Chapter 22: The Truth

"Lu Yao! Lu Yao! I cried out in tears as the blood-red mummy-like thing in front of me kept approaching me, the wood knife in my hand shining with a sharp cold light.

With a whoosh, another vine stretched out from under the cliff and suddenly wrapped around my left arm. I was already unable to move, but now I can't move at all.

"Can't help me...... You're going to die......" The blood-red mummy repeated the suppressed words without breaking his mouth, and raised the wood knife in his hand with a word, and quickly fell on top of my head.

"Don't!" I subconsciously reached out to block it, and the vine broke with a "bang" after hitting the firewood knife, leaving only the section that was still wrapped around my arm. Liberated, I immediately took several steps back in the opposite direction of the mummy, and distanced myself from him.

"Ahh A tingling sensation came from both arms, and I looked down to see that the tangled vines were slowly digging into the skin of my arms, and the stinging sensation came from the small thorns on the vines when they pierced into the skin. I looked at the approaching mummy in front of me, ignoring the pain in my arms, and turned my head to spread my legs and kept running through the snow, trying to avoid him.

"This place...... I can't help you......" Seeing that I was running fast, the mummy stopped the pursuit, turned to crouch down, raised the wood knife and stabbed it to the ground. Suddenly, three thick walls of ice suddenly rose in the empty snow around me, blocking my escape. The mummy writhed in front of me with lightning speed, tilting its head, two hollow red cloths glaring at me like eyes.

Lu ...... Lu Yao ...... "I timidly tried to shout, and when the weird mummy heard it, he opened his mouth covered with red cloth and made a sound similar to ahhhhh His free hand suddenly trembled, scratching at the strip of cloth on his head. I can feel that there is still a remnant of Lu Yao's consciousness in this monster's body, as if he is suffocating under these wrapped strips of cloth and cannot be free.

"You hold on, you listen, you have to hold on." I gasped and kept talking to him.

Suddenly, the red monster shook its head, Lu Yao's remaining consciousness was suppressed, and he once again raised the firewood knife in his hand and slashed at me. My heart was like ashes, and I closed my eyes and waited for death to come. After a few seconds, nothing was cut off my head. I was stunned for a moment, and when I opened my eyes, I found that there was a red, yellow, green, black and white rope in my left hand, with a pestle at one end and a ring at the other. Isn't this the rope of the King of Fudo! The chain flew out of my hand with a "snap", and instantly wrapped tightly around the hands and feet of the red mummy in front of me. The firewood knife in his hand fell to the ground, and the whole person was bound to death. He writhed desperately, his mouth squeaking from time to time, but he couldn't really hear it because of the strip of cloth.

At this moment, the palm of my right hand also began to crack, and an arm-long sword gradually grew inside. The hilt of the sword is golden and decorated with a lotus-like pattern, and a small dragon covered in red like a flame is entrenched on the sword. Seeing this sword, the monster suddenly let out a terrible scream, but because its body could not move, it could only scream in mourning. The hilt of the sword rested tightly against my hand, as if it were connected to my flesh and skin. It rushed straight into the mummy's body as if it were alive, and I was driven by the force, and the blade plunged into the blood-red mummy's neck, causing him to stop struggling.

"Woo woo......" He opened his mouth wide and whimpered in pain, and one after another red strips of cloth quickly stretched out from the wound on his neck, wrapping around the sword, trying to pull out the sword, but it was burned to ashes by the flames of the red dragon entrenched on the sword.

Finally, he stopped all his movements and fell to his knees in the endless darkness of the night. The walls of ice around him melted, and the sword and rope that bound him disappeared, and the world was once again at peace. I walked carefully and step by step in front of him, and the only sound left on the ground was the sound of me stepping on snow. Through the layers of entwined red cloth, I seemed to have seen Lu Yao's angular and mature face. I couldn't help but reach out and try to touch the face of the person in front of me, but the moment I touched him, the palm of my hand began to feel a burning sensation constantly.

Not again. I looked at my right hand, and as I had done the last time, a crooked "T" gradually appeared in the palm of my hand, and the marks of the brand were clinging to the red cloth wrapped around the man's face. The red cloths seemed to be stimulated suddenly, and they tightened the man's face even harder, but I didn't think that the suction in my hand was even stronger, and one red cloth after another gradually rolled into my palm. It felt like the skin of an animal being peeled raw, and as the strips of cloth were torn off, blood began to flow on the ground.

The blood stains gradually stained the entire snow under him, and the strips of cloth were finally swept into my palm as if they had been eaten, and the familiar face that was torn off lay quietly on my lap, it was Lu Yao.

I reached out again and touched his carotid artery, and the faint fluctuations excited me that he was finally alive. I suddenly thought of the red belt on the corpse before, and hurriedly lifted his clothes to look at it, he grabbed my hand and said to me in a weak but happy voice, "Miss Wu, what are you doing?" ”

Before my excitement subsided, the snow around me began to melt at an unimaginable rate. After receding, the earth quickly turned green, and it didn't take long for a large grassland to unfold before my eyes. The thick clouds that had accumulated in the sky gradually dispersed, and the clear blue sky was sprinkled with golden and warm sunlight.

What a beautiful view, I thought to myself. A feeling of exhaustion and weakness swept over my body, and I slowly lay down on the tender green grass, as if I heard someone calling my name again in the distance.

