Seeing that Yang Xue's shoes completely coincided with the footprints on the ground, Uncle Ma and I were stunned, staring at the row of footprints on the ground in shock, speechless for a while. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Is it another hallucination? I pinched myself hard, but the pain was intense, which showed that everything in front of me could not be an illusion. But if not an illusion, what is it? The footprints on the ground are obviously Yang Xue's, and even the lines on the soles of the shoes are completely consistent, if I encounter this situation in the outside world, I can still accept it, but in the depths of this deserted cave, how can there be another person who has the exact same shape as Yang Xue's feet, and also wears a pair of shoes with the same pattern, passing here? This kind of thing is completely impossible to happen, then there is only one result, and the owner of this footprint is completely Yang Xue himself. The problem is that from every moment after entering the cave, Yang Xue has never left my sight, even when she is passing through the dark area, she is holding my hand, it is impossible to come here again, and leave footprints!

Uncle Ma looked at me with a stiff face, and it took a long time to squeeze out a sentence:

"Are you sure the person you're carrying is the girl herself?"

When I heard this, I was stunned, and then I calmed down again, and asked Uncle Ma to help me untie the rope and put the body down. I opened the sleeping bag and examined Yang Xue's body, and when I saw her bloodless face, I couldn't stop twitching inside. I pointed to Yang Xue's body and said to Uncle Ma:

"Do you think this could be fake?"

Uncle Ma didn't speak, just asked me to take out the bronze mirror, he raised the bronze mirror and looked at Yang Xue, I couldn't help but be curious, so I glanced at it, this look, Yang Xue's appearance in the mirror has disappeared!

"How is this going on?"

I asked Uncle Ma in shock, wondering how Yang Xue's image could disappear, could it be because of her......

Uncle Ma was calmer than me, he turned the bronze mirror to himself again, looked at it again, and found that the mirror was still empty, so he shook his head in surprise, and after a while, he said to me:

"This bronze mirror has been handed down from my ancestors, and it has three sides. Because my ancestors were all Taoist priests, they did some things for people to surpass the souls of the dead, exorcise ghosts and avoid evil, so the role of the bronze mirror can be imagined. According to my grandfather, these three bronze mirrors were all opened by a mage in the Qing Dynasty, and they have different functions, one side to illuminate ghosts, one side to illuminate people, and the other side, to be able to spy on the gods. The bronze mirror in my hand can only shine on people, and if it is a ghost, the image cannot be revealed. The girl was dead, and her soul was probably out of her shell, so the image in the mirror disappeared. It's just that why this bronze mirror can't reflect my image, I really can't figure it out, is it that I'm dead and don't know it? Take a good look, young man, do you think I look like a ghost? ”

I glanced at Uncle Ma, his face was ruddy as usual, his breathing was even, his body temperature was normal, and he was also beating well when he reached out to feel his pulse. I looked at him carefully, I really couldn't see anything different, I sighed, took the bronze mirror, looked at myself, and found that my appearance in the mirror was clearly visible, and it would never disappear like Uncle Ma.

"You don't look like a ghost." I said to Uncle Ma, "Although I'm not sure what a ghost looks like, if you are a ghost, can you remember some things about your past?" It obviously doesn't make sense for me to ask this question, because I don't know anything about your past, and you can make it up. I wondered, could it be that you have actually become a ghost, but you don't realize it yourself, and you still think you are still alive? ”

Speaking of this, I felt a little chill down my back, and then looked at Uncle Ma, his face seemed to be no better, and I was even in a trance, feeling that Uncle Ma might turn into a ghost at any time and pounce on me.

Uncle Ma frowned, as if he was in thought, and after a while, he suddenly patted his thigh, and suddenly took out a black "sachet" from the cloth bag, and asked me to check it:

"You open it up and see if it's cinnabar, and if it's OK, press it on my forehead and see what happens."

