Chapter 17 Chapter 16 Life and Death Deed

Qin Suo's voice was even soft, echoing in the dark void with a sleepy whisper. "Death happens again and again You are abandoned on this shore all souls and me common dead silence The sea of ​​death drowns the earth" Everyone's expressions changed suddenly, and even Uncle Yan moved subconsciously.Wei Datou, who was taking notes, shook his hand, and the ballpoint pen fell to the ground with a snap.He bent down to pick up the pen in a panic, and murmured: "This, this is completely different from the oath that Professor Tan saw. It's unbelievable, it doesn't make sense..."

Qin Suo raised his head and looked at Tan Yundan who was in deep thought: "Professor Tan, what do you think?" Professor Tan didn't seem to hear Qin Suo's inquiry, she was immersed in her own world, as if floating far away.Qin Suo waited for a while, and asked again. Professor Tan finally came back to his senses, and apologized: "I'm sorry, I was thinking just now..." Her expression became solemn, and she reached out to take the paper with two translations from Old Wei's hand, put it on the ground and shone the flashlight on it.Her slender fingers caressed the words that had been sleeping for thousands of years: "Look, this content echoes with the deed I have seen before. These two words echo each other."

Our eyes looked at the paper on the ground.Old Wei stared at the text ponderously, breathing quickly, and finally couldn't help exclaiming: "Professor Tan, Qin Suo, these two paragraphs of text indeed echo each other, but their structure is reversed, and the content is opposite!" Qin Suo's eyes quickly flicked from the paper, and looked at the original text in his hand again: "Yes, the beginning of this text confuses me. Because if it is translated literally, it should mean 're-death'. Why are the tombs of the same shape, the tomb owner with the same attire, and the burial texts are so different?"

"Because," Professor Tan said coldly, with a chilling tone in his voice, "the oath recorded on the two funeral cloths, the former is a life contract, while the latter is a death contract." A life deed.A deed of death. I suddenly remembered Zhou Qian's half crazy and half warning words - "Moshan is a dead country... Moshan is dead, Moshan is dead!" On that moonless night, when I followed Professor Tan to see the Yuancheng at the Moshan ruins for the first time, I was so excited that I couldn't restrain myself like it was yesterday.In the cold wind of the Gobi Desert, the desolate Moshan City stands desolately like an abandoned person.Looking back now, the deserted city under the moonlight is eerie and unknown.And when the hidden darkness and secrets gradually begin to emerge in the relics of time that we want to explore, this hideous and obscure truth makes people feel daunted.

In the silence, Zhu Liang's trembling voice resounded: "Where are I...you...Wang Jiayu?" Wang Jiayu was gone. It's just that when our attention was all attracted by the dialogue between Qin Suo and Professor Tan, Wang Jiayu just disappeared out of thin air.With a glimmer of hope, we searched in a small area nearby, hoping that he was going to relieve himself, but we found nothing. It was the first time I saw Uncle Yan really angry.This may not be the first time he lost control while leading the team. From the conversation between him and Qin Suo, it can be inferred that the previous exploration of the underground was not successful.But this time the loss of control was under his nose, and a big living person just disappeared.

He walked towards Lao Liu and Tudou, and hit them hard on the faces with the butt of his gun.Lao Liu and Tudou neither dared to hide nor looked at Uncle Yan. Lao Liu was fine, but Tudou unfortunately had a nosebleed. Under the faint light of the flashlight, Uncle Yan's sharp eyes could be seen staring at Lao Liu and Tudou through the mask.Tudou didn't dare to wipe the blood, and he and Lao Liu stood stiffly in place with their heads bowed. Gengzi stepped forward and said coldly: "How many times have I said that the only task after you go to the ground is to look after everyone. From now on, if you lose one person, I will shoot one of you; if you lose two, both of you will be fine." died."

The sixth child raised his head and begged tremblingly, "Brother Geng..." Gengzi winked at him, signaling him to be at ease, then turned to Uncle Yan and said, "I've lost him, please let me know if you want to look for it." Uncle Yan's heavy breathing could be heard faintly, and he was silent for a moment without answering. Qin Suo said hesitantly: "The situation here is too complicated. Our team started with the loss of the first person, and everyone went to look for them, but they disappeared one by one. I think we... let's proceed from reality." .”

