Chapter 80: Unclear Situation
Looking at each other, Ah Xia and I also felt a deep sense of disbelief, and felt more and more unable to understand the mystery behind Linda's transcendent smile. And the bizarre images in the cave also inspire waves of bizarre ripples of time and space as we walk, making us involuntarily feel a kind of dream-like intoxication and amazement.
In addition to being amazed, I also had a big brain, and after thinking about it for a while, I also secretly guessed: Is this a wormhole that distorts time and space? Perhaps, the time and space that unfold normally are folded and compressed on these colorful soap bubbles. And everything we experience here, including the changes we inadvertently make to these ripples of time and space, can be mapped and affected by different time and space!
Before I could figure out the mystery of the cave, I suddenly realized that the team had walked out of this strange passage. I thought that the next plot would be like before, seeing a lost village that is as independent as an ancient village, or a dusty palace full of treasures. As a result, what gradually emerged from the dense fog was only an endless Ping Lake, and at the end of the lake in the distance was the Santu River that led thousands of dead people to a long reincarnation! It seems that Xiao Shi, although there are some errors in his head, the innate psychic nature of the ghost monkey in his body has indeed brought us to the vicinity of the River Styx.
As far as the eye can see, starting from the soles of the feet and ending at the surface of the bronze mirror-like lake, the surface of the ground is full of life and dense spiritual flowers—I saw that the ghost-like bewitching flowers are spreading their claws, and they are blooming red and bright, timid, and in this world full of black and white, there is really a bit of the blood-colored charm that the legend says. When I got closer and looked at it again, I found that these magical and demonic spirit flowers, between the swaying branches, the edge of the petals actually exuded a yellowish halo, which looked as warm as the afterglow of the twilight sun, and under the dull and oppressive sky overhead, it seemed to have a quiet and serenity. After watching it for a long time, in addition to being weird, I couldn't help but feel that this dreamlike sea of flowers in front of me added a lot of mystery to our undecided journey.
"Flower ...... on the other side" is as well-informed as Jin Siniang, and it is the first time in her life to see this legendary supernatural plant. Under the eyes of the heart, I feel more and more that this flower is really born magically: I saw that they breathed in and inhaled, are swallowing bursts of refreshing fragrance, the mist formed by the fragrance of the flowers, under the warm light emitted by the petals, is connected into a diffuse crimson light mist, like the melodious scattered neon in the night sky, and like the morning glow rising indifferently in the morning light, as soon as it touches us, it will even stir up the fluctuating air waves, turbulent our state of mind, and like this endless sea of flowers, up and down. After getting used to it, in addition to a kind of open-mindedness and indifference that sees through the world, it also adds a lot of peace and tranquility that is indisputable to the world.
It's amazing! This kind of cleansing edification comes from the near-sightedness of Infernal Purgatory.
"According to my father, in the "Miscellaneous Records of Mountain Movers" handed down by the ancestors, there was a record that boiling the flowers on the other side and the heartless grass together with rootless water for 7749 days can be blended into Meng Po soup that makes people forget the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of a lifetime...... after the "Miscellaneous Notes" was lost and recovered, when the sect revised the scattered "Miscellaneous Notes", this paragraph was originally deleted." Jin Siniang talked about her father, Mr. Jin, and her heroic phoenix eyes also revealed a gentle expression, paused, and continued: "When I heard my father tell it when I was a child, I thought it was a story he made up, but I didn't expect that in my lifetime, I could really see this kind of strange flower growing in this place where yin and yang demarcated. ”
Jin Siniang said, the corners of her mouth were also filled with a knowing smile, maybe she was reminiscing about the Taoist anecdote she talked about many years ago with the old man Jin who was far away in reincarnation. In fact, it doesn't matter whether a father can tell a story or not, what matters is the persistence of the way he believes in, and the great love for his children.
Seeing the thoughtful Zhengxiong, Ah Xia and I were also happy for Jin Siniang's mother and daughter from the bottom of our hearts: what a luck! Sister Jin is too, and so is Zhengxiong.
"Sister Jin, then how can we get out?" Ah Xia saw that Jin Siniang and Zhengxiong's mother and son were one step closer to each other's hearts, and she was also happy for them from the bottom of her heart, and after smiling at me, she saw that everyone's emotions had recovered most of the grief from the loss of Ruan Xiaodao, and she did not delay at all to raise the problem that we must face and solve next.
"Well, the flower on the other side is said to be a spiritual flower that blooms at the junction of yin and yang and can cross life and death. Then, I think that as long as we go in the opposite direction of the Santu River, we will be able to go back to the world. Jin Siniang had actually been thinking about this problem for a long time, and after hearing Ah Xia's advice, she thought about it for a while, and decisively gave her opinion.
Since the head of the house has spoken, this is easy to do, everyone has a direction, and they are all motivated, and they are ready to get up, but, when it comes to the next foot, everyone can't help but find that the front foot is lifted, but the moment they see the enchanting spirit flower under their feet, they can't let it go!
It's weird.
What to do? We had to immediately start the second "combat meeting" on a small stone platform ten square meters square at the entrance of the stone cave at our feet, and the topic was still that: what to do?
