Yin Ren lay powerlessly in the void.
After sending the dog away, the nothingness around him became extremely pure. Apart from the ripples that covered the sky, there was no color perception like "darkness" here. In a trance, Yin Ren was not sure whether he was still alive - maybe he was dead, this was the world after death, and everything before was just a beautiful dream he imagined.
At this time, a dangerous fog would fill his mind. Yin Ren's thoughts became intricate and intermittent, almost shattered into nothingness.
However, whenever he had a thought like "a beautiful dream", the Ghost King would mentally turn over and quickly wake up. Yin Ren was very sure that Zhong Cheng's personality and physique were something he could never imagine with his limited imagination.
He tried his best to concentrate his mind and try to sense the ripples outside.
Yin Ren personally sent out clues from the past. Given Shi An's style of doing things, he would definitely follow his memory first, and everyone followed the illusion of "Grand Master Zhong Yi" forward.
In the security team, the ripples on the Great Master's body are eye-catching. Yin Ren can judge where he is stuck in the memory world based on the movement of the body. Then he just needs to find a way to leave clues, and Zhong Cheng said that he will find clues eventually.
Yin Ren's thoughts became brighter. Thinking of Zhong Cheng's serious face, even despair became quite difficult.
Lord Ghost King closed his eyes with peace of mind and began to calculate carefully in his mind.
Thousands of years ago, after the destruction of Yin Village, he immediately headed for the Skeleton Valley...
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Zhong Cheng said he shook his head quickly, trying to get rid of the thought, as if it was some kind of chewing gum stuck to his hair - ever since he learned to taste fear, it would come out for a walk every day in a different way, which was both fresh and troublesome.
Yin Ren said nothing more, but waited patiently. After a long time, sobbing sounds began to be heard from the hoods.
"Well, I regret it." Yin Ren turned towards the fairyland-like place, still maintaining a relaxed tone.
Things were getting weirder and weirder. There couldn't be so many coincidences in the world. Even though he had no body, Yin Ren still felt a shudder run down his spine.
The two are only a dozen steps apart, not far away, yet they seem like a world apart.
"The rickety army has come here, and the situation outside is very chaotic. Don't run around anymore, just stay here and take care of the children of Yin Village. I will summon some more evil creatures to help... You have all learned some skills from me, and you should be able to get along well with them. After two years, when the chaos is over, it won't be too late for you to go out."
The young man's body was trembling with excitement and fear, but he took a few steps forward and stayed firmly in place. That position was just enough to stop other children who might rush forward from behind.
Children of different heights stood far away, wearing dirty hoods and holding half-drawn talismans in their hands. Among them was the shell that Ge Tingting was using, and a little girl named Lu was holding a few wild fruits, her hands were covered with dirty juice.
Perhaps Yin Ren had already gotten used to such separations.
"You're not coming back." The tallest hooded boy approached, his voice hoarse, "You always said a time to meet... You're not coming back, are you?"
But for modern people, the place names in "Bixie Zhiyi" are as vague as those in "Shan Hai Jing", and it is difficult to tell whether they are legends or real places. Now people have no choice but to follow the illusion.
The great master wanted to find a place where there were few people to relax, and the Valley of Bones was indeed quite suitable. According to the legend, there were basically only deformed evil creatures and skeletons there, and there were not even a few green weeds.
These children are at an age when they love to make noise, but at this moment they are quiet, as if they have sensed something.
Or maybe for Yin Ren, this was just an ordinary farewell. Zhong Chengshuo stood there silently, staring at everything that belonged to the past.
"You stay here and keep an eye on these children." Yin Ren instructed the two humanoid evil creatures, "If there is any danger approaching, you know how to hide them."
After doing all this, the originally swaying red cocoon almost fell over, and a heavy gasp could be heard from under the red cloth.
Lu Xiaohe pressed his temples with difficulty.
That's a bit strange.
Under his feet, the lush fresh grass quickly withered and rotted, leaving only a little black. The great master quickly stepped back, fearing that he would destroy this hard-earned paradise.
He was very relaxed, as if this was just a normal farewell.
The fertile land was covered with lush green grass. The surrounding trees were golden red, and ripe sweet fruits were gently swaying on the branches. From time to time, birds would jump onto the branches and peck at the red fruits. In the bushes under the trees, plump wild rabbits were chewing fresh grass, so fat that their necks could not be seen.
