When Jenny saw that I was energetic again, she immediately smiled and said, "Is this right? Come on, let's go there."
The two of us quickly walked up the steps and came to the empty coffin. "Let's just push the coffin away and see if there's anything underneath."
"Yes." Jenny nodded. There were two of us, one holding one side of the coffin. I yelled and started to exert force at the same time. This coffin is very heavy and dead. It was so hard to push the coffin lid just now.
, let alone push the whole coffin now.
Jenny and I just pushed it a little for the first time, but we were already exhausted. I squatted on the ground and said breathlessly, "***, why is it so heavy? I'm so tired that I almost collapsed."
My left hand started to go numb due to the injury. This is not a good sign.
Jenny was so tired that she squatted on the ground. She glanced at me and said, "Zhongyi, are your hands okay? It doesn't matter, right?"
"It's okay, there's no bleeding anymore, and it doesn't hurt anymore." I reluctantly shook my left hand to reassure her.
"I see you don't look well. Did the wound on your abdomen recur?" Jenny saw that my face turned pale, and she guessed the reason.
But I can't tell the truth, "No, my abdominal injury has been healed a long time ago. Don't worry, it's okay. I'll just take a rest. It's just that the coffin is too heavy. What kind of tree is it made of?"
Why is it so heavy?"
"Yeah, this coffin is really heavy. I don't know what kind of wood it is, but it's definitely not an ordinary coffin." Jenny reached out and wiped the sweat from her forehead, her expression no better than mine.
"Jenny, hold on a little longer. Once the coffin is pushed away, we can go out." I took a breath and looked at her with a smile and said.
"Well, I will definitely go out." Jenny also smiled.
After resting for a few minutes, Jenny and I got up again and started pushing the coffin. After a lot of effort, we reluctantly pushed the coffin away.
After pushing the coffin away, I quickly took a flashlight to shine down, but it was still sealed. "What? How come there is no road?" Jenny looked up at me, and her face became even more ugly.
"Don't worry, I'll look for it again." I squatted down and tapped the ground gently with my hands. I tried everything under the coffin. It was not empty, everything was solid.
This proves that there is no way to go down here.
I was a little dumbfounded. I slowly looked up at Jenny, sighed, and shook my head helplessly. I didn’t say a word. I didn’t even know what to say. The excitement I felt before was now all gone.
Gone.
"What? Is...is there really no road?" Jenny seemed a little extreme, and she immediately knelt down to check.
I grabbed her and said, "Forget it, don't waste your efforts. I have checked thoroughly. There is no way down here. It seems... we are really trapped."
I feel very powerless. I have been working for a long time and am exhausted, but I still get nothing. Why does this damn underground palace have only one entrance? Isn't this unreasonable at all?
Jenny closed her eyes and slowly squatted on the ground, "Zhongyi, it seems... there is really no hope. Do you think we will die here?"
Jenny asked me with a smile on her face, but I knew that her smile was a sign of sadness in her heart, a kind of hopeless helplessness. The more she looked like this, the worse it felt in my heart.
Although she didn't shed tears, I could feel that her heart seemed to be bleeding. She was still so young, so beautiful, and her life had just begun. If she was trapped and died in a cave on a desert island,
It’s really a pity. Whoever it was, no one would be able to accept it.
When I think of this gloomy underground palace, with our cold corpses lying there, even if we are dead, neither of us knows where we died. This is so damn frustrating. Although life is not great, death is
It's really too useless.
Looking at Jenny's weather-beaten face, her original beautiful face was covered, and she looked very tired, but she was still so strong, no matter what secrets she hid in her heart, she was always a girl.
I gently held her hand and said, "It's okay Jenny, don't worry, none of us will die. Even if I dig with my hands, I will dig a way."
Jenny smiled again, "Are you quite manly sometimes? You usually feel quite superficial, but at critical moments, you will be a person worth relying on."
These few words she said made me feel a little embarrassed, so I just said awkwardly, "You...you too, are a trustworthy teammate."
Jenny gives me the impression that she is just the kind of little girl who deliberately hides things, rather than an enigmatic and unpredictable woman. She is just a girl in her twenties. Even if she has great abilities, she cannot figure it out.
What a big wave.
