392 Dopp's Secret (2)

Nadop involuntarily raised his head while telling Suya about his past, but his eyes did not look at Suya, but at the afterglow of the sun shining into the room through the window, and Dopp's misty eyes seemed to have a lot of memories written. I only heard him continue to say to Su Ya: "The real name of this village is 'Heduozhuang', and there were hundreds of families living in this place, all of whom made a living by cultivating grain and fruit trees, and I was also a member of one of the families, I had a father, a mother, a younger brother and a younger sister. We have lived in this bamboo forest for generations, and of course the people here have never heard of or seen anyone leave this bamboo forest. But perhaps I am the most special person in our family, or rather in this village, and I have been curious about what the outside of the bamboo forest looks like since I was a child. I often ask my parents and the elderly how to get out of this bamboo forest, but they always answer me 'don't ask this question', 'This bamboo forest is a curse, you can't get out of it, just like you can't put a curse on it, if you insist on getting out of here, it will only make the poison of the curse that has invaded you spread more and more'...... Although the self-proclaimed experienced and omniscient old people warned me many times, it still did not change my desire to get out of this bamboo forest and explore the outside world*. Suddenly, one day, I actually dreamed of the way out of this bamboo forest, and when I woke up, I went to look for the road......"

"But I can't tell you what I did, because even I couldn't be sure if I had ever walked out of the bamboo forest, and though I might have reached the edge of the bamboo forest, there was only the end of a cliff, and just below that high cliff there was a great waterfall, and I was amazed by the spectacle of the sight, but I couldn't have taken that risk to jump from there. Eventually, I saw that there was no way out, so I had to turn back in the direction of home. ”

"I didn't expect that even so, I was still said by the people of other villages to be the only one who walked out of this bamboo forest...... Maybe I'm not as exaggerated as they say, I don't think I've ever stepped out of this bamboo forest......"

"But maybe God doesn't think so, maybe he thinks I'm not a good child, he thinks I shouldn't ignore the advice of those old people and prefer to find a way out of the bamboo forest, the old people once said that this bamboo forest that can't go out is a curse, if you insist on finding a way out, it will spread the poison of this curse."

"Perhaps in response to the words of those old people, on my way back, I actually encountered the attack of terrible man-eating giant ants, they repeatedly eroded my whole body like a mountain of mountains, and just when I was powerless to fight them and thought that I would die in their siege, the sky did not know when the dark clouds were dense, and the thunder and lightning and electric fire radiating from the dark clouds attacked the group of man-eating ants that attacked me, and finally I was able to escape the disaster......"

"But when I crawled back to the village after all the hardships, not only would I no longer see my neighbours who lived in the village, but my parents, my brother and sister were gone...... Decades have passed, in that defeat against the man-eating ants, I lost my feet, I didn't think that I could survive to this day, today I am still living alone in 'Heduozhuang', even if I don't have to eat, I can't die, but I am so lonely, my hope is like a cursed soul, never the possibility of seeing the light of day. (To be continued)