Chapter 433: So It Was Like It
Actually, I don't know why I'm so calm at this time.
Even though I knew that I came here was designed by Taishan Fujun, but standing on this bridge, I didn't have any other emotions, not only that, but I had an urge to gamble.
And as I walked towards the other end of the bridge, I began to feel the chill that began to sweep over me, but I didn't stop but walked forward step by step.
Soon I was a third of the way through.
It's just that during the third of the journey, my body has been frozen, and every step I take, it is as if I am relying on my body's instincts.
Gradually, the vision in front of me began to blur.
Then change from the blur.
Finally, when I opened my eyes again, I was already back in Baiyun City.
It's still the same location.
I'm curled up, covered in sweat?
"Is this a dream?" I muttered, faintly, as if I had forgotten something, and then a wave of hunger swept over me and I subconsciously shrank back.
At the same time, I looked to the side.
I always felt as if something was missing, but after thinking about it for a while, I couldn't think of anything, so I just closed my eyes and tried to put myself to sleep.
It's just strange that it's a sunny day, but I feel very cold, no matter how I curl up, I feel a chill that makes my whole body shiver.
I even felt like I couldn't even open my eyes.
Suddenly, I felt someone coming up to me.
"Master, he seems to be sick."
Listening to the sound is a small child.
I opened my eyes with difficulty, only to see that the child was pulling a middle-aged Taoist priest who didn't look very serious to look at me, and when I heard the child's words, the middle-aged Taoist priest smiled and said, "Then what do you think, what should Master do?" ”
"Master, can we save him?"
The child tilted his head to look at the priest.
The Taoist priest thought for a moment and said, "We are going to save a person from a village now, if we save him, we may delay some time, and then many people may be hurt because we save him." ”
"Do you think we should save it or not?"
The child touched his chin and thought for a moment and said, "But did you also say that we cultivators ourselves have to help the common people, and if we save one person, we will also save ten thousand people." ”
"But we can't save anyone."
"How can we save 10,000 people?"
"You!" The Taoist priest patted the child's head and said with a smile: "The words have been learned by you, but since you want to save it, then you can save it for the teacher." ”
"But you have to remember."
"If one person is sacrificed, ten thousand people will be killed."
"Well, it's not a sacrifice."
"It's just that this person is not a common man."
"It can only be us!"
"Do you understand?"
"I understand!" The child smiled and nodded.
At this moment, the Taoist priest walked up to me, reached out and touched my forehead, and then suddenly turned his palm into a finger on my chest, and the next moment I felt a warm current hit me.
Under this warm current, my whole body seems to be much more energetic.
Then the Taoist priest subdued me again and gave me a key.
"Take this key and go all the way south to find a place called the Ghost Tower, where you can live from now on, and you can use everything in it."
After saying that, the Taoist priest left.
I don't know why, but as he was leaving, I saw that he seemed to look at me again, and that glance gave me the impression that he knew me.
I tried to catch up with him and ask him, but he and the boy were so far away that they disappeared from my eyes almost in the blink of an eye.
I looked at the key in my hand, was stunned for a while, and finally chose the direction he said and walked slowly over.
At nightfall, I finally saw what he called the haunted building.
I've been living in this haunted building ever since.
That Taoist priest left a lot of things here, so that I could live a life that was enough to feed and wear.
It's just that I don't know why, the Taoist priest and the child haven't come back for a long time.
It seems like a few months, or more.
The people of the city began to think of me as the new owner of this haunted building.
But I didn't have the skills of that Taoist priest, and as time went by, the ghost building soon became an ordinary building in the city, and almost no one would come here again.
Even if I sometimes sit outside to see if the Taoist priest has returned, no one will look at me more.
It seems that I was disgusted and ostracized by the people here at the beginning, and I seem to be ignored by them again.
Fortunately, I've gotten used to it.
That's it, I don't know how long it has been.
Maybe a few months.
Maybe a few years.
Because I have rarely traveled to other places, or because my body itself is very weak, I began to feel that my body was getting worse day by day, coughing every day, and I would break out in a cold sweat when I moved.
When I looked in the mirror that day, I suddenly noticed that my hair was much grayer.
That's when I realized that I wasn't here for months, not years, but decades.
Finally, I fell ill.
I collapsed on the bed, and it was very difficult to even get out of bed.
The exhaustion of my body made me want to go to sleep like this, but as soon as I closed my eyes, I felt panicked.
I'm not afraid of death.
Rather, I felt like I couldn't die here.
Even if that Taoist priest and the child should not come back, this is not my home, and I can't die here.
I have to go home.
I don't know where I got the strength, so I got up from the bed and staggered out of the ghost building.
I became a beggar again, supporting my body, which was already ready to collapse at any moment, and I finally returned to my home, the village I knew.
It's just that the wild dogs are gone.
There is nothing at the entrance of the village either.
When I walked in, there was nothing but loneliness, desolation, and nothing.
I found my home from memory.
I found the coffin where I had been lying at the beginning, and I took it to the grave of the old madman, and the moment I saw the tombstone of the old madman, I laughed.
I can finally die in peace.
But......
I always felt like I had forgotten something.
These decades seem to be in the blink of an eye.
And in the blink of an eye, I seem to be missing a lot of memories, what are these memories?
I closed my eyes.
Finally.
I seemed to remember in the darkness.
I remembered my name.
My name is Li Xuantian.
It just seemed like a dream of mine.
No......
This should not be a dream.
It's the life I should have.
Plain, birth, old age, sickness and death.
I couldn't help but laugh.
I see, that's right!