Chapter 25: The Soul of Mountains and Waters
"Keep it up! There's one last one. Lingxin encouraged. The iron cones on these two sealing trees were set quite firmly, and Professor Xia and I worked together to slowly separate them from the sealing wood with copper sticks, and when it came to the last one, it was very difficult, and Professor Xia was already tired, and I was the only one fighting.
"Bang dang!" The two seals were finally opened.
At this time, Professor Xia stood up and negotiated with the two of us, "Sen, listen to your heart." After a while, after the door opens, don't rush in, this place has been closed for so long, if nothing else, I'm afraid the air is not good. ”
"Well, listen to you." I say. Lingxin didn't speak, just rummaged through her backpack, guessing what she had in mind.
"Crunch-" A dull, long sound of the door opening made our hearts rise to our throats. Professor Xia's hand to push the door was a little trembling, but his reaction was normal, and we had experienced so many strange things along the way.
Lingxin hid behind me, tugging at my clothes tightly.
When the door was completely open, it was basically time to witness the miracle, and I thought that a few bats or bloodthirsty moths would fly out of it, but it turned out to be empty, and there was not even a table or chair.
"Weird!" Professor Xia exclaimed.
"Lingxin, it's okay, the crisis has been resolved." I say. Only then did she let go of her hand, stepped forward to take a look at the situation, and then called out softly, "Is there anyone?" ”
According to the theory, if the two places are 15 meters apart, there will be an echo, and the distance from the front door to the opposite wall is far more than 15 meters, so I seem a little puzzled - is the sound absorbed by the wall, and besides, the decibels are not small when listening to the soft sound.
The floor of the church is paved with marble, and there is no dust on the floor, and it is very neat.
"Sen, Lingxin, although there seems to be nothing abnormal in this, we still have to wait a while before going in to let the air circulate." Professor Xia suggested.
Lingxin and I both nodded.
After 5 minutes, we were ready to go inside. From time to time, Lingxin stretched her neck and probed again and again, and from her lost expression, she could guess that it was clean inside—cleaner than each other's faces.
Professor Xia saw the empty scene inside, so he walked to the steps and sat down, frowning and thinking about the question.
"Who are you?" I exclaimed. Professor Xia took the lead, and we followed him, and as we walked into the church, I suddenly looked back and saw a masked man behind me.
"Shhhh It's me! She pulled down her mask and gestured to me.
"Lingxin, I know it's you. But what are you doing, it really scared me, can you say anything while you're wearing a mask - and don't follow me quietly, it's weird and scary. I said and dragged her to the front.
"Slightly~" She grimaced at me in a funny way.
"Don't argue, there's a painting on the opposite wall. Let's go over first, come with me!" Professor Xia turned to us and said.
At that moment, the door behind us slammed shut with a thunderous bell. Seeing this, we hurried over.
"Dad, what can I do!" Ling Xin said anxiously.
"Don't panic," Professor Xia said, "Lingxin, you and Sen look around to see if there are any mechanisms around." The door was pulled outward, and now it's closed, and there is no handle, and the crack in the door is surprisingly thin. ”
Indeed, when the door was closed, no light could be seen through the cracks of the door. As we searched for a mechanism to open and close the door on the wall around it, I suddenly thought of the spider, how it got in, it was obviously much bigger than the gap in the door.
I struggled to recall the scene I had just seen, and suddenly I couldn't help but sweat on my back - the spider had retracted into the door, and its body seemed to be deformed, like a piece of paper, straight into the crack of the door—naturally and quickly.
From this, I wonder if it has practiced bone shrinking and moves so freely.
"Nope." After some careful searching, Professor Xia declared a failure.
"Could it be that we are trapped here like this," Ling Xin said, "This seems to be the same as the plot in many film and television dramas, the deserted house has such an automatic sensing door, and after the door is closed, something incredible will happen." ”
"Ahem, Lingxin, can you be a little more mature like me." I say. I couldn't suppress my inner feelings and laughed at her words. I think she's a bit nonsensical.
"Isn't it funny?" She looked at me wryly.
"Okay." I replied. When she saw me smiling vigorously, she turned away with a straight face. "Hmph, laugh, let's go out for a while, let's not go out, it's strange if you don't cry!" She said.
"Alright, Lingxin, you two don't make trouble." Professor Xia caressed her shoulder and comforted.
"Dad, Sen actually said that I was naïve, you gave a comment, am I naïve?" Ling Xin shook Professor Xia's hand, coquettishly, and rolled her eyes at me.
"Childish." Professor Xia replied. His righteous words of "helping people and not helping relatives" made me laugh even more unscrupulously.
"Goodbye!" Ling Xin waved at the two of us.
My laughter stopped abruptly as soon as I said this, not because I was worried about what would happen to her, but because there was a strange sound on the wall in front of us—the sound of running water. We were all quiet, and the sound grew clearer, like a babbling stream near us.
We looked at each other for this, and we were a little frightened by such a sudden strangeness.
At this time, Professor Xia gave me a look, and he and I walked towards the wall, wanting to find out, and Lingxin followed.
We hadn't taken a few steps before the mural on the wall was clearly visible.
The mural is a landscape of a small stream in a valley lined with pebbles of different shapes, and the valley is shrouded in clouds and mist, and the mountains are stacked in the distance. The sound we hear comes from the location of the small stream, and although it is a single black and white tone, it feels real, vivid, and vivid.
The closer we get to it, the more real the sound of the stream becomes, and it feels like we're there.
I don't know if I was the only one who felt weird, but when we stopped and stopped moving forward, the painting became more and more enlarged, more and more real and clear.
Eventually, I felt as if I had stepped on the air, and when I looked down, I was startled by the pebbles on the ground, and the two of them looked around blankly. Obviously, we are in the painting—we don't know what we like at first sight, but we are already the people in the painting when we look at it again.
"Sen, what's wrong with us!" Ling Xin exclaimed nervously, "Where is this?" - Are we in the painting? Oh my God! ”
"Does it hurt?" Lingxin asked as he grabbed my arm.
"It hurts," I said, "you let go!" It hurts, it hurts! You're still wrenching-"
"Looks like we're in a maze!" At this moment, Professor Xia's voice came faintly from behind us.
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