Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 4061 Fallen Leaves

The man wearing the small gray hat comforted himself silently and wanted to stand up, but he felt his legs were weak and it seemed difficult to stand up quickly. He knew that if he stood up suddenly at this moment, he might not be able to stand steadily and fall down. If he made a noise, it would attract more attention.

So the man wearing the small gray hat decided to stand up slowly, but he felt that even if he stood up slowly, his legs seemed to be shaking slightly.

He thought: How about this... I don't stand up yet, I'll take it easy? What if something falls from above? I must not make any weird noises again!
As he thought about it, he looked up.

At this moment, another leaf happened to fall, and he saw it clearly.

Since he saw that it was leaves falling, he certainly didn't try to hide, nor did he make any strange noises.

The leaves gently touched his face as they fell.

He found that the feeling was too similar to the feeling when the thing touched his nose before.

At this moment, he suddenly understood: what touched my nose just now and what I didn’t see clearly the second time were all leaves, right?

As he was thinking, he lowered his head and saw the third leaf falling to the ground.

The man in the gray hat looked at the leaves on the ground and thought: That's right! They must have been leaves all three times! There is nothing on the ground, there are leaves on the ground! I thought there were other things besides leaves, but I couldn't find them! Did the three leaves falling from the tree have something to do with my leaning against the tree? They might have been about to fall, but when I leaned against them, they moved more and fell? Then were the other leaves on the ground fallen before? For example, they were blown down by the wind before...

As soon as he thought of the word "windy", his slightly relaxed mood suddenly became tense again. He thought of what they had told Tie Hongyan before about the wind and yellow sand, and he thought of what they said about his crying sounding strange.

The man wearing the small gray hat forced himself to think about something else so that he would not be so scared. He thought: What happened just now has passed. Now I am near Gaopeng House, the young patriarch is not far from me, and there are Taoist priests performing magic here. Why should I be afraid of what happened before? Besides, it was just leaves falling just now, so why should I be so scared?
As he was thinking, he suddenly found it hard to understand what happened before. He thought: This is really strange! It was just a leaf falling. Why didn't I see it clearly the first two times? It's fine if I didn't see it clearly, but why didn't I feel that it was actually a leaf that hit my nose, and that it was a leaf that fell from in front of me? It's fine if I didn't feel it, but why did I think it was related to a ghost? Why did I do this?

The man wearing the small gray hat suddenly thought of what he had heard from a much older man: "Some people are so frightened that they can't even see things clearly and feel abnormal. They will mistake a shadow for a monster and a piece of dessert for a devil..."

There was a lot more to what that person said, but the man in the small gray hat couldn't remember it clearly at the moment, but suddenly he felt that the person's words could explain why he couldn't even see the leaves falling clearly and couldn't feel what they were, and why he was so scared.

(End of this chapter)