Chapter 194: Old Man Erhu's Memory
Through the layers of bones......
At the back of the island, you descend the mountain path to a clearing.
This clearing is next to the shallows by the sea.
Chen Ye looked towards the shoal and found that there were several dilapidated fishing boats, reduced to wreckage and half-buried in the shallows.
Look far away.
In front of the vision, a sea of bones appeared, and a gray mist appeared.
The farther area is enclosed to the Grey Mist Boundary.
Not far from the shallows, this clearing is a lifeless black soil, which contrasts with the white bones around it, black and white.
Among the abrupt white bones, there was only a lonely stone monument, standing between the white bones.
The stele has been weathered for three hundred years, and the words on it have long been smoothed out and become an anonymous stele.
The short old man took Chen Ye to the side of the stele, his hand bones lightly rested on it, as if patting the shoulder of his old friend, and then played the erhu, with sorrow and sighs in the music:
"After so many years, many of the past events have been forgotten, and only by playing music again can we resonate with the memories stored in the stele."
"I used to think that memory was part of the soul, but now I don't see it that way."
"Consciousness, memory, is too short, it will be forgotten after too long, but it is the stone that has witnessed the changes of the vicissitudes of life, and only the stone tablet still remembers the past three hundred years."
This piece of erhu music is more complete, and the thoughts of the short old man are completely transmitted.
From this, Chen Ye knew the memories of the old man Erhu on this island and was witnessed by this stone stele.
As long as you play the suona in your hand and resonate with this stone tablet, you can see everything that happened three hundred years ago.
"Are you ready?" The short old man asked.
"Ready."
Chen Ye took a deep breath and replied firmly.
This time.
He chose to use the suona given to him by the old erhu man to play.
It seems that after many years, the sound of suona is floating on the seashore again.
Under the dim sky, the stele seemed to trigger some kind of resonance, faintly emitting golden light.
This golden mang turned into a silk thread, which was actually connected with the golden star behind Chen Ye.
"Did the resonance succeed?" Chen Ye's eyes moved slightly, and he sensed that the stone tablet transmitted a certain spiritual power, and wanted to connect with him.
At this time, the short old man's eyes were like torches, he closed his eyes, listened to the music played by the suona, and raised his head slightly, as if he didn't want tears to flow.
But unfortunately, there would have been no tears in his hollow eye sockets.
At this moment, Chen Ye noticed the picture of his field of vision, in the overlapping light and shadow, as if he had spanned three hundred years, as if he was going back to a long time that had long been buried in history.
The surrounding phantoms began to melt like water, and a new scene was reflected in Chen Ye's pupils.
Open your eyes again.
Chen Ye felt as if he had traveled to a new world.
Bright sunlight shines through the treetops and falls to the ground, casting dappled light and shadow.
Under the blue sky, there is an endless ocean, the tide lapping against the golden shore, several children dressed in primitive tribal costumes, with long hair, leather vests, and primitive bone chains, playing barefoot on the beach.
At this moment, with a wave crashing, a child exclaimed:
"Look, there's a figure there."
When they looked towards the sea, they saw a young man, unconscious beside a shoal full of rocks, leaning against the edge of a wooden boat, as if he was still breathing weakly.
Chen Ye tried to move his body, but found that with his thoughts, he actually floated past!
He looked down, and it turned out that his body had turned into a gray mist form, floating in this space, witnessing what was happening in this time and space.
"I didn't expect it...... Someday, I'll be like that kid with Feather String. ”
Chen Ye complained in his heart, and with his excellent spiritual power, he quickly adapted to the action mode of this "body", followed the group of children who ran over to save people, and floated next to the unconscious.
I saw the unconscious young man, who looked young, free and handsome, and could faintly see the shadow of the old man of the erhu.
"It should be him."
From the outline of the young and handsome face, Chen Ye can see a little bit of the shadow of the old man of Erhu, but his appearance is not at the same level as when he was young.
All I can say is...... The years are really a pig-killing knife.
Several children carried the old erhu of their youth back to the tribe.
The elders of the clan immediately called the shrine maiden.
The shrine maiden was dressed in a black robe, and she held a bone staff in her hand, exuding an unpredictable aura.
