With the disappearance of Du Lingyu, the blizzard outside was even more raging, as if it could bury this tiny lantern brigade at any time.
"Wang wang wang -" Xinchun's cry came from outside the window, as if urging everyone to go on the road.
"Let's go, hurry up." Zhu Haowen said.
Fang Fei climbed to the windowsill again: "Follow me and jump down!"
Fang Fei's figure quickly disappeared from the window, and her voice came from outside: "Come down!"
No longer wasting time, everyone jumped from the window one after another, until it fell firmly on Xinchun's back, and the hanging heart fell to the ground.
Luo Meng was lying on Xinchun's furry back, feeling the familiar temperature: "Xinchun, calm down for a while, don't be tired!"
"Woo woo, wang wang..." Xinchun responded to the master, the hot air from his mouth was particularly obvious in the snowy night, like steam from a locomotive.
"Why is there one less person?!" Ke Xun counted the number of people, "There should be ten people, why are there only nine?"
Everyone was stunned for a while, and they all said that they were there, and soon found that Mai Peng was missing.
"What's going on? Where's Mai Peng?" Ke Xun's eyes wandered among the members, some couldn't believe that such a big living person had disappeared, "I was the last one to jump down, and I clearly saw Mai Peng. Peng also jumped down, he was behind Qin Ci and in front of Cao Youning."
Cao Youning was completely stunned. Just now, because of the departure of his companion Du Lingyu, he shed a lot of tears. Now that the cold wind blows, the tears are completely frozen, and the whole expression is stiff: "Mai Peng? Mai Peng He clearly jumped down, but he jumped down right in front of me! I saw him jump with my own eyes!"
Cao Youning's voice quickly forked.
Fang Fei's snow-white mask was particularly eye-catching in the night. She looked back at the position of the window: "We have fully entered the tunnel, and the tunnel door has been closed, and will not be opened again until the next day."
"But, Mai Peng, where did he go?!" Cao Youning was anxious and helpless. He crawled clumsily to the edge, trying to find clues from below. It's snowing and you can't see anything at all.
Mu Yiran's hair was also messed up by the wind: "It seems that the meeting point of Mai Peng's death is this time, which cannot be avoided."
Cao Youning turned around, his voice trembling because of extreme sadness: "I don't understand, everyone is fine when they jump off, why is it only Mai Peng... You mean, Mai Peng died at this time?!"
Mu Yiran's voice was low: "It should be the third night of our timeline now, it seems that Mai Peng died at the end of the fourth day on another timeline - this world seems to be chaotic time, but in fact However, it follows an extremely strict time limit, and there is no more hesitation in the face of the predetermined death."
Cao Youning's voice was weak in the cold wind: "That means, Mai Peng... just fell down? Where is his body? Where is he now?"
No one has answered this question, and no one can answer it.
…
Mai Peng felt that he was gradually sinking. When he jumped out of the window just now, he had never been able to step on the ground.
The speed of the fall did not seem to be that fast. At least Mai Peng saw the coffin hanging under the window. The first coffin contained Xi Shengnan, and the second coffin was Lu Heng.
Thinking about the night before Lu Heng left, he once said to himself repeatedly: "Mai Peng, you promise me, if something happens to me here, you will help me with the coffin. You promise me."
He also promised him: "Okay, I promise you, if something happens to me, you will also help me support the coffin."
"Okay, it's a deal."
One word is for sure.
Mai Peng felt that he had been sinking for a long time, but there was still no end.
Until someone on the opposite side also came in the opposite direction of him, yes, someone on the opposite side was also sinking, but the direction was completely opposite to his own.
Mai Peng was startled to realize that he didn't feel afraid. He opened his eyes wide and tried to see the person opposite him clearly.
In fact, before he saw it clearly, he had already predicted that that person was himself.
That is Mai Peng on the dotted line, he once chose to jump out of the window to end his life.
The two Mai Peng looked at each other and stopped in mid-air at the same time. The other Mai Peng said, "I didn't expect to meet you here. Did you help Lu Heng's coffin?"
Mai Peng heard his own voice enter the icy air: "Yes, I helped him with the coffin."
The opposite Mai Peng smiled: "Then we don't owe each other. After my accident, it was Lu Heng who helped me with the coffin."
Mai Peng felt a pain in his heart: "Sorry, I didn't hurry up, if I could find the signature one day earlier..."
"There's nothing to be sorry for, we are with whom." Mai Peng, who was opposite, smiled.
When a person dies, they meet another self.
Mai Peng believed this.
…
In another world, where Mai Peng couldn't see, Xinchun was galloping towards a place full of hope.
Everyone tried to maintain a safe posture and grasped the hair on Xinchun's back to prevent being thrown out in the rush of lightning.
Only Cao Youning was shivering all the time, Ke Xun crawled beside him and patted him on the shoulder, but couldn't calm him down.
The front is getting brighter and brighter, and the snow is as bright as moonlight.
