Chapter 7: The Time of Disappearance
The fat man was blinded by the ghosts hidden in the dark dirt passages, and he was blinded by eating the food that the ghosts had turned into, mistaking me for a monster, and riding me under him, and pinching my neck with both hands.
And my hands and feet gradually collapsed weakly on both sides of my body, my eyes blurred and tears kept staying, and soon my head was unconsciously tilted to the side, and my life hung between a thread.
At the moment of my life and death, the fat man who was riding on me was suddenly hit by something, and his body collapsed weakly and fainted beside me. I was able to come to life, and immediately sat up, put my hands around my neck, and breathed hard. As a result, my lungs couldn't stand the sudden influx of air, which made me cough incessantly.
When I finally stopped coughing, I realized that there was a light of fire shining in front of me, warm, smart, and active, like the blazing sun; And there is a fairy reflected in the firelight, like a bright moonlight, enchanting, poignant, graceful, and makes people feel hopeful.
I thought to myself: was this a dream, or had I already gone to heaven after I died? Hurriedly wiped the tears and snot on his face with his sleeves, and then saw the fire and the fairy in front of him clearly, it turned out that Yue'er was holding a torch, and she was bending down to feed the fat man a pill. I walked up excitedly and asked her, "Yue'er, why are you here?" You don't know how worried the fat man and I have been about your safety since you disappeared. As soon as my words fell, the fat man, who was lying quietly on the ground, suddenly twitched his body, then arched his body and vomited violently.
I really didn't dare to confirm the fat man's vomit with my own eyes, I was afraid to see what I imagined. I followed Yue'er's every move, and I saw her looking down to check the fat man's condition, and when the fat man stopped vomiting, she breathed a sigh of relief, and then glared at me with a pair of almond eyes: "Why did you two fools come here." Before, I caught up with Xiao Yue'er and the hound in the forest, and I also hunted a hare, but I waited for a long time, but I didn't see you two catch up. Worried that you two would get lost, I searched around the woods, and then heard an explosion, so I followed the sound. Then Xiao Yue'er discovered the deep hole, and then she met the two of you. ”
After speaking, she saw that the fat man lying on the ground had vomited all the gastric juice, so she picked up the fat man's head and fed him some water, and then the fat man fell asleep groggily.
I saw that the fat man was breathing evenly and fell asleep with a ruddy face, knowing that he should be fine, so I said to Yue'er: "It's hard to say, in general, it's just the two of us, and I've hit a ghost." ”
Yue'er turned from anger to joy, and asked me with great interest, "What kind of ghost does it look like?" Female ghost or male ghost? Isn't it amazing? ”
I shook my head and replied, "I don't see clearly." ”
Yue'er was a little disappointed, and then said to me, "Are you hungry?" After saying that, he took out the roast rabbit meat wrapped in paper directly from his bag. When I saw the golden roast rabbit meat, I immediately took it, ate it like an evil ghost, stuffed my mouth with rabbit meat, and said to Yue'er vaguely: "Yue'er, you are really Guanyin Bodhisattva who saves suffering." Dare to ask the female Bodhisattva, what time is it? ”
Yue'er replied with a smile, "It's night." ”
After listening to Yue'er's answer, I was surprised and said, "Impossible, we tossed around here for a night." Outside, it should be bright now. ”
Yue'er looked at me with some surprise and said, "What a night, you two have been missing for three years." ”
After listening to Yue'er's words, I was so surprised that I almost choked to death, and Yue'er hurriedly handed over the water. I took the kettle, my lips trembling slightly, and I drank slowly, completely unconvinced of this fact. But the hunger in my stomach is indeed like I haven't eaten for two or three days, but the body's biological clock only feels like it's only been a day. And the fat man and I had gone out of the ground to stay on the ground before, and it was indeed dark at that time, and we had never seen the sun rise at all. In order to be sure again, I hesitantly stretched out three fingers and shook them, and Yue'er nodded when she saw this.
