Epilogue (Part 1)
In a daze, I was dragged through a narrow corridor.
The smell of freshly dug earth was strong, and I could feel that both I and my rescuer were having a very hard time. It seemed like we had been walking for a very long time, and both of us were covered in bruises.
At the same time, there were faint tongues of high-temperature flames accompanied by the sound of rocks cracking, which were almost chasing us, forcing the people who were rescuing me to stay within a moment, and fatigue gradually appeared in their breathing.
I was very anxious to wake up. In a daze, I seemed to struggle and call Zhang Tianyi twice, telling him to run away quickly and not to worry about me anymore.
The more I felt this way, the more I felt the pain and weakness that was like my body was dislocated. Perhaps because I was seriously infected by the poisonous flames and green water, I soon developed a high fever and my consciousness became more and more blurred. I couldn't wake up no matter what, as if I was possessed by a ghost.
I had a lot of inexplicable dreams, most of which were meaningless. I was just walking around alone in different unfamiliar scenes, muttering to myself, and then I was in a daze, with two streams of hot blood flowing out of my nose.
During this time, I wanted to hear clearly what I was saying, so I ran around myself in circles (I didn’t know why I could do this in the dream, I could only attribute it to the fact that dreams are nonsensical and illogical), but all I could hear was the buzzing of mosquitoes. It was not until my arm suddenly opened its mouth and asked me what I was looking for that I realized that there was something wrong with my brain after being burned by the Shendu bubble in the green fire.
I've only ever heard of people being poisoned by eating the wrong mushrooms and seeing bad people, but I never thought that I could be poisoned by that messy green soup. I probably felt sad and miserable in my dream, and I murmured a few curses.
I slept like this for a long time, and after an extremely long time, I felt that at some point, Zhang Tianyi seemed to be unable to bear it anymore. After he put me down, he fell into a deep sleep in the narrow passage.
I wanted to open my eyes to see what was going on, but the sounds around me were suddenly amplified countless times because of the silence at the moment. "Tick-tock", the sound of dripping water came from nowhere and was very close. I screamed and sat up suddenly from the bed.
"It's strange that he can still react consciously like this." A unfamiliar face noticed me, stared at me from a bird's-eye view, and said as if he didn't care.
I was stunned for two seconds, and my hanging hand touched the slightly stiff bed sheet, and then I saw the unfamiliar white-painted walls and ceiling in the room.
It’s not Zhang’s Hospital, nor is it the Zhang guy I know.
The man still looked down at me with a very disgusting look. I was frightened by his stare and opened my mouth to ask him what he was doing, but my nose twitched and I smelled an unsettling smell of blood.
The man was wearing a weird white coat, but he was obviously not a proper medical staff, because while he was talking, he picked up a water cup, unscrewed it and took a sip, and then continued to touch my abdomen with the contaminated gloves in his hands.
I was almost fainting, thinking to myself, what kind of scum is this? He must be a fake. Otherwise, the head nurse should hit his dirty hands with hemostats and kick him out.
But I don't know why, my body didn't move, I didn't resist, and I didn't say anything. Instead, there was a faint voice in my heart saying, I know the name of this unfamiliar face.
The feeling of dislocation made me stunned for two seconds, and I soon realized that I was not rescued from the quarry, but was still in a coma. The surroundings should still be narrow passages, and everything that was so clear at the moment should be an illusion.
I have experienced this trick once before with Taizi, so I am familiar with it.
I guess the prophet tried to chew me, the dying unfortunate guy, a few more times before he died, causing me to enter into a brief assimilation again and glimpse the memory fragments of a corpse in the wall.
I was too lazy to criticize the prophet for his immoral behavior of wanting to bite me for no reason. Anyway, Zhang Tianyi was carrying me around, so I left it to him to worry about whether I lived or died. But I was still curious about this strange memory, so I observed it from a low angle.
Yes, the only way I can describe the perspective at this moment is as low.
Because I found myself as if fixed on a hard stone platform.
The cotton sheets I touched just now made me feel a little bit nauseous, as if there was an oil-proof tablecloth on the dining table with something like dried blood clotted on it.
This place really doesn't look like a hospital. I stared at the fake doctor for a long time, unable to tell whether the superficial sense of familiarity came from myself or from this body itself.
What made me even more frightened was that there were several people standing next to that person, forming a circle around my "bed", all watching the "operation" together, and the way they looked at me was no different from looking at a piece of dead meat.
One of them was not very old and probably had no status among the group of people. He stood awkwardly in a corner at the end of the bed, looking immature and uneasy. He was the only one who made me feel somewhat popular.
Only this young man was neatly dressed in his white coat. Despite his uneasiness, he still habitually raised his hands slightly and placed them on his chest, as if he was on standby during the operation.
The more I looked at it, the more puzzled I became. Then I noticed that the young man was wearing a name badge. Upon closer inspection, I saw that it was from the Billing Department of the Wuhao Town Health Center.
I was startled, as if I had been hit by a slap in the face, and I immediately recognized that this person was Wang Ping, and his appearance and figure were exactly the same. The fake doctor who had just spoken was clearly Wang Yongfu, who was at least ten years younger, and his face was not as fat and sinister as it was later. The change was so great that I didn't recognize him at first glance.
