Da Lei looked at Drup's back in confusion, he didn't get angry because of this sentence, but suddenly thought of a question:

"Am I already dead?"

It is said that if a person's belief in survival is too strong, even if he dies, the thoughts in the brain will not be interrupted, but will continue to "live" with the subconscious....

Suddenly, there was a "click", and I saw that the wooden stick above the fifth master's head somehow fell to the ground, Da Lei picked it up and reinserted it, looked at the withered wooden stick in front of him, and said to himself: "Then when did I die?" ”

With that, he shook his head and sighed, and just wanted to stand up, when he heard a "click" and looked down. I saw that the stick fell to the ground again.

Not even a single wind .... What's going on?

The sticks will definitely not be poured by themselves, is it possible that someone wants to convey something to themselves?

Da Lei continued to insert the stick, and after a while it fell again. After three times in a row, Da Lei suddenly made a decision, and he himself was taken aback by this idea, but he didn't think much about it, there must be something strange in this soil.

Da Lei looked around, and after making sure that there was no one, he began to dig up the soil with his hands, and decided to dig out the head of the fifth master to take a look.

The day when the fifth master's head was found was purely accidental, and it was dark again, so at that time, Xiao Hai and Da Lei did not dig a deep pit in line with the psychology of "quick victory".

About five minutes later, a pungent smell rushed to Da Lei's nostrils, and the fifth master's green and rotten face was revealed. The strange thing is that although many months have passed, this head has not changed much since the last time I saw it, it is still pus and maggots, and its gray eyes are covered with sand.

Da Lei resisted the desire to vomit, and the two hands pulled the dead brain case to observe, and did not see anything abnormal. After a while, as if he had made a lot of determination, Da Lei frowned painfully, pinched open the mouth of the fifth master, and saw a large piece of maggots coming out of the mouth of the fifth master, crawling on Da Lei's hands and arms, and the numb feeling instantly surged all over the body, Da Lei jumped up like an electric shock, desperately shook his arms and stomped his feet, and those fat white maggots instantly turned into a pile of meat and scattered on the sand.

"It's fucking obedient...."Da Lei turned his head and gulped in the fresh air. After a while, he eased up a little, turned around again, frowned, and held his breath to pinch the fifth master's mouth.

The pungent smell can be felt even without breathing.....

The fifth master's tongue has been cut, but there is still a piece of white in his mouth. It's not like teeth, it's too big to say maggots... Da Lei picked up the small wooden stick on the ground and stretched it out to the fifth master's mouth, and took out the white thing.

It turned out to be a piece of paper, a little slimy.

The night was too dark that night, and he and Xiaohai didn't find the paper.

Da Lei threw the fifth master's head back into the dirt pit in disgust, and then unfolded the paper, which was still wrapped in a manbai, no wonder the fifth master's head did not continue to rot.

On the paper was a line of words:

The sixth child has my things on him, and you keep them for me first.

......

What does that mean?

Da Lei raised his head and found that the wooden stick above the old six's head had also fallen.

He took a deep breath, walked to the grave of the sixth child, and said, "Brother, I'm sorry. "Start digging up the head of the old six.

The sixth man was buried very deeply, plus there were no auxiliary tools, and it was difficult for him to find help from others, Da Lei knelt on the ground and knelt so that his knees hurt, and his hands were also grinding out blood, and it took nearly half an hour to dig out the head of the sixth child.

Sure enough, he had something in his mouth as well.

It turned out to be a red bead.

The size of a goose egg, blood-red beads, red and black.

What's the matter?

Da Lei took out the bracelet given by Sister Zhu, in the sun, the emerald green bracelet had a trace of blood red in it, and there was a wisp of black in the red, which looked the same color as the bead.

......

"This bracelet is for peace."

......

Sister Zhu's words echoed in Da Lei's mind.

He looked up at the desert outside the village, ancient and quiet as if it were an oil painting.

Da Lei carefully put the bead in his pocket, then put the bracelet on his hand, tidied up the scene, bowed to the grave of the fifth master and the sixth child, and turned to leave.

