Just when I was confused by nature, he stirred the fish in the pot and said, "You went out last night, you should have found that there are no living people here." ”

I didn't expect him to take the initiative to bring up this topic, and I was a little surprised to be so outspoken, but immediately nodded: "Not only are there no living people, but there seem to be dead people everywhere." Yesterday we went the wrong way and broke into the main hall, and on the beam outside the window of the main hall was a frozen corpse...... Also, there was upstairs, and there was a female corpse lying upstairs, but as soon as the morning dawned, it somehow suddenly disappeared. ”

Naturally, he didn't react at all to what I said, and he seemed very calm, as if he had already guessed such a situation.

He said: "Our burial custom here is to hang the corpse burial, and after a person dies, he will be hung on the outer beam, unable to reach the sky or the ground. ”

Dying burial?

The corpse we pulled up was actually a corpse that had been 'buried'? Having said that, isn't there a dead man hanging on the outer beam of every house? Oh my god, I panic just thinking about it.

I said, "I know about celestial burial, water burial, cremation, earth burial, hanging coffin burial, or the first time I've heard of a dying corpse...... Isn't it disrespectful for you to hang a dead body naked* like this? If you think about it, how uncomfortable it is to be visited and strangled when you die. ”

Instead of answering my question, he said, "How much do you know about Fusang?" ”

I don't know why he asked this out of the blue, but I told him what I knew.

Fusang wood, according to legend, comes out of chaos, is the place where the sun and the moon inhabit, for the alternation of time, the place of the golden crow cycle, located in the 'Tang Valley', the ancients compared it to the place where the sun and the moon rest, in other words, that is, the beginning and end of time, so Fusang, also represents time.

Then, there was a short period of time between heaven and earth, natural disasters occurred frequently, floods flooded the earth and burst apart, and people, beasts, birds and fish were difficult to survive. As a result, there is a divine phoenix tree from the soup valley. What this divine phoenix is holding is a branch of the Fusang tree, and this branch has grown into a giant tree when it lands, and the mountains and rivers on the tree are rare and exotic beasts, and they become a world of their own. As a result, the surrounding people, beasts, birds and insects have migrated to live on this big tree, calling this tree 'Little Fusang in the world', and calling the people on the Little Fusang 'people in the tree'.

These are all things that Zhou Xuanye told me when he was in the secret path of Yumen.

After all, the little Fusang wood is only a branch, and it can't be as immortal as the real Fusang wood, so this little Fusang wood eventually withered and collapsed after it existed for an unknown amount of time, and the scattered wreckage is the Fusang branch, which has the ability to draw demons and fight ghosts, which is very powerful.

After I finished speaking, I said lightly: "Then do you know, after the collapse of the little Fusang tree, what happened to those people in the tree?" ”

I thought for a moment and said, "Probably all dead, right?" Don't...... Are they still alive? ”

The corners of his mouth suddenly turned up, revealing a fleeting smile, which surprised me very much, to be honest, this kid is young, but it gives people a very calm and sophisticated feeling, in him, you can hardly feel mood swings, so his smile, although it is only for an instant, is enough to surprise me.

In the next second, Tian Du said lightly in a very slow pace: "Some people survived, they collected some of the remains of Fusang Wood and lived in seclusion in a place far away from people. ”

A flash of inspiration flashed through my mind in an instant: "What you said, that part of the people, is ...... You little Fuso people? He didn't answer, but said to himself: "Everything here is built from the remains of Fuso wood. ”

Although I don't belong to people with outstanding intelligence, but I'm not really stupid, when he said this, I thought of the shadow that appeared in the small building last night that resembled the 'beautiful snake', and immediately understood, together with this whole building complex, it was built with small Fusang wood, and when we entered this complex, the fox fairy estimated that it was already bad, but it could still hold on at that time, so we could only occasionally see its shadow and mistake it for a beautiful snake.

And in that tower, I was afraid that there would be something powerful, so I forced the fox fairy out.

"I imagined that this kind of treasure must be a very small branch, but I didn't expect that the whole complex was made of Fuso wood, which was too good. You've lived here for generations? ”

Tian Tian Du stared at me slightly, I don't know why, although he had no expression on his face at the moment, but from his black eyes, I seemed to see a very special emotion.

