Chapter 11: The Ghost Ladder

The elbow of my right arm hung on the top of the chimney, and the wind, which had been small before, suddenly became stronger, blowing my body to and fro, and with each shake, my elbow 'clucked', and the pain was almost torn apart, and my eyes were black for a while. That's not all, the ethereal feeling of the soles of my feet made me feel a strong fear, screaming and kicking my feet around, but I couldn't kick anything... My body has completely lost control, the wind is blowing left and right, the amplitude is getting bigger and bigger, all the scenes are shaking in my eyes, the chimney column is far away from me...

Suddenly, I felt my right arm slip out of the steel ring, and a thought arose in my heart, I was going to die, I was going to fall to my death... I tried to raise my left hand and grab the rebar ring, but my left arm was stiff like a piece of wood and didn't listen to me at all. I had a feeling that all thoughts were lost, and as soon as my eyes were closed, my heart said, "Morning Star, I'll see you again in the next life... It was then that I seemed to hear the morning star's voice, 'A-Leng...', and then, as if awakened from a nightmare, I suddenly felt as if my left arm had been called. At this time, the right arm hanging on the steel ring has slipped off to the wrist, my five fingers suddenly opened, 'snap' grabbed the steel ring at once, and then, the left arm was lifted up, the first time I didn't catch it, the second time I finally grabbed it...

Under the fixation of the two hands, my body swayed less violently, my feet leaned down, and after a further exploration, my right foot finally hooked the steel ring below, and my left foot stepped on it suddenly with a feeling, and finally fixed my body... Cold sweat poured out along every pore of my body, and as soon as it gushed out, it was dried by the wind, and my body seemed to be wrapped in a layer of hard scabs, and when the cold wind blew, it was like countless knives scraping around on the 'scab shell'...

The cold wind poured into my mouth, and after a moment's breath, I opened my eyes and looked down again, and because I was on the side of the chimney, not directly above, it felt like the chimney was tilting backwards and seemed to be collapsing. As for the dangling feeling, it is caused by the thickness of the chimney at the bottom and above. The diameter of the bottom is seven or eight meters, and the place where I am not even surrounded by a person is not the diameter. Looking down, it looks like you're in the tops of a giant tree that is thick below and slender above... Because the treetops shake when they are subjected to gravity, it feels like the chimney is shaking too...

After the previous escape from death, these two feelings still make me dizzy, but not overwhelming. I wanted to go down from this hellish place as much as I could, so I tried to hold my mind and look down... At this time, there was only a faint red left in the distant sky, but it was already dark below, and the eyes were wide open, and I could barely distinguish the scene below. The two rows of brick-fired kilns resemble two sections of the city wall, giving people an old and desolate feeling. The shed in front of the kiln that covers the brick machine is narrow and undecent. The impressive pile of bricks in front of the shed, which I saw earlier, looked like a small well-tended field...

In this way, my eyes swept to every corner of the brick kiln factory, there was nothing abnormal, and I muttered in my heart, I almost fell down and died, could it be that what I did was useless, there was nothing strange about this brick kiln factory, and Boss Huang was not the ghost thing that he got here? … It got dark very quickly, and as soon as I finished a cursory scan, I could barely see anything. As I was retreating, all of a sudden, there was a faint round thing in the grass nest in the southwest corner of my current factory yard! …

I felt a 'chuckle' in my heart, I clearly remember clearly, I had seen there before, and there was no abnormality, why did such a thing suddenly appear at this moment... The thing that appeared in the grass nest was about the size of a washbasin, and from here it was only the size of a washbasin, but if you looked at it from below, it was at least five or six meters in diameter. After looking at it carefully, I see that this thing is not pure round, if you look at it from another angle, it looks like... It's like a person's face! … I was taken aback by this sudden thought, and somehow, the face of the boss of the Dead Ghost King suddenly appeared in my mind...

I don't know if it's due to psychological effects, but the more I looked, the more I felt that this thing that appeared in the grass nest looked very much like Boss Wang's face... I can't wait to go down and see what the hell is in the grass nest, as the saying goes, it's easy to go up the hill but hard to get down, and the same is true for the chimney, it's easy to come up and hard to go down. In addition, it was already dark, and I couldn't see anything clearly, so I could only move down one level at a time by feeling...

It took a lot of work for me to move five or six levels, and the wind roared in my ears, and my hands were numb from the cold. After going down another five or six steps, I fixed my mind and looked straight down, and suddenly a delicate figure was climbing up the chimney, although I couldn't see it clearly, but judging from the figure, it should be the morning star...