The sky gradually darkened, and every time the temperature became very low, a gust of wind blew, and the lonely manbai on the ground shook and withered into ashes in an instant.

When Da Lei went back, Ganu and Xiao Haizheng were chatting happily, and before they could enter the door, they heard a burst of "giggle" laughter.

Xiao Hai saw Da Lei coming in, and said excitedly: "Brother, the patriarch came here just now, and this old man didn't know what he was crazy about, so he actually sent us four bags of rice and several pots of water." As he spoke, he gestured to the pile of things on the table.

Da Lei glanced at the "um", then walked to the water tank, scooped a bowl of water, and handed it to Xiao Hai: "Then, pour it into my hand in a while." ”

"What? Hand washing? Waves are not wasted? Didn't we wash it during the day....... Hey, where did you get this bracelet? ”

"Sister Zhu gave it before."

"I don't think I've seen this bracelet anywhere, I can't remember....." Xiao Hai muttered, and the water passed through Da Lei and rubbed his hands back and forth, falling to the ground with a crisp sound.

"Yay! One more time! One more time! Ganu said noisily as he looked at the water stains on the ground.

"Whatever comes, water can't be wasted." Xiao Hai glared at him, turned his head and continued to say to Da Lei: "The patriarch agreed that we will leave tomorrow morning." ”

"You told him?"

"He brought it himself." Xiao Hai said: "I wanted to mention it in two more days, but this old man actually took the initiative to find me, saying that we are not from this village in the first place, let's leave if you want, and if you want to come back, you can come back again." They don't force it. ”

"It's so strange...."Da Lei muttered, then pointed at Ganu and asked, "What about him?" ”

"The strangest thing is this, Tiru Ye said that we can take Ganu away. They said that Ganu's heart is not in this village now, and he will definitely sneak out in the future. If we can take care of him, we can take him away if we want, anyway, after so many years, they have also worried a lot about Canu. ”

This is something Da Lei didn't expect, but Ganu is also a member of their clan, so he said that he didn't want it, wouldn't it be a little too strange?

Xiao Hai saw Da Lei's doubts, patted him on the shoulder, and whispered: "Whatever, anyway, we have to take Canu away in the end, and we don't have any threat to those people, so there should be nothing wrong." ”

Da Lei said "um", then thought of something, and hurriedly spoke: "Xiaohai, don't think about it, Ganu will be my brother in the future, although I didn't like him very much at first, but that was ..... before!" I don't have any problem with taking him back, I just think it's a little too smooth......"

"Brother, I understand your concerns." Xiao Hai interrupted him: "After the patriarch left, I pondered for a while, although we ate and drank for nothing here with them, we are also grateful. But you can also feel that they are still wary of us. plus the sixth child's business, it will kill people directly! They must have felt that the Han people were too dangerous, so it was better to leave quickly, and Ganu was not willing to stay, and the people in the village did not like him very much..... Just throw it to the two of us and leave together! ”

Da Lei thought about Xiao Hai's words for a while and felt that what he said made sense.

"Brother, when the time comes, let's ride a camel...."

"The camel died, just last month, and you haven't come back yet."

"Dead? Oh my God...," Xiao Hai sighed in surprise.

"Hee-hee-hee...."

The sudden laughter made Da Lei feel excited, he was particularly sensitive to laughter, especially the kind of snickering laughter that squeezed between his teeth, which made him even more uncomfortable.

I saw Ganu covering his mouth, looking at Da Lei and couldn't stop being happy.

"What's wrong?" Da Lei asked patiently.

Seeing that he had been discovered, Ganu made his movements even more exaggerated, pointing at Da Lei's wrist and laughing non-stop, laughing over and over again. Da Lei's face sank little by little. He didn't hate Ganu, nor did he hate Ganu laughing at himself, but this kind of "hee-hee-hee-hee" low laughter made him creepy and uncomfortable.

