Chapter 054 Don't Talk
I told Chen Meiyu that Wang Yue was trapped in the bardo realm. She had someone seal up her body, and she might not be able to get out in a short time.
Next we agreed on a plan and decided that tonight, Chen Meiyu would take Li Daming to the underworld, and I would use the psychic bracelet to accompany him. This time, my risk factor would be the lowest.
Li Daming could have not gone, but he seemed to really like Chen Meiyu and had to go.
When we got back to the guest room in the villa, I told him privately that leaving the soul and entering the bardo realm was no joke, and that one never knew what might happen. He did not comment and did not listen to my opinion at all.
At night, everyone ate in the living room on the second floor. After all, there was a corpse on the first floor, which was very inconvenient. Wei Zhen and Chen Meiyu, the mother and daughter, and the nanny who cooked, plus me and Li Daming, the five of us ate in silence. It was dark, and the lights were on upstairs and downstairs. The lights were not dim, but because of the corpse, the whole villa was filled with an inexplicable ghostly aura.
The nanny was just an ordinary person, she was very scared and ate absent-mindedly. Chen Meiyu said at this time that it was best not to have outsiders here when performing rituals at night.
Wei Zhen should be used to her daughter, and told us that after dinner she left with the nanny .
The meal was eaten very quickly, and Wei Zhen and the nanny left. After they left, there were only three of us left in such a big villa. Chen Meiyu was very frail, so she asked us to help move some things to the first floor hall.
First, a long mahogany table was placed in front of the corpse, covered with a bright yellow tablecloth depicting fairy mountains and seas of clouds. Two ever-burning lamps, an incense burner, and other offerings were placed on the tablecloth, one on the left and one on the right. When the cleaning was almost done, Chen Meiyu said, "I will take Brother Li to the underworld in a while."
Li Daming quickly said, "Just call me Daming."
I frowned, this kid is really an old cucumber painted green to pretend to be young.
Chen Meiyu said sternly, "Brother Lin, you have a spiritual bracelet, and I think you know how to use it. Just visualize my father, and you will be able to enter his bardo realm."
"I have a question." I said, "I have been to the Bardo realm by walking in the underworld, and I know the rules there. How could you and Li Daming walk in the underworld to reach your father's Bardo realm? Perhaps the level you entered was yours, or Li Daming's."
Chen Meiyu smiled faintly: "I told you two that when I was four years old, I got the underworld token personally given by the King of Hell, so I have an advantage over other underworld officials. I can enter the underworld of a designated person. Don't worry about this."
Li Daming became interested: "Where is the token? Can you show it to us?"
Chen Meiyu smiled, and her smile was very pretty. She said, "It's called a token, but it's actually not something you can see. Even if I tell you, you won't understand. Just listen to me later."
Li Daming said: "No problem, just do it the way you say."
Chen Meiyu asked me to turn off all the lights. I went to the second floor first and turned off the lights on that floor, then went to the first floor. The lights in the lobby were also turned off, and it was pitch black inside and outside the house.
In the darkness, Chen Meiyu lit the two eternal lamps on the table. The dim flames burned, and the motionless corpse could be vaguely seen.
Chen Meiyu told Li Daming to sit at the table. She picked up a brush and dipped it in cinnabar to write a spell on yellow paper, then folded the spell and put it in a piece of black cloth, and tied it tightly around Li Daming's eyes.
Li Daming sat cross-legged, his eyes closed, his whole body immersed in the dim light, and the shadow behind him dragged into the depths of darkness.
Chen Meiyu took a pen and wrote a paragraph on another piece of yellow paper, then handed it to me: "Brother Lin, stick it on my father's face."
I got goose bumps all over my body and looked down at the yellow paper, on which was written in bright red paint: "Only by picking up fragments of the past can we enter into the perfection of today."
I carefully took the long yellow paper and walked to the bed. This was the first time I saw a corpse up close.
Chen Jian died peacefully, his face looked lifelike, his eyes were closed, and his body was extremely stiff. My calves were cramping, so I took a deep breath, tried to calm my nervousness, and slowly pasted the paper on the face of the corpse. After pasting it, it looked very strange and a little creepy.
At this time, there was a sound coming from behind. I turned around and saw that Chen Meiyu had changed her clothes at some point. She was wearing a long yellow skirt with scales, and looked like a Southeast Asian woman. She had black hair draped over her shoulders, and held a bell in one hand and a bamboo board in the other.
