937, Return to the ‘origin’ (2/2)
Red lanterns filled the sky, and the ground was covered with crimson.
In the gauze-like red light, black hair kept falling, like vines entangled everywhere in the tropical rainforest.
Under the suppression of the death law of the strange eyes and strange hair, Su Wu's Tianpeng's true body was about to collapse, and he would eventually reach the end of the road-at this time, waves of horse bells kept coming, from far to near.
The huge mule came leisurely.
When it came closer, Su Wu found that there was a little girl sitting sideways on the back of this huge mule.
The girl was wearing a lotus-colored dress and two double whips. She kicked the black cloth shoes on her feet and held a torch in her hand, but the torch was extinguished.
I wonder what she is doing holding an extinguished torch?
Looking at the little girl on the horse's back, staring at her facial features, Su Wu's eyes were slightly red.
Clang clang clang——
The huge mule stopped in front of Su Wu.
The crimson light shone on it, leaving a shadow all over the ground, covering Su Wu on the ground.
The little girl on the horse's back floated down lightly, her pale face full of well-behaved, and her big eyes reflected the face of Su Wu without the real body of Tianpeng.
The little girl said nothing and handed the unlit torch in her hand to Su Wu.
She made a famous gesture: "Senior brother."
"Xiu Xiu..." Su Wu looked at Xiu Xiu, who was like a shadow, and murmured, "Why did you become like this? Where are your senior brothers and sisters?"
"In the 'Vacuum Hometown'." Xiu Xiu made a famous gesture, "Senior brother, this fire is for you.
Let's meet in the reincarnation..."
"Meet in the reincarnation..." Su Wu didn't understand what this sentence meant.
The little girl 'Xiu Xiu' smiled, her figure swayed, and turned into nothingness.
The huge mule beside her stared at Su Wu silently, and then disappeared without a trace.
Everything seemed to be just a dream of Su Wu.
But the torch that Xiuxiu gave to Su Wu was still held in his hand, and as Xiuxiu and the mule disappeared, the crimson light and hair covered him - the torch suddenly rose with orange-red flames!
The orange-red flames surrounded Su Wu.
He was in it, and his heart was filled with a long-lost sense of peace and tranquility.
Such flames reminded him of the small blue brick temple he encountered in Mingzhou when he first left the place covered by the shadow ghost and entered the area covered by the eye ghost. The flames in the temple also had a similar atmosphere to this kind of flame.
Is the temple in Mingzhou also related to Xiuxiu and the others?
‘Vacuum Hometown’ seems to be the holy place in the legend of the White Lotus Sect - what is the relationship between Xiuxiu and the vacuum hometown?
As Su Wu's thoughts flashed through his mind, blurry figures appeared in the burning orange flame in his hand, and familiar voices came into Su Wu's heart: "Brother, let's meet in reincarnation."
"Let's meet in reincarnation..."
These were the voices of Zhu'er, Qingmiao, and Gousheng.
Where should he go to find 'reincarnation'?
The orange flames burning on the torch kept flashing, and wisps of flames wrapped around Su Wu. He was followed by clusters of red and white firewood burning around him. The two flames merged in an instant - the red and white flames burning around Su Wu gradually turned light red because they kept absorbing the orange flames burning on the torch.
The power of the firewood grew stronger.
The red lanterns in the sky were spinning.
The long black hair was intertwined into a ball, parading and spreading in the sky.
Su Wu, who was covered with light red flames, withdrew his gaze from the sky, and the light in his eyes flickered.
In his opinion, the one that is most closely related to the ‘reincarnation’ that Zhu’er and the others mentioned is undoubtedly the ‘Intestines of the Three Purities’.
Could reincarnation refer to the law of death and catastrophe of the ‘Intestines of the Three Purities’?
According to some clues obtained in the simulator, an unimaginable and terrifying death and catastrophe broke out in a certain period of the ‘Qing’. After that death and catastrophe, Li Gui fell into a long period of silence, and only gradually revived in recent years.
Did Zhu’er and the others participate in saving that catastrophe?
Could the Intestines of the Three Purities, the Eye Gui, and the Hair Gui be part of the cause of that catastrophe, or even the whole cause?
What role did the ‘cross-shaped crack’ play in that catastrophe?
If Xiuxiu, Zhu’er and the others participated in saving that catastrophe, then the reincarnation they mentioned was probably in a certain period of the ‘Qing’, and they also needed to re-enter the simulated time and space to reunite with them in that period.
Su Wu frowned.
In the sky behind him, a cross-shaped crack was hanging there, like a huge nail nailed there. The criss-cross cracks continued to extend, blocking all of Su Wu's retreat routes - he could not retreat from this dangerous area, and could only move forward.
If Xiuxiu and Zhu'er had not encountered some taboo situation, they would never have passed on such vague clues to him.
