Since the beginning of summer, the sea has become less calm and more stormy.
Especially with the abnormal weather, short days and long nights, hot weather, and sea storms one after another, we have entered the typhoon season with frequent typhoons one or two months earlier than in previous years.
This day was seven days after Jin'an returned to the sun. It was raining heavily and the wind was howling. There was not a single star in the sky. There were only very low and thick dark clouds, as if the power of the sky was angry. From time to time in the city, big trees were seen being blown by the strong wind.
It was overturned, and broken trees and branches flew all over the sky.
We even heard the sound of houses being blown down by strong winds.
The sky is full of murderous intent, the mountains roar and the tsunami destroys the heaven and earth.
There are hundreds of thousands of people living in Jiangzhou Prefecture, but at this time, before the natural disaster, they are as small as a piece of grass.
At this time, people all over the city were reinforcing their doors and windows, and then they discovered that the rain was too heavy, sea water was pouring back, the floods were rising rapidly, and Jiangzhou Prefecture was flooded. The people desperately took their clothes and stuffed the cracks in the doors with cloth strips to prevent the flood from overflowing.
The people knelt down and kowtowed to pray to the Dragon King of the Four Seas to calm down and stop heavy rain.
Before the murderous intent of heaven and earth, even Jin'an could only rely on the water talisman of Lord Erlang to protect the small world of Wu Zang Taoist Temple, and had no time to care about the outside world.
Boom!
A loud noise interrupted the old Taoist priest who was reciting scriptures and praying for the people all over the city. The sound was very loud and very close, and it happened in the neighborhood.
"Little brother, what happened just now?" The old Taoist priest hurriedly ran out of the side room and looked up towards the roof.
Jin An was standing on the roof of the wing, frowning as he stared at the stormy and catastrophic world outside the Taoist temple.
A sea-going ship that was broken into two parts was blown onto the land by the typhoon, causing the neighborhood archway to collapse.
"What! The ship was swept ashore by a typhoon!" The old Taoist priest was shocked when he heard this. He immediately found a bamboo ladder and climbed up to the roof, but a fat figure jumped up to the roof faster than him.
Fatty Li's exclamation came from the rooftop.
At this time, the old Taoist priest had climbed up to the roof along the bamboo ladder and saw the scene outside the Taoist temple. Sure enough, a broken ship smashed into the archway and its head, bottom and tail were inserted diagonally between the ruins of the archway and houses.
The old Taoist priest was stunned and speechless.
"You guys stay in the Taoist temple and don't move. I'm going to see if there are any survivors in the boat." After finishing speaking, Jin An rushed out of the Taoist temple. At the same time, many people came out of the house to join the rescue team.
As a result, the people didn't know what they saw, and suddenly they all screamed and ran out of the cabin. Although they knew that Jin An was unlikely to be in danger, the old Taoist priest and Fatty Li still ran out of the Taoist temple in a hurry to find Jin An.
The wind was so strong that the two of them ran into the broken cabin without even using an umbrella. As soon as they entered the cabin, the old Taoist priest frowned: "There is such a heavy evil spirit here!"
"Little brother, little brother..."
"Taoist Master Jin'an..."
The two of them heard Jin An's voice within a few shouts. When they found Jin An, there was only Jin An squatting there, with his back to them, as if he was looking at something.
"Little brother, what's going on? What are you squatting here looking at?" the old Taoist priest asked curiously as soon as he arrived.
"Huh? This is...the sea-suppressing stone beast used as a ballast stone?"
After staying in Jiangzhou Prefecture for half a year, the old Taoist priest recognized the origin of the Zhenhai Stone Beast at a glance. The Zhenhai Stone Beast was originally integrated with the keel of the ship's hull. It was fixed to the keel of the ship in the shipyard and sealed by the deck.
You can never see it normally.
