Folklore: The baby starts the game, and the mother takes off her painted skin

Chapter 330 Time
"Since you're here, Brother Kuroki, why don't you sit down and have a drink?"

Liu Wenzhi said while looking forward.

After a moment, Hei Mu appeared out of nowhere and said with a loud smile: "After a thousand years, Brother Wen Zhi is still as charming as ever."

"I have heard of Brother Hei Mu's slashing of the throne to prove his truth."

After the two of them complimented each other for a while, tea sets, tables and chairs appeared on the top of the mountain.

No alcohol, just tea.

"Brother Kuroki, please."

Liu Wenzhi stretched out his hand and gestured.

Hei Mu first glanced at the foot of the mountain, and seeing that there was no movement, he sat down.

Liu Wenzhi stepped forward to pour tea for Hei Mu and said cheerfully, "Thank you for taking care of my useless nephew along the way, Brother Hei Mu."

After hearing this, Hei Mu subconsciously looked at the yellow stone on the top of the mountain.

Among them, there is a space of its own.

"..."

Inside Yellowstone.

After Liu Bai passed through a foggy area, he understood what this blessed land of time was all about.

Basically, you will experience some things.

But in this blessed land, I am also an ordinary person, and the only ability I can use is "time travel".

You can have the ability to "go back in time" three times for free. This ability can not only be used for yourself, but also for others.

But after using it three times, if you want to go back in time again, you have to rely on your own abilities and your own control over time.

You will be sent out of this blessed land until you can no longer use it.

This kind of blessed land that comes with its own rules is the first time Liu Bai has experienced it.

"Ancestor, please."

Liu Ruzhi, who came in earlier, was also waiting beside Liu Bai.

"You should just call me by my name. It's weird to call me ancestor." Liu Bai had wanted to say this for a long time.

"But, but you are the ancestor of our Liu family."

Liu Ruzhi said it after some hesitation.

But this also reminded Liu Bai of her arrogant look when he first met her.

Why now... Liu Bai smiled, "It's okay, you can call me ancestor when there are outsiders around, and just call me by my name when there are no outsiders around."

Liu Ruzhi was obviously relieved when she heard this.

"Ah."

"Let's go then."

Liu Bai also discovered that they were currently on top of a small hill with mountains stretching out behind them.

In front of you you can see a small town with a small river flowing by.

If you want to gain enlightenment, you can't go into the mountains. You can only go into this town.

"Except for us, everything else is just fantasy. Liu...Liu Bai, you don't have to worry."

After saying this, Liu Ruzhi took the initiative to walk ahead.

The two of them walked along the winding path and soon reached the end of the town. Here, the small river on the side turned a corner and formed a backwater bay. The people of the town blocked it and formed a small pond for daily water use.

At this time, when Liu Bai and his companion were passing by, they saw a woman pounding clothes, and there was a naughty child picking up stones and playing with water nearby.

It is an ordinary thing.

But just as the two of them passed by, the child suddenly slipped and fell into the pool of water.

"Mother, mother, help me!"

The child was struggling desperately in the water.

It was not until this time that Liu Bai noticed that this was just a small puddle blocked by stones, but it was very deep, as if someone had hollowed out the bottom of the puddle, and there was a lush green area underneath.

Seeing this, the woman immediately jumped into the water and tried to pull the child out.

But instead, they were pulled into deep water by the child. Several huge bubbles appeared on the surface of the water. When the mother and child appeared again, they were already floating on the water.

They both died just like that.

It only took a moment.

"Do you want to save me?"

Liu Ruzhi first asked Liu Bai for his opinion.

Liu Bai's mind naturally came to Liu Wenzhi's mind: "Follow your heart."

"No help."

Liu Bai took a step back.

The same is true for Liu Ruzhi.

If they really wanted to rescue them, the two of them would have been able to pull the mother and son out as soon as they fell into the water.

Instead of waiting until now to use this precious time-travel ability.

Not only was there no way to save them, but at this moment the two men had no intention of pulling the two bodies back, and they just walked into the town.

But after visiting only a few houses, they saw a pile of sand in front of a house. The man in that house was still digging, as if he was going to move the pile of sand to the backyard.

