220. The choice of life and death
From the underground siege, it can be seen that this person's attainments in the number of Qimen are extremely deep, and no one has won or lost in several battles with Gu Xi, which can be said to be between the two and the middle, and the ups and downs of scheming are also quite high. Just a dozen years ago...... He's probably not very big.
I'm getting more and more unsure, how to define this feather? And just now Gu Xi mentioned the ape-like man, and finally solved my puzzle why this animal can live in the illusion cave for more than a thousand years.
First of all, there is an innumerable amount of "food" in the cave for it to survive, so that it will not starve to death like the person in front of it; Secondly, this must be the result that the owner of the cave wanted in advance, and he needs to have a defender to prevent anyone who has learned the secrets of the cave from taking him out of the cave, unless this person is approved by the ape-like people.
Now that we are deeply trapped in this, don't we also make a decision with the time of the outside world, and every minute that passes now is actually invalid?
I don't think about it for now, at least for now, I don't feel the time passing. There is a question that is always on the side of my mouth, and I squatted on Gu Xi's side and asked softly: "That Dao Fei...... Is that him? ”
He looked sideways at me, and asked in a low voice in the quiet light, "Don't you already see it?" ”
I thought to myself, that's not it. After thinking about it, he asked, "How did you judge from his ruined appearance?" ”
"Age." Gu Xi spat out two words lightly, "I can clearly feel his presence when I am underground in Brin, and every piece of information I give me proves that his age cannot be too old." It is indeed difficult to discern the true information when a person has a disfigured face and no voice, but the human skeleton is the most honest, and it will not degenerate due to changes in the epidermis. ”
"So you've already decided when you fought him that he wasn't? Then why did you provoke him into the water? ”
"He's the only one on that field who can threaten you, will I keep him on the shore and go down by himself?"
Indeed, I was about to ponder when I heard Gu Xi say something in my ear: "You seem to be particularly interested in him." ”
Raising his eyes and meeting his dark eyes, he shook his head lightly and confessed: "It's not that I'm interested in him, but we have always lived in the shadow of Yu, and when I see that you are suspicious of him, I can't help but focus on him." Later, when you saw the strange look on his face when you came up from underwater, I guessed that you should be sure that he is not Yu. ”
When I mentioned underwater, I remembered the breath problem, and took this opportunity to ask at the same time: "How can you dive with him for more than ten minutes?" ”
Gu Xi hooked the corners of his lips and said, "You actually want to ask who is the person who hid the thin tube between the turf, right?" ”
He was shocked by what he said, and this doubt was indeed in my mind, because I only found one tube at that time, which means that there must have been only one person using it. But now it is certain that he must have had the foresight.
Just listen to him say: "Underwater is different from the ground, and the breath needs to be controlled very precisely. If I want to test him, I must have prepared first, and to be honest, this is really okay, he can fight me in the water only slightly and still take care of his breath. It's a pity that it's buried in this wild place, and it's useless to have a skill. ”
Listening to his words, it seemed that he had sympathy for Dao Fei, and I secretly thought in my heart that in fact, Dao Fei was not inferior, he was completely breathless in those ten minutes, and this alone was slightly stronger than Gu Xi.
Unexpectedly, Gu Xi saw my thoughts and snorted coldly: "You don't think that he can hold his breath for so long is very good, it is just a method of breathing and returning." ”
As soon as I took one look at him, he was furious: "What kind of eyes do you have?" When I won't? Why don't you hold your breath right now, and then you can time it to see if it can take more than ten minutes! ”
Hurriedly waved his hand: "No need, no need." I don't question what you mean, I just don't know what it means to give in. ”
The annoyed eyes locked on me and examined it for a while, and only then did I feel a little relieved: "Breathing and returning to breath is a method of holding your breath, which is generally used by people who practice Taoism, and it belongs to the basic skills. This path should not be practiced for a short time, so it can be relatively long to hold your breath. ”
I nodded and secretly observed his expression, and said to myself that I had finally bypassed the topic, or he would probably really have to hold my breath here for more than ten minutes. At some point, his wayward temper was like that of a child.
It's just that if we can't get out of this formation now, as he said, then we can only chat. I glanced at him, saw his leisurely expression, and couldn't help asking, "Why aren't you nervous at all, we can't get out?" ”
"Does nervousness work?" He asked rhetorically.
