The strange story of Huai'an Inn

Amidst the loud bang, Zhu Helan was horrified to see that the chains that sealed the door seemed to be being hit hard continuously, and the iron rings were crumbling and trembling.Every time the drum beat, the rust on the iron chain became thicker.Especially on that heavy big lock, the rust is not only thickening and deepening, but also eroding downward.

Zhu Helan immediately understood that this was the Dawu Tiangu who was invading Chongliu's memory through the spiritual connection he had established with Chongliu.

After the locust tree completes this growth, its root system can spread all over the boundary between Tianliang City and Zilu Mountain.All the filthy balance within this range will be affected and controlled by the locust tree, and the spiritual connection established by the great witch using the witchcraft will also be cut off.

Mulberry probably learned through some means that they were going to feed the locust tree, so he took the last chance to invade Chong Liu's consciousness.

His target...was the locust tree?

Or... the door in front of me?

Zhu Helan felt that this door must not be opened.

He must find Raven and drive him out.

Zhu Helan knew that Chong Liu should also have entered his memory at this time, and the consciousness of the two of them was entangled with each other. If he wanted to find Chong Liu and then find the great witch, he had to go deep into his own consciousness and go to the memory dungeon that had been dusty for thousands of years.An instinctive chill and fear crept up every nerve of his.

Zhu Lishuang once told him that the entanglement of consciousness often sends people into the oldest and most secret memory.She said that connecting the spirits of two people through the Cub of the Mother Goddess of All Things is like leaving an eternal mark on each other in their respective memories, which is an extremely intimate and eternal connection.He always thought that this kind of behavior was too risky and pointless, and it didn't help the cubs grow up much.When Zhu Lishuang did this with the alchemist she fell in love with back then, he couldn't understand how she could be so impulsive.

Unexpectedly, even he himself began to seek this illusory sense of intimacy and belonging...

He wants to show Chong Liu all of himself, whether it is the good memories or the oldest memories that he does not want to recall.He thought that surrounded by pagoda trees and him, Da Wu would not dare to do anything to Chong Liu at this time.But obviously, he underestimated the courage and means of Crow.So he couldn't back down, and had to expel the raven before the door opened.

Zhu Helan closed his eyes, his long hair stretched and changed rapidly, like a splashing red rainbow.Those silky tentacles wrapped him layer by layer, tightened more and more, and finally disappeared.

Crossing the long rivers of memory, pushing aside the countless sticky old fragments, he plunged headlong into the memory buried at the bottom.

Opening his eyes again, he was already surrounded by filthy creatures.Crazy and changing clumps float in the air, swollen eyes that appear and disappear from time to time peek out from every dark corner, the earth is covered with soft and delicate hooks that constantly ooze greasy mucus, as huge as a planet of the cerebral cortex.

And above his head, amidst the indistinguishable chaotic colors, one can vaguely see the flesh of the Mother Goddess of All Things that bred endless life.

This was the foul world he remembered, a chaotic universe that overlapped with their mortal world, a chaotic universe that humans should never see.He thought that after 2000 years, he should have forgotten it, just like he forgot the appearance and name of his parents... But only now did he know that every worm on the ground and every egg suspended in the air , and the disgusting smell that filled his nostrils, and the chaotic, high-pitched noises that filled his ear canals forever, he remembered them all clearly.

In an instant, he seemed to have returned to 2000 years ago, when he was a weak and insignificant child who would be crushed into meat paste by the world at any time.

His heartbeat suddenly accelerated, his hands and feet were cold and stiff, and his mind suddenly went blank.

Liuer...

Six is ​​still here...

Zhu Helan whispered Chong Liu's name over and over again, as if grabbing a life-saving straw.He told himself over and over again that he was no longer that helpless child.

This is not the real dirty world, this is his memory, and he can control it.

His hair grew, and his feet and legs turned into roots and penetrated deeply into the ground.He searched the entire dream, trying to find the location of Chong Liu.

But he hadn't sensed Chong Liu before, he felt the drumbeat first.

The drum beat was cunningly hidden in all the noise, but in the end it vibrated at a frequency different from that of the foul world itself.Zhu Helan stayed in the filthy world for fifteen days, and the shock was already engraved in his soul.

He returned to his human form, looking for the sound of the drum.He walked very carefully, because in the dirty world, what looked like a flat ground may actually be a cliff, and the originally steep mountain wall was like walking on flat ground.But fortunately, every inch of land here is imprinted in his memory, so it's not too difficult.

Suddenly, he saw the drum.

A huge, standing drum.The back of the drum is neither leather nor wood, but some shriveled flesh and blood, where a long, umbilical cord-like thing emerges from the ground.The mottled head of the blood-red drum kept vibrating, and the man who beat it was dressed in black, wearing a smiling black mask covered with black crow feathers.His movements are like a strange and profound dance, and the bursts of rhythm stir the rhythm of the entire memory.

When the drum is vibrating, strange phantoms often appear on the drumhead.It seems that countless human faces are crowded together, twisted and deformed.

