Chapter 288
Chapter 288
The two gradually talked and drifted away, pedestrians coming and going on the road quickly blocked Jing Li's sight.
Jing Li withdrew his gaze, and turned his attention to a grocery store not far away, where a woman was holding her daughter's hand to buy a bronze mirror.
The shopkeeper took out a few mirrors, and with the corners of his mouth maintaining a stiff arc, he greeted the guests earnestly. "Mistress, look at these, they are all fresh goods that just arrived in the shop. If the lady wants, I can also add a piece of red string to the lady's head, and tie the baby's head."
"Show me the flower-painting side."
"That's great, my lady, please take a look."
Jing Li's eyes paused for a moment on the woman's hand. It was a palm-sized mirror with a bare edge, no painting or hollowing out, it was just the most common light mirror.
"This is it."
The woman flicked at her waist, as if she had drawn something, gestured to the mirror in her hand, and then carefully stuffed the mirror into her sleeve.
"Miss Chenghui, one penny."
As the shopkeeper reached out to take the silver, he stretched out his hand and pulled a piece of rope aside. It was the hair tie for the girl that he promised just now, but it was not a red rope but a piece of white rope.
The woman thanked her unknowingly and took it. The girl next to her was empty-eyed, but her tone was cheerful and she asked the woman to tie it up for her. The rope is tied for the daughter.Then he straightened up, took his daughter with him, and walked towards the east.
Standing in the corner, Jing Li watched the big and small figures gradually go away. He lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then disappeared in place in a blink of an eye.
Pedestrians came and went on the street, but no one noticed that someone appeared and left at the corner at the end of the street...
"Miss Bai is back."
The aunt who came out to hold firewood for cooking in the yard next door saw the big and small passing by at a glance, and said hello. "Little Niu Niu is tired? Come on, auntie has candy for Niu Niu to eat."
He said while digging into his sleeve.
Before the lady of the Bai family could thank her, the daughter next to her let go of her hand and trotted into the yard of the next door. Standing still in front of the aunt, she reached out and took the candy from the aunt's outstretched palm, and put it in After putting his mouth in his mouth, he stretched out his hand to hug the aunt's thigh and rubbed it.
The aunt touched the girl's head, and said, "I have rabbit meat at home tonight, and I will send a bowl to Niuniu later..."
Jing Li, who was standing on the roof, saw clearly that there was nothing on the open palm of the aunt just now, but the little girl named Niuniu made the movement of stuffing the candy into her mouth, her voice became muffled, It's like having something in your mouth.
Here, the old and the young are still intimacy, the woman over there has already entered the yard first, and there is already a man in his thirties who is fetching water by the well in the yard, and when he sees someone coming in, he squeezes out an empty smile on his face , "Niuniu went to play next door again?"
The woman responded, said a few words to him, and hurried into the house to cook.
At the same time as the woman entered the house, the man standing by the well felt a gust of wind blowing by, raised his face indifferently, and called out "Miss, I'm here to help you" into the house, and followed into the house .
This house is not very big, and there are only three rooms in total. The woman went into the room on the left to cook, and presumably the bedroom was the one on the right.
Jing Li entered the bedroom, took a look at the things in the room, and finally landed on the small square table by the window.
There are a few small wooden boxes on it, which are not very delicate, but rather unique. The lid of one of the wooden boxes is not closed, revealing two thin silver hairpins. It is obvious that this table is where the woman used to dress up. The place.
The table is not big, but the things on it are neatly arranged.
Jewelry and rouge are available, but the mirror is missing.
Jing Li thought for a while, then stretched out his hand and opened the flat box on the corner of the table, which contained three combs.
Picking up the top comb and looking at it, it was new, and there seemed to be something pressed at the bottom of the box. Jing Li took out all three combs and found a handkerchief bag underneath, which seemed to be wrapped with something.
Thinking of the woman's actions when she was buying a mirror in the store, Jing Li had a vague guess in his heart, he pulled a corner of the veil and pulled it away, and there was indeed a comb inside, drawing flowers on the edge of the mirror.
Including the new mirror that the woman bought today, five... Xuantianzong occupied this city for exactly five days.
Jing Li looked down at the new mirror in his hand, and thought of the white rope tied around the head of that little girl named Niu Niu. Unless it was a funeral, no one would wear this kind of thing on weekdays. Before the daughter tied the new hair rope, the little girl had a white hair rope tied around her head.
Maybe when she bought the first mirror, the shopkeeper really gave her a red string, but she buys it every day and gives it away every day, and the red string has long since been delivered—just like the candy of the aunt next door.
