Chapter III
Section I
Love is like an island, but we are trapped in it, how much parting, can be exchanged for a reunion after wandering, the sun can shine on the corner of the heart, just like the island, how remote the corner, there is always sunshine to free and easy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The world is an isolated island, separated by mountains and rivers, and it is always reincarnation, and we will definitely meet on the other end.
Miao Valley is not so much a valley as two cliffs that cannot see each other from afar, entrenched on the edge of this country. It was as if stepped on by the gods, and this wonderful place landed just below the horizon. The gray-black dawn that woke up from the darkness slowly enveloped the land, and the fog was so vast that only five meters could be seen.
Relo had already started to have some problems in the morning.
Fan Pu rode all night, and Lei Luo also spent the whole night helping to notice if anyone was around, so he persevered all night, and it was not until early in the morning that he reached the edge of Miao Valley and the ice barrier. Lei Luo has survived the shipwreck at sea, and the waterspout that came inexplicably from the direction of the deep sea, even if you don't count the time when you were unconscious, Lei Luo has not rested for two whole nights, plus the cold wind in the ice barrier, now he feels that his feet are a little fluttery, and the movement of his arms is a little insensitive.
"Lei Luo, are you really okay? Do you want to rest for a while?" Kaxiu touched Lei Luo's forehead with his hand, it was neither hot nor cold, not like a common illness like a cold or fever.
"Lei Luo, I think we can hold on a little bit, we can climb down from that soft body, there must be Miao Valley below, that's right" Fan Pu looked from the cliff and found that there was a soft body fixed on the ground at the top not far away, you can climb down with it, the morning fog has not yet dissipated, and the gray-white air fills the opposite bank, just like the vast sea.
Cassius observes the soft ladder, and unconsciously thinks of the terrifying shores of Oasis Island, and incidentally the suit that almost killed him in the ice barrier.
Just east of the continent, in the union of Oasis Island, a gloomy atmosphere has permeated the entire bar lobby.
"Since we went to the ice barrier, we have to deal with them again, one wrong step, one wrong step, now we must find him, make sure that he can't go to the Zhongguan District, if he can't find it, no one will want to go back to the headquarters alive!" The boatman took off his suit and changed into a black sweatshirt, but he wore a black mask and hood, and was standing on the terrace on the second floor, and the benches and tables on the first floor were moved to the side of the wall and fortified, freeing up a large open space like a square, crowded with people, and a black one.
Lei Luo was a little disgusted, he didn't say much, he only said to Fan Pu that he wanted to go ahead, let Kaxiu go in the middle, and Fan Pu walked last, and went down this soft ladder in turn to this misty land.
This is a somewhat unexpected scene, I thought that Miao Valley is a natural scenery of mountains and mountains, beautiful mountains and rivers, and in front of me are sharp ground thorns, breaking out of the shell of the earth, over time, forming this needle-felt-like ground, huge red conical hard thorns one after another, closely arranged, there is no flat ground to tread, only a deep step shallow forward.
When Lei Luo was about to climb to the ground, the fog had already faded a lot, and Cassiu, who was just about to climb down, could clearly see in the distance, many tall earthen walls dividing the country piece by piece.
In this land without any flattening, Lei Luo could only walk with his feet crooked, and the dense ground thorns were very prominent in the ability to block his vision, only a few intervals, and he couldn't see Fan Pu and Ka Xiu behind him.
By the time Cassieu had reached the surface, Relo had already made his way through the thorn swarm to the other side of the canyon.
"This place is strange, let's go back, it's not too late to find another place without thorns. Fan Pu said to Lei Luo, "Who's wrong with this ghost place, if something pops up or something, we can't run!" Caxiu carefully observed these huge thorns of dark red, texture similar to earth, and there was an indescribable panic in his heart, and his feet stepped on, but they were a little elastic.
"Look, new thorns are starting to grow on the ground!" Cassius stared at the ground, and noticed that one small thorn after another began to grow from the junction of the large thorns, growing larger and larger at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Lei Luo also found out about this, so he was completely panicked, and hurriedly looked for a way to escape, as the growth rate of these ground thorns became faster and faster, Lei Luo could no longer see the ladder he climbed down when he came, and even the big thorn in front of him slowly began to grow a second time.
"Climb up to these big ones!" Relo found that there were no longer any small thorns on the thorns, so he jumped to his feet, and easily squeezed his fingers into the soft skin of the thorns, but when Relo continued to climb up, the fingers that were stuck in the thorns were covered with a dark red, syrup-like viscous liquid. Lei Luo didn't care about it at all, so he just used all his strength and hugged it to death.
"What the hell is this!" Fan Pu didn't hesitate like Lei Luo because of the dark red liquid that came out of the broken epidermis, but the visual impact that made Fan Pu sick to his stomach made him wail and shout all the time.
"Wait! Where's Cashew!" Fan Pu stopped wailing, and found that Cashew, who was missing behind him, was nowhere to be seen. The dense light red thorns grew wildly, and the first batch had become as big as the thorns when Lei Luo and the others came, and the color was getting darker and darker, from bright red to that dark red.
And the thorns that Lei Luo grew when they came down were accompanied by a second, third growth, the texture became softer and softer, and the color became darker and darker, and it felt like it would turn into a puddle of pus at any time.
