Chapter 143: Painting the Ground as a Prison
Listening to his words, I didn't know what to do, he said that I was missing a part of myself, and this sentence was like a hammer, hitting me on the body.
I don't remember when it began, I rarely talked to some people about my life experience, and even if I did, it was when I was exhausted, holding the pendant around my neck in a daze, recalling those things that were marginal and had nothing to do with reality.
I set up a cordon around myself, maybe things are like what he said, from the moment I was involved, from the moment I received the file, I realized that the people around me were not friends.
I know what I have to do, I know who I can be friends with and who I can't, and I often think I'm sober, but in my heart I'm still drawing a line that I can't even see, isolating everyone.
Because there is another way I can feel that I am different from them, and it does not come from a pretentious consciousness, but an idea that is difficult to express.
Sometimes, when I see a thief on the street and being chased and shouted, my heart trembles slightly, and I can't help but dodge, because I feel that the thief seems to be myself, because my heart is weak, so I need to dodge.
But I also knew that it wasn't me, so I was soon surprised to understand it, but when I often recalled this, I felt a sense of difference from the crowd.
Underneath the same face, what I tried to hide were the differences that I couldn't notice.
I remember the last time I saw the contents of those six murals in Yunnan, and when I saw the person buried alive, I understood myself, as if these differences were suddenly released in front of the audience, which made people ashamed.
"Maybe what you said is right, but I can't, and I don't want to, I don't have friends, because the people I meet, they also have their own secrets, and I don't want to be a thief and try to spy on them, that's what I understand now as a friend."
Jiang Yuchen finally nodded, there was a little more silence in his eyes for no reason, and he suddenly seemed to have become an elder who saw through the world.
This amazed me, because he didn't look like the one I knew before, as if what I had seen before was fake.
"Okay, let's hurry up, I don't think we have gone far before, we should be back to where we came from."
It seemed to comfort me that along the way, our eyes were pulled by other things around us, first the stone, then the person who took it out, and finally the way to find the way.
It was also in this aimless search that we forgot that it was the voice of the masked man that attracted us to the past, but we didn't see him when we looked for him, and we didn't know how he was now?
In this case, the companion will become very valuable, like a flashlight, because it is too big here, and it is easy to lose your way and give up on yourself.
We walked a long way back, and we still didn't find a way out, and we didn't meet the Masked Man, and we couldn't hear his voice anymore.
Recalling the direction, we can't go wrong to go back, but this distance is too long!
Taking advantage of this time to rest, Jiang Yuchen went to the neighborhood to look for other coffins to see if there were any open doors, maybe the masked man also escaped after encountering the red figure, and followed us and hid in one of the coffins.
But looking at Jiang Yuchen's figure, I drank water and thought at the same time, he really made people wonder if he really stayed where he was waiting for me before.
We hadn't rested for a long time, and I leaned against the stone wall of a coffin, gasping for breath.
Jiang Yuchen didn't seem to be tired, he walked so far and didn't rest, he still had the energy to see the coffin, I really obeyed him, I don't know how focused his purpose is.
I smiled wryly, maybe he was still thinking about the stone, but I immediately shouted to him, "Don't go too far!" ”
In order to show that he was listening to me very seriously, the other party immediately turned around and said to me, "Of course I know, in this ghost place, I run around alone, aren't I afraid of being caught by the red ghost as a stand-in?" ”
As he said this, I was stunned for a moment, looking at the white mask on his face, but I could faintly see a few red dots on it.
When I found that, I immediately became nervous, but I felt that it was my own delusion, because they were very shallow, like the light in the eyes that was refracted by certain thoughts.
After speaking, just as he turned around, I subconsciously said, "Be careful yourself, especially behind you." ”
He was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't understand the meaning of my sudden words, "What's wrong?!" ”
"It's nothing, I should have read it wrong!" I waved at him, and I lay down, and it seemed like a long time had passed since my last rest, at least three or four hours.
Now that I had rested again, I couldn't help but yawn, but I just closed my eyes for a while, and soon sat down again.
Time flew by, and before I knew it, I had been resting for a long time, and when I went to look for Jiang Yuchen again, I found him squatting behind a coffin.
"How did you find the back, didn't you find anything?" I stood up and said a few words at him.
The other party turned around and glanced at me, but said hesitantly, "Have you read these nicknames carefully before?" And now the records of the lives of the deceased are empty! ”
Hearing him say that, I also remembered that the masked man had mentioned it before, and that we should pay attention to this, but it seemed a little too late to look at it now.
I walked over and sure enough, I saw nothing but the name on the inscriptions, and nothing else.
I immediately turned around and returned to the door of the coffin, which was also locked, and when I shone my flashlight inside, it was pitch black and I couldn't see anything.
I was a little confused, but I immediately looked at the other places, but all I saw were empty monuments, and there was nothing but the name.
From the outside of the coffin, I couldn't find any other incisions, and I couldn't see anything inside.
But looking at the empty stone monument, one can't help but think, could there be no corpses in these coffins at all?
But after a few more glances at those nicknames, I looked for them one by one, but I still didn't find anything special.
Jiang Yuchen grabbed me and asked about my previous observations, I recalled the inscriptions I saw at the beginning, and immediately nodded, "It was definitely not empty before, I remember that there were words." ”
"I think it's the same, there are nicknames and words on it, and I remember it clearly, but now, it's completely different from the previous inscription."
"Could it be that there is no owner here, and only when the dead are buried, will a life account be written?"
"Maybe! But if it's just a nickname, then that's the point, can you understand what it means? ”
I hesitated for a moment, "I understand what the nickname is, that is, it is used to summarize my life." But the ancient language and culture can be described as broad and profound, and I can't understand the content! ”
The other party gave me a blank look, which may mean that it is useless to talk so much if I don't understand it.
I chuckled dryly, but then asked him if he had found a door to open here, or news of the Masked Man.
But the answer to me will naturally not be an accident, Jiang Yuchen shook his head, and said, "There is not even a ghost shadow, and I have seen dozens of coffins in the vicinity, all of them are closed, if we continue to look for them like this, I am afraid that we will be trapped here." ”
"The biggest problem now may be that we got the direction wrong, you ......" Although I don't know if it's possible, I still asked, "Do you have a compass or something that can help us?" ”
Jiang Yuchen made a bitter face and took out a compass the size of a pocket watch from his backpack, but after opening it, he saw that the pointer was motionless.
"Is it broken?" I took it and tried it elsewhere, but it still didn't work.
"Don't try it, when I came in, I tried it, there seems to be a lot of magnetic interference here, I brought my mobile phone down, but there is no half-bar signal, it is better to bring a few more dry batteries."
Hearing him say this, I had no choice but to walk back and throw the compass back to him, and if we really couldn't find the direction we had before, we could only take one step at a time.
The buildings here are so huge that they should stretch out according to certain rules, although it doesn't seem to be in a square formation, but as long as we walk in the same direction, we can always get out.
After recognizing this dead reason, we had no choice but to discern the direction of the direction, and I could only trust the references around me and use them to determine that we were moving forward.
And during this time, we will look at those coffins from time to time, and hope that there will be something else besides those names?
It was here that I groped my way forward, watching the lights as the nicknames retreated one by one.
Jiang Yuchen was bored and told me his thoughts, this place is so huge, but only one part of it has dead people, and the other part does not, does it indicate the two worlds here.
As I said before, he and I see different worlds, one is in my own memory, and the other is what we see here.
And at this moment, we are in this kind of treacherous place, unable to distinguish the direction, and it is difficult to return to the original point.