Chapter 101: Cave of Sorrow (10) Sleepwalking
"Yes, I have kept the last pair of Golden Cicada Gu." Wei Wei closed his eyes tiredly, "But I have never thought of using it on you. You have the Proverbs Lock in your hand, you can use it to ask."
The proverbial lock is wrapped around someone's neck, strangling him tightly when he tells a lie, making him speechless.
Gao Mengtang shook his head: "No need to use the Proverbs Lock."
Cracks ran through the ground, and earthworms emerged from the broken soil, crawling around in panic. Plants, one after another, were crushed by the air waves of the battle and lay helplessly. Two lost butterflies flew around in circles.
In the distance is the dark night sky, and the grass, butterflies, earthworms and other small insects around me are shining in the moonlight.
Wei Wei sighed softly: "You also know, my former identity card is [101 Saints], and, and..."
The words "Gu Kang's death" circled in his throat but he couldn't say them out loud. This was a scab-like wound, covered with dense nerves. Even if he mentioned it, it would be like peeling off the blood scab and touching the wound, causing excruciating pain.
Gao Mengtang: "Did Gu Kang really leave? Didn't you save his soul?"
"No, his soul has dissipated. I didn't expect that, that night..." Wei Wei picked up the pipe, took a puff of it mixed with the cool air, and coughed due to the choking.
Gao Mengtang: "What exactly was the accident? Are you willing to tell me?"
Wei Wei immediately refused: "I don't want to talk about it." The speed of rejection was so fast, as fast as prey avoiding the attack of a predator. He soon realized that his attitude was wrong, picked up the proverb lock, and wrapped it around his neck.
"Mr. Blind, Gu Kang is really dead. There is no need to dwell on the past. I have no ill will towards you."
Gao Mengtang knew that he could not get anything out of asking. There is a kind of past that should be buried in the soil like fallen flowers, sealed in a place that will not be illuminated by the sun in this life. Instead of digging out the past from the bottom of the heart, holding the half-corroded, dirty petals in the palm of your hand again.
"I won't ask anymore." Gao Mengtang wanted to pat Wei Wei's shoulder, but because he couldn't see clearly, he patted Wei Wei's head. "If you can't forget it, just don't look at it."
Wei Wei was suddenly touched on the head, a trace of trance flashed in his eyes, and he slowly raised his face: "Sir the Blind Man..."
"Hey, you guys! Stop being sentimental!" Pegana jumped up and bumped into Gao Mengtang's knees. "Gao Mengtang, I helped you get the Proverbs Lock. Don't you want to thank me? For example, how about releasing my soul?"
Gao Mengtang: "A proverb lock can be worth the soul of the source of fear?"
Pegana was choked: "Of course, it's not as good as mine, but——"
"No buts," Gao Mengtang announced coldly, "I'll give you two chicken legs tonight as a thank you."
The three of them returned to the farmhouse and continued to sleep. In the quiet night, Pegana howled in anger.
After two illusions and a battle, Gao Mengtang couldn't sleep and closed his eyes to rest. Xiao Canglan couldn't sleep either and kept tossing and turning. Suddenly, she called out, "Luo Luo?"
"Luo Luo" is the name that Xiao Canglan calls Wei Wei. She likes He Luo more than an adult man, so she uses Luo Luo to refer to Wei Wei.
Freesia: "Roro. Cry."
Gao Mengtang rubbed his eyes: "Wei Wei is crying? Where is he?"
"Squat."
Wei Wei squatted on the ground and cried?
"What's wrong with you?" Gao Mengtang asked.
There was no answer. Wei Wei squatted on the ground, holding the incense burner, with lifeless eyes and tears flowing. Xiao Canglan pushed him hard, and he shuddered and woke up all of a sudden.
Wei Wei was even more surprised than them. He raised his hand and touched his face, cold tears appeared on his face: "I was sleeping, why am I here?"
Gao Mengtang: "Did you fall asleep just now? Don't you remember what happened?"
"That's right."
Wei Wei sat on the edge of the bed, looking at the incense burner in his hand with confusion.
The old incense burner from a country family was rusty, and the brass had faded into black. Wei Wei recalled that before the battle with Qin Xishuang, he was holding this incense burner when he woke up.
The situation was urgent at the time and there was no time to hesitate, so he threw away the incense burner and joined the battle.
It seemed that he had picked up the incense burner again in his sleep, but he had no memory of it.
