This is the seventh large cave hall. It is empty, and there is no trace of human existence. Lian Chuan glanced at it and turned into the first tunnel on the right.
This tunnel is very long, extending slowly upwards, and it is the longest straight tunnel on the way to the exit.
Lost Valley is a somewhat peculiar place.
He was obviously walking towards the exit, but the more he walked, the more he seemed to be walking into the abyss.
There are no more people, no sound, the air flow becomes slow, and occasionally there is an illusion that even oneself does not exist.
Lian Chuan is very vigilant about this state. Closed, quiet, endless, and repetitive will make people gradually tired in an unconscious state and gradually become lax.
He looked back at Ning Gu, and Ning Gu's gaze stayed in front of him to the right, and did not meet him.
After waiting for a second, Ning Gu still didn't look back, he immediately raised his hand.
When he was about to slap Ning Gu on the face, Ning Gu suddenly stopped, stepped back suddenly, and pointed at him: "What are you doing?"
"Thought you..." Lian Chuan didn't finish, turned his head and walked on.
"You think I'm going to get lost?" Ning Gu laughed, "I'm just feeling it."
"En." Lian Chuan responded.
"Aren't you going to ask me how I feel?" Ning Gu asked.
"Are you hungry?" Lian Chuan asked.
"...No," Ning Gu sighed, "I don't get hungry that easily, I just feel that this road is going in the wrong direction, isn't it the opposite of the road before the turn?"
"This road is up," Lian Chuan said, "It's going up."
"Oh," Ning Gu took a few steps, "No wonder I feel so tired from walking."
Lian Chuan stopped and looked at him.
"It doesn't mean to rest." Ning Gu said.
"You can take a rest in front." Lian Chuan said.
"I didn't say I want to rest!" Ning Gu quickened his pace and rushed in front of him.
Although he said he didn't need to rest, after walking through the long straight tunnel, Lian Chuan still stopped in a double-layered cave hall.
"You rest here," he said.
"I said I don't need to rest," Ning Gu suddenly felt wrong after speaking, "I rest here? What about you?"
"I'll go up and have a look." Lian Chuan said.
"I'll go too." Ning Gu said immediately.
Lian Chuan didn't make a sound, but looked up.
"What do you want to see up there?" Ning Gu asked again.
"That grave." Lian Chuan said.
"I'll go too." Ning Gu repeated again.
Lian Chuan didn't say anything, just looked up for a while.
"What's wrong?" Ning Gu also looked up.
This hole is like a fat figure 8, they are below, and there is a circle of small caves above, but no graves can be seen.
In fact, the term grave is quite strange. Except for the main city, there are no such things as graves in the Black Iron Wasteland and the ghost town, and the metal cemetery in the ghost city will not really bury people, and there will be no place in the main city. Burial, I heard that people of old age are lined up to be destroyed...
"Where is the grave?" Ning Gu asked.
"I don't know," Lian Chuan said, raising his hand and making a few strokes in the air, "but this part of the hole is very large, and the tunnels don't meet. There is a big space with nothing."
"I didn't understand," Ning Gu said, "I didn't understand the three-dimensional map before."
"I don't know if Jiu Yi has a younger brother." Lian Chuan said.
Ning Gu froze for a moment and smiled.
After laughing, she looked at him in surprise: "Lian Chuan?"
Lian Chuan looked at him.
"Is it you? Little trumpet?" Ning Gu waved his hand in front of his eyes, "You still joke?"
"Follow me, in case something happens, I can't take care of you because it's too far away." Lian Chuan jumped up, climbed onto the cave wall, and climbed to the upper floor twice.
Climbing this is a piece of cake for Ning Gu. Although there is a section of the upper floor that is parallel to the ground, he needs to rely on the strength of his hands to climb the gap. However, he has climbed various metal cemeteries and garbage dumps since he was a child, and he jumped directly on this section , it reached the edge of the upper floor, and it went up with a push.
In this case, there is no difference between myself and the strongest hyena, even faster.
The small caves in the upper circle are all empty, with no people or anything.
He followed Lian Chuan into a small cave, then passed through it, and after a few more walks in a tunnel and a small cave hall, Lian Chuan stopped: "It's all empty outside."
"You said, there's no one here anymore. Was there no one all the time, or did they just disappear later?" Ning Gu looked around, "If there was no one later, why? People? It's from the main city. Is it the same, but it didn’t collapse here either…”
Lian Chuan has never faced so many whys, and his whys have long been parked in the depths of his memory, where the system will not be reset, but he will not be easily remembered by him.
Why
He wanted to send Ning Gu out quickly, but Ning Gu's thinking made him uneasy.
But he would not stop Ning Gu from speaking, all of Ning Gu's reasons were suppressed in the blink of an eye.
