When Victor's roar was heard by Dong Linhai, it was already too late, he shouted and tore off the thing lying on his back, and saw what it looked like.
As if he had just climbed out of the sea of blood, his whole body was soaked and swelled like a broken sack full of things, the flesh and blood on his face turned up, and in a blur, only the position of his facial features could be seen as a human being, and his long hair was wrapped around it. , messy and dirty.
"Gluck cluck cluck cluck-"
It was squatting on the ground like a frog, opening its ferocious mouth towards Dong Linhai, and making an indescribable sound in its throat.
Dong Linhai was frightened by the sight that was completely beyond his psychological tolerance, and his heart almost stopped. He staggered back two steps, and almost couldn't hold You Yuetong in his arms.
The place where the back was lying on was extremely itchy, and it turned into a burning pain. Dong Linhai couldn't bear to go back and scratch it, but with a light touch, a large piece of flesh fell directly from him.
He clearly felt the pain of the cold wind blowing through his bare spine.
"Ah!"
Dong Linhai screamed in horror and went to cover the wound on his back, but more flesh and blood fell one after another. In an instant, something moved behind him, and You Yuetong, who was in his arms, raised his head at this time. Tears of blood flowed from the girl's dark eyes, and a deep incision from the left ear to the right cut open her entire face.
She hugged Dong Linhai's neck tightly, black blood gushing from the corners of her lips, and smiled at him with three missing teeth.
"he he he he he… "
"Victor!"
"Roar!"
Just as Dong Linhai screamed and threw the kid in his arms away, a giant beast with a pair of thick wings suddenly appeared in front of him and roared!
The silver-white light shone, and the ghouls wailed and screamed, and the bones that wanted to grab Dong Linhai's legs and feet smashed out of the ground, and all the filth and ghosts screamed and melted into a sticky black beach. Water seeps into the ground.
Dong Linhai fell to his knees, there was no intact flesh on his back, black blood flowed from the broken torso, Sen Bai's spine was connected to the ribs, like some unknown multi-legged insect, with the rapid breathing of the boy Move slightly.
The passing of life made Lin Hai faint for a while. The pure white giant beast, like a white tiger, slowly walked up to him, bowing his head, and the tip of his pink nose forced the boy's heavily drooping head.
"Wake up," it said.
Dong Linhai suddenly opened his eyes.
He was still in this forest, the light of the hut was clearly visible right in front of him, the girl with pink and jade sitting in his arms, stretched out a small hand to touch his face, eyes full of worry.
"Brother, what's wrong with you?"
Dong Linhai looked around in a panic, there was no feeling of being peeped in the mist, and there was no ghostly shadow that seemed to be everywhere.
Everything just now was an illusion
Victor stood at his feet, looked up at the boy with some effort, and asked, "The fog here is weird, did you fall into a hallucination just now?"
Dong Linhai nodded, still not fully recovered from the fear of dying, the weight of the girl in his arms made him irresistibly think of the little ghost that turned into blood.
He turned his head stiffly at the worry and puzzlement in Shang You Yuetong's pure eyes, trying to suppress the urge to put her down and other sinful thoughts.
No, those are just hallucinations, you can't think like that, it's disgusting, Dong Linhai, how can you be so disgusting
How many people can really stand it when the evil that exists deep in everyone's heart is drenched in blood and displayed in front of you
But in any case, now Dong Linhai has stopped his more unbearable thoughts. He took a deep breath and controlled himself to stop thinking about all the horrors in the hallucination. Looking at the lights of the hut in front of him and Victor, who was slowly wagging his tail, He frowned.
Victor urged: "Let's go, go to the house in front and see, the ruins should be there, and it will be much easier after getting the ticket."
Dong Linhai stood still and didn't move.
He stared at the white cat and suddenly said, "Uncle, didn't we agree before we came in, if it wasn't the most critical situation, wouldn't you give me any extra assistance?"
The white cat suddenly stopped.
"You're not Victor, who are you?" Dong Linhai took two steps back on guard.
"Victor" squatted quietly in front of him, with the tail loop behind him. Under Dong Linhai's vigilant gaze, its amber eyes turned green like jewels, its mouth widened, revealing a big crescent-like smile and jagged teeth, and its pure white hair turned into gray and black.
"Which way are you going?" it asked.
The body belonging to the British Bobtail cat gradually disappeared, the cat stared at Dong Linhai, the green eyes finally disappeared, and finally only a crooked smile was left hanging in the air.
"I'm not Alice." Dong Linhai was completely calm, he raised his hand and shattered his last smile like a calm lake.
"I know where I'm going."
Along with it, everything around him was broken. The lights in the hut not far away became brighter and brighter, and finally filled Dong Linhai's entire field of vision.
