I don't know how long I slept, I felt like I had a lot of strange dreams, in my dreams for a while I was a tomb robber that everyone shouted at, and I was chased and killed by ghosts after taking out a bronze artifact; After a while, I became an archaeologist, brushing away the lead dust in the antique ravines; After a while, he turned into a shady agent, torn between the tomb robbers and the archaeological team, as if he were chasing something......

Someone was feeding me water, I was awake for a while, but immediately after feeding the water I fell into a coma again, occasionally I would go back to that library, and hungrily flip through each "memory book", the range of candlelight in the library became larger and larger, and the second "me" was compressed by me to shrink the scope of existence, but he was as happy as he was, even if he was not trapped in the corner and couldn't get out, his face became more and more happy.

It wasn't until the candle light in the library had expanded to two-thirds of the range, and no matter how hard I tried, the light stopped expanding, and the second "I" smiled and told me to go back, because it was too long to delay here, and it was easy to find my way home.

Then I was spinning again, struggling with my heavy eyelids and slowly opening my eyes, only to feel like a world away.

The fat man with red eyes pounced on me for the first time, grabbed my collar and gritted his teeth and said, "You kid can really sleep, damn, one sleep is seven days and seven nights, Shen Ye, I thought you were reluctant to wake up!" ”

Before I could speak, the little demon had already pulled him away, and said angrily: "Old Tang just woke up, and his body is weak, if you shake him like this again, you have to shake him apart!" ”

I looked around weakly, I was still in my sleeping bag, which was supposed to be in a corner of the tomb, with two stone walls forming an angle, and in front of the corner there was a bonfire that had burned an unknown number of times, and there were many food bags scattered around the campfire.

The little demon explained to me: "This is a stronghold left by the archaeological team four years ago, although most of the things are rotten and deteriorated, but like coal, sleeping bags and those military food with excellent sealing, you can still be used, when we found you, you have fallen into a coma, Hong Jinglong said that you will not wake up for a while, but we went down the well in a hurry, and there is not much food with us, so we can only carry you to this stronghold to rest." ”

Seeing the little demon and the fat man again, I should have been full of joy and joy, but maybe it was because I had stayed in the illusion for too long, I always felt that there was a faint barrier between my heart and them, I couldn't tell it, but the gap existed.

I shook my head, forcibly suppressed this strange feeling, and asked, "I've slept for seven days?" ”

I don't know if I don't open my mouth, my voice is so hoarse that I can't even hear it.

The little demon nodded and said, "Since we found you, you have fallen into a coma, and in the past seven days, you have never regained consciousness except for saying some meaningless babbling, how did you do it, Old Tang, why didn't you follow us, but instead dug a way out of the pile of bones by the river?" ”

"I dug a way out of my own? Nope! I was taken aback by what the little demon said, and hurriedly explained, "How can I dig a road by myself, I'm not stupid, I swam and saw two forks in the road, one big and one small, with marks on them, I think you might go to the bigger one, so I followed this road to find you, and I encountered a corpse blocking the way in the river, and it took me a lot of effort to get it away, but after I got ashore, I fell into some kind of hallucination." ”

At this time, Hong Jinglong didn't know where to come back, lit a bonfire and sat down around us, and said lightly: "You didn't fall into the illusion after you went ashore, but when you found those two forks, you were already in the illusion." ”

I was dumbfounded and hurriedly asked, "What do you mean?" ”

Hong Jinglong picked up a special briquette and threw it into the fire, and said unhurriedly: "From going down the well to going ashore, there is only one way, and we can't leave a mark, and I went back from the place where I found you, and found that you dug a way from the pile of bones on the side of the road to swim over, to be honest, I'm curious, how do you know that there is another path behind that pile of bones?" ”

I was even more confused when he said this, and I immediately told him all about my experience underwater, of course, concealing the existence of the second "me" and the library, and he fell into a deep groan after listening to me, and after a while he raised his head and asked, "You said that a flower floated out of the corpse's mouth?" What does that flower look like? ”

"The flower is not big, but it is very exquisite, and it can even be said that the beauty is a little thrilling, so that people can't take their eyes off it at a glance, the color, this flower is red on the outside, and white on the inside, hehe, it's weird." I tried to remember the details of the flower and slowly describe the shape of the flower.

"Manju Sahua, it's Manzhu Sahua!" The sudden sound in the corner startled me, and I followed the prestige, and I saw Wu Li, who was teasing Gu worms in the dark corner, rushing out in a hurry, and his ugly face was overflowing with indescribable surprise.

