Chapter 125
"Tomorrow? That's a deal! We'll go find the money tomorrow. If we don't find the money, we won't come back. It's not safe here anyway. If we continue to live here, we might be discovered one day. If you are discovered, you will definitely be arrested. After all, they wanted to arrest you before, and they want to arrest you again now. How can they let you go?"
The man in black said to Jiaming.
Jiaming took a deep breath and thought about it. It was true, but he looked at the man in black suspiciously. He thought, although they want to arrest me, you have been arrested and beaten by them before, so they may not not arrest me. If I believed in you wholeheartedly, I might not know how I died.
The man in black smiled and said, "Why don't we start packing now and leave tonight? It's getting late."
As he spoke, he glanced at the sky and seemed very anxious. Although I could understand that he had to be anxious for the money, it was too strange that he couldn't even wait until tomorrow.
It's not like we have to wait a year.
Jiaming frowned and said, "You can wash up and then pack up. There is nothing to pack here. I still need to think carefully about what can be taken away and what needs to be left here. Someone will come to look for me tomorrow. If they can't find me, they will probably think that I have an accident. By then, they will integrate the information and don't know about your situation, so they may misunderstand me."
The man in black asked indifferently, "What's the misunderstanding?"
Jiaming said: "They will mistakenly think that you have taken me away. After all, you can see them, they also saw you, you found them, they also found you, you found this place, they would not have thought that you were here, not to mention, I disappeared, it is impossible for them not to think that it is normal for a living person to disappear like this, so they must implicate you."
After they thought I was missing, they would definitely look for you first. If you were found, they would definitely catch you and beat you up, making you suffer more than death. You also know the government's style of doing things. If you do not do well, you will be beaten up first. If they want to play around, they will be too lazy to pay attention to you and will just do their own thing.
They don't do anything but sit there and play. They have jobs and salaries, so why would they do anything? If you want to ask them to do something, they will ask you to kneel down and beg them, as if you are not alive if you don't kneel down.
The man in black asked in confusion, "Explain what?"
Jiaming said: "Explain why you frequently approach them and why you are suspected of seeking benefits. It's ridiculous. If there is real benefit, many people will flock to it. But not many people do this to support themselves. Why? Isn't it because there is no benefit or the gain is not enough to make up for the loss? Or, the benefit is not enough to support themselves? They can't even support themselves, so how can they seek the benefits they imagine?
Actually, they do have a lot of people over there, but they are just a lot and are of no use at all. Most of them come here to try to solve problems, but they don't know how to solve problems for people at all. They just ask people to go back and wait. Have you heard of their rhetoric?
I'm sorry, we are not responsible for this and we cannot handle this matter.
So where should we go?
How about this, you go to District 1 first, explain the matter to them, and ask them for evidence.
Why do you need evidence?
You go to District 1 and tell them that we have evidence here that needs to be notarized. Remember to bring your money and come to us after the notarization. We will find a way to handle it for you.
When you arrive at Area 1, the people there will tell you that they are only responsible for notarization and if you want to pay, you have to go to the cashier.
When you arrive at the toll booth, the person at the toll booth tells you that they are only responsible for collecting fees and what you want to do has nothing to do with them. Just remember it yourself. If you don't remember it clearly, then it has nothing to do with them.
After notarization, you return to the starting point and they tell you, sorry, the notarized evidence is not enough and needs to be supplemented. Do you have any more?
Yes, but you can't carry so many things at one time, and they are easy to lose.
Then remember to bring all of them next time.
Can't solve the problem today?
We are going to be off work today, please come back tomorrow.
I finally got here, but I'm sorry to tell you that we have half a day off today. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow are weekends, so we'll also have holidays. Please come back on weekdays.
I'll tell you on weekdays, but you should go to the notary office first.
After processing the evidence, they went back to ask, and they told you that a lot of your evidence was invalid and would not work. Have you considered this?
If it is invalid, why didn't you remind me before? If it is invalid, why didn't you check it before and charge me?
You paid for it yourself, how can you blame us? You paid for it yourself, right? We didn't force you, did we? You paid for it yourself, and now you want a refund?
We want a refund!
Only 70% can be refunded, 10% is the service fee, and 20% is the breach of contract compensation. You can go to the payment gateway to handle the business now.
Why can I only refund 70%? Breach of contract? What was the agreement?
Didn't you read the agreement before paying? Wasn't there something like a laptop in front of you? When you signed it, it meant you agreed, didn't you know that?
You didn't tell us in advance!
Isn't this clear? The agreement has been written, you have seen it, and you have signed it. Are you regretting it now? That won't work.
We won't pay for breach of contract! You didn't make it clear beforehand and violated the legal agreement.
So tell me, which law have we violated?
Economic laws must be explained in advance, information must be comprehensive and true, and publicity must not be misleading.
Didn't we make it clear? We have made it clear, but you didn't pay attention. Did we explain it to you? Did you hear it? Did you respond? Don't make trouble here!
Then he was driven out.
If you don't get kicked out, you'll have to go around in there twice."
The man in black was amazed: "Ah, it's so troublesome. I have never done this before. But fortunately, my family didn't have much trouble before. Although my family still has a lot of things to do now, it was not like this before."
