Chapter Twenty-Three: Meet Nangong

I sat in this stone chamber in a daze, for I don't know how long, for my heart was utterly hopeless. In such a situation, it would be useless to try anything, and probably the only thing I could do was sit here and die.

Suddenly, I seemed to think of another question, if these stone chambers are all in parallel worlds, does that mean that there will be countless mes here? And will the person in Liu's video be me in another world?

I don't understand why I thought about these questions in such a desperate situation, but my mind is basically loose now, and many of the thoughts in my mind have jumped out subconsciously on their own.

Just as I was thinking, a soft footstep came from the stone chamber next door. The sudden sound instantly brought me back to my senses, and I pursed my lips and stood up, slowly walking in the direction from which the footsteps came.

I don't know if the guy who appears now will be a monk or the six-eared macaque, how will I tell the two of them apart when the time comes? But I've been here alone for too long, and even if it's a fake monk over there, I don't want to face this endless stone chamber by myself.

I wandered as I walked, wondering who the person would be who would appear? If it was a monk, then even if I couldn't go out, at least I had a backbone. But there is a six-eared macaque here that looks exactly like a monk, how on earth am I going to tell the two of them?

I thought about many possibilities, and even thought about meeting myself in another stone room, but after passing through several stone rooms, I found that a person I had never thought of was standing on the edge of the stone door in confusion and looking at the wall in a daze, that person was Nangong!

How could Nangong be here? Didn't she go to the edge of the cliff with the big white girl's people? Could it be that this Nangong is not the Nangong of the world I am in, but someone from another world?

I coughed quickly, attracting Nangong's attention. After Nangong heard my voice, he turned his head to look in my direction with some fear. When she saw that it was me, she relaxed a little and slowly walked towards me.

I don't know why, I suddenly felt that the Nangong in front of me had become a little different from the Nangong I knew, but I couldn't say what was different. Could it be that she is really not the Nangong of my world, but one of the other parallel worlds?

Nangong didn't have any different colors, and came over to me and said, "Where is this?" ”

I wondered how she got in, why didn't she even know where it was? If she was the Nangong of my world, she should have followed me and the monk in, but looking at her appearance, she didn't seem to know where this was.

I looked at her and said, "This is Zhu Chun's tomb, which the monk found when he fell down last time." We took advantage of the time when the big white girls were out to see what was here. I glanced at her, shook her shoulder, and said, "How did you get in?" ”

Nangong looked at me a little confused and said, "I was originally following Li Sha and the others to find a way out on the edge of the cliff, but I was suddenly attacked by those big pythons. I fell into a cliff, and at the bottom of the cliff I came to a cave to escape the serpent, and finally came here in a daze. ”

Listening to Nangong's words, I was happy in my heart, it seems that there is a way out here, although I don't know why I can't go back to the original main tomb, but at least I know that there is still a way out here.

I slapped my face happily and said to Nangong, "Then when you came in, did you see the monk?" ”

Nangong shook his head and said, "After I came in from the cave, I walked along the cave, and slowly I entered a stone room, and then I encountered these exactly the same stone rooms. Just as I was about to go back, you walked in from that side. Is there a way out there? ”

Looking at Nangong's pitiful appearance, my heart suddenly softened, this stubborn girl finally exposed her weak side after experiencing so many unbelievable things.

I shook my head and said, "I came from that side with the monk, but we got separated from him, and there is only one direction here, but I don't know why you didn't meet him." ”

Originally, I wanted to tell her about the two monks in the tomb, but when I saw her tired expression, I suddenly couldn't help but tell her. Anyway, now that I've found a way out, I'll be left alone to bear those weird things.

Now my situation is a little better, with Nangong here, at least I don't have to bear so much mental pressure on myself. Moreover, Nangong completely overturned my previous inference, this is not a parallel space that I imagined. I don't know what mechanism is here that keeps me from getting back to the main burial chamber, but at least I do know there's a way out at one end of the stone chamber.

However, I still ignored a problem at the time, although I can attribute the inability to return to the main burial chamber to the problem of the mechanism, but it is impossible for all the cigarette butts in the stone chamber to be faked, but because I saw Nangong when I was almost having a nervous breakdown at that time, and learned the news of the exit from her, I ignored such an important clue for a while.

It's a relief, but I know we're not getting any better. Even though I knew there was an exit ahead, there was no way we could get to it from that exit. Because Nangong said that the exit was at the bottom of the cliff, and there were countless pythons there. Nangong managed to escape from there, so naturally we wouldn't be stupid enough to run over and feed the snake by ourselves.

