001.
The rain gradually stopped, replaced by silver moonlight that filled the valley.
The sky without dark clouds was so clean that it was not even so clear in the middle of summer night.
Chen Ran looked at the clean sky, felt the silver light sprinkled on his body, and his heart became peaceful.
"Let's go back." Chen Ran got up holding Guodong.
Guodong looked at Chen Ran, and obediently let Chen Ran hold him.
This experience was very strange for him, because no one could see him before, so of course no one could hold him.
"Why did you call me Guodong before?" Guodong leaned into Chen Ran's arms and asked. He had wanted to ask this question for a long time. When we first met, Chen Ran kept calling me by this name, and he kept calling him by this name afterward. .
"Because you are Guodong."
"I'm not Guodong." Guodong looked at Chen Ran, Chen Ran must have admitted the wrong person, he was a god, Chen Ran had never been called Guodong before.
Knowing that Chen Ran might have admitted the wrong person, Guo Dong raised his head slightly and lowered it again.
"I said you are you." Chen Ran was stubborn.
Although the Guodong he knows is the future Guodong, this Guodong is also a part of the Guodong he knows, they are all Guodongs.
Guodong looked at Chen Ran and stopped talking.
All the way back to the temple, Chen Ran saw Lan Haoyi approaching him in the dam outside the temple.
Under the night, the clothes and hair of the two of them were soaked. They saw that the weather had improved under the rain pavilion and guessed that Chen Ran must have found Guodong, so they came back.
Seeing Guo Dong, both of them breathed a sigh of relief.
The two opened their mouths and wanted to say something, Guodong was too nonsense, but they swallowed the words back.
They were cold and tired after tossing all night.
"I'm going to make a fire." Gao Jin turned and walked towards the house.
The temple is fairly well built, except for some leaks in some places, most of the house is still dry. The firewood they picked up and put in the house before is a little damp, but it can still be ignited.
When the fire started, Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin hurriedly took off their clothes.
Even if the heavy rain had stopped and the chill covering the entire mountain forest had dissipated, it was winter after all, their hands and feet were already numb from the cold, and their teeth were chattering non-stop.
Seeing this, Guodong remembered that Chen Ran was a human being, and he would get sick if it was too cold. Guodong, who was greedy for Chen Ran's embrace and had been reluctant to leave, quickly floated away from Chen Ran's embrace, so that Chen Ran could roast the clothes on his body.
"What do you do with the rain on your body?" Chen Ran asked Guo Dong, who was also drenched.
Guodong immediately shook off the excess water from his body like a beast in the mountains, and then the white light on his body slowly lit up, and when the light dissipated, his body was completely dry.
After finishing all this, Guodong obediently squatted beside the fire and waited.
Chen Ran was relieved, and then went to the side to take off his clothes.
After changing back to the modern attire they were wearing, and drying the robes by the fire, the three of them finally regained their composure.
After doing this, the three moved closer to the fire.
Guodong floated in front of them, stretched out his hands and touched the heads of the three of them, touching their heads would prevent them from getting sick.
After being touched on the head, seeing Guodong's serious face, the corners of the mouths of the three of them curled up involuntarily.
One night without dreams, the next day dawns.
After waking up, the first thing the three of them did was to confirm whether they were sick. It rained most of the night in winter, so it was strange that they were not sick.
But to the surprise of the three, not only were they not sick, they were in good spirits.
Faced with this, the three of them couldn't help but feel the ease of using divine power.
After finishing the inspection, Guodong floated into the room, holding a big paper bag in his arms, and there was a faint fragrance in the paper bag.
Guo Dong floated in front of Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin, he took out the buns from the paper bag and shared them between them, after each of them distributed one, Guo Dong handed the whole paper bag in his arms to Chen Ran, "I bought eight buns. one for each of them, and here are six more."
As Chen Ran said, he would eat six in one meal.
He didn't even care about money, so he bought six for Chen Ran.
Chen Ran took it, looked at the paper bag full of buns, and listened to Guodong's words, the muscles on his face began to twitch uncontrollably.
Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin on the side couldn't help but move away, their shoulders trembled suspiciously. After this dungeon, Chen Ran would probably be afraid to see Baozi for a while.
Chen Ran glared at the two of them quietly, and with the posture of wanting to fight himself to death, he squatted down to the door to eat his steamed stuffed bun without saying a word.
Looking at Chen Ran's gloomy back, he couldn't help laughing, and Lan Haoyi couldn't help laughing, and also laughed.
Hearing the laughter, Guodong turned his head suspiciously, not understanding why Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin suddenly laughed.
"I have something to tell you." Chen Ran glared at Lan Haoyi and Jiajin in warning, then looked at Guodong seriously.
"What's the matter?" Guo Dong obediently floated in front of Chen Ran, wanting to be obedient.
The expression on Chen Ran's face gradually became serious. At the same time, he took the opportunity to put a bag full of steamed buns in his arms aside. If possible, he would like to go back to the self who threatened to eat six steamed buns a few days ago, "Go on." Can you give me your sacred stone for safekeeping in the next few days?"
Guodong's shrine is some distance away from the temple, and even farther down the mountain. It is impossible for them to stay on the mountain and watch at any time, so only in this way can he confirm that the sacred stone will not be taken away by Jiyue.
Guo Dong was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Chen Ran to say this.
"Only for a few days." Chen Ran said.
"Don't worry, I will definitely protect it." Chen Ran swore.
Guo Dong was at a loss, he looked hesitantly at Chen Ran and then at the two people behind Chen Ran.
Although no one had ever told Guodong, he knew that the sacred stone was very important to him.Let him suddenly hand over the sacred stone to someone else for safekeeping, and he instinctively felt uneasy and scared, and that kind of fear and uneasiness was carved into his bones.
"Trust me, okay?" Chen Ran looked straight into Guodong's eyes, he would never hurt Guodong.
"Does it have to be like this?" Guodong tugged at the hem of his clothes uneasily.That feeling was like asking him to entrust his life to Chen Ran suddenly. It wasn't that he didn't trust Chen Ran, but he was still afraid.
"Ah."
Guo Dong hesitated for a moment, his face was tangled into buns, but he finally nodded, "Okay then, but only for a few days..."
Chen Ran breathed a sigh of relief, looking at Guodong's eyes became complicated and touched, he could understand the importance of the god stone to Guodong, so he knew more clearly what Guodong had to bear with his nod, he said forcefully as if making an oath: "Don't worry, I will definitely protect it."
Guodong turned around and drifted towards the back mountain to get his own sacred stone.
After figuring out what Chen Ran meant, Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin took a deep breath, and at the same time, their eyes became touched.Chen Ranming knew that he couldn't stop it.
They just knew it in their hearts, but they didn't stop Chen Ran.
Just as the two were feeling emotional, a paper bag appeared in front of them.
Chen Ran looked at the two with a dark face.
Facing Chen Ran like that, and looking at the bag full of steamed buns in front of him, Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin, whose faces were still moved just now, couldn't help laughing.
"Are you stupid?" Lan Haoyi laughed.
Chen Ran's face darkened.
Gao Jin smiled and shook his head.
While shaking his head, he couldn't help but look at Chen Ran again.
It was absolutely impossible for Chen Ran in the past to make such a joke, and it was even more impossible for him to take the initiative to pass the buns in front of them for them to help eat.
It was not only Li Zhuofeng or Lan Haoyi who changed, but also Chen Ran, or even himself changed, but he didn't realize it.
While laughing, Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin still took a bun from their bags and left, otherwise they all suspected that Chen Ran would really be stuffed to death in this dungeon.
