At 3:45 a.m. on May 1, 2015, the weather was unknown and there was a light breeze in the depths of Python Mountain. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

I carried more than 20 pounds of equipment on my back, wore a miner's lamp, stepped on the fallen leaves piled up all over the ground, and walked through the woods that did not see the light of day.

There was no sound of insects, only the howling of the night wind through the trees, desolate and graceful.

Just ten minutes ago, a close friend of my life, eating mutton and drinking wine and looking up at the starry sky, suddenly disappeared silently, in order to find him, and in order to leave the place that frightened me, I walked into this forest alone, but I did not know that many things in this world have to change for this, that time, I touched the border.

If I were given another chance to do it all over again, I don't know if I would have made the same choice, I just know that once you set foot on some roads, there will be no turning back.

Many years later, I asked a person if there was a force in the dark that restrains everything, controls everything, and promotes the development of everything, which cannot be detected and cannot be reversed.

The answer is yes.

What kind of power is that?

His answer was only two words.

Rules.

Okay, after talking about it for a long time, let's get back to business.

I just walked into the forest for five minutes, and I found some clues, which were some very eye-catching marks, only to see that the bark of a few trees was scraped off, revealing the white flower trunks inside, I walked up to take a look, this scratch is very fresh, and there is fresh juice on it, it is definitely not more than half an hour, it should be left by Xiao Zhang.

It's just that why did he suddenly come here, and this place is only five minutes away from the river, so he just went back and told me not to do it? Is it necessary to go to such great lengths to scrape the bark?

As I walked, I thought, and gradually I felt a little blurry in front of me, and I said in my heart, could it be that I was really bitten by something under my feet, and now I am starting to have a seizure? But I soon found out that this was not the case, and that there was fog in the woods.

I quickened my pace as I thought to myself, what the hell is going on here, what the hell is going on in this place? Speaking of fog and fogging, this is not scientific at all, but fortunately, this fog is different from the fog miasma we encountered when we came, and this fog is no different from ordinary fog, at least it seems to be.

The fog grew bigger and thicker, and at last I was in a pool full of milk, and the light of the miner's lamp could only illuminate a very limited area, and the light came out and turned into a hazy yellow light in front of my eyes, with a visual range of less than a meter.

I scolded my mother in my heart, it was really a house leak that happened to rain overnight, and the blessings were not double, and the disasters were not singular.

What I didn't expect was that the more fucking things were yet to come.

A rustling sound came from ahead, I looked around again, and the fog around Fa Xian suddenly disturbed, like a whale swimming past the disturbed waves in the sea, I had tried to use my arms to quickly paddle in the fog before, but the air flow that could be driven was very limited, and it must be a very large behemoth to form such a big disturbance in the fog.

I couldn't hold my breath, and I raised my hand to the front and there was a shot, and the huge recoil shook me back several steps, and then I noticed that there was an extremely large black outline in the place where the bullet had hit, and this outline was very strange, and it was still changing, and it was moving slowly towards us, and I clearly remembered that there were large trees in that place, and this thing moved through the trees without making any sound, that is, it did not overwhelm any trees, could this thing be gaseous? But it's impossible, if it's a gaseous state, how can it move in a fixed direction?

I didn't have time to think about it, the mass was already close at hand, I scolded, and ran back until I didn't have the slightest strength, and then I finally stopped, turned around and looked, the thing didn't follow, and then I held on to a tree and gasped, coughing with snot and tears, and the muscles in my body were even more sore, and I should have cramped.

I was just about to sit down and rest for a while, and as soon as my ass hit the ground, it immediately bounced up because I realized something was wrong.

I entered the forest from the river, to the place where I had just stayed, but I had only walked for five minutes, and I was still cautious and slow, so it stands to reason that I had not gone far at all, but I had just run at full speed for ten minutes or so, and I had run four or five times the distance, but I had not yet returned to the river, and I had not even heard the sound of the stream flowing.

I'm sure I'm running in a straight line, so straight that I can't get any straighter, so there's only one possibility that something like this will happen, there's something wrong with this forest.

In order to confirm my suspicions, I scraped off a large piece of bark with my hunting knife, then walked forward a few dozen steps, then turned around and walked back, and sure enough, I walked a hundred or ten steps, but I never saw the shaved tree. This woods are like a huge labyrinth, and the space seems to be twisted and folded in this place.

