"Are you back? How does it feel?"
When Zhou Yu opened the door with a bucket, the room was filled with the choking smell of burning ointment. The woman who called herself Jin Yu sat cross-legged on the ground and asked in a leisurely manner. There was even a brown and blue native cigarette in her hand.
Zhou Yu put down the bucket and stared at the woman intently.
"What's going on with that pool?"
The woman took a nonchalant drag on her cigarette and then said, "Did you see something?"
"I didn't shine my flashlight into that pool."
"Huh? Ah, that's just what I said casually. Ordinary people probably have to burn rhino horns to see it, but you are different. You can see it after just looking at it for a while, right?"
"...You knew this would happen."
"Of course. That pool is the spiritual water in this area. Your eyes have seen something like that again. It's strange that you can't see it." There was no surprise in the woman's tone, as if she said it naturally: "You found me Do you remember the notes you left behind? It’s the one hidden in the mirror.”
Suddenly hearing these words, Zhou Yu, who had originally planned to have a good argument with her, immediately forgot about the past. He asked: "Did you write that note?"
"No, it's something handed down from our ancestors." Jin Yu blew out smoke at Zhou Yu, "I originally wanted to leave it to the child, so I didn't take it with me. Although I didn't write it, I also know the content. It’s crystal clear. That’s something you shouldn’t know. It’s better to burn it as soon as possible... It’s too late to say that. Have you read the contents? "
Since he was asked like this, Zhou Yu had no intention of hiding it. He briefly recounted the process of discovering the notes, translating them, and performing the rituals.
Jin Yu listened quietly while smoking. When Zhou Yu finished telling the whole story, the room was filled with smoke from local cigarettes.
I don’t know what kind of material her cigarettes are made of. The smoke after burning reveals a little bluish color. The smell is not very choking, but it is extremely bitter.
"The person on the phone told you that as long as you execute the 'Dead Spot Game', you will have a 'Dream of All Things and All Things', right?"
Zhou Yu nodded. Jin Yu laughed out loud.
"False. I'm totally lying to you. Is there everything? Haha, that's so loud. Doctor Zhou, please tell me, all the species in this world, remember I said all, do they have anything in common? "
Zhou Yu looked at her doubtfully. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Everyone will die."
"Yes, that's what it is." Jin Yu said with a sarcastic smile, "The only place where everything can be collected is death. The so-called 'all things and everything' is actually just a dream of death. Doctor Zhou, you have died once before." It’s the people who suffered.”
Before Zhou Yu could answer, she shook her head again: "No, it's not accurate to say so... You can't come back from real 'death'. The place you entered can only be called a 'small vortex' at best. That’s all.”
"Little vortex..."
"City of Unjust Death, you know? People who die unjustly can neither be reincarnated nor become gods or Buddhas before their resentment is eliminated. They can only be trapped in the city and wait. This is the kind of place you dream about. If you were in that city To die is to fall completely into the underworld.”
Jin Yu said casually and flicked the cigarette ashes on a piece of black paper in front of her. There were strange patterns drawn with white lines on the paper, but because it was covered in soot, Zhou Yu couldn't see the details of the pattern clearly.
"...When you talk about the underworld, do you mean the Palace of Hell? Do ghosts really exist?"
"No, this is just a way for you to understand. Neither the Temple of Hell nor heaven and hell exist in our world. The dead consciousness will only fall into the Great Source - just imagine it as a The abyss beneath the water is healed.”
She shook the paper and drew a white round hole in it with cigarette ashes.
"The consciousness of a person who dies normally will fall into this abyss along the water flow. Regardless of what happens after that, up to this point is the so-called soul returning to Jiuquan. However, the water above the abyss is not completely still."
She put the native cigarette on the paper and bounced along the outside of the white hole, creating scattered gray dots.
"...There are many small vortices above the water. If the consciousness is caught by these small vortices on the way to the abyss, it will be forced to stay in the vortex until it becomes something that is not attracted by the vortex, or a vortex Until it disappears. However, people who die normally will not pass through the small vortex. They must have established a connection for some reason to be trapped in it. "
After saying this, she casually put out her cigarette on the paper, then balled up the entire paper and threw it into the corner. That face and informal attitude made Zhou Yu look a little dazed. After a long time, he cleared his thoughts and said, "Your view of life and death is indeed very strange, but..."
"This is not my view on life and death, it's just the simplest analogy for you. With your ability, you can only understand it to this extent." Jin Yu rolled her eyes at him.
"Anyway, you just want to find my daughter. It's enough to know this. Did you see her in that city? This fact itself is proof that she is dead. Only dead people will be sucked into the vortex .”
Upon hearing this conclusion, Zhou Yu immediately retorted: "I am not dead."
"Because you cheated to get in. That ritual... let's call it the Dead End Game. As long as you use that method, even a living person can get in. But you don't have your own body there, right?"
A malicious smile appeared on Jin Yu's face: "You went in in the form of a dream, and it was like a ghost there. If you can move normally...you borrowed someone's body, right? There must be someone The people related to you have voluntarily transferred the right to use their bodies to you. This is the only way for a living person like you to move freely in the vortex."
Zhou Yu was speechless for a long time. He may not completely believe what Jin Yu said, but he is not in any mood to argue. In his view, there is no need to worry about the fate of people after death. People who are alive can only think about living things.
"Is there no possibility?" he asked with difficulty, "There is no possibility that she is still alive?"
"...I can't say for sure."
The woman with the same name as Zhou Yu stared at him for a long time, and said as if sighing: "As mother and daughter, we have a connection that you can't understand, so I know that something very dangerous happened to her. But even so, I couldn't be sure that she had died until you showed up here. Dr. Zhou, with that child's personality, if she hadn't lost her life, she would never abandon you. Her personality is similar to mine, so this is In my opinion, it is a more important death certificate than her appearance in Xiaowu."
"...Didn't you just abandon your husband?"
Almost with a hint of resentment, Zhou Yu blurted out rude words. Jin Yu was not angry, and still said calmly: "Those are two different things. If I don't leave, both Zhou Yu and I will be in danger."
"Do you have any rivals?"
"No, it has nothing to do with outsiders. If I don't leave, my daughter will kill me one day. This is the fate of people like us."
Jin Yu said in an understatement: "Dr. Zhou, don't you think my daughter and I look too similar? To tell you the truth, her grandmother also looks exactly like me. People with our bloodline, as long as they are born If the child is a daughter, she will completely inherit her mother's appearance, and she will inherit her mother's name when she becomes an adult.
"——What must be done at this time is to kill the mother with one's own hands."
