Chapter 2: Ten Years Later
Ten years later, in an apartment in Xishan City, I was playing a game of League of Legends, which has been very popular recently, in front of the computer.
"Xiao Chen, Xiao Chen came over and washed the dishes. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" Aunt Wang's cry interrupted my chance to get five kills. I slammed the keyboard, burning with anger but not daring to vent.
Because, my father disappeared when I was seven years old, and I knew when I was a child that he was a warlock and had always been very mysterious in doing things, and I didn't take his disappearance seriously. It was Aunt Wang who raised me and dragged me to college.
I casually said, "Oh! ”
After washing, I was upset and saw that the trash can was full. said: "Aunt Wang, the trash can is full and I will take out the garbage." ”
Under the guise of taking out the garbage, I sneaked out of the house. I was thinking of calling my good buddy "Zhuangding", but when I touched it, I found that I didn't have my phone with me. scolded in his heart: People are unlucky, and they stuff their teeth when they drink cold water! I spat on the ground and headed towards the park, and maybe even the mold!
I sat on a park bench and fell asleep before I knew it. When I woke up, I realized it was the middle of the night. On the other side of the bench, I don't know when, there was an old man, who saw me awake and said, "You're awake!" ”
I examined my eyes with my hand to see what the old man looked like. I really don't know if I don't know it, I was shocked when I saw it, the old man was very ugly, of course, he was very short, thin and dry wood, and his face was as white as tofu under the moonlight. Although my father is a warlock, I am a non-ghost-free theist, otherwise I would not have been scared to death.
I opened my mouth and asked, "Uncle, why don't you come home so late?" What are you doing here? ”
The old man let out a strange laugh of "chirp" and said, "Uncle, hehe, interesting." ”
Damn, I scolded in my heart: Call you uncle, do you really think you seem to be a big person?
But after all, he is an old man, and I am not embarrassed to scold him in front of him. With a stiff smile on my face, I asked, "You...... How? ”
The old man did not speak, but took out an older-looking book from his bosom. Then it was thrown directly at me, and I casually reached out and took it and watched "Ghost Eater".
I threw the "Ghost Eater" aside, turned to the old man and asked, "Who are you?" Why give me this? ”
The old man didn't speak, just laughed twice, then turned around and was about to leave. I immediately became angry, chased after me, and reached out to punch me. I don't know if it's the old man, who is amazingly fast, or if he's not human at all. Ben's confident punch missed, and the old man didn't even look back, I wanted to go up and make up for it. But who would have thought that when I was about to come into contact with the old man, a burst of light from the old man's body directly bounced me several feet away and said, "We will see you again in the future." I gradually lost consciousness, and I only vaguely remembered that the old man seemed to have stuffed something on me, and then I passed out!
When I woke up, it was noon the next day, and fortunately there were very few people here. I don't know why I'm sleeping on the floor, and of course I don't talk about it that much, but I still feel a little bit of a pain in my head. I rubbed my temples with both hands, and it felt like I had a dream last night. I sat back on the bench and realized what I was carrying around my waist.
I took it out and looked at it, and I was shocked when I was in "Ghost Eater". It turned out that last night was not a dream, it seemed to be true. I opened the book and took a cursory look at it, because I didn't care what it was.
In the book I found an old parchment scroll mixed in, and I picked it up curiously. I found that I couldn't read the words on it at all, it seemed to be some special symbols. But it looks like an incomplete parchment scroll, it should be a fragment!
But I think of a person, he must know the origin of this, maybe he still knows the words on it. He is my fourth uncle, he is a cripple, people call him cripple, I don't know what his specific surname is, I don't know why I call him fourth uncle, I only know that he is a good friend of my father. I once asked the fourth uncle how his leg was lame, and the fourth uncle said, "This is a story that children should not hear!" "I haven't asked since then. I've called him Fourth Uncle since I was a child, and I went to look for him after my father disappeared, but Fourth Uncle just looked at the sky and didn't say anything. After a long time, I didn't ask much, and then gradually where he was my shelter, once I caused trouble, I was afraid of being punished by Aunt Wang, I would hide from him.
The fourth uncle had a lot of things I hadn't seen before, but he wouldn't let me touch them every time. Don't touch it if you don't understand it, but I've never heard of it. Every time he went to precession, and this time he was right to find this parchment.
I hurried home, and as soon as I opened the door, I heard Aunt Wang shouting: "Xiao Chen, you little rabbit cub, where did you go last night?" ”
I said with a hippie smile: "Aunt Wang, I have to go out again, and I won't be back at noon." With that, I picked up my phone and ran out. I was already leaving just as Aunt Wang was about to say something, so I had to shake my head: "This kid! ”
After I went out, I hailed a taxi and called the fourth uncle. After the phone was connected, he said, "Stinky boy, is there something wrong again?" ”
I hurriedly explained: "No, that's the case...... I told the fourth uncle about "Ghost Eater" and the parchment scroll. The fourth uncle seemed to be very nervous, and urged: "Where are you?" Hurry up and come here. ”
When I arrived at the fourth uncle's residence, it was very spacious, and the fourth uncle was standing at the door waiting for me a long time ago. After I got out of the car, I said hello, and the fourth uncle looked around and said, "Come in and say." ”
After entering the house, before I could open my mouth, the fourth uncle asked, "What about the book and the parchment scroll?" ”
I saw that the fourth uncle was very anxious, and I didn't dare to slack off at all. took it out from his waist, and the fourth uncle snatched it and hurriedly opened it to look at it, and then said to himself: "It's it, it's it." Then he burst out laughing, and he asked me where I got it. I told him about last night, and the fourth uncle stopped laughing and was obviously surprised.
Then the fourth uncle told me to wait for him here, and he went to the back room for a while and came out, and he didn't let me in. But who knows****** wait for a day, and at night I saw the fourth uncle limping out of the room. I ran over and asked him what the hell was going on? He said I'll find out later.
After a casual meal in the evening, I slept at my fourth uncle's house. When I woke up in the morning, I found that the fourth uncle's house was very messy, as if he had been burglarized. I shouted to Uncle Fourth while checking around to see what I had lost? At this time, I found out that the fourth uncle had long since disappeared, and it seemed that he should have turned it over, and he was still in a hurry.
I came to the living room and saw a letter left by the fourth uncle and "Ghost Eater" on the table. I hurriedly opened the letter, which said:
Xiao Chen, the fourth uncle has something to do, if I don't come back before the afternoon, you can do the following.
This "Ghost Eater" is my family's mastery, you have time to read it, maybe it will be useful in the future. But you have to keep in mind that you can only learn one kind of stuff and the others can only be used as references. I left the parchment scroll for you in the book, and I translated the contents. But what's in between? I don't know yet, so the fourth uncle has to trouble you. Maybe when you solve that secret, you'll find me, and maybe I'll find your father.
I wasn't a little shocked when I saw this, "My dad? I opened the book and found the parchment scroll, and next to it was a small print in modern Chinese, and I read the letter again.
Remember never to trust or contact the people you met that night. That person, beyond your imagination, remember!
I tossed the letter aside and took the translated paper. It describes:
In ancient times, there were five gates of Xishan, saying: heavenly road, earth road, humanitarian road, ghost road, and corpse road. The way of heaven is the head, the way of the corpse is the end, but there is no difference between size and size, the old is respected, and the young are young. Each of its five doors has its own duty to protect its life and death!
I looked at it half-confused, and I understood the previous ones, but what was the last life and death? I don't know.
In the afternoon, the fourth uncle did not come back. After staying at the fourth uncle's house for so long, in order to avoid being scolded, I called Aunt Wang and said that I was going back to the dormitory to live.