Aoki saw that the string of keys discarded by the cuckoo was in the water, but a little farther away from his cage, and closer to the crazed beggar's cage.

He tried to reach out and grab it, but found that he could not reach it, so he stood up and said to the mad beggar, "Pick it up and throw it to me, and I will help you open the cage when I get out." ”

The mad beggar was indifferent, like an orangutan in a zoo, holding the iron bar in both hands, and looked at Aoki quietly, as if to say, "Give up, stupid human." ”

Aoki said it twice, and finally gave up the idea of reasoning with a madman about terms.

The river began to rise slowly again. When it rose to waist-deep depth, the sound of splashing sounded in the water in the distance.

Aoki's mind suddenly flashed with inspiration, and there were some things that he had been unable to understand vaguely.

According to the cuckoo, it was Situ who activated this place, indicating that it had been abandoned for many years. This is probably not modern, because I really can't think of anyone in modern times who would waste their energy to make such a thing out of this uninhabited mountain.

The appearance of the Japanese seems to be able to prove this. Aoki speculated that this was probably a prisoner of war camp established during the Japanese invasion of southern Yunnan, and that this kind of pig cage was used to hold prisoners of war.

If a group dream continues, and the old dreamer dies, but new dreamers keep joining, then it is indeed possible to preserve the entire dream. You can see the ruins of old dreams in dreams, and the basic rules will not change radically.

Theoretically, if people all over the world join the same group dream, the dream can be sustained for generations.

The only thing Aoki couldn't figure out was that if it was really left by the Japanese, it would have been abandoned for at least 70 years by now. In the past seventy years, no one has stayed here, how can this dream space and space rules be preserved? And what did the cuckoo trigger to make these Japanese appear again?

He remembered when he saw the splash on the water in the distance.

There is an underground river that leads to the outside world, and the water rises according to a certain law. Every time the water rises, many aquatic animals swim through here.

People can dream, and so do animals.

This cave is connected to the outside world, not only the fish in the water, but also rats, snakes, toads, turtles, spiders, bats...... There are more animals in the mountains than you can imagine.

Animals may not be as strong as humans, but if there are enough of them, they can support this dream.

In the seventy or eighty years of desertion, it was the animals in the mountains that kept this space. This is probably something that the person who designed this dream in the first place did not expect.

The water level is still rising, and dark shadows are constantly swimming in the water.

"Come out." Aoki said to the water not far away before it flooded his neck.

Suddenly a dark shadow floated on the surface of the water, and then there was a crow, and a crow flew out of the water, with a fish in its mouth.

"Wow~~~Ah...... My Fish ...... Wail! ”

As soon as the crow opened its mouth, the small fish in its mouth fell. It plunged into the water, and in a moment it sprang out of the water again, and had a larger fish in its mouth.

"If you eat fish again, I'll be drowned." As Aoki spoke, the water had reached his chin and was about to flood his mouth.

"Oh oh - you're so bad! I finally came to travel, how did I get locked up? ”

The fish fell into the water again, but this time the crow ignored it and flapped its wings and flew towards Aoki. The cage's iron bars were completely unable to stop its wide wings, and it pierced through like an invisible ghost and stopped above Aoki's head.

"Remember to take me with you next time you go out, every time I am called by you like this, I feel very unhappy!" The crow shook its feathers and complained, "It's not good! Accurate! ”

"Well, if you don't have to go to the trouble of flying, I can consider taking you with me." Aoki said as he pushed open the door of the cage and walked out.

"By plane? Why do you have to fly every time? You can't take the train or whatever? Why do you have to force crows to fly? ”

"It's the same with crows taking the high-speed train."

"Oh, okay, okay, you have a point in what you say." The coal boss looked at his surroundings, "What kind of place is this?" Oh, it seems...... It's a bit weird......"

"You'll see something weirder in a minute."

Aoki floated out of the water, put his hands in his trouser pockets, stepped on the water, and slowly walked towards the depths of the cave. The pull-up board tapped, tapping and tapping against the water, splashing all the way.

The mad beggar in the cage next door looked at them with wide eyes and stupidity. When the water level flooded his nose, he took a sharp sip of water before remembering to grab the iron bar on top of the cage and float his head out of the water and cough violently.

……

"By the way, how did you end up in a cage?" Raven asked.

"It's a group dream." Aoki said.

"What? Group dreams? A manyman's dream? Oh~~~" The crow turned around on Aoki's head and looked at the iron cage behind him, "It's not important. I mean, you look like you're in a cage, like ...... Forehead...... Like an orangutan...... Haha ”

The crow couldn't help but laugh.

"Have you been eating too well lately?" Aoki said.

"Oh, you're ...... I can't afford to joke at all...... Wail...... Okay, okay, I said, a group dream traps you, are you regressing? ”

"It must be that you don't practice well and find an excuse to go so far to pick up girls, right? Well, I think I have to talk to Ruhua, and if I get more food, I can consider being a spy or something. ”

"Double-sided tape?"

"Well, double-sided...... What the? Double-sided tape? What double-sided tape? The crow tilted his head to think about what Aoki meant.

Aoki burst out laughing.

"Where's the kid?" The crow, who had been quiet for a moment, asked again.

"What kid?"

"It's the one who keeps a diary. Wow, that diary is so touching, oh, not only touching, but also touching! Look at me crying, you don't know how sad I am, I'm all thin, I need nutrition, quack, I need sauce elbows to make up for it...... Quack ......"

The crows kept crowing.

After two turns, the underground river passed under a rock wall, and the iron cage ended there.

Aoki roughly estimated that the total number of cages along the way was no less than two hundred. This is more than he expected, even if it is a prisoner of war camp, there is no need to make so many separate cages, right?

The whole cave is like a labyrinth, with one hole connected to the next. If you don't have that underground river, it's easy to get lost walking in it. In some of the caves, boxes of supplies were piled up with the words "dangerous" or "forbidden" printed on them.

The crates are covered in dust and cobwebs. As Aoki walked by, the sound of footsteps startled many small animals hiding in the cracks between the boxes.

A cry for help came not far ahead: "Help! Let me go! Let go of ......"

Then there was the laughter of a group of men: "Flower girl, Yoxi!" ”

Aoki walked a few steps, rounded a large rock pillar, and saw in another cave, where four or five Japanese soldiers were pressing the cuckoo to the ground and stripping her of her clothes.

The cave is not large, but it is connected to a larger cave. There was a fire there, and iron pots were set on the fire, and seven or eight Japanese soldiers sat around the fire, talking and laughing.

"Hey, hurry up, we're going to have some more fun." A soldier shouted into the cave.

"Ah, you should tell them to be lighter, don't play people to death."

"Just wait!" Here, a Japanese soldier who was taking off his pants responded.

"Don't worry, none of them will last a minute."

The Japanese soldiers in the cave over there all laughed.