I am not repairing cultural relics in the Forbidden City

"This is a mountain temple." Dai Chuan said with some nostalgia, "It was built by these people for me."

Dai Chuan pulled Xu Congcong back, looked at the undulating wasteland in front of him, and said with some emotion: "But now the mountains are gone, everything is gone."

Xu Congcong felt distressed hearing his tone, and could only hold Dai Chuan's hand firmly.

"What's here is all fake." Dai Chuan suddenly turned his head and smiled narrowly at him, "I don't want to believe the facts, so I fabricated the illusion."

"What?" Xu Congcong was taken aback, "A fabricated illusion?"

"Yes." Dai Chuan took Xu Congcong's hand, and slowly floated up. Xu Congcong felt that his feet were empty, and subconsciously looked down, and found that he was already in the air. He stabilized, supported his waist and said: "Don't be afraid, just walk normally."

Xu Congcong clung tightly to Dai Chuan's body, barely standing still.

"Okay?" Dai Chuan asked.

Xu Congcong nodded with a pale face.

Dai Chuan put one hand on his waist, exerted force suddenly, and the two of them flew straight into the air.

Xu Congcong immediately closed his eyes.

After a while Xu Congcong felt that Dai Chuan's body relaxed a bit, he opened his eyes cautiously, and then looked at Dai Chuan in surprise, Dai Chuan looked at him with a smile.

"Wow, it's so pretty!" Xu Congcong exclaimed in a low voice.

They were hundreds of meters above the ground, looking down at everything on the ground. The big mountain has disappeared, replaced by a piece of yellow land with no horizon, and sparse gray huge tree roots Dotted on the loess, there are hardly any traces of green on the entire ground. The mountain temple looks like a sudden building, in the center of the whole picture, as if explaining something, but from this perspective, I still feel that What a magnificent beauty.

"It would have been better if it was in the past." Dai Chuan was a little regretful, "I knew it would be so fast, so I took you to see it last time."

"Last time?" Xu Congcong was still a little excited. He held Dai Chuan's hand, but kept walking up and down. When Dai Chuan mentioned the last time, he hurriedly asked.

"The last time you came in, the whole story was about halfway through, and I was still the mountain god that everyone loves." Dai Chuan pointed to a certain place underground, "There! It's the place you saw last time."

But Xu Congcong couldn't tell the difference at all.

Dai Chuan noticed his blankness, and his eyes darkened: "There are no trees."

"What happened?" Xu Congcong couldn't help asking.He found that he couldn't understand everything that Dai Chuan told him, what story, what time, he really wanted to know what this place was, what kind of existence this place was for Dai Chuan, on this land , and what ever happened.

Dai Chuan was silent for a while, and then said: "This mountain forest once gave birth to me. I walked out of the mountain. I relied on the mountain to help the mountain people nearby. Occasionally, I would go down the mountain to help those in need. I am full of curiosity about the outside of the mountain."

"Soon I became what they called a mountain god. They built a mountain temple for me. Although their offerings were of no use to me, I thought it was a sign of peace. I thought they would I love my mountain as much as I do, so I decided to go for a walk.”

Dai Chuan fell into memory: "My friend disagreed with my decision very much. He told me that without my protection, this mountain would be hollowed out by greedy humans sooner or later, but I didn't believe him."

"Friend?" Xu Congcong didn't expect that he had a friend, "Is he also a mountain god?"

Dai Chuan hesitated for a moment before saying: "My friend is a giant python, who is a little older than me, but for some reason, he has been unable to practice."

"..."

Dai Chuan explained: "The one in our family, I suspect it is his offspring."

"What???" Xu Congcong was stunned.

"What kind of expression is this?" Dai Chuan said uncertainly, "But I'm actually not sure either."

"To be precise, the snakes in this mountain are basically his descendants, and it is not impossible for some of them to escape and reproduce," Dai Chuan said.

"Wandering out?" Xu Congcong asked.

Dai Chuan's expression became sad: "He is already dead, during the time I left, all his descendants who can leave have left."

"I don't know how long I've been away. I've walked through one town after another, so I don't know how severe the drought has been in this land after I left." Dai Chuan looked at the surface, his face There was no expression on the top, "The residents at the bottom of the mountain had nothing to eat, so they climbed up the mountain. They killed almost all the animals in the mountain. My friend hid in the rock and escaped unharmed. After the living things were eaten, they They started cutting down trees and digging up sod on the ground, and they emptied the mountain little by little. When I came back, the mountain was gone.”

