Chapter 56: Alive
A strong feeling of suffocation enveloped every inch of skin in my body, this is not my psychological effect, but a real suffocation, I am like being wrapped in something into a dumpling, this is not enough, it seems that the thing that envelops me is still moving, this movement seems to come from some tentacle-like thing squirming, and the speed of drifting with my body is not slow;
All this happened in just over a minute after I dived into the mire, the oxygen supply in my lungs was exhausted, and I could even hear the rapid beating of my carotid artery very clearly, I understood that this was the body's reaction when my blood pressure reached its limit, as long as I wrapped my things with some force, I no longer had to worry about how terrible I was after suffocation, because I didn't have to wait for suffocation, I would burst all over my capillaries and then the collateral arteries and die.
Dialectically, this is more frightening, because people don't die instantly after a blood vessel bursts, and they live for more than a minute because the blood doesn't need to itch, but for me, I would prefer who can give me a good time with 10,000 volt high pressure now!
At the same time that I clearly felt a warm current floating out of my hips and a slight blur of consciousness, the wrap on my head and body suddenly loosened, and a cold feeling suddenly slid down my cheeks, I thought it was water, and this was the last consciousness of my body...... Immediately, the whole body was light, and a bell rang in his ears, the bell was very muffled, very much like the wooden mallet in the early morning of the Tantuo Temple in the capital, and a halo of light hit the face on the side of the head, and the white in front of him was endless;
I could be dead!
Speaking of which, I have gotten to this point in the field by myself, and I am purely dying, but when I get to the Netherworld Mansion in a while, I must have a good chat with the old man of Lord Yama for a while to express my inner repentance.
Don't forget that eight and a half years ago, after I experienced that shipwreck, I was lucky enough to drift to my desert island, maybe I was extremely miserable at the time, but what if I compared it to now?
It was like a god giving me an entire "Garden of Eden with Sea View"!
In the past few months, whenever I think about this, I always feel sad and think, "When God knocks on the door with happiness, I happen to be not at home."
God not only gave me shelter, but also gave me a grain to eat;
God not only gave me a lifelong servant, but also a girl with a good figure and half of her face fell from the sky to enjoy;
This is not enough, his old man even threw me a "hook" that can be eaten as a second room!
And me? But I naively insisted on talking to the bald people and those savages about democracy, practicing etiquette, establishing new practices, building a team, and taking a group of bare-bottomed and white-robed natives around the city, where there is danger, I will go, and if there is no danger, I will go to create danger!
Now that I think about it, I'm purely a person who lives between 2A and 2C, maybe kindergarten is the best place for me to belong!
Yes, I had fantasized that one day a great ship would pass by on the sea and take me back to my homeland; Or suddenly hearing the sound of a propeller in the sky and being rescued back to civilized society, I have been dreaming of this for eight years, so I don't dare to make a mistake, for fear that one day I will be brought to a court-martial, or pointed at by the neighbors behind my back, but what about the reality?
In fact, today, eight and a half years later, I am a little vague about whether I am still on Earth or not, and even many signs, creatures and senses make me feel as if I am caught in some historical fault, how can I still go home?
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The burning sensation all over my body woke me up in this muddy thought, and my first instinct after waking up told me: yes, this is the underworld;
The buzzing sound in my ears was overwhelming, the stars hung almost within my reach, the water vapor around me was steaming, and the burning sensation was because I was in the water at this time, and the temperature of the water was forty or fifty degrees!
That's not right... Hades threw me into the oil pot before he tried it? How many sins have I done in the past 30 years?
But when my pupils fully adapted to the environment, I found that this place was more like a closed cave, and there were not many stars in the sky, but countless birds;
The bird was not big, very much like a hummingbird I had ever seen, the difference was that it was so transparent that I could even see its entrails when it passed by, and what surprised me the most was that these birds could actually glow, and the light was so soft that it looked very pleasant;
Through the light of the birds, I can see that the top layer of the cave is densely covered with countless stalactites of all sizes, like an extremely long iron cone hanging in the sky, and a few have even been hoisted into the water from the top of the cave, connecting the heavens and the earth into a line, and the surrounding cave walls look very smooth, and I can vaguely see the stars flickering, but it is too far away for me to see what it is, but it doesn't matter, even if it is a diamond, it means nothing to me now;
The moment my vision was fully restored, a pungent smell of sulfur entered my nostrils, which made me glad that at least my nose had not been affected by the infiltration of the sludge to my respiratory tract, and it was obvious that it was all thanks to the water beneath me, although I don't know how long I had been soaking here, but without them, I would have died of a lung infection;
The water wasn't deep, at least the water below me was waist-high, and I don't know if it was intentional or really fateful by something that wrapped me around me like a tentacle, and I was stranded in a shallow, a few meters away was a glossy and reflective ancient rock mesa, which had apparently been washed away for an unknown number of years, and the rock surface had turned orange with sulfur;
Just when I was sighing that such a ghostly and heaven-made cave could be met by me, a bird of light suddenly passed over my head, and by the bright light of this moment, I was surprised to find that there seemed to be something hanging there in the air, but the strong light was fleeting, so that I could not see clearly for a while, as if it were two very thick chains, hanging from the side edges of several cave roofs not far from my side, and gathered there;
I tried to stand up, my limbs were weak, my mouth was not thirsty, and I guess I didn't drink less in the water... I don't know if the water is poisonous or not, but judging from the starvation, I shouldn't have been in a coma here for too short;
It wasn't until I staggered as I approached the place where the shadows finally gathered that there was a pitch-black crack in the rock wall of a headland in the cave, and the gap was very narrow, only a man wide.
To my astonishment, I saw two thigh-thick stone chains stretching up and down through the corridor into the darkness;
Holding a dagger tied to his wrist with rattan skin, he tentatively pierced the gap twice, and found that it was extremely deep, and there was a faint light flashing at the end of the gap, but I don't know if it was also the light of fireflies, but from the width of the gap, with my size, I could only barely squeeze in, but squeeze in and then? If there is really danger, it will be difficult for you to escape quickly;
I scraped a lot of moss on the walls of the cave around me with a dagger and forced it into my mouth, this thing was everywhere in such a warm hole, the smell... It was sour and bitter, but it was satisfying, and while I was trying to tell myself that it was braised pork with saliva, my eyes were still staring at the man-wide artificial slit;
This is the place that the words told me in the Eye of the Yellow Springs!
So, what excuse do I have not to take the risk?
But at this moment, a few birds of light happened to hover from the edge of the dark crack for a moment, and it was the light of this moment that made me see that the top of this crack was about five meters high, and several stone pillows hung on the stone chain stone ring strung into it, and directly below the stone pillows, there were actually rows and countless pieces of porcelain clay pots, which spread to the end;