Chapter Twenty-Four: The Illusion Reappears
There were so many questions in Da Lei's head, he couldn't think of a reason, and he thought that the top priority now was how to get out, so he didn't care so much. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
It's the same corridor as before, the same cramped and cramped. Da Lei picked up the candlestick from the wall and walked slowly with the faint light.
The walls on both sides were clean, without any carvings, but the partition seemed to be much higher than before, and when you looked up, it was pitch black, and you couldn't see the head at all.
Now the old cannon barrel is gone, the dagger given by the sixth child has also fallen, and the only weapon on his body is the black knife pulled from the dead body in the white jade coffin.
Alas.... Da Lei couldn't help but feel annoyed, he should have snatched the pocket watch on the fifth master before leaving, so that he could record the time, but then again, this corridor is really long enough, and he didn't come to the end after walking for so long.
But this place always feels familiar to me, as if I have been here before.
Many times there is this feeling, a certain scene, a certain person, a certain sentence, a certain event, faintly feel that it has happened, like a dream.
Da Lei once unintentionally killed the stray dog raised by Xiaohai, yes, unintentionally.
However, he did not like the dog very much, and Xiaohai named it Cabbage, because when he picked it up, he was rummaging through the trash can, and he had cabbage in his mouth.
The cabbage was always drooling, rummaging through the garbage to eat, and there was a piece of skin on his leg, which was as disgusting as if it had been burned. One day, Da Lei was bored and went for a walk by the river, but when he turned around, he saw it limping after him, snorting and drooling with his mouth open.
Da Lei threw a small wooden stick into the distance, and the cabbage ran over panting, and after a while, he came back with a small wooden stick stained with saliva, wagging his tail and waiting for Da Lei to touch its head. But Da Lei just frowned and took the stick out of its mouth, and then threw it into the distance, and then the dog chased after it and ran back.... Chase over, run back... Chase past, run back.... Chase over, run back... Back and forth several times, the last time Da Lei was really annoyed, when the cabbage chased after him and didn't run back, he threw a big stone again, I wanted the cabbage to turn his head to pick up the stone, but I didn't want to slap it on its little head.
Da Lei used a lot of force at that time, and his arms felt a little sore, and he never got up after hearing the choking of cabbage.
It turns out that this is what a life whimper means.
My mind was blank at the time, and I was even scared. Afterwards, I heard Xiaohai say that the cabbage's skull was broken, and his two eyes were bloody and rotten.
The two buried the cabbage by the river.
"Xiaohai, brother didn't mean it."
"It's fine." Xiaohai shook his head: "It's not me you're sorry for, it's cabbage." His tone was low and sad. After a pause, Xiao Hai continued: "I once had a dream, before taking in the cabbage. Dream about you stoned a dog to death. It's just that I woke up and forgot about it at the time, but now I feel that this scene is familiar, and I remember it all at once. I'm not going to be mad at you, I just feel sad. ”
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Da Lei feels this way now, he walked in the corridor for a long time, but he just couldn't remember if he had dreamed of this place. Da Lei felt more and more uncomfortable, it was getting more and more humid here, and before he knew it, he was soaking wet.
No more... Da Lei sat down against the wall and felt a little more comfortable.
After a while, the dampness of being tightly wrapped in seaweed came back to my face. He gasped for air, but it became more and more difficult to breathe.
It feels ...... Da Lei's head is swollen... I can't even open my eyes ....
It feels ...... So acquaintance.... His vision was blurred, like picking up mud from the river after the rain and sticking it to his eyes....
This..... It feels ..... Say?!
Damn it...! No way...!
Da Lei suddenly remembered, he tried to stand up and wanted to break free, wanted to escape, but he couldn't do anything, and his whole body couldn't move as if he had been pointed. A large chunk of "mud" stuck on the eyes, and I couldn't see anything clearly.
It's pitch black.
Gradually, as he had expected, a small starlight flickered in the night, jumping and jumping towards him. The warm starlight gradually brightened, and it turned out to be an oil lamp.
A skinny black shadow holds it.
Da Lei couldn't see the face of this shadow clearly, and only felt that the height was less than his waist.
Could it be a child?
The shadow walked down the corridor with an oil lamp, and then stopped. Not far from him, the shadow faced the wall and faced him, his short body looking even more humble in the long corridor, and he looked down and didn't know what he was thinking.
"Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee......"
The creepy voice echoed through the corridor, the shadow's shoulders shuddered, and the uncontrollable laughter squeezed out from between his teeth......
"Hee-hee-.....hee-
"He!!!!!!!!!e-he
The voice is getting louder and louder, and every syllable is like a hammer hitting Da Lei's cranial nerves, and the pain is unbearable. How to describe it? The hoarseness of smoke after being burned by fire, the cruelty of having his throat cut by a hacksaw, the tearing sound of bursting blood, sharp and eerie...
When Da Lei was about to faint from the laughter, suddenly, the voice disappeared.....
The shadow was still facing the wall, and he reached out and pushed it.
"Squeak...."
It turned out to be the sound of the wooden door being pushed open.
The shadow walked in with his head bowed and an oil lamp.
Sure enough, there was a vanity mirror inside the wooden door.
Da Lei had already guessed where the feeling of being covered in dampness to suffocation came from, and it was the same feeling when he and Xiao Hai fell into the tunnel of the bone pile!
At that time, when he was almost unconscious in the tunnel, he saw a fantasy of a girl being tortured to death by two women in the bamboo forest.
Now, in a different place but in the same environment, he saw the vanity mirror that he picked up the bracelet at that time, a very strange vanity mirror.
That mirror can foretell the future.
