Chapter 4: Opening the Crate
I was shocked, looked at my hand, and hurriedly asked, "Am I going to be like you?" What really happened to you? He pondered for a moment and said, "Since you and I have the same experience, I don't need to hide it from you" As he spoke, he took out a box from the small bag on his waist that was exactly the same as Lao Yang's, but his box had already been opened. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info "Where did you come from?" How did you open this box? What's in the box? "As soon as I saw the box, I asked all the questions I wanted to ask.
He didn't speak, just opened the lid of the box, then took a key from the box and handed it to me and said, "Look at this." "When I took it, it was a key made of pure copper, with a very clear groove at the front of the key. I suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and remembered that I saw in my hallucination that there seemed to be a small thing like a gem in the keyhole of Lao Yang's box, and I thought it was stuck in it. Could it be that this is the key to open that box? As I was thinking, he said, "Don't rush to open that box, don't you want to know about me and this box?" I said, "Yes, can you tell me what these things are?" He nodded and sat down on the chair that Lao Yang had just brought over.
"Like you, I'm just an ordinary person who doesn't believe in those ghosts and gods, but suddenly one day I died, really because of a serious illness," he said calmly. I couldn't believe my ears, and said in a questioning tone, "Can I say I'm talking to a dead man right now?" "Yes and no," he continued, "I am alive now, but I was once dead, and I came out of the morgue." I looked at him in amazement, and was speechless.
Lao Yang seemed to be accustomed to it on the side, lighting a cigarette and smoking it by himself. "So I'm a person who has been recognized dead in this society, I don't know if you've ever heard of a person's suspended animation" I nodded and said, "Is it the kind of person who has been medically recognized as brain dead, and his body functions have stopped functioning, but he has come back to life after a while?" "That's right, I'm not the first to do this kind of thing, there are many people in the world who have encountered this kind of thing, some people are more fortunate to be found and I am the more unlucky, after I came back to life, I didn't tell anyone and just sneaked out of the hospital, so I'm now a person with no identity" "Then you don't tell your family, won't they be very sad?" "...... in a major earthquake"
I knew that I asked something I shouldn't have asked and wanted to apologize, but he preemptively said, "I don't have a family for a long time, I secretly ran out to experience the days without identity, although there are many inconvenient places in life, but I can barely live, after all, I have also got rid of many troubles from the past and can be regarded as a new start, who knows that it will be several years" Speaking of this, he sighed and continued: "About this box, I have to start from the second month after I escaped from the hospital, I didn't feel anything abnormal at first, but after a month, I slowly began to feel that something was wrong with my eyes, and I began to be able to see some things that ordinary people can't see, but those things didn't seem to see me, and I didn't feel fear at first, just curious."
"What happened then?" I continued to ask, "Then I felt that the things I could see were slowly becoming more visible to me, and slowly began to affect my life. Until one day..."He asked Lao Yang for a cigarette, took a puff and said: "Until one day, I found out that they were communicating with me, and I began to try to communicate with them, but they didn't seem to intend to pay attention to me at all, and then I found out that it was not me who communicated with them, but the vanity in me, as for what the vanity is, I don't think I need to explain too much, after all, you also have it" I nodded and said, "Well, please continue"
He took a drag on his cigarette and continued, "I couldn't understand what they were saying, so I mistook them for talking to me, and one day, while I was sleeping, I suddenly felt a sharp pain, and I opened my eyes to find that my vanity was trying to leave my body, and a new imaginary spirit was trying to take possession of my body, even if I tried to resist, I couldn't do anything, and then I realized that what they had been talking about was encroaching on my body." But I don't know why my body didn't become like Lao Yang," he said and looked at Lao Yang, who just sighed deeply and still stood aside without speaking.
"As for how I got this box, it's somewhat similar to Lao Yang's experience, except that I was forced by that vanity, otherwise it would have killed me." He stepped on the cigarette he had smoked, and his face began to become serious, and he continued, "That ghost disappeared when I got the box, so I can't see those ghosts now," Hearing this, I asked curiously, "Didn't you still call it a ghost just now?" "Don't you know?" His expression was as if I should know, and I shook my head in confusion.
