"Every wrong has its owner, and every debt has its own owner. I burned this money for you today, but don't come to me, Old Huang, again in the future... Please, please."
At the entrance of the deserted courtyard, a thin man with short hair was burning special paper money with a sad expression.
The man was dressed luxuriously, and there was a small single-person sedan parked behind him. Two sedan bearers had sweat towels hanging around their necks, and they were sitting on the big bluestone waiting for us.
In addition, there are two strong men with sabers guarding them, looking left and right vigilantly to ensure safety at all times.
While the man was burning paper money here, a group of people on the other side were aggressively breaking in from the other side of the abandoned yard.
Bang.
The old wooden door crashed to the ground.
The two strong monks in red robes taking the lead strode into the courtyard and swept around.
"Is this right here?" One of the monks turned his head and glanced at his employer behind him.
"Exactly, my family's business fleet passed by here before to take shelter from the heavy rain for a night. As a result, after returning, one after another the clerks died of serious illness for several weeks. Now even my younger brother is also seriously ill because he was running a business together at that time. After more investigation, it was finally discovered that the accident happened one after another after staying here. I also asked two eminent monks to cast spells!"
The employer was a young, handsome, tall man, and beside him stood a beautiful woman who looked somewhat similar to him.
Both of them are descendants of West East City Bright Night District, the sons and daughters of the Chen Family, a wealthy family in the district.
Nowadays, accidents happened one after another at home, and I got seriously ill because of my stay at home. In desperation, I checked one by one and finally found this place.
The man's name is Chen Yunshi and the woman's name is Chen Yunlan. In order to make this trip completely smooth, they scraped together things and spent a thousand taels to invite two experts from Hongsha Temple.
When you encounter trouble like this, paying a mage to make things right is basically everyone's main solution after encountering the problem.
Normally it wouldn't be as exaggerated as a thousand taels, but this time the number of people involved was really too many. Even some of my own bloodline suffered, so the price was raised to this level.
The two Hongsha Temple monks walked around the middle courtyard and found nothing, then they approached the dark back room of the deserted courtyard.
Boom!
The next moment, the door to the back room exploded, and a pale white figure flew out and rushed towards the two monks.
The two of them shouted loudly at the same time, one on the left and the other on the right. With one hand they made a seal and the other raised their Zen staff and smashed it on each other's head.
The white shadow and golden light exploded in an instant. Like clouds and mist, it completely overwhelmed everyone's sight.
Immediately afterwards, there was a continuous sound of fierce fighting. After about two minutes, the fighting stopped suddenly.
"Okay, it's over. You can come over and see if this is the person?" The voice of one of the monks came from the clouds.
Chen Family The elder brother and sister heard this and let out a long sigh of relief.
They were not at home originally, and the family business was usually run by their younger brother. Now that his younger brother was seriously ill, the two had no choice but to rush back from other places, only to find that the situation was so bad that it could collapse at any time.
That's why I made a desperate move and spent a lot of money to avoid future troubles.
Now that they heard that everything was over, both of them felt very relieved. They quickly led people forward, entered the courtyard, and walked towards the two monks.
As soon as I entered the courtyard and took a few steps, the fog in front of my eyes slowly dissipated.
But in the mist, there was no one at all.
There were no monks and no white shadows. There was only a grassy courtyard with no traces of fighting.
"Where are the two eminent monks...?" Sister Chen Yunlan felt vaguely that something was wrong.
She quickly turned back and glanced at the courtyard door when she left. However, she found strangely that the courtyard door was missing.
Where there used to be a door, now there is only an old and mottled wall covered with mildew.
Seeing this, it was not only she who discovered it, but also Big Brother Chen Yunshi, as well as several other caravan guards who followed him, all of whom had pale faces.
"Eminent monk?!"
"Eminent Monk!!"
Everyone suddenly became a little commotion and felt bad. Everyone was not new to running a business, and they were more or less familiar with this kind of thing.
So everyone dispersed and started shouting.
But after looking around the entire courtyard, except for the inner room, the rest of the place was covered with weeds and there was no trace of the two eminent monks at all.
Not good!?
At this moment, everyone's heart skipped a beat and they immediately rushed towards the wall, planning to climb over the wall and leave first.
But the two men who were the fastest to approach the wall suddenly suddenly had a blurry figure from behind, flickered for a few times, and then mysteriously disappeared.
"Rewind!"
Chen Yunshi stopped and drank.
But it was too late. Two people failed to stop in time, and their backs flickered and disappeared.
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In the mountain forest, Lin Hui walked forward slowly, quickly approaching the deserted mountain garden.
After taking only a few steps, he suddenly stopped and turned to look to the left.
In the woods on the left, a casual and relaxing hum slowly drifted in from far to near.
As the sound continued to approach, in the forest, an old man wearing gray coarse linen clothes, with white hair and white eyebrows, slowly walking through the dense forest and walking along the mountain path with a wooden stick in his hand, came here.
There is indeed a mountain trail here.
Lin Hui lowered his head and glanced, but this mountain road was old and no one had maintained it. Now it is overgrown with weeds and it is extremely difficult to distinguish.
