clothing
Suddenly breaking free from the deep diving state, that thing came towards me with a faint fragrance.
Chu Ci once said, "Picking orchids, sewing autumn orchids, picking beautiful clothes and bathing in orchid soup." If there really are fairies and goddesses in this world, they probably came here in this way.
However, the extremely light and graceful green dress had now turned into a red color that was constantly dripping with blood.
My hair stood on end and I turned around to run, but someone whispered in my ear, "Don't move!"
A huge force suddenly grabbed the back of my neck.
I don't know where on my neck was pressed so hard, but the pain, numbness and itching all came up and made me burst into tears.
But it really worked. I stopped and squatted down, grimacing in pain, and all my thoughts went blank.
I don't know how long it took, but someone patted my shoulder and handed me a dry towel. I wiped my face with all my strength and was able to open my eyes, but the piercing bitterness was still there, and even though I had opened my mouth, I couldn't remember what to say.
What comes into view is the treated ground, which is clean as if nothing has happened.
There was only a small dark spot left on the ground. It was the mineral water that the tour guide had just held and dropped on the ground, soaking an area of it. In a blink of an eye, it was almost dried up by the scorching sun above.
Just looking at the tiny traces of normalcy that remained was more shocking than directly witnessing the abnormality, awakening the vague fear and nausea in my subconscious.
An ordinary person who was innocently involved disappeared even less noticeably than a drop of evaporating dew.
I closed my eyes, the pain still lingered in my eye sockets, and I felt confused for a moment.
Team leader Zhang Jia came over and said, "I dug a hole in a hurry and buried the remaining pieces. When I finish dealing with things, I will send him back to his hometown as a filial son."
This is the only way at this moment, but I still find it difficult to accept emotionally.
It's not that she couldn't bear the thought of life and death, but the tour guide had made up her mind before the accident, and she deliberately gave me the bottle that she couldn't leave behind to show that she was determined to fight to the end. In order to help us get the clue, she tried her best to recall and imitate the introduction about the lake.
I may not have killed Bo Ren, but Bo Ren died because of me after all.
Zhang Jia said, "I'm afraid there's no time to be sad. Do you know how long you were delirious just now?" He pointed to the sky, the sun was still shining directly overhead, "This thing can't be used as a reference."
He added, something strange happened when we were digging the pit, so I had to come and take a look. The three Zhangs who worked there just went to inspect the haystacks on the side of the road and found something strange.
The mountain path was extremely narrow and went straight up like a staircase. Zhang Jia walked up for a while and found a slightly protruding small platform.
I followed them up step by step and first listened to the three guys talking about the haystack.
The person who spoke was the one who first noticed the group of tourists. He was quite cautious and looked at my face again and again to make sure that I was okay before he tactfully said that there were thirty-three haystacks on the roadside, and after they used an engineer shovel to clear them away, only one or two were empty.
"However, the condition of those heads was even more serious, and there was not even a trace of blood. People like me who are used to eating with their noses ignored it because they were old hands."
The guy sighed that it was dark under the lamp, and the other two added that they then opened a head, pried off the lower half, and found that the teeth of the entire head were worn in a very strange way.
I don't know much about this aspect, but I know roughly: Generally speaking, modern people eat fine food, so the most their teeth will suffer is some damage from long-term chewing; or people who smoke, drink, and chew bottle caps, which are not good habits, will have some mechanical damage.
In very special cases, such as chewing betel nut, there may be huge chemical corrosion and even change the morphology of facial bones.
“Is it more serious than chewing betel nut?” I asked solemnly.
"No," the guy shook his head, "It's too smooth and clean, as if it has never been used since it was born."
After discovering this and confirming that Brother Zhang had been guarding me the entire time, they went around to check a few more heads, and they found the same thing.
I felt a chill on my back and couldn't help rubbing my arms.
Maybe it was because I had just been dizzy and my five senses had returned to normal, so I was very sensitive to my own situation and I paused for a moment.
It seemed like there was something unspeakably strange.
I turned to look at Brother Zhang who had been quietly watching over me and asked him, "Do you feel something is wrong with me?"
Zhang Tianyi thought about it and nodded.
"I've been keeping an eye on you since you became delirious. There is something wrong, but the change is very subtle." He thought for a moment, "If I must say... you've become a little heavier."
Yes, getting heavier.
An indescribable feeling of uneasiness surged up, and comparing my impressions at this time, I vaguely felt that this "heavier" weight seemed to have occurred earlier, and it was not just the moment the tour guide had an accident that caused the change.
I pondered for a while, and subconsciously began to dwell on the issue: "How do you get heavier? Is there a change in body shape? More meat? Water injection? Getting taller?"
As I was speaking, I suddenly stopped and a chill crept into my heart.
Zhang Tianyi and I looked at each other, frowned and said, "Clothes."
It's not just me. He looked at everyone again, stood still and felt it, and then he was sure that everyone had become a little heavier.
But the change should be very slow and subtle, so subtle that even well-trained people like them cannot detect it.
Moreover, this change itself is most likely harmless and normal, so it did not arouse anyone's vigilance.
I asked him what is considered normal.
"Some dust has accumulated on the objects over time; the air naturally flows when you breathe; when you are close to a heat source, you will naturally feel the temperature rise a little and sweat on your forehead."
Zhang Tianyi said: "We don't pay attention to this kind of normal change. If we even notice this, our mental exhaustion will be very huge, and it will be easy to fall into unnecessary normalized fear."
Clothes slowly getting heavier?
