160. Reunion
It wasn't until I heard this that a question came up, and I asked, "So who are you?" ”
When I asked this, suddenly he was silent, and it seemed to disappear completely, and the surroundings returned to calm, and I listened with bated breath, but for a while. I didn't hear him again, and it wasn't until I asked again and still didn't get any response that I realized that he wasn't here anymore.
I tried to climb out of the coffin, I climbed out according to the way I remembered the coffin, until my feet fell to the ground, I felt a sense of solidity, I felt the door according to the position in my memory, opened the door, tried to collapse out, when I came out, suddenly I was in a darkness, and when I saw where I was, I gasped, and finally knew why it was so dark just now, because I was not anywhere else now. I was in the small courtyard behind my grandfather's coffin, and the place where I was standing was exactly opposite the door of the last time I saw Bai Jintang.
I don't know how I got here all of a sudden, but it must have something to do with the time I've passed out.
I looked around, and after I came out, I looked at the soul spot on my hand again, and found that the real soul spot had stretched out along a line on the wrist, as if it was spreading, so I didn't care about it, and came to the coffin shop again, after coming to the coffin shop, I looked for it but didn't find any trace of Lihuai, the coffin shop was still the same, I came out to the street outside, and the street was also as silent as death, and there was no trace of any shadow at all.
I stood where Xue Fang was standing before, looked at the direction they were entering, and thought that maybe this direction was the right one, so I walked in without much thought.
I followed the street of the town all the way in, and soon reached the edge of the village, but the road continued on and on, but at the end of the house stood a monument. It reads - the tomb of the Xiao family.
I looked into the distance, but I didn't see anything like a tomb, but judging from the words on the stele, this should be the place to go to the Xiao family cemetery. And at that time, Xue Fang led the funeral procession of the paper man to this side, could it be that he was going to the Xiao family's tomb?
Thinking of this, I continued to walk without the slightest hesitation, and after going beyond the confines of the village, it was a little desolate and empty outside. I walked for a mile or so and saw a tree in front of me, but in the distance I could see that it was completely dead, and there seemed to be an old-fashioned building next to the tree, and I couldn't see exactly what it was doing, until I got to the bottom of the tree, and I realized that it was actually a temple-like place. Because it was built in a style like a temple.
And because of the disrepair, the temple door has disappeared, only a door frame remains, you can see the situation inside, but only a little, because most of them are blocked by the stone screen behind the door, I came to the temple gate, only to see the stone screen is painted on a Yama statue, only to see a group of ghost kings with different expressions or standing, or sitting, or floating in the air, and the ground is countless skeleton ghosts. I counted the total number of ghost kings, and it should have been ten o'clock Yama statues, and I also noticed that each of the ghost kings in the portrait had a ghost mark on his hand.
It's just that the only one of them standing in the center, and the face of the ghost king who is standing right is blank, his hands are in the position of his heart, and his ghost mark is placed between his palms, and the other ghost kings seem to be carved around him, I saw such a strange carving, I couldn't help but look at it a few more times, and at the same time wondered why it was carved into a faceless appearance.
I thought it was a cemetery, but I didn't expect it to be a temple, so I stared at the screen for a while before moving to the back. When I got to the back is the front yard, and after the front yard is the main hall, and I saw that there was also a huge statue of the ghost king inside, but there was only one in the center. There were small ghost statues on both sides, and I realized that this was not an ordinary temple, but a ghost king temple.
This deserted ghost king temple has only one main hall and one side hall, the main hall is where my ghost king statue is, and the side hall is an empty hall, but there is nothing inside, in the center of the entire side hall. There is a well, and it seems that the whole side hall was built for this well.
When I saw the well, my heart suddenly tightened, and then there was a strange feeling that crossed by, and then my grandfather's words - one person does not enter the temple, one person does not look at the well, and then I suddenly realized that I actually entered the temple of the ghost king like this.
And grandpa said such things would not be for no reason, I realized that something was wrong and immediately walked out of the side hall, and almost instantly, the entire Ghost King Temple was full of danger, I trotted out outside. It wasn't until I came to the temple gate that I breathed a long sigh of relief, as if I had escaped from a danger.
But when I came outside, I saw Xue Fang standing at the gate of the temple, and was looking at me, as if he already knew that I was here, when I saw him, I was first shocked, and then there was a burst of joy, I came to the door of death to find him, and now I found him and finally breathed a sigh of relief, and Xue Fang asked me: "How did you come here?" ”
When I heard him ask, I said, "I'm here for you." ”
Then he seemed to see something, and he looked at me and said, "You have come in as a living man." ”
As he spoke, he looked at me, his expression became a little serious, and I noticed that something was wrong with his expression, as if he realized that something was wrong. He asked, "What's the matter, is there anything wrong with this?" ”
Xue Fang hesitated for a moment, but said, "I didn't say anything, but I was a little surprised." ”
There must be something Xue Fang didn't say here, so I asked him again, "Why are you here?" ”
Xue Fang replied to me with a question: "Do you know what place this is?" ”
I said, "Ghost King Temple." ”
Xue Fang said, "I'm here to find something." ”
I asked, "What is it?" ”
Xue Fang said, "My ghost seal." ”
Xue Fang was telling me his identity, but I wasn't surprised at all, because it was expected for a long time, so I asked him, "How did you know you would be here?" ”
Xue Fang said: "This is the place where you sealed Jiang at the beginning. And it's my ghost mark, so the ghost mark should be in it. ”
Hearing Xue Fang talk about Jiang, I tried to ask: "That day I saw you in the coffin shop in the funeral procession, and I also saw Jiang who fell out of the coffin." Where did you take him? ”
Xue Fang said: "Send him where he should go, he shouldn't be here." ”
Seeing that he didn't say anything, I asked another question: "So what is this place, or is it in the realm of the underworld, or has it reached the eighteen graveyards?" ”
Xue Fang said: "Since you stepped over the stone tablet of the Xiao family's tomb, you have already arrived at the eighteenth cemetery, don't you feel that there is something unusual?" ”
I didn't feel the slightest, so I shook my head and said, "No." ”
Xue Fang glanced at me more and said, "The feeling you gave me is different from the last time we met." ”
I didn't know what Xue Fang meant, but when I heard him talk about the last time we met, I asked him, "What did you find, why did you suddenly disappear after you found that obsidian bead, and still appear here?" ”
Xue Fang said: "Because this obsidian bead reminds me of something, and the answer is here." ”
I asked, "What do you remember?" ”
Xue Fang said: "That's it." ”
Saying that, Xue Fang pointed to the screen in the temple gate, the statue of the ghost king on it, I have already seen it, and I asked: "This is the statue of the ghost king, what does that mean?" ”
Xue Fang said: "This is both a question and an answer, this obsidian bead reminds me of such a place, and it seems that this is the answer to the question, but at the same time it brings another question, why when I see the obsidian bead, I suddenly think of this place, what is the connection between this stone bead and here." ”