Chapter Twenty-Four: Illusion?
We were lying in a room on the third floor of the resort, but when we woke up, the resort was gone, and we were lying on the Lop Nur desert!
I have seen a similar story in the ghost fox novel - a scholar went to Beijing to take the exam, rescued a fox on the way, this night, he stayed in a deserted village inn, the boss did not charge him for the room, and called his daughter to drink with him. The daughter gave the scholar a handkerchief and told him that in case of supernatural things, this handkerchief could ward off evil spirits......
Now, I've happened to it myself!
Such a big city, so many buildings, so many streets, so many people...... It's like a donkey shadow puppet, the light is gone, there is nothing. 6 days is like a dream!
I burst out laughing.
The temperature difference between day and night in the desert is large, and the cold wind blows me and makes me shiver. I was shaking and laughing, and I couldn't control myself.
Wu Min woke up first, and he asked in a daze: "Boss Zhou, what's wrong with you?" β
He immediately found that the environment was wrong, sat up, and touched around in a panic, and then shouted while pushing Meng Xiaoshuai: "Get up quickly!" Get up! β
Meng Xiaoshuai, Guo Mei, and Bai Xinxin all woke up.
Everyone was dumbfounded.
Bai Xinxin suddenly jumped up and ran away.
I stopped laughing and shouted, "You're back!" β
He stopped.
I said, "Why are you going?" β
He said, "Nonsense, run!" This place is clearly haunted! β
I said, "It's desert everywhere, it's the same everywhere." Come back, I suddenly want to tell you a story. β
Bai Xinxin hesitated, no one ran with him, and in the end, he came back.
Meng Xiaoshuai asked tremblingly, "Boss Zhou, do you want to ...... What to talk about? β
I said, "It's related to Wu Cheng." β
The men stopped talking and listened quietly.
I told a drifting story.
To make it easier to remember, I'm going to call the four people in the story β the cat, the rabbit, the fox, and the goose. The goose is me.
Many years ago, I met a man who was a cat.
My relationship with him is a bit special.
I was an admirer, or follower, of him.
Cats are not stars, not poets, not inventors, not dissidents. So what does he do? He's in a weird business, ostracized and guarded against by most people, and most of the people don't believe in it at all, so I don't mention it, you know it's a mysterious business.
I believe in Him. Moreover, I was a little afraid of him.
I met him through an old classmate, and later, I kept in touch with him a lot, and occasionally drank together. Of course, he doesn't drink a single drink, but I drink alone, and he drinks it. He never talks about anything related to his industry, he only talks about current events and life.
But I know what he does. Honestly, I want to worship him as a teacher.
I once loved a girl whose name was Fox and she died not long ago, and I was in a state of great grief. I think he can help me. You'll think he's a hypnotist, wrong. You'll guess he's a psychic, and you're wrong.
Don't guess, it's really a cold and secretive industry, and you'll be scared to say it.
How did the fox die? She went rafting in Jingnan, fell into the water and choked to death, a matter of seconds.
One day, I put forward my idea to the cat, begging him to take me as an apprentice, and I said that I wanted to see the dead fox again, whether she was real or not. He looked at me with strange eyes, and only said for a long time: Big goose, are you crazy? I'm just a middle school math teacher!
I don't speak, I know he can do it.
The last time I saw the cat was more than a month later, he was on summer vacation and had a girlfriend, and that girl was a rabbit.
I proposed to go to Jingnan rafting, and the cat didn't want to go, but his girlfriend was excited and had to go. The cat couldn't help it, and reluctantly agreed. He was very reluctant to go on this trip from the start, and it turned out that he did have a hunch.
Surely you're more curious - what do cats do? All I can tell you is that it's a lost business.
The next day, we came to Jingnan.
It was almost an untouched mountain, with dense trees and deep grass, and only an intermittent dirt road underfoot, whose only function was to guide us.
I noticed that the cat didn't look up much, but his nose twitched occasionally, and his movements were very subtle, and it was difficult to notice without looking closely.
As we walked, I talked to them about the river we went rafting down to have killed five people in a few years. There was an old man, who lived in this mountain, and he made firecrackers privately, and he was killed. That was three years ago. That year, there had just been a rainstorm, a landslide occurred, and a college boy who came to sketch was stoned to death. Last year, a mother and son came to raft with her son, but they hit a rock, killing both mother and son......
