Chapter 53: The Choice
"Oh no, we were all deceived by that shell lang, and he got on the ground and left." When we just turned around and were about to leave here, the four strong men used to retract the big net, but when they lifted the big net, they found that a hole the size of a fist appeared on the ground covered by the big net, and the shell Lang under the big net was gone.
"Alas, forget it, it seems that its life should not be extinguished, although it escaped, but it was contaminated with the blood of a black dog, and most of the evil qi was dispersed, the Tao must be damaged, and it is estimated that I will not dare to return to the holy tree in the future, let's greet the guests first." The Dragon King sighed, said with some disappointment, and then stretched out his hand to invite us to the interior of the village.
Almost all the residents of the entire Qingdam Village are the most primitive mud houses, which makes people feel like they have returned to the ancient rural tribes.
"Hehe, my house is on it, our village is relatively backward, a few people look like they came out of the city, just don't dislike it." The Dragon King laughed.
"No, no, old man, there is a very quiet feeling in your village, and we all like it." Mo Mo never recognized his life, and replied politely.
"Haha, if you like it. It's time to go to the old man's house. The old man has no children and no daughters, and his wife also left a few years ago, and now he is alone at home, and it is estimated that he will not live long. "The dragon king's house is not the grandeur of the patriarch but even more short, open the door, there are only two small rooms on the left and right next to the hall, it looks unusually depressed.
"Why, old man, you seem to be in good shape." Mo Mo comforted.
Four young strong men also followed, the old man shook his head, and said to the four strong men, "Today, these four guests will go to Xiao Xiao's house to sleep at night, Xiao Xiao's family is the biggest, isn't it." ”
Being embarrassed by the dragon king, the strong man led by him touched the back of his head a little embarrassed and nodded.
"Xiao Xiao, go boil some boiling water for a few guests. Sit down. The dragon king commanded, and the strong man led by him walked into the back room, and the remaining three strong men also sat down around the dragon king, and the dragon king opened his mouth and asked, "I think you are here for this old lady, this old lady seems to be wrong." ”
"Well, Grandpa Dragon King, look at this." Zhang Xiaohua hurriedly presented the three-page letter in her hand.
"It turned out to be Mrs. Zhang, I'll just say how to look familiar, I met once in the bazaar a few years ago, and at that time her body began to mutate and develop in the direction of the living dead, but according to my speculation, this process should take more than ten years, how can it be so fast? Who has bitten this wound? After reading the letter, the Dragon King seemed to remember Grandma Zhang, looked at Grandma Zhang's injured left ear with some strangeness, and asked.
"Grandpa Dragon King, that's it." When it comes to her grandmother, Zhang Xiaohua suddenly spoke a lot more fluently, and explained everything before and after Grandma Zhang's injury.
"I see." The Dragon King nodded, stroked his white beard, and said, "That ghost baby is a very evil creature, and its body is full of dead energy, and the dead energy of the ghost baby enters Mrs. Zhang's body through this wound, so it exacerbates the change of the living dead, once it really becomes the living dead, it is a more murderous existence than the ghost baby!" So a few years ago, when I met Mrs. Zhang at the bazaar, Mrs. Zhang asked me to help her, I also agreed, I originally thought she wanted to live for two more years, but I didn't expect it to be for you, a granddaughter, who is really a loving grandmother, but are you really willing to do this? ”
The Dragon King and the three strong men behind him looked at Zhang Xiaohua with a strange expression, Zhang Xiaohua also seemed to feel that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked, "Didn't my grandmother ask me to ask you to help her stop mutating and return to normal?" And you agreed, you won't go back. ”
The dragon king shook his head, and said with a somewhat unbearable expression: "I promised to help her, but not to save her, but to kill her." ”
Zhang Xiaohua's face turned pale in an instant, leaned back, and said tremblingly: "Kill my grandmother, where is this helping her, it is obviously harming her." ”
"Little girl, don't be nervous, take a sip of water first, and let Xiao Shan talk to you." In the inner room, the strong man called Xiao Shan walked out with nine cups of boiling water, handed them to us one by one, found a place, sat down, and then said: "Actually, you misunderstand that the dragon is old, the mutation of the living dead is an irreversible process, if you want to save her, you must erase her before she completely mutates into the living dead, otherwise when she completely becomes the living dead, the Tao will definitely increase sharply, and the wisdom will be completely lost, and then it will become a completely irrational human killer, In the end, it will harm more innocent people for no reason. Your grandmother didn't want to see her cause evil after she died, so she asked me for help. ”
Zhang Xiaohua's face became even paler, clenching her fists, and the whole person became restless.
"Don't worry, I'm not a person who kills indiscriminately, you are her own granddaughter, whether you want to erase or what to do, I will listen to you." The Dragon King seemed to see the worry in Zhang Xiaohua's heart, and opened his mouth to comfort him.
Zhang Xiaohua broke down and cried: "I don't want my grandmother to kill innocents indiscriminately, but I don't want to watch my grandmother be killed like this." What do you think I'm supposed to do? ”
Mo Mo also looked entangled, she could best understand the contradiction in Zhang Xiaohua's heart, so she opened her mouth wide and didn't know how to answer.
