Thousand Lantern Night

Under the night by the lake, a bonfire was quietly burning, and occasionally there would be the sound of water ripples on the lake, making the night especially quiet.

I sat by the fire and curled up with my knees in my arms, looking at the fire and not wanting to say anything.The stuffy oil bottle is even more stuffy, just add some firewood to the fire every once in a while, and the rest of the time, basically sit like a stone sculpture.Yun Cai's singing gradually died down, and there was no sound in his ears, and he felt that the atmosphere was like a rope strangling his neck, making people suffocate.

After a while, Poker Ping pulled a leaf from the tree, bit it between his lips, and suddenly blew a tune.That tone is relatively simple, but it sounds very delicate.I turned my head and glanced at Poker Bottle, his eyes were closed, his face facing the light looked pale.My brows were slightly frowned, as if I was thinking about something on my mind, such a boring oil bottle, such a tune made me suddenly feel a burst of sadness.

The tune played for a long time, and even when the tune stopped, Poker-Face still kept that movement, still meditating with his eyes closed.I guess maybe he remembered something, but those things didn't let him go.I sighed helplessly, blaming me for trying to be sensational, knowing that Poker's past would not be easy, and still provoke him.

So he cleared his throat and talked to him, "Brother, what song did you play just now? I've never heard it before."

"I don't know." Sure enough, he used the usual amnesiac words.He took the leaf out of his mouth, pinched it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully.After a pause, he said, "On the snowfields of ancient times, when a young man wooed his beloved girl, he would play this kind of tune."

I am surprised.Heart said what!Poker bottle actually knows how to courtship?Immediately, I felt uneasy again. So, this guy who is cold on the outside and coquettish on the inside can play this kind of music, which means that he has also courted his sister before, right?In my mind, I imagined Pokerfing's handsome face with a flattering smile, kneeling on one knee, salivating and blowing this piece to the proud girl, and suddenly I wanted to turn around and face him. A punch in the face.

If I did that, he would end up wringing off my arm, or chopping off a hand.I could only pretend to be stupefied and let out a long "Oh", and asked him, "The girl who can make you woo me, brother, must be very beautiful, right?"

Poker bottle didn't say anything, just stared at the fire in a daze, thought for a while, and then told me, "My appearance doesn't attract girls."

ah? !I almost jumped up from the ground, no mistake!Girls don't like Boyouping's appearance, so is there any man in this world who attracts girls!But he said this in a serious manner, and I almost laughed out loud with my stomach in my hands, thinking that the boringness of Poker Bottle is really a matter of melancholy about not attracting girls, right?So I waved my hand and told him, "How is it possible, brother, you don't know, the world is different now, and girls like you these days, cool! A handsome man! If you go to the street Walking around, those little girls will scream!"

I was chattering, but I thought in my heart that maybe a long, long time ago, Poker Bottle might have flowed from feelings like this.There used to be such a girl who loved each other with him, but in the later accidents, he disappeared and was forgotten.The girl probably never saw him again, and then grew old and died alone.As for Poker Bottle, he will never remember that there was such a person, the person who once touched his heart, she has died where he can't see.But he just walked along the path of fate, and he has been alone since then.

Suddenly, my heart ached sharply.I was talking and talking, but I couldn't go on.Staring blankly at Poker Bottle, he didn't know what mood he was in.I was a little envious of that girl who might just be my fiction, but suddenly felt that I was just like her, maybe one day Poker Bottle would disappear from my life, and then I would be forgotten, and I would never remember Wu Evil this person.And I, too, will grow old alone, and eventually die where he can't see.

Poker-Face looked at me suspiciously, noncommittal to my logic.He sighed, and said helplessly, "I don't know. Wu Xie, I just want to brag to you."

My chin was resting on my knees, and the tears just flowed silently, dripping down the back of my hands.Poker bottle moved over to me, I reached out and hugged him, and asked him hoarsely, "Brother, how can I keep you by my side?"

Pokerfing's cold fingers brushed against my face, and he kissed my forehead forcefully, saying, "Wu Xie, unless I die."

At that time, I automatically interpreted this sentence as: Unless I die, I will stay with you for the rest of my life.And I really believe that with Poker's longevity, at least he will stay with me until I grow old.

Until later in the jade belt on the mountain, we fought with the white meat raised in those jade stones. Poker bottle was seriously injured to protect me, but he smiled and said to me, fortunately, I didn't kill you.I later asked him why he had that thought at the time, and he gently touched his heart with his hand, and said to me, as long as I think of you dying, it will hurt me here.Later, when I went back to Banai to rescue Poker-Fing and Fatty, when I saw Poker-Face almost died in the ancient building of the Zhang family, I deeply felt the pain he said at the time, which would make people go crazy and lose all mind.

And then, and then——my last memory is only the back of the snow-capped mountain walking against the wind.

"Wu Xie! Wu Xie!" Someone in the ear shouted anxiously, accompanied by a hot slap on the face.Xiaohua's face can be seen in the gap, with blood on the corner of her mouth.He grabbed my shoulder and shook it vigorously, almost yelling at me through gritted teeth, "Don't think about anything! Stop your thinking!"

