Chapter Twenty-Six: The Way Home

I'm so thirsty....

My throat was as uncomfortable as smoking. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Da Lei scratched his face and woke up in a daze. He blinked, turned his head and saw a window, the huge sunlight refracted in, and his whole person was warm, but he was even more thirsty and confused.

Where is this?

There was the sound of talking and footsteps outside the window, from far to in, and after a while, a person came in, he was stunned for a moment after seeing Da Lei wake up, and then smiled: "Yo, wake up, you have slept long enough!" ”

His face was very familiar, and Da Lei stared at him for almost ten seconds, and finally remembered.

"Old ...... Sixth? ”

The other party was stunned for a moment when he heard Da Lei call him, and then grinned: "Yes, you remember." ”

Really... It's really the sixth!

But... How could I have met him? Could it be that you're back in the village again?! This... What's going on?!

Lao Liu saw his question, and asked instead of rushing to answer: "Da Lei, do you know how long you have been in a coma?" ”

Da Lei shook his head in confusion.

Lao Liu stretched out four fingers, paused, and said, "Four years." ”

"What?!" Da Lei jumped down from the kang bed suddenly, stared at the fingers of the sixth child incredulously, and stammered: "Four... Four years? ”

"Yes."

"Hehe..."Da Lei smiled dryly: "Sixth, are you teasing me?" I'm not in a vegetative state, how can I be in a coma for four years! Besides, it's a vegetative person, he hasn't eaten or drunk for four years, and he's become a dead person! How is that possible...."

Lao Liu's face was serious: "What are you lying to, it's 1976, it's the peak month of the summer season, I don't believe you go and ask your brother!" ”

"My brother...... Brother.... Xiaohai?! Da Lei's tone was raised again: "He's here?!" ”

Lao Liu said angrily outside the door: "Oh, it's outside." ”

Da Lei staggered towards the door, the sun was hot and dazzling, he couldn't stand it for a while, raised his arm to cover his eyes, and saw a person squatting at the gate of the courtyard in the haze, thin and small, his arm trembling and not knowing what he was doing.

"Xiaohai?" Da Lei shouted.

The figure paused, then continued unresponsively as he went about his business, without looking back.

Da Lei got used to the light for a while, and walked towards the figure, the closer he got to him, the more strange he felt, although Xiao Hai's child was not tall, but his physique was not so thin. Besides, if it's really Xiaohai, he won't react at all when he hears his voice.

He leaned over to the man and crouched down to gaze at the man's face.

Suddenly, I felt a "chuckle" in my heart, it was really Xiaohai!

This... How did this kid get so thin? It's like a completely different person. is not only an external model, but a feeling that emanates from the inside out, which is particularly strange and indifferent, and it will make Da Lei's heart chill under the scorching sun.

"Xiaohai?"

"Hmm." Xiao Hai nodded, still didn't look at Da Lei, he lowered his head and concentrated on playing with the insects on the ground.

Two small, black flat bugs, I don't know what kind they were, fought each other on the sand. Xiao Hai held a dry branch in his hand, blocking between the two insects, and scratched back and forth.

Da Lei squatted aside, and he didn't know what it was like.

Since he was a child, Xiaohai has always relied on himself, he was timid when he was a child, and he couldn't do it if he didn't follow him for a day, and he never ignored himself like this. Moreover..... In that dream-like experience, Da Lei has been thinking about Xiao Hai, I don't know if he is still alive, but now, Xiao Hai is in front of him, intact but a lot thinner... But like a stranger.

Da Lei didn't know what to say for a while.

The two black bugs seemed to be annoyed by Xiao Hai's dead branches, and after fighting for a while, they turned around and burrowed into the ground.

Xiao Hai threw away the dead branches, clapped his hands and turned around to leave.

"Hey!" Da Lei grabbed him.

Xiao Hai didn't speak, turned his head to look at him.

Da Lei looked at this face even more uncomfortable.

After losing weight, Xiao Hai's face is well-defined, and his slender eyes look more energetic, but his hair is a little messy, his chin has some stubble, and the whole person looks very haggard and indifferent, he looks straight at Da Lei with an expressionless face.

Exactly the same face.... Xiaohai wasn't like this before.

After a long time, Da Lei said, "When will you return to the village?" ”

"With you."

"Me?" Da Lei was puzzled: "Could it be that you are also in a coma?" ”

"Hmm."

"How long have you been unconscious?"

"Shorter than you, three years."

Da Lei is speechless.

He noticed that Xiao Hai was breaking free of himself, and said a little unwillingly: "Then what have you been doing all year since you woke up?!" ”

"Wait until you wake up."

