Chapter 45: Autumn Phoenix
"Ahh At the moment of falling, I could only subconsciously scream, grasping with both hands, hoping to catch something to stabilize my body, but the ancient well was deep and narrow, and after a few scratches, I only touched the dry wall of the well, and in the end, I only felt a pain in my back, my brain buzzed, and the whole person lost consciousness.
To tell the truth, it was really my luck that I fell down like this and didn't fall to my death, because I fell into the well upside down, and if I hit my head first, I would definitely die, and the death would be ugly. But fortunately, in the process of struggling, he adjusted his posture, and finally his back landed first.
When I woke up, I found myself living in a dark and narrow place, very dark, and I could touch the dry sand lumps when I looked around.
At this moment, the back of my head is still swollen and painful, and the moment I first woke up, I didn't even know what my condition was. It took more than ten seconds for the brain to regain its ability to think. Then I remembered that I had fallen into a well.
Immediately after, I felt wrong, how long had I been fainting?
What was that thing that dragged me down the well?
I think it's probably some kind of animal, like a snake or something, but why didn't it hurt me?
These questions swirled in my mind, and I immediately went to touch the lighter, but helplessly, at this moment I was in a curly posture, in a very narrow place, and I couldn't even open my hands, and in desperation, I was about to move my body, but at this moment, a pair of cold hands suddenly reached out from behind me and pressed my hands.
In an instant, I shuddered, because I didn't realize that there was someone behind me!
And this cold touch, coupled with some bizarre and strange things I have experienced recently, I even have some doubts about whether these hands belong to 'people'. As I shuddered, the man spoke up: "Little brother, don't move, it's dangerous here." "The person who spoke was so close to me, her head was at the back of my neck, and her voice sounded very weak, it was a woman!
I was shocked and immediately asked, "Who are you?" After confirming that the other party was not a ghost, I felt a little relieved, and as soon as I relaxed, I immediately noticed something that I had ignored before.
For example, the smell.
The smell came from the woman behind me, the kind of person who hadn't bathed for a long time, sour, terrible. In addition to this, there seems to be some smell of excrement.
I began to wonder where this woman came from.
The ancient well, and the woman under the ancient well, immediately reminded me of the dead man.
Could it be that this woman is his companion?
In the dark, I couldn't see what she looked like. I couldn't tell her age, I could only hear her voice, very weak and hoarse: "I am a member of an expedition, the bottom of this well is very dangerous, and I have been trapped here for a long time...... What about you? ”
I immediately realized that this was probably the person we were looking for, and I said, "Did you send a companion out for help?" ”
This woman was very close to me, so I could clearly feel her body shaking suddenly, and then she said, "Yes, how do you know?" Did you meet him? Could it be that you're a police officer? ”
I said, "I'm not a police officer, we are also an expedition team, and I met your companion halfway, and he was very seriously injured and died. Before I died, he asked us for help, so my companion and I came. After a pause, I remembered something and said, "You're alone here?" ”
The other party nodded, his forehead just rubbed against my neck, it was cool, I felt a little embarrassed, to be honest, this was the first time I was so close to the girl, and my neck was a more sensitive part of people, so I stiffened a little.
But she didn't seem to feel anything, and fell silent when she heard the words, and after a few moments, I heard a sob, and the voice was very muffled, and it seemed that she did not dare to cry out loud. I suddenly felt bad in my heart, but I didn't know how to comfort me.
I'm a person who is not good at words, and although I am anxious, I don't know how to comfort me.
She sobbed for a while, took a deep breath, quieted down, and said, "There are five of us, but now, only I am the only one." ”
I immediately understood in my heart that eighty percent of the rest of the people had already been killed. When I think of this, I can't help but think of the thing that dragged me down the well before, is that what they are talking about danger? I couldn't help but ask, "What happened to you?" You saved me? ”
She nodded, and after a while, said, "It's not to save you, it's us who have affected you, this residential area is very dangerous." Immediately afterward, she began to talk about her experience.
