Chapter 60 Chapter 59: The Third Mask

I wasn't frightened by it, except that the white face that appeared out of nowhere was weird, but I didn't think it was something that could scare people.From the past until the present, we have seen countless weird faces, which more or less gave me immunity to this thing. At this time, I saw this He felt a trace of disgust on his face, and had a strong thought, wishing to reach out and slap him twice. The face swayed slightly in front of me, but the expression remained rigid and unchanged. Only then did I realize that it was a person wearing a mask swaying there.I don't know who this is, but I'm sure this guy must have come from a bad place, and I couldn't see where other people were at the moment, so I touched my body subconsciously, barely touched a Swiss army knife that helped Er Xia hold it, and held it tightly. in hand.

The man was dressed in white, with a white mask and the surrounding white environment. If you don't look carefully, you can't see clearly. If it weren't for the facial features on the white mask, you really thought it was just a whole. I don't know the surroundings. How did this so-called "ghost tent" come about. I stared blankly at that face and didn't dare to move. I really didn't dare to act rashly when he didn't take the initiative to attack. It seemed that the enemy was in the dark and I was in the light. It was obviously very disadvantageous for me to strike rashly.The face was shaking up and down, and I saw the body below him, which seemed to be walking in dance steps, and it was very much like the puppet ghost show in my impression.

This puppet show is very special in our country's operas. It is popular in southern Fujian and Taiwan.According to research, it is the earliest drama with performance function that appeared in the history of our country.But I have a vague understanding of this thing. I only saw it with my own eyes once when I was in school. The sacrificial figurines in ancient funerals have a direct and profound relationship with this puppet show. I don’t know if the puppets refer to this kind of sacrificial figurines. But at this moment, the person in front of me gave me a feeling that is hard to understand. Looking at the degree of distortion of this person, it seems that the body is made of face, and I can't understand what he wants to do. Show him his dance in front of me.The surroundings are white, like a white powdery object, singing and dancing in the environment covered with white gauze, but I can't feel any sound.That face stared straight at me, and even through the mask, I could still feel that what was hidden under the mask was definitely a head planning a conspiracy and a face that I hated.

An indescribable disgust arose spontaneously, and my right hand that was holding the saber tightened, and I was sweating. I worked hard, and my steps began to move, preparing for the sprint. Suddenly, I only felt a tightness in my left shoulder, and a strong hand grabbed me. I was overjoyed for a while, thinking to myself that this is naturally they found me, and when I was about to turn around, a voice rang in my ear: "Don't Recklessly!" As soon as this sound came out, the joy just now was washed away without a trace. I seemed to have fallen into an ice cellar, and I couldn't help feeling cold from the bottom of my heart: this sound? !Impossible, how could it be him?

Could it be that he was also... That's right!It turned out to be Dong Zai's voice, that one has been confirmed to have died twice, and once I saw him die with my own eyes, how could he appear here?Could it be that he is also a product of the rebirth of a blood slave?Impossible, does Trap Dragon Mountain also have this kind of power? I suddenly turned around, and there was nothing behind, and in an instant, the surrounding white was scattered without a trace, replaced by the scene of the underground palace before, Er Xia and the others were all there, looking around looking for something, just like just now They don't know what happened.Several people searched carefully, but no one seemed to notice my predicament just now.

what happened?Is it an illusion again?I stroked my left shoulder, and the feeling of being touched just now seemed to still exist vaguely.I couldn't help telling them what happened just now, and after listening to them, they all looked at me inexplicably, and Er Xia said: "We are already very tense now, and the strings are so stretched that they can hold an arrow. Shooting to the moon, if you scare us like this again, it will definitely break us." Seeing that they really didn't feel the same way as I did, I was confused and said, "Impossible! The feeling just now was terribly real. I can't explain everything with hallucinations. Besides, why can't you feel the hallucinations this time?"

Ayan looked at me and said softly: "I believe you didn't lie to us. This may be the key to the problem. If we can find evidence to prove what you said, then things may be much easier! If what you said is not an illusion , I think there will be an explanation for many of our previous things!" I'm embarrassed to hear that, evidence?How to find evidence?Do you want me to drag that person out just now?I suspect this is the same vision we saw before, but how could the vision reach out and pat me on the shoulder and talk to me, and I can still feel it. I shook my head and tried to wake myself up again. Suddenly, a white object caught my attention. It turned out to be a white mask, not far from where I was, and it was placed on a stone ridge.I took a closer look and found that this mask was definitely not the one I saw just now, but it still looked familiar to me. It was actually exactly the same as the mask on the bronze statue in the underground palace.I was so excited at the moment, I didn't care about the danger at all, I picked up the mask when I got there, and waved it at everyone.

