“…… I did see the idol. ”

Tian Zhenhao said this, I really didn't expect it. This is a windfall of a windfall.

"Where?" I asked.

He didn't rush to say it, but mentioned the previous incident again, "I want you to swear that you will never kill innocents indiscriminately." No, it will never hurt any of my loved ones. ”

He changed his tune, just in time to put back what I was about to say, "Actually, no one in this world is innocent", but it doesn't matter, I'm not here to kill anyone, and I'm not crazy. I turned my gaze to Guan Qi, and she held Tian Zhenhao's hand tightly without saying a word.

Then, I held up three fingers, "Zoraku swears that I won't hurt you or her family." ”

When I said the second half of the sentence, Guan Qi's hand tightened.

"Remember your vows." Tian Zhenhao looked at me.

"Now you can say, where is the idol? The so-called statue of the god of Bato, if it really exists, should be easy to find. ”

Tian Zhenhao shook his head and smiled: "The statue is indeed to the sky, but it is really not easy to find." ”

He didn't tell me directly, but was going to take me to the location of the idol first. And not to go up the mountain, but down the mountain.

"That legend was a play on words from the very beginning." On the way, Tian Zhenhao explained: "The statue of the god in the mountains is talking about the mountains, among the mountains, not on a certain peak of Qingyan Mountain. People who come here to look for the statue of the god will think that the statue is on the mountain, mostly because they saw the fake Buddha statue halfway up the mountain before. ”

"Among the mountains, what do you mean?" I asked.

"A village under the mountain surrounded by a few small peaks of Mount Qingyan." Tian Zhenhao responded.

Speaking of this, Du Youlan's interest seemed to be rich: "There is still a village here?" ”

"Yes, but few people know about it."

I interjected, "Few people know, but some people know, since they are in that village, how can they become the legendary gods?" ”

"Why are you in such a hurry?" Du Youlan kicked my calf dissatisfiedly, "If you know in advance, will there be a surprise when you really see it?" ”

Du Youlan is bored, Tian Zhenhao is also bored, he is really patient and keeps silent, just waiting for the moment when I see the statue with my own eyes, I will experience it myself. I can only start to speculate constantly about what the so-called statue of Tongtian looks like and how it "reaches heaven".

Tian Zhenhao is very familiar with the terrain here, and he can find it clearly on the way down the mountain, and it will take about two or three hours to reach the vicinity of the mountain village he said. It was past two o'clock in the night, and it was late at night, and there was a dead silence in the village. But it's not just silence, there's something else that can also be labeled as "death."

It is taste.

As soon as you enter the village, you can smell the smell of dried corpses and the faint stench of putrefaction mixed with them.

"What's going on here?" I passed by a house, the smell suddenly became strong, through the fence, I saw two coffins on display in the courtyard, one new and one old, and those two smells were emanating from these two coffins.

There are such coffins in almost every household.

There are also some that do not have coffins, but dry bones can be seen directly......

"Do all the people in this village like to collect corpses?" I frowned.

"No, it's not." Du Youlan shook her head, looked at the coffins and remains in the yards of every household with great interest, and said with a smile: "I will never give up." ”

"What the hell is this?" I asked.

Du Youlan didn't respond, but Tian Zhenhao replied: "She's right, the people here don't think that the corpse is dead, they still live with the corpse." ”

"How do you feel that death is an objective fact? And since you don't think you're dead, why do you put it in a coffin? "The night is incomprehensible.

But these words made me think of something.

The images in my eyes kept alternating, coupled with the dark tones, and for a moment, I suddenly thought of something, and everything in front of me seemed familiar.

This place......

I think I've been here.

"It's oblivion." So, I said those three words.

Du Youlan was satisfied.

Tian Zhenhao was surprised.

Still puzzled, Silent Night asked me, "Forget?" ”

"Yes, forgetting, forgetting the concept of death. I just feel that when I reach this stage called 'death,' I should live in a coffin. But they forget that death is a permanent farewell to the living. I responded.

"How do you know?" Tian Zhenhao looked at me suspiciously.

"Am I right?" I asked rhetorically.

"You just guessed?" He asked again.

"Hard to guess?"

This time he didn't respond, and we continued walking towards the village until we passed through the village and a forest appeared in front of us.

"It's coming?" Du Youlan is looking forward to it.

"Hmm......" Tian Zhenhao responded.

The line of sight passed through the trees, and although it was not far away from what could be seen in the dark, even so, if a huge idol was present, the silhouette could still be faintly seen. But now there is nothing.

But at this moment, there was a not-so-fast footsteps in the woods.

I could vaguely see a figure in front of us, not too far away, walking in the same direction as us.

"Brother, someone!" Silent Night Curious.

