Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Red Pomegranate (Part II)

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When I woke up, I felt like my chest was stuffed into a big brazier, almost burning and drying people; His vision was extremely blurry, and he couldn't see the surrounding scenery clearly, only feeling a few white figures swaying around him; Hearing is also very bad, listening to the sound of people talking is like the rumble of a waterfall, listening to people's crying is like the sound of the wind; The brain is like a person with an excessive fever, in a state of almost unconscious trance.

At this time, I didn't know where I was, and I didn't remember waking up once, but I only felt a violent pain in any part of my body, from the epidermis to the bones and heart, as if this pain was difficult to eliminate even if a person died. After about two or three minutes, my vision and hearing improved a lot, and I could vaguely see Aunt Qiu Yun sitting on the edge of the bed holding my hand and crying sadly, but when I looked at it, it seemed that I had become Fan Yina again, and when I looked at it again, I had become Aunt Qiu Yun again, and the person in front of me was changing back and forth.

I didn't seem to be noticed when I woke up this time, and even I wondered if I really woke up. "I still couldn't move my body at all, and it was quite difficult to move my eyes, but whether I was awake or asleep, I could clearly see wooden infusion stands on both sides of the bed, and a total of twelve or three infusion bags (some bottles) hung on the shelves. Some of these bags contain a red liquid presumably blood, while others contain a white, yellowish or colorless (the color of water) liquid. Five or six infusion and drainage tubes were inserted into my arms and chest, and even my nostrils were stuffed with a small tube that would bubble out.

Of course, I also felt that a doctor opened my eyelids, irradiated my pupils with a very dazzling medical flashlight, illuminated my left eye and then my right eye, and then listened to my heartbeat with a cold stethoscope. Finally, it dropped by 0.8 degrees (body temperature), but 40.5 degrees was still too high, (to the nurse) continue to use large ice packs under both armpits to physically cool down, (to the family and caregivers) you go and carry a basin of cold water, soak it with a towel and put it on your forehead to help cool down, and if this continues, the patient's brain will burn out. ”

"What's going on?" I felt strange and silently said to myself, "When did I get sick and have a high fever?" Didn't I go to the street of the commune with Aunt Qiu Yun to buy red pomegranates? The other ego or personality immediately said, "Can the doctor's flashlight shine on the pupils as bright as the sun?" You're lying in a hospital bed, wake up! I half-convinced and said, "If I'm either dreaming, or I'm really bumping into a ghost today, I wouldn't be able to explain all this." ”

When I was feeling confused about this, Aunt Qiu Yun cried like Fan Yina and put a wet towel folded into squares on my forehead, which was already in pain, and the tip of my heart trembled with this sudden coldness, and my eyes went black and I fell unconscious again. But it was as if I had come to a long, long street all at once. The street is six or seven meters wide, there is not a single pedestrian on the street, and the houses on both sides of the street are very similar to the houses of the zoo for animals, except that they are not animals, but all kinds of people.

On the left side of the street, there was a fire burning in one house after another, and the flames were pale blue, like lit alcohol. The house on the right side of the street is filled with ultra-low temperature gas, very similar to the nitrogen in a laboratory bottle. I wondered in my heart, "This is not the street of Qingshuihe Commune, am I not with Aunt Qiu Yun, where has she gone?" ”

I believed that I was in a dream, but I didn't know how to get out of it, so I simply walked forward, and I could also watch this alternative street scene by the way. These houses, I have some impressions, as if I have "seen" them with my mind in a dark world. The people in these houses, whose eyes bulge high and bulge like lizards, but have very limited visual distance, stood at the nearest part of the house, and they faintly noticed that there were people nearby, as if they were in a small and isolated space.

Each of these houses is about 10 square meters, and there are no iron barricades for animals, but only a bundle of transparent red pillars of light the thickness of a little finger, but the fire or ultra-low temperature gas in the room does not leak out in the slightest. In each room there was only one person, young and old, clothed and naked. On the wall of each room is a wooden sign nailed "After the evil, you need to reflect", the word is a seal, but it is vigorous and powerful, and the material of this wooden sign seems to be wood iron, which is resistant to high temperature and freezing.

