The ground in Heishan Town will suddenly collapse and sink regardless of time or place. Suddenly, a dark and bottomless tunnel will open, leading to hell.
As the clods of earth tumble down together, those who are unfortunate enough to be swallowed up by hell will never come back.
"When I was born, there were thirty to forty thousand people in the town," Yu Yuan sat on the steps, lowering his eyelashes and whispered, "Now... there are less than two thousand people left."
The opening of a black hole is completely random; sometimes it does not appear once a year, and sometimes it swallows more than a dozen families in a month. The only thing that is regular is that it is basically not in the same place in a short period of time.
appear continuously.
"The people in the town are always living in panic. Just a question of survival has made people breathless, but as if this is not hard enough... everyone is secretly anxious in the depths of their minds.
I am terrified, not knowing which day it will be my turn, and I will fall into the gaping black hole."
"Why is this happening?" Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but ask, "Where did the black hole come from?"
At this moment, she was still holding Bohemia's hand - although Bohemia was still far away from the pit just now, she seemed to realize that Lin Sanjiu only wanted to save her for her own good, so she didn't lose her temper at this time.
Sitting aside honestly, waiting to go back to Yu Yuan's house for dinner.
"No one has an accurate answer. Maybe when Heishan Town was built, there was a 'factor' that could collapse and swallow people at any time." Yu Yuan said in a low voice, "Everyone said that disasters are a part of life, and there is no such thing.
Natural disasters cannot be avoided...right? All the people in Black Mountain Town can do is not to listen or to see, and seek their own blessings."
Lin Sanjiu always feels that things shouldn't be like this - a force majeure, for no reason, will fall down and hit you at any time, and your life will be completely black. The whole town is the only one who can deal with this.
The way is not to think about it, not to talk about it, and not to provoke it.
"What can I do?" Yu Yuan said with a bitter smile, "It's hard enough to live. Just to stay alive, I have exhausted all my strength. After the black hole collapses, the ground will slowly close, and even if I dig again, nothing will be dug out.
Already."
He sighed and said: "Fortunately, the ground will be restored to its original state. To be honest, let alone digging people, if the deep pits in the ground are not restored, I don't know if the people in the town have the physical strength to fill the pits...
… There is a food shortage in our town, and it is very difficult to meet daily needs.”
Lin Sanjiu stood up from the steps and looked back at the town square.
If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she would never have imagined that the subsidence had just swallowed people; the empty space had already been filled in, because the safest place today was the land where the dead bodies were deeply buried.
This time in Black Mountain Town, there is no Black Mountain, but a black hole that randomly collapses.
"Let's go, it's time to go back for dinner," Yu Yuan stood up, pointed at Bohemia and said, "This guy is so hungry that he even looks bad."
Dinner was very simple; but Bohemia wanted to dive into the soup pot and eat every fiber - as Yu Yuan said, neither of them was full.
After dinner, it was time for Lin Sanjiu to say goodbye.
"I have to go home," she said, vaguely remembering Exodus. The reality of the apocalyptic world was like another layer of dreams, overlaid and projected on this layer of dreams. "I only remember that I came to you because there was a
This is a very urgent and important matter, and I need you to give me an answer, but I forgot something."
Yu Yuan, who insisted on seeing her off, was holding Bohemia's hand and walking beside her. Upon hearing this, he turned his head and glanced at Lin Sanjiu, like black jade flowing in a white stream.
"It doesn't matter, we have a long time to come."
Lin Sanjiu also smiled: "Well, I'll come find you again as soon as I remember."
The setting sun had already set, dragging away the last red clouds. The dark blue sky fell like rain into the sky and the earth, dissipating and dispersing into a dark sky. The three of them walked silently in the night without street lights, not wanting to
In the distance is the path Lin Sanjiu came from.
"Just send it here," she said to Yu Yuan, looking at the path formed by flattening the loess, "I can walk straight on this road and be out in ten minutes."
Yu Yuan followed the direction of her finger and glanced back and forth for a while. Finally, his eyes fell back on Lin Sanjiu.
"Although nothing good happened today, I'm still glad you came."
He let out a low breath. Perhaps it was because of the lack of tattoos, or perhaps because all the emotions in dreams were always so strong that they hit the soul directly. Lin Sanjiu felt that she was almost resonating with his reluctance and nostalgia.
