"Who?" I asked, closing my eyes.
"Father, it's me." The voice said weakly.
"You haven't gone out yet?" It's the original body, and I am energetic, "Why are you still here, we can't both put it here."
I sat up, turned on the flashlight and took pictures around again, trying to see where he was.
"I'm swimming, and this monument fell from the top of my head. I can't move here anymore." A weak voice came from the darkness.
"where are you?"
"Here."
I followed the sound to find it, and the depth of the water gradually deepened. In a corner, I shone the flashlight in and found a small space stuck in it. Due to viewing angle and light problems, it was difficult to find.
"Did you see me?" I hit my face with a flashlight, picking it between the gaps.
"I saw it." A weak voice came out, "Why is this flashlight so dark, it looks like impermanence on your face."
The voice of the original body is getting weaker and weaker, almost inaudible.
"Can you still go?"
He was silent.
"The river bed is below," he said again, "I'm stuck and can't move anymore."
"Can it still be pulled out?"
"No." He coughed. "It's not a radish. My intestines are dancing kelp right now."
The two fell silent for a while.
"The river bed on my side has been completely filled with waste residue. Is this going to be doubleKill?"
"As long as you can get through," he said, "the two of us can escape with blood."
I looked at this unobvious gap, "Why do you think we traveled so far?"
"For, let's be a joke," whispered over there.
"You and I are pretty good, but the others didn't find anything."
Dust rustles down, the ruins are unstable, and the second collapse may happen at any time.
This gap is a very common gap formed by collapse, a huge stone brick of granite texture and a piece of... Should it be bacon
I can't see where it came from. Look at the texture and folds on it. This is a huge piece of skin on the skull.
"Raw meat, after thousands of years have passed, can I tear it apart with bare hands?"
"Tear the meat?" There was a weak smile over there, "You can tear the devils by hand. Are you not a successor, you must do it too."
I rejoiced, "If you are tired or not, look at the Long March for 25,000. If you are tired, think about the mig old man."
"Okay." I breathed a sigh of relief, "I'm here."
The texture of this meat is surprisingly crisp, and it can be pierced directly with your fingers. The inside feels like pus, and there is faint black grease overflowing from it.
I combed it back and forth just like combing my hair, and the black pieces of meat fell one after another, and the cracks gradually expanded, basically able to accommodate me to get in. Then I saw the original body. His upper body was exposed on the water, and his lower body was soaked in the water. A huge stone brick stuck him in place, unable to move.
And the water around him should be redder.
He also saw me, "There is a hole on my left that is not blocked. I dived down to the riverbed."
"Good luck tricks people." I said.
"Good luck tricks people." A helpless look appeared on his pale face, "However, I can accept the ending calmly if you can accept it."
In the position of his left hand, there really is a dark hole, and there is a bottomless river below. This is a window left by God for us.
"Did you hear?" he asked.
"I heard it." I said, the sound of the second collapse.
Before diving, I looked back at the person who was stuck there. He was pale and lost in his eyes, but he still insisted on looking at me, "Now it's time for you to call my dad."
"Dad." I said.
This time it was his turn to lip-synch, "Live well. Live for me too."
All the way down, I looked back, and behind him was a gray-red ribbon dancing quietly along the river.
No longer think about it, continue to dive, flipping occurs at a certain moment, holding your breath, turning around and swimming back, there is a black river in front of me, and the ruins after the collapse and the kelp dancing along the water are all gone.
Here is the real world.
The process of ascending was very fast and painful. The sudden change in water pressure caused vascular pain. The moment the water broke out, I breathed out like a new life.
There was darkness in front of me, the flashlight was already out of use, and he struggled to swim towards the shore. I was trembling with the cold, and my nose was full of rust. I looked around, there was no light, and I couldn't even find the way.
When I went ashore, a hand suddenly stretched out from the darkness and grabbed my arm.
Before I could react, I heard a person say with a smile: "It's really a leaf of duckweed returning to the sea. Where can I not meet in life?"
-"The Longevity Project Volume III: The Demon River in the Strange Ridge" End (End of this chapter)