Deserted Xiba Village.
The graveyard was filled with small earthen mounds.
Except for a few pieces of incense candles that had just been burned on the ground, the place was empty and silent. There was no one in the grave, only the cries of old crows could be heard.
suddenly.
Bang! Bang!
A small grave exploded, and a fat, fat goat as big as a calf jumped out of the grave with a gray face. The goat looked around and bleated several times.
It seems that it is also a little confused.
At this moment, not far from the grave where the goat rushed out, a cry for help and a beating came from under a grave. The sound sounded a bit like that of an old Taoist priest.
The goat raised its hooves and dug into the grave. There was only a shallow layer of soil in the grave, and a white coffin was quickly dug out by the goat.
Bang!
The coffin lid was violently opened by the old Taoist priest from the inside. The old Taoist priest finally breathed in the fresh air and kept breathing heavily.
"Oh! My mother, I finally escaped!"
The old Taoist priest's words seemed to have a double meaning.
The cold air poured into the lungs, and the person shivered, and his mind finally became clearer. At this time, the old Taoist priest seemed to remember something. He hurriedly climbed out of the white coffin, and then began to lie down on the small soil in the mountains.
Calling Jin An's name in front of the bag.
It seemed that the old Taoist priest had already known that Jin An, like him, was also buried under these bags of earth.
Soon, the old Taoist priest found another white coffin under the tomb and exploded it. He only saw an empty coffin and Jin An was not in the coffin.
"Could it be that the little brother escaped from the ghost land of Chang County before the old man?"
"So where is little brother now?"
The old Taoist priest was a little anxious, worried that Jin'an didn't know all the inside stories and truth about Chang County, and if he couldn't accept the excitement, went crazy, or jumped into the river in despair...
Jump into the river?
The old Taoist priest suddenly had a bad premonition and hurriedly ran to the riverside, searching all the river embankments along the Xiba Village.
Then the old Taoist priest saw shoe prints left on a section of the river embankment.
The old Taoist priest's face turned pale instantly: "Little, little brother really couldn't bear the reality and committed suicide by jumping into the river?"
The old Taoist priest felt sad in his heart. He thought about everything that happened in the past month. The more he thought about it, the sadder he became, and he burst into tears.
…
The sun sets in the west.
After Jin An left Chang County, he originally wanted to go to the Trumpet Urn Coffin Temple, but when he saw that the sky was getting dark, he had to return to Xiba Village alone and silently, dragging his lonely back.
He originally wanted to see if the bones of the Taoist with five internal organs, the clay statue of a headless woman, and Wang Tiegen and his son who were eaten by the clay statue were real. Why did everyone disappear after a trip to the underworld...
But before Jin An arrived at Xiba Village, the small deserted village suddenly started whimpering as the sun set, and ghosts cried and wolves howled. Was it haunted in broad daylight?
"Little brother, wuwu, why can't you think of jumping into the river to commit suicide..."
"Woo woo woo, why don't you wait for me..."
"When you leave like this, you say that you don't even have anyone to collect your body. In addition to taking advantage of the fish, shrimps, turtles and crabs in the river, there will be no bones left after you die, so I will pay homage to you every time I want to pay homage to you during Qingming Festival from now on."
There is no place to visit graves..."
"Although you and I have only known each other for a month, I have already regarded you as a relative like father and son..."
"The greatest farewell in this world is when a white-haired person sends a black-haired person to someone else, woo woo woo..."
The old Taoist priest picked up the unfinished paper money from the graveyard and the half-extinguished incense candles. He went to the dilapidated river embankment to pay homage to Jin'an and burn the paper money. From time to time, he wiped his tears with his Taoist robe and blew his nose.
The Taoist robe that he usually cherished the most was now stained and he didn't care about it, leaving only sadness.
At this time, even the goat, who usually had bad tempers with the old Taoist priest, was infected by the old Taoist priest's emotions, and seemed to understand something about the meaning of life and death at this moment. He rarely stood quietly beside the old Taoist priest, and even took the goat's horn from time to time.
He touched the old Taoist priest lightly, as if to comfort him, and then raised his head and bleated a few times toward the rushing Yinyi River.
Just when the goat was comforting the old Taoist priest, suddenly, as if it heard something, it raised its head and looked towards the entrance of Xiba Village.
A ray of setting sun spreads over the water, half of the river is resentful and half of the river is golden.
The golden light under the setting sun shines into Xiba Village, and shines into the lonely shadow of heaven and earth walking into the deserted village, eh!
