Chapter 16 Chapter Fourteen The Twisted World

"There is indeed something in my words." I paused, turned over, and faced the ceiling of the tomb on my back, "I kept thinking, what's wrong with this world? It's all distorted! Ever since we entered that weird toilet tunnel, I always have a feeling that something is wrong. " There is a good saying that nothing in the world is forever.A friendship fades away when it leaves; a love breaks up when it is separated.Cherish what you have now, after all, maybe in the next second, it will no longer belong to you. This sentence perfectly corresponds to my current mood.If I knew it earlier, I wouldn't be too depressed, even for a second, maybe the exit wouldn't just disappear.Or, I shouldn't have come in at all. Reason told me that it was dangerous inside, but after all, I subconsciously wanted to run in to see what happened.Now that I have finally seen it, I have become a turtle in the urn.

After the exit disappeared, Bai Qing and I looked at each other. "Why don't you walk around the tomb and see if you can find the exit?" She suggested weakly. "That's all there is to it." I sighed, and wanted to find Mu Ru and the other two by the way, to confirm whether they were dead or alive. These two guys have never called since we walked in, making this strange-looking deep underground space Even more crisis-ridden. Taking the stone tablet engraved with a hundred characters as the center point, the two of us carefully circled around. After walking for about five minutes, what covered our sight was the scenery behind us.

I couldn't help but stop. Behind the stele was a raised bluestone platform, like a huge stone coffin. There were many offerings and ever-burning lamps beside the coffin.Next to the stone coffin was a wooden coffin. The surface of the lacquered black coffin was coated with a layer of dark red blood, exuding an evil atmosphere under the illumination of the ever-burning lamp. Bai Qing's psychological endurance is obviously not as good as Bai Shan's. She tightly grasped my arm and swallowed quietly. Not far from the wooden coffin, there were two people lying down.One is Mu Ru and the other is Zhou Yu. The two of them remained motionless, not knowing whether it was life or death.

"Handsome Ye, look at that wooden coffin." Bai Qing whispered nervously, "It seems to have been turned on." It was obvious that the wooden coffin had just been carried in, but the coffin lid had already been lifted.Upon closer inspection, long-foot-long coffin nails were scattered all over the place, and the lid even flew to the east more than ten meters away. "Is it really a scam?" Bai Qing hid behind me in fear: "There are zombies!" "There are no real zombies in this world at all. I don't think there is a reason for that." I forced myself to suppress the fear in my heart, observed silently, and soon discovered some unusual clues.

"The lid of the coffin was opened from the outside." I licked my dry lips. Bai Qing poked her head out and took a look.Although the coffin lid is relatively far away, it can still barely see the signs of damage on the outside. Someone or something should have directly lifted the lid. How much strength does this require?The coffin wood is made of local wood, which is very heavy. Although the lid is not big, it is also made of solid material, weighing at least several tens of kilograms. Moreover, the lid is densely nailed with nine-inch long coffin nails. Direct separation is definitely not something that can be done by manpower.

In the tomb, there are not only me, Bai Qing, Mu Ru and Zhou Yu, but also the corpse lying in the coffin, I am afraid, there are other things too! I was vigilant, and quickly scanned the surrounding space, but the surroundings were quiet, with the sound of needles falling, and a dead silence.In addition, it is a sealed space, there is no wind, and the ears can't hear any strange noises. Bai Qing and I stayed here for more than ten minutes, but we didn't find any danger. "Let's go and have a look." I pointed to the two of Mu Ru, who fell on the ground about 50 meters away from us, not far away, in this place where there is no exit, there is no way to escape, so we can only look for clues first.

Bai Qing didn't object. Her current personality likes to be startled, but her expression is exaggerated, but her eyes are deeply cold and calm, which shows that she doesn't really care. I approached Mu Ru step by step, and actually walked to the side of the coffin lid.The entire coffin lid is made of fir, which is unique to the temperate semi-arid climate.The paint on the surface is brand new, but the lid is indeed covered with blood, chicken blood, and there are still pinches of chicken feathers on the snow. "It seems that the human corpse in the coffin is also a kind of offering."

I soon understood why the wooden coffin was deliberately brought in and placed next to this huge ancient stone coffin, "It is to sacrifice to some evil thing in the stone coffin that was suppressed by the hundred-character Ming." "Using human corpses to enshrine something else?" Bai Qing blinked, "It's interesting, generally speaking, shouldn't living people be used for sacrifices?" "The sacrifice of living people only appeared in the age of ignorance. In fact, in Chinese customs, the longer the corpse of the long-lived person, the more effective it is to appease the evil object, because after years of growth and aging, even the corpse It is very valuable. You must be clear, the old man in the coffin has lived for more than 130 years."

