Chapter 318: Fierce Light in the Shadows
The area closest to the north of the outer area of the Xuanyu Plain.
At this time, the bitter north wind was whistling in the blizzard, and the thick ice in the lake showed no signs of melting, and the newly emerging sun was trying to pour the sunlight on the cold and cracked earth.
In a village called Yuliu Village, a man named Lu Nianchen ushered in his most leisurely and joyful time, but this time the happiness only lasted for a few days before it ended.
Because Xia Nianchen has insomnia.
Until now, Xia Nianchen, who lives in Yuliu Village, has been insomnia for three days and two nights.
The torment of falling asleep for more than an hour every day made the originally sunny and handsome face full of smiles listless, and the whole face was as loose as a dough with too much water.
During this period, Lu Nianchen went to the doctor in the village to see, tried the earthwork in the village, and even invited his father to invite the goddesses in the village to dance beside him for several hours, but in the end it was useless, and in the end he had to slowly recuperate.
On the night of the fifth day, Lu Nianchen lay on the bed with his eyes closed, tossing and turning and couldn't sleep at all, and finally had to be a live horse doctor, trying the old method that had been passed from foreign countries before, counting some things casually, such as cows, sheep, dogs, chickens, rabbits and the like.
But Lu Nianchen counted to the end, but the more he counted, the more energetic he became.
At the beginning, Lu Nianchen was still a normal number, and then changed to a male and female separate count, and then Lu Nianchen counted and counted, and saw that the sheep who were originally in the honest hurdle fell asleep directly with their round white bellies facing the sky, leaving Lu Nianchen standing alone in the fantasy space.
In the end, Lu Nianchen opened his eyes directly and said helplessly:
"I'm not asleep! You stinky sheep are asleep."
After that, Lu Nianchen counted the sheep for several hours alone.
Now I can see that Lu Niannian's insomnia is still not improving, Lu Nianchen's eyes are getting more and more dense bloodshots, and his mind is even more trance-like, and his heart is also starting to be irritable.
At this time, Lu Nianchen decided that he should go out for a walk, maybe there would be some miracle effect.
So I walked slowly in a dark alley in Lu Nianchen Yuliu Village, and I remembered one thing for some reason, and I always felt as if I was being stared at by something recently.
But when Lu Nianchen turned around to inspect the situation, Lu Nianchen found that there was no one around.
Thinking of this, Lu Nianchen stopped directly, then raised his hands and kept rubbing his hair back and forth, and scolded:
"You can't really be that unlucky, right? Usually this lasts for a few days and then it should be over."
Now Lu Nianchen is beginning to wonder if he has hit an evil spirit, should he really have insomnia for months? Isn't that wicked? I'm still young, and I don't want to die so early.
Just when Lu Nianchen was still there and kept thinking about it, a strange phenomenon appeared directly below the big tree not far away.
Traces of black mist that were constantly rotating appeared out of thin air, then more and more, and finally a two-meter-high oval black mist vortex directly appeared.
Lu Nianchen, who was still walking with his head down, felt that the lights on the side of the road seemed to have dimmed a lot, so he raised his head to look.
A tall strange man with a very tall body, his whole body wrapped in black mist, and his eyes flashing red walked out of the black mist, and the strange man covered in black mist was shrouded in black mist, so he couldn't see his face clearly or his gender at all.
Lu Niannian's attention was also attracted because of this, so the two guys, one tall and one short, looked at each other like this for a while.
It's the middle of the night, Lu Nianchen is standing alone in a small empty village and sees this scene, and his first reaction is to think that his insomnia is the illusion that caused it, just like when he fantasized about a group of animals and forced himself to bathe them, yes, it must be so.
After forcibly deceiving himself in his heart, Lu Nianchen slowly turned around, and then suddenly took a step and flew out like a rabbit.
"As long as I don't look at it, I don't believe it is
Fake, hahaha, insomnia is so bad."
