087:Paper Man Village (29)
In this way, the two sides confronted each other silently for a while, and finally Xiaobao broke the corner of his clothes with his hands, easily broke free of the other party's shackles, looked at them, and said softly: "My grandfather is not in the house now... But maybe he'll be back in the next second.
If you have anything you are looking for, it is best to take this opportunity and go into the house now and look for it as soon as possible. ”
The two glanced at each other, and did not go in immediately, Qu Shaojun's usual eyes were mostly very indifferent or emotionless, but now, his pupils were full of indifference.
They didn't ask her what she meant by what she said, or even why she was so calm when she saw them.
In the end, Cheng Xiao just stood aside and watched his captain's on-the-spot performance - commonly known as the torture link; Later, he consciously lowered his sense of existence, and in order to ensure that the captain's conversation went smoothly, he spontaneously chose to stand guard.
Qu Shaojun loosened the somewhat tight collar, the light-colored lips opened slightly, and the corners of his mouth rose a little, not giving people a pleasant feeling at all, but looking more unfathomable; His body leaned in the direction of the little girl, his eyes approached the other party, with a bit of a sense of force, almost like a hunter looking at the little girl in front of him like a hunter hunting prey, leaving no room for anything.
Qu Shaojun's voice was slightly cool, and he looked at the little girl who was about six or seven years old in front of him, and suddenly smiled—although the smile did not reach the bottom of his eyes, he asked lightly, "Who are you?" ”
The little girl's pupils shrank, and the hand on her side couldn't help but tighten, a little flustered, and she couldn't help but take a few steps back.
She's just exposed?
- No, it can't be!
- He must be testing himself!
Xiaobao took a few deep breaths, raised his head again and looked at the two of them seriously, and asked vaguely, "Big brother, what are you talking about?" Xiaobao didn't understand. ”
Qu Shaojun retracted his forward body, put his hands in his pockets, looked at the other party's pretended calm eyes almost scrutinizing, and continued: "No, you are definitely not that child now, and besides, you even have something to ask for for us, if you don't want to go on like this, maybe we can communicate better if we are honest?" Besides, didn't you already realize the exposure after the first time you spoke? It's not fun to hide it now. ”
The little girl pursed her lips, her eyes looked at the ground, and her long eyelashes trembled.
The clenched hands at his side loosened, turned around, and looked in a certain direction, but there was no focus in the eyes, more like thinking about something, or simply in a daze.
After a while, the little girl sighed, turned around again, looked up at them, and said softly, "I am indeed not Xiaobao. ”
"To be precise... This body is indeed Xiaobao's, and I am just a soul that is about to dissipate for the time being. ”
The words confided by the little girl in front of him made Cheng Xiao, who was standing guard on the side, suddenly shocked, originally he was thinking that the Qu team asked if these were talking to the little girl or something, but what the Qu team asked was actually true.
The little girl in front of her is not the little treasure before - how incredible.
He didn't believe much in this kind of thing that came into reality after joining the army, but after experiencing even more unbelievable things, he was surprised or surprised to see such a thing today.
The little girl quietly looked up at them, and continued to look at herself, her eyes gradually losing focus, as if falling into some kind of memory: "Xiaobao... In fact, it should be my child, my only daughter; And I, her mother, is also the root source of the tragedy in Zhaojiazhuang. ”
"You should see those wooden signs, right? Those are the villagers who once survived here, and when their consciousness has not been completely stripped away, they have been put up one after another according to the length of the time period; Of course, if there is something later, it may already start to be abnormal..."
Among them, there are the words of my husband, that is, Xiaobao's father; I'm just the delusion that I shouldn't have. ”
The simple words made the two men in front of them stunned, and they didn't know what to say for a while, and even Cheng Xiao and Qu Shaojun were a little more in a trance.
She didn't care about their body and even soul turmoil at this time, but continued to say to herself: "My body became weaker and weaker after giving birth to Xiaobao, until Xiaobao's seventh birthday, I couldn't stand it anymore and collapsed.
Xiaobao's father never believed that I was gone, our relationship over the years has always been very good, and the occasional bickering is also some love between husband and wife; But when I died, he went from being reticent, not eating or drinking, to finally going mad. ”
The little girl's voice was already faintly trembling a little, as if she was suppressing something.
"Maybe he didn't know that although my body was dead, my soul had always been by his side, and I saw his pain, despair and helplessness in my eyes, and I felt distressed, but so what? He can't see me, I can't touch him, obviously we are close to each other, but there seems to be an insurmountable barrier between the two of us...
It's a near-insoluble situation... No one can help. ”
"It's not that people didn't enlighten him after I died, but it didn't work, those words were useless; He was still like a wandering ghost like before, his body was getting thinner and thinner, and he felt like he could follow me at any time.
In the end, it was our father, the village chief of Zhaojiazhuang, who woke him up and said to him: 'The child has no mother and no father, what should you do if you let Xiaobao do it?' I only have you and Xiaobao now, two relatives, if I don't have you anymore, how will you let me live? ’”
"Maybe it's because of my father, or maybe it's because of Xiaobao, he gradually eased up and soon lived a normal life - my father, I, and the villagers, all thought like that.
