Chapter 43: The Scam
Yang Xue fell into thinking for a long time, as if she was constructing a reason to convince herself in her heart, only to see her beautiful and frowning, showing a confused expression. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
I was silent, waiting, minute by minute.
"No," she said suddenly, "we can't just leave, even if my brother wants to deliberately get rid of us, he can't just leave, I've already lost him once, I can't lose him a second time!" ”
I saw that Yang Xue's attitude was very resolute, and I knew that I couldn't move her, so I had to find another way in my heart.
I thought about it for a moment and said to her:
"Well, in that case, I'll tell you the truth......"
I lied to Yang Xue that her brother had actually gone deep along this cave, and I persuaded him not to stop at the time, and he punched him and watched him leave alone.
After I finished speaking, I showed Yang Xue the bruises on my cheeks, this punch was actually made by Uncle Ma, but Yang Xue didn't know that it shouldn't be too difficult to deceive her.
Sure enough, Yang Xue looked at my face in surprise, and even gently touched my cheek with her slender fingers, and asked me with concern:
"Are you feeling better?"
I said that I was fine, but I felt strange and uncomfortable in my heart, Lao Yang was really, there was something hidden by myself, and I refused to reveal the slightest hint of it.
Yang Xue still shook her head obsessively and said:
"No, I believe my brother, he must have a reason for doing this. He didn't let you follow him, he must have realized some danger and did it to protect you......"
I shrugged my shoulders and asked Yang Xue what to do next.
Yang Xue said with a little hesitation:
"Let's keep up."
Things are out of my control again, and it seems that Yang Xue is not so easy to deceive. Besides, her feelings for Lao Yang are thicker than water after all, even if they have been separated for many years, they are not something I can provoke from them. I thought helplessly, in that case, I might as well walk with you along this cave randomly, and stay here in case someone emerges from the darkness, and then the lies I have worked so hard to concoct may be self-defeating.
Thinking of this, I beckoned Yang Xue to follow me. At the time of the fork, I deliberately chose another branch cave to avoid overlapping with the direction taken by the second Yang Xue, so that the whole truth was completely in my hands, and I could slowly figure out a way.
Along the way, I have been secretly observing this Yang Xue, trying to find out the difference between her and Yang Xue in my world, God knows, all these efforts, I mean, trying to find the difference are all in vain, because this Yang Xue in front of me is the same in terms of behavior, habitual way of speaking, and even the direction of thinking, no different.
It's a weird feeling, and it's hard to say that I'm walking with a ghost. On the other hand, it takes a lot of bearing for me to accept the Yang Xue in front of me. The initial plan and deception were just judgments and decisions made out of instinct when I wanted to get her, but now that I think about it carefully, I feel that something is really wrong.
Whatever!
I said to myself in my heart, no matter what, I can't let Yang Xue slip away from my world, no matter what means are used.
I haven't walked through this branch cave before, and I don't know what will happen when I go deeper, according to the general extension law of branch caves, most of such a small cave will shrink and shrink at a certain depth, and finally become a sinkhole that cannot be passed by humans.
However, on the contrary, as we continued to go deeper, the scale of the cave became larger and larger, and the walls of the cave expanded outward in the shape of a trumpet, and after a short time, it became a medium-sized cave with a diameter of up to 10 meters.
The cave was very humid and the temperature was getting colder, and water was constantly dripping from the stalactite tips of the dome, hitting the stalagmites below, making a crisp sound. The sediment deposited under the feet has become thicker and thicker, and in some places you will even sink your shoes into it, and it takes a lot of effort to pull it out.
I retreated and said to Yang Xue:
"You see that there are not even half footprints on the ground, if Lao Yang passes by here, there is no reason not to leave a trace."
Yang Xue looked at me strangely and said:
"Didn't you say you saw my brother enter this cave?"
I shrugged my shoulders and said disapprovingly:
"When we came in, there were so many branching caves around, how do I know which cave he entered? I think we'd better wait for him outside as he wanted, right? I'm afraid I'll get lost if I'm looking for it so randomly......"
Yang Xue and I have both suffered from getting lost in the cave, and on this point, we reached a consensus without arguing. But Yang Xue said to me very stubbornly:
"We got lost in the sinkhole cave because someone got in the way and changed our mark, and the cave system was many times more complicated than the current one! You can rest assured, I have marked them one by one along the way, and I will not get lost. ”
After a while, she added:
"Although there are no footprints left by my brother here, it cannot be ruled out that he did not pass through here, and you can see that on this side of the cave wall, the soil is still very hard, and there will be no traces if you step on it. Shall we take a little further in? ”
She threw a pleading look at me, looking pitiful.
I sighed and said:
"Well, in that case, I'll accompany you to the end."
"Actually, there's something I don't know if I should tell you......" Yang Xue suddenly said.
When I heard her hesitant tone, I knew that she must have hidden something in her heart, and hurriedly asked her:
"What's the matter?"
Yang Xue said as she walked:
"That's the case, you may not feel anything, but Yang Tao is my brother after all, there are some things you can't see, but I have a very strong feeling. From the very beginning of the shaft, I was struck by the strange feeling that we wanted to see the place where my brother had lived for more than ten years, but he urged us in a hurry, as if he were afraid that we would find something in the vaulted cavern. Well, let me tell you this, do you really believe in my brother's experience, and about your grandfather? ”
When I heard Yang Xue say this, my heart suddenly chuckled, and I immediately felt like I was being played. In retrospect, since Lao Yang came back alive, he has been instilling a concept in me, that is, "I finally escaped, my experience is true and credible, I don't need to lie to you", I am also convinced of this, and I have no doubts about Lao Yang's narrative at all. Now that I think about it, Lao Yang's original account in the hospital was quite suspicious, and according to normal logical analysis, he did tell a lie. But at that time, I was completely immersed in the fact that Lao Yang came back alive, and my thinking was not as clear as usual, and I lost my strong judgment ability.
"I ......," I said hesitantly, "I believed it all, but in retrospect it seems that something was wrong." ”
"First of all, it's urgent!" Yang Xue suddenly said, "Think about it, if it were you, who had been trapped in this cave for more than ten years, and finally escaped, and only stayed in the outside world for two days, and then hurriedly wanted to come back, I'm afraid it wouldn't be reasonable, right?" ”
I thought about it for a while and said, "Isn't Lao Yang anxious about my grandfather's affairs?" ”
Yang Xue glanced at me, and that look seemed to say, "Don't you still understand"?
"Your grandfather's thing may be fake."
Yang Xue said cautiously. (To be continued.) )