forget the soul

In this way, Yu Rong set off for Ambrym Island with full of ambition.But as a result, Boeing 777, 747, 80-seater propeller planes, ten-seaters, seaplanes carrying sheep and cattle, bananas, mineral water, plus cars, horse-drawn carts, and ox carts, A total of 43 hours of turnover, before seeing the volcano, Yu Rong's fighting spirit was reduced by more than half, and when he met with the guide Anu, he held the thin, tall black hand in front of him, shaking it for a long time, feeling weak Said: "Can we rest for two days before we go to climb the volcano? I will pay you the cost."

Anu nodded in agreement and helped Yu Rong carry the luggage.Before this trip, Yu Rongte purchased two gas masks, two drones, some headlamps, trekking poles and other odds and ends.He changed his mother's ashes into a lighter urn, and carried it with him, being careful. In short, just carrying the luggage on the road made him exhausted, and Lin Wangyue also put in a lot of effort. He worked hard, never heard him say "no", and never saw him give any face. He was always on his way with great energy, and he could even take out his notebook to draw a few strokes in his spare time.

Ambrym Island has two volcanoes that are still very active today, Marum and Benbo, and both volcanoes Yurong want to go. The two volcanoes are actually very close to each other, like neighbors next door, but Benbo Because of the volcanic eruption many years ago, it was difficult to go up the mountain. The day they arrived was close to dusk. In addition, Yu Rong couldn't take it anymore. At the foot of the Malum Volcano.

The village at the foot of the mountain is not big, and the population is mostly old people, women and children. The villagers live in low thatched huts, use simple stone-wheeled carts for transportation, wear grass skirts, and straw sandals. Flying here from all over the world to study volcanic activity, plus visiting the volcano and visiting the black magic sacrifices in the local villages is a must-have tourist item for every travel agency in Vanuatu. The living facilities in the village can be said to be very complete, including simple showers and Mosquito nets and mosquito coils are provided, mobile phone signal is not bad, and you don’t have to be careful with electricity. It’s just that every house turns off the lights after [-] pm, and only candles or oil lamps can be lit.

Anu tour guide has rich experience. He was born as an islander. According to him, the volcano is like his own backyard. When he was a teenager, he could turn over to the volcanic lake of Bembo Volcano with bare buttocks. He was in the volcano with his friends. Had a great time swimming in the lake.Yu Rong is not the first filming team he received. British, American, and Japanese TV stations have all come here to shoot documentaries, and some directors have come here to film scenes for movies, but they can't stay for long. One is the danger of volcanic activity, and one has If there is any sign of trouble, the government will send people to organize the evacuation. Second, the environment at the foot of the volcano is harsh. It is difficult for newcomers to adapt to the smell of sulfur in the air, and it is also difficult to adapt to blowing your nose and blowing out a paper towel.

According to Anu and Yu Rong, starting from the village where they live, they can see the famous volcanic eye of Malum Volcano. According to the tourist brochure, the magma is tumbling all year round, and it is red and hot. It is an almost perfect view from the air. The circular volcanic eye is called the Devil's Eye. It takes about an hour and a half to climb from the south.As for Mount Bembo, it takes about 90 minutes to climb to the top, and there are roads, but it is extremely difficult to walk, because of the eruption not long ago, the air in Mount Bembo will be much worse than that of Marum, with thick smog. In a few places, the road is almost invisible to the naked eye, so you can only follow the guide on the steep slope of the volcano that can accommodate two feet and has no guardrails on both sides.

Yu Rong's legs felt weak when he heard it, and he beat his calves while drinking bitter tea. This is a kind of refreshing tea in the local area, especially for those who are tired and tired.

In addition, Anu also instructed that before approaching the volcano, he must say hello to him, and he will ask the village chief for his opinion. Only with the approval of the village chief can they approach the volcano and go up the mountain.In addition to safety considerations, another reason is that the volcano is too sacred for the local people, and it is an important medium for them to communicate with the gods and the dead, and the volcano itself, according to local legends, is to repel outsiders. Yes, its temper is still very irritable, and only after communication with the village head will it be open to strangers from outside.

