Chapter 046 Wang Yue's Difficulties
I followed Li Daming into the house, and he introduced Li Yang to me, but I didn't see Tongsuo. I guessed what happened, and their memories were indeed missing that part. I don't know how Qingyue did it, she was really resourceful and erased their memories.
In that case, there is no need for me to point it out. When Ma Danlong sent me out, he repeatedly told me to let this memory completely erase from their minds.
Li Daming and I sat at Li Yang's house until noon, ate some food, and then left. Li Daming was still thinking about finding Ma Danlong, so he took me to the property management to inquire, but naturally, he couldn't find out anything. After Li Daming had enough of this, he said to me, "Why do I think you are not proactive at all?"
I smiled and said nothing.
He blinked at me and said, "No, something must have happened to you! We arrived here yesterday, and then you disappeared. You only appeared now. Did you find any trace of Ma Danlong?"
My heart skipped a beat. This guy clearly had no memory of this and had his eyes closed the entire time, but he could actually tell what I was doing in just one sentence. He's really something.
I smiled and said, "Since you knew I was missing, why didn't you call me?"
Li Daming was stunned and murmured, "Yes, why didn't I call you?" Then he hit his head with his hand, "Everything is messed up. I have been in a daze for the past two days. This damn place really has bad feng shui. It makes me confused."
I didn't say much and left the Garden Community with him. Along the way, Li Daming kept saying "something is wrong", but he couldn't remember what it was and looked extremely depressed.
When I returned to Wang Yue's home, I walked into the bedroom with hope, but was disappointed to find that Wang Yue had not yet come back to life and was still in her physical body.
Looking at her, I couldn't help but think of Liu Yang's physical body. They had something in common, both of them lost contact in the bardo realm. Liu Yang went to a higher realm, while Wang Yue was trapped in her own trial and could not get out.
I looked at the psychic bracelet on my wrist. Wang Yue was right in front of me. I could try to locate her in the bardo realm, just like I did when I found Liu Yang, to see what Wang Yue’s condition was.
I told Li Daming that I wanted to enter the bardo realm and asked him to protect me. Li Daming looked at me in astonishment. His eyes widened: "Lin Cong, when did you learn this skill?"
I shook my wrist and said with a smile, "That night when I was sleeping, I communicated with the bracelet in my dream, and I had this ability after I woke up."
Li Daming looked unconvinced. He wanted to say something but didn't. He just said, "Then you try it."
I took a deep breath, sat opposite Wang Yue, and slowly closed my eyes. I first focused my mind on the bracelet, then focused my consciousness on Wang Yue. I felt something was wrong around me. I suddenly opened my eyes and found myself standing in a strange and unfamiliar place.
This should be a huge palace. Everything here is several times larger than usual. The palace pillars are like giant pillars supporting the entire building. The palace walls are as big as the vertical section of a residential building.
The walls were covered with bright red words that looked like ghost paintings. Each word was as big as a washbasin, and the strokes were written with a red brush. The paint flowed along the strokes, and the winding lines were shocking.
In this palace, there are many tall screens, which are also covered with ghostly characters. The screens are arranged layer by layer, staggered, and look like an extremely complicated maze.
As I was watching, I discovered Wang Yue. Wang Yue was extremely small, a thin and weak girl. She was sitting in front of a huge wall, looking up at the wall full of bright red scribbles with a dazed look in her eyes, as if she was studying something.
Now I am not really in the state of leaving the soul and entering the bardo, but I am using the spiritual bracelet to "see" and "hear" here. No matter how weird or dangerous this place is, it has nothing to do with me. I feel an indescribable sense of comfort.
I floated behind Wang Yue. She was unaware of my existence and was still absorbed in studying the ghost paintings, lost in some kind of dazed state.
No wonder she has been trapped here for so long and cannot get out. This scribble doesn't look like words or numbers. The strokes are so weird and twisty that even a symbol master from a prestigious university would have a hard time deciphering it.
I sighed, shook my head and said, "It's too difficult."
Suddenly, Wang Yue seemed to wake up and turned back to look at me. I was shocked. Could she see me? But when I looked closely, her eyes were not focused. This was abnormal. If she could see me, her eyes would be focused on me.
