Before I could blurt out my objections, he lowered his head and closed his eyes, and remained motionless to rest. I was so angry and funny, stretched out my arm and pushed him, frowning and scolding at him who pretended to have just woken up with a dazed expression: "Everyone else is lazy donkeys grinding and urine, you are good, you don't even have and pee, and you directly pick and say that I won't do it." Don't worry, as long as I'm awake, you won't want to sleep peacefully. ”

Zhang Siyuan continued to be skinless and faceless: "It's not that it's too cold, and the feces and urine are frozen." Don't worry, with my lonely character, I'm going to pick you up and brag and fart. ”

I waved my hand busily, pouted and pretended to be disgusted, "Forget it, I don't want to waste precious sleep time with you." You sit here, I'll go out and relieve myself. ”

Wrapped up in my coat tightly, against the cold air that can freeze people into popsicles, I shuddered to the leeward place to finish my errands, and busily buttoned my pants, the words of complaint mixed with powerless anger kept coming up from the bottom of my heart like a bubble. At my feet, there were a few yellow hairs of unknown animals, which looked dirty and a little distorted. I was so encircled by irritability and cold that I didn't have the heart to discern it carefully, and I shrank into the snow cave with the indignation of thinking that I would eat the gun no matter what came to me.

I wanted to say a few words to Zhang Siyuan, but when I got in, I saw that this guy's head was weakly lowered, and the whole person leaned forward slightly from time to time, his eyes were closed and he was breathing evenly, looking like he had entered a sweet dream. I was a little surprised, I didn't expect him to sleep so fast, it seemed that he was really tired. I sighed and sat at the entrance of the cave staring at the dark forest.

My watch stopped at some point, and the time froze at 5:39. I looked at the silver moon in the sky and guessed the time, maybe twelve o'clock at midnight? Ten o'clock in the evening, perhaps? The mountains and forests were so silent that you couldn't even hear the sound of the branches shaking or the chirping of insects. I looked at the trees that looked like monsters in the moonlight, and wondered if there were no other creatures here besides us.

I could only sit at the entrance of the cave and think wildly, and for a moment my thoughts shifted to all kinds of strange things that happened today, but I was afraid that I couldn't, so I could only force myself to think of something light. After a while, somehow, two poems came out of my mind: People in the deep forest don't know, and the bright moon comes to take pictures. Did the ancients who lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests live the same life as I do now? No, no, no, they must be much warmer and more comfortable than I am, and they have food and game to eat.

I swallowed, and hunger and tiredness rushed at me fiercely, and in an instant I didn't have the strength to open my mouth again. I covered my belly like a deflated pocket, stretched out my hand and reluctantly pushed Zhang Siyuan, and said weakly: "It's time to change shifts." ”

The cycle went on and on, and soon we were working three or four shifts. The good news in the misfortune is that everything has been safe for a few hours, and nothing terrible has come out again. But at that time, our nerves were very fragile, and if there were really any invisible monsters that heard the sound but couldn't see people squirting behind my back, I am afraid that we would become two madmen on the spot, and freeze to death in the Great Khing'an Mountains with a strange smile.

Zhang Siyuan pulled me out of my tired dream again, I rubbed my sleepy eyes, and said in a daze: "It's time to change shifts again?" How do I feel like time flies so fast......"

His voice was a little dry and nervous, and his hands were slapping heavily on me. I woke up suddenly, knowing that what I was most afraid of would come, and the whole person suddenly broke out of the fog of chaos, sat up with a shudder, reflexively pulled out the gun, and stared around with his eyes.

He was taken aback by my stress reaction, gasped and pressed my hand down: "Where do you want to go, there's nothing here, don't be so nervous." ”

I jumped nervously, poked out of the hole and looked around, and then I made sure that there was nothing moving in my field of vision, and then I gave up, and I grinned, "Why are you so startled, I am so frightened that I scurried up like a rabbit." Can you be gentle when you call me in the future? ”

His eyes were filled with panic, and his face lost its original blood, and he asked in a low voice, "Has your watch stopped?" ”

I sighed, "It's been a long time coming, who knows where it broke down." Don't you have a watch too? ”

He frowned and said, "Mine has also stopped, and the time is set at five thirty-nine." ”

