Chapter 55: Death
I forgot which miscellaneous great man said: Life is ordinary, but every ordinary person is performing their own different life;
I don't know if years from now, when I look back on this life experience, I will define myself as ordinary or extraordinary, but no matter what awaits me under this swamp, or nothing, I still believe that I will not be sad because of that ending, and I will even smile, because I am fortunate enough to let such a thing happen to me.
"Wu, wait, a big living person can't jump into the urine pit because of urgency, right? There must be another way", the bald man grabbed the rattan behind me, and seemed to be stinking and poor, but he said very eagerly;
"What's the solution? Lao Tzu is thinking of a way every day, and then I want to think about it... The top of your head has to be like you bald donkey! I said to the bald man with a smile on my face, but I was very helpless in my heart;
"Simply, let's set fire to this murderous forest!" , Huya answered;
I shook my head, still smiling and said to Huya: "I have thought about it, but such a petrified ancient tree may not be able to burn, even if the fire burns, there will not be more than ten days for the fire to go down, and at that time, the four of us will not be smoked to death, but will also be starved to death here";
"There is no end to the road of the bald man! With Lao Tzu here, can you still starve to death? The bald man slapped his chest with a crackling sound;
I shook my head: "Everything here is a layout that someone has carefully designed, since it is a bureau, then no matter what we do, there will definitely be a retaliation mechanism, the difference is only the degree of retaliation, what kind of results will be obtained by burning the forest... I believe that there will be no place to die, and if I really don't come up, you must not die, do what I just said! ”;
"Comfortable and comfortable to live here, isn't it just a rolling of your eyes and death in the end? You are not the same as the heavens and the earth, but you also roll your eyes and swallow your breath? Since the ending is the same, why do you have to take this risk? ”;
The bald man grabbed my arm, he used a lot of strength, as if he was afraid that the person in front of him would not be able to think about it for a while and jump into the mire to commit suicide, but his persuasion was too ingenious, and it was not the material of the neighborhood committee at all!
"Who told you that I was going to die? I'm going down to see what's down there! You go to the blister to get some clean water, the more the merrier, Lao Tzu will definitely be full of mud when he comes up later, and you are responsible for bathing Lao Tzu";
I smiled and patted the bald man and said, "Anyway, don't stay here and make trouble for the dumb and the tiger";
The bald man wanted to say something, but I shook him off, took a deep breath, kicked my legs on the ground, and plunged straight into the place where the bubble came out;
I thought that at the moment when I jumped in the air, time should be frozen, and I would think that many great philosophers were inspired to have many life philosophies at this moment of life and death. But I was wrong, because the process was so fast, so fast that I didn't even have time to straighten my legs in the air, and the whole person sat down in the mire with a pop of my buttocks and feet;
This was the first mistake I made;
But it wasn't the only one, because the second mistake I quickly realized;
The temperature in the mud is not as normal as I have touched on the shore before, but the more you sink into the mud, the higher the temperature you feel on your feet, but the temperature is not yet "hot", and to a certain extent, this temperature is still very comfortable;
And the third mistake... I found that I seemed to sink much slower than I had imagined, and I was digging into the mud almost inch by inch, which made the three men on the shore look at me alive for ten minutes;
At first, their eyes were full of longing for heroes;
And then, the bald man and the dumb man stopped paying attention to me, and sat on the ground with their hands free, gesturing with their hands whether there would be any fish to eat in the swamp, and it was only after I drank that the dumb man found that his hands were empty;
Only the tiger girl pleased me, and she still put the rattan on her palm, and let it slide out naturally as I sank, but she did not look at me again, but her eyes did not stop scanning around vigilantly;
"Lao Tzu's name is Wu Luoyin! In case you can't come back, carve a wooden plaque with Lao Tzu's name and offer it to your holy land! ”
These were the last words I said before the mud flooded my chest, and I felt a little uncomfortable with the pressure of the mud around me, and I puffed up my breath in my chest, and my hands fluttered in the mud, which made the sinking speed much faster, until the moment my eyes sank into the mud, the tiger girl suddenly looked at me, her eyes were very special, I couldn't read what it meant, but subconsciously made me suddenly feel a chill in this stuffy mire!
I believe that nine out of ten living people in this world have never had the experience of sinking themselves into the mud completely, of course, this also includes me, in terms of experience, I have surpassed the vast majority of human beings at present, of course, the remaining people who have more experience than me, and still live to relay the process and results to me... I don't have the confidence to find out which one I can find;
My ears were filled with all kinds of strange sounds in the mud, some like the squeak of whales, some like the cooing of bubbles upwell, but what made me most curious was that in this dark mud, there was a unique sound, and that sound was like someone breathing in my ear!
Yes, it's panting!
I tried to keep myself calm and pinched my nose with one hand to keep the mud from entering my nose, and with the other hand I held the dagger and tried to sink as fast as I could, the mud slashing across my naked skin, and from time to time a variety of branches or weeds would cut at me with a "knife";
The air in my ears blocked the mud, and I tried to identify the "panting" sound, only to feel that it was not so much like panting, but more like something sucking nearby, but the sound was so ethereal that I couldn't tell where the source of the sucking was;
Thirty or forty seconds have passed since my whole body was submerged in the swamp, and I judged the distance I had sunk, and the budget was about one meter, but the more I went down, the more intense the surrounding mud squeezed my chest, I knew that this was not caused by the mud, but because the oxygen in my body was gradually absorbed, and the exhaled air was gradually expelled from the body along the pores, which caused the pressure in the body to become smaller and smaller, and the force on the bones to become greater and greater;
I tried to pull the rattan several times to inform the mute to save people, but I always felt that there was still a breath of air, so I had to see what was stopping the corpse of the black jade girl down there, but at this moment, I obviously felt that the speed of my sinking was much faster, and the ethereal sucking sound like "panting" was getting stronger and stronger;
At first I wondered if all swamps were like this? How else could an object sink in a swamp? But it wasn't until this rate of sinking completely panicked me that I woke up to the fact that it wasn't a natural phenomenon that gravity was at all, but something was really absorbing it under my feet.
"Grandma's, it's not good!" , My heart tightened, when I realized that there might be a certain inhalation hole under my feet, a breath squirted out of my mouth, the whole person suddenly panicked, confused, two arms subconsciously fluttered a few times, which made me sink faster, and at this time, I remembered the code I had confessed before, and I tried my best to pull my left arm in the mire, but the mud was too thick, so that such a pull was really not strong, and at the last moment, I had to let go of my nose and reach over my hand to pull the rattan, It took me a great deal of effort, and at last a very strong force came from the rattan, which was so strong that it almost broke my left arm;
But I still ignored another thing in the above calculations, that is, the "force" has a balance, when my left arm was pulled up, my body involuntarily swirled in the mud, and my free right hand suddenly touched something like algae in the mud, which was very slippery, and seemed to pass by in my hand;
But in the next few seconds, I suddenly felt the "algae" grab my entire right hand like a living octopus, followed by my right arm, and clearly hit my shoulder and chest;
The pull of the two forces, one left and one right, made me feel unbearable, but what made me desperate was that obviously the pull on the right side was greater, and my body was tearing as if it was about to be dismantled immediately, and at this time, I was already desperate in my heart;
The change of mind from collapse to peace may be a change of mindset that everyone will have before they die;
"Well, God, you still can't let me go after all";
That might have been my last thought, and I let go of the rattan wrapped around my left arm and waist, and let the rattan go away in circles while I rolled over and was enveloped in the algae-like tentacles at great speed.