MTL - Twilight Boundary

Chapter 24 A stick and a half of incense

 

The fight between Hu Ma and Cui Xie'er brought out Hu Ma's dominance. Among the young men, there were fewer sarcastic comments and more awe.

As the grandson of his mother-in-law, he has a detached status with the second master. He is originally a bit mysterious. Coupled with his battle with Cui Xie'er, the most capable person in Zhuangzi, his bizarre and cruel attacks make everyone... Everyone is stunned.

“It is said that the mother-in-law can raise ghosts. Could it be that there are ghosts following him?”

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Thinking of these rumors, they all looked at Hu Ma with awe.

The next morning when the porridge was being served, a different person was serving the porridge, and he gave Hu Ma the largest piece.

As for Zhou Datong, he admired Hu Ma very much.

 He is the second to last laziest guy among those who learned skills from Er Ye, and Hu Ma is the last to last.

Even Hu Ma’s skills were taught by him, and he knew exactly what level Hu Ma had reached now.

 But so what?

 People know evil ways!

They have low abilities and cannot see the crux of the matter. They only find it scary that Cui Xie'er stumbles whenever she gets close to Hu Ma.

Even he, who was close to Hu Ma, was awed by the teenagers and received less beatings.

As for Hu Ma, he didn't dare to relax in his heart. He deeply understood his current state and knew that while he had enough blood and food, the most important thing was to build up a strong fire in his furnace as quickly as possible. .

Due to his physical condition, he cannot sweat like rain every day like other teenagers, but he still carefully tries to figure out the moves taught by his second master.

Xiao Hongtang continued to deliver food to himself, and with enough blood food, his fire became more and more powerful.

 The second master took him to the woods again to visit his godmother.

Three sticks of incense were burned, two steamed buns were used as offerings, and then four or five willow branches were brought back from the "godmother".

 Because his fire was too strong, the talisman had to be changed every two or three days.

Moreover, every time I change the talisman, I consume more Yin energy than before. The first time I changed the talisman for flax, I just burned a small half of the willow branch and painted it. The second time, I used a whole willow branch. , the third time, but it took several pieces to be drawn together.

 The second master often clicks his tongue, but he doesn't dare to neglect it.

Since the willow branches were gone, I took the flax to his godmother to have it cut.

I went like this several times, and once I returned to the place, I suddenly found that my godmother could not be found by the stream.

The second master took Hu Ma and searched for a while, and finally found Hu Ma’s shivering godmother behind a big tree dozens of meters away.

 “Why are you running around?”

The second master was very unhappy: "I brought your godson here to visit, but I can't even find your home."

 Speaking, he went up and pinched the bundle again. After that, he was afraid that the godmother would run away again, so he tied it with a red rope.

This happened several times, even Hu Ma felt a little soft-hearted, and said carefully: "Second Master, if my godmother cuts it again, she will be bald..."

The second master said: "It's okay. At worst, I can change my name to godfather..."

 The wind was howling, and the old willow tree with few branches and leaves left was trembling and making a rustling sound, which sounded like cursing in the street.

But even though he had wronged his godmother, the fire of flax became more and more intense. Gradually, the fire was rolling, and he was full of energy, and his whole person seemed to be brand new.

Now he dares to enter the forest by himself, let alone Zhuangzi.

 As for the skills that the second master taught him, he also studied them carefully and did not dare to neglect them at all.

 Now, the only thing that is a bit of an eyesore is Cui Xie'er.

The second day after he was beaten, he lay in bed for half a day and looked very heavy. But on the third day, he was full of life again, which made people marvel at the magic of the black ointment.

But even though he had recovered from his injuries, he was obviously still suffocating in his heart.

Other teenagers thought that the first time he fought with Hu Ma was because he was possessed by an evil spirit and would definitely fight Hu Ma again, but unexpectedly, he suddenly became more honest.

 Er Ye could clearly see the key to the matter, and he himself clearly saw it too, and did not dare to really cause trouble for Hu Ma.

Just looking at him eerily from behind Hu Ma from time to time.

But Hu Ma didn’t care either. Ever since he came to this world, hadn’t he been spied on a lot?

 His pressure is nothing.

He was dedicated to lighting the stove. One month after Kankan arrived at Erye's place, after eating a bowl of blood food sent by Xiao Hongtang, he suddenly felt something in his heart and felt that the fire in his lower abdomen was getting stronger and stronger. To a certain extent, it’s like emerging from a cocoon and turning into a butterfly.

If you want to describe it carefully, it's like the fire in the furnace is too strong, and everything is faintly melted.

At this time, Hu Ma was lying on the bed, silently doing the exercises to guide the fire in his body. But when he felt this way, he felt dizzy, and there was a dark red mist around him.

Unexpectedly, I didn't know when I was in a daze, and I came to the secluded and dark temple again. I shook my body away from the mist, and saw a stick of incense standing on the incense burner in front of me.