"Ray... Where have you been?" Fan Pu was busy looking for Cashew, but when he turned around, he found that Lei Luo had disappeared at some point, without any shouting sound, and at the same time, accompanied by the noise of the growth of thorns, Fan Pu's crawling giant thorns suddenly thrust into the mist above, so frightened that he couldn't help shouting, as the sky in front of him turned gray, and the color of the thorns in his arms became darker and darker, and the giant thorns were accompanied by purulence, exuding a sweet and sour taste, and the eyes were fiercely black, and there was no sense of falling, so he lost consciousness.
The blurred vision before the coma and after waking up was exactly the same, both were red, but after seeing clearly, there were two scenes.
Wave after wave of tide slapped on Lei Luo's body, accompanied by the cold stinging sensation of the sea, Lei Luo gradually woke up, and his head was like being punched countless times, and he felt pain for a while.
He lay on the beach, there was plenty of light, but there was no sun, countless stars scattered across the sky, the light of the nebula illuminated the land, and in the distance, a small village was scattered not far from Relo.
"This is!" Lei Luo stood up suddenly, but his eyes were black because he had moved too hard, and he couldn't stand on his feet, so he sat down on the beach again. "Obviously, he was still in the pile of thorns under Miaogu just now......" At the same time, with the more and more painful impact from the depths of his scalp, Lei Luo suddenly remembered something, and shouted around, "Fan Pu! Cassiu, are you there?" Lei Luo shouted, he was still facing the sea, holding his hand on the ground, letting the river rush to his feet.
In exchange for a sturdy, but aging figure, gradually walking towards him, he looked up at Lei Luo, and couldn't help but feel an indescribable nervousness in his heart.
"Who are you...... Lei Luo steadied himself, ignoring the headache for a while, trying his best to control his voice more calmly, and asked the person who came by.
"Another unlucky guy who was thrown over?" said the words in a hoarse voice with a hint of mockery and sympathy.
"I don't know who I am, I'm sure you don't know either, we should have broken our brains when we were thrown over, haha, I just remember that I was on an expedition and accidentally got thrown here by that sticky and disgusting, and I don't remember anything, I can't remember my past, I just remember my teammates disappearing one after another, and I was the only one left. Don't be disappointed, the people who have been here for a while have lived without even remembering who they are, and people like me who can still remember something should have a great memory before they came here. But it's good to be here, no one knows where this is, maybe I used to be a person full of sorrow, or a person with a lot of money, it doesn't matter, I live here at ease. Suddenly, the voice changed to a mournful one, and he continued, "Come with me, while you still remember who you are." ”
The next day, when the dawn was approaching, Fan Pu was sitting in a group of strangely shaped stones, each stone was big and weird, not like a natural formation, the broken and fine stones below and these strangely shaped stones were matched together, making the whole area look like a ruin, although it looked like a ruin from a distance, but a closer inspection would find that there was no trace of damage and fracture on the big stone, the surface was smooth and contoured, rich and magnificent but not gorgeous, some hollow high stones towered on this land like a house skeleton, constructing this world of pure tones, and it is such a world, it seems that a few strands of red hair of Fan Pu are incompatible with this.
If you look closely, you can see that there are strange trees growing between the crevices of some of the stones, none of which grow into large trees, but all of them lose their motivation at the budding stage and no longer grow.
Fan Pu stood up with a stone, his mouth was full of a fishy sweet smell, he spat out, rubbed his waist, shook his arms, and wandered on this coast, looking around, these strange stones, reflecting the starry sky of this place, obviously it was still early. The silence of the starry sky permeates with indescribable beauty, and countless stars in the sky form a long river and flow endlessly. There is a planet that is half immersed in shadows, hanging above Fan Pu's head, presenting a perfect semicircle, and the suffocating silence around Fan Pu makes Fan Pu unconsciously a little frightened.
"I ......"
Fan Pu rubbed his fists together and scratched his head again. Looking at the sparkling water, he barely said anything.
Looking back more than ten hours ago, I looked at the sea in the west, a small isolated island, revealing a white rock beach, after accumulating over time, I don't know whether it was buried in the ground, or the seeds blown by the wind, after this sun, a small forest grew. The sea breeze is often southwesterly, and the first place to blow is always this small lighthouse, and the sea breeze here in the lighthouse is very comfortable.
Kahew sat on top of the lighthouse tower by the sea, holding the weather vane with his right hand, facing the direction of the rising sun, and stepping on a large hole with his left foot that was almost cone-shaped, and the weather vane was facing southwest, feeling the wind blowing on his right. The light blue starry sky wrapped in the lighthouse lights, and the sky was already lit up, dyeing the easternmost sea water golden into a wonderful picture, which reminded Cassius of the hair that always stubbornly curled up on Raylo's head.
A drop of water hit the back of Cassiu's hand on his lap, and he looked up, feeling the wind blowing diagonally behind him, and when he looked up again, he suddenly saw that it was already a long light.
"Where are you......
"The people here call it Confusion, and no one knows who was the first to come here, who was the first to die here, and no one knows where this place is. The man said sadly, "Everyone who comes here will gradually lose their memory, and this is the first sentence that I don't know when engraved on the bedside." And we can never get out of this place, that's the second sentence. ”
The house closest to the coast, where Relo had followed the old man, was a roof made of thatch, and the walls of the mud wall seemed to be piled around the place several times, and at last a hole was dug in the middle, and the hole that was inserted into the eaves of the house with seaweed as a doorkeeper was used as the entrance to the room.
"It's also so strange, it's easy to build this kind of house by the sea at high tide, you should at least build it on the grass over there, right?" Lei Luo came out of the house, looked at the old man in front of him outside the door, and said, "And there is no furniture in your room, no bed, and no two words you said." It's also strange here, why is the sky purple red when it's daytime? The ground is still so bright? My head is ......."
