Chapter 188 Fire
【Don't do anything else】is a folk expression. In common people's words, it means "Don't do anything else".
That is to say, from the moment Ning Zhe turned over the almanac and let the rules of Zhaoyou envelope this place, everything except: [marriage, sacrifice, pest control, hunting, net-making, fishing, adult ceremony Anything other than this will be considered a taboo.
Including breathing.
This is the reason why Ning Zhe is reluctant to awaken the snake god Zhaoya. The rules of the snake god are related to luck. The side effects of using the snake god's power also depend on luck.
Obviously, Ning Zhe's luck was not very good today.
The continuous wildfires continuously pull oxygen away from the fire scene, and the hot air pours into the lungs along the respiratory tract. Every tiny alveoli is burning and stinging, and the burning heat spreads from the internal organs to the body. Pores, Ning Zhe covered his throat with his hands and fell to his knees in pain, coughing up a large amount of bright red blood.
Ning Zhe’s body twisted in the firelight, gradually losing its vitality.
He is dead.
The moment before death, his head fell to the ground, and the retinas blurred by the high temperature reflected twisted shadows, entwined with enchanting flames and swimming in the heat wave, like sea water. The wakame dancing with the ocean current is like a squirming group of larvae in a water tank.
The next time he opened his eyes, it was pitch black.
“Ah...yes, my eyes have been burned, and now I can’t see anything.”
The burning pain comes from every part of the body, as if There were countless fire ants crawling up and down his body. Ning Zhe wanted to reach out and touch his face, but found that he didn't even have any hands.
......No, not just the arms, but also the legs. It was as if the entire lower body had disappeared out of thin air, and the only things that could be confirmed to exist were his lower back and spine. Ning Zhe calmed down and tried to hear something, but the world was so silent.
His ears are also deaf.
My eyes are blind, my ears are deaf, my mouth is speechless, my hands and feet have disappeared, what have I become?
The severe pain of the flames rose from his heart to his mind. It only took Ning Zhe less than half a second to outline his current appearance:
One's eyes were gouged out, A monster whose ears were poked deaf and whose mouth was sewn shut, crawling in the sea of fire with only a snake-like spine.
——軻.
"...Yes, after I opened the almanac, I saw that something was not good, and subconsciously switched back to Yu Ziqian's identity. I was burned to death as Yu Ziqian, and Yu Ziqian He is already a dead person..."
When people die, they become ghosts, and when ghosts die, they become ghosts. This is the rule of Yanglao Village. After dying in the sea of fire, he had turned into the deformed half-human, half-animal spirit body in Yanglao Village, a long snake of human bones crawling around with a human head on its head.
The burning pain continued from every inch of the body. If Ning Zhe was not blind now, he would have seen an overripe headless corpse lying quietly in the middle of the rice field. The human bone snake with a charred face was covered in flames, convulsing and twisting in pain.
Snakes like him can be found everywhere in the purgatory-like sea of fire. Some of them are skinny old men with wrinkled faces, and some are mature men with anxious faces. Without exception, they are all swimming in the sea of fire. , bathed in flames that burned them beyond recognition.
These monsters crawling out from the deeper depths of death chased the spreading fire, crawled out of the village, passed through the rice fields, and climbed up the highway guardrails painted with bright yellow warning colors. The highway leading to Yundu was blocked. There is a long queue of cars.
"Can't go on like this, can't go on like this..." Ning Zhe forced himself to wake up in the pain of burning his body. Don't do anything else today. Anything he does is violating taboos, and the taboos he violated accumulated. At a certain point, death is waiting for him.
Death here means falling deeper into purgatory.
"What should we do today? What should we do today? Think about it, think about it..." Ning Zhe kept repeating in his mind.
The burning fire brought not only physical pain to Ning Zhe, but also his spirit seemed to be thrown into the flames. The hot temperature stirred up his mind, making him unable to calm down no matter what. Come down to recall or think.
"Ah...ah..." Anger, jealousy, hatred, resentment...all kinds of emotions turned into heart fire, burning in the empty chest, making him want to abandon all reason and release all extremes, and be with Those snakes chasing the fire climbed up the highway and crawled into the traffic, dragging the driver and passengers out of the car door one by one and eating them alive.
Why, why, why can you live even if I die?
Why, why, why I am old and decrepit but you are in your prime.
I don’t accept it, I don’t want to, how come you can earn millions with just a few clicks of your fingers, while I work overtime day and night but can’t even provide food and clothing for my family.
I, I...
I am jealous, I hate, I resent, I am angry.
Burn, burn, let everything burn to ashes, let everyone in this world go to hell with me...
The blazing flames burned the flesh and soul at the same time, Ning Zhe's Ribs writhing painfully in the hot air He swayed and convulsed until his face was also ignited by the flames, and a hoarse whisper came from his mouth:
"Swaying quietly, silently without a trace..."
< br>【Swaying faintly, silently without a trace. 】
【As full as water, as bright as the sun. 】
[Zhao Zhaoxi, the blue and white flowers shine brightly in the sky. 】
[Misty, misty clouds and wandering dragons...]
This is the sacrificial song sung by the villagers of Hejia Village when they worshiped the snake god Zhaoyou in the clan ancestral hall, but now it is from Ning. Zhe sang out of his mouth.
The faceless girl wearing a wedding dress held the almanac in both hands and stood quietly next to Ning Zhe's body. The golden threads on the wedding dress also danced with enchanting flames.
Gradually, Ning Zhe’s voice stopped being intermittent. The surrounding rice fields were bare, and the gray vegetation ash was blown into the sky by the wind.
Taking advantage of a moment of clarity of mind, Ning Zhe's body suddenly collapsed, disintegrating into a chaotic aura, and then condensed into shape again.
"Almost..." Ning Zhe used his hands and feet to get up from the mud that was dry and brittle by the flames. An elegant face wearing gold-rimmed glasses appeared in front of the faceless He Nianjun.
This is Gu Yunqing’s face.
However, as soon as he got up, Ning Zhe suddenly slipped and fell heavily to the ground. The dry mud broke the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and the flying broken glass flew into his eyes, scratching his eyeballs. In the blink of an eye, Ning Zhe's eyes were filled with blood.
However, those snakes that chased the flames were no better than him. It was a taboo for Ning Zhe to breathe. Isn't it a taboo for those ghosts to drag their long spines and crawl in the sea of fire?
Click——
The backbone of a snake was entangled with the tail of another snake. The pale bones bite like gears, and the two disheveled black heads suddenly screamed and gnawed together.
Screams, screams, roars, roars, the sounds are heard one after another, cooking oil for this prairie fire.
The old almanac is still hanging quietly on the slender knuckles of the Faceless Man, with no sparks dancing on the dry and flammable paper.
(End of this chapter)