Volume 1: Apprentice Onmyoji Chapter 30: The Cruel Truth (Gaga)
"Everything is normal, where is there anything abnormal?"
When he arrived at the place where he worked, Xu Shiying looked left and right, and did not notice that there was a difference, the bar was still the same bar, and there were guests entering the bar one after another to consume, how could there be the appearance of a haunted house as Wang Sen said.
Two bunny girls at the door are smiling and greeting, and their hot bodies attract a group of middle-aged greasy men to stuff a few red tickets on their chests from time to time.
Xu Shiying doesn't think there's a problem, isn't this normal? What kind of haunted house is to scare himself, and he paid special attention to the cheeks of the bunny girls, which were not too white, and there was a faint flush.
Normal can't be normal anymore, besides, if this is really a haunted house, then what is it if he has worked for half a year, sleepwalking through at night?
Lin Yanran, who was following a group of people, looked at the bar in front of her with a strange look, and quietly hid behind Li Ruoshui, once she found danger, she would immediately choose to escape.
"You're taking a closer look!"
Wang Sen motioned for him to gather his spirit and take a closer look at the situation of the bar, Xu Shiying was half convinced, and concentrated all his energy to look at the door of the bar, the scene in front of him became blurry, and he rubbed his eyes, and the scene in front of him made his eyes widen in disbelief.
The welcome bunny girl, the drunk, the guests, all gone, in front of me was the ruins of only one wall, the walls were full of cobwebs, the ground was pitted, there was moss everywhere, the steps were full of bricks and tiles, the middle part of the wall was uneven, as if it had been hit by something, and it looked like a pot from a distance.
This huge ruin seems to have been abandoned for a long time, and swarms of black ants can be seen on the ground carrying food from nowhere.
A flying crow, probably tired from flying for too long, landed on the wall, shook off the dirt on its feathers, and saw a caterpillar crawling slowly, not noticing that there was a 'behemoth' waiting for it to fall into the bird's mouth.
With a light peck, the crow ate the delicious food and cried happily, it was a good day.
Xu Shiying saw the crow and the wall in his heart, rushed to the ruins, did not notice the moss on the steps, accidentally fell to the ground, he stood up without care, looked at everything empty in front of him, and couldn't believe that this was the place where he had worked for more than half a year.
Looking around, he seemed to find something in a pothole, trotted over, and inside were two paper figures with rabbit ears.
"Is it a dream......"
Xu Shiying muttered to himself, thinking about what had happened in the past six months, it was like a dream, and he had an indescribable feeling, only feeling that life was full of irony, and the road ahead was full of darkness, and there was no end in sight.
People with curiosity will be more or less cranky, Xu Shiying's personality has always been taciturn, and he has exercised a trace of eloquence skills in the bar for most of the year, but the essence has not changed.
He is still the same him, he is not good at words, the more he is not good at words, the easier it is to focus on the horns.
And at this moment, Xu Shiying, who feels that he has lived a fake life, his mind is empty, his eyes are blank, and he is in a kind of self-entangled consciousness, he is thinking about the classic philosophical question of thousands of years, I, is it the real self, or the false self?
"Alas, why did the predecessors debunk all this, wouldn't it be good to let Xu Xiaozi live like this, become an onmyoji, after decades of experience, sooner or later he can become a big man in his own right, what is true in the past, what is fake.
Now when I see my brother like this, my heart is panicked, who knows that the first half of the experience is a dream, and they will go crazy, right? It's hard to accept an apprentice, if you go crazy, wouldn't you lose your wife and lose your soldiers, where to find someone with the body of extreme yin. “
Wang Sen looked at the old beggar and sighed, he didn't understand why he wanted to tell Xu Shiying the truth, as long as he didn't say it, the dream would come true, and his life would be smooth sailing from now on, reaching the peak of this world.
"How can you see the rainbow without experiencing wind and rain, the essence of the onmyoji is to see through the falsehood, if even the onmyoji himself is living in the vanity, then how to tell the world the existence of the true self.
He still has a long way to go, if he wants to become an excellent onmyoji, this is the first level, he must get through, otherwise even if he has the power of Tianyan, he will not be able to exert his true strength.
Since he has chosen to become an onmyoji, he will have to bear responsibility in the future, and he will encounter more powerful ghosts, charming, seductive, guiding, light and dark, it is completely up to him, all we can do is guide.
If he even comes over this level, facing that evil ghost, there is only one way to die, you must know that the purpose of that evil ghost is him, the extreme yin body is like Tang monk meat to ghosts and spirits, everyone wants to bite two bites to try it, and without a strong and firm will, it is impossible to resist the temptation.
And he is very tolerant, until now he has not appeared, I think he must have been a hero during his lifetime, and the means of this road alone are enough to prove that he is not simple.
