Chapter 38: Old Photographs
At this point, I had entered a state of numbness, and although I tried to calm myself, this feeling of extreme fear made it impossible for me to control my emotions and thoughts. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Brother Hao's face turned pale, and he used his hands and feet against the stone walls on both sides, trying to use brute force to make the gap no longer close, although he tried his best, it didn't work at all, he stuck to the stone wall exhausted and gave up resistance.
The stone wall was already very close to us, barely an inch away, and I felt sick at the thought of being crushed to pulp next.
It's too late to leave any wishes, and everything is left to fate, but I still instinctively muttered: "Don't come here!" Stay back! ”
I closed my eyes tightly, my muscles tense, ready to endure the pain that followed.
In the next moment, the world seemed to stand still, and I could clearly feel the stone wall pressed against the tip of my nose, but it didn't move again.
I waited quietly for a few seconds, nothing happened, I wasn't sure if I was still alive, and slowly opened my eyes.
Xiaolu and Brother Hao on the side didn't seem to wake up yet, I patted their heads, and they looked at me ignorantly.
The gap doesn't seem to have a tendency to close anymore, but now the width is the limit of our survival, we cling to the stone wall and dare not move, fortunately, the rock section here is relatively flat, otherwise I really don't know what we will be pressed into.
The fawn turned me on his elbow and said jokingly, "Hey, don't say it, your spell seems to have manifested, teach me!" ”
I'm not in the mood to joke with him, and only he can laugh at this critical moment when his life hangs by a thread.
"Why did it stop?" Brother Hao asked. I saw that he was squeezed by the stone walls on both sides and couldn't move, and his thick arms were waving and struggling in the gaps, and we only thought it funny to see his clumsy appearance.
I hadn't recovered from the panic just now, I just felt my heart beating violently and my breathing was very rapid, as if I had just done a 100-meter sprint.
I really don't understand why the rock wall moves, it's so strange that the crustal movement of this magnitude is enough to cause an earthquake, is it not a naturally occurring crack, but a man-made one? I thought to myself, but I didn't have a clue.
"What now?" I said.
"The way back is no longer possible, let's go inside, since the gap has narrowed, the pile of rocks should change!" Fawn Road.
We winked at each other and set off. My fawn and I are fine, just walk carefully against the wall; But Brother Hao is very struggling, as long as the width of any place is a little smaller, this big guy will be stuck.
We moved step by step, not so much with our feet, but with our hands, and in many places we could only barely squeeze through, and our clothes were rubbed black everywhere.
The temperature inside the crevices is getting higher and higher, and it seems that the movement and squeezing of these rock formations are causing the release of heat. I was anxious to dig deeper, afraid that this gap would suddenly close again, and this feeling of not knowing when I was going to die was very terrifying.
We walked for about half an hour before we saw the pile. Due to the squeezing of the gaps, most of the stones had broken and were scattered around, and some of the harder ones remained in place. Due to the compression of those harder stones, the stone wall here has undergone obvious deformation and almost retains its original width.
Most shale is still relatively weak to fracturing, so there is a large crack in the wall to the right of the pile due to compression, and perhaps we can bypass the pile from there.
Xiaolu and I excitedly stepped forward to remove the stones inside, but Brother Hao grabbed us and said, "Don't move, maybe these stones are against the gap, if you move the stones, the gap will close again!" ”
Xiaolu glanced at him and said disdainfully: "Why don't you show us a way to live?" ”
Brother Hao was silent, and worked hard with us to clean up the rift. In fact, the reason why the crack stops is definitely not the cause of these stones, you must know that to make this huge stone wall move, there must be a lot of driving force to do it, and these broken stones alone are not enough to stop the movement of the whole gap.
Suddenly, a sharp object appeared in the pile of stones, covered with dust, as if something had been buried underneath. We carefully peeled off the stones around us, and found that it was a brown wallet, the surface of which was worn out, and it was covered with large and small mold blocks.
Inside the wallet is a yellowed letter of introduction, most of which are no longer visible due to the oxidation and decay of the paper, but there is a name in it that is still very clear: Cao Haihua. The date below shows 1973, but the exact date is not written.
Continuing to look through the wallet, in the innermost mezzanine we found an old black and white photo, the photo is very well preserved, it is a group photo of seven people. In the background is a mountain, and they should have been photographed standing at the foot of the mountain.
Seven people were divided into two rows, three squatting in the front and four people standing in the back, each with a smile on their faces. Could it be that this Cao Haihua is one of them, I thought so, but suddenly found that the person standing on the far right was a little familiar, but I couldn't remember who it was.
At this time, Brother Hao suddenly exclaimed: "Isn't this a deer?!" ”
As he spoke, he pointed to the man I thought he was familiar with. I didn't react at first, but within half a second, I suddenly realized that it was indeed a fawn, but the person in the photo was wearing overalls, his hair was combed back, and he looked more mature than the fawn, so I didn't notice it at the first time.
Xiaolu's face suddenly turned pale, without a trace of blood, and I subconsciously hid behind Brother Hao, afraid that he would mutate again. The fawn held the photo, stared at it deadly, and couldn't stop shaking its head.
I think of the fawn that died in the cave before, maybe that's the person in the photo, but how can there be two people in the world who look exactly the same?!
I was speechless with excitement, and I couldn't believe my eyes when I looked at the fawn and the people in the photo.
Do you dare to say that this is an illusion?! I said to myself, I don't believe that I had the same hallucinations both times, and Brother Hao was also present at the moment. Now that everything has become incomprehensible, the situation has developed in an extremely complicated direction, and we are all stuck in place, expecting a reasonable explanation from the fawn.
After a long stalemate, Xiaolu put down the photo, looked at the two of us blankly, and stopped talking.
"What the hell do you think, tell me quickly!" I said urgently.
He shook his head and struggled for a long time before he slowly said word by word: "I don't know!" ”