While we were talking, an old man suddenly appeared on the mountain road in front of us, selling something, and we walked over and saw a dozen * in front of him......
Bai Xinxin was a little impatient, he said: "We should be bedded on the ground, we don't know what's going on, who has the leisure to listen to you tell ghost stories?" β
I said, "After listening, maybe you'll know what's going on." β
He was silent.
I'm going to go on --
Those* are not real, of course, just a kind of firecracker toy for little children to play with.
The rabbit wanted to buy one to play with, but I stopped it, it was too unsafe.
Walking past the old man, we walked through the trees for more than an hour, and at last the front opened up, and we saw the river, and on the other side of the river was a majestic mountain, and the mountains were rocky.
They were all still lifes, with only one living thing moving, so it stood out, a young boy who was carrying stones piece by piece from the foot of the hill and throwing them into the river. Everyone can see that this kind of labor is meaningless.
After leaving the man, the rabbit said something that sent chills through her heart, she said that she saw something thrown next to the man, as if it were a picture frame......
A total of five people have died here over the past few years: an old local man who made firecrackers without permission, an art boy who died in a landslide, a mother and son who drifted, and a fox who drowned a few months ago......
Just now, we saw an old man, selling * firecrackers, and saw a boy who looked like a student, inexplicably moving stones at the foot of the mountain, so will we see the mother and son next?
Continuing to walk forward, I finally saw a few staff members, cats and rabbits on a rubber raft, I myself on a rubber raft, and we started rafting.
We floated a few kilometers down the river, and another rubber raft appeared on the river, on which sat two people, a woman in her 30s and a boy in her 10s......
Meng Xiaoshuai, Wu Min, Bai Xinxin, and Guo Mei were obviously frightened by my story and all stared at me in the dark.
I said it, and after listening to this story, you may understand why Wu Cheng suddenly disappeared. So, since this story is terrifying, it means that what we are experiencing is destined to be terrifying as well......
I'm going to go on --
The boy grinned and waved at us.
The cat and the rabbit were stunned β we were drifting down the river, and the raft was drifting upwards against the river!
Although the mother and son did not paddle, the speed of the raft was not slow, and they drifted away from me, and the mischievous boy raised his water gun and shot at us, and a stream of water shot at me, and when I looked down, the life jacket was not wet. Looking up again, they were already drifting away, and the boy leaned over to fill the water gun, and his mother whispered something.
Yes, the dead in this place appeared one by one!
The cat lost his temper and he told us to paddle to the finish line and then go home.
We hastily paddled forward another kilometer or two, and there seemed to float something on the gentle surface of the river, as if it were a stone, but certainly not, because it was swinging all at once.
As it got closer, we finally saw that it was hair, hair draped over the face! The three of us were stupid. The river was slowly approaching it with a rubber raft, and the head slowly rose from under the water, not long or short, just covering its face, and then I saw the neck, which had been blistered for a long time, and was frighteningly white.
The rabbit screamed.
I wasn't afraid. Now, without the help of a cat, I meet my beloved fox. This is exactly where she drowned.
The head jerked up, flung its drenched hair behind its back, and stared at the cat deadly.
The water in front of it suddenly became turbulent, the rubber raft was getting faster and faster, the cat seemed to want to climb out of the rubber raft, at this time there was a drop, about a meter high, there were several large stones protruding from the water below, the cat's rubber raft suddenly overturned, the cat hit a stone, there was a little red, and in an instant it was washed away by the river without a trace.
I swept down the drop and turned my head to see that the rabbit had climbed ashore. And the cat rushed left and right in the river, apparently unconscious.
Looking at the surface of the water again, the head that appeared just now seems to be a phantom.
There was a turn in front of it, with dense reeds, and the cat's body drifted forward, finally blocked by the reeds.
I jumped out of the raft and swam over to drag the cat ashore.
He's dead!
He died, and my heart was filled with emotion.
Now I can tell you what a cat does, he can do illusions.
I love the fox, but the fox doesn't love me. I followed her many times and found out that she was in love with a person, and this person was the cat, and the two of them had slept with each other, and later, the cat abandoned the fox.
Since the fox has been stalking cats, I seriously suspect that it was the cat that killed her.
The cat used an illusion on the fox, and the fox thought they had bought a ticket, entered the rafting area, put on a life jacket, and got on a rubber raft, but it was all an illusion, and the cat took her to the rafting area from another place, causing the non-swimming fox to plunge into the deep river with an unreal hallucination, resulting in drowning......