Under Anu's recommendation, Yu Rong met the village head. The village head could speak some simple English, but most of the time he needed Anu's translator to communicate with Yu Rong.Yu Rong wanted to have a simple interview with the village chief, eat and drink enough, and after getting a general understanding of the situation, seeing the sky darken, his eyelids were fighting, and he couldn't hold on anymore. He looked at Lin Wangyue, Lin Wangyue It was also the first time he had come to a volcano, and he listened very carefully when Anu was talking to the village chief. At this moment, he was abnormally taking the initiative to hold Anu and ask questions.Lin Wangyue asked: "What is the highest temperature of the volcano?"

Anu said, "It's about [-] or [-] degrees Celsius."

"If you put something in it, it will turn into smoke in the blink of an eye, right?" Lin Wangyue said.

Yu Rong whispered, "There should be no problem with the drone flying so high..."

Lin Wangyue still looked at Anu, looked at the village chief, and asked: "What if the volcano suddenly erupts when we go up the mountain?"

Anu said: "Don't turn around and run away, but face up, pay attention to the magma flying out from the front, and avoid their landing point by yourself."

Yu Rong pulled Lin Wangyue and whispered in Mandarin: "You don't want a crow's mouth."

Lin Wangyue ignored him, he still had many questions, and continued to ask: "In many stories about where people go after death, in the West, people with religious beliefs believe that sinful people will go to hell after death, Tormented in the scalding hellfire. In ancient China, we believed that after death, people would go down to a place called the Underworld to be judged. There was a judge, like a judge, who would judge you according to your life In order to issue a judgment against you, people who have committed no serious crimes can be reincarnated, and those who have committed crimes will be sent to different hells according to the severity of their crimes, and there is a hell full of flames inside." He paused, touched He pursed his lips and said, "Obviously both the East and the West believe that sinful people will fall into a place like a volcano after death, but here, the volcano is the destination of people after death, and the soul lives in the volcano. There is no distinction between good and bad souls, so they cannot be reincarnated, right?"

Anu listened carefully and translated to the village chief. After listening and translating, he looked at the village chief. The village chief lit a cigarette, ate it, and fell silent.

Yu Rong looked at the time, it was almost eight o'clock, the simple hut with two wooden beds was very quiet, and it was also quiet outside.The village head exhaled a long stream of smoke, looked at Lin Wangyue, got up and turned off the light, and lit the oil lamp on the table with the embers of the cigarette.

Yu Rong covered his mouth and yawned moderately.

When the village chief spoke, Anu translated.

"Because they're afraid of volcanoes, they imagine volcanoes as places of misfortune, doom. We're not afraid of it, we live with it, it erupts, that's its temper, everything around us has its own temper Yes, the stars twinkle, the moon sometimes appears and sometimes does not appear, a piece of wood, sometimes soft, sometimes hard, people, we sometimes can't control our temper well, and the volcano is the same. When we are alive, it accepts us Beside it, when we die, the dead will disturb the living, and the living will miss the dead too much. The volcano accepts the soul of the dead, so that once the living miss the dead, the volcano will bring the dead. To the dead, in a dream."

"In a dream?" Lin Wangyue asked, blinking, his eyes flickering.

Yu Rong rubbed his eyes, the room was too dark and the light was too blurry, he almost thought Lin Wangyue was crying.

The village head nodded, Anu nodded too, Lin Wangyue smiled and nodded slightly.

Anu and Yu Rong said: "One of my uncles was able to communicate with the volcano. There was a power outage and it was raining that day, and the whole village could not find a fire. Lighted the wood for him, and he asked it to borrow a fire."

Yu Rong asked, "Are we going to get up early tomorrow?"

Anu said, "06:30 I will call you."

He sat down with the village head again and left.