The well-known Gui Jianchou in the organization did not die at the hands of Li Gui, but was strangled to death by buns. It's funny to think about it.
When Guodong came back with his sacred stone in his hands, there was only one bun left in Chen Ran's bag, but even so, Chen Ran's face was still livid.
After stuffing the bag with the last steamed stuffed bun close to him, Chen Ran wiped his hands and got up to pick up the divine stone.
Guodong held the sacred stone in both hands, and carefully placed it in Chen Ran's palm.
After hundreds of years of polishing and weathering, the stone has lost its original appearance, becoming only half the size of a palm, and it feels very thin when held in the hand, not like a stone, but like a fragile piece Glass.
Chen Ran took it, and felt that the divine stone was slightly warmer than ordinary stones, and his heart became heavy and warm.
When Chen Ran entered the temple, he found the jacket he wore from the dungeon, tore it open, wrapped the sacred stone carefully with it, and tied it around his waist, so he wanted to take it with him.
Guodong saw that he was not used to floating forward, bent over and touched the stone on Chen Ran's waist, as if telling Shitou not to be afraid, but to follow Chen Ran obediently.
Seeing Guodong like that, Chen Ran couldn't help but stiffen.
He found that Guodong's body seemed to become more and more transparent. When he first saw Guodong, although Guodong was also transparent, he could clearly see the outline of Guodong.
But now Guodong, he can clearly see the texture of the soil on the ground through Guodong's body.
After whispering to Shitou, Guodong raised his head and saw Chen Ran's face was pale, he was puzzled, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Chen Ran shook his head.
After dealing with the divine stone, Chen Ran took the knife again.
"You stay with them today, don't go anywhere until I come back." Chen Ran said.
Guo Dong thought of what happened down the mountain, and lowered his eyes slightly.
"I'll go find Jiyue." Chen Ran was murderous.
Guo Dong said nothing.
"It must be that he has tampered with the people in the town, so the people in the town will become like that. As long as he is gone, everything will be fine." Chen Ran's tone was gentle, and he knew that this might be just a lie, but there was another what relationship?
"It's not your fault." Chen Ran told Guodong with firm eyes.
Thinking of the questions Guodong asked him last night, and thinking of Guodong even wondering if he was betrayed and abandoned because he didn’t make any money, Chen Ran’s heart felt like someone was cutting his flesh with a knife , One knife at a time, one knife at a time, until his whole heart was bleeding.
"Okay." Guodong nodded obediently.
Chen Ran looked at Guodong for a while, took the knife, and went down the mountain.
Guodong floated quietly in the air, quietly watching Chen Ran's back disappear at the end of the path, knowing that Chen Ran would never be seen again, Guodong turned back and floated towards the temple.
He obediently found a place in the temple and huddled up in a ball. He wanted to listen to Chen Ran and stay beside Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin.
Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin didn't know what happened last night, but just listening to what Chen Ran said just now, they also knew that it must not be a happy thing.
During the silence, Lan Haoyi tried to find something to say, Guodong was not suitable for being so silent, but he opened his lips again and again, but he still couldn't find a suitable topic. At this time, any topic seemed inappropriate.
"Aren't you people from this neighborhood?" Guo Dong tilted his head and asked, forget about Chen Ran, and didn't mention the strange clothes the three of them wore at the beginning. Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin's short hair was similar to that of people in the town all different.
"No." Gao Jin replied.
"Is your home far from here?" Guodong was curious. He had never heard of people dressed like Lan Haoyi and the others nearby. People from nearby towns would come to their town occasionally. Guodong had seen those people , those people are the same as the people in the town, not like Lan Haoyi and the others.
And those people couldn't see him, unlike Lan Haoyi and the others.
Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin looked at each other, "It's sort of..."
"How far is that?"
"It's so far away that if you're not careful, you may never go back." Gao Jin smiled wryly.
"You came here to find that guy named Guodong? You have been looking for things in the town for the past two days, and you have been asking people everywhere." Guodong asked again.
Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin were slightly taken aback, and immediately they both nodded.
"Hmm." He approached.
Guodong lowered his head, he tugged at the hem of his clothes, and straightened it neatly, "Is that so..."
"What's the matter?" Lan Haoyi didn't understand why Guodong suddenly thought of asking about this matter?
Guodong smiled and continued to straighten his clothes, "I can help you find him. What does he look like? Is he a good person? If you have traveled so far to find him, he must be a very good person."
"He looks very similar to you, he is our friend and also our colleague." Jia Jin didn't know how to explain to Guo Dong.
Guodong stared blankly at Jianjin, so Guodong looks a lot like him?No wonder Chen Ran wanted to call him Guodong, and he wondered why Chen Ran treated him so well, it turned out to be because of this.
"What's wrong with you?" Lan Haoyi was puzzled, while Guodong looked unhappy.
Guodong shook his head, he put his chin on his knee, "I just thought he must be a very good person." That's why Chen Ran likes him so much.
"When Chen Ran comes back, I'll help you find him." Guo Dong said, he promised Chen Ran to stay here obediently until Chen Ran came back.
Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin looked at each other, only to find it funny, Guodong wants to help them find Guodong?But the two still nodded.
002.
In the underground warehouse, in front of the three iron doors.
The red shadow turned into a figure, floating in front of the door.
Along with him, there are human skin ghosts.
Different from before, the human skin ghost has already taken off the human skin of the Taoist priest that he wore for an unknown number of years, and he has returned to his original appearance, a huge black dog and beast.
His huge body almost filled the entire space, and black air still lingered around him. It was completely different from him when he was wearing human skin, and it was chilling.
Stopping in front of the iron gate, Hong Ying didn't move immediately, he just floated quietly.
The human skin ghost didn't urge him, he quietly looked at the open space in front of him with half downcast eyes, he seemed to be thinking about something, but he seemed to be just waiting.
After a long time, Hong Ying finally spoke, and his voice spread through the warehouse more clearly than ever before, "He went in, his own copy."
What became clear at the same time was the appearance of Hong Ying.
In the past, Hong Ying was always in a state of red mist, making it impossible to figure out what he looked like, but now his facial features and figure have become clear.
The contours of his facial features are carved like a knife, cold and charming, his eyebrows are sharp, and there is a red mantra inlaid between his eyebrows like a red mantra in his forehead.
It was astonishingly red, like a tiny snake hovering between his brows, making Hong Ying's red eyes sharper and his face more charming.
One of the three doors in front of Hongying was abrupt and pushed open from the inside. As the door was pushed open, a bone-piercing chill rushed in, and together with the restriction placed in front of the door.
The black flame that had burned one of Hongying's arms before raised the momentum to burn everything in the world.
But it just popped up, and one hand squeezed it out.
The man in armor pushed the door out. He looked at the person and dog in front of him with disapproval, "Why didn't you stop him?"
There was a flash of a smile in Hong Ying's eyes, but more of it was helplessness, "It's useless to stop it."
Not to mention whether he can stop it, even if he can stop it, he probably won't stop it.
"You were the first one among all of us to meet him." Hong Ying looked straight at the man's imposing eyes filled with endless anger, "You are also the only one who knows what happened..."
Guodong is special even among ghosts. Although he is a ghost, he is not completely evil. He can always make them calm down, instead of blindly immersing in endless anger and despair. This is probably what they like. The second reason for following Guodong, because following Guodong allows them to own themselves.
As for the first reason, all of them were picked up by Guodong, and the place with Guodong is like their home.
Guodong knew about all of them, but they hardly knew about Guodong.
"What happened back then?" Hong Ying asked.
The man in armor opened his mouth to question, Hong Ying came to him just to ask about this matter, but swallowed the words back, and he remained silent.
After a while, he turned back and closed the door behind him, "Take me there."
