Chapter 25: Where to Go From Here
I'm also wondering what to do with the rest of the matter......
My classmates will definitely not hide anything for me, maybe they will call the police as soon as they go out, so that they can get rid of me.
But what about me? What can I explain to the police? Even if they believe in the existence of the water god and believe that I escaped from under the Boundary Fish Stone, how can I explain to them the death of Chen Mingyu and the others?
Am I really going to wander the world and run away for the rest of my life?
I was so irritable that I couldn't help but reach out and touch my cigarette, only to find that I had run out of cigarettes.
Ye Xun threw me a box of cigarettes at this time: "I turned it out in the villa." ”
As soon as I lit the fire, Ye Xun said: "Actually, you don't have to bother, if you are really found by the police, just push everything to me." ”
"No, I can't. I immediately shook my head and said, "I'm not from the rivers and lakes, but I have the spirit of the rivers and lakes." I can't do this kind of thing. ”
"Fool. A smile appeared on the corner of Ye Xun's mouth.
Before I finished my cigarette, I suddenly heard a scream from the villa: "Wang Huan, help!
Ye Xun and I rushed into the villa at the same time. By the time we rushed up to the second floor, there was already chaos above, and the water god in the basement of the villa had escaped at some point and was scurrying around the house.
Ye Xun and I wanted to rush in, but we were blocked by the life that came out of the door.
I grabbed a classmate who was in my way and threw him out of the door with both hands to get inside.
At this time, several classmates were scratched by him, several girls were so frightened that they shrank in the corner and trembled, and some people copied the stool and dialed the water god indiscriminately. But the more they fought, the more panicked the water god became, and after grabbing the arms of several people in succession, he rushed out of the house.
Ye Xun and I drew our knives at the same time, and stabbed the water god in the chest together. The two long knives pierced through each other's bodies in no particular order, but we kept running with all our strength until we pinned each other to the wall, and then we retreated at the same time.
When the two of us were two steps away, the water god reached out to pull out the long knife on his body, and after several successive exertions, the palm with the frog webbed finally hung limply beside him. When he looked at me for the last time, there was a clear relief in his tearful eyes.
The last time he looked at me, I didn't know why I felt a pang in my heart, as if something was stuck in my chest and I couldn't spit it out.
The water god obviously still has nostalgia for life in his eyes, but he is no longer tolerant of this world. To be alive is nothing more than being imprisoned in a space of tens of meters, and death is a relief for him. However, the water god is probably about the same age as me, and I can understand his final affection.
At that moment, I unconsciously clenched my fists and turned my head to look at Ye Xun - perhaps, I should consider wandering the world like Ye Xun.
I was silent, Dong Xiaowei asked in a trembling voice, "Wang Huan, what is that?"
"The god of water, I only know that he is the god of water. I looked at my classmates around me, "Which of you has been injured by the water god?"
None of my classmates would speak, so I could only say again, "I'm asking you serious questions." If you are injured by the god of water, you will be poisoned, and you will become like the god of water. ”
I tore off the gauze on my arm a few times: "I was also injured by the water god, see for yourself." ”
Half of my arms were covered with turquoise frog skin, a terrible dark green that looked unusually dazzling in the light.
Someone cried out with a "wow" just by looking at it: "I was hurt by the god of water......"
Zhang Shu stood up suddenly: "I'm going to the hospital, I don't want to become a monster......"
"You stop. Dong Xiaowei rushed up and grabbed Zhang Shu, "Can the hospital treat our injuries?"
"I don't care......" Zhang Shu struggled desperately, "If it can't be cured here, I'll go to the capital, if the capital can't work, I'll go abroad!" I don't want to become a monster, don't ......."
Dong Xiaowei cried and shouted: "What can you do if you go abroad? Maybe, we all have to be arrested as monsters and sent to the research institute for research." Do you want to ...... that?"
Zhang Shu, who was still struggling just now, was stunned for a moment. She was stunned for only a few seconds, as if someone had drained her whole strength, and sat down on the ground limply, staring out the door with blank eyes, as if she was stupid, unable to say a word.
Dong Xiaowei is right, if we really find the hospital, maybe we will be sent to the research institute soon, although there will be no danger to our lives, but it is not much different from being imprisoned; perhaps, after entering the research institute, we still can't escape the fate of becoming a water god.
Everyone understands these things, but it is precisely because they understand that it makes people even more desperate.
Dong Xiaowei looked at me and said, "Wang Huan, haven't you been checking the legend for the past few days, have you found any clues?
