Xie Chen looked at the alley that appeared in front of him, a little at a loss.
I was obviously in the mourning hall, and I was just about to fall down and sleep for a while. Why did I just sleep in this place now?
Xie Chen rubbed his face with his fingers in disbelief, and the pain spread to his brain, telling him that the scene in front of him was not an illusion.
After all, I am used to "drawing the ground as a prison" in the mourning hall.
I am now in this loess alley and dare not move forward.
Xie Chen looked to the side and saw tiny ink stains forming numbers one after another under a nearby mud house.
The form of writing is a little different, and not all of it has been written.
There are also some of these ink stains on the exterior wall of the next house.
Xie Chen hurriedly got closer, and with the help of the light source that came from nowhere, he could barely understand the content above.
1] The moon is a round object that emits white light and only appears in the sky.
2] When the moon changes into an unfamiliar appearance, please close your eyes and imagine the original appearance of the moon for ten seconds, then open your eyes again and repeat this process until the moon in the sky changes back to its original appearance.
3] When situation 2 occurs, turn left at the next intersection immediately after the moon changes back.
4] Black standing water does not reflect anything. When you see black water, you need to turn right at the next intersection. Don't be tempted to look down at standing water.
Wu] will only need to make nine turns in total to reach the house. No unnecessary turns will be taken.
Do not eat the rice in the bowl on the roadside. If you see an empty bowl, add rice.
Qi] There is nothing following you around, so never look back. Don't even look at the paper man who moves in the opposite direction to you.
8] If you encounter something that cannot be solved, find a well immediately and eat the rice on the roadside. You will see a paper man with green bamboo strips in the same direction as you, follow him.
Jiu] If something comes in a white leather cloak, don't follow it, don't look at it. Immediately turn left and then right, and then repeat the steps from the beginning. Stay away from anything with a white leather cloak, especially if they have red liquid on their cloak and are charging towards you.
The well does not exist. If you see it, please step back and stay away until the well disappears. Repeat if necessary.
"paper man?"
"rice?"
The paper man himself didn't see it, but as for rice, there was a bowl of rice at the door of the alley house in front.
The cooked rice was piled up like a hill, with three pillars of burned incense stuck on top.
The incense ash fell on the rice, and it looked like it had dried on the surface. This bowl of rice must have been left outside for a long time.
Xie Chen quickly raised his head and glanced at the moon in the sky. Fortunately, the moon was big and round, although the moonlight was not obvious and could not even be described as bright.
But at least the shape isn't wrong.
Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.
So which house should I go to now?
Although from the rules written with ink and brush on the exterior wall of the house, it can be seen that the final destination should be a certain house.
But these houses can also be called houses. Which one they are, I don't know yet.
The Loess Alley stretches as far as the eye can see, not to mention the corners, but on this straight road, I can't see the end at a glance.
Moreover, there are many self-contradictions in these rules as written.
Rules 6 and 8 are obvious examples.
Since you say that the rice on the roadside is not edible, but you also say that if you encounter something that cannot be solved, you must eat the rice on the roadside, are you following the paper man?
Of these two rules, only one is obviously correct.
But which rule should I follow?
I no longer have the chance to try and make mistakes.
While thinking about it, he slowly walked forward while staring at the moon above his head to make sure that there were no unexpected changes in the moon.
We passed by the door of four or five houses, and at the door of each house there was a bowl of rice stacked in a mountain.
The only difference is that some have three sticks of incense inserted, while others only have one or two sticks inserted.
You can't see any difference in the rice itself, and the other thing is that the bowl is empty.
The rules require you to put rice into these empty bowls yourself.
But I don't even have half a grain of rice on my body, is it possible that I have to risk my life?
It's not that I haven't thought about it, the rice here refers to other things, but in the entire alley of rammed loess, it is very difficult to even hold a handful of loess. How can there be anything that can be used to refer to the so-called "rice" ?
Fortunately, I haven't encountered an empty bowl yet.
Xie Chen walked very slowly, not far ahead was the first corner, but until now he had not noticed many strange changes in the moon above his head.
As I walked forward, a small piece of dark cloud overhead covered the moon that was emitting moonlight.
He also wisely stopped and did not move forward at this time.
There is a corner ahead. If the moon suddenly changes at this time, should we stand still and wait for the moon to recover before turning left?
Or just walk forward?
Xie Chen stood at the corner, raising his head and waiting for the small half of dark clouds to leave the moon's surroundings.
Fortunately, the moon has not changed and is still round and shining.
Xie Chen breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the road in front of him.
Since the rules say that you only need to turn left at the intersection after the moon changes and recovers.
So now that the moon doesn't show any weird changes, does it mean that I don't need to turn left?
Xie Chen made a rough guess. Since there was nothing explicitly stated in the rules, he didn't dare to try too much now.
I had no choice but to go straight forward.
But as I walked further, I also came to the corner.
Out of curiosity, although his feet were kept straight forward, his eyes still looked to the left.
That alley entrance was darker than this one, and only the road leading to a house in front could be seen.
Further down, it's already pitch black. Unless you walk down the alley, you won't be able to tell what's at the end.
But he couldn't move forward at this time, and his feet stopped stiffly.
I could see clearly that there were two empty bowls at the door of this house, and there were even two burning incense sticks in front of the doorknob.
The two sticks of incense burn at different speeds, with the one on the left burning faster than the one on the right.
But the third stick of incense fell to the ground, and the handle was close to the mouth of the bowl. There was no sign of lighting this stick of incense. It seemed that someone had taken it out directly and threw it beside the bowl.
Xie Chen's eyelids were trembling a little, and he was a little overwhelmed when he looked at the house at the fork in the alley in front of him.
Let’s not talk about what happened to these three sticks of incense?
Just to add rice to an empty bowl is already putting myself in trouble.
I don’t have any rice on me either.