While I was stunned, I secretly calculated in my heart where and when the body's biological clock began to be chaotic. After thinking about it, I thought that after falling into the deep hole, time began to fade in the night. Could it be that we have fallen into another dimension, where time is secretly draining away unconsciously, without anyone noticing, and there is only night and no day. After thinking about it, he immediately denied this ridiculous idea, and said in his heart: This is impossible. This inference is too far beyond the scope of science, it is not in line with common sense, and it is far beyond human cognition and understanding, and it is impossible to establish existence at all. However, thinking back to all the grotesque things I experienced after falling into the deep cave, which thing is reasonable to say. Perhaps, we have really entered an unknown intersecting space, and we don't know it.
After thinking about it for a while, I felt that my head hurt badly, and my whole body was so sore that I was so tired that I didn't bother to think about these ridiculous things anymore, so I confessed to Yue'er and said, "I'll sleep." Then he fell asleep.
I slept so soundly that I was not disturbed by any dreams, and when I woke up comfortably, I found that my right shoulder had been drugged and put on a clean bandage.
And the fat man, who was delirious before, had completely returned to his normal state, and he was hiding with Yue'er, muttering softly and secretly talking about something, and when the two of them saw that I was awake, they suddenly stopped talking.
Seeing their sneaky appearance, I thought to myself: There is something deliberately hidden from me who doesn't want me to know, is it that they are secretly getting along, I am afraid that if I know, they will be embarrassed. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but snicker in my heart, pretending not to see it, and not to demolish them.
I sat up and asked Yue'er beside me, "Do you know the way out?" ”
I saw her shaking her head blankly and said, "After entering the cave, Xiao Yue'er ran away, this cave seems to have only one passage, but there are actually many forks in the road." And I found a strange phenomenon, that is, I put a stone on the ground as a mark, walked straight for dozens of steps, and then walked straight back, the stone disappeared, indicating that I did not return to the place where I used to make the mark, but unconsciously went to another place. The geographical space here seems to be able to interfere and distort people's cognition and disrupt people's judgment of things. ”
The fat man said indignantly: "This is a ghost cave, which eats people's time and disturbs the sense of direction of cognition. ”
I said to them, "Gotta find a way back to the surface, it's not safe to stay here." ”
The fat man immediately asked me, "What do you have to do?" ”
I shook my head and said, "I haven't thought of a way yet." However, as the saying goes, "everyone collects firewood and the flame is high, and the three stinkers are still Zhuge Liang", we are so resourceful and resourceful that we can't believe that we can't get out from here. After speaking, I saw that both of them had disappointed expressions on their faces, so I asked Yue'er, "What are you carrying in your backpack?" ”
Yue'er poured out all the contents of the backpack, two or three packs of food, a short knife with a sheath, a few shotgun ammunition, sorghum wine stuffed by the leper boss before leaving, and a bottle of hairspray for women.
I picked up the short knife and looked at it, the scabbard of the short knife was made of cowhide wrapped in mixed silver, without any decorative decoration, and the handle was also made of ordinary steel. When I pulled out the short knife, I found that the blade was made of fine iron smelting, glowing with blue, which made people feel cold and cold at the same time, and I couldn't help but exclaim: "What a knife!" "It can be seen that the scabbard and handle of this short knife are both matched in the back, and there is nothing surprising. But the blade of the knife calmly told its story. It seems that thousands of years ago, it accompanied its master to fight on the battlefield, thousands of troops and horses, and the corpse was under the short knife; It was as if I saw that the immortal with a long beard and green shirt stood on the top of the mountain, holding it, killing demons and monsters to protect the peace.
Seeing my obsessed look, the fat man shook his hand in front of my eyes worriedly and asked me, "Are you okay?"
