Dad's understatement of "not human" startled my scalp tingling, and I could clearly feel my heart beating faster, I could almost hear the echo of the pulse in my eardrums, and I scanned everyone at the table in a panic.

At this time, my brain was thinking rapidly, but it was blank and I couldn't think of anything, I was just telling myself through my will, either my dad was talking nonsense or joking, or...... Is it that noon dream that I haven't woken up until now?

Looking at the stern expression on my father's face, he was definitely not joking or drunk, not to mention that he had never been a person who liked to joke; Is that really still in a dream?

I stole the tip of my tongue and it hurt so much that I almost tasted blood—it wasn't a dream!

At this time, the old mother broke the silence of the restaurant: "Don't sell it, look at it scare them." ”

I don't know Bingbing's mood now, anyway, she hasn't picked up the dropped spoon yet, and she is looking at her father in shock.

"Don't be afraid, it's not a human, it's not a ghost! It's just that he's not a normal person. Dad continued to raise his glass and took a slow sip of wine, just fast enough to calm me down.

"I wouldn't have told you about this matter so early, and I still wanted to find a more suitable time to slowly let you understand, but since this incident has happened today, it seems that they have started in advance, and I have to explain the truth to you immediately."

Dad put down his glass, crossed his hands over his chest, and sighed softly.

Bingbing bent down and picked up the spoon and put it on the table: "Uncle, just say it quickly, my heart is about to jump out!" ”

So, my father cleared his throat, looked at us, and began to tell a story slowly:

"It's said that it was the initial stage of this world, but I don't know exactly when, in short, according to the records in the ancient books, it was the beginning of the opening of heaven and earth, and the time of chaos and chaos. The creatures in this world are still in the stage of ignorance, there is no writing, no technology, no language...... Later, there was a wise man who was ordained by Heaven to enter the mortal world, granted mankind the principle of yin and yang, and taught future generations the laws of life and death of all things one by one.

The world is big, but it can't escape the fate of yin and yang, yin and yang in accordance with the five elements of "gold, water, wood, fire and earth" for various combinations, to all things with a "commodity characteristics" into the use of this world, even if it is like time, it is also to "night for yin, day for yang, the first 360 days for a yin year, the last 360 days for a yang year, 60 years (yin and yang each 30 years) for a five-element Jiazi cycle (such as: gold Jiazi cycle 60 years, water Jiazi cycle 60 years), 300 years is the entire cycle of reincarnation of the five elements (60 years each for gold, water, wood, fire, and earth).

The world is divided into two layers, the outer layer is the yang world, and the inner layer is the underworld, and each layer has five directions: east, west, north, south, and middle; People are also divided into male and female, yin and yang, and the human body is divided into five organs: heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys; The sound also has yin and yang, and the sound has five tones of palace merchants, horns, and feathers; The colors also have yin and yang, and are divided into five colors: black, white, green, red, and yellow......

The direction can be dismantled into a multi-dimensional space, the human body can be dismantled into hundreds of musculoskeletal blocks and countless nerve cells, the sound can have various high and low scales, and the color can be broken down into different color temperature and color spectrum......

And every sound, every color, every cell, etc., can be divided into hundreds of millions of numbers, which seems to be vast and infinite, but when it really goes to the root, it is inseparable from yin and yang and the five elements. ”

I was a little out of breath, and urged: "These are the basic common sense of Yin and Yang Yishu, I already knew it, but ......"

Dad glanced at me: "Here's what you don't know!" ”

"Every 300 years is a cycle of five elements of reincarnation, in the history of China after the unification of the Qin Dynasty, there has never been a dynasty that has ruled for more than 300 years in a row, because any dynasty will go through a cycle of five elements of reincarnation, and those who are early will become short-lived dynasties, and those who are late will not be able to escape the 300-year limit.

For example, the Ming Dynasty will be close to the 300-year limit, and the last year is also a lingering breath, the reason why it can be longer is because Liu Bowen has penetrated the heavens and tried to use yin and yang to cover the fate of the five elements, so Zhu Yuanzhang established the "Ming" Dynasty, Ming characters, one day and one month, and the phase of yin and yang. But the five elements of yin and yang belong to the same root, how can they go against the sky. ”

"Oh, I see, what does that have to do with us?" Bingbing saw that his father was drinking again, so he asked urgingly.

"300 years is only a catastrophe limit for dynasties, and every 10 cycles of reincarnation of the five elements, that is, every 3,000 years, is a catastrophe in the human world."

"The human catastrophe? Doomsday? Earth ruined miè? I asked.

"Hehe, it's more terrible than the end of the world, that's ...... Yin and Yang symbiosis. ”

"Yin and Yang symbiosis? What do you mean? I continued to ask, "Is it the sun and the moon on the same day, half-dead?" ”

"Well...... It's the same world as humans and ghosts. ”

Dad looked at me, then at the box on my sister's seat, and continued:

"You've all taken geography lessons in school, and the surface of the earth we live in is the outer yang, and the earth rotates from west to east.

Although ordinary people can't see the inner space of the underworld, some people can feel it on the magnetic field, and its magnetic field coincides infinitely close to our earth, but it rotates from east to west.

