Chapter Seventy-Two: The Caged Man
As soon as I stepped into the river with one foot, I felt a sharp pain from below my knee, as if thousands of steel needles were stabbing my calf together, I really overestimated my tolerance for pain, I only felt the blood rushing towards the top of my head, I screamed with a red face, and fell into the river with a pop.
It's over, he still wants to save others, and he doesn't look at how many pounds and taels he has.
It was my last thought before falling into the river.
As my body slammed into the river, my consciousness spiraled in a trance, as if I had been thrown into a whirlpool and twisted to pieces.
Is this what it feels like to die?
I asked myself in the bottom of my mind.
"It's not the feeling of death, but it's coming." A familiar voice rang in my ears.
I immediately opened my eyes and scrambled to get up, and sure enough, I was in the library again.
In fact, I have a little bit of clarity in my heart, this is my subconscious space, I am afraid that it is a place I imagined, the library does not exist, the second "me" does not exist, all this is my imagination.
In other words, I'm sick.
The second "I" stood outside the candle flame and chuckled and said, "Don't doubt the authenticity of this place, this library does not exist, but for you, it is real, one flower and one world, one leaf and one Bodhi, that's what it means." ”
My pupils narrowed, and I subconsciously asked, "Do you know what I'm thinking?" ”
He smiled even brighter: "I told you before, I don't actually exist, in other words, I am you, you are me, the two of us are just two sides of the same coin, what am I thinking, why don't I know?" ”
I shook my head, I don't want to dwell on these issues with him now, anyway, I've fallen into the river, I'm afraid that in reality I'm about to die in the belly of a fish, entangled in the subconscious space of true and false right and wrong, now it doesn't make any sense to me at all.
The second "I" squatted down opposite me, looked into my eyes and said with a smile: "Don't be so depressed, you won't die easily, if you die here, the logic of time won't make sense." ”
"What logic in time?"
"Zhang Jiye, four years ago, Zhang Jiye suddenly came to the body, needless to say, you also know that the Eight Achievements is your soul traveled to four years ago, in a vain attempt to dissuade the archaeological team from exploring deeper, but you can only travel to the past when you reach the Bronze Temple and touch the dragon beast head, if you die here, then the logic of time will not make sense soon?" He smiled and spoke eloquently.
I reluctantly settled down, and said while pondering: "But I still don't think it's right, do you think, I know through Hong Jinglong's mouth now, and I can only cross by touching the dragon's head like a beast, so where did Hong Jinglong know?" That's what I know, and that's a paradox, who knew it first? ”
The second "I" shook his head: "If you think but don't learn, you will die, do you understand the meaning of this sentence?" You can't see it now, you don't have enough experience, and you have less information, so don't think about it here, go inside and take a look, the mystery is like an onion, peeling off layer by layer. ”
"But I still don't understand one last thing, my body has fallen into the river now, and now I'm afraid those mad dogfish won't eat it all, right? Who can save me? Hong Jinglong, fat man or little demon? It's all impossible, right? I asked worriedly.
The second "I" simply sat down, smiled and said, "You have been ignoring something, something that is crucial, something that has repeatedly pulled you out of the illusion. ”
It dawned on me that I pulled out the cold, delicate black scales from my chest and asked the second "I", "That's what you're talking about?" ”
The second "I" nodded: "I don't know what this thing is, but since that mysterious person solemnly handed over this thing to you, it means that it must not be untargeted, and I always have a feeling that this scale does not seem to be as simple as we think." ”
I smiled, put away my scales and said, "Then your feeling is actually my own feeling that I have ignored." ”
He also smiled: "It's not just the feeling of the two of us, it's his feeling." ”
As he spoke, the second "I" stood up and snapped his fingers, and a spotlight fell from top to bottom, just behind him, and he smiled and gently stepped out of the way, and I saw the third "I" squatting in a huge bird cage at this time, with empty eyes and stiff movements, motionless like a marionette.
This...... What's going on?!
I felt like I didn't have enough brains.
Subconsciously, I asked a nonsense: "Who is he?" ”
The second "I" smiled and said, "He is also us, but it is slightly different from us, what we have, he does not; What he has, we don't have, this scaly thing, is exactly what he hinted at me. ”
I frowned, and the more I looked at it, the more I felt that the person in the cage was weird, and I unconsciously asked, "But, I think he seems to be stupid." ”
The second "I" smiled, "He is stupid most of the time, but occasionally there are times when he is sober, but this kind of sobriety has to pay a lot of price for him, such as this time, in order to tell us about the black scales, he forcibly woke up for three seconds, and then he became this ghost, don't live up to the expectations of the two of us, go ahead!" ”
As he spoke, he made a push gesture to me, and before I could refuse, I felt pushed down from the top of the hill again, and after a long fall, I suddenly came to my senses.