This time, the ship was wrecked and fell from a height. The huge collision caused serious damage to the keel of the ship's hull, and the Zhenhai stone beast that had been sealed under the deck and fixed to the keel of the ship's hull was shaken out.
Zhenhai stone beasts are not limited to one form. There are stone beasts, stone bats, stone turtles, stone dragons, stone fish, etc. In front of Jin'an is the Zhenhai Stone Monkey.
"Where does this sea-suppressing stone beast come from such a heavy corpse aura? Why is it that the closer it gets, the more stench of rotting corpses comes over it, making it difficult to breathe... This is..." The old Taoist priest's words stopped suddenly, and he was stunned.
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One side of the Zhenhai Stone Beast's body was broken into pieces, and it was hollow inside, with the mummified body of a child actually hidden inside.
The mummy of the child had its mouth and eyes wide open and its expression was painful. It seemed that it was still alive before being sealed into the Zhenhai Stone Beast, and was struggling in pain.
"What a crime, what a crime! Another victim who was made into a living stake by a vicious person!" The old Taoist priest's face turned black with anger.
"Human pile?"
Fatty Li was surprised: "I have heard some rumors about this. Aren't the living stakes built into the walls or bridge piles? The Zhenhai Stone Beast and Luban's civil engineering skills don't seem to be involved, right?"
Hearing the familiar words "living human pile" again, even Jin An, who had been silently looking at the Zhenhai Stone Beast, looked up at the old Taoist priest.
The old Taoist priest hated evil and said: "It is not difficult to understand. The main purpose of the living stake is to suppress evil and suppress evil. The more miserable the death is during life, the more evil and effective it will be after death. It is just like the coffin cat grabbing money and raising little ghosts."
There is a truth that you will win when gambling and make a fortune. This sea-suppressing stone beast is connected to the keel of the ship's hull, just like a piling. It hopes that the ship will sail safely. At first glance, it has the same effect as a living pile."
After listening to the old Taoist priest's explanation, even Fatty Li frowned: "When the typhoon passes, I will immediately go to my colleagues and the local government office to carefully investigate the origin of this sea-going ship and see which trading company this sea-going ship belongs to."
Yes! This kind of careless disregard of human life and the destruction of human nature will not be enough even if caught and killed ten times!"
The old Taoist priest angrily cursed: "Check! We must find out the truth and give justice to the dead! Looking at the old appearance of this boat, it has been for some years, which shows that using living stakes as sea-suppressing stone beasts is not a recent thing.
This ship has more than one victim!"
No one knows what happened to this ship, how it was blown onto the land by the typhoon, and the stone beast that suppressed the sea with a living pile of people was discovered. But since Fatty Li from the Criminal Investigation Department saw this, it would definitely not happen.
Stand aside and watch.
The typhoon lasted for two days and one night before it gradually subsided, and the entire Jiangzhou Prefecture was in darkness for two days and one night before the sun finally came out again, causing heavy losses in various places.
Just after the typhoon ended, the Yamen received the report and immediately sent people to take over the ship and sealed off the entire broken ship.
It's just that because rescue and disaster relief is going on everywhere, the government office is short of manpower, and there has been no reply for three or four days. The Wu Zang Taoist Temple has been busy these days giving away rice porridge, relieving refugees and beggars, while waiting for the progress of the situation.
This storm was so violent that some local elders said it was a rare event in a hundred years. Jiangzhou Prefecture was busy for ten and a half days before it regained its prosperity.
On this day, Fatty Li hurriedly came to Wu Zang Taoist Temple to find Jin An and the old Taoist priest. He said that many strange and strange things were blown up from the sea by the typhoon, including the wreckage of ships and used items that were discovered one after another in various coastal fishing villages.
The Zhenhai stone beasts that came to drive human stakes are now being escorted to Fucheng one after another.
Fatty Li felt that the old Taoist priest could recognize these Zhenhai stone beasts as living stakes and might be able to help the government find some important clues, so he wanted to ask the old Taoist priest to go to the Yamen.