Chapter 5 The cabin for seven people
(Foreword)
There are no accidents in this world,
There is only necessity.
(Text)
June 1, 2050 at 19:58 PM
The sky was already dark, and it was pitch black all around. Yu Bo used a lighter in one hand to illuminate the fire, and with the other hand he held my butt and carried me forward on his back. Xiaoyu and Arthur had long been left behind due to their lack of physical strength, but they followed tiredly.
We walked for an unknown number of kilometres, and we did not know what awaited us in front of us, but we walked aimlessly, and when we came back to our senses, we looked into the distance, and saw a two-story wooden hut standing in the sand surrounded by trees.
"Look, what is that!" Yu Bo excitedly pointed to the direction of the cabin with a lighter. Arthur and Xiaoyu heard his voice and looked there together, calling excitedly.
"Oh~ Great! We are finally saved, and it seems that this island is inhabited! β
"Woo~woo!"
They cheered as they pulled their legs and ran towards the cabin.
Where do they get their strength?
I shook my head and sighed helplessly.
Sure enough, when people see hope, they can burst out with "potential" that they didn't have before.
Yu Bo laughed and lifted me up again.
"Man, they're all running ahead of us, let's hurry up and get there, right?"
I looked at him and said "hmm". He, looking up in the direction of the cabin, frowned suddenly, but then immediately let go.
His expression ...... What's going on?
He carried me behind Arthur and Xiaoyu, and walked quietly to the cabin without saying a word.
When we actually stood in front of the cabin, we really felt hopelessness - this house was a haunted house. Worn wooden planks, dust that has accumulated for many years, and holes that have been eaten by animals everywhere......
It seems that this hope has been dashed, and there will be no one living here.
Just as I was thinking this, three lights suddenly came on and floated towards us from the back of the room......
"Ahh Hell! β
Arthur hurriedly blindfolded his hands over his eyes, turned around and ran back.
The door creaked open, and standing in front of us, holding lights, were three other people on the boat I had seen but couldn't name.
"Arthur, it's not a ghost, it's someone you know." I shouted at Arthur.
Arthur stopped, tore a slit between his fingers covering his eyes, and slowly turned around, looking in the direction of the doorββββ tall and thin men, sleek women with curly hair and pointed faces, and dwarf-like men with large and short heads. That's right, they were the other three on the boat.
Arthur breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand, walked up to them, pushed the chest of the man standing at the front, and said:
"Oops, I'm scared to death, why don't you pretend to be a ghost!"
I saw that the thin and tall man held the lamp in front of Arthur, stretched out his probe to the front, looked at it and smiled:
"Who scared you? It's obvious that you are cowardly! Hahahaha~~~"
"You...... Good for you, Wu Han! Arthur turned his head angrily and turned his face to me.
Wu Han? It turns out that the name of this seemingly yin and yang weird man is Wu Han?
The name...... I wasn't impressed.
"Alright, don't make a fuss." The woman with long hair and pointed face ran to persuade them and stood in the midst of them.
Yu Bo glanced at them, then at the wooden house behind them, and asked suspiciously:
"By the way, didn't we make an appointment to meet in the same place? Why are you here? β
The long-haired and pointy-faced woman was just about to answer, but the dwarf on the side rushed to reply: "We had been walking south, and we strayed into a fierce beast area, and we finally walked out. But this woman, Zhou Qiuxian, she suddenly got lost. We stumbled and bumpered to find her, and we took many detours, but then we followed the blood that had flowed from her body and came to this cabin and pushed open the door. But I saw that she slept there peacefully like a sleeping pig......"
"Who do you say is a pig? Who do you say is a pig? Hearing this, Zhou Qiuxian pushed the dwarf standing next to her with his elbow.
Not to be outdone, the dwarf pointed at her nose and scolded, "It's you!" It's you! β
"Alright, you two, it's over!" Wu Han shouted, and the two of them immediately stopped arguing and lowered their heads, like two puppies who had admitted their mistakes.
"We also found this place by mistake, but we didn't expect to meet you here. However, it is getting late now, and the island is surrounded by sea, so we can't get out for the time being, so it's better to stay here for the night today, and talk about tomorrow tomorrow. β
Yu Bo thought for a moment, nodded, and said to us: "Then let's spend the night here today, and then explore the situation on the island tomorrow." β
The three of us nodded one after another, and followed Wu Han into the cabin.
