Villager of Destiny

In fact, I don't know why I feel so calm at this time.

Even though I know that my coming here was planned by Lord Taishan, but standing on this bridge, I don't have any other emotions. Not only that, but I have an urge to gamble.

And as I walked towards the other end of the bridge, I also began to feel the bone-chilling chill sweeping towards me, but I didn't stop but walked forward step by step.

Soon I was one-third gone.

It's just that during this one-third of the journey, my body has been frozen, and every time I take a step, it seems to be relying on the instinct of the body.

Gradually, the scene before my eyes began to blur.

Then start to change from blur.

In the end, when I opened my eyes again, I had already returned to Baiyun City.

Or the original position.

I'm curled up, covered in sweat?

"Is this a dream?" I murmured, faintly, I felt like I had forgotten something again, and then a sense of hunger swept over me and I shrank subconsciously.

At the same time, I looked to the side.

I always feel that something is missing, but after thinking about it for a while, I can't think of anything, so I just close my eyes and want to let myself fall asleep.

The only strange thing is that even though it was a sunny day, I felt very cold. No matter how I curled up, I felt a chill that made me shiver uncontrollably.

I even feel like I can't even keep my eyes open.

Suddenly, I felt someone coming to me.

"Master, he seems to be sick."

Listening to voices is a child.

I opened my eyes with difficulty, and saw that child was pulling a middle-aged Taoist priest who didn't look very serious and looked at me. Hearing what the child said, the middle-aged Taoist priest smiled and said, "Then what do you think, Master?" Do?"

"Master, can we save him?"

The child tilted his head and looked at the Taoist priest.

The Taoist thought for a while and said: "We are going to save a villager now. If we save him, we may lose some time. By then, many people may be hurt because of us saving him."

"Do you think we should save or not?"

The child stroked his chin and thought for a while, then said, "But have you ever said that we practitioners want to save the common people? Saving one person is saving one person, and even ten thousand people are being saved."

"But we can't save one person."

"How can you save thousands of people?"

"You!" The Taoist patted the child on the head, and said with a smile, "I let you learn the words, but since you want to save them, you can save them as a teacher."

"But you have to remember."

"If one person is sacrificed, there will be tens of thousands."

"Then it's not a sacrifice."

"It's just that this person is not a human being."

"It can only be ourselves!"

"do you understand?"

"Tu'er understands!" The child smiled and nodded repeatedly.

Also at this time, the Taoist priest came up to me, he reached out and touched my forehead, and then suddenly turned his palm into a finger on my chest, and the next moment I felt a warm current hit me.

Under this warm current, my whole body seems to be much more energetic.

Then the Taoist convinced me again and gave me a key.

"You take this key and go all the way south to find a place called the ghost building. From now on, you can live there, and you can use everything in it."

After speaking, the Taoist priest left.

I don't know why, when he was leaving, I saw him look at me again, and that look gave me the feeling that he knew me.

I wanted to catch up with him and ask him, but he and the child were already far away, and disappeared from my sight almost in the blink of an eye.

I looked at the key in my hand, was stunned for a while, and finally chose the direction he said and walked slowly.

At night, I finally saw the ghost building he said.

From then on, I have been living in this ghost building.

That Taoist left a lot of things here, so that I can live enough to live a life of food and clothing.

I just don't know why, the Taoist priest and the child haven't come back for a long time.

Seems like a few months, maybe longer.

People in this city began to think that I was the new owner of this haunted building.

But I don't have the ability of that Taoist priest. As time passed, the ghost building soon became an ordinary building in this city, and almost no one would come here again.

Even if I sometimes sit outside to see if the Taoist priest has come back, no one will give me a second look.

It seems that just as I was disgusted and rejected by the people here at the beginning, I seem to be ignored by them again.

Fortunately, I have long been used to this feeling.

In this way, I don't know how long it has passed.

Maybe still a few months.

Maybe a few years.

Because I seldom go to other places, or because my body itself is very weak, I began to feel that my body was getting worse day by day, coughing every day, and cold sweat when I moved.

When I looked in the mirror that day, I suddenly found that my hair was much grayer.

It was also at this time that I realized that I had been here not for months or years, but for decades.

Finally, I fell ill.

He fell on the bed, and it was very difficult to even get out of bed.

The exhaustion of my body made me really want to fall asleep like this, but as soon as I closed my eyes, I felt flustered.

I am not afraid of death.

Instead, I feel that I cannot die here.

Even if the Taoist priest and the child probably won't come back, this is not my home, and I can't die here.

I have to go home.

I don't know where the strength came from, I got up from the bed at once, and then staggered out of the haunted building.

I became a beggar again, supporting a body that might collapse at any time, and I finally returned to my home, the village I was familiar with.

It's just that the wild dogs are gone.

There is nothing at the entrance of the village.

When I walked in, there was nothing but loneliness and desolation.

I found my home by memory.

I found the coffin I was lying on at the beginning, and I brought it to the old madman's tomb. The moment I saw the old madman's tombstone, I laughed.

I can finally die in peace.

but……

I always feel like I'm forgetting something.

These decades seem to have passed in the blink of an eye.

And in the blink of an eye, I seem to have lost a lot of memories. What are these memories?

I closed my eyes.

at last.

I seem to remember in the dark.

I remembered my name.

My name is Li Xuantian.

This seems to be just a dream of mine.

Do not……

This should not be a dream.

It's the life I should have had.

Plain, life, old age, sickness and death.

I couldn't help laughing.

So this is ah! (end of this chapter)