10. Big black sky

When I woke up, I was lying on a stone platform, I saw the black stone roof, I didn't know where I was, and just as I wanted to move, I heard a voice next to me: "You have finally woken up." ”

I looked in the direction from which the voice came, and saw a man sitting with his back to me on the stone steps not far away, and it was an old man from the shape of him. I didn't understand what had just happened, so I asked, "Where am I?" ”

Because the surroundings were absolutely unfamiliar, and the previous memories were as foggy as a dream, the old man said to me, "You have slept for a long time with a stick of incense." ”

I asked blankly, "How long does a stick of incense last?" ”

The old man said, "Half a wooden day." ”

Completely incomprehensible language, I sat up from the stone platform and asked, "How did I end up here, I remember ......"

The old man said, "I don't remember, those are all near-death hallucinations." ”

I asked, "Near-death hallucinations?" ”

He said, "Don't you know that you have already died once?" ”

Still not understanding what he was talking about, I asked, "Where is this?" ”

He said: "It seems that the hallucinations of dying have made you begin to lose sight of the unreal reality, this is the first layer of the Great Black Sky, you seem to be buried in the earth, but you crawled out on your own, and just happened to meet me passing by there, and brought you back." ”

I repeated blankly, "The first layer of the Great Black Sky? ”

He said: "There are nine floors in the Great Black Sky, and the first floor is where the lowliest poor people live, but I look at your clothes, but you don't look like a person on the first floor. ”

After saying that, he paused. And he said, "I have found something in the earth, which seems to be yours, and I have placed it beside you, so you can see." ”

I looked at the stone platform, and there was really something next to it, but this was a piece of iron coin that was only half left, and my brother looked at the iron coin in a daze, but he didn't know anything, and he still had those scenes in his dream, and even Xue's figure had crossed it a few times, but he couldn't remember it very clearly.

I shook my head, not knowing what was happening, and then the old man said, "Young man, you have offended someone, which is why you were knocked unconscious and brought here to be buried." ”

Instinctively, I said, "No." ”

The old man asked rhetorically, "Isn't it?" ”

I felt like my head was foggy and said, "I don't know." ”

When I came down from the stone platform, I realized that it was a stone bed, but it looked very strange, and I looked around again, but I only felt that this place was also very strange, not like a place where living people lived. I looked at the old man who had been facing away from me, and finally asked, "What is this place?" ”

The old man said, "The abandoned temple, you see there are still abandoned statues in it." ”

I looked around and did see some mutilated idols. It's just that these statues are all hideous-looking ghosts, I think this scene is very familiar, it's a little trance, and the gods who have been in a panic for a long time have come back to their senses. Then he looked at the old man's back and asked, "Who are you?" ”

The old man replied, "Just a homeless old man." ”

The more I looked at his back, the more I felt that something was wrong, and I became a little suspicious, but it was really depressing here, I took a few deep breaths, but the more I felt a sense of suffocation, and there were some pictures in my mind that kept shaking, and finally the old man said: "You are normal, after all, anyone has experienced such a long period of near death." There will be these hallucinations. ”

I asked him, "You've been through it too?" ”

He said, "Like you, I am also the one who has picked up a life from death, and if you think you are all right, go home yourself, after all, this is not for people like you." ”

Then I came out of it in a daze, and as soon as I came out of it, I felt the first thing I felt was the blinding light, and then the bustling crowd. I looked around and felt that this scene was somewhat familiar, because this place was very similar to the place I had been to in my dream, but I didn't pay much attention to it, I just thought about it.

When I walked out, I noticed a very strange phenomenon, which was that there was an alley behind me. It wasn't a door at all, I looked like I had appeared here out of thin air, and I turned around to look around for the place I had just had, only to find that it had mysteriously disappeared.

I suddenly had a feeling that I didn't know where I was, and I was at a loss when I bumped into a person, and I just happened to bump into my arms, and I came back from my state of confusion. But when I looked again, I found that the person I bumped into was none other than Eleven, so I looked at him in amazement, and then shouted: "Eleven, why are you!" ”

Eleven, on the other hand, looked at me in amazement, and then he asked me in the same astonished words, "Do I know you, and how do you know my name?" ”

I said, "Eleven, it's me, I'm Xiao Mu." ”

After listening to it, he pronounced my name again: "Xiao Mu? Did you recognize the wrong person? I don't know you. ”

I was immediately stunned, what was going on, and soon I felt that I suddenly called out the name Eleven a little inexplicably, because soon the memory of Eleven was much less, and it seemed that except in the dream, he was indeed just a stranger, and after a brief moment of astonishment, I said to him, "Excuse me." I recognized the wrong person. ”

After that, I wandered through the streets like a wandering spirit, and although all kinds of people went back and forth, I felt that these people were false and non-existent, until I came to the familiar shop, in front of my grandfather's coffin.

And when I saw a dark coffin standing inside the coffin shop, I was suddenly shocked, as if something suddenly remembered, and I stood still looking at the black coffin. One by one, the scenes in the dream crossed my mind.

In the end, I heard someone shouting me next to me several times, and I came back to my senses, and this person was none other than Master Bai, and he shouted my name: "Xiao Mu." ”

After the eleventh event, I didn't dare to recognize him, so I asked, "Do you know me?" ”

Master Bai said: "How can I not know, Mr. has calculated that you will come today, and he is already waiting inside." ”

Then he let me in, I found that the coffin shop was exactly the same as the layout in the dream, and the courtyard inside was also exactly the same, after arriving inside, it was still a three-sided house, but the doors of the three-sided house were open, and I could clearly see the furnishings inside, and the white master pointed to one of the houses and said, "Mr. is inside, you come in with me." ”

I followed in, until I entered the classroom, I saw the person sitting inside, to my surprise, this person turned out to be Mr. Bai Ye, when he saw me, the corners of his mouth raised, and then he said to me: "Xiao Mu." ”

I didn't know what to call him for a while, and he said, "Second uncle, you go outside and get busy, I have something to say to Xiao Mu alone." ”

Master Bai glanced at me and went out, leaving only me and my husband inside, and Mr. said, "Sit down and talk." ”

Then he poured me a cup of tea, and I didn't know what was going on, so I asked, "How are you ......?"

The gentleman seemed to know what I was going to ask, and he said, "The feng shui wood has been ruined." ”

When he said this, I stood up abruptly, and then I asked, "So I'm dead?" ”

"It is true that you can say that according to your understanding," said him, but if it is said in this language, it is nothing more than waking up from a dream, for to the people here it is nothing but an insignificant dream, and no one thinks it is true. ”

I said, "So am I the one in my dreams, or am I the one here?" ”

When the gentleman heard this, he suddenly narrowed his eyes and said, "That's why I want to see you." ”

When I heard my husband say this, I suddenly felt a chuckle in my heart, and a bad premonition rose, but I still asked with the same expression, "In this way, there is something unspeakable in this." ”

The gentleman looked at me and said, "Strictly speaking, you're dead here, but you're back here, do you know what that means?" ”

I was taken aback and asked, "What does that mean?" ”