Chapter 36: Entering the Land of the Dead
Uncle Liu, like last night, came back on time at the ugly hour.
The only difference is that this time it is not a hand that is being carried in a hand, but a thigh, a human thigh.
I saw him with his thighs on his back, shuffling his steps, and walking straight to the kitchen.
After entering the kitchen, he first put down the things in his hand, then walked to the stove and opened the lid.
After simmering all day, the aroma in the pot became stronger, and when I looked up, I saw a layer of pearlescent halo floating on the thick broth.
He reached out and licked the pot, smashed his mouth, nodded in satisfaction, picked up a spoon and filled himself with a bowl.
Xu felt that it was not enough to taste, so he grabbed a handful of green onions from the side and sprinkled them in.
In a corner of the kitchen, Ning Xiu and Yu Shasha were standing there, witnessing this scene.
"The funny thing you said was watching him eat...... Human flesh?" Ning Xiu hid in the shadows, unable to make out the expression on his face.
Yu Shasha didn't reply, and Ning Xiu followed her gaze and continued to look inside.
I saw Uncle Liu pick up the bloody thigh that he brought back, bury his whole face, and frantically suck the blood juice on it. When he raised his head, he showed an obsessive look on his face, and then lowered his head and bit down.
For an old man, his teeth are not always too good, and he shakes his head, tears off a strand of meat with difficulty, swallows it in his mouth, and then chews it carefully and attentively.
With this mouthful of fresh meat in his stomach, Uncle Liu's pale face seemed to have recovered some blood.
Tick, tick......
The sound of water droplets falling to the ground.
Ning Xiu raised his eyes and saw Uncle Liu, who was still enjoying himself a moment ago, but at this time, he suddenly burst into tears.
What is the rhythm of this?
There are many causes of tears, and they can express two completely opposite emotions.
At this moment, Yu Shasha retracted the smile on her face and said lightly: "Okay, let's go." ”
"Let's go?"
Ning Xiu was just about to speak, but found that the person had left the room and came to the courtyard outside.
The shadows dissipated, revealing him and Yu Sasha.
This is Yu Shasha's ability, her shadow power can not only block the sight, but also the sound, no wonder Ning Xiu didn't notice her last night.
"What the hell do you want to see?" asked Ning Xiu.
"It's just a matter of confirming something, don't you want to go to his room, I don't think he'll be back for a while, if you want to go, you have to hurry. After Yu Shasha finished speaking, she turned and left.
......
Ning Xiu watched Yu Shasha's figure gradually being engulfed in darkness, and the thought suddenly rose in his heart, maybe she would be the next one to evaporate from the world.
He shook his head, removed these distracting thoughts from his mind, and turned around and walked towards Uncle Liu's room.
Some mysteries are also time to be revealed.
Carefully pushing the door open, you are greeted by a medium-sized room with no windows on all sides and darkness inside.
Leaning on the faint light of the candle flame in his hand, Ning Xiu began to carefully examine the mysterious room.
The furnishings of the house are very simple, except for a wooden bed and a table and chairs, there is no other furniture, which is very in line with the style of the elderly. But three walls are covered with paintings.
The paintings hanging on the three walls are different.
Ning Xiu looked at it one by one, and the content in the painting was very bright and sunny at the beginning, and it was connected together, telling the story of the fisherman who strayed into the Peach Blossom Spring.
However, at this point, the following paintings did not seem to be able to be painted by a normal person at all, and their weirdness and obscurity were even more exaggerated than those of the so-called abstract painting schools of later generations.
A dark, bloody aura came over his face.
Ning Xiu looked at it one by one, and the content of the painting seemed to have an infinite temptation to him, so that in the end, the whole person fell into it, as if he was enchanted.
"Hey, hey, hey!"
"Brother, what's wrong with you?"
Feeling the sound coming from behind him, Ning Xiu turned his head sharply.
The aura that erupted at this moment actually made Wu Tao fall directly to the ground.
I saw that Ning Xiu's whole face was twisted together at this time, it was so indescribably weird, like crying and laughing, there was neither light nor darkness in his dim eyes, some were just a ...... Dead.
After seeing the person clearly, the expression on Ning Xiu's face gradually relaxed and returned to normal, only to see him slowly speak: "It's you?"
"What the hell did you just do, it's scary. Wu Tao stood up and spoke. Thinking about the feeling of Fang Cai at that moment, he only felt a chill coming out of his heart.
Wu Tao obviously also came to Uncle Liu's house to check the clues, and as soon as he entered the house, he found Ning Xiu who was in an abnormal state, which woke him up.
"It's okay, look at what this is. ”
Ning Xiu shook his head, indicating that he was fine, then stretched out his hand and pointed completely, and said, "There is really something wrong with Peach Blossom Spring." ”
Wu Tao looked in the direction Ning Xiu was pointing, and saw that there was only one painting on the third wall, a huge painting.
The painting hangs right behind Uncle Liu's bed.
The painting depicts the interior of a long, narrow rectangular tunnel with no decorations, and its walls are smooth and low, going forward and down, with no end in sight......
"Do you think this tunnel looks like something?"
"Tomb!"
Ning Xiu and Wu Tao glanced at each other and said at the same time.
At this moment, there was a sudden sound of slight footsteps in the hallway.
Ning Xiu took a deep look at the contents of the painting, pasted an invisibility talisman on himself, turned around and left immediately, without the slightest hesitation.
......
When I returned to the room, I was nowhere to be found.
As he lay on the old wooden bed, thinking about everything that had just happened, a very bold idea suddenly came to his mind.
The Story of the Peach Blossom Land may not be a story of a fisherman who strayed into the Peach Blossom Fountain at all, but a story of strayed into the land of the dead. They may have been wrong from the beginning, the valley mouth in Wuling Gorge was not the entrance referred to in the Peach Blossom Spring at all.
If we think of that entrance as the entrance to the tomb, then "the first extreme narrowness" refers to the tomb passage. "Suddenly enlightened" means that the fisherman passed through the tomb and came to the tomb.
Qianmo in "Qianmo Traffic" has the meaning of a path to the grave in ancient texts.
This can also explain why the fisherman never found Taoyuan Township after leading people, and why Liu Ziji suddenly died of illness because he found a way to Taoyuan Township.
This explanation is far-fetched, but it is not necessarily impossible.
If this is the case, then the reason why Zhao Shi, Luo Ziqing, and Yu Shasha suddenly disappeared is finally the truth.
Ning Xiu looked down at the wooden bed under him, and thought so.