"Are you annoyed? Get out of here!"
Xia Zhichan raised her head and looked at the thing making the strange noise next to her. She didn't look surprised at all, but instead cursed rudely.
Ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-ta.
What appeared in front of him was a skeleton of white bones. The thing that made the strange clicking noise was the mouth that kept closing and opening. Several teeth were missing from the upper and lower mouth.
There was a big hole in the skull's head for some unknown reason. There was dirt mixed with weeds inside, and a few jagged dead grass leaves protruded from the hole, swaying rhythmically with the clicking sound.
If ordinary people saw it, they would definitely be scared, but when Xia Zhichan saw it, he could only think it was a bit funny. There is indeed nothing scary about the other party's appearance.
"What do you want to do?"
Ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-ta.
The skeleton raised his arms and bowed politely. His left arm had no palm, and his right palm was missing several bones. The most pitiful thing was that the arm bones were covered with gnawing teeth marks. It looked like It doesn't look like it's human, but like it was bitten by a wild dog.
Ta da da, da da da...
The teeth kept tapping, and the sound became more and more urgent, but no matter how hard the upper and lower teeth struck, there was no sound, only the crisp sound of impact.
Xia Zhichan waved his hand, regardless of whether he could see the skeleton with only bones left, and rolled his eyes.
"I don't understand. Do you have other ways of expressing yourself? Don't keep clicking..."
Da da da……
The skeleton was still clicking, but he probably felt that Xia Zhichan didn't understand what he was saying at all, so he helplessly touched the weeds on his head.
Da da da!
He seemed to have thought of something, and stretched out his right hand, with only three and a half fingers remaining, directly into the burning fire in front of Xia Zhichan.
He took out a piece of burning charcoal and wrote something on the newly cleaned ground:
"I was a carefree scholar, and my family lived in Liujiazhuang, ten miles outside the mountain. That day when I went out, I met a gangster who killed me in the palace. No one took my body. It was miserable and desolate. A wild dog took my left hand and put it in the palace again. My right finger licks..."
"Okay, okay, there won't be enough space to write any more."
Xia Zhichan hurriedly stopped him. He glanced at the dark article on the ground angrily and knew that this skeleton was a scholar who studied hard and rhymed everything he wrote.
"What do you want to do? Let me avenge you, or save you..."
The skeleton was shouted down and the article he was still writing eloquently in his hand changed from crying to boasting about how smart he was when he was young. He could read at the age of three, recite poems at the age of five, and do whatever he wanted at the age of seven.
It's a pity that the place is not big enough, otherwise he could continue writing.
Hearing the other party's question, he was stunned for a moment. Although the skeleton had no expression, Xia Zhichan still noticed the stunned movement.
"You're not going to run out here just to write an article for me to read, are you?"
Xia Zhichan saw the skeleton's movements and knew that the other person was an idiot who couldn't even be a ghost. He finally came over, but she just wanted to write something to tell herself about his pitiful experience during his lifetime.
Da da da……
The skeleton couldn't blink, so he could only turn his face to the side in embarrassment, as if this could hide his shame, and the messy weeds on his head drooped down.
In fact, he really didn't know what to do. You said he wanted revenge. He didn't know how long he had been in this temple. The villain who killed him was probably dead. How could he take revenge?
But if we talk about transcending ourselves...
The skeleton took a step back in fear. He didn't know what method Xia Zhichan was talking about to save him, whether he was asking a monk to recite sutras or an old Taoist to exorcise ghosts.
Da da da……
The skeleton put half of the charcoal block into his mouth, chewed it several times, and then saw a pile of black debris falling down his chin.
"You were killed and became what you are now because of your unwillingness. But after so many years, your resentment has almost dissipated."
Xia Zhichan didn't care about the skeleton's behavior and explained to him seriously why he couldn't be reincarnated even though he was being eaten by wild dogs. It was because his bones were incomplete and he couldn't rest in peace.
"The reason why you are being eaten by wild dogs now is because you accidentally killed a pregnant female dog. Now their mother and son are coming to take revenge on you..."
The skeleton shook his head vigorously, then made a gesture of cupping his hands and clasping his fists, and bowed to Xia Zhichan sincerely a few times, as if he was begging the other party to save him.
Ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-ta.
"Whoever can avoid doing wrong things in his life can still make amends as long as he knows his mistakes and can correct them."
Xia Zhichan pinched her fingers, and then looked at the skeleton's face.
Someone said that if the skeleton is already white bones, how can you still read faces? This is of course because people have skin and bones. Although the skin and flesh are gone now, the bones are still there.
"Let's do this. I'll give you an idea. It's up to you whether you listen or not."
The man pointed to the door, motioning for the skeleton to go out, and continued:
"They will come to seek revenge on you tonight. You might as well go out and let them eat to their heart's content..."
Before Xia Zhichan finished speaking, she saw the skeleton shaking its head like a rattle, and the weeds on its head also rustled.
"What? You don't agree... That's okay, just keep it like this. Even if you can escape today, you can't escape tomorrow."
