Embers Ad Infinitum

Jiang Baimian had seen too many abnormalities, but his pupils were slightly dilated and he remained calm.

She lowered her voice and said to Shang Jianyao and others:

"Look over there."

Long Yuehong, Bai Chen, and Shang Jianyao followed the prompts and looked sideways at Linhe Village.

That little bit of light caught their eyes at the same time.

This looks very warm, like waiting for someone returning at night, but compared with the entire environment and the previous dead silence, it is so creepy.

Bang bang bang, Shang Jianyao clapped his hands.

This directly dispelled all the fears that surged in Long Yuehong's heart.

"It turns out that the bones have to be restored to their integrity and laid to rest in order to trigger abnormalities." Shang Jianyao said in a tone of sudden realization.

He then wondered to himself:

"But doesn't Buddhism always say that it's best to burn the body's skin completely with fire? Why does the Tathagata Tathagata want to bury it intact?"

"After all, he is still the 'Zhuang Sheng' of Taoism." Jiang Baimian simply replied.

Bai Chen looked at Linhe Village with all the lights on, and instinctively assumed a defensive posture.

At this time, she considered and said:

"Does the abnormality mean that this corpse does belong to Du Shaochong and belongs to the incarnation of 'Zhuang Sheng'?"

"Not necessarily." Shang Jianyao answered honestly, "What if this corpse comes from the incarnation of Bodhi? It can also trigger abnormalities in the Buddhist holy land."

Jiang Baimian nodded:

"Although there are other possibilities, as things have developed now, the skeleton belongs to Du Shaochong, and the probability of belonging to the incarnation of 'Zhuang Sheng' is more than 90%."

This basically confirms two things:

First, this pieced together complete skeleton belongs to Du Shaochong;

Second, Du Shaochong is indeed the reincarnation of "Zhuang Sheng".

——In the previous dream at Taicheng No. 1 Senior High School, because everyone was the manifestation of a certain personality of "Zhuang Sheng" and had the same past, the "Old Tune Team" was not completely sure that Du Shaochong was "Zhuang Sheng" After all, he may be a personality of "Zhuang Sheng" playing a certain classmate in the past.

The reason why the "Old Diao Group" tried to equate Du Shaochong with the incarnation of "Zhuang Sheng" was because he was indeed an inspiration, and a certain person they met before was named Xiao Chong.

As the ruins of Marsh No. 1 are confirmed to be Dajiang City, and Yingcai Junior High School is located on the street next to the "Urban Intelligent Network Control Center", the possibility that Du Shaochong will be the same as Xiao Chong when he grows up, and the reincarnation of "Zhuang Sheng" becomes more and more likely. Bigger.

Even more so now.

During the exchange between teammates, Shang Jianyao looked at the little lights in Linhe Village and said eagerly:

"Want to explore?"

"It's too dangerous." Long Yuehong immediately objected, "If we are like Taicheng No. 1 Senior High School, we fall into Zhuang Sheng's dream after entering and pretend to be a certain person. There will be no Lao Ge to save us this time. .”

Shang Jianyao gave a plan with confidence:

"Two people go in, and two people stay outside. Once they find something is wrong, they immediately go to Weedao City and ask Lao Ge to save the situation."

"It normally takes ten days and a half to come back and forth. People who fall into a dream will definitely not be able to survive that time." Bai Chen chose to side with Long Yuehong.

Jiang Baimian said "hmm":

“Don’t be impatient, let’s take a closer look.

"This is not like Taicheng No. 1 Senior High School. From the outside, everything looks normal, but we can find something wrong with it even standing here."

While talking, Jiang Baimian picked up the telescope and brought it close to his eyes.

Shang Jianyao and others followed suit.

With the help of the yellowish or pure white lights, they saw the shadows of people in many houses in Linhe Village, which smelled like fireworks.

Those people, old and young, men and women, were either watching TV, scrolling through their mobile phones, or forming a table and playing cards or mahjong. The scenes presented in each window were different.

"Is this the scene before the destruction of the old world?" Long Yuehong whispered to himself.

There is no doubt about this. The key point is just how many days, months or years it is before the destruction of the old world.

Jiang Baimian thought for a moment and said:

"This should be Linhe Village around the Chinese New Year of a certain year."

"Why do you say that?" Long Yuehong asked blurtly.

Jiang Baimian explained simply:

"I have studied a lot of humanistic materials and local folk customs in the old world, and many of them mentioned one point:

"In most Gray Tu people's villages, due to the adsorption and agglomeration effect of the city, there are fewer and fewer young people. Only around the Chinese New Year can such lively scenes of family reunions occur."

