paradox

"Tongtong, wake up, the sun is coming out soon!"

It felt like someone was patting me on the cheek, after all, only the head was exposed in the sleeping bag.

I barely opened my eyes, and when I tried to move my body, I realized that my lower body had been crushed and numb.

"How did the two of you sleep? Look, you're holding me down!" It took a lot of effort before he pulled his hand out.

"Stop talking nonsense!" Xiao Mo grabbed my ear and dragged me out of the sleeping bag.

At this time, Su Mohan had packed up and waited outside.

The sky was still dark, but the horizon was already bright red in the distance, and the sun was eager to try at the bottom.

"Tong Xin, finally woke up." Han Lin greeted me while installing the camera.

"Morning Brother Han." I waved to him.

The temperature was still very low before the sun came out, and we all put on jackets to avoid the cold.

Wait for a "miracle".

This period of waiting is very difficult, and the sudden drop in temperature is bearable, but to capture the moment when it jumps out, you must devote enough energy.

"Come out!" Liu Liangwang gave an order in front, and we aimed at the camera and frantically pressed the shutter, not missing any details.

The sun scattered, and the whole mountain regained its vitality. Birds chirped one after another, and the sun hung high on the top of the mountain, overlooking the earth.

A surge of emotion suddenly surged in my heart. I have seen such a scene before. At that time, the most real person was by my side, but I didn't grasp it.

She gave up on herself all the way, and became the good old man she hated the most, a doormat, and always imagined herself as a tragic hero, eager to prove her existence, but how could she have this opportunity?

The sun was too glaring, tears fell from the corners of my eyes, I shouted into the distance with tears in my eyes, what is the content?Can not remember.

"There are many forks on the road to Quenhu Lake. Without a guide, it is easy for us to get lost. Don't forget to leave markers when you leave, so that you can come back even if you get lost." Brother Liu still led the way in front, and we followed behind dance to tune.

There are indeed many fork roads, we can only grope forward, and then there is a landscape that has never been seen before, like a pile of boulders, placed far away at the end of the mountain, and it has been tightly entwined with vines, which is a bit more mysterious. I want people to find out.

We go inside through what looks like a "temple gate".A bay of emerald green lake is quietly lying below, the water is green and opaque, like a piece of jade that has strayed into the world.

The address here is funnel-shaped, and the lake is at the bottom, which has the meaning of returning to the ancestors.

"Is this Quenhu Lake?" I turned around and asked Brother Liu, "It's so mini!"

"It's the same shape as in the photo, but I'm not sure." Brother Liu looked around for the way down. After all, it was his first time here. As the altitude decreased, the scene at the bottom became more fascinating.

"There seem to be a few artificially inlaid wooden paths over there!" I pushed aside the bushes in front of me and looked down, and accidentally found a yellowish wooden path on the conical stone slope, winding upwards around Quenhu Lake.

"There's one over here too." Lei Hang carried a heavy backpack and used a portable short knife to cut a path.

We walked down the wooden path. The surrounding stone walls are not smooth, but there are still some steeps.

I walked on the creaking wooden path and said to Su Mohan beside me, "We came early? Why didn't you see Wendi and the others?"

"Maybe~" The girl Su Mohan obviously didn't want to talk to me, and looked suspiciously at the still lake below.

Quenhu Lake is only as big as a basketball court, and we can clearly see its original appearance when we get close.

The lake is glowing with green light, but there are not too many aquatic plants, and the whole green is natural.It is not clear and transparent, and it is difficult to distinguish the depth.I bent down and swiped the lake water with my hand. The green lake water before turned into a transparent spring in my hand.This reminds me of the sea, which looks blue from a distance, but the real appearance is flawless and transparent.

"Look!" Han Lin pointed at the lake and shouted.

The originally waveless lake began to ripple from the middle, rippling to the periphery, at our feet.

Then the ripples got bigger and bigger, and the stones around our feet began to tremble.

"Landslide...can't be so unlucky." I trembled and looked directly above, the boulder above the "funnel" was crumbling, and we happened to be at the lowest point of the funnel, and we became the target of public criticism for a while.

