aircannonsinc Chapter 172: The Turbid Gate Will Begin
Chapter 172: The Turbid Gate Will Begin
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Xiao Chi took a shovel and dug out a small box at the address on the treasure map that he had marked when he was a child. The small box was a time capsule that he had buried when he was a child. Inside was a wire gun and a photo. There were four children in the photo, but their faces had holes in them and could not be seen clearly.
Xi Yueyao also saw some familiar photos: "I also have a photo of this group photo at home. But why are there two more children in this photo? Their clothes look familiar. Are there two children like this in the village?"
Xiao Chi looked at the photos and thought, "I was nine years old when our two families moved away together, so I remember everything clearly. I can be sure that these are not children from the village. The two children are very high in the waist and abdomen, maybe they are standing on stools, so I can't be sure of their height. Judging from their body shapes, they are about the same age as us. Their clothes and hairstyles are very retro."
"There were no children in the village who met these conditions. The little sister of the Nie family who often played with us at that time was one or two years younger than you. I felt creepy when I saw this photo, as if some terrible memories were sleeping under the iceberg." Xiao Chi covered his face, not wanting to look or recall.
"I feel the same way... Given our current situation, it's better not to delve into this memory for now."
The two of them didn't study the photo any further. Even though it was strange to see two more people in the photo, they pretended not to notice.
The two of them had almost explored the house inside and out, except for some puzzles that had not been solved due to lack of clues or props, and the house that had never been opened.
Xi Yueyao pulled the combination lock on the door: "I thought about going back to the village to find you, so I found the keys to the two old houses. I did use the key to open your door, but why was my door lock replaced with this weird thing?"
Xiao Chi gave her a joking look and said, "Maybe it was done by your admirer, waiting for you to unlock his heart."
"Then his mind is a little too complicated, so let's keep it locked."
Having said that, the lock still had to be solved. Xi Yueyao looked at the lock carefully again and found that the pattern on the lock was of two children. The clothes they were wearing seemed to have been seen not long ago. Xi Yueyao took out the photo and found that they were wearing the same clothes.
Xiao Chi also saw it. He moved his lips and wanted to ask something but in the end said nothing. He watched Xi Yueyao thinking there.
Xi Yueyao opened the lock based on the location of the hole in the photo and the shroud hanging outside.
The house was filled with dust and cobwebs because no one had lived in it for many years. It had mottled walls and rotten furniture. The moonlight shone in through the broken tiles, revealing everything in the house.
The handle of the standing cupboard was gone, Xi Yueyao used a wire gun as a handle to open it, and a middle-aged woman appeared in the cupboard, with pale skin like a dead person, and eyes wide open, so that the whites of the eyes occupied two-thirds of the eyes. One hand held a doll, and her expression was a little crazy: "Xiaoyao, come and worship the Six Burial Bodhisattva, the Great Witch Association will reward us with elixirs!"
Xi Yueyao screamed in fear: "Ah! Get out of here!"
Xiao Chi held her and asked with concern: "What's wrong? Xiao Xi, did you see anything?"
Xi Yueyao breathed rapidly, and slowly calmed down to find that there was no woman in the closet at all. It seemed that it was just an illusion: "It's okay... It's just an old problem again. It's not surprising for a schizophrenic patient to see anything."
Xi Yueyao became as calm as before. If it weren't for the tears in her eyes, it would have been thought that nothing had happened before. Xiao Chi knew that her psychological immunity was very strong. She must have seen something special to have such a reaction. He also knew that if she didn't want to talk, it would be useless for him to continue asking. Xiao Chi looked at Xiao Xi, who had calmed down, with a concerned look and stayed beside her in silence.
In the cabinet, there was a doll of the Six Buried Bodhisattva and a notebook. Xi Yueyao also saw the doll and said, "Huh, this is a toy from my childhood." Although her voice sounded tearful due to the previous reasons, she could not hide the disgust in her tone. It was obvious that she hated this toy.
"Fortunately, I'm not a girl. Although I am forced to kneel down and worship the Six Burial Bodhisattva every day, at least I don't have to sleep with this ugly thing in my arms." His tone was full of relief.
Xi Yueyao couldn't help but roll her eyes at him, but after his interruption, she felt much better.
With the doll's head and glue, the materials for making the tumbler were complete, and the two returned to the underground. When the tumbler was finished, a gust of cold wind blew and a few blood-red characters appeared on the boy's painting, "Today is an auspicious day for repairing the pagoda." The boy in the painting suddenly threw the book in his hand out and returned to his original state. If it weren't for the extra books on the table and the extra characters on the painting, the two would have thought that the previous scene was an illusion.
Xi Yueyao shuddered slightly, then frowned and looked carefully at the characters in the painting. She hadn't paid much attention to it before, but now she realized that the clothes of the two boys... were very similar to those in the photo.
"Indeed. And suddenly I had the hippocampus effect, feeling that I had the memory of seeing these two children with my own eyes. Was it a dream?" Xiao Chi said in a low voice.
"On the way into the village, I saw a child flash by in the distance. I didn't see it clearly, but it seemed that he was dressed like this... Maybe it's not that I didn't see it clearly, but that I instinctively didn't want to see it clearly..."
"The strange feeling of familiarity is growing stronger, as if I have seen them a long time ago... This feeling is very uncomfortable. Is it related to the adverse childhood experiences? It is not suitable for us to recall it in our current state." So Xi Yueyao tried her best to ignore it and not think about it, just like last time.
Xi Yueyao flipped through the book in the painting: "Is this what your father and the Great Wuxian talk about every day? Is this tower a real existence? Does repairing the tower refer to the actual repair work, or is there some other allusion?"
Xiao Chi: "The so-called tower is actually an underground building. As for what counts as building a tower, I can't understand what my father and the Great Witch said. I think they probably don't know either..."
The two hung the portrait in the book on the altar. Xiao Chi looked at the portrait and then at Xi Yueyao: "Now that we have the portrait, we need some accompaniment. I have been embarrassed to ask you why you carry a suona on your back. Isn't it like a headband, to put it on your head to make you look taller?"
Xi Yueyao looked at him and smirked: "If you need it, I can help you grow taller. Just knock a few bumps on your head. Well, no, your head is hollow. It will become a pit after being hit."
"I only know that you played the trumpet when you were in school. When did you change to playing this mourning instrument?"
"I found it when I was exploring with that group of people. It was originally played by a boy, but he disliked the music he played at the time, and he disliked the instrument accordingly, so he let me take it."
"Boy! You blew him!"
Maybe it was because Xiao Chi's voice was a little loud, Xi Yueyao looked at him a little strangely but still explained: "I wiped it."
“That too!...” He swallowed the rest of the words in his throat.
After that, Xiao Chi's condition was a little off, but Xi Yueyao didn't notice it. When the inverted relief emerged from the cloth and Xi Yueyao took the Bagua Realm from the mechanism, Xi Yueyao realized that something was wrong with Xiao Chi.
"This is what I need." Xiao Chi murmured with his back to her.
"Old Xiao...what are you talking about?"
Xiao Chi turned his back to her and raised his head: "The Turbid Gate is about to open, and the Zang Zun is coming." Xiao Chi suddenly turned around, and what caught Xi Yueyao's eyes was the white mask on Xiao Chi's face.