My mind went blank, my thoughts were occupied by an extreme emotion, it was an unprecedented panic, sweat and the moisture from the fog soaked my clothes all over my body, and it was very uncomfortable to stick to my body, which made my heart very irritable.

Calm down, calm down, my reason told me that I must be calm, if I continue like this, I will really be finished, I reached out and groped, grasped the handle of the sapper shovel, the cold touch of the metal made my heart slowly sink and regain the ability to think.

This forest, should not be as evil as I imagined, no matter how powerful the labyrinth, it is just a trick, it is all laid out by people, and this labyrinth should be built by the group of people who built the tomb of King Zhou more than 2,000 years ago, although I have to admit that two thousand years later, this labyrinth still works, it is really a miracle, but no matter how perfect it is, it can't withstand the erosion of the years, so this labyrinth should have a lot of loopholes, plus the ancients' thinking has certain limitations, so say, As long as I don't have a crumbling will and don't think about ghosts, I should be able to find a way to break the labyrinth.

I raised my head, took two deep breaths, took out the cable from my bag, and tied a looper to the tree, this maze can "deceive" my vision and senses, I think I am walking in a straight line, I have been going around the bend, people's feelings are actually very inaccurate, people who have played visual deception games on the Internet should be deeply touched.

However, if I use a rope as a ruler, then what I measure must be accurate, after all, no matter how powerful this maze is, it is impossible to tamper with the real thing.

After tying it, I tied the other end of the rope around my waist and walked slowly forward.

The mist also began to dissipate little by little, so that I could see the scene in front of me clearly, the rope I brought was more than 50 meters long, I coiled it in my hand, and put it away as I walked, and when it was finished, I pulled it hard, and the live buckle over there would untie itself, and the rope would occasionally get entangled in the weeds, so I touched it back very patiently and cut the weeds with a shovel.

Just when I was a little nervous about this witty method, I suddenly heard the sound of "rustling" not far ahead, shining with a miner's lamp, and almost shouted out, only to see me in the grass, squatting a person, this person has his back to me, that back I am too familiar with, isn't it Xiao Zhang?

"Xiao Zhang, what are you doing here, I'm looking for you so hard!" I spent half a day sorting out my emotions and asked in as low a voice as possible, "What kind of plane did you make just now, how can you say that it disappeared and disappeared?" ”

Xiao Zhang slowly turned his face, and I immediately felt that something was wrong, and a layer of white sweat broke out all over my body.

It's not because this person is not Xiao Zhang, but his expression, that face no longer looks like a human face, but more like a cold and stiff mask, and Xiao Zhang's eyes look at me, his gaze is dull and erratic, his eyes are gray, and he wants to be covered with a layer of frost, and I can clearly see the thick despair that cannot be dissolved in the depths of his eyes.

He kept muttering something in his mouth, and I got closer to hear it clearly.

It's useless, it's useless, we can't get out, we can't get out......

It was exactly what he said, I felt a tingling of my scalp as soon as I heard it, and at the same time I faintly felt that something was wrong, this Xiao Zhang has only been twenty minutes since he disappeared, he shouldn't be so desperate, how does it look like he is trapped in this forest for three or five years?

I suddenly remembered the story of the Rotten Keren Wang Qian.

It is recorded in Liang Renfang's "Narrative of Differences" of the Southern Dynasty that in Shimur Mountain, Xin'an County, the king of the Jin Dynasty felled wood, saw the boy and sang chess, and listened to it. The boy uses a thing and quality, such as a jujube core, and the quality contains it without feeling hungry. Oh, the boy said, "Why don't you go?" The quality is up, and the axe is rotten. Returned, there is no return.

