XXIII. The Truth About the Murderer
"Prophecy?" Master Libu finished writing on the paper and made a circle emphatically.
"That's right." I nodded helplessly, "I can accept everything if things can develop the way they are now, even when the phone call came before, I thought about whether it was the truth or not, after all, it was too unreal, but when I entered the secret room of the temple where you coveted as things progressed, I realized that my affairs were far more than the end stage." ”
Master Ribu replied with his chin propped up, motioning for me to continue.
"What would you think if you saw a picture that was thousands of years old, and it said that you were in your current situation?" I pressed my head a little annoyed, "That's ridiculous, you know?" I don't even know who I am, my mom and dad, my older brother and brother, even my face I can't see. But there's a picture of me on that picture, you know what that feels like? ”
"I know." Master Libu wrote slowly on the paper as he walked over and sat on the edge of my bed and patted me on the shoulder.
I still continue to say, there are too many things in my heart that I need to bear alone, I am alone in the temple and constantly thinking back and forth, too many things are suppressed in my heart and can't be vented, I grabbed Master Libu's hand and shook it madly, "There is no meaning of existence, life is like a mystery, I never know the purpose of my life, if I am not afraid of death, why am I so confused?" ”
He didn't spit out a word for a while, as if he was infected by my tone, and suddenly asked me in a half-baked, very lame Chinese, "Are you afraid of death?"
I was stunned by his question, I looked at him squarely, and then I couldn't speak for a long time, I was confused for a while, and I thought that it was better to die, but after experiencing all the life and death, I realized that I was afraid of death, not only in the face of Bazahado, but also in the face of the monster in the temple and the last dying struggle in front of the sharp teeth of Nij, no doubt I was still afraid of death.
"If you knew your ultimate path, you wouldn't be afraid of death." Master Ribu picked up the pen and wrote on the paper completely different words than I had in mind.
Does it mean that everyone does not need to be afraid when they know that their life is not far from them? I wondered, don't people really need to be afraid of death? Is there really no need to be afraid? So how many people will despise their lives.
"Did you see that altar behind the temple?" Suddenly, Master Libu put pen to paper and wrote.
I retracted my thoughts and nodded, "yes, I did see that place. There was also an empty spot there, and someone should have escaped. ”
In the middle of my sentence, I heard Master Rib rustle on the paper, and I swallowed the rest of the words in my stomach and looked down at what he was writing, "You mean to say that this man is the one in the secret room?" ”
I was immediately stunned when I saw what he wrote, because if I didn't know the prophecy and the pattern behind the dried corpse, he would not have made such a speculation, then he must have known something, thinking about it after all, that place was outside, how could they not see it, I looked at Master Libu had written a whole page on the paper, I was a little embarrassed to scratch the mask, and looked at it seriously, "We found some ancient characters behind that empty position, these words are not from the Yi people, But we can conclude that he is a kind of writing, in addition to these words, there are also several patterns, the pattern depicts a scene of sacrifice, and then we found that the rock wall of that place is a little different from the outside, so I pried open a stone wall, and found that there was a secret passage inside, and the direction of the secret passage has always been to the inside of the temple, and finally it was sealed by a stone slab, and we had no choice but to go back the way we came, blocking the stone, so I can tell you that what you see is not a complete thing, There are many stone carvings on the rock wall that you don't see. ”
"That's it!" I fell into deep thought, the dried corpses, the rock carvings, the secret passages, the secret rooms, the prophecies, the masks, the tiger face stone carvings, I felt as if all this had been separated from the temple and those in vain to form a circle, there were too many things in this ring together, there were things I knew, some I didn't know, and gradually in the fog of my mind I seemed to have found the real key point I needed, but before that I needed to confirm something, Master Libu had told me before that they hadn't seen the statue's real body, but only in the photo, but now he was telling me that the altar opposite the statue was too much of a slap in the face.
Obviously, they knew where the temple was, but they kept saying they didn't know, they didn't know, and I remember saying that it was his uncle who took the expedition in 1950 to take pictures, so what about his uncle? How much of this needs to be lying to me?
But just when I was in doubt, Master Libu took a piece of paper again, wrote a sentence and put it in front of me: "What I said to you before, I lied to you. ”
I looked at this piece of paper blankly and suddenly understood, he had some doubts about me before, and I was not qualified to know the truth about their holy land, and even the country could not understand it, but after I came out of it, and even after the prophecy paper, his opinion of me changed to a certain extent, but even so, I also felt what kind of role I played in that "ring". I felt that I still had too little information about it, that I needed someone, and that person was close to me, and I sat down and watched Master Ribu write everything about him little by little.
In 1950, a group of people came to this village, and they found the oldest person at that time, who was my uncle, and at that time they gave him a photograph of a lot of places drawn in circles, and most of those places were some scenery and geographical coordinates, and they told my uncle to let him take them to find this place, otherwise he would regret it for the rest of his life, and my uncle saw at a glance that the place was the statue behind the temple, and no one knew where this statue came from or when it was built. Because the expedition personnel of the political axe did not know such a place, they could not identify it, but my uncle just took them around the forest, and in the end, I don't know why my uncle angered the people, they killed him, and took my cousin, who was thirteen years younger than me.
After the death of my uncle, my aunt has been in a state of mental dissociation after my cousin was taken away, and the Duo side was also shaken because of this incident, and also because of the next Duo Ji's heir, because my uncle's ideal is that my cousin is a Duo Duo, but unfortunately he was no longer there at that time, a lot of time has passed, and I also took over my uncle's hand and became a Duo Zhi, but at this time, a foreigner came to the village, he claimed to be the uncle's son, and he also said a lot of things about his childhood, Even under his awakening, the aunt gradually woke up, and the aunt who had been in a nervous state for more than ten years couldn't remember many things, plus the younger brother was still very young when he was snatched away, so I couldn't tell if that person was my brother, and in the end there was no way that person could only live in the village, and at the same time, we accepted him as time went on, and the aunt was even more considerate to him, and in the end, what I didn't expect was that he actually became a duo, and under the recommendation of several old-timers and aunts, he became a member of the inside.
Oh, it is necessary to say here that Master Ribu later explained to me the position of Duo Ka, and in general there are internal and external positions, the outer ones are the ones that allow you to sell dog meat with a sheep's head, and the inner ones are the ones that have to go through the real inheritance, and you have to go into the place where I and Asuke have become the land of Zheba.
However, the accident happened again, and the person who taught my brother's inheritance and my brother disappeared unexpectedly after entering the deep forest. We searched for the Holy Land, but we couldn't find it.
Then I held down Master Libu's pen, looked at him, and said, "Have you looked carefully?" How many roads do you have to get to the Holy Land, which is the Temple? How many roads are there inside that sacred tree? ”
Master Libu was suddenly stunned by my question, and after a long time, he slowly wrote on the paper, the temple is indeed carefully searched, but because it is our holy place after all, I don't want to stay for a long time, so I estimate that the next time a new flower is selected for the inheritance, let them take a closer look, and then wait until now, it is estimated that one more disciple will be able to enter next year, but if you talk about the passage of the tree, there are many of them, and there are two of them, and there is one up and down, The lower ones are a little closer, the upper ones are a little farther away, but there are many roads above, and it's like a maze, and maybe you'll follow those paths all the way down to the forest in the canyon, because the tree we passed pierced through the whole mountain, so it had big roots. We've tried that it can almost have an exit around this temple. "Why do you ask?" Master Libu wrote on the paper again.
I waved my hand to signal him not to say anything, and then asked him directly, "What's your cousin's name?" ”
"Aqurib." He said word by word.
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