Chapter 620: Death Valley (3)
Following the direction of her finger, my gaze swept over, and my heart beat wildly in horror, and I almost fell to the ground. I saw that there was a willow tree in that place, a very ordinary willow tree. In the depths of such a strange wood, it should have been a pleasure to see familiar trees, but the willow tree gave me a chill all over my body.
Because the willow tree is so familiar.
In its treetops, there was a shriveled rabbit carcass that had been sucked off all its blood. And its torso was proudly pasted with a small old note, which read, "The fourth article of the school rules, no one can escape from the school." ”
Isn't this tree the place where we crossed the first hurdle? What's going on!
I stood there in amazement, thinking in confusion as I kept looking around. His group had obviously escaped, how could they see the familiar willow tree on the road ahead, could this be a trick and a trap. A trap that makes those who escape desperate?
In this strange atmosphere of silence, finally someone couldn't stand it anymore. Li Kangxin's strings have been tense for half a year, and tonight he has endured the pressure of continuous blows and ups and downs in his heart, and finally he is overwhelmed and his spirit has completely collapsed. Holding his head, he roared and rushed towards the willows.
"What are you kidding, let me out, let me out!" He slammed his fist at the trunk of the willow tree, which was not tall and not thick, but did not move under the destruction of such great force. When he tore the school rules and tore them apart, the tree finally reacted.
The countless soft branches of the willow tree, like human hair, danced in the wind without wind, fluttered in the air, and then came to a halt as if they had found their purpose. Thousands of branches shot at Li Kang.
"Danger!" I screamed, but there was nothing I could do to stop the supernatural phenomenon.
And Li Kang didn't mean to dodge at all, he still shouted and scolded loudly, beating the trunk hard. The branches of the tree were like 11,000 sharp swords, piercing Li Kang's whole body without hindrance. His expression was glazed and his mouth was wide open. There were countless wounds on the body that were pierced, but strangely no blood flowed out.
Li Kang's eyes dimmed, his body was drying up at a speed that could be seen with the naked eye, his facial muscles began to collapse, and his body began to shrink. It didn't take long for him to become a living mummy.
Everyone was stunned, watching him die at a loss, silently not knowing what kind of emotional color to show. At this moment, the expression on his face was only fear and numbness.
"What the hell is going on?" I muttered.
The surrounding environment seems to be a little blurry, and there seem to be countless lights flickering and moving. The surrounding scenery became dim and began to be difficult to see.
Yiyi screamed and grabbed my hand hard. I glanced around and saw that everyone was in the same condition as me.
Some people say that the essence of life is the constant movement of the contradictions of the process of assimilation and alienation in the body; Death is the end of this contradiction.
I don't know if I'm going to die this time, I just know that the scenery around me is spinning like crazy, and I can't capture even a single visual point. Only the willow tree in the center is still as clear as before. My head was spinning and dizzy, as if it was going to burst.
The people around me were exactly the same, and they behaved even more unbearable to me, holding their heads and howling vigorously. And the hand that Yiyi grabbed me was getting harder and harder, and her nails were almost sinking into my flesh.
I don't know how long it took, maybe a second, maybe a year. Finally, another light pierced the eyes. The light that is not too strong, silver, is starlight.
I opened my eyes, but I couldn't help but freeze.
Lying all around, Yiyi and the others, everyone had a brief fainting because of the discomfort just now. Now I'm starting to wake up one after another. Yiyi's hand always grasped me tightly, and the force was as if it had grasped the most reliable thing.
The first to wake up was Xu Lu, who squinted his eyes and looked around, always looking like he cherished words like gold. There is no open comment. It's just a face full of horror.
Yuan Liu and Zhang Guofeng also came to their senses one after another. Yuan Liu took a few steps back as fast as he could, as if we were going to take the opportunity to kill him. But Zhang Guofeng looked at me with inquiring eyes.
The last to wake up was Yiyi. She opened those beautiful eyes and saw that my heart seemed to be much calmer, and then she looked at her surroundings.
The wry smile on my lips grew stronger. The scenery in the vicinity has completely changed, where there are still strange-looking purple trees, and where there are forests. Only the familiar eerie willow tree not far away, the branches fluttering in the wind like long combed hair. Everything around was familiar, as familiar as the willow tree.