He had a vague feeling that during this "memory exploration", they might discover more than just divine clues.
Yin Ren pointed at the tallest child in the row and spoke in a soft and slow voice.
"I remember it too." In order to avoid speaking too hastily and causing the magic weapon to become ineffective or causing a dog to bark, Fu Xingchuan spoke very sparingly.
Or, are you saying that you are in the Valley of Bones
It was obvious that Yin Ren was usually very nice to those children. But when it came time to say goodbye, he was just as decisive. Yin Ren was not in a good mood, but he was definitely not pretending to be calm. He just said goodbye to everyone with regret and as if it was normal.
Yin Ren's illusion stopped not long ago.
After saying this, he thought for a moment and called over the "big-headed kids" who had been following him.
The great master stopped at the edge of this paradise on earth, and saw the magic light floating. Not far away, several dead trees fell down, and countless hays floated neatly. The trees cut themselves into smooth planks and beams, and the hays were covered with fine mud. A solid thatched house rose from the ground.
Zhong Cheng said that when he looked at the figure in the autumn paradise, he thought of Yin Ren who had hugged him and slept soundly. For him, would he also be a relatively long-term "companion"
Could it be that Haigu and I are exactly on the same line
They were in a relatively flat open space in the mountains. The terrain was secluded, surrounded by mountains, but the road was gentle and easy to walk on. Inside, there were all kinds of things, with waterfalls like silver threads, and the river water was so clear that it seemed non-existent, and it was full of big, fat fish.
"I need to practice on my own ahead of time, so I don't have time to teach you. I have taught Ma Zi the protective spells nearby, and he will teach you how to get in and out. Ma Zi has a quick mind, so you should listen to him more in the future."
Impossible, Yin Ren tried desperately to recall. He had lived in the Skeleton Valley for hundreds of years, and he had even counted the number of dead trees in the Valley. There had never been such a creature, evil thing, or space nearby that he could not control.
"According to the records in the "Bixie Zhiyi", the Valley of Bones is located in the mountains. It is one of the heavily polluted places where the gods descended thousands of years ago. Even evil creatures rarely approach it. Its exact location is unknown. Apart from the two sentences mentioned in the "Bixie Zhiyi", no other documents mention it."
Shi An and his men should follow their memories and head to the Skeleton Valley first. But the Lian Yi team was approaching him without hesitation, step by step, in his direction.
Just as Yin Ren had deduced, the edge of the huge "ripple" slid through the void. It was entangled with the five smaller ripples around it, advancing at a moderate speed, just like a team marching on foot.
The children were silent.
"You know I'm not talented!" Under the mottled and frightening hood, Ma Zi's voice became even hoarse. "I can't take care of so many people. I won't do it! You've calculated that I can only stay with you for three months. In half a month, the time will be up. You said you would send me back to my hometown!"
The great celestial master Zhong Yi is an evil creature who once hid his identity. He has been away from the mortal world for more than 300 years, and only these children can stay by his side for a short time... Compared with a few months and a few hundred years, they are nothing but passing clouds.
"Why are you so young to say such harsh words? I'm just a little exhausted and need to rest more." The great master spoke in a light tone, with no trace of weakness in his words. "Pockmarked, you must take good care of yourself in the future..."
Zhong Cheng said to collect his mind and focus his attention back on the illusion.
A few steps away, Fu Xingchuan stared at the "meat figurine" with puzzled eyes. He couldn't help but tilt his head slightly, obviously puzzled by the "meat figurine"'s behavior.
In the illusion, Yin Ren ended his plain farewell. He set foot on the darker and more rugged mountain road, ready to leave alone. As his feet moved, the bell on Yin Ren's ankle rang again.
“…Okay, I get it, I get it!”
The young boy "Pockmarked" clenched his fists gradually.
"Since you don't keep your word and don't intend to send me home, then is it okay for me to make a request?"
The ringing stopped abruptly, Yin Ren stopped and nodded.
"Give me a name."
Ma Zi said.
"According to the rules of our village, we should wait until we are ready to settle down before asking the elders to give us a proper name. Here... there are no elders here."
