Volume 3 Chapter 21: Spiritual Root Immortal
The hotel is built on the hillside, with an open square in front of it. On the east side of the square, you can go around to the back and find a small door. It is called a small door, but it is actually a gap in a very low wall. For buildings on the hillside, it is not necessary to have a courtyard wall, because you can easily jump onto the roof of the hotel by climbing up the slope. The courtyard wall and the gate are just for show.
After exiting the back door, we climbed up more than 20 meters along a simple mountain path to a platform of about 4-5 square meters, and a small cave similar to a Buddhist shrine was right in front of us. The cave was only 1.5 meters high and only half a meter wide. The space inside was pitifully small, and could only accommodate a stone statue. It looked old, and the surface of the stone statue was black, with traces of vicissitudes of wind and rain erosion.
The stone statue is about one meter tall , sitting cross-legged, with a lifelike face, round eyes and wide mouth, full of the solemnity of a god. The ground in front of the stone statue is full of offerings and incense sticks left by tourists, and it seems that the incense is quite prosperous. At first, I didn't see anything special about the stone statue. I just thought that this simple statue was probably a wild fairy worshipped by the local mountain people, but later I found that the cross-legged posture of the stone statue was a bit strange, and it looked like it had three legs!
Actually, it’s not three legs. Don’t blame me if I tell you the extra one , that’s the penis!
It was as long as the legs, and as the legs were crossed and wrapped around it, it exuded a lewd atmosphere. Damn, the Spiritual Root Immortal turned out to be this kind of thing, it was basically a lustful god. There were many people in the folk who offered sacrifices to this broken thing, most of them were perverts, or those engaged in erotic services.
However, this kind of spiritual root immortal has never been heard of. It is far less famous than the Wushan Lust God and the White Eyebrow God. They can be said to be lewd and evil immortals that have been passed down through the ages. The Wushan Lust God is a demon. "In the morning, she is a cloud, and in the evening, she is a rain." The cloud and rain in Wushan are from her. She also corrupted the world and created the brothel business. The word "knocker" is actually a transformation of Yao. The White Eyebrow God is also called the Flower and Willow Demon. His appearance is very similar to Guan Gong. Legend has it that he was a thief in ancient times, who killed countless people and was very fierce. He was very good in bed. Therefore, brothels secretly support him to seduce those perverts and lechers to consume.
Thinking of this, I suddenly had an idea. What does the Wushan Lustful God have to do with the Wushan God? Isn't the big tree outside the cave the penis? I don't know if this is a discovery, but I feel that the Spiritual Root Immortal is definitely related to the cave.
I looked up at the three of them. Wang Zijun seemed to have figured it out long ago, and he looked embarrassed. Wang Yang and Qu Mo didn't seem to know much about the physiological structure of men, and they stared at the statue without any unusual expressions. Besides, it was too damn long, which somewhat misled them.
"Whose wallet is this?" Wang Zijun was too embarrassed to stare at the statue in front of his sweetheart, so he turned his eyes to the ground and suddenly pulled out a black wallet from under the incense ash. He opened it and shouted, "Ah, it belongs to your boyfriend Chen Ming!" Then he handed the wallet to Wang Yang.
We all leaned over and saw an ID card in the wallet. It was indeed Chen Ming’s!
Wang Yang held the wallet in his hand and said anxiously, "It's his. He's been here." Then he turned around and looked around. Apart from us , there was no one else.
I asked, “Is there anything missing from your wallet?”
Wang Yang flipped through the documents and said in astonishment: "The 4,000 yuan in cash is gone, and the two cards are also missing."
Wang Zijun scratched his head and said, "Your boyfriend may have kept his money and cards on him and just left his wallet here."
Qu Mo shook his head and said, "That's impossible. His ID card was in the wallet. How could he just throw it away?"
Wang Zijun blushed and dared not say a word.
I thought Chen Ming must have been here, but it was hard to say what happened here. He was most likely robbed. I comforted Wang Yang and said, "Since Chen Ming has been here, it means he is still alive. We can find him. You guys go back to the hotel and get some sleep. I'll look around."
Wang Yang nodded, looked at me gratefully, and followed Qu Mo and Wang Zijun back to the hotel.
When Qu Mo went down, she looked back at me intentionally or unintentionally. I thought she would come back soon, so I didn't walk far and just walked around the Linggen Cave. I didn't find anything, but I found a few lines of mottled footprints. They looked very fresh, so they should have been left last night. Maybe one of them was Chen Ming's footprint.
I sat on a big rock, rubbing my nose and thinking. From the inexplicable death of Shen Bing's parents here ten years ago and Tang Xiaohan's experience, it can be seen that ghosts have been wreaking havoc in Huangshan for a long time. From the obscene things like penis, it can be seen that ghosts have become burial objects for women along with men. But what is the relationship between the guide and him? He kept bringing people to the vicinity of the accident site and appeared in the hotel from time to time. Could it be that the hotel is also related to the ghosts?
I turned around and looked at the Linggen Cave and the hotel below. The hotel was built under the stone statue, so close, and the manager introduced it to the tenants. There must be ulterior motives. And the abnormal attitude they showed was indeed worthy of suspicion. If they had ulterior motives, why didn't Wang Yang have any accidents when he came here to make a wish last year?
Oh, by the way, Wang Yang didn't bring much money when she came last year, didn't she have a wish to fulfill? How did they help Wang Yang get her parents to agree to their marriage?
Ghost monkey! The ghost monkey must have possessed Wang Yang when she left Huangshan. It followed Wang Yang back home, settled the matter with her parents, and urged her to bring a lot of money back to Huangshan to make a wish.
The ghost monkey is just one of their pawns, or maybe a minion of the Spiritual Root Immortal. What the hell is this Spiritual Root Immortal? I feel like the little white flag can't play a big role without Ermao's help now, and it's a bit powerless. Where's Tang Xiaohan? I thought of her again at this time. I'm helping you save people, why don't you come with me? At least come out and meet me. If there's a ghost to help me with many things, I can save a lot of effort.
Just as I was thinking, Qu Mo's figure appeared on the mountain path. Looking at the graceful figure of this girl, I couldn't help but touch my nose and smile bitterly. I didn't even know what the evil in her body was. Last night, another weird thing happened, which made people confused.
Qu Mo walked up to me and smiled at me, a knowing smile . But I felt very uncomfortable. I was afraid that if she fell in love with me, how would I explain it to Wang Zijun, who is my best friend?
"You must want to find an opportunity to ask me what happened last night?" Qu Mo asked without waiting for me to speak.
I nodded. "Not only what happened last night, but also what did you see in the cave this afternoon that made you stay there for so long?"
Qu Mo stretched her head to look down, and sat down as far as possible to avoid being seen by the people below. Then she smiled again and said calmly: "I stayed in the cave for a long time because I saw a painting on the stone wall..."
"There are also murals?" I interrupted her in surprise.
