3. Suffering

It's the same dream again, Hao Dong can't remember how many times he has dreamed of this scene repeatedly, anyway, it's enough until now, he can immediately react that he is dreaming when he sees the scene in front of him.

At this time, he was only about the height of three or four years old, and behind him was a bottomless alley, and the bright and dazzling sun above his head that could not feel the temperature was overwhelming, and he was running hard towards the mouth of the alley in such a radiant world. Just now he saw his mother disappear as soon as he turned around at the entrance of the alley, so now he has to catch up.

Then the scene turned, he had come to the small street outside the alley, there were not many people on the street, the uncle who sold vegetables on the right hand was lazily squatting behind the vegetable stall and dozing, the left hand was empty behind the telephone pole, and his mother was gone.

Xiao Hao Dong panicked in his heart, and when he looked around again, the thick fog gushing from the bottom of the alley distorted all the scenes around him, and he was kicked out of his dream before he had time to be afraid.

It was indeed "kicked" out.

Curled up and hugging his painful hot body, Hao Dong pondered that he probably had a few bones this time that would be cracked even if they weren't broken, otherwise how could he sweat all over his body. The eyelids were heavy, a little hard to open, and the buzzing in the ears had not completely dissipated. The good news is that the current perception of my limbs is sound and no parts have been gnawed off, and the bad news is that although it is not like the pain in my chest, my breath is hot, but all parts of my body do seem to have been shaken apart and reorganized, and none of my joints are comfortable.

He didn't know exactly what the reason for his current state was, but he knew that it had something to do with someone kicking him all the time.

Half-conscious, someone kicked him again, this time straight to the stomach. Hao Dong felt an uncontrollable twitch in his stomach, and the whole pain was twisted, and for a moment he couldn't even tell whether his stomach was hurting or his waist and spine were hurting. At the same time, a strong feeling of nausea hit, and after a violent cough, what had just been eaten surged up down the esophagus, squirting out unstoppably, and the sour, sticky object suddenly wet half of the cheeks that were sticking to the ground, and there was a little residual temperature.

Although he doesn't have a habit of cleanliness, the situation is really challenging at the moment, and he was just kicked until he vomited, but now he can't stop because he feels nauseous. Even though his eyes were still a little open, Hao Dong still struggled to support his upper body for a small half, trying to avoid the tragic end of suffocating himself in his own vomit.

However, as more and more things were spit out, the groggy feeling in my mind subsided a lot, and the original hazy perception as if there was something gradually returned to normal. The most amazing thing is that the pain in his body gradually subsided a lot as he sobered up a little bit, and then Hao Dong realized that the ribs he felt just now were broken, and it might be purely his own illusion.

When the person was awake and his hearing was finally restored, he heard the voice of the second dog panting like a leper dog: "You kid, can you be counted...... Woke up ......"

Ergou's voice successfully recalled Hao Dong's memory, although his eyelids couldn't be opened for the time being, but thinking of what happened before, and then contacting the current situation, it is not difficult to understand that he should be out of danger. It's just that how to get out of danger, the process in the middle is completely unknown.

didn't answer Ergou's nonsense, Hao Dong directly confirmed: "It's okay?" ”

When I opened my mouth, I found that my voice was also hoarse, and I had just vomited, and there was residual vomit in my throat, and my throat burned as soon as I opened my mouth. Hao Dong couldn't help but choke twice, coughed violently before he came to his senses, and at the same time spit out a large mouthful of thick phlegm, which was barely able to clean his mouth.

Ergou didn't answer him, and after a while, he heard footsteps approaching.

The footsteps were a little familiar, and his intuition was not wonderful, but unfortunately he couldn't avoid it smoothly in his current state, so the next moment a basin of cold water poured down his head, washing away the dirty things on his face, and completely watering him to the cold.

But this stimulation made his eyelids open smoothly, and he reluctantly faced the reality: the queen stood in front of him, her pretty face as black as the bottom of the pot, and she wanted to hang him upside down and smoke.

Hao Dong was a little trembling, half of it was frozen by the freezing cold water in the early morning, and half was frightened by the queen's momentum. Obviously, she is a smiling beauty when she usually talks and laughs, but every time she has to perform the power of the captain, the momentum on this woman's body will be completely released, and then it will be like a completely changed person.

Ergou told Hao Dong in private that Her Royal Highness the Queen is only afraid that there is a human life in her hands, otherwise it is impossible to have this kind of aura. Hao Dong had never believed it before, in his opinion, even if he really killed someone, most of the people who did it were the loyal dog, and it was unlikely that the queen herself would do it directly, and the possibility of telling her subordinates to do it was far greater than killing people herself.

But at this time, he deeply realized the truth of what Ergou said, with the current momentum of the queen, let alone killing people, even if she slaughtered people like slaughtering chickens without blinking, it is not impossible.

It seems that the queen's attitude towards him before has been put to the point of being gentle, and maybe she still takes care of him when she first joins the team. At this time, he disobeyed her orders and encountered such a thing, maybe she rescued them, and this autumn settlement may really make him unable to eat and walk around.

It's just that he didn't see the queen open his mouth for a long time, and secretly raised his eyes to look only to find that the queen's attention seemed to be attracted by something. Following her line of sight, Hao Dong also turned his head to look, and found that Qi Jue - that is, Her Majesty's loyal dog, the silent man who gave people a feeling even a little gloomy - was gesturing to this side not far away.

At this time, the sky was already a little cloudy, and the place where they were now was not the dilapidated stone house before, but it was not the pond where Hao Dong and Ergou met the big snake, it looked like a small clearing somewhere in the forest. Hao Dong was lying in the middle of the clearing, and the second dog was leaning against him against the trunk of a tree, and he was also soaked, I don't know if he was also watered by the queen's cold water.

Ten paces away from them was the forest, Qi Jue drilled in the forest, using a small flashlight to hit Morse code, the queen watched intently, her brows furrowed more and more.

Hao Dong didn't understand why he had to make a secret signal like this just a few steps away, but he subconsciously even lightened his breathing, and he didn't dare to speak. In their four-person team, if he and Ergou belong to the more unreliable side, then the queen and Qi Jue are definitely on the very reliable side. Now that it's like this, it clearly looks like something is going on.

Sure enough, soon the queen squatted down, stretched out her right hand at the same time, and pinched her five fingers together, with a somewhat nervous look on her face.

This gesture Hao Dong recognized, which meant to shut up and not make a sound.

He was educated in this area when he first joined the team, for example, the urban exploration team he is now joining belongs to a relatively regular team, so for many emergencies, the team has a corresponding mature response plan, if there is any emergency during the expedition and is forced to be separated from his teammates, it can be compared and implemented.

This set of gestures is one of them, the queen uses the method of not giving food if you can't memorize it to force Hao Dong to remember, this method is simple and rude but very effective, so Hao Dong may not remember anything else, but this whole set of general gestures within the team remembers very clearly.

In Hao Dong's cognition, this place was once associated with the concept of a tourist resort; But after the horror of last night, he felt like a demon's lair at this moment; And as soon as the queen's gesture came out, the feeling changed again. Because Ergou once told him that only when it was inconvenient to speak in some tricky situations, the queen would use gestures. And usually the woman is used to being arrogant and domineering, and she speaks with a roar, and the only time that can calm her down is when she faces a strong enemy.

At that time, I heard Ergou say that Hao Dong didn't care about it, and the expedition could detect such a thing as a strong enemy, so Hao Dong directly classified it as something that might be a large beast in the protected area. But now it seemed that it was definitely not the case, because when the few of them were quiet, he also heard the sound of people being blown by the wind, and even a crisp mechanical click or two.