Are the people in the city repeating the same day's life all the time...
"—"
The sound of thin footsteps came from outside the door, and the woman appeared at the door soon.
If they were repeating the same day's life all the time... Jing Li narrowed his eyes slightly and stood still, watching the woman walk into the bedroom and walk towards the window, he needed to confirm his guess.
Will a person who has been repeating the same day's life trajectory find himself a person who did not exist on the first day?
Jing Li silently watched the woman get closer and closer, and stretched out his hand... He opened the wooden box on the table behind him, put it in his sleeve pocket, put the newly bought mirror today in it, and closed the box , turned and walked towards the door.
"!—"
Jing Li stretched out his hand to take over the limp body, and put his finger on the woman's veins. Apart from being a little weak, there was no other problem. Of course, there was no sign of poisoning.
Everyone in this city is stuck on the same day, repeating the life of that day day after day. Now the time is short, and there will be no major disturbances. When the time is long, the whole city will be afraid. It's all messed up.
Jing Li waved his sleeves, sent the woman to bed to rest, and decided to go back to the street to have a look.
The passing wind blew the bangs on Niuniu's forehead who had just entered the room, and Niuniu called her mother and ran into the room without realizing it.
The shofar braids tied with red strings flickered under the light of the candles in the house...
The slender fingers loosened, and the white hair rope drifted into the distance with the night wind.
It was already night, and most of the houses had already lit candles and lanterns. Jing Li stood in the shadow of a pavilion on the roof of a small three-story building, looking down.
Among the candle flames, there are a few black beings, and they let out their senses to find out that there are people in the room, but the candles on the candlesticks have already been burned out, and the people in the room are holding rice bowls in the dark, and picking up vegetables on empty plates.
To put the whole city in such a state is either poisoned or some kind of illusion, and these people should all be recruited at the same time.
The question is where and how these people got tricked.
Jing Li closed his eyes, detected with his spiritual sense that there was no sign of spiritual power fluctuations within a hundred feet, opened his eyes again, and after setting up restrictions all over his body, a magic formula hit the street below, a dynamic projection, like a movie It seemed that they quickly played back what happened here recently.
After seeing many people suddenly running out onto the street and starting to be dazed, Jing Li subconsciously raised his eyes to look around. These people would have such a reaction, obviously they heard something or saw something.
The movements in other places are probably similar to those on this street. To attract the attention of so many people, the location of the caster should not be too low, it should be at a high place. There are many pavilions in this city, similar to There are at least seven or eight small three-story buildings under his feet, not to mention the tall signboard poles specially erected by many shops.
"what?"
A man in yellow clothes who jumped out of the projection clock caught Jing Li's attention. This man suddenly appeared from the window of an inn. What level is the opponent, but no matter what, he is definitely better than these ordinary people in the city.
Jing Li waited patiently for what happened next.
The man in yellow landed on the roof diagonally opposite to him. As soon as he appeared, he looked around with a puzzled look on his face.
But soon, his eyes began to blur, and he became empty and lifeless like those people on the street, and then suddenly fell down without warning.
It took only a blink of an eye for the man in yellow to fall, and two people came over and took him away, and the people on the street dispersed shortly after they left, as if nothing had happened, and went back to their respective places. At the original place, it is just no longer as vivid as before, but has become lifeless.
After that, the screen began to repeat itself.
Jing Li waved his hand to erase the projection in front of him, and began to think about what it would be able to affect the entire city at the same time, and even monks could be recruited in an instant.
If it is a formation technique, it is really unheard of; but if it is a magic technique, then what kind of cultivation should the caster be.
"Da da--"
The sound of hurried footsteps came from far to near, and the two inspecting disciples of the Xuantian Sect who had just entered the city were running towards a certain direction in a hurry.
"It's almost time, don't dawdle!"
"I'm in a rush! Tsk, it's all because that little girl is too attractive... Hey, Senior Brother Wang, wait for me!"
"Not yet!"
.........
Time is up?
Jing Li looked up at the moon, Xu time has passed, it should be Hai time, is there anything special about this time?
Suddenly there was an exclamation from below, and the Junior Brother suddenly staggered and fell to his knees on the ground, while Jing Li was in doubt, he suddenly felt his feet go limp, but luckily he held onto the beams beside him in time to stabilize his figure.
What's going on, why all of a sudden, the strength of the whole body seems to be sucked away, the whole person can't get up, and even the consciousness begins to become dizzy...
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