"Go up!" Su Mohan seemed to have remembered something, took Xiaomo and me by the hand and ran towards the wooden path we had just walked down, but it was too late, the boulder slid down the ramp smoothly, Han Lin and Liu Liangwang escaped by pushing us aside.

"There is something on it." Lei Hang pointed to the place where the boulder fell.

The sun was too harsh, I could only see their outlines.The black body rushed towards us against the light, and slowly approached after leaving a few hideous scratches on the wooden path.

I struggled to get up from where I fell, but luckily it was just a simple scratch, so I helped Su Mohan and Xiao Mo up.

"Stay away from them." Su Mohan's knee was bruised, but she was still able to move, she pulled us back staggeringly.

The six of us retreated into the lake step by step. The water in the lake was not deep, just above our knees. Those "mandrills" with fierce mouths?They planned to surround Quenhu Lake, cutting off our only way out.Han Lin stood in front of us to prevent those monsters from suddenly attacking him, and his image in my heart grew instantly.

I stepped back and observed, the white face, green skin, and that strange red nose, it must be a mandrill.What a joke!Isn't this thing from Africa?It's hard to immigrate!

How could these monsters appear in the deep mountains and besiege us collectively!

Fortunately, those mandrills stopped by the lake and did not move forward, but they obviously did not intend to give up.Seeing that we couldn't come out, they used the surrounding stones as weapons and besieged them collectively. They even deliberately slipped a hole in one place and planned to force us out.

The rain of stones fell on us, although Han Lin and Liu Liangwang helped us a lot, but there will always be fish that slip through the net, and it still hurts when it hits us.

The strong offensive forced us to step on our hind legs. We were almost in the middle, and the lake water gradually rose to the abdomen.Suddenly the soles of my feet were empty, and by the time I realized it, my head was already submerged in water, and my body was still falling rapidly.

The strange blue lake surrounded me, the soles of my feet were like a bottomless pit, I suddenly felt suffocated, my vision seemed to be distorted, and I vaguely saw the black spots on the top getting bigger and bigger.As the body sank, the feeling of the water flow became more and more obvious. I simply closed my eyes and wandered along the water flow, knowing that it was the end of my strength.

The equipment on my body was untied and thrown away, and I forced myself to open my eyes in the water——Su Mohan, she quickly untied the extra things on my body, and walked forward along the water with my back neckband.I wanted to follow her frequency to kick the water, and try not to cause more trouble, but I was enveloped by the boundless dark blue, and my body was completely uncontrollable. In the end, my breath was exhausted, and my consciousness was completely dissociated.

This scene seems to be repeated countless times in my mind, and the results are different every time. Sometimes I will stop here, and sometimes I will be lucky to escape and ascend to heaven.

Is this the end?He obviously hasn't even said a confession.What have I been doing for decades?

"Wake up!" Xiaomo's voice?

The faces on both sides were burning and painful. I covered my face with my hands reflexively. After spitting out the water stuck in my throat, I was completely awake.

"Don't scare me!" After finally taking a breath, Xiao Mo pressed me into her arms again.

"Don't, don't," I struggled, "Little Mo, calm down, I'm dizzy!"

"Pa" is another slap.

no more skins...

"Where is this?" The clothes on his body were already soaked, but it was better than nothing, and the things in the backpack were ugly except for those specially made waterproof.

"I don't know, we were brought here along the water." Xiao Mo pointed to the stone door behind him, "It seems that we have reached a remarkable place."

In a place like Water Curtain Cave, stalactites of various shapes are now on the top of the cave, and the refracted light illuminates most of the cave, including the huge stone gate.

Taking a closer look, I am now lying on the steps paved with stone slabs. Because of the perennial water accumulation, the stone slabs and the stone door are stained with greenery, and aquatic plants grow wantonly on them.

"Mohan, what are you doing there?" After I confirmed the situation around me, I found Su Mohan sitting on a raised stone slab with half of his feet submerged in the water. We are very different.

"Are we killed?" Although the cave is humid, the temperature is still quite high. The jacket has long been taken off, and only a black shirt is on.She asked me while teasing the water, surprisingly calm.

"Yeah!" I sighed, "We have met such a small chance." Anyway, she saved my life just now. I wrung out the remaining moisture in my clothes and walked towards her barefoot.

Xiao Mo knew that I was fine, so she stopped worrying, and started to confirm the available equipment with Han Lin.