"The ghost with the Lord we call it a vanity, that is, the ghost attached to a person is a vanity, and the vanity without the Lord is a ghost, okay, don't interrupt me, let me continue to finish." He continued impatiently, "After I got the box, I had the same hallucinations as you, and it happened many times, I tried many times to throw it away, but finally it came back to me" Hearing this, I couldn't help but interject: "Do you feel like you are out of control and want to take it" "That's right, and after the first hallucination, a mark was formed on my hand, exactly like your current mark." And as time goes on, he will grow bigger and bigger, until it covers your whole arm, and then your body will no longer belong to you, and the void can invade your body at any time, and you will become the void, in layman's terms, it becomes you" I heard this and quickly raised my hand to look at it, and felt that there was another leaf, and hurriedly asked: "Then what to do, I can't wait to be occupied."
He sneered and said, "Look at me, do you think I have a way?" If I had a way, I wouldn't have to cut off my own hands. I only stumbled upon the name when I unlocked it," he opened and showed me the bottom of the box, which was also filled with beautiful patterns. At the bottom, I found a tree-shaped pattern, and at the bottom of the tree was clearly written the word 魓.
"Got it?" As he spoke, he looked at me. I nodded silently, and suddenly a question flashed through my mind: "Then how did you open the box?" "You wait for the seal on your hand to grow and you will understand." "Could it be that when the seal grows into one, it will automatically unravel the box and be invaded by the Void at the same time?" "That's right, as for what this key is for, whether you want to open the box that concerns you or not, it's up to you. I also met Lao Yang after I cut off my right arm, and I never told him about my past at that time, because I have long been out of vanity, so he didn't tell me about him, but today it was a coincidence...", he took the box from Lao Yang's hand and handed it to me and said: "This is your own fate, you decide for yourself." ”
I hold the box in one hand and the key in the other. I had mixed feelings in my heart, and I looked at the mark in my hand and thought, "Anyway, if I don't open the box, I can only wait for death, it's better to try" I put my heart sideways, and inserted the key into the lock hole, and with the slow rotation of the key, I only heard a "click" sound, and the lock opened.
Hearing the voice, everyone gathered up, eager to know what was in the box. I slowly opened the box, and all I saw was a pamphlet made of parchment, and I carefully took out the booklet, and saw that there was a small scroll underneath, and I took it out as well.
I put what I had brought out on the table next to me, and everyone was confused. Lao Yang was anxious, picked up the booklet and flipped through it, I hurriedly asked what I saw? Lao Yang looked back page by page, frowning while reading, he sighed and said, "If only there was anything, the key is nothing..." After roughly flipping through it, there are only about 50 or 60 pages in total.
"Then the problem must be with the parchment roll," said the young man with the broken arm, and spread it out as he spoke. I leaned over and looked at it, and it was more like a text, but rather a pattern of some paintings, and I didn't know what I could see. The young man with the broken arm didn't seem to see any clues. So he moved to the side and motioned for Lao Yang to take a look.
Lao Yang looked at it and said, "It's a little familiar, ah~~!" Suddenly, Lao Yang screamed, and I almost fell off the chair in fright. Speak well, don't shout. Lao Yang saw that he was out of shape and coughed twice and said, "I remember, I used these words when I was inducing the void, it seems that only the void can understand the words, I only know these, as for the meaning of the text, I don't know." ”
"And where did you get these words? Didn't you tell you that your evil spirit? I asked, with a hint of disdain. Lao Yang said, "No, do you remember that I said that I was able to lead the vain upper body under the guidance of a master surnamed Yin." "Remember, he told you?" I looked at the parchment scroll and said, "There may be a way to unlock this damn mark, I have to give it a try, can you still find that master?" Lao Yang shook his head regretfully, "After so many years, it is a question whether he is still alive, let alone finding him" I gritted my teeth and said: "Then when and where did you last see him." No matter what, as long as there is a chance, I will not give up! ”