There are many kinds of laughter, bitter smile, coquettish laughter, ridicule, laughter, slight smile, skin smile and meat do not smile.....

And Ganu this kind .... How to say it, it seems that thousands of forces are gathered in the throat, and when they rush to the mouth, they become thin decibels as thin as a hair coming out from between the teeth, so weak, so miserable, so aggrieved, turning into "hehehehehehe..."

"Canu!" Xiao Hai scolded: "Why are you so rude, how many times have I told you!" ”

Ganu held his mouth, his face was red, as if he was holding back a smile, and ran out with a smoke.

"Hey! This kid...."Xiao Hai stood at the door, looked at the back of Ganu running out, shook his head and sighed: "This is not good, I really have to educate him well in the future." ”

Da Lei sat down slowly, closed his eyes and rubbed his temples. It took a while to regain his strength, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Xiaohai's worried face.

"Brother, what's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing, I'm just a little tired."

"I guess Canu is laughing at your bracelet, after all, it's Sister Zhu's, it's inevitably a little feminine...."

Da Lei looked down at the bracelet, I don't know if it was because the night was dark, the bracelet looked red as a whole, and the wisp of impurities inside had completely turned black.

"This bracelet...."Xiao Hai bent down and looked closer: "I really feel familiar, it seems that I have seen it somewhere..."

"But...," Da Lei thought for a while, and then spoke: "Do you remember that the two of us were once in a huge sand pit with a lot of white bones in it, and then encountered a strange sand flow at night, and directly rolled the two of us into a tunnel?" ”

"Well, I remember." Xiao Hai nodded.

"When we were separated, I walked around in the dark in that tunnel, and came to a room where there was a mirror, and on the mirror there were two jewelry boxes, one of which was empty, and the other box had a white jade bracelet. Later, the white jade bracelet was taken away by me.... By the way, you've seen it! ”

"Oh, I remembered, at the Loulan ruins, you showed me, the bracelet was crystal clear."

"Hmm." Da Lei nodded: "So I think...."

"So you think that the empty jewelry box at that time is likely to be the green bracelet in your hand? You mean.... Is this green bracelet a pair with that white bracelet? Xiao Hai understood Da Lei's words and spoke first.

"Not bad." Da Lei nodded.

"But... But isn't this what Sister Zhu gave you? You've said before that she hasn't been into any ancient tombs, tunnels, or anything..."

"I've thought about it carefully in the past two days, Sister Zhu must have been stimulated before, and her moody spirit is not very good, so I can't fully believe her words. And this bracelet was also given to her by her dead husband, she said that her man liked cultural relics and antiques when he was alive, and he wandered around, so it's really hard to say where this bracelet came from. ”

"I see...."Xiao Hai said thoughtfully: "It's not unreasonable for you to say this, besides, I really have an inexplicable familiarity with this bracelet, although this kind of round ornament is about the same length, but I must have seen this bracelet!" It is.... I just can't remember...."Xiao Hai grabbed his hair and thought desperately, and gave up after a long time: "Damn, it's evil..... I just can't remember. ”

"Forget it..."Da Lei waved his hand: "If you can't think of it, forget it, it's dark, let's sleep well and leave tomorrow morning!" By the way, did you tell Canu? ”

"Say, wake up, pack up and meet at the entrance of the village." Xiao Hai took off his shoes, rubbed his feet, then closed his eyes and yawned and lay down: "Time flies so fast, before you know it, we have been in this desert for several years...."

"How many years?" Da Lei also lay down, looked out the dark window and asked.

I miss the moon so much......

"It's been five years...."

"It's so fast...."

"yes..."

The topic fell into endless silence.

The two of them knew that they were not asleep with each other, but there was an inexplicable sadness in their hearts, Da Lei was very uncomfortable, he had always felt guilty about Xiaohai in his heart, if he didn't have to come, he wouldn't have caused Xiaohai to suffer with him.

