Chapter 8 Chapter VII Mrs. Mirren's Letter

I only rested for one day, and took the letter with me and flew straight to Mexico. When I was leaning on the soft sofa, closing my eyes and resting my mind, and flying at high altitude, my heart was actually very confused.After I met Mrs. Mirren, I thought I could come to Mexico with her. However, the accidental impact killed Mrs. Mirren, and her body was swept away by the sea, and everything became untraceable in an instant! Was it possible to know her identity in Mrs. Millen's letter to the Reverend Johney?If not, then she will always be a mystery. The plane landed at the airport in Mexico City. I took a rest in the city for a day, rented a car with excellent performance, and drove straight to the south. My destination was naturally the small town called "Ancient Star" .

It was a very arduous journey, and what's more, my heart was extremely heavy. Although Mrs. Mirren's death had no direct relationship with me, she always died by my side. Terrible death, in my heart There was an indelible shadow in his heart. I drove fast on the rough roads, ate rough food and drank Mexican wine along the way, and naturally I didn't care about embellishing my own appearance. Therefore, when I finally came to the little town called "Guxing Town", I looked so frightening that when I tried to ask the way to a child, the child was so frightened that he cried .

In fact, I don't have to ask for directions at all, the church is at the end of the town, and it can be seen at a glance.The white spire stands tall, and on top of the spire is a cross. I drove the car until I came to the door of the church. My appearance did not arouse much curiosity from the residents of the town. They just looked at me lazily. All their movements were laziness. In their laziness, we can see their attitude towards life Of course, they are not satisfied with their current life, but they will never spend more energy to improve their life. They lived like that until they died of old age. Looking at those old people with wrinkled faces sitting on the threshold, I really don't know the meaning of their life.

My car stopped in front of the church, jumped out of the car, I walked up a few stone steps, stopped in front of the church door, and then pushed open the door. The church is naturally not very big, but as soon as the door was opened, it was natural, giving me a fresh and cool feeling, and I also heard the sound of an organ.Several of the piano sounds have lost their shape, and it is naturally the sound played by a very dilapidated organ. I saw a man wearing a pastor's robe, playing the organ in a corner of the church, his back was facing me, I went all the way to his back, he turned his head slowly, and looked at me in surprise .

The pastor was only in his thirties, so he was obviously not the pastor I was looking for.I asked, "I'm looking for Pastor Zun Ai, can you take me to meet him? I came to him from a long way away!" The young pastor looked at me for a moment, then smiled very politely, and said in a very soft voice: "Pastor Zunai is a good man, we will miss him forever, friend, what's the matter with you, if Pastor Zunai can I can help you if I solve it for you." At this point, he stretched out his hand and said, "I am Pastor Gerry. I was sent by the diocese to take over the position of Pastor Zun Ai. He has already returned to heaven."

That was absolutely unexpected to me. I stayed for a while and said, "This...impossible. In the last issue of American Archeology Academic Journal, his photo and the news that he helped the archaeological team were published. .” "Yes," Pastor Gerry said in a very sad voice, "We don't know when he will die suddenly. Pastor Zun Ai's death happened half a month ago." I smiled wryly. I came all the way to find Pastor Zun Ai, but he was already dead. I didn’t make a sound, but Pastor Gerry said very politely, "Can I help you? My friend, can I? I stayed for a long while, and said: "I want to live here for a few days without being disturbed by others. Can you introduce me to a quieter place?"

Pastor Ge Li looked at me for a while, and said: "If you are here for the purpose of archaeology, you can live with me. I am also very interested in archaeology. I live behind the church. It is very good." house." I walked back and forth for a few steps, Gerry is clearly a very well-cultivated clergyman, I have a very good impression of him, it is naturally good to live with him, so I immediately agreed: "If I don't bother In your case, you see, I have been driving here, and my appearance once frightened a child to cry!" Ge Li smiled and said, "We don't look at a person's appearance. Our duty is to see into a person's soul, my friend."

