The fat man woke up completely when the sky was gray outside.
Even in the same place and scene, compared to the invisible pressure and unknown fear released by the long night, the feeling during the day is always much more peaceful and tranquil.
Human beings are inherently afraid of unknown things. When you open your eyes, you can see everything within your sight, and you will not be too afraid, because at this time you will have a psychological expectation of what is about to happen.
In the dark, people's vision is inherently limited. If there is no firelight and the sensory mechanism is deprived, you don't know what kind of things will appear around you, so you will keep imagining. This uncontrollable imagination will Increase your fear, so fear of the dark is instinctive.
The fat man's bones were so sore that he felt as if he had been run over by a millstone. He yelled "Ouch" and got up.
He looked left and right at the tent he was in. He was confused for a while before he realized what he was doing. He hurriedly asked Wu Xie, "Tianzhen, how are you? You're not hurt. What the hell is that thing? It looks like a snake and looks like a snake." Fish, it's so fierce, Fatty, I'm so fat, but damn it, I couldn't even withstand a single round."
Maponim's tail slapped him into a coma, and he had no idea what happened next.
Wu Xie handed him the dried clothes and compressed biscuits, and briefly told what happened next, "I'm fine. I just soaked in ice water for a while. You two were seriously injured. Muyu hasn't recovered yet." Signs of waking up.”
The fat man looked at Zhang Zhuxun lying in the sleeping bag on the side, stared at the lines on his right face for a while, and asked, "Are you sure it's him?"
Hearing the fat man's words, Wu Xie's expression was filled with unspeakable sadness. He sighed, stepped forward and sat aside, stretched out his hand to lift off a corner of Zhang Zhuxun's blanket, and whispered: "See for yourself, I don’t know what to tell you.”
"how?"
The fat man thought his reaction was a bit strange, so he turned on the flashlight and got closer. When he saw it, his eyes widened. He couldn't believe what his eyes saw.
"This, this, this..." He pointed at the countless criss-crossed scars on Zhang Zhuxun's chest, and was so shocked that he forgot to say anything.
Wu Xie seemed to have something stuck in his throat. He took a hard breath before speaking, "These scars are real. He didn't deliberately fabricate them to confuse the public."
When the fat man heard this, he hurriedly rubbed the scars with his hands, but found that they couldn't be rubbed away, and his face suddenly became very ugly.
He asked eagerly: "What about the tattoos? What's going on with these tattoos? I can't see the unicorn on his body anymore!"
On Zhang Shuxun's left chest, where the unicorn tattoo would have originally appeared, it now turned into a more bizarre and complicated red pattern.
These lines spread from the tattoo on the right chest, intertwined with those horrific scars, and densely covered the entire chest, even on both arms.
Fatty knew Muyu well. With his obsessive-compulsive disorder, there was no way he would be willing to leave so many ugly scars on his body that looked like crawling centipedes.
And they all know that Muyu has an abnormal healing ability. No matter how deep the wound is, it will not leave such old scars that have been around for a while.
And what about the Zhang family’s symbolic tattoo?
Why can't I see such a big unicorn?
The temperature on Muyu's body is still a bit hot at the moment. If the unicorn tattoo is still there, it is impossible not to be burned out.
"Could it be the reason for the incident at the Zhang Family Ancient Building? Muyu may have undergone some changes that we couldn't imagine." Fatty guessed.
"I can't rule out this possibility." Wu Xie nodded and said, "I thought about it all night, and I think that either the things under the ancient building caused the changes in the wooden fish, or it has something to do with the bronze door here."
"Do you still remember that when the bronze door was opened in Changbai Mountain, the blood on the wooden fish's body seemed to be attracted by something and kept pouring out of its pores, and it couldn't be stopped no matter what."
The fat man tucked the blanket back, "Are you trying to say that the reason why the tattoo on Muyu's body is abnormal is probably because he has entered the bronze door here a year ago?"
Wu Xie nodded, "Other than that, I can't think of any other more reasonable explanation."
