Sometimes I feel that I am very unfortunate because I was born in a big family, and my father was so perfunctory to my mother, so I grew up in an environment without maternal or paternal love.
When I became an adult, the first thing I did was to escape. I packed my things and moved out of the big house. When I got into my friend's car and set off on the journey, I was so excited! Maybe I have never been so excited in my life. Too excited.
Later, I suffered from hunger, beatings, and even almost lost my life several times. But luckily among the misfortunes, I finally became a qualified astronaut through my own efforts. When I first met my goddess Shen Before Yinuo, I always thought that women were mostly brainless and troublesome creatures. If it wasn't for the purpose of giving birth to the next generation and satisfying my own physiological needs, I didn't think I should interact with women.
But it's obvious that my thinking is too narrow-minded, and even ridiculously paranoid.
Shen Yinuo is the goddess that I can never fall in love with in my life. She is so superior that even if I later married another woman, I still feel that if I am lucky enough to stay with her for the rest of my life, that would be the most perfect thing.
This thought stayed with me until my child was born.
Now that I think about it, I am so lucky.
Compared with those children who were born hungry, I had a good life before I became an adult. I tasted delicious food from all over the country. When I was very young, I traveled around the world with my half-brother. I also There are endless books to read and endless pocket money to spend.
Even if I later chose to escape from that comfortable environment without love, my subsequent experiences should be considered luckier than many people.
At the age of twenty-seven, I completed my first spacewalk.
At that time, I was extremely excited.
Looking down at the Earth from the Shanhai International Space Station, the sight I saw is something I will never forget. But what I never expected was that just three years later, my life would begin a fantastic journey.
This is supposed to be the opening paragraph, but I put it here because my story actually begins here.
Although in many interviews, the stories I told mostly started when Xiaoming, Yinuo and I set out to carry out the "recycling" mission, in fact, this period of the past is not the focus of my story. At best it can be regarded as a huge background board.
After I met Qingshui Gen, I just touched the prologue of the story.
The starting point of the story begins when I, as a brother, followed the old man’s footsteps and stepped into the deep source of darkness...
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I don't know what they mean by "it" and "door". Vaguely, I always feel that similar concepts have appeared in my cognitive ability.
But obviously, these repeated concepts are completely different from what I will face.
The old man led me all the way to an abandoned courtyard in the deepest part of the temple.
I have passed by this place several times before, and I always felt a little concerned about it. I also asked curiously what kind of place it was and why it was abandoned.
However, the monks in the monastery always kept silent about it, as if it was a taboo, so I didn't ask too much.
But today was different. After the old man brought me to this area, he took off his cassock, revealing the coarse linen clothes underneath, and his chest. His thin body was faintly glowing with black fluorescence.
The old man opened the door and turned back to ask me: "Are you really going to find your brother? If you don't come in, you can live a peaceful life outside."
I shook my head without hesitation: "No, I want to find him. He is also waiting for me to save him."
The old man understood, he said no more, opened the door and walked inside.
I hurriedly followed, but as soon as I stepped into the courtyard gate, my clothes were caught by Xiaodouzi.
I looked at Xiaodouzi with confusion. Xiaodouzi looked a little reluctant to leave. He cried and shook his head: "Don't go, you won't come back! It's a man-eating monster! No one can do anything to it! You
Don’t die in vain!”
Human-eating monsters? Hehe, even though I heard a lot of rural legends and knew a lot of evil secrets when I was very young, I didn’t believe it at all after receiving the materialist education of the new era in school.
I don't believe that there are really any man-eating monsters in this world! Even if there are, they must be some beasts that have not yet been discovered and recorded.
So I comforted Xiaodouzi and said: "Don't worry, my mother said that I am born with a tough life and will not die that easily. You can just wait for me to come back with peace of mind."
But Xiaodouzi still didn't let go.
I was a little anxious because the old man didn't look back. After he entered the yard, he went directly to the house in the middle of the yard.
"No! You listen to me! As long as you look back! Your brother will definitely come back! But if you go in and anger it, maybe everyone will die!"
Hearing Xiaodouzi say this, I suddenly felt that he was not caring about me, but worried that my rash actions would anger the "monster" and implicate other people. Thinking of this, instead of giving up, I became a little disgusted.
I broke free with all my strength, and then stepped into the yard.
When I actually stepped into the courtyard, I suddenly realized that I seemed to be wrong.
All the joys, sorrows and joys in the world were completely eliminated when I stepped into the courtyard. My heart became extremely calm, and even the accelerated heartbeat when I ran here just now slowed down.
The yard was covered with fallen leaves, and the dilapidated scene gave people a very depressing feeling. But what surprised me was that instead of smelling of decay, all I could smell in my nose was the strange fragrance of flowers.
Floral scent? How can there be floral scent?