I settled down and found something again.On the side of the coffin lid, there are a few lines written on the boy, in the Shaanxi dialect, and the engraving method of the characters is also very old. These characters and carving techniques have been lost for a long time. The general meaning of the full text is: Zhang Xiuquan, died on March 21, and his birthday was 132 years old.Zhangjiaya Village is the worship of Samsara Village. It is full-time to support the elderly over 100 years old. After their death, their bodies are sent to Samsara Village as sacrifices for the ancient tombs.Samsara Village is the guardian of the ancient tomb, who has guarded it for generations, and it has been 700 years.

These few lines made my whole being in a trance. what happened?I thought that my current location should be Zhangjiaya Village, which is far away from Samsara Village, but after a long time, it turned out that this was still the border of Samsara Village.Where is this mountain?Where is the reincarnation mental hospital? Looking at the signature again, it says the time: March 21, 1987. 1987?After I was surprised, I was even more confused.Looking at the lid of the coffin, it was obviously just finished, and it didn't take long to paint it. How could it be twenty-six years ago?Why did the engraver engrave 2013 as 1987?The problem is that the year is engraved wrong, and the date cannot be wrong.It was already April when I entered the psychiatric hospital. After being locked up for so long, the time should have passed until May.

Thinking is like a mess, no matter how you manage it, you can't understand it. Bai Qing tugged at my sleeve, "Your expression is a little strange." I gave her a hard look, then shook my head vigorously, "Go and see those two people first." Trying not to think too much, the two of us slowly came near the fallen Zhou Yu.He was dead, his neck had been eaten by something.Looking at the wound marks, the tooth marks are difficult to distinguish, but each tooth is as sharp as an iron nail. This immediately reminded me of the Bai Shan I met by the lotus pond before entering the seventh floor. At that time, her rich and fearful expression should have transformed into Bai Qing's personality.She put her hand into the pool at that time, and a lake of koi swam towards her immediately.The scars on the koi's death were exactly the same as those on Zhou Yu's neck. Could there be some connection between the two? But at least it can be made clear that the things in the tomb are not zombies, because they are completely different from human tooth marks.If the possibility of fraudulent corpses is ruled out, what exactly is in the sarcophagus? Not far from Zhou Yu's body, there was a withered old man's body.His body has been gnawed to the point that there is not much left. It is estimated that the thing thinks the old man's body is more delicious, and even the internal organs are not spared, but it is obviously a partial eclipse, and the old man's head is still there. There was a big hole in the top of the old man's head, and his appearance was not peaceful when he died.The old man obviously did not die naturally, his face was full of horror and anger, and this emotion was forever engraved at the last moment.The cause of death should have been caused by a blunt object blow. This only shows one thing - the sacrifice has been too urgent to wait for the old man who is making offerings to die naturally.Therefore, Samsara Village had no choice but to kill the old man and take the corpse for a forced sacrifice. What happened to Samsara Village? "What you said, the dean of the reincarnation mental hospital, is dead." I nuzzled Zhou Yu with my mouth, "Are you satisfied?" "I said that it was Bai Shan girl's idea to kill him, but I am a complete pacifist." Bai Qing said dissatisfied. "You said that if you want to escape, you can only kill him first. Since he is dead, what is the way to escape?" I ignored her, just stared into her eyes and continued to ask. "How could I know the way. Bai Shan always thinks that there is something wrong with him. If he dies, he will die. If he wants to escape from this cemetery, he must rely on you, smart man!" She smiled and patted my shoulder. I snorted coldly and was about to speak when I saw Mu Ru who was not far away moved. She seemed to be fine, she raised her head slightly and said something to me silently. Judging by the shape of the mouth, it is the words "get down, dangerous". At this moment, a piercing sound sounded, and I immediately fell down on the ground.Fortunately, the reaction was quick, and he narrowly escaped.A strong wind pressure swept over his head, and even made a sonic boom in his ears.I quickly caught it with my eyes while lying down, but unfortunately I only saw a huge taupe shadow flying past under the light. What the hell is that thing?Could it be the thing that was suppressed in the sarcophagus by Bai Ziming and worshiped by the Samsara Village for more than 700 years?That's obviously a living thing! But it seems that the creature's eyesight is not good, and it can't see things that are too close to the ground, or it has no eyesight at all, and can only rely on some kind of perception as a sense to observe the world.It quickly rolled