Confluence
At such a close distance, the young man's face had become extremely hideous. I had never seen such a bizarre scene before. I felt a chill running from my head to my heels.
The driver, Lao Zhao, who was fixed in the driving seat, laughed very strangely at this time, and there was a strange kind of sarcasm and despair in his laughter.
I suddenly realized that this was not the first time that driver Lao Zhao had seen such a horrifying scene.
The young man's head was still turning, his chin rubbing against my shoulder, and the dripping fishy liquid had completely soaked my back.
That familiar stench made my heart go cold.
The last time I smelled this stench was in the heads of the tourists who had been killed in the haystacks on the mountain trail. The miniature banyan trees that had decayed and died in the wind turned into a pool of black water, emitting this pungent smell.
The face continued to say maliciously: "How did you know? Ah? How did you know?"
As the sharp and vague voices were heard, I saw from the corner of my eye that brown blood vessels were slowly crawling out of the severed head, with things like tree roots mixed in between.
As the parasites struggled to come out, Nian Ziqing's head began to scream. In between the screams, he asked me viciously, as if he had a crazy obsession:
"Clothes...how did you know that? Huh?! You know everything. On what basis do you know everything? What's your price?!"
clothing--?
My mind went blank for a moment, and then I found a hint of absurdity and inexplicability in the creepiness.
What time is it now? He was talking about the two sets of one-size-fits-all clothes I bought for him as a joke? It was just a meaningless, threatening joke. People like him like to show off their smartness. I just followed his advice and told him some half-truthful jokes to let him imagine and scare himself.
Etc. When I threatened him jokingly, he couldn't help but panic and unwilling, and his uncertain reactions... It turned out that he was touched in a sore spot and thought he was exposed.
From the very beginning, he showed such uncomfortable contempt and joy that he had long regarded me as a disposable bag, thinking that I was in his pocket.
That's why he looked at me like that, as if he was quite satisfied, and even though he was behind bars, he still couldn't wait to talk to me first.
Damn it, I cursed in my heart. The strong feeling of disgust and nausea instantly turned into uncontrollable evil fire.
"...Yeah." Maybe it was some kind of fear that hit bottom, I suddenly said, "Who can't see through your appearance and your tricks?"
Nian Ziqing's screams stopped abruptly and he stared at me.
The next second, the head moved, roared furiously, and suddenly crashed into my face.
In my suddenly narrowed field of vision, all those blood vessels and tree roots bounced up and drilled into my eyes and mouth, rustling and screaming.
My scalp exploded and I tried to pry it open, but my arms and the back of my neck felt painful, and something immediately strangled me and tried to get inside.
I bit down on several tree roots that had squeezed into my mouth and broke them off with great force. The bitter and numbing liquid instantly made my entire cheek stiff, and my teeth lost their strength.
Then my tongue hurt, and something like a small snake was drilling into it. I fell to the ground and rolled over, smashing my entire back and young man's face to the ground. He wailed, but the roots and blood vessels were moving faster.
At this moment, my eyes suddenly hurt, and my tears burst out. I gritted my teeth and bumped into the driver, Lao Zhao.
The thermos in his arms rolled down, I picked it up and twisted it, pouring the scalding hot water on my face and head, and then I grabbed the bottle and smashed it on the young man's face.
The high temperature of the hot water caused those things to shrink, and the head loosened a little. I took the opportunity to pull it, and in panic I grabbed the steering wheel again, and the back of my hand felt painful.
Oh my god, I was shocked and got goosebumps all over.
At that moment, all the burns on Lao Zhao's body twisted and fell off with a crackling sound, bounced around on the ground, and flew towards us.
The scene suddenly became extremely chaotic. As soon as those bright red things came in, my eyes went dark and my whole body rolled over in severe pain.
The face of the person behind me, the tree roots, the blood vessels, everything that was crawling into my body was tightly grasped and shaken by the invisible hands.
The wandering red marks kept popping up and expanding on my skin, causing everything that had already penetrated into my flesh and throat to be turned inside out, shaking and struggling wildly in the air.
Then, with a snapping sound, Nian Ziqing's sinister smile froze, solidified in unbelievable fear, and split directly into two halves.
Inside, a miniature banyan tree with roots tangled like a human brain also cracked, and slender gray sponges like worms screamed and squirmed out of the head, but they also flipped over and were also covered with indiscriminate bright red.
Then there were more shrill screams, and balls of bright red kept surging and pouring out of the driver Lao Zhao's body, as if the place had been completely hollowed out and turned into a nest.
But Lao Zhao and Nian Ziqing were still alive. Lao Zhao was still biting the funny metal rod tightly and pushing the accelerator. His saliva couldn't stop flowing down. He began to laugh almost crazily, and his laughter even drowned out Nian Ziqing's unbelievable screams.
I let go of the steering wheel as if I had been electrocuted, my stomach sank, and in just a few seconds I felt my internal organs being turned inside out and hanging out.
This extremely twisted and bizarre scene almost overwhelmed all my sanity. I screamed, and suddenly something unexpected happened in my vision.
In a flash, a large ball of extremely bright and hot light hit the windshield and door of the car, shaking the entire car.
"Disciple! Go!"
A voice shouted loudly, followed by several bangs, and countless high-temperature and high-brightness flares whizzed and hit the front of the car. All the fog and insect eggs sizzled at once, leaving a large area of air, and a smell almost like burnt meat was diffused.
Immediately afterwards, another nimble figure broke through the car window and pulled me over. We instantly flipped out of the window, with flash bombs exploding behind us.
My vision was filled with overexposed white, and I couldn't see anything, but I could feel the person who grabbed me quickly putting a layer of rubber-like protective clothing on me.
He shouted, "The people have been rescued, Xu You, retreat!"
