Chapter 1: Who You Are and Who I Am (1)
The dark abyss is itself
Remember
No matter how terrible
Find him
Leave no stone unturned
Look for him
γLazy Townγ
"It's ...... Where is this?"
"Why did I come to this place?"
"Found him?"
"Who is he......"
A series of questions have been hovering in my mind, lingering. I looked out the window at the endless desert, as if my chaotic thoughts were so chaotic that I couldn't see the end.
"Girl!"
"Girl!!"
"Girl!!"
"Huh?"
The three calls that came into my ears directly pulled me up from the abyss of doubt, my senses slowly regained consciousness, and the sound of the car engine starting gradually became clear. I turned my head and tried to soothe the nervous heart of the uncle in front of me with a smile that had brought me into the car.
I don't know why, my heart believes in him, he's not some bad guy.
"Girl, what are you looking at? I saw that you woke up and kept looking outside, and I didn't see you say anything?"
"I ...... I don't know what to say. β
I don't know this uncle in front of me. Ever since my uncle picked me up from this barren desert, I've been thinking, no, doubts, doubts about everything around me. I don't know why, but the more I try to see things around me, the more blurry it becomes.
I don't know why, my heart believes in him, he's not some bad guy. He was wearing a pair of silver-rimmed sunglasses, and the lenses were black that I had never seen before, and I couldn't see his eyes through his sunglasses, and I couldn't see myself through his lenses. His sunglasses seemed to swallow up all the brilliance, and I guess everything he saw from his eyes was black and white.
"Girl, where are you from?
"I don't know. β
"I don't know, girl, what are you kidding?"
"I really don't know. β
The uncle let go of the steering wheel with both hands and made a look of surprise. His question was really to the point, why? Why am I in the desert? I vaguely remember that I was lying alone in a pile of sand, with no wind, no hot sun, but the sand didn't seem to draw much heat from the sun. I even felt comfortable lying here, thousands of grains of sand scratched my skin, like a pair of familiar rough hands caressing, and the whole body flowed with a trace of warmth.
I leaned back in my seat, closed my eyes lightly, I tried to find, tried to remember, not the warmth and comfort on the sand, but the voice before I woke up, he was as light as powder sprinkled in the air, even the slightest wind could blow it away, his voice was as gentle as a glass of freshly mixed warm water, and he held the exchange of cold and heat in his hand to loosen the nerves of the whole body, and he was in my ear, and said softly:
"The dark abyss is yourself. β
Then a hurried, shrill female voice broke the tender and happy situation, as if she was admonishing and requesting:
"Remember, no matter how terrible, find him. β
The woman's voice stopped abruptly, and then there was a long silence, and I was overwhelmed by the boundless darkness, and I tried to flee but I found myself where I was, no matter how I went. But I can't stop, I'm going to find someone, maybe someone who can take me away from this hellish place I don't know anything about.
Leave no stone unturned, find him.
I said to myself, look for him, yes, find that person.
Then, I woke up. I sat in my uncle's car, wearing a blanket that my uncle had given me, and it was thin and soft. I looked out the window at the pale blue sky, which seemed close and far away.
"What's your name, girl?" I shook my head.
"You don't even know your name, do you, girl, you probably have amnesia. "I looked ahead of the road and was overwhelmed.
"Oh, that's going to be difficult, you say you don't know anything, and if I pull you back to town, it's going to be a problem. β
"Town, what town are we going to now?"
"Lazy Town, didn't I tell you before?"
"Lazy Town? β
"Haha! All I can say is that it's not weird!"
Uncle didn't know which button he pressed on the car, and a blue transparent screen appeared on the windshield, showing a lot of information that I couldn't understand. There was a map on the screen showing our exact location, and Uncle pointed in the direction of Lazy Town, and the whole picture of Lazy Town and how far we were from the town appeared on the screen. I thought it was just an ordinary truck, but it had quite advanced technology.
Uncle has been accosting me since I woke up, and his uncle told me about the interesting things he had seen along the way, and laughed from time to time, and his laughter was inexplicably familiar. His laughter has the magic of a loved one, and thanks to his hearty laughter along the way, my heart has gradually settled down.
"Uncle, where the hell is this? Why is there desert everywhere?"
"Wait, what do you call me, uncle?"
"Isn't that possible?"
"Alas...... Well, uncle is uncle. β
"Oh, uncle, where is this?"
"Here, this is the Great Northwest! Girl, this place is very desolate! I'm glad you met me!"
"Great Northwest...... Northwest...... It turns out that this is the northwest. β
Northwest, Northwest, Northwest...... I muttered these two words over and over again, and I wanted to look for any information about the Northwest from my memory, but my memory seemed to be locked in something, locked so tightly that I couldn't remember anything. This empty brain made me panic, my heart was permeated by confusion, I vaguely felt that I had been here, but I just couldn't remember. Just as I was about to dig into my memories with all my might, trying to find a trace of information about the Northwest, several looming images suddenly flashed in my mind, as if in the desert, as if in a house, as if there was a person, as if there had been a conversation. I turned to my uncle and said.
