Chapter 2: The Mystery

At midnight, Ruan Zhan stood in front of Xiao Xia's hospital bed.

She will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow, so he will be able to go about his business with peace of mind.

Although he was far away in the sky during the day, every midnight, he would use the space-time warping technique to come here, watching her sleep quietly, standing all night, and leaving in the early morning, regardless of whether his serious injuries would affect his body's recovery.

He stepped forward and stroked Natsu's cheek with his fingers very lightly, startling her for fear of waking her up. Xiao Xia is extremely sensitive, not only is it easy to provoke spirits, but if someone or something is close to her, she will also be keenly aware of it, so he has to be especially careful.

He just guarded her silently, feeling that he was just dead. At that time, he would still treat her like this, although she would not know, but he would not regret it!

Let her forget their time in the empty city, which was difficult and terrifying, but sweet and warm, he had to endure more pain than anyone else, but he had no choice, he believed the words of his father and Sima Nan - he could not survive the death of 'every three difficulties'. So he had to leave her, because he couldn't give her a normal life, one more year to live, and he had to investigate some secrets before he died.

He can't die in a mess! He can't let his life be boring and his death useless!

Before the three difficulties, he had to figure out three things - his father, Sima Nan's relationship with him; his own background; The death of his father.

Sima Nan only said three simple words when he was leaving, addressing his three questions. He said, "The rings of the night wind, the yin and yang poles, and also, are you sure he is dead?"

Each of these three sentences shocked Ruan Zhan, because each sentence was somewhat related to what he knew, but each sentence was not the answer!

He came to Natsu's side at night to guard her, but during the day he had already returned to his hometown and started some investigations.

The old house, no one has lived in it for a long time, walking in it, he searched carefully again, but except for childhood memories, he found nothing. And when he recalled the past, his heart was mixed.

I still remember the first time he was sent to his father's side, his father's eyes were complicated, happy and resistant. His father raised him, but never gave him any warmth between father and son; Teach him all kinds of knowledge, never hide it, but don't care whether he practices or understands it; His father protected him, but he allowed the world to inflict prejudice and harm on him.

He just longs for a little love, but his father never gives it to him. Or that his father gave it to him, but he was still young at the time and could not understand and comprehend. He only knew that his father was very cold to him, and he did not communicate with his heart, and the father and son lived under the same roof, and sometimes they did not say a word for several days, like two ghosts.

But once he was so sick that he felt like he was going to die, and in fact he was glad that he was going to die. But at this moment, his father suddenly sat at the head of his bed, and gave him a lot of small spells to make him happy. Although it was only once, it made him unforgettable for the rest of his life.

Whether his father hated him or loved him, or ignored him completely, he still could not understand, and even his father's death was so mysterious, sudden, and incomprehensible as a mystery!

I don't know if it's because a person with special abilities like him is naturally very smart, not only can he learn the spells that his father told him to memorize, but he can't forget them if he wants to, even in terms of learning. Therefore, he didn't work hard, his grades were quite good, and he was sent by his father to study in a key middle school in the provincial capital.

At that time, he felt that his father was particularly disgusted with him, and deliberately sent him away, so he left in anger, and lived in the school, and did not come home on holidays, and his father did not care, as if they had severed relations with each other, until one day, he hallucinated in broad daylight, and saw his father running to the window of the classroom to see him, holding his favorite egg yolk grass cake in his hand. Unexpectedly, he smiled at him!

The bread was made by my father, made with egg yolk and an herb with flour and spices, and he loved it very much.

At that time, his tears fell at once, because with his natural yin and yang eyes, he saw a blue white light behind his father, which meant that his father was dead. It's just that his old man was an alien when he was alive, so after death, he could also hallucinate to his son during the day.