But in the end, it's not like this, and it's my fault, I should have known a long time ago, how could he be so paranoid and have some extreme emotions in a certain situation, how could he easily and so slowly?
Because I died at home, my soul was naturally trapped here because I was too obsessed with my family; So when he goes out a lot on certain days, although I notice that something is wrong, I can't delve into anything. ”
"I don't know how he got it, what he said to bring me back to life—when I heard that, I wasn't excited at first, I was scared.
I find it ridiculous, and I don't think he can succeed in something like resurrection, which goes against the rules set by God; Taking a step back, what if it succeeds? Things have long been wrong, and the price will definitely not be small.
I vaguely felt the uneasiness that this incident had caused me, and even more people, and I wanted to stop it, but it was useless, useless. ”
The little girl's body began to tremble, and she couldn't help but shrink into the corner, holding her knees in a daze, and her eyes seemed to be calm in the out-of-focus eyes.
But in its depths, Qu Shaojun saw great panic and fear, despair and helplessness.
"After that, I don't know how he knew—not even my father—that in our house, under that giant cypress tree, to be exact, there was an underground grotto, and in it there was something like an altar."
Qu Shaojun's brothers heard the word 'altar' in their ears, and the two glanced at each other, thinking about bringing this information back as soon as possible.
"On top of the cypress tree, I remember hanging a wooden sign with words like 'obscure things,' in which this thing did not refer only to the paper man, and 'to commit the taboo' did not merely refer to the taboo of making the paper man—
The real obscurity, the real taboo, is always directed at the 'ta', the 'ta' sealed in the altar. ”
Qu Shaojun's eyes suddenly sharpened, and the emotions in Danfeng's eyes fluctuated slightly, and gradually the fluctuations subsided like a stone sinking into the sea.
Cheng Xiao doesn't know what to say now—his brain capacity is about to explode, and the CPU feels like it's going to burn.
Such a huge amount of information is simply stunning! If she hadn't said it, who would have thought that such a shocking secret would be hidden in it?!
The little girl's body gradually calmed down a little, no longer trembling, but slowly stood up, and continued to speak: "In order to resurrect me, he did not hesitate to risk the lives of the whole village - but his final bottom line did not let him move his father and daughter, he chose to let those innocent villagers pay for him with their lives.
That night, he made a paper man exactly like me in my appearance, and placed it on the altar, and somehow made the villagers stunned, like a ghost on the day the door was opened.
In the daytime of that day, there was a strange phenomenon at first—the moon was evident on the left of the sky, and the sun was on the right, and everyone did not know what was going on, but they thought it was very novel, but my father and a few villagers had uneasy expressions on their faces, as if they were afraid of something; That night, the sun vanished, and the red moon hung high above the black curtain, and the moment the red moon appeared, the cypress tree magically disappeared and was replaced by the altar.
Zhao Zhiyuan gave the villagers their own appearance of paper people—and asked them to put their paper people on the altar and surround them around the paper people like me, and then, the village's real nightmare began—"
Having said this, the little girl's face became calmer, and the emotions in her eyes were decreasing like a cliff, as if she was not the one who was sad and desperate just now.
Qu Shaojun frowned, his fingertips unconsciously rubbing against each other.
"That night, blood was splattered all over the ground, and the villagers were killing each other, and their faces were hideous, as if there was only slaughter in front of them, and nothing else could be seen.
Countless people fell, and the blood gradually gathered on the paper people in their respective appearances as if attracted by some mysterious force, and finally gathered around the paper people in the center of the altar.
At that moment, I felt that my soul was wailing, not reviving as he had hoped, but more broken.
It turns out that this altar cannot resurrect people at all, from beginning to end, it only serves as a seal, and my soul is also one of the sacrifices. ”
The little girl's eyes were a little dazed, and she continued: "After knowing all this, he did everything to save my soul - and the price was him.
Because of this, my soul fell into a deep sleep, and somehow I was contained by Xiaobao's body, which is why I just said to you: 'The soul that lives in this body for a while, and is about to dissipate'. ”
"I often wonder: If I hadn't died, wouldn't he have ended up on such a path from which there is no turning back?
I knew that anyone could hate him and blame him for this catastrophe – but I was the only one who didn't qualify for it. ”
The crisp voice carried an almost eerie calmness, making the two speechless for a while.
Suddenly, the sound of the door creaking sounded, and Cheng Xiao and the two quickly came to their senses, and Xiaobao, no, to be precise, it should be Xiaobao and her mother urging them to leave quickly.
The two of them were not inkblot people, and soon hid to the side, ready to climb over the wall and leave here.
- After Qu Shaojun climbed to the top of the wall, somehow, he glanced back again.
In the line of sight, there seemed to be black smoke behind the little girl, and in a room deeper, there seemed to be a place like an ancestral hall, faintly emitting golden light, and he was already so far away from the little girl, but he also faintly smelled a little incense burner.
However, this feeling quickly disappeared, as if it was just an illusion, and the taste on the tip of the nose dissipated.
Qu Shaojun turned around, couldn't help frowning, buried this matter deep in his heart, didn't pay any more attention, and passed it as an illusion.
He didn't notice that the moment he turned around, there seemed to be a person standing behind the little girl, almost playfully looking at their backs over the wall.
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A little later today, sorry haha (__)