I stood up from the river, reached out and lifted the unconscious Wu Li step by step towards the shore, Wu Li's lower body has become a blood gourd, my calves are also covered with wounds, every step forward is the pain of the heart, gritting my teeth to the shore, I can't hold on anymore, I threw myself and Wu Li directly on the river bank, gasping for breath.
The little demon and the fat man had already taken out the medicine and gauze from the package, and bandaged me and Wu Li as soon as I fell, and I felt numb from the knee down, and I didn't feel it at all while they were busy.
Ji Gang took out a well-sealed portable medical needle from the package, which contained a large half tube of light blue medicine, he directly lifted my arm, pinpointed the blood vessel and pricked it, and explained while pushing the needle tube: "Special medicine, for tetanus and other injury symptoms, I don't know what mess there is in this river, if you don't inject these things in time, it is very likely to cause big problems." ”
I don't have the strength to speak, even my eyelids feel a thousand pounds, after listening to Ji Gang, I have only one thought in my mind - I'm safe, and then my head sank and I was unconscious.
I slept very hard this night, and it was very sweet, I didn't have any dreams, but occasionally a few fragments flashed in my mind during the eye movement stage, and I became the third "me", trapped in a birdcage by a mysterious force, which couldn't be broken no matter how I hit, which made me very irritable.
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When I woke up, I found that I was already in a long and narrow gap, I couldn't understand what this place was, just like a big mountain, and suddenly a narrow crack was split by a giant axe in the middle, and now we are at the bottom of the crack, and I am lying in the middle of the relatively close section, there is no light around, and there is no sound, and the situation is a little weird.
I shook my head, still a little dizzy, and slowly pulled out of my sleeping bag, and when my pupils adjusted to the light, I could vaguely see the panic in the makeshift camp I was in, and the thick smell of blood coming to my nose, which made me frown.
What about the fat people? Didn't they leave me here, and they went to the so-called bronze temple first?
My heart was empty, and I wanted to call their names, but a gust of wind blew and gave me goosebumps, and I hurriedly closed my mouth, and now that the situation here is unknown, I had better not make a noise.
First, I reached out and touched the area around the sleeping bag, but fortunately, they left me a flashlight, a standard pistol, and the moire steel knife, which made me feel a little more settled, at least they didn't give me up as a burden.
The demon taught me how to use a pistol, and although the accuracy was almost negligible, I could pull the trigger and kill someone if I put the gun against the enemy's chest.
Loaded, turned on the safe, I held a flashlight in my left hand and a flashlight in my right, and slowly felt towards the center of the makeshift camp, where the supplies and sleeping bags were scattered, and there were still large pools of blood on the ground that had not dried up, so it could be seen that the situation must have been very urgent when they were here, and they must have been very impatient, otherwise they would not have eaten half of the life-saving high-energy food of chocolate bars and thrown them away.
I frowned and thought about the situation, touched it forward, and found a small hard thing, what is it? I don't remember bringing anything like this?
I covered the flashlight with the corner of my clothes and slowly pushed it away, the flashlight slowly scattered a little afterglow through the gap in the fiber of the clothes, although it was particularly faint, but I could see the situation around my body clearly, I took advantage of this faint light to take that hard thing to my eyes, after seeing it clearly, my scalp instantly tingled, and the whole heart sank to the bottom.
It's a section of fingers.
There is no doubt that this is a human finger, which should be the index finger, which has been cut off for too long and is already a little stiff.
What happened during my coma? Can you beat the fat man so badly that he even lost a finger?
I don't dare to think whose finger this section is, I just feel that the whole person's heart is heavy, and I feel very panicked.
I was about to throw away my fingers, but I found an extremely thin thread wrapped around it, and I followed the thin thread, and there was a note pressed underneath, and I put the flashlight on the note to see the crooked contents:
"Old Tang, don't shout when you wake up, don't turn on the flashlight easily, take this finger with you, encounter anything abnormal, lie down and pretend to be dead, we will definitely come back to you!"
Although the handwriting was sloppy, I could tell at a glance that it was a fat man's notes.
Gasping, I know that the fat man must be in a particularly dangerous situation, or they wouldn't have left me here and left on their own.
No, I can't sit still here, I have to help them!
Stretched out his hand and checked his calf, although the wounds on it were dense, but they were all skin wounds, the little demon gave me medicine at the first time I went ashore, and now it is still tightly wrapped in gauze, which does not affect the movement, except for the head is a little groggy, I am no different from a normal person now.
I had no reason not to believe the fat man, and although I felt very sick in my heart, I still put the severed finger in my pocket, took the knife and gun, and slowly felt it out of the canyon.
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