She stood in front of the altar and chanted a spell around Li Daming. The spell was low and winding, sounding like singing. She walked and shook the bell in her hand, accompanying the sound of the spell and circling around Li Daming.
I didn't dare to disturb him and didn't know what to do. At this time, Chen Meiyu glanced at me and made a look, indicating that I should sit behind Li Daming.
I groped my way over and sat cross-legged on the floor. The room was already pitch black, with no moonlight shining in. Inside and outside the room, only the flames of two eternal lamps were flickering. There seemed to be wind, but I couldn't feel it.
Chen Meiyu chanted a spell in a low voice, and this time I heard it clearly: "The believer Chen Meiyu is begging for mercy here. My father Chen Jian died young. As his daughter, I want to go into the underworld to find my father, hoping to return to the world of the living and continue to be a human being."
I looked at her, and when she finished speaking, a huge outline suddenly emerged from the darkness behind the altar. This outline was like an invisible golden pen drawing in the black, gradually taking shape.
I got goosebumps all over my body.
The outline grew larger and larger, covering the entire wall behind. It looked like a huge statue of a god sitting cross-legged, with unclear features and vague appearance. The more I looked at it, the more shocked I was. I couldn't take my eyes off it, because this statue looked exactly like Meng Po. Was I hallucinating, or was it real?
At this moment, there is only one word that can express my feelings, "evil".
Chen Meiyu came to Li Daming and sat down. She stretched out her hand and held Li Daming's hand. Li Daming's body was obviously stagnant, and he held the girl's hand tightly in return.
Chen Meiyu turned her head and a face loomed in the darkness: "Brother Lin, Brother Li and I will go first, you should come earlier too."
Before I could agree, I heard two "puffs", and the lamps on the table went out one after another, and the room fell into complete darkness.
My heart was pounding and I felt the urge to pee. I clamped my legs together tightly, but now was not the time to go to the bathroom.
I waited quietly in the darkness for a moment. I could not hear any sound except my heartbeat. There was dead silence all around me.
I vaguely knew that the two of them should have entered the Yin state.
I took a deep breath to calm my nervous mood, slowly closed my eyes, and the next step was to contact the spiritual bracelet. Suddenly, a voice appeared in my ears, ethereal, like a woman singing in a very far place, singing the kind of folk opera, with a strange and sharp tone, as if it was there and not there.
I was so scared that I was shaking all over. Although I had experienced entering the underworld several times, this was the first time I encountered such a weird and terrifying scene.
I vaguely understood that this sound was definitely not a good thing, maybe it came from the underworld, and I subconsciously told myself not to lose my composure. I closed my eyes tightly and focused on the spiritual bracelet. After a few seconds, the strange tone disappeared. I knew that I had established contact with the spiritual bracelet, and the next step was to observe the deceased Chen Jian.
A picture gradually became clear in my mind. I seemed to have come to the front of the corpse. The next second, I was in a trance and fell into darkness again.
I don't know how long it was before I slowly opened my eyes and found myself standing in a dark corridor. There was no light, but I could vaguely see the stairs extending below.
There were a lot of flying catkins in the air, like withered flowers or snow. I wanted to touch them with my hands, but found that I had no shape.
My soul has not entered the bardo. It is the safest place now. I can see and hear, but I cannot affect the things inside, and everything inside cannot affect me.
It's like sightseeing here.
I "walked" down the stairs. I didn't exist here, but I could feel myself walking.
It was so dark that I could hardly find my way if it weren't for all this white debris floating in the air.
Just after going down one floor, I heard a voice coming from below, "Brother Li, can you see me?"
It’s Chen Meiyu’s voice!
I quickly walked down the stairs and saw two people standing at the corner of the stairs.
They were holding hands, and from behind they were Li Daming and Chen Meiyu.
After Chen Meiyu asked this question, Li Daming hesitated and said, "I can't see anything, but I can feel you pulling my hand. "
"Okay, then follow me next." Chen Meiyu said, "There will be light ahead, and you will be able to see it when you get to the light."
I hesitated whether to communicate with them.
Chen Meiyu suddenly said: "Brother Lin, I know you are here too, please follow us closely, and no one should talk on the road ahead , otherwise there will be serious danger!"
