Chapter 50: Actually, I'm a hypnotist

Halfway through, Wei Zao caught up and honked his horn.

I know there's a situation, so stop now.

Meng Xiaoshuai's Hummer had a flat tire. The salt crust here is extremely hard, and lifting a salt crust and smashing it down is like two stones hitting together.

Meng Xiaoshuai's expression was very depressed.

Yes, she only brought a spare tire, that is, she only had one chance, if she had a flat tire, she would not be able to go, in this grim situation, it was impossible to let other cars drag away, it was too fuel-intensive, so she could only abandon her car.

Xu Erge was the first to get out of the car, silently helped Meng Xiaoshuai change into a spare tire, and everyone continued to move forward.

At 12 noon, I pulled over in a low-lying area.

The sun is overhead, and there is a heat wave. There was a strange sound in the endless land of salt crust, far and near, like firecrackers, crackling, sounding very scary.

Pulp was a little frightened: "What sound?" ”

I said, "Salt crust." ”

The surface temperature of the hard salt crust rises sharply due to the exposure to the sun, while the temperature inside the salt crust changes relatively slowly, and this difference causes the salt crust to crack, so there is this strange sound that covers the world.

The ground in this area became thin and brittle, and the feet walked on the upturned salt crust, which immediately turned into soft dust, flooding to the ankles, and it felt like walking on the surface of the moon.

After getting out of the car, everyone's faces quickly broke out with sweat.

There was a sound of scolding Four-Eyes, and I turned my head to see that Four-Eyes couldn't get out of the car.

I heard that when Peng Jiamu was looking for Peng Jiamu for the second time, five police dogs were transferred from Shanghai, Nanjing, and Yantai, and they also refused to get out of the car. Search and rescue personnel could only drag them down, but they desperately jumped into the car. Later, the driver had to drive the car away. The police dogs had no choice but to stay on the salt-crust ground, and because the surface was so hot, they only used three paws to land on the ground and jumped and walked......

If we can't get out, the temperature will get higher and higher, and we will all become Yu Chunshun.

I told everyone to set up their tents, sleep well, and wait until four or five o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun was in the west, and it was a little cooler, and then we continued walking. If you don't set up a tent, you won't be able to rest in such a hot sun. The weather is too hot, and the car is prone to problems.

Everyone agreed.

Soon, two tents were erected. Then, everyone started to set up a third tent.

Zheng Taiyuan asked sensitively: "Do you need to set up so many tents?" ”

Wei Zao said: "This is for you." ”

Zheng Taiyuan said: "Thank you, I don't need it, I rarely take a nap." ”

Meng Xiaoshuai said: "Don't mind, I have a small tent in the car, and you can sleep alone." ”

Zheng Taiyuan said: "Okay, thank you. ”

Meng Xiaoshuai brought her small tent, and Zheng Taiyuan set it up alone.

At noon, everyone simply ate some egg yolk pie, canned sardines, and mineral water amid the sound of salt shells.

After everyone got into the tent, Li Zhao and I stayed in my car.

I sat next to him in the back seat and said, "Let's talk? ”

Li Zhao said arrogantly: "No matter how you talk, you are not an opponent. ”

I said, "I'll speak first, and you listen." Then you say, I listen. ”

Li Zhao said curiously: "This kind of chat is interesting! ”

I turned on the music, a very monotonous lullaby, like a drop of water ticking, forming an undulating melody, 123,321,123,321,123,321......

He watched me with wide eyes, not knowing what I was going to do.

I said, "I'm not a writer, I'm a hypnotist." Now, I'm going to hypnotize you. ”

He suddenly laughed, "You've been hypnotized by me all the time, you know? ”

I was shocked.

Yes, my mind was being led by this man all the time, and I was dizzy until he went insane.

A good person, his language must have a hypnotic effect, such as a speaker, such as a convincing leader, such as a successful salesperson......

I raised an index finger, swung it evenly in front of his eyes, and said softly, "It's getting dark, the night is getting deeper, and there is not a sound between heaven and earth......"

His eyeballs turned with my fingers.

I said, "Your head is covered with the night, your shoulders are covered by the night, your stomach is covered by the night, your legs are covered by the night, and your feet are covered by the night......"

His eyes were sparkling.

I said, "Life is so empty, you only have a wisp of consciousness left, slowly floating, floating, floating, too light, too light, too light, don't close this world, don't close, don't close......"

His eyes finally showed sleepiness and slowly closed. I saw his eyelids moving, indicating that his consciousness was not completely at peace.

I continued: "There is no sky, there is no earth, it is too vast, too vast, too vast...... You float into the depths, drift away, float away...... It's too deep, it's too deep, it's too deep...... Can't extricate yourself, can't extricate yourself, can't extricate yourself......"

His eyelids fell silent.

I went on to say, "Don't do anything, follow this voice, float slowly, it's safe, it's sober, it's pleasant......"

After ten minutes, he finally entered a state of complete hypnosis.

Now, he's like a black cabinet with closed drawers, and I'm going to open them one by one to see what weird things that Zheng Taiyuan has put in them......

I said, "...... night."

The night was his last impression of the world before he went crazy.

I said, "Tent ......."

The tent was the last place he spent before he went crazy.

I said, "Zheng Taiyuan ......"

His eyelids jumped suddenly.

I said, "Zheng Taiyuan's mouth is ......"

His eyelids jumped even harder.

I said, "He said...... He said...... He said...... What did he say? ”

Li Zhao's brows furrowed, but he didn't answer my words.

I said, "The emergency light is so bright, Zheng Taiyuan's mouth is talking, he is saying, he is saying, he is saying, he is ......"

Li Zhao suddenly spoke, slurred in his words: "They say ......"

