Chapter 4 The Most Familiar Stranger II
According to the young people, the hypnotic world is based on the story "Old House", and I wrote this story. At that time, I also took a lot of pictures to ask him to design this hypnotic plan according to these people. The young people said that he made changes to these blueprints to combine the real and the real. That is to say, among the people I came into contact with, there are real and false. I don’t know who is real and who is illusory. But later I thought that Erliang should be an illusory person like my parents, because if Erliang is a good friend around me, a person who is not dead, why didn’t he come to me? If it were the tall man just now, I could explain that it was almost difficult to meet again because I was just one-time meeting him, but Erliang is my brother. If he is real, why didn’t he come to me?
So the only explanation is that Erliang does not exist, he is a character in the hypnotic world.
But now Erliang appeared in front of me and appeared in my real world. This is not a place that scares me. I can still understand this as Erliang was my good friend before I lost my memory. Later, I wrote him in the story of "Old House". Then I came to the young man alone. After being hypnotized by him, I became good friends with Erliang, a virtual existence in my mind. Now, this real Erliang came to Fengmen Village from a place I didn't know, and unexpectedly met me.
What scared me was that he didn't call me "Ari", but called me "Erliang", just like I called him.
My heart seemed to fall into an ice cave, and I felt my body getting colder and colder, and I thought of a terrifying possibility.
Erliang on the opposite side also looked extremely scared, but after a while, he calmed down, and then he saw joy in his face. My heart felt more and more bitter. Just as I was about to say a few words to him, a sound of footsteps came from behind me. I turned my head and saw the tall man walking in with a knife. When he saw Erliang's first glance, his body obviously froze, and then he made a ghost cry like I had just now.
His name is "Erliang!"
But Erliang just looked at him curiously, his face was full of inexplicableness, and turned his head to look at me again and said, "Do you know him?"
My heart gradually sank, and a few simple greetings made me more and more sure of my guesses.
At this time, the tall man and Erliang both found something wrong. The three of them looked at each other, and then they said at the same time: "Who are you?" Then the two of them stopped at the same time and looked at each other together.
Perhaps the tall man had a little more momentum, Erliang muttered for a moment and ignored him, but looked at me and said, "Erliang, why are you here?"
At this time, the tall man also noticed the strangeness, his face changed, and he also looked at me. I thought about it, and it seemed that there was only one way to explain the matter clearly, so he signaled the two to rest assured and walked into the small temple together. Then I told them that what happened to me was the same as me. Then, looking at them, Erliang and the tall man's faces became very ugly. After a while, Erliang spoke first. He seemed to be talking extremely difficult and said slowly: "I... have also experienced the same thing as you."
My guess was indeed correct. We looked at the tall man together, and he nodded slowly. The three of them fell into deep thought. Now we have three people, each of them has their own story about "Old House". Everyone thinks that their name is Mao Rui. Apart from that, no one else has changed, while the other person is replaced by the object he replaced. For example, the tall man becomes Mao Rui, and I become the driver of the tractor in his story; Erliang becomes Mao Rui, and I become Erliang in his story, and the tall man is still the driver of the tractor. The difference is that Erliang has not recognized him for the time being.
Another difference is that the young people we meet in the end look different, which is probably the only good news, because at least it proves that what we are experiencing and facing now is real.
Three identical stories about "Old House" and three identical and different people. Is this the "another story" said on that piece of paper? At this moment, I suddenly thought to myself: Will I see Xiaorui again one day?
The three of them didn't know what to say. I had a very strange feeling. The person in front of me was Erliang, but he was different from the Erliang in my impression. It was not just because of the change of their identities, but because of the personality and temperament of the person in front of me were completely different from Erliang in my story. Erliang was a very energetic and capable policeman, but the person in front of me looked a little timid. Perhaps in their eyes, I was also different from the person in their story.
The tall man stood up, looked at us condescendingly, and said, "I just care about my own affairs, and I will find the truth that belongs to me."
This is probably the only suitable way to do it at present. The stories of the three people are the same, but they are different. The identities and roles of each other are disordered and they don’t know how to cooperate. Moreover, after knowing the truth, the three people are afraid that they will think about finding their own stories to find their true selves. In this way, it is impossible to cooperate with the other person’s identity, because it is very likely that they will lose their true selves.
Because I lacked the most basic sense of trust, cooperation is definitely not possible, but seeing Erliang's appearance, I seemed to refuse to leave us. I felt aroused, and I remembered his life as if he was burning his butt, and couldn't help asking: "What happened to you? Why did you run so hard?"
Erliang's face suddenly turned pale. Obviously, my topic made him feel very scared. The tall man also stared at Erliang. Erliang shivered for a moment, looked out his eyes, and finally said: "I saw a group of ghosts, one by one wearing masks, holding hoes in his hands to hoe me."
It is deserted and all the residents have moved out of the village. Of course, it is impossible for so many people to appear in front of Erliang. I remembered the strange burial customs here in the legend, and I couldn't help but tremble. No wonder Erliang wanted to run here. Under the premise that there was no way, hiding into this small temple that was said to be a suppression of evil was indeed the only way.
The tall man snorted and said, "Nothing, I've gone to the front and saw only a big mirror."
My heart suddenly jumped: Erliang also saw the mirror? He saw a group of people holding hoes in the mirror to hoe him. I also saw a mirror. Since the three of us have experienced the same story, will the three of us also see a mirror that belongs to each of us here? Thinking of the scene I saw in that small mirror, I couldn't help but think: What did that tall man see?
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but look at him. The tall man obviously saw my thoughts, snorted and paid attention to me, and said to Erliang: "It's dark, lend me a flashlight, and my luggage is there."
At this moment, a scream suddenly came from afar from outside, and it seemed to be the name of a person: "Zhang Jie... Zhang Jie..." The voice was intermittent and fluttering, but it did exist. The three of them immediately changed their faces and looked at the distance together. After a while, the sound disappeared. The tall man had a gloomy face and asked, "What did you think of this voice?"
Erliang immediately replied: "Xie Na!"
Tall man and I glared at him at the same time. Erliang shrank and hid aside, muttering something. The tall man said, "According to the records, a group of 15 people once camped in the East Frozen Water Village in Xiaoyao River Valley in heavy rain. At midnight, they encountered heavy fog. Suddenly there was a strange shout in the village, and the one who called "Zhang Jie". Frozen Water Village is not far from here."
The meaning of tall man is very obvious. I have also read the information he said. It has been many years since now, and it can still be seen on the Internet, and many people have testified. If someone was deliberately pretending to be a god in the frozen water village, then the chance of meeting someone again in a few years and saying the same thing should be extremely low. In this way, the person who shouted this sentence should not be a human being.
I didn't tell the tall man that I once saw an old man here, and even heard a nonsense about him, because at this moment, I suddenly thought of a question: What if that voice was not talking about "Zhang Jie", but "chapters"?
Chapter completed!