XXXV. The city wall
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What the fat man said to me was like a conjecture, and in the deepest subconscious of the fat man, he could think that I was a replicant, so he chose not to tell me, but when he sensed the crisis, he still conveyed the news to me in a way: "The truth has been found." ”
"Did he make me feel my own changes step by step?" I slashed my fingers with a knife and watched the blood come out from under my skin, although I couldn't accept it, but this was a fact that I had known for a long time. "You didn't kill me because you knew I was a mirror person?"
"So to speak!" The fat man spread his hands, "But I don't really like to see someone being copied, because this unique sense of existence is the best, but I don't seem to feel this way about you, how about you want to go with me?" ”
"What kind of twist is this? Gun mouth? ”
"How?"
"Don't you want to hit me like this!" I looked down at the bleeding hand.
"You choose."
After listening to the fat man's words, I was a little depressed and didn't want to say a word. It's like someone telling you you're a fool, and you say that Lao Tzu has a big IQ and goes to the hospital out of breath, only to have a doctor hand you a diagnosis that says, "You have been diagnosed with Parkinson's Youth Severe Fantasy Disorder, which means that you are really a fool."
"Forget it, I still have my own way to go, and you said it's all suspicion." I looked up at the replicant, and then stretched out my clenched fist, blood spilling out of my hand as my grip increased.
"Okay!" The man said, "Let's go!" Keep heading west. ”
"Hmm." I nodded and turned around, this place is really a little sad! "I will tell them that I killed you and buried you. That's right. Almost forgot about the dead fat man? I don't think you killed him, did you? ”
"That's not a good idea, bro." He shouted behind me. "But I really didn't kill him in that my body, otherwise I wouldn't be standing here talking to you like this, not every replicant is like a copy of a straight child, but my body is indeed facing the same situation as me, without the guidance of light and without the locking of direction."
"That's enough. He's not one to die here. I ignored him and walked in the direction we had come, it didn't matter who the man in the bunker was, I learned a little bit from what the man said to me. The sand people had contact with the army in the 60s, and at that time the country must have found something wrong from that, and then there was the disappearance of Pengamu, and some people speculated that the most deserted Lop Nur was the cemetery and sparsely populated, so the sand people ran to Lop Nur to survive, and it seems that they can only make a living by robbing tombs.
But as I walked through the vast space underground, I realized that this was not the case. The sandfolk didn't dig holes, they went up to the surface from here. It is impossible to open the Thief Cave in a desert area, because the wind and sand are enough to bury the entire team alive, so it is completely impossible. This inference also confirms why the footprints of Pengamu disappeared into the saline soil in the end. How strange it is for people looking for water to run to the saline land, so there is only one truth, Pengamu is not looking for water at all, but to find the entrance to the ruins.
So the person in that bunker is probably Pengamu. Then like the fat man of the replicant, the replicant took his clothes and put him here. Then went out on his own. In the same way, it was not Pengamu who was copied that time, but that person was a replicant who was discovered, so he was secretly executed.
In this way, all the mysteries about this strange land have been solved, which is why there are so many versions of a person's disappearance, but in fact, these versions are just fragments of the truth that have been dismantled.
There is also Gumo, if it is recorded in that ancient book, the Gumo man wearing a tiger mask who appeared in the dark can be explained. There is indeed an underworld country, and the result is the same as when the fat man asked the ghost, and we found an underground country here.
As for the jade mirror underneath the ground, I guess it's an energy replica or a rumored instrument that can lead to another dimension. It can be analyzed from the time I was pulled in almost by that fleshy arm-like thing. His reproduction requires people to pass through that mirror, just like a 3D photocopier, you fall into that mirror, it copies the same you, and the place of reproduction may be the other side of the jade mirror. And during that period of time, there were legends that Xinjiang Lop Nur was the intersection of parallel universes.
On the way back, I wiped a little blood on the barrel of the gun, and then handed the gun to Xie Chenhui, and did not say a word, and Xie Chenhui is also very normal to understand that the heart is weak after the first killing, he kept persuading me to tell me that he is just a replicant, until Wang Yang pointed out the camels in the distance of us.
It was those camels, I read that right, they did not die in the storm of the Death Worm and the Gobi Collapse. On the contrary, there were three others who survived, and I slapped Xie Chenhui away and ran over as if he had seen a saint of God, but this was not until we ran in front of it, and we were pleasantly surprised to find that they were still carrying the water and food we had put on them, as well as my backpack.
After counting our things, we finally found that it was the fat man's camel that was missing, could it be that the fat man rode it away? But this big guy couldn't speak, just rubbed my arm affectionately, maybe they were still terrified after experiencing such fear!
But it was with the help of those life-saving camels that we started our journey again. I looked into the darkness in the distance, and I remember that the newspaper of that year wrote like this: "The expedition team was seriously short of water at that time, and the expedition team asked the troops for help and asked for water, and the troops also agreed, but Peng Jiamu still insisted on going out to find water alone, and did not say hello to any team members, just left a note in the car, "I went east to find a well", and walked into the vast desert alone. ”
A person, if we guess that Pengamu went to find the entrance to the ruins alone at this time, then I think it will be about 4-5 days from his lack of water to death, because it is impossible for a person to live for more than 5 days without water and at room temperature, then the time and distance from here to the place where he came from is determined - it is 5 days.
But when we kept moving forward, it was 7 days of hard walking, 7 days without day and night, at first we could continue to communicate but soon we didn't even have the mood to communicate, and now we have no backups, and I completely listened to the side of the replicant before I made up my mind to say that I would not stop until the end. Looking at the front, I began to wonder if that person was really Pengamu? And how far are we from the ground now? Because Wang Yang was still calculating the distance we would go downhill while walking.
I was a little pessimistic and knocked on my mask, should I do this! What would happen to him if the fat man was there? I think he'll definitely send someone to wait for rescue while walking, right? And when I came down, I actually said something to let the person who was supposed to lead us go directly, oh my God! Whatever I do, I'm going to kill those people.
I rode on a camel and buried my head in my backpack. But that's when my camel stopped. "What's wrong?" I asked.
But at this time, no one spoke. All I could hear was the sound of heavy breathing, remembering in my ears. I raised my head a little silently, and suddenly the picture in my pupils flickered a little, because I had almost slowly adapted to the environment in the darkness of the past few days, and the sudden light caught me a little off guard. I covered the bright light in front of me with my hand, "Why did you turn on the light?" ”
"Look ahead." Xie Chenhui and Wang Yang couldn't help but say at the same time.
"Ahead?" I put down my arm suspiciously, but what I saw was a large ancient city wall erected in front of us like a giant, and this wall stretched out for hundreds of miles to the left and right, even beyond our line of sight. On top of the wall, there were several stone carved beast heads sticking out of the wall, like fierce beasts in the mountains. On top of the tower were some broken bricks and tiles, and the stuck points of the forts and arrows were clearly visible, and in front of us were criss-crossing war canals. At the end of the war canal was the bronze gate, which was only adorned with a pattern, a bronze man with thick swollen cheeks. (To be continued......)