TEXT 167 He who sleeps with faith
I was finally able to embrace my faith and obsession and sleep forever.
This sentence is like a magic spell, constantly hovering in my mind.
The moment the pervert took me out, I still didn't get out of everything I had just done.
I stared at the black hole in the ground, and the liquid in my eyes was still flowing out.
There seemed to be the temperature of Xuanyuan Lingyin's soul between his fingers, so cold and desperate.
Before coming out, on the altar that imprisoned tens of millions of souls, all the souls that flew out were hooked away by those giggling imps.
They took the scythe, which was not in keeping with their height, and left with the souls in their hands.
Xu Mang, who had been guarding the gate of the cemetery, saw that it was not early, but he didn't see us come out for a long time, and was about to have the courage to go to the cemetery to have a look, but saw us coming head-on.
He was pleasantly surprised and excited, trotted up to us, and after seeing my tearful face, he asked a little nervously, "What's the matter, is the little girl hurt?" ”
I saw him looking at me, I shook my head, wiped my tears again, pulled out an ugly smile, and said, "It's okay." ”
Xu Mang is not stupid, he saw my crying voice and the very ugly faces of the two people next to him, and he knew that something had happened.
The first thing that came to his mind was a failed exorcism.
But apparently, he guessed wrong.
"The exorcism was successful."
"Then you should be happy, why are they all sad." When Xu Mang heard An Xuan say this, he was relieved, and his tense body suddenly relaxed.
I said with some emotion, "Uncle Xu, you don't know what's going on. ”
"This matter is not worth rejoicing about at all."
Xu Mang looked at us suspiciously, looking at me strangely, not knowing what I was trying to express.
I hooked the corners of my lips and smiled bitterly, seeing that the sky was getting a little darker, and stretched out my hand in the direction of the tower.
"Let's go back and tell me what's going on."
When we all sat down and recounted what we had seen and experienced in the cemetery and in the underground world, Xu Mang's face showed a shocked expression as I expected.
But his expression, from shock, to calmness, and finally to calm.
He didn't seem to be afraid of the cemetery anymore, and after knowing the truth, he couldn't help but sigh as a middle-aged man.
"It turns out that my ancestors used to do that kind of thing."
I said calmly: "That is the matter of your ancestors, and it has nothing to do with you and your family, and their sins have long been buried with them after they died. ”
"What I can't let go of is the words she said before leaving, I felt for the first time that a person can live like this and spend his life like this."
"All the things I do, just to give an explanation and justice to my people, and I am willing to leave my soul in the yang world for hundreds of years."
What words should I use to describe Xuanyuan Lingyin's actions? I do not know.
Chris came back from making a phone call outside, sat directly on the stool, and said to Xu Mang: "Mr. Xu, since your commission has been completed, you also know the truth of the whole matter, and you have gotten rid of the fate and duty of the tomb keeper." ”
"You can get out of here and go live your own life."
He was right, he stayed here because of his ancestors.
Now he knew that the reason why the Xu family came here was not because of the call of God, the root cause had been completely solved, and he could also leave here with peace of mind.
Find a job in the city, buy a house, and if you can, fall in love, get married, and live your own life.
The Xu family can continue to continue, and the bloodline inheritance will not be broken.
However, Xu Mang's next words shocked us all.
"No, I'll stay here."
I looked at him with wide eyes and asked incredulously, "Why?" ”
"Haven't you had enough of being here? Otherwise, why did you invite Grandpa An and them to come over to exorcise ghosts, and now that the matter is settled, why do you still want to stay here? ”
At this moment, the decisions made by Xu Mang in front of me and the words he said made me feel for the first time that he was a middle-aged man.
A middle-aged man with responsibility, not the timid man he saw at first.
"Little girl, you said, this used to be the place of the Xuanyuan family, my ancestors did such an excessive wrongdoing, just a few hundred years ago, hundreds of years ago here buried hundreds of lives overnight."
"Just like Xuanyuan Lingyin said, I can't just leave."
I looked at him in surprise, he smiled at me slightly, his voice was very low, it seemed that his personality was still relatively weak, but the momentum in his words was much heavier.
"Didn't you say that there are tombs of my ancestors in that cemetery, and it is indeed my duty to guard this place."
"And." He hooked the corners of his lips a little tiredly, looked at one place attentively, and muttered, "I'm used to living here, and I'm used to being alone." ”
"Let's stay here."
Chris obviously didn't agree with Xu Mang's decision, furrowed his golden eyebrows, and said, "I've already sent someone over and arranged a temporary place and work for you, are you sure you want to stay here?" ”
When I heard this, I couldn't help but glance at Chris.