Lu Nianchen's laughter was finally responded to by the local dogs in Yuliu Village, and as Lu Nianchen ran through the alley with a smile, bursts of dog barking echoed with ups and downs.
In the process of running, Lu Nianchen still didn't give up convincing himself that seeing the black mist monster was just an illusion, and he kept smirking.
But Lu Nianchen's two legs have already run out of the afterimage! It's like two hot wheels spinning "whirring", it seems that Lu Nianchen's body has recognized reality before his brain.
Just when Lu Nianchen was still stubborn like a stupid cow, the tall black fog monster didn't know when he appeared in the alley a foot away in front of Lu Nianchen.
This made Lu Nianchen have to stop his rushing steps, and finally drew two slightly deeper dents on the ground before Lu Nianchen stopped.
In the end, Lu Nianchen couldn't help but ask the guy in front of him:
"What the hell are you?"
But the black fog monster on the other side didn't pay attention to him at all, just walked over with a quick limp step, and seeing this familiar scene, Lu Nianchen had to think of some stories he had seen in books.
Normally, in this case, the characters in the book who don't run away immediately but walk over in a daze turn out to be bitten by an unknown guy without accident, and then within a few seconds they become brainless ghosts who can only gnaw people.
So Lu Nianchen didn't say a word, turned around again and prepared to escape, and at the same time he was thinking proudly:
Fortunately, I read a lot of ghost books in my spare time, otherwise I might have stood there stupidly or walked straight over.
But just as Lu Nianchen raised one foot, he was surrounded by the black mist surging behind him, and in the end, before he could even make a sound, he was wrapped in a round ball of black mist by the black mist.
Now Lu Nianchen felt as if his whole body was completely trapped in the swamp, and it was useless to move, and then the black mist monster came over and stretched out a pitch-black hand into the black mist ball.
After a few breaths, the black fog ball wrapped around Lu Nianchen began to dissipate, and the black fog monster who was originally standing near the fog ball had long since disappeared, and finally only Lu Nianchen fell into the haystack next to him and fell asleep.
The next morning, when it was still dark, Lu Nianchen woke up from the haystack in a daze.
"Am I asleep? Is insomnia cured?"
Lu Nianchen even couldn't believe it, but now he didn't have that feeling of restlessness and lack of energy at all, and the dark circles under his eyes had disappeared, but Lu Nianchen couldn't see it.
"Forget it, no matter what, as for last night, it should just be a hallucination, go home first, parents may be in a hurry."
But as soon as he finished speaking, Lu Nianchen looked down and saw a high bulge somewhere in him, of course not below.
At the heart of Lu Nianchen's left chest, a black knife handle actually grew there impartially!
Lu Nianchen, who had obviously experienced that kind of strange thing last night but didn't care, was frightened by this scene, and Lu Nianchen instinctively wanted to stand up.
At this moment, Lu Nianchen suddenly felt a heart-piercing pain coming from the left heart, as if someone was holding something sharp and slowly piercing his heart.
Lu Nianchen, who had just gotten up halfway through, was so painful that he sat directly on the grass, Lu Nianchen was twitching and trembling, his body gradually couldn't lift his strength, cold sweat continued to break out on his forehead, and his teeth kept shivering, Lu Nianchen couldn't even shout for help now.
The bad news came to mind, this alley is relatively remote, there are fewer people coming and going, and only a few families live in the innermost part of the alley.
In addition, this haystack is concave in the middle, and the shape of the two sides is convex, and generally only one or two meters closer will you see Lu Nianchen who is sitting on the haystack with a pale face, panting and even unable to speak.
After Lu Nianchen was hopeless in asking for help, he had to pull open his collar, wanting to see what was going on in his heart, could it really be that the blade of the knife had also grown?
When Lu Nianchen ripped off his collar to look at the left heart, Lu Nianchen saw it
At the tip of the black hilt, something was slowly stretching towards his heart.