"Yes...... But my brother woke up. Why are you so indifferent? ”

"Nope." Xiao Hai suddenly grinned. His mouth became bigger and bigger, and the two corners of his mouth slowly extended to the back of his ear, and then the whole skin seemed to have fallen off, revealing his bloody and blurred head, leaving only white teeth, moving up and down and saying, "Brother, do you think I'm beautiful?" ”

Da Lei woke up suddenly!!

He was soaked all over his body and gasped for breath, the sun was shining warmly through the window, but Da Lei still couldn't stop shivering. There is loess on all sides, and there are traces of dry cracks when you look closely, someone is talking outside the door, the voice is from far to near, more and more clear, and after a while, a familiar figure walks in from outside the door, and sees yourself stunned: "Yo, you wake up!" That's a long night's sleep! ”

Da Lei's lips turned white and muttered, "Old six......"

Yes, the other party smiled: "Yes! I have a good memory, I haven't forgotten me. What, having a nightmare? ”

Da Lei didn't answer and asked: "Sixth, how long have I been in a coma?" ”

The sixth didn't expect him to ask like this, his face was a little unsightly, and then he stretched out four fingers......

Da Lei's heart sank and said, "Four... Four years? ”

"Why don't you ask if it's four days or four months?" The sixth is a little strange.

"Is it four years?" Da Lei's face was solemn.

"Hmm." The sixth nodded suspiciously.

"1976, the peak month of the summer season?"

"Yes." The sixth child was even more puzzled.

"Where's my brother?"

"How do you know your brother ......?"

“...... Where is he??!! ”

The sixth child was confused by Da Lei's sudden anger, and he angrily said to the door: "Oh, what's outside, what...."Before he could finish asking, Da Lei had already floated outside like a wind.

A thin figure squatted at the door, his arms trembling so much that he didn't know what he was doing.

Da Lei took every step like walking barefoot on the blade of a knife, his heart was pounding, and his nervous voice was in tune.

"Xiaohai?"

The man paused, then went on with his work, never looking back.

Da Lei walked slowly to his side, crouched down, and stared at his side face.

It's Xiaohai.

It's exactly the same as in a dream.

Two small black flat bugs were fighting each other in the sand, and Xiao Hai held a dead branch in his hand and scratched between them, and finally the bugs got annoyed and turned their heads and burrowed into the ground.

Xiao Hai threw away the dead branches, clapped his hands and left.

Da Lei grabbed him: "Stop!" ”

I obviously felt that Xiao Hai's body stiffened. His stiff neck twisted with difficulty, and his face was exactly the same as in his dream, different from his eyes and expressions.

Xiao Hai's eyes were incredible, staring straight at Da Lei full of shock and even some surprise.

This made Da Lei unexpected.

He stood there a little stupidly, bewildered.

“...... Elder brother? Xiao Hai was so surprised that his mouth grew big.

It's not the same as in the dream, it's different from here.

Da Lei thought to himself. He looked at Xiao Hai blankly, watching his two mouths muttering a large series of words, and his head didn't have time to react.

"Brother? .... Elder brother? Xiaohai was a little anxious: "I'll talk to you!" ”

"Huh?" Da Lei came back to his senses, looked at the lively Xiao Hai, and had an indescribable feeling in his heart.

That's him.

Who is that person in the dream?

"Brother, when did you wake up?"

"Just now, what about you?"

"A year before you."

Sizzle..... Da Lei sighed in his heart, some places are still the same.

"What have you been doing this year?"

"When you wake up."

Really......

"I just called you, why didn't you respond?"

"I heard it, and I thought it was the sixth child teasing me, so I didn't squeak."

I see.

"Xiaohai, let me ask you, have I really been in a coma for four years?"

"Hmm." Xiaohai nodded: "At first, I didn't believe it, I didn't believe that I would be in a coma for three years, but a year has passed, and I see that you have been in a coma, and I don't know when I will wake up, so I believe it." ”

"How did we end up in the village of Thar?"

"Didn't the sixth tell you?"

Da Lei shook his head.

"The camel we rode on the day we left the village ran back, the sixth felt that something was wrong, and took two or three people to the Loulan ruins to look for us at night, and they also walked for two days and one night to arrive, and then found you and I unconscious on the ground, so I brought them back. Then ......"

"And then you slept for three years, and I've slept until now?"

"Hmm."

"How is that possible?!" Da Lei smiled dumbly.

How could the things he had experienced be a dream, and now he still vividly remembers it, the nine-headed python, the huge coffin, the two hallucinations, the mysterious black shadow, and the tomb master in the water........

How can all this be a dream?

Xiao Hai lowered his head and didn't speak, in fact, he knew in his heart that things were not so simple, but there was no evidence at all for those things that had happened, and after such a long time, everything was calm, even if he was unwilling, what could he do?

Da Lei seemed to see through Xiao Hai's thoughts, and he changed the topic: "Where are you going?" ”

"Find Canu."

"Who is Canu?"

"The kid who brought us into the village back then