"I'm not hiding from you," he looked up at me and said, "I have no choice. If I don't come to the village with them, they will die. If I remember correctly, you seem to be called Zuo Youdao, Master Chai is okay?"

I sighed: "It has passed away."

The glitter in his eyes suddenly faded a lot: "Master Chai is a good person."

I didn't answer the conversation, and just stood next to him silently.

After a while, he stood up at the base of the wall and said to me, "If you have anything to say, go into the house, at this time, the villagers cannot see me. As long as they see me, they will kill each other."

Whenever you see him, you will kill each other?

I couldn't help but frown. He didn't say anything to me anymore, just called "Humph".

After that, his daughter-in-law who couldn't speak came over and helped him into the yard.

I looked at Liu Shangang and saw that he had already stood up by Liang Houzai. He was looking at me with guilt on his face. It seemed that the anger on his body had disappeared.

Xian'er and Luo Fei also walked towards this side one after another.

When I entered the yard, I saw that the yard was cleanly clean. The roof was repaired and there were a few flat pumpkins on it. "Wang Dafu" stood on the door of the house and waved to me: "My little master, come in and have a tea."

When I entered the house, I couldn't help asking, "What should people in the alley do?"

"Wang Dafu" sat on a bamboo chair that was rushing to the door and sighed: "Oh, it's impossible to deal with it. You don't have to worry about them anymore. When they wake up on their own, they will go back to the Ceramic Dragon Temple."

At this time, the mute girl brought me a chair, and then gestured with her hands, and shouted "ahhhh" in her mouth. I couldn't understand sign language. Seeing her anxious look, I didn't know what she was going to express.

I heard "Wang Dafu" say to me: "My aunt is begging you to save my idiot and the people in the village."

I nodded to the mute girl: "Don't worry, we will definitely not ignore them."

The mute girl looked at me silently and didn't speak sign language for a long time. It was not until "Wang Dafu" waved her hand and asked her to make tea that she nodded and went to the inner room.

Liang Houzai and the others also came in. "Wang Dafu" told them not to be polite and sat there casually. Then he said to me: "Wang Dafu said last time that Jihun Village would send someone sooner or later. Alas, after so many years, I didn't expect you to really think about me, the old man. By the way, I just heard you call me Grandpa Wang, but in fact, when we moved here, I changed my surname. My surname is Bai. This is Wang Dafu's suggestion. He said that only by changing the surname Bai can we live near the Heishui River."

I said, "Is Heishui River the river outside the village?"

"Wang Dafu"... I'd better call him Lao Baitou, always putting quotation marks on his name or adding the word "fake" in front of it. I always feel very uncomfortable.

The old white-head said to me: "You are talking about the river outside the village, and I am talking about the river in the village. This village is divided into two villages, with a canyon in the middle. The river at the bottom of the canyon is the Hei Shui River. I heard from Wang Dafu that there was an ancient tomb at the foot of this mountain. The river flowed through the tomb, and it turned black when it came out. Now the ancient tomb has collapsed long ago and the river channel is clear, but every time the vernal equinox, the water in the river channel will still turn black."

I said, "When we came before, we had been to your residence, and there was a stone slab pried open outside the backyard, and the water flowing out from it was indeed black."

The old white-head smiled and said, "The water over there has always been black. It's strange that there are several wells in the Shangzhai area, and the water inside the well is clear. Only in the place where I live, black water always comes out from the ground. It was also heard from Wang Dafu that it was a spring with spirituality. Someone had to guard it, so I settled my home in that place..."

While he was talking, there were scattered footsteps in the alley. He stopped and looked at the alley. I looked at Xian'er, and Xian'er spread his hands at me: "The souls of those people are too strong, and the nightmare can't last for too long."

I turned around and asked Lao Baitou: "Grandpa Wang, when I went to find Wang Dafu before, he said that you found the seclusion place and then contacted him. But what you meant, it seemed that he had found you on his own initiative?"

"You might as well call me Lao Bai. You can call me Lao Lao. The past name no longer belongs to me," Lao Baitou looked unexpectedly calm when he spoke: "It was indeed the one I went to find him. I copied it from him, and there was a sense of mutual response. So, I always knew where he was and where I was."

I originally wanted to ask why he didn't kill Wang Dafu when he was copied, but when the words came to my mouth, I didn't know how to blurt out.

He seemed to see my concerns, and smiled and said to me, "Young Master, just say anything. Master Chai is our benefactor and his disciple, and I treat him as my own."

I tried to organize the wording and asked carefully: "When you were copied by Yin Yu, Wang Dafu was also present, right?"

