In the night sky above the snow field, the moon is bright and the stars are rare, and the clouds are rolling.
The three-storey inn is shrouded in the slanting moonlight, and the wooden walls and eaves are blackened, forming a quiet and silent picture, exuding a strange atmosphere.
The snow around the wooden house undulated like waves, the snow particles rubbed against each other, and then quickly returned to calm, as if everything was a dazzling illusion.
On the third floor, Liu Yuxin sat by the bed, facing the bright moonlight leaking in from the window, and kept wiping her palms with a wet towel.
Fan Weiwei turned over on the next bed and murmured coquettishly, "Sister Yuxin, why aren't you sleeping?"
Liu Yuxin frowned, rubbed her palms hard twice, turned around and turned her palms towards Fan Weiwei, and said, "When did these silver powders get on? I just saw them, so it's hard to wipe them off."
Fan Weiwei was wrapped in a quilt and looked up. On Liu Yuxin's palm, there was a delicate silver light shining, especially under the moonlight, and it was quite beautiful.
"Hey", she stretched out her hand to look at it, and said, "I have some on the back of my hand. I found it when I washed it at night. I don't know where it got rubbed off. Although it is difficult to wash, it can be washed off. I will try it." It’s over.” Afraid of the cold, he retracted his hands, rolled them up in the quilt, and suggested: “Go to bed first, it’s not too late to wash in the morning.”
Liu Yuxin put down the towel discouragedly, and said, "Okay, let's go to sleep."
Fan Weiwei turned over again and turned to the other side. The moment Liu Yuxin turned around, a black pointed object slid past the window, and it disappeared in a flash.
In a room on the second floor, men were snoring one after another.
On the bed in the back, a man was facing upwards. He choked while snoring, slammed his mouth twice, and slowly turned over. Half of his face hidden in the dark was exposed to the moonlight. There is no abnormality, but at this moment, the silver light is shining, like a fine powder, which can only be revealed under the moonlight.
A black caterpillar with yellow spots crawled out from the darkness and crawled against the wooden wall. Its soft and fleshy body fell on the man's face and squirmed towards the exposed ear. The silver powder disappeared in its path. Finally, it got into the man's ear hole.
On the third morning on the snow mountain, the players gathered in the restaurant without enough food supplies, and they felt more or less dizzy and weak when they just woke up.
After being seated, everyone waited for Ruan Chushui and Luo Ting to cut the cake.
Quite a few people looked around and whispered to the left and right: "Did those four come back last night?"
"I don't know, I just arrived too."
Lei Li heaved a sigh of relief, leaned lazily on the back of the chair, touched his crew cut, and said, "It's best to find someone to go to the plane to confirm, if everyone hangs up, everyone's cake can be cut today." Bigger?"
There was silence at the dinner table, no one answered, just cast a disgusted glance at him.
"Just kidding, why are you so careless?" Lei Li didn't care, shook his head, and tapped the plate with his fork, "Leader Ruan, hurry up, you're hungry."
Ruan Chushui didn't even pay him any attention, and kept looking at the restaurant door distractedly while cutting the cake, as if waiting for someone to appear.
Another young man came in, named Qi Fei, who kept digging his ears, then tilted his head to the right, and patted his left ear with one hand.
Seeing him, Zhang Zhian asked, "What's wrong? Water got in your ears?"
"No..." Qi Fei pulled his chair away and sat down, muttering, "It seems that something has entered, and it's swollen."
After a while, Gu Meng walked in refreshed, followed by En Jin, Bo Ye and Tang Zhi.
Seeing the four people, Ruan Chushui's eyes lit up and said, "Did you go well last night?"
Gu Meng nodded and replied truthfully: "I spent the night on the plane, nothing happened."
The players whispered among themselves, envious, jealous, and all kinds of emotions.
"Tsk tsk, if I knew I would have gone to watch the plane last night, I got five simple meals for nothing."
"This job is so easy to handle, I'm going tonight too."
"I don't know what kind of luck these four people have had..."
Gu Meng pretended not to hear, and only asked Ruan Chushui: "Is it okay to exchange a simple meal for three-quarters of a box of cakes?"
Ruan Chushui made some calculations in his heart and agreed.
The four men immediately divided the exchanged cakes, and the other players watched the large pieces of cream cakes on their dinner plates and swallowed quietly.
Wang Xiaochi scraped off the butter on the bottom of the plate, and said, "If you go back to your room to eat, I'll be greedy."
Bo Ye swallowed the cream on his fingertips, and suggested: "Then don't look at it."
Wang Xiaochi put down the fork angrily, poured cold water to suppress the fire.