"If we want to get out of danger, then we have to hurry up." She motioned me to look at the place where I was lying before.

If I remember correctly, I took off my shoes on the third-to-last step just now, but now I am on the second-to-last step...

The shoes will not move, the only possibility is... "The water is rising!" I felt a chill down my back.

In this enclosed space, if we cannot escape, we will surely die.

"The rising speed is still very fast." Su Mohan was noncommittal, and after taking off the bloated jacket, the necklace on the collarbone became more obvious.

"Perhaps there is a third option." I turned my gaze to the stone door, "If I can find a way to get in, I might be able to escape the catastrophe."

"But have you ever considered that even if we go in, who knows if there is any danger inside, who knows when the water outside will recede, and besides, we don't even know how to get in." Su Mohan sneered, and said I'm speechless, but I can't stand still.

"If we keep thinking about the risks of the future, thinking about those illusory things, we may not even take a step out. Maybe you are right, there will be a greater threat behind that door, which for us is nothing more than It’s just a different burial place, on the contrary, if we take the opportunity to escape, we will win the final victory.” I pulled her up from the stone slab.

"Look at the whole cave. There are water plants at the top, which means that it was submerged by the lake for a long time. If the tide never recedes, how can we get out?" Su Mohan frowned, obviously not wanting to go in.

"Only by grasping all opportunities can the utility be maximized. In the case of not knowing all the information, the stupid and most practical way to obtain the optimal solution is to explore from the most basic place until sufficient information is obtained." As a colleague , Han Lin understands my thinking very well, Brother Liu and the others agree.

Now the only things we can use are waterproof flashlights, some "dry food", and simple medical items in case of emergency.

The "tide" was still spreading upwards at the original speed, and there were not many steps left that were swallowed up, and there was no trace of the stone slab where Su Mohan sat on.We separated and groped along the stone gate to both sides. Those annoying aquatic plants were removed by us with short knives, and the carvings on the gate were presented as a whole.Things similar to totems can only be seen roughly because they have been eroded by water flow all year round.

"Are you sure you want to go in?" Su Mohan's tone was serious, she approached me and turned on the flashlight so that I could see more clearly.

"The trend of the times," I used the light she gave to distinguish the carvings on the stone gate. It was really troublesome for those who are not majors. They say that there are mountains every other way. If I knew it, I would have brought Wendi from the history department. "But what we should worry about now is how to get in. Now time is running out."

The water potential is not affected by our mood, and it is still approaching at the original speed.

"I don't intend to find a way to get in." The little girl started to be awkward again, but now I can't spare the energy to cater to her mood.I took a step back and took the imprint on the entire door into my eyes, feeling that it coincided with something in my memory.

"Does the totem on the door look like a cat?" Xiao Mo walked over with a flashlight, and the light in the cave was already very dark.

I nodded in agreement, and at the same time blocked Su Mohan sideways, "Did Brother Liu gain anything?"

Xiao Mo glanced at me suspiciously, shook his head, and said, "The surrounding stone walls are polished very smooth. It seems that someone deliberately designed this place. It is very likely that we have stumbled into the tomb of a certain important person by mistake. Other than that, there is nothing wrong with it." There are no other clues."

"According to the speed of the water flow, it will take three hours to fill the entire cave, but it should take us less than half an hour to fill it." Han Lin also seemed to have gained nothing.

"This is really troublesome." I bit my finger and analyzed, "At a distance of about two meters, the moss on the stone gate is obviously more lush than the one above. Since it is an underwater mausoleum, we must make moisture-proof preparations, such as : Forcibly close the tomb door at the specified water level..."

"..." Everyone froze in place, I smiled and fooled, "Since the door is closed only after two meters of water, it will have already passed us by then, so it won't have much impact. Xiaomo, you can find another Looking for clues, I'll ask about brother Liu's situation."

Su Mohan didn't resist either, and was obediently pulled aside by me.

"Do you know something?" I asked in a low voice, but she didn't mean to answer.

I had to ask another way, and picked up the totem-shaped necklace on her collarbone with my fingers, "This is the same as the pattern on that door, you knew it from the beginning, right?"

Su Mohan nodded.