Hong Ying didn't move, just looked at each other quietly.
The human skin ghost didn't immediately shrug up like before, his eyes were dark with obvious anger and murderous intent.
Although he was stupid and useless, he relied on an unyielding belief to stand by the Taoist priest for a hundred years, until the Taoist priest's bones were turned into ashes, until he himself turned into a ghost.
Rather than being stubborn, he believes that he will never lose to anyone.
Facing such red shadows and human skin ghosts, the coldness on the face of the man in armor loosened, and he seemed to sigh softly.
After a long time, he said, "I don't know either."
The red shadow moved, and the human skin ghost also flicked its tail.
"When I met him, he had already turned into a ghost. All I know is that he killed everyone, not only the people in his town, but also everyone along the way..."
"I was dead by then."
"I was originally the soul-suppressing general who was ordered to protect the country. I led the troops to guard the border and fought against the enemies of other countries for decades. In the end, I was feared by the king far away in the capital city of Taiping, and betrayed by the people I trusted by my side. He was assassinated on the battlefield, accused of treason, and hung on the city wall."
"I couldn't swallow that breath, so I turned into a ghost. I slaughtered the city I was protecting, including the tens of thousands of soldiers who had followed me. I wanted to slaughter everyone in the world!"
"With that anger, I wanted to fight all the way back to the city, but the capital is no longer there, and even the whole country has been destroyed."
"From the other side of the country's capital, he came straight all the way. Wherever he passed, there was hell within tens of thousands of feet. Human beings killed each other and betrayed wars frequently, so that the plague ran rampant, corpses littered the fields, and blood flowed into rivers. Hundreds of thousands or even more Too many people ceased to exist in an instant."
"At that time, I was controlled by the breath in my heart. I only knew killing and revenge. He killed the person I wanted to kill, so I found him."
"But the moment we met, no, before I even had time to meet, I lost my fighting spirit completely. My body was shaking with uncontrollable fear. I tried to run away, but my body would not listen to me at all. .”
"I could only feel him approaching me bit by bit in extreme fear, and after an unknown amount of time, he appeared in front of me."
"He was covered in cut wounds, and the wounds were constantly bleeding out. His eyes were blank, but he just kept moving forward instinctively. Every time he took a step, there was a sea of blood behind him, and the blood turned into a monstrous anger. And fear, killing intent, pain, despair, they roared and roared heart-piercingly, as if they wanted to destroy the whole world."
"When he approached me, I completely lost my mind. The deeper fear than being betrayed and death made me attack instinctively. I tried my best to fight to the death, but my full blow was useless, and I couldn't even get close to him. he."
"At a distance of more than ten meters from him, the Yin Qi on my body and the skin and bones transformed by my Yin Qi were burned and swallowed by the Yin Qi lingering around him. Seeing that I was about to be reduced to ashes, I was extremely desperate. He looked over."
"He seemed to be awakened, and consciousness gradually came into his empty eyes, but that consciousness was very shallow, because it was accompanied by despair, fear and helplessness, which made him unwilling to wake up."
"I thought I was going to die. My mind went blank the moment I met his eyes, but he didn't kill me."
"He looked at me, as if he could see through me, let him raise his hand to touch my head, and then continued walking forward."
"When I woke up and came back to my senses, he had gone a long way, leaving only hell. I even suspected that being touched on the head was just my illusion."
"I've been following him since then. I didn't dare to get too close to him, so I just followed him from a distance."
"He didn't stop. I thought he was going somewhere, but then I thought he was hiding. He kept going all the way, trying to find a place where he felt safe, but he couldn't find it, so he had to keep going. Stop and move forward..."
"When he woke up completely, I couldn't even remember how many years I had followed him."
The man in armor looked at Hong Ying and the human skin ghost.
There was a long silence in the warehouse.
After a long time, Hong Ying turned around, "I'll take you there."
It was almost ten o'clock in the morning when Chen Ran came down the mountain to the town.
Unlike before, the whole town was full of joy, and the road was full of busy people discussing it. When Chen Ran walked all the way to Qian's house, he heard several times about the festival from different people.
He also saw many workers who were busy building the scaffolding, and the altar for the ceremony was arranged in the widest place in the center of the town, which was not far from Qian's house.
It was also because of this that there were busy people inside and outside the Qian family's gate.
Facing this scene, Chen Ran pursed his thin lips slightly, and there was murderous intent in his eyes.
He silently considered the possibility of killing Jiyue in his heart. Jiyue's ability was probably superior to his. It was hard to tell the result if he really did it, but he would never die here.
Chen Ran lowered his head and looked at the long knife in his hand.Today is the last day, and tomorrow is the festival. If he can't stop the moon sacrifice today, then everything will happen tomorrow.
He knows it's all just memory and history, but he still can't stand idly by.
After hesitating for a moment, Chen Ran took advantage of the chaos and sneaked into Qian's house. He originally wanted to find Jiyue in Qian's house, but he couldn't find anyone after he went around the courtyard of Qian's house.
No one could be found, Chen Ran was thinking about what to do next, when he was stopped.
The person who stopped him was Qian Ju, the head of the Qian family, the middle-aged man in his 40s they had seen in the yard before.
"It really is you." Qian Ju cupped his fists and saluted Chen Ran.
Chen Ran didn't return the gift, he came here to kill people, "Where is Jiyue?"
"Jiyue?" Qian Ju was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "You came at such a bad time, Jiyue is not here."
"Not here?" Chen Ran frowned.
Qian Ju made an inviting gesture, and led the way to the backyard. The front yard was full of workers busy building the altar, making noise back and forth.
Chen Ran hesitated for a moment and followed.
Walking along the corridor all the way through the house, to the backyard, before Qian Ju could speak again, Chen Ran looked over, "Where did he go?"
"Although our Divine Blessing Village is located in a remote place, there is a famous lake nearby. It is warm in winter and cool in summer, and the Fengshui landscape is excellent. Therefore, people often come from afar to enjoy it. Jiyue knows it after staying here for a few days. , decided to go and have a look.” Qian Ju said.
"I left in the morning, I'm afraid it's too late to chase now." Qian Ju said again.
Chen Ran frowned more and more. He didn't believe that the Moon Festival would leave at this time, and the ceremony was scheduled for tomorrow.
"If you don't believe me, you can look for it yourself in the mansion." Qian Ju shook his head amusedly, "Everyone who left the entire Qian Mansion saw him, even many people in the town saw it. Why should I lie to you?"
Chen Ran was silent, but Qian Ju didn't seem to be talking.
But if Qian Ju didn't lie, how could Jiyue leave at this time?
This matter really has nothing to do with offering sacrifices to the moon?
Chen Ran didn't believe it.
Just as Chen Ran was thinking, the housekeeper of the Qian family hurried over, "Master..."
Qian Ju walked towards him, and the two exchanged briefly on the side.The festival was held so suddenly that many preparations were insufficient, so materials needed to be added from time to time, all of which required money to gather and nod.
After explaining to the butler, Qian Ju returned to Chen Ran again, "I'm sorry."
Facing the courteous Qian Ju, Chen Ran really wanted to imitate his appearance and return the courtesy, but he couldn't do it. As soon as he stepped into this town, he felt uncomfortable all over.
Since he couldn't pretend to be false, Chen Ran simply didn't pretend. He asked with a cold face, "Why did you suddenly think of holding a festival?"
Being treated rudely, Qian Ju was not angry, instead he smiled, "This is also one of my wishes."
"wish?"
"You are from another place, so I don't know." Qian Ju walked aside and sat down at a stone table beside him, "To tell you the truth, I have been suffering from lung disease for several years, and I have started coughing up blood a few days ago. Not a few days to live."