This cave hall has only two openings, and there are several symmetrical holes around it, which are not very big when viewed from the outside.
In Lost Valley, only the semi-caves around the vertical cave can be seen inside. In other places, in tunnels, cave halls, and small caves, there is no "window" to see the other side of the rock wall.
On the map, there is a huge space around this cave, and there are no tunnels passing by. When Nine Wings' finger stabs passed by here, there was a slight jump, which he may not have noticed.
But Lian Chuan was sure there was something out there.
"What are we looking for?" Ning Gu asked.
"Find an opening," Lian Chuan said, "you can see outside."
"Okay." Ning Gu turned around and prepared to split up.
Lian Chuan grabbed his arm.
Ning Gu stared at him and nodded: "Understood, follow you closely, or I will die and no one will save me."
"If you're dead, no one will save you," Lian Chuan said, "If you're not dead, someone will save you."
Ning Gu paused: "Understood."
There are a total of six small caves arranged symmetrically around the valley. Compared with other places in Lost Way Valley, it looks extraordinarily neat, without the original rough and primitive temperament of Lost Way Valley at all.
The first four holes were unremarkable.
When Lian Chuan walked into the fifth cave, he stood in the middle of the cave and didn't come out immediately. He looked up and seemed to be frozen.
"What's there?" Ning Gu immediately followed, but he didn't look up immediately.
In case Lian Chuan suddenly saw something lost, he couldn't follow suit.
So he looked at Lian Chuan's face first: "Hey, Lian Chuan?"
"It's this." Lian Chuan still looked up.
"Are you okay?" Ning Gu controlled his intense curiosity, and insisted on asking again.
Lian Chuan withdrew his gaze and glanced at him: "It's okay, this is the grave that Jiu Yi said."
"Let me take a look." Ning Gu quickly looked up without waiting for him to finish speaking.
There is actually a small opening on the top of the cave, probably only one meter square, but because the cave is not high, you can clearly see a large part of the outside from here.
Although it is all black, there is not even a red light coming from the gap.
But there was a soft light in the sky.
"That's a..." Ning Gu opened his mouth in surprise, and after searching for a long time, he found an unfamiliar word, "A coffin?"
"Yes." Lian Chuan raised his head again.
It was a large transparent coffin, suspended in the air, emitting a faint soft white light, neither bright nor dazzling.
And inside the coffin, there was no "the person Jiuyi didn't want to see".
Nobody, nothing.
But there is something else.
Blue, not the blue of the cleanup team's weapons.
Very light, as light as a gust of wind, a touch of brighter light will make this blue disappear.
Ning Gu has never seen such a blue color before, it is so far away, so blue that it is empty, so blue that it seems like breathing is clear, and there is white, clusters of fog, lightly embellished on this soft blue, slowly Slowly fluttering.
The two of them watched for an unknown how long, Lian Chuan closed his eyes and lowered his head.
His neck was sore, he pinched the back of his neck.
When he turned his head to look at Ning Gu, he still had his mouth half open and his head up.
"Ning Gu." Lian Chuan called him.
Ning Gu didn't move.
When Lian Chuan reached out to give him a hand, a tear slipped from the corner of Ning Gu's eyes.
"Ning Gu!" Lian Chuan suddenly felt uneasy, holding the back of his head and pushing him forward forcefully.
Ning Gu staggered two steps forward before stopping.
When he turned his head, there was still a little confusion on his face, and the tears in the corners of his eyes were still there.
"Are you okay?" Lian Chuan looked at him.
Ning Gu was stunned for a moment, then leaned against the cave wall next to him, and shook his head after a while: "It's okay."
"You are crying." Lian Chuan said.
"Really?" Ning Gu quickly raised his hand to touch his eyes.
Lian Chuan looked at him and felt that he should be fine.
"I'm probably..." Ning Gu wiped his face and turned to look at him, "It's so pretty, isn't it?"
"En." Lian Chuan responded.
"What's that?" Ning Gu asked.
"I don't know." Lian Chuan said.
"Is that something outside the black mist?" Ning Gu asked, "I have never seen such a thing, and I have never heard of it."
Lian Chuan turned around and walked out of the cave slowly: "Let's go."
Ning Gu didn't speak any more.
Silently followed behind Lian Chuan, Lian Chuan turned his head several times, but he just bowed his head and walked forward.
When Lian Chuandi looked back several times, Ning Gu raised his head: "Are you afraid that I will die or that I will get lost?"
"I'm afraid you'll cry again." Lian Chuan said.
"I haven't cried before, why don't you let others cry?" Ning Gu said, "I was touched, I can't keep crying, children don't cry for so long."
"Yeah." Lian Chuan turned his head and continued walking.
