"I'm not hiding from you," he said, looking up at me, "I don't have a choice, if I don't come with them, they'll all die." If I'm not mistaken, you seem to be called Zuo Youdao, Master Chai, is he okay? ”

I sighed, "It's gone." ”

The brilliance in his eyes suddenly dimmed a lot: "Master Chai is a good person." ”

I didn't answer, just stood silently next to him.

After a while, he stood up against the base of the wall and said to me, "Come into the house and say anything, for at this time the people of the village will not be able to see me, and as soon as they see me, they will kill each other." ”

Will they kill each other as soon as they see him?

I couldn't help frowning, and he didn't say anything to me, just called "dumb aunt".

After this, his daughter-in-law, who could not speak, came over and helped him into the courtyard.

I glanced at Liu Shangang and saw that he had been supported by Liang Houzai to stand up, and was looking at me with a guilty face, and it seemed that the anger on his body had disappeared.

And Xian'er and Luo Fei also walked towards this side one after the other.

When I entered the courtyard, I saw that the yard was very clean, the roof had been repaired, and there were a few flat pumpkins on it, "Wang Dafu" stood on the door and beckoned to me: "Little master, come in and have a cup of tea." ”

When I entered the house, I couldn't help but ask, "What should I do with the people in the alley?" ”

"Wang Dafu" sat on a bamboo chair at the Zhengchong door and sighed: "Alas, I can't handle it." You don't have to worry about them, when they wake up on their own, they'll go back to the Horned Dragon Temple. ”

At this time, the dumb aunt brought me a chair, and gestured with her hand, and screamed "ahhh

I heard "Wang Dafu" say to me: "The dumb aunt is begging you, save my little boy and the people in the village." ”

I nodded at the dumb girl, "Don't worry, we definitely won't leave them alone." ”

The dumb aunt looked at me silently, and did not speak sign language for a long time, until "Wang Dafu" waved her hand and asked her to make tea, she nodded and went to the back room.

Liang Houzai and the others also came in, and "Wang Dafu" asked them not to be polite and sit casually, and then said to me: "Wang Dafu said when he came last time that Jisoulzhuang would send someone sooner or later." Alas, after so many years, I didn't expect you to really think about me as an old man. By the way, I heard you call me Grandpa Wang just now, in fact, we changed our surname when we moved over, and my surname is Bai now, this is Wang Dafu's suggestion, he said, we can only live near the Heishui River if we change our surname to Bai. ”

I said, "Is the Heishui River the river outside the stockade?" ”

"Wang Dafu" ...... It's better to call him Lao Baitou, always put quotation marks around his name, or just add a "fake" word in front of it, I always feel very uncomfortable.

The old white man said to me, "You are talking about the river outside the stockade, and I am talking about the river inside the stockade." This village is divided into two villages, with a canyon in the middle, and the river at the bottom of the canyon is the Heishui River. I heard Wang Dafu say that there was originally an ancient tomb under this mountain, and the river water flowed through the tomb, and when it came out, it turned black, and now the ancient tomb has long collapsed, and the river is clear, but every time it is the spring equinox, the water in the river will still turn black. ”

I said, "When we came here before, we went to your house, and there was a stone slab outside the backyard that was pried open, and the water that came out of it was indeed black. ”

The old white man smiled: "The water over there has always been dark. It's strange to say, there are a few wells in Shangzhai, and the water in the wells is clear, but the place where I live is always black water coming out of the ground. I also heard Wang Dafu say that it was a spiritual spring, and someone had to guard it, so I settled my home in that place......"

As he spoke, scattered footsteps came from the alley, and he stopped and looked over the alley. I looked at Xian'er, who spread her hands at me: "Those people's souls are too strong, and the nightmare won't last long." ”

I turned around and asked Lao Baitou again: "Grandpa Wang, when I went to look for Wang Dafu before, he said that it was you who took the initiative to contact him after finding the hermitage, but listen to what you mean, it seems that he took the initiative to find you?" ”

"You still call me Lao Bai, it's okay to call me uncle, the past name doesn't belong to me anymore," Lao Baitou looked unexpectedly indifferent when he spoke: "It's indeed me who went to find him, I was originally copied by him, and I have feelings between each other, so I always know where he is, and he also knows where I am." ”

I originally wanted to ask why he didn't kill Wang Dafu when he was copied, but when the words came to my lips, I didn't know how to blurt it out.