He lowered his eyes, feeling a little sad.
Jiaming added: "Perhaps you don't know that your parents were out there and went to the government, but they didn't help?"
The man in black raised his head and asked, "What?"
He widened his eyes, looking incredulous: "Is this really true?!"
Jiaming smiled and said, "I've already said maybe, but you can't be 100% sure!"
The man in black held his own hand and walked back and forth in front of Jiaming, muttering to himself: "No, no, maybe it is, maybe it isn't. I'm going to go home and ask my father if it's true. If it isn't, that's great. If it is, it's too tragic, even more tragic!"
"Wake up, wake up," Jiaming called him, "Don't worry, there's no point in worrying. Even if you go back now, you still have to come back to me if you don't have the money. And if you go back without the money, I'm afraid your father won't be able to survive under those people's hands."
The man in black turned pale and murmured, "What should we do?"
Jiaming said, "This matter cannot be resolved now anyway, let's do it tomorrow. I will go with you tomorrow, and after I meet the guests I have an appointment with, we will go together. However, you also know that the money is mine. I can give it to you and let you take the money back to find your father, but I can't entrust my life and property to you.
When you get there, you can wait for me not far away, and I will withdraw money for you separately. However, how much do you need? "
The man in black said a number that sounded astronomical. Jiaming calculated his own money in his mind and felt that it was not impossible to give the money, so he nodded and said, "Okay, we will go and see when the time comes."
The man in black was very grateful and said with a smile, "Great! Thank you very much."
Before the next day, someone came and knocked on the door. Jiaming went to open the door, but the man in black opened it before him. Jiaming stood not far away in the yard, looking at the door. The person who appeared at the door was not an official, but a young man. When he saw the man in black, his brows turned cold and they started fighting on the spot. waved his hand and called for help.
The man in black immediately shouted at the young man, "Stop hitting me! Stop hitting me! I am one of you! I have no ill intentions! I am not here to arrest anyone or to kill anyone! Stop hitting me! I didn't do anything. Really nothing!"
The young man asked someone to close the door, looked at the man in black, and asked his brothers to stand by and surround him: "When did you come?"
The man in black smiled and said, "It will be today during the day."
The young man asked, "What are you doing here now?"
The man in black said, "I used to be friends with this brother who lives here. I came to him because my father was caught by the debt collectors. I have no way to pay him back, so I had to ask for help from others. He promised me that he would give me some money so that I can go home and save my father."
The young man sneered, "What do you think this is? A place where you can come and go as you please?"
The man in black said, "That's not what I meant."
The young man smiled and said, "I don't know if that's what you mean, but you followed my brothers for no reason, injured them, and came here. How can I believe that you are a good person? Especially, don't think that I didn't check your identity. Before you came here, you went to the government office! You walked out from under the hands of the officials! Our brothers have never had someone like you.
Who are you? How dare you lie to your grandfather here? "
As he spoke, he pushed the man in black down hard.
The man in black was pinned to the ground and couldn't help but shout, "Grandpa, don't kill me! I'm telling the truth! It was all a misunderstanding before, a misunderstanding!"
As he was speaking, he remembered that Jiaming was standing next to him and could help, so he quickly shouted to Jiaming: "Friend! Brother! Hurry up! Help me say a few words to prove my identity! It hurts so much—"
Jiaming heard him shouting, walked over and said to the young man, "Don't rush to deal with him. Although he was wrong to follow the brothers, and colluding with the officials was even more wrong, he did not take the initiative to see the officials, but took the initiative to come to see me. In fact, the merits and demerits can be offset in this account, but he cannot be completely punished. You have already beaten him up, and he is covered with wounds. That's enough."
The young man snorted, a little unhappy, but still let the man in black go, stood up, patted his clothes, glanced at Jiaming, snorted again, strode towards the main room, and sat down on the chair next to the eight-immortals table. It was a very large chair, and when he sat down on it, he looked tall, majestic and serious.
Jiaming followed him in. The others were still outside watching the man in black. It was difficult for the man in black to walk or talk, nor was it easy for him to face the man shouting at the top of his lungs at such a distance. He could only make a bitter face, rub the place where he was hit, cover half of his forehead, and wait until he felt a little better before standing up, sighing in his heart.
Jiaming said to the young man, "He was definitely wrong in this matter. You have beaten him before, and your brother has beaten him before. That's enough. If you want to beat him again, it's bullying the weak. That's not good."
The young man snorted and turned away.
Jiaming said: "Even if he wants to trick me out, it's no big deal. You can follow me quietly and I will cover for you. As long as you are a little more discreet, he will not easily find you because he is alone and has my influence. Even if he really finds you, it doesn't matter. He dare not make it public for fear of being beaten or not getting the money.
He has seen you now, and knows that you and I are together. If he still wants money, he will not ignore me, nor will he frame you and then ask me for money. That would be too shameless. For the time being, such a thing has not happened. You can rest assured. Even if he comes to me with bad intentions, it is not impossible. I know, but we can use his trick against him."
The young man angrily said, "You knew he had bad intentions, but you still let him in? Didn't I tell you not to open the door for others casually?"