When confirming that things were really going in a bad direction, Lu Nianchen did not hesitate to hold the black handle with his left and right hands, and then said resentfully in his heart:
"How could I have watched myself die in such a state of humiliation? Come out of here!"
Now Lu Nianchen is staying alone in a haystack in a small alley in Yuliu Village, maintaining a posture of sitting with his legs stretched out and his left and right hands on his heart.
Just when Lu Nianchen gathered the only bit of strength left in his body and grabbed the black handle on his left chest and pulled it out, all parts of his body seemed to be suddenly hooked by dozens of fishing hooks with fishing lines.
After that, the fishing line was pulled frantically in the direction where the handle of the knife was pulled out, and the harder Lu Nianchen's hands were pulled, the more painful it hurt everywhere in his body.
Lu Nianchen suddenly bared his teeth, his face wrinkled like bitter gourd, and finally the pain made Lu Nianchen couldn't help but turn his head and bite on the grass stack that was a little damp and blackened next to him, and suddenly a musty smell and fermented sour smell spread in his mouth.
Now Lu Nianchen can't care about whether it's clean or unhygienic, at least it can relieve a little pain.
When Lu Nianchen couldn't bear the pain, he finally let go of his hands, and at the same time let go of the mouth that was biting on the haystack, and then the feeling of pulling in his body began to weaken, but once he continued to exert his strength, that kind of inhuman torture would appear again.
"I've survived insomnia for days, and this short pain is nothing, isn't it like tearing off the barbs on my fingers in one breath and coming back!"
After slowing down for a while, the stubborn Lu Nianchen made a decision in his heart, and then Lu Nianchen immediately opened his mouth wider, and then bit more straw into his mouth than just now, and pulled out the handle of the knife with a second force with his left and right arms.
The pain of being torn all over the body struck again, and the pain was several times that of the beginning, and the pain all over the body became more intense.
Lu Nianchen now felt his scalp tingle, and all the pores on his body seemed to be open, screaming in pain.
Sweat kept pouring out of his skin, the muscles on his body were as red as if they had been roasted by fire, and the sound of "buzzing" tinnitus was constantly ringing in his ear canal.
Just when Lu Nianchen was about to roll his eyes in pain of a few millimeters, the black handle was finally pulled out.
After success, Lu Nianchen fell directly backwards, lying on the grass pile with the word "big", and the bitter and sour straw that was bitten in his mouth was spit aside.
At this time, there was a wound a few centimeters long on the left side of Lu Nianchen's heart, which was slowly healing as if he had pressed fast forward, and from the handle of the knife to the present, the wound did not flow out at all.
Lu Nianchen, who was lying on the haystack, panted like a cow, and the whole person was wet as if he had just been drenched in heavy rain.
In the end, Lu Nianchen panted slowly while looking at himself holding a beautiful dagger with a pitch-black body in his right palm.
"How did I get such a dagger in my body like a juggler? And there was no wound at all when you pulled it out?"
Lu Nianchen looked at the black dagger in his hand with a puzzled expression, and touched, pinched, and bit it by the way, after all, he even bit the dirty haystack, what else is this? If there was a knife poison, he wouldn't have lived until now.
Just when Lu Nianchen lost interest in this thing, held the dagger with his backhand, and was about to pin it to his waist at will, countless black and white figures on the dagger suddenly flew into Lu Nianchen's mind.
Now Lu Nianchen feels that his braincase is shaking.
Then Lu Nianchen felt that his head was swollen and painful as if it was filled with something, just like a big ship sailing in the sea of heavy rain was suddenly hit by a crack in the reef when it was constantly beating by the waves, and suddenly countless turbulent seawater rushed in frantically along the crack.
Lu Nianchen covered his head tightly with his hands, feeling that his whole head was about to be blown apart.
