Chapter 159: The Dragon Maiden
It's good that cat women are friendly, and they are all milk murderers, but they are really good.
He Manzhou's temper came and went quickly, and Bai Yicong's simple words quickly smoothed her out. So her focus quickly changed from the relationship between the two to the next trip to Tibet.
"That'...... Do you have any clues, why are we coming to Tibet?"
Facing He Manzhou's inquiring gaze, Bai Yi never sold Guan Zi again.
"Do you still remember the ancient song you saw on the cave wall of Zhaohui Mountain?"
He Manzhou only recalled it slightly, and the words with faint blue fluorescence seemed to be engraved in her mind, and even the faint smell of blood diffused in the cave became particularly profound, and she nodded immediately.
"The gods in the snow, the brightness after withering,
Broken faith, return in desperation,
The whispers of the sorcerer, the curse of the near stranger,
The division of illusion, illusory and real,
Light in the dust, the last eternal life. ”
Bai Yi never recited this ancient ballad unhurriedly, and in the short distance from the airport, they were surrounded by bustling crowds, and he deliberately lowered his voice so that only he and He Manzhou could hear it, as if there was a sense of dust beyond time and space.
Or, this sense of illusion itself exists in He Manzhou's heart.
Every time it comes to things related to the ancient kingdom of Loulan, He Manzhou's feelings are very wonderful, including but not limited to those intricate and vivid memory fragments. When the past and the present overlapped, He Manzhou felt that something was awakening from her body, and she could feel some specific moments, that unconscious sense of struggle.
It's a strange feeling, and it's a little hard to summarize.
It was like another sleeping soul residing in He Manzhou's body slowly opening its eyes, those eyes that were empty enough to shock the world. The memories that came from eternity were all revealed through those eyes, the memories of the sleeping soul, and all the previous experiences of the soul from which it came from.
And everything He Manzhou saw was nothing more than empathy.
So, who is she?
He Manzhou's memory seemed to return to the lotus pond connected to the end of the sky, and when all the prosperity was shattered, the scene of the ancient kingdom of Loulan disappeared. The holy and beautiful girl held the white lotus in her hand, and the light veil enveloped every inch of her perfect body, but the thick blood water gushed in and quickly engulfed her.
The girl in the midst of blood and tears is like a defiled god.
The ultimate beauty is accompanied by the ultimate sin, and at the moment of breaking, it is an irreproducible tragic beauty. Her pure white veil was covered with blood, the girl's delicate cheeks were covered with horrific blood, her head embroidered with gold totems was draped over her shoulders, and the white gauze skirt hung down to her ankles, covering her naked feet.
The girl walked step by step on the bones and flesh all over the ground, and the long dragging slot was tied to the ground.
"Who the hell are you?"
He Manzhou suppressed the inexplicable fear and familiarity in his heart at that time.
That sense of trance broke through to the extreme in an instant, and she even felt that the clarity of her knowledge of the sea was deprived by the rift of her years.
"Who am I?"
The girl's smile on her face was gradually distorted, and finally she just laughed miserably.
"I am you, you are my ......"
.......
When He Manzhou was entangled in those memories, Bai Yicong was thinking about the true meaning of the ancient ballad.
After returning from Zhaohui Mountain, Bai Yicong had already begun to plan his future itinerary. After determining the full content of the ancient ballad, he finally understood the clues that his grandfather had given. It was in combination with the stories that his grandfather once told that he decided to take He Manzhou to find the "Snow Girl".
This is also an indispensable part of the "goddess's suit".
"I came to the West because of the first sentence of that ancient song, the gods in the snow, the brightness after withering...... Since I came to look for the gods, of course, I had to go to the snowy mountains in person. ”
As if guessing the girl's doubts, Bai Yi turned his head slightly sideways, took her hand and walked forward, and opened his mouth unhurriedly.
"It's okay if you don't understand, I'll explain it to you. You can understand it this way, these ballads correspond to five locations, and the "Goddess's Suit" was left behind in these five places. As I said before, if you want to summon the goddess of Loulan, you need to put the "goddess's suit" back together and open the formation in the tomb. Only in this way can the gap in time and space be opened from the mirage brought by the Tower of Babel, and the gods can re-descend to the earth. ”
These things quickly turned around in He Manzhou's mind, and she immediately picked up the key points and asked.
"Five places?"
"Yes," Bai Yicong nodded and continued, "There is also an unknown location in Xizang, Changchun, Hunan, and Xinjiang, if nothing else, it is either where the formation for summoning the goddess is located, or it is a secret hidden in the mirage. ”
"It's not...... How did you know such a specific thing?"
He Manzhou quickly sorted out her thoughts, still feeling that she and Bai Yixian were not in the same time and space, otherwise it was also an ancient ballad, what she heard was the mystery and mystery in the clouds, and even seemed to be slow to react because she was too incomprehensible, but Bai Yicong was able to analyze the head of the Tao, and even deduced the itinerary.
So after holding it for a long time, He Manzhou just asked ignorantly: "Don't have a heart with me at this time, Bai Yicong, can you explain it in detail, that ancient ballad doesn't mention the name of the place at all, how did you come to understand it?"
