Artisans in Tunli

Chapter 14 Intertwined World

I tiptoed out of the ward, and a gust of cool wind blew from somewhere, instantly dispelling all my fatigue.I closed my eyes and took a deep breath when suddenly a scream exploded in my ears.

Is it Liu Chunling?It must be Liu Chunling's voice.

I searched in the direction of the sound, and the lights in the dim corridor flickered accordingly. I was not sure whether it was the right decision to continue walking now.So I looked back to see if there was anything strange behind me. When I saw the scene behind me, I began to question everything in front of me.

Have I returned to the normal world?
The peeling green skin on the wall is floating upward bit by bit under the flickering lights, completely ignoring the various laws of physics of the old Newton.The color of the milky white wooden door of the ward gradually dimmed and turned rotten.The smell of disinfectant in his nose also began to turn into a familiar rotten smell, just like the smell when he was on the edge of hell.

Before I had time to marvel at the changes around me, I turned around and searched for the location of the scream.

"Sister Liu? Where are you, give me a voice!" I walked anxiously, and the road under my feet became more and more difficult.The floor tiles have been broken, and they kept protruding upwards, and a piece of restless debris scratched my forearm.

"I'm here! Thirteen, I'm here in the toilet!" After hearing this, I ignored the slowly rising debris and needles around me.

"Are you okay?" Liu Chunling was squatting in the corner of the toilet in panic, and when she saw me coming, she immediately threw herself into my arms.

"Do you know what's going on?" Her question really stopped me, but my instinct told me that we should not be in the normal world now.

"I don't know too well, but it's very similar to the world below, but it's a little different." I carefully recalled all the words Zhang Feng had said to me before, but I still had no clue.

"I remembered!" Liu Chunling hurriedly asked what was going on when she heard me say this.

"When I was down there, my daughter and my ex-girlfriend were there too, and she told me what happened down there, all kinds of hell are in an unstable state right now, nothing else is explained, but I'm sure we It should be in some kind of chaos." After saying these words, I remembered the two jade pendants that Sun Jing gave me before I left, as if I didn't see where they were when I woke up?

My mind is very messed up now, what happened recently is so sudden, there is no sign, and no one came to give me a reasonable explanation.

"Let's see if we can go outside." I pulled her to go downstairs to see if I could get out, because it looked like it was going to cave in sooner or later.

The inpatient department is an old building, with a total of only the fifth floor. I live on the third floor and can go down in a few steps according to common sense.But I clearly remember in my heart that I walked a full six floors of stairs without going down.As I walked more and more urgently, I simply stopped to take a rest. When I saw the "3F" painted in red on the side of the corridor, I couldn't hold back anymore.

"What the hell are you trying to do!" I kicked the handrail of the stairs frantically with my feet. I actually have a pretty good temper, and I rarely get angry. This time it really pissed me off.

Liu Chunling asked me to try to take a deep breath, and getting angry now can't solve the problem.

"It seems that this time it's really over. Zhang Feng was by my side to protect me before. If it doesn't help, I still have the jade pendant! Eh? Jade pendant! Do you know where my clothes are?" I really wanted to catch it all of a sudden. Like a life-saving straw, I just thought of going to Yupei, my head.

She nodded and took me to my ward, saying that my clothes were in the closet.As soon as I entered, I saw a large iron cabinet standing in the corner. There was not much paint left on it, and it was covered with rust.

Liu Chunling tugged hard on the door a few times, but the iron door didn't seem to give much face.

"I'll do it!" I stepped forward and put one foot against the door on the other side. I firmly grasped the handle of the iron door with both hands and started to exert strength. "Bang, creak", the door opened.Two shiny jade pendants were flashing desperately. I held one in each hand, thinking about what on earth these things were.Intuition tells me it shouldn't be just a key.

"What are you thinking about?" Liu Chunling quickly pushed me when she saw that I was frowning and looked dazed.

"When Sun Jing gave it to me, she didn't tell me how it works!" I could feel the disgusted expression on the beautiful woman's face.

I was still thinking about it, and there seemed to be light coming in from the window.I walked along the light, and found that there was some kind of hospital outside the window, with magma flowing everywhere, collapsed buildings and cracked ground.