"I don't want to ask you what the relationship between this place and you is, I just want to know how to get in, understand?"

"I know, but the 'key' was lost when it arrived. Do you still remember the female college student who died in a car accident?"

"Female college student?"

"Well~ she is the descendant of the gravekeeper here, only she knows how to get in. Now that she is dead, the only way is to open the door from the inside, do you think it is possible?" Su Mohan explained in a cloud.

"Are we destined not to get in?" The water has reached the ankles, and the greasy feeling spreads through the skin to all parts of the body.

"Well, once the water overflows three feet, the door cannot be opened. Judging from now, there are still about 5 minutes left. Cherish this last time!"

"Why should we trust you?" Xiao Mo suddenly appeared from behind and asked, "How did you know we would come here in the first place, and how did you know about that female college student? When the mandrill came out, you dragged us into the water to hide , it stands to reason that mandrills are good at water, and fear of water is probably the result of innate training. How do you know?"

"Miss Chu, you still have 3 minutes, are you sure you want to continue to spend on such boring things?" The water had already covered her knees, but she still didn't rush.

"..." Xiao Mo frowned, and brought her to the front of the stone gate. Brother Liu and Lei Hang turned around and returned here, the water was still rising.

"What do you mean? I won't open it even if I'm locked on the door now. Besides, we're on the same boat now, would I be joking with my own life?" She chuckled with her knuckles Knock on the door, "Do you think knocking like this will make it open?"

I didn't say it, it's really open!

The giant gate, which had been in disrepair for a long time, was opened to both sides under the leadership of some kind of force, and the water overflowing the stone gate poured in.

"..." Now it was Su Mohan's turn to be surprised.

Before the doors were fully opened, we were swept inside by the tide.

"Fuck, I miscalculated the time." A cursing and complaining sound came from inside.

The gate was slowly closed before the water flow from outside further invaded, and we who were knocked to the ground supported the surrounding walls with difficulty to stand up, spitting out the lake water that had choked in our mouths.At this time, the intruding water also receded, probably because of the sewer-like things that appeared every few places on the ground.

The entire corridor was shrouded in darkness.

"There's someone there!" Su Mohan shone a flashlight along the long and narrow corridor, and sure enough, he found a person lying on the ground not far away.

The water in the tunnel has not been completely drained, and when walking on it, splashes will be made, making a pattering sound, spreading to the depths, and then turning back.

The corridor is not as spacious as the outer stone gate, and three people can barely walk side by side.When we approached, we found that the person was holding a simple dagger in his hand, but seeing her weak appearance, we all let go of our guard.

"Come on! Come on! Splash me all over." The woman saw us coming, although she was half lying on the ground and hanged her breath, she still didn't forget to spit, and didn't care about her situation.

Xiao Mo looked up and down the woman she had never met with the flashlight, and finally focused the light on her right calf, "Your leg is bleeding, and now it's wet again, if you don't deal with it, it will get infected." The commotion obviously spread here, and there were still tiny drops of water on the woman's hair.Aside from her figure, this drowned look is really embarrassing!

"The ones who can come here must be peers. Isn't this kind of extra concern unnecessary? But it's the first time I saw another woman in the office. No, have we met before? It's not right, either. I shouldn't forget that she's so beautiful..." Halfway through the speech, I started to mutter.

"So, you are already prepared?" I approached her and carefully inspected the injury. The wound that was randomly bandaged with gauze had begun to ooze out.Maybe she didn't expect my action, the woman gasped in pain.

Xiao Mo handed me the medical kit. Fortunately, there was no water in it, and even though there is a small amount of spare medicine, it can be used in an emergency.

"I don't dare to do porcelain work without diamonds, but looking at you like this, let alone making money, I'm afraid I won't be able to protect myself." She smiled mockingly.

"Aren't you still with me?" Xiaomo replied after helping her treat the wound, "You can't swim back even if the door is opened like this, why don't you cooperate with us and take you back after finding the exit?"

"Although it's always difficult for me to refuse the request of a beautiful woman, I'm afraid I can't this time." She stood up and said with a smile, "If I can go out, I will wait until now?"

"..."

Brother Liu and Han Lin found that the lamp oil in the bronze lamp post inlaid on the wall was still usable, so they wanted to borrow it for lighting.