Just when I turned around and planned to ask Xiaodouzi if he smelled the fragrance of flowers, I saw the door of the courtyard closed by Xiaodouzi, and what he left me was a strange and inexplicable smile.
At that time, my scalp felt numb, but deep down I was not panicked.
"Why are you still standing in the yard?"
The old man might have gotten impatient, so he came back and called me.
I came to my senses and hurriedly walked towards the house.
"coming."
Following the old man into the house, I found that apart from the fact that the house was a little dilapidated, there was nothing special about its appearance or interior furnishings.
Wind-eroded mottled patches could be seen everywhere. I carefully avoided objects on the ground and followed the old man to the innermost part of the house.
There I saw it!
"I guess your brother is down there. If you really want to save him, go down now. I will be responsible for guarding and supporting you outside," the old man said.
I was stunned when I heard this, and my calm heart suddenly became tense: "What, won't you go down with me?"
The old man took out a short knife from behind and handed it over and said: "Go down? I don't want to go down again. After I went to that place once, I swore I would never go there a second time. Now I have done my best to bring you here.
, so... you choose it yourself."
I fell silent.
Yes...this world has always been like this. Except for the people who love you most, no one will give you unconditional support.
Looking at the short knife in the old man's hand, I took it after hesitating for a moment.
The short knife is softer than expected, and feels more like a piece of bamboo.
When the old man saw me taking the knife, he exited the room and said: "Be careful, no matter what you encounter when you get down there, just kill him!"
I was shocked when I heard the words, and felt even more uneasy at the warning. Although I knew in my heart that the old man was real and imparted his experience, I had never killed a living being in my life, let alone killed someone.
Now……
I couldn't help but ask myself, am I really capable of stabbing the knife out?
Seeing that I was still in a daze, the old man became a little impatient. He added a reminder: "It's daytime now, and the situation will be better if you go down there. But at night, if it loses its temper, everyone will die! So hurry up."
of!"
Hearing this somewhat similar urging, I retracted my mind, gripped the short knife tightly, and slowly walked toward the spiral cave in the corner.
Looking at it from a few meters away, it is clearly just a hole, but every time I take a step forward, the feeling it gives me changes.
First, the darkness grew larger, and then the surrounding spiral seemed to flow. Then, I seemed to hear a call, and something seemed to be peeping at me in the darkness.
By the time I came to my senses, I had already reached the black cave.
And I woke up like a nightmare, all the hazy feelings disappeared, I was still in the room, there was no sense of depression in my body, and my breathing was smooth.
But before I could laugh, countless pale arms suddenly popped out of the black abyss in front of me. They were as flexible as the tentacles of an octopus, and they "swallowed" me in just a moment.
Without even uttering a scream, I felt like my body was torn into countless pieces.
The world in front of me was like the excretion channel of some giant creature. In that narrow channel that was filthy, sticky, and filled with the stench of decay, I was wrapped and squirming forward.
When I finally passed through it, I fell into the pool of water glowing with white light.
Looking at the bright stars in the sky, for a moment, I suddenly felt like I had been reborn.
Where is this?
I rubbed my eyes, and then I found that my skin seemed to be peeling off. In panic, I backed away repeatedly, but I accidentally guessed something very sharp, and the sole of my foot was cut open.
The blood smeared in the fluorescent pool water, and the water surface seemed to come alive all of a sudden. Those eyeless faces swarmed up like piranhas that had smelled the smell of blood and told me to throw myself into the water.
I was extremely scared, but my survival instinct made me quickly struggle to get up.
As I moved toward the shore, it was as if I was saying goodbye to my past self. Those old bodies were left behind, and I kept tearing off the dead skin and dirt from my body.
When I walked to the shore, my body was so weak that I couldn't even open my eyes.
Although I knew I couldn't fall in such a dangerous environment, I still fell asleep...
Falling asleep among other people's stories is a very magical experience.
In the dream, I saw Xiaoming and Shen Yinuo. The three of us were all wearing spacesuits, but something seemed to have happened when the rocket took off. With a violent shaking, the flames engulfed everything.
I sat up suddenly!
Then he held his heart and retched continuously.
What came out of my mouth looked like clumps of undigested seaweed.
Vomiting made my body even weaker, but fortunately I didn't collapse again.
My blurry vision made it difficult to see the surrounding environment. I vomited for a while and then turned around and lay down. In the hazy moment, I seemed to see a huge tree crown, which covered the sky and the sun, covering up the bright stars.
Is this the bottom of the hole?
It seems...it's not as scary as imagined...
I couldn't help but laugh, feeling ridiculous for deceiving myself.
After lying down for a while and regaining some strength, I tried to get up, but my back hurt so much that it felt like I had been stepped on by something.
But I still sat up.
After sitting up, I cleared away the dirt/objects in front of my eyes, and then I finally saw my surroundings clearly.
