Chapter 23 Gu Village (23) Being loved will cause you to grow flesh and blood like crazy...
"Ashan, Ashan?"
Tan Yue looked at the unfamiliar environment around him and kept calling Guan Shan's name, trying to find the lover who had slipped away from his grasp.
At this moment, there was a rustling sound behind him. The voice coming from the wind was quite clear and pleasant: "Tan Yue?"
Tan Yue turned around in surprise when he heard the noise behind him. The smile on his face disappeared instantly. The person standing in front of him was not Guan Shan, but Song Yu.
Song Yu pulled Lin Qingxue out, and the two of them stood in front of Tan Yue together. He couldn't help feeling jealous: others were in pairs, holding hands intimately, but he was forced to separate from his lover.
He asked the young couple in front of him: "Have you two seen my boyfriend? He's the handsome boy with white skin wearing all black."
Song Yu and Lin Qingxue both shook their heads. They both agreed that there was something wrong with Tan Yue's eyes: the young and handsome boy he described and the scary monster covered in black energy had nothing to do with each other!
Even if it is true that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, Tan Yue's love filter is a bit too exaggerated.
Wang Yihan, who had been knocked unconscious earlier, heard the voices of Tan Yue and the other three talking, and came out of the woods covered in dust.
He immediately spotted Tan Yue who was looking for someone: "Brother Tan, do you know where we are?"
Tan Yue shook his head: "I don't know."
Being a man of keen observation, he judges the area he is in by the surrounding architectural landscape.
The Dragon Temple was located nearby, but the building and many details did not match his memory. At first glance, he felt familiar with it, but upon closer inspection, he felt it was a similar building in other places.
After all, there is no beautiful courtyard of Guanshan’s family here, and the width of the river has shrunk significantly, turning it into a stream that seems easy to cross.
The place where he was staying was originally an open space, but now it has become a lawn and a dense grove.
Tan Yue was totally confused about his current situation. He only knew one thing: his boyfriend, who was so big and whom he had just been holding hands with, was suddenly gone.
But if these people are here, Guan Shan should be here too.
Maybe some other people saw Guan Shan, so Tan Yue asked, "Did you see Wang Jiaojiao and Li Dan? And that girl whose name I don't know?"
Lin Qingxue replied: "Wang Jiaojiao, Li Dan, and Zhang Hongying."
"Qingxue, we are here." Zhang Hongying came out from the other direction of the woods. There were two other people beside her. They didn't come over, so she waved vigorously.
Zhang Hongying now looked very different from her previous silent image. She did not look as gloomy as before and seemed to be much more cheerful and lively.
Zhang Hongying and Li Dan quickly helped Wang Jiaojiao in the middle to come out, and the three girls huddled together. Because they came through the bushes, there were still grass scraps on their clothes, and they looked a little embarrassed.
When Wang Jiaojiao woke up, the blood on her face had dried and her vision was impaired. She looked very scared and held Li Dan's hand tightly. She looked at the other companions with a pair of unfocused eyes and repeatedly emphasized: "I came to this place because of you. You must not abandon me!"
Li Dan and Zhang Hongying comforted her and said, "Jiaojiao, we will not abandon you."
"Have you seen my boyfriend?" Tan Yue asked the previous question again. As expected, he did not get a positive answer.
"No, we didn't see it." Thinking of the boyfriend that Tan Yue mentioned, the other people shuddered uncontrollably. They were full of doubts, but they didn't dare to ask directly.
Tan Yue didn't count on these people anymore: "Forget it, I'll go find him. If you see him, tell him to gather at this red house that looks like a dragon temple."
She planned to go to the village alone to find her boyfriend, but it was possible that they would go in different directions and miss each other. At this time, it was necessary to set a meeting place.
Tan Yue ran from the back of the house to the front, and a group of people followed him silently. Wherever Tan Yue went, they went.
"Dragon Temple? This is also a Dragon Temple?"
Tan Yue walked in and saw the plaque of the red house. The overall design of the building was not much different from what he remembered, but there were significant differences in many details.
