One Punch Monk

Chapter 76 The Ghost in the Well (First Order!)
The cicadas sing softly, and the shadows of the trees are long.

Shigang Village is a small village at the mouth of Ziwu Valley.

This village is surrounded by mountains and is located in a small valley. Only one side has a winding path carved out to lead to the outside world.

Shen Budu called He Taixu, who had just recovered from his injuries, and went with Mingyue to investigate this suspected haunted village.

"Where did the villagers you met live?"

Mingyue thought back for a moment, scanned the village, and pointed to a family near the well.

“Tuk Tuk Tuk~”

He Taixu went up to knock on the door, the door opened with a "squeak", and a haggard peasant woman opened the door. She was obviously malnourished and her whole body was out of shape.

The peasant woman rubbed her rough hands with some embarrassment, and asked, "Are you here for anything?"

"Does this sister still remember me?"

The peasant woman's eyes were a little red and swollen, her eyes flickered with hesitation, and she asked incredulously, "You, are you the fairy teacher who passed by before?"

"it's me."

The peasant woman's expression was very excited, and she subconsciously wanted to hold Mingyue's hand, but seeing her rough and dirty hand, she immediately retracted it.

Mingyue noticed this little gesture, and in order not to embarrass the peasant woman, she took the initiative to ask: "Is the baby at home getting better?"

"It's getting better, it's getting better, thanks to the immortal master, the elixir was cut up finely, dissolved in water and taken for a few days, and the skin no longer festered."

"I brought an eminent monk, let's go in and have a look."

The peasant woman moved away from the body blocking the door, and led a few people in.

There are no oil lamps in the house, and it is in the valley, even in summer, it feels a little gloomy.

Shen Budu briefly looked around the peasant woman's house. The stone stove, a damaged iron pot that had been repaired many times, the wooden bed, and the straw mat, all the details showed that this house was not well-off, and it could even be said that it was abject poverty.

A small figure was huddled on the plank bed, Mingyue used spells to make it bright, Shen Budu saw it clearly, it was a skinny little boy, most of his body was festered, and he was emitting a stench.

The peasant woman picked up her son's carrion with a small knife that was barely polished, and fanned the cattail fan to drive away the flies that followed the smell, but the little boy didn't feel it.

The little boy's breath was very weak, only the slight rise and fall of his chest showed that he was still tenaciously alive.

"Pfft!"

The peasant woman knelt down suddenly, kowtowed to several people, and said in a mournful voice: "I beg you, immortal masters, please save my son!"

Shen Budu helped her up, as the most proficient in medical skills among the few, he was quite helpless in the situation before him.

The body of a mortal cannot bear his infusion of spiritual energy at all, and Mingyue has already given the ordinary healing panacea, so it can only curb the festering.

Through looking, smelling and cutting, Shen Budu can be sure that this is not a simple skin disease or infection, the situation involved is very complicated.

"Tell me the specific situation, how did you get sick?"

"The wells in our village smell bad and have an earthy smell, and it has been rumored that they are haunted in the past. Usually, people don't use them, but go to the stream in the mountain to get water. Recently, there was a disturbance in the south of the mountain (Hanzhong Mansion), and many people ran away. After coming over, the streams in the mountain even floated down the corpses of many people and monsters. They stopped going to the streams to fetch water, and the village forbade people from entering the mountains again. Instead, they discussed going east together to Lantian County. The main branch of the same clan avoids it."

"But before leaving, my son and some dolls in the village went to the tree hole beside the stream to dig out the toys they hid. One of the dolls didn't know the importance, and the adults wouldn't let him enter the mountain or drink the water from the stream, so he insisted on pushing To see who was braver, several dolls drank the stream water, and not long after returning home, more than two died of coughing up blood, and the villagers were too frightened to move."

Mingyue suddenly asked, "But when I came, I saw that the whole village was empty."

A bitter smile appeared on the face of the peasant woman.

"Originally, my baby was going to die, and I couldn't support the immortal master. That night I was really desperate. I remembered the story told by the old man in the village, so I went to the well and drowned the old hen at home. Strange, the well water boiled up, and then I took a bowl and fed it to the baby, and the baby stopped coughing up blood, but began to fester on his body. The people in the village were terrified, and they dared not wait any longer , The whole village went to Lantian County."

Shen Budu concluded: "So, the symptom of drinking stream water is coughing up blood. You gave the doll drinking well water, and the coughing up of blood stopped, but the skin began to fester."

The peasant woman nodded sadly, Shen Budu applied medicine to the child, and performed acupuncture, and said to He Taixu.

"You stay here, Xiaoseng and Mingyue go to the village to have a look."

He Taixu nodded, he came from a miserable background on the Weibei Plateau, and he sympathized with what happened to the mother and son.

When I came to the village, the well was covered with dust, and the mouth of the well was sealed by a huge stone mill, which was obviously done by the villagers before they left.

Beside the well was the dead body of a wild dog, its fur scarred and mangy as if it had been scalded.

Shen Budu did a simple inspection, and the symptoms were very similar to those of a little boy.

He made Mingyue step back a little, smashed hundreds of kilograms of stone mill with one punch, and then, this suspected haunted well appeared in front of them.

"Things in the well, come out."

The well doesn't respond.

Shen Budu didn't grumble, a golden light shone on his fist.

Next second,
The shadow of a water ghost floated out of the well.

"Eminent monk, be merciful!"

The water ghost's face was blurred, but it could be vaguely seen that he was also in the same state of festering.

Since it looks like this when turned into a ghost, it is obvious that he died of this disease during his lifetime.

"Why did you give that woman water?"

"She offered me a sacrifice and asked me to save her son's life. I couldn't save her son's life, but I could only let him live for a while."

"who are you?"

Hearing this question, the originally calm water ghost began to look ferocious.

"Who am I? Ho ho.. Who am I?!"

Signaling Mingyue to temporarily close her hearing, Shen Budu began to chant the mantra.

"All living beings are afflicted, and afflictions are all suffering. Afflictions are neither born nor destroyed, neither dirty nor clean, nor increase nor decrease. The visible is born from the invisible, the incapable is born, and the existence returns to nothing. The state is born from the heart. If you recite the mantra"

After the Great Compassion Mantra of Heaven and Earth,

The water ghost completely calmed down.

It was as calm as a mental patient whose frontal lobe had been removed.

"Now think about it, who are you?"

"I can't remember who I am, but I remember that I accidentally drowned in the well when the villagers quarreled, because I got sick from something unclean in the mountains, and they were afraid that I would harm the village."

The water ghost's expression was calm, and his voice was as flat as water.

Shen Budu frowned slightly, and asked again: "What unclean thing did you touch?"

"I don't know, but I feel, it has awakened"

The water ghost looked towards Meridian Valley, his voice was trembling, but his face was extremely calm under the influence of the Great Compassion Mantra, forming a strange contrast.

And the next second, the water ghost screamed.

"It has noticed me, and it has noticed you too! Anyone who is noticed by it will die!"

As if responding to the water ghost's words, a rumbling sound came from Ziwu Valley.

Shen Budu put his palms together and looked into the distance.

Meridian Valley is the only way for him to go to Taiping Paradise, and on this road, there is something that dares to block the way.

"Monster, are you protesting against the monk?"

　One more night

　　
　
(End of this chapter)