Wang Qiang and I stayed in the house, there was a strong wind and sand outside, and the whole hut was like a small island isolated by the sea.

The two of us stayed for an unknown amount of time, hungry stomachs rumbling, eyes blue, one sitting on a chair, the other half lying on the bed, both weak.

The only lighting tool in the room, the small lamp, was flickering, and the shadows of the two of us were stretched extremely long.

When I was so hungry that I almost lost consciousness, Wang Qiang suddenly sat up from the bed and stared in one direction. He said: "Wang Qiang, have you thought about a question?" ”

"What?" I asked.

"Everything here is made by Komaruki, right?" He said.

I let out an "um", not understanding what he was going to say. Wang Qiang said: "I've been thinking about this question just now, since all the scenes and arrangements are intentional, why do we have kitchenware and stoves in this room?" ”

I jerked and looked at the pot in the corner of the hut, yes, why is there kitchen utensils here?

Wang Qiang said: "With these things, it means that the setting given to us by Gu Marushu is that we can eat food, and this thing can also be cooked." ”

I was so hungry that when I heard this, I quickly said, "Where is the food?" ”

Wang Qiang got energetic, got off the bed, paced back and forth, and frowned: "Let's think about it, let's think about it, there must be something wrong, we didn't think of it." Actually, Gu Marushu arranged the food, but we didn't find out. ”

I smiled bitterly: "This room is empty, I've looked for it several times, and I don't even have a mouse hole, where is the food." ”

Wang Qiang walked to the door and opened the door again, the wind was raging outside, and the sound was like a ghost crying wolf. It's just strange that these gales don't blow in, but end at the door, and the house seems to have an enchantment to shield it from the gale.

"In other words," Wang Qiang said, "our food is in the house, not going out to look for it, and there can be no food outside." ”

"Strange," I said, glancing around the room, "what's here, do you want us to eat tables and chairs?" Do we want to drink lamp oil? ”

"No," Wang Qiang paced back and forth, "there must be a joint that we can't think of." ”

He stopped as he walked and looked at me, "Actually, there is food in the house, but we didn't expect it." ”

"What?" I asked. His eyes were strange, and there was an indescribable meaning.

Wang Qiang was silent for a moment and said, "It's you and me." ”

I was startled, goosebumps on the back of my neck rose, "You, what do you mean?" ”

Wang Qiang said: "Originally, I was still thinking about why Gu Marushu had already let you in, and he had copied me, isn't it redundant." Now I realize that the two of us may only have one to live, and it is not for us to kill each other, but for us to rely on each other to live. ”

"I, I still don't understand." I said with a wink.

Wang Qiang sighed: "You are the body, I am the replica, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is all you, there is no difference, just keep one, the two will be redundant." So the two of us can only live one, and the other one can be used as food. ”

I was so shocked that my jaw dropped: "This, this is not good, isn't this equivalent to eating yourself?" ”

Wang Qiang said: "Only in this way can we ensure that 'I' live and 'Wang Qiang' live, otherwise both of us will have to die!" ”

I sweated like rain, and I knew in my heart that what he said was right, but I couldn't accept it intellectually.

He walked over quickly, hugged my shoulders, and looked at me with blazing eyes: "Wang Qiang, we are one person, I know your mentality very well, so don't pretend." You are ambitious and obsessed, and now you have supreme mana and supernatural powers, are you willing to die here like this! I'm not reconciled! ”

He said excitedly: "This is a trial, it is a spiritual journey, this is God's test for us, only by passing this level and going out can we achieve great things!" ”

He walked quickly to the kitchenware, picked up a kitchen knife, turned the handle upside down and handed it to me: "I am willing to make your ingredients, I am a replica, and I have the responsibility to achieve the great cause of the body." You killed me, ate me, and lived! ”

I held the kitchen knife, my hands were trembling, I looked at him for a long time before I said, "Why didn't you eat me?" ”

"Do you want to? I don't care. Wang Qiang said.

"To make this game a little fairer," I said, "we can take a gamble." ”

He laughed, opened the door, braved the wind, and when he returned, he grabbed a handful of gravel in his hand.

