Chapter 65: The Mask
Yuan Di sat on the ground full of mirror shards and pondered the previous scene, he believed that he was definitely not dazzled before, and the diamond-like scarab must be real.
But he didn't dare to accept the fact that he was a skeleton and Aunt Mary was a big bug, so what about Uncle Hall? What about Duncan Sr.? What are they?
"What the hell is this place?"
Yuan Di tore at the already small amount of sparse hair on the top of his head and slammed it on the ground hard.
After a while, Yuan Di, who had vented enough, regained some of his spirits, and he used his two bone claws to pick up the mirror fragments on the ground, clenching his fists hard, and these fragments "creaked" in his hands.
"Heh, what are you afraid of when you are reborn, it doesn't matter if he's a skeleton or a bug, it's okay if he's not dead, it's good to be alive, it's better than crossing into a pig or a dog."
Yuan Di threw away the broken mirror in his hand with a miserable face, and strode towards the Hall house next door.
Before going out, he turned his head to look at this familiar and unfamiliar courtyard, and scolded at the corner:
"This dog's way of the world."
"Come on, just right, help your aunt go to the kitchen and take out that bit of marinade, let's just start dinner."
Hall greeted Yuan Di while untying his apron.
Yuan Di peeked at Uncle Hall, who had been eating for more than two years.
"Well, it's okay, it's human."
Yuan Di obediently went to the kitchen and brought out a large pot of marinade, and before coming out of the kitchen, he secretly glanced at Aunt Mary who was busy cleaning up from behind, and from behind it was still that sexy and enchanting figure, but the huge body and sharp mouthparts before were memories that Yuan Di couldn't let go.
"What's wrong with you, kid? I'm so preoccupied today. ”
Hearing Hall's question, Yuan Di was a little flustered, picked up the bowl and kept greeting to his mouth.
Hall didn't ask much when he saw his performance, and put a few more oily slices of meat in Yuan Di's bowl.
Yuan Di beckoned noodles to his mouth, and looked down at his ribs, can this skeleton digest it?
I saw that the noodles fell directly to the ground after swallowing from Yuan Di's mouth, and the word "waste" just sounded from Yuan Di's mind, and through the gap in his ribs, he saw that the volume of the noodles was getting smaller and smaller, turning into white stars and seeping into his own bone sticks, and before the noodles fell to the ground, they were swallowed up by their own bones.
"This skeleton can still digest food?? Pork ribs with noodles, pork rib noodles? ”
"Want to eat pork rib noodles? It seems that today's chicken stewed mushrooms are not to your taste, so tomorrow Uncle will go and bring two catties of pork ribs back to satisfy your hunger. ”
Uncle Hall, who heard Yuan Di muttering "pork rib noodles", laughed softly, and his words were full of apologies.
"Huh? If you don't worry about it, today's meal will be delicious. ”
Yuan Di sucked the noodles and looked up and said indistinctly.
As soon as he raised his head, Yuan Di looked at the scene in front of him and was stunned.
It was a dried corpse wrapped in bandages and spices, and a pale golden soul fire burned in its hollow eye sockets, and bandages like spirit snakes peeked out behind his back. A crown of diamonds could be seen on the mummy's head, a scepter full of gold and precious stones leaning against the dining table, and a bandage wrapped around it that seemed to spit out a letter, constantly rubbing the golden gem the size of a child's head on the top.
Beside the mummy, the huge scarab beetle sat quietly on the side, holding a small bowl of noodles into its mouth with its two forelimbs, and then grabbing a handkerchief to wipe its terrible mouthparts like a lady, which inexplicably added a bit of comical to this terrifying scene.
"What's wrong?"
Seeing Yuan Di in a daze, Hall couldn't help but ask.
"No, nothing."
Yuan Di didn't seem to see half of the food in his mouth and continued to chew the food in his mouth, and he didn't dare to look at the terrifying scene at all, for fear that as soon as he looked up, he would see Yimut in "The Mummy" open his mouth and devour his soul.
After eating the leftovers in the bowl in three or two bites, Yuan Di threw down the sentence "I'm full, I'll go back first" and rushed out.
Before going out, he stole his head to see that there were no mummies or scarabs, only Uncle Hall and Aunt Mary sitting at the table, a nondescript wooden cane leaning to the side.
Yuan Di just walked out of the house, he didn't rush to open his eyes, and swallowed his mouth to calm down.
"Yuan Di, don't be afraid, no matter what you see, it's fake, all of this is fake, how can your uncle and aunt be such a terrifying thing?"
While comforting himself in his heart, Yuan Di calmed down the impact of the scene just now on him.
He didn't dare to open his eyes, for fear that after he opened his eyes, something more terrible would appear in front of him instead of everything he was familiar with.
"Hey, what are you doing with your eyes closed? I'm not afraid of being bumped into. ”
A big hand slapped Yuan Di's shoulder heavily, almost slapping him to the ground.
Listening to the familiar voice, Yuan Di knew that this was Duncan, the old postman who had been taking care of him, even if he had a child who was no longer as sloppy as before, Yuan Di also liked to call him old postman, old Duncan.
Taking a deep breath, Yuan Di's eyes widened.
As he expected, it was not the scruffy postman he was familiar with, nor the crisp and clean Uncle Duncan who had come to see him, but four sturdy hooves, one of which had a deep scar on the back that had not been erased.
Yuan Di looked up, a familiar face appeared in front of him, it was his Uncle Duncan, with a large sip of wine poured in, Duncan took a long sip of wine, "whew" spewed out a little spark in his mouth and nose, and a sulfur-smelling snort spurted out of Duncan's mouth and nose.
"Centaurs?"
Yuan Di pondered.
Smiling at the centaur Duncan, Yuan Di left without words.
He walked in the familiar seventh block, which was where he had lived for the past two years, but now there was no place that could match the warm and harmonious neighborhood in Yuan Di's memory.
I saw all kinds of monsters walking beside Yuan Di, including the goblin merchant who once sold him candy, the dwarf boss who competed with him for business, and a green donkey wearing a familiar embroidered cheongsam and a mule in his arms to greet him.
"Oh, that's Aunt Lu? That little little bit is really a mule. ”
There was also a large lizard standing and walking with a sharp-beaked monkey gills saying hello to him, so that he could take care of him more when he had a business in the future.
"This is the money banker?"
Standing on the bustling street, Yuan Di only felt chills all over his body, no matter how big the earth core above his head was, it couldn't dispel the chill on his body.
Looking at the scene around him like a hundred ghosts walking at night, Yuan Di pushed away all the pedestrians around him like crazy and rushed to his hut.
Lying on the bed, Yuan Di cried out in a muffled voice while covering the quilt, hitting the bed board under him with his fist hard, hating why he could see the truth behind these people, where did the masks that everyone wore go?
Behind him, a drop of scarlet blood was revealed, and a somewhat torn feather floated beside him.
A gentle voice came from the feather.
"Have you had enough? It's time to do something. ”