The Great Heavenly Master hesitated for a moment and said, "Alright, then you can be called Yin..."
"I don't want the surname 'Yin'!" Ma Zi objected fiercely, almost showing his anger on his face, "All those kids out there have the surname Yin, and I'm not their relative!"
This time, Yin Ren was silent for a long time.
"I was born without a name or surname. Yin Village is my hometown. People in Yin Village like to call me a foreigner. So after the rise of the Huajisi, the emperor gave me the name Zhong Yi. According to common sense, my surname should be Yin."
For the first time, regret appeared in his tone, very little, but like soft sand mixed in.
"You mortals all like the emperor, so why not do this. Ma Zi, from now on, you will be called Zhong... Zhong Ma Zi."
Ma Zi: “…” His breathing even stopped for a moment.
Ma Zi: "Zhong Ma is better."
The Master's melancholy disappeared instantly, and he cleared his throat awkwardly: "Oh, then Zhong Ma, Zhong Ma is good."
The interlude broke the depressing atmosphere, and the children started to laugh again. Amidst the laughter, Yin Ren once again took a step forward, heading towards the dark mountain shadows.
Without the army of evil creatures following him, and without the child walking in the distance, this time, only Huang Liang was left by Yin Ren's side.
Not far away, a practitioner from the ghoul army emerged from the rocks. He looked around in confusion. The children's hiding place was covered by a powerful illusion, and he could not find any flaws.
Only the figure of the great master walking alone was so real. That cocoon-like figure looked funny when seen from close up, but from a distance, it looked like a wound in the mountains.
The cultivator obviously didn't care about those yellow-haired kids who had nothing to be exploited. He hesitated for less than half a minute and continued to follow Yin Ren's figure.
Without the child to worry about, Yin Ren decisively boarded the Huangliang, but he was not sure whether he was weak or something else, but his speed was alarmingly slow. Fortunately, otherwise Shi An would have been left behind - Fu Tianyi couldn't take care of it alone, and even Ge Tingting was caught and used the levitation spell, which barely got everyone into the air.
"That's all."
Day and night alternated, and by the time we reached the center of the barren mountain, it was dusk.
Yin Ren slid down the yellow sorghum and patted the round eyeball. Wrapped in the sunset glow, the yellow sorghum turned a bright red.
"Puff?" It made a puzzled sound.
"Let's find a place to rest. There are many evil creatures nearby, enough for you to eat for hundreds of years." Yin Ren stroked the soft skin of the yellow sorghum, "I have to walk the rest of the way by myself."
"Puff..." Huang Liang's scream became even quieter.
"Well, I really just need to recuperate. But it will take a long time, you don't have to wait for me." Yin Ren drew a series of complex runes on its body, his voice as soft as a dream. "Our ghost contract ends here."
The technique was completed, and Yin Ren slowly removed the seal on his body.
Yin Ren, dressed in red, stood in front of Huang Liang. He looked frighteningly pale, with blood oozing from the whites of his red eyes. The ends of his long black hair were almost falling to the ground. As soon as the seal was released, the silver bell on his ankle decayed instantly, and the land a few steps away also turned an ominous black and gray.
Yin Ren's red clothes fell apart, and the apple and the evil fruit floated beside him. The apple was wrapped in countless sealing runes and was safe and sound. Under the setting sun, the evil fruit looked even more bright and beautiful, and the seductive red color of the two was exactly the same.
The evil forces around him were raging all of a sudden, and even Huang Liang instinctively retreated a few steps.
"Look, at this point, you can't stay with me for much longer." Yin Ren coughed twice and continued in a good-natured voice, "Let's go, Huang Liang."
The red ball didn't move.
Yin Ren sighed, gave it a slap on the head, then turned around and walked away.
He was completely alone.
Huang Liang didn't chase, nor did he leave. He stood there, his pupils looking at Yin Ren's back. It didn't let out a low "puff" until the figure completely disappeared.
Originally, Shi An and his group would occasionally discuss the contents of the illusion, but now, everyone was silent. Even someone as slow as Zhong Cheng could sense Yin Ren's farewell intention.
They watched Yin Ren walk towards the legendary Skeleton Valley—
Once you get there, no explanation is needed; everyone can tell at a glance the origin of the name "Haigu".