Lei Luo stopped, he didn't dare to imagine that if he lost his memory, he would see Fan Pu and Ka Xiu, or Fan Ran again, but he would pass by them without any sense of familiarity. Lei Luo couldn't accept this statement that he would lose his memory for a while, so in his eyes, it seemed that this beautiful place, everything was so beautiful, as if it was out of this suffocating beauty, and now it was full of ugly and dirty laws.
"There must be a way to get out, what's so difficult if you can't go over the mountains and mountains, and this is not the end of the world. Seeing that the man refused to explain, Lei Luo tried his best to go to the northeast of the coast, but it was not as difficult as he imagined, and Lei Luo ran very lightly, which was a very strange feeling.
Lei Luo ran rapidly, never looking back, the old man finally turned around, looked back at Lei Luo's figure farther and farther away, smiled, and went into the dilapidated room again.
"Damn, where the hell is this!" Lei Luo gritted his teeth all the way, recalling the experience of the past few days over and over again in his heart. He could feel the tingling that accompanied him, and his memories began to blur.
Lei Luo ran and ran, not all the way to the end of the sea, but into the deep mountains, not like ordinary woods, under this strange sky, even the smell of the woods became different, a smell of blood mixed with the fragrance of nature, filling every inch of air here. Relo ran to the edge of a long canyon, but Relo could not pass through the valley directly, nor could he climb the soft cliffs, leaving only a hole blocked by rocks and a canyon covered with red thorns. He could only gamble through the cave on the side of the rock wall now, he didn't dare to walk directly through the group of hard thorns on it, where these dark red hard thorns grew, presumably the end of this group of hard thorns was the red hard thorn group that he came to before the fragment of his memory, and they still grew there. If you force yourself into this thorn forest, you must have gone and never returned.
"That's where the three of us got separated......" Relo muttered as he picked up the layers of rock at the top of the cave. As he dug and looked at the arrangement of the rocks and the shape of the hole, Lei Luo could tell if this must be a natural cave, which meant that maybe this was an endless passage, and the key to escaping from this hellish place.
Lei Luo had almost opened a small hole that he could squeeze himself into, and at the same time, he found that there was a string of words carved on the edge of the door of this stone cave, and he read it softly. "If you love me, don't open your eyes, because I love you. ”
Lei Luo couldn't calm down when he finished reading, his memory would pass with every minute and second at any time, and this string of words may be the key to his ability to leave this ghost place, and he must remember it. Lei Luo couldn't help but think about it so much, so he randomly found a relatively flat stone and wanted to write his key memories on it to prevent it from being lost.
But Relo's brain was already in disarray, and he didn't have time to write down strings of memories, so he only wrote a name on the stone.
Years later, whenever Lei Luo thought of it, he would always smile faintly, he would always refuse to tell anyone whose name he wrote down, and he always had an incomprehensible smile.
Taking a deep breath, he went headlong into the cave, Lei Luo didn't dare to open his eyes, he could only hold the stone firmly in his arms with one hand, stick it to his chest, and hold the wall in the cave with the other hand, like a blind man, carefully and slowly moving forward, the cave was too small, he had to bend down and walk forward little by little.
Suddenly, he seemed to come to a wide space, and he could stand up straight, not so sore, but when he took the first step, there was a chill in his feet, followed by a tingling sensation of numbness, itching, with every step forward, gnawing every inch of skin. Lei Luo was so frightened by this sudden stimulation that he shouted loudly, and he was so frightened that his right eye opened a gap slightly.
It's a picture that is almost the most terrifying memory of Relo's life, or the most desperate nightmare.
Fortunately, this cave is not long, and after running for a while, I ran to the end of the cave, the entrance of the cave here is very spacious, and it is not blocked like that one, and even the breath cannot be penetrated, after Lei Luo ran out of the cave with goosebumps, he did not stop at all, and still ran at full speed non-stop, even if the physical strength of the body had reached the limit.
Until Lei Luo accidentally stepped on a slightly sharp stone, the painful leg twitched, lost his balance, and fell straight down. At this moment, Lei Luo's cheeks were covered with dirt, but it was nothing, because he could smell that it was no longer the smell of blood mixed with the aroma of earth, and it was a long time before he dared to open another slit of his eyes, and he saw a normal clear sky and green woods as he wished.
The body was exhausted from running and could not move. Although he couldn't see it, he could imagine how the flesh and blood of the two soles of his feet were blurred, his limbs had been cut into many dense small cuts, his clothes were torn, and the blood on his forehead was dripping down his cheeks, but Lei Luo's head was not wounded at all.
He rolled over, letting his back touch the dirt and breathed uncontrollably. But it didn't take long to see the clear sky, and it didn't last too long, and the downpour poured down almost in a second, scrubbing this end of Lei Luo and the canyon, he could feel that he still had the original memory, even if it was Renault, Fan Ran, Fan Pu, Ka Xiu, and Ake......
The name written in mud on the stone in Lei Luo's hand had been washed away by the rain, and there was no trace of writing anymore.
He closed his eyes reassuringly, enjoying listening to the sound of the rain, but suddenly heard a series of gentle footsteps, and wanted to open his eyes to look again, but the eyes that had been wet by the rain were only blurry when they opened.