and twisted in the air, I couldn't see what it was, and after a few seconds, it flew back into the sarcophagus. "What it is?" Bai Qing's face was a bit strange. "I don't know, but Zhou Yu must have been bitten to death by it." I tried to climb in the direction of Mu Ru, but the sarcophagus didn't make any sound. The monster's sensory system is underdeveloped, and it only responds to a certain range of behaviors at a certain height.So we entered the tomb for so long, it did not launch an attack, and only rushed out after we got closer to the stone coffin for more than ten meters. The three of them got together again, lowered their heads desperately, and lay down on the ground. We stared at each other, Mu Ru's face was pale and at a loss, her mouth was trembling, she was very scared, "I will die, I will definitely be late, just like Zhou Yu!" "You're not the only one who will die. What are you worried about?" Bai Qing pouted. "I'm afraid." Mu Ru, who has always been like a rag doll, shows a strong emotion for survival. I sorted out my thoughts and didn't speak.The two girls quacked for a long time like two ducks, most of the time was Bai Qing's sarcasm and Muru's nonsense. After some time, Bai Qing suddenly realized my silence, and asked curiously, "Handsome Ye, what are you doing? Do you want to escape?" "How to escape?" I frowned and sneered slowly, "Is there really a way to escape?" "What do you mean?" Bai Qing looked at me, "It seems that there is something in the words." "There is indeed something in my words." I paused, turned over, and faced the ceiling of the tomb on my back, "I kept thinking, what's wrong with this world? It's all distorted! Ever since we entered that weird toilet tunnel, I always have a feeling that something is wrong. " "Can't understand." Bai Qing is playing stupid. "Remember the mirror I broke in the women's bathroom? Or, do you know what the mirror effect is?" I ignored her and asked silently. "I don't know." Bai Qing turned her head. "Then let me explain it to you. Standing in front of a mirror, you will notice that the mosquito on your T-shirt is turned upside down, and a certain part of your hair is also switched to the other side in the mirror. It was originally a mole on your left ear. , in the mirror, it grows on the right ear, standing in front of you is a completely inverted body structure. Left becomes right, right becomes left, and up is still up, and down is still down, as if the mirror knows to reverse left and right , but do not know upside down. "That's not really the case. Of course, the mirror has no idea of ​​your posture, it simply reflects the light that hits it, objectively as any still life knows. But why, and when , does the reflected light form a left-right flipped mirror image, falling in your eyes? The answer is simple, the reflected light does not form a left-right flipped mirror image. In fact, the question of what makes the horizontal axis so special in the case of specular reflection, It is caused by the defect of the mirror itself. Because the mirror does not reverse left and right or up and down, but reverses front and back. In other words, your mirror image is reversed along the three-dimensional space, just like a glove turned inside out Same outside." I looked her in the eyes, "Here's a thought experiment that explains the concept of front-to-back inversions. Suppose you could squeeze your body so that it's completely flat, and imagine that your body could penetrate itself without destroying the various tissues of the body. When you stand in front of the mirror, and the tip of your nose is pressed against the mirror surface, it is easy to imagine that you in the mirror are the real you standing behind the mirror after rotating 180 degrees horizontally. In fact, from the direction of the mirror, you The back of the body is flattened, and since the body is flat like a pancake in form, your front, that is, every part of your body is located behind the tip of the nose, and at the same time in front of the back of the entity, your back and the plane, through your front , until a new shape is obtained on the mirror side, so that a new you is produced, which is symmetrical to the physical you, but the physical you and the mirrored you cannot overlap each other." "You mean, through this method, I produced you from the crooked Liang, Mu Ru, the dead Zhou Yu, and myself?" Bai Qing shrugged her shoulders, "You read too many science fiction novels, I just have multiple split personalities. I don't have superpowers." "I didn't mean that. You said this yourself. I've been thinking, where is the seventh floor in the administrative building? Obviously, the administrative building of the Samsara Mental Hospital only has six floors. Finally, I figured it out. .” I was still sneering, "Sometimes, when you can't find a way out, you should use another way of thinking, which is the way physicists often use. "Stand in front of a mirror and mark which direction you are facing. For this thought experiment, assume for a moment that you are facing north and your right hand is pointing due east, then your right hand in the mirror is also pointing east; your left hand is pointing due west, and your left hand in the mirror is Also pointing