Su Mohan has been acting strange since he came in, and now that the situation is not clear, he is wandering around with a flashlight.I was busy with my business, so I didn't care about her.As soon as the surrounding lights were turned on, the surrounding scene became much clearer, and it became much easier for me to bandage.We also talked about our situation in the middle. Although she didn't believe it at first, she really couldn't find a reason for us to lie to her.

"Since we are on the same boat, let's be honest with each other." I slowly wiped away the dried blood around the wound with alcohol cotton, and then used a short knife to make a cut on the cloth around the wound, exposing my white skin. outside.We didn't notice it wrapped in gauze before, but now the one-foot-long wound is naked in front of our eyes. Although hemostatic agent is applied, the extravasated blood can still be seen, and if it goes deeper, the bone can be seen.

"We've already told about our situation, but we don't even know your name." Xiao Mo handed her some food, "Even if we don't understand anything, since we're here, we have to find a way to get out. including you."

"..." She hesitated for a moment before taking the coarse grain biscuit.

"Wen Yu, my name." After speaking, he swallowed the biscuit whole without caring about his image.

"...Gone?"

"What else do you want to know?"

"Then tell us where the cut on your body came from? Is there any danger here?"

"I was scratched by a kitten." Wen Yu, who was still chewing on a biscuit, said inarticulately, "As long as you don't go in and mess with it, there will be no problem."

"Then this kitten is pretty fierce!" I rolled my eyes at her.

But she had an expression of believing it or not.

"Hey, Wen Yu." I poked her arm, "I think you love that bag, what's in it?"

Wen Yu was wearing a silver-gray casual suit at this time, with a black waist bag slung across his waist.From the moment they met, she unconsciously touched them with her hands to make sure they were still where they were.

Something so intimate piqued my curiosity.

"The map here, and the mobile phone." Wen Yu opened her mouth and answered. In order to prove that she didn't lie to us, she opened it for us to see, "It's useless for me to keep the map now, so I borrowed flowers to offer it to you. If you can, go find the treasure in this tomb, but the phone cannot be moved!"

I didn't intend to be polite to her, so I reached out and took the yellowed map. Although I was blurry, it did look like a map, "We just want to go out now, this map is useless to us , On the contrary, if we really want to look for it, what should we do if we are caught by that kitten?"

I wanted to choke her, but Wen Yu insisted on looking at me with the eyes of a mentally retarded person.

"I don't even want my baby, but I'm staring at my mobile phone." I leaned over and approached, "Is there some ulterior secret?"

"What's none of your business? Why are you so curious about my affairs if you don't hurry up and find a way out?"

"Oh, what a pity" I shrugged and walked away from her.

"The ventilation in this tomb is very good, which is why there is no long-burning lamp in the tomb. But we tried it before, and we couldn't find where the ventilation hole is. There are many organs here, even with the map, we are still caught. I have been tricked a few times, and for you, staying here honestly is the best choice." Wen Yu pointed to the map to give us some tips, and Han Lin, Brother Liu, and Lei Hang all came over, "These two rooms There are burial clothes in it, although the prototype can no longer be seen, it can still be used to make a fire, we have also been to other places, and the marked places are not dangerous."

"Wait a minute! You? Is there anyone else here?" I interrupted, realizing it was wrong.

"That's right! But to be precise, they are no longer here," Wen Yu drank his saliva and continued, "People in our business rarely come here alone. This time, they were entrusted by someone. Maozi and the team were also found by the client. But just yesterday, we encountered the mechanism in one of the rooms, and two people fell there, and I was also injured after I escaped."

In her mouth, death is such an understatement.

"Meow~" A meow came from the depths of the corridor?

"Is there really a cat in this tomb?" I was a little confused, there was no food or drink here, what kind of species should it be able to live to this day?

I immediately got up and pointed the flashlight at the source of the sound, but unfortunately there was only an empty bluestone slab.

"Don't worry, as long as we don't enter those forbidden rooms, we won't be in danger." Wen Yu said carelessly.

Ever since I ate the biscuits, I have been full of confidence.

"Where's Su Mohan!" I realized that the person who should have been standing behind Lei Hang had disappeared, and then the meowing became farther and farther away.

