Chapter 167: The Enemy Is Dark, I am Clear
"Why?"
Daoist Yin didn't answer, but got up and left.
When I was alone, I watched the jumping flames, but my mind kept guessing and dividing these people into different areas.
Who is my friend and who is my enemy, maybe Li Sansi once thought like that, when he was in Yunnan.
Looking at the flickering light, I smiled wryly and shook my head, and finally lay back down, and when I closed my eyes, it seemed that I could see the Milky Way, as well as the silver sand in the river.
They are like a pair of invisible hands, waving pen and ink, painting our destiny.
The splendid and prosperous world, and the bizarre life, are so long.
I fell asleep again, but when I was half asleep, I heard Yin Daochang say something in my ear again, but I didn't want to listen to it more, so I just catered to a few words, shook my head and prepared to fall asleep again.
But the voice lingered in the ears, making people feel bored, and when they tried to distinguish it, they couldn't discern the specific content, until the abrupt sentence - "If you want to live, don't touch the mask of the god king!" ”
This sentence was very abrupt in those chaotic voices, as if in a silent world, there was a sudden loud explosion, which startled me and woke me up from a nightmare.
Subconsciously opened my eyes, I gasped, but my eyes looked at the light around me, and under this look, I also found that my vision was much clearer.
Sitting up, I immediately looked around, but there was no sign of anyone else, and I wanted to ask him, why did he say this to me, why did he stop me?
He should have known the prophecy, could it be that the God-King Mask leaving here would really bring disaster, and I might be the one who took the God-King Mask.
On the other side of it all, I hid alone in the dark in a daze, looking at the fire, looking at my backpack.
What happened just now, could it be their own hallucination, no one has been here at all.
No, I immediately shook my head, believing in what I saw and even more in what I was going to do.
As the Mask Man said, we need to understand what others have shown us and what we have to see.
Whatever the outcome, I shouldn't be frightened by what hasn't happened yet.
What we have to face is the front, not the infinite possibilities of the heart.
Picking up my backpack, I got ready to go, ate something, and felt a lot of strength, but when I looked around, I realized that I was in a stone cave, and there were two roads to go on the left and right.
One must be the way into the main burial chamber, and the other is the way back, but my trouble now is that I can't tell where they are.
And when they left, they didn't make any signs, and I didn't know where they went, so I could only try to choose a direction.
Walking into the darkness, I made a simple torch out of the contents of the fire, but after taking a few steps with this torch, I felt that something was wrong, where did the wood come from?
After a few glances around, there were stones all around, and I couldn't see any hollows when I looked up, and if the wood wasn't here, they brought it.
Thinking of this, I immediately shook my head, impossible, if there is a flashlight, how can they carry these things in one more move.
If it's not wood, then what am I holding in my hand?
As I looked over slowly, I saw that under the firelight, what I was holding in my hand was actually a human bone.
I almost didn't throw the torch out when I saw the white bones, but in the end I held back, and a cold sweat broke out in my palms.
What they were burning just now was a pile of human bones and the torn clothes on those bones.
But where did they find these things, could it be that Daoist Yin also found those bones?
Looking down at the bones in my hand, I looked at the fire, although the flammability of the bones was very low, but with those old clothes as paint, it was no problem to illuminate.
However, following the light of the torches, I smelled a strange smell, which was very fluctuating and thin, and it was not easy to detect if I didn't smell it carefully, but after a long time, it would make people feel dizzy.
I shook my head, calmed myself, and thought about the question by the light of the fire.
In the stone cave, the masked man was avoiding them, but then Yin Daochang and they didn't chase after them, maybe they found those bones.
These people are all craftsmen who repair the clan mausoleum, and among them may be Yin Daochang's father's generation, and he may have come down this time to look for these.
Thinking of this, combined with what Li Sansi said before, I couldn't help but figure it out, but now, if they find the bones, they will definitely stop here, leave here, or return the same way, or look for other exits.