"My god, this is like hell!" Liu Chunling exclaimed from the side.

"We've been in hell all along, but we didn't realize it." I ignored the exaggerated scene in front of me, trying to unlock the function of the jade pendant was the key.

I first put the jade pendant together in my hand, nothing changed.What kind of sword fingers are twisted, sitting cross-legged and twisted, all kinds of posses are put out, and there is no change.I seem to be able to feel the temperature of the magma. If we can't solve this situation, we may have to be cremated in a while.

I'm blind, I'm still a college student, I really have mixed feelings in my heart.But I should be like this. Since I was a child, when I encounter something, there is always someone around me who can stand up and help me.Grandpa, mother, Li Xiao. Now when I am alone, I realize how insignificant I am in this mysterious world.

Falling into endless self-mockery, I accidentally dropped the jade pendant in my hand. When the jade pendant fell to the ground, the light that had been flickering became constant.

That's right, putting it on the ground might bring the world in front of me back to the underworld.In order to verify this idea, I hurriedly put another jade pendant that belonged to Sun Jing on the ground. The two jade pendants on the ground are like two bright lights.

Two beams of light, one blue and one red, straightly illuminated the surroundings. Liu Chunling opened her mouth and couldn't say anything. Everything was so dreamy. In the end, the light was so strong that I had to close my eyes and block them with my arms. .

After a long time, the light disappeared, and I opened my eyes, still unable to adapt to the surrounding environment.

"We're back!" Liu Chunling said excitedly while pulling me up from the ground with her hands.Sure enough, everything around me became what it was before. I turned my head and looked out the window, and all the facilities were where they should have been.

I quickly lowered my head to look for the jade pendant, and found that only my piece was left, and Sun Jing's jade pendant had disappeared.

"Did you see that jade pendant?" She shook her head, afraid that I had kicked it when I got up, so I hurried to see if there was any trace of it under the bed. After crawling on the ground for a long time, I found nothing but an apple core.

I beat the ashes on my body, thinking that the nurse didn't know how to sweep the floor, it was a mess.

"Forget it, it wasn't mine in the first place. If it's gone, it's gone. Just don't encounter this kind of situation again." I comforted myself, thinking that the only thing Sun Jing left me was that. Lost by me, secretly cursing myself for what I can't do, what I can eat is not enough!

"I feel like we've only been in that world for a short time just now. It's already dawn!" I looked at Liu Chunling, who was sighing towards the sun outside the window.

I thought to myself that I went down for only a few hours before, and it has been a year since I came back. There may be a time gap between these two worlds. To be reasonable, we have traveled through time and space.

I tried to persuade her not to think too much, this time it probably has something to do with me, so don't worry, she was quite open about it, and wanted to make breakfast for me, I stopped her and said she didn't have much appetite, just lie down Go to bed for a while, she nodded in agreement.

Lying on the bed, thinking about what happened just now, I am afraid I will encounter it again in the future. At that time, I only have one jade pendant left, what should I do?In short, get out of the hospital as soon as possible, find Zhang Muzhen to learn from a teacher, it's better than waiting to die.I fell asleep thinking about it.

My father was packing my luggage for me. Since I came back, my father has been busy with the work in the field, and I don't have much chance to talk to him.But I opened my mouth but didn't know what to say. I must never tell him what happened to me. I can't let him worry about me anymore. It's time for me to shoulder my own responsibilities.

"Let's go, son, let's go have sex!" Seeing the kind smile on my father's face, my nose felt a little sore, and I quickly turned my head and agreed.

Sitting in a taxi, my father was chatting with the driver in the passenger seat, but I kept staring at the scenery outside the window.

After walking for more than half a year and being in coma for more than a year, the outside world is no longer what I saw before.All kinds of shops, a variety of stalls, hawkers yelling in the street, and urban management chasing the hawkers behind, this small town that I was so yearning for, has changed its face and is flirting with me.

The original old San Chuanwudui has been given to a family to make Mala Tang, and I heard that his family has already made a chain.My father and I searched for a long time before we found a "five cents small skewers".