For example, the lines of the relief pattern above are rough, and the stone used does not have those bean green stone eyes, which makes it look more simple and unpretentious, with an ancient charm.
Tan Yue said decisively: "This is not the Dragon Temple in Black Dragon Village."
To be honest, several people who had been in the Dragon God Temple before had psychological trauma after seeing this red house. They followed to investigate only after seeing that there was no problem after Tan Yue went in.
Wang Yihan agreed: "Brother Tan is right, this is not the temple we lived in before, this place is much more dilapidated."
After all, it was a temple built 800 years ago, and the materials used were relatively ordinary. Everyone in the village was poor, their houses were dilapidated, and they were reluctant to use expensive and good materials. The newly built temple was not luxurious at all.
The dragon statue placed on the table does not look ferocious. It is the image of a dragon that is very common among the people. It is golden in appearance, but it is not made of gold powder. Instead, it is plated with a thin layer of brass.
They had lived in the Dragon God Temple for several days and knew more details than Tan Yue, who had been painting in Guan Shan's small courtyard. Looking at the layout and furnishings in the Dragon God Temple, they all nodded in agreement.
After leaving the Dragon God Temple, Tan Yue walked outside. The layout of the village here was quite similar to the previous one, except that the condition of the dirt roads between the houses was much worse. It must have just rained, and the yellow dirt road became very muddy, with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
It was fine for Tan Yue to wear clogs barefoot because the soles of the clogs were high. But for the others who were wearing sneakers, their white shoes turned into dirty little shoes and their socks were splashed with mud.
Everyone walked outside along the road. From a distance, Tan Yue saw a stone wall made of large bluestones. There was no green moss on it, but it looked inexplicably familiar.
He walked along the road to the gate. The village was very quiet at this time and there was no one guarding the gate. The gate was open and people could come and go freely.
Going out from the gate, you can see three big characters on the gate. After some effort, I found out that they are three traditional Chinese characters - Jinlongzhai.
"Golden Dragon Village? Is this a real village? Is Black Dragon Village a fake village?"
Tan Yue looked at the mountains outside. Although many details were different, the lines of the mountains were not much different. He was silent for a few seconds, and his voice was a little difficult: "This is Black Dragon Village."
"Is this also the Black Dragon Village?!" "How can this be the Black Dragon Village?!" "Doesn't it say Golden Dragon Village?"
The other people who followed him raised questions to Tan Yue.
Anyone with a little observation can find the huge difference between the two Black Dragon Villages. In addition to the trees, flowers, plants and rivers, there are also obvious differences in the roads on the ground and the houses in the village.
Wang Yihan said hurriedly: "Don't be so quick to question, listen to what Brother Tan has to say."
Tan Yue said: "This should be the Black Dragon Village from another time and space, the Black Dragon Village of the past, but now it is called the Golden Dragon Village."
"Brother Tan, do you mean that we have traveled through time?" Since there can be monsters in this world, there is naturally the possibility of time travel. Anyway, it doesn't matter what science is.
Wang Yihan suddenly became excited: "Now that no one is stopping us here, can we leave through the way down the mountain?!"
Tan Yue lowered his thick eyelashes: "If this is really the old village, then there is no road down the mountain, only unfamiliar mountain paths."
The winding mountain road built with cement is tortuous but flat. If it were an uncultivated deep mountain, the mountain road would become very steep and dangerous.
Tan Yue explained: "Have you ever climbed a mountain? Those steep steps consume much more energy than the smooth stairs built in modern times. You may also encounter wild animals and poisonous snakes along the way. If there is no one to lead the way, you are more likely to die on the road."
"What should we do? How can we get out of this damn place?"
Wang Jiaojiao was so angry that she sat on the ground: "This won't work, that won't work, why not just give me a quick death and let us die, so we don't have to suffer here in vain."
Tan Yue ignored her discouraging words. They waited for a while and felt the air gradually getting hotter. The ground under their feet became drier, and the mud slowly became hard and even cracked due to dryness.
