Chapter Seventy-Three: Out of the Shadows
The huge thunderclouds gradually subsided, flattening and thinning. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The divine bodies of countless villagers broke away and continued to rush out of the cave in the direction that Zheng Pei entered. At this time, Zheng Qiang's voice came into Zheng Pei's ears, "Come, kid, follow us." ”
Zheng Pei used his rifle as a crutch and limped slowly along with the villagers' divine bodies. The flames on the stone wall kept lit up, illuminating the road for Zheng Pei, making him feel a lot more relaxed, and at the same time, he also saw many dusty bones and all kinds of clay sculptures along the road, imagining the crimes committed by these Japanese devils here. Zheng Pei was certainly angry, but recalling the tragic situation of the devil officer being eliminated just now, Zheng Pei felt a lot more relieved. However, Zheng Pei picked up a fragment of a clay sculpture and felt a sadness in his heart, there will always be people who provoke war, but those who provoke war will never expect the final result of the war, in the end, it is still those ordinary people who only hope to eat and drink enough through labor to bear the consequences of the war.
Zheng Pei's injuries exacerbated his fatigue, and he leaned against the stone wall to scan the construction site where he had fallen. Illuminated by the flames, he suddenly realized that there was another flight of steps leading to another exit, but that exit seemed to be blocked. With Zheng Pei's current physical state, it is simply impossible to climb out of that small and narrow crack. The pain in his back and calves had been tormenting him, but it was nothing compared to his chapped lips. Zheng Pei pursed his mouth and found that he couldn't even sip his saliva. He sighed and sat down slowly against the wall. Watching the divine bodies of countless villagers fly out like flowing rivers along the cracks in the stone wall, Zheng Pei's heart became more and more calm. Calm to the point of gradually ignoring the cold, thirst and hunger, the slight wind in the cave gradually faded away in his ears, Zheng Pei closed his eyes, and now it felt like diving into the water when he was a child swimming, in this otherworldly environment, he just needs to wander slowly, slowly, slowly.......
"Zheng Pei!" Zheng Qiang's voice suddenly sounded in front of him, Zheng Pei woke up with a spirit, pain, cold, thirst, hunger, and all the pain instantly pierced his body. Zheng Qiang said to him anxiously: "Child, you have to be sober, you can't sleep!" You're going to freeze to death here! ”
Zheng Pei smiled reluctantly and said, "Dad, don't worry, I'll rest for a while, and I can crawl out of that crack when my legs are better." ”
"Alas!" Zheng Qiang sighed in frustration, "The way I am now, I really can't help you." ”
Qiao Hui squatted down with teary eyes, looked Zheng Pei up and down, and asked in a trembling voice, "Does it still hurt?" ”
Zheng Pei shook his head with a smile and said, "Mother, it doesn't hurt anymore, I'll crawl out in one breath later, but it's fast, don't worry." ”
Grandpa Zhang looked at the family and shook his head with his hands behind his back. But suddenly, as if he remembered something, he hurriedly shouted to the river of the divine body: "Uncle Egg! Uncle Egg! ”
A wisp of pale blue smoke slowly fell, turning into an eight- or nine-year-old child, covered in tattered patched clothes and pants, and walked barefoot to Grandpa Zhang. Tilting his head and flashing his innocent eyes, he asked, "What are you doing?" ”
Grandpa Zhang said with a smile: "Uncle Danzi, do you remember the secret passage that you kept back then?" This kid can't be trapped here. ”
Danzi turned his head to look at Zheng Pei, scratched his head, and said seriously: "You come, I'll tell you where it is." With that, he walked up a stone staircase hidden in the shadows, pouting at the stone wall above and looking left and right. Grandpa Zhang watched the egg keep scratching the back of his head, and smiled and lit a blue flame on the nearby stone wall for him.
"Ahh Here! Danzi excitedly patted a stone wall and said to Zheng Pei: "This place is made of mud, you can find a wooden pole or stone to smash it open." My dad said that you could climb to the outside by following the passage inside. ”
Zheng Pei stood up with the stone wall behind him, walked to him with a rifle and looked carefully, and sure enough, he found a small piece of stone wall made of mud and stones in a remote backlit corner of the stone steps. He pulled the bolt of the gun, saw that there was still a bullet, and was about to shoot against the butt.
"Zheng Pei!" Zheng Qiang hurriedly stopped his son and said, "Don't shoot, knock down the stray bullets on the stone wall, be careful to hurt yourself." ”
Zheng Pei had no choice but to screw the safety and limp up the stone steps with his rifle in tow. He stabbed the mud wall with his bayonet, but he didn't expect to easily penetrate the mud wall. Zheng Pei looked back in surprise and found that Zheng Pei, Qiao Hui, Grandpa Zhang and Danzi were all looking at him with a smile. Victory was in sight, Zheng Pei felt that the pain, cold, hunger and thirst had suddenly left, and there was strength in his arms. He thought that the bayonet was too slow, so he simply began to smash it with the butt of his gun, but only three or four times, a hole the size of a mouth appeared in the mud wall, and a gust of wind rushed into the cave with a large amount of dust.
"Daddy! Mother! I ......." Zheng Pei shouted happily, but when he turned around, he found that the cave was empty, and his father, Grandpa Zhang, Danzi, and even all the villagers were gone. The cold wind poured in from the entrance of the cave, brushing Zheng Pei's tired heart with a layer of ice. Tears flowed out of Zheng Pei's eyes, and he knew that he was the only one left now.......