Chapter 21: Who Am I?
The night is as dark as splashing ink, and the clouds do not see the moon.
I hid my figure behind a ruined wall, and looked out into the small courtyard next to it, where the hut was hidden in the darkness, unlit, barely conclusive. If it weren't for the occasional sound of late-returning birds flapping their wings in the sky, I really suspect that I am the only living creature left in this world.
I listened with bated breath, but I couldn't hear a single human voice. Of course, there was no voice, and I said to myself, but there was ......
I didn't dare to move, so I could only wait. I don't know how long it took, but suddenly I felt something cold fall on my nose.
Just as I was feeling confused, more droplets began to fall on my head and hands. Unlucky! That's when I realized that it was raining!
Seeing that the rain was getting denser, my clothes were soon wet, and the cold air forced my teeth to fight. Seeing that there is no shelter around, if you want to hide from the rain, you can only go to the house!
Forget it, whatever! I walked a few steps to the front of the house, and when I pushed it, the door opened, and I quickly got inside.
When you enter the house, you don't go straight, but turn to the right and go straight to the corner. Squatted down and leaned his back against the corner of the wall, and then looked back at the room, but it was too dark to see anything clearly.
At this moment, there was a loud thunderclap, and by the lightning of the next few seconds, I could see that there was a huge square object in the middle of the room, and the rest of the space was empty.
When the lightning lit up again, I saw this thing in the middle of the room, soapwood and vermilion paint, and it was a coffin!
Although I have seen countless dead people, I still feel a little panicked when I grab a roof with a dead person in such an environment! Fortunately, as soon as I came in, I grabbed this corner, and I had a backer in my back, so I was more steady.
The rain outside seems to be getting heavier, I wonder if she will come?
The legs were numb, and when he changed his position slightly, the sound of Si Si Suo Suo came from his arms. I took it out and looked at it close to my eyes before I remembered that this was the portrait I had drawn earlier. The top one depicts a pretty girl, with a pair of eyes that seem to be smiling, a small mouth pursed, and a look always a little curious and eccentric.
Fortunately, I also studied Chinese painting for a few years, and although the level is not very high, I can still draw a person's characteristics in general.
So after a while, someone recognized me and pointed me in the direction of this little house. But I wonder if he will recognize the wrong person?
I was a little bottomless in my heart, and there was a flash of lightning, why did a moving black shadow appear on the ground in front of me? I jerked my head up and saw a cat coming in from a broken window not far away. It seems like...... It's still a black cat, and in the night light, its eyes are shining, like jewels on a flannel.
I thought it was a false alarm, but my heart just relaxed, my eyes fell on the coffin in the house, and suddenly I thought: Black cat? Dead person? It seems to say that the black cat can't touch the dead, otherwise it will cheat the corpse, right?
He comforted himself again and said: Nonsense, that's all superstition, how can you believe it casually!
But when I saw the cat bowing its back in the direction of the coffin and felt like it was about to make a sprint, I subconsciously reached out and fished it out.
The cat was so slippery and so fast that it curved off the windowsill, and I only touched the tip of its tail. Seeing that it was on all fours on the ground, it had already turned around and rushed in the direction of the coffin!
The situation was urgent, and I couldn't think about it, so I took this little thing in my arms by squatting and flying away.
Almost at the same time, something slammed into my shoulder, sending me to the ground with the momentum of the fall.
"Ouch!" I screamed in pain, and as soon as my hand was released, the black cat broke free, not knowing where it had gone.
I lay on my side on the ground, and when I turned over, the door was open, and a thin figure stood in front of it, with one hand on his waist and a long, thin object in the other hand pointing at me.
Could it be ...... I quickly clutched my shoulders and struggled to take a closer look.
"Don't move! Who are you? The figure spoke, his voice crisp and beautiful, but full of murderous energy!
But the sound alone made me overjoyed, and I only felt my blood boiling, and I jumped up and exclaimed in surprise: "You're finally here!" ”
Boom! This time, I really took a blow to the head, and I immediately fainted and fell to the ground, unconscious!
When you wake up, you find yourself sitting in a chair, tied with ropes all over your body, unable to move. Looking around, it was a somewhat dilapidated room, with a simple bed, a wooden table, and some daily necessities on the wall. Either way, this is no longer the house where the coffin was kept.
I shook my head, I was still a little dizzy, and the top of my head hurt badly, so I guess I must have been beaten up with a big bag.