Legend has it that in the Western Jin Dynasty, there was a young farmer named Wang Zhen, who once went up the mountain to collect firewood and came to the mouth of Wang Qiaoxian Cave. Wang Zhen was bold and curious, and thought, people say that there are immortals in the cave, why don't I go in and see what is going on? Because the entrance of the cave is very small, only one person can pass, the depth of the hole is more than three zhang, and the width and height are each zhang. Wang Zhen had just entered the cave and could not see anything. In an instant, light seemed to penetrate the roof of the cave, and I saw two children playing Go. Wang is a good chess player, and was attracted by the superb chess skills of the two children. As if they hadn't noticed anyone entering the cave, the two children ate jujubes while playing chess, and sometimes handed the jujubes to Wang Qian to eat. After watching a game of chess, the child said to Wang, "You should go home too." Wang Zhen leaned down to pick up the axe, but did not realize that the axe (axe handle) had rotted, and only the iron axe remained. When Wang Zhen returned to the village, he didn't know anyone anymore, and when he asked his parents, he learned that they had been dead for more than a hundred years.

At the same time, I also remembered the young man's explanation of Li Zhanwen's dimension, time and labyrinth in the girl's story.

In order to trap those beings who can jump in space in various dimensions, they have created a near-perfect labyrinth, and the name of this labyrinth is time.

There is no truly perfect thing in this world, and no matter how perfect the labyrinth is, there are loopholes.

So Xiao Zhang, could it be that he entered this loophole, in fact, he was there all the time, just because we were in different times, so in my eyes he suddenly disappeared, then in his eyes, I also suddenly disappeared, that is, he encountered the same situation as me.

He has been trapped in this woods for N years, and it seems to me that it is only thirty minutes, so to speak, either he is back in the past, or I am in the future.

I shook my head and threw out all these messy things in my head, this brain hole is too big, Xiao Zhang should have seen something terrible, and was frightened to become like this.

So what is it that can make a person have a mental breakdown and fall into complete despair?

These are not the issues I should be thinking about now, so these thoughts just flashed in my mind, and they were instantly extinguished by me, and the top priority now is to take Xiao Zhang away quickly.

"Let's get out of here." I said that I reached out and grabbed his arm to pull him up, but what I didn't expect was that no matter how I pulled, this little Zhang seemed to be rooted in the earth, motionless, and as if enchanted, without any expression or movement, he kept repeating the words.

Wait, root?!

A trace of uneasiness swelled in my heart, and I hurriedly picked up the flashlight and shone it downward, until I was so frightened that my soul flew out of the sky, scattered in the sky, and the true yuan was taken away in the heavenly spirit Gaili.

I saw that Xiao Zhang's lower body had turned into a solid piece of wood, deeply rooted in the soil.

Then, suddenly, he gave me a strange and miserable smile, and his skin stirred, as if something was about to emerge from his body.

Sure enough, in my stunned eyes, one branch after another pierced the skin, and with fresh blood came out of Xiao Zhang's body, extended in all directions, and in a blink of an eye, it became a towering tree, and the original Xiao Zhang was only left with some fragments.

The tree trembled, and stretched out a branch to me, and there was something on the branch, which was a man's mouth, a small open mouth, and the corners of his mouth still hung with the miserable and strange smile of his life.

The mouth said to me, "It's useless, it's useless, we can't escape, we can't escape......"

My best friend turned into a tree in front of me.

I screamed and ran, the rope straining my stomach so tight that I almost threw up my stomach.

I hurriedly untied the rope and ran like crazy, but suddenly I tripped over something, fell and gnawed on mud, and my eyes were full of Venus.

I got up and plucked up the courage to look back and saw a man sitting on the ground, and it was his outstretched leg that tripped me.

Isn't this shabby green sermon robe, this unkempt hair, and this clear eye the old Taoist priest?

It's just that he didn't die, or did I bury it with my own hands, how could he be here? Could it be that it is because I have done good deeds and accumulated virtues, and after death, I have attained the Tao, and my body has been dissolved and ascended to immortals, and I have come to rescue me?

"You...... You're alive? I asked cautiously in a trembling voice.

"They didn't believe me...... They're all dead, woo...... He's dead...... They have no eyes, I want them to look at my heart, look at my heart, why don't you believe me, why......" The old Taoist priest ignored me at all, but muttered to himself in a slurred voice.

The next scene that happened will be something I will never forget.

The old Taoist priest opened his mouth, and a large number of eyeballs rolled out of his mouth.

I was stunned, my mind full of Xiao Zhang's two questions.

I think I finally have an answer.

Then why did the old Taoist priest stay in the mountains?

Because he can't get out at all.

Why don't those corpses on the hanging cypress have eyeballs?

Because their eyes were eaten by this old Taoist! Eat...... Fall...... Finish......