Uncle Yan let out a muffled snort, and said in a deep voice: "The whole team tidies up. We will leave in a minute." Judging from the number of people, our team is quite powerful.After several accidents and continuous staff reduction, we still have as many as 15 people.It's just that these 15 people walked in the huge empty underground, and the feeling of smallness and humbleness was no less than that in the desert. I vaguely felt that Wang Jiayu's disappearance was not accidental.After Yu Yanyan and Yu Yanyan returned to the team, I kept looking at the three of Qin Suo consciously or unconsciously.They have been dormant in the dark for so long, no one knows what they have encountered.But I believe that what they encounter in the dark, beyond our imagination, will change not only their fate, but possibly ours as well.Thinking of this, the desolation and long-suppressed despair gradually surfaced in my heart.Looking back, even the always optimistic Li Dazui was frowning in thought.

Supplies for 15 men were a major problem.Although most of the items we carry with us are supplies, but if we continue to consume them like this, we may not be able to support the day when we return to the ground below.There are quite a few people who feel the same way as me. I noticed that Dou Miao and others have already started to reduce water consumption. Uncle Yan seemed to know what we were thinking. As he walked forward, he said in a muffled voice: "Go forward for another day, and you will arrive at the No. 1 supply point." Xiao Fei is a teenager who doesn't know how to feel sad, so he added happily: "We have two supply points, which store a lot of food and water. Don't look at the barrenness here, Uncle Yan has prepared a lot of things."

Xiang Zhiyuan breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the water bottle and took a sip: "I told you earlier, I have been holding back my thirst." At this moment, Qin Suo suddenly stopped in his tracks, his voice was hoarse and strange: "Old Yan, do you feel something is wrong?" Uncle Yan also stopped, turned around and asked, "What?" Qin Suo approached Uncle Yan with a low voice that made people shudder. "Someone is following us." Although what I saw and heard in the stone chamber made me suspicious and wary of Qin Suo, I was still unavoidably impressed by Qin Suo's conversation, knowledge and education.It is hard to imagine how elegant and charming the young and handsome Mr. Qin Sanyu was.