It's really useless, but it's the natural state of mind of people when they are in a desperate situation, just like the instinctive fear of death.
If we really can't get out, we might starve here like that corpse. All the food was in Qin Zhou's backpack, including water, and I originally thought that Qin Zhou and Tong Ying might be unwilling and find a way to get down from above. Now that they have a formation as a barrier, they can't do anything even if they want to.
So at this moment, we are actually in a desperate situation, maybe infected by him, and I don't want to lean on his shoulders so much. Tiredness soon set in, and when my eyelids closed, I said to him, "Guxi, it's good to have you." ”
I couldn't see his expression when I was sleepy, but I could feel his arms around my waist, and my breath was suddenly surrounded by warmth. I went to sleep with peace of mind, there was no dream in the land of black and sweet, and when I woke up, my eyes were dark, and I didn't know where I was.
I felt the warmth around my body, and my brain slowed down for half a beat before I realized that I was being held in Gu Xi's arms, with my shoulder and back resting on his bent legs, and the weight hanging on my shoulder was his head. Listen to his breath evenly every time, and he should have fallen asleep too.
Strictly speaking, we almost didn't eat well or slept well all the way. From night to now, it's been almost a day and two nights, although trapped by this formation, one thing can be guaranteed, that is, no one can enter this space for the time being, so there is no need to be on guard all the time.
I didn't call him, it wasn't the first time that the breath was so similar, although the shoulder socket felt heavy, but it also represented his complete trust in me, and he was willing to take off all his guards and fall asleep in my arms.
Speaking of defensiveness, I'm heavier than anyone else, but I don't know when I was broken by this person layer by layer, and I trust it wholeheartedly. Sometimes the mind is really uncontrollable, and it will be captured before you know it.
The words he said to him before falling asleep were not nonsense, he really felt that even in such a desperate situation, everything could be safe with him by his side, even if he faced life and death.
Thinking of life and death, I can't help but think deeply about this formation, I haven't heard of the Tiangang Phantom Array, but before in the cave in Guiyang, I also entered a labyrinth-like phantom layer, if it weren't for Gu Xikan to break through the mystery, maybe we would also be trapped in the formation like now and couldn't get out. Therefore, the two formations are actually similar, so can I imagine that this formation is not invincible at the moment, and must also have its subtleties that can be cracked?
It should be that Gu Xi was afraid that the old-fashioned flashlight would consume electricity, so he turned it off before going to sleep. No matter where you sweep your gaze, it's a feeling, it's the same as closing your eyes. I just really close my eyes, sometimes I often say that the naked eye is not as transparent as the heart eye, I really hope that I can also have the heart eye, maybe I can be able to break the secret of this space.
It was a random thought, so he was crazy and indiscriminate, and suddenly a thought sank into his mind: would the cave master hide both formations in that sheepskin scroll? I can recite that painting, although it has been confirmed by Gu Xi that it is wrong to follow the method of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages of the bronze door painted on it, but one thing is certain, that is, it is indeed a thumbnail of the phantom cave that is fused into the lines on the bronze door, and its mind should be regarded as exquisite.
With my right hand in the air, I began to sketch the parchment slowly, carefully with each stroke. Starting from the bronze door, to the figures, after painting one side and then the other, paranoid that there must be a secret that has not been discovered.
When I drew it for the third time, I felt that there were circuits in my mind, and I could automatically generate each scene without continuing to sketch it with my hands. But when it all came together, I suddenly realized that something was really strange.
The phantom cave in Guiyang can be divided into four layers from top to bottom, and now this place is strictly counted as two layers from entering the cave to this, but we have made two choices, if one choice is counted as one layer, we have made two choices, which is equivalent to entering the third layer, and now we are on the fourth layer.
If the lines on the bronze door as the wall of the cave are removed, and only the critical cross-selected path remains, then it does not represent the phantom cave, but a spatial loop. Both forks in the road are judged by life and death, if it is really as I think, then the choice of "heart" and "courage" in the illusion hole belongs to the choice of "life" and "death". And the judgment of life and death is just like what Gu Xi said, it is not necessary to see the door of life with your eyes is necessarily the way to live, sometimes it is the right way to survive in the dead end.
So in the upper echelons we made the wrong choice at the beginning, and we also made the mistake I made when I was in the Phantom Cave. Human instinct chooses life and death, but unexpectedly enters the knot of death in life.