I subconsciously looked at my watch, and through the bleak moonlight, the hour and minute hands were clearly visible. Zhang Siyuan grabbed my wrist in a panic, and after glancing at it, he gasped, and his face sank instantly: "There is either a strong magnetic field here...... Oh no, we're in big trouble. ”

My heart tugged at his trill, grabbed his arm, and panted to urge him to speak quickly. Zhang Siyuan pulled me out of the cave, pointed to the moon in the sky in the cold wind like a knife, and said: "I was so tired when I first entered the cave, I fell asleep, you were on duty at that time, do you remember?" Later, after you woke me up, I felt much better, and seeing that you slept so soundly, I stayed a little longer before calling you. I don't have a watch, so I can't estimate the time, but at least an hour and a half has passed - not to say that time flies slowly when people are bored, I can count the minutes. After that, we changed shifts three more times, and it must have been five or six hours. But look at this moon, why is it hanging motionless in the sky after so long has passed, shouldn't it go down and wait for the sun to rise? ”

It was as if someone had struck a bell in my ear, and my ears and head were buzzing. I looked in disbelief at the trees that still showed no light and at the moon that was round and large and hung over our heads, and suddenly remembered that it had been like this when I had gone to relieve myself a few hours earlier, that the night could not have been so long here!

Seeing that my face had become very ugly, he nodded and said, "I just hurriedly woke you up to tell you this." I deduce that there are two possibilities, the first is that the night here is longer than at any other time, and the second possibility is that ......" he paused, squeezing a few words out of his mouth, "time has stood still here. ”

In an instant, all the science fiction novels and movie plots I had read popped up in my head, and I shuddered, hugged my arms and said, "Impossible, this is reality, not science fiction, how can such a thing happen?" Did we rest earlier, and now it's actually just three o'clock in the morning? ”

Zhang Siyuan pondered: "If that's the case, of course it's best." It was almost six o'clock when we reached the lake, and we had been entangled with the monster for a while, and we had dug a hole in the snow, which would have been seven o'clock if we had taken less time. We talked for a while, and then went to bed at half past seven. I rest for an hour, you rest for an hour and a half...... We worked four shifts, and with our level of fatigue, we had to sleep for at least an hour at a time before we could wake up. If that's how it is, it should be around four o'clock in the morning. Have you ever seen the moon so big and round at four o'clock? ”

My palms began to sweat, but I still didn't give up, "Maybe we miscalculated." Well, the sun usually rises at six o'clock here, so let's try it again. ”

He nodded hesitantly, his eyes fixed on the moon in the sky, both expectant and slightly disappointed. I sat at the entrance of the cave and rubbed my hands together, wanting to look at the moon in the sky but not daring to look at it, my heart was blocked in my throat, and I couldn't swallow it. Just as I was recalling the science fiction novels I had read, a voice suddenly rang out in the dark snow cave: "Is it another half an hour now?" ”

I nodded, "But it's still so dark." Why don't you sleep for a while, you'll have to travel a long way. ”

He struggled to get up and sat down beside me: "I thought about it and felt that the bear ears and Wang Zhen's watch were clues. Have you ever noticed that time doesn't stop flowing until after dark. If it stops at the moment when it is displayed on our watch, it should always be at dusk. Then why is this happening, could it be the role of that stealth monster? ”

I shook my head and said, "I don't think it's possible, that stealth monster should be a person." Is it possible that the magnetic field recorded the previous sound and played it back at that time? ”

He smiled bitterly: "It's a lot like approaching science, maybe we are unaware of the program participants." Or perhaps, it's just a dream, and you wake up to find you lying on your big soft bed, and downstairs you can hear the sound of pancakes, fritters, and soy milk from the breakfast stall. ”

The two of us sat side by side, looking at the dark woods and the moon in a daze, and then talking nonsense. We all clearly felt the passage of time, and we could clearly see the moon that had not changed for more than ten hours. At this time, my heart fell, and the panic of anxiety was gone, replaced by a sense of despair when the dust had settled. Zhang Siyuan's face became extremely gloomy, and the faint light in his eyes was gone, as if he had been covered with ash. His lips were pale, his hands were shaking, and he wanted to speak but couldn't do so for a long time.