"I think a long pain is better than a short pain, since your grandmother asked you to bring her to see Long Lao, and she made an agreement with Long Lao a few years ago, she must not want to make herself a heavier sin after death" Seeing that everyone was silent, Xiao Shan, a strong man on the side, spoke. It's just that before he finished speaking, it aroused Zhang Xiaohua's backlash.
Zhang Xiaohua cried like a tearful person, and shouted miserably: "No, I don't have parents anymore, my grandmother brought me up since I was a child, I can't lose her, why do you want me to separate from my grandmother for the sake of other people's lives and deaths, I don't agree, I just don't agree." ”
"Alas, Xiao Shan, let this little girl be quiet, it's not easy for her, take them to your house to rest, and bring them back tomorrow morning, according to Mrs. Zhang's gnawing on animal carcasses a few days ago, her spirit has been completely lost, and it won't be long. Looking at her current state, she had eaten a lot of food in the previous meal, so her ferocity was not revealed, which saved her a lot of trouble. I'll temporarily suppress the speed of her mutation of the living dead, but this suppression won't have any effect, it is estimated that tomorrow night when the yin qi is at its heaviest, she will return to her fierceness, and I may not be able to subdue her then. Looking at Zhang Xiaohua's sad appearance, the Dragon King sighed and patted Grandma Zhang's head three times in several different positions.
After three clicks, Grandma Zhang's cloudy gaze regained a trace of clarity, and she showed a grateful look at the Dragon King, and said softly: "Xiaohua, let Grandma accompany you for the last day." ”
"Grandma, I" Zhang Xiaohua's eyes were red, and she couldn't say anything reluctant.
Xiao Shan's family is not very far from the Dragon King's house, four or five minutes away, compared with the Dragon King's house, Xiao Shan's house does look like a mansion. After dividing two rooms for us, Xiao Shan also made a few bowls of supper for us to pad our stomachs, which was also very enthusiastic. may have felt that she was about to be separated from her grandmother, so Zhang Xiaohua hugged Grandma Zhang's arm with both hands, her face full of reluctance.
"Child, go to sleep after eating, don't think so much, maybe you can sleep and get up tomorrow morning, and you will figure out everything." After eating supper, seeing that Zhang Xiaohua still looked preoccupied, Xiao Shan said a little unbearable.
"Well, you and your brother can squeeze tonight, I want to stay alone with grandma for a while." Zhang Xiaohua looked at Grandma Zhang with a sad expression. However, it may be because of the problem of too much time, the dragon king's slapping has become invalid, and Grandma Zhang's eyes began to become cloudy and dim at this moment, her expression was dull, and she ignored Zhang Xiaohua's gaze.
"Well, Xiaohua, no matter what decision you make in the end, I support you." Mo Mo patted Zhang Xiaohua's shoulder and said.
"Thank you, and Brother Hesitation, thank you for being with me." Zhang Xiaohua showed a reluctant smile.
Seeing Zhang Xiaohua helping Grandma Zhang into the room, Mo Mo shook his head and sighed: "Alas, Grandma Zhang is a kind person, her original intention was not to create any more sins, Xiaohua definitely didn't want to watch Grandma Zhang kill people, but the two of them have always depended on each other, maybe in Xiaohua's heart, Grandma Zhang is more important than her, how can Xiaohua watch Grandma Zhang die?" ”
After a long silence, Mo Mo led me into another room, and surprisingly, the woman who would appear in my sleep every day did not appear tonight, perhaps because I was too tired after a night of travel, I lay on the bed, closed my eyes, and fell asleep
"Oh no, Zhang Xiaohua and her grandmother are gone."
I don't know how long I slept, but in my sleep, I was woken up by Xiao Shan's majestic voice, and then Mo Mo pulled me up from sleep, and said with a nervous face, "Brother, it's not good, Xiaohua and Grandma Zhang are gone, why am I so stupid?" Xiaohua is kind-hearted, and she definitely doesn't want to see Grandma Zhang recreate her sins, but Xiaohua won't want to see Grandma Zhang die with her own eyes, in this case, she is likely to choose the third way, why am I so stupid, I think she will choose between these two methods, she has a third choice. ”
"The third option?" Xiao Shan stood aside, obviously not thinking of what choice Zhang Xiaohua could make, he also thought that Zhang Xiaohua would either agree to let the Dragon King kill Grandma Zhang, or disagree.
"Hmm." Mo Mo nodded solemnly and said, "It would be a cruel choice for Xiaohua not to let Grandpa Long kill Grandma Zhang, so she may take Grandma Zhang to the old forest of Senshan." ”
Could it be that Zhang Xiaohua wants to use her life to make this choice? Does she think that in the old forests of Senshan, even if Grandma Zhang loses her mind, it is impossible for her to come out and harm others, and at the same time, Grandma Zhang does not have to die? However, when Grandma Zhang loses her mind tonight, she will be the first to die, she is not choosing, but escaping. Xiao Shan said in surprise.
"What about escaping? She is still a girl who has just taken the high school entrance examination, and when she needs the care of adults, how did she make such a painful choice? "Mo Mo looked reluctant.
"Alas, it's evil, let's go and ask Long Lao, Long Lao has lived for more than a hundred years, and he is the most prestigious person in our village, maybe he still has a way to save it." Xiao Shan sighed and said.
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