paradox

Chapter 17

There were only five of us left, and only our footsteps were left in the narrow passage, and the sound of the breeze passing through the ventilation duct could be faintly heard.

Since leaving them, my body began to change subtly. The sense of hearing, sight and smell has been amplified several times. When I concentrate, I can even hear the sound of the empty room behind the wall.

I walked in the middle of the line, approached Mo Han and asked in a low voice, "Why didn't you let me investigate?"

"Do you know what you are most afraid of in this situation?" She asked back.

"food……"

He was interrupted as soon as he uttered two words, "What I am most afraid of is not people with two legs, but ghosts that can eat people."

"You mean mutual suspicion?" I tentatively asked.

"Everyone's mental state is very poor. If you check carefully, one person will always be caught. Before the investigation is clear, everyone will be suspicious. Just for a few cans, it's too much to lose."

"You mean the ghost is between those three?"

"Well, I don't know who it is, but they have separated the ghost from us, and they can temporarily hold the ghost's footsteps and prevent him from hindering us."

"So cunning, us."

"Self-loathing?"

I took a deep breath and shook my head, "It's too holy to start feeling guilty now." Just let this rot in my stomach.

"The original love-en-loving trip has become like this, and no one can get through it." She smiled at me, "Although I understand how you feel now, it's better to act less alone. Restraint is a virtue. .”

"Hu, what nonsense are you talking about!" I coughed a few times in embarrassment to cover it up.

Wendi was sandwiched between me and Xiaomo, while Han Lin was holding a torch to open the way for us, Su Mohan stood shoulder to shoulder with him, and the journey was safe and sound.

"Since Jing Yan is the keeper of the tomb, there must be a map of this tomb. After spending so much time exploring the tomb, the target must be the main tomb here, and the path I chose must be the safest and closest." Su Mohan shared with us the information she had in front, "We don't have her convenience, so we can only find the key and pick up something she left behind."

Mingming Jingyan took the safest path, as long as he saw their traces, he would definitely meet them, but Su Mohan opposed this proposal.

After arguing again and again, we decided to follow Su Mohan. I am not interested in what is in the main tomb at all, I just want to escape from this place as soon as possible.

"I feel like I've been to this place before, in a dream." I whispered to Xiaomo, "Is there something wrong with my mind? I always feel that the environment here is so familiar."

Xiao Mo didn't answer, and the connected hands tightened slightly.

Surrounded by walls made of smooth stones, the long and narrow corridor leads all the way to the depths. There are no intersections, so it is easy to return.Along the way I saw a dirt wall similar to the one before, and there should be an empty room behind it.But not surprisingly, there was still nothing inside.

Going forward along this road, I don't know how long I walked, the walls are covered with vines, without any marks, giving me the illusion of spinning in circles.But the illusion is an illusion after all, we finally arrived at the destination that Su Mohan said.

It is also at the end of the corridor, and there is an empty room, with two wooden tables facing each other in the middle, which have been decomposed until now, one of them has collapsed, and the porcelain bowl placed on it is also broken to the ground.

In the deepest part of the room stands a huge stone statue, which is carved into the appearance of an adult man. Judging by his clothes, it should be some years old.

In front of the stone statue was an incense burner half a person's height, which was already overflowing with dust, and there were still three extinguished incense sticks stuck in it.Apparently, people used to come here to offer incense and worship.

Brother Han lit the oil lamp in the room with a torch, which made it much brighter.

"How can there be such clothes here?" Wen Di sharp-eyed saw an out-of-fit clothes under the collapsed table.

In the beginning, it was covered by fragments of porcelain bowls and sawdust. If we hadn't heard the flute, it would have been hard for us to find out.

Together with her, I sorted out the ruins under the premise of ensuring that the clothes were intact.

This style seems familiar.

"It's the clothes that the villagers in Yumo Village usually wear." Xiao Mo reminded.

"Are villagers from Yumo come here to worship?" I frowned and said, why come here to worship?

"Jing Yan said that she is the keeper of this tomb. This family has always been related by blood. Those who know this tomb and can come here are probably her ancestors. As for worship, I don't know." I agree with this statement." Mo Han pointed to the incense burner and said.

"Indeed." Han Lin, who had been checking around for any danger, agreed. He pointed a torch at the top of the incense burner. The top was the same as the outside, an old stone slab, nothing special.

Xiaomo and Wendi suddenly realized when they saw it, and I observed it carefully, "If someone really worshiped, there must be traces of smoke on the upper part of the incense burner, but there is no difference between this place and the surrounding stone slabs."

I put aside the question of clothes and concentrate on studying this incense burner.It's obviously an existence like a decoration, but it deliberately makes people think it's real, and if something goes wrong, there must be a demon.

I tried to push it, but the incense burner didn't move at all, as if it was linked with this space.

"Tong Tong, let's turn it together." Su Mohan walked to the incense burner first, Xiao Mo had to stay with Wen Di to see if there was anything useful in the ruins, while Han Lin went to observe the still stone statue .

Su Mohan and I stood at the two ears of the incense burner, took a deep breath and spun it counterclockwise together.The censer, which originally weighed a thousand catties, was still motionless.

"It should be in the wrong direction." I planned to change the direction and try again, but Su Mohan didn't move on.

"Let me recall first." Su Mohan frowned, her voice sounded painful, and she rubbed her temple with one hand.

"Are you okay?" I asked worriedly. I know that Su Mohan's body is full of secrets, and now our only hope is her, but we shouldn't entrust all the responsibilities to her.