"Brother." Xiaohai suddenly said: "During the time when we were in a coma, I seemed to have had a long, long dream, but I couldn't remember the content of the dream at all, I always felt that some fragments were dangling in my head, but I just couldn't catch it.... Sometimes I sleep and dream, the dreams are strange, and when I wake up, I can remember some of the things I experienced when I was in a coma, but I can't remember all of them... Alas... I'm afraid to fall asleep again, and it's going to be years at a time... I'm afraid that my current self is actually in a dream... I can't tell the reality anymore...."

Da Lei's heart sank, he remembered everything he experienced when he was in a coma, why couldn't Xiaohai remember it? and those dreams he had, Da Lei could feel what it was conveying to himself in the dark..... The meaning of dreaming with Xiaohai is completely different, why is that?

"Don't think about it." Da Lei comforted: "People are not like this, when they wake up, they know that they have a dream, and they don't remember the content of the dream at all." Wait until the afternoon or even next week to remember. Don't put pressure on yourself. ”

"Hmm." Xiao Hai nodded and didn't speak again.

The conversation fell silent again, and deep breathing was heard in the infinite silence......

Early the next morning.

Da Lei stood at the entrance of the village, smoking a leather cigarette in a big gulp, this is already the sixth one. Xiao Hai persuaded on the side: "Brother, why are you nervous, you should be happy when we go out!" This game should be so choking, it's not good for your throat, don't smoke it. ”

"Hmm." Da Lei nodded sullenly, took a deep puff of cigarette, slowly exhaled it, and finally wiped his hands with satisfaction: "Okay." ”

"Really.... Canu is not here yet.... Why don't we go to the patriarch's house and find him. Xiao Hai was a little anxious.

"It's fine. Let's come out early..... Look, isn't this coming.... Wait a minute...! ”

Da Lei saw Ganu running over from not far away, but he was followed by a large group of people, Wuyang Wuyang.

This.... This.... As the crowd approached, Da Lei gradually saw that there were patriarchs, Khanmeng, Drup, Gabad, Di Saipun, and so on..... This.... How many people are there??!!

Ganu ran fast and was very excited, and after the little guy came over, he grabbed Xiao Hai's hand, grinned and raised his head and bared his teeth at him.

"Canu..... How.... Why are there so many people? Xiao Hai asked stunned.

"Our whole village is here to see you off." The patriarch stepped forward. There was a rare smile on his dry and serious face, which made Da Lei's heart furious.

"Children." The patriarch said to Da Lei and Xiao Hai word by word: "I handed over my clan to you, if you are favored by the earth god and really leave here, you must treat him well." ”

"Don't worry." Xiaohai said: "Canu will be our family in the future, and we will treat him well." ”

Da Lei also nodded on the side, he didn't speak, as if a big stone called "responsibility" was pressed on his heart, which made people breathless. In the past, Xiaohai also handed himself over to Da Lei, but now? It's just because of an immature impulse that the two of them were harmed to such a field. Da Lei looked down at Ganu, the child's smile was extremely innocent and bright, and the stone pressed on his heart was heavier.

"I've got to treat this kid well." Da Lei thought to himself.

Farewell to the village, farewell to the people of the clan.

The three of them carried dry food and water bags and set out on a long journey.

Da Lei lowered his head and walked out of the village step by step, walking towards the vast golden desert, the air was mixed with the smell of dust and dust from the wind and sand, the sun was looming above the gray sky but it was still hot, Ganu walked in the front, his thin and cheerful appearance became blurred, and he was still humming that strange ballad, as when he first saw him.

Da Lei suddenly turned around, the village was still the same village, the black skirts of the people were crowded at the entrance of the village, smiling and waving to them, some people were standing behind, they couldn't see clearly at all, and turned into a black shadow.

"It's really a bit like a group posthumous photo....." Da Lei shook his head with a wry smile.

At this time, at the front of the crowd, there was a thin and small figure, it was Senua.

She took a small wooden stick, threw it on the ground and picked it up, threw it on the ground and picked it up again, over and over again....

She looked at Da Lei expressionlessly, and her cold eyes couldn't see joy and sorrow.