The cream was a bit greasy, so Gu Meng picked up the mineral water bottle at hand, unscrewed the lid to drink water, but just touched the cold water, hesitated for a moment, and raised the bottle to her eyes.
The inn provides mineral water, whether it is in the restaurant or in the guest room, there is a lot of it. It is packed in transparent plastic bottles without wrapping paper. The taste of the water is sweet and clear. The players think it is acceptable. They have been drinking this kind of water for the past two days.
Now Gu Meng had a question, and asked, "In the ice and snow, isn't there hot water?"
Everyone turned their heads to look at him, and only remembered after being dazed that they drank cold water and ate cold rice for the past two days, and they didn't even have a mouthful of hot food.
Because I haven't adapted to it in the first two days, and I have subconsciously accepted the game's settings, what to eat and what to drink, but no one cares about whether it is hot or not.
Gu Meng continued: "We can build a fire and boil water by ourselves."
Luo Ting nodded and agreed, "It would be better if the lunch is heated."
Ruan Chushui touched his pocket subconsciously and asked, "Who has a lighter or matches?"
"We don't have any in our room." Zhang Zhian was the first to answer, "When I came here on the first day, I searched through the room. I wanted to see if there were any candles and the like, which could be used for lighting at night, but I found nothing."
"I asked the proprietress if she had any matches, but she didn't say anything." Fan Weiwei pouted and said, "She's really weird."
Tang Zhi frowned, stopped the fork in his hand, lowered his head to think for a moment, and said, "I always feel that there is something missing here, probably... temperature."
"There is no kindling here." Enjin ate the last bite of cake, wiped her mouth, and said in a soft and calm voice, "At least, we haven't found a kindling so far."
The people in the restaurant were stunned for a few seconds by his words.
Fire is one of the most common elements. It is because we are used to it and take it for granted that we have not discovered anything unusual until now.
"If you don't have a fire, you can't set off a distress signal. You have to find a fire or create a fire. This is the first step to escape." Bo Ye unscrewed the bottle cap and took a sip of water, then said calmly, "It's the third day. The doorway of the game has not been figured out."
"The revolution has not yet succeeded, comrades still need to work hard."
Throughout the morning, the players divided their labor and searched through the suitcases in the inn and on the plane.
Wang Xiaochi and two other men tried to make fire by drilling wood outdoors, but the climate here was humid, not as dry and cold as on the normal snow field, and the dead branches and leaves were not dry enough. The three of them tried for a long time, but finally returned without success.
At noon, everyone gathered in the open space in front of the inn. After exchanging information, their expressions were solemn and they had to admit a fact.
The game doesn't give them tools to make fire.
Gu Meng put her hands on her hips. She was sweating from running around all morning. She looked around and said, "It is impossible that there is no fire. If the game is regarded as a map, there must be areas that we have not discovered."
"Aunt Xue reminded other residents in this area." Bo Ye leaned on the railing of the porch, and suddenly said, "We may have to go to the Hualin that Wang Xiaochi and the others talked about yesterday."
Qi Fei was one of the members who visited Hualin yesterday. At this moment, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he reminded them: "If you want to go in, you'd better bring a flashlight and an axe. The more you go in, the denser the flowers and the darker the environment. Cut a way."
Gu Meng noticed his expression, and casually asked, "Are you okay?"
Qi Fei's eyes and cheeks were black and blue, and he looked like he was overworked and in a bad state.
He waved his hand weakly, and said two words with unclear meaning: "Very bloated."
Ruan Chushui looked at the position of the sun above his head, and suggested: "Go in and rest first, and make arrangements for Hualin in the afternoon."
Most people walked into the wooden house with their heads downcast.
Bo Ye was still leaning on the porch, and when Qi Fei passed by and stepped up the wooden steps, he took a closer look. The man's skin from his right ear to his cheek had burst blood vessels, the color was purple and black, and he was panting heavily when he walked. Step by step is very heavy.
"Scent of flowers."
Tang Zhi whispered in his ear.
Bo Ye nodded, and indeed smelled a sweet fragrance, which was natural and fresh, and it was the smell of pollen brought back by a few people who went out yesterday.
Because the road to Hualin is relatively long, and it takes nearly four hours to go back and forth, the players considered that they might not be able to return before dark, so they postponed the expedition plan until early tomorrow morning.
In the afternoon, Wang Xiaochi suggested that it would be better to chop down a fir tree. Anyway, they had an axe, so they would save the need to pick up those dead branches and fallen leaves.
Everyone else agrees.
Qi Fei was not in good condition. After working outside the wooden house for a while, he expressed some difficulty, so he went back to the house to drink some water.
