Ending (Part 2)
My face turned red when I was asked this question and I looked at him awkwardly.
Now he understood, and looked at me helplessly with a hint of disappointment: "What's going on?"
I felt a little embarrassed when asked this question. I thought to myself that I had really tormented my brother enough. Why don't I go out and talk about it first? I'd rather let him sleep a little longer while I have free time.
He shook his head, like a worm in my stomach, and said directly:
“I explored the path above and it was narrower than I imagined. It was a completely vertical rock path.
In order to climb up, people must squeeze all the bones and internal organs together, and it is easy to get stuck and unable to move forward or backward. The chest cavity is compressed and it is difficult to breathe.
Therefore, you cannot stop for a breath while going up, otherwise you will become more and more tired without a place to rest. "
I immediately put aside my curiosity and asked worriedly, "Is there no other way?"
Zhang Tianyi didn't say anything, but just spread his arms and legs to support the stone wall above, and leaned most of his body toward the crack in the sky, indicating that he had made room for me to see for myself.
I realized that he had been leaning against the hole that was diagonally downwards in the earth pit to prevent me from falling down while sleeping. In order to drag me up and settle me down, the hole was very large, and there was no material to repair it, so Zhang Tianyi unscrewed several sections of the handle threaded pipes of the engineer shovel and drove them deep into the hole, making a crude blocking device. He rested on it almost all the time.
The advantage of doing this is that if the soil and rock below are burned loose, causing the earth nest to collapse, he will be able to react in time and both of them will not lose their lives.
As for the disadvantages, of course it consumes too much energy and attention, and you will feel more tired when resting than normal.
I immediately felt ashamed, thinking that I was lagging behind in this environment. Looking down, I found that there was really no way to avoid the stone nest being built there.
The stone nest was the boundary, and everything below was transparent. The entire core of the earth had completely melted and merged together like jelly. The green oil and the flames were still, and the iron net, the giant corpse, and the prophet were nowhere to be seen, as if they had completely melted into the transparent gelatinous substance underground.
Looking down, even the original water in our vision almost disappeared, as if there was nothing in the clearest lake water, making the space above us seem to be suspended in the air.
I almost immediately thought of how Zhang Tianyi must have dragged me all the way up to escape. During the journey, I wanted to stop and rest many times because of exhaustion, but the transparency below was like a thorn in my flesh, and I couldn't get rid of it. It kept biting at my heels, turning every place I went into a blank space.
Moreover, this blankness and transparency gave me a very bad feeling, as if the large amount of space below that was swallowed up and transformed also disappeared, and was completely compressed into a flat plane without thickness.
In this process of escape, being able to step on the very edge of the canvas and finally find a path to rest here is by no means easy.
No wonder Zhang Tianyi couldn't answer me if there was another way. Whether there was or not, if I wanted to change the road, I had to first exit the earth pit and then start a new road upwards. This was not enough, I had to make sure that the new road could also be connected to a crack in the sky by luck, otherwise I would be dumbfounded.
But if I want to retreat now, it would be like jumping straight onto the canvas. Even reincarnation is not that fast.
It is not realistic to find a way out on the side or top of the earth nest.
Finally, I have a resting place. I only dare to dig such a small space here. It must not be to deliberately embarrass myself. Besides, there are puddles and cracks on the top, which means that the structure around and above is probably extremely unstable. If I were in your place, I would find it difficult to decide to take the risk of a total collapse.
Well, adventure is not like selecting vegetable leaves in the market, there is no need to be so picky.
Seeing that I seemed to have accepted the current situation, Zhang Tianyi was very patient and told me not to worry, saying that he had to take care of me so that I would not fall into any accident while I was sleeping, and he did not dare to leave the earthen nest. He could immediately turn around and retrieve me as far as he could. Now that I was awake, I could at least take care of myself. He would rest for a few minutes and recover some strength before looking for other ways to go.
He also told me to be mentally prepared, as I would most likely have to cross the sky crack. The rock wall above was very close together, so it was still possible to climb up in relays, but the road would only become narrower and narrower, and there would be no way back, so it would be difficult to climb back backwards, so I had to let him know in advance if I felt uncomfortable.
After hearing what he said, I calmed down and subconsciously touched my lower abdomen.
The joy of being out of trouble faded away. I took a deep breath and said, "You go out first. If there is a chance, you can bring the guys to rescue me. If not... then don't look back."
Zhang Tianyi was silent for a moment, cursed softly, loosened his hands and feet that were supporting the stone wall, and fell back closer, and asked coldly: "What are you doing?"
It seemed to me that he wanted to knock me out, a troublemaker, and then tie me up by my belt and drag me away. I felt that he was capable of doing such a thing.
But now is not the time to have a conflict, so I asked him to be calm and told him in detail about the unknown pseudo-man in the dream and the Fog Number Hospital.
As he listened, Zhang Tian frowned. I looked into his eyes and whispered, "Look, my abdomen is still hollow. There's nothing inside."
I was surprised at how I had deceived myself. I lowered my head and saw that my hands and feet were still withered and small, and my face looked very unfamiliar. I was still trapped in the body of the gutless miner.
