Chapter 75: The true meaning of "Tinder"

Chu Huan didn't step forward, frowned and looked at the other for a moment, then asked cautiously, "You are Ji ..."
He had dreamed of this middle-aged man by the edge of the holy spring, and he also asked the elders, but the elders probably knew nothing about it, and only mentioned a few words. Chu Huan fell down and did not calm down. What's it called? I just remember that it sounded like "chicken wings", so I spoke a bit and didn't follow the embarrassment.
The middle-aged man turned around and smiled softly at him: "I am not, the person you said is the last mountain guard I have seen, he is dead. I borrowed his appearance on the edge of the holy spring See you, remember? "
Chu Huan's pupils shrank, his short knife was raised upside down, his face was quiet, but his muscles were already tense, not only because of the other party's words, but also because he saw what the other party was wiping. A long human leg bone.
This person was what Chu Huan had seen in his dream. The person who pointed to him was called "Tinder", so was he the one who wrote on the stone and the back of his hand?
Who is he?
Chu Huan was full of suspicions about this person, but these doubts were circling in his chest. Chu Huan didn't know if this person could believe it. He didn't ask.
However, the middle-aged man explained to himself, "I am the person who engraved on the road, and the person who guided you near Shenxing Island is also me. You must be guessing who I am ..."
He said here, smiled a little, and there was a quiet memory on his face. He paused for a moment and said to Chu Huan: "I used to be a gatekeeper, patriarch."
Chu Huan was originally in the late stage of persecution and delusion. In addition, he was very suspicious of this middle-aged person from the beginning, and he was not so easy to be trusted. The man like a water ghost is named Ruger. "
Middle-aged people do n’t think they are embarrassed, carrying the thigh bone, politely Chu Huan said: "Luge is my next term-sit down, boy, I will tell you from the beginning."
Chu Huan slightly curled his lips, seemingly smiling, slightly cold. He intuitively felt that there was something disgusting or even vigilant on the other party, coupled with agitated mood, basically this unknown middle-aged man had become an enemy. Big and small ghosts.
Chu Huan didn't move, looked at him condescendingly, his eyelids drooping: "You said."
"I see you with this look, I'm not lying to you ... Alas, this is actually me." The middle-aged man said, Chong Chuhuan raised the thigh bone in his hand, "I am a dead bone, now it is just a Invisible consciousness, I ca n’t remember what I used to look like. I ... is indeed the patriarch of the gatekeeper, but that was a long time ago. At that time, your friend Ruger had not been born, and there is no such thing in the world. Mountain Watcher. "
Chu Huan's eyes moved when he heard this.
The middle-aged man has already captured it keenly. He sighed slightly as if he had read the mind. "Yes, you are right. The bones you meet below have all been gatekeepers-Chu ... Huan, um, is that what it is called? Sorry, I ’m not good-when you saw this seawater mountain, did you remember anything? "
Chu Huan did feel that the sea water mountain gave him a strange sense of familiarity, but he could n’t tell where it was weird. He was sure that he had never seen a mountain condensed by sea water in his life.
"Shenshan has two inner and outer mountain gates. Every year, the outer mountain gate is closed. When the inner mountain gate is opened, the gatekeeper can take a short rest for a few days-you should have seen the inner mountain gate. If you pass there, you will reach another world, your side. world."
With this mention, Chu Huan's heart flashed with light, and he remembered that when the monster surrounded the mountain, the mountain door was suddenly closed, and Ruger led people quickly through a narrow cave and took them to a large crystal. Legend has it that the inner mountain gate leading to their side.
People stood on the crystal, and the solid ground actually had ripples spreading out, as if it were a pool ... a pool made of rocks.
What is the special connection between the water made by mountains and the mountains made by water?
"Yes." The middle-aged nodded.
In front of people of unknown origin, Chu Huan was somewhat confident in his indescribable city palace. He was sure that he had absolutely nothing to show on his expression. Why did this person guess what he was thinking again and again?
The middle-aged man smiled helplessly: "I do feel your consciousness, so I will warn you not to think on Shenxing Island, don't worry, I won't hurt you."
Chu Huan did not say anything, and temporarily suppressed the idea of ​​"killing and killing the mouth".
