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Although I was also curious, scared and wanted to see, but since Eleven had already said so, as the saying goes, curiosity kills cats, so I went to the back of the sofa, and my grandmother also walked up to Eleven and asked Eleven how she was now, and my dad and my mom were also near the window. My mom looked back at me, a little worried about me, but she was also a little scared, and then my mom came to the sofa and sat down with me, and she took my hand and said, "Don't be afraid, wood, and us." β
But I felt her hand tremble, and I took her hand and said, "Don't be afraid. β
I felt that time passed very slowly, and I sat on the sofa for a long time and didn't see any movement outside, and I couldn't see what was happening outside, so I was a little anxious when I didn't know the bottom, and I asked Eleven, "Is it out?" β
Eleven said, "Strangely, it has retracted into the well again." β
So saying, I went to the window to look, and sure enough, the thing that had just come out of the well was gone, and I looked at the figure at the gate, and the man was still standing there, as if he had not moved from the beginning, and I whispered to Eleven, "Who is that man?" β
Eleven still said the same thing: "I don't know. β
Then Eleven asked me to sit down at the couch, and he told me not to worry, maybe it was just a false alarm tonight. He clearly said this to comfort us. I could hear it, so I didn't have the slightest intention of relaxing, and then I sat down at the couch, while my grandmother fidgeted, and from time to time she looked close to the window, for fear that something would happen the next moment.
I sat on the sofa, but gradually calmed down, that is, when I felt calmed down a little, I suddenly heard something on the wall next to me, that is, at the end of the sofa, so I turned my head to look, who knows, I turned my head and saw a human face on the wall, I don't know when, a human face has appeared, and gradually clear, I can clearly see that its eyes seem to be blindfolded by a pair of hands.
I wanted to scream, but the moment I saw its face, it seemed to be controlled by its movements, and I felt like I was just moving my throat a few times and making any sounds, and then I seemed to hear its voice echoing in my ears. But it was a completely rhythmless sound, just terrifying and annoying, and then I saw its face-covering fingers gradually loosen one by one.
I watched as its fingers left its socket one by one from top to bottom, revealing its eyes. When the fingers finally let go, I saw that its eyes only had sockets, but no eyes, and the place where it should have been eyes was like a pair of bottomless black holes. The moment I saw it, it was sucked in, as if the whole person had fallen into it.
This feeling is like stepping on the air and falling into an endless abyss in a dream, and I would wake up in a dream, but now I only feel that I am falling all the time, as if my consciousness is getting farther and farther away from me, but I can't wake up.
Just as I was falling, I suddenly heard someone call my name - Xiao Mu.
It sounded a little familiar, and it seemed completely unfamiliar, but I heard it, and then I heard some muttering, like the sound of a Taoist priest chanting a mantra, and then I woke up from this feeling of complete darkness, only the moment I woke up. But I saw the paper money flying all over the sky, and the notes of the soul banner waving in front of my eyes, I looked around in horror, only to find that I was in the underworld again.
But this time I didn't wake up from the coffin, but lay on the ground, and when I sat up, I saw three sticks of incense in front of me, and it was still smoking, and it burned in half, and I don't know who lit it here.
I stood up and looked blankly, this was not the place where I had woken up last time, nor the place where I had met the man who sat on the coffin, it was much more empty and more endless, and it was the coffin and the grave, and the soul flags and paper money.
I was a little overwhelmed, I didn't know what to do next, and I didn't know where to go to get out, but soon I heard a voice calling out from behind meβXiao Mu.
It was exactly the same voice that had just called me in the fall, and I turned sharply, but there was no one behind me, and as I turned I heard the voice say againβCome here.
I walked out along the path behind me, but I didn't hear his voice again for a long time, so I started shouting, "Who are you, are you still there?" β
I didn't get a response, so I stopped and looked around, and then I vaguely seemed to be a person in the distance on the right, similar to the person I saw sitting on the coffin last time, because he was also sitting on the coffin.
I ran towards him like a life-saving straw, and when I got to him, I realized that he was the same person from last time, and it was Eleven, so I shouted, "Eleven, why are you here?" β
He looked back at me, and although he had met once, he did not show the expression of seeing an acquaintance, but replied coldly, "I am not Eleven." β
He looks the same as Eleven, but he's not Eleven, what's going on?
I was stunned, but he looked at me, still so indifferent, and said, "Why did you come here this time before the sun light was extinguished?" β
I said, "I don't know, I woke up from here when I heard someone shouting at me." β
He looked at me as I said this. It seemed to be discerning the truth of my words, but soon he reverted to his strange appearance and said to me, "This is not the place you should be, you can go back." β
I said, "I don't know how to go back." β
He ignored me, just lowered his head and played with the note of the soul flag, as if I didn't exist at all, so I said, "Can you help me, you helped me last time." β
He didn't raise his head and said, "Last time was last time, why should I help you this time?" β
I didn't know how to answer, but my head was spinning quickly, so I asked, "Then why did you help me last time?" β
He looked at me and said, "There's no reason. β
I felt that although he was exactly the same as Eleven, he was two completely different people from Eleven, and I said, "I heard someone calling me to come here, is there anyone else here besides you?" β
He looked at me when he heard me say this, and seemed to finally get his attention, and he asked me, "What did you have with you when you woke up?" β
I replied, "There are three sticks of incense burning." β
He just looked at me motionlessly. I don't know what I'm looking at, but soon he says, "Why are you here?" β
I didn't know how to answer, so I told him about seeing the eyes of the ghost bodhisattva, and when he heard it, he asked me, "How many pairs of blindfolds does that face you see?" β
I said, "Although I saw only one pair on the wall, there were three pairs of statues, and Eleven said that one pair of fingers had been released." β
When he heard this, he said, "That's it." β
He didn't say anything about what it was, and then he said to me, "You take me to the place where I woke up." β
After saying that, he jumped down from the coffin, and I took him to the place where I woke up, but when I got back to the ground, the three sticks of incense on the ground had been extinguished, and he pulled up the incense and looked at it carefully for a while, until at last I heard him say to himself, "Is it him?" β
I asked, "Who is it?" β
He looked at me coldly and didn't answer, but just said to me, "It's a good thing that you were recruited here, otherwise I would have been a part of the ghost bodhisattva you talked about." β
Did he mean that the voice I heard during the fall saved me? That's why I came to the Netherworld again, but I remember Eleven said that the Netherworld is a place where only the dead can come, so why can I come even if I am not a dead soul? And who is this person who looks exactly like Eleven.
When I was thinking about this, he said to me, "It might hurt a little, you can bear with it." β
As he spoke, I saw that he had taken out something like a seal out of nowhere, like the one that Blind Ah Tai used to exorcise evil spirits.