Suddenly, I opened my eyes—

The ceiling of the roof was so bright that I couldn't open my eyes for a moment!

After getting used to it, I realized that I was ...... Lying in his own bed!

What's going on!? Wasn't it still night? My memory of the last second is still ...... I'm going to be killed by that black shadow? How could it be ...... suddenly?

I quickly sat up, only to find that Peng Zhe had just woken up!

"Peng Zhe! When am I coming back?! I immediately shouted, and Peng Zhe seemed to be startled by me and gave me a strange look.

"I don't know, you weren't there when I went to bed last night, and you're in the dormitory today, don't worry if you're sleepwalking or dreaming." Peng Zhe yawned, ready to go back to sleep.

I jumped out of bed and dragged him off the bed.

"Seriously, I was still in the wooden house on the mountain yesterday, how could I ...... all of a sudden" I looked at Peng Zhe with some fear, but he still didn't seem to have a brain to react to look at me in a daze.

That's when I suddenly found out...... I actually have something in my hand!?

Take a look at it in front of you...... I was completely stunned...... This...... This wasn't what I drank last night...... Tea!?

At this time, it was lying quietly in the palm of my hand in a small glass bottle......

I was definitely not dreaming yesterday...... But who is that old man!? How did I get back to the dorm?! What happened to the Dark Shadow?

The piles of questions crushed me, and the thought of it hurt my brain.

"What's this?" Peng Zhe seemed to have come to his senses at this time, and took the glass bottle in my hand and looked at it.

"The ...... given to me by a hermit master yesterday" I was a little unsure of what I answered, but what happened last night was still vivid, and it was impossible for me to conjure it up.

"I'm sure you're dreaming." Peng Zhe yawned helplessly.

"It's not!" I told him about last night's events, and he still didn't believe it.

"Where did you come from so many hermit masters who were met by your shit luck? Wouldn't it be so good? Peng Zhe glanced at me, but suddenly froze!

"Wait! You've been lucky, I can't ......."

My heart went to my throat, and I really wanted to go again when he said that......

I said I would go, and there was no class today, so I took Peng Zhe up the mountain again.

Following the memories of yesterday, he and I searched the mountains for hours, and finally saw the small cabin in my memory in a corner.

The cabin was still the same as it had been seen yesterday, standing there crookedly, as if it had been eroded by the wind and rain.

"That's it! I was in yesterday! I shouted with some excitement, and I didn't care that I was covered in mud and immediately rushed inside!

But as soon as I opened the door, I was dumbfounded......

It's ...... It's just abandoned! It's completely different from what I saw yesterday!

I could only vaguely see that the original table and two chairs were rusted, and I don't know how many layers of cobwebs had formed on them.

And the door creaked from time to time, like what I heard yesterday......

"Come on, this house looks like it's going to collapse." Peng Zhe hurriedly dragged me out.

The house looked crumbling and seemed to be able to fall over at the slightest hint of the wind.

"Little brother, let Jean!" At that moment, a breathless voice shouted at the two of us.

When I turned around, I saw an uncle staring at us strangely.

"Are you ......" looked at him dressed like a villager from the surrounding village, but why did he appear here? I haven't met ...... before

"I'm from the next village, what's wrong with picking mushrooms here?" A native dialect made me instantly blindfolded.

Fortunately, Peng Zhe understood, and after talking to him for a few words, the uncle turned around and prepared to leave.

"Wait! Do you know where the people who lived here before go? "I suddenly thought of something, and quickly stopped the uncle.

He turned around, and I quickly pointed to the broken wooden house, but I saw the uncle give me a strange look.

"That's ...... Oops, I don't know either! Don't ask! He waved his hand, and he wanted to explain it to us, but somehow he suddenly stopped talking.

This aroused my desire for knowledge even more, and he didn't say that it was okay, but half of what he said......

Peng Zhe and I glanced at each other and quickly stepped forward to stop him.

I snatched his basket while he wasn't looking, and there were already a lot of fresh mushrooms in it!

"Tell us, or we'll go away with the mushrooms!" I had to threaten him in the most despicable way, but it worked so well that the uncle was immediately relentless.

"Okay, don't touch my mushrooms! I'll take you back to the village! The uncle hurriedly said.

