The fat man woke up completely when the sky was gray outside.
Even in the same place and scene, compared to the invisible pressure and unknown fear released by the long night, the feeling during the day is always much more peaceful and tranquil.
Human beings are inherently afraid of unknown things. When you open your eyes, you can see everything within your sight and you will not be too afraid, because at this time you will have a psychological expectation of what is about to happen.
In the dark, people's vision is inherently limited. If there is no firelight and the sensory mechanism is deprived, you don't know what kind of things will appear around you, so you will keep imagining. This uncontrollable imagination will
Increase your fear, so fear of the dark is instinctive.
The fat man's bones all over his body ached as if he had been run over by a millstone, and he yelled "Ouch" and got up.
He looked left and right at the tent he was in. He was confused for a while before he realized what he was doing. He hurriedly asked Wu Xie, "Tianzhen, how are you? You're not hurt. What the hell is that thing? It looks like a snake and looks like a snake."
Fish, it's so fierce. Fatty, I'm so fat, but damn, I couldn't even hold on for a single round."
Maponim's tail slapped him so hard that he fainted, and he had no idea what happened next.
Wu Xie handed him the dried clothes and compressed biscuits, and briefly told what happened next, "I'm fine. I just soaked in ice water for a while. You two were seriously injured. Muyu hasn't recovered yet."
Signs of waking up.”
The fat man looked at Zhang Zhuxun lying in the sleeping bag on the side, stared at the lines on his right face for a while, and asked, "Are you sure it's him?"
Hearing the fat man's words, Wu Xie's expression was filled with unspeakable sadness. He sighed, stepped forward and sat aside, stretched out his hand to lift a corner of the blanket around Zhang Zhuxun, and whispered: "See for yourself,
I don't know what to tell you."
"how?"
The fat man thought his reaction was a bit strange, so he turned on the flashlight and got closer. When he saw it, his eyes immediately widened. He couldn't believe what his eyes saw.
"This, this, this..." He pointed at the countless criss-crossed scars on Zhang Zhuxun's chest, and was so shocked that he forgot to say anything.
Wu Xie seemed to have something stuck in his throat. He took a hard breath before speaking, "These scars are real. He didn't deliberately fabricate them to confuse the public."
When the fat man heard this, he hurriedly rubbed the scars with his hands, but found that he couldn't rub them away, and his face suddenly became very ugly.
He asked eagerly: "What about the tattoos? What's going on with these tattoos? I can't see the unicorn on his body anymore!"
On Zhang Shuxun's left chest, where the unicorn tattoo would have originally appeared, it now turned into a more bizarre and complicated red pattern.
These lines spread from the tattoo on the right chest, intertwined with those horrific scars, and densely covered the entire chest, even on both arms.
Fatty knew Muyu well, and with his obsessive-compulsive personality, there was no way he would be willing to leave so many ugly scars on his body that looked like centipedes crawling on his body.
And they all know that Muyu has an abnormal healing ability. No matter how deep the wound is, it will not leave such old scars that have been around for a while.
And what about the Zhang family’s symbolic tattoo?
Why can't you see such a big unicorn?
The temperature of Muyu's body is still a bit burning at the moment. If the unicorn tattoo is still there, it is impossible not to be burned out.
"Could it be the reason for the incident in the Zhangjia Ancient Building? Muyu may have undergone some changes that we couldn't imagine." Fatty guessed.
"I can't rule out this possibility." Wu Xie nodded and said, "I thought about it all night, and I think that either the things under the ancient building caused the changes in the wooden fish, or it has something to do with the bronze door here."
"Do you still remember that when the bronze door in Changbai Mountain was opened, the blood on the wooden fish's body seemed to be attracted by something and kept pouring out of its pores, and it couldn't be stopped no matter what."
The fat man tucked the blanket back, "Are you trying to say that the reason why the tattoo on Muyu's body is abnormal is probably because he has entered the bronze door here a year ago?"
Wu Xie nodded, "Other than that, I can't think of any other more reasonable explanation."
