Chapter 47: The Third

It really is.

We repeat the same day over and over again: from the barracks, to the slope of mourning; Then return from the Mourning Slope and continue from the barracks......

I'm going to change that.

I turned around and drove back to camp, the monsoon had already returned to the tent.

I honked my horn and she walked out.

I beckoned to her, and she ran over.

I said, "Monsoon, come with me." ”

She immediately opened the car door and sat down.

After I got the car moving, she asked me, "Why did you change your mind?" ”

I said, "I'll tell you a story about cheating." ”

I got the car out of the way, and as I drove, I told her—

There is a couple of men and women who drive to the wild to cheat. It was raining heavily halfway through, the road was too slippery, and their car rushed into the trench at a bend.

They crawled out and tried to call for help, but there was no signal at that place. They had no choice but to abandon the car and walk in the rain, until it was almost dark, when they saw an old building appear in front of them.

There was a suspension bridge in front of the building, which was very old, the iron cables were rusty, and the edges of the wooden planks were rotten. They cautiously walked over and into the building. It seems to be an abandoned villa, most of the rooms are empty, and some rooms have left some things that the owner doesn't want, such as a shabby sofa, a cabinet, and three pairs of slippers.

The two men found a blanket, undressed, lay on the couch, and warmed themselves by rubbing ......

In the middle of the night, the man woke up and found the candle lit.

The woman also woke up, she thought it was a candle lit by a man, and she didn't care, she found another problem, a pair of slippers were missing!

Then, a woman's voice faintly came from outside, and after listening to it for a while, the woman's soul flew away, and it was her own voice! She heard it more and more clearly, it was her vow to her husband at the wedding! Next, the noise of the guests at the wedding banquet was heard outside......

Finally, silence returned to the old building.

The man took the woman to check and found nothing, but the third pair of slippers was also not found. Where can those slippers be? They all knew in their hearts that of course they were worn on a person's feet, not that they were missing, but that the person was hidden......

The two of them returned to the couch, shivering, waiting for the dawn. In the meantime, the woman suddenly said that she felt that all this was familiar, and that she did not know what year she had such a dream—she had come to such a place with a man, and heard a lot of terrible noises......

When the man heard her say this, he also felt that something was wrong, he seemed to have had such a dream!

In fact, the woman's husband installed a tracker in her car and followed her all the time. When the two were cheating, he took three photos with a Polaroid and then played the wedding recording.

When he did these things, he also felt that he had come to such a strange place in his dreams, and encountered these heartbreaking episodes......

Then he walked around the old building.

In one room, there was a floor that was upturned, and he lifted it to see an Instant camera with five pictures pressed underneath! He flipped through them one by one, and a chill was blowing on his body - the first three photos turned out to be exactly the same as the ones he had secretly taken tonight!

These photos have existed for a long time, and from another point of view, the two cheating lovers are developing step by step according to the plot shown in the photos.

What's on the fourth picture? - It's dawn, the man is wringing water on the woman's clothes, and the woman is only half of her body in the photo, as if she is wearing shoes.

In the fifth photo, it turned out to be the bodies of two people who had drowned! As you can see from the photo, one of the iron cables of the suspension bridge has broken.

The bridegroom was born with a burst of pleasure, and if this was some kind of foreshadowing, then after dawn they were doomed to death, what a retribution!

However, one question unsettled him – who took these pictures?

He continued to search, and finally saw some crooked words on the wall at the end of the corridor on the third floor, which was his handwriting, and there was a great deal of horror, confusion, and despair between the lines—

I have been to this place once and witnessed the unexpected death of my wife and that man! I suspect my life is stuck in a strange circle and I am repeating this experience again and again! I pressed the bloody handprint on the opposite wall, and if I came back later and realized the secret, I would press a bloody handprint there......

He walked to the other end of the corridor and found thousands of bloody fingerprints on the wall!

He understood why he couldn't help but stop when he passed that floor, and why he had made a mysterious walk to the bottom of the wall on the third floor, where he had left some kind of mysterious memory in his last reincarnation.

He began to observe the old building, and he found that the long corridors, the ceiling, and the ground level ...... None of them are absolutely straight and peaceful, that is, they all have a negligible arc, and when the area is large and the distance is long, there is a significant deviation.

He suddenly thought of a possibility: in this strange place, time also has an arc! If you extend it, it will gradually become a circle......

