Chapter 50: Mountain Tunnel
The cave is much larger than we can see.
I walked inside on the steps, and the little prince and the others made room for me and shrank into the shadows.
It turns out that instead of calling it a cave, it is better to call it a "tunnel". From the place that cannot be seen above, it extends far and far to the inside of the mountain through this cave entrance. I don't know where it can lead, but it is more than enough to accommodate seven of us. I think even if seventeen of us are climbing in in one breath, it will not be a big problem!
This place appeared very timely. If we didn't notice it, we would have been rushing around the mountains covered with wind and snow all night, and maybe we would have frozen into ice sculptures.
Thinking of this, we should seem to thank the cave developers who rescued the Jianghu. But if you think about it carefully, this place is located at the junction of Death Valley and Kunlun Mountain. As soon as you walk up from the sunny clouds, it is like this all over the sky, and it is not easy to climb up all the way down. The cave appears in such a location, so you should have considered this and deliberately selected a location and dug up such a resting place to shelter from the wind and snow.
All seven people hid in. We shook the snowflakes on our bodies. We must stay here tonight for the night. The temperature outside was too low, and climbing the snow-capped mountains overnight with exhaustion was like suicide.
The female ghost was afraid of us, but she still had no intention of leaving here. She stayed at the entrance of the hole next to the stairs, stepped on the metal pipes under her feet, and held the precious can of old-fashioned heads beside her.
"Is she trapped because of the heavy snow?" The big star tried to step on the steps and looked out, "There is no invisible barrier, this place can be left at any time."
Master Dong immediately shook his head: "But from here, it's only a distance between the clouds. If you are afraid of wind and snow, then go down the mountain and go home quickly, so you don't hide in the hole and cry. There is no such thing as "trapped by snow" in this place."
Adjutant Li walked a short distance deeper along the tunnel. Although the space was not large, it seemed that it was still dying. It seemed that this place was not just a place to shelter from the wind and rain, but it could pass through the mountains and reach a destination. Otherwise, why would you use such a lot of effort to build the tunnel so long?
Moreover, the ground inside and outside the tunnel are basically on the same horizontal line. The tunnels on the mountain I have seen in Xuzhou are all used to facilitate traffic and reduce the force of climbing mountains. I suddenly felt relaxed. If the tunnel is the same, it would have helped us a lot:
Not only is it snowy on the mountain, but it is very tiring and dangerous to get up. So it is difficult to walk on the top, so just walk down, just like a mouse digging a hole by the well at the gate of Hell. No matter what is outside, it is just a shortcut. As long as you can cross the mountain, which road is not a road?
"But she doesn't even want to enter the tunnel."
The little prince pulled the female ghost inside, and she immediately started crying again, holding the human head can tightly, and was unwilling to go anywhere.
"It's strange. Since she doesn't move forward, what's the point of being stuck here is that she doesn't need to cross the mountains when she's here?" The little prince touched his slippery bald head, "When you arrive at the destination, then go back. What's the point of sticking around like this?"
"Hey, are you still leaving? If you don't leave, let's eat you?" The big star pinched her face very badly, but when he saw that he was shy, he had a big and thick face, and suddenly he lost the interest in continuing to tease her.
"Is it because I don't go back... because I dare not go back?" I saw her holding the can of the head tightly, and an idea suddenly popped up in my mind, "The boss sent her to deliver the takeaway, and paid on delivery, but he went through a lot of hardships all the way, but he didn't find the customer! At this time, what should you do? Take the takeaway back intact, obviously you will be scolded. Maybe you will be fired. According to the style of the girl in green, it's not impossible to fire the squid and then fry her and eat it yourself!"
"So I can only wait here with a miserable look on my face?" The big star gave me a thumbs up, "This metaphor is really vivid and connotative. So is that damn customer running the order?"
We can't answer this question, after all, everyone doesn't even know who the customer is.
However, the last female ghost who came to deliver the old man's head takeaway did not deliver the goods successfully. Halfway through her walk, Cheng Yaojin, who was holding the shopkeeper's mander's folding knife, was killed and dismembered. Judging from the degree of solidification of the nutrient solution on the ground, I think it would take at least a month to get the last delivery, so the customer living in this hole should have been gone long ago.
We couldn't ask anything from the female ghost's mouth, and she was unwilling to follow her. We had no choice but to see that she was pitiful and couldn't bear to kill her like that, so we had to think that she was air. Everyone walked into the depths of the tunnel with their own bags, trying to avoid the snowflakes floating in the hole. At this time, I noticed that under my feet, there were bumps scattered with lumps that would be stuffed into the gaps in the soles of the shoes. When I looked down, I saw that the ground was very dirty. The black paste should be dry nutrient solution. The sharp and light-resistant things should be fragments of the human head can.
