Chapter 31: Time to Stop, Immortality?
After I came back, I thought of talking to Zhao Donglai about a lot of big and small things in Shanhe Village, and later talked about the steamed cat of the second wife, and I also discussed it for a long time, I didn't bring a watch and a mobile phone, and I didn't know the time, but it was estimated that there would be three or four hours.
When I got back, I took out my phone and glanced at it, and found that it showed the time when I was gone.
At this time, I suddenly remembered that when I stayed in Shanhe Village, time stopped, and I found this when I came back after crossing to Shanhe Village for the first time, because when I came back, I noticed that my nails and beard had not grown.
But only now did I realize how important this thing was, because it meant that as long as I stayed in Shanhe Village, I would not grow old.
Moreover, no matter how long I stay in Shanhe Village, my time in this world has not changed at all, which also shows that in Shanhe Village, I can have infinite life, that is, immortality.
I remembered again that recorded in "The Strange Story of Mountains and Rivers", even the color ink surveyed immortality, but often lingered in front of the tomb of Shanhe Village, is it because of this?
However, if this kind of life is called immortality, it seems that this immortality is a little too chicken, and it has been staying in Shanhe Village in 1929, as if it is in a dream that will never wake up.
When the Dongying devil heard that he was immortal, he didn't just want to find this chicken rib immortal method, right?
Now, according to the information I have in my hands, Lian Caimo, or Li Shu, or the woman named Cai, can use a paintbrush to open a door and travel through time and space.
Then there was the man in a flower robe with his hair standing on end, who was able to open a space-time passage through a kind of flame rune paper.
Lian Caimo should not be an enemy, as for this flower dress, it can be determined and affirmed, it is definitely not a good thing, and he is also the first target I need to deal with next.
Suddenly, I remembered another person, a villager from Shanhe Village.
I opened the note and flipped to one of the pages:
On March 4, 1929, Liang Duoqian, who had disappeared for more than 20 years, returned to Shanhe Village, and his face did not change at all.
There is still only one sentence, and every time I saw this before, I skipped it directly, because I really couldn't get more information, and I didn't know where to start investigating the whole process of the Liang Duoqian incident.
But now, I can go back and ask Zhao Donglai at any time, and according to the time, the next meeting time agreed with Zhao Donglai is March 10th, this incident happened on March 4th, just a few days after it happened, Zhao Donglai must be clear.
Then next time, it will be back to March 10, 1929, this time I am going to go early in the morning, anyway, Zhao Donglai will go and wait early in the morning, rather than let him wait for a day, I should also go early.
But I immediately thought, since my time in Shanhe Village is stopped, then why don't I stay in Shanhe Village for a long time? In this way, when every event recorded in the "Tales of Mountains and Rivers" occurred, it was possible to go over in advance and witness it with your own eyes.
Moreover, in the past few days, with this black Tai Chi mirror by my side, I seem to have inadvertently comprehended a lot of things, as if some kind of memory inherited in the blood has awakened, like something that happened a long, long time ago, and it has begun to become extremely clear.
I'm recovering memories that I've forgotten completely, as well as inexplicable dreams that I thought were weird dreams, and then I learned that they were memories from past lives, or even earlier.
It's been so long since the civilization was first established, so long that I've been so long that I can't remember who I was in the first place.
In addition to this, I have learned some strange spells and skills, such as foreknowledge, exorcism, ghost hunting, invisibility, mind control, inflicting pain and fear, and even ...... curses, but when I tried to use them, I found that some of these abilities occasionally worked, and some of them didn't work at all.
But I wasn't very interested in these in the first place, and I just wanted to find out the things in the notes of "Mountains and Rivers", and now it seems that the things recorded in it are not just as simple as supernatural events, and there is an invisible black hand behind it.
This time, I brought all the money and food prepared for Zhao Donglai, and the time was set at eight o'clock in the morning, and when I appeared in the side room of the Jin family ancestral hall, I found that Zhao Donglai was indeed waiting there.
Zhao Donglai saw a bunch of things at my feet, and his eyes immediately straightened.
"Immortal Master......" Zhao Donglai's eyes were fixed on the small pile of silverware at my feet.
"Zhao Donglai, have you eaten?"
"I ate it, and I finished it at five o'clock."
"You put away the money, and you eat a little of what you eat."
As I spoke, I picked up a piece of chocolate and handed it to him, I remember that it was recorded in that note that Zhao Donglai especially likes to eat this thing, so I brought a lot of it this time.
Zhao Donglai didn't hold a paper in his hand this time, didn't he write about any incident?
"Zhao Donglai, what have you remembered these days?" I asked.
"Oh, here."
Zhao Dong said, took out a few pieces of paper from his sleeve and handed them to me.
Well, it turned out to be hidden.
I looked at it page by page, and it was basically the same as what was recorded in my notebook "Strange Tales of Mountains and Rivers", and sure enough, there was something about Liang Duoqian, who had disappeared for more than 20 years, returned to Shanhe Village on March 4, and his face did not change at all. It's just that Zhao Donglai has simply brought this matter over a few times, so I pulled Zhao Donglai to ask about it in detail.
Zhao Dong came to see me and asked, and he couldn't wait to talk about it.
On the morning of March 4, 1929, in two dilapidated earthen houses in the west of Shanhe Village, at about six o'clock in the morning, the door of the earthen house "creaked" open, and an old lady with white hair stretched out her hand and groped her way out.
