Chapter 25: Into the Cave
Wang Yuxin slept uncomfortably at all after seeing the ghost twice in one day, tossing and turning in bed until three or four o'clock in the morning before finally falling asleep. And because of the horrific experience of the previous day, she also felt that there were ghosts everywhere in her dreams, and she had been running away...... Run away......
In the end, he ran slower and slower, and his legs were like lead poured into them, and he couldn't run anymore, and finally he was knocked down by the ghost. She was pressed against her body by a ghost, and her chest seemed to be pressed against a boulder, making her unable to breathe.
"Uhh......h
She tried to open her eyes, but she met the big face of the moon and a half. At this time, Yueban was lying on Wang Yuxin's chest, staring at Wang Yuxin intently.
"I'll go!" Wang Yuxin tried to turn sideways, letting the heavy moon and a half roll off her, and then covered her chest and took a few deep breaths, "I thought I was going to die...... Fortunately, the chest was not flattened. ”
Yueban, who rolled out of bed, tilted his head innocently and looked at Wang Yuxin, and then vigorously flicked his tail left and right, and screamed, which was to say: "Shovel, I'm hungry!" ”。
Wang Yuxin reluctantly did a cat stretch of yoga movements on the bed, got up from the bed, and put a spoonful of middle-aged cat food for Yueban with bare feet.
Yueban heard the sound of cat food knocking on the food bowl, ran over with a "dong dong", buried his face in the food bowl, and ignored Wang Yuxin anymore.
Wang Yuxin stroked two handfuls of the moon's broad back: "Alas, you know how to eat!" ”
She found her slippers under the bed, she didn't have classes today, she didn't have a car, so she didn't plan to go out, and she didn't plan to change out of her pajamas, so she washed up a little and went out of the room to find food in the refrigerator.
When the omelet began, Wang Yuxin saw the time from the stove, and it was almost twelve o'clock. And after she comfortably ate the carefully prepared breakfast, enjoyed the sunshine and breeze on the balcony, and drank a pot of tea with the spring outside, it was already afternoon.
After returning to her room and washing the dishes slowly, she felt as if something was missing, and only then did she realize that the door to Yi Annie's room was closed. Normally, Anne only closes the door when she sleeps, but in the morning before leaving for work, she opens the door to allow the cat owner Lulu to come and go as she pleases.
So did Anne not get up or did she go to work in the morning and forgot to leave the door for Lulu? Wang Yuxin went to the front yard to take a look, and Yi Annie's car was still at the door.
Haven't you gotten up yet, Wang Yuxin thought about it and tossed and turned until the early hours of the morning before she fell asleep, guessing that Yi Annie was probably as cowardly as her.
Wang Yuxin knocked on Yi Annie's door: "Annie, didn't get up, I'm late for work for most of the day!" ”
There was no response in the room, Wang Yuxin pushed the door open with some confusion, and Yi Annie was still asleep on the bed. Lulu sleeps on Iannie's pillow and coils around Anne's head. This action can only be done by the slender Siamese cat Lulu, and it is absolutely impossible for the body of the moon and a half.
Wang Yuxin knocked heavily on the open door and said loudly: "Annie! Get up! ”
Yi Annie still didn't react, but Lulu raised her head and stared at Wang Yuxin.
"Huh?" Wang Yuxin stepped forward and pushed Yi Annie, "Annie? Annie?! ”
Wang Yuxin's hand strength was not small, and she pushed Yi Annie half to the side, but Yi Annie still did not react.
Wang Yuxin was panicked.
"Annie! What happened to you! ”
Soon, the ambulance arrived with a ringing alarm bell and moved Yi Annie into the car amid the puzzled eyes of several retired elderly people in the vicinity.
Wang Yuxin took Yi Annie's car keys, wallet and mobile phone, her own car was parked at the city's press center yesterday, and she couldn't drive back for a while. Driving Yi Annie's car, Wang Yuxin followed the ambulance to the hospital and helped complete a bunch of registration, payment, signing and other affairs.
Sitting outside the emergency room, Wang Yuxin had time to take out Yi Annie's mobile phone, first called Catherine, thought about it and then called Inferno.
As for the phone number of Yi Annie's parents, let's wait for the results in the emergency room first.
"Hey, that's a bit weird." The young doctor holds the record board.
"The patient's signs were completely normal, as if he was sleeping. You can see that her eyes are always moving rapidly, which means that she is dreaming...... Anyway, take a look first? Maybe it's good to wake up from a dream? ”
In the ward, Wang Yuxin and Catherine sat next to Yi Annie, who was lying on the hospital bed after being changed into patient gowns, while Inferno stood in the corner with his hands in his pockets.
"Are there people who can't wake up from their dreams?" Wang Yuxin asked strangely.