Chen Ran's frown became tighter, so Qian Ju chose to hurt Guodong in order to survive?
"Do you believe that there is a god in this world?" Qian Ju asked.
Chen Ran said nothing, just looked at Qian Ju quietly.
"I've seen it before." Qian Ju turned his head to look at the mountain where Guodong was.
Chen Ran clenched the hand holding the long knife slightly. He remembered Guodong said that no one in the town could see him.
"That was when I was very young. My family was poor when I was young, and there were many brothers and sisters in my family, so the life of the family was extremely difficult. The children of poor families were head of the family early, and I almost reached my father's belly. I had to follow him up the mountain every day to gather herbs, cut firewood and hunt."
"That's when I met him."
"I still remember that it was a heavy snow day. After I went up the mountain with my father, my father was cutting firewood in the mountain. He asked me to go to several places where traps were made nearby to see if any prey fell into the trap."
"I carried a back basket that was almost as tall as me, and stepped on the snow that did not reach my knees, and walked towards that side with difficulty. It took me a lot of effort to finally reach the trap, but the people waiting in front of the trap But it's not the prey, but a pack of wolves attracted by the prey."
"Those wolves have eaten all the rabbits caught in the trap. I still remember the bloody scene and the green light in the eyes of those wolves when they saw me."
"I immediately turned around and ran, but the snow was too deep, and I was carrying a pannier that got in the way, so I plunged into the snow almost without taking two steps."
"I heard wolf barking and footsteps behind me. I was terrified. I cried and wanted to run away, but I became more and more panicked. I didn't get up and fell again before taking two steps. I fell to the ground again and felt The wolves that had already pounced on the bamboo basket on my back, I thought I was going to die, but when my face turned pale with fright, those wolves didn't pounce on me again."
"At first I didn't dare to open my eyes to look at it. I knew there was a roar of unwillingness around me, so I boldly opened my eyes and looked between my fingers. At that time, I saw a thirteen or fourteen-year-old wearing A person in a gray-white robe floating in the air."
Qian Ju was facing the mountain where Guodong was, his eyes longing and nostalgic, "He opened his hands to protect me, and waved his arms fiercely at the pack of wolves, trying to scare them away and prevent them from hurting me. .”
"I couldn't see his face clearly and passed out, but I'm sure I did see him." Qian Ju looked away, and he looked at Chen Ran.
Chen Ran remained silent.
"Later, I told my father and the townspeople about this matter, but no one believed it. They all said that I was stunned by fright, and I was indeed fainted by fright." Qian Ju said nothing Mind, he continued.
"I went up the mountain many times after that, and I kept trying to find that boy again, but I couldn't find it after more than ten years of searching, so that many nights afterwards I wondered if I was really frightened."
"Later, I got married and had a child. For the sake of my child, I started a business with a rice merchant in the town. I just wanted to make a living. After all, how can it be so easy to make a fortune?"
"But I don't know if that little god is blessing me. My business path is very smooth, but I have a shop of my own in three years..."
"Thirty years have passed in a flash, and I don't have much time. If I have any last wish, it is probably not to see that boy again and say thank you to him personally."
After talking about his own affairs, Qian Ju took another look at the distant mountain with its top rising into the clouds, with a gentle and nostalgic expression.
Facing such money gathering, Chen Ran still frowned.
It is true that he did not notice the aura of lying in Qian Ju, but it was too coincidental that Qian Ju wanted to hold the ceremony just at this time.
"Jiyue asked you to hold the ceremony?" Chen Ran guessed.
Qian Ju came back to his senses, and he looked at Chen Ran in surprise, "You seem to be particularly hostile to Jiyue, but unfortunately, he didn't ask me to hold the festival, and I came up with the idea of holding the festival."
Chen Ran is confused, isn't it a sacrifice to the moon?
"Jiyue probably won't be able to come back until the day after tomorrow." Qian Ju said.
"The day after tomorrow?"
Isn't it the day after tomorrow that all the festivals have been held?
Chen Ran's expression was serious. Could it be that Jiyue really had nothing to do with this matter, because he lost his mind because of the matter involving Guo Dong?
"If you need to find him, when he comes back, I can send someone up the mountain to inform you." Qian Ju said.
Chen Ran did not refuse, although he might not have been on the mountain at that time.
After asking two more questions about the festival, but still failing to find any useful information, Chen Ran left.
Before Chen Ran left, Qian Ju did not forget to invite Chen Ran to come down the mountain to have a look tomorrow. Tomorrow, the town will distribute a lot of food after the worship. This is also a kind of blessing, and everyone in the town will participate.
After leaving Qian's house, Chen Ran stopped to look at the altar being built on the street next to Qian's house.
The preparation of the ceremony was not sloppy at all. It can be seen that the people in the town put a lot of energy into the altar and the altar, and the faces of the people who were busy building the altar around them were also full of happy and bright smiles.
Standing aside and watching, Chen Ran could feel the beauty and expectation.
That scene was so beautiful that Chen Ran couldn't connect them with what was going to happen next.
Chen Ran was staring at the altar, and someone beside him talked to him, "How is it, isn't it good?"
Chen Ran looked sideways, and the person who spoke to him was a foreman who was resting.
"It's all thanks to Master Qian, who paid for the festival..." After speaking, the foreman turned around and took out something and handed it to Chen Ran, "This is for you."
It was a small sugar figurine, with green pants, red clothes, a small head, simple and crude workmanship, and it could only be seen that it was indeed a person.
Seeing that thing, Chen Ran was dazed for a moment, and he remembered the time when he took Guodong to go shopping, that time Guodong told him that he had seen the sugar man a long, long time ago...
Seeing Chen Ran staring at the sugar man without moving, the foreman thought Chen Ran was disgusted, and his face, which was tanned from frequent work, instantly flushed, "It's a bit ugly, I'm just learning this."
Chen Ran looked up.
"I originally said that you who came from other places must have seen it, and I wanted you to help me see how it was doing..." the foreman said awkwardly.
"Carpenter's work is fine when you are young, but your legs and feet are not good when you are old. I thought about doing something else. I saw someone in other towns doing this thing before, and I thought I would learn it. Tomorrow Isn’t it a festival? I’ll see if I can sell it at that time, if I can buy it, I’ll sell it in the future.” The foreman scratched his head.
"Thank you." Chen Ran hesitated for a moment, but still reached out and took the little sugar man over.
This sugar figurine is far inferior to the ones they bought on the street before. At that time, the sugar figurines made by the boss could even make a demeanor, which was lifelike.
"You're welcome." The foreman smiled, "If you want to thank, thank God. If it weren't for him, our life would not be so easy."
Chen Ran looked.
"Don't you believe it, I fell off the roof once before, with my head down. I thought I must be finished, and I would be stupid if I didn't die. Guess what? I was stunned by the fall , After getting up, nothing happened, not even a bag on the head."
While the foreman was talking, people started booing, saying that he had started blowing again.
It was luck that he didn't fall to his death at that time, but after that, he bragged about it to everyone.
The foreman's face was hot from being booed, and he quickly booed back, but after a while, a group of people broke into a mess.
Chen Ran watched for a while, then turned and left silently.
The people in this town always give him an unreal illusion, because if they are real, they are really grateful to Guodong, so why do they hurt Guodong and betray Guodong?
When he returned to the mountain, Chen Ran still hadn't gotten out of the unreal feeling.
When he came to the temple, he saw Guodong and the other three, and the defendant approached Lan Haoyi to ask how the situation was, and Chen Rancai finally came back to his senses.