After the rain stopped, he crept outside his wife and lover's room, where the man was wringing water from his wife's clothes. My wife is wearing shoes.

After getting dressed, the two men walked out of the old building and came to the suspension bridge. It rained overnight, and the water under the suspension bridge rose a lot. They were about to walk onto the drawbridge when the woman's husband suddenly shouted at them.

The two men looked at him and froze.

The woman's husband told them what he had found and handed them a fifth photo. Then he stopped the two men and walked onto the drawbridge himself.

He doesn't want to save anyone, he just wants to change the plot and break some kind of cycle.

He had just reached the halfway point when suddenly there was a loud "click" and the drawbridge broke......

The woman's husband died, he broke a certain pattern, and the man and woman found a raft behind the old building and finally left alive.

On the way, the woman kept crying. Suddenly, she said that she was going back to save her husband, the man was puzzled, he said, he is dead, where are you going to find him......

The woman looked at him and said word by word: We go along the time.

When Monsoon saw that I stopped talking for a long time, she asked, "It's over?" ”

I said, "It's over." ”

"Touching story," she said. ”

I said, "I'm not here to move you. ”

Monsoon said, "Oh, by the way, why did you change your mind and bring me here?" ”

I said, "Don't you think it's a long day?" ”

Monsoon was so smart that her eyes immediately widened.

I said, "I'm becoming more and more sure that every story I've written has been presented in my life......"

Monsoon said, "You mean, we're in ...... Repeat? ”

I said, "Yes." ”

Monsoon said, "Since when?" After entering Lop Nur? ”

I shook my head and said, "I guess it started with leaving the barracks, and the repetition was exactly the same every time - I came alone to look for the 'chessboard' and couldn't find it, so we continued walking after dark, and we returned to the camp and continued to set off......"

Monsoon said, "So, you brought me ......"

I said, "Don't worry, that's changed now." ”

Monsoon said, "Are you sure? ”

I said, "I'm not sure. ”

The sand was soft, I hung on the lowest gear, the throttle was almost on the bottom, and the buggy was like a cow about to die, pulling a huge car, bowing its back, howling, and moving forward with difficulty step by step.

Even though the air conditioning was on, it was still hot in the cab, and I kept wiping the sweat from my face with a towel.

While I was telling a story to the monsoon, I walked far around the sandy slopes.

It was about an hour before we approached the earthen platforms.

Although we don't have a navigator, I remember the general terrain, this earthen platform should be Longcheng, which is located in the lower reaches of the Peacock River, together with Yadan in the area of the ancient city of Loulan, with an area of about 1,800 square kilometers.

As soon as we approached it, the yellow sand was broken all over the place, and the off-road vehicle could no longer move forward.

I pulled over the car, pocketed the navigator, and walked to the earthen platforms with a sapper shovel.

The scorching sun is shining, and the hair is scorched. Monsoon had a parasol with her, and she opened it, with a moving shadow on her head, a little more comfortable.

We searched for a long time in the labyrinthine Yadan, and I climbed up and down many times, but I didn't see a crack similar to the text on any of the earthen platforms.

I'm a little frustrated.

Monsoon said, "If we can't find it, will we keep repeating it?" ”

I said, "We've found this bug, we should fix it." ”

Monsoon is somewhat pessimistic: "It is impossible to ......"

I said, "Be positive, okay?" ”

"I think we'll go back to that barracks and start all over again, and at that time, we don't have the memories we have now, everything is clear, we don't realize anything, and we'll drive forward stupidly, and finally see the ...... of the Fearless Slope,"

I said, "It seems that we have to find that 'chessboard' to change all that." ”

Then, I continued to walk towards the depths of Yadan with the monsoon.

As soon as I walked out a few dozen meters, I saw 5 cylindrical earthen platforms, arranged very neatly.

Opposite them, there are also 5 earthen platforms that can be easily climbed. It's just that I can't see what's at the top.

I said, "These earthen platforms are very similar to ......."

Monsoon said, "I should go to the car and get another sapper shovel!" ”

I said, "It's easy to get separated from this place, and you can't leave me even a single step." ”

These platforms are as high as three floors, and it took me six floors to climb them.

Sure enough, I found that "chessboard"!

On my opposite side are: metal, wood, earth, water, fire......

Under my feet are: wood, earth, water, fire, metal......

My heart is beating wildly, and maybe, at this moment, my heart rate is reaching 1000 beats per minute!

