Chapter 30: A Passerby in the Wall
Among these five people, the cannibal is the most ruthless, but he is the most greedy and afraid of death. Seeing that Lu Lie was back, he immediately stepped forward, and said anxiously: "Super little brother, on the other side of the wall, have you found a way to escape?"
Lu Lie glanced at the cannibal owl with meaningful eyes, stretched out his hand, took the cigarette from his hand very naturally, stuffed it into his mouth and took a puff, and said lightly: "Old bird, don't worry, listen to me slowly." ”
Lu Lie judged the situation and knew that the cannibal was now eager to find out the news outside the wall, and he would never embarrass himself.
Sure enough, the cannibal not only did not get angry, but nodded: "You speak slowly, don't miss a little detail." Perhaps, the slightest bit of strangeness on the other side of the wall could be a breakthrough point for us to escape. ”
Lu Lie waited until the remaining three people were sitting around him, then put down the cigarette in his hand, and repeated, "Before the past, I was mentally prepared. Still, on the other side of the wall, I saw far more than I could have imagined.
"As soon as I stepped over the wall, I landed on another stone staircase. The stone staircase on the other side is exactly the same as here, with gray-white stone floors, and ever-bright lamps hanging every twenty steps on both sides, but most of them have been extinguished. I didn't think much of it at the time, I glanced at the top, and it was pitch black and I couldn't see clearly. I walked up with the lantern, hoping that it would be different from here and that I could find a way out. I didn't expect that the world was as black as a crow, and the stone stairs there were as endless as here, and I thought I would never have an end. ”
The cannibal nodded slightly, and Li Yuan, Shimei and the others also exchanged glances. Everyone thought to themselves: no wonder it took him so long to come back, it turned out that it took a long time just to climb the stairs.
The cannibal took out another cigarette, lit it and took a puff: "Super little brother, listen to your tone, naturally there is a turning point in the back." It can't be that you've been climbing the stone stairs for more than half an hour, right?"
Speaking of this, Lu Lie's eyes sparkled, as if he was about to reveal a big secret: "I only know now, fortunately with you, no matter how hard and tiring it is to climb the stone ladder, there is someone to talk to on the road." I walked thousands of floors up the dark staircase alone, hearing nothing but my own breath, and seeing nothing but the stone slabs under my feet. That feeling of extreme loneliness and depression, as if the whole world had forgotten about me, almost drove me crazy!
"At that time, I knew that I couldn't hold it anymore, so I had to keep telling myself, climb a thousand more floors! If after a thousand floors, there is nothing to discover, then it is no wonder that I am useless, and I have to come back empty-handed.
"When I walked a total of 5,780 floors up the new stone staircase, a turning point appeared. ”
The cigarette in Lu Lie's hand was about to burn out, so he casually threw it aside. The tiny spark struggled twice on the ground and quickly went out.
He continued: "Just when I was almost in despair, suddenly, I saw a fire flowing about a hundred feet above, and even ...... There are also the sounds of human laughter and laughter. I was almost at my limit, but when I found out, I was ecstatic and filled with inexhaustible strength. Regardless of the tiredness of his legs, he hurriedly quickened his pace and caught up. I don't have time to think about whether those people are good or bad, and whether it is rational to approach them rashly. The only thought in my mind was to catch up with them and not let them go. ”
When the four of them heard this, they were all shocked: I didn't expect that there were other passers-by on the stone staircase of this wall, I don't know if they had a way to leave here?
The answer is naturally self-evident, if Lu Lie catches up with them, he will not return here alone.
"I ran as hard as I could, hoping that the faint hope would not slip out of my hands. As I saw that I was getting closer and closer to the place where the lights were shining, suddenly I heard the faint scream of a woman from above, and I remember her exclaiming, 'Look away again, dead old man!' The woman's voice was so familiar that I thought for a moment, and my steps stopped for a moment. Just as I was distracted, I heard the sound of something hitting the ground in the distance, and I heard a loud bang on the ground, and the whole aisle shook. I had to stop and hold on to the wall to keep the terrible shaking from shaking down the stairs.
After another moment, the shaking stopped. I was so anxious that I continued to chase after each other, hoping to find the other party as soon as possible. I was already dizzy at that time, otherwise I should have realized the strangeness of it. Speaking of this, Lu Lie paused and said with a wry smile, "I was chasing after me, and I heard the voice of a young man above again, and he seemed to say, 'It's done...... , a thousand pounds of stone, really blocked the stone cave. The man's voice was still familiar, but I ignored it and continued to chase after him. The people above seemed to pause for a moment, and the familiar male voice continued, "Everyone, take out all the food you eat, and let's calculate how many days we can still move." And they said something else. Strange to say, no matter how much I tried to chase after them, the voices of those men, and the candlelight were not far above me, but I always kept this faint distance from them, and I could not see them. ”
When Lu Lie said this, the faces of the five people of Cannibal and Yang Wei turned pale again, no matter how dull they were, they were vaguely aware of the problem.
Shimei swallowed a mouthful of saliva and opened her mouth with difficulty: "Did you hear the people above then discuss whether to use the magic fruit as food, and then listen to them ask about the background of one of them?"
Lu Lie nodded: "That's right." ”
At this time, Yang Wei's face also changed, and he said, "This ...... Isn't that the conversation we had when we first entered this tomb? Why, you're going to listen to it there again, and what are the ones up there that imitate us talking?"
"Don't you understand, Yang Wei. "Very beautiful touching the floor with her fingernails," in this tomb, it is not only space that is distorted, but also time. We thought we had broken down the wall and entered a new dimension, but we were still spinning in this different dimension! Any unit of measurement in the normal world has lost its meaning here. Time is disrupted and displayed in front of us in a random form. The space is also chaotic, losing its edges and boundaries. This is a world that cannot be understood by ordinary people and has no logic!
"What Lu Lie saw there was a projection of our past time and space. ”