But I don't have proof.
Later, I took the initiative to get to know cats through my old classmates. My purpose was clear, to kill him.
During the summer vacation, I finally took him and his girlfriend to the river.
Now I'll tell you an even bigger secret, I'm also magical, and even my way is stronger than that of a cat.
Along the way, I created a few illusions, and the old man who died in the explosion, the boy who died in the landslide, and the mother and son who died in the drift......
Reveal a secret of the trade, and in a place away from the crowd, in a place where the water is deep and the grass grows, it is easier to cast illusions.
At that time, the rabbit wanted to buy one*, but I stopped her, and if she did go to get it*, she would find that * didn't exist at all.
Cats can't imagine that I'm also proficient in illusion, which is called treating others the way they do.
I have been to this river many times, and I know that there are dangerous shoals, and in that area I have created the illusion of a fox......
The cat died, but I had a heart disease.
Half a year later, I went to the airport to see off a friend, and when I was about to walk out of the departure hall, I suddenly saw two people, a cat and a rabbit......
Meng Xiaoshuai asked me a little scared: "Boss Zhou, are you really ...... Can you do illusions? β
I said, "I'm just telling a story." The goose is the 'me' in the story. β
She said nothing more.
I'm going to tell you the end of the storyβ
The cat and the rabbit pushed the luggage cart and walked over happily. At that time, I couldn't tell the difference between reality and illusion. Could it be that I'm using too many illusions and I'm delirious?
They saw that they were about to pass by, and I ran after them.
The cat asked the rabbit to tell me the truth. He didn't want to talk to me at all, so he left the luggage cart and went to the information desk to ask the staff something......
It turned out that everything I saw that day was not real.
Actually, the cat knew that I loved foxes, and he knew that I suspected that he had killed them, but he didn't know that I could also do illusions. That day, I took him and the rabbit to go rafting, and the rabbit found out that I used illusion - there is a loophole in illusion, under certain conditions in reality, vision and hearing are not synchronized, but in illusion it is not possible, that day, I set up a scene where a man is moving a stone, he is so far away from us, but as soon as the stone is thrown into the water, we hear an echo, which is not logical. The rabbit is more proficient in illusion than cats, and she guesses what I want to do, so she uses illusion as well, giving me an illusion that the cat has been run over and killed.
She said the fox committed suicide. Now, she has gone through the immigration procedures for the cat and will leave China forever.
I became very confused, and I asked the cat, "Is all this an illusion you have made?"
He told me that not being able to distinguish between reality and illusion was the scariest thing, and that was why he and the rabbit had already washed their hands.
After saying that, they left, leaving me alone to continue to stand stupidly. There are many planes flying in the sky, and there are also many birds flying by, some planes like birds, and some birds like airplanes......
The Lop Nur Desert is still dark, and the wind is blowing harder.
After finishing speaking, Wu Min said after a long time: "Boss Zhou, what does your story have to do with our current situation?" β
I said, "Somebody's using illusions on us. β
Bai Xinxin said: "Writer Zhou, are you going to play the game of catching a traitor again?" There are only 5 of us here, who has that much ability! β
I said, "This man is not among us." β
Bai Xinxin said: "Even if there is this person, it is impossible for him to create a city - are you reliable?" β
I said, "Illusion doesn't need to be built, it just needs to change our brains, just like you might see a bigger fairy tale world in a dream, but that's not real." β
Guo Mei said: "I agree with Boss Zhou. β
Bai Xinxin said: "The writer of Zhou University just said that there are loopholes in illusion, and if the rabbit in the story goes to get *, you will find that * does not exist - we have walked into this city, eaten here and lived here, and communicated with many people!" β
Guo Mei said: "Then what do you say is going on?" β
Bai Xinxin said: "I think that Wucheng exists, and we were moved out by someone......
Meng Xiaoshuai looked at Bai Xinxin and said, "What...... Carry? β
Bai Xinxin said: "Haven't you heard of the five ghosts? Someone took advantage of our sleep and used a spell to carry us out! β
I said, "With such a flat desert, even if we are 10 kilometers away, we should be able to see the lights of Wucheng." What about Wu Cheng? β
Bai Xinxin said: "Maybe we were transported 100 kilometers away......
This matter is too mysterious, and everyone's debate is air-to-air. I don't want to say anything more.