Everyone looked unhappy. Team leader Zhang Jia cursed and started to take off his clothes quickly.
I held his hand and shook my head, my face probably a little pale and confused.
"It's okay, he's right, it's normal."
The team leader smiled bitterly and asked us cultured people what the riddle was and whether we could understand it and take care of him, a rough guy.
"rain."
I looked at the extremely dazzling sun above my head and felt a little ridiculous. "It's raining, and my clothes are soaked and absorb water, so they slowly become heavier."
He was stunned: "Where does the rain come from? There is no rain here. And there is no sound." He moved his hand to touch my forehead, suspecting that I was confused.
There is none here.
I recalled the delirious images just now, and more scenes and memories flashed up, and the details began to fill in, which made me feel cold.
In another "world", the one where the lake was full and everyone was trapped, the world where I, or Gao Liu, was captured, it was raining.
The female tour guide told me that the weather was very good when they set out. The original words were "the sun was high but there was a light drizzle".
This is the first rain.
The second rain was when they were forced to seek shelter in a cave.
In their opinion, the rain was very strange. At first, they could only hear the strong wind and thunder, and also heard the sound of raindrops dripping, then drizzling, and then heavy rain. But there were no raindrops.
Some tourists were surprised at the time and speculated that the rain was probably not far away and the rain clouds were about to come over, otherwise there would not be only the sound but the rain itself was nowhere to be found.
Now, combining the information from both sides, I understand.
The rain is here.
It was as if the two worlds overlapped for a moment, and the rainstorm was divided into two parts. It began to fall silently here, but the sound moved to the other side first.
No, I did the math in my head and my face changed immediately.
The tour guide said that the tour group usually set out in the morning and hiked for more than two hours to the mountain B&B to avoid the heat. So, based on their departure time, when should the rain in that world start?
At that time, they pushed and shoved for a while before they found the cave on the mountainside, and then the rain started to fall. In other words, they were probably in the same position as we are now.
I anxiously asked the people around me, "How long will it take us to reach the mountainside if we walk?"
The team leader recalled the scenery he had just seen, and although he was puzzled, he quickly answered me:
"At least an hour and a half. The mountain is not high. The distance up the mountain is actually much shorter when you reach the middle of the mountain."
In other words, at this time, the tour group from that world was already watching the rainstorm in the cave.
Without even noticing it, we had experienced the initial mildest stage of a rainstorm, and were incredibly lucky to have bid farewell to the impending torrential rain.
When I thought of this, the scene where the tour guide suddenly became extremely thirsty, and refused to take water even after vomiting at the beginning, and then drank water very naturally, the meaning of this scene suddenly changed.
She had led tour groups here countless times before, and as a tour guide she had to talk and joke all the time, so it was impossible for her to not drink water on the way.
She in that world also said that she felt something was wrong and wanted to leave the cave, but was stimulated by sporadic raindrops and something strange happened.
But why didn’t anything happen to her when she touched the water before?
If she couldn't touch water just because the protective bottle was away from her, she wouldn't have subconsciously avoided water before. This is illogical.
More importantly, in my memory, the couple of tourists did not have anything like a small bottle on them.
During the conversation, they never expressed any anxiety about losing any important life-saving talisman. Even the tour guide himself did not think of the small bottle at such a life-and-death moment.
The more I think about it, the more I can't understand. This protective bottle was given to the tour guides, but it was only given to the tourists. This is very strange. How can it be that in logic, this thing seems to be dispensable?
I made an excuse that I had some sources of information and talked to the team leader and Zhang Tianyi about the part that I couldn't figure out.
The team leader had been through a lot, so he didn't quite understand but didn't ask me where the clues came from. He just listened carefully to everything.
"Master, you are a smart man who is foolish." He slapped his forehead, "I think this matter is simple."
Zhang Tianyi and I were both a little surprised.
The captain laughed:
"The problem is, the tour guide's company told her not to leave the bottle, right?"
"You are a bunch of wicked people. You have seen too few stupid leaders. You have never seen a fool who messes around with a bunch of rules and regulations. In my opinion, that company is probably just a makeshift team. The bottles are just sent out to fool the big boss."
"This tiny bottle might be of some use, but they just stumbled upon it somewhere by accident, and they don't understand the meaning at all. But it doesn't matter. What kind of conscience and responsibility do you expect from them?"
I was stunned, and then I realized that the people I met after I came out were actually veterans and elites, who were efficient and never shirked their responsibilities, and their efficiency and will were first-rate. It was just that the things were too mysterious, so my personal abilities seemed insignificant and insignificant.
This is indeed an angle I never thought of.
Following this line of thought, perhaps the tour guides did not get into trouble because they were only slightly infected or hit by heavy rain at the beginning. Just like me when I first met Dongzai and Xuyou, I was lucky but blind.
But this good luck will naturally be used up.
In that moment when the two worlds kept flashing and overlapping, the rainstorm might have connected everything and brought about unpredictable changes.
Overlap, overlap, I muttered to myself, and a bold idea flashed through my mind:
The me in that world, after entering the bluestone, seemed to be parasitic in Gao Liu's subconscious, like a player controlling a character, but she didn't notice anything unusual. Is this because, at that moment, the me who fell into the bluestone actually overlapped with Gao Liu?
There was also Zhang Tianyi, who didn't have headphones but was able to contact me and give me guidance. But when I was running for my life with the tour guide group, he was nowhere to be seen.
At that time, perhaps he, who was also trapped in the bluestone, happened to overlap with us for a moment.
It suddenly dawned on me.
New thoughts came to my mind and I understood.
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