Hong Jinglong explained to me: "The appearance and characteristics of this kind of thing you say are particularly in line with the characteristics of Manzhu Sahua, Manzhu Sahua, in the legend is also called the other side of the flower, is the appearance you said, the legend is a strange flower that grows on both sides of the Yellow Spring, many newly dead souls are nostalgic for the yang world, do not want to reincarnate as a human being, as long as they smell the smell of the other side of the flower, they will fall into a fluttering state of bliss in an instant, unconsciously cross the Yellow Spring, and never look back." ”

Wu Li added in a hoarse voice: "This is the legendary flower of the other side, but there is no wind and no waves, if there is no such thing in reality, how can people arrange it to be vivid and vivid?" Although there is no record of the existence of the flower in reality, but it is spread by word of mouth among our tomb robber groups, the so-called flower is just a hallucinogenic flower, but this flower is rooted in the corpse, and the trace elements after the corpse decomposes are indispensable for its growth. ”

I looked at him puzzled and asked, "Since it's an ordinary flower with hallucinogenic effects, why are you so excited and ...... A feeding frenzy? ”

Wu Li didn't answer my question, he regained his old sinister dead face, looked at me meaningfully, and then turned and left to play with his baby bumps.

Hong Jinglong said lightly: "Boss Tang, Wu Li is psychologically distorted, uncertain, and I don't know how many secrets he has on his body, I advise you not to try to tempt or provoke him, his methods of harming people are strange, if he really kills you first and then commits suicide, I can't protect you." And, you may not know, this time, it was he who saved you. ”

"What? Am I saved by this dead face? I was so shocked that the words in my heart came out in one go.

The little demon nodded solemnly: "That's right, before we go down the well, I don't know that ...... How did the dead man's face do it, he actually smeared some pheromones on the soles of each of our feet, and we didn't find any trace of you for a long time, so he took out a pale cyan beetle from his arms, and as soon as the beetle hit the ground, it crawled forward, and we followed it, and meandered, and finally found you. ”

After listening to the little demon, I have mixed feelings in my heart, what's the fuck called this!

Hong Jinglong took advantage of the little demon's ability to speak, and had already drawn a simple map of the river underground, pointed to a broken place in the middle and back and said to me: "Boss Tang, look, you dug a hole from behind the white bones here, that is, push it forward about twenty meters." He moved his finger forward a little, pointed to the place and said: "It was when you found the fork in the road, you have been taken to the illusion by Manzhu Sawa, you thought you had walked the big river, but you have been wandering in the same place, and when you found and destroyed the corpse, in fact, you opened the pile of bones, and took a fork in the road from the hole, the fat man and Wu Li who came behind naturally would not have thought that you yourself opened the hole and swam over, and they would naturally swim along this road and make peace with us." ”

Hearing this, my heart was full of admiration for this Hong Jinglong, worthy of being a veteran of the ground, he didn't come down with me at all, but as soon as he heard me, he went on the opposite trip, and he speculated the facts to the point of inseparable.

Hong Jinglong looked at me and said softly, "There are still two questions that I can't solve: first, why does the hallucinogenic effect of the other side flower only work for you alone?" We've followed the same path, and if something goes wrong, we'll all be hit. ”

"Second question, Boss Tang, I'm curious, how did you get out of Manzhu Shahua's illusion, as far as I know, I've never heard of anyone who can come out of Manzhu Sahua's illusion, look at you lying in this sleeping bag for seven days, in fact, I don't have hope for you, I didn't expect you to ...... by yourself Come alive. ”

Hong Jinglong's two questions are too sharp, it can be said to be to the point, the second question I know the answer but can't say, the first question I want to say but don't know the answer, which makes me very entangled, I can only scratch my hair and laugh at Hong Jinglong.

Hong Jinglong may have seen my entanglement, stood up and shook his head and said: "I just asked these two questions casually, Boss Tang, you don't have to take it to heart, since you can wake up, it is the best, this stronghold is the temporary stronghold of the archaeological team, there is not much food and equipment stored, we have consumed a lot of food in the past seven days, Boss Tang, you have a good rest, we will leave for the next stronghold tomorrow." ”

After saying that, Hong Jinglong left, I don't know why, I always feel that this Hong Jinglong looks worried, it seems that he has some secrets in his heart, and he has no energy at all.

The fat man came over, bumped me on the shoulder, blinked and said mysteriously, "Do you know why they are so excited and nervous when they hear Manju Sahua?" ”

I was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "Do you kid know?" It's impossible, you can have something else in your head besides eating, drinking, and having fun? ”

"Don't underestimate people, of course I know, Shen Ye." The fat man lowered his voice, looked left and right, and then whispered, "This so-called Manzhu Sawa is the favorite ingredient of the red fan doll. ”