The two of them walked towards the source of the river. There were fewer and fewer drop-shaped earthen houses on both sides of the river, and there were only a few residents of the settlement.
When they arrived at the mouth of the sea, Jiang Xueming and Bu Liuxing saw what this "dream sea" looked like.
The sweet sea breeze blew towards my face, and wherever I could see, the horizon and the sky seemed to be mixed together, becoming a vast gray patch of color.
Waves of waves surged onto the gravel beach, and further away, huge shadows crawled deeper into the gray sea, with bright red flames in them, indicating volcanic activity.
It's like there is an immeasurable giant lurking under the bottomless rock base of the ocean trench.
The lava spewing out of the crater is the ten thousand eyes on its back. The waves that come and go are its heavy and slow breathing.
Bu Liuxing felt that his breathing was short, and he could hardly breathe in front of this mysterious and strange ocean.
Xueming walked straight towards the foreign-style building in her dream, looking for the direction in her memory and walking into the fog.
The drizzle and heavy fog soaked their clothes. In the sweet air, they were talking.
"Brother Ming, when I saw this sea, I felt very bad..."
Asing stepped onto the rocky beach with one foot deep and one foot shallow. He could hear his heart beating wildly from his eardrum.
As if the extraordinary [inspiration] in his heart was at work, when facing this ocean, he could sense the inexplicable and great existence in it.
That illusory sense of oppression and almost crazy fear were about to crush him.
He is like an ant that sees human shoes.
His face was pale and he was sweating profusely.
He had to say something, he had to talk to Jiang Xueming. The huge pressure in his heart made him enter a transcendent state.
He knew that if he were asked to go through the security check now, his madness index would be frighteningly high.
Is there something in this sea——
——Although that thing never cared about Bu Liuxing, there was no communication or any intersection between the two.
But Bu Liuxing was still affected by the things in the ocean, and this sense of oppression almost drove him crazy.
In his body, the hormone glands in various parts of his body were working crazily, and the bioelectrical system of his brain was instantly out of balance.
His brain synapses inevitably began to send out erroneous signals, causing him to think wildly.
His throat was dry, like a laborer who had stayed up for days and nights. He asked almost as if he was pleading: "Brother Ming...Brother Ming...aren't you scared? Did you hear that? Have you seen the sea?"
Something...you..."
Jiang Xueming pulled Bu Liuxing's arm.
"Axing, don't be afraid."
Bu Meteor felt dizzy. In this heavy fog, he seemed to be unable to see the end point, and his neurasthenia became more and more serious.
At first, the sound of their footsteps on the gravel became harsh.
Later, Bu Liuxing only felt that those noises could affect his heartbeat, causing bursts of cramping pain in his chest.
The short distance of a few hundred meters was like walking in hell for Ah Xing, with every step being fried and boiled.
"Brother Ming, you are not afraid at all, are you?"
"I don't know where your fear comes from, Ah Xing." Xueming said frankly: "Is it the sea on our right?"
"Yes, brother Ming, can't you feel it?"
"felt it."
"Then the inspiration for both of us is working. It is warning us to leave here and not go to the sea again."
"We have no plan to go into the water, Axing. We are only five or six hundred meters away from the foreign-style building. Can you hold on?"
"I can... I should be able to."
"Looking at how you look now, can you go back alone?"
"have no idea..."
"I think so. If I leave you behind and let you return to the supply station alone in your current state, I'm afraid the situation will be more dangerous."
"Brother Ming...have you always been like this?"
"Is this the case? What do you mean?"
Bu Liuxing felt that his limbs had gained strength, and his head was no longer as groggy as before.
He could feel his arm being squeezed tightly by Jiang Xueming, as if a steady stream of strength was coming from that arm.
His heart rate dropped, and the color returned to his face. He only occasionally glanced in the direction of the sea, and the fear and fear would come back to him - so he turned his head and never looked in the direction of the sea again.
.
Ah Xing took a breath, then explained and asked.
"I'm sorry, my head just didn't work. I wanted to ask you...have you always been so calm? When I faced the ocean just now, I couldn't stand still.
"
Jiang Xueming: "Yeah."
"Huh?" Bu Liuxing turned his head in disbelief and looked at Jiang Xueming - he saw Jiang Xueming's side face and the man's unchanging expression, like a monster.
This made Ah Xing a little hard to understand, so he quickly added.
"I used to play extreme sports. I was not afraid of skydiving, rock climbing, surfing, and skiing. I was super brave. But in front of this sea, I felt like I was trapped in intrusive thoughts. I felt it
It will destroy me at any time...roll me in, press me into the deep sea ten thousand meters below, drain all the air from my body, and crush me into a biscuit."