Powerful demons are not terrible, it is only a matter of minutes for you and me to attack, but the enemy hidden in the shadows is the most terrifying......"
The old beggar sighed, and glanced at Lin Yanran, who was hiding behind Li Ruoshui, intentionally or unintentionally, I want to see how long you have to endure it!
Xu Shiying fell into the entanglement of whether he was true or not, his brows were furrowed, a trace of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, his brain was confused, and he felt that there was another self, denying himself and everything he had.
The corners of his mouth were bleeding, which frightened Li Ruoshui, stepped forward and hugged Xu Shiying, pressed his head to his chest, patted the back of his head gently, and said gently: "No matter what happens, I will accompany you, don't be afraid!" ”
Xu Shiying's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light, and then quickly dimmed, his eyes were colorless, Li Ruoshui put one hand around his neck, and gently patted and comforted with the other, singing a ballad;
You're in the southern sun, and the snow is falling
I am in the cold night in the north, and the four seasons are like spring
……
The crow on the dilapidated wall kept chirping, a pair of big black eyes kept turning, and it was ready to take off and continue to wander far away in search of a warm home.
Waving his wings to gather full horsepower, he jumped and took off into the air, but suddenly screamed again and again, the old beggar and Wang Sen looked at each other and nodded, the two of them scattered, one to the south, the other to the north, one held a copper mirror in his hand, sprayed the boy urine prepared in advance on the mirror, the palm stroked the back, the copper surface made a sound like a tortoise shell, and a blood-colored rune appeared on the mirror, shooting towards the sky.
Lin Yanran stood in place in a daze, not understanding why she suddenly made such a big formation.
"Heaven and earth are yellow, the universe is desolate, Taishang Laojun, broken!"
The two of them spoke at the same time, and the bronze mirror in their hands emitted a scorching white light, illuminating the entire land, which was originally night, but it was as bright as day, but the light did not last long before it was extinguished by a white shadow.
The old beggar was well-informed, his eyes narrowed, and he said softly: "Paper man technique, it seems that your identity is more complicated than I imagined, and you have even learned the techniques in the area of Xiangxi." “
The two paper figures lying in the pothole smashed the bronze mirror in Wang Sen's hand, the two mirrors were missing one, and the power was greatly reduced, and the mirror was sprayed with children's urine, and a big hole was corroded on the hands of the two paper figures.
Two well-built bunny girl paper figures, the corners of their mouths were cracked, and yellowish maggots flowed out, each as thick as a little thumb, and they attacked Wang Sen and the old beggar in a mighty manner.
And just as the maggot army came rushing in front of her, Lin Yanran disappeared, and the old beggar's face changed greatly; "It's not good, the apprentice is in danger!"
The old beggar wanted to come forward to rescue, and suddenly two figures appeared to block the way, if Xu Shiying saw it, he would recognize it, one was Lao Wei, who managed the warehouse, and the other was the young man who was working with him.
The two of them are different from paper people, they are living people, but they are corpses, with charms on their foreheads, and the old beggar sneered: "Xiangxi is getting more and more depressed in the vein of chasing corpses, and they actually make a deal with evil ghosts, if you let your peers know, aren't you afraid of being surrounded and punished?" ”
"Giggles, old man, it's time for the big brother who has been in the Onmyoji line for so long, and it's time for it to change hands, it just so happens that the so-called compatriots in your mouth don't want the new generation of Onmyoji to grow up, so ...... The results are clear. There was an ethereal voice in the distance, and it was impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman.
The old beggar's face changed slightly, the matter was beyond his expectations, he had to deal with these two corpses quickly, and he must not leave Li Ruoshui and Xu Shiying where they were, Lin Yanran's whereabouts were unknown, which made him suspicious.
Can't you get it......
The old beggar no longer hid his secrets, and opened his bow left and right with the power of the sky, as long as he took off the charm on his head, there was no threat, but he underestimated the flexibility of the two corpses, and easily dodged it.
"It's really the next book, actually refining the corpses of two ordinary people, just to deal with an old man like me?"
The old beggar leaned over and tried to find the location of the man behind the scenes, listening intently as he coped with the combined blows of the two corpses.
"Giggles, don't bother thinking in vain, I've long heard that the big names of my predecessors have thrown themselves into the net, and the slave family won't commit it."
The voice was faint, as if it was deliberate, the old beggar couldn't find out who was behind the scenes in a short time, changed the movement of his feet, bent down to avoid the head-on blow, saw the right time, gently took off the charm, and the young man's body stopped.
Now there is still Lao Wei's, the old beggar uses the strength of Tai Chi to entangle Lao Wei's body, Lao Wei's fingernails are black, and the top is greasy.
The old beggar's eyes narrowed, can he already produce corpse oil......