mirage master

In the haze, there was cold water hitting my face. I opened my eyes and found that it was already afternoon, black and red rainwater was falling from the sky, and a small puddle of water had already gathered in the low-lying place under the bridge hole.I dragged the unconscious little boy to a higher ground to prevent him from being washed down by the water.I didn't expect this guy to be quite heavy. I panted heavily and sat on the stone beside me, thinking that this was not the way to go. In this world, the black and red rain lasts for three days. According to this rainfall, the bridge hole Sooner or later, the ground below will be flooded by rain. I’m fine by myself, just find a tree hole to hide from the rain, but now I still have such a mop bottle, I sighed, I really made trouble for myself. I can't keep him here, so I have no choice but to carry him and walk up the mountain.

When I came to the courtyard of the old man’s thatched hut, I hesitated whether I should go to him for help. The last time I asked him for help, he closed the door and refused, saying that the fittest will survive and the unfit will be eliminated. When I heard this, I suddenly felt This old man is very knowledgeable.

Shaking my head, what was I thinking, my life was at stake, I hurriedly carried the little boy on my back, and walked quickly to the thatched cottage.

"Old man! Open the door! Dead man!" I slammed on the wooden door and shouted hysterically, and then a "bang" came from the house, and the old man shouted: "It's so noisy! Don't bother me, I told you won't help you!"

I continued to hit the door with my shoulder and said, "Would you like to see what's going on first!"

With a "squeak", the door was opened from the inside, and the old man came out of the house with a dark face and said, "What on earth do you want!"

As I stepped back, I motioned the old man to look at my back: "Look, look! There is a child!"

The old man glanced impatiently at the child on my back, suddenly frowned and said, "Yang Chu?"

"Huh? You know him," I said in surprise.

The old man nodded and said, "Come in first."

The interior decoration is very simple, there is only a table and a few stools, plus a bed.I put Yang Chu in the old man's mouth on the bed and stepped aside.The old man leaned over to check and found that he had suffered some serious internal injuries, so he took out a packet of dark stuff from under the bed and told me to go outside and cook it.

I stood outside with this dirty-looking bag and watched the old man clean Yang Chu's wound. Although I was full of doubts, but now was not the time to talk, so I obediently boiled the medicine.

An hour later, Yang Chu drank the medicine and passed out. The old man waved his hand and asked me to go outside with him.

"Where did you find him?" the old man asked.

I simply told the old man what happened, the old man nodded and said: "Yang Chu and his elder brother have always lived up the mountain, this time he went down the mountain, either something happened on the mountain, or he sneaked away Come out. In short, you saved him, just treat it as I owe you a favor, and if you need my help, just ask."

I didn't expect such a small thing to have such a big harvest. I was secretly happy in my heart, but I still asked calmly on the surface: "I just want to know that there is really no way for me to go back?"

The old man looked at me and said: "Why do you insist on this matter, don't you understand? You, me or other outsiders were brought here by a mysterious force. What do we bring here to do, we have no way of knowing what we need to do, this is a place where there is no return, and I have been here almost my whole life, and I have never heard of anyone who can return The original world."

I looked at the helpless look of the old man and said: "But I am not you, and you are not me. I will not accept my fate and live here like you. I am a person in the real world. What kind of bullshit mysterious power, I don't want to understand The reason or conspiracy, I just want to know how I should go back."

The old man smiled helplessly and said: "Do you think I stayed here voluntarily? Do you think I accepted my fate from the beginning?! When I first came here, I didn't believe that I couldn't go back. I sent I frantically found the way back. At that time, I gathered ten partners for this, and the result! Ten people in the team! Only I survived! This life was survived by their sacrifices! You Do you think I still have a reason to fight!" The old man covered his head and said, "I want to live a good life, because my partners are all in this life."

I walked up to him and asked, "What happened? You didn't find your way back?"

"The way back?" The old man sneered and said, "Do you know what the real way back is? Have you ever thought that you might be able to return to the original world after you die?"

After the old man finished speaking, he returned to the house, and I was left alone in the yard, unable to understand what he meant. Is death the way to go back?

I walked into the house and looked at the old man's back, thinking about what those words meant, but after thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't understand what he was trying to express.Just when I was at a loss, Yang Chu woke up.

The old man hurriedly helped him up and said, "You are still too weak, don't move for now."

Yang Chu grabbed the old man's clothes and was muttering something, I walked over and lay beside his mouth to listen.

"Save...save my brother, Lin Zhicheng's... iron beast is on the mountain." After saying these words, Yang Chu passed out again.

The old man hurriedly asked me what he said, and I said: "He said... what is the iron beast in the forest city on the mountain? What is that?"

The old man's face turned pale immediately: "Sure enough, something happened on the mountain. Forest City is one of the six regions. It is like the tropical rainforest in our original world. Various animals emerge in endlessly, but they are all mutated animals. Take For an iron beast, its skin is iron, and its entire body glows with a metallic luster, but how could it appear here? Logically speaking, this is impossible."

"Then... can animals shuttle back and forth between various areas, including the dark area?" I asked, "This can explain why there are creatures from the forest city here."

The old man said: "Impossible. If animals can travel freely, this world will only become more chaotic. Although it is already chaotic here, I think this world still has some specific rules, just like the six regions. Each of them maintains an independent state because of the barrier of the dark area."

"Then this iron beast is too lucky. It came here just by walking around without encountering any obstacles. Why don't you go find it later and learn from it?"

The old man glared at me and said: "When are you still talking about this?! Iron beasts don't come here for no reason, maybe something happened to Forest City, anyway, now is not the time to think about this, let's hurry up Up the mountain, Yang Qing is still on the mountain."