The emotion was only for a moment, and I almost thought it was just my hallucination, and I didn't even have time to taste what his eyes meant

"From generation to generation." He looked at me, chewed these four words slowly in a very slow voice, and then said slowly: "After eating, you can go." This sentence announced the end of the conversation, it was really no beginning and no end, I was a little confused, and couldn't help but ask: "Can you stop talking halfway, you haven't told me yet, why did you just say that you will die if you leave here?" ”

Naturally stirring the fish in the pot, he began to serve the soup in a quaint jade bowl, and said without looking back: "The reason, I have already told you just now." ”

I'm going crazy, I tugged at my hair, and my heart said when did you tell me? Talking east and west, one moment asked me what I saw last night, the next moment he said what he said about the weeping corpse that could not reach the world or the ground, and then simply told me the legend of the ancient Fusang wood...... It's a lot of, but this kid didn't answer my original question at all, right?

Did he deliberately play tricks on me? Or is it ...... What am I missing?

I began to carefully recall our conversation just now, but I still didn't catch any limited clues, and by this time, I had already placed the soup bowls on the tray one by one, and walked out with the tray in hand.

I'm still sitting on the edge of the stove, puzzled. Just when I had no clue, I accidentally glanced at the stove hole, and suddenly thought of something: there is little vegetation in Tibetan areas, and there are many plateau grasslands and dwarf shrubs, and because of this, the people in Tibetan areas use cow dung to make fires, otherwise it is impossible to make firewood for fire, one meal or two, and rely on small bushes to make fires every day.

This place is cold and snowy, and in the outer snow gullies before, you can occasionally see some strange snow plants, but this place is full of glaciers, and even grass does not grow, what did he use to make a fire just now?

There's no cow dung in this place, so you can't make a fire out of Fuso wood, right?

Or maybe you're using the dung of a snow ghost to make a fire?

Are snow ghost dung and cow dung the same thing?

Curious, I lowered my head and glanced into the stove hole, this look, to my surprise, the burning inside the stove hole is really wood, and it is the kind of wood that is split very regularly, the color of the wood is yellow-white, obviously not Fuso wood. Judging by the shape, this is supposed to be a kind of firewood split from large trees.

Odd...... There are no such big trees in Tibet, and besides, even if there are in Tibet, it is impossible to have them in the depths of this snow-capped mountain, in a land frozen for thousands of miles.

Where did this wood come from?

Suddenly, I remembered one thing, that is, the Zeng team once told us, he said that he once saw a forest in Xiaofusang, at that time we all thought that he might not have recovered his sanity, and his memory was a little confused, but now, these woods make me can't help but speculate: Could it be that there is really a forest in this place?

Thinking so, I hurried out, intending to ask what was going on.

When he went out, the rest of the people were already drinking fish soup and eating fish meat with a jade bowl, and he was naturally eating it himself, he used a very small jade bowl, only the size of a palm, and there was a small piece of fish meat in it, and the rest was soup.

I sat down at the table, Tan Jian glanced at me, and I shook my head slightly, signaling that he didn't inquire about anything.

The taste of the fish soup is particularly delicious, and it is very tempting for those of us who eat biscuits every day, and I decided to finish the fish soup first without thinking much about it.

When I picked up the soup, I looked at the natural small bowl and the clear soup in the bowl with little water, and felt that it couldn't get by, people gave you food and drink, and it was ready to be served, but I turned out to have a clear soup and little water, which was a little unreasonable.

So I took a large piece of fish from my bowl and planned to give it to him, but at this time, I was naturally stunned for a moment, and said lightly: "I don't need to eat too much, you can eat well and go on the road." ”

Before I could speak, the fat man spoke first, and he said: "No, I said little brother, people are iron and rice are steel, you are a young man, where is enough to drink this little soup." Come, come, mine, and you will share half of mine. Saying that he was going to catch fish for him, he naturally picked up his bowl with one hand and began to drink the soup slowly to his mouth, so that we couldn't sandwich the fish for him.

The fat man shrugged his shoulders and muttered, "Weirdo." ”

After eating and drinking, Zhou Xuanye sorted out the equipment on the side, and I told Tan Jian about what happened by the stove just now, and naturally I packed up the bowl and went to the back.

After listening to what I said, Tan Jian squinted his eyes and said: "The corpse is buried, it can't go up to the sky, it can't go down to the ground, this is the ......" Zhou Xuanye heard our words, he turned around and answered: "It can't go up to the sky, it can't go down to the ground, it's a corpse array." The corpse cannot touch the earth's qi, and it will not be left in the sky and the earth, so that the soul will always remain in the corpse. This situation is very similar to the hanged person, so the hanged ghost is also a very fierce kind of ghost thing, but all the hanged person has a separate set of rules when he takes the rope and buries him. ”

I was startled and said, "So, we pulled up the corpse...... Not just dead people? ”

Zhou Xuanye nodded slightly and said, "The soul is still inside." He lowered his head and thought about it, his brows gradually furrowed, and said, "If that's the case, then this little Fusang can almost be said to be a ghost domain." ”

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