There are two jewelry boxes on the vanity mirror, which are placed there quietly. The dark shadow opens one of them, and inside is an emerald green bracelet. He looked at it and put it in his pocket.
Another jewelry box is placed there intact.
The shadow didn't leave, but sat down and looked in the mirror.
Da Lei wanted to get closer, but he couldn't move, he wanted to see through the mirror what the black shadow looked like.
This illusion seemed to hear Da Lei's heart, and his vision was slowly enlarged!
The shadow was no longer a shadow, he was thin, small, and wearing tattered clothes with his back to himself.
A little closer .... A little more....
Through the large and small skeletons on his clothes, he had scars on his back, like a leather whip....
A little closer... Come on...
The blurred flesh of the new wound covered the scabs of the old wounds, which was shocking. In the mirror, he lowered his head slightly, and his facial features could not be seen clearly.
I'm about to see it... A little closer...
Suddenly! He looked up, and his pale face had no facial features!!
But Da Lei clearly felt that the face without eyes was looking straight at himself!!
The extreme cold light stabbed over, and Da Lei's whole body was as painful as if he was burning.
Hot.... Particularly hot...
The picture in front of me gradually splits and disappears like broken glass.... In a trance, Da Lei heard a low, hoarse voice: "Ketata... Hee-hee-hee......-hee-
Swish... Vanish...
Da Lei woke up suddenly, panting over and over again with his mouth open. His forehead was covered with sweat, and his heart was pounding as if it would pop out at any moment.
The illusion... Hiss... It hurts!
The pain of being burned still did not decrease, Da Lei looked for the feeling, and found that the candlestick fell to the ground at some point, and the candle flame inside actually burned his trouser leg, and at this moment the skin and flesh crackled and smoked, Da Lei jumped up with an "ah", and extinguished the fire with a curse in his mouth.
I thought it was just a fantasy, but I didn't expect this fucking fire to really burn!
Uncle's!
Hiss..... Da Lei gasped in pain.
Although it is only a small flame, he is flesh and blood after all, and his skin and flesh are burned black! If you don't deal with it in time, it's definitely going to rot!
Da Lei touched the black knife in his arms... Is it possible to rip meat again?!
But if you don't gouge, there is no medicine here......
Medicine!
Right! Manbai! Da Lei leaned against the wall, squinting at the crack in the wall.
Fuck!! There is no such thing here!
The medicine bottle is still with the fifth master!
Da Lei bowed his head in frustration and chagrin like a deflated ball.
"Grunt....." The sound of an object streaking across the ground.
Da Lei raised his head, and a very delicate bottle rolled to his feet and stopped. He picked it up, stunned.
This..... This is the medicine bottle of the fifth master!
Could it be that the fifth master is here?!
Da Lei looked up vigilantly and looked around, not far away, a tall shadow was reflected in the flickering candlelight.
Looks like... It doesn't seem to be the fifth master....
"Who's there?!" Da Lei asked.
The man swayed, but did not speak.
Da Lei thought about it, opened the medicine bottle, and sprinkled Manbai to his feet and necks, and the cool and comfortable feeling instantly diffused. In a few moments, the burned area grew like new flesh.
"This Luo Yusha is really powerful...."Da Lei muttered to himself, he screwed the bottle up, stood up and moved his leg bones, well, it's no problem.
"Thank you so much, brother." Da Lei shouted to the black shadow.
But the shadow did not answer.
"You were just outside, was that you? Bring me in? Da Lei continued to ask.
Still silent.
Da Lei had a premonition that something was wrong, he paused, picked up another candlestick, and walked over.
Amazed.
......
Da Lei covered his mouth, didn't hold back, threw it aside and threw it up against the wall.
.....
The tall black shadow was none other than the Fifth Master.
He was hanged.
Shake it around.
His face was as purple and purple as the liver of a freshly slaughtered pig. The long tongue hung sticky on the ground. The dead fish-like eyes were cloudy, staring straight at Da Lei's back.
The fifth master is dead.
I don't know how long I vomited, Da Lei felt that all the internal organs came out. He wiped his mouth and looked back at the corpse, not at all afraid. There is even a hint of pleasure, the thrill of revenge.
Scold.... You want to kill Lao Tzu, but in the end you die at the hands of someone else.
Da Lei walked over without fear, just like a butcher in a slaughterhouse, as savage as a fat pig that was scalded and hanged. He brushed aside the fifth master's tongue with one hand, rummaged through his pocket with the other, and found a total of two bottles of medicine and a pocket watch. He put it all in his pocket, then walked around the corpse and deeper into the tunnel.
Da Lei was thinking about it all the way, first of all, the illusion, what happened before he and Xiaohai strayed into the tunnel. There are two jade bracelets on the dressing mirror, green and white.
The green ones were taken away by the little black shadow, and the white ones were with me.
Is there any connection between the two?
And what does the phrase "Ketata..."?
followed by the fifth master, although it is not clear why he killed himself, but it seems that someone took the lead to solve the trouble for himself.
All this must have been done by the dark shadow when he was in the water.
The fifth master is dead, but in this huge tomb that can hold tens of millions of coffins, there is now another person besides himself, and even more. The man refused to show himself his true face, but led step by step.
Who is this big black shadow who helped him and the little black shadow that appeared in the illusion?
Da Lei looked at the pocket watch, the hands turned quickly, and the day passed like this.....
The passage is as long as there is no end, Da Lei doesn't know how long he has walked, and he even began to wonder if this stone statue's belly is so big, and he shouldn't be able to meet ghosts hitting the wall here, right?
Just when he wanted to rest, he came to the end.
It was a stone staircase going down, and it was pitch black.
It's like the unfathomable mouth of a beast.