Chapter 248: "It" (18)
"Almost all Indian tribes have a special ritual whereby whenever they encounter a major decision, they dig a large hole in the ground and cover it with branches, leaving only one vent at the top."
"When the smoke hole is finished, the Indians will make a fire in it, and there will be no dead branches, so that the smoke will rise, and then all the warriors will be frightened into the smoke-filled hole, and sit around in front of the fire, and when everyone can not stand it and run out, those who remain will see the foreshadowing."
"The images tell the tribesmen what to do, but I don't know if it's true or not, the books say the images are usually correct." Lin Yu looked at everyone after speaking.
"If I smoke for hours on end, I think I might be able to see a premonition," Yan said introspectively, and the others laughed.
Everyone was silent for a while, waiting for Xu Wei to give orders, and Lin Yu also felt that it was better to listen to Xu Wei here, just like Xu Wei was destined to be the protagonist.
To some extent, the idea of 'destined' should be reassuring, something stronger than you, smarter than you is thinking for you, planning time, that feels pretty good, everyone is waiting for Xu Wei to speak.
"Maybe that's a good idea, maybe we should try." Xu Wei sighed lightly, now he can only follow the development of the plot, and he is really at a loss in the face of the clown.
"When does it start?" Xingyue asked.
"The sooner the better, now." Xu Wei said.
"Then let's go cut down the branches." Lin Yu and Lan Yanbing pushed open the secret door, and the quiet summer sun shone in.
"Do you think Xu Wei can be trusted?" Lan Yanbing said to Lin Yu while bending down to pick up the branches.
"If I played the main character, maybe I wouldn't listen to him, but the real protagonist is him, and I believe him." Lin Yu smiled: "The world here doesn't seem to be the same as our terrifying world, and I seem to see myself in his eyes, and we won't be abandoned by him at the worst, don't worry." ”
Lan Yanbing looked at Lin Yu with infinite tenderness: "Since you choose to believe him, then I don't have anything to say, the last task, I finally got here." ”
"We'll make it, when we go back...... We got married. Lin Yu stood still, his eyes as firm as a rock.
"Who promised to marry you?" Lan Yanbing's hair flicked, and he no longer looked at Lin Yu.
It took them a while to get ready, and for safety, they used stone branches and other objects to form a circle, and after Xu Wei came down, he closed the secret door of the club and opened the narrow air window.
Liang Tianqi casually took out a worn-out comic book from his pocket as a trigger.
Xu Wei tore apart the pages of the comics, his movements were slow and serious, and the others sat against the wall, knees to knees, shoulders to shoulders, looking at Xu Wei without saying a word, the atmosphere was tense, intense and heavy.
Xu Wei put the twigs and twigs on the paper, took out a match, lit one, and a small pinch of yellow flames lit up in the darkness.
The pyre burst into flames and crackled, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and at that moment everyone even believed the story of the Indians.
yes, it's not hard to sit here and believe that...... They examined the flames and blackened pages with serious faces, their eyes occasionally flashing with anticipation.
The twigs caught fire, and the club began to smoke thickly, white like marshmallow smoke from the movies, and the smoke drifted out of the window a bit, but most of the smoke remained in the hole, spicy and stinging to the eyes and a tight throat.
Xu Wei threw another handful of twigs into the smoking fire, and asked in a different thin voice, "Has anyone seen the foreshadowing?" ”
Everyone was silent, Xu Wei watched the life burning in the circle surrounded by stones, and kept spitting out smoke, and after a while Xu Wei looked up at the smoke hole, and soon began to feel erratic.
No...... It's not drifting, it's floating! He's floating upwards.
It's like...... Balloon!
He looked up at the small, white smoke hole, and it began! They began to float and felt farther away, very far away!
They began to accelerate upwards in the smoke and mist, and they were no longer inside!
And the seven people seem to be all separated, each in a different place, Wan Qitianxia and Xingyue are together, Yan Zizheng and Liang Tianqi are together, Lan Yanbing and Lin Yu are together, and Xu Wei is facing alone.
Lin Yu and Lan Yanbing stood in the middle of the wasteland, it was almost dusk, they knew that this was the wasteland, but the scenery was different, the plants were denser, deeper, and exuding a primitive fragrance, some plants had never seen before, they heard the sound of running water, but the sound was unusual.
The temperature was also different, it was hot, and the ground was covered with a layer of mist, thick like smoke, which surrounded their feet, and smelled slightly pungent, much like the smell of burning twigs.
Lin Yu and Lan Yanbing walked towards the sound of the water, the two of them pushed away the unfamiliar bushes, the vines as thick as ropes hung like spider web hammocks between the trees, Lin Yu heard the sound of animals stepping on the branches and leaves, which sounded louder than a deer.
The two of them paused for a long time, and then looked around at the horizon, where there should have been buildings, all the smoky vines, overgrown with giant ferns and pine trees, and the sporadic rapid sandstone and low rock walls protruding.
There was a sound of slapping in the sky, the two of them didn't think like they were looking down to dodge, a group of bats fluttered their wings, Lin Yu had never seen such a big bat, the silence and strangeness of this place were very scary, but the striking resemblance to the wasteland was even more frightening.
But everything in the mission is reasonable, no matter how it changes, as long as they find the final boss of this path, they can get out of the predicament smoothly, this is the unchanging truth.
He saw a bat with its wings broken to hide the hazy sunlight, and as he passed under a giant fern he found a fat yellow beetle crawling on the green compound leaves, leaving a dark mark and black lice buzzing and fluttering on it.
"Be careful, we're all scattered, I'm afraid it's all its conspiracy." Lan Yanbing reminded Lin Yu.
They continued to walk towards the sound of the water, and through the knee-high fog, Lin Yu could not even tell whether his feet had touched the ground or not, and they came to the end of the mist and the land, and the river rolled through the narrow waterway, cutting through the rocks, and a fish leaped high, and flocks of birds crossed the sky, making a piercing cry, obscuring the sky and the sun.
The birds were gone, and the animals passed by them...... Then the silence returned again, only the sound of the rushing river remained, the silence seemed to be waiting, there was an atmosphere of impending wind and rain, which made Xu Wei and Lan Yanbing nervous, he felt that the cold hairs on the back of his neck slowly stood up, and he reached out to hold Lan Yanbing's hand.
There was silence all around, and suddenly there was a terrifying thunder in the sky, purple clouds continued to accumulate, and the sky turned into a strange yellow-purple, like a bruise, the wind stopped completely, and the air was filled with a thick peculiar smell.