Chapter 23: The Past

"Shrine, priest," Lu Qiu silently hugged his leg and muttered to himself, "What does the shrine priest have to do with the station?" ”

After Lu Qiu Wuyan and Gu Chong came back, Fang Linyin told them what he saw during the day today. It stands to reason that all the visions and things that appear in the world have a meaning behind them, and they will definitely not be just made up of something just to be scary.

So far, there have been no NPCs in this world, and there have been no hints about time, which means that until now, they don't know how much time this world has left for them to find clues.

Except for the string of bells, it can be said that there is nothing.

Yin Luli and the others also came back, looking at the sluggish atmosphere, they didn't find anything crucial.

Gu Chong didn't have the heart to think about these things, the reason was that he was dreaming again.

This time he didn't dream of Zhang Mengyuan, but dreamed of his childhood. A half-grown child, surrounded by busy adults, was walking around, and the child was squatting on the ground, with his little fingers, not knowing what he was drawing.

The more Gu Chong looked at it, the more wrong it became, strange, he didn't have this paragraph in his memory.

A middle-aged man dressed in white came over and picked up the child from the ground, and the man said something to the child harshly, and the child didn't seem to understand very well, and nodded stupidly.

As soon as the picture turned, the child was no longer squatting on the ground playing with mud, but was dressed in the same white clothes as the man, but only a miniature version, holding a paper fan in his hand, sitting upright on the seat, and below his seat, two rows of adults were sitting.

Suddenly, Gu Chong's originally blurred vision suddenly became clear, and at this time, Gu Chong realized that everyone present, including the child, had masks on their faces.

As if sensing Gu Chong's existence, everyone who was originally sitting upright in their seats turned their heads in unison, staring at Gu Chong through their masks.

"Hehe, hehe, hehe,"

Gu Chong heard the laughter, which seemed to come from the child's mouth, and immediately, everyone present laughed "hehehe". Gu Chong was a little scared, he took a few steps back, but this is a dream, if he retreats, where can he retreat?

Suddenly!

The child sitting on the stage floated in front of Gu Chong, and an ugly girl's mask suddenly enlarged in front of his eyes, scaring Gu Chong into staggering and falling to the ground.

"Hehe, hehe, hehe."

"Hehe, hehe......"

……

"I don't think your dream will have a prophetic effect," Lu Qiu asked wordlessly, dragging his cheeks and looking at Gu Chong. Gu Chong yawned and rubbed his eyes, those snow-white faces last night were so scary that they made him not sleep well all night.

"Listen to me tell you, old man...... Tian Tian just said yesterday that I saw a little child wearing a mask, and you dreamed about it at night, and we talked about your dream the day before yesterday, you said that you dreamed of a woman whose face was completely broken, and then during the day when we entered the tunnel, we saw the crushed bodies of those three people. ”

"It's too coincidental to look at it."

"According to your and Tiantian's description, I think that child should be a person like the priest in the shrine."

"How can a child be a priest?" Gu Chong was a little puzzled, and suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, as if he remembered something important. Ugly girl mask, white clothes, isn't this the child he saw on the train on the first night!

Gu Chong gave Lu Qiu a wordless word about this matter, and Lu Qiu became more and more confused.

Why is there a relationship between the society of God and the station?

……

Yin Luli and they don't plan to go to the shrine today, but judging by their appearance, they should be planning to go to that tunnel to have a look. It doesn't feel very comfortable for them to follow them like this, and besides, if there are really any clues, haven't they all been taken away, Gu Chong said in his heart.

But what Gu Chong didn't expect was that Lu Qiu Wuyan actually planned to go to the shrine again.

"Haven't you already been there, why do you want to go again?" Gu Chong asked suspiciously, "Besides, if there are any clues, Yin Luli and the others may have taken them." ”

Lu Qiu shook his head wordlessly, "I have something I want to confirm, or see if I can find any evidence." ”

It's still the same familiar tree-lined path, but the stone lamps and other things are more overturned than the last time they came, "Those people are really rough," Lu Qiu muttered wordlessly.

When you cross the torii gate, you will come to the shrine. The bell with the human head was still hanging there, and it seemed that Yin Luli had not noticed anything unusual about this bell. Lu Qiu wordlessly crossed the donation box and came to the dilapidated house. When she opened the door, she found that the room was full of burnt marks, but it was not visible from the exterior of the room.

As soon as the door opened, a smell of burning mixed with the smell of dust came to his nose, and Lu Qiu frowned speechlessly.

