After eavesdropping on my thoughts, the whole family went crazy.

Chapter 43 Three people don’t hug the tree (text)

Hua Rongqi carefully took off the swaddling clothes from Buddha's hand.

The fabric in his hand is made of fine material. Hua Rongqi doesn't understand these fabrics, but from this touch, he can feel something about it.

Immediately, Hua Rongqi reacted belatedly: "I touched it with my hand, will there be any problem?"

Su Ran's eyes moved from the swaddling clothes to Hua Rongqi's well-joined fingers, shook her head and said, "I don't know."

Hua Rongqi: "."

Hua Rongqi asked without hope: "Why don't you remind me?"

"See what happens if you touch it with your hands." It was Xie Shiqing who answered him.

Hua Rongqi: "."

Break up! Break up now!

Hua Rongqi was filled with grief and anger. Unfortunately, Su Ran and Xie Shiqing's attention was focused on the baby, and no one paid attention to him.

Seeing that Hua Rongqi was okay after being touched, Xie Shiqing went straight to work and took apart the swaddling clothes in three parts and two parts.

The words inside were completely exposed to the public eye.

The moon emerged from the thick clouds again, illuminating a corner of the apse.

It was the same ancient text as on the stone tablet. Su Ran couldn't understand it, so he turned his attention to Xie Shiqing and waited for his translation.

The scorching gaze beside him was difficult for Xie Shiqing to ignore.

While smoothing the folds of the fabric with his slender fingers, he glanced at Su Ran faintly from the corner of his eye.

I thought to myself, this girl is really amazing, aren't you afraid that he is lying to her?
To believe him so much, a person he met by chance.

Seeing that Su and Ran had no reaction to her accusations, Hua Rongqi also moved to the side to read the words on the cloth.

There is no doubt that Hua Rongqi can't understand it either.

As a result, Xie Shiqing received two eager glances, which were quite thirsty for knowledge.

Xie Shiqing: "."

There is an illusion that a female bird comes to feed the nestlings with insects in their mouths.

It's just that these two "baby birds" are a bit big.

Xie Shiqing sighed silently and translated for them word for word, his cold voice echoing in the empty back hall.

The content written on this cloth is a sacrificial process and background events.

At that time, the mountain god was angry and needed to sacrifice a baby girl who was born on a lunar month and a lunar day.

It happened that there was a qualified baby girl in the village at the foot of the mountain, but her mother refused to obey. That night, there was a sudden heavy rain, and the village suffered a disastrous mudslide. Fortunately, no one was injured or killed.

The villagers thought that the mother's refusal had angered the mountain god, and that this was a warning from the mountain god to them. They all angrily rushed to the house and asked them to hand over the baby girl.

The mother was still unwilling, and her husband argued with her. While the two were arguing, suddenly there was lightning and thunder in the sky, and it seemed like another heavy rain was about to fall.

The villagers present were all frightened by the mudslide last night. They immediately turned red-eyed and picked up their farm tools and ran to the back room.

During the pushing and arguing, it was unknown who made the move first. Everyone saw that the mother was hit on the back of the head with a hoe, and finally convulsed twice and fell into a pool of blood.

The man saw his mother-in-law dead and wanted to fight the remaining villagers.

Those villagers didn't know who said that if the men went to report to the official, they would all die!
People are selfish, not to mention that their purpose in coming here is to sacrifice someone else's daughter alive. Without too much hesitation, the desire to survive took over.

They all raised their iron farm tools and threw them at the man.

Once, twice. At first the man would still struggle, but then he slowly stopped moving.

For a moment, all you could hear was the "thumping" sound of hard objects hitting flesh and bones.

The villagers with red eyes were able to spare even their dead mother. When they came to their senses, the walls of the house were splattered with blood.

The two people on the ground could no longer be described by the word "human". They were two pools of blood mixed with shredded flesh.

The baby girl in the back room had long been awakened by the movement outside, and burst into heart-wrenching cries.

The villagers took the crying baby girl away and handed it over to the high priest who had wandered into the village a few days ago.

Soon, the sacrificial ceremony began under the auspices of the priest.

What they call a living sacrifice is burying a baby girl alive in an open space. In order to prevent the reincarnation of the baby girl, a temple was built above the coffin where the baby girl was installed.

That is the temple where Su Ran and the others are now.

This temple has gone through hundreds of years of ups and downs, flourished with incense, and became a famous religious place, until it was destroyed due to the war.

After Xie Shiqing translated the content to them, several people fell into a brief silence.