As he said, I opened the sachet and shone it with my headlamp, and found it filled with a crimson granular, all cinnabar ore. I followed Uncle Ma's instructions and pressed the "sachet" on top of his head, but after a minute, he did not react, and had to put the "sachet" back into the cloth bag and sighed. However, he immediately thought of another way, unchained it, and pulled out a yellow charm from the cowhide cloth bag, only to see that it was written with cinnabar paint all over tadpoles, probably a real exorcism charm. He reached out again and took out a small porcelain bowl, took the kettle and poured some water, lit the charm, and the ashes melted into the water, raised his head and swallowed the rune water, wiped the corners of his mouth, and sat on the ground.

I saw that his series of actions were quite similar to some of the scenes in the movie, so I asked him if it was useful. He told me that the runes for exorcism were handed down from the ancestors and written with cinnabar paint, which was incompatible with the ghosts. If I were a ghost, I should have reacted a long time ago, how ......

I saw that Uncle Ma was tossing around himself, and he didn't necessarily have any reaction, so I said to him:

"Looks like you're not a ghost, but...... I suddenly had a conjecture, if it wasn't your problem, then could it be the problem of the bronze mirror? ”

"What's wrong with the bronze mirror?"

Uncle Ma was surprised.

I said, "Could it be that when we enter that dark area, the bronze mirror is affected by some kind of magnetic field, and then something changes that make the mirror image come and go?" ”

But on second thought, such a speculation is a bit far-fetched, because I lack knowledge of physics, and I hate the book until it is used, so I can't explain some strange phenomena. If Yang Xue is still ...... It's fine, alas...... She has studied physical theories, and she should have a clear understanding of everything that happens.

Uncle Ma seemed to understand whether he understood or not, stared blankly at the cave wall, and said to me:

"Fuck me, I'm not a ghost anyway!"

He looked at me and said, "What now?" Shall we go deeper into this cave? Or do you turn around and go back? ”

I thought about it, and felt that the footprints were really strange, and I would never give up until I figured it out, so I said to Uncle Ma, we might as well walk along the depths of this cave and see if we can find anything else.

I asked Uncle Ma to help me tie Yang Xue's body on my back again, but he looked at me sympathetically and said:

"Young man, I can understand your feelings, but you can put this girl here, it's fine, let's go in and have a look, and come back......"

I looked at Uncle Ma, and then looked at Yang Xue's body lying in the sleeping bag, thought for a while, closed the zipper of the sleeping bag, and put Yang Xue's body next to the cave wall, and then made a gesture to Uncle Ma and asked him and me to go in to check the situation.

We were silent and began to walk down the depths of the cave. Because the inside of the cave is relatively humid and the mud and sand on the ground are relatively soft, the row of footprints that are exactly the same as Yang Xue is also very obvious. When I started to turn, my heart beat a little faster, and I wasn't sure what I would see next, but I felt an inexplicable panic that whatever I saw, it wasn't what I wanted to see. The complexity of this mood cannot be described in words, and I have never experienced similar feelings, so I cannot make a vivid description, but one thing I am extremely sure of is that I hope to find the owner of these footprints.

After turning this corner, the cave suddenly expanded, and a number of branching openings appeared in the surrounding walls. Afraid of being lost, I took two ropes from my backpack and tied one end of the rope to the cave where we came, and the other end to our own waist. However, the direction of the footprints was straight forward, and we continued to follow, but we didn't go far before a faint light suddenly appeared in front of us.

That glimmer of light is still far away from our position, and we can't see the source of the light, but judging by the color of the light, it is obviously the light of the miner's lamp.

With a little excitement, I asked Uncle Ma to speed up his pace and chased after the light. Unexpectedly, at this time, the "light" in front seemed to sense the movement on our side, and instantly accelerated the speed of movement.