west, this is because these directions are on a plane parallel to the mirror. Similarly, pointing up or down, your mirror image will follow the same gesture. But even a little bit off that plane, the mind starts to wobble After all, the mirror image that marks myself is inverted because of the coordinate system that is perpendicular to the mirror. Try pointing the mirror vertically, that is, your fingertip points to true north, then the fingertip in the mirror is pointing directly at you, not north, It's a guide." I was very sold, pointed in a direction casually, and said: "Thinking of this, I realized that the administrative building has never had a seventh floor. From the beginning to the end, we are all in a mirror. The four of us, also Never escaped, what loess plateau, what hillside, what tomb, and the damn demon ritual, never happened, what we saw, heard, and felt were all distorted, or , is actually the history of this place, the Samsara Mental Hospital.” "You mean, we're dreaming?" Bai Qing couldn't bear my aura, and suddenly changed her personality into Bai Shan. "That's right, the four of us are all dreaming, but this dream is a bit special. I think, in medicine, it should be called a daydream." I said slowly. "Listen, I'm completely confused." The terrified Mu Ru asked in a cowardly tone: "Mr. Ye Buyu, you mean that we didn't escape at all...and the seventh floor of the mental hospital is a special existence that doesn't even exist in this world? So, where are we now?" "I told you, we're daydreaming." I said word by word: "Although everything is true, it's just that the truth is very complicated. In other words, you can imagine that we had a collective dream, and our consciousness is in a mirror. Everything in the world The laws are twisted, so I sometimes feel real and sometimes unreal." Mu Ru didn't understand, "Then Zhou Yu, he is clearly dead, but he is also dreaming?" "This dream is not fake. He is dead, he is dead, and he cannot survive." I was still looking at Bai Shan, without moving an inch. Bai Shan's eyes were cold, neither sad nor happy. She looked at me quietly, showing sarcasm, "Mirror? So what if it is, so what if it's not. Smart man, when did you guess it?" "In fact, I have doubts for a long time. I have been thinking along the way. Why are there two Yigu? One tried to help me, but the other framed me; one thought he was only in his twenties, and the other He is forty years old, and he is the deputy director of the reincarnation mental hospital. Finally, I figured out that the two Yi Gus are real, but they are just the two sides of the mirror. The two Yi Gus follow certain rules in the mirror world Conversion, the elder Yi Gu knew about the existence of the young Yi Gu long ago, no, it should be said that the existence of the young Yi Gu was created intentionally or unintentionally by the vice president Yi Gu." I said in a deep voice: "So the real Yi Gu is the vice president. After reading my novel, Yi Gu who invited me over thought that he was the real one. He couldn't figure out the situation and thought it was a supernatural event. Incident. Unfortunately, he is just a projection of the real Yigu, as fragile as a mirror, and will shatter if dropped." "And you." I pointed to Bai Shan, "There are three personalities. I can meet you all the time in the activity room on the seventh floor. As if it has been arranged, you give me psychological pressure and make me decide to escape. You stay The place is very clever. There are no monitoring facilities, no bugs, and you gave me the option to escape, no, I have no choice at all." "Your guess is very interesting." Bai Shan rolled her eyes, "Since you think you haven't escaped from the seventh floor, what's going on here?" "As I said just now, this is the Samsara Village in 1987, which is now the address of the Samsara Mental Hospital." My eyes swept over the sarcophagus, wooden coffin, and everything in the tomb one by one. "The information on the Samsara Mental Hospital is all fake. If my guess is correct, the dean knew that there was something in this place more than 20 years ago, so he used means to forcibly expropriate the land. The Samsara Village guarding the cemetery The villagers were naturally unwilling, so the dean woke up the thing suppressed in the cemetery, and only then did we see the scene we saw. The villagers of Samsara Village killed the centenarian to appease the thing, but in the end, this sacrificial place, this place The cemetery was still razed to the ground. The dean built this reincarnation mental hospital and introduced the ancient Kebaladi therapy on the ground. This kind of therapy is very special and requires a cemetery and grounding." As I spoke, I observed Bai Shan's expression. The girl still didn't have any emotional fluctuations, "Since the dean has already succeeded, why do we need a mental hospital?" "Because she didn't get what she wanted." I replied: "The thing that was suppressed in the cemetery is just an accessory product, and I don't know if it's retribution, but it has merged with the dean's body by some strange coincidence." With lightning speed, I grabbed her hand, only to see a black spot in Bai Shan's snow-white palm.No, the exact book was a mouth, a black mouth