"How long have you been away?" Xu Congcong asked hesitantly.

"Forget, 100 years, or more." Dai Chuan expressed pain, "The mountain has not been revived, it has been eaten away by humans bit by bit, and those humans built on this land by relying on the felled trees. Villages, towns, and more, they found my friend. It was winter when I went back, and he was supposed to be still hibernating, but I saw him being impaled by humans, many, many humans with weapons Humans lifted him up in the air like the dragon dance on New Year's Eve before, the blood dripped down and stained their faces red, but their faces were smiling."

Dai Chuan pulled Xu Congcong and flew down a little bit, pointing to the deserted village on the ground that Xu Congcong passed by when he came: "Right here, they stood all over the road, cut his flesh with a knife, and divided him into pieces." ate him."

"I can't save him." Dai Chuan said coldly, "So I killed them."

Xu Congcong's heart trembled, and he subconsciously turned his head to look at Daichuan.

Dai Chuan's eyes had turned red, and his expression showed a little madness: "I killed them, everyone, one by one, and I discarded their bodies in various places, but most of them I took all of them to that dilapidated mountain temple, and I want them to repent with their lives."

"Daichuan..." Xu Congcong tugged at his arm.

But Dai Chuan had completely lost his mind, he let go of Xu Congcong's hand abruptly, and Xu Congcong fell down with a scream.

Fortunately, they were not too high from the ground, so Xu Congcong wasn't hurt much, Dai Chuan didn't look at him at all, Xu Congcong didn't dare to approach him, so he could only look at him with some fear.

"Did you see it? Did you see it?" Dai Chuan laughed, "I killed everyone, but my mountain is gone, and I have nothing left!"

"I've never seen so much blood..." Dai Chuan snorted nervously, "So many people just fell to the ground, they begged me, pleaded with me, saying that their ancestors' faults should not be borne by them, Why can't they bear it? They enjoy the land left by this mountain, they enjoy my friend's bones, they can do anything to survive, why can't they bear it?"

"I am no longer a mountain god, I am a demon with blood on my hands. I started to fear, I was afraid of being punished, so I pulled out all my memories and turned into such a painting." Dai Chuan turned his head abruptly, and said to Xu Congcong, "You see, this place used to be so beautiful!"

"So beautiful... so beautiful..." Dai Chuan muttered, standing there firmly, as if he had lost his courage.

Xu Congcong walked over slowly, took Dai Chuan's hand, and said gently but firmly: "I saw it, it is really beautiful, it is the most beautiful mountain I have ever seen."

Dai Chuan didn't seem so crazy anymore, he said lightly: "Time here is flowing, starting from my birth and ending with massacres. It goes on and on, and I can't change it. I just experience and massacre over and over again."

"Originally it wouldn't be so fast." Dai Chuan smiled bleakly, "But Qintang's resentment is too deep. His arrival has released all the accumulated resentment here."

"This story is coming to an end." Dai Chuan said, "And then start again."

"Congcong." Dai Chuan suddenly called Xu Congcong's name, and Xu Congcong immediately looked at him.

"'He' thought I didn't dare to tell you, what the hell did I dare not tell you." Dai Chuan showed a familiar smirk, and he raised his blood-stained sleeve, "Even if I don't tell you, you will It can be seen that I am a murderer who has killed countless innocent people, so what is there to dare to say?"

"Daichuan..." Xu Congcong was a little worried.

"...So." Dai Chuan interrupted him, "So you can go, I can leave after this story is over, I spent a very good time at your house, you are a very good..."

Xu Congcong suddenly stood on tiptoe and kissed his mouth, and stuffed the rest of his words into his mouth.

Dai Chuan stared at him, and Xu Congcong complained: "Don't hand out good person cards casually. Although I don't know what you are talking about, as long as this is over, it's fine? You can leave, right?"

"...start again." Dai Chuan added.

"Can't we not start?" Xu Congcong asked suddenly.

Dai Chuan was taken aback for a moment, but before he could speak, he suddenly heard the sound of messy footsteps from somewhere, with a huge momentum, as if many people suddenly appeared.

Xu Congcong looked at Dai Chuan subconsciously, the panic on Dai Chuan's face disappeared in a flash, he took Xu Congcong's hand and said, "Can you go first?"

"Not good." Xu Congcong immediately refused.

Dai Chuan was silent.

"Hey yo! Hey yo!" The noisy voices slowly gathered together, and there was a loud voice of shouting.

