He Dana completely confused me. What on earth is going on
It was midnight, and the door of the house was not locked and was pushed open, and thirteen women came out, and I almost fell under the chair.
"Watch carefully, don't be tempted."
Thirteen women came out and danced in the moonlight. Their dance was so beautiful. When the song was over, they went back.
"Go and lock the door. When you lock it, go in and see if they have returned to their seats."
I didn't want to go in. To be honest, I was scared. They were real people. How could it be possible? What was He Dana trying to do? Was he trying to scare me? But what was his purpose? I didn't want to go out.
I went over to lock the door and went in to take a look. After I went in, I was stunned. I was dumbfounded. There were no thirteen women there. There were only empty chairs.
I came out, sweating profusely.
"How is it? What did you just see? Is it real? Does it exist?"
I understand now. He Dana is telling me that the Jurchen refiner does not exist.
“But I really saw it.”
"You just saw it. It's not real. It doesn't exist. So that Jurchen refiner doesn't exist either."
"Why is this happening?"
"In Yin studies, there is something that can make people have an illusion. We also have it in reality, but it can't achieve this effect. I suspect that there is such a thing in the Bone Village."
"What is that?"
"I don't know yet. So, I'll go to the Bone Village with you. I want to know what this thing is. I've been to the Bone Village. To be honest, I've seen living people, ancient people, but I know they're fake. I got these thirteen women, and you've seen them, they don't exist. But I've never known what that thing is. I have it in my hand, but I've never figured it out. I want to figure it out. It should be made of a plant. Then I'll go and look for this kind of thing."
"Then it would be best to bring a professor of botany or something."
"I've already found one. I'll go there around five tomorrow morning. Come here."
When I got home, it was already past two in the morning. I couldn't sleep, so I sat in front of the window, thinking about this weird thing. If such a thing existed, it would be too scary. It couldn't tell the difference between humans and ghosts, or between the dead and the living. How could it be meaningful
I was scared, really scared. Having come to this point, I was scared, and He Dana was also scared. It seems that no matter what it is, if you get it too deep, it will scare you, just like the water in the well. What I fear most is the well. Just one look at the water in the well makes me scared and my legs go weak. Whenever I dream about a well, I wake up immediately, just like a person who is afraid of heights. If he dreams about a cliff, he will definitely wake up immediately.
I woke up after sleeping for an hour and went to He Dana's place. He asked me to push my wheelchair to Bone Village. At the entrance of Bone Village, all the people from the research team were there, including the botany professor. After they introduced themselves, I said.
"Go into the village and follow my instructions. Don't get into trouble. I will do my best to get you out."
The plant professor looked at He Dana. It seemed that He Dana was not telling the truth. Everyone knew about Bone Village.
"There's a plant out there you don't know about, isn't it interesting to you?"
When he said this, the professor's eyes lit up and he was no longer afraid of anything. It seems that people should not be obsessed with one thing, or they will destroy themselves. I believe this. I am afraid that I will be destroyed now. As for Yin studies, I have been completely immersed in it.
We were stopped outside, and the people from the research team insisted on following us in, which I didn't want to do because I could only bring two people.
Why is this so? It seems that this is also a question of principle, just like no other question.
I looked at He Dana and found that it was only convenient for him to enter from here. It was inconvenient for him to go through other routes in his wheelchair.
"You can go in, just follow us, but we can't take care of the dead."
They seemed to think that there would be no problem as long as we could get in. The Jurchen expert came out of the tent. I was a little angry that he wanted to follow us. I didn't want to say anything more. It had nothing to do with me if you all followed me.
"But let me be frank. As many of you as follow me will die. I don't know the reason behind this. I can only guarantee the safety of you two."
