Chapter 30: Waiting
"You have to go forward, or you have to be here, and you have to wait until you decay and die. ”
It was only here that for the first time, there was a huge disagreement between Lu Lie and Li Yuan on the direction of the road ahead. And this difference is irreconcilable and unacceptable.
The two were silent. In this small hut where he could only hear the sound, Lu Lie heard the north wind blowing outside the house, and the sound was so sad that it seemed as if the whole world was crying.
"If there is a disagreement between the two. That's the last option. Lu Lie stood at the window of the small hut and looked at the blue and desolate scenery in the distance, "That is, you stay here, and I will continue to move forward." ”
"What's the difference between who stays here and who moves on?" Li Yuan couldn't help but laugh, "The death of either of us will trigger the last rollback mechanism. The death of one person is equivalent to the death of two. ”
He said, "It's better to be like this, Lu Lie. You take one step back, I'll take two steps back. We have waited here for ten days, and we have waited for ten days. If nothing happens in this little hut for ten days, then we'll go on our way, what do you think?"
Lu Lie thought for a moment. By any measure, this is the best way to solve it.
However, he decided to bargain: "No, ten days is too long, five days at most." ”
Unexpectedly, Li Yuan immediately agreed: "Okay, it's okay, it's five days." Stay here until five days later, and if nothing changes, then we'll move on. ”
Lu Lie was a little stunned: This guy thought about staying for five days from the beginning, but considering that he might not agree, he deliberately quoted for ten days, just to bargain for himself.
So, this is the most important five days of Lu Lie's life, the biggest turning point in the whole book, these five days full of hope and despair, which makes everything finally fall to the dust, is decided in this frolic-like situation.
......
On the first day of the hut.
Although it was agreed to wait, this did not prevent Li Yuan from running out and looking for something in the vicinity. Every once in a while, he would bring back some strange creatures that he had caught nearby, such as a blue monkey that had lost its head but had healed a wound on its neck, or a blue snail whose shell was a skull. After bringing these strange creatures back, Li Yuan didn't talk nonsense, and directly used the only table in the small hut as an operating table, not knowing what to do on it, flesh and blood flew all day long.
It was Lu Lie who simply found a place where no one disturbed and lay down, slept with his eyes closed, and recuperated well.
Soon, in Huangquan Middle School, the day was spent like this.
There were no stars in the night.
In the dream, Lu Lie returned to the north and south of the old river, when he was just a lowly wanderer, but he was the freest person in this world, and he was the uncrowned king of his own world.
The second day in the small hut soon came, and when Lu Lie woke up from his dream and opened his eyes, he didn't see Li Yuan's voice. And on the small wooden table sat a blue monkey. It's not so much that it's a blue monkey...... It is better to say that the originally empty existence on the monkey's neck was actually artificially sewn with a parrot's head.
Parrot monkeys?
The parrot monkey saw Lu Lie for the first time, and scratched his neck with his monkey's paw, and then the parrot opened its mouth: "Good morning, young man." ”
"What kind of thing is this?" Lu Lie was a little startled, "This eighty percent is what the hell Li Yuan made up again." ”
"Li Yuan, that guy, I'm very grateful to him. The parrot monkey turned his parrot's head several times, "We have lived in this world for so many years, and it is he who has given us such a thing as sapience for the first time. Also, it's an interesting way to look at the world from the perspective of human beings. ”
"I'm going, it's so amazing?" Lu Lie found himself once again underestimating Li Yuan's hands-on ability, and developed human intelligence for this strange-looking Huangquan creature? Or did it only take a day? God knows what this guy had in his head and how he did it.
But just listening to the voice and not looking at the appearance of this strange guy, it really feels like an ordinary person talking to himself.
Lu Lie suddenly felt that Li Yuan might be trying to open the door to a new world.
He cautiously asked, "Hmm...... That, Brother Parrot. You remember what it was like to live here before you turned on your sanity, right?"
The parrot monkey turned its head again and glanced at Lu Lie with a look of contempt, it was hard to imagine that this bird-head could make such a vivid human expression: "Are you a fool?" It's 'we', not 'me'. Even a three-year-old can see that 'we' are a combination of a parrot and a monkey, okay?"
Lu Lie was completely speechless: "Okay, good, big brother parrot monkey, it was me who was inappropriately worded, I was wrong." ”
Seeing that this guy's attitude of admitting his mistake was okay, the combination of the parrot and the monkey nodded with satisfaction, as if accepting the other party's apology: "Where did we talk just now? We are asking us about our memories of life in this area, we can tell you that we can't remember anything too long ago, but we should remember a recent incident before we opened our minds." ”
"Say, boy, what do you have to ask?"
Lu Lie thought for a while: "What is the most dangerous creature in this area?"
"The most dangerous creature. The parrot monkey stood up from the table and pointed proudly at himself, "You can ask such a stupid question? This dangerous creature is naturally the two of us? Look at this strong pectoral, this powerful deltoid muscle." I can irresponsibly tell you that our parrot monkey is not only the most dangerous creature in this area, but also the deadliest hunter in the entire Yellow Springs Realm. As long as we are targeting our prey, none of them will be able to escape alive. ”
Lu Lie rolled his eyes, what a mess, this monkey can't be a funny comparison created by Li Yuan just because he was bored.
Thinking that it is better to have than nothing, he patiently asked, "Then do you remember how this world was formed, and what was the reason why you were born in this world in the first place?"
"Giggles...... "Good question," the parrot monkey danced excitedly. You're asking us the right question. ”