Chapter 18 18.The Old Man in the Mountain

Earth time: May 2 rain

Otherworldly Time: Unknown

"Beidou"

"No"

"Beidou"

"No!!"

"Beidou"

"No !!!"

Wang Hao's resentful voice and miserable and resentful face echoed in my mind, and I could only scream with guilt, chagrin, and fear on instinct.

The wind and thunder shook in my ears, and the bloody rain washed my face and body, and I felt like I was in an abyss, unable to save myself, but also longing for someone to save me.

"Hokuto Yaichi, I hate you!!" I could see the hateful look in Suzune-senpai's eyes, and I wished I was the one who died.

I tried to explain something, and I explained to him that it wasn't me, but I couldn't say anything.

I could only watch their faces around me, growing bigger and more terrifying.

And I could only huddle in a dark corner, resented and angry by them.

I don't know how long I've been in a coma, but I know that I'm not dead, because when I die, I can see the girl surnamed Meng.

If I hadn't seen her, I'd be pretty sure I wasn't dead.

But, so what, my mind was a mess, as if my head had exploded and returned to silence, but there was still a buzzing aftersound.

I snapped open my eyes and got up, my mind going blank. I held my forehead, I knew that my expression was very embarrassed and dazed at the moment, but I only remembered one thing

That is, I killed a person, and it was my friend, Wang Hao.

"You're finally awake, young man!" While I was still indulging in my deep self-reproach and remorse, an old voice came from my ears.

"Who?" I jerked my head up and looked around, only to see no one in the dark areas around me except for the sunlight shining through the hole in my head: "Who's there?!" ”

"Hehehe, I didn't expect that after hundreds of years, someone would come here to see me" skipped some desolation in his voice.

"Who the hell are you? Why don't you come out?! Also, where the hell is this?! "I continued to look around and noticed that no one was talking, and I couldn't help but panic.

"Hehehe, young man, don't worry, you're in the Forbidden Mountain now, and I'm an old man locked up here," the old voice chuckled self-deprecatingly.

"Can you come out and meet with you? And why am I here?! ”

"Young man, those who can come to this forbidden mountain are all punished people, but a hundred years have passed, and even I didn't expect anyone to be imprisoned here, as for why you are here, I don't know, old man, and looking at your strange clothes, I still want to ask who you are and why you are locked up here"

The old man still refused to show up, but his series of rhetorical questions calmed me down, and I thought carefully about myself and the situation at that time.

When that series of images finally surfaced in front of me relying on my memories, my heart felt like a basin of cold water was poured on me, and it was like dead ashes, but now, it was too late to say anything, and I whispered back: "I killed someone, so I was imprisoned here"

"Hey, I thought what was the matter, why don't you just kill someone, as for being locked up here? Old man, when I was young, I killed a lot of people, there were enemies, there were people who wanted to kill me for money, as a result, I still live at ease, and now the world has really changed, and people who kill people are imprisoned, alas, the world is going down! The old man's tone was full of complaints.

Hearing his words, I smiled bitterly: "What kind of crooked reasoning are you, of course you have to be punished for killing someone, not to mention, that person, he doesn't deserve to die"

"Oh? Then you say, who did you kill and don't deserve to die? ”

"Friend, not because of betrayal, but because I fell into the poison of the enemy, and mistakenly thought that the friend who was in a coma was the enemy, and as a result, "Before I finished speaking, I couldn't go on, because I didn't want to say any more, I bit my lip to death, but this did not alleviate my sin."

"I see," the old man said, but his tone was also a little regretful: "Young man, old man, I have killed countless people in my life, whether it is my intention or not, but my hands are already covered with blood, and this sin has long been washed away, so I sealed myself in this mountain, set up an enchantment for myself, and left a stone tablet of the forbidden mountain and a trace of breath to warn outsiders not to enter, do you know why?" ”

I shook my head: "How do I know"

"That's because a man, like your friend, is a person who doesn't deserve to die," the old man's increasingly solemn voice gradually approached my ears.

