Chapter 67: Returning Home
There are some differences between what Ajie said and Chen Yanting, according to Chen Yanting, it was Huang Yiming who discovered Ajie first, compared to the rhetoric of the two, Chu Ye of course believed what Ajie said.
"Why did you show up in Zhangjiakou? What are you looking for that white snake for? When I finally heard about you, you were arrested, and I wanted to see you, because the prison regulations also do not allow me to visit the prison, but I didn't expect to see you in Zhangjiakou. What the hell is going on here? Chu Ye raised all his questions.
This time, Applejack didn't rush to answer, but thought for a long time before he spoke: "I forgot a lot of things, and I haven't remembered it yet, I just remember that I was doing things for a person, he brought me out of prison, and he also made me what I am now, and the three elders of Qingcheng and I are obedient to him." ”
"Who is this man?"
"I don't know." Applejack smiled wryly and said, "I just remember that he looked very old, and there was a scar on his right cheek, but I don't remember anything else, he told me to go to Zhangjiakou to catch the Xiangliu snake, and asked me to take back the Fog Bone Clan holy relics hidden inside." ”
"Snake in the Willow? You mean the white snake? ”
"Well, legend has it that this snake is the minister of the Gonggong, with nine heads, and loves to eat people the most, and later Dayu killed him with divine power, and then buried in the north of Kunlun."
Chu Ye didn't expect the white snake to be so big, he felt incredible, and it was wrong to think about it carefully, the white snake obviously only had one head, and according to Chu Ye's inference, this white snake should rarely eat people, they had been to the white snake's lair, most of them were animal bones, they didn't see human bones, and the local people also worshiped the white snake as a mountain god, how could it not be like the mythical fierce god Xiangliu.
"It's said that it's a myth, there is a willow snake, but it was exaggerated by the ancients, if it was really as powerful as in the myth, it would have gone to heaven a long time ago." Applejack doesn't care.
Chu Ye recalled the scene at that time, the seven or eight cylindrical things around the neck of the white snake really looked like they had a few heads, and with the strength of the white snake, although it was a little exaggerated, it was still very terrifying.
"What is the origin of the Fog Bone Clan and the holy relics?"
"I don't know." Applejack shook her head and said, "The person who asked me to do the errand didn't say anything specific, just asked me to take it back, by the way, I remember that you took the holy relic, and is it still with you?" ”
Chu Ye looked into Applejack's eyes, and suddenly felt a burst of panic, always feeling that Applejack was still hiding something from him.
"The holy relic was taken away by Xiao Jing and them, and we met them as soon as we came out, and we had no chance to hide it."
Chu Ye almost subconsciously lied, Ajie didn't know if he believed his words, he kept staring at him, this kind of look, Chu Ye had seen it in Lan Yucheng, in Chen Yanting, and even in Xiao Jing and Hu Lao, as if a lie detector machine was detecting the truth of his words.
"Big brother, you're driving, look ahead."
Chu Ye was stared at and hurriedly interrupted, and Ajie retracted his gaze.
"Since the three elders of Qingcheng and you are all obedient to the old man, they don't seem to care about the Xiangliu snake and the holy relics, so they left by the lake."
This is where Chu Ye doubts the truth of Applejack's words the most, at that time Applejack seemed to be in a hurry to kill Xiangliu Snake, in the cave and tomb, even more so, Lan Yucheng was next to them, Applejack completely ignored it, and went crazy to cross Xiangliu to get the holy relic.
"I don't know." Applejack said again, "The task given to me by that man is to kill the Xiangliu Snake and take away the holy relics, as for how he arranged the three elders of Qingcheng, I don't know. ”
After listening to Applejack's words, Chu Yehu glanced at him suspiciously, and then asked, "Then how did you escape from the cave?" At that time, the corpses seemed to have been deceitful. And after you killed the snake, what did you eat? ”
The scene of Applejack eating meat balls covered in blood will probably not be forgotten in his life.
Unexpectedly, Applejack shook her head and said, "I don't know, I remember what happened at the time, but I can't remember why I did it, it's like a dream, you can't control your brain in the dream, I don't know why you eat that thing, I just know that after eating it, those zombie-like corpses are like they can't see me at all, so they follow you out and come back." ”
"And that kind of thing?" Chu Ye had an expression of disbelief, "Then how did you recover your memory again?" Does it have something to do with what you eat? ”
"Yes." Applejack actually admitted, "Not long after I came out, my head jumped and hurt, and I felt like it was about to explode, and then countless people and things I forgot started to run in, I don't know how to describe it, anyway, it's such a state, you can't understand it, you may not even believe it, but that's the way it is." ”
"I didn't disbelieve it." Chu Ye cleared his throat and said, "What you ate was taken out of the snake's belly?" ”
Applejack nodded.
Chu Ye suddenly thought of Lan Yucheng, could he be looking for the Xiangliu Snake for the same thing that Ajie ate? The more I think about it, the more I think it's possible.
"What are we going back to Xin'an now? Still going to my hometown? ”
Chu Ye was still a little hesitant to go home, he didn't want to appear in front of his family with the body of a monster, not to mention that he had to go back to his hometown, he became like this, so many things happened later because of the funeral caused by going home to mourn, and the second uncle who became a zombie has not yet been found, he always feels that if he goes back again, something strange and terrifying will happen.
"My last impression when I came out of prison was on Jigongling."
"Impossible." Chu Ye was so excited that he almost got up from his seat, "You're going to tell me that you've been coming out of prison with my hometown?" ”
"My memory is like this, it won't lie to me, the second memory is that the person asked me to go to Zhangjiakou, and the two years in the middle are like a blank, so I want to get my memory back when I go back this time." Applejack said with a determined gaze.
Chu Ye looked at him blankly, thinking that he had been on the mountain with Jigongling for the past two years, so close to Chu Ye's hometown, Chu Ye felt a little terrifying.
Because Jigongling has always been an ominous mountain in Qiantang Village, a group of bandits disappeared into the mountain before liberation, and a mass grave was dug out during the Qing Dynasty, and the old people in the village also said that Chu Ye's grandfather Chu Fangzheng almost died in the mountain, and when he found the grandfather, he was covered in blood, his clothes were tattered, and he died violently within a few years of returning home.
From childhood to adulthood, it was rare to see people from the village go up to Jigongling to chop firewood in broad daylight, and Ajie actually stayed in it for two years.
"Are you confused in your memory, how could you be in Jigongling?"
"There will be no mistake, I have to tell you one thing, there is a cave in that mountain, and in the depths of the cave there is a pyramid building that is exactly the same in Zhangjiakou, which is the only memory I have of these blank two years."