When Uncle Yan heard Qin Suo's words, he didn't ask questions first like ordinary people, such as "who is it?" "How do you know", but directly ordered the whole team to sit down and rest.He and Gengzi whispered a few times, and Gengzi understood, and immediately led his men to guard the front and back of the team, two groups, holding a flashlight, and searched by themselves. The position we are in now is different from the long and empty passage when we first came.Now it's more like being in a huge maze, with all kinds of forks leading in all directions.Even in a tense and heavy state of mind, people will still be shocked by this confusing and dark world.It is hard to imagine that such a vast world is hidden under the land extending from Kuruktag Mountain to the Gobi. About forty minutes later, Uncle Yan's people reunited. After they talked for a few words, Uncle Yan walked towards Qin Suo and said, "We didn't find anything." Qin Suo turned his head and asked Professor Tan: "Do you feel it? Someone is following us." Professor Tan replied truthfully: "I was thinking about the strangeness of the two life and death deeds all the way, and I didn't pay attention to the things around me." Qin Suo stood up and asked us, "What about you? Don't you all feel it?" His voice was a little anxious, as if he was afraid that this was an illusion of his own, "I can't be the only one who feels it. Zhu Liang, how about you?" Zhu Liang hesitated for a moment, then shook his head. Uncle Yan's people watched silently, but the people from the archaeological team couldn't help whispering. Li Dazui pulled my arm, and whispered: "Hey, do you think they will be crazy like Zhou Qian, but we don't know?" Old Wei shook his head and said thoughtfully: "No, I think they, like Uncle Yan, have kept their own hands. As for the truth, we have to wait until the end to see." I have been looking for opportunities to tell them what happened in the stone room, but there are so many people here that I have been unable to speak.Amidst the discussion of the crowd, Yu Yanyan's eyes were shining, and she kept staring at Qin Suo. It may be that Li Dazui saw that I had been a little depressed after returning to the team. He patted Wei on the shoulder and joked: "When we return to S University, we must not mention the allusion of 'there is a ghost in the team'. For us archaeological Three Musketeers, it is a shame in terms of IQ and judgment." Dou Miao quietly answered from the side: "Yes, you don't know who the ghost is until now." Old Wei said disdainfully: "Don't you know?" Dou Miao smiled slightly, but did not speak. Li Dazui said angrily: "It's not a gentleman's job to pretend to be a ghost. There are no ghosts in this world. Ghosts are nothing more than people's hearts!" The words were spoken so impassionedly that the whole team could hear them.Qin Suo's face was gloomy, and he sat down to rest silently.Back then, Li Dazui had won the thirteenth place in the school speech contest, and he was quite outstanding among all the 14 participants.It is very easy for him to give a small speech hundreds of meters underground at this moment. Old Wei slapped his thigh and praised: "Well said! Junior sister, it doesn't matter whether he is a god or a ghost, whether he is a life contract or a death contract, we have chosen the profession of archaeology, and we must have a professional spirit. Stand up Back, we can't lose the reputation of the Department of Archeology and let the grandchildren of the Department of Philosophy laugh at us." I knew it was the two senior brothers cheering me up, but then I thought sadly that even our old enemy, the Department of Philosophy, is thousands of miles away at the moment, eating delicious food in the cafeteria, lying on the bed talking about Sartre, Hegel, walking in the campus with colorful sycamore trees is really very different from our current situation. "Okay, ready to go." Uncle Yan urged us.He seems to have a destination, but doesn't say so. The people in the team didn't take Qin Suo's suspicion very seriously, but they all followed the large army very vigilantly, for fear that they would be left alone.Uncle Yan was right, being alone here means death.Everyone sorted out their luggage and checked carefully to see if there was anything missing. I took a deep breath to make myself look less depressed.Old Wei stretched out his hand to me, motioning to pull me up.These hands are a little dirty now, but they are still so warm and strong.I return a smile. At such an ordinary moment, I suddenly saw a figure appearing in the darkness behind Old Wei. The figure was vaguely visible, but I felt as if I had been hit in the heart, and I even forgot to breathe. I thought she had forgotten me. It has been a few years, from S City to Beijiang, from 409 to this dark underground, she has been looming, indistinct, like a shadow.I have never been able to figure out the end of this puzzle. What are we looking for, what are we asking, are we fulfilling our bounden duty as an archaeologist, or are we getting deeper and deeper into her puzzle? What is Zhou Qian trying to save?What is Uncle Yan looking for?What is our existence and reason?These questions weighed on my chest like a rock, leaving me breathless.Recognizable clues of language or ethnic migration seem to be worth mentioning in this huge puzzle. I saw her again.Her black hair fluttered in the wind, and her black clothes fluttered, as if she was in another world but could be seen by me.In the silence, her bright and mournful eyes stared at me, close at hand but far away, just staring silently. Her arms were folded on her chest, as if she was praying, and she seemed to be sleeping peacefully. I thought maybe I groaned out and took a few steps back.Wei Datou supported me, but didn't ask me what's wrong, his eyes looked at the same place as mine. "Lee In-hee!" Li Dazui and Gao Hong called out almost at the same time. My heart trembled, and when I looked over, the figure of the woman in black suddenly disappeared. The figure of Li Renxi