I was stunned: "You too?!" So what are you for?! ”

"Hahaha, young man, because of what, it doesn't matter, I have repented for it all my life, for a hundred years, and finally I found out one thing until I died, that is, no matter how I repented, he would not come back, let alone hear my confession"

"What about you?" Although I understood a little in my heart, and I was sure that the old man was a spirit, it was just that he did not want to show up, after all, the immortal people who have not died for a hundred years, even I have not heard of or seen it in this world.

"Maybe that's not appropriate, but, after hundreds of years, I'm tired here, and finally I decided to let go of that and go into samsara, or return to quiet nothingness," the voice became relieved.

"But aren't you still here? I can still hear you."

"Yes, in fact, my body and even the white bones have long been returned to dust a hundred years ago, but because I had a very high cultivation during my lifetime, there is still a wisp of residual spirit after death, but this spirit body can't break the barrier and break out of this forbidden mountain, and it is also the barrier I set This enchantment can absorb very little aura from the outside world and convert it into my aura to maintain my weak soul, which makes me unable to step into reincarnation or nothingness, so for the past hundred years, I have just wandered alone in this cave, and I have long been dead to going out for a hundred years, But I didn't expect that now I met you, is this the will of God, let me break through the prison set up for myself" The old man's tone gradually became excited.

"Don't get excited, can I meet you?" In order to meet this old man hidden in the shadows, I asked three times in a row.

"No hurry, no hurry, want to see me, the time comes, you can naturally meet, but young man, I want you to help me with one thing"

When it came to running errands, my eyes sank: "I'm all locked up here, what can I do for you?" ”

"Help me out"

"Don't forget, I'm locked up here just like you, how can I help you?"

"Young man, don't forget, although my physical body is gone, but my spirit body is still there, I see that your qualifications are average, and your ability is also average, you can't break through the Forbidden Mountain Barrier at present, and look at your strange clothes, presumably the outside world has changed a lot, and there must be people who have noticed that a new barrier has been established, but it doesn't matter, I will teach you the most suitable for you in what I have learned in my life, and help you break through the shackles, and when the time comes, my spirit body will appear, All you need to do is find something that my spirit can attach to, and then we will naturally break through the barrier, and I will enter samsara or nothingness."

"This," I whispered.

"It's okay young man, you can think slowly, I can wait for you to make a decision, old man, I've been here for hundreds of years, it's not too late," the old man said softly.

"Although you are right to say this, I don't want to offend you, to tell you the truth, I don't trust a stranger very much, so the conditions you put forward, I can't guarantee whether it is really beneficial to us, or even beneficial to me, and I am a sinner who is locked up here, if I rush out like this, it will definitely be a crime on a crime, not to mention that the things you said are too illusory for me"

"Oh?" The old man showed a voice of surprise: "Old man, I thought you were young, and when you heard this kind of thing, you would agree directly with a hot brain, but I didn't expect you to be smart and cunning, first of all, you doubted me, and even wanted to talk to me about the conditions, it's all at this time, I really don't know whether to praise you or say that you have a problem, but you are not wrong, this kind of thing will be doubted by anyone."

"Don't dare, I'm just saying this fact, although it is ugly, but as you think, I still won't easily believe a stranger's request"

"Sure enough, people can't look good" The old man chuckled: "Forget it, if you don't believe it, I will give you a piece of jade pendant that I carry with me first, I am a dead man, and I don't want to live anymore, it's useless to keep those things, just in front of you, there will be a pile of white bone residues, on the right side of the residue there is a jade pendant that I protected with qi before I was alive, although it is not worth a few dollars, but at least I want to ask for your trust, at least after seeing the jade pendant, it is not too late to make a decision to learn or not"

"I'm afraid this is not appropriate, right?" This is where my suspicious and sensitive heart comes into play.

"I said that there is really something wrong with your child, I am like this, can I still harm you? Hurry up and look for it, and if you find it, you'll know that I didn't lie to you" The old man seemed to be a little irritated by my character and answer, so I could hear some anger in his tone.