From the time she told me that she wanted me to believe her, I could not see turbidity in her eyes, but a kind of clarity. Maybe my practice was too shallow, or maybe her methods were too high. In short, at that moment, I
I believe her.
"Zhongyi, how old are you this year?" Jenny said and sat down against the coffin. Her move proved that she didn't want to struggle anymore, but she was indeed very tired.
I stopped her and sat down, "I'm twenty-eight, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing. I'm just curious, so I'm going to ask, why do you think of going to sea to be a sailor? You are from the Marine Corps, so it shouldn't be that difficult to find a job." Jenny said softly. It seemed that she had completely run out of energy.
.
"I can't explain a sentence or two clearly. I had a good job at first, but something unexpected happened and I stopped working. Then I went to Seaside City. Later I met Jiao Ba, and I started working as a sailor. This job
, just for several years..." I seemed to be reminiscing about her treating me as a sailor and diver.
After I finished speaking, Jenny sighed and said, "It's not easy for you too. You've been out for so many years, why haven't you started a family yet?"
"Getting married? Who should I get married with? I don't even have a family of my own." The housing prices in Seaside City are very high, so I have always rented a house.
"You're not that bad? Why don't you find a girlfriend?" Jenny was really weird today. All she asked me were personal questions.
I turned around and looked at her with a strange look, "What's wrong with you? Why are you asking me this?"
"Didn't you tell me? I'm just curious. What? You don't want to tell me?" She looked at me listlessly, her eyes looking a little dim.
I forced a smile and said, "Let's talk about it. Anyway, I have nothing to do with my free time. At first... I had a girlfriend. That was before I joined the army. We were high school classmates.
We dated for about a year, and then I dropped out of school to join the army and we broke up."
"What a pity, why didn't she wait for you to come back?" Jenny asked softly.
"There is no reason. Everyone has their own choices. We took different paths, so naturally we couldn't be together. Later, when I came back from the army, I went to Beach City not long after that, and we have been together until now."
I have never told anyone about this past event. Not even Jiao Ba and Shunzi know about it. It is just a piece of history that can be used to recall, a cup of love as clear as water, without all the excitement and excitement, and no one else’s.
It was so lingering that when I think back, I feel like an old friend, not like first love.
Jenny nodded, and just when she was about to ask me something else, I interrupted her in advance, "Don't just talk about me, tell me about you? You came all the way to go to sea. Other than your family, you don't know about your boyfriend."
Don’t you know either?”
I remember when I first got on the boat, I asked her if she had a boyfriend. Jenny didn't answer me at that time. I always wanted to find an opportunity to ask again, and I finally found it this time, but the road was almost over.
"Don't you just want to ask me if I have a boyfriend? Just ask directly, why beat around the bush?" Jenny saw through me at a glance, which made me very embarrassed.
"When I was in college, I had a boyfriend, but later... he cheated on us, and we broke up." When talking about this past incident, Jenny's expression was unnatural.
"Is your boyfriend mentally retarded? You are so beautiful and he cheated on you. If it were me, I would definitely cherish you." After saying this, I felt a little inappropriate and really wanted to slap myself.
Isn’t it shameless behavior?
Jenny looked at me with a strange look and said, "If Li Xin were trapped in this underground palace with you today, would you also say this to her?" What she said was like a sharp knife.
Same, it stabbed me directly in the chest.
"This... what does this have to do with her? Li Xin hates me." I quickly rejected it for him.
Jenny just smiled softly and didn't say much. I suddenly asked her, "Jenny, are you afraid? Maybe...maybe we will really die here."
Jenny's eyes were a little dull. She looked ahead and said, "What's the use of being afraid? It's better to think about it and just think of it as the two of us, accompanying the painting opposite, and bury it here together."
I smiled helplessly and said, "You are really open-minded. You are willing to be buried with a painting, even a eunuch's painting. This is really..."
Before I finished speaking, I stopped. Jenny’s words made me react. I suddenly remembered a very important thing, which is the innermost
That eunuch painting, yes, this painting is hung on the stone wall, so is there any secret hidden behind it? For example, tell it.
Such a big painting would definitely not be hung here for no reason. It would have been weird if there were no corpses here. Now that there is another painting, it is even weirder. At that time, I was probably just thinking about finding a way out.