I don't know how long it took, but in a daze, I seemed to hear someone calling me.

"Brother, brother, what's wrong with you, brother-"

The voice that called me seemed to come from far away, leisurely, confused, clear, slowly, closer, more and more stable, more and more clear.

I finally heard it, it was Hao Junqi's voice calling me.

I struggled to open my eyes. The strong light stimulated my eyes, and I saw Hao Junqi kneeling beside me, and she kept shaking my body with her hands. The sky has regained its brightness.

"Kiki." I moved my mouth. I found myself lying on the ground.

"Brother, you're awake, you're finally awake!" Hao Junqi had tears on her face. She lay on top of me and cried.

"What's going on?"

"I don't know. I was excitedly watching you go picking plum blossoms, when suddenly I heard a loud noise, which shook me like my body was about to crack. The sky was so dark all of a sudden. Brother, you know what? You shouldn't call you anything, I'm really scared, so scared, so scared. Fortunately, the sky lit up after a while, and that's when I found you lying on the ground. ”

I moved, "Hey, this isn't the first time I've fainted. Don't worry, the heavens won't kill me at once. By the way, what about the flowers? What about plum blossoms? ”

"You're still thinking about flowers? You're scaring me to death. Isn't the flower in your hand? ”

"Quickly help my brother up."

I got up from the ground with Hao Junqi's support. The plum blossoms are intact. But I was stunned by what I saw. The tall and stout Optimus Stone Pillar had somehow split in half, as if some Heavenly Soldier God was going to split the stone pillar with a large axe like a piece of wood.

I said how I felt the whole stone pillar shaking! I said how I felt the whole Tiger Slope tremble!

And there is a gap of more than two meters between the two halves of the stone pillars!

I took Hao Junqi's hand and walked between the stone walls in fear.

"Brother, look, there's a big notch here."

"Kiki, look, there's a big bump over here."

Hao Junqi and I said almost at the same time.

The notches and protrusions are exactly where the two halves of the stone pillars face each other. Assuming that the two halves of the stone pillar are re-closed, the notches and protrusions should be just right to be recessed.

Our eyes widened.

"Brother, there are still words engraved on the stone wall." Hao Junqi said suddenly.

"Where are the words? Why didn't I see it? ”

"The words on the stone wall are clear and blurry for a while, and you can see it if you stare carefully."

"What word?"

"It seems to be inseparable."

"What is not inseparable?"

"Brother, look, the words are getting clearer and clearer. See? Brother, did you see that? ”

There were really four big characters flashing on the stone wall, flashing and flashing, as if glowing.

"I will never give up. Abandonment, abandonment of abandonment, is not different. I said, how can there be no difference? ”

"I was wrong. And what about this side? ”

"Is there a lettering here?"

"It's engraved. It's also four words. ”

We turned around to look at the east side. The four characters engraved on the east side are "Eternal Bond".

"Forever united, never abandoned, brother, what does this mean?" Hao Junqi asked.

"I don't know. I guess it means that two people will never be separated. I said.

"Then my brother and I will be of the same heart and never give up, okay?" Hao Junqi grabbed my hand, "Brother, are you willing?" ”

"Of course my brother does. Come, I'll give you this oversized plum blossom. The two of us will always be united and will never leave each other. ”

"Well, forever with one heart and never abandoned." Hao Junqi took the flower in my hand, she put the flower in front of her nose and smelled it, "Brother, the plum blossom is very fragrant and fragrant, you smell it." ”

"You put the flowers on your chest and let me see them." I say.

"What?"

"It's like wearing a big red flower, it must look good."

"Really?" Hao Junqi put the plum blossom on her chest, "How is it, is it good-looking?" ”

The huge plum blossom is placed on the chest, and the Hao Junqi set off is more and more pure and delicate. Plum blossoms almost covered her entire chest.

Hao Junqi's hand holding the flower is white and long. Suddenly, a ring on her middle finger caught my attention. "I said Kiki, when did you bring the ring?"

"Looks good, brother? I asked you, why didn't you answer. Hao Junqi pouted. She hadn't noticed my distraction.

Hao Junqi wears a flesh-colored ring on her middle finger, which I have never noticed before.

"When did I say when did you put on your ring?" I asked again.

"Rings? What ring? Hao Junqi was puzzled.

"Don't you have a ring on your finger?"

"What ring do I wear?"

I grabbed Hao Junqi's hand in mine. Plum blossoms fall to the ground. "Kiki, look, isn't this a ring?"

"Huh? When did I put on my ring? Hao Junqi's eyes widened. She used her other hand to take the ring, but no matter how she took the flesh-colored ring, she couldn't take it off, "Brother, I can't take it off at all, it seems to be stuck to the flesh." ”

I reached out and fetched it. The ring was soft, soft, originally a ring-shaped sarcoma, stuck to the finger. There is also a small notch in the meat ring.

"Strange, brother, don't you have one on your finger?" Hao Junqi shouted.

"What?!"

"Look at your middle finger."

I look at the middle finger of my right hand.

"It's left-handed."

Sure enough, I also had a ring sarcoma on the middle finger of my left hand, which was like wearing a flesh-colored ring. I have a small bump on this meat ring.

Notch? Bulge?

Doesn't that correspond to the two halves of the stone pillars? They also have a notch and a bump respectively!

I looked up at the notches and bulges on the uneven stone wall, and then at the notches and bulges on the ring-like sarcoma on Hao Junqi and my hand, and I couldn't figure it out.

Is there some mysterious connection between this?

"Brother," Hao Junqi's original excitement disappeared, "Could there really be something weird going to happen?" She squeezed my hand.

