118. Chapter Thirty-Eight: My Soul
I sighed and said to myself that I will go to the underworld no matter what. Since this is the case, there is no need to worry about these unanswered questions.
When I came to my senses, I glanced around and asked Gui Qi: What should I do next?
We are now in the open space on the top of the mountain, and shine a flashlight on the front of the mountain top. Gui Qi asked me: What time is it now?
He raised his hand and looked at the watch, and I replied: 11:50!
Gui Qi said: I won’t leave, build the tent, everyone can cook some food. We may have to spend the night at the top of the mountain tonight.
Fang Xiang was stunned and said: There is obviously a way ahead, why don’t you go?
Gui Qi made a low voice, and after a while he said: There is indeed a road ahead, but it is just a wooden bridge leading to another mountain top. What we want to take is not this road, but another road.
I understand, the other road that Gui Qi said should be the ghost road to the underworld.
As for when the ghost road will appear, we don’t know, and Gui Qi shouldn’t know either, so we can only stop here and continue to rest.
Gui Qi is the guide. Only he knows the way to the underworld. All we can do is listen to him.
If you take a break, then take a break. Everyone was exhausted after walking all night. If they continued, they would be a little unbearable.
When we came, we bought a tent and a sleeping bag. Now we just need to build the tent and lay the sleeping bag and rest.
Jiang Bo and Fang Wan, I, set up four tents reasonably, and then I found some dry firewood to make a fire to cook.
While cooking, I made a few torches and inserted them around the cliff to prevent the human-faced eagle from suddenly turning back.
After doing this, the five of us sat around the fire and started eating.
The food is purchased by Jiang Bo and Lan Xiaoqi, and most of it is compressed biscuit hollow noodles, but in addition, there are some beef jerky, vacuum-packed chicken legs and other meats. Although the food is not very good, it can at least bear hunger.
During the meal, Changsheng took out three incense sticks from his small backpack and lit them on the jade pendant, which was a meal for his wife and sister.
I tore open the packaging bag of the chicken legs and handed it to Changsheng. At the same time, I asked Gui Qi who was hiding in the distance: Master Qi, when will that ghost road come out?
I don’t know if the old man Gui Qi is really afraid of fire or pretending. After we lit the fire, he hid far away and didn’t dare to get close to us at all.
Gui Qi paused and replied to me: midnight is when the yin energy is rich, and the ghost road will appear at that time.
Hearing this, I was anxious: It’s about twelve o’clock now, and you still want us to set up camp, what’s this?
Gui Qi glanced at me and said carelessly: Do you think there is a ghost road every day? Is this too naive?
Jiang Bo couldn't help asking: What do you mean is that the appearance of the ghost road is not every day, but other times?
"Yes." Gui Qi nodded and said, "The ghost road is the road to the underworld, and it is also the only way for living people to enter the underworld. The ghost road cannot appear every day. It takes a period of time. I don't know when it is exactly. It can be as short as three or five days, and at most as thirty or fifty days. If you are lucky, you may appear tonight."
Fang Xiang spit out the chicken bones in his mouth, cursed and said: If we stayed in this ghost place for thirty or fifty days, our brothers would probably starve to death, right?
I said: You can't stay for thirty or fifty days no matter what. If you can't find it, we can only go back.
Although the Zizhu Forest can not go to for a month, if it exceeds one month, I will die and will definitely die. So if we cannot find the ghost road in a month, I must go back.
At this time, a jingle sound suddenly sounded on my watch.
Gui Qi crawled to me and said that the time was up, and then said: Take out five paper soldiers from your backpack.
I bit the chicken leg and did what Gui Qi said.
After taking out the five paper soldiers, Gui Qi waved his small flag and started casting spells as usual. Not long after, the five paper soldiers stood upright. After the inexplicable spells in Gui Qi's mouth were chanted, the five paper soldiers scattered everywhere and walked in different directions, and disappeared soon.
According to the previous experience of defending the position of paper soldiers, I think Gui Qi must be controlling five paper soldiers to find the ghost path.
When Gui Qi held the flag, I ate a bite of chicken leg meat and said with a smile: Master Qi, this is not the same as last time. Which paper soldier has not come back? Which road is right?
Who knew that Gui Qi said: I am not using paper soldiers to find a way, but letting the paper soldiers scatter to investigate the situation nearby for us in case someone cheated.
I was stunned and asked inexplicably: Then how should we find a ghost road? Could it be that we are waiting here?
"Of course you can't wait here." Gui Qi sighed, controlled the paper-breaking man to look at the other side of the top of the mountain, and said in a somewhat melancholy tone: "When the blood day rebirth and the dead trees bloom, it is the time when the ghost road appears."
After saying this, Gui Qi lay on a stone, and it seemed that he was about to go to bed.