There were some messy footprints at the door, and it seemed that Yin Luli and the others should have opened the door yesterday, but they didn't go inside. Lu Qiu thoughtless for a while, and then stepped into the badly burned house.

The house had been burned out, and even the ground was piled up with charcoal and crumbs, and Lu Qiu covered his nose without saying a word to prevent inhaling too much dust, and turned over the charcoal on the ground one by one, carefully looking for clues.

Gu Chong walked around the outside, nothing special, and also came to the front of this house. He was going to go into the house and look for it with Lu Qiu Wuyan, but Lu Qiu Wuyan only let him stay outside and didn't let him in. After a long time, just when Lu Qiu was about to finish the whole house, he finally saw a wooden board buried with charcoal ash in the corner.

She reached out and moved, only to hear a "creak", the plank was pulled open, and a deep and dark entrance appeared in front of Luqiu without a word.

"Secret Passage!" Lu Qiu whispered wordlessly in surprise, then she raised her head and said to Gu Chong, who was looking at the door: "I'll go down first, if you hear something wrong, you remember to run first." ”

"Huh? So what do you do? ”

"Either I'll be fine, or I'll die, and I won't need your help for either."

After speaking, Lu Qiu walked straight into the secret passage without a word, and Gu Chong was stunned by this sentence in place.

As a result, in less than half an hour, Lu Qiu crawled out of the secret passage without a word, although he was disgraced, but after all, there were no injuries on his body. There was uncontrollable joy on her face, as if she had found something important.

"I finally know what this station has to do with the shrine!"

……

It turned out that Lu Qiu Wuyan found a long mural in the secret room, which was probably similar to the genealogy of the Zhang family in the first world, and talked about the major things that have been experienced since the establishment of this shrine.

According to the mural, the original shrine was built to protect a wind cave in this place, and the priests of the shrine in the past generations were responsible for sealing and guarding the wind cave. But from generation to generation, fewer and fewer people believed in this legend, and by the Showa period, basically no one believed in this legend.

Later, in order to develop the economy, the officials of this place planned to build a tram station, but unexpectedly, the location where the wind cave is located was chosen to build a station. The older generation of the shrine strongly opposed it, but the priest of the shrine at that time also supported the construction of the station, because in his opinion, such an ethereal legend was far less reliable than the real benefit of the people.

So, the construction of the station began.

There have been accidents during the construction process, the biggest one was a collapse during the construction of the tunnel, and all the workers were buried inside. Despite this, the station was eventually built. However, after the station was repaired, there were often people who committed suicide by lying on the tracks, and it was usually in front of the front of the train that the captain found out. The person who was crushed to death died in a miserable state, with all the bones all over his body shattered, and his hands and feet turned out, which was very terrifying.

That's when the priest realized that he had done something wrong.

The shrine tried everything to make up for it and do things, but it couldn't contain this evil force. Not only that, but more and more people who died in vain even strengthened that power, and the power of the shrine was like a mantis arm in front of him.

In the end, the priest sealed the wind cave with his own flesh and blood, and after the priest's death, his eight-year-old apprentice inherited the shrine. The wind cave was not sealed for long, and it was broken again with the help of popularity, and this time, it was the priest who was still a child who was chosen to sacrifice the cave.

Because of the last order left by the previous priest, the little priest who didn't know what was going on was forced to swear with blood and body in exchange for the power to seal the wind cave.

But what's the use?

The simple child did not have the firm belief of a moth to a fire like an adult, he just wondered, why did his uncle and uncle, who were so good to him, suddenly want him to die? He still remembered that when his favorite uncle tied him in the middle of the big array, the extremely sharp knife cut through him, although he was anesthetized, but his consciousness was still clear, he clearly understood that his flesh was being separated by pieces, and his uncle's runes had always been the best, but this time, he became his uncle's rune paper.

"This is your master's order."

That was the last thing he heard.

Surrounded by flames, he was trapped in the middle of the circle, his endless shackles locking him in place. He didn't know how to struggle, he didn't know how to roar, he just sat on the ground and wept.

Until one day he heard a voice, a voice in his head, telling him how powerful he was enough to tear these chains and tear apart these pains.

He can not have to be trapped in this place, but be free and happy.

So he did.

……

"The dragon slayer turned into a new evil dragon, that's such a story." Lu Qiu silently told the three people in front of him everything he saw on the wall, except for Fang Linyin, the two men looked dumbfounded, especially the fourth brother, looking at him, he was obviously shocked by this twists and turns and complicated story.

This is reading a storybook!