I have been living in confusion and thinking these past few days. I know that my inference should be very close to the truth, but I understand that I have never gotten the truth.
What is the truth? I have no way of knowing. The most serious problem now is not that I cannot guess the truth, but that no one is willing to tell me the truth, or that no one knows the truth about this matter at all.
After preparing rations for three days in the town, I bought a backpack and got on the bus towards the Shuiguan Great Wall.
If my time judgment is correct, the night after tomorrow will be the time when Yao Guangxiao takes "me" and Rujun to time travel. And if Yao Guangxiao's prediction is correct, the entire process of Rujun traveling through the Ming Dynasty only lasts less than one second.
, that is to say, from Rujun's point of view, she must have traveled through the past and back again, but from my point of view, Rujun has always been there.
After getting off the bus, I walked towards the Shifo Temple. Looking at the familiar roads and the Shuiguan Great Wall in the distance, I felt very complicated.
Before I reached the entrance of the village, I suddenly saw a dark brown thing appearing on the mountain road in front of me. When I looked carefully, I realized that it was a young monk wearing a thickened dark brown monk's robe!
"Little monk?!" I blurted out in shock, because I saw that this boy was running towards me. My animal head mask was in my schoolbag. After all, it was too conspicuous and no one would want it.
I wore it on the bus during the day, so of course I didn't take it out.
So I couldn't escape the little monk's eyes. Judging from the time, the current little monk must have seen "me" in the ghost state. In other words, now that he has seen me resurrected from the dead, the little monk will definitely
Unacceptable.
However, what surprised me was that the little monk did not show any shocked expression. He seemed very indifferent, walked up to me with a normal expression, and smiled: "Are you back?"
I looked at the little monk and suddenly felt that there was a profound meaning in these four words. What did "you are back" mean?
"Little monk, shouldn't you feel strange?" I asked in a low voice. Looking at the little monk's face that was red from the cold, I couldn't accept his reaction: "No, do you know me now?"
"I know you, you are Lin Yang." The young monk said with a smile.
"But you shouldn't have just met me the night before yesterday, right?" I asked again.
The young monk smiled: "Yes, Lin Yang."
"But the me you know should be a fierce ghost, the Lin Yang who is preparing to travel through time!" I looked at the little monk and continued.
The young monk smiled slightly: "But you are also Lin Yang, aren't you?"
I looked at the little monk and was completely confused.
At this time, the little monk suddenly took out two slender things from his green satchel. When he looked carefully, he saw that they were actually two emerald-green cucumbers!
The little monk bit one by himself, then handed the other one to me and said: "Don't worry, eat a cucumber to relieve the fire. I grew it myself without any chemical fertilizers or pesticides. It is purely natural!"
I was stunned for a moment, then I felt that I was really hungry, so I quickly took a bite of cucumber. However, the cucumber tasted quite good in my mouth, making me feel a little familiar.
The young monk didn't explain too much to me. He just turned around and said, "Come with me. Master told me to take care of you for the next two days and you are not allowed to go anywhere."
"Master?" It suddenly dawned on me that the young monk might have done these things just because of Yao Guangxiao's instructions.
In this way, many things make sense. The young monk may have heard Yao Guangxiao say that there are two "Is" in this world, one is me in the ghost state, and the other is from Ming Dynasty.
Towards the me who traveled back through time and came back to life.
I followed the young monk into the village of Shifo Temple. It turned out that the place where the young monk lived was not the narrow Stone Buddha Temple, but a small courtyard in the middle of the village.
There are two courtyards inside. The inner courtyard is where you live, and the outer courtyard is where some vegetables are grown. There is also a small greenhouse. No wonder you can eat cucumbers in winter.
The young monk was very polite. After he arranged for me to sit down in his house, he asked with concern: "Lin Yang, are you hungry?"
To be honest, I was really hungry during this trip. My previous plan was not thorough. I actually forgot that Shifo Temple is also a tourist area of the Great Wall. The accommodation and dining prices here are very high, although I brought some food with me.
Yes, but if it were not for the little monk, my accommodation costs for these two days would have been a waste of money.
The young monk enthusiastically said that he would help me make some hot dishes to fill my stomach, but he did not allow me to eat the dry food I had brought. I couldn't stop him, so I had to let him go.
I didn't expect that Yao Guangxiao's apprentice would be such a good person. He was indeed a very considerate little guy.
Half an hour later, the young monk served two plates of vegetables and two bowls of rice. The dishes were quite simple, a plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes and a plate of cucumbers.
I looked at the eggs and suddenly asked strangely: "Little monk, monks are not allowed to eat eggs, right?"
"Okay." The little monk said vaguely as he picked up a chopstick of eggs and ate them in big gulps.
"No...it's not possible, right?" I asked again.
The little monk smiled slightly: "Okay."
Having said this, the little monk took another bite of eggs, and then pointed to the plate: "If you don't eat it, I will eat them all."
I had no choice but to compromise and quickly followed the little monk and swept away all the eggs and tomatoes on the plate.
During the meal, I tried to ask the little monk his name, and the little monk's answer was always the same: he was called the little monk, or the little disciple, or the little fat man. He never had any other names. The villagers in Shifo Temple also called him "Little Monk".
That's what he called him.
I finally gave in and stopped asking any more questions.
After that, I lived here peacefully. The young monk didn't talk much, especially about his master. He said even less. When we were together, we mostly did things like "
The meaningless debate about whether monks can eat eggs" waited until the night when the time travel began.
In the evening, the little monk was very vigilant and told me that this matter was very important and I must not let irrelevant people sneak in. In fact, I was considered an irrelevant person, so I must not reveal my identity.
I put on the mask, and then Ye Shi and the young monk came to the mountain behind the Shifo Temple, waiting for Yao Guangxiao to appear here with "me" and Rujun.
Seeing such a scene, I always feel very strange that there are really two me in this world.
After a while, I saw Yao Guangxiao coming from a distance. He was going to enter the cave directly, while the little monk was standing on the road we must pass, waiting to meet "I" and Rujun. Everything went smoothly.
That night was exactly the same.
Touching the mask on my face, I suddenly thought that that night, the "me" before time travel saw a person wearing a mask, a familiar person. Now I finally thought that this person turned out to be myself.
Under a strange mask, it was actually my own face. Even thinking about it gave me goosebumps all over my body.
And when the moon rose high, I saw myself and Rujun walking from a distance in the ghost state.
Of course I had to hide and watch "our" actions in the dark.
Both "I" and Rujun had some hesitation or nervousness on their faces, which made me nervous too.
Finally, under the guidance of the little monk, they walked towards the cave where Yao Guangxiao was. I knew that the time-travel was coming soon, so I started to move my body and walked towards the little monk who was across a mountain stream from them...
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However, after I took a few steps, I suddenly felt a rather cold air blowing from my back.
This is a sign of the arrival of evil spirits. I know in my heart that I have become a living person now, so this feeling is even more intense!
I turned around quickly, but when I turned around, I saw a woman covered in blood!
Li Gui, a very high level Li Gui. What is even more strange is that I have vaguely seen this high level Li Gui.
Silver level, five elements belonging to fire, shoulder-length short hair... This female ghost looks so familiar.
"You...you are...a cat demon?" I asked in shock, not believing my own eyes. Why is the cat demon covered in blood now, as if he was seriously injured?