came out from the darkness with a grinning expression on his face.He carried three water bottles on his body, and a bag hung around his neck. The zipper was opened, and the compressed biscuits inside could be vaguely seen. Professor Tan walked towards him quickly, stared at him for a moment, then stretched out his arms to hug him. "Son, where have you been?" she asked softly. Even though this is Lee In-hee who is hated by thousands of people, even though we have no longer hoped to find him in our hearts and acquiesced in his death, seeing him at this moment makes people involuntarily excited. Li Renxi's hair is disheveled, and he looks dusty.He looked at Professor Tan with a grin, and then looked around us.He pointed at Rengzi and laughed out loud. Rengzi had an embarrassed look on his face, but Uncle Yan saw it and didn't speak. Lee In-hee babbled a lot of Korean, which we couldn't understand.Li Dazui said anxiously: "Brother, this is in China, you have to speak Chinese." My eyes looked eagerly behind Lee In Hee. No.There was nothing there but darkness. Li Renxi babbled Korean, danced and danced, looking very excited.We looked at each other, unable to figure out what this person was thinking. Li Dazui turned to us with a wry smile and said, "Did you see that, I've only been back for 5 minutes, and it's starting to be annoying again." "I know what he's talking about." Gao Hong, who was standing aside, suddenly opened his mouth. Seeing our surprised eyes, he quickly explained: "My mother is from the Korean ethnic group, and I can understand some Korean." Wei Datou hurriedly said: "What are you talking about, translate it quickly." Gao Hong frowned and listened to Li Renxi's muttering for a while, pondered for a moment, and said with some hesitation: "He said that he went to a very far place and saw many strange...scenes. He is here...waiting for us for a long time...he Been to the dark world." Lee In-hee had an ecstatic and confused expression on his face, and he was expressing a complex emotion intermittently in his native language.Gao Hong was having a hard time translating, and everyone surrounded them, anxiously and intently discerning the message that Li Renxi wanted to convey.Uncle Yan and Gengzi were talking not far away, and Uncle Yan's expression could not be seen, but Gengzi was being cautious, as if he had made a mistake. My heart was empty and I had nothing to rely on, and my absent-minded eyes looked at where Li Renxi had come from.It was still dark there, and the illusion of the past was gone.Old Wei noticed my expression, pulled Li Dazui, and asked me in a low voice: "Liang Ke, what's wrong with you?" I shook my head and tiptoed towards the direction where I saw the girl in black. I am not reconciled, not reconciled to her appearing and disappearing like this.She has confused us for too long, who is she, this question has fascinated me more than archeology itself.Even darkness and fear can't stop this desire to explore. Lao Wei and Lao Li looked at each other and followed me silently.I know they are afraid that I will get lost. In this dangerous underground, no one knows what is hidden in the darkness. Lee In-hee came from a deep path. Li Dazui said cautiously: "Liang Ke, you scare me like this. Listen to brother, let's go back." Old Wei was a little anxious: "Junior Sister, what happened to you?" "I—" I paused for a moment, and suddenly saw a piece of black clothes in front of my eyes, which flashed at the corner of the rock wall, "I saw her, the tomb owner in black." "Liang Ke, you are hallucinating! Do you understand, hallucination!" Old Wei was a little annoyed, "You have been underground for a long time. People not only tend to lose direction and sense of time in the dark, but also have hallucinations and auditory hallucinations. .” I shook my head, stopped talking, and ran towards the woman in black.I heard footsteps behind me, and Lao Wei and Lao Li seemed to be chasing after me. Turning around the small corner in front, the eyes suddenly opened up.A huge open space appeared in front of him.I didn't even need a flashlight to see this vast, endless square. It's too bright.I suddenly saw this bright light in the dark, and my eyes were dizzy for a while. The woman in black, standing in the center of the light, turned to me. I remember all this clearly.I clearly remember that I stood at the junction of darkness and light, and watched the woman in black standing quietly in front of me.I was overwhelmed by the brief confrontation as she crossed her hands in the same way she had been in her coffin.Her face is vivid and bright, peaceful and beautiful, as if freed from the shackles of time. I wanted to open my mouth to say something, but my throat was hoarse.That shriveled voice didn't seem to come from me, and I was so frightened that I didn't even have the possibility to express my full consciousness.I just watched her trembling in the darkness as it flickered on and off. She slowly opened her crossed hands and raised them towards the sky.In the unusually bright light, her black hair fluttered, and her black clothes were like dancing black snakes, making her figure reveal a graceful and strange beauty.She floated slowly in the air and stayed there for a moment. I clenched my fists, nails pricking the flesh of my palm, reminding me that this wasn't an illusion. But this is far beyond the scope of my education and cognition.I raised my head and looked up at her, telling myself in my heart, this is an illusion, Liang Ke, please calm down, this is a scene created by your subconscious mind.Even so, my eyes were filled with tears uncontrollably.If we say that the tears we shed while reading "Buddhist Kingdom" are for fate, and the tears we shed outside Shiwai are for the evil in the darkness. I think I have seen a miracle when I shed tears at this moment. I saw a miracle that I could not explain, imagine, believe. This light is like the warm and dazzling serenity when I looked up at the sun in my childhood, like the smoke and dust in the time I