"I guess that mountain ghost just lost his child." Han Chang thought, looking for a possible motive for this thing that is difficult for ordinary people to understand, "This is not unusual. Pigs, horses, cattle, sheep, and even jackals
Tigers and leopards almost always have this period of time when they become mothers. Some cats with cubs even feed mice."
"I know this. Not only have I heard of it, but I have also seen it. My old cat that picks up mice is like this..."
Ye Lingquan understood this explanation and thought it made sense. Feng just listened and had no reaction. It seemed that Xie Zhe didn't say anything wrong. So, he continued talking based on the fragments he saw.
The ghosts are not ghosts, but a type of monsters. Compared with the animals that are used as food, ghosts are also very smart. In addition to having one or two more horns on their foreheads than people, they are also very clever in using them. She knows very well
, this child is not his real child, but a child used to store his
A container of maternal love with nowhere to put it. At first, she probably thought that after this period of time, she would regard this child as food and eat it in one bite. But she obviously underestimated her feelings for this child. Speaking of which,
It's ridiculous, but even cats and dogs will develop a loving heart after being around for a long time.
He is so small, even if he is not eaten, throwing him into the wild mountains will just become the prey of other things.
The mountain ghost raised the boy as her own child and taught him to speak and even write. Some of the words were unknown to the ghost, so she tried her best to learn them secretly. Most of the child's food and clothing expenses were actually stolen——
Mountain ghosts also take their own clothes without saying a word. They don't know how to do it themselves, and they don't bother to go.
Weaving and tailoring. Some of the loose clothes or sheets that people hang to dry are missing, and people say that they were stolen by mountain ghosts. But generally speaking, unless it is a remote mountain village, mountain ghosts do not like to patronize human beings.
Territory. To them, humans have an indescribable stench, especially children.
This mother... is probably used to it.
For the sake of this child, she traveled frequently to various human villages and cities, and occasionally disguised herself as one of them. Under the protection of the mountain ghost, this child could have grown up healthily. At least, whether of the same kind or as a human,
They will not be easily provoked. And human greed is more greedy than human beings think. Otherwise, the accident will not happen.
Everyone in this village knows that there are mountain ghosts wandering in this generation of hills. As time goes by, this female mountain ghost will be remembered by everyone. Although it is very hidden, occasionally hunters and woodcutters bring news.
, there seemed to be a child beside the mountain ghost—a human child. So
The restless villagers speculated on the origin of this child. A child who can live next to monsters must have a great background. Maybe he is a child of destiny who is specially entrusted to such a monster to raise him. There are many quite famous children.
Celebrities, don’t they all have some weird experiences in their rumors?
Yes, that child must be the so-called son of God or the son of the devil.
But a middle-aged couple in the village had no children, and the neighbors gossiped a lot. Listening to the constant rumors, they actually had evil thoughts in their hearts. It didn’t matter whether it was a son of God or a devil, as long as it was a son, even if it was not his biological son.
Bloodline, with one's own name and surname, is one's own baby. If you get it from other places,
One, the gossip will still continue, and even get worse and worse, and it will be told to the children. The old couple knows how annoying the people in the village are. This child of unknown origin is different... If things can really happen, hurry up
Trapping the monsters near the village is also a great achievement. This is not called kidnapping, it is "saving people from fire and water".
Well, ghosts... ghosts are cannibals. Even if they have never eaten people from this village, they must have eaten people from other places.
It’s really crazy. If ordinary people heard this, they would definitely think so. But the more isolated and narrow the place, the more it can drive ordinary people into madness. Not only did they think so, they also did it, and even the whole village was there
They showed unprecedented unity on this matter. They relied on the unique cunning of human beings.
They falsely set up a trap to lure the mountain ghost into arrest and control her. But no matter how they tried to coerce and induce her, she just said nothing. If they were reasonable, Xiaozhi could not touch her at all with emotion and reason.
; If tortured, even the most imaginative lynching, it will not be able to force out
In half a word. They really don’t regard monsters as human beings-perhaps this is a bit strange. It should be said that killing dissenters seems to be an instinct engraved in the bones of most living creatures, especially humans. Because "
The ghosts must be very tough, and the physique of monsters cannot be compared to that of mortals.
With such absurd rhetoric, people treated her even harder, as if they wanted to test the limit of their endurance. It was like a group of hyenas that smelled blood. Once a wound was opened, they would pull out your intestines and stomach.
When it comes out, the skin and flesh will be torn to pieces and the bones will be chewed into ashes.
This scene is also convincing if we say that crazy people were bewitched by evil things and were performing some unknown primitive sacrifice. After suffering humiliating torture, even the strongest ghosts will die. In the end,
There was no news at all about the child. They gave up, hung up the body of the mountain ghost as some kind of symbol of victory, and went home.
