Chapter 17: Sound
The map is blown into a place where the sun doesn't shine inside the ghost cave. I immediately took out my phone, turned on the flashlight, and shone it inside.
I crouched against the wall of the cave and walked into the cave a little, stopping where the sun couldn't shine. Take your phone's flashlight and shine it into the ghost cave.
The flashlight of this mobile phone is quite powerful, and it can shine 4 or 5 meters away. The ghost cave extends diagonally to the ground of forgetfulness, and the space inside slowly grows larger.
I searched around for the map, and just as I was about to give up the search and go out to draw a new one, at the end of the light on my phone, I saw the map, which was stuck between two rocks.
Meng Yingjiu told me not to go in, I looked at it, and the map was about 6 or 7 meters away from the entrance of the cave. I'll go and get it and come out, and if I don't go in, it should be fine.
I plucked up my courage and walked in. To the location where the map is stuck, I was able to stand up. I shone my phone deeper, and 3 meters in front of me, there were several holes of different sizes.
It was quiet inside the cave, and I could hear my own breathing. Suddenly, I heard the faint sound of footsteps inside. I asked hesitantly, "Zou Zhou?" ”
No one answered me, and the footsteps disappeared. I think maybe I was too nervous and hallucinating. But this place couldn't stay long, so I crouched down and picked up the map and prepared to go out.
Just wanted to turn around, but heard Meng Yingjiu's voice from the depths of the ghost cave. "Lin Min!"
I was stunned for a moment, how could he be in the ghost cave? But it was indeed his voice, couldn't it be that I was hallucinating again? While I was wondering, the voice came back to me. "Lin Min."
This time it was closer, and I could be sure that it was Meng Yingjiu's voice, and the tone was still so cold.
I pointed my phone in the direction where the sound came from, and there was only one big hole, about 2 meters high and 1 meter wide, which was the largest of the holes. But there was nothing to be seen in the cave.
I said weakly: "Meng Yingjiu! Is that you? You're not so boring, don't scare me! After I finished speaking, the surroundings fell silent again, and the silence made my heart tremble.
I waited for a while, and no one answered me. What's going on here? That voice is indeed Meng Yingjiu's voice, and in this place, the only person who can call my name is him, and Zou Xin. But why don't you answer me?
I stood there and didn't know what to do. At this time, from the hole where Meng Yingjiu's voice came from, there was the sound of stones hitting stones. This sound was the same as the sound of Meng Yingjiu banging on the cave wall outside just now.
Could it really be Meng Yingjiu? I asked, "Meng Yingjiu, is that you?" "There was still the sound of pounding stones from inside the cave.
I didn't have time to think about why Meng Yingjiu was in the ghost cave, I was just worried about whether something had happened to him. So I walked towards the entrance of the cave, and as soon as I walked in, Meng Yingjiu's voice came from inside: "Lin Min! “
Feeling the sound coming from a short distance in front of me, I hurried over. "Lin Min!" Gradually, I got closer and closer to that voice, and Meng Yingjiu's voice began to appear in front of me all the time, as if he wanted to tell me to go somewhere. "Lin Min!" "Lin Min!"
The more I walked inside, the more I felt that I had no strength and my limbs were weak, so why was I so tired after walking so little?
I held on to the rock beside me and walked slowly inside. Gradually, I couldn't take any steps, I just felt very tired and wanted to sleep. I sat down against the wall of the cave, barely able to open my eyes. In a trance, he saw a figure not far in front of him, but he couldn't hold on, so he closed his eyes and gradually lost consciousness.
In my sleep, I felt something slapping my face, and it hurt a little. "Lin Min! Wake up! ”
It's Meng Yingjiu's voice again, what is he going to do? I slowly opened my eyes, and Meng Yingjiu was squatting in front of me, looking at me.
Seeing me open my eyes, Meng Yingjiu helped me up, and I slowly sobered up. Meng Yingjiu opened a bottle of mineral water and handed it to me and said, "Didn't you tell you not to come in?" Why did you still come in? “
I was drinking water, and I almost threw up when he said this, and I said, "Didn't you call me from there?" I'll follow you in. ”
Meng Yingjiu said suspiciously: "Me? ”
I looked at him and said, "It's your voice." ”
"My voice, do you see my people?"
"I seem to see your shadow."
Meng Yingjiu said solemnly: "Let you take the Imperial Chess with you, not let you put it in your bag." "Saying that, he put the imperial chess in my hand.
I looked at the bag and said, "This is inconvenient." ”
Looking at his serious expression, I didn't dare to say anything more, so I kept the bag in my pants pocket.
When my hand touched the empty pocket of my pants, I was surprised and said, "Where's my phone?" ”
Meng Yingjiu handed me the phone and said, "I picked it up in front." ”
I took it, and the phone was only 30% charged, but I had it turned on before. But how could Meng Yingjiu say that he picked it up in front. I wondered, "I remember I didn't hold my phone in my hand all the time?" ”
Under the light of Meng Yingjiu's miner's lamp, I found that we were standing in the middle of a huge clearing, which could reach about 10 meters, which was already very good to be available in such a small village.
The light of the miner's lamp does not shine on the edge of the clearing, so isn't this clearing bigger than a basketball court?
