cloudy day

Chapter 67 Strange Marking
I suddenly sat up from the kang, and found that I was still in the old man's room at the moment, sweating profusely, and Zhang Deaf was sleeping soundly beside me.

I looked up at the morning sun outside the window, wiped the sweat on my forehead, and thought to myself, is it all a dream?
But this dream was too real. Looking at the old man who was lighting a fire and cooking, I asked softly, "Grandpa, what time did you get up?"

"I got up before dawn. I don't sleep much when I'm old, but I'm not like that dog who hasn't woken up after ten hours of sleep." The old man said with a smile.

"Then did you always see that I went out yesterday?" I asked.

The old man smoked a cigarette, shook his head and said, "No, you, like these two dogs, have been sleeping on the kang."

I frowned, is it really a dream?

I couldn't believe it, so I hurriedly got off the kang, put on my shoes and went outside, intending to visit the mountain temple.

But when I didn't take a few steps, I suddenly found that my shoes were covered with wet mud. I was surprised, didn't the old man say that I didn't go out at night, then this mud...

I lowered my head and was about to pick up the shoes to take a closer look, but I accidentally found even more astonishing marks. There were a few gray hairs on my arms. Looking carefully... these are the gray hairs on the body of the mountain god!

I was taken aback, glanced at the old man, and asked stupidly: "Old... old man, have you seen what the mountain god looks like? I mean his real body, not the one in the mountain temple. A statue of a god?"

The old man shook his head resolutely, "Don't look at the old man, I have stayed in the mountains all my life, but I have never been so blessed to see the true face of the mountain god."

"Old man, do you know that there is a cave in the mountain, and there is a stone gate in the cave?" I asked again.

But this time, the old man hesitated for a moment, he smoked a long cigarette, as if he was thinking about something, after a while he said to me: "Why do I always feel a little impressed by the cave you mentioned and the stone gate?" , tell me in detail."

I quickly described to the old man what I saw last night, but after listening to the old man, he frowned, touched his head and said, "I seem to have been to a cave, but it seems that this is the time when I was young again." I had a dream, but I remembered this dream very clearly at the time, as if it happened in real life, so I still remember it decades later."

I gradually seemed to understand what was going on. I remembered that the God of the Mountain said that he had thousands of people try to open the stone gate, but they all failed. I think the old man was one of them.

And I may be the same, because I had the same experience as the old man. The memory of the mountain god was erased, and I mistakenly took what happened in reality as a dream.

I let out a long sigh. Could it be that I failed to open that stone gate in the end?
But I always feel something is wrong, why at the last moment in my memory, I remember that the stone gate was opened by me?
I looked at my hands, and was suddenly taken aback, and saw a black spot appear on the palm of my right hand!

The shape of this scar is very special, the more you look at it, the more it looks like the rune on the wall of the gate of hell...

"Changsheng, what's the matter with you?" the old man asked.

"No...it's nothing..." I raised my head and said, but when I lowered my head to take a closer look, the black spots on my hand disappeared!
I looked back and forth several times with the palm of my hand and the back of my hand, but the black rune mark never appeared again. What's going on?It can't be my eyesight...

At noon, the three of us had a farewell lunch. Zhang Deaf ate it heartily, but I lowered my head and ate my bowl of rice with a lot of thought.

Before leaving, I left 3000 yuan for the old man, but the old man refused to accept it. He said that even if he lived in the mountains, he had nothing to spend.

I thought so, so I promised the old man that when I visit him next time, I will bring a few more bottles of good wine and buy some daily necessities.

The old man reluctantly sent us to the middle of the mountain. After saying goodbye, he turned around and went back. Looking at the lonely back of the old man, I felt a little uncomfortable.

After that, Zhang Deaf and I walked towards the foot of the mountain, but at this moment, I suddenly found a pair of eyes staring at me in the woods beside me.

I hurriedly looked back and saw a giant wolf, it was the mountain god!

I just wanted to run over, but it let out a low cry, and I suddenly found that the body of the mountain god was covered with scars, and his deep eyes had lost their expression, looking very tired, as if he had just ended a thrilling fight...

God of the Mountain, what happened?
I walked over curiously, but the mountain god turned around and ran away. It was moving extremely fast in the forest, and the gray-white figure disappeared in a blink of an eye...

"Changsheng, what's the matter with you?" Deaf Zhang patted me on the shoulder, I turned around and smiled bitterly at him and said, "It seems that this Baigui Slope really needs to come again in the future..."

(End of this chapter)