Chapter One Hundred and Four: Infinite Time Stands Still
"Coming?"
The shirtless butcher saw Yu Zhile and a smile appeared on his face.
"Sit down a bit, I'll be fine here." The butcher said as his hand quickened.
Yu Zhile nodded, entered the store and found a stool to come out and sit down.
The woman was a little surprised when she saw Yu Zhile's appearance at all, but more of an accident was the butcher's attitude towards Yu Zhile.
The woman doesn't have Yu Zhile's uncaring character, the butcher is very strong, and his temper is not very good, in this village, he kills the most, not at night, but during the day.
Most of the former ruffians died at the hands of butchers.
Much of Huaicun's stability is due to the butcher in front of him who is holding a pig-killing knife to break down pork.
"Two pounds of pork, old rule." The woman said to the butcher.
The butcher nodded, picked up a piece of pork, and handed it to the woman.
The woman smiled, glanced at Yu Zhile, did not speak, and turned around and left with the pork.
"What's the old rule?" Yu Zhile asked curiously.
"Barter, grain for meat, send it to me in the afternoon." The butcher put down the pig-killing knife, washed his hands, wiped it on the towel, and also took out a stool and sat next to Yu Zhile.
"I see." Yu Zhile suddenly realized that if you don't use money, this most primitive method is the best way to maintain the simplicity of the people.
Although there are some troubles, the villagers here have endured a lot of trouble.
This little trouble is no longer a problem.
"Is there anything you'd like to ask?" The butcher looked at Yu Zhile, "I know you're different, you should know something about that thing." ”
"I see that you don't seem to be afraid of that thing."
"Usually people who enter here for the first time can't walk to the entrance of the village, and besides, you are very familiar with the extra things in your body."
"That's what I'm here for." Yu Zhile stretched out his hand to support his chin, looking at the smiling villagers walking on the street, and the children were playing and playing.
The butcher's eyes narrowed instantly, and a fierce aura appeared.
"I'm here to fix it, not you." Yu Zhile said without turning his head.
Hearing this, the butcher was silent for a while, and the seeping aura on his body slowly converged.
"Tell me about it." The butcher's gaze shifted slightly, and his gaze fell on the pig-killing knife on the board.
But if Yu Zhile is not satisfied with what he says, he will chop off Yu Zhile's head.
"It's not uncommon out there, and it's certainly not common."
"Ghosts, you can't kill them, only ghosts can deal with ghosts, ghosts act according to the law of killing, but ghosts with wisdom and a high degree of terror can kill people irregularly, although it is said to be irregular, but in fact it is still according to the law, but the law has become instinct."
"Since there are ghosts in the world, there are things that can deal with ghosts, and only ghosts can deal with ghosts, so how can people deal with ghosts?"
"Of course, it's to harness the ghosts and then deal with them."
"Ghosts are very dangerous, and of course they are risky to control."
"The ghost will wake up, and when it wakes up, it will kill the host."
"If you want to keep the ghost from waking up, you can only find a way to suppress the ghost, and only the ghost can deal with the ghost, so you can only use the ghost to suppress the ghost."
"That's why you can deal with that thing, because after you killed all the villagers, you already had a ghost in your body, or you were already a ghost at that time."
"My purpose here is simple, to capture that ghost and harness it."
"I have the same purpose as you, you want to solve that ghost and then solve the plight of Huai Village."
"I'm not here to solve your problems, but the result is the same."
"Deal with that ghost, your nightmare is over, and I'll live."
The butcher's gaze shifted again, and he looked at the villagers in the street, his eyes flickering slightly.
"I can't kill that thing, no matter how many times I kill it, it will reappear, I kill all the way to the top of the mountain, and then I keep killing, and finally it will be dawn." The butcher was silent for a moment and spoke of the situation on the mountain.
"Then everything will start over, the villagers will come back to life, I will appear in the pork shop, and the things on my body will disappear as if it never happened."
"Have you ever been killed by it?" Yu Zhile asked a key question.
The butcher shook his head, "No, I don't dare, I'm afraid that if I am killed, it will all be over, I have a premonition." ”
"As long as I die at the hands of that thing, no one will be resurrected."