When Wu Xie saw these scars last night, he was as shocked as Fatty. He simply couldn't imagine what Muyu had gone through in the more than a year apart to leave so many scars on his body that could not be erased.
of scars.
Most of these scars are stab wounds, and there are also many bullet scratches, large and small, which look particularly hideous and terrifying against the fair skin.
There was a gun scar as big as a bottle cap very close to his neck. Just looking at the location of the scar, Wu Xie could imagine how dangerous the situation was at that time. The gun shot directly penetrated his neck, almost
The arteries were hit.
Wounds like this abound on Zhang Shuxun's body, which are proof that he has had countless brushes with death.
"Since last night, only the red tattoo on his right side has been showing up, and as the body temperature gets higher and higher, it quickly spreads to the left side, as if it is alive." Wu Xie said.
"But I remember that in the past, the red tattoo on Muyu's body was only on the right side."
The fat man murmured and had a sudden thought, "Oh my innocence, do you still remember that when we were in the undersea tomb, Muyu was controlled by something on his body, and at that time two kinds of tattoos appeared on his body to fight?
, but later on, the unicorn tattoo won, and the other tattoo faded away. This time the unicorn tattoo disappeared, could it be because I didn’t have any fights this time, and was eaten by another tattoo.”
Wu Xie shook his head, "No, the unicorn tattoo on the wooden fish was tattooed on the skin with a special plant dye mixed with something special. It didn't grow on its own. It's not like white blood cells swallowing pathogens. It can be done by eating it.
eat."
"Then tell me what's going on. You can just make up a random explanation. The reason for the Bronze Gate is too mysterious, and my brother has also entered the Bronze Gate. They are from the Zhang family. Why didn't the tattoo on his body disappear?
"The fat man said while putting on clothes, "Otherwise, there would be only one reason."
"Impossible!" Wu Xie denied without hesitation, "My feeling cannot be wrong, he is Muyu."
The fat man's hand in the coat paused, and hesitantly said, "Innocent, I feel that since entering the snow mountain, your state has started to be a little wrong. You have been deliberately escaping from reality on this issue. You are actually very worried.
It’s clear, right? Muyu is not the only one in the world who has this kind of fire tattoo, other people in Kangbalo also have it, and that Dan’s left finger is also long, these features are not unique.”
Bai Ci was the one chosen to take over the task. It is not surprising that he has such a large tattoo on his body.
What made Fatty really doubt his previous judgment was the disappearance of the unicorn tattoo. In this sudden crisis, Bai Ci had no chance to cover up the tattoo on his body.
So it is very possible that Bai Cizhen... is not a wooden fish.
The fat man raised his hand and patted Wu Xie's shoulder hard, and said sincerely: "I know you really want to find Muyu, and I do too, but we can't be emotional about this matter. Haven't you noticed? From the beginning, you met
From the moment you met Bai Ci, you have been looking at him through the filter of a wooden fish."
"You have subconsciously regarded him as a wooden fish. All his actions and reactions to you will be automatically interpreted as the habitual behavior of the wooden fish in the past under the cover of that layer of filters."
"You have clearly seen many things about him that are inconsistent with Muyu, but you still keep catching those tiny similarities. Even if the evidence is in front of you, you will still subconsciously ignore these unreasonable details, because you don't want to
I hope in my heart that he is Muyu."
"From the last password error at Siguniang Mountain to the failure to rescue Muyu from the bottom of the exit and not find his body, you attribute all these mistakes to yourself. Are you always thinking, what if
At that time, you should be more careful when reading the password. If you heard the implication of the wooden fish when passing through the bell formation, the ending of the wooden fish will not be death, right."
"You have trapped the death of the wooden fish in your heart. It has become a stubborn cocoon. This cocoon has firmly tied you in place. Whenever you encounter something related to the wooden fish, you will wrap yourself up.
You are using a negative attitude to refuse to believe that the wooden fish is dead."
"Have you imagined countless times that if you could do it over again, you would definitely prevent Muyu from returning to the bell array? Or should you follow him and rescue Pan Zi with him?"
Wu Xie looked at the fat man and opened his mouth to refute something, but found that he could not refute a word.
