Chapter 12
Chapter 12
I touched the stone wall with one hand, and led Qi Jinming with the other. I crawled forward in the cave for a while, and the vibration finally stopped.I think it was Lantian who stopped Gu Xiaopeng, saying that if the bombing continued, the hole would explode, but people were also killed, and it was useless to find the body.Gu Xiaopeng is like this, acting aggressively and recklessly, Lan Tian still needs to control the overall situation.I stood still and thought about it, and looked back the way I came, but the rocks had piled up at the entrance of the cave, and I couldn't go back the same way.
"Second Master, what are you looking at?" Qi Jinming took my hand and said, "It doesn't have to be the same way we came back, there is a way for us to go forward."
"Okay, listen to you, I don't panic." I turned my head back and smiled at him as I spoke, leaving the two weird characters Bai Yuntian and Qi Shengxian, I feel much more relaxed now.As long as he was with Qi Jinming, nothing terrible would happen.I thought naively.
So I continued to move forward and saw the dancing lights on the stone wall. I fell into fantasy and asked him: "Were you also like Gu Xiaopeng before?"
"What is it like?" He turned his head and looked at me with a smile, his face was covered with sweat and the yellow light was shining, and his expression was a little weird.
"It's a stunned young man who doesn't care about the consequences." After saying this, I also laughed, and took Qi Jinming's hand to step on a large falling rock, "But everyone is a little bit different when they are young, but everyone behaves differently. "
"Yes, everyone behaves differently. Do you have any?" he asked.
"I have a little bit too, otherwise I wouldn't be chasing you like a fool." I answered honestly.
"Haha." He turned his face away, and smiled at the void in front of him, "Then I'm a little--" His words dragged on for a long time, which misunderstood me, thinking that there was an argument after the argument, but I Without waiting for an argument, Qi Jinming didn't seem to want to describe his past stupidity.In fact, it's hard to imagine, because Qi Jinming is crazy and rational in my heart, he arranges all affairs rationally, so that he can go crazy and indulge a little, and the situation will not be out of control.But it makes sense to think about it, I don't need to blindly beautify Qi Jinming, he probably has his own stupid past.
Climbing up and down, we finally walked out of this narrow cave, and the lights ended, and we came to a stone hall.The size of the hall is small, and there are three doors opened from the stone wall on the opposite side, which are exactly the same in size and shape.
Just now Qi Shengxian said that we should follow the lights, but now that the lights have run out and there are no guideposts, we can only find our way by ourselves.I walked over and saw three doors standing side by side. I thought I had to choose one from the middle, so I started to observe from left to right.
There is a sound of wind blowing through the door on the left, and I am psychologically inclined to this door, because where there is wind, there is an exit.The middle one has the sound of water, I think this is also possible.The door on the right is dark, deep and invisible, with no wind and no sound. I dare not choose this one. Who knows where this door leads to, maybe it leads to the Dragon King's lair.
When I was trying to choose, Qi Jinming stood aside with his arms folded. He didn't seem to care about how to choose.I said, "Hey, don't stand still, hurry up and choose?"
"Why bother, anyway, they all lead to the same place." He spread his hands.
"Then you didn't say it earlier." After saying this, I dragged him into the door on the left.I thought to myself, if there is wind, the distance should be shorter.
After entering the door, although there was no light, it was not too dark, which gave me the courage to chat with Qi Jinming.I said: "Your dad and Bai Yuntian, why are they so weird? The relationship between the three of you is also weird, it's not like what you said at all."
After I finished speaking, there was no response for a long time. After a while, a sigh came from Qi Jinming's direction.After sighing, he said, "This is not the first time we have met. Our conflicts have already reached a consensus. It is the old calendar, and it is all over."
"I understand." I suddenly realized, "This is not the first time you have come in. No wonder you are familiar with the road, and you still want to hide it from me, but I did not expect to be followed in." I think Qi Jinming's whereabouts were secretive before marriage, I often disappear for a period of time, and then go back in disgrace, which scares me enough.Thinking about it now, he probably went home often to have a look.At that time, he would go back to Dragon Palace to resolve family conflicts with Bai Yuntian and Qi Shengxian, and now, they finally shook hands and made peace.So when he got married, Bai Yuntian sent a gift to celebrate his son's marriage. Thinking about it carefully, it was actually very touching, not weird at all.
He chuckled lightly and said, "Yes, in fact, I still want to keep hiding it, but I can't hide it anymore."
"Hey, in fact, you can tell me straight. You don't tell the truth, you hide it, and I was scared just now." I was finally relieved, "It's nothing more than strange powers and chaos, plus some family disputes, It's nothing. If it's your business, I can accept it. "
"Young master." Qi Jinming was silent for a while, and then called me suddenly. These two days, he kept yelling like young master and second master, and I could understand it, so I responded.
"Huh? What's the matter?" As I said this, I found that I had already walked out of the cave, and I could see the sky above, as well as the sound of leaves being blown by the wind and rustling.In the place directly opposite to us, there appeared a spiral stone staircase, which was probably excavated in ancient times, for people to climb up the stairs and leave the Dragon Palace.
