Chapter 378: The Origin of the Pattern
In Shi Ling's hand, the oiled paper cloth was rolled up and placed behind a painting on the wall inside, Su Chen and Chen Feng watched Shi Ling take the painting away, and then put his hand on the wall and pressed it, a small hole appeared in the wall, and Shi Ling's hand reached in and touched the rolled up oiled paper cloth with a half-sound.
Seeing Shi Ling's actions, Su Chen and Chen Feng were nothing, because he knew that this young man must have a secret, but the girl named Xuanxuan was surprised.
She and Brother Shi Ling have known each other for many years, it can be said that they grew up together since childhood, at that time, Brother Shi Ling's parents opened a tattoo parlor, and in the eyes of people in that era, tattoos were not good people, even if Shi Ling's father only gave people tattoos, many parents in the neighborhood let their children not play with Shi Ling.
Xuanxuan's parents also explained Xuanxuan in this way, and Xuanxuan didn't play with Shi Ling like other children, until she was seven years old, when a grandmother died nearby, and on the night of the old woman's ** seven, she was late when she went back because she was playing with other friends.
When she went back, passing by her alley, she suddenly heard someone calling for herself, and she looked back and found that it was the old woman, who was not particularly sensible at the time, and did not feel afraid, and responded to the old woman.
Then the old grandmother was about to pull her away, she was stupid and stretched out her hand, seeing that the old grandmother was about to hold her hand, at this time Brother Shi Ling appeared, grabbed her, and then pulled her away.
At that time, she didn't know what was going on, until a few days later, her parents told her that on the day of the grandmother's ** seven, a child was evil, and the child was delirious, and kept saying that the grandmother was going to take him to play.
Later, the child's parents took the child to see many doctors who were helpless, and then they found an old goddess to cure, but although cured, the child has some brain problems since then, and often is alone in a daze, and the goddess said that it was the sequelae of encountering a ghost.
According to what the goddess said, the old grandmother died, and the soul came back in the first seven, because the old man had a granddaughter when he was alive, but the granddaughter died young, which was the heart disease of the old man, and after death, it became an obsession, so he returned to the yang world to take the soul of a child away.
Hearing her parents' explanation, Xuanxuan knew how lucky she was at that time, Brother Shi Ling was to save herself, she didn't tell her parents about this matter, but since then she has been playing with Brother Shi Ling whenever she is free.
The two of them went from elementary school to high school, until the college entrance examination later, knowing that Shi Ling's brother did not take the college entrance examination, but wanted to inherit his father's tattoo parlor, and after her own persuasion was ineffective, she deliberately hid from her parents and applied for the local school, and came to the store every day as long as the school was on vacation.
So for Xuanxuan, Brother Shi Ling's tattoo parlor is almost as familiar to her own home, and now she will be so surprised when she sees Brother Shi Ling take something out of the back of the painting.
Shi Ling saw Xuanxuan's surprise and smiled bitterly, over the years, Xuanxuan's affection for him was clear to him, the reason why he pretended not to know was not that he didn't like Xuanxuan, but that he didn't dare to accept it, his family's secret was not something ordinary people could bear, and he was afraid that he would hurt Xuanxuan when the time came.
"I think that's what you want to know. ”
Putting the oiled paper cloth on the table and flattening it, Shi Ling took out a piece of oiled paper from it, and when he opened the oiled paper, seeing the pattern on the oiled paper, Su Chen and Chen Feng's eyes flashed brightly.
The pattern above is the circular pattern tattooed on Liu Shanxi's shoulder.
"There are at least a dozen pieces of oiled paper cloth here, and each one has a different pattern?"
When Shi Ling took out the oil paper, Su Chen noticed that the patterns on the two pieces of oil paper that were exposed at the beginning were not the same, one was a monster with a head and two tails, and the other was a monster similar to a merman.
"It's all different. ”
Shi Ling shook his head, and at this time he didn't seem to hide it, and said: "The patterns recorded on each piece of oil paper here are different, and these patterns are all drawn by my grandfather, don't worry, since I promised you, then I will tell you the truth." ”
For Shi Ling, sometimes a secret has been hidden in his heart for too long, and it is also a tormenting thing, and saying it to others to share it is also a relief to a certain extent.
"This matter starts with my grandfather, who was a famine in the fifties and sixties of the last century, when my grandfather didn't have much to eat in a village, and in order to survive, his grandfather could only choose to go into the mountains to hunt. ”
It is normal for people who rely on the mountains to go into the mountains to hunt, but at that time, the animals on the mountains could not find food, and some of the animals outside were also killed, as for the deep mountains, the locals did not dare to go in, because there was a local rumor that there was a mountain god living in the deep mountains, and if you broke in, you would be left by the mountain gods.
