115 · The Travelers (Part I)
Chen Jian breathed a long sigh of relief.
A new punishment has just been experienced.
He didn't know what the punishment was called, but he felt that the front and back of his body were being squeezed by stone slabs with sharp copper needles on both sides, and the rusty copper needles pierced into his body, some of the needles were crooked by the bones, and several holes were pierced in his heart.
The slate quickly parted, and his body lightened, and blood flowed through his bones and skin down the copper needles, dripping onto the ground.
He looked down at his intact body and closed his eyes, but his eyes were devastated.
Although it was painful, Chen Jian felt a heartfelt joy - his body had recovered to the extent that his limbs were complete, and he still did not have to suffer the torment of penance.
He dragged his tired body, wiped away his tears and snot, and looked north with a sniff.
Where will Huang Aimian take Bai Yao, and what does he want to do when he takes her away?
Chen Jian had a bad premonition.
After living in this muddy place for so long, he almost forgot that Bai Yao was a woman.
"Bai Yao! Huang Aimian!" Chen Jian shouted in the mountains and forests, and the frightened animals immediately fled far away.
After taking on the appearance of a human, he was rarely attacked by animals again.
The animals understand that beasts with their feet upright are quite brutal, and they have not only great strength, dexterous hands, but also all kinds of cruel methods that cannot be imitated. Nature warns them that it is better not to be enemies of such things.
Chen Jian shouted loudly while observing the whereabouts of the animals.
Wherever Huang Aimian passed, the animals would definitely be temporarily scared away, just like they reacted to Chen Jian.
With this, Chen Jian quickly sketched out an intermittent roadmap in his mind.
"I think it's going this way......"
Chen Jian muttered to herself, bending down on the ground to look for traces.
The hot air wave greeted him, and the red light reflected from the soil illuminated his face.
He suddenly lifted his feet, wondering what would become of his feet after walking on such a hot ground for a long time?
A thick layer of black and red scabs had already grown under the foot board, and the smell of burning could be smelled when he got close, Chen Jian lightly touched the black scab, and his brain couldn't feel any signals.
The footboard has long since lost sensation, and so should everyone else.
He had been looking for traces along the flat ground just now, and after realizing this, he felt that Huang Aimian would not necessarily take the "normal road", even if it was a loose stone ground full of sharp gravel, he would not hesitate to step on it.
The difficulty of searching for traces increased in vain, but Chen Jian was not discouraged.
Huang Aimian didn't go far, at least for now.
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Huang Aimian - Li Kuangshi - feels that there is indeed a red line of fate in the world.
His first murder was at the age of twelve: he killed Dr. Bai Chongyi, who had saved him from his misadventure, and the first woman he met in purgatory turned out to be surnamed Bai.
This is the fact that he suddenly reacted after dragging Bai Yao away.
From the perspective of modern ethics, murder is undoubtedly an unpardonable crime, not to mention that he was premeditated and could not even use "negligence" to escape the death penalty; after traveling to the ancient period called the Western Dynasty, he thought that this was a troubled time, but the Western Dynasty was peaceful, and killing was also not allowed, which once made Li Kuangshi quite distressed.
But then, things turned around.
Purgatory doesn't even say that murder exists, all people don't die, all people live forever, what place is more like heaven than purgatory?
He wasn't actually bloodthirsty, and he hated hearing other people's screams and pain when he killed, but he just ...... This is the only way that allows him to find himself in an instant and merge his two selves into one.
Therefore, in purgatory, he felt unprecedented spiritual comfort.
He burrowed into the cave he had discovered while passing by.
Those people would surely look for him and Bai Yao like ants on a hot pot, and it was only a matter of time before they were discovered, but the cave was so hidden that it could be delayed long enough that he didn't have the luxury of running away, and besides, he didn't have to.
He placed Bai Yao in the middle of the cave, and in order to prevent her from suddenly resurrecting, on the way to the cave, he cut her throat again.
Suddenly, an illusion of separation descended from the top of the head, and it was a split-body punishment.