He threw all the stones on the table, looked at me and said, "Let's bet on these stones." ”

I gently put the knife aside and said, "Then you say the rules." ”

Wang Qiang said: "I'll catch the stones, and you can guess the number of odd and even." When he saw that I didn't speak, he said, "Either you come and grab the stones, and I'll guess the odds and evens." ”

I waved my hand: "No, just come on." ”

Wang Qiang took a deep breath, grabbed a handful of stones and put them on the table, covered them with his hands, and said, "Guess."

I said softly, "Single." ”

Wang Qiang raised his hand, and both of us focused our eyes on the stones, he slowly counted each stone with his fingers, silently reciting "2, 4, 6......", and finally slowly counted to 20. “21，22,……”

At this time, there was the last piece left, and he said softly, "23." His throat moved: "Singular." You win. ”

Speaking of this, he and I actually breathed a long sigh of relief. I said, "I should relax when I win, why do you want to take a long breath?" ”

Wang Qiang smiled: "You didn't understand the mystery, it's not me who is really difficult to do, you give me a good time, kill me with a knife, and I will die, I don't want to do anything, there is no psychological burden." But what about you, you have to eat what I don't have left, so that you can ensure that you can live. In the next month, every day you will be in a room with me, a dead corpse, watching me slowly be dismembered, you are equivalent to eating yourself a little bit, this kind of psychological test and pressure is not something that normal people can bear. ”

I was stunned for a moment, and my face was dark: "You, you're right. ”

He stood up and patted me on the shoulder: "That's why I rushed to die just now, leaving the hardest for you." He squatted down, looked me in the eye, and said, "Wang Qiang, you promise me." ”

I looked at him.

"You have to be firm in your beliefs, since the ancient pill tree is forcing us to become demons, then we will become demons well! You don't want me to die in vain, okay? He looked at me deeply.

I didn't speak.

"Live with our dreams," Wang Qiang said, "belongs to our Wang Qiang's dreams." ”

He picked up the knife and took one last look at me, and slashed his throat with a knife, and the blood flowed profusely, and the man rolled over and fell to the ground, never moving again.

I looked at him, didn't move, and the blood was slowly flowing down my feet. At this moment, I felt like an epiphany, his last words before he died, kept churning in my mind, "Live with our dreams." ”

If you become a demon, you become a demon, so what.

I crouched down, stripped him of his clothes, looked at the flesh on his body, took a deep breath, and slowly put the knife down......

I am timekeeping on the wall, there is no day here, I draw on the wall completely by my own feelings, and now I have painted more than fifty lines, when will a month pass.

There is a skeleton neatly placed on the ground, which is Wang Qiang's. I don't have any food anymore, and I can only survive until now.

Just when I was desperately hungry, there was a knock on the door.

I raised my head on the bed, glanced at the door with vicissitudes in my eyes, got up and got out of bed, opened the door, and there was a person standing outside, another Wang Qiang!

This Wang Qiang walked in, closed the windswept door casually, came to the table, and threw a handful of broken stones in his hand on the table.

He said coldly: "Don't talk nonsense, we can only live one, either you eat me, or I eat you." The old rule is that you still have to gamble. ”

"You know it all?" I asked.

He nodded, "I am your clone, and I have copied all my memories until I appear outside this door." You've eaten the last replica, now it's time for the two of us to take a gamble. ”

"Come on." I say.

……

I slowly opened my eyes and returned to the bottom of the tree. I moved my body a little, there was no dryness, it didn't seem to be long, but in my memory, a month had passed.

I looked at An Ge and Erlong, they still sat in that position, sitting there without moving, the smile on their faces still not disappearing.

I continued to settle down, to enter the tree with my mind, and as soon as I walked out of the hut, I felt that I was one step closer to the ultimate wisdom, and now that it was so, I could not give up.

When I opened my eyes, I was sitting in the courtyard of my hometown in the countryside, with a table in front of me, all of which were full of wine and food. I looked up and saw Zhang Hong, he was drunk and smoky, and suddenly whimpered and cried.

I thought to myself, "What are you doing here?" Am I saying the wrong thing? ”

Zhang Hong cried and said, "Wang Qiang, are you my good buddy?" ”

"What you say," I said, "say what you have to say, and don't beat around the bush." ”

Zhang Hong picked up the wine glass, raised his head and drank the wine dry, his eyes were bloodshot: "I want to kill someone, you have to help me!" ”

I looked at him, and suddenly goosebumps rose, and a cool breeze ran through the back of my neck, and I realized that I had returned to the beginning of all the stories that happened to me.