Jiaming smiled and said, "That's why you guessed wrong. I didn't open the door for him. I also remember you told me not to open the door for others casually. I didn't let him in. He came in by himself. Didn't he just say that? When he came in, you were not here and you didn't know. He came out of nowhere, just like falling from the sky.
I had no choice. I just turned around and saw him appear. I didn't recognize him at first and thought he was a stranger who ran to my side and wanted to be a thief but had to show up in front of me because of his injury. Who knew that when he opened his mouth, he said to me that we knew each other. It was only after I listened to him that I remembered that there was such a person.
I had almost forgotten about him. Of course, I remember what I told you before about my suspicions and guesses about him. It's just that I have no evidence and can only make random guesses. I can think, say and believe it, but I can't tell him about it in person. You should also know that I am in a difficult position in this matter.
What's more, he was covered in scars and told me the whole story in a very sincere manner. I said I had to believe him. He had come here with great difficulty and I couldn't chase him away. Otherwise, he had been in contact with the police and I was afraid he would turn around and report me. Then I couldn't stay in this place anymore, and you couldn't come here either. From now on, you would need to hide your identities when you go out.
If I rashly chase him away, you will be seen by him first, and you will not be able to escape. What do you think? "
Jiaming's anger subsided a little. After thinking for a while, he reluctantly said, "Even if that's the case, you can't just let him stay here!"
Jiaming said, "You don't know, he wants my money, but my money is not with me. I need to take him to find it. But, to take him to find it, I have to go out with him. I feel unsafe. I asked him to stay here just to wait for you."
The young man was half-believing and half-doubting, and was already wavering. He asked hesitantly, "Since you said so, I believe you but not him. What if you get caught when you go out? What if you tell us after being tortured? I am worried about him and I am also worried about you being able to remain calm and rational after being seriously injured. If you are not sober, you can say anything.
Maybe they don’t even need to beat you, they can just give you a pot of wine and make you unconscious, and then you will become confused and stiff, and say everything, and you won’t even know when you wake up.”
Jiaming smiled and said, "If they don't know, then they don't know. If they don't know, then it proves that everything I said was a lie. If they believe it, then they are mentally ill. Can they blame me? If they don't believe it, then that's just fine. If they don't believe it but would rather kill than let go of the wrongdoers, then that's great. You can set a trap to deal with them. Once they are dealt with, I can get out."
What's the problem then?"
The young man muttered, "You always have so much to say."
He sneered, "But if you are caught, it's your own fault. I have already advised you. If you don't listen to me, then don't blame me. We will not save you. Maybe if we see you on the road, we will kill you. Otherwise, if you reveal all our secrets, we will be finished. For the sake of more lives, you have to die. You can't care about many things."
Jiaming nodded: "I know what you mean. For you to survive, I will die regardless of whether I am guilty or not. If the government sentences me to death, I will die. If the government sentences me to parade through the streets, you will see me and I will die. If the government acquits me, it is probably impossible. If that happens, you will suspect that I am collaborating with the enemy and treason. I can understand that.
However, I will not surrender. If pushed to the limit, I will do anything. Don’t blame me.”
The young man laughed and said, "Now that we've come to this point, is there anything strange about it?"
Jiaming nodded and said, "That's true."
The young man asked, "So what are you going to do?"
Jiaming once again pointed out his key point: "Work together from the inside and outside. If there is no problem, it's best. If there is a problem, wouldn't it be better to take them all down in one fell swoop?"
The young man's eyes lit up: "Oh, you mean, we can still turn over?"
The blue veins on his neck jumped twice, as if two excited green dragons were swimming under his skin.
Jiaming said: "With time, it may be possible. All good things must come to an end, and naturally there is no emperor who lasts forever."
The young man smiled and said, "Not bad, not bad!"
He laughed loudly, clapped his hands, stood up, tugged at his clothes, seemed to be a little hot, and danced as if saying, "Okay! Let's do it!"
Jiaming said, "So I told him?"
The young man nodded and said, "I'll go out with you and I'll ask the brothers to let him go."
Jiaming nodded.
They walked out and told the others to stay calm. Jiaming said to the man in black, "He has agreed not to cause you any trouble. Just don't cause them any trouble in the future."
The man in black nodded quickly: "I won't take the initiative to cause trouble for them. You know me. I am just a playboy. I knew a little more before, but that's it. Otherwise, I wouldn't suddenly find myself at a loss and become a waste when encountering great changes! If I had a choice, I would not want to be such a person.
Nothing can be solved.”
As he spoke, he lowered his head, as if he was so depressed and angry that he had almost nothing to say.
Jiaming patted him on the shoulder to show his sympathy and understanding.
The young man waved to his brothers and told them that they could ambush.
Everyone is very happy.
After eating, the man in black couldn't help but pull Jiaming and ask, "Can't we leave now? It's dark now. Even if people outside notice us, they won't be able to clearly see what we look like. Can we leave now?"
Jiaming thought for a moment and looked at the young man. The young man put down what he was holding and said, "If you want to leave, you can leave now. Wait for me for a while. I'll take care of things here. You can leave if you want."
