The room was shrouded in darkness, with bright spotlights on both sides of the carpet.
"What does it smell like?" Fang Xiaoling covered her mouth and nose in disgust, "This room seems to have a suffocating feeling?"
"I obviously feel it too." Huang Yueying said from behind, "But rather than saying it is suffocation, it is better to say that there is a very blocked feeling."
"Yes!" Fang Xiaoling nodded immediately and said, "I just don't know how to describe it. It seems like the blood vessels all over my body are no longer flowing. It's very uncomfortable."
Zhuge Liang didn't say a word, just frowned. He had never experienced such a feeling.
The three of them walked forward for a while, and found more and more people standing in the beams of light. They all looked thin, and some were almost skinny and bones.
"Lord of Light!" Huang Yueying suddenly shouted in horror, "That...over there..."
Fang Xiaoling followed her line of sight and saw a human being who could no longer tell whether he was male or female. He had no hair, his eyes were deeply sunken, and his sternum and internal organs could be vaguely seen on his chest - he looked like a mummy.
"Uh-huh..." The man opened his toothless mouth, as if he wanted to say something to them.
"Husband!" Huang Yueying immediately grabbed Fang Xiaoling's arm.
"You've arrested the wrong person." Fang Xiaoling pushed her hand away, daring to get closer. She squinted her eyes and observed, and she was shocked to find a leech the size of a fingernail lying on the person's arm, as if she couldn't get enough. As if, sucking the man's blood bit by bit - even though the man seemed to have almost no blood left to suck.
"Hiss—" Even Zhuge Liang took a breath of cold air and couldn't bear to look any further, so he turned his head and looked away.
"Light Master, let's go quickly? That uncomfortable feeling seems to be getting worse." Huang Yueying scratched her neck and urged, "Why is it starting to itch again?"
At this moment, someone suddenly giggled in the beam of light next to him.
"It's useless. Even if you go out, you will come back sooner or later." The man looked to be in his early twenties. Except for being a little thin, his face was no different from that of a normal person.
Fang Xiaoling looked over and found a leech lying on the man's arm.
She asked tentatively: "Do you know there is something on your arm?"
"Of course, that's why I'm here." The man showed an evil smile, "If it's too uncomfortable, just go into the beam.
Don't be afraid, I've been here for three months and nothing has changed in my body. "
"Who believes it!" Huang Yueying pointed at the mummy-like man not far away and asked, "Don't tell me he looked like this from the beginning?"
"Indeed it's not." The man didn't hide anything and said calmly, "When I first came here, he could still talk, but I don't know why. Maybe it's because he's too old?"
Huang Yueying said with contempt on her face: "How can you tell lies with your eyes open?! Anyone can see that it was sucked by leeches, right?!"
The man looked down at his arm, suddenly remembered something, and murmured: "Ah, yes...it's a leech...Although it is very small, if you keep sucking it like this, it will definitely be harmful to your body...
Ah...yes...
This is something everyone can see. "
"Ignore him." Fang Xiaoling could clearly feel her condition getting worse. She immediately moved on and said, "Let's get out of here quickly."
Zhuge and his wife followed Fang Xiaoling closely. The pace of the three of them became faster and faster, the light beams on both sides became denser and denser, and there were more and more people inside.
"Come in and rest for a while before leaving." Those people shouted to them, "You can't make it to the next room like this!"
The pace of the three of them became slower and slower.
Fang Xiaoling felt as if her legs were filled with lead, and she couldn't exert any strength.
Until she heard a man yell, "Go away... never come in!"
At this moment, she suddenly stopped and looked at the bunches of light around her. Those skinny people were sucking leeches on their arms.
Fang Xiaoling realized that a terrifying change had occurred in her heart - she actually wanted to be sucked in.
"The blood has coagulated..." Huang Yueying muttered unconsciously, "If this continues, you will die."
"What does this feel like..." Zhuge Liang also frowned and bowed his waist. He didn't know what was wrong with him.
There was no pain, but it felt like my whole body ached.
There is no itching, but I feel itchy all over my body.
Zhuge Liang felt for the pulse on his wrist. It was beating vigorously, just like ordinary people.
The blood is flowing and the heart is beating thumpingly.
After careful examination, it seems that there is nothing abnormal about his body. When he pays attention to whether he is in pain, he will find that it is not painful, but it seems to be a little itchy? But when I pay attention to where I feel itchy, I find that it's not itchy. It seems like I'm thirsty?
When I wanted to drink water, I found that I was not thirsty, but probably hungry...
The three of them had never experienced such a feeling. They all fell to the ground in unison, as if they had no strength at all.
"Damn...it feels so uncomfortable!" Fang Xiaoling poured [White Lotus Root] into her whole body, but found that she was not hurt at all. She beat the floor angrily and yelled, "Why on earth?! What on earth is this? What's wrong?!"
Even she herself didn't realize that her arms, which were originally weak, made a thumping sound when they hit the floor just now.
"Lord of Light..." Huang Yueying said dying, "I can't survive, I seem to be dying...
I want to...enter the light. "
What Fang Xiaoling was most worried about happened, because she also wanted to go in.
But she knew clearly that going in was very dangerous.
Therefore, what she was most worried about was that Zhuge and his wife would persuade her to go in.
At this time, she could not refuse the lobbying of these two people.
"Go! Let's stay for a while!" Fang Xiaoling suddenly felt full of strength. She got up and ran into a beam of light where there was no one around.
Leeches dropped from the roof onto her shoulders, sucking her blood.
For a moment, there was only light in her eyes.
She felt like she had entered heaven, like drought meeting rain and dew, like her soul returning home.
She saw Huang Yueying in the beam of light next to her with the same expression on her face.
Zhuge Liang lay on the ground and struggled for a long time with his eyes closed. Finally, he stood up unsteadily and walked into the beam of light next to Huang Yueying.
"Are you comfortable?" said the woman in the beam of light not far away, "There is nothing more comfortable than this in the world."
"Let's stay for a while and then go out immediately and continue on our way!" Fang Xiaoling raised her voice and looked at the door at the end of the carpet. "We've already walked more than half of the way. When we go out later, let's run to the door!"
"Okay!" Huang Yueying replied firmly.
Zhuge Liang also nodded.
About ten minutes later, Fang Xiaoling said to Zhuge and his wife as she had decided before: "We can't delay it any longer, let's leave now!"
After saying that, Fang Xiaoling ran out immediately. She planned to deal with the leech on her shoulder, but she didn't expect that the leech followed the light and returned to the roof of the shed and did not pester her.
The uncomfortable feeling I felt all over my body before seems to be coming back bit by bit.
There was nothing unusual at first, and I don’t know when Fang Xiaoling became unable to run.
Seeing that they were about to approach the door ahead, the three of them stopped almost at the same time.
They exchanged glances and stepped into three nearby beams of light.
"Huh -" Fang Xiaoling closed her eyes as if she was relieved, raised her head and said, "It's not far away. If we go out in a while, we can leave here."
"Lord of Light." Zhuge Liang frowned and stared at his arm, "I wonder if Liang is dazzled. What words seem to be written on this insect?"
Fang Xiaoling didn't pay attention at first, but after hearing what he said, she squinted and looked over.
At first, the words were very small and difficult to read, but as I concentrated my attention, the words became clearly visible.
Huang Yueying was the first to read out the words: "Is being smoked harmful to health?"
(End of chapter)
