Chapter 23: Candles
I didn't make any moves, and now I finally understood what this place was, as they said, a place from which there was no escape, full of hope, again and again of despair, and finally completely lost my will, and returned to silence, to what they call eternal tranquility. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Come on, come here, you can't escape......" "I" in the huge coffin sat up and beckoned to me, and at that moment, a red fire lit up from afar, and a raging fire burned in that place, accompanied by thick black smoke that soared into the sky.
"No...... Don't ...... bare" The men covered their faces and howled in pain, their whole bodies twisted until they turned into pus like melted wax.
I took two steps forward, and suddenly it was dark in front of me, and I fell to the ground.
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I slowly opened my eyes, and it was pitch black.
This kind of black is not the black of the night, but a kind of black that has nothing, to be exact, it is not black, but nothingness, nothingness and emptiness, and I don't even feel my own existence.
All my senses were gone, the sense of direction, the sense of time, the sense of touch, the sense of presence, in fact, perception is just a quick response of the subtle senses, and its production requires the perfect coordination of various organs with the experience in the brain.
I stretched out my hand, but I didn't feel the presence of my hands at all, I could only touch my body, the smooth touch made me realize that I was still a person, not a wisp of spirit or something, I pinched myself hard, and it hurt a lot.
Wait, where's my clothes? Why am I naked now? No, it doesn't matter, what matters is what exactly this place is, how I got here all of a sudden.
After the first few sudden shifts, I was very rare and strange about this matter, so I was only slightly stunned, and then I came back to my senses, and now the top priority is to find a light source as soon as possible, or I can scare myself to death if I don't see the situation around me clearly.
I tried to take two steps, jumped twice, and I didn't know what I was stepping on under my feet, I just felt soft, sticky, like a giant piece of bubble gum, and my sense of direction began to recover little by little, at least I could distinguish between up and down, left and right, front and back.
"Hey~" I shouted, the sound came far away, and there was no echo, it seemed to be gradually swallowed up by this nothingness, with my shout, the surroundings suddenly slowly lit up, and then I heard a series of footsteps, I nervously pricked up my ears, clenched my fists, and saw a person who was completely black and holding a candle walking towards me.
The strange thing is that the candle in this person's hand is black, and the flame of the candle is also pitch black, and the light emitted is even darker, it seems to be darker than this nothingness, and this person is shrouded in this even darker darkness, I can't see his appearance clearly, I can only see a general outline.
"You're here," he said, in a familiar voice.
"Big brother?!" I almost blurted out, and at the same time felt very unbelievable, this person is called Hao Shoujun, it is my good buddy in junior high school, the boss of the "Three Brothers of Walnut Garden", well, I am the second, and there is a buddy named Chen Tianxing, we are more normal with me, those two are simply not people, after graduating from junior high school, I went to a high school, Chen Laosan went abroad, and this Hao Shoujun is gone, and I don't know where he went, gradually we broke off contact, I didn't expect to meet him here todayOr maybe he's just my fantasy.
"Hmm." He answered, handed me the candle in his hand, I subconsciously took it, the black light instantly enveloped me, I actually saw everything around me clearly at this moment, and I could see his face clearly.
This face is very distinctive, I don't mean that the appearance is strange, but that this guy looks really plain, a miscellaneous fish face belongs to the type that can't be found in the pile of people, but if you really throw him in the pile of people, it is very strange to recognize it at a glance, and the person who has seen his face, as long as you look away from his face, you will soon forget what he looks like, but when you see him, you will remember who he is, I wanted to learn sketching on a whim for a while, and I was going to give him a portrait, I didn't know where to write after reading it for a long time.
"If you're in a darker darkness, you feel like the darkness around you is light." He suddenly said such a clueless sentence, but it also fit his style of speaking.
"I'll give you my candle, and don't let it go out again." He said, "I don't know how to answer."
"Promise me one thing, okay?" He asked, and I nodded.
"If one day you find that your so-called light is just a shadow of darkness, and the world you are in is just a dream, the answer you are looking for is just a predestined ending, promise me to live well." He said word by word.
"I don't understand what you're talking about."
"You don't need to understand now, you will understand later," he stretched out his hand to me, with an extra quaint rhino horn cup in his hand, "Drink this wine, this absurd dream, wake up." ”
I took it and drank it down.
"Xiao Li?" Before I could taste what it was, I heard him call out to me, and when I looked up, I saw a slap with a strong wind whistling and slapping me in the face with a "snap".
I didn't have time to scream, and I fainted again.
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I got up from the ground, the dull pain in my face that was unbearable.
I reached out and wiped my face, a hand of slimy liquid, which was my blood.
When I woke up, I found myself lying on a rock, my nose had been knocked out, and the blood had scabbed over, and it was clear that I had been lying here for a long time.
I felt heavy on my back, and when I reached out and touched it, I found that the backpack was on my back, and I counted the equipment, not a lot.
Was it just a dream? I don't know, but I don't believe it was a dream because it was so real that I could feel the pain when I pinched myself.
I illuminated it with a miner's lamp, it was still the woods, and a few lines of fire came through the gaps in the trees, and I was sure that there was a fire not far away, and this fire may have been lit by Lao Zhao, after all, in this kind of place, this is the only way to guide us to him, of course, it may not be, but I must go to that place, because as long as Lao Zhao and Xiao Zhang are still alive, as long as they see this fire, they will definitely rush over, and we are very likely to meet there.
The flame doesn't know when it will go out, and the opportunity is fleeting.
I gritted my teeth, picked up my backpack, turned on the miner's lamp, and walked quickly to follow the firelight.
"Are you awake......" As soon as he walked out, he heard such a male voice not far from his side.
"Who?!" My pores exploded and I turned my head away with a scream.