I appreciate Pastor Gerry's speech very much, but he obviously knows how to care for and help others, I nodded and said: "Pastor Zunye is gone, I think I should discuss something with you first, but I want to Take a shower first." He looked at me, and when I finished speaking, he immediately said: "Of course, you look very tired, taking a bath is a good way to recover from fatigue, please come with me." He turned around and walked forward. I followed him and walked out through a door next to the church. At the back of the church, there was a big post with a sloping earth slope. On the green grass, after walking more than 20 steps, I saw the white house.

Then, I followed Pastor Gerry into the white house. The house was not big, but it gave people a sense of comfort. Pastor Ge Li led me directly to the bathroom, and found me a change of clothes.Half an hour later, I was sitting face to face in his study, and he asked me, "What do you have to discuss with me?" I was thinking about how to speak, because the matter was so strange and complicated that I didn't know how to speak was the most appropriate way to speak. Before I could speak, Pastor Gerry said again, "I think what you're going to talk about must be something very unusual?"

I nodded and said, "Yes, it's very unusual. Do you know a blonde woman named Mrs. Mirren?" Ge Li shook his head and said, "I don't think I know this Mrs. Mirren. I just came to Guxing Town." I smiled wryly. Originally, I wanted to say that Mrs. Mirren could not be said to be from Guxing Town, but I didn’t say that, because if I said that, it would be a long story. I had to find out from Guido. Mrs. Millen spoke.I have to put it bluntly. So I thought for a while and said, "This Mrs. Mirren, I have a letter to Pastor Zun Ai. I came here to deliver the letter. Now, Pastor Zun Ai has unfortunately passed away. Tell me, how should I deal with it?" What about this letter?"