have passed and will pass, like the whisper when I heard the leaves of the sycamore in the early morning.It radiates light wantonly and freely, and doesn't care about time and space, life and death, and all the laws of the world.This kind of magnificence and splendor seems to be the burst of passion when the soul is burning, which makes people awe-inspiring but disturbed. A moment later, the woman in black I was looking up at closed her eyes.Two lines of blood slowly flowed down her cheeks.Her body bowed slowly, resembling the shape of a baby in the womb, and the light gradually dimmed. I involuntarily reached out to her and took a few steps forward. I didn't touch her.This distance seems to be separated by life and death, separated by a river of time, which I cannot cross. Her limbs stretched out again, like a dying tree, struggling to stretch its branches and roots.Just in a blink of an eye, her limbs stiffened, her head raised high towards the sky, and her painful and ferocious expression seemed to be the end of a suffering. Before I could react, the black clothes and flesh and blood on her body had dissipated in an instant, and I saw a white dry bone suspended in the obscure midair.After a while, the bone turned into ashes, and those scattered particles lingered in the air for a few seconds, before being hidden in the sudden darkness. Everything seems to have never happened, just like this eternal darkness. I stumbled towards the place where the woman in black disappeared, and I lost the flashlight on the ground.A lingering gleam of light shone here, like the breath of dying.I groped in the dark void with tears all over my face, waving my arms like a madman, trying to catch even a trace of time. I pursued in vain, tormented by visions, sorrow, and ecstasy, unable to stop.This is like a never-ending journey, and the scale left by life at this moment makes me crazy and ashamed to speak. Finally feeling too tired to bear, I slowly squatted down on the spot. I slowly closed my eyes, my mind was as dark as my surroundings.I thought I could rest for a while, go back to my brother, and go back to the main force.Everything can be as if nothing happened, my hallucinations and tears can be wiped clean. I was wrong. There was a dead silence all around.I took a few deep breaths, wiped off the marks on my face and stood up.Looking back, he didn't see the figures of Lao Wei and Lao Li.Worried about losing contact with the team, I quickly picked up the flashlight and prepared to turn around and walk in the direction I came from. When the glimmer of the flashlight passed over the rock wall, my heart moved. There seemed to be traces of artificial carvings on the rock wall.I struggled for a few seconds between the haste to get back in and check out the crag, but eventually curiosity got the better of me.I am such a person. Old Wei said that sooner or later I will die in the line of duty. It was because he really couldn’t stand my endless desire to explore during a hunting adventure.I think he did see the essence of the problem. The rock wall was some distance away from where I was standing where the woman in black had disappeared.When the diffuse reflection of the flashlight reached the rock wall, it was already blurred. Just as I was about to lift my feet and walk towards the rock wall, the hairs on my back suddenly stood on end. I raised my foot and put it down again, and scanned around with my flashlight, but I didn't see anything.There was a chill in my heart, and I instinctively felt that someone was watching me in the dark.This feeling didn't lessen as the flashlight swept through those dark and empty places, but instead made my breathing more and more heavy.I couldn't control much, and shouted loudly: "Wei Datou! Li Dazui! Come out, both of you! I'm here!" The voice floated in the darkness, and an echo could be heard faintly.Except for my trembling roar, the surroundings were as silent as death. The light of the flashlight flickered weakly and became dimmer, like a dying struggle when the lamp ran out of oil, and finally went out.I shook the flashlight hastily and pushed the switch repeatedly, but it was in vain. I heard my heavy breathing accompanied by my heartbeat in the dark. When the anxiety and fear reached the peak of my tolerance, I calmed down and quickly made a judgment in my heart: I don’t have night blindness. After my eyes adapt to the darkness, I can completely By groping towards the right hand side which I clearly remember.Lao Wei and Lao Li must be looking for me on a fork in the road over there. Once they meet up, it will not be a problem to find the large army. I firmly believe that Lao Wei and Lao Li will never give up on me getting lost in the dark until I die alone.On the way to camp, Wei’s words still ring in my ears: Junior sister, if one day you become Huijing, I will never let go of your corpse. Although this sentence does not sound auspicious, for me at this moment, it is a bonfire in the dark, and it is the cornerstone on which I can entrust my life.Whether it is light or darkness, people must have some beliefs that they can trust and rely on to have the strength to go on.I took a deep breath again, closed my eyes, stretched out my hand and scratched in the darkness to avoid touching those abrupt stone walls. When I opened my eyes again, I finally understood what my uneasiness and trembling came from.I panted quickly and weakly, feeling faintly in my heart that my time was approaching. I saw a pair of eyes staring at me in the dark. Instinctively, I took a few steps back and met those eyes for a moment.Those eyes floated in nothingness, like flowers quietly blooming in the dark night.Its blooming and withering are all in this dark underground, quietly passing through an unknown fate. There are more and more eyes in the darkness.I looked around, all around me, near and far, and even looked up above my head, and there were these eyes floating everywhere. They watched me peacefully, and seemed to come to me through a long time, silently and