Dong Linhai opened his eyes again.
The flame of the kerosene lamp on the table in front of him jumped in the lampshade, which was the warm light of the hut he had just seen in the fantasy. Victor squatted on the table, licking and combing his hair, while You Yuetong was sitting beside him, playing with a pair of plush gloves.
This house is a wooden house that looks similar from the outside. The walls and roof are made of logs of similar thickness. There is a window in the living room. Also wooden.
There are many beautiful embroidered blankets hanging on the wall, the patterns seem to contain some kind of mystery, an old gramophone is placed in the corner, the round table is covered with beige lace tablecloths, and a few unnamed flowers are inserted into the high-neck water bottle in the middle. The flowers, with dew on the petals, are very lifelike.
The fireplace was burning quietly, with a crackle or two every now and then.
A "woman" in a long black dress came over and put four cups of steaming tea on the tray on the table. She has the head of a deer, with two small antlers on top of her head, but her exquisite figure really belongs to a young girl.
"Wake up? Just in time to try my new pansy tea." Miss Lu sat down in another chair, she was wearing a short black shawl with wrinkles and long light gloves, just like walking out of an old photo during the Republic of China out girl.
Dong Linhai was completely at a loss. He looked at Victor. The white cat was testing the water temperature with his paws. He sensed the boy's doubts and replied, "You are entangled by those earth-bound spirits outside and have hallucinations. And Tongtong brought it here."
Dong Linhai suddenly realized that Victor's current attitude was familiar to him, and finally he felt relieved: "Eh? Am I the only one who got the trick?"
"Tongtong is too young, there are not so many dirty and fearful hearts that can be used, and they don't work for me." Victor's cat tongue couldn't accept the water that was too hot, and finally gave up and jumped to Dong On the sea's knees.
Miss Lu smiled softly: "Being able to break free from the illusion of the earth-binding spirit is considered to have passed my first test."
"test?"
Miss Lu: "Don't you all come here to obtain the ruins in this world fragment? I do have some things here that you may need, but I don't want to give it to you so easily."
Hearing that there are treasures here, Dong Linhai's eyes lit up and asked, "What about the next test?"
"Do you just want to take something and leave?" Miss Lu's smile was still gentle, but Dong Linhai could hear the sadness in her voice.
The teenager scratched his hair in embarrassment and explained, "It's mainly because our time is urgent, and this box will be closed in less than three hours."
"No, the time here is much slower than outside, you can stay with me for a while." Miss Lu picked up a cup of tea, blew the light-colored petals that stretched out on the water, and said softly, "Tell me about it. Let me tell you a story, if I like it, I will give it to you and send you out."
tell a story
Dong Linhai thought that the so-called test might be to let him do something difficult to accomplish, or to experience the same danger as the environment just now, but... tell a story
Is it that simple
"Would it be enough to just tell a story?"
Miss Lu thought for a while: "I want a story about animals, tears, deception, love and hope."
Dong Linhai of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs just passed in his mind: … …
Why don't you let him do something else! How could he tell such a story!
"Come on," Victor said suddenly, "I still remember such a story, which I once read to my three daughters."
three daughters
Although he knew that Victor was human, it was the first time Dong Linhai heard him say something about himself.
Then Victor must be in his thirties or forties.
Victor found a comfortable position to sit down, he pondered for a while, his thoughts crossed the long river of time, and returned to the quiet rainy night twenty years ago.
He came home from the hospital after a busy day of work, sat beside his five-year-old daughter's bed, picked up a book from the old market, and read this story for the first time in the sound of rain outside the window.
"On the remote Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, there is a group of Tibetan antelopes. There are many moss growing on the plateau, and these moss will become very chewy dried moss after drying, so they use the time it takes to chew a piece of dried moss as a timer. Methods.
"In a certain group, there is a small Tibetan antelope named Pudawa..."
Meanwhile, the Labyrinth of Time.
Lin Hangzhi came out of the secret realm out of breath, looking at the light blue ticket in his hand, he almost burst into tears with excitement.
The ghost knows what he just experienced!
Now that the ticket is in hand, the final task now is to ensure your own safety. After collecting a few fragments, you can successfully end the box!
Thinking of this, Lin Hangzhi felt a lot more relaxed. The twenty-nine-year-old young doctor was about to go around to see if he could find the door again, when he saw a woman walking out of the corner in front of him.
Her long black straight hair was scattered behind her, and her body was so clean and tidy that it didn't look like it was in a box at all, um... It's kind of good-looking.
The girl passing by also saw Lin Hangzhi, the young man with a weak face.
And the ticket that he didn't have time to put away in his hand.