The Land of Ghosts - Thorny Little Hui'er (II)
With more and more information coming in from the outside world, the people of Dazeshan gradually dared to go out of the mountains and deal with the human world outside, but the thoughts of thousands of years were deeply ingrained in their minds, and they always maintained their own independent consciousness, and would never reveal the route into Dazeshan, let alone agree to the group of poor people outside to break in, because the people outside did not know the god of Crota Mountain, which was a very ridiculous and sad thing in their eyes, starting from their ancestors, The people of the Crota tribe have always been blessed by the blessings of the god of the Crota Mountain.
And the humans of the outside world do not recognize, and even desecrate the existence of the god of the crotch mountain, so they are always vigilant against this group of devils polluting their clean souls, and carefully exchange salt and food with the outside world.
However, all this seemingly harmonious situation was completely broken by an incident that happened later.
That day, the young men had just come back from carrying food from outside the mountain, and the fourteen-year-old Song girl was curiously lying on the side to peek, she was wearing her brother's old clothes, and there was no fat powder or anything like that in the mountains.
The men were about to go down the mountain, and one of them saw Song Yatou lying on her stomach, and waved her hand and shouted, "Eh! Work together, there is a shortage of people! ”
Song Yatou is also bold, although she has been brainwashed by the millennium of thought since she was a child like other girls, but she is still born with a curiosity that longs for the unknown, she will be wrong, so she will be wrong, so she will be mixed into the team. The funny thing is that the men of the Crota tribe, who were highly nervous as soon as they came out of the mountain, didn't find a girl in the team when they arrived.
Song Yatou from the mountain to the return is only a few hours of time, but enough to tell her partners about the wonderful world outside for three or four days, when she said that she saw the girl jumping on the street, stepping on two flower ropes, no one can believe that what she said is true, the girls all listen to the Arabian Nights, and they can't imagine what the flower rope looks like. Song Yatou also said that she saw that many girls and children could go out and walk around in groups, and they could laugh out loud in broad daylight, although those girls made a gesture to cover their lips, but this behavior still caused a great shock to Song Yatou and her partners.
The girls feel more and more that the outside world is abnormal, don't women have to stay at home obediently, and their men and brothers won't care about them?
Because the story is too fake, everyone doesn't want to believe Song Yatou, Song Yatou is anxious, and said that if you don't believe it, it's better to see it yourself.
It was calm for several days, but the ones who should have come came came back, and the girls finally couldn't hold their breath. Qingqing girl was the first to act, she carefully "dressed up" to make herself more like a man, when mixed in and out of the mountain team, some people looked at her suspiciously a few times, but in the end they all regarded it as Qingqing girl's brother.
After the young girl, a total of seven or eight female babies mixed out of the mountain, what they saw and heard in the outside world had a violent impact on the girls' long-term worldview, and when they finally realized that the outside world might be right, a seed of "resistance" was planted in their hearts.
They have an urge to go out, or let the sun shine outside, this idea just appeared to make them frightened, so many girls chose to quit, willing to listen to the outside of the mountain, in accordance with the ancestral training and the will of the crotch mountain god to be a "sensible" woman.
Song Yatou has the most say among the girls, they secretly held a small meeting of ten members, and after discussing for a while, they asked the members to expand the scale of their "camp" one by one. The younger the girl, the more she could not resist the temptation of the outside world, and they agreed to make a request to the men of the family at the same time one night to go out of the mountain, yes, no longer to disguise themselves as men, but to join the team of going out as women in a dignified manner.
The men invariably beat up this group of "ignorant" girls on this night, but the next night, the girls still put forward this will. This kind of sudden and strange thing made the men of the crotch tribe a little panicked, this is the first time in thousands of years that after the daughter of the Song family, the woman in Daze Mountain has made men anxious. In silence, the absolute supremacy of the men was shaken for the first time.
And the men refused again and hit them harder, men do not let women out of the mountain, in addition to women are humble things, there is another reason, that is, after this group of big men out of the mountain, facing the women of the outside world, but often have to make a groveling and flattering appearance, which has caused a lot of damage to the men's self-esteem, men can only comfort themselves with the idea that people outside are devils, but if you let the women in the mountains go out, in case they are affected by the devil's filthy air, they will become ignorant, Wouldn't that be a disaster for Dazeshan?
