Chapter 6: The Shadow
Can the dead be resurrected? That is obviously impossible.
Tao Yuan walked into the darkness, leaving a stone cave and the people looked at each other.
Sado spread his hands and said with a very helpless and slightly dissatisfied expression:
"Hey, what does he mean? Alarmist?"
The black man Green stared at the four white eyes and pouted angrily:
"Resurrection of the dead, oh roar, zombie films? Do we have zombies here?"
Adolf looked at Peter's face.
A few people looked over, and sure enough, Peter, who had just fallen ill, turned blue and looked like a zombie.
These eyes frightened Peter to wave his hand again and again, and said hurriedly:
"Hey, one plus one and so on, four plus four equals eight, you see, zombies don't count. ”
The crowd laughed.
After a brief laugh, everyone fell into boundless depression and fear.
Robert looked at the direction in which Tao Ran disappeared thoughtfully, and in the midst of everyone's laughter, he also walked out of the stone cave with his daughter Rose in his arms and followed Tao Yuan's direction.
After the rain, the beach was even cooler, and as soon as I walked out of the cave, the incomparably fresh air suddenly poured into my lungs, like a strong wine, choking people for a while.
It's hard to describe and explain the feeling, but the nose is used to smelling industrial exhaust fumes and has not yet adapted to the truly pristine and clean air.
Tao Ran stood on the edge of the beach and the sea, looking at the last quarter of the moon slowly walking out of the dark clouds in the sky.
The white moonlight slowly emerged, and the dark clouds below him became darker and darker, like a huge Gothic castle, looking down on everyone on the island.
"Hey, the smoke is gone, right?"
Robert's voice sounded behind Tao Yuan, followed by the voice of his youngest daughter Rose, and there was some milkiness:
"Uncle, it's not good to smoke so much. ”
If what Robert said was absolutely ignored by Tao Ran, then Tao Yuan reacted to Rose's voice more like a normal person.
He turned his head and smiled at the rare curl of his lips.
"I know, but I need to. ”
Tao Yuan did not have any smoke, so he came here in distress, the place where they were killed.
Perhaps subconsciously, he wished he could find a pack of cigarettes here, even if it was in the pocket of the corpse's clothes.
However, the beach is now so clean that it seems that the plane crash never happened.
There were no scattered supplies, no bodies, not even the wreckage of the two planes that had been torn apart.
Robert looked at the sea, still in that comic tone:
"It's impossible to find anything here, the time of the heavy rain just now is too unfortunate, just in time for the high tide, and everything disappears with the heavy rain, the high tide, and the low tide. I grew up living by the sea, and this kind of thing is very common, and the vicissitudes of the sea are never as fast as the ebb and flow of the tide. ”
John didn't know when he was here, and his voice came:
"But we're still here, and we're not gone, are we?"
That's right, facts are facts, and the disappearance of the wreckage does not mean that nothing has happened.
John looked at Tao Yuan and said in his very standard tone and magnetic voice:
"I know you're not a conversational person, but I'd love to talk to you, for the sake of this face. ”
Tao Yuan turned his head and saw John holding a cigar in his hand, a pure Brazilian cigar.
"We can talk about this cigar after smoking. ”
John laughed:
"Then we can talk for a long time. ”
Tao Yuan took the cigar and circled it with his hand, and the end of the cigarette was cut off, as always, no one saw that he had a knife in his hand.
"Whew!"
Tao Yuan enjoyed it and closed his eyes slightly.
John looked up at the moon dancing with the dark clouds, and said in a deep voice:
"Are you sure that there were only nineteen of us in the cave? Could it be that we were mistaken? You know, very few people would pay attention to these things. ”
Tao Yuan didn't look back, looking at the depths of the ocean, not knowing what he was thinking, when he heard John ask, he replied:
"Your work card number is 89757, you still have three cigars on you, you have two deep scratches on your ring, you have fractured the middle of your left ring finger, your voice is stable at the bass 6 position, because you have a habit of deliberately lowering your voice, I believe there is a girl who often praises your voice, your ......"
Captain John's eyes widened in surprise, and he waved his hand again and again:
"Hey, stop, when did you investigate me? Are you from the Airport Investigation Division?"
Tao Yuan shook his head slowly, it can be said that he gave enough face to this cigar.
"And who the hell are you, agent?"
Tao Yuan was silent and said in a muffled voice:
"I wish I was. ”
John is incredulous:
"How do you know so much about me?"
Tao Yuan's voice is always so quiet, just like the night now:
"I have a special approach to analyzing and remembering data. ”
John surrenders:
"Well, I'm completely convinced now that there must have been only nineteen people entering the cave, but when did one more come out?"
Tao Yuan was silent for a moment:
"While Peter was being treated, someone came back with someone who was collecting wood in the rain. ”
John hurried back in the direction of the cave, and it should be said that he ran back.
He didn't have to ask to know that he was going to Belic to ask about the process of collecting firewood.
At this time, the cigar was only burning 1.5 centimeters.
Seeing John running back, Robert came over again, looked at Tao Yuan with a smile and said:
"What should I do when I finish smoking this cigarette?"
Tao Yuan shook his head, he didn't know.
There was a smug look in Robert's eyes:
"Shall we make a deal?"
Tao Yuan was not curious, because this Robert did not have any things and traits that he needed.
Seeing that Tao Yuan didn't speak, Robert didn't seem to care, and said to himself:
"If you agree to make a deal, I'll give you a whole pack of cigarettes, enough for you to smoke for two months. ”
Tao Yuan turned his head, he was very interested in this transaction.
When Robert saw Tao Yuan turn his head, his face became more and more proud, he waved his hand at Tao Yuan with Rose, and the three of them walked to the depths of the beach together.
Just a dozen meters away from the jungle, the beach here is already sparsely littered with wild grass and fine rocks.
I saw Robert put down Rose, rummaged through a tuft of wild grass and rocks, and pulled out a waterproof hiking bag, a very professional hiking bag with a scale of 100 centimeters.
"Rose and I were washed up on the shore by the sea, and I wanted to help those who hadn't climbed up yet, so I picked up this big-looking backpack and gave Rose to sit on, and then I found it full of cigarettes, and I didn't smoke, so I threw it here. ”
Tao Ran looked at the backpack that had opened the zipper, reached out directly to take it, put it on his back, turned around and walked in the direction of the stone cave.
"Deal?"
Robert was stunned:
"You haven't asked me what to trade. ”
Tao Yuan's voice was still quiet, not like a flowing sound wave:
"Don't ask, you and Rose will live well before I die. ”
Robert smiled proudly in the night, kissed Rose on the cheek, and said:
"You see, Dad is actually very good at business, it's just that his luck is not good......"
Tao Yuan was also very proud, in fact, he only needed a pack of cigarettes to agree, not a large pack.
The entrance to the cave was full of people.
"A few of us were there collecting firewood, and John was right, the best way for that man to go into the cave without a sound was while we were collecting firewood in the rain. But the five of us went together, but when we came back, we came back one after the other, and we couldn't be sure if there was one more person with us. ”
Belic said, pointing to the palm trees on the edge of the jungle not far away, where they had gathered firewood.
However, after this finger, the dozen or so people at the entrance of the cave were immediately stunned, their faces full of fear.
For in the palm grove, a black figure stood there, and under that figure was Laura and Ellie, who were only showing her head behind the grass.
The black shadow stretched out its arms, and it looked like it was about to pounce on Ellie's body......