Chapter 43: Reality and Dreams
The eyes of the three of us all looked straight at the entrance and exit that we hadn't been to yet, and not long after the lazy words fell, a little dim light appeared in the dark entrance, which seemed to be the light of a flashlight. Immediately afterward, the light slowly approached us, followed by a faint sound of footsteps.
In the dim light, I saw a vague figure, even if it was far away, but I recognized it at a glance, that person was the vanished Wen Min?
She apparently spotted us too, paused in her footsteps, and then ran quickly towards us, her face becoming clearer and clearer. I saw that she was dressed as a wolf, but she didn't seem to be seriously injured, but just as I was about to greet her, she jerked her gun up, and the muzzle of it was pointed at us.
Instinctively, at the moment when she raised the gun, although I was shocked, my body reacted quickly, and I slammed to the side, crouched down reflexively, and hid behind the coffin. Immediately, I heard the sound of thumping gunshots, and the bullets were deeply embedded in the coffin.
Hari Chagai, who was sitting on the lid of the coffin, also quickly rolled down, hid behind the coffin, and cried out strangely: "Could it be that she is also parasitized?" ”
My heart was in a mess, and while hiding behind the coffin, I shouted, "Wen Min, stop!" The gunfire paused for a moment, then stopped, and Wen Min stood at the square entrance, still carrying his gun. Her hand holding the gun was trembling, and her eyes seemed to be a little sluggish, as if she was extremely tired, and as if she was about to fall down at any time, and said coldly: "Chen Hang, they can't appear here, don't make these illusions again, I won't be fooled." ”
Illusion?
Did she take us for a hallucination?
How could she have such an idea?
I immediately said: "The cave of 01 is directly connected to the underground, we are coming up along the cave, the eye of the sky has already arrived, you put down the gun first, we have something to say." She didn't seem to believe me at all, and she didn't mean to let go, so I said, "If I'm really hallucinating, do you think a gun can hurt me?" ”
Hearing this, her hand to raise the gun slowly put down, and then said coldly: "Come out." ”
A few of us cautiously emerged from behind the coffin, and we couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when we saw that she really didn't mean to continue shooting. At this moment, I don't know what they have experienced, Wen Min looked at me vigilantly, and then looked at the one-eyed dragon who fell on the side, and said, "What's the matter with him?" ”
I organized the words and explained our experience as briefly as possible, and she listened, her expression slowly relaxed, and then she said to me, "You come here, I want to confirm." Looking at her wary look, it was hard for me to imagine what had gone wrong to make her like this.
I walked slowly towards her, and when I walked up to her, she reached out and touched my face, and after a moment, her indifferent expression suddenly collapsed, and she threw her arms around my neck and murmured, "It's not a dream, it's true, oh my God, how did you come to this hellish place." ”
I knew she was finally convinced of who we were, so I put my arms around her and asked, "What happened?" What hallucinations? ”
Wen Min took a slow breath and pulled out a powerful searchlight from his equipment bag. This light line is very strong, the range is large, and the volume is also large, and we only carry one in our equipment. She didn't speak, but turned on her powerful searchlight and slammed it randomly above us.
This place is very high, before we had limited light sources, we couldn't see the situation at the top, but now with a dozen powerful searchlights, the situation at the top suddenly appeared clearly in our eyes. The moment I saw the situation, I gasped with the red hair, because, at the top of more than 30 meters away from us, there were countless huge reliefs, densely distributed, like a big-bellied 'nightmare', they had an extremely weird smile on their faces, looking down at us from above, at a glance, people felt that their scalps were numb.
After just one glance, Wen Min turned off the powerful searchlight, looked extremely tired, sat down against the nearest coffin, and said: "You should also know that this is a nightmare, in folklore, it can eat dreams and make dreams, after we entered this place, it was like a dream, and it was already impossible to distinguish what was true and what was fake." ”
I said, "Have you always felt that you were in a dream?" ”
Wen Min shook his head, looked at Lili's corpse not far away, and said in a deep voice: "Have you ever thought that maybe the experience after entering the ancient city is just a dream, and when you see me now, maybe, I am just your dream, or, you are my dream?" I felt that there seemed to be something wrong with her sanity, some delirium, and I was shocked for a moment, so I reached out and pressed hard behind her ear, the acupuncture points in this place can make people who are mentally stimulated quickly wake up, the effect is certainly not immediate, but it is better than nothing.