The land was gray and covered with poisonous weeds. Only deformed evil creatures and reptiles passed by from time to time. There were no tall trees on the ground, only broken and blackened animal and bird bones. Not far away, two cliffs were like crossed fangs, and below them was an empty abyss.
On the tip of one of the "fangs", you can vaguely see a simple hut.
Yin Ren walked towards the hut step by step, holding the apple and the walnut in his hands, which shone with an ambiguous glow in the shadows. After a while, the figure was swallowed up by the door of the hut and completely disappeared from everyone's sight.
The Luo Army practitioners who followed Yin Ren finally stopped.
It seems that even a "Half-Step Charon" would not dare to challenge this land. The man stopped at the edge of the Valley of Bones, picked up a handful of soil from the ground, and sniffed it carefully.
On that thin long face, a pair of eyes rolled around. Finally, the practitioner caught a mechanical bird and began to write a letter on the spot.
Lu Xiaohe, Fu Xingchuan and Fu Tianyi immediately surrounded them. Ge Ting heard about the fight and also came forward out of curiosity.
Then she saw strange tadpole-like words all over her eyes.
Ge Ting didn't understand and asked, "…What does this mean?"
"Rowan." Lu Xiaohe cleared her throat awkwardly, "Actually, I don't know it either... There is no record of this big valley." As a neuroscience researcher, this kind of thing is really beyond her ability.
"He is asking the Luo army to re-select the route and go this way." Fu Tianyi said in a harsh tone, "It just so happens that the Luo army is going to send 150,000 troops to station in the mountains, so they will go this way. He wants to use the energy of tens of thousands of weapons to defeat the evil and seize the magic sword that commands all the ghosts..."
Ge Tingting's face changed: "What should we do?"
They followed the illusion and managed to seal an unborn evil. But resisting 150,000 living people was another matter.
"It's okay. We didn't cause any harm this time. Even if that cultivator is alive, he won't attract a large army...right?" Fu Tianyi said uncertainly, his eyes tilted towards the meat figurine that was holding up the Great Heavenly Master's body.
"In that case, wouldn't Yin Ren's memory be distorted by us? These memories must be very important to him." Ge Tingting was worried.
"Yin Ren is different from that evil spirit. As an insider who came in together, Wang, he was mentally prepared and would not think that the changes were 'real' from the beginning."
As Fu Xingchuan talked for a long time, it turned out that the magic weapon had some minor problems.
"It's like the difference between watching a horror movie and experiencing a horror event in person."
Ge Tingting hummed with difficulty, not knowing whether he had figured it out or not: "So, we just need to hurry up and investigate?"
She turned to Lu Xiaohe, but he had already run to the edge of the Valley of Bones, trying to memorize all the features of the area nearby. After all, after a thousand years, there were not many places that were so severely polluted by evil forces.
When they leave here and find this place again, I wonder how many new discoveries they will make.
Seeing his senior working so hard, Ge Tingting also turned his gaze and learned to observe the surrounding terrain. The valley was like a scar on the earth, incredibly deep. Their house and Yin Ren's were both on the east side of the valley. The ground on the west side of the valley was obviously sinking, and the terrain on both sides was different.
It was a spectacular and strange sight. Compared to the uneven ground here, Yin Ren's hut was very small, like a small piece of gravel.
"Strange, this valley is really deep." Ge Tingting muttered, his eyes firmly attracted by the huge bottomless rift. "This place is so special, how come no one has discovered it?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Zhong Cheng took two steps closer and asked, "What did you say?"
The meat figurine suddenly asked, and Ge Tingting was shocked: "I, I said that valley is so deep..."
She subconsciously stretched out her hand and pointed at the spectacular valley. "You're right. This kind of landform will definitely still have traces after a thousand years. When we get out, we can ask the scientific research team to look for it via satellite." Fu Tianyi stroked his beard while staring at the valley.
Fu Xingchuan raised his head, his tail hanging down unhappily: "Have you learned the sealing spell to seal the evil spirit? We must explore further."
Fu Tianyi instantly let go of his ancestor's beard and ran away in shame.
Fu Xingchuan then turned to Zhong Cheng and said, "Do you have any other questions?"
"That's a valley." Zhong Cheng repeated in a flat tone.
