Chapter 12: The Way Out

Morningstar is right, if we are still on the chimney at the moment, then the way out cannot be in the air outside the chimney, but on the chimney wall...

Although the orientation is not known, the diameter of the chimney is limited...

"I'll try to touch it." I gritted my teeth and whispered.

"Then you have to be careful." Morningstar said with concern.

I nodded, my left hand tightly grasped the steel ring, and with my right hand, I slowly touched the green bricks of the chimney wall... When I finally touched the bricks, the tentacles were cold, like ice cubes, and I patted them hard, and it felt very hard, it should be a real thing, not an illusion created by ghosts. I followed the curvature of the brick wall all the way until my arm reached the limit and I didn't touch anything...

"How?" Morningstar asked.

I shook my head, thought for a moment, and said, "So, I'll hold you, and you can stretch your left hand and touch the chimney wall on your left to see if you can touch anything..."

After a few moments, Morningstar withdrew his arm.

"How?" I asked breathlessly.

"Nothing..."

"Looks like we're going to be trapped on this." I put my face on Morningstar's cheek, smiled bitterly, and said.

"Is there no other way?" Morningstar asked.

I shook my head, biting my almost numb lip and said, "So, find a way to untie my belt..."

Morningstar's body shook, and he said eagerly, "You guy, don't you think... What's going on, you're actually... Besides, you don't look at where this is..."

I was stunned for a moment, then I realized that I couldn't help but laugh and cry, "Silly girl, I mean, we can't find a way out, and the illusions created by ghosts won't disappear until dawn." But before dawn, we would lose consciousness from our hands and feet and fall off the chimney, and we had to find a way to tie ourselves to the steel ring so that we wouldn't fall. However, the only thing that can be used to tie it is the belt around my waist, that is, only one person can be tied, so I plan to use it to tie your arms and steel rings together...

"So that's what you mean..."

"What do you think I mean?"

Morningstar didn't answer, and after a while, he asked faintly, "Ah Leng, what will happen to you if I refuse, but let you tie yourself with a belt?" ”

"Of course not."

"Then it's over, if you refuse to accept the opportunity to be an only child, I will not accept it. So, to die together, to live together. ”

"Silly girl..."

"Ah Leng." Morningstar interrupted me, "Have you forgotten what I said to you this morning?" I will keep you with me forever and ever, and you will never leave me again, whether in life or in death..."

As if a fire had suddenly ignited in my chest, I hugged Morningstar and nodded heavily.

"Don't be discouraged, we probably didn't touch the right place just now, let's put our arm down a little bit and touch it again," I said.

In this way, Morning Star and I touched the chimney wall up and down five or six times, but still didn't touch anything. Both of them were exhausted, and if it were just me, I would have lost the will to survive and fallen down long ago due to the loss of strength and cold. But at the moment, I have a morning star by my side, and I'm going to hold on no matter what...

"Cold," said Morningstar, leaning close to me, faintly, "It seems that we... We're really going to die..."

"Are you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid... With you, I am not afraid of anything, because I know that even if I go to the Netherworld, you will protect me..."

"Silly girl, that's for sure, no matter where you go, I will protect you..."

"Ah Leng."

"Huh?"

"Are you still angry that I wanted to break up with you when I was abroad?"

"How so? No, let's not talk about that, good..."

"Hmm... It's all gone, I just know that I never want to be separated from you again, never..."

"Uh-huh..."

Morning Star's phrase 'virtual reality is real' suddenly reminded me... Ghosts can only create illusions to confuse people, such as at this moment, except for the steel ring that Morningstar and I are crushing on, everything else is gone. This disappearance is only a visual disappearance, not a real disappearance. In other words, although I can't see the steel ring when I look down, if I explore it with my feet, I can step on it... But right now, I put my foot down and I can't feel anything, which means that there is nothing underneath... Suddenly, I seemed to think of something...

"Ah Leng, what are you thinking?"

"That's right... It must be so..."

"How?"

"Morning Star." I said excitedly, "Do you remember, when we looked up from under the chimney, we saw two rings of steel nailed to the other side of the chimney at the top of the chimney, opposite the steel steps..."

"Hmm... You mean? ”

"That's right, what we're grasping and stepping on at the moment are those two steel rings... I think it must have been the moment when the ghosts created the illusion, the space was confused, and the ghosts made us run to these two steel rings somehow... That's right, from the point of view, these two reinforcement circles are located in the southwest of the reinforcement ladder, and conversely, the reinforcement ladder is located in the northeast of these two reinforcement circles. The game I started just now, in the northeast of Shengmen Luogen Palace, the so-called way out is actually the steel ladder we climbed up with the help of steel. We couldn't touch it because it was directly across from us, on the other side of the chimney, and our arms weren't long enough..."

