Chapter 8 The Food Crisis
Nine o'clock in the evening. Xiu Ming flipped through the doctrinal book he brought back in the room, and the more he looked at the back, the deeper his brow wrinkled.
The name of this religion is Truth of Truth. From the spiritual preaching at the beginning to the substantive guidance at the end, it is impossible not to doubt whether the real world in which one lives is the real world, especially the various rituals and the explanation of the mantras, which are all nuanced. If the doctrinal content is true, then it completely overturns the previous scientific understanding.
The pages rest on a heraldic motif that is found on every door on the second floor.
In one corner of this page, there is a note that reads: 12, 7 on the other side.
It could be a code, it could be a memo, it could be a coordinate.
Anyway, Xiu Ming wrote down the number.
After everyone slept all night, they spent the following day observing the house in detail, and it was really meticulous to the point of brick by brick.
"There's a day's worth of food left." Guo Zhengxiang looked at the only food in front of him and frowned.
"I didn't catch any rats either." Xiu Ming said.
"It's a problem. I think we should go outside together, maybe we will find that Gao Yi was in a hurry to see it last time, and he may have missed something. Xiu Ming said.
Fei Xin also nodded.
"Okay, then let's take a look outside the house." Guo Zhengxiang said.
"I'm not going, there's nothing to see." Gao Yi said.
Xiu Ming and Fei Xin glanced at each other, but they were silent.
Guo Zhengxiang nodded: "It's okay, you stay, Wang Qian's situation is very bad."
Gao Yi's face was overjoyed, and he soon became serious again: "Then please."
After that, the five of them came to the balcony where Gao Yi climbed down last time, and the trunk of the tree was not very far from the window, so when the boy jumped on the trunk, he could catch the girl.
Then the sequence slowly descends the tree.
In front of the trunk of the tree, there were closed windows, and Xiu Ming really couldn't figure out why these windows were so hard.
Then the crowd came to the surface.
The vegetation around was silent, and not far from the house, it was cut off by a black wall.
Xiu Ming came to the wall, stretched out his hand, and touched it.
There was no friction, no touch, Xiu Ming clenched his fist and punched it, and there was no reaction force.
Others are also groping for the wall, thinking that they may be able to find a mechanism or a loophole, and maybe they will be lucky enough to tear open this dark curtain and see the bright sunlight outside, and then walk out.
"Did you find anything?" Fei Xin came to Xiu Ming's side.
Xiu Ming pursed his lips and said softly, "Can I go to your room at night, there are some things I want to discuss with you."
"Huh?" Fei Xin glanced at Xiu Ming: "Yes."
After the two discussed, they separated and continued to search for clues.
"Can you dig a tunnel and get around this wall?" Tao Tao said suddenly.
"That's right!" Guo Zhengxiang patted his head, "Maybe we dug a hole and went out, a group of cameras outside were waiting for us, and then congratulations on completing the survival challenge show." ”
"Hehe, that's an interesting idea." Cui Kaixuan was happy, rolled up his sleeves, picked up a dead branch from the side, and began to plow the ground.
However, no matter how hard I tried, there was no trace of the ground, and when I touched it with my hands, it was completely earthy.
"It doesn't work. We seem to be completely sealed. Cui Kaixuan stood up and shook his head.
"I knew it wasn't that simple." Guo Zhengxiang sighed.
At this time, even every grass nest is carefully examined.
Xiuming came to a corner, which was crawling with dead rattans. When you open it by hand, you can see the wall that has been damaged by nature, and some bricks are leaking out.
Suddenly, an idea came to me.
"On the other side, 12, 7." The note the man had made suddenly came to mind. On the other side, on the other side of the house, 12, 7, may be the number of bricks.
Xiu Ming crouches down, counts the 12th brick from left to right, then goes down to the top and counts 7. Then, pinch the edge of the brick and pull it firmly.
Boom! The brick fell, Xiu Ming was overjoyed, and then touched it.
Nothing.
