Chapter 17: The Dark Room

The white veil glowed in the light of the flashlight, like countless small stars dotted on it.

The monkey walked around the perimeter of the veil, and when he returned to the same place, he saw the fat man with a gloomy face, staring inward at the veil. When the monkey saw that the fat man's expression was not very good, he asked him, "Fat brother, what are you looking at?" Do you know the zongzi on the stage inside? ”

Originally, the monkey seemed to be very dull when he saw the fat man, and wanted to make a joke to ease the fat man's feelings. As a result, seeing that the fat man's expression became more and more gloomy and dull, and became very dignified, he turned his head mechanically, faced the monkey's question, and answered with a very serious and firm nod.

This can make the monkey who originally had a playful attitude can't help but be shocked, and can't help but stare at the fat man with an expression of inquiry and disbelief. And the fat man in front of him, his expression and attitude were solemn, it didn't seem like he was joking at all, and there was a sad and lonely look on his face that the fat man had never had.

The monkey saw that the fat man, who had always had a hearty and happy smile, seemed to have changed a person, showing a look that he had never seen before, and the fat man's body seemed to be shrouded in a layer of haze, which made people feel very desolate and sad when they looked at it, which made the monkey feel quite shocked, and couldn't help but secretly think in his heart, should the fat man also be a ghost? Why is it a dead father's expression, weird, could it be that the fat man's ancestor is lying on this stone bed? But how is this possible?

The fat man was silent, his face was very ugly, and he spread the whole burden on the ground. In addition to a little dry food, there was also a large half bottle of Erguotou high wine, a bundle of candles, a knife not much stronger than a fruit knife, a large bundle of strong hemp rope, some gold sore medicine, a pair of farm gloves and a cotton underwear. The fat man picked up the knife, walked up to the curtain, and made a quick and hard slash under the curtain, and the veil was cut open. However, the veil grew and closed again at an astonishing speed, as if nothing had happened.

The monkey quietly watched the fat man's actions, and he didn't dare to speak, because the fat man's expression now seemed to be like he would eat people, and he was extremely hideous, and his seriousness was terrifying, as if he wanted to swallow the veil in front of him into his stomach in one gulp.

The fat man walked from the new to the spread baggage, and the physical damage of the knife seemed to have no effect on the white strange veil, so he had no choice but to find another way. Then he took out a bundle of candles from the baggage, then took one out of it and lit it, and then walked up to the veil with the candle in his hand, and put the flame burning slowly on the veil, and the white silk veil was burned into a big hole at once, but, in the blink of an eye, the white thread wriggled and twisted together, and the big hole in the veil that had just been burned by the candle flame was sewn seamlessly.

Seeing this, the fat man's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and he felt that his eyes were about to burst out of his sockets in anger. He held a burning candle and aimed the flame at the veil to the left and right, and danced up and down. As a result, the white veil was burned out of small holes, but the holes repaired themselves in an instant, and the white veil was still intact, glowing with a little bit of crystal light.

The fat man probably had nothing to do, he clutched the candle tightly in despair, let the hot wax tears fall on his hands, and still stared intently at the veil in front of him. The monkey was on the side, and he clearly heard the fat man's angry gnashing of teeth at this time.

The monkey had never seen the fat man look like this now, and was completely shocked by his aura, and he didn't even dare to take a breath.

At this time, there were footsteps behind the two of them, and then someone was heard saying faintly, "The authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear." ”

The fat man was excited at this time, as if he would lose control and run away at any time, he heard a voice coming from behind him, so he turned his head sharply, and glared at the person behind him with hideous eyes. And it was not someone else who spoke, it was the third child, and the smoke man was following closely behind, and the two of them walked slowly onto the stone steps.

The third child slowly walked up the steps, looked at the white veil, and then turned his head and asked the smoke man: "Big brother, do you think this is the "Millennium Worm" of the Western Regions?"

The cigarette man approached the white veil and looked at it carefully, and then replied, "You are talking about nematodes with the ability to regenerate, which should have been extinct long ago, I don't see it." ”

After hearing what the cigarette man said, the third child turned to look at the fat man with a blue face, and then said to the fat man: "No matter what this veil is, don't you just want to go inside?" Look at your anxious appearance, what, do you know the people lying in here? Could it be that the zongzi inside is your favorite? After the third child finished speaking, he laughed out loud, and laughed so much that he leaned forward and trembled.