"Jiyue is not in town
The rain gradually stopped, replaced by silver moonlight that filled the valley.
The sky without dark clouds was so clean that it was not even so clear in the middle of summer night.
Chen Ran looked at the clean sky, felt the silver light sprinkled on his body, and his heart became peaceful.
"Let's go back." Chen Ran got up holding Guodong.
Guodong looked at Chen Ran, and obediently let Chen Ran hold him.
This experience was very strange for him, because no one could see him before, so of course no one could hold him.
"Why did you call me Guodong before?" Guodong leaned into Chen Ran's arms and asked. He had wanted to ask this question for a long time. When we first met, Chen Ran kept calling me by this name, and he kept calling him by this name afterward. .
"Because you are Guodong."
"I'm not Guodong." Guodong looked at Chen Ran, Chen Ran must have admitted the wrong person, he was a god, Chen Ran had never been called Guodong before.
Knowing that Chen Ran might have admitted the wrong person, Guo Dong raised his head slightly and lowered it again.
"I said you are you." Chen Ran was stubborn.
Although the Guodong he knows is the future Guodong, this Guodong is also a part of the Guodong he knows, they are all Guodongs.
Guodong looked at Chen Ran and stopped talking.
All the way back to the temple, Chen Ran saw Lan Haoyi approaching him in the dam outside the temple.
Under the night, the clothes and hair of the two of them were soaked. They saw that the weather had improved under the rain pavilion and guessed that Chen Ran must have found Guodong, so they came back.
Seeing Guo Dong, both of them breathed a sigh of relief.
The two opened their mouths and wanted to say something, Guodong was too nonsense, but they swallowed the words back.
They were cold and tired after tossing all night.
"I'm going to make a fire." Gao Jin turned and walked towards the house.
The temple is fairly well built, except for some leaks in some places, most of the house is still dry. The firewood they picked up and put in the house before is a little damp, but it can still be ignited.
When the fire started, Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin hurriedly took off their clothes.
Even if the heavy rain had stopped and the chill covering the entire mountain forest had dissipated, it was winter after all, their hands and feet were already numb from the cold, and their teeth were chattering non-stop.
Seeing this, Guodong remembered that Chen Ran was a human being, and he would get sick if it was too cold. Guodong, who was greedy for Chen Ran's embrace and had been reluctant to leave, quickly floated away from Chen Ran's embrace, so that Chen Ran could roast the clothes on his body.
"What do you do with the rain on your body?" Chen Ran asked Guo Dong, who was also drenched.
Guodong immediately shook off the excess water from his body like a beast in the mountains, and then the white light on his body slowly lit up, and when the light dissipated, his body was completely dry.
After finishing all this, Guodong obediently squatted beside the fire and waited.
Chen Ran was relieved, and then went to the side to take off his clothes.
After changing back to the modern attire they were wearing, and drying the robes by the fire, the three of them finally regained their composure.
After doing this, the three moved closer to the fire.
Guodong floated in front of them, stretched out his hands and touched the heads of the three of them, touching their heads would prevent them from getting sick.
After being touched on the head, seeing Guodong's serious face, the corners of the mouths of the three of them curled up involuntarily.
One night without dreams, the next day dawns.
After waking up, the first thing the three of them did was to confirm whether they were sick. It rained most of the night in winter, so it was strange that they were not sick.
But to the surprise of the three, not only were they not sick, they were in good spirits.
Faced with this, the three of them couldn't help but feel the ease of using divine power.
After finishing the inspection, Guodong floated into the room, holding a big paper bag in his arms, and there was a faint fragrance in the paper bag.
Guo Dong floated in front of Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin, he took out the buns from the paper bag and shared them between them, after each of them distributed one, Guo Dong handed the whole paper bag in his arms to Chen Ran, "I bought eight buns. one for each of them, and here are six more."
As Chen Ran said, he would eat six in one meal.
He didn't even care about money, so he bought six for Chen Ran.
Chen Ran took it, looked at the paper bag full of buns, and listened to Guodong's words, the muscles on his face began to twitch uncontrollably.
Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin on the side couldn't help but move away, their shoulders trembled suspiciously. After this dungeon, Chen Ran would probably be afraid to see Baozi for a while.
Chen Ran glared at the two of them quietly, and with the posture of wanting to fight himself to death, he squatted down to the door to eat his steamed stuffed bun without saying a word.
Looking at Chen Ran's gloomy back, he couldn't help laughing, and Lan Haoyi couldn't help laughing, and also laughed.
Hearing the laughter, Guodong turned his head suspiciously, not understanding why Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin suddenly laughed.
"I have something to tell you." Chen Ran glared at Lan Haoyi and Jiajin in warning, then looked at Guodong seriously.
"What's the matter?" Guo Dong obediently floated in front of Chen Ran, wanting to be obedient.
The expression on Chen Ran's face gradually became serious. At the same time, he took the opportunity to put a bag full of steamed buns in his arms aside. If possible, he would like to go back to the self who threatened to eat six steamed buns a few days ago, "Go on." Can you give me your sacred stone for safekeeping in the next few days?"
Guodong's shrine is some distance away from the temple, and even farther down the mountain. It is impossible for them to stay on the mountain and watch at any time, so only in this way can he confirm that the sacred stone will not be taken away by Jiyue.
Guo Dong was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Chen Ran to say this.
"Only for a few days." Chen Ran said.
"Don't worry, I will definitely protect it." Chen Ran swore.
Guo Dong was at a loss, he looked hesitantly at Chen Ran and then at the two people behind Chen Ran.
Although no one had ever told Guodong, he knew that the sacred stone was very important to him.Let him suddenly hand over the sacred stone to someone else for safekeeping, and he instinctively felt uneasy and scared, and that kind of fear and uneasiness was carved into his bones.
"Trust me, okay?" Chen Ran looked straight into Guodong's eyes, he would never hurt Guodong.
"Does it have to be like this?" Guodong tugged at the hem of his clothes uneasily.That feeling was like asking him to entrust his life to Chen Ran suddenly. It wasn't that he didn't trust Chen Ran, but he was still afraid.
"Ah."
Guo Dong hesitated for a moment, his face was tangled into buns, but he finally nodded, "Okay then, but only for a few days..."
Chen Ran breathed a sigh of relief, looking at Guodong's eyes became complicated and touched, he could understand the importance of the god stone to Guodong, so he knew more clearly what Guodong had to bear with his nod, he said forcefully as if making an oath: "Don't worry, I will definitely protect it."
Guodong turned around and drifted towards the back mountain to get his own sacred stone.
After figuring out what Chen Ran meant, Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin took a deep breath, and at the same time, their eyes became touched.Chen Ranming knew that he couldn't stop it.
They just knew it in their hearts, but they didn't stop Chen Ran.
Just as the two were feeling emotional, a paper bag appeared in front of them.
Chen Ran looked at the two with a dark face.
Facing Chen Ran like that, and looking at the bag full of steamed buns in front of him, Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin, whose faces were still moved just now, couldn't help laughing.
"Are you stupid?" Lan Haoyi laughed.
Chen Ran's face darkened.
Gao Jin smiled and shook his head.
While shaking his head, he couldn't help but look at Chen Ran again.
It was absolutely impossible for Chen Ran in the past to make such a joke, and it was even more impossible for him to take the initiative to pass the buns in front of them for them to help eat.
It was not only Li Zhuofeng or Lan Haoyi who changed, but also Chen Ran, or even himself changed, but he didn't realize it.
While laughing, Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin still took a bun from their bags and left, otherwise they all suspected that Chen Ran would really be stuffed to death in this dungeon.
The well-known Gui Jianchou in the organization did not die at the hands of Li Gui, but was strangled to death by buns. It's funny to think about it.