I saw a tall girl with an umbrella, walked over, and carried herself on her back. Lei Luo no longer had the strength to control his body, and let himself slowly pass out, the girl ran up, and he squeezed out the last sentence with difficulty: "Who are you?" ”
Section II
Towering skull-like rocks, unevenly covered in solid earth. New storms followed the previous ones, and the fragments of dead leaves were swept up and waved in the air by the strong wind, as if they were flying with the immortals. Fan Pu was relaxed, as if he was full of strength, and he was powerfully shuttling through this stone forest.
He walked to the sea, where the stars of the night were illuminating the land and the sea, and at the same time casting a black veil over the strangely shaped stones, which made it look even more eerie. There is always a string of melodies lingering in Fan Pu's heart, wandering under the shroud of starlight.
This lyric echoed in my ears, "If you love each other and no longer be sad, empty lovers look at each other in the mirror." If you don't miss your dear, you can go to war. When did I hear this song, Fan Pu had completely forgotten it, only the beautiful melody and the picture vaguely in his mind.
Sitting on a long carved wooden chair, wearing a beautiful military uniform, playing with the freshly picked flowers in his hands, and sitting on the ground opposite was an old man, with lost eyes and slightly raised corners of his mouth, a look of vicissitudes and helplessness. Who he is, why is he here, and who is he waiting for. With a question, he looked at him curiously, but he didn't look up at his childish face opposite, and it didn't seem like he was saying something, this garden path, the beautiful fence, the cherry trees and maple trees were mixed together, and the petals were falling, and the withered yellow and baby pink were mixed together, accompanied by a beautiful melody in the mind, like a lullaby, beautiful, and reassuring.
The sun gradually rose, the starry sky on the horizon was smeared with thick orange-red clouds, and the dark blue starry sky above Fan Pu's head had not faded at all, still reflected on the water, as if there was a sea of stars in front of him, no hardship, no fatigue, no worries, no disturbances, only simple beauty.
Fan Pu plunged headlong into the water and let himself sink, his eyes closed, trying to feel the starlight refracted by the sea on every inch of his skin, which now turned into wisps of light reflected on Fan Pu's back. As Fan Pu kept sinking to the bottom of the sea, the light gradually dimmed little by little.
The water pressure had already made Fan Pu have some tinnitus, and gradually, there was no feeling of suffocation, no cold, no pain, only slowly closed his eyes, accompanied by a beautiful melody, and gradually sank to the bottom of the sea.
"Is this guy going to kill himself after losing his memory?" said a girl in a green shirt as she pulled Fan Pu to the rocky beach, panting.
"It seems that yes, it's not unseen in such a situation, it looks like an acute child......" The man next to him spoke in a very low tone, but the speed of his speech was very fast, he grabbed Fan Pu's arm, took advantage of the situation to carry him on his back, and ran towards the other end of the stone forest.
To the north of this stone forest, there is a forest, which is also one of the boundaries of Miao Valley. The sun was good on this day, but the cloudless sky made the sun a little monotonous. When the sun rose overhead, the dawn when Fan Pu sank into the sea had turned into brilliant sunlight, and the starlight had completely faded, Fan Pu shuddered violently, woke up, and found that the bed board under him was a little hard, and the bones ached, which seemed to remind him of the slate bed placed on the first floor of a small two-story house.
"Are you finally awake?" The girl in green clothes saw Fan Pu sit up, poured a glass of water from the cabinet, and put it on the bedside table on Fan Pu's left hand side, the girl looked fifteen, sixteen or seven at most, with a relieved look, and said: "We were still discussing that if you can't survive, we will bury you in the ground." "Light yellow hair, mixed with a few strands of gray hair, seems to be the result of overwork in his youth.
"Who are you?" Fan Pu said with some defensiveness, without too much surprise or joy at being rescued, like a pool of stagnant water, not angry at all.
"Ha, it doesn't matter who I am, do you know who you are?" the girl said to Fan Pu in a slightly mocking tone. Many people are thrown here by the maple pulp, most of them will lose some memory, this maple pulp hand has a devastating effect on people's nerve cells, many politicians use this trick to make political opponents into neurotics, feed them a mouthful of maple pulp hand juice can easily achieve the goal, poisoning also has many people use this thing; of course, there are also people like you, immediately amnesia, but people like you who commit suicide as soon as you come up are not common. With that, she rolled her eyes and left in a huff.
Fan Pu blinked a little confused, looked down at his hands, the skin on the back of his hands was slightly rough, and there were some scar-like marks on them. It was like a new wound, and some of them had some scabs. Sitting on the boat and stunned for a long time, Fan Pu realized how unlevel the sentence just now was, so he rolled out of bed and was about to run out to apologize, but because the body that had just woken up was not completely under his control, he accidentally didn't stand firm and hit his head on the table.
"What are you making a fuss about!" the girl slammed the door open again, watching as Fan Pu covered the table with decorations, rubbing his head and making the floor a mess. "I can't think of it, don't look for death in my house! I want to die and go crazy in the mountains! I can't stand you dying in my house!" The overly angry voice made her look like she was about to fight at any moment, Fan Pu had just fully recovered now, and recognized the situation, so she stood up and apologized violently.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, just now, I didn't react just now, I'm confused, my brain hasn't woken up yet, don't take it to heart." Fan Pu hurriedly apologized as he brought the girl the water that had just been placed on the bedside table.
The girl glanced at Fan Pu with tears and laughter, and said angrily, "This water is drugged, it can make your brain clear, it is helpful for recovering your memory, why do I have nothing to drink this?"
