Collection of strange powers and chaotic gods

Chapter 174 Green Hair Monster

In the sixth year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty, Dong Chang'an, a native of Huzhou, Zhejiang, worked as a staff member in the Yamen of Ruicheng County, Shanxi (under the current Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province).

There is a temple in Ruicheng County that enshrines the statues of Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei.

However, the temple door has been locked with iron locks for a long time, and it will only be opened when the sacrificial ceremonies are held in spring and autumn.

That's because there are rumors that there are monsters in the temple. Even the monks who offer incense in the temple dare not live in it.

On this day, a sheep seller from Shaanxi drove thousands of sheep through here.

It was getting late, but I couldn't find a place to stay. The inn wouldn't let him stay; he wanted to camp in the wild, but he was worried that his sheep would get lost.

Just when he didn't know what to do, the merchant discovered the temple. He looked through the gap in the temple door and saw that there was no one inside. There was a large courtyard, where the sheep could be driven in.

So he found the nearby residents and asked to be allowed to stay in the temple.

The man in charge of the keys to the temple, a very old-fashioned person, readily agreed. And he immediately took the key, opened the lock and let him in.

Before leaving, he told him: "It is said that there are monsters in this temple. You are alone, so be careful!"

The sheep seller relied on his strong physical strength and some martial arts skills, so he said nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter!"

After saying that, he pushed open the temple door and drove the sheep in, letting them roam freely under the corridor in the courtyard.

And he himself took the sheep whip and walked into the hall to rest.

To be honest, when he heard that there was a monster in the temple, he was not afraid at all. After all, he didn't know what kind of monster it was.

Therefore, he lit the candle in front of the statue, and the candlelight illuminated the main hall, which emboldened him.

At the third watch of the day, the sheep seller couldn't sleep because he was always worried.

Suddenly, he heard a strange sound coming from under the throne, as if something jumped out.

The merchant quickly used the candlelight to turn around and see that the thing was indeed a monster!

I saw that the monster was seven or eight feet tall, with a head and a face that were almost human-like.

The two eyes are as big as walnuts and shiny black. The whole body below the neck is covered with green hair, and it is as furry as wearing a raincoat.

The monster was not afraid of people at all. While looking at the merchant, it kept sniffing with its nose. It had sharp claws on both hands and rushed forward to catch the merchant.

The merchant hurriedly hit it with the sheep whip in his hand.

Who would have thought that the monster had rough skin and thick flesh, and even if the whip hit it, it didn't react at all!

It grabbed the whip, effortlessly snatched it from the merchant's hand, put it into its mouth without hesitation, and bit it off in one bite, as easily as tearing a rag.

The merchants were so frightened that they ran out of the temple.

The monster was chasing closely behind.

The merchant saw an old tree by the roadside and hurriedly climbed up on his hands and knees. He did not dare to stop for a moment until he climbed to the highest branch and could no longer go up.

The monster chased him to the foot of the tree, but because he couldn't climb the tree, he could only stare at the merchants but couldn't climb up.

After a long time, the eastern sky gradually became brighter, and pedestrians began to appear on the road.

The merchant climbed down the tree to look for the monster.

The monster has disappeared.

So the merchant told the people nearby about the strange things that happened at night.

Everyone came to the temple together and searched for the place where the monster jumped out of the shrine, but found nothing strange.

But from the cracks in the rocks in the corner below, black gas kept coming out.

Although everyone knew something was wrong, they did not dare to dig rashly. He just asked someone to write an ultimatum and report it to the government.

After receiving the ultimatum, Lord Tong, the magistrate of Ruicheng County, immediately brought Dong Chang'an and other people to the temple.

He ordered people to remove the throne and dig soil underneath.

After digging about a foot deep, a rotten coffin appeared.

Lord Tong asked someone to open the coffin, and saw a corpse inside. Because it had been too long, all the clothes on it had rotted away.

The body was covered with green hair, exactly like what the sheep traders saw at night.

At Dong Chang'an's suggestion, Master Tong directed everyone to pile up firewood in the courtyard and put the coffin and the body on it to burn.

To everyone's surprise, the corpse actually made a strange "tsk, tsk" sound, oozed blood, and the bones were burned to the point of "crackling" sounds.

Not long after, everything was reduced to ashes!

Since then, the temple has become peaceful, and monsters have not appeared again!