When Guodong came back with his sacred stone in his hands, there was only one bun left in Chen Ran's bag, but even so, Chen Ran's face was still livid.
After stuffing the bag with the last steamed stuffed bun close to him, Chen Ran wiped his hands and got up to pick up the divine stone.
Guodong held the sacred stone in both hands, and carefully placed it in Chen Ran's palm.
After hundreds of years of polishing and weathering, the stone has lost its original appearance, becoming only half the size of a palm, and it feels very thin when held in the hand, not like a stone, but like a fragile piece Glass.
Chen Ran took it, and felt that the divine stone was slightly warmer than ordinary stones, and his heart became heavy and warm.
When Chen Ran entered the temple, he found the jacket he wore from the dungeon, tore it open, wrapped the sacred stone carefully with it, and tied it around his waist, so he wanted to take it with him.
Guodong saw that he was not used to floating forward, bent over and touched the stone on Chen Ran's waist, as if telling Shitou not to be afraid, but to follow Chen Ran obediently.
Seeing Guodong like that, Chen Ran couldn't help but stiffen.
He found that Guodong's body seemed to become more and more transparent. When he first saw Guodong, although Guodong was also transparent, he could clearly see the outline of Guodong.
But now Guodong, he can clearly see the texture of the soil on the ground through Guodong's body.
After whispering to Shitou, Guodong raised his head and saw Chen Ran's face was pale, he was puzzled, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Chen Ran shook his head.
After dealing with the divine stone, Chen Ran took the knife again.
"You stay with them today, don't go anywhere until I come back." Chen Ran said.
Guo Dong thought of what happened down the mountain, and lowered his eyes slightly.
"I'll go find Jiyue." Chen Ran was murderous.
Guo Dong said nothing.
"It must be that he has tampered with the people in the town, so the people in the town will become like that. As long as he is gone, everything will be fine." Chen Ran's tone was gentle, and he knew that this might be just a lie, but there was another what relationship?
"It's not your fault." Chen Ran told Guodong with firm eyes.
Thinking of the questions Guodong asked him last night, and thinking of Guodong even wondering if he was betrayed and abandoned because he didn’t make any money, Chen Ran’s heart felt like someone was cutting his flesh with a knife , One knife at a time, one knife at a time, until his whole heart was bleeding.
"Okay." Guodong nodded obediently.
Chen Ran looked at Guodong for a while, took the knife, and went down the mountain.
Guodong floated quietly in the air, quietly watching Chen Ran's back disappear at the end of the path, knowing that Chen Ran would never be seen again, Guodong turned back and floated towards the temple.
He obediently found a place in the temple and huddled up in a ball. He wanted to listen to Chen Ran and stay beside Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin.
Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin didn't know what happened last night, but just listening to what Chen Ran said just now, they also knew that it must not be a happy thing.
During the silence, Lan Haoyi tried to find something to say, Guodong was not suitable for being so silent, but he opened his lips again and again, but he still couldn't find a suitable topic. At this time, any topic seemed inappropriate.
"Aren't you people from this neighborhood?" Guo Dong tilted his head and asked, forget about Chen Ran, and didn't mention the strange clothes the three of them wore at the beginning. Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin's short hair was similar to that of people in the town all different.
"No." Gao Jin replied.
"Is your home far from here?" Guodong was curious. He had never heard of people dressed like Lan Haoyi and the others nearby. People from nearby towns would come to their town occasionally. Guodong had seen those people , those people are the same as the people in the town, not like Lan Haoyi and the others.
And those people couldn't see him, unlike Lan Haoyi and the others.
Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin looked at each other, "It's sort of..."
"How far is that?"
"It's so far away that if you're not careful, you may never go back." Gao Jin smiled wryly.
"You came here to find that guy named Guodong? You have been looking for things in the town for the past two days, and you have been asking people everywhere." Guodong asked again.
Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin were slightly taken aback, and immediately they both nodded.
"Hmm." He approached.
Guodong lowered his head, he tugged at the hem of his clothes, and straightened it neatly, "Is that so..."
"What's the matter?" Lan Haoyi didn't understand why Guodong suddenly thought of asking about this matter?
Guodong smiled and continued to straighten his clothes, "I can help you find him. What does he look like? Is he a good person? If you have traveled so far to find him, he must be a very good person."
"He looks very similar to you, he is our friend and also our colleague." Jia Jin didn't know how to explain to Guo Dong.
Guodong stared blankly at Jianjin, so Guodong looks a lot like him?No wonder Chen Ran wanted to call him Guodong, and he wondered why Chen Ran treated him so well, it turned out to be because of this.
"What's wrong with you?" Lan Haoyi was puzzled, while Guodong looked unhappy.
Guodong shook his head, he put his chin on his knee, "I just thought he must be a very good person." That's why Chen Ran likes him so much.
"When Chen Ran comes back, I'll help you find him." Guo Dong said, he promised Chen Ran to stay here obediently until Chen Ran came back.
Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin looked at each other, only to find it funny, Guodong wants to help them find Guodong?But the two still nodded.
002.
In the underground warehouse, in front of the three iron doors.
The red shadow turned into a figure, floating in front of the door.
Along with him, there are human skin ghosts.
Different from before, the human skin ghost has already taken off the human skin of the Taoist priest that he wore for an unknown number of years, and he has returned to his original appearance, a huge black dog and beast.
His huge body almost filled the entire space, and black air still lingered around him. It was completely different from him when he was wearing human skin, and it was chilling.
Stopping in front of the iron gate, Hong Ying didn't move immediately, he just floated quietly.
The human skin ghost didn't urge him, he quietly looked at the open space in front of him with half downcast eyes, he seemed to be thinking about something, but he seemed to be just waiting.
After a long time, Hong Ying finally spoke, and his voice spread through the warehouse more clearly than ever before, "He went in, his own copy."
What became clear at the same time was the appearance of Hong Ying.
In the past, Hong Ying was always in a state of red mist, making it impossible to figure out what he looked like, but now his facial features and figure have become clear.
The contours of his facial features are carved like a knife, cold and charming, his eyebrows are sharp, and there is a red mantra inlaid between his eyebrows like a red mantra in his forehead.
It was astonishingly red, like a tiny snake hovering between his brows, making Hong Ying's red eyes sharper and his face more charming.
One of the three doors in front of Hongying was abrupt and pushed open from the inside. As the door was pushed open, a bone-piercing chill rushed in, and together with the restriction placed in front of the door.
The black flame that had burned one of Hongying's arms before raised the momentum to burn everything in the world.
But it just popped up, and one hand squeezed it out.
The man in armor pushed the door out. He looked at the person and dog in front of him with disapproval, "Why didn't you stop him?"
There was a flash of a smile in Hong Ying's eyes, but more of it was helplessness, "It's useless to stop it."
Not to mention whether he can stop it, even if he can stop it, he probably won't stop it.
"You were the first one among all of us to meet him." Hong Ying looked straight at the man's imposing eyes filled with endless anger, "You are also the only one who knows what happened..."
Guodong is special even among ghosts. Although he is a ghost, he is not completely evil. He can always make them calm down, instead of blindly immersing in endless anger and despair. This is probably what they like. The second reason for following Guodong, because following Guodong allows them to own themselves.
As for the first reason, all of them were picked up by Guodong, and the place with Guodong is like their home.
Guodong knew about all of them, but they hardly knew about Guodong.
"What happened back then?" Hong Ying asked.
The man in armor opened his mouth to question, Hong Ying came to him just to ask about this matter, but swallowed the words back, and he remained silent.
After a while, he turned back and closed the door behind him, "Take me there."