The man in black was delighted and whispered, "Thank you."
The young man waved his hand: "It's okay, I'm not trying to help you."
The man in black blinked: "Oh."
They walked out quickly, but only the man in black and Jiaming walked out.
The man in black turned around with some confusion and took a look. The door was closed and there was someone inside, but he didn't know who it was. He didn't recognize it, so he asked Jiaming: "Are we the only two going?"
Jiaming said, “Yes.”
He asked, "Do you want to go with someone else?"
The man in black said, "We can go with others or not. But, there were so many of them before us, and I thought they would go with us. It seemed like they were going to go with us. Why did they suddenly change their minds? Or did I misunderstand their intentions at first? I thought that if we went together, we would be safe on the road and less likely to get into trouble."
Jiaming asked: "What will happen to us on the road?"
He paused and replied, "It's not that they suddenly changed their minds. They will protect us in secret, but it depends on how they arrange the manpower. They just told me, but didn't explain it clearly. I don't quite understand how they plan. These are our affairs. If you want to ask, you can only ask them. If they don't show up, there is no place to ask, and don't ask me.
I don't know.
You didn't misunderstand them. They were all going to be with us, but something happened, so some of them left, maybe they went back home. There must be other places for them to go. Don't ask me where the other places are. I don't know. I only know that their other places are not here. Besides this, they have other places to go, but nothing more."
The man in black replied, "I thought the money was stored in the deep mountains and forests. If we went there at night, we would have to be afraid of snakes, rats, insects and ants, even if we were not afraid of people. They are all creatures that can kill people in the dark. If we run into them, we will probably be finished. Even if we don't run into those small ones, it would be bad if we run into tigers or monkeys in the mountains.
If we encounter rats, they will chase us and bite us, damaging our clothes and food, and at most some of our skin. At worst, we might get sick and die. But I don't think it's such a big problem, and neither of us will be that unlucky.
If we encounter a tiger, we can neither run nor hide. If we are spotted by it and climb up a tree, it may follow us. Otherwise, how can we call ourselves mountain insects? If a tiger bites us, we will lose our arms and legs. If we want to continue walking, we will bleed to death. What can we do?
If they are monkeys, they will not bite anything off us, but they are noisy and annoying, and they make loud noises. They leave garbage everywhere, such as stones, stinky eggs, vegetable leaves, rotten cockroaches and sour fruits. Anything is possible, and they don't clean anything. If they hit us, it will be very humiliating and the pain will definitely not be light. They are not easy to deal with and it is difficult to get along with them.
Even though we are two people with no arms or legs, we can’t defeat those things.”
He began to worry.
Jiaming looked at him puzzledly and asked, "Hey, didn't you rush to get out before? Why didn't you think about those possibilities before you came out? Dying on the road, being killed, or being unable to walk are all possible. However, we thought that we could find money in the end and come back safely. What do you think now?
If you died, it was probably because you scared yourself to death. Then don't look for me after you die, it's not my fault.
You asked me to come out, and you asked for the money. You can't let me go out and stay alone. When will you get the money? Wait for me to give you the money? Then what was the point of urging me to go out before? You just want me to come out and protect you from disasters?"
Jiaming laughed, his voice sounded very cold and eerie in the dark night, with a bit of ghostliness: "If you say so, I won't follow you. Go by yourself. If you can find it, it's your good fortune, if you can't find it, it's your fate. If you die, I'll burn paper and light a fire for you next year. If you come out alive, you can take some of the money with you.
However, I have less than two taels of money on me. If you want it, I can give it to you now, but I certainly can't let you go back to pay off the debt and rescue your father. What do you think?"
The man in black had a tearful face. After thinking for a while, he forced a smile and said, "Now that it has come to this, I know that I will definitely not turn back. I am not the kind of person who values money over life, but I am not the kind of person who values both money and life. There is no other way. If money and life were not linked together, I would not risk my life like this. I am really causing trouble for you."
As he spoke, he let out a long breath, as if once this breath was out he would be able to return alive.
Jiaming glanced at him. His face turned pale. Jiaming smiled and said, "Oh, I thought you thought I should accompany you out."
The man in black said quickly, "Of course not! I know you have no obligation or responsibility to help me, but I have no other choice. I really have no other choice. I am desperate and do this. Please don't blame me or give up on me. I know you have paid a lot of money for me. I am very grateful to you. I thank you very much. I know it is all your goodness."
If it weren’t for you, I would have died earlier, and my whole family would have died. You are my great benefactor and savior…”
He wanted to say more, but Jiaming stopped him: "Okay, no need to say more. I know what you mean. We still need to walk a long way in the mountains, which is not easy. You should say less and save some energy, otherwise you will be unable to walk. I don't think I can take you with me. I am very weak and can't carry you or hug you. If you die accidentally, it will be the end. I have come here for nothing."
The man in black nodded and said, "I remember."
Jiaming responded, and then the two of them didn't say anything and just walked in the mountains.
