C7

The night was extremely quiet. My uncle and I sat on the cold stone, looking at the stone coffins that filled the courtyard, and then at the Master Xue that was carving a Buddha statue not far away from us.

Every time he carved, he would raise his head and look at me mysteriously with a strange smile.

A person who hasn't aged in twenty years and has a deathly look on his face, if he isn't a ghost, then what is he?

I almost blurted out, wanting to tell him not to, but changed my mind at the crucial moment. This might anger him and force us to stay. So I said, "I need to go to the bathroom."

Master Xue pointed to a corner of the courtyard: "Over there."

I let out a dry laugh. "It's too disrespectful to use the toilet in front of the Buddha statue."

The Master Xue nodded his head in approval, then asked the clan uncle: "You're going too?"

The clan uncle said, "I'm afraid that he'll get lost, so I'll go with him."

After saying this, the two of us didn't even have the courage to look at Master Xue and hastily walked out.

As soon as we left the courtyard, my uncle and I started to run towards the village entrance. I ran out of breath, but I still couldn't help but complain, "The Buddha statue is gone, what do we do now? What will I use to drive out the evil? "

The uncle was also out of breath, "Let's talk about the exorcism later tonight."

We ran for about ten minutes, and logically, we should have left the village long ago, but it was still a deserted street ahead of us.

I nervously stopped and asked, "Uncle, did we encounter the Wall-Hitting Ghost?"

My uncle didn't answer me.

I turned my head to look at him, a little puzzled. "Uncle, why are you …"

Halfway through my sentence, I choked and couldn't say anything else. My uncle is gone, and I'm the only one left on the street.

"Uncle, where are you?" I whispered to him.

However, my uncle didn't reply at all.

I stood in the street for a full ten seconds, then stamped my feet and went back to look for someone.

There was a bright moon in the sky, but now there was a cloud, and the village darkened.

In the moonlight, I was alone on the street. When the light dimmed, it seemed to me that I was surrounded by people.

But it was clear to me that it wasn't a human being, it was a statue, a broken, discarded statue of Buddha.

"Uncle … Uncle …" While I whispered to my clan uncle, I braced myself and walked to the middle of the Buddha statue to see if my clan uncle was unconscious inside.

The stone is cold, the man is hot, the stone is hard, the man is soft. I couldn't see it clearly, so I touched it with my hand.

Touching around in the midst of a group of weird Buddha statues, there was no need to mention how terrifying it was. I was afraid that if the statues suddenly moved, I would scream.

After touching it all the way through, the Buddha statue didn't move, and I didn't manage to find my uncle either. Just as I was about to reach the Master Xue's house, I really didn't have the courage to go in.

I hid in the doorway and peeked inside. There was only a pile of rocks and a few sarcophaguses in the courtyard. The Master Xue was sitting under the lamp carving the Buddha statue, everything was the same as when we left. From the looks of it, the clan uncle was not in the courtyard.

While I was observing, my mouth suddenly opened uncontrollably, and a burst of giggling sounds came from my throat.

I was close to tears as I begged in my heart, "foster-grandpa, don't laugh."

The Master Xue who was carving the Buddha statue suddenly raised his head and looked outside. My heart thumped as I knew that he heard the voice just now. Without delay, I turned and ran outside.

While I was running, I thought to myself, "Clan uncle, I'm sorry. This village is too strange. I can't find you." If this goes on, my life will be lost. Why don't I go back first and save you after dawn?

I ran like hell, running a few hundred meters in just a few minutes. Then I saw a family in front of me. This house had a light, a stone coffin in the courtyard, and a Master Xue who was carving a Buddha statue.

I'm back.

No matter how he ran, he would always return to the starting point.

I was tired and scared, and my legs gave out and I almost fell to the ground.

Master Xue slowly raised his head and said lightly: "After you go to the toilet, come in."

I wanted to turn around and run, but I also knew that running was useless. No matter how fast I ran, I still had to return here. So I steeled my heart and went in.

"Where's my family's uncle?" I asked Master Xue straightforwardly.

Master Xue glanced at me, then lowered his head and carved a Buddha statue: "Isn't that right behind you?"

I was shocked and abruptly turned my head. When I saw that there was no one behind me, I was about to ask about it when I saw my uncle.

To be exact, I saw a rock that was carved into the appearance of a clan uncle. There was an anxious expression on its face as it sprinted forward.

