Kudo

Even if the object is himself, Su Wan is not willing to have any intimate contact in such a situation where his mouth is full of sour smell.

Fortunately, there was no expected cold touch on his face.Su Wan only felt his waist tighten, and the wind direction suddenly changed. After falling at a high speed, he felt a strong friction on his back.

The contact surface was sandy ground, and Su Wan's light summer dress was scrapped without any suspense. Before he could yell and curse, a large area of ​​rough and severe pain burned on his back, forcing him to swallow the swear words that had already flowed to his mouth. inside.He opened his mouth wide, but he couldn't say a complete sentence, and a terrible cry erupted from his throat.

The dragging lasted for nearly five seconds. When the strength on his waist was released, Su Wan slid for several meters with inertia before finally stopping.He was lying flat on the ground, dirty and torn like a rag thrown aside after almost wiping the floor.

Falk, shame on you.Su Wan's tears flowed down. These tears were physiological and came from excessive pain, which he couldn't restrain himself.

The blood surged extravagantly, soaking through the torn clothes, and the fine gravel was deeply embedded in the flesh.Su Wan faced the ceiling, and the huge mirror reflected his most embarrassing appearance, and he could even clearly see his hideous facial expression because of the pain.

Bloody, inhuman.Eight words appeared in Su Wan's mind.He is sure that in the eighteen years he has lived, he has never been more embarrassed than he is now. "Sunshine boy was entangled and wiped to death by unknown creatures" sounds even more horrible than "a man was knocked and dragged for 300 meters".

The wise ancients once conducted in-depth research on the pain of the human body, and created all kinds of wonderful punishments in a targeted manner, one of which is to drag people to death on nail boards.This kind of punishment looks painful, but it's actually more painful. Although Su Wan's back is not a nail board, under the effect of speed, it is definitely better than the nail board.

The parts below his waist were slightly hanging in the air during the dragging process, and the condition was not bad, but the back, which was the key injured part, was not so lucky.If Li Cu is a real person with a turtle back, then he is definitely a flying fairy, with a picture of going up the river during the Qingming Festival painted on his back.

"Hey, you're still alive." He heard Fatty's voice, not as glib as usual, and even a little trembling.

The fat man was holding a large bottle of something similar to spray, his hands were covered with white powder, his body was covered in blood, and he exuded a disgusting stench.Su Wan's fragile stomach twitched, acid water stuck in his throat, the burning pain forced him to cough, and suddenly, the pulling of thousands of wounds on his back almost made him breathless.

For his current state, the shock caused by coughing was almost fatal.

"Damn it..." The fat man knelt down and wanted to help him, but he couldn't find a good piece of meat to start with, so he could only curse in a low voice.

After finally slowing down, Su Wan narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhang Qiling above him for a moment.In those eyes, he could see some seriousness, but no sympathy or pity.

Just like a towel becomes dirty and torn in front of you and becomes a rag, you can only frown at best instead of being sad.Zhang Qiling always maintains the most basic "attitude" when dealing with foreign objects, rather than more "emotions".

Is he cold blooded?It's almost like belonging to another species.Su Wan thought.Compared with this, Wu Xie seems much cuter.

"Be patient." Zhang Qiling said.He had more blood on his body than the fat man, and there was a large smear of blood on his face.

Su Wan made a ghostly expression.In fact, what he wanted to express was "I can't bear it", but Zhang Qiling obviously understood that he acquiesced, put his hands on his shoulders and waist, and turned him over like a fish.

I have to admit that Zhang Qiling's technique is very stable and very dexterous. If you were an ordinary person, you would only think that the world was turning instead of yourself turning over.Even so, at this moment Su Wan let out a scream and ate his mouth full of sand.

His voice became hoarse very early on, and this scream almost came from the friction and collision between the lungs, which was soul-stirring and deafening, but Zhang Qiling turned a deaf ear to it, and began to neatly peel off the incomplete clothes on his back.

The broken cloth was mixed with gravel, and was torn off together with the flesh.Su Wan's pain nerves were almost numb, and his mind went blank.

"Why did he come here," he heard Zhang Qiling ask, "Who is he?"

"The blind man's apprentice," the fat man replied, "I have no choice but to take him with me. Don't look at him now, if I leave him in the city of Beijing, I probably won't even find his bones now."

"A blind man accepts apprentices?" Zhang Qiling seemed to be questioning, but also seemed to be talking to himself, but he didn't stop for a moment, implementing the three-character principle of "quick and accurate", Su Wan always thought he could hear the flesh and blood tearing sound.

The fat man laughed hoarsely: "I didn't expect that, the blind man actually found someone to take care of him. I said brother, he is also lonely, and you haven't thought about what to do in the future? Fatty, I am kind and don't say bad things , as an old man, his seven diseases and eight diseases are like eating, if you-"

Su Wan thought to himself whether the fat man was looking for death or he was tired of living. No matter who he was talking to, these words were a powerful medicine that would kill all friends.

