【100】Continuation (Hanmei Town)
Jiang Rong's thoughts gradually drifted away from reality in silence, and her memory fragments were in line with her efforts...... The woman pulling the cart came to mind, the pile of fresh dirt. The grave fluttering in the wind (paper chicken), the little ghost with a pair of innocent eyes, the dilapidated and dangerous building. In the small town, the expressionless people all appeared in their minds one by one.
She remembers staying that night in a small hotel opposite her adoptive father. Staring at the flickering lights of his adoptive father's house all night, he knew that his adoptive father must be reading in the study. But he had no courage to step through the door of their house, and he leaned on the bed in despair, dejected, and weak. In the middle of the night, she could feel that her consciousness was awake, and she felt that the walls of the room were like a mirror, and the mirror was like a movie screen, and there were strange scenes.
The first thing that catches your eye is a wooden sign that says 'Three Stores'. Then there was a blur of the environment, and she opened her eyes wide to see all kinds of static plants, people, and the dangerous building. The most important thing that attracted her attention was the back of the little girl who had appeared in her dreams......
Under the expectation of Zhong Kui, Zhiqing and others, Jiang Rong said with a solemn face and a very cautious look: "The shout that is not like a human being, a very sudden strange feeling, suddenly appeared in my mind. Darkly, it seemed to imply that I was going to such a place. The people there are very different, and everyone seems to have a secret. ”
"So, do you remember the route you to?"
Jiang Rong retracted her thoughts from afar, and replied with a serious glance at Zhiqing, who was asking: "I have a little impression that when I went that time, it was like fleeing. I didn't pay attention to anything, I just made that place a target. Speaking of this, she seemed to remember something, paused slightly, and added: "By the way, that place also has a strange name, three stores!" ”
"Three stores? Can it be found on the map? Zhong Kui asked idiotically. His questioning was obviously nonsense. How can a humble shop, in a small town in the middle of nowhere, be marked on a map?
"It should be checked, Hanmei Town." Zhiqing said with a smile.
"Yes." Zhong Kui smiled bitterly and said, "I'm illiterate, don't laugh." Then he looked at Zhiqing anxiously, "You go and take a look at the map at home?" As the backbone of the survey team, there should be no shortage of these road map papers at home.
"I'll get it." Xu Min promised to get the map.
Jiang Rong was sitting precariously, her eyes flickering, and she gently bit her lower lip as if she was thinking about something.
Zhiqing got up and picked up the English book, patted the pages of the hardboard book and said, "This book is very interesting, I'll explain it to you at this moment." ”
Jiang Rong, who was on the side, heard this, and cast her eyes on the book, and glanced at it superficially. didn't say much, but there was a hint of complexity on his face.
Zhong Kui leaned closer, "Okay, explain it to me." ”
Zhiqing nodded, ready to open it......
"Come on, you don't have to point to those strange words to explain to me. My head hurts when I look at those things. Otherwise, you can just tell me about it. Zhong Kui really doesn't have a good impression of this book, he doesn't understand the world of Westerners, and he doesn't want to understand it.
Zhiqing put on his reading glasses unhurriedly, and took off his glasses unhurriedly and said, "I'll explain to you the origin of this icon first." ”
"Okay!"
It's an old legend; Legend has it that there was an ancient elf. The elf has lived in a gloomy dark forest for many years, because it has long absorbed the evil energy of the dark forest and the aura of heaven and earth, and eventually becomes a spirit. Once a Spirit becomes a Spirit, it elevates to the Domination of the Dark Forest.
The predecessor of this spirit was a bat elf, after it became the master of the forest. They want to expand their power, they want to turn humans into slaves of their elven world.
They use their evil spirit to confuse those who have poor psychological qualities such as greed, tyranny, and ignorance. Let this kind of people be willing to engage in all kinds of conspiracies and tricks, adopt all kinds of despicable means to kill each other, blame each other and so on for some petty profits. Until humanity is destroyed on Earth.
In the Dark Forest also lives an isolated human prophet. When he learns of the bat elf's plan, he cuts his finger and drips a drop of blood. Sawed off a little finger of his palm with a sawtooth, fused the two together, and planted them as plant seeds under a thousand-year-old tree.
On the day of ninety-nine to one, a cluster of tender plant stems emerged from under the ancient tree. Then the tender green leaves stretched out, and the flower bones appeared, and when the flower bones bloomed, a baby lay inside.
The Prophet picked up the baby, but was surprised to find that the baby had two heads. In his astonishment, he suddenly remembered that when he sawed off his little knuckle, he accidentally cut a hole in his fingertip.
What to do? If a baby with two heads is allowed to grow up, then it will be a monster in the future. In this way, instead of helping humanity to get rid of the calamity, it has added to the calamity!
But getting rid of one of the baby's heads is also risky. These two heads symbolize good and evil, respectively. Today's babies can't see which one is good and which one is evil. For in the eyes of the Prophet, the heads of both babies were so innocent and endearing.
The Prophet was also confronted with an unprecedented problem, and he meditated. I thought that my hair was dyed with hoarfrost overnight, and I thought that my face became sore, but I couldn't think of a good solution.
The Prophet sighed! It seems that the calamity of mankind cannot be avoided and can only be determined by the will of heaven. He knew that there was another kind of creature in the Dark Forest, the Giant Bird! Giant BirdThe only bird in the Dark Forest that can speak human.
In order for the prophet to know from his mouth which one is good and which one is evil, he had to sacrifice one of the baby's heads, which had to be abandoned. The baby screamed, and was very weak, and was wrapped in his own rags by the prophet and brought to the giant bird.
The giant bird's eyes were full of greed and desire, staring motionlessly at the baby who moved his hands and feet, and moved his beak sideways. Suddenly, the huge wings vibrated and suddenly spread out, blocking the prophet's vision, and suddenly pecked at one of the baby's heads, and spit out magical saliva in time to stop the blood under the baby's skull.
The bird's saliva can not only stop bleeding, but also have the miraculous effect of fusing wounds. Otherwise, the prophet would not have taken such a big risk to bring the baby to the giant bird to choose between good and evil.
The baby didn't cry, it was all because of the spittle of the giant bird. Its saliva acted as an anesthetic, and after the blood stopped and the wound healed, the abandoned head, after being pecked by a giant bird, only gave the baby the slightest pain of an ant's tail thorn.
But the prophet had to take the baby away as soon as possible and hide it. Because he knew that the giant bird was a greedy creature, and that the baby's head was tender and delicious. Once it is hungry, it will do whatever it takes to eat the baby whole.