Hong Ying didn't move, just looked at each other quietly.
The human skin ghost didn't immediately shrug up like before, his eyes were dark with obvious anger and murderous intent.
Although he was stupid and useless, he relied on an unyielding belief to stand by the Taoist priest for a hundred years, until the Taoist priest's bones were turned into ashes, until he himself turned into a ghost.
Rather than being stubborn, he believes that he will never lose to anyone.
Facing such red shadows and human skin ghosts, the coldness on the face of the man in armor loosened, and he seemed to sigh softly.
After a long time, he said, "I don't know either."
The red shadow moved, and the human skin ghost also flicked its tail.
"When I met him, he had already turned into a ghost. All I know is that he killed everyone, not only the people in his town, but also everyone along the way..."
"I was dead by then."
"I was originally the soul-suppressing general who was ordered to protect the country. I led the troops to guard the border and fought against the enemies of other countries for decades. In the end, I was feared by the king far away in the capital city of Taiping, and betrayed by the people I trusted by my side. He was assassinated on the battlefield, accused of treason, and hung on the city wall."
"I couldn't swallow that breath, so I turned into a ghost. I slaughtered the city I was protecting, including the tens of thousands of soldiers who had followed me. I wanted to slaughter everyone in the world!"
"With that anger, I wanted to fight all the way back to the city, but the capital is no longer there, and even the whole country has been destroyed."
"From the other side of the country's capital, he came straight all the way. Wherever he passed, there was hell within tens of thousands of feet. Human beings killed each other and betrayed wars frequently, so that the plague ran rampant, corpses littered the fields, and blood flowed into rivers. Hundreds of thousands or even more Too many people ceased to exist in an instant."
"At that time, I was controlled by the breath in my heart. I only knew killing and revenge. He killed the person I wanted to kill, so I found him."
"But the moment we met, no, before I even had time to meet, I lost my fighting spirit completely. My body was shaking with uncontrollable fear. I tried to run away, but my body would not listen to me at all. .”
"I could only feel him approaching me bit by bit in extreme fear, and after an unknown amount of time, he appeared in front of me."
"He was covered in cut wounds, and the wounds were constantly bleeding out. His eyes were blank, but he just kept moving forward instinctively. Every time he took a step, there was a sea of blood behind him, and the blood turned into a monstrous anger. And fear, killing intent, pain, despair, they roared and roared heart-piercingly, as if they wanted to destroy the whole world."
"When he approached me, I completely lost my mind. The deeper fear than being betrayed and death made me attack instinctively. I tried my best to fight to the death, but my full blow was useless, and I couldn't even get close to him. he."
"At a distance of more than ten meters from him, the Yin Qi on my body and the skin and bones transformed by my Yin Qi were burned and swallowed by the Yin Qi lingering around him. Seeing that I was about to be reduced to ashes, I was extremely desperate. He looked over."
"He seemed to be awakened, and consciousness gradually came into his empty eyes, but that consciousness was very shallow, because it was accompanied by despair, fear and helplessness, which made him unwilling to wake up."
"I thought I was going to die. My mind went blank the moment I met his eyes, but he didn't kill me."
"He looked at me, as if he could see through me, let him raise his hand to touch my head, and then continued walking forward."
"When I woke up and came back to my senses, he had gone a long way, leaving only hell. I even suspected that being touched on the head was just my illusion."
"I've been following him since then. I didn't dare to get too close to him, so I just followed him from a distance."
"He didn't stop. I thought he was going somewhere, but then I thought he was hiding. He kept going all the way, trying to find a place where he felt safe, but he couldn't find it, so he had to keep going. Stop and move forward..."
"When he woke up completely, I couldn't even remember how many years I had followed him."
The man in armor looked at Hong Ying and the human skin ghost.
There was a long silence in the warehouse.
After a long time, Hong Ying turned around, "I'll take you there."
It was almost ten o'clock in the morning when Chen Ran came down the mountain to the town.
Unlike before, the whole town was full of joy, and the road was full of busy people discussing it. When Chen Ran walked all the way to Qian's house, he heard several times about the festival from different people.
He also saw many workers who were busy building the scaffolding, and the altar for the ceremony was arranged in the widest place in the center of the town, which was not far from Qian's house.
It was also because of this that there were busy people inside and outside the Qian family's gate.
Facing this scene, Chen Ran pursed his thin lips slightly, and there was murderous intent in his eyes.
He silently considered the possibility of killing Jiyue in his heart. Jiyue's ability was probably superior to his. It was hard to tell the result if he really did it, but he would never die here.
Chen Ran lowered his head and looked at the long knife in his hand.Today is the last day, and tomorrow is the festival. If he can't stop the moon sacrifice today, then everything will happen tomorrow.
He knows it's all just memory and history, but he still can't stand idly by.
After hesitating for a moment, Chen Ran took advantage of the chaos and sneaked into Qian's house. He originally wanted to find Jiyue in Qian's house, but he couldn't find anyone after he went around the courtyard of Qian's house.
No one could be found, Chen Ran was thinking about what to do next, when he was stopped.
The person who stopped him was Qian Ju, the head of the Qian family, the middle-aged man in his 40s they had seen in the yard before.
"It really is you." Qian Ju cupped his fists and saluted Chen Ran.
Chen Ran didn't return the gift, he came here to kill people, "Where is Jiyue?"
"Jiyue?" Qian Ju was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "You came at such a bad time, Jiyue is not here."
"Not here?" Chen Ran frowned.
Qian Ju made an inviting gesture, and led the way to the backyard. The front yard was full of workers busy building the altar, making noise back and forth.
Chen Ran hesitated for a moment and followed.
Walking along the corridor all the way through the house, to the backyard, before Qian Ju could speak again, Chen Ran looked over, "Where did he go?"
"Although our Divine Blessing Village is located in a remote place, there is a famous lake nearby. It is warm in winter and cool in summer, and the Fengshui landscape is excellent. Therefore, people often come from afar to enjoy it. Jiyue knows it after staying here for a few days. , decided to go and have a look.” Qian Ju said.
"I left in the morning, I'm afraid it's too late to chase now." Qian Ju said again.
Chen Ran frowned more and more. He didn't believe that the Moon Festival would leave at this time, and the ceremony was scheduled for tomorrow.
"If you don't believe me, you can look for it yourself in the mansion." Qian Ju shook his head amusedly, "Everyone who left the entire Qian Mansion saw him, even many people in the town saw it. Why should I lie to you?"
Chen Ran was silent, but Qian Ju didn't seem to be talking.
But if Qian Ju didn't lie, how could Jiyue leave at this time?
This matter really has nothing to do with offering sacrifices to the moon?
Chen Ran didn't believe it.
Just as Chen Ran was thinking, the housekeeper of the Qian family hurried over, "Master..."
Qian Ju walked towards him, and the two exchanged briefly on the side.The festival was held so suddenly that many preparations were insufficient, so materials needed to be added from time to time, all of which required money to gather and nod.
After explaining to the butler, Qian Ju returned to Chen Ran again, "I'm sorry."
Facing the courteous Qian Ju, Chen Ran really wanted to imitate his appearance and return the courtesy, but he couldn't do it. As soon as he stepped into this town, he felt uncomfortable all over.
Since he couldn't pretend to be false, Chen Ran simply didn't pretend. He asked with a cold face, "Why did you suddenly think of holding a festival?"
Being treated rudely, Qian Ju was not angry, instead he smiled, "This is also one of my wishes."
"wish?"
"You are from another place, so I don't know." Qian Ju walked aside and sat down at a stone table beside him, "To tell you the truth, I have been suffering from lung disease for several years, and I have started coughing up blood a few days ago. Not a few days to live."
