Lu Mingfei heard something seem to be opened in the dark. It might be a door, a box, or a book.
Then the indescribable sound was so deep that it spread to the depths of the limit of his thoughts, like the ripples of a stone thrown into the middle of a lake, or like the aftermath of a star exploding in the dark universe. He couldn't really hear what the invisible, expanding sound was.
What it is like, I can only barely imagine how majestic, sad, and bloody an epic it is with some thorns as its crown.
The first thing Lu Mingfei regained was his balance, so it was accompanied by a feeling of weightlessness.
As he fell in the darkness, his brain lost control of the familiar gravity constant. It received physiological signals from inside the body and sensory information from the outside, reminding him that you were in danger, do something quickly.
But Lu Mingfei didn't feel that he was in danger, and even felt like yawning. Because he knew that he was dreaming, and all the fears in the dream came from the lack of understanding of his own situation, and his brain guided him to make wrong judgments and guidance.
Panic spread.
If you fall into panic, the amygdala rushes here and there to urge the secretion of adrenaline and other related hormones, speed up the heartbeat and breathing, increase blood pressure and muscle tension, making you feel as if you were fished out of water when you wake up.
Sweating profusely.
Lu Mingfei didn't want to make himself so wet. He remembered that he fell asleep in the guest room of the Lion Heart Club. Since he was staying temporarily, room service would come to help him change and wash the sheets every morning.
I don’t want to be rumored in the Lion Heart Club the next day that I have a sweaty constitution, or that I did something strange while sitting on the bed.
If he had encountered such a situation a few days ago, he might have panicked and shouted for help, but now he has become accustomed to all this. He has even guessed the next development. After falling for a period of time, he will crash
He will land on something, not the solid earth, but a medium closer to the water. Then he will slow down and then sink. At some point, a ray of light will begin to appear in the dark sight, and people's instinctive phototaxis will make him
Walking towards the light, when he came back to his senses, he was already standing in front of the familiar bronze city.
It's an old trick! Lu Mingfei thought disdainfully, completely forgetting that the first time he encountered this situation, he was so frightened that he almost cried out "Little devil, help me".
He closed his eyes...or he didn't know whether he had his eyes open or closed now, waiting for the ray of light to appear in the darkness.
Fall, float.
But did the dreaming process take too long this time? What is His Highness Norton doing? What is Old Tang doing? Check Old Tang's status? Hey, hey, open the door. If you have the guts to pull me into a dream, don't have the guts to open the door!
Lu Mingfei's thoughts were wandering, and he made up his mind to talk to him when he saw Old Tang later, and asked him not to make up for so long this night. There was a hearing tomorrow morning. What if he overslept and missed the hearing?
It wasn't that he was doomed. He couldn't afford to lose himself in front of the entire school.
Suddenly, Lu Mingfei heard a vague and subtle voice. It was a person speaking. The voice was very soft, but it did not escape his ears.
"Strange thing." The voice said in a low voice, with a calm tone.
In the darkness, Lu Mingfei's senses gradually recovered, a sign that had never existed before. He gradually heard the wind.
Rumor? Why is there rumor? He doesn't understand.
Then there seemed to be tiny particles passing between his fingers, and the wind rolled those particles through his fingers, just like reaching out to hold the gravel blown by the wind, which reminded people of yellow sand.
Yellow sand? Why is there yellow sand in the water in Baidi City? He doesn't understand.
Then there was the late ray of light, the candle that the lonely man drank with in Baidi City. Lu Mingfei was always guided by that candle to find the gate of Baidi City, just like the confused man in the dark sea.
People are attracted to lighthouses.
He rushed towards that little light, and when he was about to reach it, he stretched out his hand to touch it, but just then an accident happened.
In Lu Mingfei's eyes, there were more and more light spots in the darkness. At first, there were one or two scattered spots, just like the sparse starry sky obscured by light pollution in a modern city. But gradually, it was like a certain valve was opened, and hundreds of them appeared.
Thousands and countless stars surged in from the deep darkness, occupying the entire field of vision in front of Lu Mingfei!
He was suddenly lost in the storm of starlight, and could no longer find the solitary lamp to guide him. He was surrounded by light and fire, and whenever he got close, he could hear the noisy sound of a radio station.
The things that the voices pouring into the ears tell are all kinds of strange things, and the voices of the people who tell them are also all kinds of strange things, men, women, children, old people, different genders, different characteristics, the information seems to be going crazy from Lu Mingfei's mind.
It penetrated into the hole and danced happily in his head.
The man's voice narrated to Lu Mingfei's right ear: Did you know? Trilobites are the most representative ancient animals that appeared in the Cambrian period 560 million years ago. They are a type of arthropod.