I pressed it, she shrank for a moment, her sloppy eyes slowly gathered together, rubbed her eyebrows painfully, and said, "I'm sorry, I'm just scared of being tossed." ”
Hari Chagai's mouth snorted and said, "Officer Gu, you are not usually like this, what happened?" ”
Wen Min glanced at him, seemed to be organizing the language, and after a while, said: "Actually, I don't know what happened, some are true, some are fake, and I don't know how to divide them together." After a pause, she added, "Maybe you can provide some advice." ”
She looked tired, coupled with our previous toss, she also felt tired at this time, so she lit a fire on the spot, and when the warm fire burned, Wen Min exhaled comfortably and stretched out her hand to bake the fire. While the fire was cooking, she found some food to share with us, and while everyone ate, she began to talk about her strange experience.
She said: "When we first came in, there were some dangers, because there were many insects and snakes in the ancient city, and finally we found some inscriptions on a bronze tripod. "Team Liu told us about this paragraph, so I nodded and signaled that I understood.
Wen Min said again: "Following the message left by the inscription, we entered this temple that worships the Heavenly Eye, and then it became very strange as soon as we got it. At the beginning, we encountered a lot of mechanisms, a lot, and in the process, Lili, Qin Shi, they all died. ”
I was stunned for a moment, if that's the case, then what's going on with the Qin Shi we saw before?
The red hair said in a word, and said: "The organ does not exist zài, from that time on, you have fallen asleep?" Wen Min nodded and said with difficulty: "After everyone died, I was the only one left in this place, and I couldn't find a way out, there were traps everywhere." I tried to find a way out, and in the process, I discovered that there were nightmares in this place, so I wondered if I was dreaming, and if so, how could I wake up. ”
Immediately afterward, Wen Min began to try various methods to revive herself, but in fact, she felt that her mind was so lucid that she couldn't even be sure whether she had fallen asleep or not, and it was just a guess.
Maybe it's because her willpower is strong enough, she really woke up, and then found that the so-called mechanism, the adventure and death along the way, in fact, don't exist. At some point, she fell into this strange place alone.
In the process, she tries to find teammates and a way out, but almost every once in a while, she will relapse into her dreams, and then the surrounding environment will change drastically, although she is still in this sacrificial pyramid, the structure inside is constantly changing, and the characters appearing are also different.
Sometimes she would meet Qin Shi, sometimes Team Liu, sometimes Lili, and even meet us several times, countless dangers and fears, which made people almost lose their minds. But her willpower is extremely strong, and she breaks free from her dreams again and again, but she falls into it again and again unconsciously.
And Lili in front of her died at the hands of Wen Min, and the whole process was similar to what I had speculated before. Team Liu, Lili, Wen Min, and Qin Shi, they reunited and told their experiences after separation, almost everyone was different.
But soon, Wen Min suddenly reacted, the reason why he knew that he was in a dream had a lot to do with his personal experience and willpower, but why did the three of Team Liu also know that they were in a dream? These three people were obviously separated from each other before, why is their experience so similar to their own at this time?
She immediately realized it was a trap.
Sure enough, something happened, and the moment she turned around, she found that Lili had opened her mouth, and a purple-red thing came out of her mouth, sweeping towards her from behind. What followed was a shootout, where they were Wen Min's opponents, and they were quickly defeated.
The whole process didn't need to be repeated, because even that shootout, she couldn't be sure if it really happened.
At this moment, Lili's corpse was next to her, clearly proving that everything at that time was real. In other words, when several people fell asleep separately and did not converge, Lili should have been parasitized by something.
And Team Liu and Qin Shi, who escaped during the shootout, should also have problems, but Wen Min couldn't say anything at the time.
Then, she began to continue to look for a way out, and then fell into a dead loop, constantly falling asleep, constantly reuniting with Qin Shi and even the dead Lili, every time they reunited, the other party told her: The previous qiē is just an illusion after you fall asleep, no one is dead, everyone is still alive.
And then constantly, all kinds of terrifying and strange situations emerge, challenging people's nerves. I thought about the situation and immediately realized what was really terrifying about Nightmares. It is not just to make people fall into a dream and not be able to get out, but in a dream, it directly destroys people's sanity.
The constant interweaving of real and terrifying dreams continues to this day, and Moon Min says, "If you can't get out of here, everyone will eventually collapse." "But the question is, we have to figure out, is the present qiē, a dream, or is it real?
If Wen Min's statement is true, and if we were each dragged into the dream as early as the moment we saw the nightmare, then could it be that my later experiences, including the people sitting with me now, were all fake?
I felt a little tingling in my scalp, and threw this terrifying thought out of my mind, and said, "Calm down, there will be a way, I don't think it's a dream." ”
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