I had two big heads, and I didn't understand what it meant to be reborn on the Blood Sun and blooming dead trees. I cursed Gui Qi in my heart, thinking that the old man couldn't finish speaking, and he was in the clouds and fog. No one knew what medicine he sold in the gourd.
I would fall down beside everyone, and I sat down again and asked them if they knew what those two sentences mean.
"The rebirth of blood day is hard to understand, but the flowering of dead trees is easy to understand." Fang thought for a while and said, "The blossoming of dead trees represents prosperity. In addition, dead trees are dead trees, and flowers bloom on dead trees, which means rebirth."
Rebirth? I frowned and suddenly thought of an important thing.
Where is the underworld? Is the underworld not the place where ghosts are reincarnated?
The blooming of dead trees is rebirth, and the reincarnation of ghosts in the underworld is also rebirth, so this sentence can be fully connected with the ghost road.
As for the words "Rebirth of Blood Sun" and everyone couldn't understand it.
After dinner, the little guy Changsheng was so sleepy that he had a fight. I asked Lan Xiaoqi to take him to the tent to rest and take the opportunity to let Lan Xiaoqi rest for a while.
I looked at Jiang Bo again and said: Jiang Bo, why don’t you go to sleep too, and I will be there to keep a chattering partner.
Jiang Bo was probably tired too, so he nodded and entered the tent.
Fang Xiang filled in the fire and said, "Silly, there is no need to guard this place. We can just go in and sleep later. There is no need to do anything about the old man Guiqi's paper soldier. Even if something happens, we will notify us."
I nodded, but I always felt something was wrong in my heart.
I can't tell what's wrong. Anyway, I always have a strange feeling. This feeling comes from my heart, not intuition or something.
Sitting next to the fire for a while, smoking a cigarette. Fang Xiang was a little sleepy and said to me: I'll go to bed first. If you have something to do, call me.
I said okay, let him go to bed, I'm sitting for a while.
Fang Xiang entered the tent and it was no point in sitting alone. He took out a flashlight and looked around.
There are trees and weeds on the top of this mountain. The place where we camped was in an open space, next to the cliff.
Several torches I had inserted before by the cliff were extinguished. I reignited them and walked towards the woods with a flashlight.
There are a lot of weeds on the road, and I walked very carefully and didn't plan to go far. I just wanted to see what's strange about this place.
After about three or five minutes, I reached the end.
There is another cliff at the end. The difference is that this cliff is connected to the cliff at the other hill in front, and the directly connected part is a wooden cable bridge.
The wooden boards paved on the bridge look a bit old and are very broken. Not to mention leaving, I guess a bird can step on the wooden boards on the stand.
I found that we were at the top of a lonely mountain, with only this wooden cable bridge around it, and it was still impossible to stand people.
I couldn't help but feel a little stunned, thinking that since this is the case, how dare the ghost road appear? Could it be that we will jump off the cliff one by one?
The world is too big to understand, and I have never seen too many things, and I didn't think about it carefully. Since the ghost road is called the ghost road, it must be different from the ordinary road.
When I returned to the camp, I glanced at Gui Qi. The old guy was still lying on the stone, probably sleeping.
There was no need to worry about the five paper soldiers patrolling around me, so I went straight into the tent.
The wound on his hand that was pecked out by the human eagle is slowly recovering. It will take less than two days to completely heal.
After working hard for a day and walking for the middle of the night, I was very tired. I wrapped my sleeping bag tightly and just leaked my head outside. I fell asleep soon after.
It was just that I didn't have a long time to sleep and I felt someone touching my face.
There are only five of us in this place. Who can run into my tent to touch my face?
Just thinking about this, I squinted my eyes and looked up in a daze.
When we bought a tent, we bought a few tent lights. At this moment, there are tent lights in my tent, and it is still on.
Through the light, I saw a somewhat familiar man standing beside me and staring at me.
I frowned and sat up in surprise when I opened my eyes wide and looked at me!
The man saw me sitting up, and without saying a word, he turned around and ran out of the tent.
I immediately came out of the sleeping bag, pulled out the saber on my calf, and chased after me with the knife, without calling Fang Xiang and the others.
The man was not very fast, and he was traveling back and forth in the woods.
I followed him tightly while muttering repeatedly about the impossible.
I firmly believe that I read it right, and I can't read it wrong.
If that's the case, why is that person myself?
That's right, the person who was touching my face just now was me!
I was shocked, and at the same time I was guessing various possibilities. In the end, the only one who could explain this was that the person who touched my face was indeed me, but not me, but my soul!
My soul is not in my body, and no one should pretend to be me, which means that the biggest suspicion is my own soul.
But this is impossible. My soul was taken away by Wu Niang, how could it run out again?
Could it be...
I stopped in surprise, with only one thought in my mind.
My soul suddenly appeared, is it proved that Wu Niang is here too######
Chapter completed!