Onmyoji's Secret

Chapter 76 The Chen Family's Sacrifice
I couldn't help repeating what my grandfather once said, the Qiang River is the Qingyi River where I am now, and why the water of the Qiang River is related to the luck of our Chen family? I looked at the scene in front of me , There was a faint realization in my heart.

There are more than 20 child skeletons kneeling on the huge altar in front of them. They are facing the white coffin in the middle. A water tank on the periphery of the white coffin is filled with scarlet and viscous blood, which bubbles from time to time. .

It looks dazzling.

My body was trembling, not only because of the strange scene in front of me, but also because I felt that something very important to me was buried in the coffin in front of me, my blood seemed to be boiling, and my heart was beating like thunder .

What exactly is in this white coffin?
Even when I saw the white stone in the shrine of Tsing Yi Qiang Castle, the feeling of longing was not as strong as it is now. I even said that besides longing, I also had a trace of fear. The things inside, He has a great relationship with me, and he may even be the ultimate secret of our Chen family, the truth of the Chen family's plan for more than 300 years.

"Brother, come here! My brother!"

There was another ethereal voice, and I looked at the child who was suspected to be my brother standing next to a certain skeleton on the altar on the first floor. The dark white skeleton was small and exquisite, about the same size as the child in the flowered jacket.

I walked over following the sound, stepped on the stone steps made of white jade, and walked up to the altar step by step. When I got to the white skeleton, I was horrified to find that the child was gone. I was at the altar just now When I got down, I could clearly see the child in the little flowered jacket standing here, but when I walked up to the skeleton, he disappeared without a trace, and only this skeleton appeared in front of me. A skeleton with a faint white light.

Just when I was in doubt, a sudden change occurred. The head of the skeleton in front of me suddenly turned, and the small white head turned around with a "click" sound, and the two empty eyes just looked at it like that. with me.

Ka Ka Ka!
It was as if a switch had been activated, and the heads of more than 20 bones kneeling around the altar on the first floor all turned. They looked at me with two empty eyes without a trace of flesh and blood. They were called eyes, but they were actually bones. The two dark holes on the ceiling looked very eerie and terrifying under the dim light around them.

At this moment, I couldn't feel any fear in my heart. I looked at the body in front of me with only bones left, and asked softly, "Brother, is that you?"

In the quiet hall, there was no sound other than my breathing. The child just now did not appear again, and I didn't even hear any sound after I stepped onto the altar.

Click!

I don't know how much time passed, the white head in front of me actually nodded its head to me lightly in front of my eyes, the sound of friction between the bones stimulated my eardrums to hurt.

I couldn't hold it back any longer, tears flowed down my eyes, and fell to the ground tick-tock, especially harsh in this silent hall.

He is my brother!

The child who fell into the Qingyi River and drowned when I was just born has never appeared in my memory. Only sporadic information about this child can be obtained from the conversations between my mother and my father from time to time.

My heart couldn't stop bursting with sadness. At this time, I can also see that he didn't drown at all back then, and what grandpa said was a lie!

Everything in front of me is obviously related to our Chen family. The white coffin on the altar may even be the secret of our Chen family. If my grandfather doesn't know about it, no one can believe it.

Perhaps, it was Grandpa who brought my elder brother here, and then brought him...

The extremely viscous blood in the sink is the blood of our Chen family who has accumulated for countless generations!

There have been more than 300 generations of the Chen family in the past 20 years. There are more than 20 skeletons kneeling around the altar. Even if I am stupid, I can still see that each of them was once a child of my Chen family. live life.

What exactly is the Chen family planning and why, the flesh and blood of more than 20 generations of my Chen family are used to worship the white coffin in the middle, and what is buried in this coffin?
There seemed to be bursts of terrified and helpless cries of children in my ears. Tears blurred my eyes. I gritted my teeth and walked up the stone steps towards the white coffin on the top of the altar.

The white scales shone with a strange luster under the dim light. I rubbed my eyes, wiped away the tears on my face, and looked at the coffin in front of me.

This is the fourth white coffin I have seen. From Qingyi Village to Qingyi Qiang Ancient Village, then to Qingcheng Mountain, and finally back to Qingyi River, this same white coffin keeps appearing in my life. The woman named Ruochu was buried in the first three white coffins, but what is buried in the fourth white coffin in front of me?

I took a long breath and stretched out my hand to rest on the white coffin. The hand was delicate and lubricated. This is a kind of scale armor of a reptile, and it may also be made of a big snake's snake skin.

The white coffin was lying quietly on the altar. I put both hands in the gap on the edge of the white coffin, trying to lift it up, but just when I had this thought, my whole body trembled unnaturally When I got up, my limbs convulsed, my eyelids throbbed uncontrollably, and my heart felt like it was about to explode.

"Can't open!"

"You must never open the white coffin in front of you!"

I don't know where the thoughts came from and spread in my heart. I don't know why it happened, but at the moment my mind is filled with such thoughts. It seems that as long as I open the white coffin in front of me, I can I understand the truth of the Chen family's plan, but at the same time the most terrifying thing in the world will happen. The things inside are not only related to me, but also to the Chen family, and to the mysterious man 300 years ago.

I slumped on the ground, panting heavily, looking at the white coffin with curiosity, trepidation, and even a hint of fear in my heart.

"Chen Zixuan! What are you doing here alone?"

Just as I was staring at the white coffin in a daze, I suddenly felt someone call me, and at the same time, a hand patted my back.Immediately, I felt the world spinning, and the white coffin, altar, and skeleton in front of me began to twist, and finally burst open with a bang, turning into countless gorgeous fragments floating in front of my eyes, and my eyes were blurred.

When I felt that I regained control of my body and my eyesight returned to normal, I realized that the scene in front of me had changed to the bank of Qingyi River under the night.

Gusts of night wind blew, bringing coolness to the tired body. I looked at the stars in the sky and the Qingyi River rushing in front of me, and my heart was in a trance again. Was everything just an illusion?
Is it just a hallucination I have produced because I miss my brother?

I can no longer distinguish between reality and fantasy, but when I turned my head and saw a few water-stained footprints next to me that hadn't dried up, my pupils shrank suddenly, thinking of the child who led me to the river.

My brother, Chen Zilong!

Perhaps it was because of his smile when he was by the river that I experienced this dreamlike experience. There is a huge altar under the Qingyi River, and the biggest secret of my Chen family is buried in the altar. The flesh and blood and life of the family members are sacrificed to the secret.

"elder brother……"

There was a dreamlike sound in my mouth, thinking of that poor child, my heart ached.

"Chen Zixuan, what are you doing? You call me brother, hehe, you should call me sister!"

A tender white hand dangled in front of my eyes, and a girl in a goose-yellow T-shirt was standing in front of me and looked at me with a sweet smile, with a weird smile on her face.

I was a little helpless, the woman in front of me was actually the Li Xiaohui who sat with me on the bus, the girl who ate snacks for four hours along the way.

"It's nothing, I feel a little uncomfortable."

I replied to her, then squatted down and sat on a big rock beside me, looking at the Qingyi River not far away, my heart was constantly churning with melancholy.

"Are you unhappy? Come and eat something. If you are unhappy, eat some snacks, and you will feel comfortable."

A small white hand held a bag of chicken feet with pickled peppers and stuffed it into my hand. I turned my head and saw a spring-like smile on my delicate face...

(End of this chapter)