Onmyoji's Secret

Chapter 75 Brother?

"Chen Zixuan! What's wrong with you?"

Teacher Jia saw that I was standing there alone in a daze after listening to his words, so he hurriedly asked.

I was startled, woke up from my thoughts, and said to Teacher Jia: "Teacher, it's okay, I just felt a little touched after listening to your words, thank you."

Teacher Jia glanced at me, and after confirming that there was nothing unusual about me, she nodded and said, "Well, I'll go there first, don't stay outside for too long, go back early."

I nodded slightly, and after watching Teacher Jia go away, I sighed, found a big raised rock, and sat on it in a daze.

The evening wind blows, taking away the tiredness on my body. I look at the Qingyi River splashing waves from time to time in the night. Fell asleep.

After an unknown amount of time, I felt a little chilly all over my body. I opened my eyes and found a child standing in front of me. Liuliu's eyes are staring at me.

I looked around and found that there were no family members of the child around.I can't help but feel a little strange, how can such a small doll come here on this big night? Although there will be a fireworks show on the square by the river tonight, parents will definitely watch such a small doll closely, and won't Let him run around.

The child stared at me for a long time, the two pitch-black eyes made me feel a little numb, and a fine layer of goose bumps appeared on my body.

"Chen Zixuan."

The little baby tilted his head and looked at me for a while, then a smile appeared on his face, and he called out my name.

I was taken aback, what was the origin of this little doll in front of me?

"Which one are you? Why would you know my name?" I stared at the child in front of me and asked.

After hearing what I said, the little baby laughed and said to me: "Come with me, everyone wants to see you."

I was taken aback, what this little baby said was inexplicable, asked me to follow him, and said that everyone wanted to see me, who was the "everyone" referring to in his mouth?I don't remember anyone I know in this city of Yazhou.

At this moment, the little baby finished speaking, and without waiting for my answer, he bounced and ran towards the Qingyi River in the dark night. Every step he took, he would leave a water-stained footprint on the ground.

Is it because of the night, I can only see the water stains on the ground through the faint light of the fire coming from the bank, but I don't care, after all, it is too normal to have water stains on the riverside.

When I saw this child walking towards the river, I was a little worried, afraid that he would fall into the river. Such a small doll doesn't know how to protect himself.As soon as I thought of this, I hurriedly followed.

In the dark night, the temperature by the river is a bit low. The kid looks small, but his speed is very fast. When I was stunned, he ran to the edge of the Qingyi River, and I was very anxious. I was really afraid that a wave would roll him into the river.

While yelling in my mouth to tell him not to move around, I spread my legs and ran towards him.

Who knew that just when I ran to the river, the child turned his head and gave me a "giggle" laugh, and he walked into the river all at once.

At this moment, the child's smile seemed to have a strange magic power. At this time, I seemed to be controlled by a strange force. Everything around me seemed to be unable to have any influence on me anymore. Just one thought.

"Follow him! Follow him!"

I didn't have time to think at all, so I turned over and rushed into the icy river, and I couldn't help but want to keep up with this child.

The Qingyi River at night is icy cold, and I am like a swimming fish in the river. I don’t need lighting, and I can see the situation in the water clearly. I don’t need to breathe, and I don’t need life.I feel that my body is light at the moment, a bit like the night when I first arrived at the Qingcheng Mountain Taoist Temple six years ago. That night, I was also in the same state. I flew across the earth with a gust of wind, and saw Fulong along the Minjiang River The evil dragon soul under the observation.

I was swimming in the river, following the graceful child in front of me. His appearance at this time was really strange. His thin and small body seemed to be unaffected by the rushing water and the laws of physics. It’s the same as on land, standing up and walking forward with two legs, it’s so weird, if it’s normal, I would definitely turn pale and dare not follow, but just now I was affected by his weird smile on the shore, and all but Nothing but "keep up with him" over and over again.

I don't know how long I swam, but I followed him to the bottom of the Qingyi River. There were often fish swimming around, and the bottom of the river was full of accumulated silt and river sand.

"Come! Come! My brother!"

The child turned his head and called out to me. His voice was like a dream, ethereal and illusory, but when I heard it, I was suddenly startled. The feeling of being controlled just now gradually faded away, and my consciousness regained consciousness. Started to take control of the body.

What did the kid just say?
He actually called me brother?
A child in a small flower jacket, about three or four years old, appeared by the Qingyi River.

My soul was greatly shaken at this moment, like being struck by a bolt of lightning, and my whole body trembled.The words my mother said to me six years ago when she pulled me into the room came to my mind.

"You were just born that year, and my mother wanted to take you with me, so she couldn't get away from taking your brother. Your brother was taken to the city by your grandfather to play. Later, your grandfather came back and said that Longwazi fell into the Qingyi River and drowned. , We invited a lot of people to salvage, but in the end we didn't find Longwazi's bones. Your father suspected that this matter had something to do with your grandfather. His expression at that time was really weird, he didn't look like someone who lost his grandson at all... "

My mother's choked voice still echoed in my ears. Is this child in front of me the elder brother who drowned?