Neither of us knew what to do, if only the monk were here. No matter what the situation, he can always find a solution, and even if he can't find a way, he can give us the confidence to move on. I now know that if it weren't for him, Nangong and I might have died a few reincarnations.

Nangong and I couldn't think of any good way for a while, Nangong's spirit was a little tired and gradually fell asleep against the wall, looking at her sleeping appearance, my heart suddenly quieted down, and I fell asleep unconsciously.

I don't know how long it took, but I suddenly woke up and found that Nangong was leaning on my shoulder at some point. Looking at the pretty face in front of me, my heart suddenly throbbed. Her beautiful nose was now looking extremely cute, and her two long eyebrows were wrinkled tightly, as if she was under great pressure. I reached out and gently smoothed her eyebrows, as if that would take his troubles away.

Just as I was looking at her intently, Nangong suddenly opened his eyes and made eye contact with me. I suddenly became embarrassed, coughed quickly, turned my head and didn't dare to look at her anymore.

When Nangong woke up, she found that she was leaning on my shoulder, and she became a little embarrassed, but she was a policeman after all, so she didn't squirm too much, and sat up slowly and directly. As the scent slowly left my shoulder, I suddenly felt an inexplicable empty piece in my heart, as if after that moment, an invisible knife had cut me mercilessly from that charm.

Nangong and I didn't speak in this strange silence, and after about half an hour, Nangong finally spoke: "What should we do now?" There was no longer the gentleness in that tone.

I thought about where we are now, but there are only two ways to go. Either go in the direction I came in, there are endless stone chambers. Unless we can find the mechanism, then we might be able to go back to the main chamber and go back the way we came.

The other way is to walk back in the direction that Nangong came in, we went through the cave to the bottom of the cliff, and then found our way out among so many big pythons.

Both of these methods were almost impossible for either of us to implement, so I told her about both methods and let her choose.

Nangong thought for a while and said, "Let's go to your place first, maybe we can find a mechanism to get out." ”

I shook my head and said, "I can't find the stone chamber I came in from the main burial chamber, I've walked back and forth a few times. And at one point I had almost lost my mind, and now I can't remember which one was the stone chamber I had just entered. ”

Nangong looked at me and said, "Then let's look for it first, since this stone chamber is not endless, then there must be an end in the other direction, let's go over there first, at least we don't have to go to the bottom of the cliff to face those pythons." ”

Nangong is right, since we have judged that this stone chamber is not endless, let's simply go down one way and see where the end of the stone chamber will lead. At this time, we had no water or food on us, and we had not eaten for almost a day. But at this time, I can only endure hunger and walk back in the direction I came.

The two of us walked through nearly thirty or so stone rooms, but we still didn't see the end, this stone room seemed to be endless, and Nangong slowly became a little frightened.

According to her, she had only walked through seventeen, seventeen, eighteen stone chambers before meeting me. In her imagination, even if there were many of these stone chambers, there should be an end, but we have walked for so long and still not come to the end. To be honest, even if we were to reach a dead end, I wouldn't be as scared as I am now, because that would at least mean that we are in a trap. But like this, we keep shuttling through the same stone chambers, giving people an incomprehensible pressure.

The two of us fell silent and walked through a dozen more stone chambers, but we still didn't reach the end, and to be honest I don't remember how many stone chambers we walked in total.

I stopped Nangong, who was about to go forward, and said, "It's not a way for us to go like this, who knows if there is really an end here?" ”

Nangong lowered his head and sighed, and said, "Then what do you say?" Are we going to go to the bottom of the cliff and walk through the pythons to find the exit? ”

I thought about it, and suddenly a strange thought popped into my heart, that is, even if we go back now, we may not be able to find the cave where Nangong entered, just like I couldn't find the door to the main tomb after I entered. Thinking of this, my heart suddenly became desperate, and my face couldn't help but change my expression.

After Nangong saw my face, he also began to become uneasy, and asked in a trembling voice, "What do you think of?" Why do you fear being like this? ”

Looking at Nangong's worried look, I really couldn't bear to tell her. But now that we've got it, she'll know sooner or later. I told her all about my experiences and assumptions.

After Nangong heard what I said, his face suddenly turned pale, and he stared at me and said, "Are you sure all this is true?" ”

I shook my head and said to her, "I'm sure I'm not sure, let's try it, do you remember how many stone chambers we walked through?" ”

Nangong shook his head and said, "I can't remember exactly how many there are, there are about forty or fifty." ”

I patted her on the shoulder and said, "Let's go, let's go back now." ”