I hid in the sandpit tightly, keeping my eyes intent. Several people not far away walked unhurriedly, and after a while, they gradually approached.
It wasn't until this time that I noticed something strange. These few people seemed to have drunk too much, their bodies swayed and their footsteps vacant when they walked. Although they can't see their faces clearly, they can be seen in their clothes, they are all ordinary villagers.
Fearing to be discovered, I couldn't help but shrink back into the pit. But these people didn't look at this side at all. As soon as they got close to the river beach, they immediately rushed to a few spheres that were blocked by hay.
Up to this moment, I finally recognized that these people were all villagers in the small village. There are two people who will talk to me when they meet me on weekdays. They are not very familiar, but they are not unfamiliar.
Their current behavior is beyond my expectations. The agreement between the villagers, I know, is to send people to guard here on the river beach in turn, and then wait for the old cat to invite someone back. But now that the old cat hasn't come back, a few villagers came here in the dark. Could it be that they wanted to take the ball away privately
But after thinking about it again, I feel wrong. At the beginning, people in almost one village were here, plus the animals such as donkeys and mules. They couldn't transport the nine balls on the iron ropes. Now there are so many people here, what is the use
I don't understand their intentions, so I am still hiding in the sandpit for the time being and dare not show up.
call…
At this time, several people gathered around the ball, and another gust of wind blew up. The wind was very strong, blowing the sand on the river beach, and rushing towards their faces. I was immediately fascinated by the wind and sand, and hurriedly shrank into the bunker. The strong wind blew intermittently for a while before the wind gradually became weaker. I showed my head again, and when I looked forward, the hay covering the ball was blown away.
The nine perfectly round golden balls remained motionless in place, but the few people who had approached the ball just now were gone. I didn't know their whereabouts, so I stayed and didn't dare to move. After observing for a long time, he tried to climb up from the pit.
Sure enough, those few people really disappeared, and there seemed to be no one here before. I was at a loss, thinking hard, and didn't dare to judge what was going on.
The nine spheres still exudes a faint golden glow. After a while, when I circled in front of the other sphere, my eyes suddenly stopped.
I saw that the ball seemed to have been opened, and then closed again. It's just that the gap on the ball is not as tight as before, and I see a piece of clothing faintly sandwiched between the gaps.
At this moment, even if I was stupid, I guessed vaguely. Those few people just now have already scored the ball.
At the same time, another terrible thought came into my head. Suddenly, I felt that the people who were taken into the ball were probably not taken in casually. The shadows that I saw on the sphere before seemed to be the best proof.
The shadow is gone, that is, the person who has been sucked away by the orb will be taken into the orb at this moment.
No wonder, before sending Xiaoyong back to the village, the two night watchmen were still drinking here. When I came back, the two were nowhere to be seen. In fact, they never left, but were received in the ball.
When I think of this, my head buzzes big.
, Because my shadow is gone.
I went mad and searched back and forth on a few balls. I took the people’s balls and seemed to have returned to absolute normality. The shadows on the outside of the balls had disappeared. I looked for them, and I was finally in the middle. On the sphere, I saw a shadow of Ruo Ruo Wu.
The shadow itself is fuzzy, but the moment I saw this shadow, my scalp began to numb, and I could feel that the shadow on this ball was my shadow.
Click...
At this time, the sphere suddenly split from the middle, and an indescribable breath overflowed from the sphere. The breath is invisible, but it seems to be more pressing than the sharpest knife in the world. When I smelled this breath, my whole person seemed to froze in place.
I seem to feel the smell of time, and the whole person seems to be exiled in a long river of time, constantly drifting with the flow.
This kind of feeling is very bad. It makes me feel that the sky is falling, the sun and the moon are dark. I shook my head vigorously, stepping back step by step. The few people in front are a lesson from the past. If I don’t want to escape now, most of them are. To be received inside the sphere.
I was trying my best to contend with the breath in my eyes, and at the same time, I was constantly backing away. My steps became very heavy, and it seemed that every step I withdrew would consume all the strength of my whole body.
In this way, I unknowingly withdrew for more than ten steps, and my legs finally relaxed. I was about to go all out to turn around and escape. This turn, I hit a person at once.
I was taken aback. All my energy was focused on the ball just now, and I was completely negligent about the surrounding situation. I didn't even know when someone stood behind me. When I hit the opponent, I glanced at it and immediately recognized that this person was an old cat.