"It's okay, you pull out the incense stick in the middle first, then the right one, and finally the left one." She ordered, and the short memory covered her forehead with fine sweat.

I did as she said, and after the end, the censer started to rotate slowly without my hands. Correspondingly, the stone statue also rotated in the opposite direction.

"Back!" Before I could hear what Su Mohan said, I was pushed to the ground by her. Something flashed past where I was standing. The time was too fast and I only caught a few black shadows.

"Is this also a protection mechanism?" Xiao Mo really saw those black shadows, and now they are sticking to the wall directly behind.Seeing the two of us brushing shoulders with death, her tone was very bad.

"Yes, Jing Yan and the others probably didn't come here." Su Mohan turned over and stood up, pulling me up from the ground along the way.

"Thank you." I could imagine the miserable condition of the clothes behind me and patted my back, but I didn't forget to say thank you.

The stone statue turned half its body, and the entrance to the secret room behind it appeared in front of us.With the previous lesson, we did not act rashly, but threw a spare backpack inside first, and dared to go in after waiting for a while without any movement.

Compared with the outside room, the secret room is pitifully small. There are only wooden box-like things placed in the four corners, and a dark wooden coffin in the center. The distance between them is no more than ten steps.

"Do you want to open it?" I turned around to ask Su Mohan for advice.

Su Mohan nodded hesitantly.

We all swallowed, the coffin has a direct relationship with death, even if we know we are in the tomb, even if there is nothing strange about the coffin, it always makes people feel uncomfortable.

"Wait a minute!" Xiaomo stopped, "Can you guarantee that nothing like the previous one will happen?"

"No." Su Mohan answered very simply.

"..." It simply made people unable to continue the following conversation.

"In a sense, it's the first time for us to come to this ghost...cough, strange place. What I did was also based on my intuition and what little memory I have left. So far, I haven't made any mistakes. If Chu If the manager wishes, I can open this coffin."

Su Mohan is really a strange person, she wants us to believe in her choice, but she can't give any reason or basis.

"Do you think we will agree with this statement?" Xiao Mo continued to press, "How much do you know about this place?"

"As much as you, but you haven't remembered it yet." Su Mohan replied with ease, "You probably feel it to some extent, right? There are memories of being here in your mind."

"So you know the reason?" Xiao Mo began to waver, it turned out that I wasn't the only one who felt this way.

"Of course I don't know, I'm just earlier than you think." Su Mohan said indifferently, "I must open this coffin, there are important things inside."

As she spoke, she approached Xiaomo, whispered a few words in her ear, and then smiled secretively.

"What do you think, Big Brother Han?" Xiao Mo obviously abstained and handed over the choice to Han Lin.

"If what you said is true, I do have an impression of this place." As the only male among the five, coupled with his rich experience, Han Lin's words are very important, "Since you have already come here, it doesn't hurt to try it. ?”

As for Wendi, I glanced at her before she dared to speak, "I just wanted to open it when I came in, but I was afraid that you would kill me."

"I agree with Mo Han's suggestion."

Four votes in favor, the overall situation is settled.

Han Lin and I stood on one side of the coffin, Xiao Mo and Mo Han stood on the two sides, Wendi was thrown aside by us and shouted 666, the four of us worked hard together, and the gap gradually widened.

I squinted my eyes, not daring to look at the scene inside, knowing that if I saw a rotting corpse, my dry food for the past two days would be saved.

It's a pity that there is only a set of ancient clothes and various jewelry inside, which are arranged in an orderly manner from head to toe.

"So it's just a tomb of clothes." I let out a long sigh of relief, and let go of my hanging heart.

"Is this what you're looking for?" Xiao Mo took out a small transparent bead from it, which was too insignificant compared to other jewelry.

"If you say yes, then it is." Mo Han smiled slightly.

"This is the key?" I remember that Mo Han was looking for the key before setting off.

"No," she shook her head, "The key is somewhere else, this is just what Jing Yan left behind, and it will be of great use in the future."

She didn't say what it was used for, and I didn't continue to ask.

"Why is our memory incomplete?" I took the initiative to walk beside Mo Han on the way to another place.

"Do you know where we store our memories?"

"Brain, I still know this." I pointed to my head.

"If your brain can only store so much explicit memory now, and you force yourself to recall the past, it is equivalent to copying the memory into two copies. The original storage space is limited." She tried to use what I could Explain in a way that understands.

"So our amnesia is actually the brain's self-protection mechanism? To prevent the various consequences caused by overload?" I really can't imagine the variety.

"You are right to understand this way. As I said before, what we have now is the explicit memory that can be immediately remembered. 90% of the human brain is still undeveloped, and the rest of the implicit memory is stored there. We cannot You can think of them directly, but you can perceive their existence through reappearing the scene over and over again."

"Well~, we can't record everything in detail, only those that are deeply impressed will stay in our minds." The memory before the age of ten is already very blurred, and it can only be imagined through the description of the parents. .

"So the hippocampus is a very important part. Both short-term memory and long-term memory are related to it. Most of those implicit memories will also pass through, um, reappear in the form of dreams. You should pay more attention to it in the future. But it can be explained scientifically. I only know so much."

"Oh~ I feel like I've learned something incredible." Regardless of the strange powers and distractions, as long as I know that these lost memories of mine may come back, I'm already very happy.

Although I don't know the specific content, I always feel that those things are precious experiences for me, and I don't want to forget them at all.

The author has something to say:

There are a lot of things going on recently, so the number of words in each chapter is a little less, and I will definitely make it up in the future? (???? `) Than Xin