The Spirit World

Chapter 17: Fire of Sin
There are always powerful wild beasts in the mountains of Wenti County. The more powerful beasts often wander around the edge of the village. If ordinary people encounter them, they will most likely have no chance of survival.

Maybe it's because the dragon bones in the mountains have extraordinary spiritual power, the wild beasts all have some spiritual aura, and their appearance is mostly very different from that in other places, with sharp teeth and claws, green faces and fangs. The high-level guards dispatched by Wenti County have not returned from patrolling in the mountains.

Mousse Village is located in a low depression, close to the river, not far from Wenti County. The people are simple and honest.

At the entrance of Musi Village, there is a huge tombstone, which records a terrible fire and the names of the people who died, and the name of Longxugong. The wolf-hair brush is used to write it, and the lightness, heaviness, and vigor of the brushstrokes show Longxugong's sadness.

The tombstone still emits a faint glow at night, standing there quietly, telling the tragic history of the fire.

"By the way, brother, you haven't told me who this young lady is?" Erica Jin's pale hair did not look so shiny under the magic lights of Mousse Village, but rather a little dull.

She wasn't that angry in the first place, and she was enjoying eating her favorite pineapple bread, so why would she be angry?

"She is..." Before Chang Yufeng could finish his words, Lin'er rushed to answer.

"My name is Lin'er, you can just call me Lin'er. I'm your brother's friend."

"Sister Lin'er, how do you know my brother?" Erica looked at her with a smile and pulled her arm. She had a scent that Erica liked. It was very fragrant, like the special scent that Lin'er herself exuded, very sweet, like sugar.

"We have been together for a long time. At that time... we lived together..."

"Together? Live together?" Erica looked at Lin'er in surprise, and then looked at Chang Yufeng, who was swallowing food down his neck because of choking, with confusion, as if to say, "My pigs at home are so young and they can eat cabbages."

"If we work together, we also have to live together! It's nothing!" Chang Yufeng explained, but Erica ignored him and just stared at Lin'er's beautiful purple pupils, wanting to get an answer from her.

"We have been together for a long time, so I don't know when we met." Lin'er smiled and looked at Erica who leaned her head on her, with a doting look on her face.

"Then, why did Sister Lin'er come here?" Erica's big blue eyes were beautiful enough: "Can you stay here for a little longer? Or can you stay here forever? Can you? Can you?"

Erica clung to Lin'er like a kitten, and Lin'er touched her head lovingly and said, "Yes, yes, sister will always be here and will not leave."

"Hmm! Sister Lin'er is so nice!" Erica rubbed Lin'er's clothes gently. The fragrance on her body really fascinated Erica.

Is this my sister or her sister? Chang Yufeng looked at her strangely. The three of them sat in front of the tombstone. There was a small open-air theater there. Several masked people were performing a comedy to worship the God of Fire under a large number of magic lights. The red cloth in the sky symbolized the fire, and the man in the mask of the God of Fire danced violently with the wind.

Chang Yufeng's parents were not at home. Sometimes they would leave for unknown reasons and come back for unknown reasons, so there were only three of them who came to the open-air theater. Although the play was about the great disaster, it was surprisingly a comedy. The happy ending was that everyone hugged each other and welcomed the coming of God.

Erica yawned. He and Chang Yufeng had watched this comedy countless times. If Chang Yufeng had not insisted on taking Lin'er to wander around Mousse Village, she would probably have fallen asleep by now.

Lin'er gently stroked her hair and looked at her lovingly. Chang Yufeng sat beside her. He felt that Lin'er was like a mother, because he felt that this was Lin'er's motherly love for Erica. He felt that even if he knew nothing about her now, he would not feel bored, and he did not even have the slightest desire to learn about her past, the past ten years.

"Let's go back, Lin'er." Chang Yufeng stood up. She was staring at the mask of the God of Fire in a trance. Chang Yufeng gently pulled her clothes, reminding her to leave.

"Lin'er?" Chang Yufeng's call did not wake up Lin'er, she was still staring in a daze.

"What's going on? Lin'er!" Chang Yufeng said as he looked in the direction Lin'er was looking. To him, there was nothing unusual about the Vulcan mask.

He didn't notice anything different from usual. That familiar sacrificial dance, sonorous and powerful!
The red Vulcan mask had a high nose bridge and two pairs of sharp eyes that were glaring. The man wearing the Vulcan mask was also staring at Chang Yufeng, and only continued his performance until Chang Yufeng looked at him.

Chang Yufeng was a little confused.

He stood in front of Lin'er and waved his hand. Lin'er finally came to her senses. There was rare sweat on her face. It was obvious that she was lost in some bad memories.

"Are you okay?" Chang Yufeng looked at her and picked up Erica. Erica was sleeping soundly and there was no sound even when he picked her up.

"it is good."

But Lin'er didn't stand up, she just looked towards the theater, but the man had disappeared. In the following time, the God of Fire had no more roles, so he must have left the stage.

Chang Yufeng looked at Lin'er's strange movements and could only remember them silently in his heart. He didn't know what happened to Lin'er. He didn't dare to walk behind Lin'er, for fear that Lin'er would suddenly disappear. He could only walk side by side with Lin'er. "What's wrong?" Chang Yufeng asked Lin'er.

"Nothing, I seem to have met someone I know."

"Really?" Is that a good thing or a bad thing? However, Chang Yufeng had a bad feeling.

"I don't know. His aura appeared for a moment, but then disappeared. I even thought I was hallucinating. Brother Yufeng, that acquaintance is not a good person."

Chang Yufeng couldn't sense anything, he only knew that the drama he watched today seemed to be no different.

Except for the Vulcan who is looking over here, his body shape has not changed at all, and he is still tall like the previous actors.

"Yufeng..." Lin'er suddenly stopped and recited Chang Yufeng's name. This time it was Yufeng, not the so close brother Yufeng.

"What's wrong?" Chang Yufeng held Erica, who was already sleeping, and looked at her in confusion.

"I'm a little scared."

"what?"

"I'm afraid I will never see you again." Lin'er suddenly burst into tears, leaving Chang Yufeng a little at a loss in this huge open-air theater.

"What's wrong? Lin'er, why are you crying?" Chang Yufeng's hands were unable to wipe away her tears, so he had to hold Erica diagonally on his left shoulder and use his coarse linen sleeve to wipe Lin'er's tears that had not stopped.

"I'm afraid, I'm afraid of losing you." Lin'er burst into tears.

"How could that be? Am I not here?"

“I’m scared of all of this.”

"Lin'er, what happened to you?"

Chang Yufeng's bad premonition became stronger and stronger.

There must be something wrong with the person Lin'er saw. But Chang Yufeng couldn't explain it clearly, because everything about Lin'er was a mystery.

"Don't cry, Lin'er. I hate to see girls cry." Before Chang Yufeng could finish his words, Lin'er suddenly hugged him.

The night suddenly became terrifyingly bright! The indescribable weirdness made Chang Yufeng feel dizzy.

The unexpected hug did not surprise Chang Yufeng. He found that on the slope of the theater, a man wearing a Vulcan mask was looking at them. In the dim light at this moment, the mask of the god looked like a demon.

I understood. When Lin'er suddenly appeared, I understood.

These ten years of peaceful life seemed like an illusion, some sins will never end.

Flames shot up into the sky, and Chang Yufeng placed his hand on Lin'er's back, as if he was hugging a good friend.

Her breathing was heavy and she sounded like she was crying.

Trembling and crying.

The fear in his heart surged up like a tide and never subsided.

Burn! The fire of fear of sin!

Big Brother! I'm famous!
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(End of this chapter)