Fan Pu thought about it again, and realized that what he had done was indeed inappropriate, so in order to show some sincerity, he drank all the water in the cup. Seeing that the girl laughed, she boldly asked, "I still want to take the liberty of asking who you are?"
"My dad and I have been living here for a long time, and we didn't know why we got here, in short, we also lost our memories and never went out again, but we all remember the memories after coming here very clearly, maybe like you, accidentally ate the juice of the maple syrup. In short, we don't want to leave here, live carefree, I'm his daughter, he's my father, I have relatives with me, it's beautiful, what's not good. The girl said slowly, her voice began to become cheerful and lively, and even became a little envious of herself, and continued to say, "We have built a small house here, and there are other people who imitate us, and slowly live, everyone is together, carefree, why do you recognize the ugly past." Do you make yourself feel bad?"
"Well...... Fan Pu said thoughtfully, "hasn't anyone tried to escape?"
"Of course, but in the end we only found the bones of some people, and some of them could not be found at all, maybe they escaped, or they may have been eaten by wild beasts" The girl's expression was suddenly stunned, her eyes dimmed, and she said, "I didn't find someone like my mother." ”
"Then it's better to stay here" Fan Pu pretended to think about it very seriously, and then said, "I'll go out and have a look, the environment should be very good." ”
"Don't go to the skull, it's the group of rocks you were thrown at," the girl explained, taking the cup from which Fan Pu had drunk water, and walked towards the kitchen. As if to add the last sentence to himself, "It's terrible." ”
"It's nothing, I don't think it's anything, but I'll listen to you, and I'll go around the mountains. Fan Pu smiled, shook his hand, pushed open the door and walked out.
Fan Pu walked slowly, bypassing many places that were easy to observe, until he could no longer see the house, and then began to run sharply.
"The ghost is willing to stay in this kind of place with you!" he silently shouted: "You don't let me go, I'm going away, maybe it's an exit there, and you want to keep me, have I ever ......" Fan Pu said, and he was about to say it, but his train of thought was broken, the words were blocked, and the memory seemed to be pressed back, sinking in his mind again.
Before he knew it, he had run to the alien skull, in this stone forest. It is as if the once exquisite castle has been reduced to ruins, towering over this land.
Fan Pu carefully searched for anything unusual on this rocky beach, thinking of a way to follow any information that could help him escape, and the clues to the exit.
The only discovery was that in the grotto that Fan Pu saw when he arrived, he found a small round hole, which seemed to be dug by hand, but the wall of the cave was extremely smooth and surprisingly small, and it seemed to be a small hole that could only accommodate one person at a time. This cave is bottomless, I don't know if there is sea water or some terrifying creature below, Fan Pu doesn't know anything about it. In short, one thing is very certain, once you go in, you can't go back the way you came.
Fan Pu was very frustrated, and sat on the ground next to him, but because he sat on a sharp small stone, he jumped up in pain, gritted his teeth, scolded secretly, kicked the stone away, and sat in that place again.
Seeing that noon has passed and the sun is about to fall into the horizon, Fan Pu still hasn't found any other exit, it seems that there is only one choice.
"I'm alone, and I don't have any teammates to help me go down to see if there's any danger......," he said, looking at the hole.
At this moment, Fan Pu suddenly thought of something and began to look for sharp stones.
Most of the stones were round, and there was almost no sharp one that he wanted to sit on at noon, so Fan Pu set his sights on the stone that he kicked away, and it was not until the sun went down that Fan Pu found this sharp stone.
"I'm so stupid, why didn't I think of it," he said, picked up another stone at random, ran to the entrance of the cave, threw it into the hole, and listened carefully to the sound.
Accompanied by a thump, thump, not a "plop" sound, it means that the stone has fallen to the ground, which is not a passage to the groundwater, and then the echo of the empty space is heard, and there is no other sound, which proves that there is no other living thing.
"Great, so that there will be no sea down there, no ground, and no monsters!" Fan Pu almost trembled with excitement at this moment, grasped the stone tightly, and plunged into the hole.
With the rapid fall, Fan Pu was a little frightened, the surroundings were pitch black, and all he could do was to press his limbs against the cave wall tightly, trying to reduce the speed of the fall. The sleek stone wall was like a slide, and Fan Pu was basically useless in doing so, no matter how he thought about it, this passage could not be formed naturally.
The time of continuous falling almost reached half a minute, and the speed became more uniform under the obstruction of Fan Pu's increased friction, at this time Fan Pu felt the wind blowing in from below, and found that it was almost to the bottom, so he pressed against the stone wall more harder, and used the sharp angle of the stone to resist the cave wall, trying to slow down by increasing some friction.
There is indeed no sea water or monster as Fan Pu imagined, and the passage at the bottom is no longer straight up and down, but perfectly made an arc, allowing Fan Pu to slide to this place. But it's not as rough as the imagined underground cave, the ground here is smooth and flat, the whole is an artificially built palace-like lobby, the surrounding stone walls are glowing with fluorescent green, and the emerald floor is also glowing with a dull dark green, this is an almost circular lobby, in front of you are a door carved with dense patterns, they are tightly closed, Fan Pu counted slightly, a total of twelve doors. To the left of the first door, a stone staircase leads to the platform on the second floor, and a row of carved wooden screens block a glowing object, shining through the glass between the carved gaps, the brightest green light in the underground palace.
Fan Pu was not stunned for a long time, he quickly reflected on it, and now the top priority is to escape. He quickly made a mark with a sharp stone where he had come down, and slipped the stone into his pocket.
