Chapter 9 The road ahead is confused
"Say it again, what's your name?" asked the head as he walked over to a wall, a needle in his hand. That's right, it should be a needle, a needle as big as a pen, and it also glows faintly blue there.
"Ahh The lamp Ke looked at the first gradually, and the blue light flickered in his puzzled eyes. Shou gradually turned around and searched back and forth between the carved words on the wall, and only then did he realize that the entire wall was engraved with people's names.
"What are you doing?" asked Lamp Ke, puzzled.
As if he had found a small void, he picked up the thick needle and engraved the name of the lamp. The golden sparks danced happily at the tips of his needles, like sparks from the fireworks, adding a little warmth to the dark and cold room.
"Well, you've got the record on file. Next, I'll assign you a place to work. As he spoke, he picked it up on the wall again.
"Wait! I'll have to go back and say hello to my family before I come back, or they'll be very worried about me." Deng Ke hurriedly said, and the first laughed again.
"Did your parents go back to tell you when they came here? You are so naïve, people who come here don't want to go back until they complete their tasks! Do you understand?" said the first gradually, his expression became fierce, and Deng Ke was too frightened to speak anymore, and an unwarranted fear welled up in his heart, and he felt that he might never see Mute again.
"Boy, considering that you are so thin and weak, you can't think of anything else, so you can go to the mine to move stones, I believe you will love this work. After the first yin and yang said in a strange tone, he lowered his body and carved it again. In the dazzling light, he saw a letter K engraved next to his name. He didn't understand what that meant, but he didn't have the heart to think about it. At the moment, he only has one hope left, and that is to find his parents here.
"Hey, don't be discouraged! You're going to do a glorious job, and you should be happy." You may not know that for the sake of justice, for the removal of all evil, the land and the depression have made an alliance and made a common oath to unite and build the temple of Ullah. So, we're all brothers now, we're all family. You have to do your best to do your job, just like your parents, for nothing else, for the peace of your land and the happy life of millions of people, think of how great you are. Do you understand?" said the first and looked at Deng Ke with contempt, making Deng Ke think that he was not saying this to himself at all, and there was no third person when he looked around. Deng Ke nodded silently, Shou gradually looked at the door and clapped his hands twice, the two stone men walked in, Shou gradually drew a k in the air with his fingers at them, and the stone man picked up Deng Ke and walked out after reading it.
Deng Ke's steps became more and more difficult, the sludge on his body had become stiff, and he was moving more and more like the two stone men beside him. The three stone men slowly stepped out of the tower's gates, facing them with the mountains and sparse dead trees that surrounded the mire. There was no way out of the road, and it was still foggy and dim, and the road was rough and muddy, and his feet were sinking in and pulling out, causing more mud. Lantern Ke trudged with difficulty between the two stone men, allowing them to push themselves towards the cliff to the north. He didn't know where he was going to be taken, and he didn't have the heart to think about it. Upon coming out of the tower, it suddenly dawned on him that everything was ridiculous, and although he was glad that he hadn't died, he also felt ridiculous because he was alive to face these strange sights. He knew that in reality there was no such thing as falling into the sea and coming out of the mud, and there was no stone man who could move by himself, and there was no lamp that glowed blue out of thin air and a pen that sparked when it hit a wall. But he preferred to believe that it was all true, whether he could give a scientific explanation or not, no matter how strange the way it was done, he only hoped to find his parents and brother in the only place where they could prove that they were still alive.
It was getting darker, and the high cliffs ahead seemed to be within reach, but they were always close by. Dengke's foot had been aching since just now, and now it seemed to be about to break. He couldn't understand why he had given him a suit of clothes but no shoes, and his feet would have to be crippled if he continued like this. Thinking of this, Deng Ke couldn't hold on any longer, he sat down in the mud and refused to leave. Two stonemen pulled him up by force, and one of them said to the other:
"This is the weakest Lu man I've ever seen, how did Yongdao choose him?"
Deng Ke was taken aback, he didn't know that the stone man could also speak, and before he could express his feelings, the other replied:
"Who knows? Maybe he's a bit stronger. Hahahaha......"
The two stone men laughed loudly, this is clearly a human voice, it sounds so clear and harsh, it is definitely not something that a stone can come from. Ignoring their taunts, he admitted that he was weak, and he had always been since he was a child. Some people used to say the same about him, but what could he do? He couldn't run, he couldn't jump high, and he didn't dare to express opinions that were contrary to the public. He's such a person, he's too lazy to bother to fight for anything. Ever since he came here, he had never thought of escaping, he had to oppose the fact that Yongdao had sucked him here to suffer for no reason, and he had to defend his rights, and he could not compromise on threatening language that appeared to be a request but actually a command. He was more interested in the two talking stone men, he looked at them carefully, and could not see a single sign of a person, just as he thought that he must have hallucinated in pain, one of the stone men spoke again.
"What are you looking at, little ghost, do you want to die here?"
Call me a little ghost, listen to your voice, see that you are about the same height as me, Deng Ke thought, and muttered.
"Can you rest for a while, my feet hurt so much. ”
"No! You must cross the Black Dragon River before midnight!" After speaking, he pushed the lamp Ke hard.
Deng Ke was angry. He wanted to talk to the two stone men a little more, and ask them why they talked, were they made of stone, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on. But now he was really angry, he felt that they were ruthless and cold, and he didn't want to talk to them anymore. He dragged his legs and continued to move forward, and when he looked up, his eyes were full of stinking mud, and there was no river in sight. The men walked for an unknown amount of time, and their route began to stretch eastward, by which time they had reached the bottom of the cliff. Deng Ke vaguely saw that there was a gap between the eastern edge of the cliff and the mountain on the east side, which could probably accommodate a person. You should be able to reach your destination through this gap, right?" Deng Ke thought, and walked over slowly, but was unexpectedly pulled back by the stone man. "Stay here, don't move!" one of the stone men grabbed the lamp and stayed where it was, while the other walked alone to the gap. When he walked to the gap, he saw that there was a door at the entrance to the gap. I saw the stone man put his palm on the door, and the door immediately glowed orange, and after the light passed, the door opened, and another stone man poked his head out.