The quiet village seemed to come alive in an instant, and the empty village was suddenly populated with people and noisy.
The gate of the village was wide open, and residents were coming in and out. They were all wearing familiar clothes, but their faces were no longer pale, but rosy, healthy, and full of vitality.
The old villagers are dark and thin, and the children have paler faces, but they all have two patches of the unique plateau red.
"Excuse me, do you know a man named Guan Shan?"
Tan Yue reached out to stop a middle-aged woman who looked friendly, but his hand passed through her body.
He spoke the local dialect of the villagers. During these days with Guan Shan, Tan Yue learned some local dialect.
He couldn't learn the complicated things, but he was able to communicate normally with the villagers by speaking and gesturing.
The aunt didn't notice his presence at all and was still excitedly talking to other people in the village.
Several people around Tan Yue also hurriedly followed his example and tried to touch the villagers, but they found that everyone's hands went through the mold.
Li Dan was a little panicked: "What's going on? Are we all dead?"
Wang Yihan touched the back of his head and said, "I don't think so. I feel sore all over, and the back of my head hurts. If I die and become a ghost, will I feel pain too?"
He looked down at his feet, both of which were planted on the ground. He closed his eyes and rammed his way into the wall, trying to walk through it: "Bang."
My head banged against the wall, my skull buzzed, and only some dust fell on the stone wall.
He covered his head and said, "We are definitely not ghosts!" How could a ghost be so weak?
The noise attracted the villagers who were chatting, but they looked over and quickly looked away. It was obvious that they did not see us outsiders.
“Look, those guys should be the village elders.
Tan Yue saw several familiar faces among the villagers, the thin and energetic village elder, the Li Ang couple who looked very loving, and Grandma Li, the little old lady with a strange personality.
Li Ang's wife was wearing loose clothes and had a big belly, obviously she was pregnant.
Grandma Li is in high spirits, and her paws are not pitch black, but look clean and tidy.
Wang Yihan said: "Brother Tan, you are so smart, this is really the Black Dragon Village!"
Lin Qingxue asked: "Tan Yue, can you understand what they are saying?"
Tan Yue said: "I can only understand a few words. I haven't learned much of the local dialect."
He frowned slightly and listened: "They seem to be talking about drought, food shortage... Dragon God, pray for rain."
The river outside was just a stream at that time. But now the stream has dried up completely. The sun is very strong overhead. The leaves of the trees have all turned yellow. The green trees have become dry firewood. Any chopped firewood can become a good fuel.
"No wonder I feel the weather is so hot, it's like there's a drought." No matter what Tan Yue said, Wang Yihan believed him blindly. After all, his life was saved by Tan Yue.
Tan Yue looked for Guan Shan in the crowd, then walked back to Guan Shan's home to look for him: "You don't have to follow me, I will come back here later."
Song Yu said: "Let's try to see how far we can go."
He saw clearly that Tan Yue didn't care about him. This was also normal. Who would care about the useless pendant on his leg?
In order to make himself seem more useful, he felt it necessary to start an experiment: "Let's see how far we can go, whether we can move things and successfully touch those villagers."
It doesn't matter how many years ago it is now, what matters is that they have to find a way to leave. If this is an escape game, then there are always prerequisites to successfully pass the level.
Tan Yue walked around the village and came back to see Wang Yihan slapping Granny Li passionately, muttering as he slapped her: "I told you not to feed me bugs! I told you not to scare me!"
However, his series of slaps only brought a strange feeling of cool breeze to Grandma Li. They had no power at all and were simply for his own psychological pleasure.
Song Yu said: "We have experimented and there is no way to contact the people in the village for the time being, but we cannot pass through walls or float, and we still respect the laws of physics. We can take things from the village, but it is very difficult and requires a lot of concentration to move them, which is probably equivalent to the strength suddenly being reduced by dozens of times."
"What about you, have you found your boyfriend?"
Tan Yue shook his head depressedly: "No."
At this time, the doors of every household in the village are basically open. In order to facilitate villagers to visit each other, most of the doors are actually open during the day.
