Chapter 21 twenty

What Happened in the Rubber Plantation (7) The two women did not talk about their respective hometowns, but talked about the great desert in Africa and the life in the tent on the edge of the desert.Both had a surprisingly strong desire for the kind of life they had never had before.Ada was waving the scythe in her hand in the reeds, and Lisa asked her what she was chopping. "Cut whatever you want, anyway, you have to cut something." Lisa looked down and saw that her shoe had been almost cut in half by her. "You won't want this shoe after a while," Ada said indifferently.

Lisa was shocked by her words.She sat there in a daze, not noticing the girl's departure. A car drove towards her in the distance, like a dark blue beetle, very eye-catching on this golden land.Lisa was a little nervous for no reason.She stood still because her shoes could no longer walk.The car came to a slow stop next to her, the driver Booker's head in a straw hat sticking out of the window.This is not her car, her car is cream yellow.But she got in the car anyway. "Where did our car go?" "This is our car," Booker said. "Why is it this color?"

"That's because your eyes are color-blind. People who have been here for a long time are like that." "Have you been here before?" She was taken aback. "Yeah. It's pretty much where I'm from. It's the same to you, isn't it? They say the ranchers went crazy ten years ago." Lisa smiled wryly as she recalled the stoic-looking gentleman in the sales office. Booker poked his head out as the car passed the Reagan house.He looked puzzled and whistled thoughtfully.Lisa saw Reagan coming out of the house. His back was cut in two, with a blank space in the middle.He holds fishing tackle in his hand.

"We all drill here because the dirt here burns," Booker added. "How do you know?" Lisa asked curiously. "I tried it yesterday. This golden-yellow earth here is like coal. Wonderful land." He suddenly appeared groggy, and Lisa worried that he would overturn the car into a ditch. As expected, the speed of the car accelerated, and the car was running wildly on the burning ground like a bullet, while Booker, lying on the steering wheel nonchalantly, began to snore.Lisa was dripping with sweat, she knew the car was no longer on the road, she could feel it from the jolt of the wheels.She pushed Buck hard, but Buck continued to sleep.Looking at the speed sign again, the pointer has failed. "Perhaps going into the bay?" came the thought in her mind.She couldn't see the scenery outside clearly, her eyes were filled with fire, and the inside of the car was extremely hot.

"Booker! Booker!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. Booker moved and murmured, "Don't be so impulsive, it will be over soon..." Lisa thought, so he was committing suicide.In desperation, she wanted to jump out of the car, but the door couldn't be opened no matter what. While she was in a hurry, the car stopped with a "boom".Booker still didn't wake up, and she opened the car door all at once.There was a heat wave, and the sun was still so strong. Their car was parked in a peach grove, and the trees were burning, and the flames were soaring into the sky.Lisa quickly hid in the car.

"It burns every once in a while," Booker said with a guilty look on his face. "We're about to leave the farm. There are rumors that a female worker died, and she must have jumped into the sea with fire on her body." Lisa fell asleep on the way home.She had a lot of dreams, but the background in the dreams was too dark to see anything clearly.When she woke up, Booker told her that she had been calling a girl named Ada.He asked her, who is that girl?The name sounds familiar.She told him it was Reagan's girlfriend.After hearing this, Booker was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear. "Everyone knows that that man has no body. Just ask the people on the farm." Lisa thought calmly, so what if there is no body?Booker seemed to have heard the words in her heart, and went on to say: "Without entities, you can walk through the sea of ​​fire."

Lisa sighed and said, "What kind of woman is Ada?" She and Booker went home, but Vincent wasn't there.The room remained as it was when she left, and there was no sign of anyone coming.Lisa felt that maybe Vincent had disappeared from the family and had become a nomad.Although Vincent was not at home, Lisa still smelled his scent, which was a smell that was not smelled before, similar to narcotics.Shrouded in this smell, she and her husband got closer.Perhaps Vincent was staying in one of the tunnels in the slums, the kind of tunnel that ran obliquely like a well, with some candle stubs burning along the way.