Wang Zhe closed his eyes and felt carefully.

The words in my mind are still those words, they are flying, beating, changing,

An ancient text ascended into the sky, an ancient text descended into the earth, an ancient text became the sun, a ancient text became the moon, and then mountains, rivers, grass and trees......

The words sketched a picture in his mind, a somewhat vague, abstract landscape painting.

There is heaven and earth, there is the sun and the moon, there are mountains and rivers, but it is only a corner.

Slowly, this painting was imprinted in his mind,

Wang Zhe opened his eyes and did not find that any magical changes had occurred in his body.

The internal force has not increased, and the consciousness has not increased.

"What is this?" For a moment he was a little confused.

The rain outside has been pouring down for a long time,

Wang Zhe stood on the top of the mountain and looked at the spring rain and calculated carefully.

"Lao Hou's child should be born soon, and he said that he was going to drink wine. It's been so long, and I don't know how he's doing now? ”

Two days later, Wang Zhe went down the mountain towards Guobei County, this time he was alone, and did not bring Laifu, because Laifu was a little conspicuous by his side.

It was a little bigger, like a calf.

I went down the mountain in the early morning, and I was not in a hurry, I stopped and stopped on the way, and arrived outside Guobei City at noon.

"Huh, what's going on?"

Wang Zhe stood outside the city, looking into the air.

I saw this layer of gray aura floating in the sky above Guobei County, like a gray cloud, and there was a faint blood color in it, which was full of ominousness when I looked at it.

"It wasn't that bad when I left last year."

Entering Guobei County, familiar streets, familiar people.

The shops on the street are still acquaintances, and they all greet him with a smile after seeing Wang Zhe.

It's still a familiar place, it's still a familiar person, but it seems to have become a little stranger to each other.

The city was also much more deserted than it had been when he left.

Those who were here to inquire left, and they didn't get any useful news.

The Spring Festival Building is no longer bustling with the hustle and bustle of the past, because the Oiran has also left.

Wang Zhe walked around the county seat, and along the way, he saw a faint gray lingering in the breath above the heads of many people.

"What's the matter, it looks like a lot of people are going to get sick, is there some kind of plague?"

This made him a little worried, and then he stopped by the City God Temple.

Unlike what he imagined, the temple was deserted, and only one person offered incense, bowed and left quickly.

Compared to when he left, it seemed to be two different places.

I haven't seen him for more than half a year, and the temple seems to be much older.

"Master Catcher, long time no see." Seeing him come in, Miaozhu recognized him at a glance and greeted him with a smile.

"Long time no see." Wang Zhe smiled and glanced up at the statue of the city emperor in the main hall, there was only sporadic wish power on his body, less than when he left.

"Not a lot of people have been coming lately, have they?"

"Yes, it's a lot less than it was a while ago." Miaozhu sighed helplessly.

"Why is this happening?"

He also looked at several wells in the city, but found nothing unusual in the water.

Wang Zhe returned to the house where he once lived, the house was already full of dust, he raised his hand and waved, a gust of wind,

The dust was blown up, drifted out of the window, cleaned the house, then locked the door, and went to Lao Hou's house.

Unexpectedly, there was a wire hanging on the door of his house.

After inquiring carefully, Lao Hou actually took his wife back to his hometown.

"Back home?"

After hearing this, Wang Zhe left Guobei County and prepared to leave to go to Lao Hou's hometown.

When he arrived at a mountain village outside the city, he was surprised to find that there were gray clouds floating over the attached village. And the situation of these people inside seems to be more serious than that of Naguobei County.

The mountain village was not large, and he quickly walked around, even the nearby fields, but found nothing out of the ordinary.

He went all the way, going to several mountain villages one after another, and the atmosphere above these villages was normal.

"What the hell is going on?" Wang Zhe was very puzzled in his heart.

Stopping and stopping along the way, he came to Lao Hou's hometown, which is a small mountain village surrounded by mountains and rivers.

Before entering the village, he used the "Qi Viewing Technique" to carefully look at the sky above the mountain village and watched it for a while.

After entering the mountain village, he looked at the villagers here, and the aura on their bodies was normal.

He found a villager and asked the direction of Lao Hou's old house.

Knock on the door, revealing a familiar face.

"Ah Zhe, why are you here? Quick, quick, sit in the house. ”

Lao Hou was stunned when he saw Wang Zhe, and then he was very happy, and hurriedly let him into the house.

Sun Xiulian stopped with a big belly, and her movement was already very inconvenient.

"Sister-in-law, this ......"

Wang Zhe looked intently, only to see that Sun Xiulian's body was supported by a faint layer of yellow light, and after a closer look, the source of the light was a string of Buddhist beads on her wrist.

"It's coming, it's just two days, don't go, just stay here!" Lao Hou said.

In order to welcome Wang Zhe, he roasted chickens and slaughtered geese, and he was busy for a while and fried a number of dishes.

"Come, drink and talk, where have you been for more than half a year?"

"I didn't go there, I found a secluded place and stayed by myself, by the way, why did you suddenly come to the countryside?"

"Isn't this Xiulian about to give birth, a few months ago, when she was still in good health, she went to a lying Lanruo Temple to make a wish, and the Guangji Zen master in the temple said let us leave Guobei County.

Later, Xiulian and I came to live in the countryside for a while, but I always felt inconvenient, so I went back again, and met a young Zen master before the end of the year.

He first said congratulations to me, and then said that I had a conflict with Nalanruo Temple and asked me to leave Lanruo Temple.

No, I'm in the country. ”

Hou Zhu told the story of the cause and effect.

"The young monk, is he wearing a tattered monk's robe, and he is barefoot, and he looks very handsome!"

"Yes, yes, you know him?"

"I've met once, he actually came to Guobei County?" When Wang Zhe heard this, he first thought of the monk Napunan.

When he left Guo Beicheng, Zen Master Guangji mentioned that Guo Beicheng might have an accident, but he didn't explain what it was at that time, and the monk also saw it.

"What is he doing here?"

"What could happen?"

After eating, Wang Zhe said that he wanted to look around, and after leaving Lao Hou's house, he went straight to Lanruo Temple and found the Guangji Zen Master in the temple.

"Amitabha, I haven't seen you for a few months, and the donor's demeanor is better than before." Zen Master Guangji was very happy to see him.

"The master has won the award, and I came today to ask the master for something."

Zen Master Guangji invited him to his meditation room, and after serving tea, he opened the monks on the side, and only the two of them were left in the meditation room.