But as far as I can remember, I obviously sat down against the cave wall, where did the cave wall go? I continued: "I wasn't in this place just now, I remember, in a hole. I was so sleepy that I sat down against the cave wall, did you bring me to this place? ”
Meng Yingjiu said: "No, I was in a cave in front of me and found your mobile phone. And then you come here, only to find you lying here. ”
"How so?" Thinking of the child ghost in the ghost cave that Lao Zhang said, he suddenly felt his scalp tingle, and said, "Is it a prank of the child ghost?" ”
Meng Yingjiu said lightly: "It's possible." ”
I was surprised and said, "Do you really believe that there are ghosts in this world?" "It's not a child, I was thinking, maybe something else." As he spoke, he took out a miner's lamp and a handful of biscuits from his bag on his back and gave them to me. "I've already eaten it, so eat it."
I took the biscuit and the lamp and said, "What is it?" "Let's go, maybe we'll meet later."
With that, he turned and walked forward, and I hurried to follow. Only then did I see that he was carrying a black schoolbag and my satchel. I walked up to him and said, "Give me my bag, I can carry it myself."
Meng Yingjiu took off his bag and put it on my back. He only said, "Let's go, be careful." "Yes." I thought about it, but where are we going? So I took out the map in my pants pocket, and it was already crumpled. I gave the map to Meng Yingjiu and said, "Give you the map, where are we going?"
Meng Yingjiu said: "You take it, I have already written it down." “
Memory so good? I said, "That's amazing, huh?" “
Meng Yingjiu turned around, pointed to a point on the coherent line on the map, and said, "We are here now." "I realized that we were two-thirds of the way through the route and were almost at the end of the route." How did you come so far? “
Meng Yingjiu pointed to the line and said, "We have already walked through five forks in the road ahead. He pointed to the line that crossed the route and said, "I have also crossed this dark river." “
My head went blank and I said, "I remember I just walked a fork in the road." "I looked at my watch and saw that it was already 3:30 p.m." It's already half past three? “
Meng Yingjiu said: "I came back from shopping, and at about two o'clock, I saw that only your bag was at the entrance of the cave, so I hurried in to find you." At my pace, I walked for an hour and a half, and it was about 6 kilometers from the entrance of the cave to here. ”
I was surprised and said, "6 km? It's not over yet, this ghost hole is so big, huh? “
Meng Yingjiu said: "It's not the straight-line distance you think, we actually keep turning around inside." “
I exclaimed, "That's a big hole." “
Meng Yingjiu looked at me and said, "You should be grateful, those little ghosts just now carried you on their backs for 6 kilometers." “
Hearing his words, goosebumps rose all over my body, and I nervously said, "This is scary, okay?" “
After thinking about it, I don't think it's right to say this, but what if the child ghost gets angry when he hears it? After all, they had carried me so far on their backs, so I turned to the darkness around me and said, "Thank you." “
Meng Yingjiu smiled and said, "Let's go." “
So I followed behind Meng Yingjiu. Suddenly, I heard a "squeak" sound overhead, like the cry of a mouse. I shone it up with a miner's lamp, and the voice came back again.
In the light of the miner's lamp, I saw a few black lumps on the roof of the cave about 7 or 8 meters above us, and it seemed to be moving.
I pulled Meng Yingjiu's clothes and said, "What's that?" "Bats." "Bats? How to bark like a mouse. "If it's a creature that knows, I'm not afraid. Meng Yingjiu didn't answer me, just walked forward.
I got used to him like this, and I didn't care about him, and continued: "I've never seen a bat. ”
Soon we were walking through the clearing, and a huge rock stood in our way. Meng Yingjiu did not hesitate and gave up the other roads next to him, but chose a small hole under the boulder that only one person could climb through.
I said, "Are you sure you're out here?" ”
Meng Yingjiu squatted next to the entrance of the cave and said, "Well, you go over first." ”
"Huh?" I was a little scared, after all, the cave is also an unknown world, and this cave is so small, if you encounter anything, it is not easy to get out.
Meng Yingjiu just looked behind me and said, "You go ahead, I'll break the back." ”
When I heard this, I turned to look behind me, and I didn't see anything, but I felt as if there was something in the darkness. "Okay."
So I got down on my stomach, put the miner's lamp in first, and slowly climbed into the little hole. Because of the short sleeves I wore in the summer, my arm now hurts on the ground.
A little bit inside, the hole starts to go up. I shouted, "Meng Yingjiu! Are you behind me? "Yes."
After a few minutes of climbing, two holes appeared in front of me, and I stopped and said, "There are two holes here, which one should you go?" “
Meng Yingjiu answered me almost immediately: "Left." ”
I climbed into the hole on the left, which was a little larger and much smoother, as if it had been dug by hand, and I couldn't help but marvel at the wonders of nature.
I crawled in this hole for about 10 minutes, and finally crawled out. After I crawled out of the hole, I patted the dust on my body first, and then moved my body, and I almost cramped when I climbed just now.
I picked up the miner's lamp and looked around and saw that the hole was about 10 meters wide, like a tunnel. The place where we climbed out was like the middle of a tunnel, stretching on the left and right, with no end in sight, and the cave was full of stalactites of different shapes.
Soon Meng Yingjiu also came out of the cave, he patted the soil on his body and began to observe the surrounding situation. He glanced at both sides and decided to go to the left.
His choice so quickly made it feel like he had been to this place before.
I was about to ask him, but at this time, in the darkness in front of us, a woman's voice came: "Meng Yingjiu! ”
Hearing this voice, I was stunned for a moment, and I couldn't help but gasp, wasn't that my own voice?