Billowing red mist began to evaporate from Zhu Helan's body, and a sharp murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

Dawu stopped beating the drum, but strangely, the vibration of the drum surface did not stop.Bursts of roaring are urging something disturbing to grow...

"Priest of the Mother Goddess of All Things." Crow's shadowy gaze shot from behind the hole in the mask.

Zhu Helan said coldly, "Get out."

Sang Crow chuckled a few times, "I'm helping you. He should have woken up long ago, but you have been hesitant to do it. You have entered his deepest memory just now, haven't you? The opportunity is right in front of you, and you are still here Delay. Have you forgotten your duty?"

"What responsibility do I have? I don't bother you to ask." The blood-red filthy smell swirled around Zhu Helan's body, like a sharp claw facing the arrogant intruder.

"You want to evade your responsibility, because you are the one who has walked the longest among us, and you start to miss the world, forget who you are, and forget that they will never accept you. Have you forgotten Zhu Lishuang's fate?" The raven threw the drumsticks to the ground casually, there was no foul smell on his body, but all the light around him was sucked in.His whole being is like a blank in this memory, a hole that cannot be filled.

"Zhu Helan, you belong to the unclean god. Do you know what will happen to you if you disobey the will of the god?"

"I'll say it again, get out!" Zhu Helan's long hair fluttered in the air, forming a huge net of death behind him.The end of each strand of hair was aimed at the big witch, and the sharp thorns were dripping with venom enough to instantly defile people.

The big witch sneered, "My master is the God of Chaos, not you. Guan Chongliu's master is not even you. Even if you don't do anything, he will definitely complete his mission."

Zhu Helan's body suddenly spread out, turning into a monstrous red mist, with thousands of deadly red silk ribbons wrapped in the middle, like a wave of blood overturning towards the great witch.

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Chong Liu felt something was wrong.

Accompanied by the rhythm of vibrations in the air background, he felt an itching deep in his body, a restlessness that could not be relieved no matter how much he scratched...

Tailong Town suddenly appeared in his mind, and those human bodies in the cellar that were completely infected and occupied by Hong, those cohesive, twisted and deformed human bodies appeared.He remembered the huge yellow sky pillars covered with tangled bodies in the Huangyiji incident.I still think of the blind City God walking slowly from the end of the long street on Zilu Mountain, and even the master twisted and petrified on the wall...

Those scenes that made him terrified and disgusted suddenly became...beautiful...

It’s as if when he looked at a flower before, what he saw was a distorted petal, a yellowed leaf, and a gnat growing in the center of the flower...but now, he saw the whole flower, a flower blooming on a rotten white bone, Incomparably delicate and alluring flowers.It made him... yearn for it.

At the same time, the dirty world around him is also "changing".It was as if the colors, the blobs, that his eyes couldn't comprehend, suddenly had a meaning, a boundary.He didn't even know where this feeling came from, but it seemed to have been born in his head.This world is no longer weird and scary, but...familiar...

It is as familiar as his hands, as the towel he uses every day, and the square inkstone in his wooden box.

He realized that something was wrong with him, but he didn't want to stop.He felt the itching in the depths of his brain was unbearable, and he wanted to use his own hands to tear open the skull, to tear his own brain, to tear the itching part away.

"Six children!"

Suddenly his sleeve was pulled.When he turned his head, he saw the little Zhu Helan returning to his human form, tugging on his cuff.In those young eyes, there was a calmness and deepness that he was familiar with.

"... Helan?"

"Little Zhu Helan" stared at him solemnly, and said quickly, "Liu'er, the raven is affecting you, you must wake up immediately."

"Wake up?" Chong Liu looked at him blankly, as if he didn't understand what he was talking about.

Zhu Helan's heart sank, the sound of the drum had already affected Chong Liu's mind, and he forgot when he entered Zhu Helan's memory.

At this moment, most of his energy was devoted to fighting the raven.But he still separated a small part of his consciousness to wake up Chong Liu.

As long as Chong Liu wakes up, Sang Ya can be forced to retreat directly.

"Liu'er, you are in my memory, none of this is real. Sang Ya is using his drum to influence you, don't listen!"

But Chong Liu stared at him in a daze, and suddenly said in the extremely ancient Gushe language that Chong Liu would never know, "When everything ends, when you sacrifice everything for your mother god, when the cubs grow up God, you will come back here and stay forever."

Zhu Helan froze.

These words were left in his mind by the Mother Goddess after he was selected by the Mother Goddess of All Things and completed the transformation.

This is his deepest fear, that one day he will return to this world that was extremely terrifying and abominable in his childhood eyes, and he will never be able to escape.

This was a deal he made with the Mother Goddess in exchange for the chance to return to the world, to his parents, even if only temporarily.

But he didn't tell anyone this sentence, even when the mother goddess said it, it was directly conveyed to his consciousness.The memory node at this time has not yet reached that step.

How did Chong Six know?