Chapter 34 Fate
"No one can escape."
The cold, gloomy voice echoed through the dark cavities, but it was not Yu Shi who spoke, but another mournful and ethereal tone.
I lay on the stone wall, my hands desperately clutching at any crevice I could reach, trying to find a glimmer of life in it, but it was just a useless struggle of the cunning rabbit before he died, ridiculous and ridiculous.
"Is that him?"
Yu Shi whispered, with an incredible shock in his words.
Then, before I could climb the rift of despair, he screamed,
"Quick! Turn around! ”
With a brain that can't think, my shell has become a container for fear.
In the roar of a dozen or so near-roars, the stiff tendons of my legs unnaturally turned my trembling face to the point he pointed, and the eerie cold razor-like scraped off the flesh and skin around me, and finally only the violently beating heart and the pupils that collapsed to the limit at two points.
In the mysterious pale red shimmer of fireflies, a thin figure stood, a faint glow spreading out from its body, as if it were an unreal illusion.
The phantom slowly raised its head in the midst of my frightened gaze, and the crimson color suddenly enveloped everything as far as the eye could see.
Time stood still, and all my reason was blown to the ground in that incomparably familiar face—the one I had seen more than once, as if it were a curse—my own face.
"No one can escape."
It groaned, its sound like a skeleton colliding with its bones.
"Humph! Really! You're a coward everywhere! ”
Suddenly, I gritted my teeth and cursed, and there was a nameless anger in my chest.
In order not to be swallowed up by malicious emotions, I had to half-crouch on the ground, holding my palms against the wall and taking deep breaths.
However, just when I didn't know why, I raised my voice and shouted wantonly,
"You go! Rest assured, I can guarantee that he will be dead long ago! It's just a projection! ”
"Really......"
I frowned, and the scene that came to my mind was indeed very different from the description of Yu Shi, who was the zombie-like body in the cramped and dimly lit hostel.
"Let's go! What are you thinking? ”
Ten urged impatiently, his words full of disgust and indescribable impatience.
I got up in a daze, carefully savored the mixed emotions in my heart, and asked suspiciously,
"Is he really dead?"
"Or else? I've seen it with my own eyes—"
Yu Shi, who was retorting loudly, was suddenly stunned, and the countless thoughts and emotions stacked in his chest turned into wordless panic in an instant.
"You've seen him."
The trembling words in my ears sounded in my ears, and I stared blankly at the dark red floating in front of me, but I no longer had any courage to resist.
Once again, I was reminded of the question that had hovered around me from the beginning, never been clearer, so profound.
I opened my chapped lips slightly and asked mechanically,
"Ten of you, he...... Who am I? ”
When the words fell, whether it was this strange and dirty world outside the skin, or the soul that had been eroded into an empty shell, they all stood still in the endless blue sea like a freighter that had run out of fuel, and there was no possibility of docking.
I don't know how long it took, the sneaky wind in the crevices of the rocks gradually subsided, and the remaining fears also faded in a moment, and I felt the vast network of my heart evolve first into pity, and finally even yearning.
"You're not like him."
Yu Shi comforted softly, and his tone had never been so kind,
"It's not like any of us."
My eyes were slightly closed, and I imagined that there seemed to be a kind and gentle old man standing beside me, and if there was a substance, there was absolutely undisguised expectation on my face at this time, and the imperceptible regret under the cover of the sun, which was like a morning star, but it could not be erased.
The non-existent image of the Ten gave off a clean glow, and then he leaned slightly and whispered in my ear,
"One day, you will know everything and change the future that is in our hands."
"We?"
In a trance, I opened my heavy eyelids and stared blankly into the swamp-thick darkness.
"That's the future that I and he destroyed with our own hands, and the only one who can end this cycle of sin is you."
The horizon outlined in the eye frame slowly expands, and the ghostly haunting voice seems to never disappear,
"It's your destiny."
The illusion that filled my eyes dissipated, and in my desolate and dry heart, there was suddenly a spark called hope.
Maybe this emotion, which can almost be called desire, is too strong, and even the next promise of Yu Shi is a little trembling,
"Trust me, I'll be able to take you-"
"Yes, anyone?"
Just as he was making an impassioned speech, there was a surprising sound at the foot of the heavy stone wall, which was Yao's voice!
I didn't have time to wait, and I stepped to the edge of the wall with strange patterns, and shouted as I patted it,
"Hey! Yao! Can you hear me! ”
But after a long time, the eager call sign was like a sea without a trace of response. I could clearly hear Yao's shredded footsteps and her slightly panicked muttering, but the massive door that stood in front of me cut off all connections between us like a cross-cutting guillotine.
"Alas, it's useless."
Yu Shi sighed lightly and added helplessly,
"Even if you light a dynamite, she won't be able to hear it, and the transmission of information here is one-way."
Although I could hear it in a fog, I still roughly understood the meaning of the ten and immediately shouted hysterically,
"Damn! Are we just stuck here? ”
In a fit of rage, I flew up and kicked against the immovable stone wall, and the only thing I could do was the pain of my heart coming from the tip of my thumb, except for a small speck of dust that had stirred up.
I staggered half a meter away, leaning over to look at the hard barrier in front of me, and couldn't help but taste a little irony, what was the use of all that self-congratulatory ambition just now? In the end, it's not like you're going to be buried in this place where birds don't!
I asked weakly in the rush,
"Is there really no way?"
However, dozens of seconds later, what I waited for was a more helpless curse,
"Damn! I shouldn't have run here to build some shelter in the first place! If I knew it was now, it would be better to-"
Click.
Just as I was about to vent the mountain of pressure with him, a series of extremely discordant notes suddenly sounded at the door.
If he were standing here, his expression would have been similar to mine.
As the blue-white light poured in again, the stone wall slowly folded up in my surprised gaze, and finally completely discharged on the dusty ground.
Then, Yao's weak and joyful face suddenly emerged from below my side, and I looked at her half-raised palm, which was still a little wet, and suddenly understood what had happened.
"Hah! You're really here! ”
Maybe the surprise was far greater than the confusion, Yao first put aside this superb scene that completely violated the laws of physics, and waved his hand at me excitedly.
When I was still in the midst of a great earthquake, I had already predicted that I had predicted,
"Tut-tut, how could this talented girl not find the main point of decryption! Besides, this time the dark wall looks like the ground over there, and aside from the visual abnormality, there are still water marks in the mechanism that have not dried. Hey! But to be able to open in such a short period of time,
It's a lot better than you! ”
(For special reasons, I will change these today, and the rest will be made up immediately)