Altar of Infinity

Different from other caves, the cave Xie Ji found is large and deep, and there are more red snakes patrolling outside.

He took a picture inside with a flashlight, but couldn't see the end at all. He couldn't help doubting the air quality of the cave, and hesitated to let Xie Quan go in with him.

He has seen Jiang Jichu's skills, Siyou also has a strong fighting power, not to mention himself.

But Xie Quan is different.

Xie Quan has lived for many years and his health has been bad for many years. Even if he is alive and well now, his weak appearance has long been deeply imprinted in Xie Ji's mind. In addition, he has not undergone much exercise or encountered any danger, so he can only act as a nanny in the team Roles such as logistics need someone to protect them at all times.

Xie Ji actually hopes that Xie Quan can stay in the guest house with Jiang Jichu, so that the two can communicate and take care of each other.

But Jiang Jichu has a lonely personality, so keeping someone he doesn't know well by his side will only be counterproductive.

Judging from the quilt-building game that you come and go in the morning, Jiang Jichu has a good foundation. Even though he is sick, he is stronger than ordinary people. The villagers of Chenjia Village are ordinary people.

If Xie Quan was left behind, it would be causing trouble for Jiang Jichu.

Xie Ji first told Xie Quan: "Follow me, don't run around, call me immediately if there is any danger."

Xie Quan has self-knowledge and will never cause trouble for Xie Ji: "I know, don't worry brother, I will run first if something happens, so I won't hold you back."

After getting ready, the two brothers stepped into the cave surrounded by snakes.

They walked for at least 10 minutes, going around several corridors like a maze in an amusement park, and finally saw a woman sitting at a stone table at the bottom of the cave.

The interior of the cave is dark and damp, and the deep space is only illuminated by Xie Ji's flashlight.

The woman has short hair with ears, and a pair of glasses without lenses on the bridge of her nose. She has beautiful facial features. It can be seen that she used to be very beautiful, but now her face is ashen, uglier than Jiang Jichu who has a fever. The expression, nausea also has the word "Chuan" vertically.

To Xie Ji's mixed feelings, the woman was wearing a white medical coat that had been washed to the hem.

The woman was not surprised by the visit of the two, she sat very straight and was full of precautions against any external things: "Hello."

When we met for the first time, Xie Ji didn't know a woman's temperament. Thinking that the other party probably couldn't stand the bad behavior of the villagers in Chenjia Village, so he fled to the cave to endure humiliation. He and Xie Quan stopped at a long distance: "Hi, my name is Xie. Ji, this is my younger brother, Xie Quan."

The woman nodded: "My name is Yang Dan."

If a person does not speak for a long time, his pronunciation will be stiff when he speaks again, but Yang Dan can speak fluently after seven or eight years of primitive life.

One of Xie Ji's inferences was once again corroborated—the red python attacked Chenjiacun not to kill people, but to save other abducted women.

They all stay in the cave at the bottom of the cliff, protected by the red snake and red python. Although life will be difficult, they will support each other.

Yang Dan was obviously well educated. Seeing Xie Ji and Xie Quan standing, she stood up and invited them to sit down.

Under the white coat was a pair of faded loose jeans. Yang Dan walked with a limp. Xie Ji caught a glimpse of his ankle under the jeans. There was an ugly scar on the joint, which seemed to be pierced by something like an iron hook.

Yang Dan pushed his glasses, and said indifferently, "You are outsiders who have found this place for the first time. Sketch team, photography team, donkey friend team, what are you?"

"Archaeology," Xie Ji was keenly aware of the meaning in her words: "Did other outsiders come to Chenjiacun before us?"

Yang Dan: "Not bad."

Xie Ji: "Where are they?"

Yang Dan didn't have any mood swings: "Dead."

Xie Quan gasped for the third time: "Dead?"

"Men are all killed, women..." Yang Dan snorted coldly, "Those who are not dead are also crazy."

Xie Ji thought to himself.

It seems that the checkpoint is not a one-time item, and someone who has broken through the checkpoint can be broken by others, but there should be a premise here, the checkpoint has not been passed, otherwise it will not meet the unspoken rules of the altar screening.

"There are a lot of normal people in this world," Yang Dan continued, "at first they were unwilling to eat Fuxiu, until they found that after eating Fuxiu, they would not be attacked by purple snakes and purple pythons. They naturally became friends with animals. , was slowly assimilated into animals, and then slaughtered by animals."

Xie Ji thought of how many people among them were unwilling to eat at first, but found that Fuxiu had pinched his nose and ate it: "What if I only ate a few bites?"

Yang Dan laughed mockingly in his eyes: "You guys can come here, it means that you have already guessed what Fuxiu is, and you have eaten red fruit. If so, you should be able to feel that if you agree, you will eat it sooner or later. If you don't agree, you will spit it out even if you eat it. "

Thank you for understanding.

The passers-by like them can't stay in the checkpoint for too long, and those who enter the altar are all adults, and the three views have been formed long ago, and they can't be changed in a short period of time. Acceptable shows that there is no bottom line.

Yang Dan touched his glasses again: "The remaining ones who insist on not eating will either be unable to escape the attacks of purple snakes, purple pythons, villagers, or even their companions, and the rare ones who find red fruit trees will only face more violent attacks. Those who can live in Chenjia Village Those who come down are either damned beasts, or women who are worse than death."

She stared at Xie Ji: "You are not the same as them, after all, what are you doing here?"

Xie Ji said frankly: "We hope to help you and help other victims. Do you have any wish to fulfill?"

Yang Dan seemed to hear some joke: "Wish? What kind of wish can a person who can't see the light have."

Even so, there was obvious disgust and resentment in her eyes, and the word "Chuan" between her eyebrows twisted out again.