I slowly turned my head and asked in disbelief, "My clan uncle has turned into a stone?"

Master Xue waved the Buddha statue in his hand towards me: "Don't be anxious, yours is almost done too."

I saw that the Buddha was only the size of a fist, but it was clearly my face.

I looked at him in fear. "Crap, when he's finished carving, won't I become a rock as well?"

I stole a sharp stone from the side. I can't just sit there and wait for death. I'm going to ambush him when he isn't prepared. However … If the other party wasn't a living person, how could a rock strike have any effect?

As I was thinking, a thought flashed through my mind: No, it can't be true.

To turn a person into stone, unless the Master Xue was an immortal, was obviously impossible. Then there's only one explanation. What I saw was not true.

I gradually calmed down and sat on the rock, thinking slowly. What I saw could very well have been an illusion.

When he was young, he had heard from the elders that after meeting a ghost, people would often experience strange and inconceivable things. In reality, they had been blinded by a ghost, allowing them to see whatever they saw. If you want to walk out of this formation, you need to find the most crucial part of it and break it for him …

I got up from the rock and started pacing up and down the yard.

Master Xue didn't pay attention to me, he continued to glance at me, and continued to carve. Now I know why he always looks at me. He was going to carve Buddha statues just like me.

When... Dang, dang. When... Dang, dang.

Hammers and chisels hit the stone like a countdown. When the last knock came, would I be completely unable to resist?

As I watched the Buddha take shape, I grew more and more anxious, and beads of sweat appeared on my forehead. I reached out to wipe my sweat, then turned and saw something. My heart jolted as I suddenly had an idea.

From the moment we entered until now, the Master Xue has always had lights on. This was not surprising. When working at night, of course the lights would be turned on. However, what was unreasonable was that he still had an oil lamp by his side. Isn't this superfluous?

My heart began to fill with ecstasy: the unreasonable place had appeared. Could that oil lamp be the key to the Bewitching Array Formation?

I carefully walked around the area twice, and then boldly said to Master Xue: "How is the Buddha carving? Can I see it? "

The Master Xue looked at me in surprise, but did not express anything. Thus, I walked over.

I didn't look at the Buddha statue. My attention was entirely on the oil lamp. One step, two steps, three steps. I was already standing by the oil lamp.

The oil lamp looked like it was made of bronze, and it was very clean and shiny. The wick is divided into three forks, and three small flames are burning, a small one that I can extinguish with a lift of my hand.

I took a deep breath and raised my hand to slap at the oil lamp. At that moment, I started to giggle again in my throat.

Master Xue was concentrating on carving the Buddha statue, but when he heard the sound, he suddenly raised his head.

I knew I couldn't afford to delay any longer, so I slammed my palm against the oil lamp. The instant the oil lamp went out, I saw a hint of a smile appear in Master Xue's eyes.

My heart skipped a beat. "Crap, did I do something stupid?"

Soon after, the oil lamp went out, and the entire world sank into darkness, devoid of any light.

I was terrified, and tried to grope my way away, but my hand touched a stone. I felt around again. It was all stone, and I felt as if I were locked in a closet made of stone.

No, it wasn't a wardrobe. It was a coffin.

Thinking about the stone coffins in Master Xue's house, my heart went cold.

"Is anyone there? "Save me!" I screamed and kicked the coffin. However, it was useless. My voice was very muffled. I even suspected that I was buried underground.

I shouted for a while, but there was no response. My mood became more and more dejected, and gradually I calmed down.

Ghost pester, ghost pester. If he didn't die, he wouldn't rest until he died. I was trapped in a coffin.

I don't know how long it was before I heard that horrible voice again: Dang... Dang, dang. When... Dang, dang.

I immediately shouted anxiously, "Master Xue, what do you want? We have no enmity with each other, can you let me out first? "

Before I could finish my sentence, I heard a dull sound, and a white light appeared in front of me. The coffin was opened.

I squinted for a long time before I saw two people standing outside. One of them was his uncle, the other an old man.

I couldn't wait to climb out from the coffin. I looked around and immediately felt a chill down my spine.

I am standing in the middle of a group of waste grave. There are graves here, big and small, tall and low. A dozen coffins were still lying on the ground, unburied. And I lay in one of the coffins in the middle of the night.