Yu Zhile nodded, "That's true, at that time, you had the ghost's puzzle spirit, once you were killed by it, it would complete the puzzle, and then it would leave here, leave the place where it was trapped." ”
"Once you're killed by it, all your efforts are gone."
Hearing this, the butcher couldn't help but feel afraid.
After repeating it here for so many years, he didn't think of dying, being killed by it, maybe he would start over the next day.
But thinking of the villagers who died at his own hands, he gave up again.
Now that I think about it, it is thanks to him that he gave up, otherwise he would be a sinner, a sinner in the entire Huai Village.
"Is there a way?" The butcher was silent for a while and asked, "It's not easy to repeat the days, and it's not easy to kill people every night."
Every time he kills someone, he feels a little guilty in his heart, although he knows that the villagers will reappear tomorrow, but this guilt will not disappear with the resurrection of the villagers.
Because he was not sure that these villagers were the same villagers who were killed by himself.
"I know that this is actually a dream, a dream that has been repeated countless times, but the person who dreamed it was not me, but the whole village."
"I also know that when we wake up, we will all die, and they know it."
"But we don't like this kind of immortal life, time stops, the moonlight is the same every night, the child will never grow up, and the ghost will persevere and go down the mountain to kill people."
"I can't watch, I can't watch innocent villagers die in front of that ghost."
"Do you know, the child of the Liu family is still a baby who can only drink milk, and every night, the Liu family kid cries and cuts off his child's head, just afraid that he will be killed by that thing."
"Everything is repeated, nothing changes, time doesn't move forward, you know that feeling?"
The butcher showed a dead and silent expression, looking at Yu Zhile faintly.
Yu Zhile was terrified.
I'm afraid the people here have gone crazy.
"I may not know, but I find this situation horrible." Yu Zhile couldn't imagine this kind of scene, if it was him, he might have gone crazy several times, then got better several times, and finally lost hope, gained hope again, and then became numb.
It's like going to work on an assembly line, mechanical, numb, and doing the same thing every day.
"We can die, but we can't die at the hands of that thing, and we can't let that thing leave here and go outside to harm others, this is the thought we have repeated countless times, killed countless times, and was born."
"If we repeat it one more time, the people outside will be safe for a day."
"It's horrible that we can't let others experience our misfortune once."
The butcher looked up at the blue sky in the distance and fell silent again.
Yu Zhile was silent for a long time and sighed, "If you believe me, if I go up the mountain tonight, maybe I can find the truth that the ghost can't be killed." ”
He had actually guessed that the reason why the ghost couldn't kill was probably just because it was in a dream.
This shows that in this village, no, it should be in this dream, there is always a person dreaming.
He knew the ghost's killing rules, and everything in the dream would be attacked by it, whether it was a living person or a ghost.
This ghost does not possess the ability to create dreams, only the ability to enter them.
When it appears, it means that someone is dreaming.
To deal with this ghost, you must find the person who dreamed and wake it up in your dream, or, kill it.
The moment it wakes up or dies, the ghost will instantly break away from the dream and appear in reality.
And he would follow the ghost out of the dream.
In reality, he could easily imprison that ghost, easily.
"What if you die at the hands of that ghost?" The butcher tilted his head and looked at Yu Zhile, "It's not that I underestimate you, I just don't believe you, although you lost the weapon yesterday, but the horror of that thing, you haven't experienced it, you don't know." ”
"I have a 90 percent chance of surviving when I go up the mountain."
"If I kill you yesterday, the injuries on my body will recover in an instant, and what belongs to me will be awakened."
"At that time, I killed that thing like a dog."
Yu Zhile shook his head and said extremely casually.
"Shameless?" The butcher frowned.
"No, when I fought with you yesterday, the ghost in my body was about to wake up, kill you, and the ghost in my body will wake up 100%."
"I'm the most terrifying person in a ghost."
It's not that I'm ashamed, once I killed the butcher yesterday, my ghost eyes will be instantly stimulated to wake up, and the rest of the ghosts will recover from their silence in a minute.
In his complete state, he has no problem being an S-class ghost.
"You have a ghost in you, too!" The butcher was shocked this time.
"Outside, I'm one of the top ghost riders, in my generation, there are no more than five people stronger than me." Yu Zhile stretched out a hand and moved his fingers slightly.
