Chapter 02: The Secret of the Strange Tower
There was a wind in the middle of the conversation.
The big iron chain of the bolt door at the bottom of the tower fell with the big iron lock, and the sound of the iron bumps colliding and rubbing resounded through the night. The wind whined the window lattice, interrupting our whispered conversation.
If you want to escape, you always have to survey the terrain. So the stools were stacked on top of the table, and they were stacked on the north wall of the house. The other three sides of the strange tower are guarded by heavy soldiers on three sides, and they are afraid that their arms can't twist their thighs, so they can only see if there are iron chains, bridges, ziplines, etc., under this cliff, so as to escape. Everyone held on to the table legs and stools to ensure safety, and I carefully climbed up and slowly stood up. Since the wall was thick enough for one person, I climbed up and sat down to have a better view.
When the old window pushes it, the dust falls in a flutter, and the night may be a fig leaf, and even the dust is like quicksand.
"Squeak", the muscles and bones of the window that had not been moved for a long time stretched, and my heart spread its wings like a white crane at the same time. Endless scenery in front of you, no buildings to obstruct, enjoy the scenery of a city. The sky is long, blending together, and there seems to be no difference.
The wind blows, and the clothes are fluttering. There is no fear of crumbling, but there is freedom to fly.
I almost forgot that I was a prisoner trapped, and although it was only for a moment, the spiritual pleasure it brought me was immeasurable. With the task in hand, I withdrew my eyes from afar, and when I looked down, I saw that the mountains and rocks were steep and slippery, revealing the cold moonlight, and the deeper the color became, and the abyss was always beginningless and endless.
I searched for any possible escape, but found nothing.
"It's no show, or you come up and take a look." I jumped down from the ledge with my hands propped up, "Or, there's a rope long enough and strong enough to climb down the line." Of course, even if you have this object, you can go directly from the top of the tower to the bottom of the mountain, what is this mental quality......
"Huh? So what do we do? ”
"It's that everyone's clothes are torn off and kneaded into ropes, but this is too high!"
"yes, yes, I don't even dare to climb ...... tree"
"It's too easy to fall to death like this, forget it, I'd better be trapped here to die."
There was a lot of discussion, and each of the seventeen people had one sentence, which was enough to be lively for a while, and if two sentences could lift the lid of the tower.
Suddenly, a strange sound twisted the eardrum stabbing the person's back cold, and the cold hair stood up. The sound source rushed up from the bottom of the tower, echoing in the empty tower, and my heart was also painful.
This sound is very similar to the dubbing of the water organ in a horror movie I have seen before, dull and spiky, and the discomfort is like a fingernail scratching a blackboard, if an electric drill drills into the chest, the complete noise level.
Fortunately, it was only a few seconds, and he was finally spared. I don't want to find out where this strange sound came from, whether it's a monster or a ghost, I don't recognize my current identity! During this half day, my energy was almost exhausted, and I didn't want to think anymore, let alone move. So I moved back to my corner, half of my coat was removed, my arms were drawn, my head was covered, my body curled up as much as I could, and then I relaxed my body and plunged myself into nothingness.
"Ahem, dream within a dream, let him go."
Although the wind is strong, it is not the season to cool down significantly, and the floor under me has been lying for a long time, and the warmth of the grass has been born.
The blood is like warm water, and it takes my breath to a long time. At the moment when my consciousness was completely relieved, I suddenly remembered my sweet cat. It's been a few days since I've been away from home or passed away, I don't know how she is, the cat food at home can still be eaten for a while, will she starve to death after eating......
I rolled over and prayed, "It's the second floor at home, good, if I can't go back, you can jump out of the balcony and fend for yourself."
It's a sunny day again, and the sun is shining warmly on me.
Although he didn't open his eyes, he knew that it was the sweet cat that pulled it open when it was swinging on the curtain, causing the morning sun to spread over the bed.
I reached for her half-soft, half-stiff hair, and when I first woke up, I would gurgle over to help me wake up.
It's just that the fingers probed for a long time to no avail, and the pillow was gone. When my fingers touched the hardness infinitely, I suddenly opened my eyes, and the blow to my heart made me spin for a while.
"Am I still in this broken tower?" Loss is inevitable. I sat up and put on the shirt as someone else's look, only to find that it was not the traditional right side of the Han people. There is a saying in the Analects of Confucius: "If the clothes are to the left, it is called the left." The people of Yidi were sent to the left. ”
"Heh, it's still a minority?"
I took a look at the women's clothes, the style was from the early Tang Dynasty and the late Song Dynasty, and the clothes were silk and silk, and they were not limited to a certain fashion.
I even had some doubts that I had strayed into a reality TV crew that was in chaos in the service of Huadao. But their demeanor was really too natural, and the girl who woke up took out the grate from her sleeve, first combed the knots with the toothless side, then tightened her grip on the hair, and used the toothy side to grate off the dirt that stuck to the hair. The whole action is smooth and natural, and there is no element of acting.
I touched my hair, and I don't know how to twist the bun yesterday must be fluffy and messy now. I took out the only white hosta in my hair, combed it with ten fingers, and pulled it together to the top of my head to tie a single hairpin with a hairpin.
Fortunately, I have learned such a hand before!!
Sister Apple looked at me with a smile and said, "Why did you comb the man's hairstyle?" ”
I suddenly remembered that the reason why women in ancient times could fly in a bun was because there was a sacred object such as shavings water, which is equivalent to modern gel water and hairspray. I had to answer, "I lost my belongings on the way, and that's fine, Lisuo." ”
Before fully understanding the situation, it is better to expose your privacy as little as possible. If I say that I can't comb a woman's hairstyle, I'm afraid that someone maliciously speculates about me as an "outlier".