The blind man first expressed his opinion, in short, he returned the same way, since the zombie Gu people on the old mountain will rest after sunrise, then after going back the same way, maybe they will be able to get out of danger safely. However, there are two uncertain factors: first, whether the water of the Styx River will be dispersed underground by the sun according to Jin Siniang's guess; Second, based on my previous experience of being taken by Linda through the Santu River, the time here is not the same timeline as the world we are in normally - that is, if we go back according to the normal path, we will only jump back to the moment when we left the old mountain, and will not cross this period of time when the Styx Gu people are raging.
Thinking of this, I also raised my objection out of holstery. After listening to my explanation, Jin Siniang and the blind man were also taken aback, and felt extremely surprised that I knew that after the return of the psychic would return to the moment of death—after all, the only person who knew that I had crossed over once was Linda, who asked me to keep this matter a secret.
Realizing the gaffe, I also peeked at Linda, and when I saw her nonchalant expression, I also calmed down, turned my head quickly, and immediately came up with an excuse, only saying that I thought of the story of "Nan Ke's Dream", so I made this speculation. When everyone heard this, they also thought it was more reasonable, so they didn't dig much into it, and basically ruled out this plan.
Coincidentally, at this moment, Xiao Shi on Ah Xia's shoulder saw that we had been discussing for a long time without saying a reason, but turned his head away, yawned and fell asleep. And it didn't sleep tightly, and the glittering "wormhole" behind us disappeared without a trace, and it didn't even make a "whoosh" sound, so it disappeared silently under everyone's noses. This is a good thing, the idea of returning the same way can only be completely crossed out from the bill book.
"I think, since everyone can't bear to step on the other side of the flower, then, just close your eyes, can't you get down?" I saw that there were fewer and fewer choices as time went by, and I hurriedly gave a baseless idea, in the end, I didn't think of Uncle Okawa's words: "If you want to break your brain, it's not a try!" "Hopefully, this time, it will help us find a way to solve the problem again.
"It makes sense, I agree with Leon. Perhaps, these flowers are really afraid of the 'heartless grass' in his hands. It was Linda who spoke, but she said this obviously with a sense of ridicule, and when she said the three words "heartless grass", her beautiful eyes also took advantage of the trend, which was quite a sense that I would not notice.
That's right! Perhaps, this heartless grass is still symbiotic with this full of flowers on the other side, after all, at the foot of this flower blooming all over the ground, you can't see a single grass reed that reflects the blue light. Thinking like this, I also had the mentality of giving it a try, and raised the heartless grass in my hand to the flowers on the other side in front of my feet - sure enough, a magical scene appeared: I saw those spirit flowers that bloomed and swayed arbitrarily, and when I sensed the pure cold breath of the green heartless grass, they all bent down from near and far in turn-like enthusiastic fans suddenly saw the big star of their dreams, and knelt on the ground one after another, and then took the grass reed in my hand as the center of the circle, giving way to an oval-shaped passage!
And this kind of thing!
Seeing the magical scene in front of me, I was also ecstatic, and I was about to take a step when I raised my foot, but before my foot landed, I was already pulled by Linda beside me.
"What's wrong again?" Seeing my incomprehensible gaze, Linda still had that incomprehensible smile on her face, and when she saw that I was confused, she also deliberately explained unhurriedly:
"Don't worry! We don't know the place well, but we don't know whether it is safe to walk on this road. In my opinion, it is better to find the least important person in the team and let him walk in front to explore the way - the worst situation, even if you encounter danger, you can sacrifice yourself, remind everyone. Speaking of which, Linda's delicate eyes have locked in the candidate in her mind.
Ah Shui naturally found that Linda and everyone's eyes were looking at him one after another, and he was instinctively scared in an instant, and he shuddered by the strange atmosphere that Linda rendered. It's just that he himself knows that in this team of masters, to be honest, the person who will hardly have any impact if he is not abandoned, who else can there be?
"You, you, you, you ungrateful bastards! Also, return to the people who have attained the Tao! I think it's just a bunch of selfish ghosts who take care of themselves! I, my brother Shui is also blind, and I actually believe you in a daze......" Ah Shui saw that the situation was not good, and he simply scolded. It's just that we are not stupid, and we naturally know that according to his previous bad behavior, the words he said can basically be bounced back to him intact. So, everyone tacitly didn't say a word for a few seconds, wanting to see if this human spirit with a lotus tongue had a self-aware consciousness.
Unfortunately, we do underestimate human self-awareness. Seeing that Ah Shui's saliva splashing and scolding was really endless, Linda also blinked calmly, and everyone present, especially me, who was closest to her, had clearly felt the momentary but fleeting murderous aura pouring out of her eyes, and immediately snatched the chattering Ah Shui from the heartless grass in my hand, and walked away nervously into the space vacated by the flowers on the other side.
This guy, I guess at first, thought that Linda should have nothing to be afraid of without two guns. As everyone knows, if people want to kill you, it's not as simple as pinching an ant to death.
It's terrible for people who don't know what's going on.
(End of chapter)