Standing aside, Xu Congcong first watched a person holding an iron bar appear from the end of the road, and then one after another appeared. Those middle-aged people showed sincere joy on their faces, shouting chant while drinking The people behind were talking about something, and the long line slowly revealed the whole picture, and the huge boa constrictor also appeared following the crowd.

Xu Congcong looked at the huge snake. Its head was pierced fiercely by an iron rod, and its body was pierced by the same iron rod at intervals. As Dai Chuan said, it was almost It was lifted in the air like a dragon dance, but this 'dragon' was bleeding out, breathless, and the whole body was full of the dilapidated breath of death.

"Hey! Everyone, work harder!" The middle-aged man in the lead shouted, "We're almost home!"

"Hey! Hey!" Everyone shouted, and some young people danced and sang around these brave elders.

"Here!" The leader of the middle-aged man shouted, and everyone threw the giant python's body on the ground with force, and the dust on the ground was splashed, but everyone didn't care, the crowd begged for sharp knives from home, and they stabbed A knife pierced into the giant python's body, and then cut off his flesh piece by piece.

Suddenly the leading middle-aged man let out a short scream, and then fell limply to the ground.

'Dai Chuan' stood in front of the group of people, his hand was slowly pulled out from the middle-aged man's chest.

Xu Congcong was startled, and subconsciously looked at Dai Chuan who was standing beside him. Dai Chuan watched 'his own' killing performance calmly.

"Dai Chuan..." Xu Congcong subconsciously clenched Dai Chuan's hand.

Dai Chuan didn't respond, Xu Congcong saw that tears quickly gathered in his eyes, with a bewildered and painful expression on his face, his body began to tremble, his hands clenched reflexively, he wanted to move forward, but suppressed it again own pace.

Xu Congcong suddenly understood at that moment that after repeating the killing so many times, he no longer wanted to repeat it. No matter how much hatred or anger, after so many repetitions, he had already become a a painful torture.

"Daichuan!" Xu Congcong shouted loudly.

Dai Chuan didn't hear it at all, and took a step forward.

"Dai Chuan!" Xu Congcong hugged him anxiously, trying to hold his body, but he was not Dai Chuan's match at all, and Dai Chuan walked towards the screaming center step by step.

It is not that Dai Chuan thought of stopping during so many repetitions, but everything here is set, his memory, the painful Dai Chuan will become his guide, helping him repeat every step of the way. Start, and then let him replace himself to complete the whole story.

"Dai Chuan!!" Xu Congcong was in a hurry. Dai Chuan's eyes were completely red. He was staring at the center of the killing. He cannot escape from the abyss without turning over.

Xu Congcong is a fool, and now he knows that he can't let Dai Chuan pass by, he turned over and ran in front of Dai Chuan, holding his face while stepping back and said: "I am Cong Cong! Look at me, look at me, you don't have to go there , did you hear that? You don’t have to go there!”

Dai Chuan paused, but did not stop.

"Do you want to start over? Do you want to go through it again?!" Xu Congcong said angrily.

Dai Chuan shook his head.

Xu Congcong dragged him by the waist and tried to make him stop, but he couldn't control the tears in his eyes: "Then don't pass it! Don't pass it! This story is over! It's over!"

Dai Chuan repeated after a while: "Is it over?"

"Yes!!" Xu Congcong immediately replied after receiving his response, "It's over! No need to start again!"

"Then... what about the mountain?" Dai Chuan looked at him blankly.

Xu Congcong held Dai Chuan's face in his hands, and said fiercely: "No more! I don't want the mountain either!"

"Then... what do you want?"

Xu Congcong said angrily, "You want me! You want me!!"

Dai Chuan stopped suddenly.

Xu Congcong thought what the hell and stopped?

"It's over." Dai Chuan said suddenly.

Only then did Xu Congcong realize that the surroundings were quiet, and he turned around. In front of them, there were no dead people, no bones of giant pythons, only the dilapidated village and the barren hills.

'Dai Chuan' stood there, looking at them, and then a gust of wind came from nowhere, and that 'Dai Chuan' also disappeared with the wind.

Xu Congcong breathed a sigh of relief.

Dai Chuan suddenly leaned over and hugged him, Xu Congcong was a little happy, but when he thought of what he was like just now, his face became hot with frustration, and he was just about to scold him.

Suddenly Dai Chuan whispered in his ear: "Thank you."

...Forget it, let's forgive him this time.Xu Congcong hugged his waist.