For about 10 minutes, I tried hard to control myself not to think about anything else, but I couldn't help but think wildly. This kind of moment when I closed my eyes and was already very insecure, to me, was like pitch black without lights.
Walking at night in the mountains, or about to open the wooden door of a long-abandoned old house, I can't predict what will happen next. Personally, it's not that I'm afraid of facing the unknown, but that I'm afraid of facing the unknown.
I lost my courage from the beginning. The more I wanted to relax, the less I could do it. My hands and feet obviously drooped naturally, but my feet couldn't help but tremble because of the tension.
It's embarrassing. I know that, but I don't want to be like this. Maybe it's because I'm trying to calm down. I took a few deep breaths and then slowly exhaled. At this time, Granny Huang who was next to me suddenly used
Her right hand grabbed my left hand, and after slapping it a few times, Granny Huang said to me in her usual old tone, if you can't be quiet, think of something else, such as the taste of tea in your mouth.
When Granny Huang said this, I began to subconsciously search for the taste of the previous cup of tea in my mouth. Although it smelled very fragrant, when I ate it, there was a sticky feeling in my mouth. It was not disgusting.
, at most it feels like sesame paste. The taste is not an ordinary tea taste, but a bitter and astringent, dry feeling. It is difficult to describe this taste with a specific word. I only know that when I
The more I tried to distinguish the sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty taste, the more I discovered that this taste came from both sides of my tongue, so real and obvious.
Gradually, my consciousness became blurry. It was pitch black with my eyes closed, but I saw many fireflies that seemed to be flying. But when I wanted to focus on a certain bright spot, it quickly fled away.
, as if he knew that I was watching it. The sound in my ears began to become very muddy, a bit like the feeling of a radio with a flat battery, very slow, but very loud. I first noticed the darkness in front of my eyes.
A patch of red appeared, just like someone lighting a red lamp in front of you with your eyes closed at night. Even though you didn't open your eyes, you could feel its light through your eyelids. Then there was a puff of smoke.
Shape-shaped red light and black alternated with each other, and the sounds in the ears began to become noisy, and they became more and more overlapping. Among these sounds, there were crying, laughing, and shrill screams, but because the speaking speed slowed down, they became more and more overlapping.
It was so low that I couldn't tell the difference between men and women.
This feeling is very strange, much like being drunk and feeling like your body is spinning at a certain speed in mid-air even though you are still standing still. You feel dizzy, but you don’t want to vomit. Then, all the sounds
It stopped suddenly, the light disappeared, and the sound of an old-fashioned pendulum clock began to become more and more obvious and became more and more real. I recalled that this ticking sound was made by the pendulum clock in Granny Huang's room. It is said that it came from the liberation
It already existed in the early days, and then a burst of footsteps came from my left. This disturbance made me suddenly wake up. I tentatively moved my fingers and found that they could move, and then I felt
Grandma Huang patted the back of my hand as before, and then told me that I could open my eyes.
My heart beats faster because I have never been to the so-called "underworld". What will I see when I open my eyes? Is it the huge Lord of Hell in official uniform, or those weird-looking bull-headed and horse-faced men holding imperial staffs in their hands?
, black and white are impermanent? Will I see those little devils of Yama with weird horns on their heads, or will I see those guilty souls who are going up the mountain of swords and down the frying pan? Extremely quickly, I have learned from various channels about my childhood.
Everything about the underworld that I had read in various books flashed back in my mind, but I still couldn't muster the courage to open my eyes. Until Granny Huang said, open your eyes, don't be afraid.
So I slowly opened my eyes. As the light poured into my eyes, the surrounding situation became clear. However, I found that I was sitting on the recliner at Grandma Huang's house. Everything around me was the same as the one I just slept on.
The time has not changed. Those footsteps were the sounds of Granny Huang's devotees walking around when they were hanging red. I was very puzzled, so I asked Granny Huang, what happened? Did it fail? Why are we still here? Granny Huang said,
It's over. As he said that, he wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Watching Grandma Huang wipe her sweat, I touched my forehead and found that it was also covered in sweat. Winter clothes were already thick, and I noticed that the sweat from my vest had stuck my underwear together. I was surprised.