However, this was not a revolt that could be easily suppressed, and the girls did not cook the next day, did not do anything they were supposed to do, they stood in a row, silently expressing their determination to the men. The patriarch of the Crota clan almost believed that these girls had gone crazy, and it was because of eating food from the outside world that their souls had mutated. Men never cook, that's a woman's task, they won't abandon their dignity to do that shameful thing, and the girls actually have no bottom in their hearts, they are afraid of the men in their own families, but the Song girl at the head stands in front of the girl with her chest up, and she doesn't back down.
After tossing for a long time, the men finally only agreed to take a girl down the mountain, but asked her to wear men's clothes, cover her face and eyes, and she couldn't look up and speak without permission.
Every day Song Yatou will bring back a long dream-like magical story, she said what is a carriage, the appearance of the girl outside in clothes, what is a skirt, what is rouge and hairpin, later, she said that she made a friend, it was a girl of the same age, later, she said that she met a man who was willing to talk to her, and the humans outside called that man "Childe", she told the life of the woman in the mountains to the child, the child was very angry, she did not understand the reason for the childe's anger at first, After Childe told her about the trivial life of women in the outside world, she had the idea of being deceived by her clansmen and the god of the crotch mountain.
She can bring back a game every day, although her friends can't play the game, but she still listens to her talk about her experience of accidentally participating in the game of girls outside, she talks too temptingly, more and more girls are gathering here, and even some girls are bold, and they beg a man to take them out once.
The men in the clan have already strung their minds, they decided to let Song Yatou have no qualifications to marry in the future, and can only be used as a "toy" to meet the needs of any man in the clan, and even one night, there have been a few young men swaggering into Song Yatou's room in turn, tarnishing her heart, a weak girl, how can she resist, but she did not admit defeat, because the outside world gave her another hope, she went out of the mountain with the team during the day, and was used as a "toy" after returning, She is actually beautiful and beautiful, but she can only silently endure the destruction of the beasts that crawl on her every day.
In getting along with the son, Song Yatou had a sense of shame, she didn't want to reveal her life in the mountains to the son, and often avoided the child's eyes, when she looked at the son, her face would be inexplicably blushing, of course, she didn't understand what love was, there had been no love in Daze Mountain for thousands of years.
Song girl learned simple words, her body became weaker because of the daily ruthless destruction, when standing straight, like a willow leaf swaying in the air, this weak temperament will be deeply fascinated by the child's heart, the son gave Song girl a beautiful dress, and a pink paper umbrella, Song girl was intoxicated, fell into the arms of the child, she sneaked out of the team, with the son went, the son said that his name was Ye, let Song girl call him Brother Ye, and said that he would protect her.
Ye Gongzi was anxious to find an inn with the drunken and fascinated Song girl, and immediately had a relationship, Ye Gongzi, who had read countless women, of course found Song Yatou's impure body, he was quite annoyed, and his original form was revealed, so he ruthlessly abandoned Song Yatou and left, and disappeared without a trace. Poor Song girl, obediently staying in the inn waiting for Ye Gongzi's return, she didn't know that Ye Gongzi abandoned her, and she didn't dare to go out, standing alone on the bustling street.
But Song Yatou finally returned to the mountain, she thought that she would meet Brother Ye when she came out of the mountain tomorrow, she had climbed so many men, and Brother Ye was the only man who could bring her emotions and hoped that he would always stay on her body.
Song Yatou never saw Ye Gongzi again, she was almost stupid, according to the thoughts of the clan, she was polluted by the turbid air outside, but it was actually the girl who was tormented by love, she missed that man crazy, she always held the paper umbrella in her hand, no one in the clan could touch the umbrella, even her father, she protected the paper umbrella like a newborn calf. The flowers bloom and fall and the autumn leaves are yellow, and the world is full of vicissitudes in one season, Song Yatou figured out a truth in the sad struggle, Ye Gongzi is unwilling to meet him again, it must be because he is like a monster, the girl outside can laugh, can play, and can dress well, what about her, she can't do anything, Brother Ye must think she is a devil.