"Well, that's a valley," Fu Xingchuan said. "Usually, valleys aren't that deep."
Zhong Cheng nodded and turned towards the direction of the "valley".
Lu Xiaohe, Fu Xingchuan, Fu Tianyi, Ge Tingting. The four people have different strengths, including scientific and non-scientific. In their eyes, it is all a valley... a huge, bottomless valley.
But in his eyes, no, it should be said that in the eyes of Yin Ren a thousand years ago, it was not the case.
Through the red cloth, Zhong Cheng said he saw a dark place—
Yin Ren's house was built on a slightly higher ground, and on the other side was an endless black liquid. To be more precise, it was probably a black "lake" surrounded by mountains in the distance.
From his current perspective, the Skeleton Valley was half a gray-white "beach". Yin Ren's residence was built on the edge of the beach, at the end of a slightly higher rock wall. Only three or four meters below the rock wall was a calm, dark lake. It lay there quietly, as wide as the sea, with no end in sight.
It was a deep black where all light was absorbed.
Beautiful and terrifying.
Its existence was so real and eye-catching, but the people in Shian just glanced at it without any surprise on their faces. The valley they were talking about was probably the part covered by the black lake, Zhong Cheng thought.
They could not see it, not even the slightest shadow of it.
Zhong Cheng said he stood there for a long time, and suddenly, he raised his foot and walked into the valley.
"Hey!" Fu Xingchuan was the first to notice the abnormality of the "Meat Figurine", "Come back!"
Zhong Cheng said he ignored them, and he moved forward like a possessed man, without hearing the calls of Shi An and the others - he knew that if he waited a little longer, Shi An and his group would be able to enter with the help of the sealing technique, and he only needed to wait patiently for a few hours, or a day or two. When the time came, he would follow in, and it would not attract anyone's attention.
But he didn't want to wait any longer.
He has something to confirm.
Yin Ren's cabin looks dilapidated on the outside but quite tidy on the inside - if you exclude the layers of sealing runes on the furniture, it can be described as cozy.
The room was not big, with all kinds of books on one side. The wooden shelves were filled with all kinds of small things, from pottery figurines to cloth tigers. The styles of these small things were very consistent, and it could be seen that they were offerings collected from Yin Village. There were two pieces of processed fur hanging on the wall, which looked like leftover rabbit skins.
The soft fur, with a faint black color, hung quietly at the end of the rope.
On the other side there is a simple wooden bed with clean straw and patched bedding, which looks like an ordinary farmer's house.
Although the outside was decayed and dead, unlike the human world, the house was still filled with the pleasant smell of wood and hay. Apples and berries were placed side by side on the wooden table, and the spells on the apples were still working diligently.
The fruity scent and bright red color add a little bit of vitality to this space.
The sun had not yet completely set, but an oil lamp had been lit on the side of the wooden table that was close to the wooden bed as a precaution. The dim yellow light of the fire mixed with the dark red sunset, and the air seemed to be soaked in blood.
Yin Ren fell on the simple bed. He groaned and no longer suppressed the murderous force around him.
Zhong Cheng said that he stood in front of this illusion, and he also untied the cloth that was in trouble, and tried to reach out to the illusion. A strand of Yin Ren's black hair was scattered in front of him, and it looked extremely soft. He still remembered the touch.
But he ran his fingers through the loose strands of hair.
What may be called a real illusion is but an illusion.
Yin Ren from a thousand years ago curled up tightly, wrapped himself in a quilt, and breathed in a broken and rapid manner. Accompanied by a few coughs, the fruity fragrance in the room was slightly more bloody. Zhong Cheng said he withdrew his hand and sat silently beside the bed. After a few seconds, he lowered his head, and Yin Ren's black hair slid down his body, and the ends of his hair penetrated into the hay.
The two men were only a fist away from each other.
"Good night."
Zhong Cheng said softly across the quilt.
He sat by the bed for a full half hour, until the sunset completely sank into the horizon.
In the end, Zhong Cheng said he seemed to have made up his mind. He took a deep breath, and as the bell on his ankle jingled, he walked out of the house.
Not far from the small house was a tiny area at the end of the cliff. Thick darkness was sleeping under the cliff, and the edges were very smooth, like a model with incorrect texture.