I came back to my senses and said to him, "Since this underground passage is so weird, there is no way out. Then let's take a new path and take the usual path. ”
The fat man asked me puzzled, "What do you mean, where is the new way?" ”
I pointed to the top of my head and explained to him, "Right on top of this, we're digging a passage through this." Start digging from the top of your head, and if that doesn't work, we'll try digging the side of the channel. ”
The two of them understood my intentions, and nodded in agreement, there is no tomb robber who can't make holes. Moreover, the inverted hole made by the refined craftsman, if you want to be square, you will never dig it into a circle, which can be called a must.
The work of digging the soil with a short knife is left to the fat man to solve. I found that my right shoulder, every few hours, would have a terrible pain, like the strange beating pain of a nerve, as if there was a heart in the shoulder, and from time to time there would be angina, a random beating pain. Although I felt that the way the wound hurt was a little strange, I didn't go to my heart.
The excavation of the roof of the cave had been going on for a long time, and the height of the pit was so high that the fat man could no longer reach it from standing on the ground, so he had to jump on the dirt hole above his head, spread his feet and support himself in the hole, and continued to dig.
After a while, the fat man jumped down to rest with a sweat, and Yue'er learned the fat man's posture to relay, and spread his feet to dig the soil in the hole. And I could only sit on the ground and stare at the sweaty two, and sigh mentally: it is really "useless to be a scholar".
They alternated the construction, and when they saw that the straight hole above was more than three feet high, the fat man slipped through the dirt hole above, and his face was covered with mud mixed with sweat and mud, he wiped his face with his sleeve, and then said to me with a short knife, "It's strange." ”
I asked him, "What's wrong?" What's so strange. ”
He hesitated, and said with some hesitation: "I think the hole above seems to have been dug through, but it doesn't seem to have been dug through, which makes people scratch their heads." ”
I asked him, "What do you mean by that?" ”
The fat man then explained: "The reason why I think the digging has been done is because although it feels like the earth is still digging, there are no clods of dirt and slag falling down. However, if you dig through, you should be able to go up to the top. But the top of the straight hole seemed to be covered by something, and it was not bright and could not go up, as if there was an invisible black thing blocking it, that is, there was no way to move it away, and there was no way to go up. ”
After listening to the fat man's words, Yue'er held the torch and climbed into the earthen cave above, and after a while, she jumped down and said, "I used the torch to inspect the top of the cave, and the black above is indeed the appearance of soil." I tried digging twice with my knife, and there really wasn't any dirt dropping, which was weird. ”
I said to them, "Let's take a break, discuss the current situation, and see if we can find a solution." After saying that, I suddenly felt the wound on my right shoulder itch. The heart said: The wound can't heal so quickly, how can it be itchy? asked Yue'er beside him to help untie the bandage on his left shoulder, wanting to check the condition of the wound. As a result, Yue'er didn't make a move when she heard my words, but looked at the fat man beside her, as if asking for his opinion. I watched them exchange glances with each other, and I felt inexplicable, so I took it upon myself to untie the bandage.
As a result, it was found that the wound had healed, and only a few dark green scars remained. I was surprised in my heart, how could the wound heal so quickly, and the color of this scar was really strange, it turned out to be green, and I am not a plant, how could I produce such a scar with such an eye color. So, I curiously touched the scab of the wound with my hand, and the scar touched by my fingers suddenly felt extremely itchy, so I had to scratch it a few times with my hand, and the scab of the wound became more and more itchy, and my fingers couldn't help but scratch the wound until the skin on the scar that had been formed was scratched, and the blood flowed down from the wound again, and the scab of the wound finally stopped itching. I exhaled comfortably, and out of the corner of my eye, I looked at Yue'er and the fat man on the side, looking at me with a nervous and worried expression, looking like I wanted to say and stopped, which was very strange.
I was so preoccupied with the question of a way out that he said to them, "We will continue to meet now to discuss the situation of the earthen cave, what do you two think of the situation above the straight hole?" ”
Yue'er was the first to speak: "I think this abnormal phenomenon may be caused by the "ghost soil". ”