She went out of the mountain with the party again, she learned the methods of various games from her girl friend of the same age outside, and when she returned to the mountain, she taught the methods to her friends, who secretly made ropes by themselves, and when they played, the girls began to laugh, and often looked back on the experience of the game, but the men still monitored the whispers of the women.
The closer you are, the more you can get the secrets of the truth, these men are not stupid, they have understood that the outside and the inside of the mountain are human beings in their long-term communication with the outside world, but their ancestors lived in seclusion in the mountains for some reason, so they were in this mountain from birth to death, the outside world made men afraid, and the language could be regarded as comprehensible, but the habits and laws of life, as well as the difference in beliefs, made them more and more afraid of contact with the outside world, so they gradually reduced their interaction with the outside world, Restrictions on women have also become more stringent.
On this day, Song Yatou secretly called more than a dozen partners, and they crowded into her small room. The girls gathered around a table, and on the table was a rag doll, which was crudely embroidered, but in the eyes of the girls, it was really a heavenly thing. It turned out that this was a gift from the friend outside to Song Yatou.
Song Yatou said that she finally knew the name of that friend, and her name was Thorn Le Xiao Hui'er.
The friends asked her what she looked like. Song Ya had no words in her belly, and she didn't know how to describe portraits, so she pointed to the rag doll and said, "This is what she looks like." The girls all thought that Little Hui'er was very beautiful, and the girl Song told them that Little Hui'er was wearing clothes that looked better than flowers, and she was playing games every day and laughing on the street every day. The girls sighed one by one, they were so envious of the girl called Thorn Le Xiao Hui'er, and even dreamed that they could live such a happy life like Thorn Le Xiao Hui'er, and even they believed that the rag doll was like a crotch mountain temple, and the rag doll was changed to the girl's hand every day, and it was poured into the wish by more than forty girls.
The change of the girl has aroused the great attention of the men, who have re-blocked the way out of Daze Mountain and lived a life outside the world again, but the sunlight outside has already left traces in the mountains, even if the light of the future is cut off, how can it erase the people's heart of resistance that has sprouted to yearn for freedom?
The men felt that women were becoming more and more difficult to manage, they panicked, and began to accumulate emotions, and the fuse of the outbreak was that at noon when the autumn rain was falling, the patriarch of the crotch tribe saw three girls jumping on the flower rope behind his house. The men were angry, perhaps terrified, their dignity as supreme beings was hit the most, they knew what the outside world was like, and they were afraid that women would become the same as the women outside.
The men of the clan, including the children, had an ugly meeting, and they decided to kill all the girls whose souls had been polluted, and the fathers of the girls agreed, and so did their brothers.
The girls are like ducks that have been driven away, desperately fleeing, the men are red-eyed, they are afraid that the girls will run out and bring in the devil outside, many girls are killed immediately by the men in a panic, and there is a woman who knows that her daughter is about to be executed, and she hands her daughter a glass of poisoned wine in a heartache.
A man stabbed his child to death with a white knife, and there was chaos in the mountains of Daze, and there were cries everywhere.
The girls couldn't figure out why their relatives watched them being beaten with sticks, and even their relatives were involved.
Many girls knelt in front of the crotch mountain temple, begging for mercy and blessing from the mountain god, but there were also many girls who came here, but they did not kneel, Song Yatou held the paper umbrella handle tightly with both hands, and she was still wearing the beautiful clothes that Ye Gongzi gave her. The men surrounded the place, completely ignoring the fact that this was a temple place, and perhaps in the hearts of the men, they also doubted whether their beliefs were correct, but women could not have a clear mind, and that would make them "ignorant".
The men ignored the cries of the girls in front of the temple and threw the corpses over, and more than forty girls, dead and alive, were standing or lying in front of the temple.