Everyone expressed their understanding and advised him to take a good rest.
None of the six female players dared to go far. They searched and searched in the cedar forest not far from the wooden house. Hearing the clanging sound of logging again and again, they felt at ease.
Tired from walking, Fan Weiwei swept the snow off a certain boulder, sat down and beat her legs, and suddenly saw a small purple flower emerging from the snow, a delicate but tenacious life in the ice and snow.
She smiled in surprise, reached out and touched the petals, but did not pick them off.
"Actually, if it wasn't for the poor living conditions, living here would be pretty good." Fan Weiwei was innocent and innocent, "Work at sunrise and rest at sunset, stay away from social networks, the atmosphere is very rural, and..." She winked playfully Blinking eyes, looking at the others, lowered his voice and said: "The boys here are very high-quality, Brother Chushui is already considered good-looking, and the four boys living together on the first floor are really handsome, they are all different types of handsome guys Oh, I think the boy who is tall and doesn't talk much is very nice, he looks like a domineering president, if he is stuck here for the rest of his life, I will give him a child!"
The women around heard her words, understood that she was joking, and smiled kindly, and the atmosphere instantly became lively.
A girl picked up her words and said, "I like Tang Zhi's style. Although it's cold, it's the most beautiful and has its own style. It feels like a Japanese little brother in a magazine."
"Gu Meng is also very good. She looks very gentle and patient. She smiles very nicely and does her best. She looks like a peerless husband." Another woman stopped collecting firewood and leaned against a tree. , said, "But a man like Bo Ye... few women can resist his charm."
"Bo Ye plus one." One person said.
Luo Ting didn't speak, but just listened from the sidelines. The other women who were having a heated discussion winked at each other, knowing that she was interested in Ruan Chushui.
The women gathered together, chattering, and after sexually obsessing over the men among the players, they noticed that Liu Yuxin had been very quiet.
Fan Weiwei looked at her and asked curiously, "Sister Yuxin, what's wrong with you?"
Liu Yuxin frowned, straightened her back with some difficulty, and thumped her lower back with a backhand: "I always feel very tired and heavy."
Luo Ting said: "Otherwise, you should go back to rest first. I have eaten less recently and have to work. It is normal to be exhausted."
Liu Yuxin looked at her stomach, put one hand on it, and said blankly: "I can still do the job, I just feel..."
"Sister Yuxin, what's wrong with your stomach?"
Fan Weiwei pointed out.
Although everyone is wearing thick coats and normally cannot see their figure, but Liu Yuxin's abdomen is obviously bulging, with a rounded arc, and those who don't know it may think that she is pregnant.
Liu Yuxin shook her head and said to herself: "Probably... maybe it's too cold, I'm gasping..."
The other women saw that she was in a trance, and expressed some concern, but Liu Yuxin insisted that she was fine, and the six of them continued to work, searching for branches.
In the middle of the afternoon, a not-so-high fir tree was brought down and lay across the open space in front of the wooden house. Everyone took turns to cut the fir tree into sections and then split it into firewood.
Gu Meng finished chopping some of the firewood, handed the ax to the next person, and walked towards the wooden house with a slightly numb wrist, ready to drink some water.
When passing the front desk, I habitually greet Aunt Xue.
Aunt Xue shook the fly swatter and gave him a lifeless look, as noble and glamorous as ever.
Gu Meng didn't care, she kept walking past the side of the wooden stairs, turned around, and entered the restaurant.
As soon as he arrived at the door, he saw a person sitting at the dining table holding a plastic bucket and filling his mouth with water.
Taking a closer look, it turned out to be Qi Fei.
Seeing his appearance, Gu Meng hesitated for a moment, but didn't continue to approach, feeling a little scared for some inexplicable reason.
Not only because the man drank water too crazy, as if he had been thirsty for three days and three nights, the water that was too late to drink dripped from his mouth and flowed into his neckline, and a large area of his front was wet, but also because Qi Fei's exposed His skin turned a dull gray. If you look closely at the roots of his ears and neck, the capillaries are like lines on the cracked ground, purple and black.
After Qi Fei finished drinking a bucket of water, he suddenly put down the empty bottle, stared blankly ahead, and let out a long, full belch with his mouth open.
Seeing his terrifying appearance, Gu Meng took a step back unconsciously, and asked tentatively, "Qi Fei?"
Qi Fei looked at him, slowly opened his mouth, and made a dull voice that seemed to come from the abdominal cavity: "I-good-bulging-"
The last sound seems to be laughing, but also seems to be crying.
Gu Meng opened his eyes slightly, and he saw that Qi Fei's mouth had been opening wide, reaching the limit but not stopping, and the corners of his mouth were tense.
