Chapter 49: Wildfires
The descent was much calmer than I expected.
All the way down the mountain, not only did I not encounter any danger, but even the abnormal cold disappeared without a trace, I am not sure if it was because I was carrying the remains of the city god or something else, in short, the way down was smooth.
Although when he went up the mountain, he also did not experience the danger of nine deaths and a lifetime as mentioned by Uncle Ghost.
But if you think about it carefully, it's not surprising that it's just because Uncle Ghost is there.
When I returned to Fengling Village again, my mood became a little complicated.
When I went up the mountain, although Fengling Village was deserted, there were still twenty or thirty old drunkards, old man Zhang and those blind old people, and they could be regarded as having some popularity.
Although those people wished I was dead, and they forced me to go up the mountain to find the Earth Immortal Sword, I still had some indescribable feelings when I really saw them die in front of me.
It's not that I'm sad.
It just feels like everything isn't quite real.
And now.
I'm the only one in Fengling Village.
The old drunkards, they are all dead.
Uncle Ghost is not dead.
But his identity has also become mysterious from the village keeper of Fengling Village, and I don't know when he will come to Fengling Village again.
At this time, the only thing that remained unchanged in the entire Fengling Village was the black and white coffin, and the room that might not have any more fire.
Soon I was back at Uncle Ghost's house.
After putting the ice crystal bones in the small black and white coffin according to Uncle Ghost, I suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.
But I'm also confused.
Now the Earth Immortal Sword is there.
The next thing missing is the Soul Attraction Orb.
And according to what Uncle Ghost said, I still have to wait for three days, and when the mountain fire burns from the Chenghuang Temple on the Ghost Mountain to Fengling Village, I will be able to get Fengling Village.
In other words, for the next three days, I can only leave Fengling Village, and I can't do anything.
It's not a bad thing for me, but it's the feeling of waiting that's actually the most tormenting.
It's just that I also know that I don't have any other way than to do what Uncle Ghost said, after all, I do not have a clue to the soul bead, and there is no trace of the soul coffin.
But I wasn't in a hurry.
Instead, he walked around Uncle Ghost's house, collected some food, and then went to the rooms where there were people before to look at it according to his memory.
After gathering enough food for three days, I left Fengling Village.
In the meantime, I also had the idea of taking a chance to explore the village.
It's just that unsurprisingly, the village is indeed empty.
I just left the village, and I didn't know where to go, so I thought about whether to go back to Niang'er Village first, but I thought of what the old smoker had said before, and I dispelled this idea.
Now I haven't even found the conditions for the five town spirit coffins, let alone what Northeast Immortal Fair I have to participate in later.
When I went back at this time, I didn't know the bottom of my heart.
Eventually, I took a worn-out futon I found from Uncle Ghost's house and settled on the stele I saw when I first came to Fengling Village.
This is the closest to Fengling Village, and it can be regarded as leaving Fengling Village, and you can see the scene of Ghost Mountain and Fengling Village at a glance, although it can be called a meal and sleeping, but at least there is a futon and some food, and you can't die.
And I did stay for three days.
On the first day, I was a little uncomfortable.
Although I also came here alone when I was in Niang'er Village, at least there was a group of wild dogs at the entrance of the village for me to amuse, and there were chickens and ducks raised at home to relieve boredom at night.
And here, I can't do anything but be in a daze.
So on the first day, I was almost always sleeping with the Earth Immortal Sword in my arms, and the whole person was always groggy and had no energy.
The next day, I was enjoying the feeling a little.
Maybe it's because I've been experiencing all kinds of dangers since I came to Fengling Village.
So after a day of calm, I also calmed down.
I'm also starting to think back to what happened in the past few days.
From the time I entered Fengling Village, to the Ghost Mountain, to the City God Temple, to all the things that happened in the City God Temple, many things seemed to be unrelated, but when I thought about it, it seemed that there was another pair of hands pushing all this.
I couldn't help but have some doubts in my heart.
Like a puppet, am I not the only one who is being used?
On the third day, I figured it out.
I started to stop thinking about those things because I realized that no matter how much I wanted to do it, there was only one answer in the end, and that was that I couldn't do anything and couldn't change it.
In other words, even if there is a person standing in front of me and someone tells me that he is the author of everything, I can't do anything about him.
Because I'm not strong enough.
Because even when I was in Niang'er Village, I could only be protected.
Because I can't even do my own life.
At this moment, a thought occurred to me for the first time.
I want to be awesome.
Just like Liu Yunsheng.
Or stronger.
It's not just life, it's not just life.
I don't know if it's my delusion, or if it's because I'm thinking too much.
As soon as this thought came to me, I felt as if I remembered something, but when I thought about it, I couldn't think of anything.
Three days, and that's it.
On the fourth day.
I finally saw the wildfire that Uncle Ghost said.
However, it was not the fire I expected, but a black mist.
Starting from the City God Temple, it covered the entire ghost mountain overwhelmingly, and then spread like a flame to the entire Fengling Village, until it swallowed the Fengling Village.
In the midst of the black mist, I saw dense figures, they struggled in the black mist, wailing, and seemed to be in pain, and the black fog seemed to be composed of them.
When I saw this, I couldn't help but gasp.
I couldn't help but think of the last painting I saw when I entered the City God Hall.
It's just that at this moment, I'm a bit like the man with the sword in the painting.
And as the black mist swallowed up the entire Sealing Spirit Village, the voices of those wails became clearer and more noisy, and faintly I could see a figure coming out of the black and white coffin.
It's the grudge bones.
After those resentful bones woke up, the struggling figures in the black mist began to blend with those resentful bones as if they had found a home.
Then, at a speed visible to the naked eye, they began to turn into naked people.
There are men and women.
There are old and young.
It's just that they seem to be confused in their eyes, like a walking corpse, and they all walk in one direction after they appear.
In that direction, it seems to be Uncle Ghost's home.