Fortunately, this process only lasted for a short time before it ended, Lu Nianchen looked at the pitch-black dagger that he held in his hand again, carefully the dagger was not completely black, there was a dark purple straight line extending from the handle to the tip of the knife on both sides of the blade, which looked very good
Mysterious.
"It turns out that those black and white figures are holding this dagger in their hands, but it's a little different."
When Lu Nianchen began to stroke the side of the dagger in the same way as the black and white figure in his mind, the purple straight lines on both sides of the blade of the originally normal black dagger continued to rise and fall like ripples on the surface of the water, and the entire dagger began to become illusory.
At this time, Lu Nianchen felt that his physical strength was losing rapidly, and the speed of loss was gradually accelerating.
So Lu Nianchen learned the appearance of a certain black and white figure in his mind, and the little thumb of his right hand slid over the bottom of the black dagger, and the originally illusory dagger became real again, and at the same time, the dark purple lines on both sides of the dagger blade also returned to a straight appearance.
"Daddy, they must be worried about me, won't they be looking for me everywhere in the village a long time ago? I'll have to go back and see it right away, and by the way, I'll ask them to slaughter a chicken from the house to make up for me, because I haven't opened meat for a long time."
Now Lu Nianchen just wants to go home and tell his parents that he is in good health, and at the same time eat and drink, he has no appetite for anything before, and Lu Nianchen's appetite is also very poor in the days of insomnia, and he basically barely gets over by drinking white porridge.
Even after experiencing this series of bizarre things, Lu Nianchen still did what he should do like a normal person, and he didn't feel any pressure or trouble because of it.
As for the black dagger, it was integrated into Lu Nianchen's hand, turning into a finger-sized black pattern that was printed on Lu Nianchen's right forearm.
Somewhere, however, some people are busy with these particular events, and some are even paying with their lives for them.
Lu Nianchen, who trotted home, saw that his parents were preparing to go out, their faces were full of worry and uneasiness, Lu Nianchen immediately walked up and explained:
"Daddy, I'm back, my insomnia was cured last night, so I got up early this morning and went out to trot a few laps to move my muscles."
Seeing Lu Nianchen's energetic appearance, completely without the sick appearance before, Lu Nianchen's parents put their minds at ease, and then walked directly in front of Lu Nianchen to hold hands with each other and go back to the room, ready to sleep well, when the door was about to close, Lu Nianchen's father Lu Huanian said:
"Nianchen, I'll sleep with your mother again, you can wake us up when the meal is ready, you remember to feed the chickens in the yard, they have contributed a lot of eggs to you these days when you are uncomfortable."
After saying this, Lu Huanian turned around and hooked his calves and closed the door with a "bang", leaving Lu Nianchen standing stupidly outside the door with the wind blowing.
"No, your face is changing too quickly?"
The depressed Lu Nianchen finally did so, first went to cook the rice, and then took a big bowl of raw rice to the yard where the chickens were raised and slowly sprinkled it, looking at the chickens who had lost a lot of weight like himself, Lu Nianchen felt a lot of distress in his heart.
Then Lu Nianchen said:
"Eat more, and you will have to grow the meat back soon."
In fact, the reason why the chickens have lost weight is only because the hearts of Lu Nianchen's parents are hanging on Lu Nianchen these days, and they have almost forgotten about these chickens.
During this period, only Lu Nianchen's mother Li Huizhen took some vegetable leaves and fed the chickens once, if it weren't for a small hole in the yard for the chickens to enter and exit, these chickens might have been hungry, and even more serious ones were gone.
At this time, in a deep mountain forest not far from Yuliu Village, the mountain spring here is tinkling and the birds are singing.
A makeshift camp was set up near here, two dressed
Freaky man.
The two strangely dressed men lived in a makeshift grass hut.
The hut was filled with a lot of food, and except for a small part that was eaten, the rest of the canned fruits, rice, and meat were scattered on the ground, and the cans were covered with thick dust, dry leaves, and wriggling insects.
