the last priest

"Where can that kid go?" Zhuo Xiong's watch has been fixed at 05:30 in the afternoon without passing a word. People will forget the time after staying in a space for a long time. There is no influence of day and night, and the human biological clock is here. This is the most prone to error in extremely tense situations.

Cha Wenbin looked at the strips of traces shaped by cutting the soil with a sharp tool above his head and smiled wryly: "I can't escape from this mountain, right? Follow the marks to find it, there will always be that one time."

Chaozi's mark brought them all the way here, as long as he could still see the mark, Cha Wenbin's heart could relax a little bit, at least it meant that he was still alive.It's just that Chaozi's mark has become more and more simple, from the initial "ten" to a simple swipe, and here the simple swipe is gone, and there are only his footprints.

Occasionally, a fresh scratch would appear on the wall from a long distance away, and he no longer marked every intersection. What does this mean?

According to Zhuo Xiong's speculation, Chaozi, as a scout who has received strict training, leaving marks for himself when he is deeply lost is the basic skill for survival.If the mark starts appearing intermittently, there are only two possibilities: [-], he is in danger or exhausted, or exhausted; [-], he is chasing or tracking in such a hurry that it is too late to leave a mark.

Judging from the situation along the way, the second one is more likely, because the depth of the footprints on the ground and the step frequency all show that Chaozi's movement speed is extremely fast.

He only has a dagger that he usually uses for self-defense. In such a dark place, if he encounters a beast like a lynx, Chaozi may not be able to defeat him alone.Water and food are the primary problems he faces. Tracking means the consumption of physical energy, without water and nutritional supplements. Zhuoxiong said that trained people like them can last for two to three days at most.

Zhuo Xiong got up and said to Cha Wenbin: "Let's go, we can't rest for too long, his direction is chaotic, and his speed is faster than ours, so it will only increase the distance."

After walking for a few steps, the light in front of him suddenly dimmed, and then it was pitch black.Cha Wenbin vigilantly opened his arms to protect Zhuo Xiong behind him, then took out a fire from his arms and lit it and asked, "Are you all right?"

"It's strange, why is this light out of power?" The power indicator light of the spotlight in Zhuo Xiong's hand has turned red, which means that the battery has run out of power. "It's just a lot of work. This light can be used for a full 24 hours once charged. Is there a leakage?"

"How long have we been down?" Cha Wenbin asked.

Zhuo Xiong thought for a while and said, "That's two or three hours."

Cha Wenbin shook his head and said, "It's a little wrong, let me ask you first, how long did I get down earlier than you?"

"When I went down the mountain at 6 or 7 o'clock in the morning, I went down the pit at 5:25 pm. When I saw you, my watch showed that it was 5:5 o'clock, and I didn't walk through it. So, you came down nearly eight hours earlier than me. Hours." As soon as these words came out, even Zhuo Xiong himself felt that something was wrong, did Cha Wenbin stay in front of the first fork in that section that took him [-] minutes to reach for a full eight hours? "Eight hours, Brother Wen Bin, you haven't moved at all?"

"I think it was only half an hour after I saw you, do you believe me? I even thought you came down without sending Miss Leng to the hospital." Cha Wenbin changed the subject: "Are you hungry?"

Zhuo Xiong shook his head, and Zha Wenbin asked again: "Then are you thirsty?" Zhuo Xiong licked his mouth with his tongue, "Fortunately, not very thirsty."

"I haven't been hungry, thirsty, or even peeing since you saw me eight hours ago. Do you think this is normal?"

After being told by Cha Wenbin, Zhuo Xiong really did think about it, he was neither tired nor thirsty nor hungry during this journey, and it is true that neither of them had urinated.

"Let me tell you a fact that may sound like a fantasy at all: the two of us may have been around here for several days, and people outside should search the mountain to find someone. Based on my years of experience, no If there's something that fascinates me for eight hours and I'm completely unaware, it's beyond my knowledge."

"When did you shave your beard?" Zhuo Xiong asked abruptly.