"Ghost Rider ......," the butcher chewed on these three words, "is the name of the Ghost Trainer?" ”
"Hmm." Yu Zhile nodded.
The situation in the village is probably already known, but there are still many things that are not clear.
The ghost in this village is supposed to have been resurrected from the death of some old antique.
If you don't guess wrong, it should be the ghost on the body of Zhuang Xianjian, the first leader of Haoliang.
And the black cat......
Yu Zhile guessed that he should have seen it, but he couldn't remember where he saw it.
"You know a lot and have enough ability, but that's not why you can go up the mountain."
"You should know that once you die, everything we did before will be in vain, I can't bet, and they can't bet."
The butcher shook his head, but then he continued, "But you can kill me and go up the mountain in your own right. ”
"You lost on the knife before......"
Speaking of this, the butcher stood up, turned around and entered the shop, and Yu Zhile looked at the butcher who went in suspiciously.
Soon, the butcher came out, carrying a handful of long items wrapped in cowhide.
"Hundred forging knives, this is what I took the time to play, no worse than the knife I used, Tang Heng system, one meter three long, not short."
The butcher untied the hide, and a beautiful long knife appeared in the air.
In the sunlight, the long knife shimmered with a blinding cold light.
Yu Zhile stretched out his hand to take it, it was a little heavy, but he could accept the weight.
Gently stroking the long knife, Yu Zhile couldn't help but sigh, "Good knife." ”
"Tonight, according to your ability, if you win, hope is on you, if you lose, then you will try to win in the future." The butcher sat down and said with a blank face.
Yu Zhile let out a sigh, "It seems that this is the only way." ”
"Tonight, each according to his ability." Yu Zhile picked up the cowhide on the ground and wrapped the knife again.
The butcher did not speak, but simply looked at the villagers passing by on the street.
Yu Zhile was silent for a while, then got up and left.
He had to go back and get familiar with the knife.
The butcher didn't stop him, and the two of them tacitly didn't mention the matter of learning recruitment.
"And then."
Just as Yu Zhile was about to leave, the butcher shouted, Yu Zhile turned around, and a piece of wrapped pork was thrown over.
Yu Zhile stretched out his hand to catch it and was a little surprised, "I don't have anything." ”
"It's free." The butcher said.
Yu Zhile was stunned, then thought about it, didn't say anything, and turned to leave.
The sun is shining, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, the villagers live and work in peace and contentment, and everything is peaceful.
"Uncle, what are you going to eat at noon today?"
Yu Zhile pushed open the door of the small courtyard.
"Eat red roots." The old man knitted his back and said without raising his head.
"What sweet potatoes to eat, come and eat meat."
Yu Zhile put the pork in front of the old man, then went to the kitchen to take out the whetstone, untied the cowhide and began to sharpen the knife.
This long knife has not been used in a long time and needs to be sharpened for a while before it can be used.
The old man finally looked up, and he looked extremely surprised, "This is the butcher's precious Hundred Forging Knife." ”
The old man stood up and squatted in front of Yu Zhile at a trot, "Why did he give it to you?" ”
"When I used to ask him for it, he didn't bird me."
The old man looked at the long knife rubbing up and down on the whetstone with envy, and the look in his eyes seemed to be looking at some peerless beauty.
"If I kill him tonight, your predicament may be solved."
"Yesterday, I lost to the knife, and tonight maybe not to." Yu Zhile said calmly.
The old man's expression became solemn.
"He believes it?" The old man asked in disbelief, and he didn't know if it was because of excitement, the old man spoke a little loudly.
"Do you still have a choice?" Yu Zhile picked up the knife, looked it up and down, and then watered it and continued to grind it.
The old man was silent, he didn't know how long it had been, and the old man sighed, "There is really no choice, rather than always being like this, it is better to accept the change of insertion." ”
"Perhaps, you are the real hope."
The old man stood up, turned and went on to weave the memorization.
Stagnant water needs living water from outside to keep the fish alive, even if the living water is only short-lived, but it is better than nothing.
Yu Zhile smiled and began to sharpen his knife seriously.
But it was said that it was in the ancient town of Taiping.
(End of chapter)