Pastor Gerry considered for a while before saying, "I think the letter should be returned to this Mrs. Mirren." I shook my head with a wry smile, and said, "That won't work, because Mrs. Mirren is also dead." Ge Li sighed, and said: "This world seems to be full of misfortunes, isn't it? Since both of them are dead, in heaven, they must be able to communicate with each other. I think this letter should be destroyed." I sighed and said, "It should be like that, but I want to know the content of this letter." Pastor Gerry frowned and said, "My friend, this is a criminal thought." I didn't make a sound, but I was thinking in my heart, if you don't remind me of this, I know it too. That's why I haven't opened this letter, but now I have to open it ! I have no intention of discussing this matter with Pastor Gerry in detail, and I have no attempt to persuade him, because I feel that in this matter, Pastor Gerry can stay out of the matter and need not be involved in the whirlpool. Perhaps it was a coincidence that several people involved in the incident all died, they were Guido, Mrs. Mirren and Pastor Zunye. Now I am the only one in the world who knows the strange life experience of Mrs. Mirren.And after reading that letter, what will happen to me is completely unpredictable. Ge Li is a good person, why bother him? So, I just smiled and said, "You're right, that's a criminal thought, and now I don't think so anymore, please show me where Pastor Zun Ai's grave is, and I'm going to put this letter in his Incinerate at the grave." Pastor Greg hurriedly said, "Okay, I'll take you there, his grave is—" But before Pastor Gerry finished speaking, I interrupted him and said, "I'm sorry, Pastor, you just need to tell me the place, and I will go by myself——I want to finish this matter alone." Pastor Ge Li was stunned for a while, and then said: "Okay, near the town, there is a stone bridge called the Blue Bridge. Pastor Zun Ai's grave is near the bridge, under two big trees. We can see you." I thanked Gerry and walked out of his house. He pointed me to the direction of the blue bridge, and I walked forward slowly. Pastor Ai mentioned her life experience, but I am actually not going to destroy that letter. I'm just going to open the letter and read it in front of Pastor Zunye's grave, so that my criminal psychology can be comforted, because on the surface, I read the letter to Pastor Zunye, although in fact, It was I who wanted to know the contents of the letter.Human behavior sometimes likes to deceive themselves and others, and I can't avoid this ridiculous situation myself. Not long after I walked out, I saw the blue bridge. The bridge is not very long. Under the bridge, there is a small river that has been semi-dry. The bridge is made of big stones. The gaps between the stones are full of grass, and the bridge is also covered with moss. "Blue Bridge" three characters. Although it is my first time here, I am quite familiar with this bridge. I have seen pictures of this bridge in that archaeological magazine.At this time, under the bridge, several women were washing their clothes. They looked at me curiously, but I ignored them. I walked across the bridge and saw the two big trees. I quickened my pace and came under the tree. The grave of Pastor Zun Ai was just a stone tablet. I stood still in front of the stele and whispered: "Pastor, I brought you a letter, but you are no longer alive. I want to read the letter in front of your grave. I think you will not object to me." way?" Of course he wouldn't object, since he's already dead, and I'm only trying to cover up my own inappropriateness by asking such nonsense, I said as I took out the letter. It's been a long time since I snatched the letter from that urchin, and it's been mine.At this time, I took the letter in my hand and was about to open it. Thinking of what happened to me since I got the letter, I couldn't help but sighed. I tried my best to tear the letter. As I said earlier, the envelope was made of thick kraft paper, so it was not easy to tear open. With a wave, something fell out of the envelope with a "slap". I already knew that the thing in the envelope was a key, and I was still in Gina's mouth, knowing that it was a "key with wings". But it was the first time I saw the key, so I quickly bent over and picked it up. It was one of Mrs. Mirren's two favorite things (the other being the ruby ​​ring), so I had to examine it carefully.It is indeed a very wonderful key, and it does not seem to be much different from the keys we usually use. However, two wings are made on the part near the handle, which is naturally just a decoration. It seems that such decorations are rare on the keys we usually use.I looked at the key for about half a minute, my fingers trembling slightly, and pulled out the letter. The letter was rather long, and it should have been a very important letter, but to my surprise it was written in pencil.The second thing that surprised me was that the letter was written in English, and the handwriting was very stiff and clumsy. It didn't look like it was written by a beautiful blonde! Immediately, I unfolded the two pieces of letter paper together, reading in a low voice while reading, my voice became more and more out of shape, almost even I didn't think it was my own voice anymore!That was naturally because the content of this letter was too weird. The following is the full text of the letter: "Pastor Zun Ai, I don't know many people, except for the Guido family, you are the only one, and I have already discovered that Guidu treats me very abnormally. I can't leave them because I really don't want others to know my existence, so I can only wait for the arrangement of fate—fate has arranged such a terrible encounter for me! "Who am I? You may remember, or you may have forgotten. If you remember me, you must still wonder who I am. "Who am I, where do I come from, and where am I going? Don't say that you are doubting in your heart. Even I don't know at all. I must be having a nightmare. For many days, I have been hoping that It's a nightmare, I hope suddenly the dream will wake up! "If it was really a nightmare, and all of a sudden, I woke up, it would be great, everything is normal, I can be with my husband, with my friends, the world is so beautiful, life It's so joyful! However, what I'm going through now is not a nightmare! "Love looks at the sky at night, trying to figure out if I'm lost, if I'm lost in the endless universe, but I find that I'm not lost, I'm where I should be! "I should be here, everything seems to be correct, but why did I enter a nightmare that never wakes up?" I had been muttering Mrs. Mirren's letter, and at this