As soon as they left, Yu Rong fell on the bed, pillowed on the laptop, not wanting to move.Lin Wangyue lit a cigarette and sat on the bed to eat.Yu Rong half closed his eyes and said, "It must be very cold in the morning, I still have a coat, you can wear it."

Lin Wangyue was silent, Yu Rong pulled up a blanket, covered his body, yawned and said, "No, I can't hold it anymore, I'll go to sleep first."

Lin Wangyue replied: "Go to sleep."

His voice was so soft that Yu Rong had never heard it before. He was startled, and hurriedly opened his eyes to look at him.Lin Wangyue was still eating a cigarette, facing the oil lamp, the weak light fell on him, and two wing-like shadows extended on the wall.The shadow shook and disappeared.

Lin Wangyue blew out the oil lamp.

Yu Rong fell asleep right away. The next day Anu came to look for him. He hadn't slept enough. He opened his eyes slowly, got up, sat down on the edge of the bed, and looked at the other empty bed next to him. Zhang bed, he called out: "Lin Wangyue?"

His throat was a little hoarse, he cleared his throat, and shouted again.

No one answered.Yu Rong asked Anu: "Have you seen my camera?"

Anu shook his head.

Yu Rong looked at Lin Wangyue's bed again, and Lin Wangyue's always-on backpack was still on his bed.Yu Rong and Anu searched inside and out, but they still couldn't find Lin Wangyue. Anu went to ask other people in the village, and Yu Rong went back into the house muttering, and his eyes fell on Lin Wangyue's backpack again. .

Suddenly, his heart stopped beating, his knees softened, and he fell down on Lin Wangyue's bed, and hurriedly opened the zipper of the backpack.Everything is there.A paper notebook, a white vest, three pairs of underwear, two pairs of socks, black short sleeves, and even a mobile phone.

Yu Rong called Anu from the window, and Anu ran back, also very anxious.No one saw Lin Wangyue.

Yu Rong covered his mouth, he wanted to vomit, wanted to shout, he touched his arm, he got goose bumps all over his body.For a moment, the corner of his eyes caught sight of his suitcase, and he quickly opened it.

The black feather cloak that Lin Wangyue kept with him was gone.

An indescribable feeling seized Yu Rong, he ran out of the wooden house barefoot, grabbed Anu and said, "Take me to the volcano! Go now!!"

"Now!!"

The village head and two villagers also came. They hurried to the southern foot of the volcano. After climbing for about ten minutes, there was smoke and acrid smell everywhere. Anu shouted: "Cover with clothes Shut up!"

Yu Rong pulled up his collar, covered his mouth, coughed and rubbed his eyes non-stop.He couldn't see anything clearly, his eyes were vast and white, his head was heavy and he was struggling to walk.After walking and resting, Yu Rong couldn't keep up with the pace of the village chief and Anu at all. His cough became worse and worse, and his eyes hurt more and more.A villager at the back of the hall stopped him, stumbling and saying, "Wait, wait for us."

Yu Rong responded, and the villager went up the mountain. He backed up to the place where there was no smoke, hugged his head and sat on the ground.The air in his lungs hadn't changed, he still couldn't hold back his cough, his head was not quite dizzy, his eyes were sore, and tears were streaming from the pain.

Many thoughts, many words that were said intentionally or unintentionally, and many things were spinning in his mind. Yu Rong covered his eyes, and a big black bird suddenly flashed in front of his eyes, like a crow, exuding the breath of death all over his body.

He tried not to look, not to think.But he could still see the phantom of the black bird, and he couldn't help but still think: everything might really be a dream, Lin Wangyue walked towards him from a white light, passing through some memories, some time, shattered Some memories disrupted all time, and now, he disappeared into another void.

Anu brought back a pair of shoes, a pair of jeans, and a white T-shirt from the top of the mountain.It's all Lin Wangyue's stuff, all found on the edge of a cliff overlooking the volcano's eye.Anu found nothing else.

With a high temperature of more than 2000 degrees Celsius, everything that falls into it will disappear.

forget the soul