Immediately afterwards, punishments such as cannon branding, car cracking, and nailing barrels followed.
Huang Aimian stood indifferently in the cave, he didn't feel any pain, and he sat like a spectator watching himself being torn apart and bleeding like a river, and he felt very relieved at this time.
It's been like this since I was a kid -
Broken bricks, exploding houses, rising mushroom clouds, collapsing twin towers...... Everything related to "splitting" can bring a temporary peace to his heart, and Purgatory is full of this beautiful melody, and even he himself can become a part of this grand narrative.
What a brilliant world!
Doctor Bai, you are right, why should people be divided into ordinary and special? Here, I am just an ordinary prisoner, I have found a home, and your spirit in heaven must be able to see it!
He prayed silently in his heart.
The kind-hearted female doctor, whose eyes had been gouged out and candlelight in their sockets, could watch him thrive and watch him come to this land of bliss.
"Sui Ou. He whispered a yellow-eyed bird.
Soon, the little bird that had been following him flew into the cave in a hurry.
Its wings are as clear as dragonflies, its feathers evolve into lines on its wings, and the bird's belly is fat and swollen, as if it has just eaten a lot.
He looked at the fat little bird and said in a commanding tone, "Spit it out." ”
Sui Ou obediently landed aside, opened his small mouth, and guano was like water in a faucet, trickling to the ground.
The bird droppings were rich in nitrates, enough for him to make a powerful explosive.
Even in Purgatory, a world that is out of bounds with common sense, it still can't escape the domination of the periodic table, and all the elements follow the laws of the world in an orderly manner.
After Sui Ou vomited all the feces in his abdomen, his belly shrank a large circle and turned back into a dexterous bird.
He would not be happy about it, but he had to show enough sincerity when communicating with the birds, so he deliberately raised his voice, stroked Sui Ou's head and said:
"Good!"
Sui Ou shook his wings and flew out of the cave leisurely.
"Okay......"
After sending away the birds, Li Kuangshi rubbed the bird droppings into his hands, and at the same time took out various materials that had been prepared from his pocket, and prepared to make explosives.
The temperature in purgatory is higher than normal in the world, and potassium nitrate can easily burn and explode. But Li Kuangshi discovered a ubiquitous crystal that was effective in keeping explosives within a safe temperature range.
He thought that a man who was well versed in chemistry should be able to deduce the structure and composition of such crystals, but he obviously did not have the knowledge.
For him, as long as the bomb can be used, it is not his concern what principle it explodes.
He took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled.
It was a spiritual ritual like a pilgrimage, and he was about to gain a brief period of peace, and all the details were recorded in his mind in great detail, and he recorded everything in his mind like an upright and precise recorder.
He walked up to Bai Yao, untied the tattered bloodstained cloth, took out a knife and slashed her chest, gently placed the explosives next to the still beating heart, and then pressed the cut skin with his fingers.
The crystals will gradually dissolve, and when the body reaches thermal equilibrium, the bomb will ignite instantly.
He stood beside Bai Yao lightly, and the female corpse in front of him coincided with Bai Chongyi.
It was she who pointed out his way to salvation.
At this time, Li Kuangshi was grateful, praying that Bai Chongyi could watch all this happily.
He wanted to tell her: you are the most successful doctor in the world.
"Bang-"
With a loud bang, blood, muscles and bones bloomed, red roses bloomed in mid-air, Li Kuangshi seemed to be bathed in a musical fountain, Beethoven's "Second Movement of the Ninth Symphony" resounded in his ears, he waved an invisible baton in his hand, the timpani seemed to hammer the beginning of the explosion, and with a crisp sonata, violin, viola and cello entered the theme.
He reveled in it, and violence became the most tender romance.
"Yellow-mourning-sleeping!"
The ground shook, and Chen Jian rushed in panting.
Bai Yao's body shattered into blood foam, evenly splashed in the dark stone cave, her skin was still so bright, as bright as the stars in the sky.