Chapter 50 Judge Eleven: Not every seed can be sown here...
A summer camp bonfire party is being held on the school playground.
In order to bring the event to a successful conclusion, the organizer arranged for Chu Youde to give a speech at the party.
“The most important thing in a person’s life is character.”
Chu Youde was still dressed in his old-fashioned, unkempt attire. He held the microphone, his eyes scanning each of the students seated around him. His voice was soft, yet it cut like a knife into one's bones.
"If your grades aren't good, you can work hard. If your family isn't well off, you can fight for it. But once your character is ruined..." He pointed to a patch of withered trees outside the playground wall. "Just like those trees, they're rotten from the root."
Li Tong in the last row suddenly turned his head and looked at Xiao Hui who was sitting diagonally in front of him. The other party seemed to sense something and also turned his head to glance, but after their eyes met, he looked away very unnaturally.
After the show, Li Tong found him and asked with a puzzled look, "Xiaohui, why have you been avoiding me lately?"
Xiaohui looked at his childhood friend with complicated eyes, his thoughts a little confused.
Ever since he noticed that Li Tong had changed, he didn't dare to be alone with this former good friend.
"I'm sorry, I've been acting a little strange lately," Li Tong said sincerely. "I'm sorry about what happened in the cave. I was actually very scared, but I didn't dare admit it. I was afraid the police would find us and blame us for what happened to Liu Dongsheng."
"I've always thought you were acting strange since you came back from the cave!" Xiao Hui, open-minded, finally revealed all his thoughts. "What on earth happened to you? We can ask the teacher for help!"
Li Tong lowered his head, feeling somewhat guilty. "I was really just too scared. Now that I think about it, you were right. There was definitely something wrong with that cave!"
Seeing that his childhood friend agreed with his guess, Xiaohui was completely relieved and said hurriedly, "Should we call the police? Or tell the teacher?"
"I don't think the adults will believe this kind of thing," Li Tong frowned. "We have to get some evidence."
Xiaohui was stunned for a moment: "Filming? We..."
He was a little nervous and asked anxiously, "Are we still going to the cave?"
Li Tong nodded firmly: "Yes, just the two of us."
Xiaohui swallowed his saliva: "Isn't this bad? I'm a little scared..."
"Do you want to see me become like Liu Dongsheng?" Li Tong showed a pleading expression. He took Xiaohui's hand and said, "You are my best friend. I can only rely on you!"
Xiaohui opened his eyes wide, hooked his fingers twice, and was too embarrassed to pull it out.
He stammered, "I, but, but..."
Li Tong held his hand tightly and said, "It's settled then. I'll bring my phone with me, and we'll sneak out after the dormitory teacher finishes the roll call!"
What to do, what to do.
Xiaohui stood there. At the age of just entering the sixth grade, he was faced with the dual choice between friendship and life for the first time.
…
Late at night, at the foot of the mountain, a boy was quietly waiting for something.
Li Tong stared at the back door of the dormitory building without blinking, and finally, he saw a dark shadow sneaking towards there.
"You're here!" Li Tong curled his lips. When the person approached, he tilted his head in confusion: "Why are you wearing a hat?"
Xiaohui coughed twice and pulled his cap: "The wind is strong, I have a cold."
Li Tong did not hesitate any longer: "Let's go!"
"Oh, this is for you!" Xiao Hui pulled out a piece of paper. "Teacher Chu said you need to improve your math foundation. I copied down the questions he gave you to practice."
Li Tong looked at the piece of paper, said nothing, and put it in his pocket.
"Let's go."
He emphasized again.
There are a few stars scattered in the dark night sky. If you look up to find them, you will find that the sky is empty, as if the endless darkness in the universe is about to pour down.
The bushes rustled in front of the buried cave.
Xiaohui stopped and asked: "Why did the cave entrance collapse?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a few cheerful laughs suddenly came from the stone pestle.
A familiar, handsome face emerged from the earth, looking extremely eerie under the dim moonlight.
"Finally here," Chu Xinyi's voice was filled with joy: "I've been waiting for a long time."
Xiaohui was stunned, and slowly followed Chu Xinyi's gaze to look at Li Tong.
The other person's expression was numb, but suddenly, the muscles on his cheeks twitched unnaturally, and by moving the subzygomatic muscles, he lifted the corners of his mouth, creating a smile that was almost upside down.
He nodded. "Ah."
Xiao Hui felt a chill on his back and took a step back. "Li Tong, what's wrong with you?"
Li Tong turned around, raised his arm, and slowly walked towards Xiaohui.
"Xiaohui," he said in a full voice, "You are my friend, right?"
"What are you going to do!" Xiaohui screamed in horror.
Chu Xinyi grinned, her eyes full of desire. She couldn't wait to twist her body. For a moment, Xiaohui seemed to find that the bottom of her head did not seem to be a human neck at all.
"Who are you……"
Li Tong had already pounced over, his expression distorted, almost ferocious.
Xiao Hui suddenly raised his hand, his panicked expression subsided, his brow furrowed, and he closed his eyes, muttering to himself, "If a single thought is absent, all dharmas are empty; if a single speck of dust is untainted, all realms are open."
He suddenly opened his eyes and pointed at Li Tong: "Break!"
Li Tong paused, and suddenly a circle of flames exploded from his trouser legs. The raging fire rose from the ground in an instant and wrapped him in a golden red.
"ah!!!--"
A heart-wrenching roar came from the flames, and soon the fire dissipated, and a man with a charred body fell straight forward.
"Liu Yang!" Chu Xinyi was horrified. She turned to look at Xiao Hui gloomily, gritting her teeth and asking, "Who are you?"
