Broken mirror to practice Taoism

"It's not that I want to come." Ergou sat in front of the skeleton and said to the skeleton, "My master said he wanted to come here to find something, so I will accompany him."

The skeleton has no eyes, only two dark holes.Even so, Ergou could feel the skeleton in front of him staring at him, looking at him.

"What is your master looking for?"

"I am not sure as well."

"I don't know why you came with him?"

"He is my master." Ergou said it very naturally, "I just follow him."

The skeleton didn't answer, but just stayed quietly in front of Ergou.Ergou didn't know what to do for a while, so he simply sat in front of the skeleton and looked at him.After a long time, liquid like water suddenly flowed from the skull's eye sockets. His upper teeth and lower teeth were slightly separated, and a voice came out from inside: "That's great."

"what?"

"You are so kind to your master," said the skeleton.

"My master takes good care of me." Ergou said, since he can remember, no one has taken care of him like this.

The skeleton wanted to say something, but immediately turned his head and looked towards the empty night behind him as if he had noticed something.Ergou was about to ask what happened, but the skeleton had pulled Ergou up and left the place.

Only then did Ergou realize that the place he was in was the same as the Mortal Realm.There are many houses made of rubble, surrounded by dead wood, there are no flowers and plants here, and everything exudes a dead silence.There is no one else here, and there are no other skeletons, only the one that Ergou saw when he woke up.

The skeleton ran a long distance with the two dogs, found a mound and sat down.When Er Gou sat down, he couldn't help but glanced behind him. A scarecrow who didn't know how long it had been baptized was inserted obliquely on the ground behind them. A crow stayed on his body. The crow's eyes were red, staring at watching them.

"master--"

The crow's mouth opened slightly, and two clear words came out from the crow's mouth.Although Ergou couldn't see the expression of the skeleton, he could clearly feel the trembling of the skeleton beside him.

"Yuri."

"Don't call my name!" The shouted skeleton shouted at the crow in front of him angrily.

"Master." Crow changed his tune, "I'm waiting for you."

"I don't need you to wait for me!" The skeleton said to the crow with a very decisive tone.

There is not a single piece of good clothes on his body, and his tattered clothes can be seen everywhere with bones that have no flesh and blood inside. Although it is not unusual to see anything in the underworld, Ergou is still very strange.What was this bone before?man, god?

"master……"

"I don't want to see you!"

The crow closed its mouth and remained silent for a long time, then suddenly dropped a few blue beads in front of the skeleton.

"I'm going, master."

After speaking, the crow spread its wings and flew away in front of the two of them.The skeleton fell to the ground weakly, Ergou picked up the blue beads scattered on the ground in front of him.

These blue pillars exude a faint light, very beautiful.

"what is this?"

"The soul of a mortal." The skeleton said, "My name is Lin Yuli, you can call me Yuli."

"Why did he give you this?" Ergou asked while sitting beside the skeleton with those beads.

There was a hint of fear in Lin Yuli's tone, and he said angrily: "It's him! It's him who made me look like this!"

"What did you look like?"

"I was originally a human being." Lin Yuli eased his emotions a little, and said to Ergou, "Because I failed the imperial examinations many times, I became a teacher in my hometown."

"Is he your apprentice?"

Lin Yuli shook his head, "I didn't accept him."

"But he called you master."

"One day I opened the door, and he suddenly appeared at the door, covered in blood." Lin Yuli said, "I looked around to see if there was no one, and immediately rescued him."

"That's the savior."

"That's right." Lin Yuli let out a long breath, and then slammed his upper and lower teeth together, making a loud noise, "If you give me a chance to do it all over again, I will never save him .”

"Why?" Ergou asked, "I think he treats you very well."

"Okay?" Lin Yuli made a slight mocking sound from the position of the throat bone, "Is it good for me to turn me into this inhuman appearance?"

Ergou was silent for a moment, and then said: "But look, if you tell him not to call your name, he won't call you. If you tell him to go, he will go. I think he listens to you. You don't want to see him, he I will turn into a crow to see you."

"How do you know he turned into a crow?" Lin Yuli asked.

"I can feel it." Ergou said, "I'm also a monk. I can feel the aura on his body. It's definitely not a crow."

Lin Yuli understood, and then continued: "Well, he wasn't a crow, but he wasn't a human either."

"Then what is he?"

Lin Yuli turned his head slightly, looking at the dead night in front of him, "He... is the master here."

