229. Mutation (1)
After a moment of silence, he escaped into my thinking space and peeked into my psyche. In this way, he is actually not well, but he has temporarily suppressed his madness, and if he is no longer drugged by those people, and I am always by his side, I may be able to restrain myself by willpower even the next time I go berserk. But we are in a thief's den, every step of the way is a cliff, and we don't know what will happen behind us, we can't predict. Just thinking about it makes my body tremble slightly.
Gao Cheng hugged me a little tighter, and added some branches from the side into the fire.
I shifted my mind to the actual question at hand: "You've been here a long time ago, haven't you?" He was silent for a moment before replying, "I don't know, probably." I turned my head and quietly looked at the face that was close at hand, and if I ignored the red eyes that had been fading away, there was a dazed expression that he had never had.
I suddenly realized one thing, even if I was willing to accompany him all the time, I couldn't empathize with what he had experienced, the pain of madness and tearing his mind, and the helplessness of looking back at this moment and not knowing where the future would go.
Immediately lowered his eyes to prevent the sour wetness in his eyes from being seen by him, his hand was gently pressed on his heart, and he breathed gently, still feeling that this time it was tingling. Suddenly I don't want to ask anything anymore, even if the question is unanswered, but what? Can you help him by asking clearly?
In silence, the corners of his forehead were covered by his hand, and it was the place where it was wounded and wounded. However, the herbs applied by the mysterious man are very useful, as long as you don't touch them, you won't feel pain, and the herbs may have been washed away by going into the water just now, and the scars under the light of the flames look a little hideous.
Gao Cheng asked, "Did I hurt it?" ”
The scene of his body being thrown out of him like a piece of paper and slamming to the ground flashed in his mind, and he quickly swept it and shook his head: "No, it was my own painting that chased me here and fell." "I didn't lie to him, I was really unlucky and fell in the same position twice, and I was injured and injured.
After a few gentle rubbing with his fingertips, he removed his palm, put his chin on the top of my head and said in a dark voice: "Xiaozhuzi, in the future, you remember, don't get too far away when I can't control myself, but don't get too close to me either." I nodded bluntly, understanding what he meant, too far away he was afraid that the demons catalyzed by the drug would directly occupy his mind, and his mind would be completely lost; I was too close, and he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to control himself and hurt me again.
I didn't know that it would happen soon, and I didn't know that I wouldn't be too far away from him when it happened, and I wouldn't be able to see him suffer alone. So much so, some things are doomed to be impossible to turn back.
This is a later story, at the moment by the dark quiet river, only me and him hugged each other tightly, the space is vast, but the world between me and him is so small that there are only enough for the two of them to breathe alternately. If the time had lasted longer, I would have slept peacefully in his arms. It had been many days since I had barely closed my eyes, and the peaceful eyelids that had had this moment immediately fought, but woke up after a dozing off. The breath behind me was getting heavier and heavier, with a scorching breath spraying down my neck, and my heart was sinking.
Is it about to have another seizure?
No, there was something else in the air. Raised his eyes sensitively and looked around, but he didn't find anything abnormal, but Gao Cheng's emotions I didn't have to look back to know that I couldn't hold it back, and the hand that hugged me was loosened inch by inch, and it was I who held him tightly to prevent him from letting go. I only heard the broken words burst out from between his teeth: "Little bamboo...... Let go, I'm ...... Can't help it. ”
I shouldn't, but I heard him say again: "Someone is coming, you should quickly tidy yourself up first." ”
My body stiffened, I couldn't ignore this, the clothes that were resting by the fire were already dry, and I could reach for them. But as soon as I let go of my fingers, the hand around my waist immediately retracted, and I pushed him off his lap. As soon as I gritted my teeth, I quickly took my clothes and put them on, and when I was ready, I turned around, and it was cold from head to toe, and Gao Cheng was gone!
The brain tightened and immediately realized that something was wrong, and it was impossible for a person to disappear without a sound, even if ...... He really left, and it couldn't be so fast. The space was too large, even if there was a bonfire lit here, it would not be possible to illuminate the surroundings, and his gaze searched in the darkness little by little, and his breath could not be absorbed during the manic attack, but only more obvious.
So there must have been something I hadn't thought of, and he was up close.
The only possibility that could hide the breath without being noticed at all was the quiet river a few meters away ....... meters. When you walk to the still river, you bow your head, stare at your eyes, breathe heavily, and your heart hurts.
Gao Cheng was lying on his back in the water, the cold water did not cover his face and body, leaving only his mouth and nose outside, and those eyes were redder than ever, red and demonic.
"High Castle ...... You...... Is it okay? I went through all kinds of things in my head, and finally only this question burst out from between my teeth. The voice that came out was trembling, and the cold in his heart was bone-chilling, and he didn't answer me, his eyes were fixed on a certain place above.