Guo Mei suddenly remembered something, she took out her mobile phone, lit up the screen and looked at it, and then she said loudly: "Look at the time!" β
I also took out my phone and looked at it, and it showed that it was the early morning of May 7th! This is the time when I entered Wu City with Monsoon and Linghu Mountain!
Everyone took out their mobile phones and looked at them, they were all stunned, and the time on everyone's mobile phones was May 7th!
In my eyes, Guo Mei belongs to the kind of girl with big breasts and no brains, and she impressed me with her flash of inspiration this time.
I said to Guo Mei, "You...... Why did it suddenly occur to me to look at the time? β
Guo Mei said a little proudly: "Clever, right? β
Meng Xiaoshuai said: "How can time go back!" β
I said, "I said, it's an illusion." We just walked to this area one after the other, and it felt like we spent 6 days in a place called Wu Cheng, which was actually an illusion. β
Meng Xiaoshuai said: "If it's an illusion, what about the chapter?" β
I don't know how to answer at once.
Zhang Hui was arrested by the police, and if all this is a hallucination, then when we wake up, we should find that Zhang Hui is by our side. And Bubu them, maybe all alive.
However, Zhang Hui is really gone!
So does it mean that Bubu and they are really all dead?
I'm getting more and more confused. If everything is an illusion, Xiao 5, Cong Zhen and Bibi, are they real or fake?
I wanted to make a phone call with Little 5, but after dialing it out, I found that there was no signal.
We have a signal in Wucheng, we can make calls and go online, that's fake! We are still trapped in Lop Nur!
Bai Xinxin said: "Don't care if you don't go back to the chapter!" Now, we have no car, no water, no direction, aren't we waiting to die in the desert! β
I said, "We have to find the exit of that mysterious passage and go back." β
Bai Xinxin said: "We have come to the edge of Lop Nur, hurry up and go out, go back?" You don't have water in your brain, do you? β
Guo Mei said: "Boss Zhou, I will follow you wherever you go." β
She climbed up to me as she spoke, leaning against me.
Guo Mei suddenly trusted and became close to me, maybe there are two possibilities, the first is that she believes in my IQ. Second, the rich businessman is gone, the film and television investors are gone, and now, in her eyes, I am the only person I can rely on.
Meng Xiaoshuai said: "I also follow Boss Zhou. β
Wu Min said: "I follow Meng Xiaoshuai. β
I looked at Bai Xinxin, and I couldn't see his expression clearly in the moonlight.
I said, "What about you?" β
He seemed to give me a blank look: "I'll go with myself." β
Everyone was silent for a while, and Meng Xiaoshuai said to me, "Can we find that exit?" β
I said, "After we came out, the monsoon marked that place. β
Meng Xiaoshuai said: "Will Linghu Mountain destroy it?" β
I was wary: "Why? β
Meng Xiaoshuai said: "He may not want us to go back. β
I said, "I still don't understand." β
Meng Xiaoshuai said: "Everyone can see that the monsoon is very good to you. If Linghushan really likes the monsoon, he won't want you to go back. Also, how do we go back without oxygen? β
That's a problem!
I was at a loss, and I lowered my head and thought hard.
Bai Xinxin smiled gloatingly: "God won't let you go back!" β
I suddenly said, "Don't talk!" β
Maybe my voice was too loud, and he stopped squeaking at once.
After a while, Meng Xiaoshuai asked me tentatively, "Boss Zhou, what are you thinking?" β
I reached out and whispered, "Don't speak." β
Guo Mei also sat up straight and looked at me.
Wu Min thought I had heard something, looked around, and then he leaned on the sand and sounded like in a martial arts novel.
I suddenly said, "We're on the wrong track!" β
Meng Xiaoshuai: "Taken the wrong path? What do you mean? β
I said, "Aren't there many passages under that tomb of the sun?" Only one is right, we must have chosen the wrong one, so we came to Wucheng! If you choose the right one, you may really get out of Lop Nur! β
Meng Xiaoshuai: "The problem now is that we can't go back at all, and we can't choose again!" β
Before I knew it, the sky was already slightly bright.
I stood up and said, "Try it, maybe we'll find that Sun Tomb again." β
Everyone stood up.
Wu Min suddenly pointed into the distance: "Look, who is that?" β
Everyone followed his fingers, and in the distance, a figure walked towards us with difficulty. He clearly saw us and waved his hand vigorously.
Meng Xiaoshuai said: "It seems to be Zhang Hui'......"