In the next second, Qi Fei's face split open from the corners of both mouths, and a black-red soft-bodied creature jumped into the air from the mouth, accompanied by a slight scream of "chirp chirp", the cylindrical thick body turned in circles, frantically Shaking slime.
Gu Meng's feet seemed to have taken root, and she stood at the door of the restaurant with a blank expression, unable to look away.
It was a huge caterpillar thicker than a man's waist, twisting its body out of the dead Qi Fei's mouth, three pairs of slender thoracic legs trembled violently in the air, because of the excessive strength of the struggle, it swung to the right , together with the body and the chair fell heavily to the ground.
The picture in front of him was more terrifying than the darkest nightmare, so that Gu Meng began to doubt whether all this was real.
At this moment, a strong hand put his right shoulder from behind, turned him over, and clasped the back of his head with the other hand, and pressed it into the man's arms.
Smelling the cold and refreshing breath like snow, Gu Meng closed her eyes and didn't think about anything.
The caterpillar on the floor was throbbing and struggling to get out of the corpse, blood mixed with mucus dripped all over the floor.
Enjin led Gu Meng out backwards and closed the door of the restaurant.
The setting sun shines from the junction of the sky and the earth, smearing colors on the empty snow field.
The huge plane was against the light, leaving only a black silhouette.
Gu Meng was sitting at the door of the cabin, holding a half-drunk mineral water bottle in one hand, with her head down, a little autistic.
Enjin sat side by side with him, turned her face to look at him, the pink light in the orange was reflected on Gu Meng's smooth and jade-like face, her drooping eyebrows showed a bit of beauty and warmth, while the other half of her face was covered by blocked in the shadows.
They had been sitting here in silence for an hour, not saying a word.
Gu Meng was terrified. She was afraid of caterpillars at first, but she saw one that was as big as a mutated one jumping out from the human body. The visual impact was extraordinary, and those trembling whiskers could not be shaken off in her mind.
The shadow left is enough to accompany him for the rest of his life.
Enjin lowered her head and thought for a while, jumped off the plane, landed on the snow, and faced Gu Meng.
"Gu Meng." A soft and clean voice called out, "Look at me."
Gu Meng raised her eyes and looked at the man.
Enjin squatted down, put her palms together, then twisted her body from side to side and stood up from the ground, twisting her hands accordingly, and said, "Look, is that how that worm came out?"
The man, who is nearly 1.9 meters tall, twisted his body and stood up in a very funny way, but his expression was very serious. The corners of Gu Meng's mouth trembled, and he was holding back his laughter, thinking of the scene where he taught the children in the class how to learn about caterpillars.
"Is it this way?"
Enjin clasped his hands together and raised them above his head.
Gu Meng finally smiled, the corners of her mouth raised, and she nodded.
If every caterpillar could be as cute as Enjin, he wouldn't be afraid anymore.
Enjin squatted down again and twisted again, this time singing while twisting:
"There was a caterpillar
like to hang out
dear children
Don't be nervous to see it. "
"There was a caterpillar
live in a small room
please don't bother
Just let it grow quietly. "
"..."
Looking at the tall man twisted into a flower, Gu Meng was overjoyed, and lay on the door of the cabin smiling.
The children's songs are brisk and joyful, floating above the orange-painted snow field.
The author has something to say:
On Valentine's Day, Gu Meng received a gift from Peppermint and his wife. When she opened it, she found a bunny girl uniform.
Curse the pervert, then carefully put it away.
Enjin went home and looked at it, and asked, "What is this?"
Gu Meng blushed, opened her eyes and said nonsense: "The costumes for the kindergarten's large-scale indoor sitcom "Little Rabbit"."
Enjin: "Your?"
Gu Meng hesitated: "Maybe."
Enjin: "Try it, I want to see it."
"..." Gu Meng refused in her heart, "Can I not try?"
Enjin shook her head, aggrieved: "Why can other children watch it, but I don't have to watch it."
Gu Meng: "..."
Other children don't have to watch it either!
In the end, Teacher Gu endured the shame, and put on a pink backless dress, pink fluffy ears, crystal diamond bow tie, and fluffy tail for his beloved child.
As soon as he turned around, he was pushed onto the bed by a man with abnormally bright eyes.
Gu Meng retreated, Enjin crawled closer, shoulders heaving like a cheetah.
until there is no going back.
"Little rabbit, be good." Enjin touched Gu Meng's knees and pushed them away, "Open the door."
"Don't sing nursery rhymes at this time!" Gu Meng cried.
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Thanks to Baiyu and Bucheng's mines.
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