Suddenly, a shrill laughter of children came from the darkness of the deep mountains, like a needle piercing into the brain. The man in black shuddered, took a step forward, and tried to grab Jiaming's sleeve, but found that he couldn't see clearly for a moment, so he failed. He was stunned for a moment, and quickly reached out to grab it again. This time he caught it, and he breathed a sigh of relief, but then he felt something was wrong.
He slowly raised his head and felt the cool touch in his hands. He realized that this was not the texture and feel of the clothes Jiaming wore when he went out. He looked at the head of the shadow in front of him and saw the person's face. He thought it was Jiaming at first. In fact, of course not. Jiaming's neck was not broken, and Jiaming's head did not have a face on the back of his head.
The man in black trembled and loosened his hand, holding the wrist of the hand that had just reached out to grab the sleeve. Both hands began to tremble. He moved his lips and wanted to speak, but the face that looked three-quarters similar to Jiaming moved, as if he had noticed something, and the man in black quickly shut up.
That face did not look like a human. The man in black didn't know why he thought it was Jiaming. It might be that this man suddenly appeared in front of him, and Jiaming disappeared. Either Jiaming was dead, or Jiaming's position and identity were replaced by the shadow in front of him. The man in black was unwilling to believe that Jiaming was dead, nor was he willing to believe that Jiaming was replaced by the shadow.
He thought about it and felt that he must have accidentally taken the wrong road. When he couldn't see clearly just now, he found the wrong person. If he had been more vigilant and careful, and had opened his eyes and looked carefully for a while, perhaps such a problem would not have occurred. However, recalling these things now, he completely regretted it.
The man in black stared at the face, which twisted a little, as if a branch had sunk into the water and stirred it, causing slight ripples. The skin was extremely pale, and the eye sockets were red, as if smeared with blood, or as if smeared with particularly bright blush. The eye sockets were pale and bloodshot, as if painted on, but there were almost no eyeballs.
It looks like a soft, very seductive face.
The expression is weird, the corners of the mouth are slightly raised, and he is laughing, but the child's laughter does not come from this face, nor from this body. The man in black prefers to call it the shadow of someone else in this mountain.
He gritted his teeth and stepped back a little bit, accidentally stepping on a branch. The branch was very fragile and broke in an instant. However, when he stared at the shadow opposite with vigilance and nervousness, the person just stood there quietly, as if there was no need for him to move forward after being discovered by him. The shadow stood there, still looking at him quietly with the eyes and face at the back of his head, not panicked at all.
Indeed, the people who should be panicking now are the people in black.
He continued to back away and accidentally bumped into something. It was hard and had rough patterns on the surface, like a tree. He thought it was just a tree and got startled, but quickly tried to calm his racing heartbeat. He almost vomited, so he covered his mouth and stared with his eyes wide open, fearing that if he wasn't paying attention and didn't see it, he would be killed.
The figure suddenly disappeared when he blinked. Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he felt himself being tightly embraced by countless unknown things. He lowered his head and found that they were branches, rustling and crawling on his body like mice, as if he was already a corpse, a dead person, with lifeless eyes.
The man in black was startled and quickly reached out to pull at all the things, trying to tear them apart. However, he screamed in his heart and used a lot of strength with his hands, but he still couldn't get rid of the branches. The branches were getting tighter and tighter, wrapping him in darkness. The densely packed branches were soft and tender, but very tough when put together. He felt like he was about to suffocate.
The figure on the opposite side suddenly floated over, and the man in black was frightened again, almost jumping up, but he was tied up, so he didn't jump up. However, he realized that it was unrealistic to just wait to die. He didn't run thousands of miles to die, so how could he just wait to die like this? !
He realized that there was something wrong with his thoughts just now. He sniffed around and immediately noticed that the surface of these branches had some subtle smell, which seemed to be fragrance, but also seemed to be stench. It smelled very good at first, but after two or three times, it became a bit disgusting, making people unable to help but cover their noses to avoid continuing to suffer this torture.
These smells were the source of the silent influence on his mind and thoughts.
The figure stuck to him and stuffed something into him through the gap through a layer of branches. It was pointed and seemed to be a branch. Now the man in black was a little disgusted with branches. He frowned, but still took it. He would rather take it than refuse it. What's more, he had no possibility of refusing. His whole body was trapped in the branches, and it was impossible to throw the thing away even if he wanted to.
He had no other place to throw it, so he reluctantly moved his head and eyes to look, and found something that seemed to be a knife made of branches. Because his hand was accidentally cut a little, the flesh was cut and bleeding began to flow out. The blood flowed out little by little, and the smell of blood filled the entire bunch of branches, as if it was about to rot, emitting a strong odor.
The smell was so strong that the man in black couldn't help it and vomited his dinner, almost vomiting on himself. The branches were torn apart at once, and soon all the branches were gone. The man in black raised his head and wiped himself reluctantly, trying to see if the person who gave him the things was still there, but he didn't see Sen*wan*tidy up.
He heaved a sigh of relief and wanted to sit down to rest, but he saw what he had just vomited and thought it was not a good place to rest, so he dragged his tired body forward step by step, hoping to find Jiaming who had disappeared in the darkness. He did not dare to shout out, for fear that branches or human shadows would hear him and come looking for him, and he might not be able to escape.