Walking along this cave, there is no end in sight, I don't know how they found this place, and how they met us from behind.
With these things in mind, I didn't pay attention to my surroundings, and I didn't know how far I had walked, only to realize that the collapsed steps had blocked the way ahead.
After a few glances left and right, there was nothing in front of him except gravel, and it was impossible for Yin Daochang to leave from here.
Looking back, we walked in the other direction, and the stone cave continued to expand inward, and as I walked, it was easy for me to lose my mind, and even unconsciously look left and right.
For a few moments, I felt like I was walking in another place, and those distorted feelings were so weird.
I tried my best to sober myself up, but the more I did this, the more I couldn't calm down, thinking about the whereabouts of the masked man for a while, and thinking about Daoist Yin and the person who was going to kill me.
Sometimes, in the dark, I hear some voices, as if Jiang Yuchen is calling my name, but the distance is too far for me to hear.
I wasn't sure how long I would be able to calm down because of these nerves, until a sudden sound around me pulled me back.
"Who is it?" The first thing that jumped into my mind was not my subjective conscious reaction, but the idea of being dominated by that kind of darkness, and treating this place as a place separate from Jiang Yuchen.
He was looking for me, calling my name, but when I answered it, only my own voice echoed around me.
It's like a stream of water that keeps rushing through this endless stone cave, and finally disappears here.
I stopped, gasping for breath, and my own voice finally disappeared, like a stone thrown into the water, after a few ripples, gradually disappearing.
With the torch in hand, I shone forward, and immediately ran again, the sound of footsteps and wheezing together, and my heartbeat became irregular.
Darkness and light flickered before my eyes, overlapped, and finally I left behind.
I ran wildly for a long time, and when I stopped, I immediately looked around, and after a few glances, I slowed down in disappointment.
Slowly, a long, long time has passed, and my feet seem to be unconscious, and I want to take a break, but I don't know where to rest, when to stop.
In this way, after barely walking for a while, I finally became exhausted, and without thinking about anything, my body fell to the ground with a bang, and I never remembered it again.
The cold, stiff stone wall suddenly turned into a large soft bed, and as long as you close your eyes, you can see the dream.
The torch was still crackling, but I didn't have the strength to pay attention to it anymore.
With my eyes closed, I fell asleep without hesitation, and I didn't know how long I rested, maybe only a few minutes, maybe a few hours, I didn't notice.
I was in a daze, I was awakened by a chill, and when I opened my eyes, I immediately realized where I was now, and I sat up with my body propped up.
But when I reached out to touch the torch again, I found that the flame had been burned out, and only some light was still bubbling from one end.
I shook my head, sat up from the ground with the stone wall, and then went behind me to touch the flashlight.
After touching the flashlight, I turned it on, only to see a pillar of light shoot into the darkness ahead, and when I followed the pillar of light, I found that there was a doorway not far away.
When I was in a coma before, I didn't look closely, but I obviously felt that this road was very long! How do you wake up and see a way out?
After retracting my steps, I looked uncertainly into the doorway, but what caught my eyes was a different scene.
There was also a hole in the stone wall above the doorway, and after I looked at it a few times, I found a string of white footprints on the stone wall.
Resting on those footprints, I stepped back uneasily, and looked back, feeling that this place was so weird, how did I come here?
Thinking about it, I immediately ran back again, but it didn't take long for me to stop, look ahead, and look back, between the two, I couldn't determine what I was going to do, and if I were to go back, I didn't know what else I would encounter, and the distance wasn't so close.
Rather than seek the near and far, it is better to wait for work, didn't I look for this exit in the first place? Now that the place I'm looking for has appeared, why do you regret it?
But when I walked back to the place I had just been, I looked up and saw a mask with empty eyes, annotating my every move in the darkness.
The same choice, since you are going here, why should you be afraid of the way it appears?
It may be someone else who has shown me, or it may be what I am looking for, the same result, the only difference is the way it is presented.