When Wu Xie saw these scars last night, he was as shocked as Fatty. He simply couldn't imagine what Muyu had gone through in the more than a year apart to leave so many scars on his body that could not be erased. of scars.
Most of these scars are stab wounds, and there are also many bullet scratches, large and small, which look particularly hideous and terrifying against the fair skin.
There was a gun scar as big as a bottle cap very close to his neck. Just looking at the location of the scar, Wu Xie could imagine how dangerous the situation was at that time. The gun shot directly penetrated his neck, almost It hit the arteries.
Wounds like this abound on Zhang Shuxun's body, which are proof that he has had countless brushes with death.
"Since last night, only the red tattoo on his right side has been showing up, and as the body temperature gets higher and higher, it quickly spreads to the left side, as if it is alive." Wu Xie said.
"But I remember that in the past, the red tattoo on Muyu's body was only on the right side."
The fat man murmured and had a sudden thought, "Oh my innocence, do you still remember that when we were in the undersea tomb, Muyu was controlled by something on his body? At that time, two kinds of tattoos appeared on his body to fight. , but then the unicorn tattoo won, and the other tattoo faded away. This time the unicorn tattoo disappeared. Could it be that he had never done anything in this fight before and was eaten by another tattoo."
Wu Xie shook his head, "No, the unicorn tattoo on the wooden fish was tattooed on the skin with a special plant dye mixed with something special. It didn't grow on its own. It's not like white blood cells swallowing pathogens. It can be done by eating it. eat."
"Then tell me what's going on. You can just make up a random explanation. The reason for the Bronze Gate is too mysterious, and my brother has also entered the Bronze Gate. They are from the Zhang family. Why didn't the tattoo on his body disappear? "The fat man said while putting on clothes, "Otherwise, there would be only one reason."
"Impossible!" Wu Xie denied without hesitation, "My feeling can't be wrong, he is Muyu."
The fat man's hand in the coat paused, and he spoke hesitantly, "Zhenzhen, I feel that your state has started to be a little wrong since entering the snow-capped mountains. You have been deliberately escaping from reality on this issue. You are actually very worried. It’s clear, right? Muyu is not the only one in the world who has this kind of fire tattoo, other people in Kangbalo also have it, and that Dan’s left finger is also long, these features are not unique.”
Bai Ci was the one chosen to take over the task. It was not surprising that he had such a large tattoo on his body.
What made Fatty really doubt his previous judgment was the disappearance of the unicorn tattoo. In this sudden crisis, Bai Ci had no chance to cover up the tattoo on his body.
So it is very possible that Bai Cizhen... is not a wooden fish.
The fat man raised his hand and patted Wu Xie hard on the shoulder, and said sincerely: "I know you really want to find Muyu, and I do too, but we can't be emotional about this matter. Haven't you noticed that from the beginning? From the moment you met Bai Ci, you have been looking at him through the filter of a wooden fish."
"You have subconsciously regarded him as a wooden fish. All his actions and reactions to you will be automatically interpreted as the habitual behavior of the wooden fish in the past under the cover of that layer of filters."
"You have obviously seen many things about him that are inconsistent with Muyu, but you still keep catching those tiny similarities. Even if the evidence is in front of you, you will still subconsciously ignore these unreasonable details, because you don't want to I hope in my heart that he is Muyu."
"From the last password error in Siguniang Mountain to the failure to rescue Muyu from the bottom of the exit and not find his body, you attribute all these mistakes to yourself. Are you always thinking, what if At that time, you should be more careful when reading the password. If you heard the implication of the wooden fish when passing through the bell formation, the ending of the wooden fish will not be death, right."
"You have trapped the death of the wooden fish in your heart. It has become a stubborn knot. This knot has firmly tied you in place. Whenever you encounter something related to the wooden fish, you will wrap yourself up. You are using your negative attitude to refuse to believe that the wooden fish is dead."
"Have you imagined countless times that if you could do it over again, you would definitely prevent Muyu from returning to the bell array? Or should you follow him and rescue Pan Zi with him?"
Wu Xie looked at the fat man and opened his mouth to refute something, but found that he could not refute a word.
