Chapter VII: Captivity
Wen Jin's memories after being stunned by the third uncle were blank, and when they woke up, they were already in the sanatorium in Golmud.
I'm already very confused when I hear this. It's also too mysterious, apparently someone kidnapped them while they were unconscious and locked them up there.
According to Wen Jin's statement, after the third uncle stunned them, he would wake Wen Jin up, then explain it, and then discuss countermeasures. But Wen Jin didn't wake up, apparently after they were in a coma, something happened again.
"Wu San Province is not among you?"
Wen Jin shook his head, and I said, "That's strange, who kidnapped you?" β
"It's a quiet way.
I have always been very puzzled by this, so I asked Wen Jindao: "What exactly is 'it'?" β
Wen Jin said a lot, took a sip of water, and slowly shook his head and said: "I can't describe it, this is what we discovered when we studied the whole thing, how to say it, it can be said to be a kind of 'power'." β
"'Strength'?" I frowned.
"After we survived, in that dark room, we speculated about the whole thing from beginning to end, but there were many links that we couldn't connect, and in the end, we found that in the whole thing, in many places, we could find that there was one person missing." Wen Jin tucked his hair behind his ears, "In other words, if this thing happens, just a few people will definitely not be enough, but this incident has happened, as if there is an invisible person filling these links." Moreover, the more we researched, the more we found that this person definitely existed, but until now, he has not shown any of his feet, it is as if he has no shape, he only exists logically. β
She said: "Let's call this person 'it', this is in addition to Jude Kao, Xie Lian, and us, there is also a force that is meddling in this matter, this force is buried the deepest, and it has hardly been revealed, but its power is really pushing the course of things, which makes me creepy." β
I also felt a little chilled when I heard it, so I asked her, "Can you give me an example?" β
Wen Jin said: "Is the decoding method of the Warring States Silk Book really revealed by Jude Kao?" Is it possible that he, a foreigner, can unravel such a complicated thing? Moreover, where did he learn about the existence of the submarine tomb? If no one had told him this information, he would not have come to China, would not have bought your third uncle, and would not have been obsessed with a goal that no one knows about. This is a logical gap. And-"
Wen Jin sat up straight, straightened her chest and pulled up her hair, and let me see her melon seed face: "All of us seem to have lost the ability to age, so many years have passed, and we have not been old." It was so beautiful that I was almost stunned, but she immediately put it down and shook it off, "After we fell unconscious, someone must have done something to our bodies." β
I said, "That's still a good thing, this kind of thing, many people dream of appearing!" β
Wen Jin shook his head sadly and said, "Dreams? Do you remember the thing you came across in the basement of Golmud? β
I thought to myself, how could I forget, and nodded.
"That's what we ended up being." Wen Jindao, "The one you see, she is Huo Ling." β
I was a spirit: "What? Is that monster Huo Ling? "Suddenly I felt sick.
Wen Jindao: "After she came back from Tamuda, she began to change and became a monster. β
"This ......"
"This effect of keeping the green chΕ«n has side effects." She looked at me and stretched out her hand for me to smell, and I immediately smelled a faint very familiar fragrance, the smell of the forbidden woman, "At a certain point, we will begin to change, and in my body, this change has already begun, and before long, I will become exactly like the youkai you see." β
Chapter 8 Rendezvous
"How is this possible?" I looked at Wen Jin and shook my head to express that I couldn't understand it, the fragrance on Wen Jin's body was indeed the taste of the forbidden woman, but it was incredible to say that she would soon become a forbidden woman.
"You can't take it, and I don't blame you." Wen Jin sighed faintly, "When we first found out about this, we couldn't believe it. β
I still shook my head, I couldn't think at all at this time, I just felt that everything was out of chaos, if all the things I sorted out before were fragments of events, then the information that Wen Jin gave me was like a sledgehammer, knocking all these fragments into powder, and now there is no possibility of any splicing.