pitifully watching me turn around in the dark, panicked. In the blink of an eye, I suddenly remembered a fable. A prince said to his father: "The wizard told me that the god of death will come to me tonight, and I must ride the fastest horse and flee to Baghdad." At dusk, the restless father saw the god of death in the garden , The god of death was surprised: "Why are you here? Where is the prince? I have made an appointment with him to meet in Baghdad tonight." I smiled wryly at the fact that I could still think of this story when life and death were uncertain, and even the dialogue and expressions of the characters in the fable came to my eyes so clearly.I am not afraid of death. In my limited life, although I have not been able to dedicate my infinite enthusiasm to the archaeological cause, it would be a pity if I died for no reason a few hundred meters underground at this moment.I am still timid to think that the end of my life may be located here. "Leave me alone," I pleaded to the sky, "I'm still a child compared to you." I looked into those eyes with horror and prayed in my heart that I could pass out. I failed to do so.Using fainting to escape reality may be a bridge that only exists in movies.After a while, I smelled a strange fragrance close to my body. Someone approached me from behind, with outstretched arms enveloping me.The strange fragrance made people feel confused, but I was at peace instead.As if a pair of hands touched my soul, I completely gave up resistance and resigned myself to fate. I seem to fly up. "Yingpan is located in the lower reaches of the Tarim River and the middle reaches of the Kongque River in the Han and Jin Dynasties, about 160 kilometers away from the famous ancient Loulan. Yingpan was originally the capital of the Moshan Kingdom and was once the only place on the Silk Road. In the fifth century AD, due to the Peacock With the drying up of the river and Lop Nur, the Moshan Kingdom disappeared and became ruins in the desert next door. It is about 1,500 years ago. The Yingpan site was discovered at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. It was originally discovered by the Russian explorer Kozlov Turpan crossed the Tianshan Mountains and went to Lop Nur along the Kuruktag Mountains, and found the ancient city of Yingpan on the north side of the Kongque River Ancient Road..." "Okay, don't talk about it. It's good for you to know. Remember, no matter who asks you in the future—including me—to go to the ancient Moshan country to do archaeological excavation work, you must refuse it. Don't go. Don't go. " "why?" I stood at the door of 409, looking at these four young men and women.The girl looked puzzled, she didn't believe that one day she would become a member of the archaeological team of the ancient Moshan country. Zhou Qian's pale and slender face showed an incomprehensible sadness. "I don't know how long I can last...Did she choose us, or just me?" I looked at them, looking at those once vigorous figures on the campus of S University.Wei Datou pulled Li Dazui and muttered, asking him to document Zhou Qian's words and study them slowly when he went back.Li Dazui suggested to eat hot pot, to forget the uneasiness after returning from Jintan. The girl looked at the door inadvertently, and she was stunned.I saw her young and bewildered face, and heard her duplicity answer: "No, I didn't see anything." My breathing became rapid, and I took a step back, and the surroundings became dark.A small candle flickered in front of me for a moment, then quietly went out. I heard Li Dazui's trembling voice: "Old Wei, flashlight, turn on the flashlight." The girl in the darkness widened her eyes innocently. It wasn't that she wasn't afraid, she just didn't want to panic the junior sisters around her.My eyes are a little wet, I know that there is the body of Y man hanging in the closet.The boy chose a painful way to die in his dormitory, in this treacherous world. I reached out to the girl who pretended to be calm, her fingers trembled slightly, she didn't know what she was about to face, just like me now. I immediately let go of her hand and ran in the dark.I don't know the direction, I don't know the destination, I just want to get out of here.The sound of chaotic footsteps lingered in my ears, and sad sighs and happy gasps alternated around me.Light and darkness are like a sky that opens and closes suddenly, devouring me and releasing me. I see that time is like the sea, which dries up and then becomes abundant. I see those fleeting figures, from one piece of land to another. I saw two ants in the desert walking from the graveyard of the river to the edge of life.The woman stared at me with absent-minded eyes, and her pale lips were eager to express something.The man beside her hugged her, moved her under Yadan's shadow, and used his own flesh and blood to maintain the final dignity of love.I heard the woman's dreamy voice asking me, "Why?" Why is there life and death, love and parting in this world?Why in this vast universe, human beings have suffered from suffering since birth, and the steps to survive have gone through tens of thousands of years of difficult times?Why do the four seasons go on and on, the stars rise and fall, but in this cold and safe law, human beings are constantly pursuing and questioning? "Like the melancholy of the fabled Hebrew wanderer, That is a doomed fate, which cannot be escaped. He would not pry into the dark hell, Nor can one hope to rest in peace before death. There are many places where fate wants me to wander, How many lamentable memories do you have with you when you go? But my only consolation is that I know: The most unfortunate encounters were no surprise. " I saw Leng Qu's corpse and the hands that refused to let go, I saw the determination of life and death and the figure on the hunchback that was fading away.Those pictures filled with yellow sand are vague and real, like the footsteps I followed while choking. Years later, the woman answered her own question. God what to say.