I was stunned for a moment, then said, "Night, tent, emergency lights...... What do you see next? ”

Li Zhao said: "Three Zheng Taiyuan ......"

I shuddered: "Three? Where did those two come from? ”

Li Zhao said: "Underground. ”

I said, "What are they doing here?" ”

Li Zhao said, "They each do their own thing......

My body was getting colder: "What are they doing?" ”

Li Zhao said: "One continued to talk to me with a smile, one stood guard at the curtain, and the other pressed my mouth hard......"

Speaking of this, Li Zhao suddenly shut up.

I said, "Are you sure it's Zheng Taiyuan?" ”

He stopped talking, as if someone was covering his mouth, and his expression was painful.

I can't go any further.

I said, "The darkness recedes little by little, little by little, little by little...... You have a head, you have your shoulders, you have a belly, you have your thighs, you have your feet...... The sky is getting brighter, brighter, brighter, and the world is getting clearer, clearer, clearer...... I count 10 and you slowly open your eyes, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10......"

He opened his eyes in a flash.

I watched him quietly.

He asked vigilantly, "What did you do to me?" ”

I said, "I'm going to go around your brain." ”

He said, "Coming out? ”

I said, "It's a labyrinth with twists and turns." ”

He smiled: "You are welcome to come back next time!" ”

I said, "You can sleep for a while." ”

He immediately lay down, with surprisingly agile movements, and he curled up in the back seat, looking like a child.

The weather was surprisingly good on this day, I don't know, this is the last noon of Li Zhao's life.

I got out of the car, closed the door, and walked to Zheng Taiyuan's tent.

His tent was set up farther away, as if he were afraid that our people would hate it, and from a distance, the little tent looked like a grave bag.

I'm going to talk to Zheng Taiyuan.

I'm going to see the soles of his shoes.

I walked to the door of his tent and asked, "Lao Zheng, have you slept?" ”

He said, "No." ”

I lifted the curtain and went inside. The tent was too low for me to stand up and just sit down.

Zheng Taiyuan was lying in his sleeping bag, with only his head exposed. I looked and there were no shoes around the sleeping bag.

I said, "Are you wearing shoes in your sleeping bag?" ”

He was a little embarrassed and said, "I often sleep in the open air, I'm used to it." Sure enough, there were two lumps of plateau red on his cheeks.

I said, "Li Zhao is so crazy that he said he saw three of you." I said as I watched his expression closely.

He said, "Well, he really shouldn't have traveled to Lop Nur. As long as you can't get out, it's easy to collapse. ”

I said, "You're strong, you survived alone for two months." ”

He said, "You don't know, I love Lop Nur so much that even if I never get out, I will die a well-deserved death." ”

I said, "I've seen your news on the Internet, help has come, and I haven't seen you a few times before they give up." ”

He said, "What do you mean by online? ”

I was immediately alarmed: "You don't know about the Internet? ”

He realized something and hurriedly said: "I am actually a driver of the scientific expedition team, and I don't have much knowledge. ”

I stared at him and stopped talking. It's 2013, and even if he's a driver, it's impossible not to know what the Internet is.

I suddenly said, "Lao Zheng, your clothes don't fit. ”

He was stunned for a moment and said, "Oh, the leather jacket is big." ”

I shook my head: "The jeans are too big, too." ”

He said, "You don't trust me? Suspect I stole it? ”

I said, "Can you tell me what's going on?" ”

He said: "I have been wearing my clothes for two months, sweating during the day and freezing hard at night, hard as armor, and I can use it as a gong when I take it off." I took a few of my teammates' relics with me and replaced them with one of them. ”

I said, "What do I say......?"

He said, "By the way, are you here for something?" ”

Despite his explanation, I still had a shadow in my heart. As soon as he asked me, I immediately said, "There are some suspicious footprints in our camp, can you come with me to take a look?" ”

"No problem," he said. ”

Then, he climbed out of his sleeping bag.

I stared at his black hiking boots.

He crawled out and then stooped to his feet and got out of the tent. I never had a chance to see the soles.

I also got out of the tent and kept an eye on his tracks.

Large circles and small circles appeared on the ground. Not the elusive shoes.

He turned back to me and asked, "Where are the footprints?" ”

I took him outside the camp, and was about to pretend to be surprised, and said, "Hey, right here, why are the shoe prints of the copper coins with square holes missing?"

Yet, my eyes widened.

It's like to match my deception, that horrible shoe print reappeared. It appeared out of thin air and reached for my car.

I said, "Look, it's these shoe prints!" ”

Then, I ran to my car and looked through the window, Li Zhao was still curled up, already asleep.

I breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards Zheng Taiyuan, but a stone was pressed in my heart - these footprints appeared again, as if he was an invisible person, anytime, anywhere, everywhere. The person wearing these shoes was very arrogant and didn't take me seriously at all, and just as I got into Zheng Taiyuan's tent and talked to him, he began to run around the camp unscrupulously......

Zheng Taiyuan said: "Could it be that someone in your team stepped on it?" ”

I wasn't in the mood to explain to him, so I said, "I remember no one has these shoes, so I'll ask when everyone wakes up." Thank you, you rest. ”

Then, I went back to my tent.

Despite the sound of salt crusts, Pulp, Bubu, and Zhang Hui were all asleep, and they laid out my sleeping bag for me. I lay down on my sleeping bag, closed my eyes, and thought back to what Zheng Taiyuan had said, and the shoe prints......

I was always going to take a nap at home, and before I knew it, I fell asleep.

I was woken up by the outside, and when I opened my eyes, I felt that something was wrong, so I quickly got up and ran out.

I was stunned by the scene outside - everyone was standing in different places like wooden people, Li Zhao was holding a ***** and was shouting frantically: "Whoever moves me will kill whom!" ”……