And only every 3,000 years, the magnetic fields of the two worlds of yin and yang will completely coincide in their respective rotations, and this point of coincidence is somewhere in China, and this point will become the door of the two worlds of yin and yang. ”

I seem to understand a little, but I still can't explain the meaning of the phrase "we are not human".

Dad continued: "Almost 3,000 years ago, human beings experienced an era of symbiosis of yin and yang, when human beings were bullied by ghosts, life was worse than death, life was devastated, and plants and trees were sad. That era was the last years of the Yin Shang period, that is, the era of those Su Daji fox spirits and the like that you used to see on the Fengshen List. ”

As soon as Bingbing heard the god list, she came to the spirit, this is her favorite mythological story: "God list? Is that real? ”

Dad nodded and shook his head again: "Part of it is true, and some of it is made up by later generations." The real situation is worse than the legend, the number of ghosts is several times that of humans, and humans are completely unable to compete with them on their own. So there is the story of the legendary Jiang Taigong who went out of the mountain and invited all kinds of gods to help. If it weren't for the help of so many gods, the human world would have ended 3,000 years ago. ”

Speaking of this, Dad stopped, looked up at the darkening sky outside the door, sighed and muttered, "In a blink of an eye, it's been 3,000 years again......"

When I heard this, I had roughly understood that the contents of the beings depicted on the gray wall of the secret room must be a real portrayal of 3,000 years ago, but I still did not understand what kind of inevitable relationship this story had with us.

Dad looked at us again at this time and continued: "After pacifying this human catastrophe by relying on various gods 3,000 years ago, Jiang Ziya left a sentence when he was destroyed: The gods of the heavenly realm are reinstated, and the gods of the earth must stay in the yang world of mankind, pass on their ancestors, teach and solve doubts, spread their talents and learning, and keep the bloodline and skills of the gods continuous, so as to meet the greater catastrophe after 3,000 years. ”

"A greater calamity??" I was a little surprised.

"Yes, think about it, the number of people in the yang world is limited by space, and the longest lifespan is not more than 100 years, and how many new souls have been added to the underworld in the past 3,000 years, although some of the souls of good people have been reincarnated or returned to the heavenly court, and the number of evil spirits in the 18 layers of hell that cannot be reborn is already a hundred times that of the human world?"

"Oh......" I realized.

"So where do you go to find those gods? Is there really a god in this world? ”

Looking at Bingbing's expression, it seems that he has long forgotten his previous horrors, and now he is more like listening to a mythological novel.

"Hehe, the gods are different from the gods of the earth, the gods are the aura of people, not people, and the gods of the earth are half-human and half-gods, they often have special skills in a certain aspect, the earliest ancestors are called 'Shuzu'. And if the descendants of these Shu ancestors are all pure blood, they have a special name, called 'Ancestral Spirit'.

All the 'ancestral spirits' are extremely outstanding representatives in various fields in this world, such as the craftsman Lu Ban, the divine doctor Hua Tuo, the Song Dynasty's Bao Zheng, and the Three Kingdoms' Zhuge Kongming, all of whom are descendants of the ancestral bloodline. ”

"With this kind of ability, these ancestral spirits can gather and fight against so many ghosts?" Bingbing was a little skeptical.

"If the difference in number is not too great, and their potential is exerted to the extreme, then it is possible to fight, but Jiang Ziya did not make it clear back then, in order to keep the blood of the gods, you must not intermarry with mortals and have children, if it is a child born of human and god communication, then this child no longer belongs to the list of 'ancestral spirits', at most he is a relatively smart and healthy person, but they have become meat eggs, and they have lost the ghostly primordial spirit."

"What has become? What eggs? I thought it was new for a moment and asked.

"Meat and eggs." Dad repeated it and said with a smile: "All mortals, although they are able-bodied, are not born of great wisdom, and their minds are like a mess before the heavens and the earth are opened, although they have flesh and blood, they still need to wait for enlightenment. Therefore, these ordinary people are equivalent to meat and eggs compared to the ancestral spirits with pure divine veins. ”

I nodded with a slight understanding.

Dad continued: "For thousands of years, the original gods have married widely in order to develop their skills, and with the background of polygamy, a large number of gods have become mixed bloods and become a large group of meat and eggs. There are fewer and fewer pure-blooded gods who can persist in intermarrying from generation to generation, and now to find the only remaining ancestral spirits in the world is like looking for a needle in a haystack! ”

At this time, I probably understood the meaning of my father's original sentence of "not a person", so I asked tentatively: "Dad, is it difficult...... We are ...... Is it the ancestral spirit? ”

Dad put down the wine glass in his hand, smiled and turned his head to look at my mother, only to see my mother smiling at me and Bingbing, and nodded slowly.

I bet my heart is beating faster than before, but I still wonder if I'm in a dream, and it's obviously more reasonable that this kind of episode should have happened in a dream!?

I looked down at myself and looked at Bingbing again, and of course she was in a state of stupor, her mouth open before she came back to her senses.

Instead of making me understand thoroughly, my father's words made me more and more confused, and more questions flashed in my mind, or I would definitely believe that I was still in a dream!