I looked at him. He was still dark and wearing the same clothes as when we came last time. It seemed that nothing had happened in the coffin. The ground I was lying on was a cold stone surface. I interrupted his words and asked
Said: Where is this?
He slowly said: The fourth floor of Thousand Buddha Cave. After saying that, he stood up and walked away regardless of my call.
This time, I was the only one left in the dark environment. At first, I was still angry. When would Zhang Kaixuan be so boring? I could walk away without looking back, but gradually, I felt uncomfortable.
.
I was the only one left! But where is his uncle now?! What happened just now? The surroundings were eerily quiet. Only the flashlight in my hand was still shining. I struggled to get up.
, because I am not very courageous to begin with, so I would only use my imagination to scare myself if I lay there motionless.
Only then did I realize that my right hand was in quite a lot of pain. When I took a flashlight and looked it up, I found that the joint was a mess of blood and flesh. I remembered that just now, when I was in a state of chaos, at the end, I suddenly stood up and punched him.
On the head of that slender figure, at that time, I seemed to be in an illusion, but what happened to my hand? Did my last punch really hit that person's head?
I tore off my clothes, tore a strip of cloth and wrapped it around the wound. I stood up and scanned the surroundings with a flashlight. I found that it seemed to be a tomb. There was a pile of bonfires that were about to go out next to me, with a simple pot on top.
, steaming steam is rising, this should be the place where Zhang Kaixuan heated hot water just now.
The tomb was very empty, but there was a coffin in the middle. It was not an iron coffin, but it looked a bit like the black lacquered wood coffin where my father's human skin was buried. By this time, I was almost immune to coffins, so I walked slowly and slowly.
He slowly approached the coffin and saw that it was empty except for one package.
Is this the place where Zhang Kaixuan sleeps? I thought to myself that Zhang Laohei’s hobbies are really strange. If I were to sleep on the ground, I would rather sleep on the ground than in a coffin. I took out Zhang Kaixuan’s package and it was very light inside.
, there were only a few compressed biscuits and a bottle of water. It was hard to imagine how he survived. After touching it again, I opened the interlayer of the package and there was a notebook inside. When I opened it, it seemed to be a diary.
There was a burst of joy in my heart. Now I had discovered Zhang Kaixuan's secret. Although it was a bit unethical to read other people's notes, I couldn't care so much now, right? I squatted down, turned on the flashlight, and started flipping through it.
The first few were about trivial things, such as fighting with the children of this family, falling in love with the daughter of that family, and so on. I wasn't interested in caring about it, so I started flipping through the pages very quickly.
Probably in the middle of a diary, suddenly a sentence appeared on the whole page, which was very literary and artistic. It said - I am no longer the person I used to be. When I first saw this sentence, I just felt that maybe this old black man
I was heartbroken, so I tried my best to become a literary figure?
But on the next page, there was still only one sentence. Just one sentence, and it scared the hairs all over my body.
Grandpa, is that you?
Zhang Kaixuan met his grandfather?! When did it happen? But there is no date in the diary at all, and I don’t know if what he was referring to was what Zhang Tianyi said, that he met a human skin.
Then he insisted that it was his grandfather.
There is more content on the next page, but it is even more incomprehensible. It reads:
I can only record everything, because I don't know when one day I will forget everything, let alone what happened to my body.
Who are you and how can you let me go? Grandpa, do you really want to do this?
I had no time to think about the meaning of his note, so I quickly turned to the next page. He wrote on it in blood, with deep handwriting: There is no time, and no one can save me, I have to save myself.
I can understand the following content, because it is all about what we experienced in the rainforest mountain tomb, but there is a rather incomprehensible sentence in it.
Are you the same as me?
After that, there was the experience of Thousand Buddha Cave. I didn’t understand much about him here. It was only here that he changed. From the beginning under the bodhi tree to the last Taoist King, he tried his best.
Put yourself in a coffin.
I flipped through the pages quickly, and finally reached the point where we had passed the three-way intersection. Here, a large chapter appeared in his diary. I could no longer fully recall the contents of his diary, so I could only briefly recount it.
"I have been here before. Even though this is my first time here, this feeling is unmistakable. Everything here is vivid in my mind. I know that I will have to make a decision with it here. A question that has been haunting me for several years.
nightmare.
I clearly felt its sadness and hatred. It guided me step by step. It asked me to help it take revenge. I saw the mural, saw it, saw the past and the future. I was afraid because I saw it.
An old friend in the mural.
The coffin seems to allow people to be reborn. I want to get rid of it. I don’t want to die. I want to be reborn. I want to figure out who did all this to me. I don’t believe that my grandfather would harm me. He would have the heart to change me.
It became what it is now.
But lying in the coffin, I felt that the air was getting thinner and my breathing began to become uncomfortable. I felt like death, and I became even more afraid. Am I wrong?
I want to stay. Since I can't give birth, maybe this is my destination.
It made me release the Taoist King, which almost killed my friend. But there was nothing I could do.
I was about to turn the page when a man quickly grabbed the diary in my hand and shouted angrily: What are you doing! I felt embarrassed when I saw it. His uncle peeked into other people's diaries and was caught doing it! I don't
I scratched my head in embarrassment and didn't say anything. Anyway, you caught your brother. I'm wrong, so why don't you say anything?
Zhang Kaixuan threw something on the ground, stuffed his notebook into his backpack, and glared at me fiercely. I didn’t like him either. He stared at me again and again. I was not the one. I hit him with my flashlight and found that he was throwing me like a dead pig.
The person on the ground turned out to be Zhu Kaihua.
I looked at Zhu Kaihua, lying motionless on the ground, and put my fingers under his nose. Fortunately, he was still breathing, so I raised my head and asked Zhang Kaixuan: What's wrong with Lao Zhu?
