Real Game: I Exposed the Old Ones

Knowing the origin of the Ghost Theater, Zhu Zheng asked about the burial ceremony.

Tu Laosi said honestly: Funeral worship has been a custom in the village for thousands of years. A small sacrifice is held every year, and a main sacrifice is held every ten years. The incense continues.

According to legend, Zun Zun used Zang bells to suppress the ghosts and plagues, and the disaster was temporarily eliminated. However, because the special characteristics of the ghosts did not completely dissipate, Zun Zun left the Six Burial Scriptures and asked the then village chief to Dharma scriptures suppress and completely eliminate disasters.”

Later, due to his sincerity, the then village chief received instructions from the Burial Lord in a dream to build the Burial Lord's temple and the Six Burial Soul Pagodas. He called himself the Great Witch Sage and acted as the mouthpiece of the Burial Lord to guide the villagers in a special and strange way. sacrificial ceremony.

It's said to be effective.

Since switching to this kind of sacrificial ritual, the village has been going smoothly, so this kind of sacrificial ritual has been preserved and developed.

And this sacrifice.

Tu Laosi hesitated a little.

Zhu Zheng knew the key point was coming.

Don't ask further.

A ball of flames rose from the palm of his hand and enveloped the statue.

Under the fireworks, the statue made a creaking sound, its edges twisted and scorched.

Tu Laosi kept making miserable screams, as if he was undergoing unbearable torture.

It sounds like retribution.

Tu Laosi relied on the spirit-stealing technique passed down from his family and murdered many living people in order to make the most perfect string puppets so that he could present a wonderful ghost show for the deceased.

Perhaps because evil is rewarded, he accidentally contracted the disease when he was young and strong.

This was not a serious illness, but the village was relatively isolated and the medical conditions were backward. After relying on local methods to treat it several times, it developed into a serious illness that could lead to death.

On the verge of death, Tu Laosi had a whim and tried to use the soul-catching secret technique to store his soul in a wood carving.

Use these methods to extend your life.

In the end, he really succeeded.

Hence the statue of the god and the puppets driven by him.

However, there are gains and losses.

Tu Laosi was also the most vulnerable in this state. Because his soul lost the protection of his body, all his senses were magnified a thousand times.

The pain he endured when exposed to the flames was also a thousand times that of ordinary people.

Watch silently.

It wasn't until Tu Laosi's voice was weak and there were faint signs of collapse that Zhu Zheng withdrew the flame in his palm.

Let me ask you an answer. If you dare to hide something, I won't stop it next time.

Tu Laosi was really scared.

He quickly revealed everything he knew and included a lot of information.

There are two sets of rituals for worshiping and burying the deity.

One, a small sacrifice.

On the day of the small sacrifice, the whole village will come to the temple to worship the deceased devoutly and thank the deceased for his kindness.

Then Dawu Xian personally presented three animals and other sacrifices.

In addition, there are a series of activities such as temple fairs and flowing water mats.

In short, it is the same as a regular sacrifice.

Second, the main sacrifice.

The main festival, also known as the paper festival, occurs once every ten years, but the methods are completely different.

The first is the ghost drama.

On the big day of the main festival, the ghost theater in the underground burial palace will be opened, and actors, puppets, and shadow puppets will be used as matchmakers to present wonderful ghost plays for the buried statue.

After the ghost show, which lasted for a day, was over, the shaman took the stage to perform divination and fortune-telling.

This ghost theater has always been in charge of the Tu family.

However, Tu Laosi was the last member of the Tu family and did not have time to leave any heirs, so his soul was enshrined here after being thrown into the statue.

After the ghost show, comes the main event - the paper sacrifice.

Paper sacrifices must be carried out in the Six Burial Pagoda.

During the sacrifice, Wu Xian, in the presence of the whole village, lit the flame with his own hands and burned the paper bride and the dowry persons who had prepared in advance, and they served the buried deity on their behalf.

It's worth mentioning here.

The so-called paper bride is actually transformed from a living person.

The Zhi family, which corresponds to the Tu family, uses the secret technique of paper transformation passed down by their families, supplemented by special medicines, to turn living people into paper figures.

After each main ceremony, the wizard will select a suitable candidate from among the many girls in the village to be the paper bride for the next main ceremony.

As for the dowry people of the paper bride, they are either captured passers-by, or the elderly or helpless people in the village.

The above is the terrifying truth about the burial ceremony.

It turned out to be a temple of obscenity hidden in the village, and there was also such a thing as collecting raw materials for sacrifice.

Zhu Zheng muttered to himself.

Yin temples refer to temples built indiscriminately and illegally, in which some evil ghosts and gods are often enshrined.

The organizers used lewd rituals and some deceitful words to amass money and bully men and women.

Collecting raw materials is a sacrificial method often used by obscene priests.

The so-called harvesting of raw materials means human sacrifice.

In ancient times, obscene priests also went to great lengths to obtain living people.

Some spend money to buy from other places.

Especially in the face of natural and man-made disasters, when children and girls were sold, many boys and girls were bought and used as tributes for obscene sacrifices.

There are also ways to recruit some servants in the name of hiring servants, and finally kill the servants quietly as tribute to the obscene priests.

If the deceased's family comes to find him, they can just find a reason and say that he died of illness or an accident, and they can just pay some money.

There are also some who are more cruel and ruthless, directly capturing the strangers passing by and using these strangers as tributes for obscene sacrifices.

But now, Zangling Village has simply introduced new ones, extending the more terrifying and weird custom of 'paper sacrifice'.

Of course, Zhu Zheng's gains this time are not just these.

He also learned about the origin of the headless brother and the precious treasure Tu Laosi had hidden.

Wrapping the idol in the leather on the shelf and putting it in his backpack, he walked to the corner of the table.

Using clever skills, a piece of spliced ​​table top was directly disassembled.

mezzanine.

There are two wooden boxes in the hollow mezzanine.

After opening it, there were more than a dozen thumb-sized red-black projectiles inside.

He picked one up and held it in front of his eyes to examine it.

It is a bit soft when pinched and has the unique texture of wood.

Several lines of text appeared before my eyes.

[Soul Pearl. 】

[Category: Material. 】

[Explanation: The soul deprived by the soul-stealing technique is placed in a deep sleep in a specially made clay pill, which can be easily accessed at any time. 】

[Note: A cruel and evil ritual product, but sometimes it is really useful. 】

Zhu Zheng nodded.

I have to say, the comments are very pertinent.

At this time, the handsome uncle ran over from a distance.

He put the wooden box in his backpack and turned around to face him.

Ann, Anna, no. Master, are you okay?

The handsome uncle was completely impressed and felt at a loss in front of Zhu Zheng.

Zhu Zheng nodded and said, Well, it's okay. I already know the location of Zang Ling, come with me.

Take the handsome uncle out of the stage.

Go straight to the wall in the dark area.

If you look carefully, you will see that there are nine bumps on the wall, and each bump has strange words written on it.

This is a fairly old institution.

You need to carefully look for the rules and press the designated words in the correct order to open this secret door.

However, with Tu Laosi's cooperation, Zhu Zheng opened the door without thinking.

The door opens.

A cold and bloody smell hit his face.