Chapter 1298
1297. "Inner World" (1) (22)
The narratives of the elders in the surrounding villages were not at all different from what Yujiro said, and were even exactly the same.
——Such an ‘exactly the same’ statement made Su Wu feel deeply strange.
He used his soul to reflect everyone's sexual intentions, but he did not find anything unusual. The memories retained in the old people's thoughts were exactly the same as their statements.
Those past memories are still clearly visible in their respective minds.
Since no clues could be found from these people, Su Wu let them go their separate ways.
It's almost dusk.
The sky became dark again, and a rain was brewing in the sky.
Su Wu watched many old people supporting each other and leaving Haijin Village. He calmly spoke to Tao Zu and Hong Renkun beside him: "Even if the things that happened in the past so many years are deeply remembered, they should not be forgotten. I remember every detail very clearly...
But the memories retained in these people's thoughts are exactly the same as their respective narratives. Things that happened more than ten years ago are vividly reflected in their minds...
Why is this? "
"When the fake is true, the truth is also false, and when the truth is false, the false is also true." Hong Renkun curled his lips and smiled, "Some things are too true, but they are false, and things that are too outrageous are very likely to be true."
"I haven't found any abnormal clues from the memories in their minds." Su Wu frowned slightly, "They are just ordinary old people. Could it be that they have the ability to tamper with their own memories?"
"It's not difficult to tamper with memory." Tao Zu continued, "You only need to remind yourself of something day after day, year after year, and think about that thing repeatedly. That thing has never happened in reality. Things will truly stay in your memory and never leave.”
Su Wu nodded after hearing this.
Outside the door, not long after many old people left, lines of rain began to fall from the sky.
The patter of rain suddenly became dense after a gust of wind. The heavy rain fell to the ground and accumulated in the pits. Muddy water soon accumulated in the mud pits on the ground.
As the mist filled the air, the smell of rotten sea fish became stronger and stronger.
The shadowy houses all around, the hills and wild trees in the distance were all twisted in the mist of water vapor, as if they had turned into ghosts.
Su Wu watched the candles light up in the wooden house opposite where Mrs. Tsuichiro lived. Yujiro walked out of the wooden house, bowed to Su Wu in front of the door, and then hurriedly returned to the wooden house opposite. Su Wu also turned around and returned to the house.
Inside the house, an oil lamp has been lit.
Tao Zu took out a deck of playing cards and was having a great time playing cards with Hong Renkun and Jiang Yingying around the table.
The emergency can was nestled in the grass nest specially made for it by Jiang Yingying in the corner, with its head drooped and drowsy.
It was raining heavily outside, but inside there was a peaceful and warm scene.
The rotten smell wandering outside cannot flow into the house. Instead, a faint fragrance permeates this simple wooden house.
Su Wu looked at a bouquet of wild flowers in a clay pot on the table and knew where the fragrance in the room came from.
His eyes moved away from the bouquet of wild flowers and met Jiang Yingying's shining eyes.
Yingying pursed her lips and smiled softly, handed him the stack of playing cards in her hand, and whispered: "Do you want to come and play for a while?
The night is so boring, it would be nice to play for a while to kill the time. "
"Eh!
We won't fight him.
Nothing fun is fun when it comes to him! "As soon as Jiang Yingying finished speaking, Hong Renkun first brushed away a few pieces of paper stuck to his head and protested loudly.
Tao Zu also took down the playing cards in his hand to express his unwillingness to play with Su Wu.
Seeing this situation, the pony-tailed girl was inevitably a little embarrassed and at a loss.
Su Wu smiled and shook his head, saying: "Just have fun.
It also rained heavily last night. In this heavy rain, large-scale deaths occurred in the surrounding villages.
It's also raining heavily tonight, and the treacherous attack is likely to happen again.
I need to take care of the surrounding villages that still have surviving common people, so that they will not be attacked by sneaky invaders again and die.
You should also be careful. "
"Do you even need to say this?" Hong Renkun looked at the cards in his hand, pulled out two of them, and punched them out, "Two against three!"
"Right eight!" Tao Zu quickly followed. After he played two cards, he quickly gathered the cards in his palm. A golden cross flashed in Hong Renkun's eyes, intending to spy on Tao Zu's hand, but he suddenly saw the palm of Tao Zu's hand. On the hand card inside, there is a small charm -
"Old thing!"
The corners of Hong Renkun's mouth twitched and he cursed, and the golden light in his eyes disappeared instantly.
Tao Zu was so proud that he nuzzled Jiang Yingying, indicating that it was her turn to play her cards. Then he raised his head and glanced at the silent appraiser in the corner, who looked like a wood carving and clay sculpture: "It's just like what the monk said - the candle shines The witch maid is much more interested in you than in us bad old men.
She has probably set her sights on you, and at least wants to lure you into the world she transformed into after her death.