Since I can't dodge, I can only go up, and I don't want to quarrel with a spirit.

I reluctantly got up, stretched out my somewhat numb legs, and then walked forward, and just as my feet stepped out of the range of the sun, suddenly my body shook, I suddenly noticed something strange in my heart, and my body seemed to be sucked directly from the front by an invisible force, so that my whole person was dragged into the shadows, suddenly, the surrounding candlelight swished a circle of flames, I found myself in the center of this circle of candles, and my body suddenly felt a kind of discomfort, my heart sank, and immediately asked: "What is going on?" ”

"Hahahaha! Boy, just take a step into this dark side, and you'll be considered to have stepped into my enchantment! Now you have to learn if you don't want to!! ”

I immediately scolded: ", cunning old thing, you cheat me!" ”

The old man laughed: "Hey, I can't say it so ugly, I really want you to take me out, but it's just a little tougher, and we are cunning to each other, right??" Who made you doubt me, if you had trusted me, we wouldn't have had so much to do."

"I said you" I was speechless for a while, I didn't expect that I would fall into such a clichΓ© routine, the so-called harm to others is indispensable, the heart of defense is indispensable, I am so suspicious, and finally lost to my own soft-heartedness.

I'm sorry for a while.

The old man didn't care about so much, but said with some joy: "Young man, since you have stepped into my enchantment, you have to learn if you don't want to learn, both horizontally and vertically, since you are learning, then you have to worship me as a teacher, so I can teach you."

I rolled my eyes: "Forced to come in, too?" I said we have to be reasonable, and why should I worship you as a teacher? Unfortunately, I already have a master, and I won't worship the second one, what's more, I'm just locked up, and I'll go out sooner or later, aren't you afraid that if I don't learn, you'll always be locked up here? ”

The old man snorted coldly: "I said boy, I've been locked up for hundreds of years, and I still care about this?" Although what you said is right, don't forget that this is the Forbidden Mountain, in the past few hundred years, I have seen a lot of people who have been locked up here, they all naively think that they can get out, but they have not turned into a pile of white bones like me, I advise you to be kind, listen to me, and learn more skills, what's the difference? It's a good thing for you to improve your cultivation, what is it called? It's called Oddity! How many people can't dream of it, but let you run into it, you don't know how to cherish it, and you still doubt it, you, you're really an SB!? ”

"Huh?" I was stunned, why is there such a curse here, the same as everything on the earth, it's too similar, right?

Wait, this curse is from ancient times?

I really don't know, just by the last curse, my heart rose again, could it be that he, like me, is also from the earth? And in this world, there are also people who will use this sentence to scold people? By the way, I thought that Wang Hao can also speak foreign languages, so it is not surprising that there are some strange things in this world.

In order to confirm this idea, I thought about the problem in my heart, but after thinking about it, I still felt that it would be more appropriate to say it directly, and I would only ask more and more confusion, and I would not get the answer.

"Moonlight in front of the bed!" I shouted.

"Huh?" The old man's voice was clearly suspicious.

I didn't pay attention to him, because the first sound was probably because he didn't know what I was saying so suddenly, and continued to shout "Suspected frost on the ground!!" ”

"Look up at the bright moon?" The old man's voice suddenly became slow and hesitant.

I nodded: "Bow your head and miss your hometown"

"Why, you would know this poem?" He was surprised.

I ignored him and continued to say in a normal volume: "Heavenly King Cover the Tiger! ”

"Pagoda Town River Demon!" His tone suddenly brightened.

"I smile at the sky!" I also deliberately raised the volume.

"Go and stay in the liver and gallbladder two Kunlun!!" He suddenly replied excitedly.

"Take two steps if you're sick or not!!"

"What do you want !!! bicycle?"

"Hahaha, fellow see fellow!!" Although our conversation was very chaotic, it was already clear to me that only those of us on Earth and in the country of China could understand this.

"Tears in my eyes! it!! Fellow!!! The old man exclaimed excitedly.

And for the first time, I felt more intimate, and the regret in my heart dissipated a little.