The whole body is obviously divided into three parts: head, chest and tail, but at the same time, humans discovered ruins of suspected civilization; a woman's voice slowly pressed against his left ear and narrated to him: Since the Big Bang, the universe has been gradually expanding.
The existence of galaxies, nebulae, stars, planets, and life is not special. They are not miracles born on the planet. Their composition is the reorganization of exploding star atoms. The most ancient form of life is the star; the voice of a child
The audio was of him lying on top of Lu Mingfei's head, shouting with him cheerfully and matter-of-factly: Hey! Run, run, he is coming! He is coming! Everything will end, life will be over.
Stop, time will stand still, and the air will freeze! He was unwilling to reach the end of the rope, so he frantically cut off the rope. This was the end of the world; the old man's voice dragged Lu Mingfei's spine, preventing him from being distracted by those frantic messages.
Liu Gaichong bent down, and he spoke to Lu Mingfei gently and wisely: Don't be afraid, my child, I know you have tried hard. When the end of the world really comes, you can just sit in your house and
Drink the Scotch whiskey you buried in the earth, light a Cuban cigar given to you by your lover in the earth, watch it burn to the last inch, and quietly leave this sad world.
Lu Ming must be crazy, or he has forgotten what it feels like to be crazy. Someone is screaming in his ears, and someone is whispering behind his head. If those lights are close to them, they will hear it as if they are other people.
The whispers of the world, if you stay away, the madness will be left behind. So he realized that he was moving forward, moving forward in this ocean of stars, just like a spaceship traveling through the universe. He gradually left the planet and flew across the stars.
, rushed out of the galaxy, then a bubble-like galaxy cluster, and then touched the extreme edge of the universe, so the stars and noisy sounds behind it began to fade away, and everything returned to the silence that had not changed for tens of millions of years.
What is there beyond the edge of the universe? Lu Mingfei didn't know, but light began to appear in front of his eyes again. This time the light was different from the starlight of the storm. There was only one light, like a tsunami of waves rolling in.
Golden yellow, like a burning star, but as big as the entire universe.
He was close to the light that flooded the entire universe. What kind of sound would he hear in such light? Is it the whispers in the black hole of the universe, the whispers of God when he created the world, or the death of the universe when it collapsed into a singularity?
A soft sound? He didn't know that at this time, he could no longer have any shocking thoughts in his mind, because he was already numb and allowed himself to dive into the golden ocean of light.
In the end, he really heard the voice in the boundless light.
Sound of wind.
It turned out to be the sound of wind again.
But it's not just the wind.
In the sound of the wind, something is exploding. It is very subtle and soft, similar to the smile of tiny sparks when burning. It continues to exploding. When the wind blows, the loudness increases.
In addition, there is a crisp and pleasant sound, similar to the sound of the collision of silver products, which is soothing, quiet and mysterious.
"Lu Mingfei." Someone called him.
—興
The scorching sun shines directly on the golden earth.
In the barren yellow sand, the wind blew the sand grains rolling down the high slopes, making a fine friction sound. The sand dunes were raised and flattened by wind erosion over and over again. A group of tumbleweeds rolled in the quiet rustling sound, and the yellow sand was moved by his passing.
Leaving a slight trace, it ran from left to right from the top of the hillside, like a brown whirlwind.
In front of the porch of the dilapidated wooden house, Lu Mingfei was sitting on a lounge chair and looked at the desolate scene quietly. A flue-cured cigarette was burning between his fingers. When the wind blew through his fingertips, the butt of the smoke rose.
The fire will light up slightly, and a string of rusty wind chimes hanging at the door will sway and make a pleasant sound.
After a long time, Lu Mingfei woke up. He might have been awake all the time because he had not closed his eyes for a long time while sitting here. But subjectively speaking, Lu Mingfei did wake up. From this moment on, he
Thinking of who I am and where I should be, I am like a confused person in a dream who at a certain moment looked at the collapsed and twisted world and raised three philosophical questions to myself.
The cigarette burned Lu Mingfei's fingers, and the burning stinging sensation made Lu Mingfei jerk his hand in pain, and the cigarette flew up with only the tail left.
"What the hell?" He cursed subconsciously and looked to his side.
The thrown cigarette butt fell parabolically to the ground, bounced off the three worn-out ladders on the porch, and finally lay on the yellow sandy ground rolling slowly, slightly buried by the sand blown by the wind.
"...?"
Lu Mingfei suddenly raised his head and looked around. What he saw was a field of yellow sand. He found himself sitting in front of the porch of a dilapidated house that looked like a deserted desert. The hot wind blew from the distant sand dunes and hit him.
face, bringing fresh grains of sand to the corners of his dry and cracked lips.
"What's going on?"