Everyone followed, Mao Jindao said: "Hey, isn't this the same mask as before? Could this be one of the three masks?" After speaking, Heizi looked at Heizi, who held it knowingly, and took it Look and look in the hand. Er Xia watched him keep staring there, neither expressing affirmation nor denying, a little impatient, pointing to the mask and said to Heizi: "Can you tell just by looking? This thing, if we take a look at it according to the previous method, don’t we know everything? What kind of tricks can you find out by looking at it?” As soon as we heard that this made sense, I immediately reached out and took out the mask in the backpack, Er Xia took another piece from Heizi's hand, A Yan gently untied the Southern Territory Fulong around his neck, and several of them were getting ready Work, just wait for the magic light to reveal the mystery in this mask.

Er Xia just took out the wolf-eye flashlight and was about to turn it on, Mao Jindao was holding the mask according to the distance from last time, and I was also preparing to cooperate with a few people, but I unconsciously remembered the scene just now in my mind. "Wait!" I shouted to several people, "I still have some doubts! How could this thing appear here? Does it have something to do with the hallucination-like feeling I just had?" Combining the previous situations, we discovered that there is a very strange commonality: in the bamboo building in the jungle, we encountered this white nephrite mask for the first time (we mistakenly thought it was white porcelain at the time), and I had a very weird dream, and the elements in the dream were so consistent with what we learned and speculated later, I can conclude that this kind of dream must also be a kind of transmission Gu.And just now I also had a dream-like hallucination, although it is very real, but I still understand it as an illusion, and this hallucination must also be caused by the appearance of this mask, that is to say, this kind of thing also contains The information carrier of the Book Gu.

But what I don't understand is why this time the Gu only has an effect on me, unlike the Snake Eye Stone Man, who can be affected by it even those who have nothing to do with it.I don't understand what's going on, but after thinking about it this way, I want to know more urgently what secrets we don't know about the three masks made by the minister that Heizi mentioned.I believe that the mask I just discovered must contain something related to puppet theater and Dongzai, because they appeared in my hallucination just now, and the minister is a fan of puppet theater, and why is Liu Shisan's master called? Zhang puppet?What does Dongzai have to do with those people?

Er Xia said: "Huanzi! Don't think about anything, if you look at it, you will know everything? You can't come up with anything if you think about it now!" Heizi kept waving at us while talking, and Heizi saw it Also hurry over to help. The light was turned on and shone on the golden snake's head, a golden light was reflected like a sharp sword, and Mao Jindao accepted the light and held the mask to adjust the distance.In order to avoid any uncommon words on the above that we could not understand, so Hong Ge was asked to hold the Southern Territory Fulong, and Ayan and I ran directly to Maojindao and waited for the mask to reveal the secrets in its stomach generously. Spit it out. Sure enough, as the Maojin knife slowly moved the mask, a pattern appeared on it, faintly at first, and then gradually became clear.If it really has something to do with the puppet show, the pattern shown on the mask is a person of high status enjoying the puppet show. The characters in the pattern are so lifelike that I can feel that the person inside is doing the same twisted movements as the person just now. It seems that it is going to jump out alive. I was watching intently when Ah Yan suddenly touched me and asked softly in my ear: "What do you think?" I'm a little confused, isn't this just a high-ranking official enjoying opera?But I know it’s definitely not that simple, that person definitely didn’t make such a thing for the purpose of inheriting Chinese culture, and generally the images handed down in this form are definitely not recognizable at a glance. Strange things may contain great mysteries!But at this moment, I can see that a group of people are performing a puppet show for a powerful person to appreciate. I really don't understand what this person is trying to tell us. A Yan pretended to be angry and said to me, "You can't look at this main character, of course you can't see anything just by looking at those puppet actors!" It was very difficult to hold it in such a posture, so I gave up and pointed to the senior official above and said to me: "Heizi said that this thing was made by the ministers under Emperor Jianwen of the Ming Dynasty, but looking at this man's clothing, it is obviously It belongs to the royal family of the Western Han Dynasty!" "The royal family of the Western Han Dynasty?" When Ah Yan said this, I was really startled, and quickly stared at that person carefully: Really!This person's clothing is indeed familiar, and not only the clothing, but also the person's body shape, sitting posture and even the outline of the face are so familiar!Although the characters on the mask are small, they are very clear and vivid, and the outline of their appearance is clearly displayed.Like A Yan said before, I only paid attention to those actors related to puppets. Now that I looked at this character carefully, I found something that surprised me: this is not the one engraved on the bronze treasure letter sitting on a chariot with eight horses. Is it a character?This!Could this person be Liu Wushang?