preventing them from being able to escape and reincarnate for thousands of years!

Since ancient times, to capture the thief first, capture the king. Ever since Master Zibai Zhenke took in the rat spirit, people have driven out and eradicated all the cult members who helped the evil tyrants.

When Boss Liu talks about this, we seem to understand a little bit. No wonder the eyes of the corpses of the three young men in Liujiagou turned into blood holes, the skulls were cracked, and the brains burst out. Could it be that they were the rat spirits of the past, and now they have escaped from trouble and been reborn?

Already?

If this is the case, then it is easy to understand that the top floor of the Baigui Tower enshrines a huge tiger-like old cat statue - it turns out that the statue that frightened Mr. Liu and turned around and backed away may be the statue that later generations made according to that year.

Isn't it the statue of the sacred cat invited by Master Zibai Zhenko to be enshrined in order to guard the rat spirit here?

"That's not right, Boss Liu. If you go by what you said, this tower should be called Demon Suppressing Tower or Mouse Suppressing Tower. How could it be called Baigui Tower? Besides, didn't the old man say that?

When this tower was built in the early years of Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty, it was because it was haunted, not because of rats!" I questioned.

"Moreover, Boss Liu, do you mean that the rat spirit suppressed by Master Zibai Zhenke has come out again?" Xiao Li also had a puzzled face.

While we were discussing and arguing endlessly, a glimmering light appeared in front of us, like shining soybeans, getting closer and closer to us.

"Quickly, hang that lamp on the statue, don't delay and do it immediately!" Xiao Li reminded Boss Liu in a low voice.

Boss Liu also realized that the danger was coming. It would be very inconvenient to hold a lantern in one hand and a gun in the other. His combat effectiveness would be greatly reduced, and he couldn't put out the light. In desperation, he quickly put the lantern in his hand on the head of the statue and immediately drew his gun.

Prepare to fight.

At the same time, Brother Dasha turned on the light and looked ahead. Oh my God! Those light spots were not treasures, but pairs of round eyes!

That's right, what is slowly approaching us is none other than huge rats, only a few feet away from us, staring at us closely and slowly approaching!

Although a mouse is not a cold-blooded animal, its pointed mouth, long fine teeth, and its bottomless round eyes that look like black beans make people feel uncomfortable when they look at it.

What's more, what we are facing are not ordinary mice!

"Shoot quickly, don't let them get close!" Boss Liu fired at lightning speed.

Of course we didn't dare to neglect. Fortunately, we were fully prepared and had bullets in the chamber. When we saw Boss Liu firing, we immediately fired four shots. There was a loud sound of gunfire and bullet casings jumping around!

Accompanied by the banging gunfire, bursts of painful screams were sharp and ear-piercing. Under the light, a red mist seemed to float among the rats - that was rat blood spurting out!

Although we were using the most advanced rifle at the time, the US military's standard Garand M1 semi-automatic rifle, it had to be reloaded after firing eight rounds, making it impossible to fire continuously!

Although we fired five shots in a row, causing great casualties to the rats, the number of rats was too large and our number was too small. Therefore, after the rats were panicked for a while, they did not retreat, but stepped on the same kind of rats.
Chapter completed!