Wang Yue glanced in my direction, probably looking for something, but found nothing. Then she turned her head and stared at the words on the wall in a daze.
I wondered, she seemed to be able to hear me.
I called out again: "Wang Yue."
This time Wang Yue really heard it clearly. She turned around and said in surprise: "Is it Lin Cong?"
I don't know whether I should answer or not, and if there will be any problems if I try to communicate with her in this state.
Come to think of it, we are actually communicating now. I called her name and she heard it, which actually means that we have established a connection.
I came behind her, squatted beside her and whispered, "Wang Yue, can't you see me?"
Wang Yue was extremely : "Lin Cong, is that you? Where are you? Why are you here?"
Then she denied herself again: "No, no, Lin Cong can't come. Even if he came, I would not be unable to see him. This is the devil's sound, a test for me in the difficult times. Yes, that's it."
"Wang Yue, listen to me, I am really Lin Cong." I hurriedly explained: "I came in through the spiritual bracelet."
Wang Yue wanted to cover her ears, but she put them down and looked in my direction. She asked in confusion, "Is it really you?"
"I met Ma Danlong." I hesitated, but still told her. There was no need to hide this from her.
Wang Yue took a breath and said, "Ma Danlong? You actually found him, and then what?"
I pondered for a moment and did not tell her about the Taoist temple hidden in the building and Liu Yang. I only told her that I had found Ma Danlong, and that Master Ma told me how to use the psychic bracelet.
Fortunately, Wang Yue did not ask too many questions. She listened very carefully and said softly, "Thank you for your hard work."
"What is my current state?" I said, "I originally thought that I couldn't communicate with you, but I could only see and hear you."
Wang Yue pondered for a moment and said, "Based on the current situation, you can only see and hear, but if you communicate with the people inside, you can 'speak' again. I can't see you, which means you haven't really entered here."
I understood a little bit, and asked her if it was similar to playing video games. As a player, you can see the content of the game, hear the sounds, and control the characters to interact, but the player is still outside the TV and has not really entered the game.
"Similar." Wang Yue nodded: "Do you see the screen in this hall?"
I nodded subconsciously, then I realized that she couldn't see, and quickly said she saw it.
Wang Yue said: "Go and try touching those screens and see what happens."
I stood up and slowly walked towards the screens. These screens were extremely tall, each one was over two meters tall, and the gauze was as thin as a cicada's wing, and it was obvious that they were made with great craftsmanship.
I gently reached out my hand and touched the screen's gauze, but there was no sense of touch. I pressed down hard, but found that the surface of the gauze was not moved at all. It was supposed to be very soft, but there was no palm print, which meant that I could not touch the screen.
I walked back and told him what had just happened.
Wang Yue concentrated and said, "Lin Cong, you really can't interact with anything in the bardo, except with the people inside. This is actually very good. You don't have to bear the karma here, and you can freely help the people inside get out of trouble."
"Then let me help you now, what should I do?" I asked.
Wang Yue said: "My situation is very troublesome, and this level is also very difficult. Do you see the words on the wall? Those words are in Yin script. I must crack the secret here before I can enter the next level."
"How do we decipher the secret text?" I said.
Wang Yue said: "I know a person who is the only one in the world who can crack it."
"Who?" I asked quickly.
"A man named Liu Yang." said Wang Yue.
My heart suddenly started pounding and my whole body felt a little numb.
Wang Yue couldn't see me, didn't know my condition, and said to herself, "But it's hard to find this person. I investigated him, and I only know that he last appeared five years ago, in 2014, and then there was no clue. The probability of finding him is too low, but there is another way."
I quickly asked what.
Wang Yue said: "I have a volume of the lower part of the Yinwen Classics, but it is written in heavenly script and is completely incomprehensible. I will give you my Yinwen Classics and see if you can decipher it yourself."
"Where?" I asked nervously.
Wang Yue said, "It's hidden on the ceiling in a warehouse on the west side of the community. Remember to get it yourself! This book is of great importance and has been lost in the world for several years. The fight for it has caused a great deal of disaster. You must be careful."
Her words suddenly reminded me of an incident. The first time I saw Wang Yue sleepwalking, I followed her. She climbed over the wall of the community and went to a warehouse outside. I spied her taking a book off the ceiling and sitting there studying it. It was an extremely strange scene.
