If it's true, it means that this world is beyond normal logic.
Yu Xing chewed on the food in his mouth and suddenly felt that he had a strong acceptance ability.
Perhaps it was because of the lack of memory that made him prejudiced. Even if someone told him now that he had died a long time ago and was being punished in the underworld for his past wrongdoings, he probably wouldn't be surprised.
But the situation in this village is related to his current survival, so he needs to figure it out first.
"Is it true that you usually communicate with the gods through the oracle?" He looked at Li Po Po.
"Of course, how can people like us be worthy of seeing the gods?" Li Po Po's respect for the oracle was undisguised.
Yu Xing pointed to the enshrined stone statue: "What is that?"
Li Po Po followed Yu Xing's finger and looked: "That is the god's statue. Each family has one to express our reverence and admiration for the god."
"What is the name of this god?"
When he asked, Li Po Po immediately raised her index finger and whispered: "The oracle said that it is risky for the god to bless us, so the name cannot be said. Only the oracle knows the name of this god, and we cannot ask. If other gods hear it, this god will be in trouble."
"Oh." Yu Xing stopped asking, he would eventually pry it out of the oracle's mouth.
After dinner, Yu Xing helped Li Po Po clean up the table, then walked through the small courtyard and saw the rooms in the back.
Next to Li Po Po's room was the room of her grandson who had run away, and there was also a storage room for storing rice and other grains, as well as discarded old furniture.
She led Yu Xing into the bedroom, smiling: "It's getting late, you should go to bed. I'll take you around the village tomorrow!"
Yu Xing: I can go by myself, your arms and legs... might not be very convenient.
He didn't say it out loud, he would see about tomorrow's matters tomorrow. After thanking Li Po Po, he closed the door.
As usual, he surveyed the environment first. The room was very clean, and the kerosene lamp illuminated a certain area. He guessed that Li Po Po still missed her grandson, always cleaning and welcoming him back. However, even if her grandson was still here, he was already over sixty years old this year, an old man.
There was nothing suspicious, but Yu Xing couldn't sleep. He listened carefully in the dark until he heard Li Po Po closing the door next door and saw that she had turned off the light before climbing into bed.
In this kind of place, he had to be cautious.
In the darkness, Yu Xing tossed and turned, feeling uneasy in the unfamiliar environment. He went over everything that had happened today and felt that it was all absurd.
Was this world originally like this?
Or is it just that what he sees is wrong?
Having solved the problem of hunger, he began to think about these things with more energy.
He couldn't know the reason for his amnesia for the time being, so he had to think about how to solve this problem. Even though he now had a place to live that didn't belong to him after losing his memory, it didn't mean that he intended to let go of what happened before he lost his memory.
Who hurt him, and where did he escape from?
Was the other person still looking for him, not giving up on the idea of killing him?
Although he inferred from the distribution of wounds on his legs that the other person wanted to restrict his movement, with so many wounds on his body, it was clear that something was wrong.
Perhaps initially, the other person didn't want to take his life, just wanted to keep him, confine him. But when his resistance became too intense, or when he did something beyond their control, the other person had already intended to kill him, regardless of whether he was alive or not.
He turned over again and suddenly felt that the pain from his wounds had become milder. He sighed softly, "It seems that I recover quickly..."
The initial confusion and fear were due to too much uncertainty. Even the strongest person becomes fragile and even falls into endless self-doubt when lacking a sense of security and information about their own situation.
Yu Xing felt that he had passed that time, and even if he realized that his body might be different from that of an ordinary person, he wasn't very surprised.
There were already so many strange things, and one more thing didn't seem that important.
"Could it be that I really ran out from some closed place?" He covered one eye with his hand and looked at a point in the empty space with the other eye.
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Half of his vision went into darkness, and the other half focused on this world.
Darkness was inevitably real, but this world made him somewhat incomprehensible.
He felt that only about six hours had passed since he woke up, but now he was going to sleep again.
Clearly, the Zhang family was so vivid, and even the warmth of their hands when they helped him sit up was still in his memory, but it was gone when he woke up.
The next "meeting" was in the illusion at the oracle's house.
Illusions must have a cause. Was it his worries or reminders of past memories?
It felt like crossing some forgotten history, where lively things turned to ashes in an instant. He felt that the time in his consciousness had long been chaotic.
Which one was the past, which one was the present, and which one was the future?
And now this village actually believed in the existence of the Black and White Impermanence, and believed that the "gods" could make them live forever...
This world is so strange.
"Illusion... reality... where is the boundary..." Yu Xing blinked his eye that wasn't covered, "Who am I after all..."
Suddenly, a scream came from the next room, interrupting his late-night "philosophizing."
"No!! Don't come, don't come!!"
He was already on edge, and as soon as he heard it, he put down his hand and sat up. There were only two people in this house, himself and Li Po Po.
So this scream must have come from Li Po Po.
What happened?
Did someone enter Li Po Po's room?
He quickly got out of bed, pushed the door open a crack, and saw Li Po Po stumbling out of the room, swinging her cane in the air. She didn't know who she was talking to, and her words changed in tone due to fear. It took Yu Xing some effort to make out what she was saying."Don't come any closer, I won't go, it's not my time to die yet! No... no... Oh great soul reaper, you can't see me, you can't see me, you can't see me..."
There was clearly no one beside her, yet she seemed to be pleading and struggling with someone, sending a chill down Yu Xing's spine.
"I need to find the immortal, the immortal will bless me, immortal, immortal..." Granny Li swung her arms enough and started walking towards the main hall. Yu Xing focused his attention, quietly squeezed out the door, and followed her in the shadows.
He didn't know why he was so adept at this, but tracking seemed to come naturally to him, and soon he saw Granny Li kneeling in front of the stone statue.