Daming's Bizarre Story: Painted Skin

Under the cold moon, on the silvery lake surface, on the two crowded wooden rafts, there was only the shadow of Zhao Ran himself, and there was no one in front of him or behind him.

The moon is in the sky, and people are in the water.

Zhaoran never feels panic, because the worst thing for a person is death, and he died long ago.

But he was really panicked at this moment, he turned his head to look at Jiuru, he wanted to see Jiuru, he traveled 20 years just to find him, turned his head clearly, Jiuru was sitting behind him, and then There is no one behind the obvious in the lake.

Zhaoran gritted his teeth and was thinking, he was full of fear, he looked at Jiuru, and Jiuru was also looking back at him, following Zhaoran's line of sight, his gaze also fell on the lake.

"I can only see myself." Jiuru said softly.

Zhaoran suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, it turns out that he is not the only one who can only see himself, Jiuru is also the same.

He looked around, saw the cold moon in the center of the lake, and the reflection of a person, clearly and inexplicably remembered, Jiu Ru said that people are silent in the center of the water.

Jia Chen turned his head to look at him, and said plainly, "You can only see yourself, too?"

"Hmm..." Jia Chen hesitated and said again, "And the people and things are wrong."

"What's wrong?" Zhao Ran asked.

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Ju Yan over there leaned out and fished something out of the water, the sound of the water alarmed the Jin Yiwei, they turned around and drew their knives, only to see Ju Yan shyly said: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, sir, I got out of the water I picked up a folding fan."

Jin Yiwei returned the saber, frowned and said, "Don't move!"

"Yes, yes." Gu Yan smiled and quickly stuffed the things in her hand into the bag. This is an ivory bone fan, a rare item with a high value.

Jia Chen looked at Gu Yan, and then said to Zhao Ran: "For example, I clearly remember that Gu Yan sold me his husband's calligraphy at a price of 80 taels of silver, but when he came here, he seemed to have completely forgotten about it. This matter, I actually took out another pair, I don’t know if I really forgot, or there is something strange about it.”

Zhao Ran turned her head and looked at Gu Yan. He Panying pointed to the front with both surprise and joy: "Front, we can leave the academy."

The students had been worried all the time, but now they finally breathed a sigh of relief, and those who worked hard were even better at paddling, helping to row the bamboo raft faster.

But they paddled for a long time, and the shadowy lake shore seemed to be so close all the time.

"Damn it!" Jin Yiwei, who rowed the raft, broke out in sweat, and those who didn't row the raft couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.

"Will we be trapped in the lake?" Lu Tao couldn't help asking.

The students couldn't help saying: "No, Lu Tao, stop talking nonsense."

"He's not talking nonsense!" Zhao Ran raised his head at this moment, and he finally figured out one thing, "If we don't solve the mystery of those people's deaths and disappearances first, we will always be trapped here."

"Zhaoxian, what do you mean by that?"

"Yeah, let's be clear."

He Panying quickly waved his hands and said, "It's a bamboo raft, not a boat, so it's understandable to be slower."

Zhaoran looked at Jiuru, Jiuru nodded slightly, then Zhaoxian turned his head and said, "Let's start with Gu Kuan's death, who can tell me how senior Yan Dan described death."

There was silence on the bamboo raft for a while, and someone said: "He said that someone stabbed Gu Kuan in the back, but Yan Dan came and told someone to go back, and Gu Kuan's body disappeared!"

Clearly said: "Then what were Yan Dan and Gu Kuan talking about before?"

There was another silence on the bamboo raft, then Gu Yan raised his head and said, I heard the door knocking outside when I was in the room, Jia Chen went out. "

Jia Chen sneered: "When I went out, Gu Kuan was already dead."

"You're talking nonsense!" Lu Tao couldn't help but said, "When Sun Qi was in the room, he clearly heard Yan Dan and Gu Kuan talking about you!"

"It's impossible!" Jia Chen couldn't help shouting.

Zhao Ran interrupted them: "I'll talk about this later. Did Sun Qi tell you what they were talking about?"

Lu Tao hesitated for a moment: "Sun Qi said that he only heard senior Yan Dan tell Gu Kuan that it's normal for the little saint to only have Jia Chen under him." He glanced at Zhaoxian and saw that he was listening very seriously. So, he coughed and said again, "Gu Kuan didn't say anything, but Yan Dan asked Gu Kuan, did he think Jia Chen was abnormal? After that, Sun Qi didn't know. He went to the next room to check. gone."

Clearly said: "That is to say, after they saw Jia Chen, Gu Kuan died and his body disappeared."

"That's right, that's right." He Panying said.

Zhao Ran said again: "Then who saw Sun Qi's body just now?"

When he said this, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and someone said: "I'm afraid, I'm afraid I'm under the temple now, right?"

He Panying smiled bitterly: "It's not that we don't want to take his body with us, but in this situation..."

Lu Tao comforted: "Senior He has tried his best."

Zhao Ran shook his head: "I'm asking, since Sun Qi's death, who has seen his corpse?"

He Panying said: "I was afraid that Sun Qi's corpse would scare others, so I put it behind the temple."

Zhao Ran asked: "Then when you were patrolling, did anyone see it?"

