Chapter 347: Cliff Mirror
Because of his terminal illness, Master Bandung had trouble sleeping day and night, and his weight had dropped to about forty kilograms, so it was quite easy for the big eagle to fly in the air.
At his feet, he constantly swept over the bottomless canyons and dangerous peaks intertwined with canine teeth, and if the eagle let go in an instant or his clothes were torn, he would be buried in the barren land of the ages, turning into a frozen specimen in the ice and snow.
"Well, let it be." He knew that he was a half-dead man, and he had long put life and death aside, and regarded this kind of high-altitude travel that seemed thrilling to outsiders as a game.
I don't know how long it flew, but the eagle suddenly fell rapidly, entered a very dark and silent world, and finally stopped at the corner of a narrow platform jutting out of the cliff.
The platform was only three meters long and less than a meter wide, so he could only stand upright, with his back pressed against the cliff.
"Why did you bring me here?" He asked the Great Eagle.
The eagle paused for a few minutes, took a moment's breath, and leaped sharply, sliding down into the valley.
He screamed a few times in despair, but to no avail, the eagle castrated like lightning, and disappeared into the darkness in a matter of seconds.
"What's that?" In frustration, he slammed his backhand against the stone wall.
Trapped here, no one can help him, and the final result is either starvation to death, or falling into a deep valley and falling to pieces.
"God, are you deliberately playing tricks on me?" He looked up, his vision was blocked by the dense gray mist, and he couldn't even see the sky, and he was immediately depressed to the extreme, and he wanted to take a step forward immediately, and fell directly off the cliff to his death, but he was still alive.
For a half-dead person, only hastening death is the greatest relief, but he has doubts, why did the big eagle who can understand human speech joke with him and get him here?
He turned around with difficulty, facing the stone wall, and found that the stone wall was quite smooth and could reflect the figure of a person, equivalent to an oval mirror two meters high and one meter wide.
"It's strange that the stone walls here can be used as mirrors?"
Before he was diagnosed with a serious illness, he was also a very appearance-conscious person. So, at this time, he subconsciously brushed his hair in front of the mirror, tidied up the placket of his clothes that had been scratched by the eagle, and approached the mirror, wiped off the little eye droppings left in the corners of his eyes, and then opened his mouth to see if there was anything dirty between his teeth.
Soon he realized that what was standing in front of him was not a "stone wall used as a mirror", but a huge mirror.
"It's funny, it's not easy to set up a mirror in such a desperate place, and modern people simply have no way or interest in doing such a thing. Don't...... Left behind by ancient humans or alien visitors? Did the Great Eagle bring me here just to look in the mirror? What does it mean when it says it can make me die? ”
He stared at himself in the mirror with a frown, a sick man with a dead face and clumped limbs, as the doctor said, no medicine in the world could help, and he could only go home to spend the last days of his life.
In an instant, he thought of many happy things in the world, the love of his parents and family when he was young, the unforgettable first love when he was young, and the woman who made his heart pound when he was middle-aged...... He suddenly felt that this life had been lived in vain.
The geese have left a voice, and the people have left a name, but he has left nothing for that world, he is lonely when he comes, and he is nameless when he goes.
"I don't want to die......" The thought that had been pressed deep in his heart suddenly burst out.
No one is willing to die, he is just trapped by a terminal illness, knowing that he will die, so he has to suppress his sincerity and make a look of not caring, indifferent, and going without worry. Deep down, he was just as afraid of death and as eager for immortality.
As soon as his mind collapsed, his tears poured down and he slapped the mirror hard, like a lonely woman abandoned by a man.
In the midst of tears, he noticed another strange phenomenon.
Since the invention of mirror images, human beings have known that the scene in the mirror is exactly the same as the real self, the size, orientation, color, height, state, and movement are all the same.
The function of the mirror is to observe the self, and only the mirror that does not change shape and does not go out of shape is a qualified product.
What he saw at the moment, the background of "him" in the mirror was a deep cave.
In fact, he was on a cliff platform, and the background was supposed to be an empty mist.
"How so? What is reflected in the mirror and what is reflected in the actual scene? It can't be—" When he opened his mouth to talk to himself, the "he" in the mirror did the same, but the background of "he" was not fog, but a real, clear cave.
The cave was not dark or bright, but filled with a faint blue-gray light.
"Is this a mirror? Isn't this a mirror? He asked himself, and slowly turned around and looked behind him.
This time, he was really taken aback, because when he turned around, he didn't see a hollow valley of mist, but a deep cave, exactly like the one in the mirror.
This change made him unable to recover for a long time, and he pinched his thigh several times in a row to make sure that he was not in a strange nightmare.
A large eagle that understands human speech, a mirror on a cliff, and a background that changes instantaneously...... These things, which can only appear in dreams and novels, have all appeared in front of his eyes today.
"Hey, anyone? Where am I? What is this place? He timidly shouted timidly towards the cave.
The pain in the thigh where he was pinched is not a dream, but the real world.
No one responded, and the cave was as silent as death, like a silent movie stripped of its audio. Even if he is a fearless half-dead man, after encountering this strange change, he has lost his claim for a while, and he does not know where to go.
Now, instead of being on a cliff platform and unable to see the mirror, he stood in a deep cave with no end in sight either forward or backward.
The floor, walls, and top of the cave were all covered with dark blue moss that glowed automatically, so he could see within ten steps. Of course, this is a deep cave, and the only thing to see is the uneven stone walls and winding roads. In addition, there were no people, no birds, no insects, no ants, no sound, and the silence around him was so quiet that he could hear the sound of the surging blood in his body.
"Forget it, just go wherever you go!" Finally, he gave up his cranky thoughts and walked forward, smoothing out his thoughts as he went.
Originally, it was the Great Eagle who brought him here, but now, if he can't find the exit, he will always be trapped in the cave, and the specific location of this cave is in the middle of a cliff, and no one can sacrifice his life to save him.
"I didn't expect to die in such a strange place where there is no heaven or earth, it's just that......" he sighed as he walked.
The cave seemed to have no end, and after he had been walking for at least three hours, he still hadn't found anything. So, he went back and walked for another three hours, but he couldn't find the place where he had first stood, completely lost and clueless.
In his little remaining consciousness, if he wanted to leave the cave, he had to reach the mirror position of the cliff platform before the eagle could return to his place. However, he did not mark the place before he started, and now that he has come back to it, it is too late.