Moreover, he now doesn't know whether it was a case of the fisherman gaining the advantage from the quarrel between the snipe and the clam, or a case of one of the two tigers getting hurt in a fight.
He didn't think the relationship between the human shadow and the branch was good, but he also didn't think the human shadow helped him in order to save him. He was more inclined to think that the human shadow gave him things and let him out in order to use him to hurt the branch. What's more, the branch did escape, whether it was because of the knife, the vomit, or the blood, it didn't matter, it was gone, and he felt a little safer, and the human shadow was also gone.
Thinking of this, the man in black couldn't help but murmur, "As expected, as expected, the human figure just followed the tree branch and disappeared. Otherwise, why else could it have happened? When I first saw it, it didn't hurt me or kill me. Maybe it wasn't interested in me and didn't want to do anything to me. It just looked at me because it thought I was weird and interesting. After all, it's rare to see living people here.
It’s not impossible…”
He walked for a while, talking to himself, and suddenly found himself at the edge of a cliff. He was horrified, his foot slipped, and he fell from a height, shouting, "Help! Help! Help! Ah-ah--"
Jiaming appeared from a height like a god, grabbed him, squatted down, and said to him: "Don't move, I can't catch you, hurry up and get up by yourself. If you drag it on like this, I don't know when you can get the money."
The man in black nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, I will find a way to get up there by myself. Please don't leave or let go. I will find a way to get up there by myself."
As he spoke, he looked around, but couldn't see the situation clearly, so he could only reach out and tentatively grab the protrusion next to him. On one side was a stone, which suddenly fell down. He was startled and trembled. Jiaming shouted at him from above: "Don't move! I can't hold you!"
The man in black responded and reached out his hand hurriedly, grabbing another stone. This time the stone did not fall down. His heart was still as nervous as a drum, and his ears were filled with the sound of his own heartbeat, bang, bang, bang, bang, as if it was hitting his head. He crawled forward little by little, and Jiaming was also holding him hard to prevent him from accidentally falling down.
He just climbed to the edge and wanted to take a breath before continuing to climb, but Jiaming urged him: "Hurry up!"
The man in black could only continue to work hard. He crawled to the ground and rested. He asked without raising his head: "Where are we going? How far is it? Can we go faster?"
Jiaming said, "It's not a question of speed. If you want to rest, I'll take you to a place. I know there's a cave not far away. You won't fall off the cliff if you rest there, and you won't be seen and eaten by the creatures outside."
The man in black suddenly became alert, thinking, I didn't tell him that I just saw the strange figure and was almost eaten by the branches. How did he know that there was something outside? How did he know that the thing outside would see me, catch me, and eat me?
Although this sentence could not make the man in black sure that the man in front of him was fake, he was not as relaxed as before. He stood up, patted his clothes, and smiled at Jiaming: "Okay, let's go now!"
He said this and thought, No, no, if he is a fake, and I follow him, wouldn't that be a trap for me? What if I die there? What should I do?
He shook his head and murmured, "I don't know, I don't know."
Jiaming was walking in front and heard him talking. He came over and asked, "What are you secretly talking about behind my back?"
The man in black smiled and said, "Nothing."
He thought, Jiaming’s hearing didn’t seem to be very good before. It seemed that he didn’t hear me when I talked behind him, or he just ignored me and didn’t take the initiative to ask me. This is the second suspicious point. I hope he will explain it to me clearly later. If he doesn’t explain it later, that will be the third suspicious point. At the latest, I must run away at five o’clock, otherwise, am I going to wait for him to boil me into a pot of soup?
Impossible! Impossible! Absolutely impossible!
Jiaming snorted: "If you don't want to say it, forget it."
He walked to the front, slurped, and murmured, "Meat is best eaten when it is cooked and loose, otherwise it will be old. It should be fresh and crispy, and it is especially delicious when eaten raw."
The man in black didn't hear clearly what Jiaming said, but he vaguely felt that something was wrong with this road. He began to recall what had just happened. Suddenly, he was at the edge of a cliff. There was no other way in between. It was too fast and he couldn't react. It didn't seem real. Even if he accidentally walked to the edge of the cliff when he wasn't paying attention, how could he have fallen down?
When I found a cliff in front of me, I was not standing at the very edge of the cliff, but at a distance from it. Even if I kneeled down, I would still have time to avoid falling. How could I have kneeled down far enough to fall directly? This is not normal.
This is the fourth doubt.
While he said he couldn't hold me, he was pulling very steadily, his hands weren't sweaty, his face wasn't red, and there were no veins on his forehead and neck. He didn't seem to be trying very hard. It seemed like he was lifting something heavy with ease but was deliberately pretending to have no strength to deceive people. That would be fake.
This is the fifth doubt.
Now that the five doubts have been put together, the man in black thought of the voice of a person talking to himself in front of Jiaming. Although he did not hear clearly what Jiaming said, he heard a few words sporadically, such as eating raw and crispy. It did not sound like what a normal person would say. Where is the food here? What's more, Jiaming did not have much demand for food, at least, not in this environment.