First, the story is too tragic. The experience of the mother and the baby girl is so depressing that it makes people breathless.

Second, there are still no clues.

The stone tablet said that the wish of the temple girl should be fulfilled, and they all took it for granted that the temple girl was the owner of the coffin. And fulfilling the temple girl's wish is to fulfill the temple girl's last wish.

After going through all the trouble to open the coffin, it was discovered that there was only an empty swaddling baby in the coffin, and there was only a useless background story written in the swaddling cloth.

——Wait, empty swaddle? !

Judging from the content left on the swaddling clothes, this swaddling clothes was the one that wrapped the baby girl and was buried.

Now there is only an empty swaddle, where is the baby girl? !
Or, what about the baby girl’s bones? ? ?
As soon as this thought came out, the three of them suddenly felt chills all over their bodies, and a cold feeling suddenly appeared on their backs.

"Let's go!" Xie Shiqing made a quick decision and pulled the two of them out of the back hall.

As soon as they left the confines of the apse, the cold feeling dissipated a lot, and now the fool knew that there was something wrong with the apse.

Especially Hua Rongqi, who had just experienced the inability to move not long ago, and now he grabbed Su Ran's sleeve tightly and refused to let go.

"Is there someone on my back? Why do I feel like someone is blowing on my neck?" Hua Rongqi sounded like he was about to cry.

Su Ran saw that he didn't seem to be faking, so he put his hand next to Hua Rongqi's neck and waited quietly for a moment.

She retracted her hand, shook her head, and said with no expression on her face, "Nothing unusual."

At least Su Ran didn't feel anything was wrong.

But Hua Rongqi looked pale, and Su Ran could feel the hand holding her trembling slightly.

She patted the back of Hua Rongqi's hand and said comfortingly: "Don't be afraid, we are all here."

In fact, Su Ran was also afraid, but for some reason, whenever she saw Xie Shiqing, her fear was much lessened.

Su Ran classified this feeling as the sense of security coming from a big boss.

Now they have to be wary of the weird crying and look for clues.

We don't even know how long this illusion lasts, it's like trying to touch a blind man in the dark.

"The temple girl is the baby girl." Xie Shiqing's eyes fell into the void and his voice was cold.

"I'll vote." Su Ran echoed.

This is not simply a matter of mindlessly relying on the boss, but Su Ran based on his own intuition.

It’s hard to say something like intuition.

Sometimes it saves lives, sometimes it kills them.

Su Ran didn't know what kind of intuition she had this time, so she was more inclined to save lives.

Hua Rongqi was almost frightened to death by the dark wind blowing around her neck from time to time. How could she calm down and think.

Seeing that Su Ran had said this, he immediately expressed his position: "I'm with you."

Why is it that only he can feel this sinister wind? ! ! Hua Rongqi wailed in his heart for the ten thousandth time. Every time he looked up and saw the calm looks of Su Ran and Xie Shiqing, he couldn't help but pity himself.

Could he be the legendary chosen one? So you have to go through more hardships?

Isn’t there a saying called What? Heaven is about to entrust this person with a great responsibility, and he must first work hard on his mind and body.

Although, he doesn't want such a big responsibility. He just wants to get out of this illusion alive and well, and then successfully enter Daogui to study.

The dark wind blew again. Hua Rongqi shrank his neck and silently moved closer to Su Ran.

"By the way." Su Ran remembered the road they came from, "What would have happened if we had taken the road on the right?"

Hua Rongqi blinked and said, "An identical temple appears?"

There is only one way to break the illusion, there are no two ways out.

If their side is correct, then the other way is only a dead end, or it is the possibility that Hua Rongqi said.

But they don't know what's going on the other way now. After all, there's no turning back.

Su Ran breathed out lightly and had a bold idea.

Her voice was soft but firm: "I want to go out and take a look."

Su Ran didn't say in detail where she wanted to go, but Xie Shiqing quickly answered: "I'll be with you."

Letting Hua Rongqi stay alone in this strange ruined temple would be more uncomfortable than killing him.

"I'll go too!" Hua Rongqi didn't want to be a left-behind child.

Su Ran looked at the two people and joked: "I'm really taking care of the family."

Xie Shiqing raised his eyebrows, his eyes moving between Su Ran and Hua Rongqi, and then fixed on Hua Rongqi.

He said: "Son, call me daddy."

Hua Rongqi: "."

"Get out of here!"

Su Ran touched Hua Rongqi's head lovingly and said, "Good boy, I am your father."

Hua Rongqi: "."

"Get out of here too!"