The middle-aged man saw that he did n’t believe it, and he did n’t say anything. He continued: "The mountain you see is formed by the sea water. In fact, it is the same door as the inner gate of Shenshan. . "
This answer is a bit shocked.
But soon, Chu Huan came back to God-the people who kept the mountain called the annual migration between the two worlds as "mountain reversal", then there is also a mountain and a mountain gate. Reasonable.
There was a shimmer in the middle-aged man ’s eyes, as if staring at a distant place, and fell into a memory. He said softly,
You know, our family has always been regarded as a mountain god, and we have been enjoying the ritual worship from all directions, so that inadvertent listening When the businessman on the trip mentioned that the fishermen had strayed into Shenxing Island and saw another 'Shenshan' under the sea, he had a pimple in his heart. Over time, he had thoughts that he shouldn't have. "
Chu Huan may not be so sensitive to the beautiful things, but he only knows what is not beautiful. After hearing this, he immediately said: "You are afraid that the existence of another" Shenshan "will jeopardize your status."
The middle-aged man sighed: "There was no distinction between the guardian and the gatekeeper at the earliest. We are the children of the authentic Shenshan. They are transformed from the spirit of the Shenshan. They are immortal and will die every year. It was still wild, no one, but angry and aura ...
Chu Huan quickly interrupted him to recall the past: "Because this underwater mountain also has a gatekeeper, it can also open to another world, and it will also be treated as a mountain god, so you personally bring people to smash the scene?"
"I took away all the warriors in the family because of my own selfishness," the middle-aged man closed his eyes slightly, as if this matter has caused him pain so far, "the gatekeeper cannot leave Shenshan, this is the family rule, I am The patriarch, even betrayed the God Mountain ... That time, my warriors were all trapped here. The God Mountain was furious, buried our family under the mountain, recovered the essence of the mountain, and then rebuilt the second generation of gatekeepers with holy water, So that they are born and sick, selfless and fearless, and will only instinctively guard the mountain gate. In order to continue the gatekeeper, Shenshan has created mountain guards to let them be born, but they can use their blood to communicate with the holy spring. "
What is buried alive sounds like an earthquake or a landslide. Chu Huan didn't do too much tangle, but just asked sharply: "Isn't it all after you left? How can you know?"
The middle-aged man laughed bitterly: "Because I was devoured here and became a part of it, I can see any place in the world by its power."
Chu Huan couldn't help but stand up straight: "What is 'it'?"
This time, the answer given by the middle-aged man once again exceeded Chu Huan's imagination. He said, "It is a seed."
Chu Huan dumbfounded: "What?"
"Young people, don't be so surprised. In any world, the earliest start from an ambitious seed."
Chu Huan always felt that his sentence was meaningful, and while still thinking about the mystery in this sentence, he listened to the middle-aged man who continued to say: "We came here after a long journey and searched on the coast. It was only a few years before I found Shen Xingdao and witnessed the underwater mountain. The originally closed mountain gate was inspired by the blood of our mountain and opened the door to another world. We saw there was no sun there, nothing. , There was only a sneaky black shadow, as if it were vines, who wanted to come over covetously, but it couldn't pass the mountain gate, so it pushed a seed over-as you can see, the 'stone' on the top of the mountain . "
"We wanted to burn this unexplained plant," the middle-aged man said, "but guess what?"
Chu Huan hesitated for a moment: "You feel a joy for no reason from it."
The elders said that there are too many powerful people, and they are usually not trapped in their own troughs.
"A seed, with only a small sprout that just came out of the body, with the joy that can infect people at the beginning of life, do you say it will be a bad thing?" The middle-aged man murmured, "not to mention it and us The marriage stone is so similar, so pure ... "
Chu Huan didn't know how to answer this question, worry, horror, fear, anger-wasn't it all because of joy?
This world is so unscientific, but it seems to make sense again.
Chu Huan regained his mind: "So it confuses you with illusions and traps you here."