But the old man skillfully waded out of the weeds to create a clear stone path.
He had no expression on his face and continued to move forward, towards the abandoned garden.
"Huh? That little friend in front of you, is he planning to go there Garden of Gathering Shadows?"
But just because he didn't speak, it didn't mean that the other party planned to live in peace.
The old man raised his head and waved his hand towards Lin Hui with a smile, and actually said hello loudly.
The other party's tone was so natural that Lin Hui thought for a moment that he was still dressed as usual, instead of wearing a mask and black long trousers.
After a pause, he turned to look at the old man.
However, he found that the other party seemed to have not seen him and was approaching him straight away.
"Are you asking me?" Lin Hui said in a deep voice.
"Is there anyone else here?" the old man asked back. "Young man, this Garden of Gathering Shadows is not a good place. Anyone who has been there in the past few years will regret it."
He sighed.
"Three months ago, I persuaded a member of the Communist Party of China to come here with his concubine to look for his ancestor's grave. About a month ago, I persuaded a group of caravans who happened to be passing by to stay overnight.
But no one wanted to listen, and now... they all regret it.
"Garden of Gathering Shadows? Is that the original name there?" Lin Hui asked calmly.
"Yes, that place is quite evil. It's best not to even get close if you don't have to." The old man nodded.
"But I do have a reason to want to go in." Lin Hui said lightly.
"Haha, others may have it, but you, young man, are unlikely." Hearing this, the old man smiled immediately.
"Oh? What do you mean by that?" Lin Hui vaguely heard a clue, so he stopped completely, turned around and looked at the other party. "Or do you know who I am?"
"Don't be nervous." The old man shook his head, "I'm not a good person, but I'm not a bad person either. He's just a poor fortune teller. This person's fate and essence, even if you wear a mask, will always be revealed in your every move, word and deed. If I dare to say this, it means that I have seen part of your essence."
"Interesting... see my true nature? Even I am not sure that I have seen myself clearly. How dare an old man speak out nonsense?" Lin Hui heard this, and already had some predictions about the other party's subsequent tactics.
This is a typical trick of a charlatan. If it weren't for the fact that this place is deep in the mountains and forests, with barren mountains and wild ridges, and people with no skills, it would be difficult for a person to survive here. He would have been too lazy to talk nonsense with the other person.
"Young people don't know that everything in the world will have some residue?" The old man smiled.
"Then I dare to ask the old man, what is the essence of me?" Lin Hui's tone gradually became impatient.
The old man heard something was wrong and his heart skipped a beat.
In fact, he was a hermit living in the nearby mountains and forests. He repeatedly persuaded everyone to do this Garden of Gathering Shadows thing that was harmful to people.
The result is that some people listened to it and took a detour. But there are a few people who just don't believe in the evil, or are overconfident in themselves, so they entered Garden of Gathering Shadows on their own, and finally fell into the trap. Now they are in disaster, and they are bound to die.
Feeling sorry in his heart, he often wandered around the area, trying to persuade as many people as possible.
At this time, I met Lin Hui and saw that he was as tall as a bear and wearing Heimian gear. At first glance, he was planning to do something shameful.
But whose life is not human life?
Although he was troubled in his heart, the old man took the initiative to step forward and give advice.
At this time, he heard that Lin Hui's tone was wrong, but he knew that there was something going on. As long as the other party was willing to stop and chat with him for a few more words, the final result would probably be to take a detour.
At this time, when he heard that the other party was asking about the nature of the question, he immediately used what he had learned in his mind and used his eyes to observe the other party carefully.
This doesn't seem to matter, but once he looked at it and calculated it carefully, his face showed a slight look of doubt and regret.
"I see an inexplicable nothingness in you."
"Nothingness? What do you mean?" Lin Hui was stunned when he heard this.
"Young man... no, I should say brother. The reason why brother has come to this point is probably due to external forces, right?" the old man sighed.
".. That's right..." Lin Hui was silent for a moment and affirmed.
"It stands to reason that such a nature should not appear in today's world, but it just happened like this." The old man sighed, "Your heart is filled with nothingness. When you do things, you mostly set a goal for yourself, and then move towards that goal numbly. But you don't know if it is really what you want, and you can't feel the process and the feelings after achieving the goal... You are just numb, moving forward step by step..."
"..." Lin Hui was completely silent.
He really is...
This was the case at Mist Man World. In order to ensure safety, we worked hard to practice and collect resources.
It is the same now. In order to ensure that Mist Man World is not destroyed, we came to investigate the core mutation of Decay.
But is all this really what he wants to do?
He doesn't know.
He just moved forward mechanically and numbly.
What is even a little scary is that even if relatives and friends from the previous life continue to pass away, only a few of them will cause him a little bit of emotional fluctuations.
For the rest, he just felt in his heart that he should do that and play his part well.
That's all.
Originally he thought no one could understand him.
But now... in another world, an old man who suddenly met in the mountains and forests actually revealed his truth.
"Why? Why does this happen?" Lin Hui asked in a deep voice.