Chapter 580: Dream Memories
Dreams are ethereal and untouchable, but they always carry a person's deepest memories.
For a young girl, her life is destined to be extraordinary from the moment she is born.
Since she was a child, strange things have always happened around the girl, her eyes can see the tiniest speck of dust, her ears can hear the sound of small insects crawling on the grass dozens of meters away, as long as her eyes stare at something for a little thought, that thing will tremble slightly, and when she is angry, it can break out of thin air.
It is precisely because of these strange abilities that in that isolated small village, the girl is regarded as an ominous sign by the villagers, who alienate her from an early age, snub her, and bully her in the most vicious way.
However, the girl's childhood was not so lonely, even if the villagers bullied her and humiliated her, at least there were parents who raised her, and the younger brother who was very tall since she was a child and was 2 years younger than her to protect her and let her grow up safely.
But the good times did not last long, when the girl was 10 years old, the village was hit by a severe drought, and there was no harvest throughout the year, and every family suffered from lack of cooking.
Soon after, an onmyoji came to the village, and said that there was a demon girl in the village, which caused the anger of the heavens, and then the drought fell.
As soon as the news came out, the depression of the past exploded in an instant, and a mighty witch hunt began.
...
Outside the old and dilapidated houses, nearly 100 villagers gathered here, holding burning torches, the light of the fire almost illuminated the night sky overhead, and the frenzied whistling sound was like a wave:
"Open the door! Hand over that enchantress! β
"Burn that enchantress! Use her screams to appease God's wrath! β
"Open the door! If you don't open the door, you'll kill your whole family!" β
...
In the bedroom of the house, a family of four hid here shivering, panicked in the face of the boiling voices and monstrous fires outside the house.
The tall boy shrank his head, the flesh on his body trembled with trembling, and he whimpered helplessly: "Sister is not a bad person... Why did they do this to their sister..."
The mother squatted on the edge of the bed, stretched out her hand to resist the girl, pushed her under the bed hard, and said in a trembling voice: "Child, just hide here, don't come out, be obedient..."
"Mom... I'm afraidβ" The girl was sweating profusely and crying, clutching her mother's sleeve and refusing to let go.
"Bang-" At that moment, the sound of the wooden door being kicked and shattered, and the villagers swarmed in, and the firelight instantly illuminated the already small bedroom.
"The enchantress is here! She's under the bed! The young man who took the lead raised his arms and shouted.
The villagers' eyes were wide open, as if they had seen the filthiest thing in the world, and they rushed forward with torches, intent on staining her young body with flames.
"Don't bully my sister!" The tall boy rushed forward, his thick arms blocking all the villagers who rushed over, and pushed them out with all his might, "Don't bully my sister!" Don't bully my sister!! β
In the face of the angry villagers, the mother knelt helplessly on the ground and sobbed faintly: "Fellow villagers, don't embarrass our family anymore, okay... Xue has been filial since she was a child, she has never done a bad thing, and she is a good boy who is very obedient! β
"The wind and rain in the village are good every year, and there are droughts and floods every year, which is caused by the climate season, how can you blame the disaster on the snow? Good luck folks... If you hate us, we'll leave and not live here... Let's let the snow go..."
Before the villagers could respond, with the sound of heavy footsteps, the onmyoji wearing the "one-claw golden dragon robe" walked in, and the faint eyes looked at the girl under the bed without emotion, and said slowly: "There is a way in the heavens, and there is a cause for misfortune. β
"No matter where you go, if this demon is not eliminated, the village will have disasters for many years, and there will never be peace."
For these villagers in the village, they have no knowledge, only respect, wearing a one-clawed golden dragon robe, mastering the art of yin and yang, that is, speaking for the sky, everything is the truth.
If it was said that some villagers only wanted to expel the demon girl from the village before, then as soon as the Onmyoji's words came out, the killing intent surged into everyone's hearts like rolling waves.
"Demon Killer !!" The first whistling sound had gone out of nowhere, and the villagers rushed forward like crazy with torches or hoes in hand.
The parents who tried to protect the girl had already fallen in the first round of shoving, and the mother hit her head heavily on the ground and was trampled to death by the swarming villagers.
The father desperately held on to the trampling, howling and supporting his bruised body, trying to get back up, but was finally hit by a hoe through the Heavenly Spirit Cover, and blood splattered everywhere.
The girl's pupils under the bed reflected the broken corpses of her parents, and there seemed to be some emotion in her eyes, and she choked up with a wail: "No... Nope..."
"Don't bully my sister!" The tall boy cried and shouted to block everyone, but there were too many people on the other side, he really couldn't stop it, so he could only use his last strength to rush forward, squeeze open a narrow passage, and shouted in despair, "Sister, run!! β
A sturdy male villager broke free, picked up the hammer that had fallen to the ground, and looked at the boy with a bloodthirsty chill in his eyes.
"No!" The girl cried and crawled out from under the bed, reaching out to try to stop it, but she was too late.
"Click!! The hammer arced through the air and slammed into the back of the boy's head, with the sound of bones shattering.
The younger brother who protected his sister finally couldn't support it anymore, and fell to the ground with a bang, blood from the back of his head flowed all over the ground, his eyes rolled up uncontrollably, his whole body trembled, but he still shouted vaguely: "Sister... Sister..."
"It's here, you!" The male villager panted like a bull and dragged the bloody hammer towards the girl fiercely.
"No... Noβ" The girl's eyes were filled with tears, and she looked desperately at her brother in a pool of blood, and the sound of the wind whistling with a hammer began to echo in her ears.
"Ah!!!!h With a terrible scream, an astonishing force erupted from the girl's body, and the turbulent energy flow condensed into a substantial force, sweeping through the room like a stormy wave.
The hammer that was about to smash into the head shattered in response, and at the same time, the body of the male villager was shattered, and as the energy flow continued to spread, all the villagers who came into contact were shattered to pieces, and flesh and blood flew everywhere.
"Huh?!" The one-clawed golden dragon onmyoji showed a thick look of horror in his eyes, took out the charm on his waist with his backhand and put it in front of him, and recited the mantra in a loud voice, "Wear a canopy on your head, stand on your feet, support Liujia on your left, and guard Liuding on your right. β
The spell melted in an instant, forming a protective barrier in front of him, but in the face of the surging flow of impact energy, the barrier shattered and dissipated like dirt falling into the sea.
The energy flow swept by, the onmyoji's spell was washed to pieces, his body and a clawed golden dragon robe were shattered inch by inch, and before his consciousness completely dissipated, he trembled his lips and muttered: "Just a child, there is such great power..."
"It's a good seedling!"