"Maybe there is a ......" As soon as I said three words, Zhang Shu's eyes lit up: "Wang Huan, do you really have a way to save us......?"
Zhang Shu seemed to remember something after seeing my eyes: "Wang Huan, we just said that you killed people, but in fact, they were all because of fear. We are all classmates, don't say you didn't kill anyone, even if you did kill someone, we will help you hide it. You say, right?"
The rest of the students also reacted: "Yes, Wang Huan, we are all classmates......"
I waved my hand weakly: "Don't talk about this yet, you help me find it in the villa, see if there are three bronzes, and help me bring them to me when I find them." ”
I really don't want to say anything to them. Some things, now that they have been said, no matter how much you go back to the circle, it will make people feel fake. However, if I really want to see death and not save me, I can't control this heart at that time, and I can only send them out, so that I can't see them and don't worry about them.
They searched almost the entire villa but did not find the shadow of the three bronze trees, but they brought a lot of other bronzes.
When my classmates were looking for something, I sat in the living room without saying a word until they all came back, and Ye Xun spoke: "All the bronzes in the villa have been found, you see if there are any clues." ”
I looked at Ye Xun and said, "I think, I know the location of Jianmu." ”
Ye Xun was surprised: "What did you say, where is Jianmu?"
Jianmu fell into Fuxian Lake. ”
I slowly explained, "According to my initial inference, Jianmu is divided into three layers, the upper middle and the lower layer, the lower layer is connected to the underworld, the middle is the human world, and the upper layer is the heavenly world. Underneath the boundary fish stone should be the root of the building tree, that is, where the underworld is located. ”
"Since ancient times, people have revered gods and feared ghosts, people yearn for the heavenly realm, and ghosts and gods yearn for the human world. Therefore, the process of building wood should also be started from the bottom up layer by layer. ”
"When we see the altar under the Boundary Fish Stone, the water god is worshipping the gate, and after the door is opened, the water god can enter the human world through the gate, and perhaps, they will truly merge into the human world from monsters that are neither human nor ghost. ”
When Ye Xun heard me say this, he couldn't help frowning and said, "There are three loopholes in your inference. ”
"First, since the water gods can come out from under the Boundary Fish Stone, why do they worship the four blocked gates?"
"Second, how did the water gods come about? Are they water gods turned into human beings, or did they exist in this image of no human or ghost from the beginning? If they are the water gods who changed later, then they should know that Jianmu is no longer there, is it still useful for them to worship there?"
"Thirdly, the water god's goal is to track down the bronze tree, what do they want from the bronze trunk? ”
I shook my head and said, "I haven't found any clues about what you're talking about. I can't explain anything right now. However, one thing I am sure of is that the water gods below the Boundary Fish Stone are stronger. They are the original water gods, and they also have some persistent beliefs about sacrificing to leave the cave, so I say they are the original water gods. ”
Ye Xun and I have both fought with the water god, and I can obviously feel that the water god under the boundary fish stone is much stronger than the one in the villa, at least they have a terrifying ferocity.
I continued: "However, what they didn't expect was that the passage to the world no longer existed, and the consequence of opening the stone gate was to fill their nests with lake water. ”
"Among the seven mysteries of Fuxian Lake, there is the secret of the vicissitudes of life, that is, the conjecture of why the ancient city of Fuxian Lake sank to the bottom of the lake. The answer to this conjecture has already been given, that is, because of the changes in the earth's crust, the original ancient city sank to the bottom of the lake overnight. ”
"If I'm not mistaken, the location where the cave was connected at the beginning was the ancient city of Fuxian Lake. If the sacrifice of the water god is successful, they should be able to return to the ancient city from underground. ”
I paused at this point: "Perhaps, they were originally from the ancient city, but they were sent underground for some unknown reason, so they have an almost crazy obsession with returning to the human world. ”
"I think they're going to have some kind of ritual as they walk through the passage to get themselves back to their original state. Moreover, the exit of the passage was in the temple that Chen Mingyu and the others had sneaked into, even under the bronze tree, otherwise, the water god would not have to find the bronze tree. ”
At this point, I couldn't help but say to myself, "What I said is just my conjecture." We hadn't looked closely at the cave, nor had we seen any writing or pictures left on the altar, so I had to guess where I thought it was plausible. ”
Ye Xun was silent for a while and said, "I admit that your conjecture has some truth. Now that you've determined the location of the roots and torso of the building tree, where is the canopy that represents the heavenly realm?"