He seemed to see my concerns, so he smiled and said to me, "Little master can say anything, Master Chai is our benefactor, and his disciple, I also treat him as my own person." ”

I tried to organize the wording, and asked carefully: "When you were copied by Yin Yu, Wang Dafu was also there, right?" ”

The old white head nodded: "He's right next to me." Speaking of which, when I first came to this world, I seemed to have a restlessness in my heart that was difficult to suppress, and the first time I saw Wang Dafu, I wanted to kill him, and the killing intent was so strong that I couldn't suppress it at all. ”

Me: "It's true that we did experiments before, and anyone who was copied by Yin Jade would kill the main body at all costs, but why didn't you do it at the time?" ”

The old white head frowned tightly: "Because of that voice, I heard that voice." ”

I leaned over to him, "What's the sound?" ”

"At that time, I thought it was an illusion, that sound, as if it did not belong to our world," the old white head described to me as he tried to recall: "It was like the sound of a bell striking the bell in the temple, but it was like the sound of a large handful of water falling on an iron plate, I can't describe it." As soon as that voice appeared, my heart calmed down. Speaking of which, when Wang Dafu saw me at that time, he also panicked, he was stunned there, he didn't move for a long time, and my mind was all attracted by that voice, and when I and he calmed down, I didn't have the intention of killing him, he seemed to understand something, and didn't do anything to me. ”

Listening to his words, I also carefully recalled the scene when I saw Wang Dafu, I remember that Wang Dafu's various reactions at the beginning seemed to tell us that he did not know the existence of the replica, but listening to the meaning of the old white head, the truth is exactly the opposite.

With doubts, I asked the old white head again: "After this, you will leave the tomb of the dragon king?" ”

The old white head shook his head: "No, I was in the tomb and stayed with Wang Dafu for a whole month, at that time, I was really panicked, I didn't know what to do, and I didn't know what I was." Alas, fortunately, Wang Dafu didn't care about my identity, and if it weren't for his enlightenment in that month, there might have been no such person as me now, and there would have been no children who were born to suffer. Iniquity. ”

Hearing him say this, I felt very awkward, but I couldn't say what was awkward.

"Later, he asked me to go back to the ground and take his place," the old white head continued: "Wang Dafu said, I heard those voices, there may be a deep secret hidden, if I am a clone is not exposed, bury the secret in my heart, never tell others that I have heard those voices, but if I am exposed, I must tell the people of the Soul Village about this as soon as possible, Wang Dafu said that only the people of the Soul Village can unlock this secret." ”

Me: "But when we came out of Erlong Bay, you had already left with the villagers. ”

The old white head said: "Yes, I was really scared at that time, before Wang Dafu came out, I had long regarded myself as a real person, but I knew that when you entered that tomb, you would definitely take him out." I was scared of ...... I'm afraid that as soon as I see him, all these years will be in vain, and I always feel that as soon as I see him, my life will be over. I don't know why I think that, but my mind is full of these things, and I can't suppress it, I can't suppress it. ”

When he was talking, he repeatedly said the phrase "can't be suppressed", and I always felt as if he had something to say, so I said to him: "Uncle Bai, look, since we are here, and there are no outsiders, if you have anything to say, you can also say it openly, don't hide it." ”

The old white head said: "This is a habit that has been developed for many years, and it is not easy to change, so the little master will take care of it." ”

I nodded and said, "Listen to you, Wang Dafu seems to want us to come to you, but when I first met him in Erlong Bay, he always acted like he didn't know you at all, as if he didn't want to reveal information about you. I don't understand why he did it. ”

Old Baitou: "The last time Wang Dafu came, I also asked him why the people from the Soul Village hadn't come yet, and at that time he said that the time was not yet ripe, and I hadn't seen the most critical thing." At that time, I couldn't figure out what he meant, until that night half a year ago, the people in the village were all enchanted overnight, and it was that night that hallucinations appeared again, last time it was auditory hallucinations, this time it was visual hallucinations, and I saw the seven stone doors. ”

He said that such hallucinations actually appeared far more than twice, and that since the day he appeared in the Dragon King's Tomb, there have been hallucinations almost every few days.

At first, he did think it was an illusion, and it wasn't until the last time Wang Dafu came to Qiang Village to look for him that he was not seeing an illusion, but an image projected in his mind by the Sun Tomb.

It would be inaccurate to say that it was an image, for at first he could only hear sounds that he could not explain, first the sound of the water hitting the iron plate, then the chaotic sound of the wind, and the sound of a beast roaring in a cave.

It's just that when the latter two sounds appear, they must be accompanied by the first sound, and Wang Dafu explained to him the last time he came that this should be the sound of the river at the bottom of the Sun Tomb.

And whenever the old white head fell asleep at night, the same scene always appeared in the dream.

In the dream, he stood on a sand dune, and as far as the eye could see, there was yellow sand everywhere, and there was no other color under the sky, it was a dry desert. When the old white head stood in the sun, he felt that the moisture on his body had been evaporated, like a dried corpse standing in the yellow sand.

The first time he entered this dream, he saw a mirage, the shadow of an oasis emerging on the surface of the sand dunes a few miles away.

At that time, the old white head did not know that it was a mirage, and a strong sense of dehydration drove him to the oasis, but when he reached the top of the hill, the oasis disappeared, and a huge tomb group appeared in front of him.