"That pool was hollowed out by this man."

Liu Ruzhi said after taking a few glances.

"pretty close."

The man also looked up at the two of them, seemed stunned for a moment, and asked if they were outsiders.

The two continued to go deeper, and after walking for a while, they heard a cry of grief coming from behind them, and also heard someone cursing.

Liu Bai turned around and found that a group of people were chasing him.

The man who was digging sand was still the one leading the way. He pointed at Liu Bai and the other man and shouted, "It was these two outsiders who pushed Mrs. Huang into the water."

The rest of the people also rushed over shouting.

"It seems that I can still be saved that time."

Liu Ruzhi said softly and turned to look at Liu Bai.

"As you wish."

"Ah."

As Liu Ruzhi nodded, she disappeared.

She used her first time to go back and rescue the mother and son.

But Liu Bai did not make such a choice, so he had to face these people alone.

As a foreigner, it was impossible to reason with others, and he had no other abilities, so Liu Bai could only run away.

But as they ran, those people gradually fell behind and stopped.

Liu Bai walked back breathlessly, and then listened to their words.

Someone reacted and remembered that the man who led the way had dug out all the sand in the small pond a few days ago, which was why people drowned.

"It's true that I dug the sand, but couldn't he have pushed the person down there?"

This is a bit ridiculous.

Liu Bai looked at this scene, still ignored it, and turned away.

He had no place to stay in this town, but fortunately he had some change on him, so he didn't have to live on the streets.

After just strolling around for an afternoon, he returned to the original pond, but he did not see Liu Ruzhi again.

I guess after she used the time return, she went to another fantasy world?
Or rather... another timeline.

The timeline where the mother and child did not die.

That night, Liu Bai stayed in the only inn in the town, wondering how he could gain some enlightenment.

First of all, we should use time to return, but we should also follow our heart.

But the result of following his heart was that Liu Bai didn't want to save him.

Liu Bai tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. Suddenly, he felt as if water had dripped onto his forehead.

It's raining?
Is this roof leaking?
"Damn it."

Liu Bai cursed and was about to get up to take a look, but as soon as he turned over, in the dim moonlight that was pouring in, he saw a pale dead face.

It was hanging above her head, her hair was soaked, and the drops of water Liu Bai felt were dripping from her hair.

This person, no, this ghost, was exactly the woman that Liu Bai saw die in the morning!

This thing actually turned into a ghost and came to my door!
"You...why didn't you save me!"

The water ghost pounced down suddenly, and Liu Bai couldn't avoid it for a moment, so he had to hurriedly pull up the quilt to cover his head.

But even so, the water ghost's hair still seemed to come alive. It drilled in from the gap in the quilt and went towards Liu Bai's nose and mouth.

The cold, salty and moist feeling filled Liu Bai's taste buds.

When ordinary people encounter a ghost and are unprepared, they have almost no power to resist!

Seeing that Liu Bai was about to be killed and driven out of this blessed land, he finally had an idea and used his ability from the first time he returned.

The stars move and the sun rises in the west.

Liu Bai chose to return to the early morning, but he did not go back to save people.

It is my choice not to save others, but if I didn’t save you, you have to blame me, which is not appropriate.

So Liu Bai came back this time just to make a thought come true.

Since I know you want to fuck me...then come on.

Liu Bai stood at the end of the town. The mother and son were already dead, but Liu Ruzhi was nowhere to be seen. He didn't know where she was. Liu Bai took a deep breath and followed his memory before going back in time. He came to the incense and candle shop in Miliang Town and bought some incense and paper money.

After buying it, he went to the local land temple, burned incense and paper money, and asked the local priest for some incense ash from the incense burner on the altar.

The reason was simple. When passing by Guibaodi, his companion became hysterical and needed incense ashes to save him.

The temple keeper did not refuse.

After taking the incense ash, Liu Bai went back to the incense shop to buy incense sticks and paper money, and used the remaining money to buy two more meals.

The few copper coins left were not enough to even pay for a night's stay in an inn.

Liu Bai simply went to buy a candle, found an abandoned house in the town, burned three incense sticks on the spot, and paid homage to the owner.