She concocted some medicinal powder, soaked it in water, and gave it to the old man Erhu.
The effect is surprisingly good!
It didn't take long for the old man Erhu to quickly regain his senses.
When the people in the clan asked him where he came from, the old man Erhu shook his head and replied blankly......
From a distant place.
Everyone asked what it was, and the old man shook his head, saying that he couldn't remember.
This scene seems to have aroused the sympathy of the heirs of the sea god, and the amnesiac victim was taken in and lived together from then on.
At this point, the picture suddenly turned into a virtual shadow and jumped for several years.
I saw that the old man Erhu had turned into a middle-aged man with powerful arms, driving a wooden boat and returning from the sea.
"The sea will soon have a change, and this will be the last time we go to sea," he said. ”
Then he took the two rafts down.
One of them is made as suona!
The other one is made as an erhu!
When he played the erhu, the melodious sound spread throughout the village.
The villagers enjoyed the music, and from then on, the trend of playing orchestral instruments became popular.
A teenager seemed to be very interested in the instrument in the hands of the old erhu, so he took it and learned to play it.
His talent is very average, but with extraordinary efforts, he still learned to play suona.
Although it blows badly......
However, the old man of the erhu praised it, and if he can blow the suona, it is already very good.
It's just that...... For some reason, the appearance of this young man is very vague.
He wasn't very tall, he looked like he was only fourteen years old, and his bones were not large.
Chen Ye inexplicably felt that this young man felt very familiar to him.
However, the illusory image of the boy only flashed briefly and disappeared quickly.
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The screen turns again.
Suddenly, the canopy turned bloody.
Disaster befell the island.
Sickness and death spread throughout the village, and all the Poseidon heirs fell ill.
Chen Ye stared at the sky, his pupils constricting slightly.
That's when ......
He saw a round of black sun, hanging high in the sky, emitting a pale light like dead silence.
Under this light, all things seemed to lose their original color, and the earth was full of creatures who had died due to pain, and their corpses were frozen in the moment of death in strange postures.
In desperation, the old man Erhu was riding in a boat and suddenly appeared from the gray fog.
His little boat, from the sea of bones, returned to the village, and with a look of excitement and joy, brought wine.
The wine of eternal life that can be attained by eternal life, free from all sickness, free from death, and thus blessed forever!
There is a waterfall spring above the island, and if you pour wine into it, all the water will become the wine of eternal life!
The spring slid down from the mountain stream and flowed throughout the village, and everyone could drink the miraculous wine of eternal life.
This exciting news spread throughout the village.
Whether they are skeptical, or choose to believe, or face death and have no choice, the villagers drank the spring water of the wine of eternal life.
Miracles really happened.
Just overnight, the villagers, who were on the verge of dying due to the disease, immediately came back to life. They got back on their feet, regained their healthy bodies, swung their limbs, walked happily, and had happy smiles on their faces, talking and laughing.
They no longer feel the pain of illness in their bodies.
In the midst of this apocalyptic disaster, the villagers don't even need to drink water or eat, and they can still move freely.
Above the sky, the black sun emitted a dead light that had corrupted the earth, and everything withered, except for the inhabitants of the Skeleton Village, who lived happily in this colorless world, playing music, as if living in heaven.
However, such days lasted for a month, and suddenly something happened!
The oldest man in the village suddenly withered his skin. Pieces of dead skin peeled off from his body, revealing the bones under the skin, and you could see the heart beating below, the blood vessels intertwined along the white bones, the stomach secreted viscous stomach acid, and the kidneys had completely blackened, like a piece of shriveled dead flesh attached to it.
The whole village was terrified, believing that the old man had been cursed and turned into a terrible monster.
They lifted the old man and threw him out of the village, into the sea of bones.
An amazing scene happened......
When the old man was thrown into the sea, his consciousness completely dissipated, and the flesh and blood on his body suddenly turned into black blood, flowing all over the ground, except for the head, the remaining bones snapped and completely dispersed.
Except for the skull, biting up and down, struggling to make a sound.
Click!
The faint voice was blown away by the sea breeze, and it was difficult to hear even if I walked over.
But with Chen Ye's strong sense of hearing, he could vaguely discern what the old man was saying:
"All of you will be cursed for eternity!"
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(End of chapter)