At that time, he realized that he felt that he didn't care about his father, and he had developed a cold, detached and stubborn character over the years, but in fact, his father was the person he cared about the most. When he learned that he was dying quickly, he realized that he had a strong affection for his father, because he was the first person who did not discriminate against him and gave him a family, but he was also the only one who refused to give him any affection in return. Even the world's disgust, hatred and fear of him, my father never showed it, and even if he felt that his father hated him, it was only his imagination.

But when he saw his father's phantom, he suddenly thought that his father loved him a little! Otherwise, why did he bake so many egg yolk grass cakes for him when he went?!

Amid the angry rebuke of his teachers and the puzzled looks of his classmates, he left the school without saying a word and went straight to his home. When he got home, the door was open, and as soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw his father sitting peacefully on a chair facing the hall, 'closing his eyes and recuperating,' with a ruddy face as usual, as if he was waiting for him to come home for dinner.

At that moment, he deeply realized what home is? Home is not a house, not food, not someone to take care of you and accompany you, the meaning of home is only to have someone who will always wait for you to come back. Despite his father's indifference to him, he is his home! Without his father, he would never have a home again!

He went into the house in tears, making sure that his father was indeed dead, and that he had stopped all vital signs. But in a trance, he noticed that his father's eyelids moved, as if he was squinting slightly and peeking at him. He was startled and immediately went to look at his father's eyelids, and was shocked to find that his father's eyes were red!

Blood-red eyes, no black eyes, whites of eyes and pupils, as if a thick layer of blood completely covered the eyeballs! And at the same time that he saw his father's bloody eyes, he fell into a hallucination.

In a room full of red, a figure appeared, dressed in an old-fashioned Taoist robe only worn by characters in movies, with an open front and blood on his chest, which turned out to be carved into the flesh of the charm. The man walked up to his father as if handing him something. Then with a long sigh, he turned and left!

But that thing is intangible, and it is impossible to see what it is! And the hallucination gave him a strange feeling that the father's eyes were out of his body, and he looked at the image from another angle, as if he knew the moment and wished his son could see it too.

Then the father took the invisible thing in his arms, went to the kitchen, and baked him a lot of egg yolk cakes, and then began to wash and dress, and sat down peacefully in the chair, closing his eyes forever.

When the hallucination ended, the image in front of him suddenly turned all red, which made him unsteady on his feet, almost vomited, and inadvertently fell on top of his father.

At this time, my father's face instantly turned pale, as if he had been dead for several days, and his bare skin showed patches of corpse spots, and his body was very flat, even if he unbuttoned his father's shirt and groped his skin carefully, there was nothing to carry with him. And as he re-fastened his father's clothes and fell on top of him again, he heard a frightened scream by the door.

It's a neighbor! He probably hadn't seen his father go out for a long time, so he came to take a look, and he happened to see the old man's strange and terrible son, kneeling on the ground, holding the old man's corpse!

The neighbor screamed for someone, but he still fell to his knees motionless, tears streaming down his face. How ridiculous, the first and only time he hugged his father, but he could only hug his father's cold and stiff corpse!

The neighbors are coming, and so are the police! People began to speculate that the old man, who died without warning, was probably killed by his son! Because that kid is a freak, because he scared everyone, because he was very indifferent to his father's death, because when people saw him, he had no tears to shed!

However, although he did not agree to the autopsy of his father's body, the forensic doctor could also judge from the superficial signs that the old man had been dead for several days, and his death was peaceful, and it could be judged that he was a normal death, and his teachers and classmates at school could also prove that he did not have time to commit the crime, so he could still handle his father's funeral as a filial son. And this funeral made him understand that his father was very beloved, and people can't forget him helping everyone to exorcise evil spirits and avoid evil, can't forget his 'kicking and kicking' shoes at midnight, and can't forget that his presence protects the peace of one party, although he has never done anything on the surface!

It's just that why did my father give him news after he went for several days? It stands to reason that he has a special ability and should have feelings, but why doesn't he feel it? Could it be that Father was trying to do something to block his ability and deliberately not notify him until a few days later?

