desert abyss

Humans are limited in their ability to recognize their own faces.Sometimes we feel like we don’t quite look like ourselves in pictures, and sometimes we feel like we look different in the mirror.At this time, we will have strong resistance.Because when we see a familiar thing, if there is a slight deviation, we will feel extremely scary and unknown.It's a bit like the uncanny valley effect.

At this time, I saw a face that was very similar to myself, but because I was so familiar with my appearance, I could clearly see every slight difference between that face and my own face.Seeing such a weird thing, I felt chest tightness and shortness of breath, and almost lost my breath.The taste of bandits these days is really strange, they actually like to look like me.

Of course I'm not bad looking either.

Aside from appearance, that person is still somewhat different from me.He was about my size, but stronger than I was.After clarifying this point, when I look at him again, I don't feel so scary.

"Put them all on?" At this moment a bandit said behind me.I was so excited that I couldn't help but groaned. "You said you can't recite it, and it's hard to explain in the two newspapers. Well, which one has the window open, blowing cold wind."

The bandit who was talking to me walked behind me and closed the window.He walked around the room for a few steps, walked up to the man and squatted down, held his cheeks, looked around, touched and patted.

"You are Yang An?" He asked.

The man nodded, then shook his head quickly, and then he began to cry with his eyes narrowed and his neck trembling.

"Hero, we have something to talk about, we have something to talk about, I want my money and all my things are in the room, please spare me a way to survive, my parents are only a son like me---" The bandit kicked him , he remained silent.

I was so angry that I almost jumped up and swearing, I said you are Yang An, then who am I?Calabash doll?Besides, I am as cowardly as you?Fuck your family, isn't this forcing me to work hard!

"I haven't found anything yet?" the bandit leader asked. "Where is the thing?" He looked at us, "Shouldn't these two babies swallow it? Come on, you all put it on and pull it away first."

The two thieves dragged the man outside, shouting and cursing while pulling.I thought to myself, buddy, let you pretend to be me, hehehe, you can do it yourself, and then I heard a wail.

My house has two doors.The outside is an old-fashioned wooden door with the simplest brass lock, and the inside is a metal grille door that can be folded in the middle. Ironically, it is anti-theft.To be on the safe side, when I go out for a long time, I will add a U-shaped lock that my mother bought me on the metal door. The lock is usually hung on the door, and it is also at this time.A lock weighs about five catties. I never thought it could be so destructive.

Just as they were pulling and pushing to get out of the door, that buddy somehow slipped out and stretched out a hand, took down my U-shaped lock, knocked the lock on the ground, and pointed at a kidnapper's foot. He smashed it, and then smacked the heads of the two of them twice, one from the left and the other from the right, and suddenly red and white splashed in all directions, just like spitting on two melons.Before I could understand, the buddy grabbed the two people's necks with both arms and slammed them to the ground.Now the two of them didn't even make a sound, and they withered away limply.Of the eight big men, only six remained.

I blinked and blinked, and saw the U-shaped lock fly over, and with a snap, a person beside me fell down.At the same time, the window behind him was suddenly kicked out of the frame and fell in. A woman flew in while swinging on a length of chain, and took out something from her trouser pocket.

"It's too late! It's too late! Make me do it!" shouted the man who looked like me.

"It depends on whether you can do it or not! I've got things in order, you can pull Yang An away!" The woman yelled, grabbed my little junior sister's handbag on the ground, and then suddenly raised the thing in her hand behind me. .

The next 1 minute was extremely chaotic for me.I didn't get into a group fight between the ages of 14 and 24, and I didn't fight much after I was 24 because my brain usually couldn't keep up with the changing situation.All I knew was that the force pressing me from behind suddenly lightened, and all of a sudden there were gunshots, screams and splashing warm things all around me, so I instinctively shrank to the corner of the wall, closing my eyes to protect my head.I found out afterward that although I thought I had experienced a gunfight in a Hong Kong-style movie, there were only three gunshots, and they were all shot by our side.

My mind went blank and confused until someone tapped me on the shoulder.

I realized that the surroundings had returned to silence again, and when I opened my eyes, there was a blood-red face in front of me.

The man was not bad-looking, with wide eyelids and large palpebral fissures, very childish, but the contours of his face were deep, and the big eyes were heroic, a bit like a foreigner.This kind of appearance should look cheerful in normal times, but under the blood stains on his face, it only makes people's hair stand on end.Blood was dripping from his hair and into his eyes, and his nose was twisted at a very odd angle.I let out a strange cry and shrank back to the corner of the wall. After that, I could only stare at him, unable to utter a sound, and unable to move my hands.