Bang bang bang, Shang Jianyao clapped his hands.

It makes sense... Long Yuehong felt more and more the gap between herself and the team leader.

In the same scene, the team leader can see more details and infer more information.

"I remember that the old world was destroyed a few days before the New Year of a certain year." Bai Chen thought for a moment and said.

This is public opinion, and the memories of when Shuiwei Zhentian Erhe also confirmed this.

Jiang Baimian was about to nod when he suddenly saw many children walking out of a store on the largest and only street in Linhe Village, holding hand-held fireworks sticks and playing happily.

They were not very old, and all they could buy were the safest ones. The fireworks erupted weakly and little by little, still bringing a dreamlike beauty.

"Xiao Chong!" Shang Jianyao suddenly said.

Long Yuehong and others then saw that the leader of the group of children looked very similar to Xiao Chong, with a chubby face and a black cotton-padded jacket.

After a few seconds, Jiang Baimian considered and said:

"She looks a lot like Xiao Chong, but she seems to be younger, only five or six years old."

The Xiao Chong whom the "Old Tune Group" knew was about seven or eight years old, and when he spoke at certain times, he felt like he was ten years old.

"I understand!" Shang Jianyao held a telescope in one hand and patted his face with the other, "This is Xiao Chong when he was a kid!"

When Xiao Chong was a child... Xiao Chong was equal to Du Shaochong. Du Shaochong studied at Taicheng No. 1 Senior High School. This scene now happened many years before the destruction of the old world... Jiang Baimian made a new judgment based on this.

Long Yuehong and Bai Chen also had similar thoughts at almost the same time.

They continued to observe the situation in Linhe Village through the telescope, focusing on the group of children.

The child who was suspected of being Xiao Chong led his friends and jumped to the entrance of the village, setting off fireworks along the way, very happy.

Suddenly, he grunted and turned towards the darkness of the wild land at the entrance of the village.

Jiang Baimian judged from the shape of his mouth that what Xiao Chong said should be "go pee".

Of course, she didn't know much about lip reading, so she wasn't sure that was the case.

When she was hard of hearing, she used to combine lip movements, body language, and environmental factors to determine the specific meaning when faced with situations where she couldn't hear clearly and was embarrassed to ask.

Soon, Xiao Chong found a place, pulled down the zipper of his pants, and peed.

This confirmed Jiang Baimian's judgment.

All Xiao Chong's friends followed him. Regardless of gender, they all lined up with him, stood or squatted, pulled zippers or took off their pants to urinate.

"Isn't this too neat?" Long Yuehong said to herself doubtfully.

Shang Jianyao laughed out loud:

"It's normal to go to the bathroom together at this late hour. It's only when we are together that we have the courage."

It’s weird that it’s normal! Jiang Baimian cursed.

Even if the group of children really wanted to go to the toilet together to build up their courage, they couldn't all go. There would always be a few who didn't want to pee, and there were a few little girls among them.

Bai Chen followed and said:

"If there were only three or four people, this would be normal, but here there are eleven or twelve."

During the discussion in the "Old Tune Group", Xiao Chong finished urinating and zipped up.

He immediately yelled at his friends.

Because the sound was louder this time, and they had already walked out of the village entrance and were not too far away from the old locust tree, Jiang Baimian and others heard it very clearly:

"Why do you always imitate me?

"I didn't even think about it before. As soon as I said I needed to pee, I started to pee."

The other children responded in all directions:

"I just suddenly thought of it."

"It's all your fault for mentioning the word pee!"

"..."

Jiang Baimian listened and gradually frowned.

After the group of children finished arguing, she pondered and said:

"What do you think of?"

Before Long Yuehong had time to think, Shang Jianyao made a "shhh" sound.

yes! Long Yuehong instantly understood what the team leader wanted to ask.

At this time, Bai Chen responded:

"Thinking of the 'boo' sound from Xiaochun in the original city. It made those who heard it want to urinate."

Jiang Baimian nodded slowly and said:

“Is it essentially the same situation now?

"The word pee that Xiao Chong unconsciously said and his actions had a similar 'thinking guidance' effect."

"It's very similar." The more Long Yuehong thought about it, the more he felt that this was the reason.

Shang Jianyao was "surprised and happy" and asked for confirmation:

"Xiao Chong has the ability to awaken since he was a child?"

Long Yuehong and Bai Chen were stunned for a moment, and then realized that this scene revealed an extremely important information:

Although it is very reasonable that as the incarnation of "Zhuang Sheng", he has been a little unusual since childhood, but this situation has made a question shared by many people answered for the first time:

Before the destruction of the old world, there were awakened ones!