Uncle Ma and I glanced at each other, and almost all of them ran wildly in the cave. Then, the "bright light" was also running wildly, but it was obvious that the speed of the other party was still different from ours, and it didn't take long for me to see the light in front of me, and a somewhat blurry figure appeared in my sight.

"Don't run!"

I shouted to the front and tried to stop him, but the other person walked faster, as if running for his life, and ran forward with all his might.

The air around me froze suddenly, and I saw that the figure disappeared after turning into a branch cave, and by the time Uncle Ma and I finally caught up, even the light disappeared. Moreover, after turning this corner, two forks appeared in the cave, and it is not known which cave the figure went into.

I sighed and said to Uncle Ma:

"If it weren't for the rope tied to our bodies, which is a bit of an obstacle, we would have caught up with us, by the way, do you see the appearance of that person?"

When Uncle Ma heard me ask, he looked at me in disbelief, as if he felt that I was pretending to be confused. I knew at a glance that he had misunderstood, and hurriedly said:

"I have more than 300 degrees of myopia, and I can't see clearly without glasses."

Uncle Ma suddenly realized "hmm", his eyes widened, and his face was slightly pale and said to me:

"She's ......"

"Yang Xue?" I asked in shock.

"Yes......" Uncle Ma said uncertainly, "but why did she run away when she saw us...... Also, what's going on with the corpse outside? My brain is a mess! ”

Not to mention Uncle Ma, after hearing the news, even I couldn't help but tremble. In the face of such a strange event, although I made some mental preparations, when the speculation was finally confirmed, I was like Ye Gong Haolong, and I was overwhelmed with fear.

So far, all the bizarre events have risen to a new level, whether it is from the beginning of the experience in the sinkhole world, or the later incident of encountering ghosts in the mass grave, and everything that happened after entering the cave, if the weirdness of the things is superimposed, then, now, due to the appearance of another Yang Xue, everything exploded like an atomic bomb. Everything seemed to get out of hand in an instant.

I can't imagine that when Yang Xue was inexplicably stabbed to death by his brother, her body would become an unreal existence. For me, the only Yang Xue left is the real Yang Xue, no matter how much the person we just chased looks like her, it is just a phantom, a replica. In terms of feelings, I naturally tend to think that Yang Xue is dead, the body is cold, pale, and it is impossible to come back to life, but on the other hand, I am extremely looking forward to the fact that another Yang Xue will appear in front of me alive, even if it is a dummy, I can accept it!

Thinking of this, I made a decision for myself in my heart, and immediately made my hand into a trumpet shape and shouted into the depths of the cave:

"Yang Xue! If you hear my shout, please come out quickly, no matter what you have become, I can accept it without reservation! Please come out, I can forgive you for everything that has happened in the past, as long as you show up alive! Hear no, come back quickly, I won't hurt you, I'll do everything I can to protect you! ”

"Come out quickly, I'...... I beg you! Don't hide from me, please don't avoid me......"

When I shouted this, I couldn't help but choke up a little, and my voice became more and more hoarse, and I squatted on the ground weakly, covered my face with my hands, and sobbed involuntarily. I fell into memories again, searching for Yang Xue's shadow in the vague memories of the past, her appearance when I was a child, the way she kissed me like a wild cat, and the life and death we experienced together when we met again. All the images, like film films, were constantly replaying in my mind, and I could not restrain my emotions, like a dam bursting its banks, and the torrent of grief broke through the barriers unscrupulously and raged in my heart.

I don't know how long this emotion lasted, the whole person has completely entered a state of "forgetfulness", until I felt that my shoulder was gently patted, I woke up like a dream, raised my head in a panic, but saw Uncle Ma looking at me in surprise, gave me a gesture, I followed the direction of his finger, a slightly blurred figure instantly came into my eyes.

It was a very vigilant figure, but the pace was also very resolute towards us, through the faint light, I saw Yang Xue's familiar face, she looked at me with the same pity, her body twitched slightly, tears on her face, and approached me step by step. (To be continued.) )