I think you should be more careful yourself.
If you seize the opportunity and follow her to the other world - you don't need to worry about it here. I've incarnated here and won't let anyone die or get hurt here because of sneakiness! "
"You don't do anything yourself, so you want me to do the work for you?" Hong Renkun said angrily.
At this time, Jiang Yingying came out with a one-two punch. She lowered her head and whispered: "Please help Su Wu..."
In the corner, Jianzhen clasped his hands together and said in a low voice: "To untie the bell, you must tie the bell. Everything here started because of the 'candle light', and will also end because of the 'candle light'..."
The rain outside is getting heavier and heavier.
The lights in the room flickered slightly.
At this moment, Su Wu suddenly turned around and walked towards the door.
Tao Zu, Hong Renkun, and Jian Zhen, who were playing cards around the table, all stood up at the same time and followed them out of the door.
Wow!
Under heavy rain.
In the opposite fence, two figures argued and argued for a moment. A hunched figure suddenly knocked away the taller figure, knocked away the fence, and ran up the slope.
Su Wu looked at Yujiro who fell in the fence, and then chased after the hunched figure running towards the slope behind the house.
That person is naturally Yujiro's mother and Tsuichiro's wife.
Amid the howling wind and rain, Su Wu followed Mrs. Tsuichiro, listening to her keep chanting: "Water, water, water..."
He intuitively felt that the moment was the opportunity to solve the mystery.
‘Mrs. Tsuichiro’ suddenly fled the village, and it was the shrine maid Tsuzuki who handed him the ‘invitation letter to die on Toryu Island’——
The rickety woman's pace became faster and faster, and the soles of her feet stepped on the mud, bringing up a cloud of turbid water!
She shouted frantically: "Fish soup! Fish soup! Fish soup!"
In such a violent storm, even a young and middle-aged man could not keep up with Mrs. Tsuichiro's speed. Under Su Wu's observation, Mrs. Tsuichiro, who was already in her twilight years, now had only the remaining longevity of her life. Burning fiercely!
Such a vigorous burning life allowed her to burst out with a power that was unique in her life in a short period of time!
She climbed up the slope and approached a dry well on the slope.
Behind the slope, a cold and faint moon seemed to be hanging in the dripping rain.
The moon swayed in the waterline, suddenly turning from light silvery gray to blood red!
Bloody color enveloped Mrs. Tsuichiro.
Mrs. Tsuichiro stood on the edge of the well and stared at the dark dry well, as if she saw something terrifying in the well!
She instinctively wanted to retreat, but there seemed to be a force pushing her desperately, making her face struggle to stick to the mouth of the well: "Xiangzi!"
"my child!"
Mrs. Tsuichiro screamed suddenly and plunged into the dry well!
Su Wu's speed was no slower than hers, and he jumped into the dry well. On top of the well mouth, red light spread like blood in layers.
The spreading red light was filled with a hint of coldness.
But at the bottom of the dry well, against the red light, there seemed to be ripples of water.
Amid the crisp sound of water, there was a faint cry of a baby.
Plop!
Guluulu——
Su Wu suddenly fell into the cold and terrifying rhyme like gangrene on the bones, like cold well water. In such a dense rhyme, he heard the baby's cry getting closer and closer - so Then he opened his arms vigorously and rushed towards the source of the baby's cry——
Swim until your body emerges from the water!
Plop!
He heard another sound like something heavy falling into the water. The silver moonlight pouring down from the wellhead illuminated the wooden barrel that fell next to Su Wu. The rope on the barrel was connected to the wellhead.
The wooden barrel filled a bucket full of water and was lifted upwards with the sound of the rolling rollers at the wellhead.
Seeing this, Su Wu looked at the well water around him.
This kind of well water is not as cold as before, it is all condensed by a cold and strange charm.
This well water seems to be just well water.
He tried to dive into the water again, and soon he swam to the bottom of the well. There seemed to be no 'passage' to another world under the well. Su Wu was no longer obsessed with this. He leaned against the well wall and slowly climbed up to the well mouth. He climbed out from the earthen well railing and appeared on a grassless soil slope.
Behind the slope, the moon is full.
There is no trace of rain in the world here, only the stench like rotting sea fish fills the air more intensely.
Su Wu looked down the slope, but he didn't see Tsuichiro's fence, thatched house, or even the house opposite where Su Wu and his party lived temporarily.
——He already understood in his heart that he followed Mrs. Tsuichiro and indeed came to ‘another world’.
However, after Mrs. Tsuichiro jumped into the dry well, where did she go? Su Wu's mind was spinning, and he casually calculated and traced the cause and effect of Mrs. Tsuichiro, but could not find any trace of her. He was not in a hurry, walked down the slope, followed the path down the slope, and gathered at a wooden house. Go to that area.