Chapter 6: Claustrophobia
Under the pitch-black giant tree, the two of them advanced downwards for a while. Along the way, he occasionally encountered the terrifying zombie dragon several times, and each time before the other party appeared, Li Yuan always pulled Lu Lie behind the obstacle that he hid in the side like an unpredictable prophet, and then not long after, with a rumbling sound from afar, that terrible monster appeared nearby.
I remember the most dangerous time, Lu Lie and Li Yuan, who were hiding under the tree pit, had already reached the point of passing by the monster, and the huge white dragon bone lazily crossed the tree pit, no matter how hard Lu Lie stuck to the tree wall, the cold, slightly damp dragon body still brushed his arm and slashed over.
At that moment, Lu Lie felt that his heartbeat had almost stopped.
Fortunately, in the end, the huge zombie dragon didn't notice Lu Lie's existence, and just slowly left. After confirming the dragon's final departure, Lu Lie stood up from the pit in the tree with palpitations, and glanced at his arm, where the place where the dragon had grazed the arm had already begun to rout, and maggots and strange little bugs kept popping up, rolling back and forth on top of the purple rotten flesh, in and out.
It was rubbed a little bit, and his entire arm was bitten to the point that his bones were about to be exposed.
After Li Yuan on the side saw it, he frowned slightly: "Fortunately, you are a guy with an eternal heart, otherwise it would be a big trouble." He took out a small dagger and skillfully and carefully removed all the rotten flesh from Lu Lie's arm. It didn't take long for new flesh to grow on the injured arm, and even if there was still a little bit of purple worm that had not been removed, it quickly fell from Lu Lie's arm that was about to recover, and was trampled to death by the two of them after falling to the ground.
"That...... What the hell is it?" until long after the dragon had disappeared from the void, Lu Lie still had lingering palpitations. He wasn't a timid man, and his experiences in the Trees and the Borderlands had brought him to death countless times. But the monster gave him a sense of oppression unlike any other threat. Even if you face the Huangquan giant, you don't have such a sense of oppression, even if it's the first time you see Yao on the giant tree...... That feeling of suffocation can barely be compared to the experience just now.
"I seem to have already said that it was the corpse of a dragon that fell here and became a monster......"
"How did the corpse of a dragon end up here? Besides, how can there be a creature like a dragon in this world?" Lu Lie couldn't help but get a little excited, and his voice became louder, "Even if there is a dragon in this world, it must be a kind and perfect creature, and it is definitely not like that! It is so terrifying, even the zombies we met before do not have such a cold feeling as it brings us......
Lu Lie's voice began to echo in the abyss. He also realized that he had some gaffes, and gradually lowered his voice: "How much do you know about this world, or how many secrets are still hidden in your heart, to the extent that you can tell them all...... Li Yuan, I feel that if we continue like this, we will definitely touch something more dangerous to me. ”
"Calm down, Lu Lie. ”
Lu Lie held back the irritability and fear in his heart: "Do you mean I'm already crazy, Li Yuan?"
In the darkness, he felt a cold but soft hand gently resting on his shoulder: "Don't be nervous, Lu Lie ......"
"I'm not nervous!" Lu Lie felt that an invisible poisonous snake was raising its head in his heart, and it was constantly roaring.
In the darkness, Li Yuan's voice on the other side was silent for a moment, and then sounded again: "I don't believe that you will go crazy in this situation, no, you haven't gone crazy after going through so many things on the giant tree, although I haven't been able to reach the top of the giant tree with you in the previous time and space, but judging from the fact that you can climb the giant tree and even hit the Tower of Despair, you are definitely not the kind of person who is weak-willed and will be disturbed by external influences." Think about it, Lu Lie, how many difficult times you have survived, if you will die, then you don't know how many times you have died in the previous journey of the giant tree. The only reason you're alive is because you're not human, you're better than everyone else! You don't die, that's when you're in the tree, and it's the same here. ”
"It's above the Yellow Springs Sea, probably one of the scariest places we've come across so far. But I believe that we will eventually be able to pass through here, just as we did through the giant tree. ”
I have to admit that there is a strange magic in Li Yuan's words, which can quickly calm down people's manic hearts. Lu Lie felt that the restless little snake in his heart slowly extinguished.
He was silent for a while, then adjusted his mood: "I'm sorry, Li Yuan, I have to apologize to you." I was impulsive to speak with this attitude before, and in such a dangerous place, the slightest change in mentality can make us die without a place to bury. ”
"It doesn't matter. In the darkness, Li Yuan on the other side said, "In fact, after reaching more than a thousand meters under the giant tree, my mentality also changed strangely, becoming manic, irritable, and suspicious. This is called claustrophobia in the pathology of our future people, no matter how strong the heart is, we are human after all. If you are human, you will be affected by the surrounding environment. As long as you know the change in your mindset and overcome it, you can do it. ”
The other party didn't say that Lu Lie really didn't feel it, at this moment, he sank his heart, looking at all the strange world around him that was dark and bottomless, and there was indeed a sense of mania slowly rotating in his heart. The little snake in his heart was showing signs of momentum.
Li Yuan clapped his hands: "Listen, Lu Lie, the best way to dispel claustrophobia is to concentrate." Can you hear me clapping now?"
Lu Lie nodded. Suddenly, he thought that the other party could not see his movements in the dark, so he said, "I'm listening." ”
"Good. On the other side of the darkness, Li Yuan clapped his palms again, "Now I clap my hands every five hundred meters when we descend." This is a hint that we have agreed upon, and it is also a kind of mental hypnosis for you. As soon as the applause is loud, you must try to suppress the restlessness and mania in your heart and free yourself from fear. ”
I don't know why, maybe it's really a psychological effect, after hearing Li Yuan's words, Lu Lie's mentality gradually relaxed. He recalled, "Well, just do as you say. But when Lu Lie began to descend, suddenly a great horror, infinitely eerie opposite slowly seeped into his mind.