Bizarre Cultivation: Starting from Being Beaten Up by Reality

Chapter 219 Help Me, Take Revenge

"That short blacksmith is completely impervious to reason, and those brats..."

Chen Ergou wanted to continue complaining, but Niu Dadan stuffed the cloth strip into his mouth again, shoving it in tightly so that he wouldn't make a sound.

Chen Ergou stared at him, wondering what he meant. If he found him annoying, he could just say so. Why was he poking himself with a strip of cloth?

Squeak.

The door to the woodshed opened. Two boys carrying lanterns came in.

"Little stool, you must have misheard. There's no sound here," the lead boy asked a boy behind him with unusually large ears.

The big-eared boy covered his ears with his hands, "I clearly heard a sound coming from here!"

The boy in the lead pointed at Chen Ergou on the ground and said, "Look at how he talks!" He then pulled the gag out of Chen Ergou's mouth.

With a popping sound, it made a sound like a cork being popped because it was sealed too tightly.

"Hey, you old thief, did you see anyone just now? Did you hear any sounds?"

"Hey kid, have you no manners? I'm only 20 years old, and I'm not a thief."

As the two mechanical ants stepped forward, they aimed their sharp teeth at Chen Ergou.

Chen Ergou immediately grinned and said, "Three little immortals, it was me who made that sound just now. I was just about to run away."

The leading boy narrowed his eyes. "You're still planning to run away?"

Chen Ergou said aggrievedly, "I've been framed! Couldn't I have tried to escape? Who would want to be tied up like this?"

For some reason, the three of them felt that what Chen Ergou said made a lot of sense, and they were sure that the sound they had just heard was made by him. So they stuffed the cloth strip back in.

As if to prevent him from escaping, they forcefully shoved the strip of cloth into Chen Ergou's throat a few times before leaving, locking the door behind them.

Niu Dadan and Sun Ruolan emerged from behind the woodpile and helped Chen Ergou pull out the strip of cloth.

Boo!

"Alright, don't take it off, just leave it plugged in, so I don't have to shove it back in later." Chen Ergou said angrily, "If I keep pulling it out and putting it back in, and it keeps happening a few more times, it won't just be a mouth anymore, it'll be..."

"Alright, stop complaining. It's not a big deal." Sun Ruolan interrupted Chen Ergou, her gaze drifting towards the door. "Was there a Buddha statue there just now?"

Niu Dadan followed her slender finger and, by the dim light of the tinderbox, saw a Buddha statue leaning against the doorway. "No, it's probably too dark, we didn't notice it. Who put the Buddha statue in the woodshed?"

"Ah..." Just as Chen Ergou was about to shout, Niu Dadan shoved the cloth strip back in, made a shushing gesture at him, and then pulled it out again.

Chen Ergou didn't care that he had been penetrated again. He lowered his voice and said in a frightened tone, his expression vivid: "Ghosts, there are ghosts! I was left here this afternoon. There is no Buddha statue. It wasn't there when you came in, and it wasn't there when those little ghosts came in just now. It just appeared suddenly. There must be ghosts. This house is haunted. Let's get out of here quickly. Look at that Buddha statue, doesn't it look familiar!"

Chen Ergou looked at the Buddha statue again with trembling eyes, only to find that it was no longer in its original position.

As soon as he turned his head, the Buddha statue was already pressed against him, as if wanting to hear what Chen Ergou had to say. It, along with Niu Dadan and Sun Ruolan, formed a circle around him.

"Ah!..." Niu Dadan shoved his way into Chen Ergou's mouth again. This time, he wasn't going to pull it out.

Niu Dadan pulled Sun Ruolan to his side, his eyes nervously fixed on the Bodhisattva statue that was so close to them.

"Adan, wait! Look, that's Brother Lin's knife!" Sun Ruolan pointed to the knife next to the Buddha statue, wanting to reach for it, but Niu Dadan stopped her.

"Ruolan, don't touch it. Fan Ge's knife flew away by itself earlier. Maybe they, uh, had a fight? Maybe they'll take it out on us."

Sun Ruolan looked at Niu Dadan, as if to say, "Do you want to hear what you're saying?" But then she felt that what he said made some sense.

The moment Chen Ergou saw Black Knife, he became excited. His previous fear of ghosts seemed to vanish, and he tried to say something but couldn't. He struggled desperately, like a wriggling maggot, moving towards Black Knife. Seeing this, even Black Knife and the Buddha statue began to retreat almost imperceptibly.

“This Buddha statue looks like the one from Lin Fugui’s textile factory before.” Sun Ruolan examined the Buddha statue. She had prayed to it countless times before and recognized it easily. “The size and posture are very similar, but upon closer inspection, they are not the same one.”

She knelt on the ground, leaning forward, and used a tinderbox to sweep across the Buddha statue to observe it. Because of her posture, her plump buttocks were slightly raised.

Chen Ergou, who had been twisting towards the black knife, unconsciously glanced this way. Niu Dadan flicked him hard on the forehead.

"Waaah!" Chen Ergou could only protest silently, unable to offer any explanation.

K-K-

Like the sound of fingernails scratching a blackboard, a sharp black knife wrote directly on the ground: "[Sister]".

"Ruomei?" Sun Ruolan exclaimed excitedly, but quickly calmed down. The characters were elegant and neat, each stroke clear and powerful, clearly not something Ruomei, who was not well-educated, could have written. Even Sun Ruolan herself had only recently learned to read with Doctor Lei.

The handwriting reflected the person; these words brought another person to Sun Ruolan's mind, "Third Sister?"

It's me.

Sun Ruolan unconsciously swallowed. The Buddha statue, Ze Zhishan, or rather, the ink-paper fan... Some unpleasant memories resurfaced in her mind, making her feel nauseous again.

The words continued, "Help me, take revenge."

After the word "revenge" was written, it gradually turned blood-red. Chen Ergou looked terrified, wanting to do something, to express something, but could only writhe on the ground.

“Go ahead,” Sun Ruolan said earnestly.

"I want to become a Buddha, so I'll kill my master."

One by one, the words in blood were carved out by the black knife.

After carving these words, Ze Zhishan seemed to lose all his strength and sat down with the black knife in his hand.

When she first witnessed the 'ascension ceremony,' her mind was in turmoil, her thoughts were jumbled and chaotic, and she couldn't make sense of it or know what to do. She simply acted on instinct and impulsively snatched the Buddha statue.

What should I do? Feeling lost and without a purpose in life, Ze Zhishan was like a headless fly, running around aimlessly.

The master who raised him may have killed his parents, but Ze Zhishan surprisingly didn't have much of an emotion about it.

After all, he was different from Senior Brother Li. She had grown up in Moju Temple since she was a child and didn't even remember her real name.

Then, faces flashed before her eyes—her brothers and sisters who had grown up with her.

Senior Brother Li would put some meat from his bowl into his own bowl for him to eat.

Senior Sister Zhang finally defeated the sword-making master, but he made her give him a hairpin instead.

Junior Brother Chen can carve miniature figures out of wood and perform them on stage.

……

I will never see these people again.

Along the way, only unfamiliar faces remained in Moju Temple; they were all just innocent children when she left. She wasn't good at taking care of children, so other people had taken care of all the chores.

"Hehe." Ma Sijiao sat on the Bodhisattva statue and chuckled sweetly, "Have you thought it through? Go and acquire power for us, then do what you want to do. By the way, what will you do after you kill your master?"

Ze Zhishan calmly glanced back at her. Her quick decision was partly due to this new companion with her strange tone. She clenched her fists and said in a deep voice, "Kill Senior Brother Lin to avenge myself."