There is no water to wash, it's just that, this night has not been relieved, and now I feel full. Last night, I looked at the bottom of the stairs and it was too dark to go down, but now I want to find out if there is a toilet bucket or something, and then I can't choose a remote corner to solve it anywhere.
People have three urgency, and there is no way.
I said that if I wanted to drag Sister Apple and the girl in Tsing Yi downstairs, they probably couldn't stand the urgency caused by my repeated shaking, so they decided to explore the way together. Although some of the rest of the sisters were already patient, they still didn't say anything.
During the day, the tower looks much more normal, and the steps are very solid, and the steps are very stable. The central axis of the tower structure is a spiral staircase, and we rotate to the next floor.
The outer wall of this layer is a whole circle of one and a half partitions, and there are naturally many clay statues of gods and Buddhas inside, and it can be seen that there were originally bright paintings, but now they have faded in color.
The carvings are fine, and the craftsmen are infused with their faith.
I looked at each one closely, and it came to life. But I couldn't recognize who they were, but they were more like images of gods and Buddhas that I didn't know before.
Sunlight streamed through the windows and gaps on each floor, and countless rays of light shone into the statues in the shrines. Light and shadow flow, flowing waves.
My eyes follow the waves of light, as if exploring the mysterious connection between time and art.
But the sudden cold glance made me feel a sigh in my heart, and I almost wanted to pee my pants.
I noticed that the eyes of all the idols were looking at the place where the light was coming from, and the pupils seemed to come alive. And the backlit ones all stared at the empty eyes, not knowing where Hitomi had gone.
This unexpected discovery made me suspect that I had fallen into a demon cave!
I gasped, fearing more than respect, and whispered, "Hurry up, hurry up." He picked up a crockpot that looked abandoned in the middle of the partition, and trotted all the way to the top floor, not daring to strut and startle a certain idol grandfather again.
If an eye followed me, my back swished back to the top floor.
Another heavy stimulus made me no longer care about the side of me, and I put the crockpot and untied my clothes directly. And while venting the flood, he muttered and scolded in his heart: "Nima, fortunately, it is to move your eyeballs in the light, if you look at Lao Tzu, won't you really want to perform a pants-wetting stunt for you?" ”
At special times, being reserved and shy counts nothing. The tinkling of my spring is as unstoppable as the devastation and fright I have been subjected to for the past few days.
After staying up for a long time, I saw that the shadow of the stool in front of me began to tilt westward, and I knew that it was afternoon.
Dirty and empty, the mood has been bad to a certain point. I wanted to throw the empty teapot on the table and smash it on the head of the guards at the gate of the tower, so that they could also feel the pain. But I had already predicted that after the head was bleeding, the girls would first smile and applaud me, and then several big men would rush up from under the tower, and under the pressure of the pomp, and without even the whips in their hands being unfurled, the girls would report me and push me to the front, and expose my evil behavior of attacking the staff.
Then I traveled to other planes under indescribable torture and resentment. Of course, perhaps their superiors thought I was a brave and good boy, and it was not known that they would release me and set me free, but the probability of such a thing was so small that it was fascinating.
In the end, all the analysis only made me give up the decision to throw the teapot.
Fortunately, before I tried to analyze the next bloody idea, I vaguely heard the tower door open, and the footsteps of Qi Qi brushing were getting closer and closer.
How can the sound of footsteps at this time be called footsteps, it has a new name called hope. In any case, it is a clearer inflection point than being stuck here.
Sure enough, we were escorted out of the tower, and we were not even tied together with ropes. Happiness sometimes really needs to be compared, and the foundation will change radically.
Several large tents in this mountain camp are located in the east of the strange tower, and when you look inside, it looks like a training and cavalry shooting range from a distance. A few rings of tall iron-mesh fences to the west are wooden shacks, which I don't know what to do.
At this moment a group of women dressed in the same clothes came over, like servants, and each of them led us into the small courtyard south of the big tent. There are sentry posts in all sides of the entire mountain camp, and there is not even a tall tree in the camp, even if you go to the south courtyard, it is just a potted flower and plant.
As far as I know, it has always been forbidden to raise daughters in the barracks. But the plaque at the entrance of this small courtyard has the words "Huaizhen Husu", which is obviously a woman's residence, but I don't know what the rules are here.
The courtyard is a two-storey small building, a mouth-shaped building, with rooms on all sides, and the only stone rockery and exquisite lotus pond in the courtyard can be seen at the railing. Because the camp wall is too high, it is absolutely impossible to find the scale of the trace of this southern courtyard from the outside.
The girl in front of me was thoughtful, reminding me all the way to look at the road and stop at the turn. She gently pushed open the door of one of the rooms in the west row, and the elegant incense instantly hit her face, wrapped in a hint of sweetness.
The large bathtub in the room was billowing with white mist, and I was fascinated to step into this quaint ancient boudoir, excited and surprised at the same time. Yingying looked around, carved furniture can shine brightly; Look closely, the array of ornaments is full of novelty.
The girl offered spices and bath beans, smiled and gestured, then withdrew and took the door with her, and waited at the door.
Wow! Now this little world is mine!
I took off my skirt, folded my close-fitting T-shirt and cropped pants, and stood on tiptoe to sneak it away on top of the bed. He also removed the toy necklace and bead chain watch from his neck and placed them in the jewelry box on the dressing table. Now there are only a few belongings left......
Then I melted like a piece of white chocolate in warm water, and my legs slowly floated up as my body relaxed, rippling slightly with the waves. The feeling at this moment is not the freedom and comfort of the joy of fish and water, but more like the duckweed without ideas letting him go east, west, north and south.
I subconsciously thought that there was a higher level of tranquility beyond worldly freedom.
He did not lose money and make a profit, but fulfilled himself.