Chapter 14 The City of the Capital
Is it a city? I finally see the buildings of the city? Can you go home? The excitement in my heart, the indescribable excitement, as if I had experienced a nightmare that I would not wake up from, and now there are finally signs of sobriety! Running towards the buildings looming in the fog in front of you.
The closer you get there, the more panicked you become, and you don't see any signs of the city at all, which ...... Looks like a city gate? The ancient kind of city gate? What the hell is this place, there is such a thing! How do you feel that all this is a dream, and you can't get out of it?
Sure enough, when I got to it, I really saw that it was indeed a city gate, extremely solemn, and it was so high in front of me that it made people solemn and awe-inspiring.
There is a couplet on it:
Shanglian: People and ghosts and ghosts and ghosts have different paths
Downlink: Yin and Yang and Yin and Yang are forever separated
There is no horizontal batch, there is only a black plaque in the middle, and the three golden characters of "Xudu City" are hung in the center of the city.
The capital city? Somewhat familiar! I seem to have seen this place name in some book, but I can't remember anything at the moment. Looking at the couplet on it, the hairs on my body stood up, I don't know why such a solemn city gate was written, and the smoke was all around, looking up, I couldn't see the stars, the sun and the moon, and when I looked down, I couldn't see the dust of the land.
The gates were open, and there was so much white inside that I couldn't see anything clearly, and I walked in sluggishly......
Inside is not the outdoor I imagined, but a huge interior, no ceiling on the top, no edge around, extremely dim, there are only two arches inside, each with a lamp hanging on the door, a huge space, only these two lights are luminous, can only illuminate two doors, everything else is in the dark.
The lamp does not have any carrier, no candle, no body. It's just that the fire head that appeared for no reason, if you look closely, it is not hanging, but hanging high, but it does not move at all. One is bright, the other is dim and dark.
The fire doesn't shine all around, so I can't see what it's like, I don't know how wide it is, I just know every step. There will be an echo in the footsteps.
The two giant arches were also pitch black, as if something was staring at me, and the two lights floating on the door were like ghosts, shivering with light, and I didn't have the courage to walk into the arches, let alone explore the surroundings where I couldn't see my fingers.
When I looked back, there was no way back, and it was pitch black behind me. Endless darkness!
Even breathing became cautious, always feeling that there was something hidden in the darkness, and once awakened, the consequences would be unimaginable.
The cold darkness around me swallowed every cell of me, and I could only move forward, closer to the light, and a little closer......
The one on the left was brightly lit and glowing holy, while the one on the right was looming and dimly dark.
Close to bright light. Finally see it clearly, isn't the front right handsome? He kept his head down and kept walking, and I was just about to shout, but suddenly I realized something. Immediately covered his mouth, but the footsteps quietly followed.
There was more than just a handsome man here, there was a row of guards standing on either side, they were dressed in battle uniforms similar to ancient times, they were serious and mighty, but they looked a little familiar. I regretted it as soon as I got here. It's like falling into a strange place again, trying to escape, but looking at a pair of falcon-like eyes, I can't open my legs. But come to think of it, it's better here than out there in the infinite darkness, at least there's someone here.
It seems that there are still people in front of the big handsome, is it another team? I could only follow the big boss for the time being, and none of them spoke, as if they were waiting for something.
It was dark and gloomy ahead, and I could only see the scene in front of me a little bit when I didn't take a step, and I could gradually see it as the team moved forward.
There seems to be a device in front of him, Da Shuai seems to have walked up directly without any consideration, and then a person came from the side, that is, the guards standing on both sides, looking at his clothes, I suddenly remembered, no wonder they look so familiar, I have seen these people, they came out of the Land Temple before, and dragged me and Da Shuai in handcuffs and foot cuffs, they are the ones who dragged them away!
I began to tremble at the thought of this, they were cruel, but they seemed to be impartial.
And at this moment, the handsome man did not hesitate or resist, and stepped directly onto the strange device, the guard came over with a paper and pen, and he also looked calm, but, what are they doing?
Measuring height and weight? Isn't that device used to measure height and weight during physical examinations in our schools? It's just a little different, this one looks a little more complicated, and the guard carefully records the height and size of the handsome man with a brush, whether he is healthy or not, etc., and looks meticulous.
Then he led the handsome forward, disappearing into the darkness, and the handsome was always at a loss, obedient and cooperative.