Jiang Xueming: "Yeah."
"So Brother Ming." Bu Liuxing asked persistently: "At first, I thought it was because your inspiration was not up to standard and you couldn't sense my feelings. Can you feel it, right?"
"Yes." Jiang Xueming replied without hesitation: "I can feel it, the map on the pedometer shows. As we walked along, our legs seemed to be unable to control themselves. We kept walking inland, and our bodies were rejecting the ocean.
."
"That's right. It seems that you can indeed feel it." Bu Liuxing seemed to have found a confidant and nodded seriously: "So, you are not afraid at all, are you?
"I'm not afraid." Jiang Xueming became confused: "If you insist on saying that there is something to be afraid of..."
Xueming thought about it and described to Ah Xing the terrifying monsters that can be seen at any time in life.
"If the braised food business fails, I want to deliver food. But the window for resignation is expected to be long. I will have no income for a month or two - which means I will have to borrow loan sharks.
I have dealt with people from several loan companies, but they were not good people. They promised to give me a loan, but the price may very well be my sister.
When they were discussing Bai Lu, it was as if they had planned in advance how Bai Lu would repay his debts, which nightclub he would go to, who he would accompany, and what kind of cosmetics or perfume he would use.
This made me feel scared, a deep-seated fear, which is why I made up my mind to learn some self-defense techniques. Before the worst result occurred, I could escape the debt with my sister.
It feels like you applied for a credit card and overdrafted thousands of dollars, but one day you can't find it. It's sitting somewhere in your home, compounding interest and defaulting on it.
If it is overdue until it becomes a bad debt, you may receive a call from a stranger at any time, notifying you to deal with the debt, but there is nothing you can do.”
The two of them had already arrived in front of the foreign-style building.
After clearing the mysterious fog, there is the bench that I saw in my dream.
The mysterious woman was leaning on the back of the chair, with her back to the two passengers.
Jiang Xueming turned off the pistol safety and said seriously and persistently.
"Bu Qiuxing, let me reiterate, I am not a monster without fear. I can feel my body, including the [inspiration] you mentioned, they are resisting this sea. But there are many, many more in my life.
Horrible similarities to them——
——For example, there are thirteen families in the walled city who take drugs.
——There are eight old people who have feudal superstitions. They keep Buddha statues of unknown origin in their homes. Last month they said they would eat babies’ umbilical cords to ward off evil spirits. Who knows if they will cut off young girls’ ears or noses next month to bring good luck?
——Six fire escapes are blocked and filled with sundries and shoe cabinets.
——Beside the clothesline is the entrance wire, and you can hear the crackling sound during thunderstorms.
——The plane landing at the airport next door was only 150 meters away from the roof of the walled city when it was flying at its lowest. It was like a roaring dragon. I could hear its roar every day. I could only
I pray that it will choose the right place to land every time.
Every day, I feel like I'm living at the bottom of an abyss of chaos. Seeing that my sister is safe and sound makes me feel like I can live on."
Axing asked in surprise: "Have you never thought about moving? Brother Ming? Change the environment?"
"Where are we going?" Jiang Xueming thought of his hometown and the missing persons notice in his hometown that was like a wanted notice. He also remembered his sister's happy expression when she came out of the subway station with her classmates after school when she was studying in school.
Bu Liuxing was stunned. At this time, he really had no right to ask others to do anything. After all, not everyone has a mother who is very good to him like Ah Xing.
Not everyone can see Victoria Harbor across the sea when they leave their house.
"What can it do to me?" Jiang Xueming pointed to the sea: "A monster will jump out of it? Will it bite my head off? And -"
He pointed to the woman on the bench.
"——What will she do? Will she place an inexplicable curse on me? Will she tear my hair out? Gouge out my eyeballs? Will she make my life worse than death? I am very curious.
..If this information can be exchanged for a bottle of panacea from BOSS, I will be really grateful."
"Brother Ming..." Bu Liuxing felt pity: "My family is rich, how about we go to Moon Lane and open a coffee shop? You are such a reliable person, I
Such a cheerful fun-loving person, one of us is soliciting customers and the other is doing the work, we are definitely a golden partner... I think there is something interesting..."
"I beg you, when you said these words just now, you looked like an old general on the stage, with flags on his back." Jiang Xueming threw two magazines and gave a simple and concise order: "Check the chamber of the gun."
Ah Xing didn't waste much time, took out the gun, pulled the slide, and rechecked the status of the gun.
Xueming: "Load the bullet."
Ah Xing did as he was told.
Xueming: "Open the safety, point the gun at the ground, and follow behind my right arm in a half-crouch."