When the fat man heard the ridicule and laughter of the third child, his face became more and more ugly, his fists were clenched tighter and tighter, the candles in his hands were pinched off by him, and the whole person's state was completely in the prelude to an outbreak. The monkey on the side saw that things were not good, and hurriedly said, "Little Third Master really likes to laugh, but do you have a way to crack this white curtain?" ”

When the third child heard the monkey's question, he stopped laughing, pinched the handkerchief pinned to the clothes with his fingers, wiped the tears that flowed down from the corners of his eyes because of laughter, and then said "elm head", and then swayed to the front of the burden spread out on the ground, grabbed half a bottle of the second pot head, held it in his hand and shook it at everyone, and said with a smile: "This kind of high wine, just ignite the fire." This veil is afraid of fire, although it can grow and heal, but the wine is sprinkled on this veil, and then the four of us stand on one side of the veil, and light the fire together, I can guarantee that the veil will be burned to ashes in an instant, leaving no trace. ”

When the monkey heard this, he immediately clapped his hands and shouted, "Great." Then he took the bottle and poured most of the two pots on the veil, and then the four of them took their positions around the curtain, and the monkey shouted a slogan, and after counting down to the three, the four of them lit a fire on the curtain at the same time.

Sure enough, as the third child said, the fire was so fierce that it exceeded the healing ability of the veil, and the veil under the fire made a creaking sound, and in the strong burning flames, the white veil disappeared with black smoke, and only a scorching smell wafted in the air was left around.

Before the veil was completely burned out, the fat man broke into the altar and went straight to the stone bed. At this time, the cigarette man behind him stretched out his hand to grab the fat man, but he was not able to break free by the fat man's strength, the fat man took three steps and made two steps, quickly walked to the stone platform today, picked up the person lying on the stone bed, and stroked the hair of the person in his arms with tears in his eyes.

Seeing this scene, the third child who was joking just now couldn't help but cover his mouth with his hand and whispered: "I didn't expect that I was right." ”

That's right, the person lying on the stone bed is the moon that the fat man wants to look forward to day and night. At this time, Yue'er was sleeping quietly like a sleeping beauty, completely undisturbed by the outside world, and refused to wake up in a dream.

Tears rolled down from the fat man's eyes one by one, dripping on Yue'er's cheeks, at this time the fat man could no longer control his feelings, allowing the tears to flow out unscrupulously, and his mouth kept gently calling "Yue'er, wake up, Yue'er, wake up." ”

At this moment, an abrupt "click" sound sounded from under the stone bed, and the fat man was completely immersed in the joy and sorrow of meeting Yue'er, and he didn't notice the strange sound at all. The cigarette man, who had been standing beside the fat man, had a sudden change in his face, and immediately took two steps forward, grabbed the fat man's arm, and shouted, "Hurry up." ”

However, it was too late, and the stone bed fell downward in an instant, along with the fat man and Yue'er who were near the stone bed. When the mechanism was touched, the smoke man grabbed the fat man and wanted to take him away from the vicinity of the stone bed, but the sudden change came too suddenly, and the fat man fell down with the stone bed with Yue'er in his arms, and the smoke man who pulled the fat man and refused to let go was also taken down downward. The monkey, who has always been responsive, saw the three of them falling downward, so he took action and grabbed the cigarette man's clothes and the third child's arm at the same time, trying to use his strength to prevent everyone from falling.

However, the third child, who was standing on the sidelines watching the excitement, was defenseless, and when he was caught by the monkey, he let out an exclamation of "Mom". As a result, the monkey suffered from it and was frightened by the exclamation of the third child, and he couldn't help but lose his strength. As a result, everyone fell down with the stone bed like a string of pearls with broken threads.

Several people fell to the ground after flipping twice in the air, and the third child who fell "oops" sounded, and he didn't get up for a long time, and the fat man protected Yue'er in his arms, and it looked like he didn't fall lightly. It took a long time for the fallen people to get up from the ground one after another.

The monkey stood up first, patted the dirt off his body, and then lit the old tin torch of the tungsten light bulb, and the dim and mysterious light spread all around. Only then did they realize that they had fallen into a small boxy dark room, in which five people could barely move freely, but if there was one more person, the dark room would be a little cramped and crowded.