"You... You..." My eyes were dull, looking at the old cat, and intermittently said: "When did you... come back..."
"You are still young and there are a lot of days left. You should live well..." The old cat glanced at me, his steps seemed heavy, and slowly spared me. He walked more than ten steps until he reached the middle. Next to the ball, he stretched out a hand and pressed it abruptly. This time, the old cat directly pressed the slowly floating shadow outside the ball.
"What do you want to do!" When I saw the shadow being held down, I was shocked. In my opinion, the old cat is a villager, nothing more, but now I know that I was wrong. The old cat is not an ordinary person. .
"I said, you should live well." As the old cat said, he kept wiping the shadow on the ball. At this moment, the shadow on the ball, like a piece of dust on the ball, was wiped off by the old cat, and it was gradually erased.
I didn't know what was going on. I just felt that the moment the old cat erased the shadow on the ball, my whole body seemed to relax a bit. I subconsciously turned my head and looked behind me. With this look, I immediately saw a shadow on the sand behind me.
This is my shadow, my shadow, lost and recovered, and back again.
My experience is beyond words, as in a dream.
"Let's go." The old cat looked at me again, retracted his hand, and said, "There is nothing to do with you here."
"Do you know what these balls are used for?" I saw the old cat's behavior, and my heart suddenly became clear. The old cat is definitely not ignorant, very
Maybe he told the villagers that he was just an excuse to go to a small town dozens of miles away to invite people. He just hides and waits for an opportunity.
The old cat is not a good stubborn. Several people in the same village have now been received in the ball. The old cat must know it, but he is not moved, as if nothing happened.
"A person, if you don't know anything, maybe you can live a life of peace and stability, even if there is no wind and no waves, the whole life will be like white water, without any taste, but that is still alive." The old cat walked to the ball and cracked open. He said: "But if a person knows too much, it is not a good thing after all. Sooner or later he will be tired of being known by oneself."
"Who are you? These spheres have taken people away. What are you going to do?" I was filled with doubts. More importantly, I have noticed that the old cat seems to have no evil to me. Otherwise, He could kill me just now, so instead of leaving, I took a step closer and wanted to chat with the old cat.
"Let's go!" The old cat turned his head back, his expression sharpened suddenly, and there seemed to be a frightening gleam in his eyes: "If you don't go anymore, I will pull you to fill the river! Go!"
I was really frightened by the old cat, stumbled back a few steps, turned around and left. As I walked, I looked back, and after a while, I suddenly remembered, the old cat looked fiercely, his eyes wanted to eat people, but what he said was nothing more than driving me away.
I really wanted to know what was going on in my heart. When I turned around again, I vaguely saw that the old cat bent over and got into the cracked ball.
After the old cat got in, the ball snapped together. At the moment when the sphere closed, I saw again that a very faint light seemed to rise between the gaps where the sphere just closed.
The light, which was almost imperceptible, hovered in the air, and then drifted towards the river. Immediately, the heavy iron rope, together with the nine gleaming golden balls, seemed to be dragged by something vigorously, and fell into the river little by little.
I stopped immediately and watched the faint light flying towards the river. At this time, I didn't know what was wrong with me, as if I couldn't control myself. When I turned around, my two legs moved away involuntarily, and followed in the direction where the light flew away.
The shimmer does not drift fast, and the iron rope and the ball are heavy, so they sink slowly. Close to the river bank, there is a small bay from which the iron ropes and balls enter the water. The water flow in the bay is very slow, so most of the things floating down from the upper reaches are silted in the bay. Far away, I fell to the ground, lest I would be noticed, crawling forward with my hands and feet, following the iron rope that kept entering the water all the way.
The ball on the iron rope was also submerged in the water at the last moment, followed by a bang, and the two- to three-foot-long iron rope left on the shore also sank. At this moment, all the round iron ropes sank into the bottom of the river without a shadow. Without a trace, only a circle of ripples remained on the surface of the water.
The faint, imperceptible faint light also slowly floated down, and it floated to the surface of the water. I stood up slightly, and when I cast my gaze forward, there was another unspeakable surprise.
In the bend ahead, there was a floating corpse floating on the water with its back face up to the sky. The extremely faint light seemed to fall on the floating corpse and disappeared in an instant.
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