The paper money, incense ashes and candles should be kept for now.

Tonight... he will get rid of this ghost!
As the sky gradually darkened, Liu Bai leaned against the wall to keep warm. Fortunately, it was not the coldest time of the year, otherwise it would have been even more unbearable.

When it was pitch dark, Liu Bai also noticed that dark clouds were covering the bright moon tonight.

He lit the first candle.

The dim candlelight only dispelled a small area of ​​darkness, while the rest was still pitch black.

Liu Bai was not afraid, but the waiting was a bit painful. After all, he didn't know when the ghost would come.

After thinking for a long time, Liu Bai leaned against the wall and fell into a trance.

When he woke up again, he was awakened by the cold morning air. He sat up but felt pain in his back and waist.

At this time, the sky was already turning pale.

Liu Bai stood up with the help of the wall, only to find that the candle he had lit last night had burned out.

After waiting all night, the ghost didn’t come?

When Liu Bai arrived at the door, he found that it had rained heavily last night. The ground was muddy, but the air was very fresh.

He took a deep breath, looked back again, and after some final thought, he decided to go out with the useless incense sticks and paper money.

He went to the end of the town and not long after he saw the family that was holding a funeral.

The mother and son were indeed dead, but why didn’t they come back to the house again?
Liu Bai turned around again, and saw that a family behind him had also hung up a white banner, and it had just been put up.

There was a pile of sand in front of the house.

Maybe it was because it rained last night, the pile of sand was soaked and looked like it had just been dug out of the river.

"..."

The man was killed by a ghost, but unfortunately only Liu Bai could see it.

No one else knew and they all thought that the man worked hard during the day and drank too much at night and died suddenly.

That afternoon, Liu Bai sold a jade pendant he carried with him and exchanged it for three taels of silver.

He also knew that he had definitely been cheated.

But this was just an illusion, and Liu Bai only planned to stay here for a few days and then leave. He didn't want to continue living in that deserted house, so he just made do with it for one night.

That night, he stayed back at the inn.

It was still the same room, but this time he didn't burn incense. He just lit a candle at the head of the bed and placed the small bag containing incense ash and paper money next to it.

The wait was but a moment.

Liu Bai hadn't even fallen asleep this time when he heard a "puff" sound of air blowing next to him.

The candle went out instantly.

People light candles, ghosts blow out the lights.

Liu Bai opened his eyes instantly, pointed his right hand toward the head of the bed, and with his index and middle fingers stained with incense ash, he stabbed towards the top of his head.

My fingers touched a strand of cold, dripping hair.

Then the hair shrank back instantly.

He took advantage of this gap, grabbed a handful of incense ash and rubbed it on the candle, then picked up the flint next to it and lit the candle again.

The light once again enveloped and dominated the entire holiday.

Liu Bai looked up, but could no longer see anything. He could only see a water-stained handprint next to the candlestick.

"Ah."

Liu Bai sneered and skillfully took out incense sticks and incense ash from the bag beside him.

"I don't even blink when I see an old temple keeper, so how can I be scared by a little devil like you?"

Liu Bai muttered something, took out three incense sticks and lit them on the candle. The fragrance rose up, and he felt that even the coldness in the room had disappeared a lot.

Then he took out a stack of paper money, held it in his left hand, and held the three incense sticks in his right hand. After scribbling in the air for a while, he inserted the incense sticks on the window sill.

After finishing all these, he simply lit the paper money on the candle and threw it out.

The paper money fell in front of the incense sticks and burned fiercely, but the light of the burning fire... was a faint blue.

Seeing this, Liu Bai grabbed a handful of incense ash and took a step back.

The paper money was burning, but from the outside, the amount of paper money did not decrease at all. Liu Bai waited for only a moment before he saw a figure vaguely appearing in front of the incense and paper money. The figure had disheveled hair and was dripping with water. He was leaning in front of the paper money, greedily inhaling the incense smoke.

Seeing this, Liu Bai scattered the ashes in his hand without hesitation.

The incense ash fell on the water ghost like boiling oil being poured down.

