Cheng Haidong's memory seems to be recovering.

Previously, he only mentioned Ye Tianze, but now it seems that it is not only Ye Tianze who will enter this mountain forest later. And Ye Tianze in his mouth has become a monster.

So what is a monster?

If Ye Tianze follows me all the way, then his purpose must be the same as when we met that night. After that, we were forced into the cave by hordes of monsters......

"Haidong, do you remember those monsters when we entered the cave? Did Ye Tianze become like that! ”

That's my guess.

Cheng Haidong rubbed his head, nodded at first, but immediately shook his head, as if his memory began to blur again. His expression became a little painful.

"You seem to have irritated him, uncle." Yao Qianwen reminded me.

I immediately changed the subject, "Okay, let's not talk about monsters...... Haidong, who is the person who saved you? Do you recognize you? ”

"Help me? Hey...... What are you talking about? ”

He giggled.

"What you just said, what big sister appeared and saved you!"

Cheng Haidong has seen Mina, I'm thinking, maybe the "big sister" he said will be Mina? Although I know that this is very unlikely.

"Ah...... Yes! I, I remember......" Cheng Haidong seemed to suddenly think of something, and began to rummage around his body, but his clothes were so torn that it was a problem to cover his body, and it was almost impossible to hide anything. He frantically searched for a long time, and my heart became more and more impatient, so I stopped him and asked, "Is that person Mina, you just need to tell if it's Mina!" ”

But Cheng Haidong asked me rhetorically: "Mi...... Who is Mina? ”

Silly again.

It irritates me even more.

He shook off my hand and continued to rummage around my body, even burrowing into the pile of worms on the ground.

"What are you looking for? Well? Yao Qianwen squatted down at this time and looked at Cheng Haidong's torn clothes, "Is it the woman you said gave you something?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Cheng Haidong's eyes lit up, and he suddenly raised his head and smirked at Yao Qianwen: "Yes...... Yes, yes, the eldest sister gave ...... Give me a ...... One...... Where did it go? ”

"What did she give you?" Yao Qianwen seems to be very concerned about this problem.

But Cheng Haidong is crazy and stupid, his memory is confused, he just seems to remember what he was carrying, but he can't remember what it is. This continued for a long time, until Cheng Haidong gradually forgot about it. He's the fool who only knows how to giggle again.

And Yao Qianwen and I could only look at each other helplessly.

"Keep going, maybe he'll remember something, we can't just wait here." I glanced up at the spiral stone door overhead.

Although Cheng Haidong is stupid, he is very obedient.

The three of us continued to climb up, the third, fourth, and fifth floors...... All the way up to the seventh floor, there are reliefs on each layer, and the scale of the relief records on each layer is increasing. The number of ceremonies increased by seven every other floor, from the initial seven and fourteen, to forty-nine on the seventh floor.

The monster that fell from the sky is also gradually changing its form.

When I reached the sixth layer, I was particularly concerned about the appearance of the monster, which was surrounded by a boulder, and below it was a circular pool of water, which only exposed an open and closed flesh opening, separating tentacles and burrowing into the mouth and nose of the human being, completing the parasitism.

And this picture of flesh wrapped in stones, I have seen it.

That's where I reunited with Yao Qianwen.

I guess it's a guess that the stone towers on the first and seventh floors are the different places where the ritual was performed in the cave.

Seven rituals,

Seven strange insects.

And at this moment, I am on the seventh floor, and the relief scene in front of me is very huge, and the human beings look very small, the monster is coiled on a high tower, like a mass of meat, but the next one is like a long snake, it seems to be able to change its form at will.

But that's not the point.

The focus is on this scene......

"The tower in this relief is where we are now, right?" After this journey, Yao Qianwen also understood the meaning of the relief.

We are in the place where the Forty-Nine Ritual was completed.

"Probably...... However, the monster had withered, as if it had died a long time ago. "I looked up, and there was a spiral stone gate in that place, and this seventh floor, not the top of the tower.

"Keep going up."

Cheng Haidong and I worked together to open the mechanism.

I didn't get any information about Mina from Cheng Haidong's mouth before, and now in this position, I haven't found a trace of her, I'm not reconciled! And this tower is very huge from the outside, if there is a road on it, there should be other secret rooms, maybe, what will be there......

However, there is a distance between reality and my imagination.

Although the entrance exists, there is no secret room in sight.

The top of the seventh floor is like a chimney that reaches the sky, extending upwards, and the light of the flashlight cannot reach the end.

"I can't seem to go up......" Yao Qianwen looked up.

"No, you can still climb." My hand caressed the walls, pitted and occasionally raised rocks, just enough to be used as a point of support to climb up.

"You're crazy, aren't you? Can't you see how high it is, how far can you climb? ”

"Then you'll flip the coin again." I pinned the dagger to my waist, tore off my clothes, wrapped a flashlight around my head, and then said to Yao Qianwen and Cheng Haidong, "You are waiting for me here." ”

"Are you really going up?"

Yao Qianwen looked at me in disbelief, "You know that there is no way to get out of here, you insist on climbing up, it's not for any way out, you just want to find something, right?" What the hell are you looking for, we don't seem to have finished talking about it before. ”

"After talking, I'm just looking for Mina, no one, and I want to find traces. It's you, it's you who don't tell the truth. ”

I grabbed the rocks on the wall, pressed my feet, and began to climb upwards.

"Maniac...... I wish you a fall to your death! ”

……

I've never been involved in rock climbing, but I know it's not an easy thing to do. In fact, I don't understand, why would I make such a stupid decision to climb up with my bare hands?

I could really be the crazy person Yao Qianwen said?

But I can't restrain myself,

I just want to see what my illusion of always predicting reality will surprise me this time! I want to find the things that were lost between me and Mina!

I climbed higher and higher, and occasionally looked down, but I couldn't see Yao Qianwen and Cheng Haidong at all. At this time, I could clearly feel the hot pain in my hands, forearms, shoulder blades, waist and abdomen, and calves. The feeling of exhaustion is with me all the time, and I feel like I will let go at any moment.

But I don't want to let go......

It seemed that as long as I grabbed one more rock forward and kicked upward, I was one step closer to Mina.

Gradually, I heard a clear heartbeat in my ears, and it seemed like my heartbeat, or rather, the frequency of my heartbeat, blended perfectly.

But that voice seemed to be very far away from me.

But it's also getting closer, every time I climb up.

It grew clearer and clearer, and I could feel that I was approaching a beating heart. In a trance, I looked up, and beyond the light of the flashlight, I saw something, and it was glowing.