Fifty cents is fifty cents, but the skewers are no longer the same as before.One mouthful is not enough to chew. After eating healthy meals in the hospital for so long, it can be regarded as seeing meat, so I directly put two skewers in my mouth.I don't know if it's because I didn't drink for a long time, but I feel a little dizzy after drinking a bottle of yellow soup.

"Didn't you say it was three o'clock? Why are you here so early!" Li Xiao and Wang Jingjing were pushing and shoving when they entered the private room, thinking that the two of them were probably hooking up.

"I said Xiao Li, my sister is underage, so don't make plans with her."

"I want you to take care of it!" Before Li Xiao opened his mouth, Wang Jingjing shouted first.

"I said, old girl, can you be a lady, she's quite a big girl and she's screaming all day long!" I said while eating.My dad laughed and said that Jingjing was exactly the same as the second aunt when she was a child, and she didn't care about details.

I thought to myself that this is not a matter of informality, she has never been rigid about major matters.

Wang Jingjing greeted the waiter and said that she wanted to order more skewers.When this fat waiter came in, I saw a woman coming out from the opposite door.Even though it was below zero outside, she was still wearing a skirt, but she wore a mink shawl on her upper body.A big black braid was tightly attached to the back, looking down along the charming curve, a pair of shiny leather boots that looked expensive, dazzled the eyes.

"What are you looking at?" Xiao Li noticed that I was looking outside the door, and pushed me slightly.

"I seem to be looking at someone I know, familiar. It seems to be Chen Xiaohe?" When Li Xiao heard me say Chen Xiaohe, he stood up and wanted to go out to have a look. I stopped him and said I should go and have a look.But Li Xiaoxiao didn't agree with anything, and when we were arguing, a familiar voice rang in our ears.

"Why are you guys!" A familiar face appeared behind the waiter, and it was indeed Chen Xiaohe.

"What a coincidence, hehe, I'm leaving the hospital today, come out for a drink!" I turned my head and asked the waiter to add a chair.

"No, no, my boyfriend is still waiting for me over there. I said, why are you hospitalized again?" Chen Xiaohe kept looking at me when he was talking, as if he didn't pay much attention to Li Xiao being beside me.I looked at Li Xiao from the corner of my eye, he turned his head to the side, wondering if he was crying sad tears.

"Something went wrong, I'm fine now, very healthy! Haha, we haven't seen each other for a few years, let's have a drink." I clinked glasses with her.

She chatted with my father again, nothing more than going to school in Changchun now and coming back from vacation to stay for a while.Before going out, I said that if I have time, I must find an opportunity to get together again.It was embarrassing when I left my mobile phone number. I wonder if my super long standby time has fallen on the border of hell, and I can’t find it no matter how hard I look.I just left Wang Jingjing's cell phone number. Seeing Wang Jingjing's eyes rolling wildly, I knew that this holiday would not end.

After drinking for three rounds, Li Xiao still didn't say much, and answered my questions one after another.My father seemed to be having a good time drinking, saying that he hadn't drank and chatted with us juniors for a long time.

A few years ago, a lot of private small coal mines were opened at home, and the digging was too shallow, which led to the subsidence area on our side.Many people in the village have moved to the city, and it is convenient for them to go to school and so on.But there are fewer and fewer people in the village, and the few brothers my father could get along with have all moved away, and now there are only a few families left.

In fact, my father didn't want to move away, but he couldn't farm the land after moving away.I still need money to go to school, and I don't know if I drank too much and yelled that I didn't want to go to school.My father immediately stood up and wanted to beat me up, saying that he got up early and worked late every day just to help me study, but Li Xiao and Jingjing stopped him, and I didn't make a sound, so I just gave up.

When I got home, it was past two o'clock in the middle of the night. Seeing that my bedroom was clean and tidy, I thought to myself that such a big man like my father is actually quite careful.

Dad has been buried in the fields for half his life. I remember he told me that he had good academic performance when he was in school. The main reason was that the conditions at home were too poor, so he dropped out of school early to work at home.My great-grandfather’s generation was still able to hunt in the mountains. My father’s generation either went south to the sea to do business and drove carts;

My dad said that no matter what job you do, you should live a down-to-earth life and don't always think about reaching the sky in one step.It’s only now that I have come to realize that I have lived 20 years in vain.

(End of this chapter)