What a ruthless move! I complained to myself, looking around to see if there was anything that could be used to solve the current dilemma.
didn't wait to find a suitable object, as soon as the door opened, a person walked in from the outside, it was a teenage girl, wearing a red dress, with a bun on her head, a round face with delicate facial features, the most memorable thing is a pair of slender phoenix eyes, not smiling but like a little smile, adding some cuteness and cuteness.
As soon as I saw her, my heart was hot, and tears began to flow down!
The girl just looked at me strangely, as if asking in her eyes, "What's wrong with you?" ”
"Grandma, I'm so hungry......," I said as I cried, and my stomach immediately began to rumble.
She looked a little surprised, but soon a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and she turned and went out, and after a while she brought back a basket of steamed buns.
As soon as I saw the food, it was like a pair of small hands stretching out from my stomach to my throat, my eyes were straight, and my saliva was about to flow to my mouth, but because I was tied, I could only look at it and couldn't eat it in my mouth, and I was so anxious that I was about to go crazy.
The girl may have seen that I was just a hungry ghost reincarnated, and that I really didn't look like a wicked person, and besides, it was obvious that I was no match for her, so she came over and helped me loosen my bonds. I didn't bother to thank her, so I rushed to the table and began to eat a lot, choking several times and sticking my neck out.
yes, it was the first meal I've had since I got here!
"Who are you?" The girl smiled even more when she saw me eating, and asked as she pushed the teapot on the table to me.
I looked at her somewhat familiar and somewhat unfamiliar face, and I was really happy, sad and emotional for a while, and I was almost speechless.
yes, who am I?
Speaking of which, it's been a whole day since I've been here!
I still vividly remember how I felt when I arrived......
Because the senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch disappear one after another, the only thing that is active is only consciousness. And if it's just something that is experienced in consciousness, I'm afraid it's not necessarily real, but just an illusion.
At that time, I felt that my body felt so light, like lying in a flat boat, leisurely drifting between the mountains and rivers; It is like a broken flower turned into a dandelion, gently carried by the wind and carried around. This feeling, by the way, is what I felt when the accident happened, wandering between the two worlds of life and death!
But this time it seemed to be different, as if something was missing, a little panicked, anxious to find a place to return.
The consciousness that had begun to scatter in the brain earlier began to gather like a stream of water, spinning faster and faster, forming a hollow vortex, as if to sweep everything together.
When the vortex was so big that I could breathe almost uncontrollably, my body began to sink rapidly, so fast that it seemed to be much faster than a free fall, so fast that my heart was about to stop!
I don't know how long I fell like this, my body shook suddenly, as if I had fallen to the ground, and I was forced to hold my breath like a heavy object pressing on my body, and then let go in an instant, and then let go of it in an instant, and finally began to breathe evenly as if I was asleep.
When I woke up, the sun was shining warmly on my face, and the light was so brilliant that I couldn't open my eyes.
As soon as I turned over, I found myself on a meadow, and when I sat up, I saw that there was mostly grass around, and occasionally there were a few trees.
As if remembering something, I jumped up from the ground like a spring and ran quickly in the direction of the lower ground. The grass was a bit high, and from time to time it stumbled and made me stumble a little and almost fall many times. But it's so important that I don't want to delay for a moment, just ******** run as hard as I can!
As I ran into the space between the two mountains, and the top of my head began to be covered with thick leaves, I finally found what I was looking for in the col!
A mountain spring gushed out from behind a large boulder, forming a small pool of water in the surrounding stone nest. I ran over with a rolling belt, got down on one knee by the spring, and looked into the water.
A face without a full beard and a trace of vicissitudes was reflected in the water, and although the hair grew like a wild man, it looked very young, and the eyebrows were so familiar that it felt as if it were ...... It's the same as I was ten years ago!
I reached for a handful of water and threw it on my face, the cool water wet my face and hair, and it felt so refreshing! When the water shadow returned to calm and looked again, the face reflected on the surface of the water was still the same as before.
Yes! I let out a long shush, fell to the ground, put my hands in front of my eyes and looked over and over again, and couldn't help but laugh heartily!
I'm finally alive!! Moreover, the state is much better than before, as if it has been reborn!
For a long time, I was immersed in the joy of being reborn after the catastrophe.
Until now, the excitement at that time still seems to remain in my chest and cannot be completely dissipated! I looked at the curious look of the girl opposite, patted my chest, and replied proudly and loudly, "Who am I?" I'm Tao Yong! Tao - Yong! ”