Unexpectedly, three days later, the hungry child appeared in people's sight.
He was probably dizzy from hunger, so he didn't care about anything. The family happily took the child back, as if they had lost their memory and didn't mention a word about the mountain ghost. Although they served him delicious food and drinks
, but he didn’t move for a long time.
, sitting blankly in front of the meat dishes, feeling lost. The old couple thought that he didn't know how to use chopsticks, so they taught him step by step. After a while, he seemed to have recovered and ate something slowly, but his expression seemed to be...
Eat chewed pieces of wax.
There was no sadness or joy on his face.
Living disconnected from the group for a long time has made this child a little... abnormal in many places. But his listening, speaking, reading and writing have not fallen behind, he just can't show it. After returning to the same group, this so-called same race
His kindness made him feel at a loss and confused, but strong adaptability is a good quality. But can he understand the meaning of that "flag"? No one knows, but people hope, and even believe that he does not understand.
He is still young, he is just a child, he has never been in contact with his own kind.
The middle-aged couple treated him well, and other people in the village were also very tolerant in this matter. It seemed that they were accomplices in a certain crime, and an unprecedented unity seemed natural. And as the remains of the crime, in a very short time
The ghosts are like this. According to legend, their flesh and blood are the skins of jackals, filled with heavy, cold, sharp-edged stones.
It is also made by boiling it in boiling water mixed with rouge and gouache, and peeling off the fur. Of course, different regions and different ghosts have different explanations, but after all, they are symbols of some vicious and cruel creatures. But their bodies are all
It was stolen and pieced together. Once it loses its vitality, it will quickly rot into a handful of debris. Not long after the child arrived, the "flag" disappeared.
One year, two years, three years passed.
One year...
One year, the child who turned from a child to an older child understood something. It wasn't right. He had already understood that he just...did something.
Where did he get the knife? This is probably impossible to say, but it is no longer important. Judging from the result alone, it seems to be both a happy ending and a typical example of heartlessness. It can be called
Retribution can also be called a farce. Everything happened so suddenly that people have forgotten how the original story happened.
Perhaps no one will remember how this story ended.
Until they appear.
"Am I right?" Xie Zhe said quietly.
There was no crazy roar, no irrational screaming, and no self-deprecating laughter. Feng was calmer than him, or rather, it seemed that he had never fallen out of control. He didn't nod or shake his head; he didn't speak, nor did he.
Leave. He just sits quietly.
Ye Lingquan felt unspeakable pain, with a mountain-like stone pressing on his chest.
"...Where is the knife?" Han Chang was silent for a long time, and then just asked, "The murderer that night was just your projection. Although the knife was in his hand, we didn't seem to see anything in the body.
The murder weapon. It is true that I did not smell the smell of the murder weapon from any corner of the village. Even if a long time passed, I could have noticed the clues."
Naturally, Feng wouldn't say anything. He didn't even agree with Xie Zhe's statement just now, nor did he object to it. Xie Zhe only told Han Zhe that it might have been lost a long time ago, or picked up by other monsters passing by -
This is all possible. He just suddenly chose a specific day to commit the murder. The reason for this is still unclear. Presumably, Feng will not tell them.
"Are you going to kill me too?" Feng suddenly said, "In the past, there were onmyojis who were too shallow to leave. They wanted to kill me to unlock the illusion."
"But this spell was not cast by you. Even if I kill you, it will be useless." Xie Zhe said.
"Sure enough." Han Chang sneered, "I guess you are not easy to deal with. After all, you are... a child who grew up around ghosts."
Ye Linghua couldn't say anything. She only felt that although what they had experienced so far was terrible enough, the child Feng... was also pitiful enough. Sympathy was naturally easy to breed for her, but she believed that this
A moment of grief is extremely valuable. Xie Zhe sighed softly, with an unpredictable expression on his face. Han Zhang could not figure out what Mr. Xie was going to do now that he knew the truth.
"Perhaps I can help you with something." Xie Zhe said this. "This illusion is very rigorous. I'm afraid it was the work of an Onmyoji who is far more powerful than me. He probably wants to get rid of you - you are very dangerous. But because
He had no choice but to pity you, so he did not kill you, but chose this method. I can probably understand why Mutsuki-kun just passed by without making any comments. But he and I are different after all. This matter
…I can’t pretend I didn’t see it.”
Ye Lingquan smiled tiredly. These words greatly changed her view of Xie Zhe's usual dull and boring attitude. But subconsciously, she knew that Mr. Xie must be a kind-hearted person.
Zhong Lihan raised his eyebrows slightly: "Well, how can you help? You also said that this spell..."
"A building that has been in disrepair always has the weakest wall."