With the change of her expression, the temperature in the cave also dropped.

Xie Ji could even feel a dark wind blowing from behind.

Xie Quan, who was walking quietly all the way, suddenly asked tentatively: "Sister, are you a medical student?"

Yang Dan was taken aback, the young man in front of him looked clean and pleasing, especially the baby fat on his cheeks made him look a bit innocent, she replied: "Yes, Department of Medicine, University A."

Xie Quan smiled: "Then count me as my senior sister. I am from the Department of Medicine of Z University. We are not far away."

After a long while, Yang Dan spoke again: "That happened in the previous life."

Xie Quan: "How could it be the previous life? Senior sister hasn't finished her life yet."

Yang Dan paused for a longer time: "There is no difference."

Xie Quan: "How old is senior? She looks like she's in her early twenties..."

Yang Dan interrupted Xie Quan's compliment indifferently: "I was just graduated from university when I was tricked into coming here."

Xie Quan's sweetness was not affected in any way: "Oh, I'm a sophomore this year. Is my senior planning to take the postgraduate entrance examination? Do you want to take the postgraduate entrance examination at Z University? The conditions for graduate students at Z University are very good, but not too high."

Xie Quan said it very naturally, not like in a gloomy cave, but rather like meeting a senior from another school at a milk tea shop in front of a university, talking about academic issues familiarly.

It’s been a long time since no one has talked to Yang Dan about this. Today’s traffic is so developed that one ticket can fly from one end of the country to the other on the same day, but civilized society has long been another world to her.

She was supposed to be the same as Xie Quan, her biggest worry was the vast number of topics, she had a bright and bright future, doing projects in the laboratory or saving lives and healing the wounded on the operating table, but fate played a big joke on her.

She is vigilant enough, she has never been greedy for petty gains, avoided people asking for directions, never walked in secluded alleys, and called the police directly when she met someone asking for help.

But she never expected that she would be knocked unconscious by a stick just after she left the laboratory without even having time to change her clothes, and she was still on campus.

Open your eyes again, and you will fall from the world to hell.

Resentment surfaced in his heart again, but before Yang Dan could get angry, Xie Quan said again: "Sister, my brother will rescue you, not only you, but also you and the other people rescued by Red Mang, everyone will be rescued, wait After you go out, you come to take the postgraduate entrance examination of Z University's medical department, okay?"

Yang Dan said softly: "Go out?"

Xie Quan nodded sharply: "Yeah! Get out of this wretched place! Call the police and arrest them!"

"You can't get out," Yang Dan smiled wryly, "Do you think anyone doesn't want to go out, but if you want to go out, you must kill the purple python. Only by killing it can the road appear on the mountain. But the purple python can't be killed at all. Xiushu and Fu Xiuguo are its roots, even if it is broken in two, it can survive. The number of red snakes and purple snakes is not in the same order. We cannot destroy Fu Xiushu. And there are many sisters in their hands , let's cast a mouse-snatching weapon."

"With my brother here, we can solve it!" Xie Quan hugged Xie Ji's arm and looked up at him, "Isn't it brother?"

Mr. Xie, who had been an audience for a long time, was suddenly entrusted with an important task by his younger brother. He touched Xie Quan's head kindly, and communicated with Yang Dan rationally: "According to what you said, what we need to do now is to ensure the safety of other victims." At the same time, first destroy all the Fuxiu trees in Chenjia Village, only in this way can the purple python be completely killed, and this mountain will have a road leading to the outside of the mountain."

Yang Dan: "Yes."

Xie Ji calculated the available combat power and gave an affirmative answer: "No problem."

Yang Dan was dubious: "The purple python and the little snakes it leads are hard to deal with."

Xie Ji: "Since Ms. Yang can grasp a lot of information, she should also know that my companion and I have had two hand-to-hand encounters with the purple python, and we didn't suffer a loss."

Yang Dan was shocked.

Xie Ji guessed right, although she did not dare to leave the bottom of the cliff, but the Red Snake was her companion, and she had learned about Xie Ji's skills from Red Shek's mouth.

She had waited for too long, perhaps the time to end all this had finally arrived.

Xie Ji got the answer he wanted from the change of Yang Dan's expression.

"Whether it is out of personal interests, or out of dislike for Chenjiacun, and sympathy for the victims over the years, we will do our best to help you," he pulled his arm out of Xie Quan's arms, gently but firmly, "But Ms. Yang , I hope to get your utmost candor."

……

After finalizing a more specific plan with Yang Dan, Xie Ji took Xie Quan out of the cave, and Yang Dan sent them to the entrance of the cave.

Considering that Yang Dan is inconvenient to walk, they wanted Yang Dan to rest, but the other party insisted.

When parting, Xie Ji looked back.

Yang Dan stood upright leaning on a homemade wooden crutch. The only set of clothes that belonged to him was mended and worn on his body. His slender wrists stretched out from the cuffs to help his glasses that had lost their lenses long ago.

She still remembers the etiquette she has learned since she grew up. Every movement reminds herself of the outside world, always reminding herself that she is a person, uncompromising, unyielding, and tenaciously persisting.

Xie Quan smiled heartily, waved goodbye to Yang Dan and walked backwards for the convenience, stepped on a stone by accident, and staggered suddenly.

Xie Ji quickly helped him up: "Be careful."

Xie Quan didn't care: "Brother, after we leave, Yang Dan and the others can return to normal life in the checkpoint, right?"

Xie Ji said warmly: "Yes."

Xie Ji took Xie Quan away from the bottom of the cliff step by step.

He never told Xie Quan that when communicating with Yang Dan, Yang Dan's chest never rose or fell.