The man stretched out his hand in front of me, waved it, and gave a "tsk".He took my U-shaped lock and patched it on the heads of everyone lying on the ground, then straightened up and threw the lock covered with blood and hair on my bed, and put his other hand under my armpit , carried me into the bathroom like a kitten, and turned on the faucet.

His nose had been reshaped with some sort of rubbery thing, presumably to make it look like me, but it broke in the fight.He washed his face after removing the section, and wiped the blood from his neck and hands.That's when I realized that we still look very different. His eyebrows and lips are completely different from mine. Before that, it was all done with makeup.He wiped my face with a hot towel afterward.I'm still sitting and can't move.At this time, the woman appeared again, and when she saw us, she stomped her feet anxiously.

"Brother, why are you still here?! Go quickly, it will save a lot of trouble."

"I really want to go, I'm scared out of my two hundred and fifty gallbladders." The man pouted at me, "I find it strange that there is such a capable bean out of two acres of land, this person doesn't look like Yang An at all, There must be a mistake."

When I heard this, my back finally started to sweat, I felt sick in my throat, and I crawled to the toilet and retched.Although he only spit out some sour water, he felt something opened up in his heart.

I leaned on the table and stood up.

"What?" was all I could ask.

"Let's go."

"Why... why?" I felt dizzy again, and when I lowered my head, I vomited again.

"Those people aren't clean yet. We can't hand you over to them. If you don't leave, I'll knock you out and drag you away."

"Then...then let's go." I supported the table, my legs trembled, and suddenly I sat on the ground again. "Although... I can't walk."

The man came over and patted me on the shoulder.

"It's a man, I recognize you." As he said, he groped for the root of my neck, and my eyes turned black.

My life before the age of 24 was uneventful.My 24 to 30 years of life were full of events.

When I was a student, I was no different from my peers.My academic performance is hard and simple, my foreign language is top-notch, and everything else is mediocre.I thought it was unusual for boys to be good at liberal arts but poor at science, but it was only when I was in college that I realized that there were not so few boys studying foreign languages ​​in society, nor were they so popular.

I did my undergraduate and master degree at SISU, and my middle school was at the High School Affiliated to SISU. During my studies, I was encouraged to be a diplomat and an investment banker abroad, but I only wanted to be a translator since I was a child.I thought that as a translator, I could follow many people around the world and become the eyes of the world.In the second year of junior high school, a classmate brought a copy of "Men's Health". I read it and thought that the Russian sister and the German sister in it were the most eye-catching, so I learned German and Russian.Since then, language has given me colorful eyes, but I use them to find Eastern European movies.

Adults say that children are often sick when they are young, but they are generally safe when they grow up.I never got sick when I was a child. When I was ten years old, I could eat 15 big dumplings made by my grandmother. When I was [-] years old, I played basketball in the class and started the point guard. Mom was almost reincarnated. "I am determined, I am happy, and I am responsible for my life."

The only strange thing I experienced before I was 24 was that I lost my soul once.

Even though it was a childhood thing, I still remember it clearly.I grew up in Puxi, Shanghai, and my grandparents had relatives in the Pudong countryside. My parents and I would always visit during Chinese New Year.One year on the fourth day of the new year, we went to see my grandfather's two sisters.There are also many children in the relatives’ house. The elders are eating melon seeds and fruits in the house, and a bunch of us little kids are playing outside.I was not familiar with wells at that time, so I liked playing with fetching water.In winter, the well water is warm, and if it is poured on the ground, it can freeze.It was great fun when I was a kid.

Although my parents grabbed my ears and warned me, I still like to look into the well.I was fascinated by the dark passage inside and the small light circle at the end.After doing this, one time, I dropped the toy car that I never left into the well.I didn't like to cry when I was a child, but I liked to solve things by myself. At this time, I didn't tell my parents. I fetched water several times by myself, and looked into the well many times, until I was called back to have dinner by adults.

In the middle of the night that day, I sneaked out again and looked into the well.The moonlight was weak, and the well was pitch black, so naturally I couldn't see anything clearly.I lay on the well fence and thought for a long time.Occasionally, from the corner of the eye, I saw two bright yellow lights not far away.At that time, I was still a child, and I only knew that if a child did not sleep at night, he would be eaten by a big bad wolf, so he was terrified.Those two yellow lights flashed by, and when I turned around, I saw a man lying on the edge of the well staring at me.