He didn't know if there were many children in the ghost town, but it was not easy to see children in the main city. The last time he saw children was when he went to the central school to deal with bugs.
But it was just a glance from a distance, a dozen children.
He really doesn't know whether a child will cry for so long.
"One day," Ning Gu said behind him, "I'm going to have a look."
"Where are you going?" Lian Chuan asked.
"Outside the black mist," Ning Gu said, "there is no fog, no wind, there is light, and there are many colors. There must be such a place, just outside the black mist."
"En." Lian Chuan responded.
"Do you want to go?" Ning Gu asked.
Lian Chuan didn't speak.
When the last cave hall stopped, Ning Gu, who had been silent for a while and didn't know what he was thinking, sat down on the ground and lay down again.
He also yelled out in a long voice: "Ah—"
"What?" Lian Chuan was a little nervous when he shouted.
"I'm exhausted," Ning Gu spread his arms, "Tired and hungry."
"It's almost there." Lian Chuan said.
"Really?" Ning Gu looked at him, "Didn't you say it would take a long time?"
"It's been a long time." Lian Chuan said.
"Ah," Ning Gu sighed, "No wonder I'm so tired."
Lian Chuan took out his coat pocket, took out a small box, and threw it on Ning Gu's stomach.
Ning Gu picked up the box and took a look, then sat up in shock: "Rationing?"
"Yeah." Lian Chuan nodded.
"How many boxes did you steal?" Ning Gu asked in shock, opened the box in shock, picked up one and stuffed it into his mouth in shock, "Are there any more?"
"Take it." Lian Chuan said.
"Okay, okay, I got it," Ning Gu nodded, "How many boxes did you take?"
"Two boxes." Lian Chuan said.
"Here," Ning Gu sat next to him and handed the box over, "Eat one piece, no, you can eat two pieces, you haven't eaten anything."
"I'll have something to eat when I go back to the main city," Lian Chuan said, "You don't have any."
Ning Gu looked at him: "What's there to show off? It's amazing?"
"If you have a chance, ask Nine Wings." Lian Chuan said.
"... what?" Ning Gu was taken aback.
"Does he have a younger brother?" Lian Chuan said.
Ning Gu ate all three rations, and did not let Lian Chuan eat any more. Lian Chuan made him feel like a robot in terms of physical functions, no wonder it was the precursor of an irregular plan.
Although the ration of three yuan is a meaning to Ning Gu, after eating, he still feels that his whole body has recovered a lot. The energy must be stronger than those homemade foods in the ghost town, and the taste is also much better.
Thinking of the ghost town, he couldn't help frowning again.
If the leader can't find him when he comes back, he will definitely be furious. Will Nail suffer
Will he be hung on the bell tower again
No, probably not, if he returns to the ghost town with doubts about the leader...
"You take this," Lian Chuan handed over a card, "my ID card."
"What?" Ning Gu looked at him.
"When I get to the exit, I'll go out first," Lian Chuan said, "No matter what happens, don't come out. You calculate the time yourself and come out in a day."
"Why?" Ning Gu was stunned, "Aren't we going out together?"
"For the sake of safety," Lian Chuan continued, "Go and find the station entrance by yourself, and remember that you don't show up until the bus arrives. The main city will not trust me easily."
"What do you believe in?" Ning Gu said.
"Say you were taken away by the poet." Lian Chuan said.
"But..." Ning Gu frowned, no matter how he thought about it, he felt that this matter was too risky for Lian Chuan, as if there was no return, he pointed to Lian Chuan's head, "Will they..."
"I have a way." Lian Chuan said.
"What should I do..." Ning Gu didn't finish speaking, but was interrupted by Lian Chuan.
"I don't know when the car will come," he said, "If it takes too long, the boss will find you and bring you into the main city. You take my ID card..."
"Will it be discovered?" Ning Gu was worried.
"I will try to modify the identification information. As long as I don't report the loss, no one will check it," Lian Chuan said. "I don't usually use the ID card. If I don't change it, the boss will tell you another way."
"... Oh." Ning Gu held Lian Chuan's ID card, hesitated for a long time, and carefully put it into the small bag inside his shoe.
Lian Chuan didn't speak any more, leaned back against the cave wall, and closed his eyes.
Ning Gu was stunned for a long time.
"Why are you doing this?" He still couldn't help asking again, "If you want me to help you, just run away with me, and then you can try it slowly, what's going on with your memory, of course, if If you lie to me about the head, you will be finished..."
"Not enough." Lian Chuan closed his eyes.
"What's not enough?" Ning Gu asked.
"Do you have many reasons?" Lian Chuan said.
"Well," Ning Gu thought for a while, "It's a lot, but I didn't know how to ask before, and I didn't have an answer even if I asked."
"My whole life," Lian Chuan whispered, "is why."