Chapter 22: The Secret of the Diary
The night is as heavy as water, and Yuhua Alley is quiet except for the occasional sound of small insects.
Ji Que didn't expect that he would be fascinated by reading a man's diary.
It can be said that the things recorded by the fingers are quite cumbersome, and sometimes even small things like what you eat and how many days you haven't pooped have to be written.
But the more he looked at this diary, the more terrifying he felt.
Because the reason why the fingers are written so thin is for one purpose, and that is to remember oneself.
This diary should have been written after the finger was given divine power by the Wind Lotus Priestess.
In his diary, he repeatedly emphasized one name, Chen Di.
The real name of the divine envoy's finger is Chen Di, and he is the eighteenth generation descendant of the Chen family in Shahewan.
The reason why he believed in the Wind Lotus Priestess and became the envoy of the Wind Lotus Sect can be said to be both an accident and fate.
When Chen Di was young, he was a down-and-out farmer who had always made a living from farming.
He wanted to study to change his fate, but he was trapped in the field and talent, and even if he went to the academy, his grades were not satisfactory.
Later, the town where he lived was hit by a terrible flash flood.
The torrent was so loud and so hurried that it didn't give people a chance to react and struggle.
In short, Chen Di, who was drowned by the flash flood, felt that he was going to die.
But he miraculously survived.
The place where he woke up was in a nameless valley.
The valley was full of brilliant lotus flowers, and Chen Di mistakenly thought that he had entered a fairyland.
Then he was in a cave in the valley and saw the motherly face of the Wind Lotus Priestess.
Although it was only a statue, the first time Chen Di saw it, he felt that it was alive.
It was as if there was a force in the darkness that brought him here.
It was the goddess who gave him a new life.
At that moment, Chen Di was only left with endless piety in his heart.
After that, the statue of the goddess still looked at him with a compassionate face, but he could understand what the other party meant.
He was told to go deeper into the cave, where he found a book of cheats.
Chen Di began to practice the secret book, whenever he felt tired and wanted to rest, he would always find that the statue of the goddess was looking at him with a compassionate face, so he could only grit his teeth and persevere.
Chen Di didn't know how long he had been cultivating, and in that dim cave, it was difficult for him to sense the passage of time.
In short, this period of time should not be long, because he only practiced one volume of that exercise, and then fell asleep.
When he awoke, he found himself lying on a barren slope overgrown with weeds.
Chen searched for the fourth place, but he could no longer find the valley full of lotus flowers.
After that, in Chen Di's words, his life changed dramatically.
When he returned to his hometown, he learned that many people had died in the town, and that he was the only one who survived the flash flood.
Chen Di, who didn't know anything about reading, was admitted to Xiucai that year, which shocked everyone.
Later, he did everything very smoothly, did a lot of business, made a lot of money, and later became an official.
In the dark, it was as if there was an unfathomable force that changed his life.
Chen Di knew that it was all about the goddess in that valley.
As the years passed, Chen Di, who was living a good life, sometimes felt that everything that happened in that valley was like a bizarre dream.
Until one night, he had a dream that in the valley at dusk, the Wind Lotus Priestess stood among the lotus flowers in the sky, looking at him with a smile.
The smile was full of compassion, but he was suddenly awakened.
After that, Chen Di saw a person.
It was a very tall woman, who called herself "the finger of the goddess," and she came to his house only to deliver a word for the goddess.
He now has two choices, one is to continue to live his life, and from now on there is no need to worship the goddess, and everything in the valley is just a dream; The second is to kill his wife who has just been married for a year with his own hands and follow the guidance of the goddess.
Chen Di thought for a while and resolutely chose the second one.
Because he knew that all his wealth and power now were given to him by him.
He was so attractive to him.
After that, Chen Di, who killed his wife with his own hands, saw the Wind Lotus Priestess again, but there was a gap of thirteen years.
Only this time, the face of the statue of the goddess he saw was no longer compassionate, but there was a kind of indifference from above.
