Volume 5, The Three Realms of the Stars and Moon_Chapter 67, Dolls
There must be something on the big bed, and the entire third layer feels very wrong to me, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a treasure house more like a cave house for someone else's cultivation. And for no apparent reason there was a bed in the center, and I don't think it would be a treasure.
The movement in the black veil fell silent after a few moments, and I had already retreated to the side of the stone gate, and it stands to reason that at this time I would push open the stone door and go out, and I would not suffer any sin. But at this moment, I was actually curious about the things on the big bed in my heart, thinking that my strength was not bad, and the stone gate was behind me, so I stayed here to see what was under the black veil, if it was really a monster that I couldn't beat, it would be a big deal to push open the stone door and run. Besides, I don't think the Ashiya family can hide any monsters that can defeat me.
Now that I've made a decision, I'm not going to leave at all. One hand pressed against the stone door, looking intently in the direction of the big bed. There was a movement on the bed for a while, and then it fell silent, but after a while, the movement became louder again. Through this layer of black yarn, I really couldn't see what was going on inside, so I took the qi in my body, took a deep breath and blew in the direction of the black yarn, this breath was not very strong, but it turned into a breeze to slowly blow the soft black yarn, and at this moment, I saw a figure sitting behind the black yarn. The figure was wearing the hunting clothes of an ancient Japanese court official, but I don't know if it was because of the bad light, but I saw the hunting clothes black, but I didn't see the man's face.
He leaned his back against the rail, one leg arched, one hand on his knee, and a paper fan in his hand. The hair is very long, and the long hair is swaying lightly under the breeze, if it weren't for the weird atmosphere around it, it would really feel a little elegant and chic.
I noticed a guy sitting on the bed, nervous but not scared. He also took the initiative to shout: "What do you call Your Excellency? Can you understand Chinese? ”
The guy over there didn't make a sound, and I thought he might not understand Chinese, so I said it again in my broken Japanese, and of course I couldn't fully guarantee whether he was right or not. But there was no reaction at all on the other side, except for the hair fluttering, the whole person was like a stiff stone and there was no movement. I was beating a drum in my heart, could it be that what I saw was not a living person, but a dummy or a puppet or something?
After observing for a while, the man did not seem to move, and when the breeze blew through the black veil and fell, I was so curious that I relied on my own ability to simply walk towards the person opposite. Of course, I also pulled out the broken sword and was ready for battle, so that if it was a trap, I would be the first to strike.
When I walked to the side of the big bed, I lifted the black veil and saw that I was really sitting alone on the bed! A fair-skinned young man in his twenties was dressed in the hunting clothes of the ancient Japanese court, and the clothes looked neat and clean, and he looked like he had just washed them. I fixed my eyes on the man in front of me and stared at him for a long time, but he didn't even blink an eyelid, and I couldn't tell if he was breathing because the front of his hunting coat was loose. I can't be sure if this person in front of me is a living person.
"Dead people? Or a living person? Or a puppet......" I thought to myself. We also have experts in making dolls in China, and I once saw people selling their dolls on the black market, which are almost the same as real people. These puppets are also more useful, and their main role is to possess ghosts or manipulate the sect's family formation and patrol security. Of course, the price of the puppets in our supernatural circle is not cheap, and the better the craftsmanship, the more functions and the stronger the applicability, the higher the fee. The most expensive category is said to cost more than 100,000 yuan or even millions.
Japan is really not bad in this regard, and it is said that in modern times, some craftsmen among the onmyoji have improved the hunting technique of making dolls in ancient China, and so far, Japanese dolls have been much better than those in China. Could it be that this puppet placed on the top floor of the Ashiya family pagoda is actually a doll, and is this doll the most precious treasure of the entire Ashiya family?
Whether or not it's a puppet is just my guess right now, but if you want to verify it, the best way is to go up and check the pulse of the person in front of you! But trying to check the pulse means getting close and touching the person, and it's a zero-distance contact, and I'm really hesitant.
If this guy in front of me is really a puppet, then if there is a poisonous or offensive magic circle on his body, I will be extremely vulnerable to injury when I touch it. But if you don't check your pulse, you can't really be sure whether the person in front of you is alive or dead. Why don't I split a sword? But after all, this is the treasure house of the Ashiya family, and it was okay to talk about it with the statue before, but now if I break the puppet with a sword, then in the end I can only go back with the broken puppet.
After thinking about it, I finally gave myself courage, what are you afraid of when you have come to this point, isn't it just a puppet? Is it possible that I can still give my own life if I touch it?
As I spoke, I walked around to the other side of the bed and to the side of the doll. Seeing his bare left hand outside his sleeve, of course, I wrapped my whole hand in gas just to be on the safe side, and then slowly stretched my hand over. The distance between the two hands is getting closer and closer, and the moment my fingertips touch the other person's arm, the first thing I feel is the warm feeling from that hand. However, the Japanese puppet craftsmanship is particularly good, and it is not impossible to make some dolls with body temperature, but the pulse and the qi that travels between the meridians cannot deceive people. You can't feel that this is a living person just because you feel your body temperature, and you have to check your pulse.
I pinched the puppet's wrist little by little, and after a few seconds I didn't feel a pulse. I let out a sigh of relief, it seemed that I was not really alive, but just as I was about to withdraw my hand, I suddenly felt a slight throbbing in my wrist. The boss who was staring at the time waited for a while, and the pulse beat of "poof...... sound" kept coming, and at the same time, a faint qi slowly moved in the person's body. The breath was weak, as if it was a seriously injured person, but there was qi and there was a pulse, and I could finally be sure that the person in front of me was definitely a living person and not a puppet!
"It's a living person!" I whispered in surprise.
The Ashiya family actually hid a living person on the third floor of their treasure house, so the entire third floor was not allowed to let people in, and the appearance of the interior was imagined as the house where people lived. But who is this person? Why did the Ashiya family place this person on the third floor of the treasure house?
Several questions popped up in my mind at once, and just as I was about to withdraw my hand at the same time as I was puzzled, the man who had not moved or even said that he was in a vegetative state suddenly said a word.
"Ashiya...... Ashiya ......"
How close I was to him! This sentence was so true that I was so frightened that I quickly retracted my hand, and then raised my broken sword and took a few steps back to be on guard. But after waiting for a while, the man did not speak again, and I thought carefully about what he had just said, as if it was a name but I didn't really understand it clearly, so I leaned in and asked, "What did you just say?" ”
He didn't respond, and I asked several times and still couldn't get an answer.
"Don't I misheard." I was muttering in my heart when the person in front of me suddenly spoke again, and this time because I was closer, I almost put my ear to his mouth, so I heard it very clearly, and he said a name, and that name was Ashiya Michiman!
After saying this, there was no sound again, and I straightened up and looked at him. Dressed in the hunting clothes of the ancient Japanese court or black, he lives in the third-story pagoda of the Ashiya family, and mutters the name of Ashiya Michimitsu. Could it be that the person in front of him is the legendary Ashiya Michiman?
The thought came to me, but it quickly took root, and the more I thought about it, the more I thought it was probably the case! It is very likely that what I saw was Ashiya Michimitsu, who had not died for thousands of years.