At this moment, it is my turn to be in a daze, Da Shuai is leaving, I don't know what to do next, I have been following Da Shuai before, and there are still a row of guards standing on both sides, although they don't look at me, my every move is under their noses, I can't stand, I can't sit, more and more uneasy......
Hey? When did I get so many people behind me? I always thought I was the last one in the team, but I didn't know that there were some people behind me, and it turned out that the team had always existed.
From the darkness came another person, dressed in the same clothes as before, with a pen and paper in his hand, and I looked at him, and then at the device in front of me, and stood up without hesitation......
After a while, all kinds of data have been recorded by him, but when I caught a glimpse of the paper, I was still taken aback, because it not only recorded my height, shortness, fat and thinness, but also my birth date and other very ** things, how did he know this? But looking at his serious and cold expression, I couldn't ask anything. And there is an invisible mysterious power in him, and after he left, I didn't think much about it, followed him closely, and went with him.
I saw the big man again, and it seemed to be a little brighter, and I saw a lot of people, all led by a guard, and we were lined up one by one, in an orderly manner.
This is a lobby, there is a platform in front of the lobby, which looks a bit like a judgment table, and there is a person sitting in it, majestic and solemn, a bit like a courtroom, but more like an ancient Chinese courtroom. The person sitting in the middle was too, dressed in a yellow robe and wearing an official hat, looking like he was filming a costume drama, if it weren't for a person kneeling on the ground and no cameras around, I would have thought it was filming!
Isn't it the beggar who kneels on the ground? The crutches were on the ground, his hands were in a state of broken bones, so he knelt with his wrists on the ground, and a guard stood beside him, and from time to time he had to answer some questions from the inquisitor based on the paper in his hand.
What does that mean? We're lining up here, and the last turn is coming? Will I be interrogated on my knees like him?
"When you were 10 years old, you ran away from home in a bad mood, and your parents both died of illness because of your disappearance, are you guilty?" This voice came from all directions, and it was like a sound from outside the sky, and it felt like it was coming out of my own brain, rich, ethereal, and weird.
"Guilt, guilt!" He bowed his head deeply, kowtowed, his palms floating on the ground like marshmallows, his wrists pressed tightly against the ground, and his mouth kept repeating the two words. Before the judges, he was like a speck of dust, and the only thing he could do was to obey and confess his sins.
"But because of this, you also become a homeless man for life......"
Now I can see clearly, the mouth of the judge on the stage is moving slightly, and the voice is coming from him! It was he who spoke, and I just wondered that the Inquisitor was not tall when he sits, but how I felt that he was like a giant statue, high up, so majestic and inviolable.
What did he just say? Vagabond? Suddenly, I felt a tremor in my heart, and my heart palpitated inexplicably.
"You could have spent your life atoning for your sins, but because of your greed, you rashly broke into other people's worlds, didn't cherish it, and you eat, drank, prostituted and gambled everything, contracted a body of amorous disease, and finally because of a car accident, the whole body couldn't move, died of hunger, and you were still a homeless person when you died, can you accept it?"
In the end, the three words "you can be convinced" were very heavy and solemn, and I was shocked when I heard it.
"Serve! Wear! Wear! "Beggar, no, it must be that the homeless man is close to lying on the ground, and he keeps saying the word in his mouth, and he has his back to me, so I can't see his face, but I can imagine that he must be full of piety and remorse at this moment.
"Dying from starvation is a torture, but your thoughts before death are too strong, so that after death, you still keep repeating the ** before you die-eating, so that you enter the infinite pain of the glass world, can you accept it?"
"Serve! Wear! Wear! He still nodded like a chicken pecking rice.
"It should have been heavy, but if you know how to repay the favor, you will give the dog beating stick to that person at the Vicious Dog Ridge, so that she will not be attacked by the evil dog, and the merit is immeasurable. Compassion shines through, as long as you are sincere and good, let go of **, you will be exempted from all subsequent crimes, but the initial evil fate still needs to be untied by yourself, enter the offering pavilion, can you take it? ”
"Serve! Wear! Wear! He collapsed on his stomach.
The guard, who had been standing beside him, suddenly took out a chain from nowhere, put it around his neck, and pulled it up hard, and the homeless man stood up, and the man led the homeless man to the side like a dog, and gradually disappeared into the darkness......
My brain is groggy! As if all this had something to do with me! And I always feel that something is wrong! Before I knew it, the hairs all over my body had stood up, and I felt uncomfortable......
Vagabond? It was a strange feeling to hear the name, his face, his eyes...... (To be continued.) )