When Zha Wenbin touched his palate, there were only a few stubbles. Anyone who shaved a man's beard would know that even if he shaved it the night before, there would be a stubble growing out the next morning. Zha Wenbin shaved it before he went into the mountains. The beard, which shows that after going down the tunnel, even the metabolism in his body has slowed down a lot.

"Time has stopped." This is a conclusion beyond the laws of nature.

Zhuo Xiong looked at the watch in his hand and nodded, "It's very possible, otherwise we wouldn't have no reaction at all. What's the difference in this ghost place?"

"Pa" Cha Wenbin suddenly stretched out his hand and slapped Zhuo Xiong hard, five bright red finger prints were imprinted instantly, Zhuo Xiong covered his face and looked at Cha Wenbin in horror: "What's wrong?"

"Does it hurt?" "It hurts!"

"It's good to be in pain. Knowing that pain means that we are still alive. Only the dead will not have time. It is not that time has stopped, but we are fascinated."

Cha Wenbin dug out the inkstone from the gossip bag, asked Zhuo Xiong for some water, added cinnabar and began to grind it on the spot.After the grinding was finished, a piece of ordinary yellow grass paper was laid out, and then a brush was dipped in cinnabar to write on the paper.The characters written are like a heavenly book, one stroke after another, different from the usual talismans, these characters are densely written, until two-thirds of the paper is filled, Zha Wenbin takes out The big seal of the "Treasure of Heavenly Master" was stamped and said: "Help me dig a small hole on the spot, just the size of a washbasin."

Zhuo Xiong quickly dug it up with a dagger, and Cha Wenbin folded the paper and put it in the pit, then lit three incense sticks, and lit the paper in the pit with a torch.The paper caught fire all of a sudden, and with the light of the fire, Zha Wenbin read: "Respectfully invite all four-valued meritorious officers, Sheng Enpu, Shenwei Yuanzhen, disciple Cha Wenbin is playing a three-day delivery today." Guan Wen;" Facing the four directions of east, west, north and south, each bent down and bowed, and then said: "Golden boys raise smoke, jade girls scatter flowers, hold banners and hold festivals; According to the decree of the City God's Society, the land will only welcome, and everything will be completed."

After finishing speaking, he took the kettle in Zhuo Xiong's hand and took a sip of water again, opened his mouth and sprayed towards the burning fire in the pit with a "poof", immediately extinguishing the fire.

Zha Wenbin squatted down, not caring that the burnt black residue in the pit stirred up. After a while, he took out a small piece of paper that had not been completely burned from the pit. The piece of paper was not biased. What does not lean on happens to be the seal stamped by that great seal.Except for the seal, all other parts will be burnt clean.

Cha Wenbin showed Zhuo Xiong the piece of paper that hadn't been burned, and said: "Just now, I wrote a letter to the gods in the sky. The god of time. If the letter is not handed in, the seal will be burned like other parts. If it is handed in, it will stay. Just like you usually send letters, this seal is the postmark, and the four The meritorious service is the postman. If you can get my letter, the fourth meritorious service is there. If they are there, time will not stop." Cha Wenbin paused, looked around and asked: "The person in the mirror will Won't you feel hungry?"

Zhuo Xiong didn't know what Zha Wenbin meant, but replied honestly: "The mirror is the reflection, so naturally I won't feel hungry, but just now when you slapped me, I felt pain."

"Slap" was another slap, but this slap hit Cha Wenbin on his face.

After a heavy slap, Zhuo Xiong saw that Cha Wenbin's face turned red immediately, but Cha Wenbin said: "It doesn't hurt!"

"Does it hurt?" Zhuo Xiong looked down at his hand. "Slap", he imitated Cha Wenbin and slapped himself fiercely, and the slap print that had just faded was superimposed on another layer, but this time, as Cha Wenbin said, he also slapped himself. Did not feel a little pain.

Zhuo Xiong repeatedly looked at his hands, touched his face and muttered: "Why is this happening?"

Cha Wenbin sighed and said: "What I see is the real you, and what you see is the real me, but what you see yourself is you in the mirror, and what I see is me in the mirror .”

"What do you mean?"

"Parallel spaces are intersected and misplaced. Now there are two you and two me here, and the two of us have separated..."