In the original situation, the villagers still believed this rumor, but in the face of the situation that they might starve to death, Shi Ling's grandfather couldn't care so much, and rushed directly into the mountains.
Shi Ling's grandfather didn't go in alone, there were several other villagers at that time, but when they entered the deep mountains, they encountered danger and dispersed, a huge python attacked them, and Shi Ling's grandfather chose a hillside to roll down in order to escape for his life.
Rolling down the hillside, Shi Ling's grandfather was in a coma, and when he woke up, he found that he had come to a valley, the whole valley was very quiet, as a mountain person, Shi Ling's grandfather knew very well that this situation was too wrong.
There are many snakes, insects, birds and beasts in the deep mountains, and there can be no quiet time, even if there is the sound of insects, there should be only one situation when the deep mountains will remain quiet, that is, when there is danger.
At that time, Shi Ling's grandfather's first thought was to escape, to escape from this valley, no matter what existence existed in this valley, in short, he could not afford to provoke it.
However, an hour later, Shi Ling's grandfather was in despair, because after an hour of running, he found himself back where he was.
In order to verify whether he was dazzled, but two similar valleys, Shi Ling's grandfather also deliberately tore off a piece of his clothes and tied it to a tree, but an hour later, looking at the piece of cloth in front of him, Shi Ling's grandfather was stunned.
Because he lived on the side of the mountain, Shi Ling's grandfather did not believe in certain things like the people in the city, and the old people in the village often told some supernatural stories, including ghosts hitting the wall.
At first, Shi Ling's grandfather wondered if he had also encountered a ghost hitting the wall, and deliberately took out the horns, which were brought by anyone who went into the mountains to hunt in this horn village, because the old people said that the horns were yin and could scare away some ghosts.
Holding the horn, slashing his arm with the tip of the horn, and then smearing the blood in his eyes, Shi Ling's grandfather looked at the valley again, and this time the scene unfolded in front of him changed.
In front of him, a mountain appeared, a huge mountain, a stone mountain that could not be seen as far as the eye could see.
Shi Ling's grandfather called this mountain a stone mountain because the mountain was full of stones and there was not a single plant in sight, and it stood there bare.
Seeing this stone mountain, Shi Ling's grandfather thought of a legend in the village.
In their village, there has always been a legend that there is a stone mountain deep in the mountains, and this stone mountain is related to Pangu.
Legend has it that Pangu used an axe to open up the world and create the world, and after creating the world, he threw the axe away, and the axe turned into a stone mountain.
Later, human beings fought with beasts for survival, and the three emperors and five emperors drove away some fierce beasts that were unwilling to live in peace with humans, some of them rushed to the extremes of the four seas, and some of them rushed to the top of this stone mountain.
Therefore, the rocky mountain is inhabited by monsters with terrifying powers, and any one of them going down the mountain can cause misery.
The reason why there is such a legend in the village is that a villager said that he once saw a stone mountain and also saw a monster on the mountain, according to the villager, the monster's wings were thousands of meters long, and when they opened, the whole sky was dark.
For this kind of legend, Shi Ling's grandfather didn't believe it, he had read a book for a few years, and knew that if there was such a monster, it would be impossible not to be discovered.
But now seeing this stone mountain, Shi Ling's grandfather thought of the last sentence of this legend, according to the legend, whoever can climb the stone mountain can control these monsters and become the master of all beasts.
The valley couldn't go out, and there was a stone mountain in front of him that matched the legend, and after thinking about it for a while, Shi Ling's grandfather finally decided to climb the mountain.
"Your grandfather climbed the mountain, and then, and then what happened?"
Seeing that Shi Ling suddenly stopped talking, Chen Feng was a little anxious, this guy is writing about the Internet, deliberately hanging people's appetites, don't you know that the broken dog will be hacked to death?
"The patterns on these oiled paper were drawn by my grandfather, what do you think he encountered on the mountain?" Shi Ling asked rhetorically.
"Uh......"
Chen Feng was stopped by Shi Ling's rhetorical question, but Su Chen's eyes flashed, and he said, "It means that your grandfather really saw monsters on the stone mountain, and these patterns are all the appearance of monsters on the stone mountain?"
"Not a monster!"
Shi Ling shook his head, his eyes suddenly became a little strange, as if he was recalling something, Chen Feng saw that Shi Ling didn't speak for a long time, and was about to speak, but was stopped by Su Chen's look.
After about two or three minutes, Shi Ling came out of his memories and opened his mouth to say a word, but Su Chen and Chen Feng were shocked by Shi Ling's actions.