Pegana was also not asleep. He was a creature that hibernates during the day and comes out at night. He shook off his fur: "Possessed by a ghost? Possessed by an evil spirit? It can't be mind control. Only creatures in the other world can be controlled by the mind. A more powerful shadow creature or moon creature has come to the dungeon. Gao Mengtang, you'd better let me out quickly."
"It might be sleepwalking." Gao Mengtang said, "Have you ever sleepwalked before?"
Wei Wei: “No.”
The three of them watched for a while, but didn't see any ghost or anything unusual. Wei Wei lowered his eyes tiredly: "I'm so sleepy."
After a while, he fell on the bed and fell asleep again.
"Luo Luo?" Xiao Canglan pushed him, but he didn't wake up.
This was a bit strange. The three of them had just experienced a battle, their brains were excited, and they also learned some information about the Golden Cicada Gu, so they were worried. Even the child Xiao Canglan, who drew the [Sleepy] debuff after entering the dungeon, could not fall asleep immediately. Instead, it was Wei Wei who was exhausted.
Wei Wei must be too tired. Gao Mengtang was not sleepy for the moment and sat on the bed in a daze.
Five minutes later, a rustling sound was heard and Wei Wei suddenly opened his eyes.
He sat up, his expression dull, his eyes empty, and he was mumbling something. When I listened carefully, I heard the three words "I'm sorry".
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry... Gu Kang, I killed you."
Wei Wei once again held the incense burner, squatted on the ground and cried silently.
It seems like... I'm really sleepwalking.
Waking up a sleepwalker can easily scare them. This time, the two did not wake him up. After crying for half an hour, Wei Wei climbed into bed and continued to sleep.
After all the hassles, the east was getting light, cocks were crowing and dogs were barking. Gao Mengtang and Xiao Canglan took a short nap, and Wu Feng's mother prepared breakfast and called them to eat.
Qin Xishuang was very delicate and refused to stay in such a poor place. She insisted on booking the most luxurious room in the hotel in the town.
The only two people who had dinner with Wu Feng's family were Gao Mengtang.
Last night, Wu Fenghe and his girlfriend Xin Tong had a quarrel over something, and they hadn't reconciled yet. There was a low pressure around the two of them, and no one said much at the table.
Wu Feng first broke the awkwardness. He laughed dryly and said, "Mom, you also know that your daughter-in-law likes beef. Come, Xin Tong, drink the soup."
Xin Tong smiled coldly: "What daughter-in-law? She hasn't even married yet."
The soup spoon shook, and a large piece of beef fell out. For a second, Wu Feng was so angry that her features twisted, but thinking of the huge difference in their family backgrounds, she endured it.
"Drink the soup, drink the soup." Wu Feng put the bowl in front of Xin Tong and picked up the beef that fell on the table and ate it.
Xin Tong's expression became even more disgusted, and she pushed the bowl away: "I don't eat beef. I want to learn from Meng Yiqiao and be a flexible vegetarian. I'll only eat vegetables today."
...You young lovers are quarreling, don't involve passers-by. Wu Feng's resentful gaze pierced every inch of her skin like a nail.
"Meng Yiqiao" himself paused in chewing, remained silent, and tried to reduce his presence.
Aunt Wu, who was standing by, was eating like a puppet. If Wu Feng hadn't chatted with her, she would have responded and the players would have thought she was sleepwalking as well.
After breakfast, Aunt Wu went back to her room first, and the younger generations stayed to clean the table.
With a clang, Wu Feng piled the bowls together: "Xin Tong, what are you saying in front of my mother?"
The eldest lady's temper became even more violent, and she threw the chopsticks even harder: "I don't need your approval for what I said!"
"You are deliberately trying to stir up trouble, aren't you?" Wu Feng growled in a low voice, "My mother is so old, she just hopes that I can find a girl and start a family. What did you say about 'not getting married yet'? She heard it..."
Xin Tong interrupted him: "Did your mother start to age after I was born? Why do you put it on me? Besides, if you want to find a good girl so much, why don't you care about your own daughter?"
Their own daughter? According to their observation, Wu Feng had no older sister or younger sister living at home, so where was her daughter?
The player accidentally heard gossip and decisively chose to continue eavesdropping.
"My sister is sick... How can we take care of her? Our family has no money... Hey, I can't explain it to you clearly. You are unreasonable." Wu Feng waved his hands irritably.