That child named Chen Zilong!

"Come, come with me, my brother!"

The kid had a smile on his face. He walked on the bottom of the river full of mud, as if he was walking on a flat road, calling me as he walked forward.

I looked at his appearance, and there was a trace of sadness in my heart.

I saw him keep walking forward, so I followed his example and followed.I don't know what kind of state I am in right now. I can't sink when I step on the mud, and I can't drown in the water. Is this what the old people often say that the soul is out of the body?
I don’t know how long I’ve been walking, but every time I want to speed up and catch up with the child who is suspected to be my brother, I find that the distance between me and him can’t be shortened, like two parallel lines that never intersect. Looking at him, but never being able to get close.

A huge hill arched from the bottom of the river ahead, and I saw a dark hole in the middle of the hill.The child seemed to be taking a walk in the garden, and after lifting his feet a few times, his figure disappeared into the cave.

Without the slightest hesitation, I followed his steps and walked into this dark cave with no end in sight.

When I entered this cave, I suddenly found that there was not a drop of water in it. The inside and outside of the cave were like two worlds. The word "avoid water" came to my mind. I have mentioned the existence of water-avoiding treasures or water-avoiding magic circles, but I don’t know which one is used in this cave. Compared with legendary treasures such as water-avoiding beads, I am more inclined to be invincible here. A Taoist water-avoiding formation was adopted.

The cave is very long and dark, and there is a downhill road inside. It is unknown how many years ago the stone steps on the road were man-made.

The figure of the child had disappeared, completely submerged in the darkness ahead, I walked down the stone steps, as if leading to an underground world.

About half a stick of incense, I walked to the bottom of the stone steps, and what appeared in front of me was a huge stone hall. The walls around the stone hall seemed to be built with special materials, and they looked extremely solid. The top of the hall is inlaid with countless gemstones, pearls and jade that emit a cold light.

I am very familiar with this architectural style. Whether it is the ancient village of Qingyi Qiang six years ago or the ruins of the ancient Shu Kingdom six years later, their architectural styles are all decorated with shining pearls and jade on the walls and tops, so luxurious. High-quality buildings can be guaranteed to last for thousands of years, but at the same time, the high cost is destined to be decorated in this way only in some extremely important places.

However, is this huge building built at the bottom of the Qingyi River the masterpiece of Qingyi Qiang, or the handicraft of the ancient Shu Kingdom?In the past, I would definitely have firmly concluded that this is the stone hall built by the Qingyi Qiang people, but what Teacher Jia told me just now makes it difficult for me to be sure at the moment. The ancient Shu Kingdom also defeated the Qingyi Qiang to rule this area. At this time, it is difficult for me to judge.

However, whether it is the ancient Shu Kingdom or the Qingyi Qiang, how could that child who is suspected to be my brother bring me here?

What is the relationship between this place and our Chen family?
As I was thinking, I walked into the hall, which seemed to be a large hall. There were eight huge bronze columns in the main hall supporting the building. With the help of the light from the gemstone crystal, I could see dense patterns carved on the copper pillars. Among them, the most common one is a portrait with a square mouth, big ears, and extremely bulging eyes.

"Come here, my brother, come here!"

A somewhat ethereal voice came from the deeper part of the hall. I turned my eyes away from the bronze cylinder and looked into the depths of the hall. Maybe it was too far away, and the inside was dark, so I couldn't see clearly.

I followed the child's voice and walked into the main hall. After walking about a few hundred meters, I finally reached the deepest part of the main hall. Looking at the things that appeared in front of me, I widened my eyes and couldn't close my eyes in shock. muzzle.

This is a huge altar, a bit like the one I saw in the ruins of the ancient Shu Kingdom some time ago, but the altar in front of me is much bigger than it.The altar is round and divided into two layers. The bottom layer is densely packed with countless white bones kneeling. These bones are in the shape of human beings, and the skeletons are very small. It seems that most of them were children around a few years old when they were alive. They knelt on the ground, The face is facing the top of the altar which is higher in the middle.

I roughly counted, and the number of these humanoid skeletons is about 20. There is no trace of flesh and blood on their bodies, and they are all white bones. But directly in front of them is a circular water tank filled with scarlet blood. Thick blood with a dark color and a pungent smell, with a few bubbles popping up from time to time, looks very permeable under the dim light.

I looked in the direction where these children's skeletons were kneeling, and there was a coffin lying quietly on the altar in the center. It was a white coffin, and the fine scale material reflected bursts of dim light.

I felt a kind of fear from the soul spread throughout my body, and my whole body was trembling with fear.

A sentence that my grandfather once said kept echoing in my ears:

"If the Qiang River is not dry, the Chen family's luck will continue!"

(End of this chapter)