full of nail-like teeth.The mouth is wide open, looking extremely terrifying. "You say yes, Mr. Dean." My smile is very cold. Bai Shan was speechless, and quickly withdrew her hand, clutching her chest tightly, revealing her incomparable pain and loneliness. Mu Ru was stunned, "She...Miss Bai is actually the dean?" "I'm afraid, that's the truth! People with mental abnormalities are said to have a magnetic field that is different from ordinary people. The dean uses Kebalady therapy to expand it, just to find out that thing. The face-to-face treatment of soul guides is the same. The patient thought he was cured, but in fact, his vital energy had been exhausted, and within a few days after leaving the hospital, he would die due to exhaustion of vitality, so all the patients treated by the real Yi Gu died." After finishing speaking, I looked at Zhou Yu's body, "As for Zhou Yu, the old fox, I'm afraid he is not a patient at all. He is the third-ranking pervert in the reincarnation mental hospital, right? In an experiment, from beginning to end, there were only four of us. Why, did you get what you dreamed of? Should we be let out?" Mu Ru trembled and begged, "Miss Bai, if your goal has been achieved, let us go. Please! I want to go home!" "Is this all guesswork by you out of thin air, or is there some other reason?" Bai Shan was silent for a long time before asking. "The thing you wanted was recorded in my hometown, Yejia. I didn't come here entirely because of the damn book commission from Yi Gu, but because of the same purpose as yours, to find that thing." I thought about it for a while, and then confessed. "So, did you find something?" Bai Shan threw the same question back. Mu Ru was completely confused by our charade conversation. "I found it, and I didn't find it." I smiled wryly, "Now that I think about it, I'm afraid the things have been broken by me." "The thing is that mirror? The mirror in the women's bathroom on the seventh floor?" Bai Shan widened her eyes. "good." I nod. "So you already guessed it." The girl lowered her head, her expression still cold. "It's time to let us out." I insisted, "Otherwise, I will use the last trick to force you to submit." The girl sighed, raised her head and looked at the zenith like me: "I told you before that Lin Huiyin once wrote a poem for Xu Zhimo, saying that he is the April day in the world. This talented woman in the Republic of China was me when I was in England. Best friend. In fact, in the hearts of men today, she is their April day. Her beauty, her talent and her pitiful temperament, all of which make people's hearts flutter. Lin Huiyin is a A woman with outstanding talent but also an ordinary temperament. Because of her, I have been thinking, what kind of man is the April of the world? Now I know what the April of the world is like. The spring is warm and the flowers are blooming , The singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers herald rebirth. But, who is my April day in the world?" "It can't be me?" I point to my nose. According to the routine of lyrical novels, the protagonist should be shocked, and the villain should immediately bow down at the feet of the decent character.Unfortunately, this is not a novel, and I don't seem to be a decent character. Sure enough, Bai Shan smiled, this was the first time her personality smiled, it was so beautiful that the surroundings brightened up.She bent her crescent-shaped eyes and looked at me with a smile, "Unfortunately, it's not you." "That's not too disappointing. You have friendship with Lin Huiyin, at least you are an old witch who is hundreds of years old." I muttered. "Unfortunately, I can't let you out." Bai Shan smiled and shook her head, "Unless you kill me." "You really think I dare not?" I glared at her. "If you dare and really want to leave, kill me decisively." The girl raised her neck. I sneered and took out the sharp scalpel I had been hiding all along.The icy metal reflected the icy luster. Looking at her expression of wanting to die, I didn't hesitate too much. The scalpel cut an arc, and blood bloomed. Mu Ru, who was watching the play, tightly clutched his neck, his face full of disbelief. "Farewell, my lord dean!" I sneered. "When did you know?" Mu Ru spat out these words with difficulty. "I knew it early in the morning, your memory is very confused, but in the handheld computer Yi Gu gave me, your information is indeed the strangest and most detailed, and the details are a bit too detailed. If another Yi Gu wants to help me, it must be I will copy the most original materials, but those materials are completely different from your narration. I have been observing you and know that you are not mentally ill at all, so you are more suspicious than anyone else. This is also the purpose of inviting you to escape together. " I sighed, "Plus Bai Shan prevented me from reminding you that there is a problem with your memory, so I became more suspicious of you. In the end, I didn't expect it was really you." "It turned out to be like this. I've lived so long that I almost forgot..." Unwilling, Mu Ru swallowed his last breath. In an instant, the surrounding space burst into layers of cracks like a mirror being shattered. In front of my eyes, it was broken!