"Eh? You just found out!" Wen Yu shrugged, it was none of his business, "A girl went inside with a flashlight just now, she should be the one you mentioned."

I didn't have time to complain about Wen Yu, so I started looking for a flashlight to find Su Mohan.

I sighed, "Xiaomo, keep listening, I'll go look for her first, and I'll be back in a while."

"Let me go! You are not safe alone." Han Lin stopped me.

But I don't intend to ask him to look for it, "I'll rely on you to take charge of the overall situation in the future! Collect information first, then take good care of Xiaomo for me."

"Take the map! Don't get lost." Wen Yu finally got a little human.

I took the map and followed the cat meowing to the depths.

The range that the flashlight can illuminate is limited. Fortunately, there are no forks in this corridor, as long as you keep walking, you will definitely meet them.Sure enough, at a corner, I heard footsteps of different shades, especially in the dead environment.

I hastened to speed up and walked forward, and finally met Su Mohan who was walking while leaning on the wall.

He was about to criticize her harshly, but after noticing something strange, he threw the matter out of the blue.

"What's wrong with your leg?" It was just a bruise on the knee before, but now there is an extra wound, and the bandage was only leftovers from who knows where, and now it is too loose and unusable.

I ran over to grab the person who was still walking forward, and she only reacted at this time.

"It's just a small injury." She pushed my hand away without a trace, but how could I let her continue to be self-willed?

"Sit down quickly, and I'll bandage you." The medicine box was not at hand, so I had to tear a piece of cloth of appropriate length from under the white short sleeve on my body to bandage her.

But she was very disobedient, very disobedient, although I forced her to sit down, she didn't let me touch her wound.

"Touch it and you won't lose a piece of meat. You have had 23 exes, not one less than me." I am not a calm person, and I am easily swayed by emotions, so Su Mohan's behavior now is very bad. "What if I get infected?"

Maybe my words worked, Su Mohan stopped struggling and asked me to treat her wound.

"It's been a long time since I've seen you, and I've got injuries all over my body, what a person..." I muttered in a low voice, expressing my dissatisfaction a little.

"I've never been in a relationship before." Su Mohan said in a muffled voice.

"Huh?" Is there something wrong with this point of rebuttal? "I don't care if you have an ex or not, just honestly let me help you bandage it now, and I'll talk about the rest later."

"..."

I asked her to try to move, but fortunately she was able to move so-so.

"You just walked straight ahead, were you looking for something?"

"A cat took my necklace just now. It's a very important necklace." She said seriously.

"Oh, a token of love from 23 exes!" I replied.

"...Can you stop holding on to this count? I really haven't talked about it." She was full of shame and indignation. If she took a flashlight to shine on her face at this time, the expression would be very exciting.

"Okay, okay! I'll help you find it, and you go back and be with Xiaomo and the others." I recalled the characteristics of the necklace, and it should be easy to find.

"Then be careful." She seemed to be thinking about whether to bother me. Before she regretted it, I strode forward a few steps, and she felt relieved and staggered back.

I didn't feel relieved to move on until she disappeared around the corner.

The weird meowing sound was gone, and the horror factor was gone, and I became more daring, and it didn't take long to find the necklace at a waterway mouth.

After successfully completing the task, I put the things in my pocket and returned the same way. The road was not very far. I saw the light in less than 10 minutes, but there was no sound.

When they met again, Xiao Mo, Wen Yu, Han Lin, Liu Liangwang, and Lei Hang had long been silent, lying motionless on the ground, their aorta was cut open by a sharp weapon, and blood continued to ooze out, following the heartbeat, Flow out one by one.

"Tongtong."

Su Mohan's voice came from behind me, I turned around and looked over, there was a black and white kitten standing on her shoulder, licking the blood left on its paws, she seemed a bit unbearable, and slowly approached me come.

"sorry."

Why say sorry?What the hell is going on here?

All the words were stuck in my throat, when the kitten arched up and gave me a final blow, and the blood splattered into the right eye.

Before falling to the ground, amidst the deep red, I saw her kneeling on the ground in tears, and the necklace in front of her collarbone.

No, there is something wrong, necklace, wound, cat... Before I could think, the cold and darkness quickly swallowed me up.

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This is the end of the week, and the next reincarnation officially begins.