.
Yu Yuan, who has always been calm and reliable, turns out that there are times when he is like a young man, feeling both at a loss and attached...
"The person I am now exists because of you." Yu Yuan lowered his head, as if to hide his emotions, and his voice trembled slightly. "You have reshaped the 'me' you know. Sometimes I think
, is what you recreated the original me? How different is the 'Yu Yuan' in your perception from the real 'Yu Yuan'? But I will never get the answer.
"Sometimes I feel like a piece of cardboard. Have you seen the cardboard figures erected in the store? Just like that one. You put me up, but you don't know that behind me, there may be nothing.
"
"Why do you say that suddenly?" Lin Sanjiu stretched out her hand, wanting to touch him and comfort him, but she still took it back. "You are not an empty person..."
"Um."
Yu Yuan responded through his nose, but still did not raise his head. "That may be because... when I am with you and with my friends, I feel that I am closer to what a person should be, complete and sufficient.
.I can feel that in the entanglement with others, I am slowly giving birth to new flesh and blood, and I am slowly standing firmer and stepping on more solid ground."
When talking about friends, he glanced at Bohemia beside him.
"I am willing to live in the image you gave me, because I think that the me you know must be very good. Maybe better than the original Yu Yuan. If apart from this, I have thickness and have
It would be better if it has more aspects and is no longer just a cardboard statue."
"Of course you're not..." Lin Sanjiu started to speak, but then felt too pale and stopped.
"I am hopeful that I can be with you."
Yu Yuan bent down, picked up Bohemia, and let her sit on his arm. He stretched out his other arm toward Lin Sanjiu and said with a smile, "So you should come see me again as soon as possible."
Lin Sanjiu didn't know if she was crying - she seemed to have no reason to cry. She walked up, stretched out her arms, and took the young Yu Yuan and the toddler Bohemia into her arms.
After a while, she let go of her hand.
"After I leave," Lin Sanjiu whispered, "You won't be in danger, right?"
"It doesn't matter." Yu Yuan put Bohemia down and said, "We live here and know what we are facing."
So, why not leave?
Lin Sanjiu hesitated and glanced at the way he came.
She was stunned.
The simple loess road, which just now passed through two rows of bushes and extended into the distance, disappeared at this moment. She stared at the place where the loess road originally existed, and she couldn't tell what had replaced it -
No, there seems to be nothing to replace it; the world is simply cut off here.
what happened?
Lin Sanjiu suspected that she was looking in the wrong direction and turned around sharply. However, she could not see anything except Heishan Town behind her; it seemed that there was an invisible curtain wall that tightly surrounded Heishan Town. Her line of sight,
Her cognition couldn't cross the curtain wall, let alone drag her body across it.
Why did her origin disappear?
Obviously before hugging, she also saw——
Lin Sanjiu lowered her head and looked at her bare legs, stunned. Her field pants and vest were gone, and she was only wearing the clothes Yu Yuan gave her.
The whereabouts, clothes, food... the enthusiasm and curiosity of the people in Heishan Town towards outsiders; the embrace between her and Yu Yuan.
The cold winter snow and mist rose from deep within the body, and Lin Sanjiu trembled uncontrollably.
Yu Yuan and Bohemia were no longer around, and seemed to disappear in a second thought; but she knew that Yu Yuan was now sending Bohemia home - the special power of dreams even let her know
, how to get to Bohemia's house.
"Yu Yuan!"
As Lin Sanjiu ran, he shouted to the two figures in front of him. "Wait for me, I have something to say——"
Obviously she was only a few steps away, but those last few steps could not be crossed no matter what, they were always between her and the two people in front of her; no matter how loud Lin Sanjiu shouted, Yu Yuan and Bohemia also
Can't hear anything.
"Ah, this sewer has no cover,"
Bohemia said, letting go of Yu Yuan's hand, and took two steps to the right, intending to bypass the dark sewer on the sidewalk.
No matter how heart-wrenching Lin Sanjiu screamed, he couldn't get Yu Yuan to turn his head. He walked on the other side of the sewer, not realizing at all that where Bohemia's feet were about to land,
A deep black hole opened up that was almost identical to the sewer.