But it was this indifference that deeply attracted Chen Di.
Because that's the smell of God.
For so many years, he had remembered the valley, and it was because of the living statues in the valley.
After that, Chen Di relied on years of management and means to do a lot for the goddess and the Wind Lotus Sect.
The goddess on high also gave him divine power and made him his finger.
That's when Chen Di's panic began.
The Wind Lotus Goddess, also known as the "Hundred-Faced God", the divine power he gave was to make Chen Di have two more faces in his body.
These two faces give him strength, but they have a faint consciousness of their own.
At first, Chen Di thought that these two faces were just his help, and he relied on the power of God to gain unprecedented happiness.
But one night, he suddenly woke up, and for a moment he couldn't remember what his name was.
What's even more terrifying is that his face in the bronze mirror also looks extremely unfamiliar.
Later, he gradually remembered something, it turned out that his name was Zhao Du, a native of Juancheng......
When Chen Di suddenly woke up, he felt a little afraid.
He is Chen Di, not Zhao Du at all.
Zhao Du was the name of one of the faces in his chest.
Chen Di was angry and scared at the same time, he was afraid that he would suddenly become a different person.
He began to pray to the goddess, but there was no response.
So he began to keep a diary, recording his life and mood in as much detail as possible, as if as long as he wrote more and more specifically, he would never be replaced.
From these meticulous records, Ji Que could deeply feel Chen Di's fear and uneasiness.
This diary is not the original, but the previous one, or lost, or damaged.
Chen Di felt that this was all "Zhao Du" and "Xiang Mei" in his chest, who had always wanted to occupy the magpie's nest.
In the diary, Chen Di recorded the most terrifying experience.
That is, one day, he woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't remember who he was.
Thankfully, he had a journal on his desk that allowed him to recall his experiences.
"My name is Zhao Du, a native of Juancheng, and I ...... when I was five years old."
Chen Di read the diary and gradually decided that he was Zhao Du, until he saw a string of silver locks, and then he felt that something was wrong.
The string of silver locks was the wife he killed with his own hands and his love object, and he kept it.
This thing is like an anchor point in the earth-shattering waves, allowing Chen Di to grasp the past.
When he turned back into himself, he broke out in a cold sweat.
Just a little bit, he's probably going to be gone.
People like him are afraid of death, and this is the way to die.
In the diary, Chen Di's horrific behavior was recorded.
That night, he even cut open his chest with his own hands, wanting to dig out "Zhao Du".
Zhao Du showed a terrifying smile at that time and said: "You and I are both fingers, why bother with this, I am dead, and you can't live." ”
It was also from that time that Chen Di learned that this was both a reward and a curse.
The reason why he was cursed was because his heart was not sincere enough, which was also the reason why he used all his family wealth, even if he worked hard, to revive the Wind Lotus Goddess.
Ji Que closed the booklet and determined one thing, that is, this girl really has no money.
Chen Di sacrificed almost everything for the Wind Lotus Sect and the hundred-faced god, just so that he would not be replaced.
He is like a neurotic created by the goddess of the hundred faces, in one body, there are three faces, and at the same time there are three personalities.
The other two personalities, especially the one named Zhao Du, have always wanted to replace him.
When you think about it, it's a very scary thing indeed.
Ji Que couldn't help but wonder, was it still Chen Di who talked to them with a weird smile at the end?
This is indeed a reverie-inducing story, with an evil nature.
Was that flash flood really just an accident? The motherly statue of the Wind Lotus and the indifferent statue of the Wind Lotus are really the same god?
Although the statue of this hundred-faced god was burned by them, but he still has a finger, and it is very likely that he has another side, will he come to him and the Lingyu monk and the three of them?
Ji Que looked outside, only to feel that the night had become extremely deep for a while.
But he quickly relaxed, and this kind of thing is good to get used to.
Just like he often stepped on, he was worried and irritable at first, and he got used to stepping on it.
"Poor."
Ji Que looked at the diary and made a final summary for its owner.