I felt something was wrong, but my hand on the railing of the well was covered by two pale hands.The man's mouth was half-opened, his eye sockets were hollow, and there were spider webs in his mouth and eyes, and his skin was shining with a greasy white light.

I yelled and wanted to run, but I couldn't move as if I was fixed on the edge of the well.At this time my mother and two adults rushed out of the house.My mother picked me up and ran back.I saw the thing stick halfway out of the well, and I yelled on my mother's shoulder.My mother held me in her arms, turned around and spit a few mouthfuls, and rushed into the house.

I had a high fever that night, and that was the end of my memory of the incident.

When I grew up, I still remembered the dirty things in the well. I described it to my mother once, and my mother said it was bad luck and told me to shut up.

I asked my mom if she saw anything that night too.

"No fart, just a stray cat." My mother told me.But when I heard her talking on the phone with her hometown, she mentioned that she wanted someone to visit the tomb of the old cousin of the Zhang family.

According to my mother, I fell into a coma for two days.When I was sent to the hospital, the doctor only said that I had a high fever, and prescribed some antipyretics, but it didn't improve.The elders in the family said that it was the children who provoked the dirty things and lost their souls.No one would have expected such a thing to happen in the first lunar month.If there is no soul in the first month, then it is likely that it cannot be hidden.I was thrown on the wooden bed and beat from head to toe with a peach wood comb. My mother threw soybeans and salt at me, and my grandparents burned incense and paper, but nothing worked.When someone was going to invite the great fairy in the village, I was fine by myself.

Daxian came to see and said that the child lost his soul and found it by himself, and it will become a big event in the future, good or bad.My parents were suspicious after hearing this, and have been watching me closely since then, treating all the girls who are close to me as vixens.But since then, there has been no great joy or sorrow in my life, until that night.

When I woke up, I found myself lying in the back seat of a bus with clean clothes and someone covering me with a thin blanket.The air conditioner above my head made my hair stand on end.I looked at my watch, and the LCD screen showed that it was five o'clock the next morning.

The curtains were drawn on the windows.I raised the curtain and looked outside, gasping for air.I'm no longer in downtown Shanghai, and I don't look like any other place in Shanghai.The bus was parked in an empty concrete area, next to a gas station and a small white building, like a service area, but there were no other cars except the bus.There was a mist around it.I squeezed my eyes to see where it was, but couldn't tell.

None of the clothes on me were mine, and even the shoes had been changed, but they fit me well, and they didn't look like new.I don't have my mobile phone and wallet, and the only electronic device on my body is this watch.The amulet my junior sister gave me is still on my neck, and the red string my mother gave me is also on my wrist.

Whatever happened, I'm not in danger right now, and I don't look like I'm going to be sold.

I looked at my watch again and did a quick calculation.I lost consciousness around nine o'clock last night, and it's five o'clock now.If I was sent to the bus after being unconscious last night, then I should not be far from Shanghai now, maybe still in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, or maybe in Shandong, Anhui, or as far as Henan at most.

I slapped myself twice and told myself not to take it lightly.I got up from my seat and stood in the bus looking around.But I found that there were many people sitting in the front seat, seven or eight rows were crowded, both men and women were resting.Hearing my movements, everyone turned to look at me.I froze in embarrassment, like constipation for a long time.

"Are you awake?" Some of the people in the group were familiar, such as the man and woman last night.There are also some facial features that are more eye-catching, such as some foreigners with blonde hair and blue eyes.The man and woman stood up and came towards me.

I fell back into my seat, my heart beating wildly, and my head hurting like hell.

Fortunately, both of them looked very refined, and the woman was still wearing a JuicyCouture sportswear with an iPod tucked into her collar.That man doesn't look scary at all now, from head to toe revealing casual elegance, he is completely different from the evil ghost who killed red eyes last night.The two shook hands with me.The woman introduced herself as Liao Xiaodan, saying that she was one of the "persons in charge", and she didn't know what she was responsible for.The man introduced himself as Huang and Kun, and he is also a person in charge.

"Just one question," I said, "just one question."

"Tell me," Huang Kun said softly.

"What is this for?"

Liao Xiaodan smiled.

"Aren't you looking for a job recently? We need an interpreter for our project. When someone asks, you just say you are an interpreter. Look, there are Germans and Russians in our team. We will have the opportunity to meet each other in the future. Language I want to trouble you."