The monkey watched the fat man sit on the ground, looking at the person in his arms affectionately, and then he had the opportunity to see the person in the fat man's arms, a very beautiful girl, he wanted to open his mouth to ask the fat man, is this girl the moon that the fat man often hangs on his lips? However, the fat man now is completely like a different person, his eyes are blank and his brows are deep, his face is hung with an expression that he doesn't know whether to cry or laugh, and there is an aura of not approaching and disturbing all over his body.

The monkey knew that the fat man's feelings were very unstable at this time, and it was best not to provoke him casually, so he turned around and used the flashlight in his hand to check the situation of the others. When the third child fell, his back injury aggravated, and he was lying on the ground moaning constantly, while the cigarette man was helping him massage.

The moonlight swept to the corner of the dark room in the corner of the monkey's eyes, and there was a black thing, lying quietly on the ground, and couldn't help but panic for a moment, and after a closer look, they found that it was their backpack. And at this time, he suddenly remembered something, and blurted out a scream, "It's broken." ”

Hearing the monkey's exclamation, everyone looked at him in unison, only to see the monkey raise his head and shine the light of the flashlight on the top of everyone's heads, and at the top of the dark room, there were only two stone slabs tightly closed, and everyone did not know why the monkey exclaimed. I saw the monkey holding a flashlight, staring at the closed stone slab above his head, and sighed in a low tone: "It's over, the unconscious Zhang Gong was left on it alone." ”

The third child was not lightly injured in the waist, and he snorted in pain, he raised his head from the ground with a frown and said to the monkey: "Our situation is worse now, you still have the leisure to worry about others, now you should first consider how we can get out of this dark and gloomy stone room." ”

After listening to this, the monkey carefully looked at it in the small dark room with a flashlight. Under the feet of everyone is a whole stone slab, it seems that it cannot be opened, and the stone slab closed on the head is about three zhang high from the ground, the stone room is surrounded by smooth stone slabs, there is no place to climb, and although the dark room is narrow, but it is just greater than the distance of the open arms, and it is really difficult to climb up and open the closed stone slab.

The monkey swayed left and right in the narrow stone room for a long time, and then sat beside the fat man with a languid ass, sighed and said: "I didn't see that there are mechanisms and ways out of this stone room, and I can't think of a way out, I'm at a loss now, you are all smarter and more capable than me, and the responsibility of finding a way to survive is still handed over to you heroes." After the monkey finished speaking, he sat down on the ground and stopped doing it. This can't be blamed on him, this dark room is very small, you can look at it at a glance, since it is a trap, how can it be a way to get out, and it is obvious that it is there.

The third child saw that the monkey was gone, and wanted to open his mouth to accuse the monkey, but because he fell not lightly this time, his back injury made him frown frequently, so he had to lie on the ground quietly to recuperate.

The cigarette man told the third child, who looked very painful, to sleep, then stood up, walked to the corner of the dark room, leaned his back against the corner, took a deep breath, and then put his hands and feet on the stone slabs on both sides, and began to climb up one by one. The smoke man's move was really eye-opening, and the monkey was so stunned that he almost bowed his head in worship, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "It's really a god!" "It takes a lot of arm strength and waist strength, combined with the strength of the thighs, to accomplish this almost impossible task.

The fat man who had been sitting on the ground holding Yue'er was also dumbfounded and speechless, thinking: I didn't expect the smoke man's ability to be described as supernatural, and he simply reached the realm of transcendent sanctification.

The monkey stood up and shone the light of the flashlight straight upwards, and by this time the smoke man had climbed to the top of the dark room, and he pressed his head against the stone slab above the top, but the slate did not react. So, the cigarette man let out the strength of his hands and let his body slide down freely.

As soon as the smoke man landed on his feet and stood firm, the monkey couldn't wait to praise and said, "Brother smoke boy, you are really too harmful." I simply admire you so much, why don't I simply worship you as a teacher, you teach me some real kung fu, and I will be able to explore the rivers and lakes in the future. ”

The cigarette man looked at the monkey with a cigarette in his mouth and said, "When I am my apprentice, I may be trained to death." After speaking, he stared at the monkey without blinking with a pair of cold eagle eyes, and the monkey couldn't help but feel furious in his heart. So, his lips trembled, and he said, "Then forget it." I was timid and afraid of death. After speaking, he immediately avoided the smoke man's gaze and sat back beside the fat man.

While the monkey sat down, he asked the smoke man again, "Brother smoke boy, can you go out from above?" ”

The cigarette man sat down slowly against the wall, then lit the cigarette on his mouth, stared at the misty smoke in front of him, and whispered, "I can't get out." ”