If Zhou Zhidan's method is right, then, as long as I change the "chess pieces", we will get rid of the space and time of going around in circles, and return to reality from the nightmare!

However, these "characters" are several meters long, and the soil layer at the top of the platform has been exposed to wind and sun for many years, and it is extremely hard.

But now I can't go back and call people, and I can't guarantee that I'll find them when I come back.

The area of this Yadan is too large, and we are by mistake to find these "chess pieces". This place is also unfathomable, the earthen platforms are extremely similar, two people come in, and when they turn around, they may not find each other......

Monsoon shouted below, "Boss Zhou, how is it?" ”

It was windy on the platform, and her voice was quiet.

I shouted to the bottom, "Found it!" You find a shady place, don't walk around, wait for me! ”

I got to work.

I was a little nervous after filling in the cracks on the first earthen platform.

It was originally a word for "wood", but now I'm going to change it to a word for "earth". Last time, we just changed a word and it caused a sandstorm, and I don't know what will happen this time.

I carefully dug out the word "soil". I dug very shallowly, one could even say, it was just a few shovel marks.

The sky was still clear, and the sun was still hot.

The unseen adversary remained silent, watching my every move in some space.

I climbed down from the first earthen platform, and the monsoon was standing in the shade.

She said, "Changed? ”

I said, "Changed the first one." ”

She handed me the water and said, "Drink some water." ”

I took it, drank a bottle of "Goo-Doo-Goo-Goo-Goo-Do

As I did it, I found some tricks, I didn't fill in all the deep ditches of the past, I used some of their strokes, and it was much easier.

When I finished the fourth word, I took a break with Monsoon.

Monsoon squinted his eyes at the sun in the sky and said, "Did you find it, the sun seems to have stopped......"

I said, "Time is still stretching." ”

Monsoon said, "Rest for a while, I'll go." ”

I said, "No, just your body, if you get heat stroke after you go up, you will be dizzy and fall off, and you will not fall to your death." ”

I didn't expect it, and this was the last thing I said to Monsoon.

I really, very, very much regret why I had to put the word "death" in the last sentence!

It took me more than 3 hours to change the "chess pieces" under my feet to - earth, water, fire, metal, and wood.

When I finished changing the last "chess piece", I straightened up and looked around, and the world was silent, only the sound of the wind "whirring".

Suddenly, the navigator in my pocket rang, "Didi!" "That's the tone it starts working!

I was dizzy and almost fell off the platform.

I gently pulled the navigator out of my pocket, looked at it, and it was back to normal!

The locator shows that we are located on the north shore of Lop Nur, Bailongdui Yadan!

I quickly climbed down the platform and shouted, "Monsoon! The navigator is usable! ”

Didn't hear Monsoon reply.

Hey, she didn't really faint from heat stroke.

I couldn't suppress the excitement in my heart, and shouted as I ran around a few earthen platforms, "Monsoon, where are you?" Homecoming! ”

I still haven't heard her reply.

My pace slowed down a little.

I noticed a pair of unfamiliar shoe prints on the ground, with a copper coin pattern with square holes, almost 41 yards long.

I was telling Monsoon the story of "The Third Man" all the way, but I didn't expect that after we entered this Yadan, there was really a third person hidden in the shadows!

My hands and feet are starting to go limp.

Where did he come from?

Ground floor?

A deep trail of drag followed the terrifying footprints that dragged me into the depths of Yadan, and I finally saw Monsoon's green parasol, which was thrown on the sand, shaking with the wind.

I feel that there is less bad luck.

I clutched the sapper shovel tightly in my hand and called out again: "Monsoon ......"

There was silence.

I walked slowly forward, and finally saw a pile of black hair peeking out next to an earthen platform.

I pressed closer and stopped—Monsoon was lying quietly in the shadow of the earthen platform, wearing a white T-shirt, rust-red linen pants, and white canvas shoes...... His demeanor was extremely serene.

My heart was grabbed, and I cried softly: "Monsoon ......"

She seemed to be asleep.

I wish she had fallen asleep.

Pulp went to another world, and now, I'm emotionally heavily dependent on Monsoon, she can't die, I can't bear it......

At this point, the horrible shoe prints were gone, and there were no holes around.

I looked up, and the earthen platforms stood tall, could it be that the person climbed onto which earthen platform?

I didn't bother looking for him, squatted down, and put my hand under Monsoon's nose......