The doctor held his glasses: "Theoretically, we can do some external stimulation to forcibly wake people up, but in this case, just like you suddenly wake up a sleepwalking person, there may be some irreversible brain damage." We recommend putting her to sleep first, and if she doesn't wake up within two days, then do stimulation. ”
"Do I need to inform Anne's parents? Her parents are both in China. Wang Yuxin continued to ask.
The doctor thought for a moment: "The patient's life is not in danger for the time being, but if you feel the need, then it is okay to call over and take care of the person." ”
After explaining the maintenance information and the rules of the inpatient department, the doctor left first.
"So what's going on here? Wasn't it okay yesterday morning? Catherine asked, puzzled.
Wang Yuxin squinted at Inferno, who was standing in the corner: "I still want to ask him!" I saw the ghost twice last night, and who knows if he did something. ”
"Seen ghosts twice?" Catherine wanted to laugh for some reason, and this luck was really no one, but now she definitely couldn't laugh, and she had to help Wang Yuxin question Inferno.
Inferno said: "It has absolutely nothing to do with me. ”
"And what are you doing here?"
"I'll take a look."
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Yi Annie reached out and grabbed the oyster meat placed on the stone chips, the piece of meat weighed more than a thousand catties compared to her, and she still couldn't pick it up, but at the moment of contact, she felt as if her fingertips had ingested something, and sent a little warm power into her body, and her body was finally not so empty.
Is this how ghosts eat?
Anne looked at the piece of oyster meat that she had caught before, and it seemed, as if, maybe...... The color is a little darker than the others, but it doesn't seem to be noticeable.
At this time, Noah's father picked up the oyster meat and put it in his mouth, and only after chewing it did he spit it aside.
"This piece of meat seems to be spoiled, and it tastes a little disgusting." He explained to the few people present.
Well, it seems that something has changed.
Lest this be an accident, Yi Annie "ate" a bunch of small shrimp and crabs with her fingers, and as a result, this string of shrimp and crabs made Noah's grandfather a little suspicious of life.
"Try it, if I have a taste problem." Noah's grandfather gave the shrimp and crabs on the skewers to his wife and son-in-law.
"It's weird, that's how I vomited that oyster and ate it." Noah's father spit out the shrimp after two bites, and then rinsed his mouth with water from a puddle.
For the sake of the health of several living people, Yi Annie "ate" that little and stopped eating. After all, she can't eat the taste of those foods now, but she just consumes enough energy from food to support herself.
Attracted by the firelight, some light-seeking bugs began to gather, making several people miserable, especially Tom, who was only three years old, and began to cry and want to go home.
Noah's grandmother took Tom in her arms and managed to lull him to sleep, but Tom's face was bitten by mosquitoes and made him scratch it with his hands even in his dreams.
"So many bugs flying around, at least it proves that there are no bats in this cave." Noah's grandfather said bitterly.
Noah's father smiled bitterly: "There are no bats in Noah. ”
"Huh?" Grandma Noah asked strangely, "There are so many cave resources in Noah Province, but there are no bats?" ”
Noah's father nodded: "It's been five or six years since this happened, and an infectious disease called white nose disease has caused bats in the province to die. So in recent years, insects have been everywhere in the wild in the spring, and they are getting worse and worse, and in the summer, I have to wear a full-body mosquito repellent suit made of gauze when I mow the grass and water the flowers in the backyard. I heard that in the past two years, the government has introduced bats from other provinces, but the effect has been very slow. ”
Anne knows this, and every spring the province begins a "bat hunt" campaign, and the press center recently launched a campaign to do so. According to the advertisement, if residents find a bat in the local area and take a photo of the bat, they can go to the press center and receive a reward of 200 dollars after confirming the authenticity. It's just that a month has passed, and no one has found the bat.
Naturally, local residents want bats to appear under these bat protection propaganda and mosquito infestation everywhere, but for the family who are preparing to explore the cave, it is safer to have no bats in the cave behind them.
After the few people present finished eating, it was already completely dark, and when they looked at the sky, the moon was white and round, and the stars were dim. The tide came towards the cave in waves, and soon flooded the rocky beach at the mouth of the cave.
Anne had heard them say that it was a high tide today, maybe it would be a little later, and even the slightly higher platform in the cave where they were now would be flooded.
Finally ready to go, several people packed up the living tools they had been working hard to collect for more than ten days, plus some leftover dry food, in case of emergency. Once inside the cave, no one knows for sure what will happen and how long it will take.
Noah's father picked up a bundle of wood wrapped in cloth that he had prepared earlier, and then pulled a few unburned pieces of wood from the fire and put them together. Then he took two sticks that were still burning in the fire, took one and gave it to his father-in-law, and then arranged the precautions for entering the cave.
Noah's father took the lead, Noah's grandmother walked in the middle with Tom in her arms, and Noah's grandfather was the last.
By the light of the torch Noah's grandfather was holding, Anne carefully followed the rock wall, having tripped in the cave several times before.