Chapter 1 Huangquan Road
The person who rescued me was a man who was almost thirty years old, named Cao Hua. At the peak of his career, he suddenly retired.
Later, he built a luxurious villa in the deserted mountains, became a recluse, and lived a free life.
He likes to treasure all kinds of very valuable medicinal materials, cultivates some rare and precious orchids, and lives a very low-key and comfortable life.
He took me in, and I helped him take care of his medicine and orchids every day. I heard him say that he found me when he went into the deep mountains and old forests to look for the precious lotus orchid.
I was washed ashore naked by the river, and when he found out that I wasn't dead, he rescued me. also helped me choose the name Xi'er.
I woke up with amnesia and couldn't remember who I was. It's just that every time I look at this beautiful person in the mirror, I have an instinctive feeling that this body is not mine.
But I can't figure out why. My brain was even more blank, and I couldn't remember anything.
Only every night I had the same dream: in the dream, I was guided by a sound of noise, and shuttled through a dark forest. Finally walk to the edge of a steep cliff.
Under a tall and strange tree sat a man on the cliff, with his back to me, and the sound of Xiao came from him.
Seeing him sitting lonely and lonely on the cliff, setting off the night, beautiful and desolate.
I seem to be very familiar with this back, and when I see him, my heart hurts inexplicably, and tears can't stop flowing.
I was about to call out to him when I woke up. And then every night I had this dream over and over again.
I should know this familiar back in my dream, and he feels so real to me, like the strongest obsession in my heart.
But I couldn't think of anything but this dream. There were a few times when I tried to see what he looked like in my dreams, but I didn't succeed, and the dream came to an abrupt end.
Then I gradually discovered that there was an extraordinary power hidden in my body, which sometimes worked and sometimes did not.
As long as I have a certain idea, it will appear, and sometimes it will make flowers bloom all over the ground, causing butterflies to dance and linger around me.
Occasionally, you can pick up things from the air, and every time it happens, it's inexplicable. Cao Hua once suspected that I was either a fairy descending to earth or a monster in the mountains, and I was not a human being anyway. For this reason, I also have strong doubts about my own background.
Life passed peacefully for two years, until one day two years later, I was sweeping the floor and suddenly attracted by a newspaper on the ground.
I reached out and picked it up, and saw a news report of missing people registered on it. It's about a village that lost more than half of its people for no reason, and they didn't know where they went, as if they had disappeared out of thin air.
I wasn't attracted by the news, but the illustrations in the news, the village, and when I saw that village, some images suddenly appeared in my mind, as if I remembered something.
Vaguely, I remembered that I had been to this village with a few people. The picture in my mind is blurry. But I vaguely remember one name: the Witch Tribe.
It seems that we are going to a place called the Witch Gu Tribe, and the most important thing is that I remember the familiar back that I dream of every night. The picture flashed by, and there was no more to think about, and the headache was intense.
At this moment, my heart has never been stirred up like ever. My intuition told me that I had to go back to that place, maybe that place had something to do with my past, that there was my past, and it seemed that only by going there could all the mysteries be solved.
From this moment on, my peaceful days were like a broken blank piece of paper, and I could no longer calm down.
There was a voice that kept telling me, hurry back, hurry back, it's too late if you don't go.
I endured it for three days and said goodbye to Cao Hua and decided to find out for myself. Cao Hua gave me a large sum of money and said that I wanted to go back and could come back to him at any time.
He dropped me off in town and then helped me book a plane ticket to that place. I relied on myself to find everything out of the rest. A few days later, I sat in a crowded van and finally made it to the village.
I stood in the middle of the village and was confused again, looking at the desolate village with low houses. They are all stilted buildings made of wood, which are old and dilapidated.
The whole village is located on a hillside, and behind the village is a large mountain that stretches continuously.
Some people dressed in plain national costumes came and went, staring at me. When I greeted them, they ignored me, probably because of the disappearance of the people in the village and the fact that I was a stranger, so they were afraid of me.
I walked around and didn't find anything. I sat down to rest in frustration, thinking about why I had been in that newspaper before, and I remembered it just by looking at it, but now that I was here, I couldn't remember anything.
Just when I was anxious, I was attracted by a strange black smoke. The sun was setting, and the smoke was spreading in this direction, slowly covering the entire village.
Wherever the smoke went, it was freezing cold. This kind of cold is not an ordinary weather change, but a gloomy and cold atmosphere, and I shivered with cold all of a sudden.
I hurriedly grabbed someone and asked, "How did this fog come from?" Seeing that he said inexplicably: "Where did the fog come from, I didn't see it, our village has been unclean for a long time, and it can't stand the cold at night, the beauty is from out of town, let's leave quickly." After saying that, he turned around and ran, and in a blink of an eye there was no one on the street.
He can't see? Am I the only one who can see? I got up and walked all the way in the direction where the smoke had appeared.
I didn't notice anything unusual until I stood in front of the last house at the end of the village, which was dilapidated, crooked, and ready to fall.
The eerie smoke came out of this house. There will be no one to live in this way, I walked into the courtyard curiously, and the strange atmosphere around the house became stronger.
I knocked on the door, and after waiting for a long time, no one came to open the door, thinking that no one should live, and I just wanted to break down the door to see what was going on.
Suddenly, the door opened, and a skinny, ragged old man appeared in front of me.
He was unkempt and trembling. He was looking at me in disbelief, his eyes cloudy.