"Isn't that weird enough to be weird? The Optimus pillar split in half, one half with a notch, the other with a bulge, and we both had an extra flesh ring on our hands. ”

"Again, there is a notch and a bulge. There are also eight words of eternal knot, one heart and one heart. Oh yes, brother, those words don't seem to be flashing. ”

"Really?"

Sure enough, I stared at the stone wall for a long time, and those eight words never flashed again.

"It's so strange, why are there no words again?" I muttered quietly.

Hao Junqi leaned close to me, "Brother, don't scare me." ”

"I'm scared of you, I'm nervous. But, Kiki, these are weird, but it's better than a ghost. At least it proves that Grandpa Hao's statement is wrong, there are no ghosts in Tiger Slope, and there are no ghosts in Optimus Stone Pillar Cliff. ”

"Don't talk about it early."

"If there are ghosts, ghosts will come out a long time ago. As I said, there are no ghosts in the world. It's just that we all have an extra meat ring on our hands. ”

"And split the Optimus Pillar in half." Hao Junqi added, "I think about it, brother, what would the people in the village think if we knew that we climbed the Optimus Pillar and split it in half? ”

"Are we going to be the heroes of the village because of this?"

"Well, I think so. Thin people, they will never dare to bully us again. ”

"Will they not keep their promises?"

"No, it won't. They made it very clear to me. ”

"That's great."

At this time, there was a very noisy sound from the direction of the village. From the cacophony of sounds, I could faintly discern that it was the sound of a gong being struck.

This is a common practice in the village, if something big happens in the village, there will be people beating gongs and drums to gather, and the villagers scattered in the fields or mountains, all who hear the sound of gongs and drums, will return to the village as quickly as possible to gather.

Could it be that something big happened in the village?

We decided to go down the mountain. Since the village is going to be concentrated, we have to go down the mountain quickly.

We cautiously descended to Tiger Slope. When we went down to Tiger Slope, we didn't stop, but continued to go down the mountain.

The noise in the village was getting clearer and clearer, and it seemed to be getting closer. The gong has stopped.

When we went down to the foot of Laohupo Mountain, we were about to return along the same road, but Zhu Jinshan flashed out of a bush of trees and stopped us.

"What do you want to do?" I couldn't help but be vigilant.

Since my parents' accident, Zhu Jinshan hasn't done anything with us (including playing games), although he hasn't done it as explicitly as Yongfu and them.

Zhu Jinshan did not answer my question, but dragged my hand to the woods, and said as he walked: "You are really bold and dare to go that way." ”

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Brother Jin Shan, how did you pay attention to us today?" Hao Junqi also thought it was strange.

"The village is beating the gong and gathering, and the whole village is waiting at the intersection to arrest the person who trespassed on the forbidden land, and you dare to go back along this road? Hide quickly, don't let people find out, I'll take you over the mountain and sneak back to the village. Zhu Jinshan didn't pay attention to Hao Junqi's question, but urged us eagerly.

"Catch the trespassers? Isn't that just arresting us? Hao Junqi said.

"Stop talking, let's go! Otherwise it's too late. Zhu Jinshan said.

We hurriedly followed Zhu Jinshan. The mountains are overgrown with bushes. Sometimes we push through the bushes, and sometimes we bend over and walk through the bushes like caves. There are always branches running across our faces.

It turned out that the Optimus Stone Pillar was cracked into a concave and convex stone wall, which shook the entire Dongmen Village, and also shook the entire Luwan Brigade, and the old village chief beat the gongs and drums to gather the villagers and wait at the intersection of the road to the Tiger Slope, in order to capture the trespassers on the forbidden land.

They all had "weapons" in their hands, some with hoes, some with kitchen knives, some with wood knives and sickles, and some with iron rods.

They didn't know where the divine was, and they actually violated the ancestral teachings that had been passed down from their ancestors for generations, and they were naturally extremely frightened.

At the moment of the fission of the Optimus Stone Pillar, it was dark, and everyone thought that the end of the world had arrived.

"At first, I didn't expect that it was you who went up to the Optimus Pillar, but then I saw the thin man and them quietly talking about something, and they looked proud, so I remembered the agreement they made with Kiki that day. I immediately expected that you had broken into the forbidden place, so I sneaked over here to tell you. You know, I thought you wouldn't come up at all. Zhu Jinshan explained to us.

"What do the people in the village want?" I say.

"I don't know. Everyone doesn't know what to do, but they must catch the trespassers. ”

"Brother, we're in trouble now."

Hao Junqi's face was red because she was in a hurry. A dead leaf stuck to her hair. I ripped the dead leaves off.

"I said you were too bold. This is the first time in history. Are you not afraid? Zhu Jinshan said.

"It's all forced by thin people. Zhu Jinshan, I really have no way out. ”

"That's right! It's all forced by the thin man's gang," Hao Junqi said. "The people in the village blame us, and we have to blame the thin man first. Brother Jin Shan, weren't you there that day? ”

"In. I'm afraid the people in the village won't think so. Zhu Jinshan's voice lowered.

We snuck back to the village.

Zhu Jinshan repeatedly told us to keep it a secret for him. We are all grateful to him. It's funny that he could take such a risk to find us at such a moment.

We returned home in fear. The house was empty, and there was no one. The water in Grandpa Hao's big iron pot was boiling. It's been boiling like that for a long time.

Just when Hao Junqi and I were hiding in the remaining house (equivalent to the kitchen now) and whispering about whether to hide at home or pretend to be okay to find Grandpa Hao, there were several people's footsteps and voices outside the house, and I knew that it was people from the village who came to look for us.