But driven by curiosity, Fan Pu saw that no one else was in this place, so he went down the stairs and climbed to the second floor.
Driven by fear, he only dared to open the screen little by little, poke his head out, and see the scene inside. The scene in front of me was like a beautiful nightmare.
There is a stone statue of a woman here, in a posture like a dead man in a coffin, with her hands crossed on her chest, and she is lying on a high stone platform, this platform is like a sacrificial platform, exquisite and beautiful, this whole is glowing with dazzling fluorescent green, and the hall is not blocked by the screen, and the entire underground palace is instantly lit up by this light.
Fan Pu thought that something would appear, but there was no reaction, the delicate face of the stone statue, with his eyes closed, smiled slightly, and continued to emit green light.
Next to the statue are jewels made of precious stones, and delicate weapons, each of which looks priceless.
But Fan Pu didn't dare to touch any items, these things can only be cumbersome to bring, and life is still more important, so he didn't take a step in, and when he saw this picture, he quickly closed the screen and restored it to the appearance when he came.
He didn't dare to waste any more time, and immediately dispelled the idea of finding a way on the second floor, climbed down the ladder, looked at the doors in front of him, and before he could count how many, he pulled one at random and got into the second door.
When Fan Pu fully entered the passage, the door quickly closed, and the sound of locking the door suddenly came from behind, which frightened him a lot, and he sat directly on the ground, leaning against the door, panting heavily.
Seeing that there were no hidden arrows or traps ahead, he stood up and began to figure out how to open the door again. It's a pity that to no avail, the door didn't move at all, so he couldn't hold back his temper anymore and kicked the door hysterically. With this kick, it was ushered in by the top of the passage behind him, and a row of green light shot out.
This light suddenly appeared, and Fan Pu was frightened again, and said, "Ya, this is still voice-controlled?!"
After taking two deep breaths and being mentally prepared, he walked forward little by little, looking at the environment, beware of triggering any mechanism, but this was too much to worry about, until Fan Pu came to the end, and no mechanism appeared.
It's just a row of corridors, and the other eleven passages lead to it, and there are no exits. Twelve large, glowing green stones lined up in front of each door, projecting the bodies of ten people inside. Because the last two stones were damaged, there was no reflection, only an afterimage due to the uneven texture.
Fan Pu was so frightened by the sudden appearance of the human figure in the gem that he almost fainted, he stiffened his head, and carefully observed for a while, only to find that this was just a projection, and there must be a computer installed in the wall above, and then looked back, the figure that appeared in the stone in front of him was not so scary.
The figure was wearing a white robe belt and a white hood, the robe covered the whole body, and only half of the face could be seen, and the other nine statues were also dressed exactly the same, without saying a word.
Before Fan Pu could open his mouth, the image in the second stone began to speak first. "Break the stone. ”
Section III
Cassiu fell asleep in the lighthouse, running one after another, not closing his eyes for two whole days, his body was already sleepy, and the sea breeze caressed his body slightly, and the seagulls called twice from time to time, feeling very relaxed, and soon fell asleep.
As dreams took over his brain, he gradually stopped hearing the waves that began to become raging crashing against the gray and black reefs, and he could not see that the rocks that had been beating all year round had become full of holes, densely and irregularly laid on the shore like pins and needles, waiting for the next wave to come. I don't feel the atmosphere of fear coming from the heart around me.
Cassius woke up, he was lying on his bed in the palace, familiar with the coast, the familiar lighthouse, and two familiar figures beside him.
He was lying on the bed in the room where he had grown up in Nanlingzhou, and his brother next to him touched his head and fell asleep on the head of the bed, with a pleasant smile. The boatman was facing away from Cassiu, and he didn't see any anger or reproach, but the boatman clearly felt Cassiu's awakening, and deliberately didn't turn around, just quietly looked at the lighthouse outside the window, which was where he had picked up Cassiu and taken him to Oasis Island.
Without waiting for Cassiu's reaction, the boatman preemptively said, "Do you remember the dry well on Oasis Island? "It's like telling a story, with a little joy, waiting for Cassius to respond.
"I know. Kasiu replied quietly. He was no longer going to resist, thinking that he should let it be providential, but with some sense of decadence caused by giving up resistance.
"I'm sorry to tell you that the place where your dad died is there, don't get me wrong, we didn't force him, he chose to commit suicide himself, to be honest, I don't like him like this, it's good to change places, the following is the treasure used by our predecessors to press the village, and now it is going to rot with him. The boatman seemed to be pleased, and continued, "Our fleet has already made contact with most of the countries of Nanlingzhou and Guanzhou, but the moment the fleet departed, it was just the moment you fled. The boatman touched his pocket, which was still bulging, and was very satisfied with Cassiu's silence, and continued, "That guy Ake, should have been dealt with by her predecessors ten years ago, and it's a pity, it's her 30th birthday in two months, and I don't know if I can get her, after all, the power is not in my hands, I really hope she can escape." The boatman's tone became a little strange, and it really changed to a somewhat worried tone.
"But it looks like you're not going to compromise with us, are you?" The boatman suddenly spoke very quickly, and as his anger heated, Cassius felt a heat on his face, and his head suddenly received a violent impact, and the pain made his eyes go black, and he lay down again.
With a rush of footsteps, Cassius gasped for breath and woke up from the dirty wooden floor, Cassiu subconsciously looked at the suspension bridge leading from the island to the lighthouse, and a figure ran quickly, and soon disappeared from Cassiu's field of vision.