Tan Yue went into every house and saw many unfamiliar faces, but he didn't see his lover. He was very disappointed, but he had no choice but to turn back.
Fortunately, time seemed to pass very quickly in Black Dragon Village. Tan Yue didn't have to wait long before new movements were heard in the village.
The village elder gathered all the villagers in an open space and said: "It has not rained for a long time here. If we don't think of a solution, everyone will die."
Tan Yue scanned the crowd carefully, and he was very disappointed to find that Guan Shan was not among them.
But soon, what happened next made him wish Guan Shan was not there.
In order to pray for rain, the people in the village decided to pray to the Dragon God, and they selected the sacrifice.
"Lord Dragon God needs sacrifices, lots of sacrifices."
The beautiful pheasants, wild boars and goats caught by the hunters in the village were all chosen by the village elder as sacrifices.
But these animals were not enough: “We need living sacrifices!”
"For the sacrifice, let's choose Ashan."
When Tan Yue heard Guan Shan's name, his ears pricked up instantly.
The village chief quickly brought out a young man. The boy was dark and thin, but Tan Yue could tell at a glance that he had delicate features, but he was so thin due to hunger.
"Ashan is a cursed child. It is because of him that our village is suffering from drought! Send him to the Dragon God!"
"Kill him, kill him!"
The other villagers responded in unison, with the same fanaticism, ignorance and cruelty on their faces.
Tan Yue had a bad feeling, but no matter what he did he couldn't contact the people in the village. He watched the village elder who had been prepared begin the sacrificial activities.
A huge group of people entered the Dragon God Temple. There was no big tripod in the temple, only a large water vat more than one meter wide. A group of young and strong men carried the heavy vats into the Dragon God Temple and offered them in front of the statue of the Dragon God.
The village chief poured a lot of poisonous things into the water tank, including the snakes he raised, the insects raised by the villagers, spiders, toads, geckos...
Everyone in the village raises Gu, but they don’t raise those with special powers, just various kinds of poisons.
The tied-up sacrificial boy was forcibly thrown into the big water tank under the order of the village chief.
The boy struggled frantically, but his thin body was soon overwhelmed by all kinds of poisons, and then only a bare skeleton was left.
The village chief had the skeleton fished out, burned the remaining poisonous insects to death, and offered them as a sacrifice to the Dragon God.
"What a bunch of bastards!" "How cruel!" "What a bunch of ignorant fools!" "What beasts!"
Tan Yue was not the only one in the audience. Song Yu and the others were all extremely angry. They were even more indignant when they thought about their own experiences.
After the ceremony, it suddenly rained in the mountains, and it was a heavy rain.
The villagers cheered and rejoiced, celebrating the new life of Jinlong Village.
The skeleton, along with the ashes of the poisonous insects, was dug several meters high and suppressed underneath.
While the villagers were celebrating, several others hid themselves because they were uncomfortable with the rain. They hid under the eaves one by one to avoid getting sick from the rain.
At this time, Tan Yue rushed to the burial ground of the grave, and then dug the hole desperately in the heavy rain.
Just as Song Yu and the others said, it was difficult for him to touch the soil. His strength seemed to have been reduced by dozens or hundreds of times. Even after exhausting all his strength, he could only throw down a little soil.
The rain wet the ground, making the hard soil gradually become soft.
But Tan Yue tried his best and dug the mud pit with great difficulty. As he dug, tears fell from his eyes.
He buried his head in digging for a very long time, completely ignoring the passage of time in the outside world. After an unknown amount of time, a piece of hand bone as white as jade finally appeared in the mud pit.
Tan Yue felt that his whole body was full of strength again, and he dug harder.
Perhaps his obsession moved God, and the bones in the pit actually moved on their own.
The snow-white bones broke through the soil by themselves, and then stood up shakily from the pit.
"Ashan, Ashan!"
Seeing this scene, Tan Yue became more and more excited.
"Ashan..."