On a large tree next to this simple thatched hut sat a guy in a strange costume.
This weirdo has four arms, in
The back of the waist also has two triangular shapes, but they are covered by the long clothes they are wearing, so it is impossible to see what they are.
The four-armed stranger had many strange folds on his crisp forehead and open chest, and he rested one hand on the trunk of a tree, one hand on his coiled thigh, and a roll of bamboo slips in the other two.
"The situation in the Xuanyu Plain should be about the same, hehe, hehehe, then we should also move."
The four-armed monster finished chattering, and a cruel smile appeared on his lips.
Not far away, two strangely dressed men looked around as if they couldn't see the four-armed monster. Whenever they move too much, their bodies will tremble, and at the same time, there will be a foul smell mixed with blood and thick juice dripping from their bodies to the ground, and the whole person will seem to fall apart at any time.
Soon, the road leading to the outside of Yuliu Village began to collapse, and the mountain road cracked.
The four-armed monster who had been on a large tree in a mountain forest near Yuliu Village disappeared nowhere, and the two strangely dressed men who had been in the vicinity disappeared, leaving only rotting pieces of flesh and bones soaked in a small pool of blood scattered on the ground.
Obviously Yuliu Village, which was still shrouded in sunlight before, the sky suddenly became pitch black, as if all the darkness in the world had gathered here.
The ink-like sky returned to normal after a few seconds, but it was still gray.
The villagers of Yuliu Village were taken aback by this strange sight, and everyone unconsciously began to speed up the pace of going home.
That's when it happened. The strange screams of some villagers were heard from the crowd, first two or three, then dozens, hundreds, who, after screaming, collectively ran in a certain direction, leaving only the other villagers full of horror and questions.
There are actually a lot of villagers who are screaming and running away, and they seem to be attracted by something, and then act regularly.
If you look at it from above, these villagers screaming and running like a trickle in the mountains gather in all directions to certain locations, and some of them end up in a dilapidated old well that has long been abandoned.
These people are like worker bees collecting nectar, frantically drilling into the well, because there are too many people, and the wellhead is already a little narrow, and the crowded crowd hits their heads and bleeds, and their hands and legs are bent, but they don't care, as if they are unconscious.
When the well was filled about two-thirds of the way, the surrounding of the wellhead began to shake, the surface of the soil cracked, and countless red-gray stone tablets with blood stains broke through the soil like bamboo shoots, and countless stone tablets stood around the wellhead.
From a distance, the almost abandoned cemetery is no different.
A similar scene occurred next to other old wells in Yuliu Village, and when the shaking around the well stopped, the villagers who gathered also stopped desperately drilling into the well.
Then, the bodies of the people standing by the well squirmed and bulged, their bones clicked, and then their bodies changed dramatically, their clothes cracked, and they became their original selves, revealing the appearance of people they did not belong to, and the hunger that had been suppressed for years began to explode in their bodies.
A large amount of stinking red mud with blood and water began to emerge from old wells all over Yuliu Village, mixed with the stumps and flesh of the people who had just been drilled into the well.
The blood-colored scarlet red mud wriggled like a giant worm, and rushed towards the center of Yuliu Village with the stone tablet, and in the process of rushing, many villagers were also ruthlessly stirred into it.
The scarlet red mud gathered in the center of Yuliu Village blended together one by one, forming a giant stone gate several feet high
You can see that the smooth front of the stone gate is scarlet with dense red steles, and the rough back of the stone door is a dark gray inlaid with countless gray steles.
After a loud bang was heard on the front of the stone door, the piercing sound of the door opening continued to be heard, and the scarlet stone door opened a gap of seven feet and eight feet wide.
Then groups of ugly monsters roared out of the door, and behind them, some human-looking creatures slowly walked out.
Finally, they all looked in a certain direction, and at the end of that side was holding the Heavenly Que Ten Thousand Soul Fighting Law Conference.