We didn't talk much on the way, and when we did, we didn't talk much about food. Besides, we had eaten before we left, and we hadn't walked far, so how could we be hungry again? There was only one possibility, this thing was not a human, and it hadn't eaten dinner, so it was very hungry now and wanted to eat him as a meal.
The man in black suddenly became alert and tried to retreat, but was discovered by Jiaming at that time. Jiaming turned around and stared at him closely. He walked forward step by step, and the man in black retreated step by step. Jiaming suddenly grabbed the man in black and asked with a smile: "Why are you going to the back road? I told you, it's over here."
As he spoke, he pulled the man in black forward with great force, and it looked like he was about to stop pretending. The man in black thought, Damn it, if he stops pretending, won't I be eaten soon? I don't want to! If I am eaten, it doesn't matter whether it is Jiaming on the other side, I will definitely not survive, no no! I can't let him do it.
The man in black laughed and said, "Nothing, I just felt a little weak in the legs, and I thought, when I passed by there, I seemed to see a stone that I could sit down on, so I wanted to go over there to rest, I can't walk anymore. Can you let me rest for a while?"
Jiaming thought for a moment and said, "Okay, just sit here and don't leave. If you insist on sitting on the stone, I won't be able to help you."
The man in black asked tentatively, "Can't you bring the stone over for me?"
Jiaming sneered, "Do you think I'm your personal servant? It was you who wanted to come in, and it was you who wanted to ask me for money, and the money is still mine. I'm here now because of you. I haven't even said it was your fault, and you're ordering me around first? Don't push your luck!"
As he spoke, two fangs were faintly exposed at the corners of his mouth. The man in black quickly showed weakness: "No, no, I'm sorry, I was talking nonsense just now because I was not in my mind. I don't want that stone anymore, I don't want that stone anymore. It's okay if it's gone. It's no big deal."
Jiaming nodded reluctantly, snorted, and then smiled a little: "That's about right."
The man in black smiled awkwardly.
Jiaming quickly urged: "Haven't you rested enough? It's enough! If you wait any longer, I think it will be dawn soon."
The man in black raised his head and glanced at the sky. It was still pitch black, and there was no sign that it would light up later. For a moment, the man in black couldn't even connect the bright sky with this pitch-black sky. He thought, "You say things like that. Do you think nine o'clock is equal to twelve o'clock? If I rest next to you, it would be about three minutes equal to fifty minutes."
It's so pitiful. Oh, now I'm the one who's pitiful. It's even more pitiful! Woohoo!
The man in black rubbed his eyes and whispered, "But I'm so sleepy."
He wanted to use this trick to delay time, but Jiaming didn't give him the chance. He pulled his arm and pulled him up all at once. He felt that his arm was almost broken and he seemed to have no strength left. He rubbed his shoulder with the hand that was not pulled and said to Jiaming, "I don't want to leave anymore."
Jiaming sneered, "So this is my business? So this is up to you? You are dreaming!"
The man in black stood up helplessly: "Okay, I understand, let's go."
This time Jiaming didn't let go, but pulled him forward, as if he was pulling a prisoner back to prison.
The man in black thought, I wonder if he wants to take me to a cave. I wonder if there is anything special about that cave. If there is, I am afraid I will never get out. I hope it is something simple. He just wants to take me there and eat me, just like most people like to eat on the table. He insists on taking me to the cave just to put food on the table.
If the food ran away, he would be unhappy, and I can understand that, just like some people like to eat raw pickled food, or put living things in the sauce. Oh, maybe there is his sauce in the cave, so he wants to put me in. If I don’t go, he will be unhappy, just like some people get angry when they see their food jumping around on the table.
Forget it. I don't know if he will torture others, but he will definitely torture me. It will do me no good to make him angry. I will just endure it for now. When he lets down his guard, I will run away and hide. I don't believe this thing can't work! I absolutely don't want to die here.
I don't know what this is.
The man in black looked at Jiaming, and Jiaming smiled at him: "We're almost there, don't worry about going somewhere else."
The man in black nodded.
Jiaming dragged the man in black into a cave. The inside of the cave was a little darker than the outside, but after walking a distance inside, it suddenly lit up, as if there was a lamp. The man in black took the lamp and handed it to the man in black. The man in black didn't think there was anything wrong at first, but after taking the lamp and taking a closer look, he was shocked. It was neither a glass lamp nor a cloth lantern.
This is a lamp made of a pile of intestines, wrapping a blinking human head. The inside of the human head is hollowed out, and inside is a pile of blood-red semi-solidified substances. At first glance, it looks a bit like bright red tomato-flavored candle oil that has been softened at high temperature and then solidified, but it smells like blood. This sticky and non-solidified situation is more like an unsuccessful Maoxuewang.
The man in black looked at this thing that looked like Maoxuewang and he was trembling with fear. His teeth almost chattered. Jiaming walked inside as if he lived here. He turned around and saw the man in black trembling. His teeth kept chattering with each other, making a clicking sound. He laughed and said, "What are you afraid of? You thought I was going to kill you."
His appearance suddenly changed, from a man into a woman. His hair gradually grew longer and turned black, with a slight blood-red hue under the light, as if he had just sucked blood. His skin was snow-white, fragile, and as tender as tofu. His eyes were very black, like two beads made of black wood.
