Chapter 407: A Journey Without End

"January 26, 19XX, the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve. Firecrackers were already ringing outside the ward. I am now in the intensive care unit of Beijing 301 Hospital. I didn't expect this diary to be written after more than two years. For many people, I've been missing for more than two years, but for me, I've only been a day. It should be one day, or August 19 for me. I don't think I'll ever be able to escape from these two days until I die. ”

"After hesitating for a long time, I still decided to write down the experience in the maze, and stay with the things I got in the maze, many mysteries can only be solved in the future, but I guess I can't see it."

"As soon as I got to the maze that day, the button floated up and always pointed in one direction. It's a maze of buildings, with winding roads and chaotic houses, and it's impossible to walk in a real straight line. Before moving forward, I kept thinking about the question of whether I would just hit it or take a detour if there was a house in front of me. If you take a detour, it will not be a straight forward, in the words of Qian Lao, you will get lost in this ghost place. But if I had crashed into a straight line, I thought I should have driven a tank instead of this jeep. ”

"But I was clearly overthinking. Following the direction of the buttons, I kept walking on the road and never hit any houses in the way. I didn't take a turn either, I really kept walking in a straight line! What I once thought was a road with seven turns and eight bends hides a straight road that leads to the innermost part. But neither during construction nor when I was looking outside with a telescope, I didn't see the road. If it weren't for the buttons, I probably wouldn't have found this path. This place is really weird. ”

"It's still the same as last time, the further you go, the more white it becomes, the ground, the buildings, everything, it's as if it's painted with a layer of white paint, and it's terrifyingly white. I started to feel tired, my heart was beating faster and my breathing was getting faster. I looked at the watch. The watch stopped again. But this time I have another reference. The fuel gauge in the car. But when I saw the fuel gauge, I found that the gauge didn't move at all. It's been on for a long time, and I'm still driving it, but the fuel gauge doesn't move! This place is so spooky. ”

"I remembered what Qian Lao said, I didn't dare to stop, I chewed the chili pepper I brought when I was sleepy and tired, slapped myself, talked to myself, and finally used a dagger to scratch myself, and used pain to keep me awake. I felt like a madman. There seems to be no end to this complex that I personally built. I just kept driving like this, as if I had been driving for years, and I hadn't eaten, and I didn't feel hungry. It's just that I'm very sleepy and tired, and I want to stop and rest. In the end, I couldn't hold it anymore, and since the car could go straight all the time, it shouldn't matter if I slept on my stomach on the car. I pressed the throttle with the butt of the gun and tied the steering wheel with a cloth strap to ensure that the car could keep moving in a straight line, and then I fell asleep on the steering wheel. ”

"I don't know how long I slept. But when I woke up, I found that the car was still moving. However, there is no color except white, and the roads and buildings are as thin as pictures on paper, and if you don't look closely, you may not be able to find them at all. I noticed that my car and everything on it were white, including my clothes and me. Before leaving, I brought a small mirror, took it out and took a look, and found that my face was also the same white, and my facial features had become a little blurred. A question popped into my mind. Pan Haisheng and Xiao Wu will have an accident, it may not be their reason, but mine. I went into the maze, and then I came out again and went back and forth for two days, and I brought something out at the same time. So in the end, Pan Haisheng would ask me how many times I had experienced this incident. Apparently he didn't have this kind of repetitive memory, but he knew it was going to happen. If I go back this time, I will definitely kill myself and not affect anyone. ”

"Moving forward in white, I'm completely numb. I didn't look in the direction, I just kept looking in the mirror, and my face was getting lighter and lighter, and it seemed that it wouldn't be long before it would disappear completely. I'm very afraid, if my face disappears, does it mean that I will become something else like Pan Haisheng and Xiao Wu? I don't want my face to disappear. I must have been in a very abnormal mental state at that time, and I actually took a dagger and tried to cut off my face, thinking that as long as I cut my face off, I would not disappear. ”

"The dagger pierced into the face, and it didn't hurt at all, but it had a very strange feeling of refreshment. I cut it bit by bit in front of the mirror, peeling off the whole face. There was no blood flowing out, and after the skin was removed, what was revealed was not muscles, blood vessels and green tendons, but a black mass, just like the kind of monster that Pan Haisheng became after being shot in the head. Sure enough, I became that kind of monster. But I still have my own mind, and my own judgment. It was right to cut the face off. The cut face was thinner than paper, and the facial features were no longer visible, and there were only three black holes in the position of the eyes and mouths. ”

"This is my face, and it's the last support of my sanity, but I can't lose it. I found two ropes to string the sides of my face to make a simple mask, and then hid it close to my body. The faceless monster came out and crawled all over the car, and many small white worms kept falling like maggots. I could see it, and I was still sane. ”

"Little white worms and monsters quickly crawled all over the car. The car drove slower and slower, and no matter how much it refueled, it slowed down until it came to a complete stop. ”

"I got out of the car. There was nothing left in front of him, only an endless whiteness. I couldn't tell the difference between up and down, left and right, southeast and northwest, and the only thing that guided me was the button. It kept drifting forward, telling me it wasn't going in the wrong direction. ”

"But I'm a monster now, even if I see a little girl, will she recognize me? Will my sanity remain clear when I see her? Do I want to help her now, or will I kill her? Just like Pan Haisheng did to my comrades-in-arms, killing everyone mercilessly. He said at the time that it had nothing to do with me personally, and it had nothing to do with our world. I didn't understand it at the time, but now I think I do. This monster, this monster lurking in my body, is aimed at the little girl. It only has a relationship with the little girl, and it doesn't care about us people. ”