This voice is so familiar, it’s my brother Zhang Tianyi.
The same familiar voice whistled at the same place, and then many footsteps retreated in an orderly manner, surrounding us and leaving.
My mind buzzed as countless questions popped up in my head. There was a constant surge of violent air currents in the air. The fog was coming back, but it was quickly shattered by the light, heat and impact of the flares. Only tiny pieces of something unknown were left, occasionally splashing onto my face and body in the shock wave.
Zhang Tianyi didn't have time to explain to me. He just kept pulling me along, as if there was no need to go and see it at all.
I could only feel layers of scorching white light brushing against my eyelids. The high temperature was so intense that even I felt like I was melting. My body was itchy, and some tiny tree roots deeper in my flesh softened, dried up, and fell off, landing all over the ground and being crushed by our feet.
I don't know how long we walked, but it suddenly became cooler around me, and the hand holding me loosened. I stood alone for a while, and then I realized that we had entered a house.
Someone asked me to sit down and put a hot towel on my eyelids which were tearing up constantly. Then I felt cold. Someone cut open the clothes on my wound and started to apply a cold ointment on me.
The footsteps coming and going were very hurried, and one of the guys was counting the ammunition loudly, probably because the flares were consumed too much.
After a while, a bumpy sound, as if a wheelchair was being pushed, slowly came over.
My heart skipped a beat and I suddenly felt unprecedentedly nervous and awkward.
"You, are you..." Before he could finish his stammering words, he was hit hard on the forehead with a chestnut in an unpleasant tone.
I let out a cry. Even though I couldn't see the other person's face yet, I felt a sense of security and couldn't help but smile foolishly.
"Uncle, Master, Hero?" I touched my forehead, squinted my eyes and started to talk to my relatives. "Are you healed? Isn't it just the hand that's left?"
Xu You's voice was still a little weak, but the unruly bandit spirit was still there, with a hint of helplessness:
"Ancestor, what are you doing here?"
"I saved you." I shamelessly said, "Although it was a little unexpected, my heart is there. Uncle, you should appreciate it."
Before I could finish my words, the guys nearby were laughing. Xu You slapped me on the back of my neck, rubbed my head hard, and cursed me with a smile.
I was about to ask more questions when the guy applying the medicine on me suddenly said, "Just bear with it for a while."
I was stunned, thinking to myself, why should I endure it, I'm fine.
I felt a hand pressing on my spine and ribs through my clothes. All my thoughts of "it's okay" evaporated instantly. I shuddered, and my whole body was curled up like a shrimp in cold sweat. All the words disappeared at my lips.
It is said that when people are extremely nervous, adrenaline will make them almost ignore pain, and their physical strength and concentration will also be greatly improved. I have heard of this and always believed it but never thought about it carefully.
Now that I had escaped from danger and relaxed, I felt the pain coming back all over again. I gasped and only managed to save my face by not crying in front of strangers.
"Fortunately, the ribs were not broken, and luckily the spleen or lungs were not punctured."
The guy who was checking said this, and I seemed to have heard the voice before. A gentle, plump and kind-hearted image quickly appeared in front of my eyes. It was the middle-aged female team doctor in the camp who had saved my life a long time ago.
She said gently, "There are still some tree roots and insect eggs in the meat. I can just disinfect them and take them out with tweezers. You may be a little panicked if you can't see them, but it's okay. We'll take them out slowly."
As for those deeper inside, we may not be able to completely remove them due to the current limited conditions. But as long as the amount is not too small and the person slowly recovers, the body will automatically eliminate it and it won’t be a big deal.”
Listening to this very stable and professional voice, it seemed that no matter how big the problem was, it was no big deal, and I unconsciously relaxed a lot.
Seeing that I didn't ask, she continued, "Move around a bit, the eversion should be recovering."
I subconsciously moved as I was told, and sure enough, I felt that the shaking sensation of my organs hanging outside seemed to have disappeared.
At this time, countless curiosity and questions came up. I couldn't help but wonder, "Hey, brother, how did you two meet up? What happened here?"
Unexpectedly, no one responded to this question.
My heart skipped a beat and I slowly sat up straight.
I thought Zhang Tianyi just didn't say anything. Wasn't he here? He left me to Xu You. Where did this troublesome brother go?
At this time, my vision that was flashed by the strong light finally slowly recovered. I squinted my eyes and looked around, and found that we were in a dusty and abandoned bar.
The busy guys had already cleaned up most of the place. The cleanest places were the recliner I was leaning on and the flat table with an emergency medical kit next to it.
Xu You was sitting in a wheelchair in front of me, covered with thick clothes, with only one hand resting on the armrest of the wheelchair.
I noticed that hand, and it was trembling slightly, unconsciously and nervously.
"It's not that stable anymore. It needs more treatment." Xu You didn't care much. His body language was still relaxed, like a sick tiger. "But you..."
He probably shook his head, and finally, looking at my miserable face, he smiled with some relief.
I didn't meet Zhang Tianyi, and I almost instinctively suppressed my questions about him and didn't ask any more questions.
After calming down, I asked seriously, "What happened to the tour bus and the people on it?"
"It's hard to say. I asked the guys to open a passage for the car."
Xu You pondered for a moment, then pushed the armchair and motioned for me to follow.
We walked to the door of the bar together, and through the tightly closed glass door, we could see the bus at the far end. It was full of holes and almost melted, and the iron and glass were almost broken into pieces, but it was still running.
A guy handed me a telescope, I thanked him and looked into the distance.
When our eyes met, I felt a numbness all over and a chill running down my back.
The scene in the car was so bizarre and weird that it was beyond description.
"The people in the car..." Xu You said slowly, "If they can still be counted as people, there are about one and a half."
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