Some deeply hidden emotions were not even noticed by the fat man, but they were still seen by the fat man.
Fatty really knows Wu Xie too well. He always hopes that the people around him will be well, and always strives to make everything happen without regrets at the end. But in this world, hope in the sun and despair in the dust coexist.
"Innocent, you hate yourself. You said that the wooden fish once told you in a dream, 'Escape is the stupidest and worst solution, and the pain can only be released.' You kept all this in your heart,
In the end, it will become more and more stuffed, and it will become more and more painful. If you continue like this, you will become possessed by innocence."
All the veils covering self-deception were lifted. Wu Xie's eyelashes kept trembling. The fat man's words were like the last straw on the camel. He finally couldn't hold on anymore and covered his eyes in collapse.
.
The fat man sighed heavily, his eyes were a little sour, and he felt uncomfortable saying these words, but Wu Xie was too obsessed with "the wooden fish is still alive", even more than he paid attention to his own safety.
Wu Xie didn't even realize how bad his complexion was. His face was as pale as if he had been sucked blood. The cut on his forehead was directly sunk into a deep pit, and there was even faint blood oozing, soaked in water.
He didn't even notice that it was swollen like that.
If the temperature hadn't been so low now, such a deep wound would have become suppurated and infected.
The fat man took the medical bag placed aside, took out the sterilizing and bandaging things, and patted his shoulder, "Don't just cry, let's wrap up the wound on your forehead first. If the wound on your face is not treated in time,
, you will cry when you have scars in the future."
"I'm not crying." Wu Xie rubbed his eyes, pursed his lips and forced a smile, "I just feel a little... uncomfortable and empty. Hey, I can't describe this feeling to you."
Then he pretended to be depressed and said: "You have poisonous eyes, but you don't care about your mouth. Why do you say everything to others? I feel like I really don't have any secrets in front of you. No, no, no.
This is so unfair, you should quickly reveal a secret or two to help me feel balanced."
"Want to know Fatty's little secret?" Fatty shook his eyebrows, "I won't tell you, you can guess it yourself."
Wu Xie gritted his teeth and waved his fist at him. The fat man obediently pulled out a pair of scissors and asked him to defeat him. Only then was Wu Xie satisfied and laughed twice.
The fat man waved to him to lower his head and treat his wound, "If you hit him so deeply, it will probably leave scars, but luckily the broken hair can cover it up a little, and it won't be obvious if you leave bangs, otherwise it will be
I need surgery to remove it."
"My handsome appearance cannot be ruined. After that, I have to ask Xiaohua for advice on how to remove scars. He has a skin expert who is very good at disguises." Wu Xie also changed the subject to a lighter topic, "Wait a minute.
After a while, the fog completely dissipated, so Chuixiao and Zhang Haixing met up to count the remaining supplies, and then went to the Lama Temple to discuss the rest of the matter."
The two of them lowered their voices and chatted about the follow-up matter. Neither of them noticed that Zhang Zhuxun, who was lying behind him, quietly opened his eyes. A touch of complicated emotions flashed across his eyes. The moment Wu Xie glanced over at him, he opened his eyes again.
Close your eyelids immediately.
Zhang Zhuxun was actually awake when the fat man started rubbing the scar, and he heard all the conversation between the two.
In fact, he had long noticed that something was wrong with Wu Xie's state. Ever since he entered the snow mountain, his entire aura had been suppressed.
Zhang Zhuxun hopes that he can be strong, but he also doesn't want to see him close his heart and break his past bit by bit.
But with his current status and position, he is not qualified to do anything. Fortunately, Fatty is by his side and can watch over him at all times. If Wu Xie has an emotional problem, Fatty can also find out and solve it in time.
Listening to the whispers of the two people, Zhang Zhuxun closed his eyes and thought about why this operation was such a dangerous crisis and what went wrong.
Why did Maponim almost only target fat people when launching attacks?
Obviously everyone was knocked over and fell into the water at that time, but Maponim only flipped the ice board around the others, but when facing Fatty, it was a direct and fatal attack.