This place is basically on campus, where we put hare to explore the path.
The branches of the willow tree were tightly wrapped around two corpses, one of which was that of a hare, as if it had been dried by the wind. The second one is Li Kang's. The mummified corpse looked hideous, and its dry eyes stared blindly at the sky. The branches pierced his heart, his nostrils, and even his eyes, looking extremely disgusting.
"Ahh Yiyi screamed violently, and desperately drilled into my arms, as if she had seen something terrifying.
I looked over and was stunned.
I saw that not far from the willow tree, the body of Song Mao, who should have fallen off the cliff and died, was sitting under the tree only more than ten meters away from us. The corpse was still missing all the blood, and the whole person was dry and exuding weirdness. His closed eyes were open again, and he was staring at us with intense resentment.
What's going on here? Have we been circling around the willows all this time and never escaped? And the so-called escape, but all you see is an illusion?
I became confused and walked a few steps to inspect Song Mao's body. No, the corpse's skull was cracked, and its neck was shattered by the huge impact, apparently showing a state of death from a high fall.
What's going on!
If you can't figure it out, I'm afraid it's hard to figure it out. I took a deep breath and whispered, "Looks like we're back again." ”
The rest of the people were full of dead faces, and Yuan Liu and Xu Lu were even more desperate. Only Yiyi was still quite calm, she followed my example, inhaled, exhaled, and then smiled, "This school, I really can't escape." Let's go back to the dormitory to calm down, and as for the future action, we will discuss it tomorrow. ”
After saying that, he vaguely pulled my arm. I nodded, "Yiyi is right, it's useless to be stunned here." Decadence or despair, go back and talk about it. As long as you are alive, there is a glimmer of hope left. ”
After a pause, my gaze swept over the corpses of Song Mao and Li Kang, and I sighed, "I don't know what will happen to them tomorrow." ”
After saying that, he took the lead and walked away.
Zhang Guofeng followed me without a snort. And Yiyi was also next to me, and asked in a low voice, "We really didn't escape just now, and we have been circling in circles in hallucinations all the time?" ”
"It's not." What I say categorically "is not an illusion." We definitely escaped the confines of the school. The traces of Song Mao's death are evidence. No matter what kind of hallucination a person encounters, he can only be scared to death. But Song Mao really fell to his death because of a high altitude. ”
"You mean that we did get away and were only sent back because of the school rules." Yi Yi pondered.
"Quite possibly. As we had previously suspected, our parents signed an implicit contract between us and the school, and this contract was bound by the school rules. "I guess there must be such a rule in the implicit school rule, one, to survive in the school for six months." Second, it was impossible to flee for six months. So in this room, no matter how much we escape, we can't escape the Endless Forest. If you violate the minimum distance set by the school, you will be forced to return. ”
"I'm afraid, your guess is true!" Yiyi smiled bitterly, "Hey, you have always looked confident, and you are not afraid at all." Is there a way to escape? ”
"Not for the time being." I shook my head slightly.
"For the time being?" Yiyi's eyes lit up suddenly, "Meaning, there will be a way in the future?" ”
"Perhaps." I shrugged my shoulders, "Do you remember the cafeteria called Gu Yuan, and I quoted an educationalist's explanation of the school rules, I think I can study it carefully, and maybe I can find the loopholes in this school." Of course, the best way to escape is to take the initiative and find ways to dig out the secrets of this school. For example, why the school rules have supernatural powers, such as what the school was built for, or how the students who have come back from the dead and are picked up by their parents come back to life. ”
Yiyi's head was dizzy, "It's so complicated, I really want to know what your head is made of." I used to think I was very smart, but I thought logically and you like an ugly duckling. Weird! ”
I smiled slightly, and the gloom in my heart was swept away by her compliment.
The group cautiously returned to the dormitory building and looked at their watches, it was already 3:15 in the morning. There were seven people when I went out, but now only five have returned, and the time between life and death is only a short time, and the more I think about it, the more embarrassed I feel.
I lay on the hard bed and couldn't sleep. So he quietly lifted his coat and pulled out a small cylinder the thickness of a finger from the mezzanine. In that weird forest, I once laid down three launchers. The hand is a tracker that can be used to track the location of the transmitter.
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