Zhong Cheng said standing on the edge of the cliff, he looked down at the darkness.
Night fell, and the sky gradually darkened. The sky was covered with dark clouds, and no stars were visible. Soon, heavy raindrops fell, passing directly through Zhong Chengshuo's body and hitting the black and gray wasteland.
After a while, the illusion really changed - in the continuous rain, a small thing slithered along the edge of the cliff and climbed up carefully. At first glance, it was a black ball, about the size of two fists.
But up close, it's hard to tell what it is.
Judging from its characteristics, it might be a black rabbit.
Two long ears, a pair of eyes, an exposed nose, and a mouth divided into three parts.
Soft fur, four soft legs, and a curled tail.
But they were completely randomly distributed on the surface of the body. The size, direction, and position were all wrong, and there was no reasonable physiological structure. It was hopping and wriggling on the ground, and it was hard to tell whether it was twitching or moving forward. It looked like some kind of mutated sea cucumber.
It was trying to move towards the house where Yin Ren was, and its movements were equally chaotic. Compared to this thing, ordinary evil creatures seemed full of vitality and handsome.
When the deformed rabbit crawled to his feet, Zhong Cheng lowered his eyes.
Even though it was invisible to the naked eye, he knew clearly that behind the rabbit was a spider-like thin "umbilical cord". It was hidden in the crevices of rocks everywhere on the cliff, leading to the endless darkness below the cliff.
Swish.
The deformed rabbit scraped across the rock surface, making a creepy rubbing sound.
A desolate dead place, a lonely hut. A nightmarish "evil creature" crawled out of the black lake, trying hard to look "cute and harmless", as eye-catching as the bait on the head of an anglerfish.
"So that's how it is. From a human's perspective, this is what I look like."
He looked at the ugly rabbit and spoke word by word.
"At the time, I thought I was doing a perfect job of pretending."
In the void, Yin Ren was jumping like a mad carp.
That conspicuous ripple stopped very close to him. To be honest, the distance was a bit absurd - there had never been such a close ripple around him, and Yin Ren thought that those ripples could not be too close to him physically.
The ripples belonging to his body were so close that they almost stuck to him!
Zhong Cheng said that the person who knows An is here!
The opportunity was too great to miss, Yin Ren was extremely anxious. He had to find a way to contact the outside world and tell everyone that he was here.
But at this moment, he was like a vegetative person with only consciousness remaining, and he couldn't control his body at all. Yin Ren gritted his teeth and forced himself to think hard.
Dog stuff can be thrown out successfully by itself.
So if he separated a small part of his consciousness, like controlling his clone, and only separated a little bit, would he be able to throw it out successfully
However, even if he could separate a little consciousness, it was not an independent mind after all, and could not possess a body like a dog, nor could it leave the body too far. But as long as it could temporarily leave its body and launch a suitable illusion, it would definitely attract Zhong Chengshuo's attention.
Yin Ren's nonexistent heart was pounding, and he cheered in his head. But Lord Ghost King was experienced after all, so he quickly calmed down.
A specific illusion image must be chosen as a signal.
If you make a messy appearance, you might arouse the police's vigilance, not to mention asking for help. You have to choose a very special image that can prove your identity.
Dressed in modern clothes? No, the sinking society must have information.
Myself in pajamas and a nightcap? No, this clearly meant that Zhong Cheng was asked to identify it himself. A "meat figurine" should not have this level of independent thinking ability.
Yin Ren searched frantically in his memory, and after a few seconds, he was delighted to find that there really was such an image that could prove his existence without being too obvious—
That weird-looking rabbit. It always popped up every time he returned to his residence. Shian would definitely chase him to his cabin, so it was just right to use that guy to attract attention.
Yin Ren concentrated his mind and began to perform the technique.
"saw me."
He subconsciously recited it madly in his mind.
"See me, find me, help me get away..."
Before he finished thinking about the word "open", Yin Ren suddenly realized something. His thoughts froze for a moment. If Yin Ren had a face at this moment, the only expression on his face would be "unbelievable".
Everything in front of me feels strangely familiar.
It was difficult to get close to Lian Yi, so he hurriedly sent out his clone, just to attract her attention and find a way to escape from this emptiness and despair.