Lao Baitou nodded: "He is right next to me. Speaking of which, when I first came to this world, I felt like I was filled with a very difficult to suppress. When I saw Wang Dafu, I wanted to kill him. The murderous intent was very strong and I couldn't suppress it at all."

Me: "Indeed, we have done experiments before. Anyone who is copied by Yin Yu will kill the body at all costs, but why didn't you do it at that time?"

The old white-head frowned tightly: "Because of that sound, I heard that sound."

I leaned towards him: "What's the sound?"

"At that time, I thought it was an illusion. That sound did not belong to our world," Lao Baitou thought hard, while describing to me: "It was like the sound of the bells when the bells were slamming in the temple, but it was like the sound of water falling on the iron plate. I couldn't describe it. As soon as the sound appeared, my heart suddenly calmed down. Speaking of which, when Wang Dafu saw me, he was panicked and stood there, and he didn't move for a long time, and my mind was attracted by the sound. When he and I calmed down, I no longer had the intention to kill him. He seemed to understand something and did not attack me."

Listening to his words, I also carefully recalled the scene when I saw Wang Dafu. I remember that Wang Dafu's reactions seemed to be telling us that he did not know the existence of the replica, but the facts were exactly the opposite.

With doubts, I asked Lao Baitou again: "After this, you will leave the Dragon King's tomb?"

The old white-head shook his head: "No, I stayed in the tomb and stayed with Wang Dafu for a whole month. At that time, I was really panicked. I didn't know what to do or what I was. Fortunately, Wang Dafu didn't care about my identity. In that month, if it weren't for his guidance, I might not have been like me, nor those children who were born and suffered. It would be a sin."

I felt very distraught when I heard him say this, but I couldn't say what was wrong.

"Later, he asked me to go back to the ground and replace him," Lao Baitou continued, "Wang Dafu said that when I heard those voices, there may be a deep secret. If I was a copy, I would bury the secret in my heart. Never tell others that I had heard those voices, but if I was exposed, I would tell the people of Jihun Village as soon as possible. Wang Dafu said that only Jihun Village can unlock this secret."

Me: "But when we came out of Erlong Bay, you had already left with the villagers."

The old white-headed man said, "Yes, I was really afraid at that time. Before Wang Dafu came out, I had long regarded myself as a real person, but I knew that you would definitely bring him out after entering that tomb. At that time, I was afraid... I was afraid that as soon as I saw him, all these years would be gone. I always felt that as soon as I saw him, my life would be over. I don't know why I thought so, but these things were all in my mind. I couldn't hold back or suppress them."

When he was speaking, he repeatedly said the phrase "can't hold back". I always felt like he had something in his words, so he said to him: "Uncle Bai, look, since we are here and there are no outsiders, if you have anything to say, please openly say it, don't hide it."

Lao Baitou said: "This is a habit that has been developed for many years. It is difficult to change. The little master will take care of it more."

I nodded and said, "From your wishes, Wang Dafu seems to want us to come to you, but when he saw him in Erlong Bay, he always acted like he didn't know you at all, and seemed to not want to disclose information about you. I can't understand why he did this."

Lao Baitou: "Last time when Wang Dafu came, I also asked him why the people from Jihun Village had not come yet. At that time, he said that the time was not yet ripe and I had not seen the most critical thing. At that time, I couldn't understand what he meant. Until that night, half a year ago, all the villagers were possessed overnight. That night, the hallucinations appeared again. Last time it was auditory hallucination, this time it was vision, and I saw the seven stone doors."

He said that such hallucinations actually occurred more than twice. Since the day he appeared in the Dragon King’s tomb, hallucinations have appeared almost every few days.

At the beginning, he did think that was an illusion. It was not until the last time when Wang Dafu came to Qiang Village to find him that what he saw was not an illusion, but an image projected by the Sun Tomb in his mind.

It is actually not accurate to just say that it was an image, because he could only hear some unexplainable sounds at first, first the "clang" sound of water hitting iron plates, then there was a messy sound of wind, and similar to the sound of some kind of wild beast roaring in the cave.

However, when the latter two sounds appear, the first sound must be accompanied by. Wang Dafu explained to him the last time he came that this should be the sound of the river at the bottom of the Sun Tomb.

And whenever the old white-haired falls asleep at night, the same scene always appears in the dream.

In his dream, he stood on a sand dune. Looking around, there was yellow sand everywhere, and there was no other color under the sky. It was a dry desert. When the old white-head stood in the sun, he felt that the moisture on his body had been evaporated, just like a mummy standing in the yellow sand.

When he first entered this dream, he saw a mirage, and the shadow of an oasis appeared on the surface of the sand dunes several miles away.
Chapter completed!