Also, who is the person in that red illusion? Why do you only see the person's body as if your vision is blocked? Is the father going to expose that person or to protect that person? What did he give his father, and why couldn't he find it?

It's like a mystery left to him by his father, with only the face of the mystery but no answer!

For more than ten years, he would return to his hometown every year on the third festival of the year and his father's sacrifice day, and endure the doubts and alienated eyes of the villagers for a few days. Because he had always had doubts about his father's death, but had never been able to find out, he expected new hallucinations, new discoveries as he flipped through the things he had examined countless times.

Or, deep down in his heart, he hoped that one day when he returned to the old house, he would see his father still sitting on a chair in the hall waiting for him, and although he knew that it was impossible, he really wished that all these years were just a dream, how nice it would be!

The rings of the night wind, the cathode and the cathode, and, are you sure he's dead?

Sima Nan's words made all this even more complicated, is there any secret in this?

It's past midnight, the beginning of a new day, and judging by Xiao Xia's breathing, she is fine, so he decides to dig his father's grave, although it is very rebellious, but he wants to make sure that his father is still sleeping in the ground!

Before, he was very sure, because he had seen his father buried, but now, he was a little unsure!

Getting closer, Ruan Zhan leaned down and looked at Xiao Xia's face lovingly.

You must be good, so that even if I die, I can walk with peace of mind, surround you with peace of mind, and feel your happiness with peace of mind!

He silently said to her in his heart that he wanted to kiss her, but he didn't kiss after all. Just turn around sharply and draw a talisman away!

In the blink of an eye, he returned to his old house in his hometown, picked up the shovel and other tools he had prepared, and went to the cemetery on the hill.

He stumbled as he lifted his foot. That's due to the loss of power he's been using space-time warping too often lately, but that doesn't affect his actions tonight.

The hill behind this hill has been a place where the locals buried their ancestors for generations, and although cremation is practiced and cemeteries have been built in other places, the former graves have not been moved because the hill has not yet been developed. It's just that due to its age, the cemetery looks messy.

When Ruan Zhan went up the mountain, it was just after two o'clock in the morning, and he saw several souls sneakily following him, although they were harmless, they obviously wanted to be frightening.

He ignored it, and when a white shadow that was fluttering and couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman approached him, he pointed with his backhand, and a fiery red aura shot out, frightening all the onlookers who wanted to see the excitement of the 'good brothers' retreated to their own places, knowing that this person could not be provoked, and only a few bold ones were still peeping at him.

He didn't see it, and went straight to his father's grave.

However, when he was about to start digging the grave, he was stunned!

The tomb has not changed, and since he has to repair it every year, it is newer and more tidy than the others. However, the soil was wrong, although it was very inconspicuous, but with Ruan Zhan's eyesight, he could completely see that the tomb had been moved!

Who preempted his father's grave?

Ruan Zhan was shocked, standing there without moving, feeling the aura around him. All around, there was a unique yin aura in the cemetery, but there was nothing abnormal. Looking back at the peeping guys, when his gaze swept over, they immediately hid, obviously not knowing anything, but rather curious about him. That is to say, he is the only one who will do the grave digging business!

So, why is the soil on the grave new?! Why do you seem to have tried to hide it?!

Regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, Ruan Zhan turned around and dug up. As he digged, he watched for the situation around him, but he felt nothing but the anger of the other spirits.

Digging people's graves is a very immoral thing, not to mention that he is a son, but he is digging Lao Tzu's grave, so he can understand those angers, but he has to do that!

Because it was new soil, he dug it with much less effort, and soon saw his father's coffin. He jumped down the pit and found that the coffin was still well sealed, and the surrounding wood was not broken, apparently not opened. This made him hesitate to continue, but in the end he relented and pried open the lid of the coffin!

Squeak-

With the screeching sound of the coffin, the sky that had been gloomy for a long time suddenly burst into a thunderclap, scaring away all the spirits peeking around the pit, and at the same time, lightning also illuminated the coffin.

The coffin was empty, and his father's body was gone!