And you have to choose an image that is harmless but can attract other people's attention.
See me, find me, help me get out of this nothingness. I don't want to "live" like this anymore.
And you are the first and only "Ripple" in this world who is so close to me.
Can you see me
In his memory, the twisted and deformed rabbit stared at Yin Ren quietly. Its misplaced eyes were pitch black, like a lightless abyss.
Strange yet familiar.
"Did you think so at that time?"
"Could it be that you are..."
The bright red apples once lay on his wooden table, their skin shiny and bright, exuding a sweet aroma. Thousands of years later, the apples on their dining table gradually overlapped with them.
Bright red fruit, dull black eyes. Zhong Cheng said that he wore a rabbit mask and walked through the night, standing quietly in his most vivid memory.
A terrifying guess emerged from Yin Ren's mind. Maybe he was just overthinking, but... No, it was impossible. He had to wait until the end to confirm it.
Amidst boundless confusion and shock, Yin Ren almost unconsciously performed the magic.
On the cliff.
The deformed black rabbit was still crawling around Zhong Cheng, searching for the entrance to the house. After failing to find it, it froze in the most conspicuous place on the cliff, as if it had lost its breath, with its four legs stretched straight in different directions.
At the same time, Yin Ren from a thousand years ago heard the noise and also pushed the door open. He stopped one step away from Zhong Chengshuo and looked at the black rabbit in the illusion that was kicking its legs and venting its anger.
"It's you again." Yin Ren staggered forward, cast several sealing spells on himself, and then walked closer.
The black rabbit stopped struggling and immediately began to wriggle towards Yin Ren.
"Wait a moment, I..."
As soon as Yin Ren finished speaking, the man and the rabbit disappeared at the same time, as abruptly as if a TV was unplugged.
Zhong Cheng said he knew, this was the end of the illusion - now that it was night, Huang Jin had to rest. Without his power source, the remaining people could not provide too much power for the magic.
The fire in the small house was gone, and the apples and rotten fruits disappeared on the table. The sky was still covered with dark clouds, and it might rain at any time. Without Yin Ren's illusion, the place was terribly quiet, as if people were deaf.
But the dark ocean did not disappear with the illusion, it remained where it was. The sky was filled with rolling black clouds, the ground was in endless darkness, the scene before him was truly illusory.
Zhong Cheng said he simply sat cross-legged where he was, looking at the lightless "ocean" under the cliff with no expression on his face.
Shi An's investigation would continue, and Huang Jin would continue to perform illusions. He would wait here, making sure he would not miss a single minute.
Make sure his guess is true.
And at this moment, another "rabbit" appeared on the edge of the cliff.
The deformed, weird black rabbit with messed up limbs and facial features was exactly the same as the previous one. It was stupidly staying on the edge of the cliff, just one step away from falling back into the dark "ocean". Unlike the black rabbit crawling around on the ground, it just stood there, staring blankly at the outside world with its round eyes on its belly.
It's like waiting for someone.
Zhong Cheng raised his eyes, his long hair swaying slightly in the mountain breeze. The corners of his red clothes brushed against the dry soil and rocks, and were dyed extremely dim by the night.
Another illusion, but not from the yellow millet. There is only one person in the world who knows this image, and there will only be one person.
This is an illusion sent by Yin Ren.
After staying there for a while, the rabbit seemed to have adapted to the outside world and began to move closer with difficulty. Finally, it tentatively stopped in front of Zhong Chengshuo.
Zhong Cheng said that he stretched out his hand. This was the first time, and his hand trembled slightly.
The strange rabbit closed its eyes, tilted its body slightly, and pressed part of its body against Zhong Chengshuo's palm. Unfortunately, the illusion had no sense of touch, and the creepy ball of fur just passed through his palm.
The next moment, its image gradually faded and dissolved into the air.
There was a rumbling sound from the dark clouds, and the raindrops broke through the humid air and hit the dust with a crackling sound. It really rained in the memory world, and Zhong Cheng's hair was wet as he said, but he still sat there, motionless.
"I found you."
Zhong Cheng said softly, and a smile slowly appeared on his expressionless face.
"I know where you are, Yin Ren."
The author has something to say:
Xiao Zhong: This wave, this wave is a classic reproduction.
(End of this chapter)