Be careful (first update)
I cannot give an answer to this question either.
The boy in the couple probably didn't really want to ask me, a stranger who knew nothing about me, but was just venting his emotions.
I patted him to comfort him and turned my attention back to the female tour guide and Zhou Tingmao, who still looked desperate.
Just as I was about to ask the next question, suddenly a question popped up in my mind.
That’s not right. They talked for a long time, and the story seemed very complete and smooth, but it seemed to be completely contradictory to the current situation.
There are huge tourist groups with a lot of people, caves for taking shelter from heavy rain, stupid tourists causing trouble, and the weird "wishes come true".
However, I quickly reviewed the known information. In front of me were three young men in bathrobes with holes in their brains, a man with glasses who had already died, a little girl, a tour guide, and a couple.
Apart from the fact that there is also a dog couple in this group, does it have anything to do with the story just now?
I noticed when we were running for our lives just now that this group of people were even wearing the hotel's cotton slippers. Now, looking down, I saw that the female tour guide's right cotton slipper, which had been worn so many times in battle, was still a little dirty.
It can be said that their state before and after escaping was a bit relaxed and inexplicable, which did not match the characteristics of a tour group at all. Especially since there were two idiots who were in the mood to care about monkeys and water monkeys.
I desperately want a cause and effect, but you can't just give me a random story, right? Are these people trying to fool me?
Wait, the painful experiences of having information hidden from me or even being cheated several times along the way reminded me of this. As soon as I thought about it, I broke out in a cold sweat.
Is this a kind of wish? I almost believed their nonsense. Are they fulfilling my wish in disguise?
Damn, the other information is probably a lot of water, only the weird "wishes come true" seems to be true. I've been fooled.
Suddenly, I felt a chill on my back, and I even felt the eerie BGM from a classic horror movie faintly ringing around me.
The sound became louder and louder, making my heart feel cold and my calves feel weak.
...Wait a minute, someone is actually playing the soundtrack.
I was so angry when I realized what was going on that it was that idiot who asked the water monkey. He had come over at some point and was listening with his eyes shining. His face, which had been pale with fear, had turned rosy again.
Several pairs of eyes turned to him at once. The "water monkey" was still very excited: "Wow, so awesome?" The walkman in his hand was playing "The storm is coming, the zombie king and his ministers who have been sleeping for a hundred years..."
I didn't need to get angry this time. The female tour guide took off the legendary cotton slippers silently with an expressionless face and placed them next to his little face with the same shoe horn.
The water monkey was stunned and laughed dryly: "Well... I think everyone is in a good mood. Hehe."
After that, the tour guide forced me to beat him.
While the female tour guide was having a severe seizure that almost gave me a heart attack, she continued to tell me what happened that day clearly and articulately without wasting any time.
She also specifically mentioned that the three troublesome idiots who were on vacation in the hotel behind were not part of her original group, but were just people she met by chance along the way.
"So, the few of you who made successful wishes that day lost contact with the other tourists after you discovered something unusual on your bodies?"
The female tour guide shook her head.
Unlike someone like me who is too accepting of unusual events, the tour guide's first reaction was that there was something wrong with the mushrooms we ate at the farm before we set off in the morning.
As she has been leading tours for many years, she felt relieved and immediately recalled her own experience in dealing with the situation: pinching the throat to induce vomiting, drinking plenty of water, and taking licorice pills she carried with her; at the same time, she borrowed soap from tourists and planned to make some soapy water to induce vomiting for other people who might be infected, and then she would call the emergency number to report the address.
This action confused the tourists in the group. She explained it briefly in two sentences and asked if there was anyone else who had the same hallucinations as her and if there was a doctor among the tourists.
This was a completely subconscious reaction. The tourists were confused for a moment, and then they really raised a few hands and said they were medical students who were traveling together during the holiday.
However, after the examination, they all looked embarrassed and said that they indeed did not see anything on her and the couple, but seeing that their eyes were clear and their behavior was normal, they did not seem to be poisoned or hysterical.
The tour guide thanked them and apologized, and calmed everyone down. But she didn't give up, and pulled the couple aside to compare the three people's hallucinations in detail to see if they were consistent and if they did the same thing.
We will briefly explain their repeated comparisons with sweat on their foreheads, but in short, in the end, the three of them discovered that they all seemed to have inadvertently "hoped" for something.
At this time, some tourists were gradually getting tired of the rain and were a little nervous about what was happening deep in the cave, so they complained, asking why the rain didn't stop.
The tour guide was shocked and his heart almost stopped for a moment, but the wind and rain were still pouring outside, and the person who was complaining seemed to be safe and sound.
It seemed that just making a wish had no effect, so the tour guide thought about the process of wanting an umbrella and getting it, and guessed that the prerequisite for being tricked was that the wish was satisfied to a certain extent.
Hearing this, I vaguely guessed what the three of them would do next, and I couldn't help but feel a little emotional and admiring.
Sure enough, after many discussions and whispered arguments, the three began to make wishes and do various tests, and they found that the itching on their bodies became more and more severe, and finally the skin on their chests was almost completely transparent.
When they saw what looked like insect eggs and tree roots inside their bodies, the three of them turned pale. Then, at the guide's gritted teeth suggestion, they suppressed their fear and forced all the tourists out of the cave.
The tourists in the rainstorm were naturally furious and called them crazy. Some even shouted to go back and report the female tour guide, but the kind tour guide raised her middle finger and told them to get lost.