They stopped talking. They knew more about the Bone Village than we did. They held a meeting to discuss it, and we went in. This was our chance. Even if they wanted to follow us today and were not afraid of death, we couldn't take them with us. That was human life. Whose life was not life
We entered the Bone Village. The sun was shining brightly in the village. If you didn't know and accidentally entered the Bone Village, no one would know that the Bone Village is a ghost village. It is very quiet here and the scenery is very beautiful. There is a small river. The strangest thing is that the river flows backwards. This is designed. None of the houses are the same. It is really beautiful, but the place called Bone Village really scares you.
The botanical professor was stunned by the scenery.
"It's so beautiful, and I didn't feel it from the outside. How could it be a ghost village? I didn't believe it. At that time, I wanted to go in myself. Later, a history professor from our university came and disappeared, so I gave up the idea. Many people have the idea of coming here for adventure, and they think it's not as scary as people say. In fact, it is a very scary place. If the people around me hadn't disappeared, I might have come here a long time ago."
I didn't say anything and pushed He Dana. This small path was wide enough for a wheelchair.
I stopped in front of the house.
"Wait for me, I'll go over and take a look."
The refining furnace was still emitting smoke, which was the smoke from burning people. He Dana had already noticed it.
I entered the room and found that the Jurchen refiner was not in the room. It seemed that he had gone out, or was at the refining furnace.
We got to the refinery and he was really there. When I went over, he had already seen me.
"You brought a stranger again, and I don't like it."
"I'm sorry, I also brought wine, food, and some other things I needed. They helped me carry them in. They are also my best friends."
The gloomy-faced Jurchens now smiled a little.
"That's fine. I'll add some more firewood and drink."
"How many days left?"
"It'll take another eight days. It's like this every time. There are three of us this time."
“What to do with the ashes?”
"Just throw it in the stove, some will come out, it depends on the situation, it's different."
I didn't ask any more questions, and he seemed a little impatient.
We went into the house and had a drink, and I introduced Dana Ho, my godfather, and the professor of botany.
They had to listen to my translation, but we talked more often. He Dana didn't say anything, just watched. In fact, he was looking at the Jurchen woman. He was afraid that the thing he said was made from some plant and the living thing it produced didn't really exist. Just like from the outside, on the 13th, there would be people walking around in the Bone Village, like a normal village, but when you came in, there would be no one there. This is the phenomenon of this plant.
In fact, He Dana was not an ordinary person. After graduating from college, he went to the crematorium. This was definitely a strange thing. College students of that era did not go to the crematorium. Those who came to the crematorium were the kind of people who you would understand without me telling you.
Many years ago, Dana He knew several foreign experts and scholars. He even went abroad. Even now, he communicates with foreign experts every day using the computer. They are old friends he has been in contact with for decades, some of whom have been lost. In his room, there are materials in several languages. I can only understand English and French, and I don’t understand the others. I learned English at school, and I learned French by myself at that time. I fantasized about going to France and finding a French wife. This motivation was really great. In the end, I learned it, but I didn’t go to France. It was like a joke, just like my life. I came to the crematorium, and I am afraid I will stay there for the rest of my life. I came into contact with Yin studies, this unknown subject, maybe it will take decades, hundreds of years, or even thousands of years before it becomes a subject studied by people.
The botanical professor asked me to ask where the plant was. He Dana got angry at the time and glared at him. I knew I couldn't ask that. If I asked and it was true, and the Jurchen refiner's plan was exposed, then everything would be in big trouble.
We were just chatting. We slept in the same room that day. I woke up in the middle of the night and the Jurchen refiner was gone. He Dana was staring at the ceiling with his eyes wide open.
"He left. I'm afraid he sensed something. We're going to be in trouble."
"Hurry up and find that plant."
"It's up to the botanists to wait until daybreak."
"Is that really an illusion?"
"Yes, tomorrow is Ghost Day 13. I think this plant will emit that kind of thing at this time, which will cause this kind of illusion."
"Aren't we in trouble then?"
"Not necessarily. I don't know much about this plant, nor do I know what it is. An American expert said it should be a plant similar to a god, and it must be very strange. He said he wanted to come over."