I immediately forgot what I wanted to say, and dragged Qi Jinming to run there. I haven't seen the sun for a long time, and now I feel like returning to the world.I stepped on the stone ladder and looked up, and saw the stairs spiraling up round and round. This is a spiral staircase carved out of the stone. There are many bronze lamps on the stone wall beside the staircase. The craftsmanship is ancient and unprecedented. .If it is exposed, no accidents, it will become famous all over the world.
Seeing this, I excitedly said to Qi Jinming: "Let's go, if you don't go out, Gu Xiaopeng will blow the roof off here."
"Just come here." He said, "Master, you go back."
"Where are we going?" I was stunned, with one foot on the steps and one hand reaching out to Qi Jinming, but he didn't seem to want to catch my hand.
"I'm here." He smiled and said lightly, the lines on his face were sunken, which is still the way I like it.
I asked: "Why?" After thinking about it, I took it for granted: "I see, do you want to stay here with your dad and the others? It's okay, I can also stay here with you, or I suggest that they Take them all out and buy a house in Hangzhou for the elderly. But don’t live with us, you know, living with the previous generation will affect your marriage..."
He waved his hand and said, "I won't go."
I just stopped and wondered: "Why? Aren't you going home with me?" I thought to myself that maybe I should go to my second child for marriage counseling.
He smiled and said, "Because I want this to end."
"Don't you want to be with me?" I asked.Having said that, my voice is already unstable. Although sometimes I feel that I am not good enough for Qi Jinming, he never said that he would leave me.I never thought this day would come.
"Master, don't cry." He touched my face and said, "I'm just tired."
"I'm rich! You don't need to work! You won't be tired anymore with me!" My tears were already rolling down my face, but I didn't have time to wipe them.
He smiled, sat on the steps, patted the side, and motioned for me to sit down too.He said, "It's not about the money... let me tell you a few stories."
The first story goes like this.Qi Jinming said.
A pair of couples, of course, they are all local products.One day, they came across an antique that was believed to come from an underwater tomb.So the couple set off, brought their two capable subordinates, and a group of minions to the waters called "Longevity Sea".
As soon as they came here, they ran into the Dragon King. They didn't know what to do, and they collided with the Dragon King. One of the capable generals was bitten by the Dragon King. Although he didn't die on the spot, he died of bacterial infection in the end.Another capable man and the couple fell into the water and followed the current into the nightless sky.But they didn't know the mystery of Wu Yetian, and they were injured one after another. In the end, one of the partners died on the steps, and the other escaped with his subordinates.
The second story is more funny.Qi Jinming said.
It’s still a couple, it’s still a local product, it’s still an antique, it’s still a group of people coming here.Although he didn't bump into the Dragon King, but after entering the Nightless Sky, one of the companions had a brain bubble and had to fiddle with the mechanism, and died with a bang.His husband was widowed before he could cry.You said it was funny.
I won't talk about the third to fourth and fifth in the middle, I really can't remember clearly.Qi Jinming said.Just skip to the last one.
It’s still a couple, it’s a local product, it’s an antique, it’s a group of people coming here.But this time, only the couple entered the nightless sky. Fortunately, they reached the end of the journey unscathed.But the other person was very tired, so he didn't really want to leave, and wanted to stay here.
I said, "Don't tell me, I know the last story is about us. But who are those people in the front?"
"It's all us." Qi Jinming smiled, "Master, it's all us."
The middle of the bridge of my nose was sore, I couldn't control my tears and snot, so I persisted and said, "What are you talking about?"
Qi Jinming smiled ugly: "Every time you die, I light those lamps. When those lights are on, it seems that the day and night are always bright... When those lights are all lit, we can go back to the past, This is the real use of Buyetian. After going back to the past, in order to correct my mistakes and prevent you from dying, I will start all over again, do you understand?"
I shook my head: "What are you talking about? Are you suffering from paranoia?"
"It's a pity that every time we come here, every time you die, no matter which way you go, it's the same goal. I'm so tired, every time I go back to the past, you have no memory, I have to get to know you again, fall in love again , Remarried, you fucker." He scolded through gritted teeth, but still smiled, "So sometimes my memory is often confused, and I can't remember whether I was with you or not, because I have put This period of time has been repeated too many times... Did I say that I wanted to have sex with you inexplicably before? When we were not familiar with each other?" He still smiled jokingly, hiding his embarrassment.
Many things flashed back in memory: sailing a boat on the water, suddenly falling into the water, a secret cave, sleeping with pythons and immortals.Or maybe I fell into the water and saw Qi Jinming swimming to save me with a knife in his mouth.If this is not Qi Jinming's paranoia, then everything has happened before, and it is not a Ming and Qing novel style story that I subconsciously compiled...
"Actually, when I start all over again this time, I don't even want to get along with you, so I went to have sex with a lot of messy people. I hope this can drive you away, because I used to think that you were a bit mentally clean, and I couldn't accept a promiscuity The object of my love." He shook his head and said, looking even a little naive, "But in the end, I couldn't bear it, and I got back with you again, I really regret it—do you usually think I'm crazy?"