Master of the underworld?

Ergou was a little surprised, he didn't expect this crow to have such a background.

"Then why did he give you these?" Er Gou pointed to the beads on his hand and asked.

Lin Yuli stretched out his hand to the beads, and the blue beads disappeared immediately when they touched him. After a while, Lin Yuli said slowly: "These... are all means to imprison me."

Lin Yuli didn't say any more, and Ergou didn't ask any more.Ergou sat quietly beside Lin Yuli, staring at the dark night with Lin Yuli in a daze.

When Xue Yuandao was not around, Ergou was mostly very quiet.Thinking of this, Ergou couldn't help but wonder why he was so talkative in front of Xue Yuandao?Could it be because Xue Yuandao said too little, so he had to say more?

"Your master..."

After a long time, Lin Yuli spoke again.

"Ok?"

"He left you here..."

"No, no, I got lost with him." Ergou said, "My master won't leave me..."

When Ergou said this, a picture suddenly flashed in his mind.I and Lin Yuli are also sitting here, and the darkness is also in front of me.

He didn't wait for anyone, and no one would come.

"You're not sure, are you?"

"No." Ergou shook his head, and then said affirmatively, "My master will definitely not abandon me."

Lin Yuli sneered again, "I always feel like I've seen you before."

"Huh?" This made Ergou feel strange. Before, he often felt that some people were very familiar, but these people were not familiar with him.Lin Yuli was the first... person who said to him "I seem to have seen you" after he felt familiar?

"I think I used to sit here with you like this." Lin Yuli said, "You told me that you were thrown in by your master."

Ergou listened quietly to Lin Yuli's words. He had indeed seen this scene before, but he only saw the picture, but couldn't hear what the two said.

"You said, your master is a very powerful person with a strong sense of responsibility. He can always know the person or thing he needs most and should protect the most at the first time." Lin Yuli said, turning his head to look at the two Dog, Ergou happened to be looking at Lin Yuli, "You said...you have to get out of here on your own, because no one wants you to live. If you want to live, you can only rely on yourself."

——Ergou, there will be someone... who wants you to live.

Xue Yuandao once emphasized this point to him very seriously, but he really couldn't remember when he said that no one wanted him to be alive.

"I think you may have misremembered." Ergou said, "I have never seen you before, and this is the first time I have come to the underworld with my master."

"Really?" Lin Yuli's tone was a little uncertain, "I don't know, I always feel that I remember you. I have been here for so long that I can't remember who I met, or what I always feel like I've disappeared, but I don't know why I'm here again."

"Are you thinking too much about wanting to disappear?" Ergou asked Lin Yuli.

"I don't want to disappear..." Lin Yuli said painfully, "I just want to continue to be a normal person, an ordinary teacher, and when I grow up, marry an ordinary daughter-in-law, have one or two children, and have a family Live happily."

"Then try it."

"How to try?" Lin Yuli looked down at his hands with only bones left, and said self-deprecatingly, "I'm not even a human being now."

Ergou stood up from the ground, "Someone in the underworld is reincarnated, as long as you get out of this place, there is always a way, right? I just want to go out to find my master, the two of us are better than one."

Lin Yuli looked up at him and nodded involuntarily.

"Hey——" Ergou sighed slightly, "My master is different from you. I always think he is a person with a lot of stories. He has lost some important people, so he pays special attention to the people around him."

"Your master?" Lin Yuli asked, then paused and said, "Your master..."

"Well, my master."

"I always feel that I have seen you." Lin Yuli said, "I heard you mention your master, and I have met your master."

Lin Yuli stood beside Er Gou, pointing at Er Gou's nose.One person and one skeleton just looked at each other like this, the heights of the two people were somewhat similar, and it was impossible to tell who was taller and who was shorter when they stood together.

"he……"

Er Gou stood in front of Lin Yuli like this, he couldn't open his mouth to refute Lin Yuli, but just waited for Lin Yuli's next words.

"In your place..." Lin Yuli pointed to Ergou's chest and said, "I pierced a hole with my own hands."

The author has something to say:

(????)?? It's a holiday, it's time to update~

Because every detail in the dream can be seen clearly, so I will write more clearly~

I haven't figured out the ending yet. After all, halfway through the dream, I was suddenly woken up by the alarm clock TAT~~

But this dream has been really disturbing for a long time... I hope that those who read it will not find it too disturbing.