Xin Tong crossed her arms across her chest, her demeanor even stronger. “Ouch, a broken bone. If you don’t know, you’d think it’s bone cancer. She went up the mountain to collect herbs for your tuition and broke her leg. You refused to pay a penny for her medical expenses, and you left her with a limp.”
"Stop talking!" Wu Feng yelled.
"Who do you think you are? How dare you care whether I speak or not?!" Xin Tong's voice became even louder. "After she became lame, you wanted to sell her to an old man from the next village. Is this something a normal family would do?"
Xin Tong: "What's even more infuriating is that you told me last night that 'my sister is ignorant. When she heard that her family was going to marry her to an old man, she started to make a scene.' She is ignorant, do you understand? Why don't you take a year off from school to pay for your sister's fracture? Are you afraid that you won't live to graduate?!"
It turned out that they were arguing about this matter. Gao Mengtang had already put away the dishes and continued to listen in the kitchen through the wall.
Wu Feng's face flushed: "How can this be the same?"
"What's the difference? Speak reasonably!"
"My sister had a happy ending. She married the Ghost Doctor!"
Xin Tong sneered, "Mysticism, it really makes sense, this time I have to believe it. And she married the Ghost Doctor, she should become a fierce ghost to take my life! I can see that any girl who has any connection with your family will be forced to become a ghost!"
"What do you mean?"
"Break up!" Xin Tong said these two words, picked up her suitcase, turned around and left.
Gao Mengtang said quickly: "Let's go over and see what's going on. Xin Tong mentioned the Ghost Doctor Fairy. She should be a key NPC."
The teammates also had the same idea, and three of them rushed out to chase Xin Tong.
When I passed by Wu Feng, he was still standing in the yard, unable to recover for a while.
In order to find an excuse for taking care of someone else's girlfriend, Gao Mengtang said against his will: "The two of them were getting along well, how can they break up just like that? Xin Tong is upset, let's go and talk her down."
"You guys go quickly!" Wu Feng said. Although he was jealous of the rich second generation Meng Yiqiao, he was even more reluctant to break up with him.
The three men chased after her. Xin Tong was walking down the stairs with her suitcase dragging behind her, which made clanging noises on the steps.
Xiao Canglan held the suitcase above her head, and Gao Mengtang and Wei Wei walked on her left and right.
Xin Tong smiled: "Xiao Meng."
Gao Mengtang made full use of that face that could inspire women's sympathy, and opened her eyes wide: "Why did you quarrel? It's inevitable that two people will have different ideas when they are together..."
"Xiao Meng, stop trying to persuade me."
Gao Mengtang: "Tell me in detail, what happened last night?"
Xin Tong: ...Why did she see a hint of gossip in the eyes of a person with eye disease?
She added some more information she got from chatting with Wu Feng.
Wu Feng's elder sister, Wu Ting, never went to school, but she was very filial and felt that her parents had a hard time, so she went out to collect herbs at a young age to supplement the family income.
The people of Changming Village make a living by selling medicinal herbs. They make a living in the deep mountains and forests, and on cliffs. The number of wild medicinal herbs is limited, and the whole village fights for them. In this situation, women are not at an advantage. Wu Ting relied on her ruthlessness to snatch baskets of medicinal herbs from the barbaric environment.
"What kind of medicine do people in Changming Village usually collect? What are their effects?" Gao Mengtang asked.
Xin Tong: "In college, Wu Feng told me that Changming Village has a special natural environment, and there are many kinds of special medicinal herbs growing in the mountains. Among them, there is a plant that is the most special, called Paper Man Grass."
Paper man grass can be used to extract essential oils, which have the effects of calming the mind, nourishing the skin, and regulating qi and blood. It is extremely wild and difficult to cultivate, and the yield is low, so it is expensive and is quite popular among the nobles.
On a rainy day, Wu Ting was digging for paper figurines in the cracks of rocks on the slope. She missed a step and fell into the valley. She dragged her broken leg home and burst into tears.
She was not crying because her leg was broken, but because she had dug a basket of paper figurines which were snatched away by the villagers.
Gao Mengtang was so angry that the tips of his ears turned red: "Too much."
Xin Tong also said: "Too much!"
She didn’t receive professional medical treatment for her broken leg, so she bandaged it at home. After the bone healed, Wu Ting became a cripple. She was only 20 years old at that time.