"Mom?!" A voice shuddered and cried.
The old lady's body shook violently, and the action of picking up firewood and grass in her hands also stopped, and she listened attentively, and after a while, the old lady spoke, and asked in a trembling voice:
"More money?"
"Mom! You, why did you become like this?! ”
The old lady felt her hands being held by a pair of strong hands.
"More money? Is it really a lot of money? You...... You've been gone for 20 years, where have you been?! ”
Two lines of pale red blood and tears flowed from the eyes of the old lady's space hole.
"What? More than twenty years? But I thought it was only a few days......"
Liang Duoqian looked at his mother in front of him, when he left, his mother was still full of black hair and had a strong body, why was she already an old woman over sixty years old now? And, how did my mother go blind in both eyes?
"You are not filial son, what a few days, you have been gone for more than 20 years, your father died a few years ago, and your daughter-in-law also left in the fifth year of your departure. You unfilial son, where the hell have you been?! ”
The old lady said and took Liang Duoqian's hand and cried bitterly.
At this time, the neighbors on the left and right also got up, came out to get firewood and prepared to cook, and heard the crying in the courtyard of the Liang family.
But when everyone saw this person clearly, they were so shocked that they couldn't speak.
This is...... How much money does Liang have? Liang Duoqian, who had been missing for more than 20 years, came back, but his face did not change at all, and he still looked like the twenty-five or sixteen-year-old young man when he left. But if you count it according to time, Liang Duoqian should be nearly fifty years old now, how can he still be so young?
Liang Duoqian also noticed a few more people around at this time, he looked over one by one, and it took him a long time to recognize these old neighbors in front of him, like the neighbor in the east, He Xiaofa, who was the same age as himself and married in the same year, but now this He Xiaofa is full of wrinkles, and only by carefully identifying it can he see a little bit of what he looked like when he was young.
What's going on? How did you change so much?
Liang Duoqian looked at the people in front of him, as well as his mother, and felt unacceptable for a while, especially when he heard that his father had passed away and his daughter-in-law had left, and his mother had missed her for more than 20 years and cried day and night...... He couldn't figure it out, he had only been gone for a few days.
When everyone asked Liang Duoqian where he had gone all these years, Liang Duoqian said that he had really only been gone for a few days.
Liang Duoqian said that a few nights ago, he suddenly woke up in the middle of the night with urine, so he got up and went to the yard to relieve his hands. But when he arrived at the yard, he found that there was a fire in front of the yard with firewood and grass, and he was very anxious, and hurriedly shouted for firefighting, and at the same time brought out a bucket of water from the house to pour the firewood and grass, but when he got closer, he found that it was not the firewood and grass that caught fire at all, but a large fire suspended half a foot above the ground, and did not ignite anything.
Liang Duoqian felt very strange, so he stretched out his hand and slowly approached the flame, but found that it was not hot at all, so he tentatively stretched his entire arm into the fire.
Suddenly, a strong force came from the flames, and he was dragged in.
Immediately afterwards, he noticed that the scenery in front of him had changed, and he was already in a large area of dead woods, and the forest was full of dark scenes after the fire, and those trees seemed to have been burned by the fire, and there was a thick smoke in the air.
In addition, the most terrifying thing is all kinds of dead corpses all over the ground, animal, human, and even some never-before-seen spirit corpses, and even the dead trees are full of all kinds of dead corpses. The corpses were all dry, as if something had drained the energy from the corpses.
Liang Duoqian panicked, he took a few steps forward, and suddenly found that wisps of black smoke were constantly emerging from the dead forest, these black tongues of fire were very fast, and they would envelop a person out of nowhere, and then hang the person on the branch in the scream of the person, or throw him on the ground, and then look at it, the person who was alive before has dried up, as if he has been sucked dry.
Seeing this situation, Liang Duoqian ran desperately, and as he ran, he would encounter a large ball of flames hanging on the ground, close but not hot, as long as he got into the flames, the surrounding scenery would change.
Sometimes you go into the flames and you go into towns, sometimes you go into the flames and you go to a grassland, but everywhere you go, you are surrounded by fire, and everywhere you go, there are corpses all over the ground.
During this running period, Liang Duoqian didn't feel hungry, until that day, he ran and saw the firewood and straw stack in front of him, which looked like his own house, and there was a fire next to the haystack, he ran to the haystack without thinking about it, closed his eyes and got into the fire.
When he opened his eyes again, Liang Duoqian saw his house, but the house was much more dilapidated, and then he saw his mother, who was already full of gray hair, pushing the door out and losing her sight.
All of a sudden, it was rumored in Shanhe Village that this Liang Duoqian had strayed into the Flame Hell, and he only stayed in the hell for a few days, and it had been more than 20 years since he returned to the world.
"There is such a thing, who did you ask for such detailed information?" I'm curious, how did Zhao Donglai know so much about it?
"Hehe, I brought five catties of bud rice to see Liang Duoqian, and asked out...... He had just returned, and there was no extra food left at home. Zhao Donglai scratched his head embarrassedly.
Disappeared for twenty years, in 1910, at that time, these bizarre events began to appear in this mountain and river village, but what is this place of flame hell? However, the passage of the flame is very familiar, and Liang Duoqian entered through the passage, could it be the territory of the flowers?
Those corpses, whose corpses are they?