He didn't think too much about it, he just rushed over and hugged the snow-white skeleton excitedly. At this time, Tan Yue completely ignored the fact that he had been wearing the mold before, he hugged the scary-looking skeleton firmly and completely.
Feeling the cold texture, the boy's tears suddenly poured down like heavy rain.
He has been independent since he was young, and he would not easily shed tears even if he accidentally hit his head or got hurt.
Maybe he has watched "Today's Statement" too much. Tan Yue actually has a very high tear point. He is usually not moved even when watching various touching films.
However, at this moment, his tears were like beads that had broken off the string, quickly soaking his clothes. His eyes were red, his nose was red from crying, his long eyelashes were wet, and as he cried further, his voice became strange and choked.
He rubbed and kissed the skeleton, and his tears mixed with rain all fell on the skeleton.
The skeleton staggered and remained silent for a long time, then became completely bald. Blood vessels began to grow on the skeleton frame, and a pair of eyeballs grew out of the empty eye sockets. Slowly, skin grew on the bones, and the skin was filled with new flesh and blood.
Tan Yue hugged his lover and cried for half an hour. The scary skeleton man turned into the peerless handsome boy in Tan Yue's memory.
"Hey, stop crying."
Guan Shan's voice sounded a little depressed. This was the first time that a god had such complex and strange emotions.
When Tan Yue heard the voice, he realized that the touch was not right. He looked up suddenly and saw a familiar face. He couldn't help but ask, "Ashan, why did you suddenly change back?"
"This is all your fault!"
Tan Yue was surprised and happy, but he still followed the other party's words and asked: "My fault? What did I do wrong?"
The god said confidently: "Isn't there a saying that if you are loved, you will grow flesh and blood like crazy? It is your tears that made me what I am now!"
There are similar plots in many short videos among the human memories that He plundered, where ragged and skinny stray kittens were picked up by humans and then turned into gas tanks and large trucks with smooth and shiny fur.
He just grew some flesh and blood from his skeleton, and became what he originally looked like in Tan Yue's eyes, but he didn't look any better. Is this an exaggeration? Not at all!
In fact, this was not a script written by God. His script was only halfway through, and the exciting parts later on had not even come out, because it was interrupted because Tan Yue did not play according to common sense.
In his original script, Tan Yue and his group would have to go through much more. The villagers would have to continue killing people intensified, and then a mountain ghost would emerge.
The resentment for revenge killed all the villagers and trapped them in the village forever. The Golden Dragon Village became the Black Dragon Village, and the villagers who were killed were transformed from ordinary mountain villagers into terrifying monsters in the strange world...
This script is adapted from real circumstances. It is 90% consistent with reality and 10% is false. The false part is: the tragic dead person is not the ghost Guanshan, but the mountain ghost that possessed Zhang Hongying.
However, the script that the gods had carefully changed had only just begun when it was shattered by the tears of his lover.
The god himself took to the stage to perform, and his first directorial script failed, definitely because Tan Yue cried too badly!
Of course he had to blame Tan Yue, blaming him for being too perverted, hugging, kissing and touching a skeleton, and ruining his carefully designed script!
Although he said that, the god was actually quite satisfied with Tan Yue's reaction! He used his divine power to grow flesh and blood in a short period of time because it was difficult to make expressions on a skeleton.
As a skeleton, he couldn't bear such perverted and passionate love, so he decided to change his form and stick with her again.
"Okay, okay, stop crying." Guan Shan wiped Tan Yue's tears. He only felt those tears hitting his body, hotter than fire, burning him so much that he felt flustered and confused. He really couldn't act any more, so he changed his mind temporarily.
Tan Yue has already accepted that her boyfriend is not a human being, and Guan Shan says that it is all due to his tears.
The young man kissed his lover's soft face with a look of joy. The feeling of kissing a face with flesh and blood is very different from kissing a skeleton.
He was extremely happy and said proudly: "You are right. This shows that my love for you is known to heaven and earth and will last until death."
Until death: It means that even if Guan Shan turns into a scary skeleton, Tan Yue's love will not change at all.
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