It wasn't until the sound of seagulls in Cathew's ears that Cassius realized that it was another dream, and that he was on the top floor of a high lighthouse on a small island in the sea, and the place where he slept seemed to have been visited for a long time, and a thick layer of dust had accumulated on the floor, and there was a nearly cone-shaped hole in the top of his head, which should be the red thorn that he had fallen from the hole a few hours ago. It wasn't until I saw three blue backpacks around me that I remembered that I was still holding Lei Luo Fan Pu and my bag when I was thrown over, at that time the three of them were clean, and now there is a sweet and sour smell on my body, which arouses some feelings of hunger.
"Lei Luo! Fan Pu!" The first thing Cassius remembered was to stand up and call out the names of his companions, but there was not even an echo in the vast sea.
Kasiu ran down the drawbridge connected to the lighthouse and onto the opposite land, thinking that if he found the figure he saw when he woke up, he would find a way to find Lei Luo and them.
After running for a long time to reach the end of the bridge, Cassius realized that it was actually a slightly larger island. Towering over the sea. But he did not give up, and continued to run into the woods by the sea, looking for the figure who had left in a hurry.
After three full days, and another time when the sun went overhead into the horizon, Cassius couldn't find anyone on the island.
"Hell......" Cathew grumbled, and walked to the place where he had spent the night, and the three bags placed next to him lay quietly under the coconut tree, and he sat down himself, leaned against the trunk, and began to rummage through the contents of the bag.
"On October 20, '63, inexplicably I got separated from them on the 17th and came to a very strange place, as mentioned in the previous diary. Now that I'm running out of food, I can't look for that person anymore, I'm going to find a way to get out from now on. Cassiu was glad that when he was separated from Lei Luo Fan Pu in the giant thorn, he was still carrying the backpack given by Ake, which contained everything from food to tools, no wonder it was so heavy, and Lei Luo complained several times when he was flying on the motorcycle that his hands were about to be dislocated. Now it's good, all three bags are transferred to Cassiu's hands.
This little book is also prepared in the bag, and its workmanship is very fine, it is a sky blue cover like an ice castle, but the cover has nothing, just a piece of sky blue.
Cassiu decided to record his findings, schedule, and maybe complain about how hard he worked in order to meet Lei Luo Fan Pu in the future.
When I woke up and looked east, the dawn had risen in the distance, the sea was shining orange-red in the sunlight, a few bubbles were rising with the sea, and the dark copper-colored iron chains near me were gently swaying with the waves.
Cassius watched the sunrise and noticed the thin chain, which he hadn't seen since he had passed the shore yesterday. Suddenly there was some hope in his heart, and the reflection of the water on the chain flickered in Cassiu's pupils.
Cassius ran to the bank of the river and pulled the chain with all his might, but it didn't move as if it were fixed to the bottom of the water.
"Maybe we should go down and have a look. Cassius muttered, ran back to the coconut tree, tethered the bag tightly to the tree, and ran back to the shore to stare at the chain, took a deep breath, and plunged headlong into the water.
Cassius struggled to open his eyes in the water, and the faint green light wandered on the surface of the sea, projecting into the sea, illuminating the direction to the bottom of the chain, the water here was not very deep, so Cassius soon reached the place where the chain was fixed, and he saw a movable door, the door was densely packed with small holes, constantly letting in some air, and emitting some faint light, but the sea water did not pour in.
Kasiu tried hard to open it, but no matter what, he couldn't pull the door open. Until he couldn't hold his breath anymore, he had to return to the shore again.
"There must be a way, it must be opened" Cassius came out of the sea, gulping in the cool air, the sea water wet his hair, in order not to obscure the view, he pulled his hair to the back of his head, the filtered sea water slightly fishy, down Cassius's cheeks, ticking back into the sea.
Cassiu sat on the sand in the water, the cold touch made Cassiu sober up a lot, looked at the horizon and thought for a while, then went to the shore, walked to the edge, and took out the multi-functional knife prepared by Ake.
Cassius walked back to shore and looked at the surging water, and he dived to the surface again.
With his first experience, Cassiu quickly returned to the movable door, and he saw that there was an eye-shaped hole right next to the chain, which he thought was the keyhole, and without thinking too much, he used all his strength to insert the blade into the hole.
With two clicks, the sound of the knife breaking in the hole reached Cassiu's ears, and then the movable door popped open, and the sea water quickly began to pour into the movable door.
Cassiu pulled the door open with difficulty, burrowed into the passage below, and quickly closed the door again, wasting a lot of effort.
"Oh no, I don't know how much water ...... came in" Cassiu gasped for breath again, there was enough oxygen below, and Cassiu's breathing was much easier.
It was a downward passage, but fortunately it was not smooth, and Cassiu barely used his body to support the four walls, slowly moving down a little bit.
Cassius heard a louder and louder noise coming from below, and looked at the light coming from below with a head full of questions.
Without paying attention, Cassius didn't hold back, and quickly fell his whole body down.
There was a bright light in front of him, he couldn't open his eyes, and the sound of people coming and going was noisy, and Cassius slipped through a passage into the street, and almost everyone who came and went looked at him strangely, whispered and quickly left.
Cassiu's heart pounded in surprise, it was a very bustling town, but it was a dungeon, it was not as small and oppressive as Oasis Island, the simulated sky above him looked very realistic, only the cracks in the mechanical panels looked a little strange.