"Because the former head of the Bai family, that is, my grandfather, told some stories. Bai Yi never shied away from it, and immediately explained, "Those are some very obscure stories, I didn't understand them before, and it was only after seeing this ancient ballad that I realized the true meaning of it." Don't worry, I'll tell you slowly. ”
For the "black fairy tales" that his grandfather told back then, Bai also remembers it vividly.
Those obscure contents, not ghost stories are better than ghost stories, and how many midnight dreams have kept him awake at night.
Those about the history of the Bai family, the snow-capped mountains and the desert, the Miao village and the temples, the gods in the snow, the abandoned people, the cursed temples.......
No matter how much you dig into it, it will make people think about it.
All the old man's intentions seem to be deliberately covering up something, but if he really has the intention to hide it, it would be good not to tell these things directly, why should he tell Bai Yicong? This is like a person who is obsessed with the authorities has left a key, and the old man clearly hopes that his grandson can learn something from it, and then break the deadlock of fate.
"The first story is about the Dragon Maiden. ”
Bai Yicong's tone paused slightly, and he withdrew his thoughts from his contemplation, and then finally opened his mouth lightly.
"It is said that there is a temple of the dragon maiden built on the edge of the lake, and there are offerings that people have been worshipping for generations. In the Dragon Maiden Temple, there lives a little dragon girl who blesses the world with good weather. It was a very beautiful girl, with diamonds and pearls adorning the hem of her dress, and the dragon's tail coiled on the pillars of the Dragon Maiden's Temple, and the dragon's scales shining brighter in the moonlight than the stars in the sky. ”
"Every eighteen years, the little female dragon will take on the form of a human and go to the town where humans live to choose a destined person. It must have been the prettiest girl in town, enough to be favored by the gods. The little dragon girl will put the dragon ball on the girl's forehead and give her the most sincere blessing as a blessing in the middle of the night, so that she can bless the whole village on her behalf. ”
"What is this, fairy tale?"
He Manzhou listened seriously at first, but soon felt that something was wrong, this is like a story of folklore, what does it have to do with the ancient country of Loulan?
"Fairy tales are not so real as to be cruel, and the reason why cruel things happen is because such offerings themselves are incomplete. Bai Yi raised his eyebrows slightly, and said lightly, "The dragon ball enshrined in the Dragon Girl Temple was stolen by the little dragon girl, which did not belong to the village in the first place, sooner or later, the owner of the dragon ball will take his own things and punish these traitors." ”
"That'...... Who is the real owner of the Dragon Ball?"
"It was the pearl left by the little princess, and it was also a tear she shed back then. ”
Bai Yicong's voice was faint, and He Manzhou listened silently, as if he saw the entire boundless desert. It was a very beautiful temple, with delicate and beautiful patterns on the white columns, and when it came through the sunlight, it seemed to be shrouded in an illusory and ethereal filter, and it was clear that it had not yet been completely built, but it was already possible to see the otherworldly magnificence.
The little princess of Loulan and the girl holding the white lotus sat by the lake, chatting with each other.
"Sister, how long do you think it will take for this temple to be built?"
"There are still three years to go before it is completed, but the prophecy of the high priest says that after the temple is completed, it will take 999 days of prayer and prayer day and night for the devotees to complete the final prayer ceremony. ”
"That means that in about six years, we will be able to live here?" The little princess was only six or seven years old at that time, and her bright eyes revealed an innocent and pure light, and she did not hide her expectations, "I think about it, I will be twelve years old by then, and my sister should also have a fourteenth birthday, and we have all grown up." ”
As she said this, her hand picked up the clear water of the lake, and the surface of the lake rippled faintly.
And the crystal and pure water flowed down the little princess's fingers, reflecting the golden sunlight, bright and beautiful.
"Speaking of which, my birthday is still ten days away, what will my sister give me?"
The little princess looked at the girl beside her with her cheeks, and before she could say anything, a servant dressed in exotic clothes ran over.
"Meet the Holy Maiden, Meet the Little Princess......"
As the most noble little princess of Loulan's bloodline, when accepting the people's salutes, she actually ranked behind the beautiful girl, and she had no objection to this, as if this was a matter of course.
"The High Priest asked me to invite you two to the temple. ”
"Good. ”
The girl holding Su Lian bowed her head slightly, clearly just a girl, but with a dusty self-control. However, the little princess of Loulan couldn't help her childlike nature, pulled the girl's sleeve, and continued to mumble quietly while getting up.
"Sister, you haven't said yet, what do you want to give me......."
"I will give you the pearls enshrined in the temple. ”
.........
These pictures inexplicably appeared in He Manzhou's mind, and they were not controlled at all.
In the end, only the girl's voice scattered in the wind was left in her ears, beautiful and distant, and drifted away little by little.
The trance that struck her in an instant was too strong, as if the eyes hidden in her mind were slowly opening a small gap, and the blue eyes pressed under the beautiful eyelashes, the gaze was endlessly cold, revealing a worldly mockery.
The feeling of being stared at the soul was so creepy that He Manzhou shuddered out of thin air.
There was no way to explain this sudden palpitation, just as she had no way to tell Bai Yicong that the intermittent illusions that had frequently appeared in her mind recently, so she was silent for a long time before He Manzhou could barely stabilize her mind.
"Bai Yicong, do you know where the Dragon Maiden Temple is?"