"You are wrong," the middle-aged man shook his head and smiled bitterly, "'It's not a low-level fake of the phantom monkey, it never creates hallucinations, but just passes on its own joys and sorrows to you in a subtle way, and you will not know it yourself. Unconsciously fall into it, and then you will create illusions for yourself, so that you become a part of it, under its rules and control, become a part of its nurturing, eternal life is not free. "
"Young man, you see, although its body has been growing, it has grown very slowly. Over the years, it has only grown to such a large size. It must establish its own rules in all places. It must not be possible on its own. So it has been eating away whales and swallowing the people and animals around them. After swallowing them, their consciousness becomes its vines, it becomes those shadows, and continues to devour other people-you are so smart, you should have guessed it. "
Chu Huan nodded: "So people who still retain their consciousness can't be its vines, they will die ..."
"There is no dead body, only a pile of powder." The middle-aged man said softly.
So why does this person retain consciousness and still have a pile of bones?
And why is he only left with a pile of bones and he is still alive?
Chu Huan's slightly lowered vigilance raised his attention again. He interrupted the emotions of middle-aged people with a blank expression: "What are you? Haven't you been swallowed?"
The middle-aged man smiled strangely: "You are too smart-yes, you guessed it, for so many years, I have been fighting and continually fusing with it, and in the end I was not dead or alive. , Because I have become "it", from your point of view, I am "it", "it" is me. "
Chu Huan: "..."
This is the third news that shocked him. He has been entangled with whether this "it" that engulfed everything is a separate consciousness, or is composed of many parts, and now the other party clearly told him that "it" is a split personality.
No wonder he always has no cause for fear in his heart, no wonder he has no good feelings for this person anyway.
"I became it, but it wasn't exactly it. I don't know why. I kept my memory as a gatekeeper. For so many years ... I have always felt guilty. I also know that regret is useless, so always Looking for a chance to kill it ... kill myself. "
Chu Huan stood silently for a moment, sorting out his thoughts and smoothing, and boldly guessed again: "So the legend of the fall, the rumours of the holy book, and the monsters are all made up by you."
No wonder the monsters are inextricably linked to the sinking ground, but they are still afraid of the shadows; no wonder that from wind poison to eye damage to eye eaters, each of them has a corresponding medicine. It can be solved with the blood of the gatekeeper; no wonder the forms of these monsters are so deliberate.
The middle-aged man whispered: "I can't communicate with the outside world, I can only fabricate this kind of monster on the edge of the sinking ground, and use the flat person's mouth to remind them ..."
Chu Huanheng sneered sharply on his chest: "I don't think so? The fighting power of those monsters is hard to resist even your descendants of the same race, let alone ordinary people, you want to remind them? I think you want to hurt They are almost dead! Those monsters were born on the edge of the sinking ground, and went crazy when the shadows spread. In this way, people who have no time to escape are killed by them first. Of course, the dead will not be conscious. Consciousness will not spread so fast, right? "
The middle-aged man stared at him for a while, sighing for a long time, but did not deny it.
Chu Huan had no intention to talk to him about moral issues, and asked aggressively, "What am I? Why didn't I freeze? Why can I hear those voices? Why are you fabricated on the holy book? Why are you standing here?"
"The rumor that I fabricated the holy book was spread through the mouth of the flat person, and I didn't know that there were people on the other side of the river," the middle-aged man paused and said, "I just reminded it to come into the water and come from In another world, there are always mistakes in word of mouth. Unconsciously, this legend has been twisted into what it is now. "
"In order to eliminate the" it ", I tried my best. I found that the mountain guardian would use Mutai's brain marrow to treat the trauma, so it took nearly a thousand years to carefully avoid the sight of" it "and pump my bone marrow. Come out and hide in the brains of several Mutai, looking forward to finding them. "
Chu Huan's eyes slowly fell on the thigh bones of the middle-aged man: "Your bone marrow?"
"I was born in Shenshan, and also the patriarch. My bone marrow is the essence of the most primitive mountain. It is not the same as the second generation of gatekeepers who were born in the Holy Spring, such as Ruger." The middle-aged man said slowly, "Yes The true essence of the mountain, integrated into the body of ordinary people, can communicate with the mountain and the holy spring, and can talk with the heart of the stone. That is the only thing that can contend with it. "
The middle-aged man said, glanced at the "walnut" on Chu Huan's neck and shook his head: "I have been waiting for my gatekeepers and mountain-keepers to catch the few mutais, and they have been waiting for that to get the essence of the mountain. , The person who communicated the heart of the stone appeared ... I thought it would be a descendant of a certain tribe, but I didn't expect that it would be you. "
When Chu Huan first saw Nanshan, there were two gunshot wounds on his body. At that time, Nanshan used some unknown drug to paste his wound. Later he learned that the thing was made of Mutai ’s brain, and he secretly vomited. It has been a long time ... I didn't expect that Nanshan's medicine for him happened to be the "Essence of Mountain" that Meng Chen knew nothing about.
