Broker【Repair】
Since I was supporting the broker, the blue face was actually right in front of me.
I cleared my eyes and attention and didn't look at it amid the severe tinnitus.
Because at this moment, the broker's fingers on my shoulders moved slightly again.
It wasn't some complicated code, just a simple pat on my shoulder, but there was a calm and reassuring meaning in the action.
By this time, my tinnitus had eased a lot. The breeze in the cave was still blowing, and I calmed down and found that the gradually increasing heat from the surrounding environment had disappeared.
The heat disappeared when I heard the repeated dong dong sounds and gradually shifted my attention and observation to the cave.
This seemed to prove that I had completely gotten rid of the "shadow", and I jumped over the screen, away from the fire, and came to the side where my body was bound.
Nian Ziqing once said that once high temperature and high pressure come, both of us will be finished.
He hurriedly took me to the end of the underground pipe to escape from the cave and what he called high temperature and high pressure.
My understanding of this is that it may mean two levels of destruction:
First, something like magma or thousands of degrees high temperature water vapor will instantly erupt from the ground, vaporize us, and cause physical destruction; second, extreme light or no light means that shadows disappear.
Once the shadow is completely killed from all aspects, I don’t know what impact it will have on us. But people cannot be without shadows, which may directly violate the basic definition of "people".
The heat I had felt before proved that escaping to any place underground was a self-deception and there was no way to survive.
Unless, like me now, I accidentally broke away from the connection with the shadow world and returned directly to the cave.
Then all the harm to the "shadow" at this moment will not affect me.
No, I said to myself, this was not an accident, the broker woke me up on purpose. It was the thumping sound from her constant shaking that made me react reflexively in fear, and finally I hid in this world before the high temperature erupted.
When I thought of this, a bitter taste rose in my mouth, and I realized belatedly that I had bitten through the wall of my mouth.
Not out of fear, but out of shame and regret.
Not long ago, when I was walking alone in a hollow pipe, I wondered what was going on with the brokers and why they hadn't contacted me to let me know they were safe. When I asked myself, besides worrying, I also had a few brief complaints due to the pressure.
I don't know when I started to become a little arrogant. Just like the young man I looked down upon, I felt that I was a hero who saved others and that others needed my help and could not do without me.
—Now, the broker has reached me in her own way. She saved me.
This reminder came so timely and accurate, but the price was too high.
There were so many questions that needed to be answered, swirling around in my mind. For example, what was wrong with her injuries, how did she wake up first, were we the only ones who woke up in the cave?
What exactly was the stone square that she and Xu You arrived at, and what did she experience in front of the stone gate?
For a moment, I was a little confused. As a lucky person who was protected, seeing her injuries and situation at that time triggered my unspeakable guilt and helplessness.
Moreover, as I had more and more doubts, I vaguely felt that my subconscious seemed to be aware of something, and I knew that if I let the situation develop, I would regret it for the rest of my life.
In the peripheral vision, the blue face with bulging eyes looked straight at me.
At this distance, the tip of my nose was almost touching the person's face, and I found that the blue color was very strange, almost black, but seemed to be a little uneven.
Then I noticed that the face seemed to have no ears or nose, and the sides and middle of the cheeks were incomplete.
In the distance, as if it had been waiting for a long time, with a clang, something was kicked over and a cluster of flames burst out. The fire flickered on and off, and the stone wall of the cave flashed by, also a very uncomfortable black.
Although it looked like a flat surface, I felt as if I was being stabbed by something sharp, as if a pair of scissors were pressed right under my eyelids.
The blue face turned suddenly and let out a cry like a baby crying.
My heart skipped a beat and a glimmer of hope arose. I felt the face raised up and looked out heavily and quickly.
But it had no intention of leaving. And, with this action, I discovered that this thing seemed to be suspended in the air, but extending downward into the darkness, there seemed to be an unimaginably huge body, which caused a dull dragging sound.
I didn't know who was trying to make a feint in the darkness, and my heart sank at that moment. Without thinking, I did something that even scared myself.
I immediately reached out and covered the ears of the blue face.
The man's face cracked, and a crack appeared on it, as if it was about to open. In an instant, another pair of wounded hands reached out decisively and covered its eyes tightly.
This risky move caused the face to suddenly stop.
For about ten seconds, there was deathly silence everywhere. The person whose face was covered did not respond again, and seemed to be really motionless for the time being.
I suddenly let out a breath of air and broke out in a cold sweat. Only then did I realize what fear is. At this time, I continued to cover my mouth, and found that I was in a dilemma and wanted to die.
I must say that the ears and nose of the face seemed to have been added later. The part I was covering felt soft to the touch, as if it was made of something like silk.
In other words, this thing actually has no nose or ears.
For some reason, I felt a little phantom pain and couldn't help but think of a kind of punishment in ancient times.
Cutting off the ears is called "jie er", also called "kai". Cutting off the nose is called "yi". "Yi, kai, bang, ying, li" together are the five cruel punishments.
However, this punishment was too cruel, and there are few records of people suffering from several of them at the same time.
Just as he reached this point in his thoughts, the broker freed one of his scarred hands, moved it downwards, and without hesitation, severed the connecting part between the human face and the invisible body underneath.