"It may be the place where this man hid something, and he took it." After thinking so, Xiu Ming filled the bricks back in.
"Come, look here." Cui Kaixuan made a sound.
Everyone rushed over and saw Cui Kaixuan squatting by the wall, looking at the iron bars on the ground, which seemed to be a yin manhole cover, stretched down with branches, and could be submerged into the ground.
"Drain!" Guo Zhengxiang immediately grabbed the iron rod and pulled it hard, and the others were also in a hurry to help, but this iron rod was like being fixed in a stone.
"I knew it was so." With the experience of plowing the ground just now, I am not too frustrated at this time.
"Well, let's take a look at the front."
The crowd went around to the front door.
All around are black walls, messy flower beds, and doors are shut.
At the door, there was nothing blocking it, but the door just couldn't be opened, and the note with 100 yuan posted was half exposed, lying under the crack of the door.
Everyone looked at each other and felt that something was wrong, but they couldn't say that this door couldn't be opened, and it had nothing to do with them not being able to get out, because outside the door, around the house, there was an invisible wall, and the whole house was enclosed, and why couldn't this door be opened?
"The car is not far behind the wall." Guo Zhengxiang took out the car key and pressed it a few times, but there was no sound.
They searched everywhere again, but to no avail, so they had to go back.
Xiu Ming walked at the end, thinking about a question.
Suddenly, I couldn't move, I couldn't even make a sound, and then, my consciousness gradually blurred.
"Huh? Xiuming? Xiuming? Fei Xin turned around and saw Xiu Ming's whole body stiff, and then his legs fell to the ground with weakness.
"What's wrong! Does it matter? ”
Xiu Ming opened his eyes and saw everyone surrounding him.
"What's wrong with me?" Xiu Ming asked.
"I saw you fall to the ground, how do you feel now?" Fei Xin asked.
Xiu Ming shook his head: "I don't know, I didn't even realize that I fell to the ground, and now it's okay." ”
"Probably hypoglycemia." Fei Xin said.
Since it was all right, everyone climbed the tree and went back to the second floor.
"Nothing."
"What happens next when you run out of food?"
"I don't know. Perhaps, we are all going to die here. ”
“……”
The bell rang.
"Isn't the bell broken?"
"Is there a second bell?"
"Quick! Check it out! ”
Taking advantage of the fact that the bell had not stopped, everyone hurried to the first floor and a half.
The bell on the first floor kept ringing.
The pointer points to six o'clock.
"The timing is still not right." Fei Xin looked at his phone: "It's 10 o'clock in the morning, and my phone is almost out of battery." ”
"Strange, this kind of automatic messing around?"
"I hope I catch a mouse, or I'm going to go hungry." Guo Zhengxiang smiled bitterly.
The crowd came to the side of the hall.
The food underneath the stainless steel bowl is still there.
Xiu Ming glanced at the oil paintings on the wall. In the afterglow of Guo Zhengxiang's constantly squeezing emergency flashlight, I saw that the Virgin Angel, who was originally bleeding and tearful, was no longer smiling...... Instead, it made a sharp arc, and a dark liquid flowed down from his mouth, just like the key that hung on Fei Xin's shadow not long ago......
"You're finally back." Gao Yi came to the entrance of the hall. Wang Qian, she ...... He's dead. ”
"What!?" Everyone was shocked and hurriedly ran to Wang Qian's room.
"Qianqian, Qianqian!" Tao Tao and Fei Xin held Wang Qian's hand and called out to her.
But Wang Qian remained motionless, and after testing her snort, the second daughter shed tears.
"You guys go out, let's help Qianqian change her clothes......" Fei Xin said.
After the four of them exited, the door was closed.
"When did Wang Qian die?" Xiu Ming asked.
Gao Yi replied: "Shortly after you left, when I helped her change her wet towel, I found that she was not breathing. ”
After about ten minutes, Tao Tao and Fei Xin came out.
Syllable. Tao Tao slapped Gao Yi in the face.