Onmyoji's Secret

Chapter 16 Fear
I stared at the front blankly, feeling a little unbelievable.

Because after I stepped out of the trail, what appeared in front of me was a majestic and tall mountain, with steep mountains and continuous ups and downs that could not be seen at a glance.

If it's just an ordinary mountain, it's fine. After all, Xichuan has many mountains, which is not unusual.But this mountain is different. On its criss-crossing mountain body, there is actually a huge building complex.

These buildings are basically ancient castles and watchtowers. They are built against the mountains, climbing rocks, and building stone houses.

I stared dumbfounded at the huge building complex in the distance. I was very shocked. These buildings are full of strong exotic customs, which I have never seen before.

I don't know why the ancestors of the Chen family let me in. Could it be that the complex of buildings in front of me is their plan?I didn't understand the purpose of my ancestors, so I could only step forward and walk towards the building. I guessed that there might be answers to all the questions inside.

As I get closer to the ancient buildings, I feel more and more depressed. Even though I am only a ten-year-old child, I can still feel the weirdness of this place.

The mountains not far away are winding and undulating, with many mountains and mountains, which is very spectacular.But from a distance, it is desolate and lonely. There is no grass, no trees, no trace of greenery on this mountain, it is all bare stones and loess.There is a huge curved gully on the mountain, which is full of countless yellow sand, which seems to be a dry river.

Apart from my own breathing and footsteps in Nuoda’s space, I didn’t hear any sound of life, no insects, no birds, not even a trace of wind. The silence here is like a restricted area of ​​life.

I was suddenly a little scared, stopped and didn't dare to move forward.This is the first time for me to work independently, and it is a major matter related to the fate of my Chen family. Neither my grandfather nor my father is by my side. In my eyes, it was like a monster with its mouth open, waiting for me to go in and swallow it in one bite.

I gritted my teeth, thinking of Grandpa's expectant gaze, I gained some motivation.My heart swayed, I threw my legs and ran towards the building, I wanted to use the speed of running to alleviate the fear in my heart.

When I climbed up a small hill, I felt a burning sensation on my left shoulder, which seemed to be where the phoenix mark was located.As I got closer to the ancient buildings, the scorching feeling became more and more obvious, and in the end it even made me feel a little tingling.

I was afraid to put my hand into my clothes to touch my left shoulder, but to my surprise, my hand was cold and there was nothing unusual, but the burning sensation spreading from the left shoulder was real, as if it came from the inside out Intensified.

In the end, I felt my whole body was hot, my head was a little dizzy, and my eyes were swollen and painful.I sat on the ground with my buttocks, panting heavily, my chest was tight and swollen, and my whole body was hot. For a moment, I felt as if I was going to die.

But fortunately, the painful feeling of wanting to die quickly subsided, the body temperature gradually returned to normal, the eyes did not swell, and the dizziness did not stop. It seemed that everything just now was just a dream.

I got up from the ground, ready to move on, but soon I stopped, my eyes widened and I looked around, my face full of disbelief.

The originally bare stone mountain not far away now looks like a piece of greenery, green pines and cypresses, lush and lush, and birds fly out of the forest from time to time, in groups, and the sound of birdsong keeps echoing in the ears.And the gully that meandered down from the mountain turned into a clear stream at this moment. With wide eyes, you can still see small fish swimming with their tails in the stream.

I am his ancestor, what is going on here?Is what I see in front of me an illusion, or is the dead scene I saw just now an illusion?
At this moment, I felt that my brain was almost out of use. It was only a few minutes before and after, how could there be such an earth-shaking change all of a sudden.

I don't know what happened, but I just have a vague feeling that it seems to be related to the burning pain that I felt just now.

Just as I was walking forward and thinking wildly, there was a sudden sound of words in front of me. I was shocked and raised my head to look over. The direction of the sound source seemed to be the building complex in front.

someone!

I was overjoyed, I had had enough of being in this strange and weird place, and I was quite scared.Now when I heard someone talking in front of me, I ran forward with two legs.