Xinchun finally stopped on top of a large piece of protruding ice rock, Fang Fei observed the location: "The Cold Night Brigade has arrived."
Everyone got down from Xinchun's back one after another. Before they could see the whole picture of the giant dog Xinchun, it had returned to its original compact state, and jumped into Luo Yu's arms with a "woo woo" cry.
Qin Ci looked at the phone: "The time function has disappeared again."
Shao Ling: "We can judge whether we are still within the Fourth Brigade from the function of the mobile phone. After all, the exit where the signature is located is outside the Fourth Brigade."
Wei Dong also thinks it makes sense: "That is to say, once our mobile phone restores the time function again, it means that we have found an exit?"
Shao Ling: "That's the truth. Just now, Xinchun's speed was very fast. I looked at my watch when I arrived at my destination. It only took me less than an hour on the way."
At this time, the place where everyone is located is a platform covered with ice. There seems to be a large glacier in front of it, and there are ice caves on the glacier.
As soon as everyone opened their mouths to speak, white breaths would come out, and Ke Xun looked around: "Those photos of the white fish were taken in a very dark place, and the fish are in the water, I think we can enter this place. Look in the ice cave."
Everyone agreed, so they walked into the nearest ice cave.
Cao Youning couldn't restrain his trembling: "Is death really unpredictable and unpredictable? Once you reach that point in time, no matter how safe you are, will you die?"
Zhu Haowen: "Unless you are outside the painting."
Cao Youning's expression was extremely painful. There were five people when they came, and now he is the only one left.
Wei Dong tried to cheer him up: "We must hurry up. Once we find the signature, we won't be fiddled with the timeline again! Let's go and look for it, don't miss a second!"
Cao Youning's eyes were empty, and his voice trembled: "I think I saw it, I saw the knife..."
"What knife?" Wei Dong wondered.
"I saw the knife used to cut my wrists, and I used that knife to cut my wrists..." Cao Youning was like a mentally ill person, the wandering spirit had gone, only the walking dead were left.
"Don't scare me, are you hallucinating from freezing?" Wei Dong patted him on the shoulder, then looked at Fang Fei: "Master Wu, you patted him?"
Fang Fei came over, and the white mask stared at Cao Youning for a while, then shook her head without speaking.
"Continue to move forward, there is no delay." Shao Ling had a premonition, but did not say it. At this time, he could only ask everyone to speed up as much as possible.
As we went deeper into the cave, the light became darker and darker, the air gradually warmed up, and there was not even snow or ice in the depths of the cave.
Some of the upside-down ice picks above the hole began to fall one by one as they melted.
Wei Dong was hit on the head by an ice pick and felt a little pain: "Everyone, pay attention, put on your hat, this thing hurts too much..."
Before Wei Dong's words were finished, Cao Youning's scream came from beside him: "Ah—no—"
Everyone hurriedly came up, only to see Cao Yuning clutching his left wrist, blood was spattering constantly, and there was an ice pick that was broken into several sections on the ground.
"Is it an ice pick?" Shao Ling was in disbelief.
"The ice hammer is like a knife... It cut my artery..." Cao Youning couldn't believe it, "Save me, I don't want to die."
"First aid! Hurry up and bandage!" Qin Ci took off the medicine box behind him and began to quickly prepare tools.
But the blood from Cao Youning's wrist began to spurt like a fountain, and even bandaging it would not help.
"No! No!" Cao Youning's voice gradually weakened. When Qin Ci thought that he had finally controlled the blood flow from the wound, a blood opening suddenly opened again near the wound, and the blood gushed out again... stop.
"It's fate, it's death caused by the intersection of time lines." Fang Fei's voice was helpless.
Ke Xun began to perform CPR on Cao Youning. As long as his teammates still had a chance, they couldn't let him die like this.
Cao Youning's eyes gradually lost the light: "I seem to have seen another self... You shouldn't hesitate, you should make a decision earlier, as long as one day earlier, even a few hours earlier, maybe we will go out... "
"I don't believe that you died in an instant in another timeline, cutting your wrists, there is always a slow process," Ke Xun tried to wake him up, "You won't die so quickly, cheer up!"
"There's no time, go look for the autograph," Zhu Haowen turned his face away, trying to keep his voice ruthless, "There is water in front, and the white fish must be in the water."
Ke Xun simply put Cao Youning on his back: "Go, let's go!"
Go, you can only go forward, racing against time to find the signature.
In front of it was a patch of water, which seemed to be black in color under the light in the hole.
There were fish swimming in the water, exactly the kind of white fish in the photo.
"These fish are alive, and there is absolutely no stiffness in the photos." Zhu Haowen observed the fish in the water.
"Keep walking along the water's edge, and pay attention to observe every corner of the surroundings." Mu Yiran said to everyone, looking around, "Look at your phone, and stop immediately once the time display appears."
The author has something to say:
Death is the most cruel place of infinite flow. Bao Yue was very reluctant to Mai God. Alas, there are other arrangements for the next painting, so I can only choose.