Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Grove of the Dead
I shook my head hard, and at this time I didn't know whether it was a brain or dough wrapped in my skull, in short, this shaking did not shake me awake, but made me more dizzy.
"Wu, there's something I have to tell you clearly", the bald man stared at the characters and strange circles on the ground for a long time, and suddenly said;
"What?";
"Do you think Lao Tzu is blind?" , the bald man suddenly asked a strange question with a strange expression;
"What do you want to say?";
"If you're going to walk on the island for seven days, do you think your broken island is so big?" , the bald man picked up a grass stalk on the ground, drew a big circle in the air with both hands, and said exaggeratedly;
"You haven't seen the whole island again";
"Young fool! The currents on the shore of your broken island are warm, that's why the turtles come back to lay their eggs! If the broken island were really as big as you say, the water wouldn't be so warm, and the turtles wouldn't be coming! ”;
The bald man said to me with a glare, and the word "liar" was written all over his face;
The bald man is not wrong, or in other words, he used facts and experience to interpret the "ocean current flow theory", because the monsoon and ocean currents are constantly changing in one day, the larger the island climate will be more complex, and the sea temperature will have a large temperature difference with the tidal change, such an environment is not suitable for the breeding of marine organisms, so the world's famous turtle breeding grounds are mainly in Sri Lanka, Malaysia on several small islands;
After all, between running into a parallel world and my own misjudgment, I prefer to believe in the latter, because it is more real and closer to the science I know, and as for what kind of time travel and rebirth...... Lao Tzu never believed that that kind of thing would happen in this world, in my opinion, the reason why there are those good men and women who hold the novel and read it endlessly, it was originally a consolation phenomenon of "I haven't had a good time in this life, and I subconsciously build a trumpet to toss";
"Can you stop calling our island a broken island?" I squinted at the bald man, and was very dissatisfied with his "broken island", which has not only saved my life for eight years, but also given me enough supplies to keep me alive until now;
"Don't, that's your broken island, it's not Lao Tzu's, let's have our set almost", the bald man said with a disdainful face;
"Maybe we're on another island, and when Hook was alive this morning, he said that there were such white-fleshed insects on the island where the demon girl was original, and they called the insects evil insects!" , I suddenly remembered what the hook had said in the morning, and when I thought of the hook, my heart felt uncomfortable again;
"Evil worms? How can an evil insect be so big! That's the most you'll be dead when you're that big! ”;
As he spoke, the bald man stretched out his big finger and measured it in front of my eyes, and listening to the description of the bald man, the "evil insect" mentioned by the hook was more like a parasite, and it was far less lethal than the white-fleshed insect;
"You've seen it?" , I see that the bald man's expression is very confident, not like nonsense;
"Seen? Lao Tzu has also raised it! That thing can fight hunger! ”;
The more the bald man spoke, the more he was at a loss, I was stunned on the spot, and for a moment I didn't know whether to believe the bald man in front of me who was full of running trains or the hook that believed that he was already dead.
"Can you be serious?" , I straightened my face and said solemnly;
"Do you think I'm messing around with you? Kidding you around here? ”;
The bald man paused for a moment and continued: "The evil insects are not like these white flesh worm grandfathers, they can go anywhere, look at the white meat worms again, since we escaped from the forest, have they chased after them?" ”;
I was a little stunned by what he said, and the bald man said again: "Wu, why don't you understand? These white-fleshed bugs are the ones who guard the forest! Anything that walks through this forest has to die in it, you know? There is no death in the tree, no virgin in the word, but all! But as long as we get out of the woods, they won't come out, you listen to them... Did you hear that? Only called, but not out, do you understand my Shanna leader! ”;
The bald man's words were very fast, with an expression of hatred that iron could not be made of steel, but his words were chaotic and reasonable, and they were true;
At the same time, his words also reminded me of a strange story about the "corpse forest" that Lao Tan told me many years ago...
I forgot the original name of the forest, and when he said that I had a bit of a scalp when he raised the corpse forest, I forgot the original name;
According to Lao Tan, most of this kind of forest is located in the south of the tropical rainforest or subtropics, such as Malaya in Asia or Venezuela in South America.
This is not enough, in this kind of forest, people will be frequently disturbed by unknown sounds, there are many kinds of sounds, in short, the purpose of the sound is to drag the creatures in the forest, so this kind of corpse forest is like a whole huge life form, trapping people inside!
When Lao Tan told me about this corpse forest, he was willing to tell me that no matter what in this world, there is life and it is constantly evolving, and he even told me that the highest intelligent creatures on the earth are by no means humans, and their evolution has reached the peak, and even a kind of independent life form that cannot be seen, touched, and only lives in the air, which reminds me of those ghost legends...
In fact, a tree is only a component of the whole forest, or it can be said to be a cell of the forest, and each tree is supplying nutrients and energy to the entire woodland, so strictly speaking, it is not a tree that is really endowed with life, but this forest;
Then, the so-called corpse forest, to put it bluntly, is nothing more than a slightly more advanced and complex forest of life, which will identify all the alien organisms in it as food, leave them in the forest, die in the forest, and then oxidize and decay, and become a lump of high-quality fertilizer for each of its cells (trees) to suck;
At that time, when I heard Lao Tan tell me this, I felt that either he was mentally ill or I was insane, and one of the two people must be abnormal;
But what this forest is doing with the big white flesh worm right now, isn't it the wisdom phenomenon described by Lao Tan?
Before I knew it, there were a lot of beads of sweat oozing from my head, and what made me even more exhausted was that all of this was like a man-made carving and chiseling... That's the scariest thing;
"Bald, with tiger teeth on your back, let's go", I slowly stood up and said to the bald man and the mute who could only see his back in the distance;
"Let's go? My Grandpa Wu, can you live in peace? Cripple, a large group of them disappeared in the blink of an eye, why do you have to wait for them here! ", said the bald man, shaking his head;
"Let's go to the swamp where you picked up the transparent stone, the words on the stone must be a special hint, and that may well be the only exit," I said firmly to the bald man;
Yes, that's my final judgment;
If this woodland, this low mountain, and all these things are man-made, then the meaning of their existence is to kill people, but the designer has left a string of "Chinese characters" with vague meanings, but from the current form, this string of Chinese characters is likely to be the guide sign for the exit;
And the reason why he writes in Chinese characters can be explained that he is waiting for his companion, although this "companion" must not be me;
At this time, the five words engraved in the transparent stone I called the "Eye of the Yellow Spring" kept flashing in my mind:
You're self
By entering
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