Lu Mingfei took a breath through his nose. The temperature of the air seemed to be on fire. Inhaling it in the nasal cavity and along the respiratory tract ignited the lungs. The hot feeling almost made him dizzy. The countless light and heat outside the house also made him
My eyes felt stinging, and I couldn't help but raise my left hand to block the hot and vicious light reflected by the yellow sand outside the porch.
But just when he raised his left hand to his eyes, Lu Mingfei, who was originally dazed and dazed, was subconsciously attracted by the strange thing on the back of his left hand.
Lu Mingfei never thinks that he takes good care of his skin, because there are many people around him who take better care of his skin than him, even if they don’t deliberately use skin care products with high concentrations of allantoin and other repairing ingredients, such as Su Xiaoqiang, Zero
The skin on the hands of a girl like that was as smooth and tender as egg white. Lu Mingfei thought that he couldn't compare with such a naturally beautiful princess, but at least his skin, which didn't touch his fingers very much, shouldn't be as old as it is now.
The appearance of an old man.
What appeared in front of him was a withered left hand full of wrinkles. The skin on the back of the hand was covered with centipede-like interlaced scars. In some parts, skin tissue similar to repaired after burns could be seen irregularly raised or sunken on the original skin——
But to be honest, Lu Mingfei can no longer tell what the original skin color of this hand is. Because of the excessive pigmentation, this hand is no different from the mummy's skin color in his eyes. The only biggest difference is that this hand can
Move, move according to his wishes.
Lu Mingfei moved his "battle-tested" left hand with a stiff expression, and the five fingers moved up and down in sequence. There were fresh grill marks on the inside of the index finger and middle finger. But what frightened him the most was that even this
All five fingers except the thumb have the same horizontal scar at the interphalangeal joint.
Having attended battlefield first aid and autopsy classes, he naturally knew that this was the mark left after the finger was amputated. Judging from the severed opening, this hand should have suffered a sharp chop and was severed in an instant.
There was no flesh on the four fingers, and the thumb was spared because of its low position.
Lu Mingfei also found the same traces on the wrist, so this means that not only the fingers of this tortured left hand, but also the entire palm had fallen off over a period of time.
The wind chimes were still ringing. Lu Mingfei suppressed the panic in his heart and restrained his emotions in unknown situations. Through repeated hardships, he had already made a small progress and no longer panicked when encountering the slightest problem.
The fledglings jumped up and became overwhelmed. The first to panic is often the first to die. This was emphasized dozens of times by the veterans of the executive department who taught them the lesson.
When you suddenly fall into an unknown situation, what should you do first?
In Lu Mingfei's mind, he subconsciously asked himself about the execution department manual that he had turned over before each mission.
time, place, person.
What time is it now, where is this place, and what is my physical and mental condition like?
Lu Mingfei looked up and looked to the left and right of the porch where he was sitting. This was a very typical porch structure of a wooden house. It was like a flat terrace built outside the door of the wooden house. It had a roof and supporting columns, which could be used for shelter.
Sunshine, rain and wind are also the places where old cowboys usually sit in front of the house and watch the sunset and drink in TV dramas.
Outside the wooden house is a desert, a bit like the Gobi Desert in a western town. It is full of sand. The exposed surface is dry and has no vegetation. Judging from the direct sunlight, it is probably noon now.
Lu Mingfei observed everything within ten seconds. From the corner of his eye, he saw the door of the wooden house to the left of his seat. The door was full of cracks and there was no door lock structure. It should have been fastened with horizontal bars from the inside.
Locked... What are you doing? What era is this in? Are you still doing something like the Wild West of the 1860s?
On the right side, Lu Mingfei found a window. There was a hole in the lower left corner of the window, but it was sealed with a white cloth. It can be seen that the owner of the wooden house was in embarrassment. He could not afford to replace a single glass, let alone replace it.
Other living conditions. But this was not Lu Mingfei's main purpose. When he saw that the window was almost complete, he immediately leaned over and wanted to see his face through the reflection of the glass.
When he saw the scene on his left hand, Lu Mingfei was sure that something was wrong with him. He leaned in front of the glass and stared at his reflection in the glass... and then almost broke his guard.
Fortunately, the person in the glass is indeed himself, and he has not been replaced by some red-necked cowboy from the West. He is given a drama about traveling through the wilderness of the West to become a big whore... escort.
But unfortunately, the person in the glass was still himself, but he could hardly recognize that it was himself. Before Lu Mingfei was about to find a mirror, he had already begun to worry that his face and hands were both war-damaged.
, but the great luck among the misfortunes is that his face is much better than his hands, and there is no scary feeling like a finished product that was put into a meat grinder and taken out again. The biggest change overall is that he has matured.
