Chapter 22: The Only Way Out
The kind old woman's face suddenly changed, and her eyes suddenly became fierce, which startled me, and subconsciously sat in the back, and when her ass hit the futon, she smiled ugly: "Uh, grandma, do you know me?" The old woman leaned forward, the expression on her face was so stiff and rigid, and she said coldly word by word: "Take off the mask from your face, and let me see you as you are!" ”
I touched the wooden mask on my face, and then glanced at Xu Ming, who nodded and motioned for me to do the same.
Although I didn't know what it meant, I still took off the mask, and when she saw my face revealing little by little, her expression seemed more frightened than mine, and she subconsciously pushed back and muttered, "No, it's not him!" No, it's him, it turned out to be him......"
I don't know who the "he" in the old woman's mouth is, and I don't know if the old woman is sure whether I am "him" or not. After a long time, the old woman finally came to her senses, took a long breath, and then glanced at Xu Ming fiercely, and said You kid, do your best to give the old woman a problem, I thought it was something to do with it, but it turned out to be like this.
Xu Ming didn't dare to be annoyed when he was blamed, and said with a smile: "Grandma, why don't you say that you have great skills and a good heart, who are you looking for?" ”
After the two had spoken a few words, the old woman turned to me and said, "It stands to reason that I should not have been in charge of your affairs, but since you have come to my door, I cannot drive you out of the city." Come on, let me see how you got here, and then decide where you go from here......"
As she spoke, she put her finger in her mouth again, dipped some spit, and then reached out in front of me and drew a strange rune on the door of my head.
Strange to say, when her sharp and sharp fingers were pressed against the door of my head, all my thoughts seemed to be piled up together, and then suddenly a crack opened, and the dam burst like a dam surging outward, and in the corner of my eye, I seemed to see a lot of brilliance above my head, as if I had an epiphany at this moment, and became a Buddha on the spot, giving birth to those bizarre and colorful rings of brilliance.
However, it was only for a moment, and a hurricane-like mental shock slapped me directly on the beach, and my eyes went black, and I almost passed out.
I gritted my teeth and carried it through, but the more ferocious wave continued to hit, and after a dozen consecutive blows, I screamed "ah" and fell directly to the ground, feeling that what I was carrying on my shoulders was not a head, but a pot of hot pot with boiling soup, gurgling and churning. My eyes and nostrils were a little itchy, and when I subconsciously wiped it, it was all blood, which frightened me to stand up at once, and as a result, my feet went limp, and the person fell down again.
Seeing me like this, the old woman waved her sleeves like a breeze, but she removed the arrangement from me.
When I got up again, it seemed like a long time had passed, and I saw that Xu Ming had also taken off his mask, he and the old woman looked at me helplessly and shook their heads, my heart was cold, what the hell was going on, what happened to me just now?
The old woman looked at me bleeding from the seven orifices, sighed, and said that the person who sent you here has made a strong prohibition on you to prevent anyone from tracing back to the passage you came from and sending you back. This prohibition is very fierce, and if I forcibly unravel it, I may be able to deduce it, but at that time, you would have already lost your soul, and the gains outweighed the losses. That person is so powerful, I guess he wants you to stay in this place forever, or go to the secluded mansion to come back to life, right?
Hearing the old woman's regretful words, my heart contracted, and the person she was talking about was actually Luo Eighteen, my past life.
Luo Eighteen, through the arrangement of the old mansion and the unique energy and talisman energy I absorbed when I went to the five Yalang Sacrifice Halls, constructed the most real soul altar during the Yalang Great Alliance, so that I was reborn in the first eighteen lifetimes, and at the last moment, he directly destroyed me and sent me here, and he actually made such a prohibition on me.
Is his ultimate goal to take away my soul and take possession of my body?
Or did he want me to come here and deliver news of the cult to me?
My mind was chaotic, and I subconsciously asked, "Isn't there a way for me to return to the sun?"
