Chapter 24: Nine Springs with a Smile
Coming out of the inner hall of the dementor hall, passing through the detention room full of torture instruments, under a tall ancient tree with a strange shape in the backyard, there is a boxy spring, and the bluestone next to the spring is engraved with the three big characters of 'Laughing Spring'.
I looked at Anan, who plunged into the spring without looking back, took a deep breath, and prepared to jump down.
"Wait...... We're ....... to jump from here??! ”
Tang Xiaoyu hesitated to hold me, his eyes full of confusion and confusion.
I don't know how to explain it to Tang Xiaoyu, because even I don't know exactly what all this is all about.
But judging from the reaction of the black-clad man named Anan, the terrible scenes that had just happened were definitely not my nervous imagination.
And the strange wind is above, and the spring water is below, I think, since Anan will choose to jump into the spring, then maybe the entire Dementor Temple, and even this piece of ghost grass wasteland, is the only way to avoid the coming strange wind.
"Take a deep breath." I looked into Tang Xiaoyu's eyes seriously and seriously, and my tone was firm and unquestionable.
I think my strong sense of urgency was also inadvertently transmitted to Tang Xiaoyu, she blinked at me in confusion twice, didn't ask more, obediently and obediently followed me and took a deep breath.
Of course, the act of taking a deep breath before diving is simply one of the most instinctive reactions that people have when they are human, and I certainly don't know if the ghost will drown.
But as a ghost who had just been fished out of the green pool, what I can be sure of now is that ghosts can choke on water as well.
I watched Tang Xiaoyu become more nervous with every breath, so I simply pulled her and went straight into the spring water.
The water was so clear that when I opened my eyes again, I saw Anan, dressed in black, waving at us at the bottom of the water, pointing to a man-wide crack at the spring, and then swimming in like a fish.
I let go of Tang Xiaoyu's hand, and pointed at her at the crack that Anan had drilled into, Tang Xiaoyu's mouth gurgled and bubbled, and nodded at me with difficulty.
It didn't take long for the whispers of the spirits on the water to be heard behind him.
"What are they doing?"
"Shall we jump too?"
"I don't know why, but the man looks like he's scared of something......"
"I don't care, I'm going to jump."
"Huh? Why......?? ”
"Huh, it seems to be windy?"
Immediately after that, the sound of falling water was heard one after another, and I looked back to see that four or five ghosts had jumped into the spring with us.
The feeling of suffocation from drowning filled my brain, and this extremely uncomfortable feeling was not much different from the feeling of being in the water when I was alive, and I felt a sense of urgency and heat in my chest.
I fought hard and pushed Tang Xiaoyu, who looked already in a very bad state, into the crack under the water.
I don't know if I'll be able to escape this catastrophe yet, so for those survivors in the Dementor Temple, I can only say a word in my heart.
I don't know how long it took for me to be woken up by a loud laugh.
I pushed my eyelids, which were as heavy as a sack of ten pounds, and when my vision was clear, I found myself lying on the edge of a riverbank full of withered yellow ghost grass.
I sat up slowly, and I was in a state of fragmentation after entering the crack at the bottom of the spring.
"Hahahaha...... Hahahahaha...... "The presumptuous but irregular laughter in my ears echoed in the empty ghost grass wasteland, and the laughter clearly came from behind me.
I reached out and rubbed a large bag bulging at the back of my head, and turned my head to see Tang Xiaoyu and Anan next to the burning 'crackling' firewood, and a young boy who I was a little impressed, but not too impressed.
The young boy looked like he was five or six years younger than me, with a strand of red hair dyed on his forehead, a metallic champagne-colored stud earring on his right ear, large eyes, long eyelashes, and a little girl.
The three of them sat around the fire, not knowing what funny things they were talking about, grinning more than the other.
I patted the slowly wriggling weeds stuck to my coat and sat up straight to hear what they were laughing at.
But I sat for a long time, and found that the three men did not say a word at all, but laughed vigorously, and when they saw me wake up, it seemed to make them laugh even more happily.
"Ah...... Hahahaha...... Are you awake? Hahahaha"
Tang Xiaoyu smiled at me and trembled, I couldn't help but look down at me, what made her feel funny.
But unfortunately, I looked at it for a long time, and except for a few withered yellow ghost grass sticking to my body, I really didn't see anything different about me than before.
Seeing that they kept laughing, I couldn't help but ask, "Where is this and what are you laughing at?" ”
Tang Xiaoyu held his stomach and laughed for a long time, and replied to me very hard: "Here...... It's called Little Wasteland...... You've just woken up...... Hahahaha...... You'll find out in a moment...... Hahahahaha......ha
"Thank you, I've been awake for a while." I looked at her angrily, my eyes swept over the young man with stud earrings I didn't know, and then at Anan, who had taken off his black leather coat and baked it on the fire, wearing only a black shirt.
I found that Anan and Tang Xiaoyu were different, Tang Xiaoyu was laughing presumptuously, while Anan was laughing and enduring, but he couldn't help but laugh, I looked at him, but he looked down at the fire, a sense of helplessness that everyone was drunk and I was awake alone excluded me from their laughter, I felt like a fool.
"Hello buddy...... My name is Yang Luo...... The reverse is Luoyang...... It means that the tiger falls into Pingyang...... Hahahaha...... Isn't that interesting...... Hahahaha"
The stud boy laughed and explained to me the strange meaning of his name, and I was not very interested in his jokes, so I reluctantly smiled at him.
But just as I moved the corners of my mouth, I found that I didn't have a smile at all, but out of nowhere, a thought suddenly came out of nowhere that I couldn't stop laughing, and then with this thought, I couldn't suppress it anymore, and laughed uncontrollably with them.
Tang Xiaoyu held his stomach with one hand, pointed at me with the other, and said happily: "Hahahahaha...... Now....... you finally know...... Why are we like this? ”