Chen Ran's frown became tighter, so Qian Ju chose to hurt Guodong in order to survive?
"Do you believe that there is a god in this world?" Qian Ju asked.
Chen Ran said nothing, just looked at Qian Ju quietly.
"I've seen it before." Qian Ju turned his head to look at the mountain where Guodong was.
Chen Ran clenched the hand holding the long knife slightly. He remembered Guodong said that no one in the town could see him.
"That was when I was very young. My family was poor when I was young, and there were many brothers and sisters in my family, so the life of the family was extremely difficult. The children of poor families were head of the family early, and I almost reached my father's belly. I had to follow him up the mountain every day to gather herbs, cut firewood and hunt."
"That's when I met him."
"I still remember that it was a heavy snow day. After I went up the mountain with my father, my father was cutting firewood in the mountain. He asked me to go to several places where traps were made nearby to see if any prey fell into the trap."
"I carried a back basket that was almost as tall as me, and stepped on the snow that did not reach my knees, and walked towards that side with difficulty. It took me a lot of effort to finally reach the trap, but the people waiting in front of the trap But it's not the prey, but a pack of wolves attracted by the prey."
"Those wolves have eaten all the rabbits caught in the trap. I still remember the bloody scene and the green light in the eyes of those wolves when they saw me."
"I immediately turned around and ran, but the snow was too deep, and I was carrying a pannier that got in the way, so I plunged into the snow almost without taking two steps."
"I heard wolf barking and footsteps behind me. I was terrified. I cried and wanted to run away, but I became more and more panicked. I didn't get up and fell again before taking two steps. I fell to the ground again and felt The wolves that had already pounced on the bamboo basket on my back, I thought I was going to die, but when my face turned pale with fright, those wolves didn't pounce on me again."
"At first I didn't dare to open my eyes to look at it. I knew there was a roar of unwillingness around me, so I boldly opened my eyes and looked between my fingers. At that time, I saw a thirteen or fourteen-year-old wearing A person in a gray-white robe floating in the air."
Qian Ju was facing the mountain where Guodong was, his eyes longing and nostalgic, "He opened his hands to protect me, and waved his arms fiercely at the pack of wolves, trying to scare them away and prevent them from hurting me. .”
"I couldn't see his face clearly and passed out, but I'm sure I did see him." Qian Ju looked away, and he looked at Chen Ran.
Chen Ran remained silent.
"Later, I told my father and the townspeople about this matter, but no one believed it. They all said that I was stunned by fright, and I was indeed fainted by fright." Qian Ju said nothing Mind, he continued.
"I went up the mountain many times after that, and I kept trying to find that boy again, but I couldn't find it after more than ten years of searching, so that many nights afterwards I wondered if I was really frightened."
"Later, I got married and had a child. For the sake of my child, I started a business with a rice merchant in the town. I just wanted to make a living. After all, how can it be so easy to make a fortune?"
"But I don't know if that little god is blessing me. My business path is very smooth, but I have a shop of my own in three years..."
"Thirty years have passed in a flash, and I don't have much time. If I have any last wish, it is probably not to see that boy again and say thank you to him personally."
After talking about his own affairs, Qian Ju took another look at the distant mountain with its top rising into the clouds, with a gentle and nostalgic expression.
Facing such money gathering, Chen Ran still frowned.
It is true that he did not notice the aura of lying in Qian Ju, but it was too coincidental that Qian Ju wanted to hold the ceremony just at this time.
"Jiyue asked you to hold the ceremony?" Chen Ran guessed.
Qian Ju came back to his senses, and he looked at Chen Ran in surprise, "You seem to be particularly hostile to Jiyue, but unfortunately, he didn't ask me to hold the festival, and I came up with the idea of holding the festival."
Chen Ran is confused, isn't it a sacrifice to the moon?
"Jiyue probably won't be able to come back until the day after tomorrow." Qian Ju said.
"The day after tomorrow?"
Isn't it the day after tomorrow that all the festivals have been held?
Chen Ran's expression was serious. Could it be that Jiyue really had nothing to do with this matter, because he lost his mind because of the matter involving Guo Dong?
"If you need to find him, when he comes back, I can send someone up the mountain to inform you." Qian Ju said.
Chen Ran did not refuse, although he might not have been on the mountain at that time.
After asking two more questions about the festival, but still failing to find any useful information, Chen Ran left.
Before Chen Ran left, Qian Ju did not forget to invite Chen Ran to come down the mountain to have a look tomorrow. Tomorrow, the town will distribute a lot of food after the worship. This is also a kind of blessing, and everyone in the town will participate.
After leaving Qian's house, Chen Ran stopped to look at the altar being built on the street next to Qian's house.
The preparation of the ceremony was not sloppy at all. It can be seen that the people in the town put a lot of energy into the altar and the altar, and the faces of the people who were busy building the altar around them were also full of happy and bright smiles.
Standing aside and watching, Chen Ran could feel the beauty and expectation.
That scene was so beautiful that Chen Ran couldn't connect them with what was going to happen next.
Chen Ran was staring at the altar, and someone beside him talked to him, "How is it, isn't it good?"
Chen Ran looked sideways, and the person who spoke to him was a foreman who was resting.
"It's all thanks to Master Qian, who paid for the festival..." After speaking, the foreman turned around and took out something and handed it to Chen Ran, "This is for you."
It was a small sugar figurine, with green pants, red clothes, a small head, simple and crude workmanship, and it could only be seen that it was indeed a person.
Seeing that thing, Chen Ran was dazed for a moment, and he remembered the time when he took Guodong to go shopping, that time Guodong told him that he had seen the sugar man a long, long time ago...
Seeing Chen Ran staring at the sugar man without moving, the foreman thought Chen Ran was disgusted, and his face, which was tanned from frequent work, instantly flushed, "It's a bit ugly, I'm just learning this."
Chen Ran looked up.
"I originally said that you who came from other places must have seen it, and I wanted you to help me see how it was doing..." the foreman said awkwardly.
"Carpenter's work is fine when you are young, but your legs and feet are not good when you are old. I thought about doing something else. I saw someone in other towns doing this thing before, and I thought I would learn it. Tomorrow Isn’t it a festival? I’ll see if I can sell it at that time, if I can buy it, I’ll sell it in the future.” The foreman scratched his head.
"Thank you." Chen Ran hesitated for a moment, but still reached out and took the little sugar man over.
This sugar figurine is far inferior to the ones they bought on the street before. At that time, the sugar figurines made by the boss could even make a demeanor, which was lifelike.
"You're welcome." The foreman smiled, "If you want to thank, thank God. If it weren't for him, our life would not be so easy."
Chen Ran looked.
"Don't you believe it, I fell off the roof once before, with my head down. I thought I must be finished, and I would be stupid if I didn't die. Guess what? I was stunned by the fall , After getting up, nothing happened, not even a bag on the head."
While the foreman was talking, people started booing, saying that he had started blowing again.
It was luck that he didn't fall to his death at that time, but after that, he bragged about it to everyone.
The foreman's face was hot from being booed, and he quickly booed back, but after a while, a group of people broke into a mess.
Chen Ran watched for a while, then turned and left silently.
The people in this town always give him an unreal illusion, because if they are real, they are really grateful to Guodong, so why do they hurt Guodong and betray Guodong?
When he returned to the mountain, Chen Ran still hadn't gotten out of the unreal feeling.
When he came to the temple, he saw Guodong and the other three, and the defendant approached Lan Haoyi to ask how the situation was, and Chen Rancai finally came back to his senses.
"Jiyue is not in town
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