Chapter 52: Illusion

The scene in front of me suddenly flashed, and another scene appeared. It was still my yard, with several large tables set up in the yard, and all the villagers were sitting there, eating and drinking, it was very lively.
"Second brother, bring your baby out for everyone to see, to share in the good fortune, and then go back and ask our wife to give birth to a boy too!"
A young man shouted. This guy is my cousin . My father has an older brother who does business outside all year round. My father is the second child, so the younger peers in the village call him the second brother.
Dad smiled proudly as he carried me out of the house when I was still a baby. Could this be what Dad said? When I was born, my family invited the villagers to dinner, and the Taoist priest who saved me should have appeared on that day.
Sure enough, after a while, a man dressed as a Taoist priest walked in.
"I passed by your place and saw that there was a happy event in your family, so I came to ask for a glass of wine."
The Taoist priest that year was still very young, very handsome, with a pair of bright eyes. He wore a Taoist robe and a hat woven with bamboo sticks on his head.
Dad was happy and didn't say anything. He quickly arranged for the Taoist priest to sit down. The Taoist priest had just taken a few sips of wine when he suddenly stood up and walked in front of Dad. Dad seemed stunned and asked, "Master Taoist, what's wrong?"
"Zhongyuan is born, a ghost is reincarnated, it is ominous, an ominous body."
Dad frowned and asked unhappily, "Master, what did you say?"
"Where did this little Taoist priest come from? What nonsense are you talking about?"
Someone in the yard shouted. The Taoist said, "The Zhongyuan Festival is also known as the Ghost Festival. On this day, the gates of hell will open and ghosts will come to the human world to cause trouble or seek revenge. People born on this day may also be attacked by ghosts."
Dad's face changed, his brows furrowed tighter, as if he remembered something, and asked worriedly: "Master, what do you mean, is there something wrong with my baby?"
In that era, most people in mountain villages like ours were quite superstitious. After the Taoist priest said this, everyone stopped making a fuss and started staring at him.
The Taoist priest came closer and his eyes suddenly widened, staring straight at the kid in the father's arms. Then he quickly made a seal with his hands, and patted the kid lightly in the air, and a ray of light flashed by.
The Taoist priest took the seal and took out something from his bosom and put it on the kid. He said to the old man, "This thing can keep the kid safe for ten years. I will come back in ten years."
After that, he walked out of our yard amidst everyone's strange and surprised eyes. Dad was stunned for a moment, carefully put away the things given by the Taoist priest, and then continued to invite everyone to eat and drink.
The scene suddenly changed again, and three teenagers were bathing and playing in the pond. Although ten years had passed, I could tell at a glance that the three boys in the pond were me and my two friends from the village when we were teenagers.
Seeing this scene reminded me of what my father told me years ago. During the summer vacation of my second year in grade two, Zhuzi, Erdan and I were bathing in a pond in the back mountain, and then we ran into the Black Wolf Mountain in the back mountain.
My heart tightened and I stared at the three guys in the water. This was a good opportunity to find out what we encountered in Black Wolf Mountain that year.
"Hey, how about we go for a walk in Black Wolf Mountain?"
A kid in the pond suddenly said something. And that kid seemed to be me when I was a kid. Damn, I was the one who brought it up. If you don't commit suicide, you won't die. No, it should be a blessing in disguise. It was because of entering Black Wolf Mountain that I was able to have that formation in my body, and it was because of this that I was able to live until now.
"Ye Zi, the villagers said that Black Wolf Mountain is very dangerous. There are big black wolves there that eat people."
A thin boy said worriedly that this boy was called Zhuzi. He really lived up to his name, tall and thin, just like a pillar.
The other boy was short and fat. He was Erdan. He patted the water and laughed, "Zhu Zi, you are so scared. They say there is a black wolf, but who has ever seen one? They say it is dangerous, but I want to go and see it."
"That's right, let's go, Erdan. The two of us will go."
As a teenager, I also shouted and climbed out of the pond first, naked, and shameless. Erdan followed him to the shore, and Zhuzi hesitated but still followed him to the shore. Then the three of them ran towards the bigger mountain behind them, which was covered with a layer of hazy black fog.
I hurriedly followed him, but after taking a few steps my body suddenly shook, and then my whole body suddenly became lighter, and it actually lifted off the ground and was about to fly upwards. My heart tightened, and I wanted to control my body, but I found that I couldn't control my body.
I watched the three little guys running farther and farther away and disappearing into the woods, but my body could only continue to float upwards, faster and faster.
"boom!"
My spiritual consciousness shook violently, and the entire space collapsed . My consciousness began to fall, as if falling into an endless abyss, with no end and no bottom.
I don’t know how long it was before the feeling of falling suddenly stopped. There was another roar, and suddenly light came on all around, and vision was restored.
"Master, the little fox is injured. Why did those people hurt it?"
A mountain appeared in my vision, and an old man and a young man were walking on a small path in the mountains. The old man was in his fifties or sixties, and the young man was seven or eight years old. The young man looked very familiar. Damn, isn't this me? No, I don't remember having such a scene and experience in my memory.
Who are this kid and this old man? I should be in the Illusion Cave now. I am seeing these illusions because of the magic in the cave.
In other words, these illusions must be related to me. The previous illusions were all myself. Although I can’t remember them, they were all my experiences after all. It may be that the magic in the cave evoked the memories in my mind.
But who are these two, the old man and the young man? And the young man looks so much like me.
I looked around and it was a bit desolate here, with only wilderness and mountains. Moreover, the clothes of the old man and the young boy did not look like those of modern times, but rather like those of ancient times.
The boy was holding a snow-white little fox in his arms. The little fox curled up in his arms, meowing softly, as if it was injured.
"Because they are hunters, and the little fox is the prey. Hunters hunt prey, this is the unchanging theorem and rule of survival of all things. Just like wolves prey on rabbits, rabbits eat grass, just like we eat chicken and pork."
The old man reached out and rubbed the boy's head, smiling and saying.
The boy seemed to be still a little confused. He looked up and asked, "Master, what are theorems and survival rules?"
"Hahaha."
The old man raised his head and laughed a few times, saying, "You are still young, you will understand when you grow up."
“Chirp! Chirp!”
The little fox also meowed a few times.
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