Ah Xing followed Xueming obediently without saying a word.
I saw Xueming making a semi-circular route, raised his gun and came to the woman, pointing the gun at the head of this mysterious woman.
Ah Xing was half squatting.
They saw that the woman's attire was indeed exactly the same as the woman in the dream.
Bare feet, thick blue gauze skirt.
Under the wash of rain, the graceful body curves are revealed.
It’s just that under the long black hair, there are no facial features on the head——
——The original eyes, ears, nose, and mouth all seemed to be covered with a layer of blue-black skin.
Jiang Xueming immediately said: "Take a picture, Ah Xing. Don't turn on the flash and shutter sound effects. Let me know when you finish taking the picture."
"Okay..." Bu Liuxing held the gun with one hand and followed the instructions, "The shooting is over."
"Back off, step back slowly. Prepare to enter the house and search." Jiang Xue stepped back towards the foreign-style building step by step cautiously.
Ah Xing felt that strange pressure coming again. His scalp was numb and his eyes couldn't leave the woman's face. It was as if his eyeballs didn't obey his orders and his mind was stuck.
"Okay, okay..."
The western-style building is very close to the coastline.
There were also many waves that washed away the stone piles supporting the foundation of the tower.
As they got closer and closer to the sea, the ethereal malice struck again.
Ah Xing's arms began to shake and he couldn't even hold the gun.
He saw the woman's face changing.
Where the facial features were originally, it seemed like there were earthworms crawling under the blue-black dead skin, but with every breath, they turned into a sweet appearance.
that person...
Bu Liuxing seemed to recognize him. He was trying so hard that he couldn't remember who it was.
After all, his heart was broken into many pieces and given to many sisters.
It was difficult for him to describe the familiar yet unfamiliar feeling in words, as if his ex-girlfriends were like corpses that had been dead for a long time. A shrewd forensic doctor fused their faces together, and finally they became what they are now.
This look.
He felt as if someone was pinching his neck, and he could faintly hear calls.
"come over..."
"Come here..."
"Step into the meteor..."
"Honey..."
boom--
The sudden gunfire caused a layer of white sweat to break out on Ah Xing's forehead.
Jiang Xueming's gun pointed toward the sky, billowing with smoke.
"Are you thinking about women? Axing?"
Although he was a little embarrassed, Ah Xing did see the lovers he had longed for just now: "I...yes."
"I saw it too." Xueming made a stern expression and stared at the phantom through gritted teeth: "I saw my sister sitting there... so I fired to warn her."
"What should we do now?" Axing asked in a panic, "Continue the search?"
Jiang Xueming reminded: "Although we see different things, the camera doesn't lie. Then take a photo of her, don't worry about what is in the photo, and then let's go into the house."
Bu Liuxing did as he was told, but when he was taking pictures, he couldn't help but take another look at the screen of his phone——
——He felt like his mind was drifting away into that illusion.
He could see the woman in blue on the phone slowly standing up, reaching out to him, whispering to him softly, calling out to him in a gentle and soft tone.
The sudden gunfire woke him up again.
Jiang Xueming's shoulders and neck trembled, the gun in his hand spit out tongues of fire, and the explosions of a series of bullets echoed on the beach.
The fragments of gravel under the bench were scattered by bullets.
Only the last bullet hit the strange woman's knee, knocking her body off balance and paralyzing her back on the chair.
Jiang Xueming shouted loudly, "I have emptied the magazine and want to change the ammunition! Keep an eye on her! If she moves around, then hit her legs."
Bu Liuxing no longer dared to look at the woman's face, he just stared at the broken leg.
The wound on the leg was very horrific, and the pistol bullet left an open hole in the flesh tissue. A steady stream of blue blood came out.
He could hear some deep and plaintive cries, as if his lovers were asking him for help and crying out for their pain.
However, this wound is healing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the bone and flesh adhesion and blood vessels are remodeling, just like jelly colloid quickly returning to its original shape under the squeeze of a mold.
Bu Liuxing asked nervously: "Hey! Brother Ming, if the bullets can't kill her...if she moves around again..."
Jiang Xueming finished reloading: "Then let's run and run back to the supply station."
Bu Liuxing: "What if she comes here?"
"That's great, we can try using the Black Volga to use the Sedan Iai Technique on her." Jiang Xueming's tone was cruel, "We can also collect some of her biological tissues. We will definitely be able to get a panacea."
Bu Liuxing then asked: "Can't the car hit her to death?"
"Then change a car." Jiang Xueming didn't care: "The dump truck Iaijutsu."
The two of them discussed this.
Let’s go see the mysterious woman in blue again.
She originally wanted to stand up, but now she sat back down.