Paranormal Investigation Notes

Chapter 38 Ceremony
At this moment, both space and time seem to be frozen.Lu Ming felt that he had even lost his sense of time.The only thing he could feel was that his heart was beating fast under the action of a huge amount of adrenaline.

Boom, boom, boom, the sound was like beating a drum, as if it was about to jump out of the chest cavity.

At this moment, even those elite fighters who had gone through hundreds of battles, who had experienced so much blood and fire, and who had been with so many corpses and wreckage, couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

Corpses, artillery fire, death, blood, no matter how horrible and cruel, are all known things.

What is known does not frighten them.Even a gun to the forehead is useless.

But now, in the face of the possible appearance of a completely unknown "mountain god", their rock-solid hearts will also be a little shaken.

This is human biological instinct and cannot be avoided.

Outside the cave, the combat team was on full alert, and the artillery position was closely monitored here. Every soldier also condensed his spirit to the limit.

They don't know what incident they are participating in this time, nor what kind of enemy they will face.But from such a solemn arrangement by their superiors and the clues of the incident, they can still clearly perceive the weirdness and seriousness of this incident.

At this moment, they were even prepared for a monster to rush out suddenly, roaring towards the sky.

However, even if it is a monster, let them taste the power of human artillery fire, even if it is a monster, it must be blown to pieces!
At this moment, I don't know how many people are paying close attention to this place.

Time seems to have passed by a second, and it seems that an hour has passed.Lu Ming gradually felt that his consciousness and perception had returned to his body.

He can control his body again.

So with great perseverance, he controlled his eyeballs and glanced lightly in the direction of the mountain god.So he saw that the statue of the mountain god was still silent, without any movement.

"Maybe it hasn't started yet."

he thought.

So he continued to wait.

This time, he began to use his own heartbeat as a counting tool.He knew that his heart was beating very fast at the moment, so he would only count one second every time his heart beat twice.

When he counted to 30 and the situation remained unchanged, he felt something was wrong.

He turned his head slightly and looked at Zhang Dingshan and He Wei.Even through the goggles, he could still feel the doubt in He Wei's eyes.

Back then, in those ancient times, that poor boy came here.People from the Tang family have been here. Early members of Organization X may have been here as well.They confronted the mountain god, offered their sacrifices, and got what they wanted.

But now, our side also offered Lu Ming up as a sacrifice, but the mountain god didn't respond at all.

What is wrong?
But still no one moved at the moment.Several capable fighters are still on full alert.

Lu Ming felt that the beating speed of his heart was slowly returning to steady from the previous crazy.

The most tense time seems to have passed.

In this case, another minute passed.

Still nothing unusual happened.

A thought rose from his mind.

Maybe... nothing abnormal will happen?
Under this thought, he waited for another two or three minutes.

Zhang Dingshan slowly raised his hand.He opened his arms and slowly pressed down, so the tense atmosphere in the small room gradually eased a little.

"Get up, Lu Ming, maybe the mountain god won't come out."

He Wei took a step forward and pulled Lu Ming up.Several elite fighters still aimed their guns at the statue of the mountain god, but their muscles were no longer as tense as before.

"Yes, what went wrong?"

Zhang Dingshan frowned and did not speak.

He Wei said in a deep voice, "Anyway, let's leave here first."

"leave?"

Lu Ming was silent for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "Maybe it's because there are too many of us, which scares it. It's also possible that some rituals are required for the sacrifice, and we haven't prepared for it."

Lu Ming wanted to try again.

Zhang Dingshan said: "What do you think?"

Lu Ming has roughly recovered his composure at this moment.

"I want to talk to Huang Weimin!

If worshiping the mountain god requires certain rituals in addition to sacrifices, the poor boy and the Tang family in the ancient records must have used this kind of ritual to "summon" the mountain god.

According to common sense, when they face the mountain god for the first time, it is unlikely that they will create a new ritual, but will use the general rituals used to worship the gods in the past.And this kind of general ceremony, with a high probability, belongs to the category of folk customs, and there will be related records.

Let Huang Weimin find out all the common rituals and try them here one by one! "

Lu Ming's words were resounding.

Lu Ming has made so much preparation and made such a difficult psychological construction, but now he has achieved nothing. This kind of ending is unacceptable to Lu Ming.

The mountain god must be brought out now!If it can't be brought out this time, I don't know if I can get such strong support from the official level next time.