He said: It's okay, he just fainted. After saying that, he walked to the bonfire and lit the fire again without saying a word. When I looked at him reflected in the light of the bonfire, he suddenly became unfamiliar. He was completely unfamiliar.
The temperament of a person is getting closer and closer to that of my second brother. Maybe people with many worries will give people a gloomy feeling. Or maybe because of what happened last time, there is a gap between us, and the relationship between us is no longer a simple comrade-in-arms.
, he is deliberately alienating me.
It was very cold in the tomb, so I dragged Lao Zhu to the bonfire, and Zhang Kaixuan and I sat in silence. I am not a quiet person, I don’t have a lot of money, and I don’t keep many things in my heart, so I
I can't stand such a quiet and depressing atmosphere.
Because after reading Zhang Kaixuan’s notes, although I don’t know what happened, he expressed clearly enough that he was saving himself. In other words, what Zhang Laohei did during our last trip to Thousand Buddha Cave
Everything has its own reasons. I don’t hold grudges. Even though the Taoist Wang he released last time almost killed us, now that I saw him, I still couldn’t hate him. Finally, I asked: Lao Zhang,
What’s wrong with you?
He lowered his head and fiddled with the flame, and said feebly: "Didn't you see the notes? Why bother asking me?"
I shook my head and said: I don't understand. In fact, I feel that you should tell us that there is strength in numbers. No matter what we encounter, we can find a solution.
He looked up at me, and I realized that his eyes were empty and lifeless. Perhaps, one could see his confusion and helplessness at a glance. He sighed and asked me: Xiao Sanliang, do you believe in reincarnation?
I was stunned by his sudden question, reincarnation? What is that? But I still nodded and said: I believe it.
In fact, what I was thinking in my heart was that I believed it. But if I wanted him to continue talking, I had to obey him. If I said I didn't believe it, he would definitely not say anything next.
He smiled bitterly and said: I know, you don't understand. You must have met my dad too, right?
I nodded and said: Yes, last time we went out, we met Uncle Zhang.
He continued: When I was a child, I did see my grandfather that time, and he did come back. You must have heard my father say that all I saw was a piece of human skin.
That's wrong, that night, I saw his person! But I don't know why, when I woke up, he turned into a human skin!
After saying that, he stopped talking and stopped. As usual, it was my turn to speak at this time. I cleared my throat and said: Maybe you had a hallucination that night.
He shook his head and said: It's not a hallucination. In the hallucination, he could tell me so many things?
Now I became interested and asked: What did he tell you?
He smiled bitterly: He said, this is reincarnation, and he asked me to find the red light book. I was still young at the time, and after experiencing this horrible thing, I even forgot it quickly.
But after that time, my life completely changed. I would lose myself from time to time. My father thought that I didn’t know what happened to me later and that it happened while I was sleepwalking, but it didn’t! I clearly remember what happened to me.
What changes! When I sleep, I dream of a person who comes to snatch my body from me! I can listen and can clearly understand my changes, but I am like a bystander and can only watch.
She played with my body, but I couldn't do anything about it.
This situation occurred more and more frequently, and I even clearly felt that I was about to lose my body, and soon, I would no longer belong to me.
I interjected: So you suspect that the accident that happened to you was caused by your grandfather?
Thinking of this, he suddenly became excited and stood up and said: Isn't it right? Things have completely changed since he came back! I just can't understand why he did this to me.
I don’t know what changes have occurred in my body, but I know that I look more and more like my grandfather. At first, I always thought that this was just a coincidence, just a genetic inheritance from generation to generation, until I met your second brother,
Only later, when I learned about his mysteries, did I realize what my grandfather meant by reincarnation.
Xiao Sanliang, I now suspect that what happened to me also happened to your second brother. He and I are reincarnations of the previous generation, so we are involved in the whole story and can never be extricated.
Zhang Kaixuan's words were very vague, but based on what I saw in his notes, I also analyzed a rough idea. From the time Zhang Kaixuan was a child, when he came into contact with his grandfather's human skin, his entire body appeared.
changed.
At a certain moment, a person, a person he called "it" in his notes, would snatch his body from him. Everything he did after that was just to save himself.
I asked: So what happened after you put yourself in a coffin?
"The last time I went up to the first floor alone, I found a comic strip on the ground. It said, "Enter the coffin, but you will be rejuvenated. I don't want to die, so I want to put myself in the coffin."
It was the coffin you saw under the Bodhi tree at the beginning. After putting it in, I realized I was wrong and almost suffocated myself to death."
I wondered: In this case, you still put yourself in the coffin later?! Do you think your life will be long?
Speaking of this, his eyes turned to horror, "From the moment I saw the female corpse, it started fighting for my body! At that time, I couldn't control myself at all, and there was only one thought in my mind,
Just drag that Taoist priest out of the coffin, I want revenge!"
I was so surprised that I quickly asked: Do you mean that by releasing Taoist Wang, you want to take revenge on the person who stole your body?
He nodded and said: Yes, what is certain now is that the woman who took my body was the woman in the mural, the one with the straight face. She had a grudge against Taoist Wang.
After saying that, he fell silent, and I had nothing to say. I wanted to straighten my thoughts, but found that I couldn't. In the end, I could only ask him: "Aren't you in the coffin? Why are you here?"
Here? How could I come here?
He shook his head and said: I don't know. When I woke up, you were unconscious next to me. I have been taking care of you for a long time. When I saw you wake up, I went out for a walk and found Zhu Kaihua.
After hearing what he said, I walked around outside and asked: What's the situation outside? Is it a coffin or something?
He frowned and said: I can’t tell, but there is Thousand Buddha Cave outside. Maybe this is the real Thousand Buddha Cave. (To be continued)