One second she was there, the next she disappeared into the night.
The ground slowly closed up and returned to its original state; Yu Yuan subconsciously stretched out his hand, as if to pull Bohemia up again, but was stunned.
"Yu Yuan!"
It was as if there was an invisible bubble that separated her, which was finally burst by this shout. Yu Yuan was excited and raised a pair of blood-red eyes towards Lin Sanjiu.
"Bohemian she-"
"Listen to me," Lin Sanjiu grabbed his arm tightly, as if she, like the voice, was about to be shattered into pieces. "Why didn't you take Bohemia away earlier? Why didn't you call the people in the town?
People leave? Because you can't leave at all, right? You can't see anything from the outside world, can you? I can't see it either, I can't see the way out. And, I finally understand... I finally know Montenegro
Where is it?"
Yu Yuan was stunned and glanced at the ground again. "Where is it?"
Lin Sanjiu raised her hand and pointed at her temple.
"it's here."
With an expression as if he was sleepwalking, Yu Yuan slowly raised his hand and touched his fingers above his eyebrows. "In my...mind?"
The two of them were silent on the sidewalk where Bohemia was buried. After a while, Yu Yuan said in a trembling voice: "How do you know?"
"You planted Heishan in my mind," Lin Sanjiu whispered, "while we hugged."
After she came to Heishan Town, she had physical contact with Yu Yuan for the first time, and the way out disappeared.
"I don't understand..." Yu Yuan said tremblingly, "I don't understand...is it because of me?"
Lin Sanjiu wanted to shout "no", she wanted to say out the extremely important thing that was rolling deep in her mind, but she still couldn't pull it out of that night and into the present, just like in her mind
Sure enough, there was a towering, black and heavy mountain shadow that captured her thoughts - the only thing she could say was "Black Mountain Town".
"You want to slowly grow new flesh and blood while being involved with others... don't you?"
Lin Sanjiu gently held Yu Yuan's hand and whispered comfortingly: "That's why we are in this Black Mountain Town, that's why there is a Black Mountain Town here... right?"
"No black mountain anywhere is as powerful as the black mountain in my heart, right?"
Yu Yuan suddenly smiled bitterly. He seemed to have no strength in his feet and slowly sat on the ground. "Am I really the source of the Black Mountain this time? I just want the safest and most stable place... I just hope that in the future
, can be the same as the past few days. Why has it become this situation? "
Lin Sanjiu wiped away the tears on her face, knelt down in front of him, and whispered: "I don't know why things have evolved into what they are now...why we have to make a choice."
Yu Yuan slowly looked around the sidewalk, houses, sewers, and the night sky.
"Our friends...and the ordinary people in the town who are running for survival every day...Bohemia." He murmured, "We can't stay trapped here...can we?"
Lin Sanjiu shook his head.
After a few seconds, she asked in a low voice: "What are you going to do...?"
Yu Yuan was stunned, looking at the ground with empty eyes. As if being brought back to his senses by these words, he said hoarsely: "Just let the Black Mountain disappear, right?"
Lin Sanjiu suddenly became nervous.
"How do you want Montenegro to disappear?" she said urgently, "You have to know that even if you give up on yourself and put yourself in danger, it may not mean that everything will be possible..."
Yu Yuan looked at her unblinkingly, as if he had finally let go of a heavy burden and finally made a decision. Now he just needs to look at his cherished friends one more time.
"But, I have to do it, right?"
He got up from the ground, put his knees on the ground, stretched out his hand, and tucked a stray lock of hair behind Lin Sanjiu's ear.
"Small wine,"
Under the night sky, Yu Yuan’s smile was like snow.
"If I could turn back time and choose again, I would still choose to meet you and become friends... I have no regrets at all."
Many years ago, when I was young and ignorant, I made a great wish. After the end of the world, I wanted to revise it. Now... friends, wild ghosts, we are all reasonable people. I can only sit down and revise more than 2,400 chapters.
Only people in prison can do it, right? I'm going to finish the first hundred or so chapters, life is short... To be honest, now that I read what I wrote before, I do feel a kind of gap...
PS: In fact, everyone knows how Yu Yuan will choose, which makes it difficult to write about him...