This is the center of a huge lake with no visible edges. On an isolated island with crystal white soil, a huge pale ancient tree has deep roots and lush leaves.
Its hugeness is astonishing.
I walked near the tree and circled it for a week, and I roughly estimated that it was as thick as ten people surrounding it. I thought this was the first time I had seen such a big tree.
After determining the general environment, I was a little confused.
This island is not very large, and there is nothing else on the island except this tree.
Could this be the "it" they were talking about? The man-eating monster?
Carnivorous plants are not that rare in this world, and if it can grow so big, I wouldn't be surprised to say that it can eat humans.
But the problem is, it doesn't feel like some ancient carnivorous tree to me, or even a living tree.
Standing less than three meters away from it, I could already clearly see the texture of its trunk.
Is this a dead tree?
After much deliberation, I decided to give it a try with a knife.
So I immediately went back to look for my knife, not noticing that the wound on my foot had healed on its own.
I was always cautious while fumbling for the dagger in the fluorescent shallow water, because I did not forget the unknown sharp foreign object hidden in the water.
At the same time, I am also alert to possible dangers in waters far away from isolated islands.
It took me about half an hour to finally find the dagger that fell with me.
It seemed much newer than when I first got it. I thought it was an illusion, but when I pulled out the knife, I realized that there was indeed something weird about this place.
The rust on the blade disappeared, the dagger became shiny, and the blade had a cold light.
Having a knife gives me a lot of confidence.
So I immediately turned back to the beach, but just as I was about to land, there was a small, almost inaudible sound of entering the water from behind me.
The sound was very similar to the sound of a crocodile quietly sliding under the water after discovering its prey.
But theoretically I shouldn't be able to hear it with my ears, not to mention that I made a lot of noise when I landed ashore.
But I just heard it, and I realized that the danger might be approaching, but I didn't stop my actions.
I want to find my brother as soon as possible and find out the secret here!
When I came to the pale ancient tree, I took a deep breath, then held the knife in my backhand and stabbed the tip of the knife hard into the trunk of the ancient tree.
Almost as soon as the tip of the knife pierced the ancient tree, I felt as if my abdomen had been stabbed by some sharp object.
Severe pain came and I almost screamed.
What's going on?! I looked at my uninjured abdomen in shock, and then at the weird old tree.
Can it pass on its own pain?
So I carefully stabbed it with the knife. This time my movement was very slight, but the pain was not gentle at all.
I woke up, it was alive! And it should be conscious! It even had some kind of supernatural power that I couldn't understand!
Fear filled my heart again.
I don't dare try it again because it is undoubtedly suicide.
But where is my brother?
Just when this idea appeared, the ancient tree suddenly let out a deep and old whimpering sound.
When the sound sounded, the originally calm water suddenly became noisy.
I looked back in panic, but to my surprise, what I turned around to see was my dying brother lying on the shore.
I was stunned for a second, and then ran over immediately.
I dragged my brother ashore and found that his body was extremely cold, like a stone.
"Yu Jin! Yu Jin!"
I held his head in my arms and called his name loudly.
But Yu Jin's breath was gone, and he seemed to have been dead for a long, long time.
I started to try to give him artificial respiration. During the process, I felt a weird salty smell from his mouth, but I didn't care so much. I gave him artificial respiration while trying to press his heart to let him go.
Restore heartbeat.
But he didn't react at all.
Finally, I collapsed.
My brother is dead.
Yu Jin is dead...
Did I hurt him?!
Yes! If I had noticed his abnormality earlier, he would not have died!
It was my fault!
It was my fault!!!
I was so devastated that I held my brother in my arms and howled in pain.
The originally peaceful world was awakened by my crying.
I am no longer afraid. The sadness of losing my loved ones has made me lose the courage to live...
I don’t know how long it took, but I had cried so much that I had no strength left.
A man suddenly walked up to me.
I raised my head and looked at him, and then I froze.
He was also looking at me, and of course he was stunned.
We looked at each other, feeling that it was a very unexpected and scary thing to see each other.
"you!"
"you?!"
After a brief moment of confusion, we seemed to remember the same advice at the same time.
So I hurriedly went to get the knife, but I was still a step too late.
His movements were very clumsy but he was still one step faster than me.
The sharp tip of the knife pierced my heart, pulled it out, pierced my throat again, pulled it out, and pierced my abdomen again.
He seemed to be going crazy and stabbed me randomly with the knife.
The blood soon turned the beach red.
And he dragged my brother Yu Jin away from me when I was dying.
I really wanted to get up and fight him, but I had no chance.
The curtain of death slowly fell, and the light disappeared from my sight...
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"Yu Jin! Yu Jin!" After killing him, I dragged my brother to the ancient tree in horror. I looked around vigilantly while calling my brother's name.