The family thought that a cripple could not marry into a good family, so they betrothed her to an alcoholic and violent widower from the next village. Wu Ting burst into tears and made a scene.
Asking for help from others or herself was useless, so Wu Ting could only choose to pray to God. During those years, she knelt in the Ghost Doctor's temple day and night, praying for God's help.
A miracle really happened. The Great Witch found her and said that the Ghost Doctor was grateful for her loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness and wanted her to go to heaven.
The process after that was similar to what Wei Wei experienced. Wu Ting put on her wedding dress and was admired by the whole village. Her parents, who had always treated her harshly, treated her like a jewel in their palm.
Gao Mengtang asked again: "During this period, did Wu Ting show any abnormal behavior? For example, sleepwalking?"
Wei Wei felt dizzy and was rubbing his temples. Upon hearing these words, his misty eyes cleared a little and he glanced at Gao Mengtang.
"Sleepwalking? I haven't heard him say that." Xin Tong frowned and recalled carefully. Suddenly, an idea flashed in her mind. "But Wu Feng said that his sister's soul often left her body during that period. She would get up in the middle of the night and sit in front of the makeup mirror to dress up. Yes, she was noticed by that ghost doctor Xian Li Mo. His family finally bought a makeup mirror for their daughter."
"The villagers call this the separation of souls. Wu Ting's soul has flown to heaven, and is in love with the Ghost Doctor. The body left in the mortal world is reacting mechanically."
According to Wu Feng, Wu Ting's "soul separation" only occurred at night at first, but after a few days, the separation became more frequent. In the daytime, she often fainted and fell to the ground, then stood up and went to dress up, wash clothes or cook. Sometimes she even pretended to hold a baby or coax a baby.
The family members were surprised and happy, and said that Wu Ting was living with the Ghost Doctor.
Hearing this, Gao Mengtang couldn't help but want to tease: "Wei Wei, it seems that your life is not very good. The Ghost Doctor bullied you and made you cry at night."
Before they finished speaking, a strange wind blew behind them, and something seemed to flash past them from behind. The four of them were so scared that they broke into cold sweats and turned their heads quickly.
The weeds on both sides of the path were waist-high, and the leaves were swaying. The sun was shining brightly, and they had already reached the entrance of the village. Looking back, the fog between the mountains enveloped those desolate buildings that looked like tombstones, which was indescribably weird.
"It seemed like there was something just now." Wei Wei said.
Xin Tong is more materialistic: "Wild boars and wild dogs, maybe."
Finding nothing, the group continued to walk out.
"And what else? Are there any other abnormal conditions in Wu Ting?" Gao Mengtang asked.
Xin Tong touched her chin with one hand. "Wu Feng described it in a very mysterious way. He said that his sister's sallow skin became radiant during that period, and her skinny body gained some flesh and her skin became moisturized. When he went home during the holidays, he found that his sister was so beautiful that he almost couldn't recognize her. But the broken leg was not healed."
Wu Feng also said that her sister had a rosy face, bright eyes, and was always full of energy. Because of this, she suddenly fell to the ground and fainted. After her soul left her body, she held up her delicate face, put on makeup in front of the mirror, drew her eyebrows and combed her hair. She looked like a female ghost who was about to drink human blood to achieve immortality.
One day, he got up at night. It was a cloudy day with no moonlight and it was dark everywhere. He ran into his sister Lihun unexpectedly. Her eyes suddenly opened, her cheeks glowed red, but her eyes were lifeless. She stared at him blankly. Wu Feng was almost scared to death.
Wu Feng should not and had no reason to add some exaggeration to these descriptions. Wei Wei was so sleepy that his eyelids were fighting each other. He supported himself to listen to the end and pondered for a moment: "It sounds like this ghost doctor has very strong magic power."
"Strong magic power?" Xin Tong disagreed, striding forward with her head held high. "Does this require magic power? If you become a bride-to-be, the village will send you fish and meat. If you eat well, your face will naturally be rosy and your eyes will be bright. Do you still need magic power?"
"As for the soul-leaving thing, I think Wu Feng is just making up a lie to tease a girl." Xin Tong said, "It could also be like what Xiao Meng said, it's just sleepwalking."
"What you think about during the day, you dream about at night. A poor girl like Wu Ting can only hope to marry a good family to change her fate. She is looking forward to getting married, and the villagers say that she will marry the ghost doctor. She thinks about it every day, sleepwalks at night, and dresses up and does housework."