I asked Granny Huang, why... it ended? But I didn't see anything! Granny Huang didn't answer me, maybe she was too tired, she just pointed at the old-fashioned pendulum clock in the corner of the room. I took a look
, it turned out that almost four hours had passed since we started to have cloudy weather. I still couldn’t believe it, so I took out my phone to look at it, and when I put my hand into my pants pocket, I found that the inside of my pocket had also been covered.
We were soaked in sweat. The time displayed on the phone was consistent with the time on the pendulum clock. It was only then that I truly believed that not only had we gone out once, but we had come back safely and smoothly.
Granny Huang shouted outside the house, "Children, please take a rest. We are fine." Then she shouted, "Master Situ, please come inside." Those believers stopped hanging red.
, one of them came in and asked Granny Huang, is it really okay? Granny Huang said, it's okay, it's very good, you all have worked hard, go and have a rest. So within a few minutes, the group of believers left separately.
went.
Situ walked into the room and looked at us with surprised and happy eyes. What was surprising was that we came back safely, which must be why he was so happy. I also stood up and moved my legs and feet, but I felt soreness in my thighs.
It felt sour and numb. Grandma Huang poured a glass of water to drink, then poured another glass and handed it to me. Then she told me, my child, you performed very well and did not worry me. I was praised by her praise.
I'm confused because I don't remember what happened at all.
To be precise, it's not that I don't remember, but that I can't remember clearly. There are some very vague fragments in my mind, but if I want to recall these fragments carefully, I can't find the exact way. These few long hours have been
During this time, it seemed to me that I had just fallen asleep and was not yet asleep. I was in a half-dream and half-awake state. During this period, I might receive some sporadic messages from the outside, but after all, I couldn't believe that it really happened.
I always thought it was just a dream I couldn't remember.
So I drank water, wiped my sweat, and then asked Granny Huang what happened. I needed to borrow her mouth to piece together my fragmented memories. Granny Huang said, when you closed your eyes, you saw some flying objects.
light spots, right? I said yes, like fireflies. Granny Huang said, this is the critical point where your soul and body are about to separate. I said that next, I still felt that my eyes were red and black, and the rest was
No impression at all.
Granny Huang said that the red and black ones are what we keep going down, and the black part is the middle compartment every time we enter a deeper place. I asked Granny Huang, what are those red ones?
Granny Huang said, those are the flames. There are many people in the fire, undergoing endless torture. Granny Huang said it lightly, but it sounded so creepy to me. Because I can remember this fragment, I
It's just that I didn't open my eyes, so when she described it like this, a picture immediately appeared in front of my eyes, plus the strange sounds I heard, either crying or screaming, all expressed a feeling to me.
, that is terrible.
Granny Huang said that everyone’s soul is at the bottom. She knows both Hu Zongren’s and my horoscopes, so she can find them quickly without asking those little guys for directions. But when she found Hu Zongren’s soul
, only to find that the surroundings of his soul were covered with silky vines, leaving only one head. When the head was buried, Hu Zongren, even a god, could not save it. Around the soul, there was a
The child without pants looks white and fat, but he has an extremely ferocious face and a mouth that is wider than imagined, but the mouth is filled with countless thin teeth. For Yin
I know very little about people, so when Granny Huang described it like this, I naturally connected it with the images of ghosts I had encountered in the past, but Granny Huang told me that the appearance of Yin people is even more terrifying, and ghosts may
It's just eerie and weird, but Yin people are people who are already in hell. Hell is originally full of sinful people, and these Yin people are the worst and most aggressive among this group of sinful people.
What I heard was thrilling. Even though I knew that we finally came back safely, I couldn't help but blink my eyes a few times, for fear that I was also dreaming at this moment. Granny Huang said that the sinister man saw the two of us from a long way away.
It grinned and refused to let us get close, and it could smell that you were a stranger. How should I understand the stranger here? Granny Huang explained to me that the body is still alive, but the soul has come to the place of ghosts.
, and it’s the lowest level. I asked puzzledly, but what’s the difference? Granny Huang said, the difference is huge. People who reach the lowest level, if they don’t have the existing soul, are bound to die.
Man. We were supposed to be dead when we walked to that place, but I had walked there countless times, but it was your first time. You acted very unfamiliar, and you were immediately recognized by that guy.
I asked Granny Huang, what happened next? Granny Huang took a sip of water and said to me, next thing, the child rushed towards the two of us.