It's strange that these rooms are filled with people from the past, present, or future. Of course, this is what I analyzed and judged from the newness of the wooden signs I saw and the way people wore them. I couldn't believe my eyes, most of the familiar faces here were naked, which was so different from when they were clothed, if they were human before, but now they are not as good as animals, it seems that human skins are indeed not comparable to animal skins.

Clothed, clothed, or naked, all of them writhing wildly in eternal fire or gas, writhing frantically their bodies uglier than animals. Some people have clearly faded their appearance, and they have to squeeze their eyebrows at imaginary customers, as if to show that they rely on a young heart. Some people don't have much belly in the first place, and they have to bend back vigorously to make their belly appear bigger, as if to say "this belly can support the boat". Some people are already so old that they can't straighten their backs, and they have to use all the strength to breastfeed, in order to show off how much they love and yearn for this sport, but that posture makes people only feel dirty when they look at it.

Although the fire or gas was only half a foot above the ground, these people were firmly wrapped in the transparent fire or gas, whether they were lying on the ground rolling or standing and twisting wildly, whether they were running wildly or crashing in a small space. The temperature of this fire seems to rise extremely high in an instant, instantaneously, and the temperature of this gas is exactly the opposite, it drops to a very low level in an instant, instantaneously, but it never freezes.

These poor and wretched people, who do not know what they have done before, will come here to receive eternal punishment, if this can be called "punishment." As soon as the temperature of the fire rose, the flesh of these people was charred, and there was a squeaky sound, and the smell was terrible. The mouth, which was supposed to be used to eat and talk, was probably burned so badly that it opened wider than two fists, but it did not make a single cry, but it spewed long flames out like an acrobat. As the temperature of the fire rose again, all that was left of these men was a skeleton that was almost reduced to powder; But the skeleton is clearly still alive, and it is twisting more desperately than before. As soon as the temperature of the fire dropped, intact flesh grew on the skeleton in an instant, and these immortal people accepted the kiss of the fire again and again.

In contrast to the fire house, the human figure in the air chamber seems to be more miserable, which may be an illusion caused by poor vision. Whether these people are jumping, running or running in the air chamber, it is difficult to get rid of the super cold air. As soon as the temperature drops suddenly, these people will not be frozen, but will run and jump even harder, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are crazy. When it touches the red pillar of light, it will bounce against the wall and fall hard, and the screaming from the mouth will be as miserable as it is, compared to the sound of the dog barking on the day of the winter solstice.

The lower the temperature, the faster these people run, and the more they collide with the pillars of light and walls, just like the dough played with by the ramen chef on the streets of Lanzhou. Of course, the more these people collided, the more flesh on their bodies flew around the room like dust, and the bare skeleton was also sentient, and the "Rattle Quack" was more level than the previous run. But as soon as the temperature rises, all the dust of these flesh will fly back to the skeleton, forming an intact, immortal person, and receiving the love of this qi again and again.

When I got tired of watching, I walked straight ahead, no longer watching the "performances" on both sides of the street, but I was puzzled and silently recited: "How is this possible? I actually came to the void zone of this time and space, it seems that I really hit a ghost today! But where does this road lead, and can I get out? ”

I was about to look back to make sure I was going in the right direction, when suddenly a voice said, "Keep going, don't look back." You have confirmed the 'seeing' of the heart with your eyes, what else do you need to affirm? Go back, as long as you have an open and loving heart, you will have more blessings in your life! As long as you learn to forget, you can live a wonderful life! ”

As soon as the words fell, I didn't know if it came from the front and back, left and right, or from the ground above, and I instantly came to the street of Qingshuihe Commune. There are far fewer pedestrians on the street than on the market day, but it is still quite lively, and more than a dozen members of the production team set up baskets near the supply and marketing cooperatives, selling vegetables and vegetables from their own plots and newly picked fruits from fruit trees. Aunt Qiu Yun stood in front of a middle-aged woman's basket, beckoning and shouting: "Hailiu, push the bicycle to Auntie, how about you come and see this red pomegranate?" ”