Chapter 51: The Journey (1)

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At first, I thought it was because what Old Man Yuan said just now inadvertently offended Bu Jin and her witchcraft, so I was attacked by Bu Jin, but when I was about to step forward to dissuade Bu Jin, I suddenly found that something was wrong, I opened my mouth, and suddenly found that my throat seemed to be stuck by something, and I couldn't speak for a long time. It was a strange feeling, and even though I was still breathing very well, my mouth just couldn't make any sound.

I was startled at first, and then I noticed that the others were soon like me, and they were holding their necks with difficulty at this moment, looking at them, they didn't seem to have much pain, but there was some fear in their eyes.

What happened? I was amazed, and then I was horrified to find that my ears were starting to lose sound.

You see, the place where we are standing now is not as silent as the depths of the cave before, this is a large canyon, and I can hear the whistling wind and the sound of the river at the bottom of the valley clearly, but these sounds are gradually weakening at this moment, until they disappear completely.

Immediately after that, my vision began to blur, and many small black dots began to appear in front of me, and everything began to turn gray - and I suddenly realized that I was blind.

Then, I noticed that my sense of touch was also disappearing, I couldn't feel the wind on my skin, I couldn't touch my limbs, so I reacted, all my senses were gone.

I remember when I was in college, I used to take psychology as an elective, and there was an experiment that impressed me very much—the sensory deprivation experiment. In this test, a person is confined in a small, closed room completely isolated from the world, with no light, no smell, nothing, and even the food given to that person is something that tastes nothing. In this sensory deprivation experiment, all human senses (except for touch, of course) are in a closed state, and the average person will experience a mental breakdown after staying for less than three days, and if it exceeds seven days, it will cause permanent damage to a person's sensory organs, and this damage cannot be repaired.

In the past, there were some prisons where there were small dark rooms like this to punish prisoners who made mistakes, which was almost a rather cruel punishment, but we ordinary people could not deeply understand it.

But, at this moment, I realized. All this is just as described in the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra - no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind, no color, sound, fragrance, touch.

There was chaos around me, and I didn't dare to move because I was afraid that I would lose my way and accidentally fall into the abyss at the bottom.

In my memory, the last picture I saw was Bu Jin staring at me with a pair of bloodshot eyes, was all this what she did? If so, then why did she do it?

It was the first time in my life that I experienced this feeling, and I tried my best to describe it in words, but found it futile. I just feel empty, that feeling is as if the whole human soul has floated out of the body, maybe, there may not be any reincarnation after death, maybe, when the physical body dies, the spirit will still exist, but it only exists, I can't see anything, I can't hear, I can't smell, I think, so I am, maybe, everything in this world is really just an illusion created by myself.

Father...... Ryazan ...... Bu Jin...... Gao Peng...... Are these people real, am I real, is this world, is it really what I see, I-must be me?

Suddenly, a white dot appeared in front of my eyes.

At first, I thought I had regained my vision, but I quickly dismissed this hypothesis that I did not regain my vision, but there was indeed a white dot coming towards me from far and near, and that white dot was floating above the void, closing in on me little by little.

There was no sound around.

Is this - am I already hallucinating?

No! As the white dot kept approaching, I suddenly had goosebumps all over my scalp, and this white dot kept floating towards me was a person - my first reaction at first was that this person was Bu Jin, but as the person got closer, I found that he was not Bu Jin, but a stranger.

He was very tall, with long hair and a dark robe, and his gait was calm and calm, as if everything in this world was under his control.

Strangely, as the man walked in, I gradually saw my own body myself (I couldn't see my body at first, but I could feel a white dot approaching me), and I found myself floating in a dark void with just the two of us around.

As the man approached, an unprecedented sense of oppression filled my body, an incomparably powerful aura that shook me and I couldn't move.

When he walked in, I was surprised to see that he was half a body taller than me, and he looked down at me, and although it was very close, for some reason his face was covered with a veil, so that I could not see his face clearly.

Suddenly, I realized that although I couldn't see the man's face clearly, I could see that his facial features were changing and blending in a state of confusion.

I chuckled in my heart, and I subconsciously thought that the person standing in front of me was the one my father said that influenced the history of the entire ancient Chinese civilization!!

But why is he or she here? Why is it in front of me? Or are everyone else going through the same thing as me?

Suddenly, the guy lowered his head, stretched out a big white hand and pressed it on my forehead, and made a voice, "Dish." ”

Yes? Before I could react, the man's big hand suddenly covered my eyes, and a cool and cold feeling instantly spread over my eyes, and when the man's hands left, I found myself in the middle of a long mountain.

I searched around, but there was no sign of the man I had just seen, but I noticed that not far in front of me, a group of poorly dressed people was performing some mysterious ritual.

To my astonishment, the men didn't seem to see my presence at all, there were about a dozen of them, all dressed as wizards, all on their knees at the moment, muttering incantations that I didn't understand, as if they were begging for something from the gods of heaven.

After a long while, nothing was happening around me, but suddenly one of the dozen or so people turned his head sharply to look at me, and then said something to the others, and then they all looked at me.

I was stunned and hurriedly took two steps back, but suddenly something blocked me.

I looked back, my heart suddenly cooled half, only to see that the tall man just now had appeared behind me at some point, and at this time, behind him, there were six other people, all of them were coarse cloth clothes, which was in stark contrast to the person who was the leader, but the six people behind him also looked bright-eyed, with a trace of unbeatable temperament.

Suddenly, it was dark in front of my eyes.

When my eyes felt the light again, I realized that it was a warm light, and when I opened my eyes, I found that it was already dark, and the warm light was the light of the campfire.

I found myself in a simple thatched hut with two men sitting in it, one of whom was the same man as before, and the other, dressed in animal fur and in a strong body, as if he were the leader of some tribe.

The two people seemed to be discussing something, and the man in the dark clothes looked calm, and didn't seem to pay attention to the strong man in front of him at all. I still didn't understand their conversation, but I could sense in their tone that the leader seemed to be begging the man in the dark clothes.

Then, strange things happened, everything in front of me except for the Xuanyi man, everything else was shaking and shattering rapidly, and then reorganized, the person who had talked to him (her) before also disappeared in this change and kept changing into someone else, the thatched hut around it gradually became a pavilion house, the only thing that did not change was the Xuanyi man, and the leader opposite him, from the beginning wearing animal fur, gradually changed to a nobleman in armor or silk.

This state lasted for a long time, and then it stopped, and then, the first scene that appeared in front of me was that the leader opposite the Xuanyi man suddenly slapped the table in front of him with his hand, unlike the original leader, this leader is obviously a lot more confident, in other words, he no longer respects the Xuanyi man in front of him.

The face of the man in the dark clothes was still covered with some kind of tulle, and I couldn't see his expression clearly, but I saw him slowly stand up and walk out of the room, and when he walked up to me, I suddenly found that the leader who had been staying behind him or her pulled out the bronze sword from his waist and ran towards me angrily......

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