The patriarch of the man said coldly: "Go and beg the forgiveness of the mountain god, you filthy ghosts who are destined to suffer the damnation of heaven, your soul is already ugly, and the mountain god will punish you!" ”
Most of the living girls wept and knelt down to worship the temple, but Song Yatou had her back to the temple from beginning to end, she held the paper umbrella handle tightly with both hands, and there were several girls standing beside her, or four or five years old, or ten years old, they looked at the cold faces opposite, including their parents and brothers.
Song Yatou's voice was trembling, and she said, "What about Xiao Hui'er?" ”
"Hidden, we're playing hide and seek, we're hiding her well."
"Great," Song Ya's shoulders were trembling, "Xiao Hui'er hides it, she will be fine." ”
A girl took her sister's hand and said, "How good it would be if I were Xiao Hui'er, I want to play games every day, I want to laugh every day, and I like to jump rope." ”
"I like to chat", "I like to play hide and seek", "I like to count beans...", "I like...", "I like...", the girl was in tears, telling all kinds of games that they had never had a chance to play and never had a chance to play again.
"Aren't we just trying to play games? Why kill us! "The girl broke down
"We didn't play a game together until we died."
Song Yatou clenched the handle of the paper umbrella tightly, and she said, "We are playing, Xiao Hui'er, she has hidden, we can find her." ”
"Little Hui'er.... Xiao Hui'er....""I don't want to die...""Why am I not Xiao Hui'er.."" I want to hide myself. ”
There are still girls kneeling down to the temple of the crotch, longing for their voices to be heard by the gods.
It was raining, it was a rain of arrows, and it was the sharpest weapon of men.
The girls looked at the flying arrows in the sky, all of them were stunned, their hearts were dripping blood, their hearts were crying, Song Yatou opened the paper umbrella, the umbrella was pink, the inside of the umbrella was white, and it was engraved with colorful patterns.
The sound of the arrow into the flesh was very quiet, the girls never made a sound, all the girls fell, only Song Yatou was left, he held the paper umbrella handle tightly with both hands, an arrow penetrated the umbrella surface, passed through her shoulder, and she sat down peacefully. The rivers of blood around him scattered into small streams, flowing down the mountain and flowing outside the Daze Mountain.
Mu Ziyun was standing not far from the girls, he watched all this silently with the old tree demon, and he saw that there were more holes in Song Yatou's umbrella, and more blood on the girl's body.
Song Yatou's face was as pale as frost, she sat like this, sat on her partner's corpse, and slowly ended her life under the umbrella that would protect her for life, when the last arrow penetrated the umbrella surface, Song Yatou shook her eyes, she trembled her lips slightly, grabbed the umbrella handle tightly, and sighed softly: "Xiao Hui'er, you must hide it, we are looking for you, we will play games together." ”
The pink umbrella gently rotated in the girl's stiff hand, the picture began to blur, and the scenery began to appear blank. Mu Ziyun sighed, turned his head sideways to the old tree demon and said, "Let's go, old tree." ”
"Shhhh ”
Mu Ziyun turned his head and saw the corpses of the mountains of girls, Mu Ziyun frowned, lowered his head and closed his eyes, and the old tree demon patted him again and asked him to look at it again.
When Mu Ziyun opened his eyes again, what he saw was the world of revenants.
In front of the temple of Crotch Mountain, there were more than forty girls' souls, their expressions were different, but they all seemed to have lost the memory of death, they finally smiled happily, their expressions were too rich. The girls surrounded a girl, it was Song Yatou, Song Yatou was smiling in beautiful clothes, holding a pink paper umbrella, she waved her arms, and shouted brightly: "She hid it!" Let's find it together! ”
"Good!" "Okay..."The girls jumped up and down, Song Yatou took the lead and rushed out, all the girls ran behind her happily, and everyone shouted together: "Little Hui'er! We're coming for you! ”
And the direction in which the soul ran was where the temple of the crotch mountain was located.
The temple that was a few feet tall grew larger, or the girls' souls became smaller, and they swarmed into it, all of them sank into it. Mu Ziyun was suspicious, a back holding a broken and "full of loopholes" paper umbrella, wearing a beautiful dress appeared on the mountain road behind the temple, she turned her back to here, walked into the distance, left footprints on the land, and the bodies of the girls appeared in front of the temple again.