……

The uncle's village is near the bottom of the mountain, only a few hundred meters away, and it looks like a very dilapidated village.

I didn't think there was a village like this around, I had never noticed it when I came here before.

He showed us to the village chief, an old man who was already old.

We asked directly, but we saw the old man sigh deeply.

"Have you seen him?" I felt a little nervous, as if he knew something.

"I used to know him, but he died ten years ago, and the wooden house was deserted. ”

He said lightly, as if he was recalling something, and his expression became painful.

It seems that the two should have a good relationship, and I don't know how to speak.

"He's a hermit, though he didn't admit it to me...... But such a miraculous person...... "The village chief seems to be stuck in the memory, and I can't go and uncover the scar again."

But I got such an answer, which I don't want to see, since the person who is already dead...... Why would I see!?

"I ...... I saw him yesterday. I didn't know how to speak, but I kept it up.

But the village chief didn't seem surprised, but just looked at me with a little meaning.

"I've had someone say I've seen it before, and I think he might be too lonely there......," the village chief said lightly.

I was stunned, what the hell is going on? It doesn't seem to be the same as I imagined the art style?

"And what happened to those people?" Peng Zhe asked.

"I haven't heard of it since, how do I ...... exactly" The village chief shook his head in embarrassment, and I was so cautious that I listened......

Although he is a hermit master...... But it didn't seem as simple as I thought, and what was that tea?

After saying goodbye to the village suspiciously, I decided to go to the Taoist temple and ask, maybe Su Yi's grandfather would give me any clues......

At the risk of being kicked out by him, I knocked on the door a little nervously, this time with Peng Zhe, I don't know if he will let me in.

"Is that you? Come in, the master is already waiting for you. "It was a little Taoist priest who opened the door, and when he saw me, he quickly opened the door.

I was shocked by his turn of words, and the little Taoist priest who was still suspicious of me before turned out to be ......

He took me and Peng Zhe to his room, and he didn't treat me as he did yesterday, but looked me up and down with a pair of eyes.

I was a little hairy by him, and I really didn't know what it was.

"You...... What did you see yesterday? "He seemed to know what happened to me yesterday, so I just nodded." I saw an old man in white. ”

"And then?"

"Then I went to his house and had a cup of tea, and then I lay down in the dormitory." I didn't say anything about the tea, Su Yi's grandfather is not someone I can fully trust, who knows what attention he plays?

But he gave me a strange look, not knowing what he was thinking.

I didn't ask, and he seemed to care more about it than I did, so I didn't have the reason to speak first.

"What did he say to you?" Sure enough, he asked.

"Said that there was a ghost in this forest at night, and then asked me to help him go back or something, what's wrong?" I looked at him strangely, as if he was very interested in it.

It was also the first time I had seen an expression other than indifference on his face.

"Do you know who he is?"

I shook my head, if I knew what else I was doing here? I complained inwardly, but I didn't dare to say it.

"Forgive you for not knowing, he is the guardian of my mountain, and only some people who are destined to see him." He said lightly.

This is the same thing that the village chief said, and I am not surprised.

"And then?"

"And then?" He gave me a strange look, "Those who have his approval will be blessed by him, and if they don't...... That's hard to say. ”

When I heard this, my heart rose to my throat.

What does that mean? Am I getting his approval? I suddenly became a little anxious.

"I don't know about this, I can only see your creation......" he sighed secretly, as if remembering something.

"Have you seen him?"

He shook his head silently, closed his eyes again, and asked me no more than he answered, as if he was stuck in a deep memory.

The most annoying thing is the person who is halfway through the talk, but I didn't expect to meet two in one day, and I was also drunk.

"I'm rubbing, I'm really going crazy!" I kicked the stones on the road so hard that my shoes were covered in mud.

The rain that had fallen in the morning had only stopped now, and the mountains were covered in mud.

"Why don't you try it again in Zhongnan Mountain? Didn't you say that you got better after drinking tea? ”

Peng Zhe suggested that the two of us did not go to the cabin again after coming out of the Taoist temple, but took a taxi back to the school.

I glanced at him, and my heart also became apprehensive, it was two weeks ago since I last went to Zhongnan Mountain, so this time......

I swallowed hard and nodded slowly......