"It does something to you, it keeps you from getting old, but it makes you that ...... That...... Monster? β
Wen Jin nodded: "According to my experience, it only takes half a year to start changing from the inside of the body to completely becoming that thing, and we call it 'corpse transformation'." It was a corpse, it was a girl, and it was terrifying to watch her become like that little by little, as if your body had omitted the step of 'death' and changed from 'living' to 'corpse'. β
"But how did this come about?" I asked, "Is there a cure?" β
Wen Jin shook his head: "The time of 'corpse transformation' is completely irregular, the only signal is this smell, we speculate that this strange change may be related to the ancient tomb under Xisha." At that time, we thought that it was an ancient disease that had been confined to this ancient tomb and that we had been infected, but after studying it later, we found out that it was not, but this phenomenon must be related to the Wangzanghai. β
"That's why you're studying the Wangzang Sea?"
She nodded silently.
They were trapped in the basement of Golmud for quite a long time, and the process of escaping was quite complicated, although Wen Jin also briefly recounted it to me, but this is another story, so I won't repeat it here.
After escaping, at first they were pursued by a group of strangers, they had nowhere to go, and after some wandering, they re-infiltrated the sanatorium, only to find that the building was empty, everything in the sanatorium had been emptied, they found nothing, and they had no idea who had imprisoned them and for what purpose. In order to escape this inexplicable force, they decided to think backwards and chose this abandoned sanatorium as a hiding place, investigating the history of Wang Zanghai while evading the tracking of those people.
And then there's the rest of the story.
At this point, I asked them, "So, do you think that in this ghost place, there is any way to cure this kind of 'corpse'?" β
"We speculate based on a large number of details that Wang Zanghai is tracking down a technique about becoming an immortal recorded in the Warring States Brocade Book, but obviously the technique he resurrected from the ancient books is not mature, and we may become experiments for this immature thing, although we can stay green forever, but the effect is very unstable, and we will eventually become monsters." Wen Jindao, "What Wang Zanghai pursues in this life must be a way to perfect this technique, I think this is his last stop, and the records in the Warring States Brocade Book come from here, so this is the most likely place." But on this matter, Huo Ling and I had a disagreement, and that time she brought someone into here by herself and I chose to wait. I thought she was dead at first, but I didn't expect her to come back a few months later, but apparently she didn't succeed, at that time her autopsy had already begun, she began to forget, she began to lose control of her emotions, her metabolism became faster and faster, and finally she became like that, and I was the only one left in the whole expedition, waiting for an unknown fate. β
"I wanted to hide it forever, but a month ago, I finally smelled the smell coming from me and knew that the final fate had come and I had to put an end to it. Your third uncle, the 'it' behind Jude Cow. β
"But what does all this have to do with me?" I remembered and asked, "Why are you sending me the video?" β
"I wasn't the one who sent you the video." Wen Jinzheng said, "This is another missing link, I was quite surprised when I saw you appear in the team, so I asked the Dingzhu Zhuoma to call you too, and from your appearance, I concluded that 'it' had infiltrated my plan, so I made a jΗng complaint to you." It sent you the same tape I had sent to Jude Cow. β
"Why did it do that?"
"I don't know, maybe it doesn't want Jude to pass the exam, it wants to have a relatively simple team composed of Qiling, Xie Lian and you, I can only speculate. However, this time I used a very powerful trick to solve the chain, and yΔ«n made my plan work out by mistake. "It" must also be judging which of so many people I am. β
I rubbed my face, felt a little clearer in my thinking, and asked, "Then how much time do you have until you get to the corpse?" Are we still in time? β
She shook my hand and said, "Don't worry about me, I'm here, and I accept all the arrangements of fate, whether good or bad." Anyway, this is the end of me, the end of the spirit, and the end of the unchain, you have to think about yourself. β
I looked at them and said to myself, "You are all going out, how can this be?" At this moment, I heard that outside the barrier we had made, someone suddenly knocked lightly on the stone, and a person coughed, "Is there someone inside?" β
I immediately felt up, and the stuffy oil bottle leaned over, and I immediately shouted: "Be careful, it may be a snake, the snake here can speak human language!" β
The voice outside immediately said, "Isn't it too naΓ―ve?" β
The stuffy oil bottle reassured me that the snake would not talk to you, and as he said that the barrier was removed, I immediately saw a face full of bruises, which turned out to be a fat man. Looking at it again, there were several people behind him, all of whom were the third uncle's buddies, and among them were the black glasses.
The fat man's face was bruised, and he said, "Sure enough, you're here, hey, little brother, you're also there, hey, caught?" β
I said in my heart that you don't make so many onomatopoeia, and the fat man asked us what was going on, and I said that I had a long affair here, or did I ask them what was wrong, how did they find us? What about my third uncle?