The four hooves of the goat jumped happily on the spot, and then the dust under its hooves rose to the sky, like a calf running past.
"Silly sheep?"
"Senior?"
When Jin An walked into the deserted village and saw an old Taoist priest in familiar robes lying on the river embankment crying and howling, he was completely stunned.
There is the surprise of a sudden reunion.
Others dare not confirm and dare not come near. He is afraid that this is another dream in vain. He is afraid that when he gets closer, this cruel dream will be shattered and he will wake up again.
Soon, Jin An knew that all this was not a dream, because a calf that looked like a sheep came running toward him like a rock, and threw itself into his arms, almost knocking him out like a sandbag.
Jin An finally realized with surprise that all this was real.
Both the old Taoist priest and the silly sheep are real!
"Little brother?"
"Mom! You've cheated!"
Beside the river embankment, the old Taoist priest's terrifying howl rang out.
…
An old man, a young man, and a sheep reunited in the world of the dead. After a lot of effort, the old Taoist finally convinced Jin An that he did not commit suicide by throwing himself into the river because he thought the river was too cold today.
And Jin An was finally convinced that the old Taoist priest and the goat were indeed standing in front of him.
"Old Taoist, what's going on with all this?"
"Did Chang County really become extinct ten years ago? Then after all the efforts we made in Chang County...are all the people we rescued gone?"
Jin An now has countless questions in his mind. Why did he quit walking in the underworld and return to the earth from the underworld? Everything seemed like ten years had passed?
Which side is the real one?
Jin An is very confused now.
I feel as if I have been abandoned by the world, like a rootless duckweed floating on the endless ocean, lonely, confused, and at a loss.
He was anxious to tell the old Taoist priest everything he had heard during the day about what happened in Chang County ten years ago. It seemed that only by constantly looking for someone to talk to could he feel that he was a living person of flesh and blood, not just a scene.
A trance-inducing dream.
Then, Jin An learned all the truth from the old Taoist priest. When he learned that Chang County was a ghost land and a ghost town, and that they had been trapped in a ghost town for more than a month, the complicated expression on Jin An's face could not calm down for a long time.
The people of Chang County were actually extinct ten years ago. The innocent souls of tens of thousands of people who were killed by Qingqianliu finally turned Chang County into an extremely powerful ghost land because of their deep obsession and resentment.
, ghost market, all the things he and the old Taoist priest experienced in Chang County in the past month were all ghosts beating the wall to influence the minds of the world.
In the disaster ten years ago, no one escaped from Chang County, and no one came to help Chang County. Therefore, the thousands of innocent souls trapped in Chang County accumulated more and more resentments. In the end, even the Buddhist monks of Zhenguo Temple
No magic weapon can suppress this city full of wronged souls anymore.
So later on, the resentment that filled the city began to flow out of the city, affecting the aspirations of passers-by dozens of miles away, leading people to enter Chang County, repeating their same mistakes over and over again, and being trapped for the rest of their lives, unable to get out. The only option is to save them.
Only the resentful souls in the city who had grudged their minds ten years ago were able to leave Chang County, a ghost land that had grown to an extremely powerful level.
And if you can't untie the knot of resentful souls in this city, you will be trapped in the ghost land of Chang County forever.
For example, Jin'an, the old Taoist, was unintentionally influenced by his mind and mistakenly entered Chang County, a ghost land where tens of thousands of innocent souls live.
At this time, the night was dark, and an old man, a young man, and a goat were sitting around a bonfire in Xiba Village, a deserted village. The old Taoist priest continued: "The murderer in the white coffin knows the truth about this whole thing. Mr. Yiyun
I also know that for various reasons, they took the initiative to break the situation, but for some reasons, they were unable to take the initiative to tell us the truth. Because we are all in a ghost realm and we can’t help ourselves. Once some things are said, we will not be able to tell us the truth.
Beautiful.”
"And when you, little brother, eliminated the thousand-year-old evil trees in the world of the world and successfully broke into the coffin temple in the underworld, you, little brother, were the only ones to break the situation in the past ten years. It was you, little brother, who removed thousands of innocent souls from Chang County, the ghost domain.
Pulling him back from the abyss of being lost is a matter of great merit and merit, even more meritorious than killing the thousand-year-old evil tree Qingqianliu with his own hands. Because Chang County is a ghost land and ghost city where thousands of dead souls live, with tens of thousands of people in the city.
To be continued...