However, it is absolutely impossible to fight against the mountain god and the X organization alone.

Zhang Dingshan agreed to Lu Ming's proposal.

So, after waiting for several hours, Huang Weimin was also allowed to come here.

He brought many, many things.

Fresh melons and fruits, ingot paper money incense candles, pig's head, pork, lamb, beef, and so on.

Faced with such a battle, even though Huang Weimin is just an ordinary person, even though most of the truth is still kept secret from him, he still senses some strange and dignified atmosphere.

But he still adheres to the principle of not asking what should not be asked, and not being curious when not being curious.

Whatever Zhang Dingshan told him to do, he would do.Other than that, don't care.

So, in the small cave room, candles were lit, tributes were placed, and paper money and paper ingots were burned.Lu Ming lay down on the altar again, while Zhang Dingshan, He Wei, and several elite fighters were on full alert again.

While the flames were jumping, only Huang Weimin's dry and suppressed voice echoed in the small room.

"Mountain God, you old man, quickly manifest..."

"Amitabha……"

"Infinite Heavenly Venerate..."

"Urgent as a law..."

Various traditional sacrificial ceremonies took turns, and Huang Weimin was busy for more than two hours before he tried all the ceremonies recorded in all ancient books and known to him.However, the statue of the mountain god is still just a statue, without any change.

Lu Ming gritted his teeth again.

"Maybe there are too many people! Let the soldiers retreat, and only me and Teacher Huang Weimin will be left here!"

Huang Weimin's face trembled.

Zhang Dingshan shook his head: "Tell Teacher Huang to leave. I'm here with you."

He turned around to signal, and several elite fighters filed out and left here. Huang Weimin also smiled with difficulty, made a gesture of apology, and then left too.

He Wei did not leave.

"I'll stay, Captain, you go."

Zhang Dingshan thought for a while, without being pretentious, he nodded directly: "Okay."

He Wei's force is stronger than her own.She is the most suitable person to stay here and protect Lu Ming.

"Do you still remember the ceremony?"

"remember."

Zhang Dingshan also left.Only Lu Ming and He Wei were left in the small room.

He Wei walked over and stood in front of Huang Weimin. Following Huang Weimin's example, she knelt down in front of the mountain god statue with some reluctance.

In folklore, no matter what kind of ritual is used to worship the gods, no matter which gods are sacrificed, whether it is the mountain god, the land god, or the Jade Emperor, kneeling is indispensable.He Wei was very reluctant, but she had to kneel down.

Following Huang Weimin's example, she lit the joss stick, threw the paper money into the fire, and began to mutter words.

At this moment, the lights had already been turned off, and the burning flame cast a huge shadow on He Wei.Accompanied by He Wei's movements, the shadow kept swaying.

The dim flames illuminated it, and in the silence, the slightly eerie statue of the mountain god also alternated light and dark, as if some strange changes were taking place.

This made Lu Ming's heart gradually lift up again.

He Wei also noticed the change in the atmosphere.She was still performing the ceremony, but out of the corner of her eye, she glanced at the firearms placed beside her.

The gun was to her right.With her reaction speed, it didn't even take a second for her to pick up the firearm, aim and shoot.

But... until she threw the last piece of paper money into the fire and burned it, nothing unusual happened.

Lu Ming waited for a while, and finally sat up in silence.

He turned his head and looked at the mountain god statue.

A burst of anger suddenly emerged from his heart.

"Grass mud horse! Come out! Aren't you awesome? Why are you shrinking your head? Come out! Damn it! Grass mud horse! Get out of me! Grass mud horse!"

Lu Ming jumped and cursed, and in agitation, he kicked the statue suddenly.

The mountain god statue, which was integrated with the rock, did not move at all, but he was shocked by the shock force and took a few steps back, almost falling down.

He Wei patted him on the shoulder.

"Let's go, Lu Ming."

Everything that can be tried has been tried.If even this cannot lead the mountain god out, then it can only prove that either the methods adopted by the side are wrong, or...

There is no mountain god at all.

Everything is just rumors and legends on ancient books, everything is just a "story", just some "strange news" of the ancients.The intersection with reality is just a coincidence.

Perhaps, the attempt to find traces of the X organization from the records of ancient books and historical events is just a whimsical idea.

Lu Ming's mood was extremely low.

He knew that with the complete failure of this another attempt, perhaps the fact that the kidnapping case of Organization X was listed as an unsolved case might really be unavoidable.

(End of this chapter)