"Uncle, I seem to be ...... Been here. β
"You've been here? No, how could you have been here. No, definitely not. β
"However, I have an inexplicable familiarity with this place. β
"If you've been here, I'm sure I know. I'm the one in charge of purchasing supplies in the town, and I'm the only one in contact with the outside world and the town! If an outsider has ever been to town, I'm sure I'll be the first to know. If you've been here, I've known you. β
"I don't know, it's just a feeling, it feels like everything is a little familiar here. β
When the uncle saw me like this, he smiled speechlessly. He thinks that I am just a picture or a video I have seen before, and that what I think is familiar is only because I am now in a state of confusion, confusing the image in my mind with the reality in front of me. But I don't believe what this uncle said, the few images that flashed were so real, I'm sure I've been here. But I only know that I have been here, but I have no way of remembering when I came here and what happened.
"Girl, don't be afraid, you are like this, at most you have temporary amnesia, and you can think about everything. β
"yes, when I think about it, I'll be able to prove I've been here. β
"Haha, girl, how do you prove it? There is sand in all directions, it's not that I laugh at you, if you have left any marks before, one day, no, you won't find anything for an hour." β
"In that case, how did you find me?"
"How did I find you? Didn't I tell you? I'm the town's person in charge of purchasing daily necessities, and I have to go out to the nearby city once a week to buy them. β
"Girl, let me tell you, do you know how lucky you are! I only come out once a month, and you actually ran into me, otherwise there would be no one in this radius of dozens of miles. If you cry dad and shout mother, no one will pay attention to you, so you can only fend for yourself. β
"I watched you walk and walk alone, bent forward and with your hands down, like a zombie. β
"What? I'm walking alone?" I cried out in surprise.
"Yes, I was driving the car, suddenly the alarm went off, let me see what was going on, and when I looked closely, I saw you walking slowly by yourself, and I thought, this girl is probably from another town, lost in the desert. β
"When I got closer, I was startled to see your zombie-like posture. β
"By the time I drove up to you, I didn't have time to call you before you collapsed. β
"I thought, oh no, this girl must have been walking in the desert for too long and suffering from heat stroke and dehydration. β
"I'll get out of the car and check on you, it's weird, oops, it's weird. β
"I ...... What's wrong with me?" my heart strained.
"Oh, I saw you at the time, you girl, you're quite thin, you don't have any flesh, but you look very delicate. β
"This ...... What's so strange...... "I sat down like deflated, and that's all I had to say.
"Haha, just kidding, it's just ......"
Uncle gasped, his hair stood on end, and my heart hung again.
"That's it...... That's it, you don't have a bit of heat stroke and dehydration. When I picked you up, you still had broken thoughts in your mouth, looking for him or something. β
"I didn't think much of it, I asked, girl, who are you looking for?"
And you screamed in a panic, and he was looking for him, and I asked, girl, who are you looking for?"
"But all of a sudden, you're motionless. No matter what I called you, you didn't respond, and you said that I couldn't leave you alone in this desert, so I carried you into the car. I checked your temperature again, and there was no heat stroke or dehydration. It's weird, as if you've never been in the desert before. β
Uncle's words really shocked me, I have been walking? Haven't I been lying in the sand all the time? Isn't my vague feeling real? What the hell is going on! What is happening to me!!
Countless questions raced through my mind, and I was so panicked that my vision was blurred, my hands and feet trembled, and my head was dizzy. Seeing this, the uncle immediately stopped the car. But I could only look at his worried expression, and I couldn't hear a word from him.
"I ...... I...... I'm so uncomfortable. β
With all my strength, I could only utter this one sentence. Then, as if the breath was blocked by something, each sip was more difficult than the last. At that moment, all I knew was that I was going to go out and breathe. I pushed my uncle's hands away, and hurriedly opened the car door with difficulty, my feet were no longer numerous, my limbs seemed to be pulled closer to the center of my body by a rope, and my body was stiffly curled up. My consciousness was slowly being pulled away, and all I knew was that I was going to get out. I took a deep breath and struggled to swing my upper body outward, no, it wasn't enough, I had to hurry, my hands were no longer felt. I tried to take a deep breath again, but I couldn't breathe anymore, I tried my best to swing out, okay, just a little bit shorter, I felt my butt have come out of the seat, and then I fell hard from the car door more than a meter high. The moment I hit the sand, a ringing in my ears pierced my brain, quivering at every nerve in me, I groaned in pain, and I looked to the other side of the road, which gradually dimmed. Am I going to die? and why?
Suddenly, I felt a hard blow to my back, a blow that seemed to shatter all the blockages in my lungs, and my breathing was free, and the desire to survive made me breathe big and big. I felt a pair of hands pick me up, and although my vision was blurry and I couldn't see anything clearly, I could recognize it as my uncle, who had once again rescued me. Slowly my breathing stabilized, but my strength was exhausted, and I was too painful and tired.
Perhaps what makes me feel a little more comfortable is that the moment I fall on the sand, the sand I can feel, and the sand that comes into contact with me, is so hot that it can bake my skin.
Finally, there was darkness.