Her surname is Qiu, called Qiu Huangxi, the surname Qiu is a relatively rare surname, the earliest from the surname Ji, it is said to be the descendant of the emperor's descendant Shaohao. And the word phoenix, in fact, is particularly interesting, Chinese like to say dragon and phoenix Chengxiang, husband and wife union, also known as the joy of dragon and phoenix, in fact, phoenix and phoenix, phoenix is a male bird, phoenix is a female bird, dragon and phoenix Chengxiang This statement, carefully studied, in fact, quite ambiguous, both are public, how to be auspicious?
And the Chinese name their daughters, and they also like to use phoenix, hoping that the son will become a dragon, and the daughter will become a phoenix, but generally more sophisticated, will not use the word phoenix. So when I heard her name Qiu Huangxi, I couldn't help asking, "Is your father particularly knowledgeable?" "Ordinary people will definitely take Qiufeng, will not take Qiuhuang, the difference of one word, you can see a person's cultural heritage.
I guessed correctly, Qiu Huangxi's family situation is average, but counting up to three generations, the family is all readers, so it is considered to be from a scholarly family, her father is a professor in the Chinese Department of the university, she is also a teacher herself, the name Phoenix Xi comes from "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix": Phoenix Xi Phoenix Xi returns to his hometown and travels all over the world to seek his phoenix.
This time it was summer vacation, and a few friends organized a trekking experience through the desert, and she followed.
This oasis is within the scope of their experience, but they didn't expect that there would be something strange inhabiting under this oasis.
When they entered the oasis, it was night, and they spent the night in a private house. The next day, they played in the oasis and took pictures, and at noon, when the fun was hot, the men in the team wanted to find an ancient well to flush the cold water to cool off.
Who knew that when I got to the well, something happened, and I was pulled down by that strange thing.
Of course, the well they fell down was not the same as the well I fell. And the reason why the two of us are together now is because there are many underground passages under this place, and the wells are connected to each other
I was very surprised when I heard this, the well and the well figured it out? Where did these underground passages come from? You must know that well water is groundwater, and once it is successfully chiseled, the water will overflow, and it is impossible to connect with each other.
Of course, with modern technology, it is possible to get through it with a little more cost, but in the desert a few decades ago, who would have done such a thing? Even if you want to do it, you don't have the skills at all.
Qiu Huangxi said weakly: "These passages are not made by people, they are them." "They are the things that pull us down,
So what is it exactly? To be honest, I didn't see it clearly, but Qiu Huangxi did come into contact with them. When they fell, they didn't carry much equipment, because they were resting at the time, and most of the equipment was taken off and piled aside, so when several people were dragged down, they didn't have much on them.
The well they fell into wasn't that deep, so they didn't faint when they fell, but a few people weren't as lucky as me, in Qiu Huangxi's words, I was saved by her, and they didn't know much about the creature at the time, so they didn't know how to deal with it, so as soon as they fell, they suffered.
It was something like the roots of some kind of plant, entangled in the mud and sand, inconspicuous, but that thing could grow out of the soil and entangle people like life. The thing secretes an anesthetic substance, and when entwined with it, it is similar to being anesthetized by a spider.
How do spiders eat?
When the prey is trapped in a spider's web, the spider secretes a hormone that causes the prey to liquefy from the inside, and the spider then sucks up the liquefied sap.
At that time, they were entangled and anesthetized by the roots.
The thing didn't seem to be able to eat much at once, so it picked the tallest guy in the line first. That person's name was Liu Kaiyi, and everyone watched as those roots slowly pierced into Liu Kaiyi's skin, and then Liu Kaiyi's sanity began to dissipate, and finally he began to struggle, screaming non-stop.
For a whole day, the flesh in Liu Kaiyi's body seemed to turn into water, which was slowly absorbed by those things, and in the end, only a piece of skin remained.
Qiu Huangxi's body kept shaking when she told this.
Witnessing a painful death in one day, the feeling is absolutely unacceptable, and the earth is not spiritual, and it makes people go crazy.