When Luo Binhan saw the strange container for the first time, he could not fully understand what it represented. His head was still stuck in the horror of the gray wind hitting his face, and he had no idea how he ended up in such an underground cave-like place. What does this obvious, golden snowglobe-like artifact represent? He hasn't had time to consider such a problem yet. It wasn't until the golden cloud in the container was swallowed up by the gray that the familiar feeling made him jump up suddenly and almost fall from the edge of the cliff.
He stabilized his body in time and noticed another person lying on his right side. Asabam was lying there with his head intact, and his neck was completely a skeleton. Her snow-white bones were almost falling apart, and tender leaf-like granulations were slowly crawling on her dark spine. Luo Binhan once saw that vertebra grow into the entire Asabam in the blink of an eye, but this time it grew extremely slowly. A full minute passed before Luo Binhan saw two or three nerve-like structures coming out of the tip of the granulation.
During this observation process, Luo Binhan became distracted at an inappropriate time. Asabam was in a very unusual state, and when Luo Binhan recalled the scene when they encountered the gray wind, he realized that Asabam should have had other ways to escape the predicament, such as pulling them back To that weird place full of shadows and mist. She did not do this, nor did she summon more shadows, but fled to the sky. And now she fell to the ground, motionless.
Luo Binhan called her several times, but there was no response. He didn't want to take the risk of testing Asabam to see if he was pretending to be dead, so he knocked on his head.
"Is she alive?" he asked into the air.
He hoped that Garfield, who was living in his head, would make a more accurate judgment, but the other party just agreed that Asabam was not in good condition. Its voice sounded strange, as if it was thinking about something else. Luo Binhan was surprised at first (what else could he think about at this time?), but soon an idea flashed into his mind. Just when he figured it out, Garfield's voice disappeared from his head.
"You wouldn't leave me if she died, would you?" he said. There was nothing to hide, since the other party could obviously read his mind.
He waited calmly for a reply. After another ten seconds, the voice in his head replied slowly: "There is not enough food here. If she dies, I don't think we have enough ability to leave together."
"Are you going to eat me? And her?"
"It's part of the cycle of life," the voice replied solemnly.
Luo Binhan didn't feel angry at all. Perhaps he had lower expectations for a creature that looked nothing like himself. He even wondered why the other party didn't kill him now and then deal with Asabam.
This question was immediately answered by the facts. Asabam's body bounced slightly. A layer of shadow flowed out from under her body, causing the rest of her body to turn slightly. Her head was facing Luo Binhan, and her pure black eyes were staring at him. She didn't say anything, and it seemed to Luo Binhan that she had no vocal organs. However, when the shadow flowed out from under her body, he consciously closed his mouth to discuss with Garfield.
Fine. He said to Garfield in his mind. Now she is still alive. I don't know how much power she has, but it's probably enough to deal with both of us. Now I'm not playing tricks, and you'd better not be either.
Garfield agreed. It may have begun to eat Luo Binhan's brain cells in private, but Luo Binhan can't control that much for the time being. If he had ever considered taking advantage of this opportunity to get rid of Asabam, escape - or even kill her directly, now those plans had to be shelved. He walked up and knelt down at the edge of the shadow to look at her.
"What was that just now?" he asked.
Asabam blinked silently. That may mean that he doesn't know, or he may not want to answer. The edges of her shadow rippled like waves, letting Luo Binhan know that even though she didn't even have legs, she was still a dangerous, cold-blooded killer.
Luo Binhan couldn't help but glance at her spine. He didn't want to appear that he cared too much about this, but Asabam looked really weird at the moment. A woman's head stuck on a short black stick. If the desire to survive hadn't restrained him, Luo Binhan could have even grabbed her in his hand and waved her around.
He cleared his throat to clear these messy thoughts from his head, and then said: "What should we do next?"
Asabam still didn't speak, only a long and thin stream flowed out of the shadow, waving towards the darkness in the distance. Luo Binhan understood two things from her behavior: First, she really couldn't speak. 2. Her opinion is "get out of here". That was exactly what Luo Binhan wanted, but he also had to point out another fact.
"Have you seen the surroundings?" He didn't dare to grab Asabam's head, so he could only gesture around with the fingers of his right hand. "I guess we are on a very high rock. There is no road. There is no ladder."
He raised his bare left wrist and waved it in front of Asabam: "I don't have any hands either. Are you thinking you can take us down?"
Asabam's eyes fell on the broken part of his wrist, and then he looked away. The black flesh buds on her body were still growing slowly, and it seemed that she didn't care whether Luo Binhan could change his hand back.
"Okay, you can continue to rest." Luo Binhan said. He decided that he could play well by himself, so he walked away from Asabam's shadow and went to the edge of the rock to observe the environment.
They were in some kind of underground or cave-like environment inside a mountain. The air is damp and cold, there are many rock peaks, and the corners are covered with moss that emits cold light. A dark spring flows from the gap at the top of the cave and flows into the darkness at the bottom of the peak. There was a fierce sound of water everywhere, as if there was a broad and fast river below. Based on the sound of falling water, Luo Binhan estimated that they were at least six stories high.
If compared with the situation just now, all this is not too bad, but it also leaves Luo Binhan with nothing to do. He wandered around the rocks but couldn't find a suitable way to climb down, not to mention he didn't know how deep it was (but would he still drown now?). He finally began to feel tired and sat down on the rock at the farthest point from Asabam. There was no part of his body that was not in pain. Is this life? He took off his coat listlessly, cut off two sleeves crookedly with a dagger, first bandaged the broken wrist of his left hand, and then wrapped the wound on the back of his right hand with his teeth. At this moment, his lungs were also cramping, but luckily the pain was mild and he didn't bother to pay attention.
He treated the wound roughly and then washed his face in the spring water falling next to him. The water was very cold, but it didn't smell strange. Luo Binhan was bleeding too much and felt really thirsty, so he drank it regardless. After he finished it, he thought for a while and filled his remaining sleeve with water.
"Do you want it?" He asked Asabam while shaking his sleeve filled with water, noticing that her spine was already covered with a thin layer of flesh.
Asabam didn't respond, so Luo Binhan just threw his sleeve over. He didn't care at all whether the sleeves could be retracted, but contentedly put on his brand new sleeveless coat and lay down on the rock face. Now he longed for the sublime sleep, and it was none of his business even if Asabam died of thirst.
"Sleep," Garfield murmured, "is a temporary death."
You fart. Luo Binhan answered in his heart. He was already drowsy, but the cannibal refused to quiet his ears. It began to speak slowly about death and sleep.
"I have heard someone describe this world like this." It said, "The world is a huge illusion, created by the ultimate power. It awakens sleepers from the eternal kingdom and brings them to life. But the illusion itself It is full of pain and torture, so living beings always long to return to eternal sleep. When they decide to do so, they will board a boat, cross a river full of lotus flowers, and return to the eternal kingdom to sleep through the water. But in this way There are too many people, so the world has to hang three curtains on the river. The first layer is called loneliness, and the second layer is called terror. They are both gray and hateful, used to scare away returnees who are eager to sleep together. The third curtain is different. It is brilliant and beautiful, making people believe that there must be a greater and wiser existence hidden behind it. That is the veil of the supreme existence, conveying its will and discouraging returnees from returning to the illusionary world."
That's a scam. Luo Binhan commented in his heart. Then he fell into the depths of consciousness and had a long sweet dream.