After listening to me, Morningstar thought for a moment and smiled bitterly, "If you say that, we can't go down..."

I nodded helplessly.

"Shengmen is in our northeast, and now we know that the direction we are facing is the northeast, but the way out is on the chimney wall on the other side, and the chimney wall on our side also belongs to our northeast position, if there is a way out..."

"What did you say, Morning Star?"

"Huh? … I said, if only we were facing the chimney wall on our side, there would be a way out..."

Morningstar's words suddenly reminded me that we had touched everywhere on the chimney wall before, but not the place we were directly opposite... Thinking like this, I reached out and touched nothing, but at first I didn't touch anything, and as my hand went all the way down, all of a sudden, I felt a cold metal secret door... There is a way out, there really is a way out! …

In ecstasy, I almost slipped off the chimney. After I made out the general outline of the door, I first picked at the gap and lifted it out, but I didn't move at all. I thought about it, straightened up, and kicked my foot at the door. Kicking seven or eight feet in a row, it may be that the latch inside was kicked off by me, and with the sound of the 'horn', the secret door 'bang' opened suddenly. The wind passed between my legs and poured into it with a 'whin'.

This secret door is not very big, just enough for a person to get through, and it is scary to be dark inside... I cautiously poked one leg down, and before I could go deeper, I touched the steel ring, and I felt a burst of ecstasy, sure enough, there was a ladder!

Morningstar and I went through the secret door and into the chimney. The secret door is a damper on the chimney, and the steel ladder inside the chimney is supposed to be set up to facilitate the kiln factory workers to remove the dirt on the inner wall of the chimney...

There is no wind in the chimney, and the chimney walls are on all sides, giving people a feeling of being surrounded and safe. It didn't take long for me and Morningstar to descend to the bottom. With our feet on the hard ground, we all have a feeling of being separated from the world, crying with joy and hugging each other tightly...

The inside of this chimney is simply a hall extending in all directions, and on the four walls, there are large and small 'chimneys', and we burrow into a relatively large chimney, and follow the chimney to the hearth of a huge brick-burning kiln. Pushing open the furnace door, I shouted, "My grandson is out!" "Jumped.

As soon as Morning Star jumped down, he was hugged by me.

"Put me down, you guy—" Morningstar thumped me lightly in the chest.

"Don't let me go, let me hold it for a while... Later, if someone asks us how we met and fell in love. I'll just say, we are Taishang Laojun from the gossip furnace, a golden boy, a jade girl, born as a pair..."

Morningstar snorted and smacked me again.

I didn't laugh either, and continued to say in a serious and deep voice, "People also said that this girl is fully worthy of the title of jade girl, and it can be said that it is even better." As for you, it's a bit of a golden boy to say you're old... I said, you don't understand this, two people who are too perfect will not be happy together, so, when we came out of the oven, Taishang Laojun ordered this girl to land on the ground first, as for me, it was the face that hit the ground first..."

"You guy..."Morning Star 'haha', and then, in a low voice, "You're still in the mood to laugh, isn't this brick kiln factory haunted..."

"Don't be afraid." I snorted, "I can't do anything about him on the chimney, but now that it's down, I'll show it how cold it is." No matter what kind of demon it is, let's go, we'll meet it when we go out..."

When I came out of the brick-burning kiln, I saw that the entire kiln factory was empty and dead. I concentrated on it, but I didn't feel the aura of the feminine object. I thought to myself, maybe the ghost 'got' us to the two isolated steel rings and left...

At this time, I thought of the 'strange face' in the grass nest that I had seen on the chimney, and I took the morning star and walked southwest. The southwest of the kiln factory is full of debris and waste bricks, and in the corner of the wall, a large waist-length field of wild grass has died, and no one has cleaned it up...

Morningstar and I rummaged around in the grass nest and found nothing. I secretly wondered, the southwest is the base of the dead door of the territory, what is the strange face that appeared in the dead door of the kiln factory? … Could it be... I thought to myself, it must be a ghostly thing that comes out of the door of death at night... Is this the thing that traps us on the chimney? …

Anyway, there must be a ghost in this brick kiln factory, it seems that Boss Huang is the unclean 'thing' that got from here, if you want to know what it is, we must first know what happened in this brick kiln factory, so that the production stopped...

At this time, it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening, and Morning Star and I were both tired and hungry, and there was a lot of dust on our faces and bodies from the chimney, and it was dirty.

Out of the brick kiln factory, I moved the car and drove to the town with flickering lights in the distance...

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