Zhang Qiling paused for half a second, did not show any anger, but said calmly: "It's all the same, there's nothing to give away."

This "send" is naturally not a gift, but a gift.There is nothing to give away, because there is nothing in the first place.As a dumb Zhang, a spirit man, and the head of Zhang's family, Zhang Qiling's life is full of ups and downs, full of legends, but the day of his death may be smaller and humbler than anyone else, and he is even unknown.

There are too many pretenders in the world, who eat well and dress well, but always put a little sparkling saliva on the corners of their eyes and weep for self-pity.They silently wipe away their tears with their handkerchiefs on rainy days, sing the Divine Comedy in the mountains, sing the most dazzling shofar wind by the river, smile at the vast sky, and smile as bright and sad as a chrysanthemum, sigh and say : I have nothing, I am a lonely person... No matter how I decorate and outline, nothing can compare to Zhang Qiling's understatement of "I have nothing to give away".

Su Wan suddenly felt that his back didn't hurt so much anymore.

"How can this be the same," said the fat man, "brother, you have to let me finish. I think your Zhang family is not reliable enough. If you really can't find anyone, don't forget my fat man , You can also go to Tianzhen, Beijing and Hangzhou, you can choose whatever you want, brother’s place is your place—if you don’t remember it, Fatty, I’ll leave you a note.”

Zhang Qiling kept silent, tearing at the remnants on Su Wan's back non-stop.

"Comrade Su has made it like this, so we can't just leave it here," the fat man continued, "Yes, I will guard here. Brother, you can have fun, you are independent again. If you can find innocence, remember to replace the fat man." Lord, I'll beat him up, and you take this big white dog leg."

"I remember everything." Zhang Qiling replied after being silent for a long time.I don't know which ones he remembered.

Then the footsteps went away.

It was very quiet all around, Su Wan heard the fat man singing, the tune was good, very ethnic, but the language was very strange, neither Cantonese nor English, in short he didn't understand a word.

The fat man sang one, but he didn't enjoy himself enough, he started another song, it was an old song that Su Wan knew.

"There is a cloud made of rain in the wind, a cloud made of rain..." The slender tune was twisted by the fat man's broken voice, but Su Wan could clearly hear the real tenderness from it.

Fatty stopped singing "I can't find a trace of pity".

"I can't find it anymore. My life is just messing around like this," the fat man murmured, "Sometimes it's really good, but unfortunately, before I realize it, it's fucking past, and I can't even dig it out."

Good times, good pictures, and good people all pass like this and can never be found again.

The grey-faced, blood-stained fat man stood blankly for a while, then sat down heavily on the ground.Su Wan turned his head and looked at the purple-black blood hole on his back in a daze.

The fat man just sat like this, no longer singing, no talking, no other movements, just sitting firmly beside Su Wan.

Yes, I'm here to watch.

He said so.

***

The blade slashed, and the blood quickly slid down from the palm, like the collision of liquid nitrogen and boiling water, causing a large area of ​​violent reactions in the deep passage, countless black beetles surged wildly, and retreated like a tide.

Zhang Qiling frowned.

This is a beetle that lives in symbiosis with the Hydra cypress, and it can secrete an extremely terrifying digestive juice. Ten of them are stronger than ten termites, and they are absolutely deadly to humans.Of course, the natural world needs a balance between species. The reproduction ability of this kind of beetle is very weak, far from enough to form a hunting group, and because of this, they need to achieve a symbiotic condition with the Hydra cypress.

However, with the number of beetles he found along the way, even mammoths would be shy of them.That is to say, here, the Hydra cypress and the beetle are probably not symbiotic partners, but competitors, and on the surface, the beetle seems to have played a powerful role in suppressing the Hydra cypress.

This conclusion seems reasonable, but there is a fatal loophole.Complex plants like Hydra cypress do not have the ability to digest. If they lose the beetle as an ally, they are likely to die gradually due to lack of nutrients.But under such an unbalanced force, it is still alive, and it does not appear weak due to the scarcity of food at all.

Assuming that the beetle itself already has the conditions for active hunting and no longer needs to rely on external objects, then the symbiotic condition has been destroyed. In this case, who is supporting it?Are those snakes?impossible.From the incident just now, it can be seen that the competitive relationship between the black-haired snake and the Hydra cypress has become more intense.

In this way, there is only one answer left: the symbiotic relationship has not been broken, and the more astonishing the number of beetles, the more likely there is an unprecedentedly huge Hydra cypress here.And if this was the case, it would undoubtedly be a serious mistake to leave Fatty and Su Wan by the pool.

Zhang Qiling paused, and took out a timer from his pocket.According to the display on the screen, two and a half hours had passed since he started to act independently.

He squeezed the timer tightly, the scratches on his hand that had just solidified cracked again, and the blood dripped down the cracks of his fingers.The cut was too deep, on the one hand because the fat man's big white dog legs are really good, and on the other hand because this action is a little strange to him, after all, it has been ten years.

