Chapter 174: The Hourglass of Death, Quietly Running
The ancestor said: It's just one, what's wrong?
Since it's just one, that's not right!
I looked out through the crack in the window and was sure that the lama standing in the snow was the one we had just spoken to. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
I pointed to the crack in the window for the ancestor to see. The ancestor probed, squinted his eyes, and was really stunned.
"Could it be—" Old Ancestor muttered in his mouth, no longer speaking.
When the old lama arrived at the door of the nine-story tower, he knocked softly again, and when I opened the door, he asked, "Monk, didn't you go upstairs?"
The old lama smiled and said, "Yes, I just went upstairs."
As soon as we sat down, the old ancestor asked, "Can I take that thing?"
"It seems that not yet." The old lama's answer was straightforward.
The room fell silent again, and the ancestor's eyes gradually filled with disappointment. Sad, angry, helpless, I obviously saw that his arms were shaking slightly, as if he was suffering from Parkinson's disease, and I knew that he must be angry.
"Old friend, is there no other way?" I have known Lao Zu for so long, and it was the first time I heard him with a pleading flavor in his tone, and I was really shocked.
The old lama takes out the prayer wheel. Sitting cross-legged, closing my eyes and shaking gently, muttering some incantations I didn't understand, the room fell silent again, and seeing the flames in the fire gradually diminish, I stood up and stuffed a few sticks of firewood.
"The fire lotus blooms, and the ice snake dances. When the soul is able to bear the suffering of the living, the heavens and the earth are opened. The old lama said this quietly, and then said no more.
The ancestor said to me: "Apprentice, you go to sleep and rest."
I know that the ancestor has made it clear that he wants me to get out of the way and not let me disturb the conversation between the lamas and them.
I said okay, and then I left the fire, Uncle in a suit, Hiber. Second master, the sleeping bags of the three of them are spread in the southeast corner, the area of this tower is very large, not to mention a few hundred square meters, a group of us are crowded in the southeast corner to sleep, it is impossible to hear their conversation.
By the time I walked over, the three of them hadn't fallen asleep. At the moment, he is whispering with his head against his head.
The uncle in the suit said: I may be dead.
As I laid out my sleeping bag, I asked him, "How is that possible?" Aren't you alive and well? And you didn't speak when you entered the mountain, did you?
The uncle in the suit looked at the three of us, glanced around, carefully unbuttoned his shirt, and said, "Look."
When I looked at the body of the uncle in the suit, I couldn't help but be shocked, the muscles in his chest were faintly blackening, and they were gradually decreasing.
This kind of reduction is not rotting, it is directly invisible to the muscles, as if those muscles have disappeared out of thin air. I can see through the wound the two lobes of the lungs in the suit uncle's body!
"Second master, are you okay?" I grabbed the second master's hand and asked nervously and quietly.
The second master patted the back of my hand and whispered: It's okay, I don't have any symptoms for the time being.
I looked at Heber, who was lying in his sleeping bag the whole time, with one head exposed, and watched us talk, and he didn't say a word.
"Heber, are you okay?" I asked him in a whisper.
Heber didn't speak, just stared at me.
I said, "Haibo, don't look at me, are you okay?" Taji Hall died.
Haiber still didn't speak, just looked at me with a straight look.
I smiled and said, "What are you looking at, Haibo?" We're not playing with staring, what's wrong with your body?
At the moment when I said this sentence with a smile, the three of us were shocked almost at the same time, no! Something happened!
I rushed in front of Hai Bo with an arrow step, and just pushed Hai Bo's shoulder hard, his body pounced, like a hard piece of wood, and directly turned over on his side, and his movements and gestures, as well as the expression on his face, did not change in any way, as if his whole body had already stiffened!
I grabbed Heber's hand, and as soon as I touched it, I found that there was no temperature, and Heber's fingers had become so stiff that I couldn't move them at all!
"Why did Heber die all of a sudden?!" My eyes widened, I couldn't believe how Haibo, who had been fine just now, died all of a sudden.
The uncle in the suit and the second master were also at a loss, and the two didn't know what was going on.
Since the four of us were lying in the southeast corner of the house, there was a wooden railing in the middle, blocking the figures of the ancestor and the lama. What a few of us said and did, the ancestors and lamas could not see.
What the Ancestor and the Lama said and did, the four of us didn't notice.
At this moment I stood up and looked towards the stove, only to find that the ancestor and the lama had disappeared at the same time, and the room was quiet as if they had never appeared.
I patted my face hard, and the pain was still there, so it wasn't a hallucination.
But if it wasn't a hallucination, why did Heber die in just a few minutes?
"Look at his fingers!" The second master squinted and stared at Haibo's right hand.
At this moment, Haiber is facing the sky on his back, and his left hand is spread flat, as if he is supporting the ground. The index finger of the right hand is curved in a hook shape, pointing at the face of the person.
"Does Heber mean to let us see his face?" The uncle in the suit asked.
I squatted in front of Haibo's head, stared at Haibo's face carefully, and didn't find any clues for a long time, but at this moment the nine-story tower was surprisingly quiet, and the ancestor and the lama didn't know where they went, only the three of us were left alive.
Strictly speaking, one is a dead man, one is a living man, and the other is a living dead.
The second master also stared at Haibo's face for a long time, and then said to me violently: No, Abu, you turn Lao Hai's body over again and let him put him in the posture when he was dying just now!
As soon as the second master reminded me of this, I hurriedly hugged Haibo's stiff corpse and let him lie on the ground.
Haiber's left hand was supported on the ground, and his right index finger was bent, pointing not in the direction of his own face, but the nine-story tower above his head!
"Heber means to say, let's go up and have a look?" As soon as I finished asking this question, the uncle in the suit patted his head and said, "I know, the problem must be here, when you and the ancestor were waiting for the lama, Haibo once took me up to the nine-story tower.
"What?" I asked, staring.
The uncle in the suit was a little embarrassed, he said: Hai Bo can't believe in the ancestor, he has to go up to see, he pulled me along, but I walked halfway up the stairs and went down directly, and he went directly to the second floor, but it didn't take long to come down. I didn't say a word after I came down, and as a result...
As a result, Heber died after going upstairs!
Secretly shocked, I glanced up at the floor above, what was on top of the nine-story tower? Die at a glance?
The uncle in the suit only walked half the way, and before he reached the second floor, his body began to rot, how powerful are the things on the second floor?
I said to the second master: Second master, don't take any risks, you just stay here, and I'll go up and see it myself.
The second master grabbed my arm and said, "Don't go!" If you go and can't come back, then I can't go for the rest of my life!
But now that Haibo is dead, I don't know where his soul is, the ancestor said that the soul of those who die in the Tianshan Mountains will exist forever, but they just can't get out of the Tianshan Mountains.
Secondly, the body of the uncle in the suit began to rot, and he didn't know when he would die, if he could find a solution upstairs, it would be fine, the risk was certain, there was no way.
"Why don't I wait for the ancestor to come back, and then take the ancestor to take a look?" I asked the second master in a whisper, but before the second master could speak, I said again: Hey, this will definitely not work, the ancestor is not expected to go up, when he asked the lama for something, he could go up by himself, but he didn't move.
At this time, the atmosphere was extremely tense, Haibo was dead, the uncle in the suit was half dead, the second master was not dead, and I was nothing, I was not even a soul, at most a mass of faith and belief.
"No, I have to go up and have a look, second master, you wait for me, I will definitely be able to come back, I have ghost eyes!" Not to mention anything else, even for the safety of the second master's life, I have to go up to take a look, the mysterious disappearance of the ancestor and the lama makes me feel that things are starting to go wrong.