Some deeply hidden emotions were not even noticed by the fat man, but they were still seen by the fat man.
Fatty really knew Wu Xie too well. He always hoped that the people around him would be well, and always tried hard to make everything happen without regrets at the end, but in this world, hope in the sun and despair in the dust coexisted.
"Innocent, you hate yourself. You said that Muyu once told you in a dream, 'Escape is the stupidest and worst solution, and the pain can only come out.' You keep all this in your heart. , in the end it will become more and more stuffed, and more and more painful. If you continue like this, you will become possessed by innocence."
All the veils covering self-deception were lifted, Wu Xie's eyelids kept trembling, and the fat man's words were like the last straw on the camel. He finally couldn't hold on anymore, and covered his eyes in collapse.
The fat man sighed heavily, his eyes were a little sour, and he felt uncomfortable saying these words, but Wu Xie was too obsessed with "the wooden fish is still alive", even more than he paid attention to his own safety.
Wu Xie didn't even realize how bad his complexion was. His face was as pale as if he had been sucked blood. The cut on his forehead was directly sunken into a deep pit, and there was even faint blood oozing, and he was soaked in water. He didn't even notice that it was swollen like that.
If the temperature hadn't been too low now, such a deep wound would have become festered and infected.
The fat man took the medical bag placed aside, took out the sterilizing and bandaging things, and patted his shoulder, "Don't just cry, let's wrap up the wound on your forehead first. If the wound on your face is not treated in time, , you will cry when you have scars in the future."
"I'm not crying." Wu Xie rubbed his eyes, pursed his lips and forced a smile, "I just feel a little... uncomfortable and empty. Hey, I can't describe this feeling to you."
Then he pretended to be angry and said: "You don't have poisonous eyes, but you don't care about your mouth. Why do you say everything out loud? I feel like I really don't have any secrets in front of you. No, no, no, this It’s so unfair, you should quickly reveal a secret or two to help me feel balanced.”
"Want to know Fat Master's little secret?" The fat man twitched his eyebrows, "I won't tell you, you can guess on your own."
Wu Xie gritted his teeth and waved his fist at him. The fat man obediently pulled out a pair of scissors and asked him to defeat him. Only then was Wu Xie satisfied and laughed twice.
The fat man waved to him to lower his head and treat his wound, "If you hit it so deeply, it will probably leave scars, but luckily the broken hair can cover it up a little, and it won't be obvious if you leave bangs. Otherwise, it will not be obvious." I need to have surgery."
"You can't ruin your handsome face. After that, you have to ask Xiaohua for advice on how to remove scars. He has a skin expert who is very good at disguises." Wu Xie also changed the subject to a lighter topic, "Wait a minute. After a while, the fog completely dissipated, so Chuixiao and Zhang Haixing met up to count the remaining supplies, and then went to the Lama Temple to talk about the rest."
The two of them lowered their voices and chatted about what was going to happen next. Neither of them noticed that Zhang Zhuxun, who was lying behind him, quietly opened his eyes. A touch of complicated emotions flashed across his eyes, and the moment Wu Xie glanced over at him, he opened his eyes again. Close your eyelids immediately.
Zhang Zhuxun was already awake when the fat man started rubbing the scar, and he heard all the conversation between the two.
In fact, he had long noticed that something was wrong with Wu Xie's state. Ever since he entered the snow mountain, his entire aura had been suppressed.
Zhang Zhuxun hopes that he can be strong, but he also doesn't want to see him close his heart and break his past bit by bit.
But with his current status and position, he is not qualified to do anything. Fortunately, there is a fat man beside him who can always watch and explain.
Listening to the whispers between the two, Zhang Zhuxun also began to think about the problems that arose during this operation.
Why does Maponim almost only target fat people when attacking?
When Zhang Zhuoxun was in Kangbaluo, he had hunted with Dan and the others and fed the maponim in this lake. He had also entered the beast's head and followed them to their habitat.
Most of the Maponim are entrenched in underground lakes near a lava pool at the foot of the mountain, which is very deep from the surface. (End of chapter)