It's too late anyway.According to the original idea, the mutual checks and balances between the black-haired snake and the Hydra cypress can make the poolside an ingenious safe zone. However, judging from the current new understanding, the time limit for this "safety" is very short. The head snake cypress showed its overwhelming strength. If the balance is broken, it will become the best hunting ground, and Fatty and Su Wan will turn into a pool of blood under the beetle's nibble.

After only hesitating for two seconds, Zhang Qiling glanced back and walked forward again.

After decades of treacherous and adventurous life, he has long been used to making choices in certain situations.Every choice is accompanied by labor pain and bloodshed. The important thing is not the pain and blood, but the light that can be seen after that.He had a premonition that if he stepped back at this moment, everything would be in vain.

Zhang Qiling glanced back, and then began to speed up. Although the pace was fast, the rhythm was not chaotic, which showed that he was very calm.After all, from a structural point of view, the space under the Sand Sea is really not complicated, and the beetles and snakes that make others helpless can't pose a big threat to him.

Turning around a corridor again, there is an open space in front of you, and a huge lake appears in the center of the open space, and the fog is steaming on the surface of the lake.

Zhang Qiling silently looked around.

Shahai Underground is not so much an ancient tomb as it is an underground base full of contradictions: the road surface is a flat modern concrete floor, but there are a large number of rare beetles and thick snake sloughs; the style of the passage is clean and neat, with obvious However, from time to time, we find tangled Hydra cypress vines; and the complete offices hidden behind the door are even more unbelievable... In fact, Zhang Qiling is no stranger to all these , because this is completely written by the Wang family, pursuing the ultimate contradiction, and seeking the perfect balance in the fierce collision.

The Wang family's understanding of the ultimate is absolutely no less than that of the Zhang family, and they have no so-called "gatekeeper" position, so they are fearless and unscrupulous, and they can even approach the ultimate more accurately than the Zhang family.It can be speculated that this was indeed a certain base of the Wang family. They secretly engaged in unknown experimental research in this underground space. The content of the experiment is unknown, but it must be related to the ultimate.It's a pity, judging from the current bad situation, their experiment failed, and it was a complete failure. That's why there is a bleak, depressed, and unwilling atmosphere here.

No one can defeat the ultimate, and in this place closest to the ultimate, the Wang family's always flexible writing has also become a failure - this ending is not difficult to guess, after all, even Wang Zanghai himself only built the pretending heavenly palace And the bronze gate of mystery.

The huge hydra cypress, the terrifying number of beetles, and the hot springs of unknown origin, these strange factors that cannot be ignored all come from the ultimate warning. Unpredictable underground ruins for future generations.

The most important thing is, with the way of thinking of the Wang family, where will this cover-up loophole be set?

Zhang Qiling focused his gaze on the lake.Even though it is under the desert, the water source in this underground palace is extremely abundant, and most of them are clean hot springs with soothing water temperature.

In addition to beetles, there are more snakes here, and the smell of blood is not a good self-defense weapon.He walked to the lake, squatted down, and stretched out his bloody hand to test the temperature of the water.In just one moment, a trace of astonishment flashed in his eyes, and his fingers retracted as quickly as lightning.

It was cold, icy cold, and the rising mist turned out to be cold air.

Hydra cypresses, beetles, and black-haired snakes all have some common characteristics, such as shade-loving, damp-loving, light-loving, and heat-fearing.If you consider the biological habits of this kind, it is not surprising that there are cold springs in this place. What is strange is that except for this area, the rest are hot springs.For example, the pool water at the entrance is obviously warm, but there are a large number of black-haired snakes that love shade and fear heat.In addition, in the case of a limited area, there are very few cases where cold springs and hot springs coexist naturally, but a cold spring appears so suddenly in a large area of ​​hot springs.

Zhang Qiling suddenly had an idea in his mind, he mercilessly tore off the blood scab on his palm, the blood gushed out again and dripped into the water.

A large amount of blood scattered in the water, and he waited quietly for a few minutes, but nothing unusual appeared in the water.Most carnivorous animals are very sensitive to the smell of blood, and there is no reaction in the water, which means that this place is biologically safe.

Zhang Qiling's eyes lit up, he retracted his hands and stood up, firmly tied the big white dog's legs and the underwater flashlight around his waist.Immediately afterwards, he took off his shirt neatly, revealing the close-fitting black vest and the smooth muscle lines on his arms. The whole figure is like a vigorous cheetah, with his eyes focused and ready to go.

He plunged headfirst into the water.

The water temperature was so low that even he couldn't help but suffocate, as the bones in his whole body seemed to be shattering at the same time.However, after a short period of pain, he came into contact with another unusual undercurrent, the water of which was warm, leading him to an unknown direction.

Zhang Qiling smiled very slightly.

——Sure enough, everything here was "reversed" by the ultimate storm, and the only eye of the typhoon that survived was the real entrance.