But we never expected that when we reached the end of the passage, we would see a familiar scene. The yellow river, the huge toad and poisonous snake statues on it, and the narrow stone path.
Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, and they didn’t understand why such a place was created again. However, we didn’t think much about it and walked carefully through the stone path. Sure enough, the two stone gates appeared on the opposite side, one for life and one for death.
The door is exactly the same as what we saw at the beginning.
Not only me, we all felt that something was wrong. Without any hesitation, we pushed open the door and walked in. The result was a long passage, exactly the same as the one we passed just now, as if we had never walked through this passage.
Live the same.
We passed through the passage as quickly as possible, but the result was that scene again, unchanged at all.
"Little prince, it seems that something happened. Do you think we are being haunted by ghosts?" The fat man looked at me, his eyes kept rolling, not knowing what he was thinking.
I thought for a moment and turned to look at the old cripple. "Old Yan, what do you think?"
The old lame man turned around, his expression a little solemn. He said: "We don't know yet. Don't draw conclusions so early. Let's try again and see if we can get out."
Then we walked forward two more times, with the same result. Unwilling to give up, we turned back again, but after walking for a long time, there was still no result. Except for that passage, it was this familiar place.
"It seems we are trapped here." The old cripple finally confirmed our situation. I asked him if he knew what was going on, but he shook his head. Judging from our walking, we did not encounter anything special.
Things were very peaceful along the way, so he couldn't guess what was going on.
"Oh, I understand, that's what the so-called Shengmen is all about." The old lame man suddenly realized.
I asked him what he thought of, and he pointed to the stone door with the word "生" engraved on it and said: "What is life? It means the cycle, as always, the life here does not refer to life, but to the endless generation of life.
Isn’t this what we are facing now?”
It makes sense. The door of life and death appears here. Of course, it cannot be as simple as death and survival. His explanation is very insightful. "Then how did this situation come about?"
"Could it be a ghost?" Fatty said suddenly. Whenever this guy encounters this kind of situation, the first thing he thinks of is ghost, but judging from the current situation, this is not impossible.
"I'm not sure yet, so let's do this. Since we can't get through the door of life, let's go through the door of death and see what we might find!" the old cripple suggested.
We all agreed and immediately opened the door to death. It was also the longest passage inside, but we walked in without hesitation. But we didn’t expect that the final result would be the same. After the passage reached the end, we returned.
that familiar place,
"It should be that we made the wrong choice from the beginning. As the saying goes, it's hard to turn back if you make a wrong move." The old lame man sighed repeatedly, looking a little helpless.
"That's not necessarily true. Xiaoyue and the others have entered the door of death, but it may be more dangerous inside. After all, although we are trapped now, we have not encountered any danger. The top priority is to find the reason and a way to leave. Otherwise,
Don't say it anymore, it's meaningless." I said. I also said it to everyone.
The old cripple nodded and stopped talking. But after thinking for a long time, he couldn't think of a way. The most important thing is that we don't know the cause, so naturally we can't find an effective solution.
"There must be something ghost at work." The fat man repeated the old words again, this time he said with a firm face.
"How do you know?" I looked at him in surprise, not understanding why he was so sure.
"My young prince, do you think there is a way out somewhere but we can't get out? It must be a trick of the devil. Think about what we encountered here when we came here?"
"What did you encounter?" I looked at him doubtfully, and suddenly an idea flashed in my mind: "You mean, that thing in the river?"
"It must be it, otherwise what else could it be?"
I kept thinking about the possibility of his idea. Thinking of the illusion I had seen before, I suddenly felt that it was very possible. "Then what should we do?"
"If that's the case, we can't get out now without it. In my opinion, the most direct way is to dig it out. This is also the best way."
This is indeed the most direct and best way, but I am very resistant in my heart. Because if we want to do this, we have to go into the water. It must be very dangerous if there is that unknown ghost thing.
But in the end I had to agree, because there was no other way. The fat man and I made some preparations, and then slipped into the water. The water here is a bit colder than the water we came in before. Look.
The seemingly turbid water flow is actually extremely clear, at least within a few meters of the surrounding area, there is no obstruction anywhere as far as the eye can see.
I suddenly thought of a question. This river is more than ten meters wide and the depth of the river is more than five meters. How can we find that ghost? Do we need to search the entire river? How long will it take?
Time!
I told the problem to the fat man, and he was a little embarrassed at first, but soon he grinned, took out a dagger and lightly scratched his palm, and a trace of blood mixed into it along the river water.
"Is this method okay? I feel like fishing, the two of us are the bait."
"You have to try it to know whether it works or not. We can't just wait here. If it doesn't come out in a year and a half, we will be trapped and die here."
"That's true, haha, Fatty. When we encountered such things in the past, we always ran as far as we could, but this time we took the initiative to look for them. I feel like I'm looking for trouble."
"Haha, you are right, little prince. We are just looking for trouble. Who said that they can only come to us to cause trouble and we are not allowed to take the initiative. In the past, we had too many worries. Master Zhao Gua said, we must do it
With this kind of determination to bring down the emperor with all his strength, what else can be difficult for us?"
"Okay, Fatty, you are absolutely right. Let us brothers fight hard today."
As soon as I said these words, I suddenly felt some abnormal fluctuations in the water around me. Just as I was alert, I suddenly felt that my ankle was tightly grabbed by something. The force was really strong, and it hurt just once.
I almost screamed.
Learning from the past, Xiaoqi's fate made me full of vigilance. I knew that struggling blindly was useless. I quickly said hello to the fat man, and then the two of us got into the water together.