God's Gift

Lu Keming was deeply trapped in a dream, feeling a suffocating pain in his chest. At the last second before he suffocated, he suddenly opened his eyes.

There was a white earth pine standing on his chest, with its heavy body pressing on his chest. It lowered its head and stared at Lu Keming motionlessly with its bright black eyes.

Lu Keming took a deep breath, looked at the loose soil above him, and his tense body relaxed.

"Lu Keming, are you dreaming?" Yu Youyou, who had been staring at Lu Keming, tilted her head, not feeling that there was anything wrong with her position.

"Yeah." Lu Keming raised his slender and thin fingers, blocked them in front of his eyes, and responded.

Yu Youyou tilted her head and continued to ask, "Did you dream about the past?"

Lu Keming held Yu Youyou in his arms, sat up, and rubbed his eyebrows. His brain was still in a dull pain.

After a few seconds, he opened his eyes, his gaze like misty fog, and said calmly: "It happened a long time ago..."

That happened too long ago. Now, spring has gone and autumn has come, and twelve years have passed. He thought that those memories had been forgotten, but he didn't expect that he could still remember them vividly in his dreams at midnight.

After saying that, Lu Keming lowered his head and looked at Yu Youyou in his arms, then he patted the puppy's head and asked, "Why aren't you sleeping?"

As he was speaking, he felt a sense of sand on the fingertips that had just hugged Yu Youyou. He raised his hand and rubbed it, then looked carefully under the moonlight and found that it was some yellow soil.

Lu Keming's eyes froze for a second, then he looked at Yu Youyou and asked, "Where did you go just now?"

"We went to the mountain." Yu Youyou stretched out her paws, lay on Lu Keming's waist, and answered casually.

Lu Keming's expression darkened. Looking at the yawning puppy in his arms, he suddenly reached out and pressed Yu Youyou's paw.

"Huh?" Yu Youyou was suddenly caught and was stunned for a few seconds. She looked up at Lu Keming inexplicably, and shook her ears. "What's wrong?"

"What are you going to do in the mountains?" Lu Keming's expression was much more serious than before, and his voice became colder.

"Oh, because Fang Ziang went to the mountain." Yu Youyou looked at Lu Keming with sparkling eyes, not understanding why he was angry.

As Lu Keming listened to Yu Youyou's words, his hands on the quilt gradually clenched, and his eyes looked a little gloomy.

Fang Ziang.

Why is it so annoying?

"He seems confused. I'll go and bring him back." Yu Youyou continued to explain to Lu Keming.

"Those ghosts?" Lu Keming's voice was calm, as if he had already expected the abnormality tonight.

Yu Youyou tilted her head, her chubby face pressed against Lu Keming's arm. She rolled her eyes and said with sudden realization, "So that's a ghost..."

Lu Keming looked at Yu Youyou's nonchalant expression, took a deep breath, and patiently picked up Yu Youyou. He carefully checked Yu Youyou's body and confirmed that there was no injury. Then he asked Yu Youyou in a cold voice:

"Why didn't you call me?"

"You fell asleep." Yu Youyou answered as a matter of course.

Lu Keming lowered the corners of his eyes a little and stared at Yu Youyou.

"So you can go up the mountain alone to save Fang Ziang? Yu Youyou, have you ever thought about how fragile your body is now? You don't even need those things to do anything. If anything unexpected happens to you on the mountain, it might be--"

Having said this, Lu Keming suddenly stopped and closed his eyes. The blood flashed before his eyes and he clenched his fingers.

"What's wrong?" Yu Youyou saw Lu Keming stop talking, walked in front of Lu Keming, and looked at Lu Keming seriously.

"It's okay." Lu Keming let go of his hand, pressed his brows, and lowered his voice, "I'm sorry, I spoke too harshly just now."

He bent down and gently placed his porcelain white face on Yu Youyou's fur. After a long silence, he spoke in a soft voice.

"Remember to call me next time..."

After a few seconds, Lu Keming's voice came out again.

"OK?"

"Sure." Yu Youyou agreed very decisively without any hesitation.

What's the big deal?

“Okay.” The corners of Lu Keming’s mouth, buried in the fur, curled up slightly, and the corners of his eyes curved.

Lu Keming's face was buried in her. Yu Youyou twisted her body strangely, but Lu Keming had no intention of moving, so she gave up.

"What did you see there?" Lu Keming turned his head to the side, and looked at the dark mountains outside the window with his deep eyes.

"I saw a hole in the stomach of the Thousand-Faced Buddha, and many ghosts crawled out of it. They wanted to drag Fang Ziang into the cave, but they ran away when I went there." Yu Yu Youyou recounted to Lu Keming everything that happened in the mountain.

Lu Keming listened to Yu Youyou's words, but his attention was on Youyou's fluffy ears, and he was a little absent-minded.

"Did you hear that?" Yu Youyou suddenly turned her head 90 degrees and looked back at Lu Keming, meeting Lu Keming's gaze.

Lu Keming's eyes flickered for a moment, he put his fingers on the palm of his hand, looked away as if nothing had happened, and sat up straight.

"The statue of Buddha worshipped in Lijia Village is an evil Buddha."

"Why?" When Yu Youyou heard Lu Keming say this, she sat upright and stared at Lu Keming seriously.

"Four thousand years ago, after the human mutation, the continent's civilization was severely damaged. Later, the empire was established and the organization repaired the lost civilization. The civilizations of various countries in history were recorded in great detail in the continent's history, including Buddhism."

Lu Keming stroked the ring and half-lowered his eyes to look at Yu Youyou.

"But I looked up all the Buddhist materials and did not see any record of this Thousand-Faced Buddha."

Since it is not an officially recorded Buddha, its identity and origin are questionable.

"Today I saw that the temple was closed on all sides, leaving only one door for entering and exiting, and there was a mirror on the door."

"In the past, people had the custom of hanging mirrors on their doors. This was based on the principle that mirrors reflect light. When they hung mirrors on their doors, the evil spirits that came were confused by the mirrors and could not enter the house. Then the family could turn danger into safety."

"But the mirror in the Buddhist temple does not face outwards but inwards. It is also a convex mirror used to ward off evil spirits. It is self-evident where the evil it is warding off comes from."

"Moreover, the temple is closed on all sides, and there are incense offerings in the temple. If the smoke does not dissipate, it may cause suffocation and poisoning. But the people who built the temple did not dare to open the windows, and put this mirror on the door. It is obvious that they are afraid that the things inside will escape."

"I just don't know whether the people in Lijia Village know what this Buddha is, and what is the purpose of their worship of this Buddha..."

Lu Keming rubbed his knuckles and said, "Let's go find out what the villagers have to say tomorrow."

After saying that, Lu Keming lowered his head and looked at Yu Youyou, who was sitting on his lap with a dull look in her eyes, and was stunned for a second.

"Do you understand?"

Yu Youyou came back to her senses, nodded in sudden realization, and said affirmatively: "I understand!"

"That's good." Lu Keming smiled.

Yu Youyou turned around, and sat with her chubby body facing away from Lu Keming, looking as if she was thinking.

After a while, she raised her front paws and scratched her head.

What are you talking about?

Why can't I understand a single word?