Here, the boy in the couple said sadly that he did not do it voluntarily, but the "suggestions" of the tour guide and his girlfriend were very strong and he had no choice.
Seeing how gloomy he looked, I actually found it a little funny. Then I heard the girl retort in a weak and soft voice that the beginning of this incident was probably their own responsibility and they should not have implicated others.
It was this timely action that caused the mountain to roar again, and something no one expected happened.
Landslides have actually started here.
All of a sudden, mud and sand came rushing in. The three of them watched helplessly as the entrance of the cave collapsed, rocks flew everywhere, and they were trapped inside.
"Did you also go deep into the cave? Trying to find a way out?" I asked, but the tour guide shook his head again.
This time, her expression was extremely dazed and desolate.
"No. The whole cave collapsed as well. We... We were buried alive."
A chill instantly crept up to the top of my head.
"In the soil, we didn't know why we didn't die. But... these things sprouted." She paused for a few seconds before finishing the second half of the sentence with great difficulty. "You, you've heard of Cordyceps sinensis, right? The fungus parasitizes the insects, slowly eating them up and then drilling into the insects to grow out... We were buried for who knows how many days, and the changes in its sprouts... The feeling is very clear."
"But that thing grows very slowly."
The second half of this sudden turn of events was that they suddenly heard people chatting while they were drowsy.
The content of the chat was very strange. The three young people were complaining about the poor lighting in the B&B hotel. The ivy on the walls made the room very cold.
Overlapping with their very daily conversation, there was another voice that seemed to be separated by something. It was the voice of a young man shouting at the top of his lungs. He repeatedly shouted, "It's raining! It's going to rain!" His tone was extremely frightened.
At this point, the guy who had joined in the fun and asked about the monkey suddenly ran over anxiously, looked at the water monkey buddy who had just been beaten, then looked at the solemn expressions of the rest of us, and suddenly stuttered a little.
"…That." He pointed at the dark stream. "Sorry to interrupt you. But I think I saw something in the lake just now."
I was listening to the key part when I was suddenly interrupted and was stuck there.
Seeing that I looked unhappy, he immediately added in a panic, "It seems to be... a baby?"
baby?
Life is at stake, I was shocked and hurried over with them, and saw a very familiar marching backpack floating in the stream. The backpack was soaked in water, but occasionally there was movement inside, and it seemed that there was something bulging.
"——How can you tell it's a baby?!"
Seeing that we were useless landlubbers and could only worry about it, the female tour guide immediately ran over the slippery stones. After testing the depth of the stream, which was probably less than two meters, she shouted anxiously to ask.
Before the monkey could answer, we all heard an extremely shrill cry suddenly coming from the backpack.
The sound was so heart-wrenching that we all shuddered and had an extremely ominous feeling.
No, I trembled all over. This is not a baby crying, it's a cat meowing!
"Dongzai!" I yelled. The backpack struggled violently a few times, and there was another shrill baby cry.
The tour guide had already reached the water, hooked the tattered backpack and pulled hard.
The backpack strap loosened, and a pitch-black thing suddenly emerged and began to paddle in the water. Its dirty fur quickly turned lighter in the water, revealing its base color. It was a small tabby cat, but it looked listless, and one of its hind legs was oddly bent.
Both the person and the cat came ashore. After seeing my reaction, the tour guide handed the cat to me.
There was a towel tied around Dongzai's neck, so I took it off to check if there were any other injuries. Its hind leg was obviously broken, and it held my arm tightly and started howling, then biting me.
"Is that a pattern on the towel?"
The girl sighed, touched the cat's head with concern, and pointed at the towel in my hand and asked.
Dongzai was holding my hand and I couldn't free it. Hearing her words, I became excited and asked her to help me see what it was.
The two monkey brothers looked at each other, and one of them hesitated and said, "Why do they look like the towels we used in the B&B before?"
Before he finished speaking, a hand suddenly snatched the towel away. It was Zhou Tingmao, who had been silent since a while ago.
He seemed to be struck by lightning. He muttered something quickly and vaguely. His face changed from bright to dark, and he became very distressed and conflicted.
"Glasses? What did you see on the towel?" I frowned, and seeing that he was still treating me as a riddler, I shouted, "Zhou Tingmao!"
He was startled and suddenly looked up at me. There were thousands of words in his eyes, and I couldn't tell whether it was surprise or horror.
I already knew his habit of thinking too much, so I went through all the names in my mind and found that I didn't know the names of Xu You and the team leader. I asked unhappily, "Do you know Gao Liu Wildcat?"
He nodded like pecking at rice.
"Your team leader and team leader are just like the old nanny. I am their boss."
Seeing that he suddenly relaxed and felt even more aggrieved than Dongzai, I interrupted our reminiscence and brought the topic back to the towel.
Zhou Tingmao answered quickly this time, as if he had suddenly returned to the familiar state of being commanded and obeying orders.
"It's our team leader Brother Yi's scribbles. It's not a pattern, it's just that his handwriting is so broken that it's hard to recognize."
He held up the towel to show me, and began to recognize words, reading: "Master, we will be there soon. Be careful, pay attention to... uh? Pay attention to the headphones and... the mirror?"
"Boss, if it's convenient for you, I'll tell you everything I know. Where are you from in our Zhang family, boss?"
earphone.
A ray of light struck my heart, and I suddenly touched the bone conduction headphones hanging behind my ears, and suddenly recalled Zhou Tingmao's initial concern for the same headphones as mine.
Yeah, where did I get the headphones?
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