Wu Chao......

"Lu Yao, is that you?" I whispered, my eyes blurred, and I seemed to see Lu Yao walking towards me with a smile.

Wu Chao......

The clothes are gone, and the nightmare is devoured. The Lord of the Three Thousand Worlds must be exhausted in a moment. The root of trouble, the source of suffering, is the inner self-defeat, surrendering to the inside, purifying the outside, and we must remember ......

"Little Sickness!" I felt a violent shaking of my body.

Who's shaking me...... I just fell asleep...... Go away......

"Wu Chao! Wu! Chigger! Eat! Rice! Finish! My eardrums "boomed" and I was almost deafened by the shout, and my eyes opened suddenly. In front of me, Qin Chuyi, who looked stupid, almost touched my nose.

"Ahh Perverted! I yelled and pushed him hard, only to realize that I was back in reality. When Grandpa Qin saw that I woke up, he immediately touched the pulse on my hand and showed a reassuring smile.

"It's definitely no problem, it's really strong." Qin Chuyi, who was pushed by me, touched his chest and muttered.

"Where's Lu Yao!" I turned my head and saw that there was no one lying next to me, and asked anxiously.

"I woke up earlier than you and helped him go to the big room to sleep." Qin Chuyi said, "Eh, tell me, what are you doing inside, why is the first thing he asks when he wakes up is where you are, and the first thing you ask when you wake up is where he is?" ”

Grandpa Qin looked at his cute grandson, couldn't help but pout, and said, "Boy, are you eating Lu Yao's vinegar?" After that, I picked up the statue of King Fudo Ming beside me and looked at it, and said, "I really didn't misunderstand you, granddaughter-in-law, you succeeded." ”

Hearing him say this, I picked up the statue with some curiosity and looked at it, and suddenly found that the missing placket had been perfectly repaired, and the rope in the left hand of King Ming had been completely wound up three times, which looked very harmonious. However, the feathers of the bird are ......

"I'll tell you about the feather later." Qin Sanyou saw my worries and comforted me, "Get up and eat, it's okay anymore." ”

Is it all over in one qiē? I said to myself. Looking at the sunlight shining outside the window, I was in a trance at this moment.

"Xiaoxiao, you don't know what just happened! Let me tell you, a lot of scary things flew out of Lu Yao's body just now, and they hit the enchantment, and ah......" Qin Chuyi was talking energetically, and was knocked on the head by his grandfather, asking him to talk about it later, let me have a good rest first.

After telling them what happened to me in Lu Yao's dream, the three of them walked out of the enchantment together. I took out my phone from my coat and looked at it, and it had only been twenty minutes, and I seemed to have been in that dream for days. It's really only half a day in the world, and twenty years in a dream. When I returned to my grandparents' house, all the dishes were ready, and everyone shouted for me to eat together. Looking at this harmonious picture in front of me, I couldn't help but sigh that it was good to be back. After eating, I was idle and bored, so I walked around the town, and unconsciously walked to the open-air milk tea shop that I frequented when I was a child, sat down casually, and ordered a cup of black tea.

"Hey, granddaughter-in-law, are you done eating?" Qin Sanyou, who was walking on the street, saw me, hurriedly said hello to me, and sat down opposite me. He looked at me holding my head in both hands, looking listless, and said funny: "What, are you still worried about Lu Yao?" ”

"No, it's just ......"

"It's just a little depressed, I don't know what the hell is going on." He said.

Hearing him say this, I suddenly came to my senses, stared at his old face, and listened to him quietly: "The red mummy you saw should be the spirit of clothes. After years of worship and incense offerings, the statue has an aura. Although it depicts the King of Fudo Ming, the placket of the shirt was cultivated into a spirit body alone and attached to Lu Yao's body in the museum exhibition. He paused and ordered a cup of original milk tea, "This kind of cloth spirit has not yet received a full form, and can only live in the host's body through guò dreams, until the host dies, and he can take possession of that body." The King of Fudo Ming is a Bodhisattva who subdues demons and destroys demons, and the rope that binds the demons unconsciously plays its duty and binds the demons! ”

"The body of the demon, is it Lu Yao in the dream?"

"Not exactly, it should be the red cloth that entangles Lu Yao. You told me there was a cliff with vines on the edges, right? The vines were the reflection of the rope, and the reason why they were wrapped around the cliff wall was to prevent the Clothed Spirit from getting out of the snow. Lu Yao, who has a cloth spirit, naturally can't touch those vines, so he can only rely on you to cut them down. If you really cut them all, then it is estimated that Lu Yao will be saved. ”

I thought to myself that when I cut down the vine, I had a strange feeling in my heart, but I didn't expect the truth of the matter to be like this.

"However, spirits generally don't have such great evil power, they are only attached to some things, and they don't hurt people. This cloth spirit is full of evil spirits, and there may be some hidden secrets behind it. After speaking, Qin Sanyou's gaze looked into the distance, as if he was thinking about something.

"Then why me, not Qin Chuyi, or grandpa, you go to that dream to get rid of demons?"

Hearing me ask, he smiled, took a sip of milk tea, and said word by word: "I didn't expect that this bloodline of the Xu family's dream master would flow to you, a person surnamed Wu." ”