What’s going on? What’s the situation of the owner of this body?
Is the mine really related to the health center in Foghorn Town?
No matter how upset I was, this group of people were still chatting among themselves. Wang Yongfu pointed at my abdomen and coldly asked Wang Ping to come up and take action.
I was stunned, then I remembered that he had touched my stomach. I saw Wang Ping's face changed suddenly, he seemed suddenly very nervous, his mouth moved, clearly he was very resistant, and he looked at Wang Yongfu pleadingly.
Wang Yongfu remained indifferent, while another unfamiliar face beside him clicked his tongue and said impatiently, "Is this okay? Do we have to let this loser come with us? He's not as good as the previous Wang Ping." Before he could finish his words, the color drained away from Wang Ping's face.
I saw something fishy and couldn't help but be surprised. I thought that this Wang Ping didn't seem to be the same Wang Ping, not the guy who later grew hair and turned into a scum in front of me, but the real owner of the doctor's badge at the beginning.
However, the two Wang Pings with the same name look the same, which makes me think of the boss and that group of fake people who all look like "Xu Ranxing".
When I think about the fact that there is another Wang Ping who is the same as me before, and he can complete the game, it makes Wang Ping's identity and appearance seem like a family heirloom that can be passed down from generation to generation. But the Wang Ping I met was clearly a lively person. What kind of evil tricks are going on in this hospital?
Wang Ping’s strange reaction now gave me a bad feeling.
This was not the atmosphere of an ordinary surgery, and I was not lying on a regular operating table. The Foghorn Town Health Center was probably a den of thieves in disguise, full of bad guys pretending to be doctors.
Thinking of the group of gutless miners and miners in the mine, as well as the stone pillars growing out of their corpses, I felt terrified by Wang Yongfu's action of keeping his hand on my abdomen.
I tried to look down to see what was wrong with my stomach and what Wang Yongfu was going to do. But the body was motionless, as if it was completely anesthetized and could not move. Only the eyes could barely open a little to try to see what was happening.
Being watched by "me", Wang Yongfu sneered and said to the people around him, "Still watching, this one is quite stubborn today." This attracted a lot of malicious stares. Someone was still chewing gum, and kicked Wang Ping's knee from behind like a scoundrel, telling him to hurry up.
I became even more frightened, and then I saw Wang Ping gritted his teeth and squeezed to the front from the cramped foot of the bed, holding an electric saw used for craniotomy in his hand.
Even if the problem was probably in my stomach, I wouldn't be so cruel, right? Damn it, my heart sank, and my affection for this second-generation Wang Ping immediately disappeared.
With a "buzz", the electric saw was pulled, and the high-speed rotating saw blade pressed down on me.
I screamed and almost jumped up, but someone held me down.
This time I was really awakened. The sound of dripping water continued to ring everywhere around me. I listened blankly for a while, and it felt like my brain was completely unable to work. I stuttered and asked Zhang Tianyi: "Water, the water is still dripping? Has the prophet caught up?"
Seeing that I couldn't even speak clearly, Zhang Tianyi was also stunned for a moment, and said helplessly: "What are you talking about? It's raining."
I exclaimed before I realized what he meant. I was surprised and delighted. I looked up suddenly and saw a narrow ray of light shining down from above.
Looking around, it seemed like a small corner that had been dug a little bigger, a temporary earthen nest that barely allowed the two of us to squeeze together and rest. The high temperature from the underground fire had been isolated by layers, and now there was still some temperature left, causing the densely packed pebbles in the earthen nest to be baked warm, which was very sleepy.
There seemed to be a naturally formed crack in the sky above, which connected to the passage that Zhang Tianyi had dug from the bottom to the top. There was a vertical distance of about twenty meters, and it seemed that there was no obstruction to the outside.
The sound of dripping water that I heard at this time was the result of a light rain above. The rain had stopped, and small streams of water were flowing down through the cracks in the rocks. It seemed that a small puddle of water had accumulated not far above us, and from time to time a few drops of water were overflowing and hitting the edge of the stone below.
I was fascinated by what I heard. Although I was not yet out of trouble, my mood immediately improved. I looked up and could feel some shattered water mist floating down from time to time. It was really refreshing.
Zhang Tianyi's eyes were all blue, and he was obviously very tired. Seeing that I was awakened from the nightmare and was fine, he yawned, closed his eyes and went back to sleep.
I also knew that what he needed most was rest. Going up there was physically demanding, and a fall of 20 meters would be enough to kill someone if he wasn't careful. But as the daylight was just beginning to dawn, and I had just discovered something new in my dream, I was itching to go up there and wake him up so I could have a good chat with him.
I struggled like this for nearly ten minutes. Fortunately, there was no space to move in this temporary earthen nest. I couldn't even turn over. I could only shake my calves occasionally to avoid squeezing my tendons.
Zhang Tianyi slept well for about a quarter of an hour, and was still very tired when he woke up. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw my face almost in front of him, and he looked like he was about to suffocate.
He looked at me, raised his eyebrows and asked in confusion: "Are you planning to make pancakes? What's going on?"
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