"Little Hui'er!" Mu Ziyun cried out in a lost voice, he turned his head and hurriedly asked the old tree demon, "What's going on?" How did Xiao Hui'er come about? Is she dead or alive! ”
The old dryad pondered for a moment, then pointed to the temple and said, "I see, this temple has been abandoned for many years, but it is still functioning, this is not a temple, but an evil array that was created back then. ”
"Evil formation? What for? ”
The old dryad then replied: "The evil array is a very ancient technique, this one is the lowest level of the evil array, it can accumulate energy or help the builder of the formation to do something by constantly collecting grievances and resentments, this Daze was once barren, and because of its strange terrain, the resentment of the yang world flows here like encountering a dam, gathering into a lake and a sea. ”
"There is still a resentful flow in the yang world?" Mu Ziyun exclaimed.
"Resentment exists in all realms, but it is too strong in the underworld, and compared with the yang world, it can be regarded as nothing." The old dryad continued: "The person who built the formation back then must have been a vicious and evil person, he wanted to use this array to absorb resentment to cause trouble in the world, whether it succeeded or not, this array was eventually abandoned, but the evil array still operated, and it was still absorbing resentment. ”
"Can this evil array absorb resentment endlessly?"
"No, but it should have been full a long time ago, but why..."The old dryad thought for a while, and suddenly said, "Nanshan lacks soil, leaving the dam mouth, it seems that the person who built the formation failed, this place was originally impermeable, but the evil array was afraid that half of the Nanshan collapsed due to the shaking of the earth, so a large amount of resentment successfully flowed out from the gap, and the evil array can absorb much less resentment, plus after being abandoned, the ability of the evil array has been greatly weakened, so it has not been absorbed over the years." But back then, that group of humans came here, and they were in front of this evil array, causing a lot of resentment. ”
Mu Ziyun knew that what the old dryad said was the group of thieves who entered the mountain thousands of years ago, and they defiled and killed those poor women in front of the temple back then.
The old tree demon said: "Resentment is born from resentment, those ethereal resentments, compared to these extremely accurate resentment, this energy reactivates the evil array, making it work efficiently again, this evil array, it should absorb the resentment of the women of this family for a thousand years, and reach the fullest state in the high-precision resentment of the last batch of killed girls." ”
"What happens when it's full?"
"The evil array will collapse, and all the resentment it absorbs will gather together, I see, the man we saw." The old dryad looked at the back that was getting farther and farther away, and sighed: "She is not a living person, nor a dead person, she is a dead soul, but more precisely, she is an unimaginable collection of resentment, when the resentment of the ghost is too concentrated, the virtual body of the soul will appear to turn into an entity, it is not flesh and blood, it is just the crystallization of resentment." No wonder I have always felt that the resentment of the lord of this ghost country is surprisingly deep, it turns out that she does not exist in itself, but is born of resentment, the revenant soul is absorbed by the evil array with resentment, and after a long time, the revenant soul will be separated from the resentment, and thus be sucked into the Yellow Spring of the underworld, so the revenant soul that was absorbed before is gone, but this time the evil array just collapsed, and the revenant soul did not have time to separate from the resentment, so her revenant soul is the fusion of the final forty or so female revenant souls. ”
"In other words, Xiao Hui'er, doesn't she exist?"
The old dryad said: "The one in front of her can't be recognized as not existing, if everything else doesn't happen, the more than forty dead souls will still be sucked into the underworld or the underworld, so that the resentment crystallization becomes a pure inaction crystal, but because the resentment on her body is too heavy, it is estimated that it alarmed the 'Luo' soul of the ghost country, so she was chosen by the 'Luo' soul as the next lord of the ghost country, and her wish is the wish of the more than forty dead souls, you have to realize them together, only to achieve the goal." ”
"But even if I help her fulfill her wish, little Hui'er still doesn't exist.... Those who have been redeemed and re-entered reincarnation are actually the more than forty dead souls. ”
"Yes," the old dryad replied, "I have existed for millions of years, and I have never seen a soul that can come into its own, she has no soul of her own, and what she gets along with you is actually just a shell." ”