Unexpectedly, the small wooden house that looks dilapidated on the outside can be regarded as clean and tidy insideβββ round and bright tables and chairs, a fireplace with a charcoal barbecue, a European-style kitchen, and a room for seven people......
Well? A room for seven?
Why is this two-story wooden house just right, no more, no less, exactly seven rooms? It looked like it was prepared for us as if it knew we were coming.
No way? Just a coincidence, right? How could it have been known that we would be coming, and how could it have been prepared for us in this room.
"Here it is, here comes the grilled fish."
When I was in deep thought, Zhou Qiuxian walked up to us with seven grilled fish in his hand and said to us with a happy face: "This is the fish that the three of us caught in front of us." Since we are in the same boat, we are partners in the same calamity. Come, eat fish! β
Her words interrupted my thoughts.
I took the grilled fish from her hand, said "thank you" and devoured it.
Yes, I think I haven't eaten in a few days, as evidenced by the pain in my front and back abdomen. Therefore, I don't care if it's ugly or not, I just want to fill my stomach. And several other people, basically like me, tore the fish meat at the moment they took it, regardless of their faces, looking like tigers and wolves.
I looked at the clock hanging on the wall: 23:54.
It's so late?
Yu Bo also looked at the bell and came to my side.
"You're injured today, and although you look better, you'd better go and rest early."
"Hmm." I, standing up.
"Do you want me to help you?"
I waved my hand, declined his kindness, and signaled that I could.
"It's time, I'm going to sleep too."
Arthur said and followed me upstairs with me. I chose the innermost room on the second floor, and Arthur chose the one next to me. As we reached the door, she stopped abruptly and said to me:
"Night, if there is any sound......"
"What? What's the sound? β
I looked at Arthur, not understanding what she meant. Arthur didn't say anything more than he said, just shook his head and said, "It's nothing, you go to sleep." β
"Oh."
I felt inexplicable about her words that she didn't go to the village and didn't have a store in the future, but I didn't think much about it.
"Good night."
"Good night."
I said goodbye to her, opened my door, and collapsed on the bed.
This quilt ...... It's not dirty at all, it's hard to imagine that this is a house that no one lives in.
I gripped the corner of the quilt and frowned in thought.
Who am I?
Although Arthur told me that my name was Char. But I couldn't remember anything about my past, and I didn't have the slightest familiarity with the name.
Am I really Char? Or is it someone else? Just took the name and came to this ship with them......
No, it won't! I must be Char, because Arthur told me that, and the people around me called me by my name.
But the creepy fear that came before I opened my eyes, and the heartache that came with it, stirred my heart, was still clearly imprinted in my blood, and I couldn't help but tremble my hands.
What is my past? And what am I here for?
I do not know.
I don't know what the sense of dΓ©jΓ vu is that suddenly appears in front of me today, I just know that no matter how I think about it, I still can't find the answer, in this case, then leave it to time, maybe time will tell me the answer to everything.
0:00 on June 2, 2050
I looked at my hand and flipped it back and forth. However, at this moment, a strong wind suddenly blew outside the window, and the window "gurgle". I walked to the window and reached out to close it, but at that moment I saw a pair of blood-red eyes, which were staring at me so intently that I immediately cried out:
"Ahhhhhh!!!!hhh
I collapsed on the ground, panting loudly. The six people who heard my shouting came up one after another, pushed open my door, and looked at me nervously. Yu Bo, who was standing at the front, looked at my face and asked:
"What's wrong? Did something happen? β
I pointed to the window and said in a trembling voice, "There...... There are ghosts there! β
"Ghosts?"
Yu Bo followed the direction of my finger to the window, examined it carefully, turned his face to look at me and said:
"Where are the ghosts? Are you reading it wrong? β
I rubbed my eyes and looked at the window again, where there was nothing but a fierce wind, swaying through the wooden window.
Am I really wrong?
I bowed my head.
"I'm sorry, I was wrong."
I bowed to them, and they each walked back to their rooms, leaving me alone to look out the window.
I don't know why, but the bloody eyes just now appeared in front of my eyes, lingering. I wanted to forget, but I couldn't forget, but I just fell asleep in bed, and I don't know how long it took, and finally fell asleep.