I don't know how Zhang Tianyi and the others recognized me, but when I stepped on Zhang Tianyi's shoulders to knock on the stone wall to find a way, and he dragged me in a passage that was less than half the width of a person, I should have clearly understood that this extremely thin and light undead body gave me a lot of convenience. If it were two adults, they would have been stuck somewhere underground.
Something unexpected happened to the boss and the other fake people. They turned into irrational things right under my nose. I didn't know where my body was, and San Yi tried to harm us for some unknown reason. I was confused for a long time. It would be a lie to say that I didn't feel wronged or upset, but if I ask myself, I'm afraid I don't completely understand why I was blocked.
"Can I really go out?"
I asked, feeling a sudden sense of powerlessness in my heart: "Don't hide it from me. I am neither human nor ghost living in the body of the miner. Will there be any big problems if I get out?"
There must be some extremely special reason why San Yi had such a strong hatred for "Xu Ranxing".
When I was tricked by my boss into going to the goddess, Sanyi clearly subconsciously wanted to help and protect me. Something must have happened after that, which made him have a drastic change in his view of me and determined to kill me.
Zhang Tianyi tried to fool me by interrupting me when I asked him. He chose the right time. It was a life-threatening moment and I didn't think there was anything wrong with it. But now I understand that I can't just care about my own life.
Moreover, I looked at him seriously and said, "Are you sure now that I am the right one? What if I am not Xu Ranxing?"
I am not just talking nonsense, but I have always had doubts about my own existence in my heart.
Pingping, whom I met again along the way, was a fiction jointly created by a goddess I had never met and my memory. Wang Ping was copied and replaced from generation to generation, and there are so many Xu Ranxings here. How can I guarantee that there is no problem with my cognition and that I am the authentic one?
There was only a straight ray of light from the sky to the exit now, and it would be too late if I didn't think about it carefully.
I have a fear that I am the only remaining part of the Prophet, and that I was deliberately guided and released by it.
Since the prophet was able to discard most of his body without hesitation, leaving only a small ball of transparent water-like substance, he was likely to discard more, or even abandon himself completely and even deceive himself.
It is said that water has no constant state and will keep changing with the change of the container. I think the prophet is the same. What I have seen are the things that the prophet has abandoned in his pursuit of survival.
"I think... it's not a surprise that we were lucky enough to wait until the surrounding gelatin turned transparent and we were able to find a way to escape."
I said slowly, feeling a little sad.
"The cramped environment here is actually very similar to when I came down. If the mandrills were still there, they should be able to easily kill us by surprise. But the mandrills just fell to their deaths on the iron net one after another, and the fake people disappeared."
"Although there was an outlier like Sanyi chasing me, I actually didn't encounter any real danger along the way. I choked on water several times but it was okay. Sometimes I even forgot that I was still in the water."
I paused, and said with some self-mockery:
"I wonder if the prophet has let me off the hook?"
"It originally wanted me to escape in a reasonable way, so that I wouldn't have any self-doubt and wouldn't attract the scrutiny of anyone who might come to rescue me. If Xu Ranxing escapes like this, he must be completely recognized by everyone, and even fake people won't question whether I'm real or fake."
The boss and the fake people once mentioned to me the safety rules after going into the water. Now I think that the rules are correct and everyone must abide by them, including the prophet who wants to disguise himself as a human and escape.
The mandrills, the gutless miners and all the miners together form part of this cage. They are diligent cleaners and watchers, locking up the giant corpse and the prophet himself.
In order to get out, the prophet must escape every pair of eyes that examine his identity.
The deputy of the mutation said:
"Once we are completely underwater, we won't be in any danger."
"But don't look back and don't communicate with me."
"Don't ask any questions, remind any questions, call any questions, confirm any questions, or answer any questions."
How could I forget? I should have always followed the rules instead of slacking off after meeting up with the boss and the others.
He was right. I would not be in real danger, and I should not communicate or ask questions to anyone. Because if I did so, I would fall into a scam composed of countless real information.
Xu Ranxing would not lie, so the deputy who also became "Xu Ranxing" told the truth. This is the real rule of this prison.
All he asked of me was to bring back something that would never change.
Now that I think about it, as Xu Ranxing and as a fake person, the deputy must be loyal to both "Xu Ranxing" and the prophet and protect both parties, so his words hide a lot of things that I didn't expect.
I should have understood that he did not want me to take anything that could be transformed, because that would have to be the prophet. But this statement was harmful to the prophet and could not be fully expressed.
The boss couldn't lie, so he asked Sanyi to complete the most important negotiation with me, and he honestly told me that the only thing that could be done and allowed here was quarrying. He also said that the only way to escape from here was to hide one's identity and not be recognized.
All reminders are genuine and there are no issues.
This is the only way for Xu Ranxing to leave here and it is also the only way for the prophet to leave here.
I passively accepted all kinds of secrets of the past provided by the prophet, which were repeatedly eaten up by the prophet and the pseudo-people. I was also assimilated and replaced by them in the process of the prophet gradually abandoning himself, so that I could escape here.
Zhang Tianyi was right. In order to survive, the prophet could choose any change, and could even allow himself to become Xu Ranxing and be consumed by the identity of "Xu Ranxing".
Everything, starting from the time the Taiwanese attacked me, was a complete scam.
I suddenly felt ridiculous, but also felt unspeakable bitterness and coldness.
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