The map of [Sad Cave] is very large. After leaving the village, we arrived at the bus stop. The three of them got on the bus and headed to the hotel in the town.
The four people sat in two rows, Xin Tong was in the front row, playing with Xiao Canglan, while Gao Mengtang and Wei Wei sat in the back row.
While thinking, Gao Mengtang found a suspicious point: "Eh? Where is Wu Feng's father? Is he out working? I haven't seen him in the village."
Hearing this, Xin Tong raised her head and said, "Wu Feng is a bit pitiful. His father just passed away. His mother is the only one left at home."
Gao Mengtang asked: "Died? When exactly?"
"Five months ago, I heard that he died in strange circumstances."
Players wanted to ask what was going on, but Xin Tong kept avoiding answering. The death of her ex-boyfriend's father was not suitable for small talk. She also had to brush up on the NPC's favorability to find out the truth.
Xin Tong also needed to collect materials, and had brought hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of photographic equipment from a long distance, not wanting to return empty-handed. Although she and Wu Feng had fallen out, she had no plans to leave for the time being.
After helping her settle down, it was almost noon.
The chief witch told them that they would go to the paradise to hold an exorcism ceremony at noon today.
Wei Wei put on a long windbreaker to cover his wedding dress. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Qin Xishuang walking out from the next room.
He was wearing a red wedding dress, revealing nothing, as gorgeous as a peony that attracts bees and butterflies, with a cold expression, allowing passers-by to look at him sideways. He looked in good condition.
Qin Xishuang was taller than the other players. He lowered his eyes, his eyelashes fluttering, and his eyelids were covered with glitter eyeshadow. He looked down at Wei Wei and said, "You are both married to the Ghost Doctor, but I am the main wife and you can only be a concubine."
Wei Wei: ...Nervous.
The player used the teleportation scroll to return to Changming Village. As soon as he stepped into the old house of Wu Xiang, the cold beauty shell on Qin Xishuang's body melted instantly, and she greeted him with a sweet smile.
Seeing him come in, Zuo Hufa and Xiuhong girl also greeted him with smiles and praised him for being handsome again.
"The healing ceremony is ready. Let's go to the blessed place." Xiuhong took Qin Xishuang's arm and led the way.
Go out from the side door at the back of Wu Xiang's house, climb up the mountain along the steps, turn several turns and walk for more than twenty minutes until you arrive at a cave.
"Is there anything unusual in the cave?" Gao Mengtang asked in a low voice.
Wei Wei shook his head: "It looks like an ordinary cave, and I am not mentally polluted."
In the dungeon, any evil place or place where monsters hide will definitely cause mental pollution, which will accelerate the decline of the player's mental value. If there is no mental pollution, it means it is relatively safe. The group walked in with confidence.
The cave was deep and spacious. After walking for more than three minutes, I could smell the faint aroma of Chinese medicine. Candlelight illuminated the stone walls.
An iron door blocked everyone's way. There were two ancient gold door knockers on the iron door, and on the door panel was a relief of a handsome man in a wide robe with fluttering sleeves. He lowered his eyebrows and nodded, holding a medicine mortar in his hands. There was no doubt that the relief was the ghost doctor Xian Limo.
The left guardian said, "Once you open this door, you will reach the paradise. You haven't married yet, you are just enjoying the bride's happiness, so this door cannot be opened for you."
In front of the door, a circular open space with a diameter of three meters was sprinkled with white powder as glittering as fine snow, and 49 white candles were lit around the circle. The left protector asked the two to stand on the white powder and began to chant a strange spell.
Gao Mengtang listened for a while and asked in his mind, "Wei Wei, can you understand? Is this the Changming Village dialect?"
"No. The pronunciation is different from the dialect, and I can't understand it." Wei Wei said.
The same spell was repeated dozens of times. Gao Mengtang heard the words "Yuanyoudu, Zeyoutu, Jieyikui, Majinnu".
After taking it apart and putting it back together, Gao Mengtang still didn't understand what it meant.
The two brides stood quietly with their eyes closed, while the left protector, holding prayer wheels, vajra and other ritual instruments, danced around them and cast spells.
No one noticed that when the guardian was chanting the spell, Qin Xishuang suddenly opened her eyes, stared at him with a little surprise for a few seconds, and closed her eyes again.
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