The old woman looked at me, smiled, and said that there must be a cause and an effect, which means that there are countless clues in this world, and only by sorting out these can you return to your body safely and not be blown away by the boundless wind. However, the avenue is impermanent, and there will inevitably be variables in the one who escapes, from here to the east, go straight for a hundred miles, where is the junction between here and Youfu, there is a river of life and death, Yin and Yang Realm, if you successfully break through, then maybe you can also return to the world - but this method is extremely dangerous, except for a few extremely lucky people, few people can break through; And even if you break through, the soul may be damaged and many things will happen......
As he said this, I suddenly remembered the tiger cat, the fat bird's previous life was Qu Yang, and it claimed to be a big man who returned from Youfu, it can be seen that it also took this path back then, and even so, its memory was seriously damaged, and it was wrongly cast, so far it can only live on a fat parrot, do I have to walk on the old path of adults now?
Will I be able to get through? Even if I do, will I become an existence I couldn't even imagine, like the tiger cat?
But if I become a fat bird, will she dislike me......
My mind was a mess, but when I heard the old woman say that this was the only way to go back, I could only grit my teeth and fight hard, stood up, bowed deeply to her, expressed my gratitude, and then asked carefully: "I am very grateful, I don't know if I can ask the old lady your honorific name, I can't say that I will have to offer the fifteenth and third incense sticks of incense in the future to express my gratitude......"
I said it respectfully and politely, the old woman also showed a smile on her face, waved her hand and said no, old woman, I have been here for too long, I have forgotten my name, if you have the heart, follow Xu Ming to call me grandma, in fact, if it is to be safe, I still recommend that you stay here otherwise, if you really want to break through the river of life and death, I am afraid that my soul will be scattered, and I still don't know it.
I thought of my relatives and friends in my life, but I became more and more persistent, and instead of listening to the persuasion, I bowed again and resolutely left the place.
I walked out of this temple and walked before playing the archway, Xu Ming chased after me, patted me on the shoulder and persuaded: "Lu Zuo, don't be impulsive, there are too many people who have appeared here inexplicably over the years, when they know that they can't go back, most of them choose to live here, only a few people choose to break through, but I haven't heard that anyone can cross over - you wait, we will go back in more than a month, and then I may be able to go back with you, although there will be variables here, But it's much better than your current desperate behavior......"
Looking at Xu Ming's anxious expression, I patted him on the shoulder and said Brother, you have done enough for me, I won't say much if I am grateful, just keep it in my heart. If I don't go back as soon as possible, then even if I can go back in the future, I will no longer be me at that time, and although there are not many successful examples, I know of one.
Xu Ming looked at me seriously for a while, read the perseverance in my eyes, and finally nodded, and said Okay, put on the mask and this.
He handed me a piece of parchment with a plausible map drawn in a black paint, pointed to a long river in the lower right corner, and said: "Here, it is the river of life and death, the yin and yang realm, I hope that when I go back, I will be able to see you again." I put my mask on, put away the parchment, patted him on the shoulder, and said yes, but I still hope that when I go back, we will never see each other again.
Xu Ming and I parted ways under the archway, and then ran towards the east of the town according to the direction of the map, because the mask he gave me didn't encounter any trouble, and I saw a lot of people along the way, they couldn't say that they were people, or ghosts, living in this town as if they were ordinary, I didn't have the heart to study what kind of state this was, my mind was in a hurry, and I ran towards the outside of the town.
When I reached the edge of the town, I saw that the bull heads that had surrounded the town were gone, leaving huge footprints.
Because of the arrival of the bull head, the town was solemn, and there were black armor people patrolling on the edge, I saw that there were people coming in and out of the town, so I also walked from there, who knew that the bald old man was still there, and when he saw that I was going out of town, he touched his nose and said that the newcomer, be careful when you go out, don't give those angry brutes a bargain.
I don't know if he was a kind reminder or a warning, but he just owed a debt and left silently.
Out of this ghost town, I followed the map and began to walk in the direction of the east, without stopping, and soon walked a long distance, and when I turned around, I saw that the lights of the town were still there, but they were getting weaker and weaker.
I sighed, full of emotions, but I didn't have time to clean up, and I was ready to continue on my way, but at this moment, a slender figure suddenly appeared in the corner of my eye, blocking my way.