The boy in front of him took off his baseball cap and let his long hair down. It was none other than Wang Tianfu, the little Taoist boy from Qingcheng Temple.
He tied his hair up, shook his head and sighed, "I've noticed that besides not being able to recognize words, you seem to easily confuse faces."
When he received Xiaohui's text message in the evening, he decided to take action himself to see what the other party was up to.
Of course, there was no math problem on the piece of paper, but a five-element symbol drawn in advance.
Chu Xinyi snorted coldly: "What a pity."
Her eyes were filled with malice: "I thought we were already friends."
"Become friends, and then be eaten by you?"
Wang Tianfu said sternly, "You evil creature, you don't even understand how people live, how can you expect to have any friends?"
Chu Xinyi became angry and embarrassed, and her mouth opened wider and wider.
Her neck was like a flower stem, or like a cold and damp snake, concave in a terrifying condescending posture. Suddenly, her entire head split into four petals like petals, revealing several rows of densely packed teeth, biting down.
"How evil and presumptuous!"
A blast of fiery spiritual energy swept over, and Fang Ya emerged from the bushes. He used extremely fast movements to activate "Tiger Rampant" and smashed towards Chu Xinyi.
Chu Xinyi was unwilling to lose, and dozens of sounds burst out of her throat at the same time.
Fang Ya was stunned. Nan Huai rushed out from behind him and threw a talisman at him: "Big Brother! You can't listen!"
Fang Ya woke up in shock, used his spiritual power to protect his seven orifices, stepped forward to grab Chu Xinyi's neck, and pulled it hard - there was only a miserable breaking sound, and the remaining half quickly retreated into the rubble of rocks.
"What a powerful evil creature!" Fang Ya threw the piece in his hand to the ground. Chu Xinyi's head had shrunk to the size of a peanut, looking very much like an unborn fetus.
Nan Huai kicked it away with lingering fear: "Why didn't the Bagua Mirror reflect this last time?"
"Evil creatures are quite special," Wang Tianfu muttered. "It's my fault for not thinking of that. This kind of thing doesn't just come out of thin air. It must be mixed with some extremely strong emotions of living people, so it affects the performance of the Bagua Mirror."
"Is this person dead?" Nan Huai pointed at the charcoal lying on the ground.
Li Tong's figure can still be barely seen.
Wang Tianfu said with some regret: "It should be said... this person died a long time ago."
Same as Liu Dongsheng.
Fang Ya angrily punched the tree trunk: "What the hell does this thing want to do?"
Wang Tianfu looked at the buried cave entrance and said, "I guess we'll only know if we catch up to it."
"It's all buried here, how are we going to get there?" Nan Huai said with a sigh, "Call the town's excavation team?"
Fang Ya said: "No need, I can blow the hole open again."
He turned back with a serious expression and said, "You two go to the temple and inform the abbot that someone has died. This matter must be reported to the Abnormal Control Bureau."
Wang Tianfu didn't think twice: "No, you can't go alone."
His tone softened: "Brother Fang, have you forgotten what Long Zhu said before?"
"There should be more than one of that thing..."
After a while, a loud rumbling sound came from the back mountain.
Many residents in the town were suddenly awakened from their sleep, thinking that there was construction going on somewhere, and then fell back asleep in a daze.
The rock pestle that was there just now has now exploded into a big hole.
A dark hole appeared at the bottom of the pit, which was roughly large enough for two people to pass through side by side.
Fang Ya was in the lead, Wang Tianfu was at the end, and Nan Huai walked in the middle with a flashlight. The three of them slowly explored the cave entrance.
Not far away, a long, multi-legged worm emerged from the weeds and followed silently.
The young man from southern Xinjiang stepped on a tree branch and sat down leisurely with his knees bent.
"Haha, we're going to be discovered."
He raised his neck proudly and smiled: "Okay, I'll let you do some work for me first."
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Chu Youde hunched over and sat on the small bed in the room.
This 1.5-meter bed has not been used for many years. The quilt cover is pink Hello Kitty. He usually takes it off and washes it every week, so there is not a trace of dust on the bedding.
“…Make a wish, Xinyi!”
"...Then I hope Mom and Dad are happy..."
"Haha, it's the same wish as last year?"
"……Yes!"
He held the old radio in his arms. The plastic cover had turned yellow and the letters on the keys were worn out and illegible.
"Xinyi, today is your birthday again," Chu Youde said with some emotion, "It goes by so fast. Dad always feels like you just started kindergarten yesterday."
"Alas, you said before that you loved the pearl milk tea at the place in Zaohua Lane the most, but I couldn't buy it this time," Chu Youde said with a hint of disappointment in his voice. "They suddenly stopped selling that kind, and Dad couldn't figure it out. I heard that young people are starting to drink that kind of milk tea called Zhizhi or something. I bought a cup, and there were so many people lining up, so it must be delicious."
"Come to think of it, I saw a girl on the street who looked exactly like you. My dad actually made a fool of himself by following her all the way. As a result, he almost got late for class."
Chu Youde pressed the rewind button on the radio. After a rustling sound, the girl's voice sounded again: "...Daddy is happy!"
"Dad has always been thinking...if it weren't for those people who bullied you in school, you would be in college now."
The rewind key and play key keep switching.
“…Dad, be happy!”
“…Dad, be happy!”
"Some people are born bad fruit," his voice suddenly choked. "Not every seed can be sown in this soil, right?"
Fast forward, play.
The girl cheered excitedly: "Yes!"
Rewind, play.
"Yes!"
Rewind, play.
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
"Yes!……"
The radio repeated numbly.
However, there was no cassette in the transparent tape compartment that was spinning idly.
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