Having just come out of the darkness, Cassius hadn't fully adapted to the light, and he quickly squinted his eyes and stood up, almost the street was filled with water, and at a glance he knew that it was the sea water that had poured in when he opened the passage.
"My lord, it's pretty cool, isn't it fun to wear outsiders' clothes and slide down the exhaust pipe" A middle-aged old man next to him, his body was slightly fat, wearing a reddish-brown gauze robe, looking up on his old face, long black hair mixed with a few strands of dirty gray hair, tied behind his head by a simple black band, looking like a small brush standing upright.
He sat on the small bench beside him, as if he had just finished cleaning up his scattered stall, and beside him several long and tall basins were neatly placed beside him, and the fish in them were active from the sea water that had just been commissioned, and they were all swimming rapidly, mixed together like a black liquid surging.
"I ...... It's okay, I'll go first. "Cassius doesn't dare to deal with this old guy too much, he doesn't seem to be a good person.
Without waiting for the old man to say anything more, Cassius immediately followed the direction of the crowd and walked towards the center of the city. He huddled in the crowd and walked forward, but it didn't take long for Cassius to notice that the people in this town were all dressed in the same clothes as the old man who sat on the bench, but in a slightly different color, and the people around Cassius watched with some contempt as Cassius walked through the crowd.
It's not hard for Cassius to think about how strange he is dressed here, and if he wants to be in peace here for a while, he must quickly integrate into this society. Not long after, when he was almost in the city center, he quickly spotted a clothing store, and immediately opened the door and got inside.
"Why don't you knock on the door!" a middle-aged woman's voice said quickly from the second floor next to the stairs. A moment later, a gentle-looking proprietress came down, with a confident smile on her slightly old face, but at the moment she looked very serious with a slight anger.
As soon as she saw Cassiu, the proprietress was stunned, covered her forehead and smiled helplessly, and said, "It's a disobedient little prince again......, right? The royal family really doesn't pay attention to it, each of you is dressed stranger than the other, and then again, you were forced to make clothes, right? Look at your stinky water, jumping into the sea to catch fish, or what's wrong?"
Cassius realized that the proprietress must have been thinking in a conventional way, so he took over and said, "I'm sorry, I forgot to knock on the door." Seeing that the proprietress smiled slightly, she began to make up and said: "Oh, don't talk about it, when I came back from the boat, I was playing on the deck, and accidentally turned over, you should see other princes wearing this dress......, right?" Foreign countries sell very good clothes. I've been sent to study in other kingdoms since I was a child, and I've just returned to China, and I've basically forgotten about everything here, and I don't know much about this here, can you tell me about what has happened in the past few years......?" The sun is coming out in the west......"
Kasiu's heart instantly became nervous, if he was found out, the next thing could be followed by hunting, torture, and imprisonment...... Cassius didn't dare to imagine it, so he tried to make his voice appear relaxed and pleasant, and said in a round field: "I have a secret, I call it a state secret, and I am not allowed to tell outsiders Oh, don't ask more, I don't believe you, the knife of a foreign royal family." Then he pulled the knife out of his pocket, which had just been broken.
Fortunately, although the boss's puzzled expression did not disappear, she changed the topic and said, "Which set do you want to set?"
Kasiu thought for a moment and said, "I just want ordinary aristocratic clothes, I haven't reported that I'm back, I want to be comfortable for two days." With that, Cassiu pretended to be interested in the display fabric next to him, flipping through it layer by layer.
"It's really a weirder ......" The proprietress looked at Cashew without any more doubts, changed to a helpless expression, and shouted at Cashew, "If you want to say that the blue yarn is in stock, but the white yarn worn by your royal family has to be pre-ordered, but now there is none, I will send someone to send it to the palace in two days, you will wear the blue yarn first, and the yellow yarn is not in stock on my side, only this set of ordinary nobles is left, don't dislike it?"
Cassiu didn't know anything about this country, so he hurriedly echoed, "Blue yarn is fine, blue yarn is fine, yellow yarn doesn't need to be sent, I'm over there...... Yes, yes. Cassiu said in a perfunctory tone, in fact, he was already silently breaking out in a cold sweat.
"So there is, then what are you doing here, forget it, it's not a strange thing for you people to do some moths, let's go take a bath first, it's the first time I've seen such a dirty prince." The proprietress glanced at Cassius with a slightly disgusted look, pointed to the bathroom on the right side of the stairs, and then turned and disappeared behind the cabinet.
Kashu let out a long sigh of relief, looked around to see if there was anyone else, and walked towards the bathroom.
"Don't worry, no one is looking at you. Ka Xiu was about to secretly close the curtains when he heard the shouts of the proprietress upstairs.
After washing, he changed into the blue robe, which Cassiu was not very happy with, it was a size larger than Cassiu's, the sleeves had hung down to his fingers, and it was not at all as comfortable as his original clothes, a little prickly.
"Come on, your old clothes have been washed and dried, and they have been packed and put on top of the shoe cabinet, remember to take them when you go." And the white yarn I have asked someone to send it. The proprietress smiled and glanced at Cassiu's blue robe, "That's what it sounds like." As he spoke, he pointed to the steaming tea on the coffee table.
Although the name of this dress is blue yarn, it is slightly thick fabric, and it looks like a religious sacrifice.
Cassius was a little flustered, thinking that his identity could not be revealed too quickly, so he didn't go to drink the tea, but walked out of the store directly. Pushing open the door, I subconsciously looked ahead, but saw two familiar figures.
"Fan Pu ?!......"