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Chapter 80 Cat Town (1)

Collected Works of Lao She 老舍 2111Words 2018-03-20
The plane is broken. My friend - my classmate since I was a child: this time I drove the plane for more than half a month - not even a bone was left behind! And myself, perhaps still alive?How can I not die?The gods probably know.I can't care less about being sad. Our destination is Mars.According to my deceased friend's calculations, we had indeed entered the atmosphere of Mars before the plane crashed.So, have I landed on Mars?If this is the case, my friend's soul can rest in peace: the first Chinese on Mars deserves his death!But where is this "exactly"?I had to "believe" it was Mars; it had to be, because I had no way of proving whether it was or not.Naturally, it can be determined from astronomy which planet it is; poor, I know as much about astronomy as I do about ancient Egyptian writing!My friend can instruct me without hesitation, but he, he... oh!My friend, and my childhood friend!

The plane is broken.How will I get back to Earth?OK!Only the clothes on his body—shattered like dried spinach—and the dry food in his stomach; not to mention the plan to go back, even how to live here, I dare not think about it!I don't understand the language, and I don't know the place. Are there any animals similar to humans on Mars?There are so many questions... don't think about it; isn't "drifter on Mars" enough to masturbate?How little it is to subtract courage from worry! This is of course a reflection of the situation at that time.At that time, my brain was stunned.There may be many incoherent thoughts in the stunned mind, and I can't remember them anymore; only these - how to go back, and how to live - seem to be remembered very clearly after the mind is fully awake, like being washed ashore by the tide two planks, the ship has sunk.

I wake up.The first thing is to try to bury my friend, the pile of flesh and blood.That plane, I dare not even look at it.It's my buddy too, and it brought us both here, faithful machine!My friends are dead and I'm the only one alive, and I feel as if their misfortunes are all my fault!The two capable ones died, leaving only me, the incompetent, lucky fool, what an embarrassing masturbation!I think I can bury my classmates with my hands, but I must not bury the plane, so I dare not look at it. I should have dug a hole first, but I didn't. I just stared blankly, through tears.Why don't I hold that group of flesh and blood and cry bitterly?Why don't I dig the ground right away?In a state of waking up like a dream, there were many actions that I could not be responsible for. Thinking about it now, this may be the latest reasonable explanation and self-forgiveness.

I stared blankly.Strange, I remember very clearly what I saw at that time. Whenever I close my eyes, I can see those scenes again, standing in front of me with colors, even the shadow lines where the colors intersect are very clear.Only this and the scene when I first accompanied my mother to visit my father's grave when I was a child are two pictures that I will never forget in my life. I can't say what I notice in particular; I give everything around me equal "indifferent attention," if that makes any sense.I am like a small tree in the rain, letting the raindrops fall on me; when it falls a little, the leaves will move.I see a gray sky.It's not cloudy, it's a gray air.The sun is not weak, because I feel very hot; but its heat is not directly proportional to the light, the heat takes care of itself, and there is no eye-catching brilliance.I seem to be able to feel the thick, hot, dense, dull gray air around me.There is no dust, and things in the distance can be seen clearly, and it definitely does not look like there is wind and sand.The sunlight seems to be reduced in this grayness, and then spread evenly, so there is gray everywhere, but there is still light everywhere, a kind of silver-gray universe.During the summer drought in northern China, there are useless gray clouds floating in the sky, which reduce the sunlight a bit, but the temperature is still extremely high, so it is somewhat similar to this place; but the gray atmosphere here is darker and heavier. , the heavy gray cloud seemed to cling to my face.The tofu room is filled with hot air at night, and there is only an oil lamp emitting a ghostly light in the hot air, which is the embryonic form of this universe.This air makes me feel uncomfortable.Some hills in the distance are also gray, darker than the sky; because it is not without sunlight, the hills are gray with a little red, like the colorful flashes on the necks of wild pigeons.

Gray country!I remember thinking that, though I didn't know at the time if there was a country there. Looking back from a distance, I saw a plain, gray!No trees, no houses, no fields, flat, flat; damn flat.There is grass on the ground, all of which are scraping the ground and growing. The leaves are very large, but there are no erect stems.The veins of soil are not necessarily fat, I thought, why not plant the land? Not far from me, there flew up a few eagle-like birds, gray in color, only with white tails.These few white tails give this gray universe a little change, but it does not reduce the gloomy and gloomy atmosphere, as if a few pieces of paper money are flying in the gloomy sky!

The eagle bird flew towards me.Looking at it, my heart suddenly moved. They saw my friend, and the pile... a few more flew up in the distance.I was in a hurry, and instinctively searched underground. There was no shovel, not even a stick!I have to ask for help from that plane; even with an iron rod, I can slowly dig a hole.However, the bird was already circling above my head.I didn't care to look again, but I could feel them flying lower and lower, and their cry, a long, shrill cry, was right above my head.I didn't care to look for it carefully, so I grabbed a piece of the plane, and I couldn't tell which part it was, and pulled it down like crazy.A bird came down.I yelled desperately.Its stiff wings trembled a few times, its legs were about to hit the ground, and with a hook of its white tail, it flew up again.This one flew up, and two or three more came, all chirping like magpies trying to catch some food; the ones above croaked longer, as if begging the ones below to wait for them; It all came down with one sound.When I pulled the plane, my palms were sticky. I must have bled, but I didn't feel any pain.Pull, pull, pull; no use!I flung myself at them, kicked them, and yelled.They spread their wings and hid in all directions, but they didn't intend to fly.One has pecked at the pile of...!There was a red light in front of my eyes, and I rushed towards it, trying to grab it with my hands; I only grabbed this one, and the rest of the rings came up; I kicked again.They screamed, stretched their hard wings and hid in all directions; as soon as I retracted my legs, they would attack with red eyes.And after attacking, he didn't want to retreat anymore, and deliberately wanted to peck my feet.

Suddenly I remembered: there is a pistol in my waist.I just made up my mind to touch that gun; when did it come?In front of me, just seven or eight steps away from me, stood a group of people; I could see them clearly at a glance, people with cat faces!
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