Chapter 1: Seeing the Light of Day Again
Hall of Eternal Life. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
A stone chair, a lone lamp, a thin body, under the dim light, the person lying on the stone chair looked lifeless, like an old wax figure, he just looked at the oil lamp on the stone platform in front of him quietly.
For a long, long time.
Looking in from the doorway, they look like frescoes, still for centuries.
Burning lamp oil, tireless man.
At some point, some people started to visit here.
When the heavy stone door was pushed open, the breeze led a figure into the main hall, and the dust on the ground was raised by the wind, filling the entire space, and the smell of decay was suffocating.
But the lantern still did not flicker at all, and the man was not moved, and he never left the lamp for a moment.
The man hurried to the oil lamp, and was already holding his hand forward at a distance of a few feet, and seemed to be a little anxious.
As he stretched out his hand, he couldn't move forward even half a step. The tall figure is like a snow pile, which quickly melts in the bright sun.
The light flashed in an instant, and it burned out the body of the comer.
The person on the stone chair seemed to have been numb for a long time, and he didn't even blink his eyelids, staring at the light like a demon.
Later, too many of these things happened, and for him, they were just floating dust.
Until one night of thunder and lightning, he found that the lamps had weakened, and the temple had become darker. But there was a glint in his eyes.
The lights eventually went out.
Darkness held him in place like a great black iron.
And so, and so it was, and a long time, and so on・・・・・・・
A bright light came through, and just as he was about to reach out to cover his eyes, a pair of soft little hands blindfolded him from behind, and the sound of children playing sounded in his ears.
He shook his head, and his hand was released, and in front of him was a laughing fat child with a chapter of paper in his hand with the words 'crescent' written on it.
"Is it pretty? The fat boy asked with a smile on his nose.
He didn't know how to answer, and the child's laughter pierced his eardrums and shook his heart like thunder in the sky.
The paper in the fat boy's hand was farther away from him in the laughter, and he wanted to reach out to grab it, but when he raised his hand, he found that he was holding a thin bamboo in his hand, and he was surprised, and suddenly felt that his body was unconsciously swinging.
When he looked down, he saw that he had somehow mounted on the back of an old buffalo, and behind the fat buffalo was pulling a cart, and on the cart sat a woman, who was looking at him with a smile on her face, like a sunflower on the side of the road.
"Hurry up, or you won't be home before dark!" said the woman softly.
He smiled and nodded, and waved the thin bamboo in his hand and pumped it at the cow's back・・・・・・
Boom!
With the piercing sound of iron striking, a sharp pain came from his right arm, and the scene in front of him changed abruptly, and a bloodstained face came into view, and the man was gritting his teeth and holding a knife to parry the spear in his hand. The pain spread from his arm to his whole body, and in a panic, he jerked out the short sword at his waist with his left hand, and threw it at his opponent's chest as a throwing knife. Blood splattered out, sprinkled on his face, soaked into his eyes, bloodthirsty red, and broke the sky.
He fell off his horse and lay in the mud.
The rain poured down, washing the earth over and over again, and the foul stream of blood and dirt flowed down his cheeks, and the stench was disgusting, and he froze on the ground, unable to move, his mind confused, unable to distinguish between a dream and a wake, death or life. The icy stream corroded him like venom, penetrating his bone marrow from his skin and devouring the last vestiges of his will・・・・・・・
Boom...
Thousands of lightning bolts slashed down from the clouds, destroying everything on earth and ending his nightmare.
Hundreds of years later, spring is supposed to be the season of recovery, but it is still a scorched earth. Although no vegetation was born, the earth nevertheless gave birth to life—a man.
A pair of hands slowly stretched out from the black mound, and then a gray-faced man crawled up, looking in good spirits, his swift movements and radiant eyes made it seem that he had just slept for a while, even though no one saw him.
Ahh
He looked around, walked a few more laps, and then sat cross-legged on the ground, his brow furrowed, as if he had encountered some painful problem.
"Who am I?"
This question bothered him for a long, long time, so much so that he sat in place for a day and a night.
Until hunger brought him back to reality, he began to get up in search of food, and when he looked up, he saw green mountains in the distance, and he walked into the distance without hesitation, with endless scorched earth behind him.
It was a bit far, so far that he walked from dawn to dusk before reaching the bottom of the mountain. And then he was blinded!
This is a stone mountain! There are no plants and trees, and there are no birds and beasts. Come and eat the stone slag? What about the green mountain?
Luckily, before he could use his head to knock down the mountain and die with it, he saw a stone staircase nearby, stretching up the mountain. At a glance, you can see that this is a man-made product, there must be people living on the top of the mountain, some people will have food, and some people who have not eaten will also become, eat it!
No kidding, he really thought so at the time!
He climbed 2,333 stone stairs to reach the halfway point of the mountain, but he finally saw a building. In front of him is a tall archway, which is also engraved with the four vigorous characters of 'supreme', walk through this mountain gate, it is a wide square, there is a long wall on the side of the square, the middle is the gate, the partition wall can see the pavilion of various styles inside, he is not interested in watching, three or two steps walked over and pushed the door, found that the door was tethered, and then vigorously knocked on the ring on the door.
After a while, I heard the sound of footsteps kicking inside.
Squeak...
The door was gently pulled open in half, and a middle-aged man walked out from behind the door, but when he saw the black pillar-shaped creature in front of him, his eyes widened and he was stunned for a while, and suddenly slammed the door shut.
"Scum!"
Oh, I forgot to mention that this man crawled out of the black soil without any clothes.
But he didn't follow, and when he heard the people inside scolding him like this, he was furious, flew up and kicked on the door, and broke in directly. He roared and rushed into the courtyard, but saw that there were more than a hundred people in the courtyard.
They sat on the ground in a semicircle, and standing in the middle was a middle-aged uncle in a white robe with a slight beard on his face. Seeing someone break in, everyone said 'ouch', the middle-aged uncle waved his hand and said to everyone present: "Let's pause for a moment, in order to verify what I just said is correct, we need a volunteer to be the experimenter, and this guest seems to be very enthusiastic, so let's let him try it, you go to the side and watch first." ”
"Yes, Master. ”
Everyone stood aside in unison, their faces full of anticipation.