Some kind of smelly black blood mixed with choking powder splashed from the broken edge and flowed down along the strange body whose outline could not be seen clearly.
Oh my god, I was so shocked and happy at the same time that I almost blurted out "good!". Then I realized what she had done and was a little stunned.
“…What’s your name?”
After a while, she suddenly asked me softly. Her vocal cords seemed to be damaged, and she made a hissing sound that was almost like a leak.
My whole body went numb, and I blurted out, "Xu Ranxing."
"..." The broker was silent for a moment, as if he was surprised, and then he smiled dumbly, "You kid... I was asking you why you were screaming. Are you hurt?"
I quickly said it was okay, but when I came to my senses, I still couldn't help but wonder, "What the hell is this? Is this solved?" I quickly asked the broker if he could still hold on.
The broker shook his head and motioned for me to look at my hands.
I was still worried about her condition, but I still lowered my head obediently. When I saw her, I was a little stunned.
I don't know what happened, but there were a lot of white scratches on my palms, especially on my fingers. I felt a slight stinging pain when I touched them. It turned out that they were all cut by something sharp and almost thin. But the wound was too thin and not deep, so it wouldn't bleed if I didn't press hard.
I just touched that blue face, how could this happen? What the hell is it?
"This is what the Nian family shamans need to become in the future."
The broker suddenly said, "This is not a punishment for them, but to keep them pure and prevent them from being polluted by impure words, delicious food, and the fragrance of plants and trees."
Purity? I felt a chill in my heart. What kind of purity is this?
Moreover, according to this, this thing must have been passed down from generation to generation, not just one. Damn, what kind of trouble has this caused?
I went to help the broker, but for a moment I didn't know where to start with her wounds. At the same time, the inexplicable feeling of being crowded and suspended was still there.
I paused for a moment, and a subtle sense of uneasiness immediately made me realize that I must have overlooked an important fact right in front of me.
If I don’t figure this matter out, I told myself, it won’t just be a question of whether I can get out of this predicament, but I will definitely regret it.
The broker seemed to know my confusion and asked patiently, "Are there any questions you can't figure out?"
Yes. Of course.
And it's about the broker himself.
"...Master's wife, why does the Zhang family have a rule that women in the family cannot work in the fields?" I suddenly said, "The team leader told me that the Zhang family wants the children to go to school and get in touch with a wider world instead of the dirty world here.
The Zhang family is so big that there must be someone responsible for maintaining normal social order or maintaining the operation of the Zhang family. It is not just the job of working in the fields that needs to be done. So I roughly accepted this statement at first. "
However, even so, this is not a reason to completely prevent them from participating.
Although business scheduling is important, there are also women like Gao Liu, the female team doctor and the broker who choose to take risks by staying in the team on their own will, and they seem to be very important, and no one has put forward any so-called rules to stop them.
To say that it is just for protection is obviously unreasonable.
Firstly, secular work may not be easy; secondly, after experiencing so many things, in my personal opinion, the best way to protect a person is not to keep him away from danger completely and live in a so-called safer place; but to take control of his own destiny and decide his own direction.
I still feel unwilling to accept this. The women of the Zhang family, especially those trained by instructors like Broker and adoptive mothers, are all unruly. How could they accept these rules that seem beautiful and warm on the surface but leave no choice?
Once suspicions arose, my breathing began to tremble:
"Is this rule meant to hide a small number of specific people? These people...they cannot come into contact with the mouse?
But if they were simply prohibited from working in the fields, it would be too obvious, hiding the trees in the forest, which is why this statement was made public to confuse people.”
"The Zhang family has so many guys who were all working with Gao Rui and Yan Mo to hunt down the travel company. Why did they let you escort Nian Ziqing here alone? Aren't you afraid of something going wrong along the way?"
and……
I said again, "Master's wife, I don't think you have ever told me what your name is."
The broker was silent for a moment.
I held my breath and my heartbeat suddenly quickened.
"Nian. Nian Ziqing." The broker said calmly, "Every Nian family shaman has this name, but I don't like it. Besides, since someone has used it, I don't want it anymore."
I was completely stunned.
This was clearly a guess I had already confirmed, but when the broker said it out loud for confirmation, my mind still went blank for a moment.
“The Nian family is not the only one in this world to bear the mission, nor is it the only one to be destroyed, distorted, and divided, with only a few orphans left in the end.
But it is because all the survivors came together that the Zhang family was formed. There are too many surnames and pasts hidden among us, so it is not a bad thing for us to temporarily rotate to any surname. It’s just that the remaining hidden dangers cannot be solved, and it is inevitable that we have to temporarily stop contact with some places. "
The broker seemed to have a rare opportunity to talk so much, and he was a little awkward and stiff. Seeing my complicated expression, he asked me if I had any more questions and asked me not to look so sad.
I bit my back teeth and said stiffly, "Promise me first that you won't die. People like me can't survive if I can't protect the people around me."
The broker was somewhat angry and amused:
"You kid..." Then he was stunned for a moment, as if he had just come to his senses, and said helplessly, "You are not telling me what to do after my death. Haven't you been running for a long time? I'll let you listen to some news first and take the opportunity to recover your strength."
"ah?"
I looked at her in dumbfoundedness.
This time she really smiled, and the wrinkles around her eyes were very obvious.
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