Chapter 3: The Enemy
"It's... What happened? We watched the tragic scene in amazement, and the "purgatory on earth" was nothing more than that, and even the air was mixed with a strong smell of rust, which was disgusting.
Most of the bricks and glass of the house were maliciously smashed to pieces, and the garden and trees, which had been neatly trimmed by the owner of the house, were looted and became crooked and messy. The water flowing in the canal is frozen by the ability of "decay", and a trace of strange liquid under the ice seems to guide us to the end of the canal.
We found the answer, the sad answer. The canal led all the way to the eaves, and a block of ice about the shape of a human hand blocked the beginning of the canal, and a large piece of strange liquid flowed out from under the ice. The door of the inner courtyard has been frozen tightly, and the windows reflect the large blooming Manju Sahua, completely obscuring our view.
My consciousness suddenly seemed to be soaked in a pure fruit wine, and the more I sank, the more blurred it became, and my arms stretched straight upwards, thinking that something that could float over a branch or foam board could carry me up, but when the dream shattered, all my hand grasped was a foamy nothingness.
"Or do you choose to escape?" A voice said. I couldn't answer him, my consciousness gradually dissipated, and suddenly my eyes went dark, and I fell into a fainting.
When I woke up, I found myself sitting on the steps, leaning on the shoulder of the drill.
"Dizzy again? Also, watching this scene, my brain is also dizzy, and I am about to vomit." Ah Jue walked in the direction of the gate of the house, "You guys wait here for a while, I'll go out and find that bastard!" ”
"That guy might be staring at us somewhere, maybe he deliberately let us see this scene, you better wait..."
"Bah, what are you waiting for, you want to deliberately disgust us and make us afraid of him? If you don't teach him a lesson, you might get even better! Ah Jue didn't listen to the drill's dissuasion at all, and walked out of the door angrily.
The drill bit and I saw a black shadow outside the fence, like a vague human figure, and I immediately realized that the black shadow was the one I saw outside Ren Wei's store, "Let's follow quickly, Ah Jue is in danger!" ”
"You don't care, I fainted just now when I saw you straight" The drill was a little worried, and motioned for me to slow down.
"I'm fine, the most important thing now is to stop that dark shadow! Damn, where did that guy come from? "My steps were more hurried, but by the time we ran out, Ah Jue was gone, and the black shadow seemed to be waiting for us, and as soon as I tried to pick up a stone and hit him, he drifted away without a trace. But I don't know if it's my delusion, but part of the black shadow's body is translucent, and I can vaguely see a person struggling.
"Stop, don't go over!" The drill bit pressed my head and made me crouch down, and a column of water rushed horizontally over our heads, and instantly froze into icicles, and we witnessed Ah Jue, who disappeared from the door, being swept away by the icicles, and by the way, knocking a big hole in the wall of another house, Ah Jue tumbled and fell into the inner courtyard of that house.
The icicles rushed out of the house where we just came out, could it be that "Gui" has been hiding in a corner of the yard and secretly observing us, and the black shadow is just a cover to hide people's eyes?
"Let's go!" We wanted to check on Jue, but the big hole in the wall was suddenly patched up by ice, and we couldn't get through the big hole.
"It's not good, Xiaobai, 'Gui' may still be nearby, let's go to a farther place to hide first!" The drill pulled me and ran away, as far away as possible from the alley where the accident had happened.
Before I could speak, he forcibly dragged me away, and ran in the direction of the main road, but the speed of our running was still too slow, and I saw that the canals on both sides rose straight up, and the two water columns collided together, and the ice formed ice at the center point of the intersection of the two water columns, and the ice quickly spread outward, forming a very thick ice wall, blocking our way.
"There's an alley on the right, go there!" I could clearly see the beads of sweat on the drill's forehead, running down my cheeks one by one, and the usually calm drill was panicking like this, I shouldn't have let them get involved in this kind of trouble, but it was useless to say anything now.
"Don't run there, if he intercepts us inside, it's over!" I dragged him back and passed by the alley where the accident had happened.
There was a "squeak" sound behind me, and as I expected, the "squeak" sealed the entrance of the alley in front of me.
"We try not to run to the road where people live, the side road is a little wider so that it doesn't block us" We ran a long way, gradually moving away from the alley where the accident happened, I almost thought we were away from danger, but accidents only keep happening.
There was a small fountain built in the center of a wider intersection, it was fine when it didn't pass it, but it broke down as soon as it came to the range of the fountain, and the spring that surrounded the main fountain suddenly began to spray water like a writhing snake, and the water in the pool did not flow according to the original track, and splashed in a circle around the water, and those splashes would turn into a sharp ice pick as long as they fell to the ground, and as long as the fountain was out of control for a second, the ice pick would attack us for a second.