It was difficult for Lu Mingfei to describe this feeling. The reflection of himself in the glass was both familiar and strange at the same time. Familiar because he knew it was him, strange because he felt that this should be himself twenty years later. His skin was like sandpaper.
The face is also full of rough marks, stains, and sun spots. The face is dry, dull, and sunken.
What frightened Lu Mingfei the most was the scar that almost pierced through his right eye in the reflection in the glass. It can be concluded that his face should have been stabbed at some point and in a straight line downward from his right eyebrow bone.
He violently and fiercely cut across his right eye and brushed against the slightly convex cheekbone! He was just a little bit away from losing this eye forever.
He took a deep breath and felt that the matter was a bit big...but there was still a voice in his heart telling him, don't panic, really don't panic, the matter might not be that big.
He began to recall how he came here...sleeping, yes, sleeping, he fell asleep, and then passed through a dark field of stars, and then he opened his eyes and arrived here, so this should be a dream, a and white
A dream as real and clear as the Imperial City.
Lu Mingfei's left hand trembled slightly. The fingertips that had been burned by the cigarette were still slightly numb. The wind blowing in the yellow sand felt like burrs licking it. This reminded him that even if this was a nightmare,
It doesn't seem to be a joke.
"Lu Mingze?" Lu Mingfei subconsciously shouted to the glass.
No one answered him.
The little devil who was always at his beck and call did not respond to his call. In his ears there was only the whine of tumbleweeds and the hissing of fine sand.
This made Lu Mingfei feel even more unsure. Through the glass, he saw clearly that he was wearing a white shirt with an open collar. As expected, there were shocking scars all over his body in the collar. He was wearing tasseled black leather chaps.
, all very old and dusty.
What is this, a cowboy-like Lu Mingfei from a parallel world? Can he have a real-life cowboy show in his dream? Should there be a few cows to set him up next? Or should there be a few intruders?
How many shots should the little thief in the territory give him?
When Lu Mingfei mentioned the gun, he suddenly saw that he actually had a gun on his waist, a heavy silver revolver with African ebony anti-slip discs. A yellow primer could be seen in the drum, with complicated markings on it.
The lines and carvings reminded him of the runes he saw in alchemy class. Engraved on the silver barrel was a string of English words: Texas Dawn.
Yellow Queen, Texas Dawn, Texas Dawn.
No matter how literal the translation is, Lu Mingfei's intuition told him that this thing might have something to do with alchemy technology, maybe it was a genuine alchemy weapon - so this cowboy-like Lu Mingfei was also a hybrid? Or even
How awesome is it to have your own alchemy revolver?
Just as he was fiddling with the alchemy revolver on his waist, a woman on his left suddenly said softly to him, "Lunch is already ready, or do you want to sit outside for a while?"
Lu Mingfei was so frightened by the sudden words in this quiet environment that his hands trembled and he almost lost his temper. He looked up hurriedly and saw that the wooden door on his left hand, which was originally empty, had been opened at some point. Standing beside the door was a man with short hair.
The woman is about 1.7 meters tall, with light blond hair, a hazel face with obvious sun spots, and deep bags under her eyes that cannot hide her amazing beauty.
She was leaning in front of the door, wearing a scarf stained with oil in front of her, which made her less childish due to her height and appearance, and added a smoky and mature temperament.
Lu Mingfei just glanced at the other person's neck, where he saw a scar that almost suffocated him, crossing the entire neck, as if it had been circumcised. He couldn't imagine what it was.
These injuries are left behind by the injury.
Seemingly noticing Lu Mingfei's gaze, the woman raised her hand and lightly touched her neck to cover the scar. She lowered her eyes and asked softly, "...What happened to you today?"
Lu Mingfei looked into the other person's eyes, looking at the familiar eye color and the face that had the impression of him that could not be covered by the sun marks. He finally said hesitantly, "Zero?"
Then Lu Mingfei saw the other person's expression change, turned his head to avoid his doubtful gaze, and said in a low and cold voice, "Have you forgotten to take your medicine recently?"
Lu Mingfei thought she was scolding him, but after a moment he felt that was not the case. The other party really felt that he had not taken some kind of medicine.
"The meal is ready. Let's call the children back and warn them not to go crazy too far." The woman sighed slightly. After saying this, she reached into the door and picked up a crutch. At this time, Lu Ming
Fei Cai noticed that the opponent's left leg under the apron was abnormally bent... as if a kneecap was missing.
Lu Mingfei felt an inexplicable twitch in his heart and wanted to stand up to help her, but his rationality held him down on the chair on the porch. He had ten thousand doubts in his heart but did not dare to ask them out because of his vigilance.
His heart told him that the situation he encountered now was very, very wrong!