Chapter 19: Disappearance

I looked at the man as if I were looking in a mirror, that face...... No, I'm never familiar with that outfit alone.

Right now......

An extremely strange thing is in front of me!!

The other "I" was standing just a few paces away from me, holding a candle, the faint light cast on his face, white and miserable.

"What's wrong?" Seeing my movements, the woman behind her turned to look at me.

I raised my hand and pointed out the mountain gate, but the mutation happened, and the wind became stronger again, and then the flame of the candle shook violently and was extinguished.

Darkness reigned over the area, and another "me" vanished into the darkness.

"What's there?" They gradually withdrew their gaze, startled by my strangeness.

But they didn't see anything, they didn't see the other me, they didn't see what was in the darkness behind the candle.

"Flashlight!"

I stepped forward and tried to snatch the flashlight from the woman's hand. But she keenly avoided it.

"Outside! There was a guy outside. ”

"Are you crazy?" The thin man looked at me, separated from me and the woman, and the light of the flashlight shone directly on my face.

"We can't stay here anymore, the mountains will swallow us." I thought back to myself standing in front of the mountain gate, and although I couldn't guess what it was, I could vaguely think that eighty percent of the 'thing' came from the 'mountain', so I spread my hands and roared: "If you go deeper, you may not be able to get out again." ”

My fear of the mountain came entirely from my grandfather, who told me many local legends and stories of the "climbers" who died when I was a child.

Although when I saw those diaries in the basement just now, I deduced for a moment that most of the "truth" of that year was false, but the thoughts of that childhood were like shadows, and they could not be shattered by the slightest doubt.

But when I shouted, the rest of the people looked at me like fools.

It's not to blame them, they don't know what happened and they don't know the story about the mountain.

But I know, I know I can't move forward.

"Look, look outside the mountain gate." I pointed to the dark mountain gate, trying in vain to awaken the ignorant humans.

But in exchange for indifference, it is still indifferent.

"Hey!" Fear went wild, and I shouted at the door.

But nothing, everything is back to darkness.

I couldn't help but pull out my legs and rush over.

I guess I'd like to make sure...... Make sure the damn "guy" with the candle isn't me after all.

But at this moment, the back of my head hurt, and a huge sense of powerlessness hit me frantically, and I was hit with a stick, and I turned around while my consciousness was still dissipated.

Seeing is ...... Be...... No, I can't see it.

My vision slowly blurred, my eyelids began to tremble, endless sleepiness hit me, and then I passed out.

Passed out again.

And before that, I thought, I suddenly realized......

You may not be able to get out.

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"Ahem" Grandpa sat on the bed, not gasping for a breath, and the uncle hurriedly stepped forward to stroke his chest.

But when the body was in this situation, it was useless, and the grandfather coughed again, as if he was going to cough out all his lungs.

The doctor blessed the grandfather with medicine, saying that the situation was not very good, and the old man's organs in the body began to fail.

In other words, grandpa has little time, if you have anything to explain, just explain it quickly, don't grind and chirp.

And grandpa's death is normal, just like a group of old people who learned that they were going to die, their organs began to fail, and all the strength of his body was used to explain the aftermath.

But it's not all aftermath, it's memories, long, long memories......

"It was in 1959, when the Ganzhou People's Hospital was restructured and the personnel changed greatly, so a part of the vacant position came out, and because Hui (grandma's name) knew that I knew a little bit of Chinese herbal medicine, so the family dragged a little relationship to get an external transfer quota, saying that it could be transferred to the hospital as a pharmacist.

Ahem...... After a lot of work, and a few wild animals I had hunted out of the mountains, Dean Huang finally agreed to give me a spot, and a week later, the call came down.

That's when I thought, I can finally escape from that mountain in the true sense of the word.

But the situation was not so smooth, at first when the notice was issued, the comrade who delivered the notice disappeared on the way to deliver the book, lost his trace, and even the piece of paper seemed to have been erased from this world.

It's too illogical, but in front of this mountain, there is no logic at all.

Of course, a person who sends a letter does not essentially affect anything.

The person who can influence the direct person should be the approver of the policy. That is, the director of Ganzhou People's Hospital who died of myocardial infarction because of work fatigue.

He died, and it doesn't follow logic to die. And the person he took over again shelved the plan to send the work.

I can't say that this is a coincidence, but after all, because of all this, the matter that year I was transferred abroad was still not implemented.

In the end, it was at that time that I understood, understood that our group of people was already unable to get out of the mountain in a sense.

But I didn't give up, and began to look for a way to get out, a way to escape the mountain in a real sense.

Finally, in 1962, everything took a turn for the better......"

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In the dark, my grandfather's old voice was still hovering in my ears, but the feeling of slapping on my face still woke me up.

Eventually, as the voice faded away, I came to my senses and I saw Scarface and the woman.

"Where is this?" I sat up with my head covered.

"I don't know, it stands to reason that it should be underground!" The woman was standing not far from me, holding up her flashlight, and the light was shining in the darkness.

The light returned to my eyes, and everything in front of me began to slowly overlap in the pupils, gradually becoming clearer.

"But I don't know what's going on, there will be a mountain underneath this ground." She continued.

I was stunned for a moment, and then my spine was numb, and I pressed my eye socket and I looked at it.

On both sides of the wall were mountain cliffs that stretched into the darkness, and there were huge cracks in the mountain walls, and there were water gushing out of the cracks, and the bones of white unknown creatures.

This is a sinkhole, that is, the place where surface water flows into the ground, which belongs to the transitional type of surface and underground karst landforms, so those water flows are also seepage from above-ground water flows.

But that's not the point, the point is that under the light of several flashlights, a huge underground mountain appeared in my eyes.

No, not one, but two, they are located in the middle of the cave, which has absolute uplift height and relative height in the flat terrain of the cave, but there is a huge crack in the middle that divides the mountain in two.

And more than that, I saw the woman's flashlight quickly stop.

A huge bronze coffin was hung between the two walls by several thick chains.