We panicked and dodged the splash of water and the ice picks on the ground, although this is a small fountain, but it is not much less than the large fountain, both of us lack exercise, if a few seconds can still accept, but look at the posture even if it sprays for a few hours, the limbs gradually can't keep up with the instructions of the brain, always sluggish half a beat, my arms and legs exposed to the outside are scratched by the ice picks to varying degrees, and the clothes are already wet.
After a long time, a problem will be discovered. There is a circle of decorated stone slabs outside the fountain around the small fountain, and as long as the water is sprayed on the outside of the stone slabs, it will not freeze and lose its impact.
"You've also found out, as long as the water is sprayed on the outside of the slate, it loses its attack effect."
"I know, but aren't we back to square one? Only that alley can go back."
"Why do I always feel like he's pushing us?" I leaned against the wall of the alley, looking sideways inside.
"Looks like it's all right, let's go, we don't have anywhere to go"
The ice on the hole-in-the-wall melted, as if to suggest that we were going in. I stretched out one foot and tried again and again inside and outside the wall, but I didn't dare to go in, the fountain that was out of control just now had scared me out, and I didn't dare to do anything reckless.
"Aren't we looking for Ajue? Let's go, I'll break it for you if something happens" The drill bit pushed me into the wall in a hurry, and he didn't care.
"Why are you so grumpy today, it's not you," I muttered dissatisfied.
"Am I in a hurry? Too much caution can get in the way."
Ah Jue still fell in place, motionless.
"Let's go..." As soon as the words came out, a man in a blue and white "big pick" style antique costume and a white jade bun blocked us.
"I didn't say I'm going to let you pass"
The courtyard seems to have been abandoned for a long time, the corridor in the courtyard is overgrown with weeds, and the garden of the courtyard looks deserted because no one has pruned it. There is a water tank under the patio in front of it, and because it rains a lot in this place, even if it is unmanaged, a lot of water has been accumulated.
The man stretched out his hand, and the water in the water tank followed the direction of his hand, pouring Ah Jue's body, the water condensed into ice, and froze Ah Jue inside like a cage, even so, Ah Jue, who was frozen inside, still did not move.
When I saw the familiar ability, I finally realized that the person in front of me was the "Gui" we had been looking for for a long time, but I had never known his appearance. "What the hell are you going to do? You have the ability to come at me! "I rushed up and tried to punch him, knowing that I wasn't his opponent, but my brain wouldn't allow me to sit still.
"Too weak" he glanced at me with disdain, manipulated the water flow casually, and swung at me like a whip, leaving a long scratch where it swung, but fortunately the wound was not deep, but the clothes were torn.
"You!" The drill stepped forward to support me, and glared resentfully at the frosty "Gui" in front of me.
"Whatever you curse me, you can't hurt me in the slightest anyway, I'll take this kid away" The piece of ice that froze Ah Jue floated up and disappeared with the "癸".
The drill and I were stunned as if we were petrified, and it took us half a sound to come to our senses, as illusory as a dream, watching a big living person disappear from its place, and we could do nothing.
"Fake, how is it possible?" The drill's eyes were still looking straight at the place where Ah Jue had disappeared, and he couldn't believe what he had witnessed.
"Why am I getting you involved, why can't I do anything? Why, why, why? There seemed to be a myriad of voices questioning me in my head, but I didn't know how to answer, so I could only curl up in the corner with my eyes closed, as I did then, pretending that I didn't know anything.
I know, and "he" knows, but he doesn't want to tell me.
"Find him, get him back," according to the drill told me, I was running forward like crazy at the time, my bookmark inexplicably appeared and turned into an axe, and I almost got into a hand with a young man.
I don't remember anything about what the drill told me, and the axe was still in my hand when I woke up, but I didn't know that bookmarks could be transformed into anything else, and I didn't dare to do anything with someone who looked vicious.
"You can't always remember the way home, but if you make a mistake again and again, you may never go back."
"I thought it wouldn't hurt if I covered my heart, I thought I wouldn't cry when I closed my eyes, I just thought."
"Time only deceives fools like you".
The drill didn't say anything, shook his hand and slapped me, "Do you think it's useful to blame yourself?" What do you cry about? The first question now is how to find Ah Jue."
"Smack!" The pain from my cheeks woke me up, and the two voices in my head were slapped together, and his slap calmed my chaotic state of mind, and physical sober friends are the unique way to comfort others, simple and effective. I rubbed my face, wiped the tears from the corners of my eyes, sorted out my thoughts a little, and compared a suitable person in my memory.
"yes, how did I forget about him? Wen Chen's ability just happened to be able to find him, aren't we about to go looking for him too? ”
"You said he was dangerous"
"I know, but I have to go to him, and I'm afraid of my own characters, what else can I do?"
"Good" Drill showed a rare smile, "Let's go, you lead the way"