"Anything you owe others must be repaid sooner or later."
The skeleton was pierced in the heart by Xia Zhichan's words, and his mouth that had been clicking finally stopped. His head turned to Xia Zhichan for a while, and then turned outside.
After a long time, the sun outside had completely set, and the last bit of light disappeared deep into the dense forest.
The man who had been working as a skeleton for who knows how long finally made up his mind. He finally bowed respectfully to Xia Zhichan who was sitting by the fire, then opened the door and walked out.
"Remember, no matter how much they eat, you have to hold back, otherwise in the end the bones will be broken and the grievances will not be settled, and your soul will be gone."
Finally I heard Xia Zhichan's words.
The skeleton walked out of the ruined temple. He had been hiding here all these years. If those wild dogs attacked, he would find a way to block the door to prevent them from entering, or hide in the back hall to prevent them from finding him.
Today, he doesn't hide anymore.
The sky had just darkened when a rustling sound came from the grass not far away, and then several half-sized variegated wild dogs came out, staring at the skeleton who walked out calmly.
Woof——
As the largest wild dog among them barked wildly, the wild dogs rushed forward at the same time, some biting the arms and some gnawing on the thighs.
The skeleton fell to the ground, letting the wild dogs gnaw at it. The bones that had already been weathered for a long time made a clicking sound, and white bone fragments visible to the naked eye fell down.
Those wild dogs are not here to fill their stomachs. After all, skeletons are all bones without any meat. Although dogs sometimes chew bones, they cannot be full just by eating bones.
Click, click, click...
In the dark night, wild dogs gnawed on the bones, making a tooth-piercing sound.
Crack - with a sound, the skeleton's left arm was the first to break. Those wild dogs bit off his left hand and continued to pounce on his other bones.
Soon, the slender ribs began to break, and pieces of fragments fell to the ground. Some were stuck diagonally on the ground, and some were pushed far away.
Click, click, click...
The sound continued, and the skeleton changed from sitting cross-legged on the ground to being stuck on the ground. Because his two leg bones had been completely bitten off, the pelvis was directly inserted into the soil.
Now all his limbs have been chewed off, and even his ribs and other bones have been bitten off one by one by the wild dogs, leaving only the last spine and the skull with weeds on it.
The wild dogs also stopped their attack. Instead of knocking down the skeleton and biting off the last remaining spine, they took a few steps back, apparently planning to leave.
Woof——
The largest wild dog barked a few more times, and the remaining wild dogs obediently returned to it. Just as this group of unknown wild dogs was about to leave, they saw the grass not far away shaking slightly.
Then a pair of scarlet eyes appeared.
The wild dogs cowered back several steps, then quickly turned around and entered the forest. Not long after, they were no longer visible.
The pair of scarlet eyes slowly emerged from the grass. It turned out to be a lone gray wolf covered with scars. It looked like it had been squeezed out of the wolf pack. It was so skinny that it probably hadn't eaten for a long time.
It jumped out of the grass lightly, and ran to the devoured skeleton with only its backbone in a few steps. It happily turned around several times, first licked the bone fragments on the ground, and then stared at it. Skeleton.
He opened his long mouth full of fangs and smelly saliva dripped down.
I was finally able to order a meal today.
It arched its back, kicked hard with its hind paws, and rushed in front of the skeleton. Its two front paws were already on the skeleton's spine, but it wasn't clear whether it was because the skeleton was stuck too deep into the ground, or because it was hungry. It had been too long and I had no strength. In short, I couldn't knock the skeleton down.
Xia Zhichan only said that those wild dogs were the grievances that the skeletons wanted to repay, but did not say that a gray wolf would come. She didn't know whether it was a coincidence or fate.
The skeleton lowered his head and looked at the gray wolf very close to him with his eyeless eyes. He suddenly felt that the look of this gray wolf seemed to have been seen somewhere before, but he vaguely couldn't remember it.
Suddenly a thought flashed across the skull, and the skeleton suddenly understood.
The gray wolf in front of him looked very similar to the gangster who killed him. How could a wolf look like a human? It's just that their greedy expressions were the same. Even if they couldn't remember their appearance, their expressions would not change.
The skeleton opened its mouth and let out a silent laugh.
Half of the charcoal stuck in the throat fell. It had been completely extinguished, but now it suddenly ignited with red flames and fell directly on the gray wolf.
Then came the raging fire, which didn't ignite anything, but completely burned the gray wolf into a pile of ashes, which dissipated as soon as the wind blew.
The skeleton had a big mouth, fell to the ground like laughing, and then stopped moving.
The grudge is over.
Xia Zhichan, who was sitting by the fire, suddenly reached out and grabbed it, as if catching a flying insect, then shook her hand and threw it into the sleeve robe, and then patted her left hand uneasily.
"Good boy, he can't eat it."
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly saw that the place where the skeleton was writing had changed. The originally eloquent article was gone, and there were only black charcoal pieces, twisting and turning to form two large characters:
"Run away."