I had a splitting headache and almost wanted to die holding my head.Xiaohua carried the fat man's bag on her shoulders, dragged me forward half-handled, "Get out of here first! This piano sound can control people's hearts, don't follow the situation it gives you to think!" Xiaohua's physical strength was exhausted. It was too big, and it dragged me, and I stumbled when I walked.At this time, I still had the sober mind to think about the fat man, and said, "I can't—leave the fat man!"

As I said that, I was about to turn my head to pull the fat man, but Xiao Hua held me down desperately, and almost sternly said to me, "The fat man is more experienced than you, he will survive by himself! You go with me first—" When it came to this , Xiaohua suddenly stopped going forward.I felt that all the muscles in his body tensed up in an instant, and his whole body was on alert.Before I could react, Xiao Hua suddenly leaned close to my ear and whispered, "Wu Xie, you have to go forward by yourself. Leave me and Fatty alone for a while, and run along this stone bridge!"

His tone was undeniable.I didn't ask him why, because at this time, I heard a series of strange screams, and at the same time saw a very strange thing climbing up on the edge of the stone bridge.

It was almost humanoid, with a head and limbs, and a body of enormous size.But its color was the reddish gray of rock, like a skinless man dripping with flesh and blood.

I woke up a lot in an instant.I just felt a tingling nausea hitting my throat, and what made me even more unbearable was that there was more than one thing, and there were many more hands of that kind on the edge of the whole stone bridge in an instant, and the dense clicking sound showed that we were almost surrounded by them.

Xiao Hua threw me forward and shouted, "Run!"

At the same time, the humanoid monster that first climbed up by the bridge made a sharp and strange cry, and rushed towards Xiaohua and me.Xiaohua grabbed my shoulders with both hands and pushed me forward. A fierce flying kick hit the head of the thing, kicking it into the air and falling into the abyss.

Those monsters were like hungry ghosts crawling out of hell, and the rattling monsters climbed up one after another.At this time, we don't have enough weapons, and we are obviously at a disadvantage in close combat.And I need Xiaohua and Fatty to protect me with this kind of skill, which is also a burden for them to break through.I understood what Xiaohua meant, so I quickly caught the backpack thrown by Xiaohua before the surroundings were completely formed, and ran forward quickly.

But something even stranger happened.I had just run five or six meters when someone grabbed my arm suddenly.At this time, my subconscious reaction must be to turn around, because the opponent is obviously not Xiaohua or Fatty.But this kick was completely empty, and at the same time I was shocked to see a hand that belonged to that kind of humanoid monster tightly grasping my arm.

The hand seemed to protrude out of nowhere, only reaching the elbow, and nothing else.Instinctively I tugged at it with the other hand, trying to throw it away.But as soon as I touch it, its main body is like drawing with a pen on paper, suddenly forming solid lines.

The sight of a humanoid monster appearing out of nowhere is driving me crazy, it's hard for me to imagine such a thing happening.But at this moment I didn't have time to imagine, I felt myself being pulled so hard by its pull that I fell to the ground on all fours.That thing moved so fast that I basically didn't see it move, and it jumped in front of me in an instant, grabbing my neck severely with its hands.

I can clearly see the appearance of the monster, with the same head and limbs as a human. The only difference is that it is bigger and has no facial features on its face.That face was like a ball of dough with nothing on it, and I don't even know where it made that weird cry.Its hand pressed against my neck, it was cold to the touch, like a wet stone.

While struggling, I groped the ground with my hands, and when I touched a stone, I slammed it hard on its head without even thinking about it.The thing was hit by me like this, and the body fell to the side, but the hand was still in my neck.At this time, I also got murderous intentions, held my breath and rolled over, pressed it with my knees, and greeted it continuously with the stone in my hand.

The monster's face was smashed into a mess by me, gushing out a stream of black liquid, emitting a wet fishy smell, which was super unpleasant.I thought in my heart that two more hits would definitely kill this thing, but I was caught by a pair of arms in the oblique stab, and another monster threw me down with a force.

I did the same while rolling on the ground, hitting it on the head with a rock.Probably these few blows were stronger, and the thing suddenly let go of its hand.When I kicked it away, I seemed to see that it had eyes, nose and mouth on its face, which looked like the face of Poker Bottle. I was so startled that I almost reached out to grab it to identify it.

But more monsters rushed at me, and I had to get up to face one of them and throw the rock, and then quickly dodge the other two.There was a gunshot behind me, and a monster clutching my backpack fell to the ground, screeching, and writhing into a ball.I glanced back, Xiaohua was holding a Glock 17 short-handled gun in her hand, and she took out a few monsters close by for me, and shouted at me, "Wu Xie, get out! These things are charms. That kind of desire generated by the sound of the piano manipulating people's hearts! Find the source of the sound of the piano and find a way to stop it!"

A monster fell in front of me and stopped convulsing quickly.I saw that it had unformed features on its face. When it was stiff, that face was like a weathered statue, with several deep cracks appearing impressively.

After hesitating for only a few seconds, I nodded at Xiaohua, turned around and ran towards a deeper place.

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