It seems that the jars delivered here were all broken in the tunnel. Looking at the road surface like this, I can’t count how many heads the woman in green sent. Is the customer who ordered takeout too hungry? The head immediately opened and ate it, causing a mess here!
Stop, I can't imagine the scene of eating the old man's head after eating voraciously, but when I talk about eating, I suddenly discovered something unusual:
If human heads are really for food, then what about the skull?
I remember when the three of us were digging a hole from the bottom of the well, we touched a skull. The back of the head was smashed open by a very rough method and ate the brain. This shows that even if the group of female ghosts competed to eat it, they would not be able to chew all the bones and swallow them. Then, the customers in the tunnel could not have iron teeth and copper teeth!
There are no skulls everywhere, but there are jar residue everywhere. What are the heads used for?
Although the ground was disgusting, after climbing the mountain for a long time, our ankles were already sore and weak. We put a few blankets and sat down to eat some dry food. We were immediately sleepy and we were overwhelmed. Fortunately, this tunnel isolated the storm and snow outside. The temperature was quite good for a few people to squeeze together. We cherish the moment of sleeping, because once the tunnel is out tomorrow, we will be greeted by the wind and snow journey. We have not even climbed over this mountain. Who knows what we will encounter when climbing up the next snow mountain?
It would be even more difficult to find such a refuge where you can have a good sleep later.
I slept with the weirdo at the deepest part of the tunnel, trying my best to split the searchlight that the mouse turned on. In the dim light, I held his hand and looked carefully again - Sure enough, the birthmark of the Resurrection Grass on the back of his right hand spread again.
I was so frustrated that I was dying. Since I discovered it, I watched it break out from a small seed, grow buds, and grow into scale. I knew it was not a good thing, but I could do nothing about it.
Nowadays, the Resurrection Grass almost climbed the weirdo's elbow from his forearm, which was like a tattoo of a gangster. If we still couldn't find a way to suppress its growth, then soon, it could spread out from the weirdo's shoulders and cover his skin all over his body?
Before this, the monster must have been no longer in our team - we can't explore with a man who turns blind as soon as he sees the light.
In this way, after everyone ended Kunlun's mission, Adjutant Li was about to leave, Master Dong was about to retire, and the little prince had no more than a few years left. Then the weird guy's eyes were obviously not suitable to continue to assist Jinye. If Master Dong had not been the captain of this team leader, Brother Mouse would not have been able to keep it.
There is no banquet that never ends. Is it true that separation is near before my eyes?
"What are you thinking, a sad expression? Don't worry about me, it won't hurt or itch!"
The weirdo's vision was very clear in such a low light. He saw me in a daze and shook me quickly: "Close your eyes and go to bed. I don't know how far tomorrow will be. Don't worry about the country and the people..."
"I was wondering, without you, how far can I go by myself? Will I still be so lucky every time I die?"
"... Can you not say depressed words? In fact, you have become much stronger. After all, you are still a newcomer. If you are not physically strong, you can live on your brain!"
"But if you are not here, no one can hear me crying."
"I can hear it... I can hear it no matter how far!" The weirdo wanted to comfort me, but found that he could not continue to say it at all, so he had to change his words, "If I am not here, you can't cry. Crying is also a very physically consuming thing... You have to eat more to replenish the energy you cried out. In fact, besides ease your emotions, you can't solve any problem even if you cry until you die."
My heart trembled, yes, by then, they will be gone, who will I show you to you?
"And, I'm still here now. Maybe medicine will suddenly develop and my eyes will be saved. Then I will accompany you until retirement, okay?"
"But your master is still waiting for you to find your wife to have a baby and take it back to his hometown to show him. I will not be until I was forty..."
I suddenly felt a warmth. Before the monster could finish my words, he pulled me into his arms and hugged me:
"It's not that you can't have a baby at the age of forty... Okay, don't talk, it will disturb them, good night."
I was trembling all over. What did he mean? Did I hear it wrong? Am I having a beautiful dream? I...
I felt so sweet that I was almost crying!
But I can't cry, it seems too boring. It's just coaxing me to sleep. He still prefers women with big breasts and big butts...
"Dongdong--"
I woke up from my mumbling thoughts. The female ghost hurried at the entrance of the cave and suddenly began to knock on the metal pipe!
"Damn it, if I can't let me rest, I should kill her!"
The mouse cursed a few times, got up and rushed forward with the light. But Master Dong reached out and grabbed his feet: "Don't be impulsive, there is something wrong."
Chapter completed!