I didn't even pay attention to when the morning star climbed up, judging from the distance, the morning star was no more than seven or eight meters away from me, it seems that it should have climbed for a while, I thought, maybe I was hanging from the chimney before, and almost fell At that time, the morning star was worried about my safety, so he started to climb from that time...

There was an inexplicable warmth in my heart, and at the same time I was worried about the safety of the morning star, seeing that the morning star was getting closer and closer to me, and my heart was hanging higher and higher as if it was being hung by something. Driven by this feeling, I didn't dare to move down a single step, for fear that if I slipped off carelessly, I would smash the morning star down.

And so, the morning star came to the soles of my feet, and then from the soles of my feet to the level of me... I had a vague feeling that something was wrong, but I didn't think much about it. Hurriedly looked at Morning Star, although it was very dark, but Morning Star had fair skin, and she could clearly see her facial features, only to see that her nose was frozen blue. I felt distressed for a while, my right hand grabbed the steel ring hard, and my left hand gently stroked her face, and the tentacles were cold.

"Why did you get up?!" I asked in a half-shouted voice.

"I... I'm worried about your safety, I don't know why, I always feel like you're going to fall, so I came up, I'm going to die, I'll die with you..."

"Silly girl, no, let's go, let's go down! …”

Morning Star didn't move, and his face was faintly blue.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Ah Leng," Morningstar said suddenly, "haven't you shown up yet?" You haven't seen anything wrong yet, have you?! …”

Wrong? I was shocked, and when I looked at the morning star, it was as if I had suddenly fallen into an ice hole, and my heart was almost torn apart by the stinging cold... I was shocked to see that Morning Star was holding on to a level parallel to the level I caught... Looking up and down, on the chimney column, somehow there is an extra steel staircase! …

The steel staircase where Morning Star was flickering appeared, and I secretly said, it's not good.

"Hurry up! …”

I didn't know where a violent force came from, so I wrapped one hand around Morningstar's waist and hugged her over. Immediately afterward, the steel ladder disappeared...

Morningstar and I huddled together, on the same steel ladder.

Morning Star buried his face in my arms, trembling uncontrollably, and only said after a while, "Ah Leng, what's going on?" …”

"There's a ghost in this brick kiln..."

"Ghosts?"

"Hmm," I nodded, "I seem to know why there's no one in this brick kiln." ”

"Because of ghosts?"

"That's right, it's haunted."

"So what do we do?"

"Don't be afraid," I said, "let's go, let's go down." ”

I ordered Morningstar to grasp the steel ring, take a deep breath, and slowly dip my right foot downward. These steel rings, the distance between each level and each level is about half a meter, with the feeling, my foot reached half a meter below, and did not touch the steel ring, so I went down again, still did not touch... I was shocked, what's going on? … Look down carefully, and I see that the steel rings underneath are all gone! …

Thinking I had misunderstood, I tilted my head and rubbed my eyes my sleeve, and looked again... That's right, all gone, bare on the chimney ... Suddenly, I seemed to think of something, and when I looked up, the rebar ring above me was gone... Except for the two rebar rings that Morningstar and I grabbed with our hands and feet, all the rest of the rebar rings disappeared, and we were trapped on the chimney...

"Ah Leng, how can this be?!" The morning star also appeared.

My heart was pounding, but my mouth comforted Morning Star and said, "Don't be afraid, we're on a ghost ladder..."

"Ghost ladder?"

"Hmm..."

The ghost ladder is similar to a ghost hitting a wall, and it is an illusion created by ghosts. In other words, everything in front of me may be fake, including the chimney wall I saw up and down, and even whether we are on the chimney at the moment, it is difficult to say... If you're not careful, you'll fall into the 'trap' created by ghosts and die...

The wind was getting stronger, my cold teeth chattering, and my body pressed against the morning star.

"Morning Star, take your phone out of my pocket and see what time it is..."

I half-hugged Morningstar to free one hand, and it took a lot of effort to pull the phone out of my pants pocket. I looked at the time, it was nearly eleven o'clock in the evening, and it was not yet time.

"Morningstar, I said, you help me memorize the situation, remember?" I asked.

"I'll try..."

I silently calculated in my heart, and at this moment, with the assistance of Morning Star, I started a game. At this moment, the eight doors fall into the palace, and they groan, representing the retreat...

"We're still on the chimney." I said, "Shengmen Luo Hongu, that is, Gen Bagong, northeast, that is, in the northeast direction of our current position, there is a way to survive, but..." …”

"Ah Leng," said Morningstar suddenly, "I was thinking, if we were still on the chimney, if there was a way out, it would be on the chimney wall in the northeast. ”

"That's right," I thought for a moment.

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