The last time he exited this dream, he clearly remembered pulling out the incense.

But now when I look at it, I see that there is still a stick of incense standing in the furnace, about three feet long, with traces of gold patterns on it.

 A little firelight, sometimes dimming, and the surrounding dark red mist seemed to be much thicker.

"Huh? That's not right!" Hu Ma was feeling strange. He looked to the side, but was slightly surprised when he saw another incense stick next to the incense burner. It was about two or three fingers long, dark red and slender. It was the one he had pulled out last time.

“I am one stick of incense, turned into two sticks?”

He had a vague feeling that the change in the fragrance was probably related to what he had just felt.

It seems that his heat has reached a certain level and entered another level. One of the incense sticks in the temple has reached its limit and another branch has sprouted.

  Could it be that this fragrance is related to the Tai Sui food I eat on a daily basis?

He suppressed his excitement, approached the incense burner, and looked at it carefully.

As if the open flame of the incense could illuminate some of the surroundings, he saw behind the incense case, in a large deep shadow, the faint outline of the statue behind the case was also slightly revealed, but he still couldn't see carefully.

I wanted to go around the incense table to see clearly, but I found that as I walked, the mist flowed and the space changed. It seemed that I would never reach the front of the statue.

Hu Ma could only stand up slowly, but there were more doubts in her heart:

“One stick of incense has turned into one and a half sticks. If I continue this progress, will it turn into two sticks of incense, or even more?”

 “What exactly is this temple?”

“The reincarnated person I connected with last time said that many people like me have come to this world…”

 “Were they invited here by mistake just like me?”

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These questions appeared in his mind involuntarily, but unfortunately, no one could give him the answers now.

 He doesn’t know whether every reincarnated person has a temple like his own.

“This incense has become so thick and long, has the ability to communicate with other people also become stronger?”

 He moved slightly, observing the incense stick.

 This branch standing in the incense burner is about the size of a fist and half a meter long. It is a far cry from the slender appearance I saw at first.

The smoke emanating from the incense has also become much richer, faint and swaying, accompanied by red mist, drifting to no one knows where.

Although he knew that this would seem to burn the incense stick, he had no idea of ​​pulling it out.

It stands to reason that the reincarnated person from Laoyin Mountain should have fallen into a deep sleep now. It is unlikely that he will find anyone else, but he still has some thoughts in his heart, just like keeping his cell phone on even if he knows that no one is contacting him. .

 Perhaps, someone will find me?

Moreover, these three experiences of entering the dreamland also made Hu Ma vaguely discover that the incense would keep burning when he was in this temple, as if looking for similar people in order to connect.

 But when he woke up, the incense stopped burning on his own initiative.

So, now that I have put this stick of incense in the incense burner, is it the same as turning on my mobile phone and waiting for someone to contact me?

In this strange and out-of-place world, I am so eager to hear the voices of the same kind of people again...

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Also when Hu Ma was immersed in that strange temple, thinking about the connection of all these, the door of the side room where he lived was quietly opened, and a figure quietly walked into the room, and he was actually sleeping in the side room on the other side. Cui Xie'er.

His tall and thin figure actually landed silently. His figure was dull and wooden. Little by little, he moved his body like a puppet and quietly came to the head of the flax bed.

Looking at the sleeping Hu Ma, his face became increasingly pale, and his eyes seemed to be filled with malice and ferocity.

Hands slowly raised up, holding a rusty knife.

 The tip of the knife was aimed at Hu Ma's sleeping face, raised high above his head, and a strange ferocity suddenly appeared on his face.

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“The man who was trapped in Fox Coffin Village said he could survive for a month, but now half a month has passed.”

Hu Ma was still dreaming, thinking silently: "Although I have learned some skills now, it is not enough to protect myself, and it is even harder to save others. If I can 'connect' with the third reincarnation, I can find someone for that guy." Looking for help, but there’s no movement!”

"Is it possible to forget about this old man first, and then find other reincarnations to find out the situation when you have the opportunity to leave this mountain?"

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 Through the last brief conversation, he knew the reincarnated person and understood a lot of things.

If I could talk to him on the phone again, many of the questions in my mind might be answered.

 But he was in trouble, and he was in quite a lot of trouble himself, so how could he help him?

But just as Hu Ma was thinking about all this, the dark red mist around him suddenly began to flow quietly at some point, and the speed of this flow was actually getting faster and faster.

When he noticed it, he was surprised to find that the mist was like the tide under a violent storm, rolling and diffuse. A sharp knife could be vaguely seen in it, and it suddenly pierced his face.

He woke up with a start and opened his eyes.

When he opened his eyes, he was immediately startled and saw Cui Xie'er's pale face in front of him.

 And, he held the sharp knife with both hands and pointed it at his face.

 (End of this chapter)