"Shhhh I thought the man was a little strange, because it was late at night, and because he was going the same way as us.

What exactly is he going to do?

We didn't bother, and quietly followed the man. Passing through the woods, there was a huge pool, and the man stopped near the pool, muttering something, but it was too far away to be heard. After saying that, he stood there silently, for a long time, and when he turned to leave, his steps were brisk, and his face was happy but strange, especially in the moonlight, and his whole face looked a little pale and distorted.

We hid in the bushes, and he passed by us, unnoticed.

When the man was gone, we came to the pool of water.

"When the man came just now, his steps were heavy, as if he had a thousand pounds of weight on his body, and it was certain that he had something on his heart, and his emotions were extremely depressed. But when I left, I was a little scary happy. Something to do with this waterhole? "I turned my head to look at the clear water, and the moon was reflected in the water, and there was a large black shadow next to the moon, perhaps the rocks at the bottom of the pool.

"Nameless Village, Forgotten Pond ......" Tian Zhenhao sighed and began to say: "Most of the people around here know about it, but most of them don't dare to come, as for the reason, you have also seen it, a group of crazy people who live with dead people." But in fact, these madmen are very happy, and they are able to forget all the pain they have suffered. The price is just to drink a sip of water in this pool, and it is enough. ”

"Water?"

"That's right, the village says, come here late at night, tell you what you want to forget, and then drink a sip of water, and those painful memories will disappear. Never to remember it again in the rest of my life. Speaking of this, Tian Zhenhao frowned slightly, probably recalling some not very good memories, he continued: "I have been here before, and it is also a coincidence that I have heard the story here. At that time, I wanted to forget about something painful. ”

"Did you forget?" I asked.

Tian Zhenhao smiled: "What you asked, how should I answer?" I guess I forgot, because I can't remember exactly why I was here. ”

"I'm curious about it." I'm curious.

But Tian Zhenhao pointed to the pool: "Brother, what you are more curious about should not be on me." I said before that the statue of the god 'Tongtian' is in it. ”

At the same time as Jingye, I turned my gaze to the waterhole, and Du Youlan was already watching.

The water was so clear that it reflected the shadow of the moon in the night sky, and there was nothing but the black shadow of what appeared to be a boulder.

However, just thinking about this, I accidentally glanced at it, and it seemed that I found something wrong. Looking closely at the black shadow, its outline is very strange, like an irregular triangle inserted inverted into the bottom of the water, if the triangle is straightened, it has a bit of the outline of a god.

Idol......

It tops the bottom of the pool, coinciding with the reflection of the night sky, as if "topping" the entire night sky.

Could it be that this is the so-called "Tongtian"?

"That's the idol?" I looked at Tian Zhenhao.

He nodded, "That's right." ”

"How do you know?" All I could see was an outline, the pool was so deep that the dark shadows couldn't tell what it was.

"I said I fell, do you believe me?"

"I don't believe it, there has to be a reason."

"Then I really can't tell why I fell, I have forgotten, I just remember that as soon as I opened my eyes, I was in the water, and I almost drowned. At that time, in the darkness, I faintly saw a carving that resembled the head of a Buddha. Later, I struggled to swim up, and thought of the legend of the nearby god statue, and I guessed that this was probably it. ”

My intuition also tells me that Tian Zhenhao's words should be correct.

But in the end, there is still no clear and definite answer, and to determine whether it is a god or not, you must go under this pool. Of course, if it's for sure, then Mina might be around here.

Why don't you look for Mina's clues first?

Just as he was thinking of this, there was a sudden rush of footsteps in the woods behind him, and then someone was heard shouting, "Who's there!" Who are you?! ”

Looking back, the person who came was the same man who had left earlier.

"I felt like someone was following me just now, and sure enough, someone, who are you?"

The man carried a flashlight with him, and the light was projected, so that the images of several of us appeared clearly in his eyes, and he was originally curious and puzzled, his eyes suddenly became surprised, and he shook the flashlight and pointed in our direction, shouting: "Why are you?!" You, why are you here again!! You ......"

In the middle of his sentence, he picked up a stone in a panic and threw it at us.

I thought he recognized Tian Zhenhao.

But the stone just hit me.

"Don't touch that holy pool! Get out of our village! You plague god! You, you're not leaving, are you? You wait for me......" The man was angry and panicked, and continued to stone me twice, and when he saw that I was just looking at him and did not move, he threw down a sentence and turned back and ran towards the village, apparently to call someone.

"What's going on?" Du Youlan looked at me with a smile and a very curious look in her eyes.

She could see that the man was scolding me, and no one would stone someone three times, and each time they were wrong, and they were wrong again and again on the same person.