Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 2113 (Two Thousand One Hundred and Thirteen) Heart

He felt that it was already very late, and thought: It seems that the patriarch will not appear again today, am I really going to spend the night here? If the patriarch does not come to open the door to let me out, I will have to sleep here, but... if there is not only one bug, will it really get into my ears and nose after I fall asleep? Will it bite me to death and then eat my body? If I have to spend the night in this terrible Muxi Pavilion, I will just tear off a part of the other pad in the bag, plug my ears, and cover my nose with the pad! Of course, it would be best if the patriarch would come to let me out!

The wind blew outside again, and he thought of the buns in the bag he had touched before, thinking: This is troublesome. I can't figure out which of the two buns I have eaten part of. If I continue to eat, which one should I eat? If I eat the bun that I didn't bite, wouldn't it be like eating the "tribute"? Wouldn't that be terrible?
Outside the Muxi Pavilion, there were waves of ghostly howling winds, as if there was an endless stream of sorrow. As he listened, his fear grew even greater, and he could not remember how many steamed buns he had eaten.

In fact, the two steamed buns were missing a part, which was all related to him.

Before, he felt a little hungry, so he took out a smaller steamed bun from the bag. After taking two bites, he seemed to realize something and put the bun back into the bag. At this time, he stood up, put his hands together in front of his chest, and muttered something. After that, he reached into the bag again and took out the bun. This time, he took out a bigger bun. Attacked by fear, he had no time to care about anything else. He put the bun in his mouth stupidly, and didn't notice that the bun had never been bitten. He thought he took out the bun to bite the bun he had bitten before. He thought he bit the same bun twice, but it was actually two buns.

Until later, he still didn't know that the missing piece of the two buns was all bitten by himself. He thought he had encountered a ghost here, and thought that the ghost had bitten the bun that he thought he had never bitten. The things he heard about ghosts when he was a child were very scary. He remembered that he had heard that ghosts could appear in various forms, and that some ghosts would not be afraid of the sun at all when they turned into insects or other forms, and even liked the sun very much. He thought that the black bug eating the buns at the location where he heard the singing the day before might be a form of ghost. Therefore, he thought that the buns being eaten in Muxi Pavilion and the buns being eaten at the location where he heard the singing the day before were basically the same thing.

However, he was definitely influenced by his own fear. He thought that the ghost had eaten part of the bun, but it was actually himself. Fear controlled him, and the ghost was in his heart. Who would have thought that he had become the "ghost that ate the bun" without realizing it.

After a long time, he felt sleepy, so he really did as he had thought before. He took out a piece of cloth from the bag, tore off a part of it, and stuffed his ears with it.

Just as he was about to lie on the ground and cover his nose with the remaining part of the cloth, he suddenly remembered the cloth he had placed on the stone when he was eating at the place where he heard the singing the day before.

(End of this chapter)