Since they did so, it means that once they clearly stated the clues, they might touch the "taboo" and bring unpredictable disasters.
The taboo may come from the "cross-shaped crack".
Su Wu did not observe the "cross-shaped crack" hovering behind him again. His thoughts moved slightly, and the torch in his hand suddenly went out - the torch had burned one-third in such a short time.
The remaining one-third, Su Wu needs to use sparingly.
The red fire that surged all over his body turned into a cloak at this moment, covering his shoulders. Wearing this cloak, Su Wu still moved freely in the crimson light, and his long black hair was winding around him, advancing and retreating around him, but temporarily unable to break through the protection of the cloak on his body.
Su Wu thought again and called the "simulator".
The simulator still had no response.
He sighed, took out a bell, and shook it gently.
Clang clang clang——
A tall horse with a white glowing head appeared beside him, and the blazing fire burning all over his body also covered the "Dragon from the Horse", so that it was not damaged at all.
Climbing on the horse, Su Wu walked along the village road to the half slope behind Baishui Village.
There was an "incineration plant area" built on the half slope.
In the factory building that had become dilapidated with the arrival of the hair ghost and the eye ghost, Wangcai and his seven cubs guarded around the "Xiezhi God Statue" and they were all alive - it was also Su Wu who restrained the power of the three evil ghosts there, which relieved the pressure on Wangcai.
Gathering Wangcai and his cubs into the undercurrent of consciousness, Su Wu drove the horse forward.
He had a goal for this trip.
The white horse turned into a white light and shuttled through the crimson world.
...
The sky was dark.
The black hair, darker than the black sky, was floating in the sky, exuding a terrifying and gloomy strange charm.
On both sides of the wide streets under the black sky, buildings were lined up one after another, constantly arranged forward.
The fronts of shops, small roadside signs, and huge display screens on large supermarkets at the intersections were all flashing with colorful lights, but the colorful lights were covered in thick dust, so they were not so bright. They kept jumping on both sides of the empty street, giving people an extremely gloomy and weird feeling.
Whoosh!
A cold wind blew, blowing up the waste paper and plastic scattered on the ground.
In the distance, several cars collided with each other, rusty.
Da Da! Da Da!
The crisp sound of horse hooves came from behind those cars, and a white shadow suddenly passed the pile of broken cars blocking the middle of the road, revealing Su Wu riding on the back of a white horse, with a light red fire burning all over his body.
In Su Wu's arms, he was holding a strong big rooster.
The big rooster was called a chicken, but in fact it was almost the same size as a medium-sized dog.
The identity of the big rooster is naturally the "emergency canned food" who is well fed and served at the "Zhanghe Guidance Bureau Headquarters" - after Su Wu contacted Shen Hao before, the day before he went to Baishui Village, Shen Hao had arranged a special plane to deliver the emergency canned food to the station first, and some of Jiang Yingying's personal belongings were sent to the station along with the emergency canned food.
Originally, Su Wu planned to deal with Jiang Yingying's disappearance the next day, but he didn't expect that he almost died on the night he arrived at Baishui Village.
It is now an hour after he left Baishui Village.
In this hour, he drove Long Cong Maben across most of Mingzhou. Now, he is close to the place where he first lived in Mingzhou - "Ping'an Garden".
There is a "burning small temple" on the commercial street in front of the "Ping'an Garden" community.
That small temple is the ultimate goal of his trip.
On the commercial street, many shop signs have faded because no one has repaired them for a long time. In the windows of some clothing stores, plastic models stand quietly, and the clothes they wear are covered with dust.
In the cooked food stores, mold grows densely in the food plates placed in the fresh-keeping cabinets, covering the original food inside.
All the buildings here give Su Wu a familiar feeling.
But they are no longer what Su Wu remembers.
I haven't been here for half a year, and everything here has changed dramatically.
In an environment without vitality and nourishment, it seems that even the buildings that are just dead objects are slowly becoming "depressed", gray and lifeless.
Su Wu's eyes swept across the signs of shops on the roadside, and next to the cake shop with the sign "Palace Pastry", he saw a small temple built of blue bricks.
He rang the bell, took back the ‘Dragon from the Horse’, and walked towards the small temple holding the quiet and depressed emergency can.
At this time, red lanterns suddenly floated in the dark sky.
The crimson light passed through the black hair swirling in the sky and sprinkled on the street.
The blue brick temple emitted orange flames.
The flames only spread to the door of the small temple and could not expand outward.
When Su Wu first met this small temple, the flames emitted from the small temple could still linger within a few meters outside the temple-after so long, the flames in the small temple gradually became weak.
But it still has a flame, which is always a good thing.
Su Wu rushed into the small temple with a light red firewood all over his body, holding the emergency can.
He closed the temple door and looked at the orange flame on the stone candlestick. Under the peaceful atmosphere, everything here made Su Wu feel as if he was in another world.
He was back to square one.