Those two eyeballs stared at the man in black, motionless. If they turned a little, they would appear dull. However, when they stared at people, they became particularly shrewd, as if they were secretly planning something.
The man in black didn't know what the person on the other side was thinking. Or, the person on the other side wasn't a person either.
He didn't know what he should do now. He frowned and took a step back. Perhaps because this place was very close to the inside, the woman opposite him didn't worry that the man in black would run away because of one step. Until she went out, she touched her long hair with a smile.
The man in black only saw her shake her head, and a bunch of small red crabs fell out of her hair and crawled on the ground, making the sound of money.
The man in black closed his eyes for a moment, thinking that the woman would throw a bottle of poison to kill him, and became more and more uneasy.
The light in my hand suddenly changed from bright red to a soft and ambiguous pink, which even looked a bit disgusting.
The man in black wanted to throw away the lamp, but the woman held his hand and said with a smile, "Now that you are here, don't be so serious. Why are you frowning? Smile! My dear, my dear, the night is short, why don't we go to bed early?"
As she spoke, she was about to reach out and take off the clothes of the man in black.
To be honest, this was a very beautiful person. If the man in black had not remembered that she had Jiaming's face, was wearing Jiaming's clothes, and had Jiaming's style, perhaps the man in black might have really been tempted by lust and done something to her regardless of the danger. However, when he thought that this woman was related to Jiaming, he lost interest at all.
He was really too scared, partly because the person in front of him was not a human, and partly because the person in front of him actually used Jiaming's face and then used a woman's face to seduce him. When he thought that if he had lustful thoughts about such things, he might be doing something with Jiaming in some sense, he suddenly felt horrified and was so scared that he almost had to bite his hand to stop himself from screaming.
How could he do anything to Jiaming? Doing anything to Jiaming is equivalent to doing something to his own money! He needs money, and he can't have any thoughts about Jiaming other than money! This is where this woman is wrong, and she is so wrong, just like when taking an exam, if you write the first step wrong, everything else will be completely wrong, and no matter how well you do afterwards, it will not affect the previous mistakes.
Even if she got all the answers except the first step correct, if she got the first step wrong, her score would go from full marks to zero.
What's more, she had no chance of getting full marks.
The man in black was full of resistance and dodged again and again. The woman pushed him twice and became unhappy. She said angrily: "I'm so good to you and I'm so beautiful, but you don't know how to behave. How abominable!"
As she spoke, she waved her hand and a wide sleeve came over and wrapped the man in black completely. The man in black was almost knocked unconscious by the scent of perfume. The fragrance was very strong, so strong that it was sickening. The man in black's head was dizzy and he tried to struggle, but after two attempts he had no strength left. He suspected in his heart that the woman was a fairy transformed from a spider, but he didn't understand why she had to go to the cave.
Can't spiders live outside?
The man in black felt a headache, so the woman let him go, stripped off his clothes, and covered his whole body with a layer of white powder that smelled like women's rouge, then covered him with a layer of fine pink powder made from pearls and shells, and then sprinkled him with a layer of shiny oil, which made him look like a peeled egg under the light at first glance. She then licked him and nodded with great satisfaction.
The man in black felt like he was a clean ingredient.
The woman smiled and pushed him forward. He staggered and fell over there. With a splash, he fell into the water. He began to struggle. There was a sour and spicy taste in his mouth. He suddenly started coughing uncontrollably. The woman looked at him, and when he was about to die, she reached out her hand, pulled him out of the juice, wiped his face, and sipped her fingers.
The woman was even more satisfied. She took him to a small room with a smile and wanted to cut him open. She tied him to a bed, patted him to wake him up, and said to him with a smile: "Don't worry, these charming processes will be over soon. You won't feel much pain, and you won't feel uncomfortable. Just squint your eyes, and you will be able to come to my dining table alive. I have prepared a plate for you."
The man in black nodded in a daze, then suddenly came to his senses and sobered up. He looked at himself and found that he was covered in sauces and sauces. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry. His mind was spinning rapidly. He said to the woman, "It's not that I won't give you the food. It's just that I feel a little uncomfortable. I'm afraid I'm sick. You treated me like this. If I eat the diseased meat, I will get sick too. Don't you care?"
The woman asked doubtfully, "What should I do?"
She seemed to have no medical knowledge and did not know how to examine the health of food.
The man in black didn't need very advanced acting skills to act listless, because he had been walking for a long time and was indeed tired. He was just forcing himself to feel that he couldn't just fall asleep like this.
He murmured weakly, "I have a cough, which means I am sick. I also have a fever, and my forehead is hot. You can touch it. I promise I am not lying."
His forehead was indeed hot, and the woman listened to him and tried to touch his forehead. She said in surprise: "It seems so!"
He thought he had succeeded, and was about to make an extra effort to get the other party to let him go, when he saw the woman's face suddenly change color, and she slapped him fiercely on the face, causing him to turn his head away. cooked.
Living people are all hot! I have never seen a doctor, never been sick, but how could I not have eaten a human being? Do you think you are the first? Of course not! It's not like there is only one person coming in here."
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