When Chu Huan heard this, he was relieved. In this way, he actually didn't have those messy bloodlines. He was really just an ordinary child of ordinary life who was picked up by Chu Patriotic from nowhere.
The middle-aged man looked at Chu Huan for a while, and for a while, he sighed: "The words that were passed on to falsehood turned out to be true. I really don't know ..."
The last words were drowned in a bitter smile. The middle-aged man stood up. The last thing he left in this world was Chu Huan. This young man was like a continuation of his life. Chu Huan clasped his short knife and was ready to hack his hand at any time. He stretched out his hand and seemed to want to touch Chu Huan's head. However, he had no choice but to let go of his murderous eyes. The raised hand finally fell on his arm , Patted lightly.
"As for what you said to be 'solidified'." The middle-aged man smiled bitterly at the corner of his mouth, "I think it probably means Shenshan ... Because our ignorance opened this door, we put this one in and became a The curse, Shenshan probably wanted to put an end to this possibility, and then set up a ban on the side of the mountain gate? "
After he finished speaking, he knelt down in place under Chu Huan's feet, raised his bones above his head with both hands, dropped his body to the ground, and murmured in his mouth.
Chu Huan understood this paragraph. The old goat taught him that it was an ancient ritual term. He begged Shenshan for mercy, and sin was forgiven, and hoped for blessings.
Chu Huan did n’t know the taboo, did n’t hide, and watched the middle-aged man chanting prayers over and over again. At the beginning, the voice was very weak, and then became clearer, and the voice seemed to come from all directions Into one ear, but it's rare and not noisy.
The dark-colored walnut on his chest glowed faintly, like a silent fire in the cold night, and then it became brighter and brighter, but it was not hot, but it made people feel warm.
"My fire kind," he heard the middle-aged man sigh, "my fire kind ..."
Chu Huan opened his mouth involuntarily and followed the voice in a jerky manner to recite the ancient sound of the ancient mountain.
The middle-aged man kneeling on the ground raised his head and smiled slightly at him.
The fire ignited by "Walnut" is getting brighter and brighter, and the tongue is full of flames, which wraps Chu Huan's whole person in it. Return to your hometown after hair release, infatuation, dependence, nostalgia, guilt ...
Thousands of flavors, seem to be mixed.
Then the middle-aged man turned into a ray of light in front of Chu Huan, and did not enter the flame. There was only a solitary leg bone in front of him. The flame seemed to have gained some strength and spread all the way from Chu Huan.
Chu Huan's mind was empty, let the fire wrap him in the middle, all the illusions in front of him were swept away by the flames, and in front of him was a dark sea of ​​water, indestructible vines, and the beginning of everything. , Ambitious seeds.
Chu Huan heard the earth-shattering roar, his ears were temporarily deaf, and then the whole earth was shaken. The stagnation of the sea mountain burst into the sky under the fire. The vines opened and closed, and the whole sea was rolled into a pot of porridge.
In contrast, the flames of a person's height appear insignificant like a fireflies in such wind and rain.
Chu Huan felt the fear of "it".
He was sent to a higher place by the seawater roaring into the sky, into the air, beyond all mountains, and at a glance the endless plain.
Chu Huan saw that everyone who was awakened intentionally or unintentionally along the way was a small light spot in the endless shadow. They no longer knew when they were connected by light, like a large net intertwined with fire, echoing with him .
At that glance, Chu Huan understood the true meaning of "Tinder".
He knew that his fire would burn out in the dark, but his heart calmed down strangely.
Live not lonely, nor die lonely.
He felt that he was no longer in the world.
The author has something to say:
Sorry, in the last chapter of this volume, I made two more changes to prevent omissions, a little later