At first, I thought he was suppressing his mania and was unable to respond to me, but when I sat on the ground and didn't know what to do, I suddenly smelled a strange smell wafting through the air, and my heart was shocked...... Very similar to the black powder that the old woman sprinkled in the air before, Hell Demon Star?
Could it be that Gao Cheng's sudden attack was not because of the medicinal properties in his body, but because he was catalyzed by this thing? But why does it smell like this? No, it's not been a while since we've been here, why haven't we smelled it before, could it be that someone is coming?
I reflexively looked up at the place Gao Cheng had been staring at. Confused, he was actually hinting at someone in my place? As the clock ticked by, I calmed down, took a deep breath, and got up. No matter how many dangers lurk in the top of the Forbidden Darkness, I will go there and extinguish the source of the madness of Takashiro.
Feeling in my pocket, there was his Swiss Army Knife, my only weapon.
When I walked to the cave wall six or seven meters away, I raised my eyebrows, thinking that the cave wall in such a place must be bare, but I didn't want to have a lot of vines, and the shadows of the vines were there, and I was afraid that things like tentacles would come out again, so I didn't dare to move for a while. After waiting for a while, the vine was still a vine, and it didn't seem to be abnormal, but when I got closer, I found that this kind of vine was covered with thin thorns, but it was also an ordinary plant.
Suddenly an idea came to me. Although you can't see the top when you look up, you should instinctively sense that the height of the space should not be low, and if you climb up, it is very difficult to move parallel to the top. What if you use this vine? Is it possible to twist these vines into a strand, or make a ladder and roam up directly?
After thinking about it, he went back and picked up the coat that Gao Cheng threw on the ground, and after wrapping his right hand around a few times, he pulled out a few rattans and dragged them to the middle of the clearing. He glanced at Gao Cheng, who was immersed in the water, and pondered silently: Wait for me.
Don't think about it anymore, replace your hands by wrapping your clothes, and climb up little by little. When I climbed out of four or five meters high, I was secretly shocked in my heart, the height of this top and the ground seemed to be beyond my expectations, and I didn't feel it at the bottom, but I found a gust of wind in mid-air, and the distance from the space above was at least ten meters away. In fact, I still underestimated, I stopped to breathe at about fifteen meters in space, and I hadn't reached the top yet, but it was almost there, and the sense of spatial oppression became stronger.
On top of that, the pungent smell became more and more intense, and I didn't feel anything at first, but after a long time, I became dizzy. Before, the old woman sprinkled black powder in the air, and the madman and the successive couldn't bear the medicine, and Xu Jiudao and I didn't think there was anything, at that time I thought that my system could overcome this Hell Demon Star Medicine. Even later, I drank Zhou Jing's specially "configured" medicinal porridge, but I didn't know anything, why did I ...... at this time
Suddenly, a voice in my heart asked: Is it really nothing? Then why can't you tell what is a dream and what is reality?
So, it's not my system that can overcome it, it's time? Over time, it will react, and the first symptoms are lightheadedness, and then it may be hallucinations.
My heart calmed down, and I think I probably understood the reason for Takashihiro's madness. The so-called Hell Demon Star is actually a hallucinogenic drug, which was developed by those people, even if it was added to others, it was also inseparable, and it affected people's thinking and the reflex arc of cranial nerves by hallucinating the human brain. The root of madness is actually a kind of spiritual breakdown.
I don't know what they have to do with Zhou Jing's bat plan after forcing Gao Cheng to go berserk, but once a person goes crazy, even an ordinary person's strength will be more than twice as strong as usual, which is equivalent to giving full play to a person's potential.
Suddenly, my heart thumped, how could I be hanging in the air and analyzing it here? Isn't it imperative to get there as soon as possible? I vaguely understood that it had something to do with the smell of this hellish star, and it was misdividing my mental attention.
Removing distractions, I stretched out my hand to climb up, but I forgot that the vine had thorns, and I didn't wrap my clothes around my hand, so I habitually grabbed it with my right hand, and the thorns were all pierced into my palm. He took a deep breath, ignored the pain, and continued to climb, only to clearly feel the pain of the thorn pulling out of his palm as he exchanged hands. After that, I went up again, and although I still changed hands alternately with my clothes, my right hand seemed to be pricked with countless needles every time.
In fact, I have always had a doubt in my mind, the closer I get to the top, the more solemn I become. Why can't I feel human breath all the time? When I actually arrived at the target, I realized that there was no one at all, it was this top full of strange-shaped stalactites, and for some reason, there were many gaps and gaps in the stones, and the yin wind poured in from them, carrying the smell of blowing. <