Thinking of Qi Jinming sometimes relying on me for no reason, sometimes kicking me away, and occasionally teasing me with my uncle, those inexplicable love details now all make sense.
"Why do you insist..." I had tears streaming down my face, "You can choose not to see me again, so you don't have to repeat it—" I remembered the first time I met Qi Jinming.He was standing in the wind and sand, wearing a black leather jacket and goggles, covering most of his face, unable to see his eyes clearly, only the ironic smile on the corner of his mouth.I think, although I have a deep memory of him, if he gave up on me from then on, and never saw each other again in this life, I would not remember him just for a glimpse.
"I can't bear it, young master." Qi Jinming held me in his arms, his skin was cold, like the scales of a dragon king or the temperature of water, not as warm as before, which made me feel that he already belonged to Nightless day, and no longer belong to me.Qi Jinming was choked with tears, and after a while, he spoke again.
"I can't bear it. When you died for the first time, you were already 40 years old..." At this point, tears rolled down his face, and his chest heaved because he couldn't restrain his emotions. This was the first time I saw Qi Jinming so crying.
I suddenly remembered that there was a time when I was squatting on a high archway in the early morning in Beijing, and the cold wind was so cold that I could hardly stand still.But I still stood up and said threateningly to Qi Jinming below, do you love me?If you don't answer, I will jump off!
I didn't experience as much as Qi Jinming, so I can remember things clearly.At that time Qi Jinming said, of course I love you, no less than you love me.
Back then I asked myself how affectionate, Qi Jinming was too cold, I didn't believe he was more affectionate than me.So I said, you lied to me, I jumped off!
Qi Jinming had no choice but to compromise, and still stretched out his hands and said, I really, really love you, I'm not lying to you, you just don't know it now, and you will know it later.
I don't know what to ask, when will I know?
'I hope that day comes later,' he said.
I asked, why?
Qi Jinming asked: "Master, do you still remember the time when you squatted on the archway and asked, when will you know that I love you?"
I said: "Of course I remember." I can still vividly remember that silly scene.
"I hope that day comes later," he said.
I finally asked, "Why?"
He smiled and said: "Because every time I have to wait until the end to say it, every time you don't know until you are about to die, and you forget it after a while. Every time I have to explain it again, it's too tiring. I think it ends here, sir."
I couldn't choose what to say: "Then you will live here, okay? I will come to see you when I miss you in the future, you don't have to stay with me!"
He smiled and said, "It's not that I feel tired being with you... I feel that being alive is very tiring. Changshenghai, why did you let me live forever? I have experienced so many things that I can't even remember..."
He said this, and at some point he took out a palm mine, the kind of pistol that seemed to be used by the female spies of the Republic of China. I thought he was going to leave it for me to defend myself in the future.Unexpectedly, he said: "Master, for the sake of your mental health, I won't point my head at it."
My heart was wrong, and I reached out to snatch it, but he was always faster than ordinary people, and he had already shot violently, hitting his chest.Maybe it was a blow from me, the bullet missed the point, but it was enough to make him bleed profusely.Qi Jinming lay powerlessly on the steps, but within a few seconds, he was already lying in a puddle of blood.
"Master, after I die, you go out and don't come back again."
I pressed his chest, blood gushed from my fingers, I cried and shouted to the top of the spiral staircase: "Gu Xiaopeng! Lan Tian! Who the hell can hear you! Come down and save people!"
Qi Jinming felt that he was hopeless, and lay there with a happy expression on his face.He curled his lips and said, "By the way, there is something I still have to tell you."
"What?" I asked.
"I thought I liked the 40-year-old you the most. Cough, everything after that was to save him..." He had no strength to stretch out his hand, so he could only look at me, then at his hand, and beckoned me to shake his hand .My hands were bloody and greasy, and I had to hold them a few times before I grasped them tightly.After catching up, he took over.
"But right now I like you the most."
Hearing this, a kind of power suddenly emerged from the depths of me. He said that when all the lights are turned on, we can go back to the past.I let go of Qi Jinming's hand, and I wanted to turn on all the lights before he was completely out of breath.My physical strength is not very good, so I ran around the stairs to light the lamp. When I finished lighting, he might have died long ago, but I still had to burn the boat once.I took out the lighter I was planning to light for Bai Yuntian in my trouser pocket, lit the first lamp, and was about to run up, when I found that the lamps were spirally wound up one by one, turning on automatically, round after round, In less than ten seconds, all the lights were fully lit, and a straight beam of light enveloped Qi Jinming and me.The light was too bright for the eyes of ordinary people, and I gradually began to lose consciousness.But at the last edge of consciousness, I tried my best to fall in the direction of Qi Jinming.
In the chaos, I said with a wry smile, Longevity Sea and Nightless Sky, the two are worthwhile.One really makes people live forever and suffers from samsara forever; the other is really brightly lit, like a nightless sky.
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