Chapter 97: Incense, Human Desire
One of them is the women who were used to develop the "evil shrine of in-laws".
They were all picked up by golden and silver figures transformed from incense and paper money. No one knew where they had been or what they had experienced before being sent to their husband's home.
When Su Jingsi questioned them, they all said that they arrived at their husband's house in a daze. However, there was a gap of at least seven days between the wedding and entering the husband's house.
The distance between the two families that were farthest apart was no more than two days’ journey.
Where did they go the rest of the time?
The second is the whereabouts of gold and silver.
Those believers who receive the paper money will naturally spend it.
But only a small part of it is spent, and most of it is circulated in the market. What flows out is ghost money, and what is recovered is real gold and silver.
Jin Jiu did not mention these real gold and silver in the booklet . I wonder if Su Jingsi did not find them at all, or if Jin Jiu just did not have access to this information?
Jiang Zhou believes that the former is more likely. If so much gold and silver really exist, they cannot be hidden under such circumstances.
So where did all this real money go?
Another possible suspicious point is the person who reported the case.
It is said that a hunter went up the mountain to hunt, but missed the time and had to spend the night in the mountains, and then he ran into the wedding procession.
It’s just that the evil Buddha has been developing for such a long time, but has never revealed any traces.
What a coincidence! He was spending the night in the mountains at that time, and he happened to run into him. Was it really a coincidence?
Jiang Zhou thought about it and couldn't help but summon the Atlas of Ghosts and Gods again and looked at the Atlas of the Golden Evil Buddha.
[Golden Evil Buddha: A thought of the devil Buddha, a thought of the Buddha devil. Six-character soul spell, seven-treasure incense. ——The golden Buddha of the seven seven-treasure incense evil Buddhas refined by the peerless demon can recite the "Ni" spell, one of the six-character reverse spells, which makes people see all kinds of wealth and enjoyment in the human world, giving rise to greed, and can gather incense from the human world, with thousands of magical uses. ]
He had seen this album before, but because he had just obtained the Yuanshen Dafa and there were very few pictures of evolution in it, he did not pay much attention to it.
Those pictures only showed a huge golden Buddha in a wild temple, sitting still all year round.
From time to time, there were wisps of green smoke, and in the smoke, various forms of living beings appeared.
They are all believers kneeling and worshipping.
The Big Golden Buddha accepts incense from believers every day, and watches believers kneel down, worship devoutly, repent of their sins, and hope for hope.
The plump Buddha's face is full of compassion and peace, and the smile at the corners of his mouth is joyful.
It uses its magical power to guide hungry people to get food, bestow incense to cure the seriously ill, regenerate flesh and bones for people with broken legs, reconcile yin and yang for people who want to have children, and chant scriptures to guide the frustrated...
Almost every request is granted.
Its followers are increasing.
But gradually, the demands of believers became more and more numerous and unreasonable.
There was an old man in his seventies or eighties who was holding a small golden Buddha at home. He was trembling and had a ferocious look on his face, asking the Buddha for immortality.
There is a seemingly simple couple who do not think about working every day. They just burn incense and make offerings devoutly. They are like crazy and devilish, and all they mutter to themselves is wishing Buddha to bless them with wealth and glory.
Some officials also paid tribute secretly, praying for a successful career.
There are even foolish men and women who, after an argument with their neighbors, burn incense and pray to Buddha the next day, hoping that their neighbors will die a miserable death...
Offerings are made simply to seek benefits and satisfy selfish desires, without any sincerity or kindness in the heart.
Listening to the believers praying for all kinds of blessings, and even their endless greed and selfish desires to harm others, the curve of the Big Golden Buddha's mouth became bigger and bigger, and his smile became more and more obvious.
The originally peaceful and compassionate face had long since changed. Although he was still smiling, and even smiling more brightly, there was a hint of weirdness in his face.
The scenes changed very quickly, but Jiang Zhou seemed to be able to feel the gradual change of the golden Buddha in the face of human greed.
The last scene was of a man shrouded in blood, holding a black spear, which turned into a black dragon biting him. He was severely injured and tightly entangled by hundreds of demon-binding chains...
Jiang Zhou looked at the lines of text, and he did gain something.
This golden evil Buddha was actually created by a great demon, and there are six others like it.
The images revealed in the Ghost and God Atlas show that the Great Golden Buddha is not just a demon who uses ghost money to cheat people into offering incense as described in the Jin Jiu booklet.
In the beginning, it was indeed a "Buddha" that would answer any prayer...
After reading it again, Jiang Zhou sighed.
The worldly desires of the secular world are so unbearable that even ghosts and gods cannot stand them.
No wonder people always say that incense is poisonous.
It's not the incense that's poisonous, it's the human heart and human desire...
After watching it this time, he suddenly had a feeling that perhaps the big golden Buddha had compassion and good intentions in the beginning, but because of some constraints and for some purpose, he had to use incense and paper money to collect believers and money.
From responding to every request in the beginning, he was gradually overwhelmed by the greed and excess of his "believers", and then he underwent some changes and became an evil Buddha who was solely dedicated to fulfilling that "purpose".
The one who can restrain and control it is most likely the peerless demon who created it.
As Jiang Zhou thought about it, the confusion in his heart became heavier. He couldn't help but pick up a pen, dip it in ink, and write and draw on the paper.
Ghost, Painted Skin Ghost, White Skeleton Woman...
Yin Dao devil, ghost mother...
Gold man, silver man, golden evil Buddha...
Blood evil beads, gold, silver, money, incense, money for the dead, children...
The peerless demon...
What is the connection between these things?
Jiang Zhou knocked his head.
He knew there must be a connection between them, but it seemed like there was no thread connecting them.
These words floated before his eyes, always elusive.
At this time, several surgeons who were assigned to assist him came in.
Jiang Zhou had no choice but to put these thoughts aside for the time being.
Quickly compile a list of people to be dealt with, and have the person holding the knife go and summon the victims to begin hearing the case.
There were only three cases to be handled today. After questioning the last victim, the knifeman was arranged to investigate and confirm some suspicious points in the case. Only half a day had passed.
Just when he was about to take advantage of his free time to get something to eat, someone suddenly came to tell him that Yan Xiaowu was here.
When Jiang Zhou arrived at the gate of Sujingsi, he saw Yan Xiaowu coming towards him in casual clothes, which was rare for him, and showing his signature big white teeth.
He pulled him and said, "Brother, you haven't eaten yet? Let's go! I'll take you to the feast!"
"etc."
Jiang Zhou pulled his arm back expressionlessly: "Aren't you supposed to be on duty today? How come you have time to come to see me?"
“Hehehe…”
Yan Xiaowu saw his expression and laughed awkwardly: "Can you not be so smart?"
Jiang Zhou curled his lips: "Tell me, what are you going to do ?"
Yan Xiaowu said with a drooling face: "I really want to treat you to a meal, shall we talk while we walk?"
Jiang Zhou glanced at him and nodded, as he was indeed hungry.
Yan Xiaowu was overjoyed, but when Jiang Zhou was about to leave, he stopped him and said, "Change into casual clothes first."
Jiang Zhou looked at him suspiciously, but went back to change his clothes.
On the way.
Yan Xiaowu then said to him: "I've been investigating a case recently..."