Several Jinyi guards glanced at each other and shook their heads: "I didn't see it."

He Panying couldn't help but asked, "Is this important?"

"Of course." Zhao Ran smiled, "Strictly speaking, only our bodies are real."

"You mean...it's not that someone is missing, but that everyone will disappear when they die?" Lu Tao asked tremblingly.

Zhao Ran didn't answer this question, but said: "Yan Dan stood at the door and saw Jia Chen, so he commented a few words in passing, after which Gu Kuan died."

He Panying glanced at Jia Chen: "You mean, it's not that Jia Chen killed Senior Gu, it doesn't make sense..."

"It doesn't make sense, but Gu Kuan did die because of Jia Chen." Zhao Ran's tone was cool, "That's because Gu Kuan couldn't see Jia Chen at all."

"What do you mean?" Lu Tao was confused.

Zhao Ran pointed to his head and said, "I know a strange person who can pull people's thoughts from the head to the box for thinking and calculation."

Meng Chengtian raised his eyes slowly, and Fu Heng leaned forward with great interest: "Then if you add something to it, you can easily change a person's mind."

"He hasn't been able to do this yet, but this incident gave me an inspiration. Suppose we are all in the box now, what would happen?" Zhao Ran blinked, "It would be like a collective nightmare , although in the same nightmare, each of us will have slightly different dreams related to each other because of memory. For example, Yan Dan saw Jia Chen, but Gu Kuan couldn't see it. When Gu Kuan realized this, He suddenly remembered one thing, that is, his thoughts are still there, and the person...is dead. His back was not pierced by a dagger, but pierced by a branch."

Gu Yan laughed and said: "You don't mean that we are all dead?"

"You, what nonsense are you talking about?" He Panying couldn't help but frowned.

Zhao Ran lowered his head slightly: "When Yan Dan set off to find my husband, did anything happen?"

Gu Yan said: "I gave him a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake, what's wrong?"

Zhu Yangguang said in a trembling voice: "Every noon, Senior Gu Kuan will go to the Osmanthus Building in the western outskirts of the city to buy fresh osmanthus cakes for Senior Yan Dan..."

Clearly said: "That is to say, it is impossible for senior Gu Kuan to escape with everyone in the academy. At that time... he was in Osmanthus Tower, and he happened to meet the demon tree. Senior Gu Kuan died not because he was killed, but because he I remembered that I was dead."

Gu Yan pinched the sweet-scented osmanthus cake wrapped in her sleeve and said with a pale face: "You mean that I reminded Senior Yan Dan that he disappeared..."

Zhao Ran said: "Yan Dan must have been puzzled by Gu Kuan's death. When he saw the sweet-scented osmanthus cake, I think his memory probably recovered."

"Hui, restore what memory?" Gu Yan stammered.

Clearly said: "During the turmoil in Yaoshu, senior Yan Dan didn't stay in the academy, he should have gone out to find Gu Kuan, so...he remembered that he had already died on the way."

"You are talking nonsense, how is this possible?! You mean that we are all dead, is this the underworld?!" Lu Tao stood up excitedly from the wooden raft in an uproar.

Fu Heng raised his hand and said, "Let him finish the sentence. If you are not dead, there is no loss in hearing a few words. If you are dead, you have to die to understand."

Zhao Ran really admired this Mr. Chang Shan, he really has the style of a general: "Just now Senior He asked us to register our names, does anyone know how many of us there are in total?"

Zhu Yangguang pulled Lu Tao's sleeve, and Lu Tao said a little unfairly: "Boy, don't talk nonsense, everyone here is older than you. Isn't it fun to talk nonsense at this time? Yang Danshu said, a total of It's twelve people!"

Zhao Ran nodded: "Can you report the names of these twelve people?"

Lu Tao sat down and flicked his sleeves: "Yes, these students are afraid that you, a disciple of a saint, don't know, so I will report it to you! Little saint, senior He Panying, I, Lu Tao, Zhu Yangguang, Gu Yan, Sun Qi, Yang Danshu, Jia Chen, You Zhaoxian, Su Qiyan, Lu Heming, a total of twelve."

After he finished reading, Zhu Yangguang said in a slightly frightened way: "Lu Tao, Heming is you, you are Heming, and Heming is your character, why did you count yourself twice?"

Lu Tao's face turned pale instantly, as if his whole body had fallen into a cold lake.

Clearly said: "He is not alone, you are the same, if you count it again, you will find that you have counted yourself more, because the reason is very simple, the same place, the same thing, the same person... It's your memory, you have reincarnated your own memory, it's like in a dream, we... can often see another self, but treat him as a stranger."

"What about Yang Danshu and Sun Qi?" Lu Tao asked in panic, "Could it be that they also remembered how they died? Did Sun Qi die by breaking his neck?"

"How did Sun Qi die, maybe I have to ask Senior He Panying!"

He Panying, who had been silent since just now, replied: "Didn't he fall to his death on the steps? Everyone saw it."

Zhao Ran said: "Senior He, just now it was so far away and the sky was so dark, but you knew that the temple collapsed. You didn't know that the temple collapsed, but you experienced it, right?"

He Panying's face was ashen: "I don't understand what you are talking about at all?"