The serious atmosphere was broken by this joke. Su Ran patted the hem of her skirt that was stained with a few dead grasses, and looked up outside.

There were dark shadows in the woods in the distance. One more look and you couldn't help but suspect that a monster would jump out of the woods in the next second.

Su Ran looked away and no longer looked at the woods facing the temple gate.

The place she wanted to go to was not the woods, but the mountain mentioned in her infancy.

The original place where the baby girl died.

If the wandering priest is the culprit and the villagers are the executioners, then the strange mountain that first appeared was the beginning of everything.

When they came, the night was too dark, and Su Ran could only vaguely see a black shadow behind the ruined temple.

Now that I think about it, that should be the mountain where the mudslide occurred.

Hundreds of years have passed, the mountains and seas have changed, the former villas have been razed to the ground, and the newly built temples have also been damaged.

Even the original mountains lived up to their towering height.

Su Ran gently took a breath of cool breath, realized that she could no longer waste time here, and said, "Let's go."

There is nothing to look after in this ruined temple, so there is no need to specially arrange for people to stay.

In this strange and unpredictable place, the three of them could not be separated, or they should try not to be separated.

When Su Ran and the other three stepped out of the ruined temple again, they had the illusion of surviving a disaster.

The cold air blowing around his neck from time to time finally disappeared, and Hua Rongqi cursed angrily: "There is indeed something wrong with that ruined temple."

"Keep your voice down." Su Ran looked behind him, "Be careful not to be heard."

Hearing this, Hua Rongqi stiffened for a moment, and after reacting, he said, "Master, I'm not afraid of those evil things."

Even though he said this, his voice became much softer.

Su Ran chuckled, not wanting to expose his tough talk.

When you walk to the side of the ruined temple, you can see the whole mountain. It is not far away from the ruined temple. There are tall and lush trees growing on the mountain.

This lush mountain forest was in sharp contrast to the dry forest when they came.

A few people took advantage of the moonlight and walked to the foot of the mountain.

Just as he was about to go up, Su Ran suddenly shuddered, and an indescribable coldness shot straight from the tailbone to Tianling Gai.

——Three people don’t hug the tree.

This sentence suddenly appeared in Su Ran's mind.

The dense forest in front of them swayed its branches and leaves with the mountain wind that blew from time to time at night, as if inviting them in.

Su Ran licked her dry lips, suppressing the fear in her heart, and said slowly: "No matter what happens later, don't hug the tree."

Three people not hugging a tree refers to three people hugging a tree together, or three people individually hugging a tree. Su Ran doesn't know which one it is.

But to be on the safe side, it’s better not to hug anyone.

Xie Shiqing glanced at her and didn't ask why, just nodded silently.

Hua Rongqi couldn't help but be curious and asked, "Why? Is there something wrong with this tree?"

If it was true, he would have to be careful when he went in later and not let a single hair touch the tree.

Unexpectedly, Su Ran shook his head and said: "You might die if you hug the tree."

Temples and trees, the sense of déjà vu was so strong that she wouldn’t be surprised if a well appeared in the mountains later.

Hua Rongqi: "!!!"

damned! He said there was something wrong with the tree.

Now Hua Rongqi made up his mind not to touch the trees on the mountain.

Seeing him looking like he was facing a formidable enemy, Su Ran comforted him and said, "Don't be too worried, as long as the three of us don't hug the tree at the same time."

In this case, it should be no problem, right?
Su Ran wasn't sure either. She didn't delve into the deeper meaning of this strange Chinese story when she first saw it, and now it was too late to regret it.

Hua Rongqi nodded in agreement, but in his heart he felt a sense of resistance against the trees in the mountain because of Su Ran's words.

When the mountain wind blows, the leaves in the forest rustle.

As they walked, they stepped on fallen leaves on the ground from time to time, making a crisp rustling sound.

Except for the occasional sound of leaves shaking in the forest, there is nothing else.

The three of them walked in a "1" shape, with Xie Shiqing in the lead, Su Ran in the middle, and Hua Rongqi in the rear.

"Are there any wild animals in this mountain?" Hua Rongqi suddenly asked.

Su Ran's voice came from the front: "Didn't you say there are no living people in the illusion? Then there should be no living animals either, right?"

Hua Rongqi thought for a while: "There is no living one, but if there is a fake one, it can still bite people to death."

Su Ran: "."

You didn't tell me earlier! ! !
She came straight up thinking there were no wild animals in the mountains!
Hua Rongqi saw that she suddenly stopped and almost bumped into her, and asked, "What's wrong?"

(End of this chapter)