The Dharma Sea of ​​the Green Snake

Chapter 353 The Hidden Truth?

"What is this? A snake?"

Looking at the blue-scaled serpent in the painting with a shocked face, Zhao Mu, who had lived in the village since childhood and had never seen such a realistic portrait, was stunned.

That lifelike big snake has completely refreshed Zhao Mu's understanding of "painting", making him have no doubt that the other party will jump out of the painting in the next second.

Besides, I don't know if it's Zhao Mu's illusion, he always feels that this portrait has some kind of strange attraction for him.

It's as if I shouldn't exist here, but live in this painting. This painting is my home and my final destination.

"Uh……"

Looking at Zhao Mu, who seemed to have forgotten to be vigilant against his "enemy", Pei Wende was taken aback for a moment, and then realized what he had overlooked.

In Zhou Sheng's memory, what Pei Wende saw was not only the past of the other party's life, but also the whole truth about the people in this fog and the village.

Or to be more precise, through Zhou Sheng's past memories, Pei Wende saw the part of the truth that the old man in the village deliberately concealed.

According to the narration of the old man in the village, the villagers in the mist seem to have lived in the village from the very beginning.

Until the arrival of Zhou Sheng, an "outsider", finally broke the tranquility of the mist and triggered a battle between the invisible thing and the skeleton giant.

The birth of the skeleton giant can be regarded as Zhou Sheng's masterpiece and a manifestation of his psychic skills.

But what about invisible things?

What form did they exist in the first place?
Why do the villagers forbid their children to enter the mist, and even make up lies that there are monsters in the mist and a world of monsters outside the mist?
In Zhou Sheng's memory, Pei Wende found the answers to these questions.

According to the first half of the narration about the village of mist and the invisible things, the old man did not deceive Pei Wende.

After the villagers of the village of mist leave the mist, they will return to the mist due to the shackles of the mist.

Then, these villagers will completely turn into invisible mist monsters, and start attacking the villagers living in the mist.

Although the frequency of this is not high, every time it will cause huge casualties to the villagers.

Until Zhou Sheng came, and created a "grave-slayer beast" that can resist and suppress invisible things-the skeleton giant.

But the old man only talked up to this point, but he didn't tell Pei Wende the whole truth, but concealed the most critical part.

That's why the invisible thing attacked the village of mist?

The invisible thing in the fog is the self-defense instinct of this fog, just like the immune system of the human body, theoretically it will not attack the cells in the body.

But the villagers of the Misty Village are different, they are not normal "cells".

In fact, the scrolls that Pei Wende had seen were the essence of the villagers, and the real collection of "Mirage".

Anyone who is obsessed by the "phantom" and collects them with scrolls will live forever in their own scrolls, living an eternal life in the scrolls day after day.

However, although "phantom" has incredible supernatural powers, it is not an eternal god.

The ability of "Mirage" has a limit, and as a living being, it also has moments when its ability declines.

At this time, those obsessions that will always live in the picture scroll will "awaken", and some lucky people will break free from the shackles of the picture scroll and realize their identity.

It's just that those lucky ones who broke free from the shackles of the picture scroll were surprised to find that although they left the eternal picture scroll day after day, they still couldn't leave the fog.

As time went by, those people who taught themselves how to break free lived in this mist, and gradually formed the prototype of today's misty village.

Immediately afterwards, these "people in the painting" who gradually gained a foothold in the fog encountered a very difficult problem.

That is, the child born from the combination of the "person in the painting" cannot be born smoothly at all.

Those children who should not have been born once contacted by the mist will soon disappear into nothingness and become invisible things that wander in the mist.

So in order to save their children, the villagers tried their best to drive away the fog, and finally formed a small area without fog in this huge fog.

At the same time, in order to prevent their children from accidentally coming into contact with the mist, the villagers made up lies that there are monsters in the mist and a world of monsters outside of things.

It's a pity that such an approach can only delay the time for the children to turn into invisible things.

When every child is about to become an adult, even if he has not been exposed to the mist, he will disappear very abruptly one day.

Afterwards, even if Zhou Sheng helped the villagers solve the fate of "adult death" for the children, these children will still be swallowed up by the mist one day, it's just a matter of time.

In a sense, Zhu Nu finally insisted on getting Zhao Mu out of this mist in order to let her child escape this unchangeable fate.

"Her name is Xiaoqing, and she is the person I am looking for this time."

After a brief hesitation, Pei Wende finally did not tell the cruel truth.

In order for Zhao Mu to survive to adulthood, Ah Da used his own life to make a deal with Zhou Sheng, and turned into a skeleton giant to guard the mist for more than ten years, until he was completely swallowed by the mist.

In order for Zhao Mu to escape the mist smoothly and give him the desire and belief to live, Zhu Nu didn't even let Zhao Mu know about her transformation into a skeleton giant.

Wen Wende didn't think he was qualified to make decisions for them, because the parents had done everything to keep their children alive.

"Do you know why I want to stop your 'psychic ritual'?"

It seemed that he didn't see Pei Wende's intention to change the subject. When Zhao Mu heard the other party's question, he showed a puzzled expression very cooperatively.

"why?"

Zhao Mu's doubts were not fake, because he really didn't know why this "outsider" wanted to prevent him from leaving the fog.

At this moment, Zhao Mu suddenly remembered what Pei Wende said when he broke into the backyard just now - if your mother was still awake, she definitely didn't want things to develop to the present situation.

And when I was in the psychic circle, Zhou Sheng's wife once told me that my mother had already paid the price for going to the outside world in advance.

Thinking of this, Zhao Mu vaguely felt an ominous feeling in his heart.

This ominous premonition made him feel terrified, and he even began to regret why he listened to Zhu Nu and came to look for Zhou Sheng alone.

"Is there something wrong with my mother?"

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(End of this chapter)