Suddenly, a hoarse voice sounded like a hole: "How did you find here, how can you still see me?" "The voice was like that of a man who hadn't spoken for a long time, his voice was slurred, his voice was harsh.
I was incredulous when I heard what he said, so I asked, "What?" You're right in front of me, do I see you're not normal? ”
He suddenly waved his hand: "No, no, no! The villagers can't find me, and they can't see me. ”
At this time, I felt even more strange, just now the man said that he could not see the fog, and now the old man in front of me said that the villagers could not see him. Am I the only one who can see this?
Or is the old man in front of him actually a ghost? Thinking of this, I slowly stepped back and said, "You can't be a ghost, right?" ”
Seeing this, the old man said, "No, I'm not a ghost. As I spoke, however, I saw a looming skeleton of a skeleton looming within his body.
My heart sank, and I suddenly pointed at him in horror and asked, "What is the skull in your body?" ”
As soon as he heard this, his expression immediately became gloomy. Slowly approaching me, he asked coldly, "Who are you sacred, you can actually see the Gu raised in my body." ”
As soon as I heard it, since that thing was a Gu raised by him, then he should know about the Witch Gu tribe. Thinking of this, I calmed down and replied to him: "I don't know who I am, I only know that it is related to the Witch Gu tribe. I'm here this time to find the Witch Gu tribe and figure out my origins. Since you raise Gu, then you should know how the witch Gu tribe goes, right? ”
The old man listened to me, and he slowly approached me and looked me up and down. Suddenly he stared into my eyes, and in an instant all his eyeballs turned into the whites of his eyes, and he stared at me so strangely.
This makes my heart furious. It took two seconds for his eyes to return to normal. As if he had seen something remarkable, he instantly knelt on the ground and said, "Master, I never thought that I would be able to see such a powerful master before I died. ”
His sudden change made me unable to react for a while, and I panicked, and hurriedly said, "No...... Don't kneel, get up and talk. What do you mean? Do you know who I am? ”
He slowly stood up, looked at me, and said only, "I just spied on something in your body and found that you are an unusual person." But I don't know who you are. ”
When the old man knelt down just now, I thought he would know my background, but in the end, even he didn't know who I was.
I asked in frustration, "Then can you tell me how the witch tribe goes?" ”
The old man sighed and said, "Outsiders are not allowed to enter the tribe, otherwise they will be sacrificed as sacrifices." ”
I asked him, "How do you know this?" ”
The old man lowered his head and said to me with a painful and helpless expression, "My name is Fu Yuan!" used to be a member of the Wu Gu tribe, but because he was too young, he did a lot of wrong things, and obeyed the clan rules, so he was punished and expelled from the tribe. ”
I looked at the old man in front of me, it turned out that he was also a member of the Witch Gu tribe. Just what he did when he peeked into something in my body. It can be judged that he is not simple.
Knowing that he was a member of the Witch Gu Tribe, I also became respectful and spoke, "In that case, can you take me to the Witch Gu Tribe?" ”
When the old man heard my words, he just shook his head and said, "The way to the inside can only be opened by themselves, and I am no longer a member of the tribe, so I can't open it anymore." ”
When I heard that the old man couldn't go in, I immediately felt very lost. Sadly muttered, "What's that going on?" I'm already here, I can't just go back without knowing anything, I'm not willing to go back like this. ”
When the old man saw me like this, he was silent for a moment before he spoke: "No one has ever been able to come into my place. Since the girl has come to me today, it is a kind of fate, maybe it was deliberately arranged by God. I don't think the girl is an ordinary person, but I have another way to the tribe. It's Huangquan Road. It's just that the road is very dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will die, and it is not something that ordinary people can pass. Girl, do you want to try it? ”
When I heard this, I quickly nodded: "As long as there is a road, I will go in no matter what it is." ”
Then the old man said to me, "In that case, please come in with me, girl." ”
I followed the old man into the room. He led me into another room. When I walked in, I found that there were so many tablets that I couldn't count.
I was stunned, and then a smell of corruption followed. My stomach was churning and I almost threw up.
I asked the old man in horror, "Is it ...... Could it be that the death of the villagers has something to do with you? ”
The old man lowered his head and said with self-reproach when he heard this: "I won't tell you the truth, the skull in my body you saw is actually my lady, she is just an ordinary person." can't accompany me forever, when she dies of old age, in order to let her stay with me all the time, I trained her into a Yin Gu and hid it in my body. She kept sucking my yang energy, and I ran out of oil for a long time, and I couldn't do it. In order to be able to spend more time with her, I borrowed the yang energy of the villagers. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to bear to hurt them. I've lived with them for a long, long time, and I've come to see them as family. ”
I looked at these countless rankings, and I couldn't tell what I felt in my heart.
The old man led me into another room, and as soon as I walked in, the rancid smell was even stronger. I covered my mouth and nose, my stomach churning.
I looked sideways and saw a very large pit inside. There was a trip to the pit with black and green water. Bubbling and soaking at the bottom of the pit was densely packed with corpses. We walked around the edge of the pit when a corpse floated up from it, and when I looked closely, I saw that the corpse was green and swollen beyond recognition. The seven holes were stuffed with something.
I pointed to the pit in horror and asked, "What is this?" ”
The old man's voice came from the front: "This is called the corpse pool, I sealed their souls in the corpse and borrowed their yang energy." ”
Hearing this, I was so scared that I didn't dare to ask any more.