Chapter 137 Remembering the PastIn desperation, I reached out and touched him.
The soul of this thin man who was sitting there in a daze finally responded.
The expression on his face when he looked at me finally changed, but I couldn't tell what exactly that expression was. It wasn't surprise, but more like he was a little bit repulsed by me.
I didn't say any more nonsense and tried to empathize with him, but this time, I failed to successfully enter his memory.
This was the first time I tried to empathize with a spirit, but failed.
Empathy can only be successful when both parties are willing, which means that my feeling just now was not wrong, this soul is indeed rejecting me.
Why is that? I just can’t figure it out.
What I am more curious about is how he died?
I continued to move forward, but I didn’t find any other souls for the time being, so I had to turn back for the time being.
But when I came to the entrance I had just entered, I only saw the fallen rope.
My heart still skipped a beat and my head was buzzing with alarm bells ringing.
Chu Yucheng is in danger up there!
I regretted that I had forgotten to give him a red rope to ward off evil spirits when I came down! I didn't care about anything else and quickly found a way to get up.
It is about three meters from the fourth floor to the third floor. There is no rope, but the abandoned cage is still there. As long as I climb to the top of the cage, with my strength, I should be able to jump to the third floor.
After I finally climbed up from the third floor, I hurried to look for Chu Yucheng.
Chu Yucheng was lying unconscious on the ground, holding a small knife in his hand. There was a black gas spreading around him, and the rope that was originally tied to the trailer with a sturdy knot was cut by something unknown.
It seemed that something controlled Chu Yucheng's mind and made him cut the rope.
I threw a talisman to dispel evil spirits, and the black energy was immediately dispersed. I then pasted a talisman to clear the mind on Chu Yucheng.
Chu Yucheng woke up slowly, his eyes confused: "What happened to me?"
I said in a deep voice: "Let's go out first."
"You can't get out."
As soon as I walked a distance away, Ou Bingjun in my body spoke.
"Something has set up a formation here, and you can't get out."
I stopped.
Chu Yucheng still didn't understand: "What's wrong?"
"There's a ghost wall here." I sighed, "It's similar to the formation I saw in the mountains before."
There was no point in going any further, so I stopped and took out the red rope and talismans that I had prepared long ago from my bag.
I first used the red rope to make a circle, then used my own life, and then used my own life to transform it into my own appearance.
Having learned from the lesson, I surrounded Chu Yucheng with red ropes and placed the exorcism talismans and the heart-clearing talismans. Then I took out the Thunder Talisman that I had prepared long ago, raised it and threatened:
"Come out, or I'll call down a thunderbolt to blow up your nest and we'll die together."
In fact, I know that my ability is not enough to unleash the true power of this Heavenly Thunder Talisman, but it would be good if I could use the Empty City Strategy to force this thing to show up.
The Empty City Strategy was effective. A black aura condensed in front of me and finally transformed into the appearance of a middle-aged man.
This man was the same as the one I had just met, just as thin and just as shrunken.
He looked at the two of us sinisterly without saying a word.
"Let him out first. I'll play with you slowly." I pointed at Chu Yucheng inside the red rope.
"You two... can't get out." The dry man finally spoke, his voice equally dry.
"That's not up to you!" I suddenly exerted force in my leg muscles, pounced forward, and grabbed him with my right hand.
This thin male ghost was caught off guard and showed a trace of panic when he felt that he was caught by me.
"What happened here? Why is there such a ghost-sealing formation? You, why are you trapped here?" I asked a series of questions. I saw the man's expression relaxed when I asked why.
As long as there is a response, there is a solution.
"Since we can't go out for the time being, can you tell me about you and what happened to you before?" I softened my attitude a little: "Tell me, okay?"
I closed my eyes and tried to establish empathy with the ghost in front of me.
This time I finally felt his memory.
When I opened my eyes again, I found myself lying in a rice field. The scorching sun shone on my body, making my skin hurt slightly.
My ears were buzzing, the world was spinning, and I was seeing stars. I felt extremely exhausted, and my hands and feet felt as weak as cotton. I couldn't even stand up.
It took me a while to recover.
It was only when my five senses came into play that I realized there were people around me.
"Dad! Daddy!"
There were two childish voices, a boy and a girl, calling me dad.
With the experience of becoming a man last time, I was able to get into the role quickly this time.
There are more memories in my mind.
It is now 1987. I am 34 years old and a genuine farmer with three children. In addition to the two standing in front of me, I have another son who is in swaddling clothes.
There are six people in our family, including my wife, children and parents.
My parents are already in their 50s, but they can take care of themselves and have enough strength to help out, so this small family was originally doing pretty well.
But accidents happen, and there is a severe drought here this year.
It hasn't rained for more than a month, and the water level of the river has dropped a lot.
The crops in the fields were short of water, and the man was extremely anxious, but he had no other choice but to find water from a farther place and transport it little by little.
The man fainted while working in the fields.
Long hours of physical labor, scorching hot weather, and the burden of life overwhelmed the man, and he fainted in the field.
This wasn't the first time the man had fainted.
There are hungry children and elderly people in the family. If there is a problem with the harvest in the fields again, the whole family will probably have to starve.
"I" dragged my weak body back home.
My wife could no longer produce milk due to lack of nutrition, and my youngest son was crying loudly with hunger at home because he had no milk.
For the first time, I experienced what it felt like to be powerless.
In fact, I have another option, which is to work in other places. However, if I go to the city as a migrant worker, I will not be able to take care of the children and the elderly at home, and the land in the fields will most likely be abandoned, so I have been struggling.
Fortunately, there is no sure path.
"Zhang Sheng's family, there are many outsiders coming to the village. They say they are looking for miners. The salary is pretty good. Do you want to go?"
Because of the drought, the harvest in the fields is unstable, so most people in the village have started to find other ways to make a living. The person who was speaking was our next-door neighbor, and his situation was similar to my family's.
In the past, I would have refused if I encountered this situation, but this time I didn’t rush to refuse.
When my neighbor saw that I was still hesitating, he suddenly became anxious.
"Zhang Sheng, why are you still hesitating? That mine is near our village, and most of the able-bodied men in the village have gone there. If you go too late, the mine will be full. How are you going to survive this disaster year?"
I murmured, as if a huge surprise had hit me on the head, and I still couldn't believe it: "Is there a mine nearby?"
"Yes! A few scientists came here with a lot of instruments not long ago. Do you remember? Those experts said we have sand and soil mines here. Now a boss has contracted to develop it, and they just happened to recruit miners here!"
I... am moved.