Even though his appearance looks cold and hard, what he is doing now makes me feel that he is a very good and generous man.
He was able to think about a lot of things, and also to help someone who was not related to him to live or even find a job.
If it was someone else, after coming over to help exorcise the ghosts, Tie Ding would leave directly, who would be so kind to help do so many things.
Just when I thought Xu Mang would be moved by this and change his mind, he waved his hand and looked at the gradually darkening sky outside the house.
"Thank you for your kindness, I want to stay."
He said with some embarrassment: "Originally, I was afraid of this place, especially when I knew that there was a very powerful ghost inside, but your words let me know what I should do. ”
In the end, after another persuasion from us, he chose to stay.
One day in the future, I heard that Xu Mang had built a tombstone for Xuanyuan Lingyin, right in the middle of the cemetery.
The line engraved on the stele is-
Those who embrace faith and eternal sleep.
After everything was settled, we went to the hospital, and after listening to all the stories I recounted, Grandpa An leaned back on the bed and breathed a sigh of relief.
"O sin, what a sin." He also seemed to be shocked, and he repeated it over and over again, rubbing the corners of his forehead, and finally closing the books on the table.
"It's all hard for you this time." He looked at us with relief and kindness, and nodded with a smile.
"Especially you, Hua girl." I looked at Grandpa Ann with some surprise, wondering why he was emphasizing me.
He looked at me with a look in his eyes that I couldn't understand, and finally he exhaled and said to An Xuan and Chris, "Can you go to the two wards opposite the door and help me see how the children's injuries are?" ”
"You go and take care of your brother, An Xuan." He waved his hand, as if to send An Xuan and Chris away.
Chris seemed to know what Grandpa Ann wanted to do, so he immediately withdrew.
"Lord Hades, can you allow me to talk to the queen mother alone."
The pervert was reluctant at first, but even after my persuasion, he refused to leave, and finally had to stay.
"Hua girl, you're a backtracker, right?" Grandpa An raised his eyebrows and asked, Hearing these three familiar words, I immediately thought that Xuanyuan Lingyin had also said this word.
Backtracker.
"I don't know, Xuanyuan Lingyin also calls me that, maybe because I can go back to their memories before they died."
He looked at me with a complicated expression, and asked with some concern, "Hua girl, why are you ......?"
"Because the ghost suppression order is in my body, I seem to have this ability."
I thought Grandpa An was going to ask me this question, but who knew that he frowned, shook his head, and said, "I'm not talking about this." ”
"Grandpa An knows that you have a ghost suppression order in your body, and it is very normal to have this ability, what I am worried about is ......" He stopped speaking abruptly, and was silent for a while before continuing.
"There used to be a retrospective, he is not like you, he has this ability because of the special reason of the ghost suppression order, he is also a yin and yang person, and he is also a ghost exorcist, but his ability is to retrace the memory of the soul before his death."
"But do you know what his final outcome will be?"
I couldn't help but chuckle in my heart, I always felt that once Grandpa An asked like this, there would definitely be no good thing.
Sure enough, Grandpa An sighed, looked at me complicatedly, opened and closed his mouth, and held back a sentence for a long time.
This sentence alone is enough to make me feel like five thunderbolts have hit the top.
"He ended up going crazy."
Grandpa An closed his eyes and said with some reluctance: "He was originally very kind, and his ability to exorcise ghosts was also very strong, but every time he revisited his soul memory, he not only consumed a lot of yang energy, but also had a lifespan. ”
"Not only that, but he has endured too much of the pain of these evil spirits during their lifetimes, because they can touch the reason why the souls who do not want to die stay in the yang world."
"Some are for revenge, some are for resentment, and all the sufferings of these poor people will be felt by the retrospective."
Grandpa An sighed helplessly: "So, in the backtracking again and again, his body is getting weaker and weaker, and finally he becomes frail and sickly, not to mention, a lot of dark sides, and the burden in his heart are all pressed on him." ”
I know, know very well.
I nodded and replied softly, "I know, Grandpa An." ”
Grandpa An touched my hair distressedly, and finally held me in his arms, patted my back with his big rough hand, and comforted: "So, grandpa doesn't want you to use this ability, even if you have it, don't use it." ”
"No matter how strong a person is, so many tragic things, you can't bear it, they will only be pressed more and more, and in the end it will be like a high mountain, even if it is a god, it can't get out completely, do you know, Hua girl?"