When it was daybreak, we got up and found that the Jurchen refiner was really gone. The refining furnace was nowhere to be found. Everything was gone.
"If it was an illusion, how could he take the things we brought him?"
"In fact, this illusion is the reality within the illusion. They also need things."
I was completely confused. Was He Dana talking about reality or illusion? The plant professor didn't care about that. He just came out and looked at the plants.
We walked along the road and found plants that we didn’t recognize. There were so many plants that we didn’t recognize. The weather in this bone village was a bit like that in the south, which was suitable for the growth of various plants.
Fortunately, this plant professor is not a fake expert. He really knows a lot. Those are not the case at all.
It is probably not easy to find. At this time, looking from outside the Bone Village, the village should be full of people, a bustling ghost village.
However, we cannot see that there is no such illusion here, which is really strange.
After entering Qigou, we found that the gully was where the Jurchen refiners lived.
I reminded him that He Dana was also nervous.
"They are phantoms and will not attack people."
I say this, said He Dana.
"I've told you before, the reality of illusions can attack people. You don't understand, so just treat them as if they are real."
I don’t understand, I’m a little disappointed.
At noon, no Jurchen refiner was seen.
While sitting aside to eat and take a break, I saw a grass, which was our ordinary grass. I found that the leaves of this grass were different. They were in the shape of small sticks. They looked like leaves, but they felt like small sticks. I have a habit of picking at the grass because my father Ke Zuo liked to do this. He did this when he took me to play on the grass. He liked the grass, he liked it surprisingly. Later I learned that he was in love with a girl named Hao Fei. It was at that time that he fell in love with grass. The girl said that my father's posture of picking at the grass was a little naughty.
I understand this kind of love, which is as pure as the blue sky and as flowing as the sand at the bottom of the river.
I gave the grass to the botany professor. He took a look at it and didn't take it seriously. But when he touched it, he was stunned.
"This is a different kind of grass. Hurry up and pick more."
I realized that this was the grass that could produce illusions.
We collected a lot that day. After getting these, we had to go back. We couldn’t stay here any longer. The Jurchen refiner had already sensed something.
When we were walking back along the original route that day, we actually saw a group of people carrying a coffin. The coffin was very strange, it was standing upright, just like a cabinet.
"Go through another path right away. It's a standing coffin. It's an illusion, a real illusion."
He Dana is a bit messy.
We took another path, which was not easy to walk on. I pushed He Dana's wheelchair and it fell over twice. He scolded me for being an idiot. I threw him aside, pushed the wheelchair down the hillside, and carried him on my back. He kept scolding me.
"Old He, if you don't shut up, I'm going to leave you here."
He Dana shut his mouth and became much quieter.
When we returned to He Dana's house, it was already dark. It took us three or four hours to get here.
I was so tired that I sat there and didn't want to move. He Dana made a phone call and someone brought food and wine soon.
"Put this grass in this bottle first, don't move it."
He Dana pointed to a large bottle, a bottle that was very well sealed.
"I'm going to take it back to study."
"Of course, I won't understand if you don't study it. However, I will only give you a portion of it. I will give it to you after you use it. You can't take it all away."
That day, after dinner, He Dana would not let me leave and asked the botany professor to go home.
"Tomorrow, after you have arranged your work at the office, drive to the city to pick up someone for me, an American, an international expert."
I didn't expect that this American expert would arrive so quickly.
The next day, I received a call from Mike, a foreigner with a strong stench that I could not stand.
When they arrived at He Dana's yard, they started shouting, saying it was beautiful, "Beautiful."
That day, after seeing the grass, Mike didn't even eat. He went to a room and started to do tests and research. He brought a lot of small precision instruments. I helped carry a bag of them, which weighed at least 70 or 80 kilograms. He also got two for himself. He told me to be careful. He spoke Chinese well, but his tongue was too big, and it was swollen like being hit by a brick. (To be continued)