The water ghost was immediately awakened and let out a sharp ghost cry.

Black smoke kept coming out of its entire body, and it looked like it was about to turn into a pool of dirty water.

Liu Bai was quick-witted and pulled out the incense stick stuck on the window sill and stabbed it into the water ghost's head.

It penetrated without any hindrance, and then the water ghost seemed to be restrained by a stake.

He stood there in a daze, unable to move.

"Boom boom boom——"

"Sir, are you okay?"

The innkeeper heard the noise and came to knock on the door.

"No, a wild cat came in and I chased it away."

Liu Bai answered, and the innkeeper responded and left.

Liu Bai sat on the edge of the bed, looking at the water ghost that was chasing him, and asked with a sneer, "It's not pleasant to burn incense to the gods. Tell me, if I don't save you, you will hurt me?"

The water ghost or the drowned woman then spoke tremblingly.

"See...see someone dying and don't help him, he deserves to die."

"Who told you that you should save someone who is dying? I can't swim and I'm still a teenager. If you pull me into the water, who will save me?"

"If you can't even protect yourself, how can you care about the life and death of others?"

Seeing that the water ghost still wanted to argue, Liu Bai raised his right hand and slammed the three magic incense sticks into the water ghost's body.

But in an instant, the water ghost melted away into water vapor with a "hiss".

Liu Bai's surroundings changed accordingly, and as the world spun around him, he found that his consciousness was getting higher and higher, until the entire Miliang Town was included in it.

Then the people on the ground moved faster and faster, and the sky and the earth were constantly changing.

But in his vision, he mainly saw the changes of life and death of those two families.

The man whose wife and children died remarried and had a new wife and children.

But in the end, Liu Bai only killed the female ghost. Her dead child also became a water ghost, came ashore and killed their entire family, and also killed the family of the man who was digging for water and sand.

In the end, the water ghost's traces were discovered by the people, and they went to the land temple to invite the land god out.

Although the water ghosts are ferocious, they are no match for the land god.

At this point, the two water ghosts disappeared.

So...is this the consequence of not saving people?

So what did Liu Ruzhi, who returned to rescue people, see?
Liu Bai was thinking, but found that his consciousness was sinking and sinking, and then seemed to sink to... the bottom of the water.

The river water rushed into his nose and ears madly. It seemed as if there was a pair of hands under the river pulling him tightly. A woman on the shore was shouting madly.

Liu Bai understood, and now he... had become the child who fell into the water.

He saw "himself" and Liu Ruzhi on the road watching coldly. This time, the mother also jumped down and jumped into the water.

So, is this going to turn me into a water ghost?
Liu Bai had an idea and finally used the second time to return. As the stars moved and the world changed, he could clearly feel the water around him receding. The woman who had jumped into the water returned to the shore, and then he also returned to the shore and was playing with stones.

He turned back suddenly, but this time, he did not see himself and Liu Ruzhi passing by the shore.

After going back in time, the timeline really changed again.

"What are you looking at? Go home quickly!"

As the woman said this, she picked up the wooden basin filled with clothes, but the moment she stood up, the stone she was standing on shook, and she fell into the water again.

Liu Bai was covered in splashes of water.

The woman was struggling desperately in the deep water. Liu Bai didn't feel anything before, but now as a child witnessing his mother's death, he found it difficult to accept it.

As the woman's struggle became weaker and weaker, the splashes of water became smaller and smaller.

Liu Bai felt ruthless in his heart. Didn’t he come here just to seek enlightenment?

Besides, Madam Liu also said that she didn’t expect herself to figure out anything.

So, what does it matter?
Liu Bai's mind moved, and he used his last chance to go back in time again. In an instant, the sky and the earth spun.

He saw the woman pounding clothes rising from the water, and also saw himself coming out of the young man's body and returning to the shore. Then he went back to the place where he had just appeared.

Liu Ruzhi stood beside him and said softly:
"Ancestor, please."

Liu Bai looked at this scene, and the experiences of the previous three times flashed through his mind like a passing scene.

Immediately afterwards, a loud sound exploded in his mind.

"Time has returned, and then what!"

“What can you change?”

(End of this chapter)