Soon, when I climbed up a hillside, the huge and spectacular building complex appeared in front of my eyes. The first thing that caught my eye were two towering watchtowers. These two watchtowers were built with ashlar and rammed earth. It is nearly ten meters high. On the edge of the two watchtowers, there is a long earthen wall surrounding the entire building complex. There is a huge wooden door in the middle of the two watchtowers. At this moment, the wooden door is open. Several The man was standing at the door chatting.

I saw that the costumes of those men were extremely strange. They were dressed in blue robes, with leggings wrapped around their feet, and strange felt hats on their heads. They seemed to be talking about something important at the moment, and two of them looked Excited, his hands kept gesticulating something, and his mouth kept saying a very awkward language with a weird tone.

I listened with my ears upright, and found that I couldn't understand what they said at all. Coupled with the weird costumes they wore and the strangely shaped castle towers behind them, I guessed that they should be a minority living in seclusion here. Ethnic tribes, as for the specific ethnicity, I don't know.

Isn't this where all the secrets of our Chen family lie?How could it become a settlement of ethnic minorities? Besides, the white scorpion guarding outside is so terrifying. Aren't these people afraid of living here?

Why did my grandpa say all the answers are in there?What kind of situation did the ancestors of the Chen family set up here, and they had to wait more than 300 years before letting the child with the imprint of the phoenix bird come in?Also, since Chen Shengzhi's ancestor was so powerful back then, why didn't he cut off the white snake and turn it into a white snake instead?And the naked child in the white coffin, the weird bronze mask...

My mind was in such a mess that I felt like I was about to explode.

After a while, when I finally calmed down and felt a little better, I walked up to those men and asked them, "Uncle, may I ask, what is this place?"

However, what made me a little embarrassed was that those men ignored me and talked to themselves. One of the men with a mole on his face laughed as if he had heard some joke.

Damn it!
I cursed inwardly, and then said louder: "Hello, I'm from the Chen family, my grandfather asked me to come here!"

However, these men still ignored me, as if I was a piece of air, they didn't even look at me, and continued to speak their strange language.

They don't understand Chinese, right?

I thought to myself that when I saw those people ignoring me, I was also angry, so I lifted my foot and walked towards the wooden door. No matter what kind of behavior I make, they ignore it.

After entering the wooden door, there are countless houses built of earth, stone and wood. They are scattered and intersected, and there are countless paths leading to nowhere.

There were many people shuttled back and forth on the path, but they were all wearing strange blue robes with strange patterns embroidered on them, no matter they were young or old.Those women were still wrapped in blue turbans, and they looked exotic.

This is their national costume, right?

I was going to find someone to ask where this place is, but before I could even open my mouth, a burly man came straight to me. Like me, he didn't even give in.

I saw that he didn't want me, so I hurriedly hid to the side. The man walked past me in a daze. Like the men at the door, he didn't even look at me from the beginning to the end.

I have a bad feeling in my heart, it seems that not only those men, but all the people in this village seem to have not noticed me. My clothes are so prominent in this village, and my clothes and clothes are the same. They are completely different. According to common sense, this situation should not be at all!

There was cold sweat on my forehead, and my heart beat a little faster.

I saw a woman walking towards me with a basket on the opposite side. She had a smile on her face and seemed to be easy to get along with.I hastened to greet her and called out, "Sister, may I ask..."

Before I could finish speaking, the woman actually passed through my body, passing through my body so naturally, but I didn't feel any strangeness.

I turned my head in horror, and found that the woman was walking away with a basket.
Is this a ghost?
Then she is a ghost?Or am I a ghost?

The clothes on the back were already wet with sweat, my hands and feet were cold, and my legs felt weak.Seeing the people passing by, I gritted my teeth and rushed towards them with my eyes closed.

boom!
A stone on the ground tripped me and threw me to the ground. I raised my head and looked around in horror. A child just jumped up and down. I didn’t hide and just watched him pass through my body. .

I fell down and my body hurt, but I couldn't hide the fear from the bottom of my soul.This fear of the unknown finally broke through the last strength in my heart, and I let out a miserable scream to the sky...

(End of this chapter)