Chapter 17: Destruction and Rebirth
Li Junmian ran desperately, how he wished that what he saw in front of him was not real, these animals jumping through the woods were just his own illusions. When he got to the edge of the town, he didn't see anyone coming in or out. On such a sunny sunny day, this situation is so unusual. However, even if he realized that something was wrong, he was still deceiving himself, today was the birthday of that big family, everyone went to drink, today was a certain heavy festival, everyone went to see a show, etc., what he could think of, an event that could bring so many people together. However, he knew that this was just self-deception.
He stumbled along, nostrils filled with a foul rancid smell mixed with a musty smell. The first corpse, the whole body was already decomposed, revealing the white bones of the forest. He looked a little disgusted, but the sadness made him even more sad, and he couldn't vomit when he wanted to, and finally covered his mouth and began to sob. The second, the third..., he couldn't count, he was broken, he didn't know how he got back to his home.
He stood at the door, stretched out his hand, but he retreated, and he did not dare to look at the situation in his own home. It was already clear to him that everything was the same as the dryad had said, that the whole town had died, and that he was the only one left. But what exactly is this asking? He doesn't understand, he doesn't know.
Finally, with a trembling hand, he pushed open the hidden door. The moment he pushed the door open, his tears could not be stopped. The familiar home is still here, and the familiar people are also here, but they all fell to the ground horizontally, and they couldn't see their original appearance clearly. He cried and shouted, his father, his mother, and the two little sisters, and he shouted their names, staggering on a rampage.
There was no hope for him anymore, the clothes of his relatives were so familiar, but now they were unrecognizable. His mother was still lying in bed waiting for his medicine to cure her! But now, the medicine has returned, but the person is gone. He cried for a long, long time, so long that he forgot the time.
Suddenly, I heard the voice of the old tree spirit ringing in my ears, "It's too late for you to leave now, many people have torches in their hands, and they want to burn this town along with the people in the town, if you stay here, you will also be burned to death by them, let's go." ”
With hazy teary eyes, he raised his head. I heard a noisy human voice outside the door of the Li Mansion, and in the darkening sky, the faint red firelight illuminated the sky. Listen to these people shouting,
"Don't take off the scarf below, there is a purple-haired Taoist talisman on it, so that everyone will not be infected."
"Hurry up, what are we waiting for, burn down all the Qili Town of this scourge, otherwise several towns around us will also suffer."
"Yes, we can't let the plague reach our town."
However, there are also people who sympathize with Qili Town.
"What kind of iniquity has this created? I heard that Qili Town died almost overnight, and a vision fell from the sky on the day of the accident, and it must have been Qili Town that did something hurtful to heaven and reason, and it would be punished. ”
"Yes, but it's not necessarily the whole town that has done evil things! He took pity on so many innocent people, and he lost his life because of the evil deeds of these wicked people. ”
Li Junmian listened to the conversation of these people, where are there any wicked people in Qili Town, all the people in this Qili Town are surnamed Li, there is no one with a foreign surname, everyone has been counting hundreds of years, they are all ancestors, especially the father who is the patriarch, and he is doing his best to help the villagers live a good life, even the people in that period of the township tyrant are not, how can they be punished by God. There must be something wrong with this, whether it is man-made or providential, he has to figure it out.
Thinking of this, he strengthened his determination to live. He couldn't let those people find out, so he bypassed the front yard and walked to a remote place, where there used to be a woman from out of town, and his father saw that she was pitiful, so he took her in, and this stay was five years, but I don't know why, three months ago, no, according to the old tree spirit, it should have been four months ago, this woman suddenly disappeared. Some people said that on the day this woman disappeared, colorful lights flashed in her room, as if she had ascended to immortal.
However, my father was not keen on cultivating immortals, and he didn't care about this matter, and after a long time, everyone actually forgot that there was such a person who came. However, only he remembered. Today, he had no choice but to get to this place, and he subconsciously pushed open the door and walked in.
It had been so long, but the room was spotless, and he continued to walk inside, and saw a picture of a colorful lotus hanging on the wall, this picture was very beautiful, and the light of the colorful lotus, as if it were real, shook his eyes. He reached out to touch the lotus flower, and just as he touched the lotus, his body was sucked into the painting. When he came to his senses, he found that he had entered a cave, and he felt the stone wall and walked forward slowly. Then I entered a large stone room, and in the center of the stone room, there was a large stone bed, and on the stone bed, it was the colorful lotus flower in the painting.
He walked over to the edge of the stone bed and stretched out his hand to pluck the lotus flower. However, just as he was about to touch the lotus, a small snake suddenly jumped out and bit him fiercely. He was in pain and quickly retracted his hand. Then look at the bite area, which is already red and swollen.
The little snake spat out the letter and looked at him without letting down its vigilance. He stared at the little snake, but he didn't dare to move forward. Immediately after, a thick vine emerged from the ground, wrapped around his waist, dragging him out of the cave, and at the same time, the voice of the old tree spirit sounded in his ears.
"Hold your breath, I'll pull you out. This place is not something you can come to. The things in the cave didn't kill you, because you still miss the kindness of the Li family, so come out with me quickly! ”
Although Li Junmian hasn't figured out what is going on, he knows very well that the old tree spirit has no ill will towards him, and he broke into here to save himself this time, and after he goes out, he wants to thank him well.
When he got out of the cave, he saw that he was under a valley, and when he looked around, he could no longer find the entrance to the cave where he had come out. Then, he turned to look at the old tree spirit in front of him, it turned out that this old tree spirit could shuttle between the trees at will, without restrictions, and it also came to save Li Junmian this time.
However, Li Junmian looked at its leaves, and they had already begun to wither and yellow, falling one by one, and after a while, the ground was covered with a thick layer.
He asked worriedly, "What's wrong with you?" ”
The old tree spirit smiled fearlessly, "I'm going to die, since there is suddenly such a spiritual creature in this mountain, my mission in the human world is completed, and now, I am going to take off my mortal body, and then fly into an immortal." ”
"Become an immortal? Then I'll never see you again? For this tree, Li Junmian is a little reluctant, every time he goes up the mountain, he will take a break under the tree, talking to himself, now, all his relatives are gone, even this tree, is it going to be gone?
"If there is fate, we will still meet, but before leaving, I can fulfill one of your wishes, even if it is to repay the Li family for so many years of kindness!" The old tree spirit stretched out his branch and held Li Junmian up, his eyes level with it.
Li Junmian stood on a high place and looked in the direction of Qili Town, which had now become a sea of fire, the flames were soaring into the sky, and the billowing smoke drifted away with the wind, startling the animals in the woods to flee in all directions.
"I want to avenge the people of Seven Mile Town." He said firmly.
The old tree spirit looked at him, then at Qili Town, and sighed, "Do you want to seek revenge on your distant ancestor?" He looked at the old dryad suspiciously, not understanding what it meant.
The old tree spirit continued: "The distant ancestor of the Li family is an immortal, when he established Qili Town, he had already planted today's calamity, the so-called spiritual things between heaven and earth are not immortals who can be conjured up as soon as they stretch out their hands, that can only be formed by gathering the spiritual energy between heaven and earth. For the sake of the future of the entire human race, the distant ancestors of the Li family let their descendants be good for hundreds of generations, and then gathered more than 1,000 years of good aura before forming today's colorful lotus. If you go to the root cause, the colorful lotus flower is the essence of all the villagers in Qili Town, which is the fate of the Li clan. ”