point I paused a little.What Mrs. Mirren was talking about, I still couldn't understand at all, was what she meant when she said she "should be here" and that she "had entered a bad dream"? I took a breath and continued reading! "I know I can't make sense of it all, because I'm the only one left, and Mr. Mirren is dead—I keep him—and I must die too, or death will come and the nightmare will end . "I, Tuojina, will give you this letter and this key after my death. When you read this letter and see this key, you will definitely feel baffled. You don't know what I want you to do. What. In fact, what I want you to do is very simple, you take this key, go to the crater, you only need to go down twenty meters, and you can see a door." When I read this, I paused again, and then I raised my head and took another breath. In Mrs. Mirren's letter, it is indeed written: You only need to descend twenty meters, and you can see a door.What does a door mean? I looked up and I could see the volcano, it wasn't that high, and it was clearly an extinct volcano.In the crater of an extinct volcano, there is a door, am I dreaming?Or am I just reading a strange letter written by a psychopath? But the mystery of Mrs. Mirren obviously cannot be explained by the word "nervous", because there are many strange things that exist together with Mrs. Mirren, such as the ring and the camera. , those coin-like metal discs, the book and the pictures in the book, etc., are all very mysterious. A door in the crater, where does that door lead to?Is it leading to the fourth dimension? While thinking in my heart, I continued to read that letter—at that time, I just read it without reading it out, because I had already lost the courage to read it out! The letter read as follows: "You can use this key to open the door, and then you will know what you see. I hope you can unravel the mystery of my nightmare from what you see, Then, please don’t tell others, thank you!” The later the letter got, the more clumsy and scribbled the handwriting became.Mrs. Mirren would not have enough time, of course, because of her extremely bad mood. Therefore, the meaning of the last paragraph of that letter is very vague. Even after reading it several times, I still don't know what it really refers to. After the letter, there was no signature, so I read the letter again, folded it carefully, put it in the bag, held the key tightly in my hand, and looked at the volcano. Pastor Zunye is dead. Now that I have read the letter, I will use this key to open the door and go to the place where Mrs. Millen wants Pastor Zunye to go. I turned around slowly and went back to the town. I didn't go to see Pastor Gerry anymore, and I drove the rented car along the road leading to the foot of the volcano, and sped out. While driving, I kept thinking: Guido also went to the volcano on this road back then, and as a result, he found Mrs. Mirren standing on the slope of the volcano.And now, what can I discover? I was flying on the rugged road at a very high speed, and when I came to the foot of the volcano, it was already dusk.Looking up to the mountain, the volcano is very steep. I didn't bring climbing tools, but I believe that I can climb up with bare hands. I drank a few sips of water from the creek at the bottom of the mountain, and then started to climb up. The volcano erupted ten years ago, but there were no traces to be found. Weeds and shrubs were growing, which made it easier for me to climb up. , I climbed to the top of the mountain at midnight. The moonlight was very good. Under the clear moonlight, I saw a crater with a diameter of about 100 meters. Looking down, it was pitch black, as if it could lead directly to hell. There is no thick smoke coming out of the crater, but there is a strong smell of sulfur, which makes people very uncomfortable. I didn't even carry a flashlight, so although I was very anxious in my heart, I was eager to find the door, open the door with Mrs. Mirren's key, and see what happened, but I couldn't find it in the dark crater. That door, so I had to wait for dawn. I found a leeward place, lay down on a very flat boulder, and I happened to be able to see Guxing Town not far from the foot of the mountain. There were only a few sporadic lights flickering in the town. The boulder was very big, and I could have slept comfortably without fear of falling down the mountain, but my mind was so disturbed that I didn't feel sleepy at all.I was thinking, when I opened that "door", what kind of place would I be stepping into? Moreover, after I go to that unknown place, can I still come back? When I think of this, there are too many problems that come to mind. I think of my friends, my wife, if I disappear inexplicably like this, do they know that I am in that strange door? disappeared? Of course they wouldn't know, because no one knew where I was, not even Reverend Gerry.Maybe, after some days, they will find the car I rented at the foot of the volcano, but no one will know that I disappeared in the crater! I thought over and over again, and several times, I actually gave up the idea of ​​looking for that door after dawn. Several times, I even started to walk down the mountain, and decided to forget all about it! However, I only walked a dozen steps down the mountain, then climbed to the top of the mountain again, and the sun finally rose.When the sun shines into the crater, I can already see the general situation of the crater. The rocks in the crater are steep and uneven, and it is not difficult to climb down.According to Mrs. Mirren's letter, the door is no more than twenty meters away from the edge of the volcano, so I think I should be able to see the door from the top of the mountain. I walked slowly along the crater. The sun rose higher and higher, and the situation in the crater could be seen more clearly. When I walked halfway along the crater, I suddenly saw a trace of metal flashes. That silver flash must be made of metal! As soon as I saw that kind of flash, I stopped immediately and examined carefully. The rocks in the crater were of strange shapes, some were round like balls, some were like stalactites, and most of them showed a strange gray-red color. Therefore, that kind of metallic flash looks very eye-catching. I immediately saw that it was about two meters high and one meter wide, and my heart skipped a beat.That's a door! That's a metal door!It must be the door Mrs. Mirren mentioned in her letter, and the door I was looking for!Originally, I was still skeptical about the fact that there would be a door in the crater, and my heart was full of doubts. But now, it is indeed there, and that really does not allow me to doubt it anymore!