Chapter 31: The Lost Sense of Direction

When I heard Uncle Ma say this, I hurriedly asked him what was going on, and I also felt strange, could it all be an illusion?

"Illusion is born from the heart," Uncle Ma's voice sounded in the void darkness, "Young man, think about it, what are you most afraid of?" If I'm correct, do you have a special fear of snakes? ”

I thought about it for a moment and said:

"I don't have any special feelings for snakes, just like normal people, afraid of them. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoIsn't it innate human nature to fear snakes? The greasy, cold, bar-shaped creatures that hide in the dark, spitting black letters, making a deathly sound, their fangs secreting venom, numbing people's nerves, causing shock and even death. Oh! That's right! I remember! I remember when I was just in the first year of junior high school, I was bitten by a snake on the side of the road when I came home from self-study one night, and it was quite serious at the time, it was a spotted poisonous snake, and I went to the hospital in time to get a serum, and the condition did not deteriorate. The shadow of the snake was probably planted at that time, and before that, I even dared to catch snakes with my bare hands. However, after being bitten, I was too scared to see the grass swinging. ”

"That's right."

Uncle Ma said with great certainty, "Whatever you are afraid of, come here." But I'm different, I'm not afraid of demons, monsters, snakes, insects, rats and ants, and this dark place can't help me. You follow me. ”

When Uncle Ma said this, he began to move forward with his intuition. We adjusted our team, but we didn't know if we were going in the wrong direction, and now we are in a dilemma, so we have to move forward. I asked Yang Xue why she had millipede hallucinations or feelings, and she told me that what she was most afraid of in her life was insects, and centipedes and other millipedes were even worse. I asked Lao Yang again, saying that you have any special fear of existence, but Lao Yang hesitated for a moment and said inexplicably:

"Yes, yes, but I don't think it will be here."

I wondered in my heart, and I was busy asking him to tell me what it was, and in case it appeared, it would make us all a little mentally guarded. Lao Yang sighed in the dark, and he didn't know what his expression was, and said to himself:

"It's a bad taste......

He sighed an inexplicable word, and never spoke again, I estimated that he probably had something unspeakable, since he didn't want to say it, I forced it to continue, I'm afraid it would be useless, so I shut up.

However, since we figured out that the things that appeared out of thin air were hallucinations created by our fears, Yang Xue and I never felt anything foreign appear suddenly. However, in the process of advancing, there seemed to be a small depression in the ground, and I stepped on the air and immediately fell. But fortunately, I didn't fall badly, when I got up, I actually picked up a thing, because I couldn't see, I could only touch, judging by the shape, it was a round object, with a metallic texture, and there were some branches around it, from thick to thin, as if it was a carving. I couldn't tell for a moment, so I put what I was touching into my backpack and thought about this area, let's see what it was.

After being in the darkness for a long time, the sense of space and time was blurred, I asked the three of them how long we had been in this void space, how far we had traveled, and what direction it was, but none of them could answer. Yang Xue said that since entering, time seems to have become very slow, and every breath, even every leg lift and step in the dark, takes a minute. Moreover, as the sense of direction is lost, the sense of space also seems so unreal, and the further you go inside, the more intense the feeling of not being able to do it: it seems that you are walking on the edge of a cliff, and you may fall to pieces with every step.

It's perfectly normal to feel like this, just imagine walking on a piece of grass that you know is empty, such as a football field. You close your eyes and walk forward confidently, the length and width of the football field are tens of meters, but you only walk about twenty or thirty steps, and you start to hesitate. At this point, if you insist on closing your eyes and continuing to move forward, you will become struggling, shaking involuntarily, and with each step, you feel that you may have walked into the plastic track on the edge of the football field, and you may collide with runners at any time. However, when you open your eyes, you are surprised to find that you are still in the center of the football field, and you are not even half of the distance, and this experience or feeling is exactly the same as what we are now.

However, just when I was anxious about this matter, Lao Yang, who was at the back of the line, for some reason, suddenly let out a strange low howl, and then, there was a feeling that his body was shaking violently, because we were connected by the same rope as him, and what happened inevitably made us feel the same way. Lao Yang struggled a few times, and before we could ask, he said to himself: "Ahem, it's just an illusion, it's okay, it's okay......"

"What kind of hallucination did you have?"

Yang Xue, who was walking behind me, couldn't help but ask, because judging from Lao Yang's overall performance, his behavior was quite weird, and it seemed that there was something he didn't want us to know.

Sure enough, this time Lao Yang still didn't tell the truth, just a perfunctory sentence:

"It's nothing, it's just some terrible vision......"

In the dark, I heard Yang Xue sigh softly, probably she also discovered the strangeness of Lao Yang, and if she didn't figure it out, she would inevitably feel anxious.

But at this time, Uncle Ma, who was walking in the front, suddenly slowed down, and I was about to ask him what the situation was, when Lao Yang's movement came from behind.

At first, he just kept shaking the ropes, as if he was dodging some attack in the dark, and his body swayed from side to side. But it didn't take long for this feeling to disappear, and the sound behind it disappeared, Yang Xue asked, and found that Lao Yang didn't have any answer, so he touched it with his hand, and suddenly exclaimed:

"Oh no! My brother is gone! ”

I thought to myself, what kind of trouble is this, at this juncture, how can this thing be done again. I couldn't wait to ask Yang Xue what she was touching, and she was so excited.

Yang Xue seemed to be still groping in the dark, and after a minute, she said to us:

"Yes...... It was the rope that he untied himself. ”

As soon as I heard this, I was a little angry, and shouted loudly into the darkness: "Old Yang, don't you make trouble, okay?" Can't you just live a little in peace and finish this journey? ”

My voice is very loud, and I must be able to hear it clearly within ten meters, but I don't know why, this old Yang, hiding in the dark, didn't respond at all, as if his throat was hoarse and he couldn't speak.

"What now?"

Yang Xue asked anxiously.

I said what else could I do, just wait where I was, and if he didn't come back, we'd have to go out first. (To be continued.) )