The fat man said "hey" and said: "We saw a gap stuffed with a nΗi cover, I damn it, this is really a strange scene of Tamuda, we bumped into it and found the gaps and bruises inside, I taught them to protect themselves, but your third uncle didn't catch up, he was bitten, and the time was filled with serum, behind us." We heard a voice and came to see, and I thought it was the snakes. β
Although Wen Jin said that the third uncle was pretending to be a serial solution, when it came to the urgency, I still didn't feel that he was fake at all.
I glanced back at Wen Jin, and said what are you going to do, Wen Jin nodded at me, "Let's go, go and see." β
The guys in the back didn't know Wen Jin and asked me who this woman was
I said, "This is the third master's good look." The fat man immediately said, "Call the eldest sister." β
Those people were also frightened, and they really listened to the fat man's words, and immediately called. Wen Jin glanced at me and told me to talk less nonsense.
Not far away they were in a cistern, which was larger and scarcely forked, and was also overgrown with mycelium like tree roots, and this time, at least half of them were gone, all of them were like dirt. Wen Jin taught them to block the only opening, and I wondered, could it be that this reservoir is already the end of this water storage system?
I went to see the third uncle and saw that there were bloody holes on his neck and arms, his face was blue, and his mind was a little blurred.
"He bit three people to death, and the venom is dry, but it's still strong." Take care of his humanity.
The third uncle opened his eyes slightly, I don't know if he saw Wen Jin, he should have seen it, I found that he trembled, looked at me again, and couldn't say anything.
My heart was sour, looking at his face, I couldn't imagine that he would be unlinked, I got along with him after I was sensible, even if he was unlinked, most of the impression of the third uncle in my mind came from him, and all this could not be changed.
Wen Jin walked over, sat next to him, looked at him, and didn't speak, the two of them just watched. The third uncle suddenly stretched out his hand to her with difficulty.
Wen Jin shook it and said softly: "Xiao Xie knows, you don't have to hide it, we don't blame you." β
He moved his mouth, and I saw his tears welling up at once, and he looked at me, at Wen Jin, and tried to speak.
Wen Jin was also a little moved, leaned down, pressed his mouth, and held his hand tightly after listening: "I know, you are back in the team, it's not your fault." β
He looked at me, I also held his hand, I didn't know what I should say, things happened here too fast, I was still chatting with him yesterday, the third uncle was long and the third uncle was short, and now it turned out to be like this, thinking about it, I couldn't help but shout: "Third uncle." β
Hearing me call him the third uncle, he suddenly became excited, moved, and slowly lost consciousness. I thought he was going to be gone, so I called someone immediately. The person next to him came over to take a look and said, "Don't worry, it's just that I fainted." β
I let out a sigh of relief, and then I heard someone behind me shouting, "There is a stone gate here!" β
We went over to look, and a few of the third uncle's buddies found that there was a stone slab at the bottom of this cistern with two iron rings on it.
They shouted, and pulled the iron ring with all their might, and lifted the iron plate, and found a hole pressed underneath.
The black glasses and the stuffy oil bottle went down to explore the way, and soon returned, and the black glasses said that there was a hole below, and it was not artificially dug at all, it seemed to be a karst cave, and there were many stone doors around it, as if it was found and used when the water storage system here was excavated. The air inside was fresh, as if there were no snakes. It seems that it can also lead to other places.
The road we came on was probably full of snakes, and we had to go back the way we came, at least until it was dark, and maybe there was a way out from below, and the fat man said either go down and have a look.
As soon as I heard that there were no snakes, everyone here would go down, and I told them that the situation was unknown, and that we should not go down in a swarm, and that the place where we were staying was relatively safe now. There may be traps down there, which will be worse than a snake bite.
In the end, a few of us decided to go down first, and the others were rabble, and it would not help us to go down, so we stayed to take care of the wounded and wait for us to come back.
The stuffy oil bottle and the black glasses went down again, followed by me and the fat man, and then Wenjin of ours.
Below is a huge circular cave, illuminated by a miner's lamp, you can see a lot of stone gates, the fat man threw off the rope and walked to the side, and said: "Yo ho, there is really a cave!" β