Half an hour later, Danny woke up from the coma. He opened his eyes with deep fear. Due to Jonah's fainting, the star array went out and the cave fell into darkness. He groped around tremblingly, and around him Except for the gravel and crushed crystal mica on the ground, there was not a drop of warm liquid, nor was there any human body. "Huh..." He closed his eyes and exhaled a long breath.
The so-called secret technique taught to him by the deck sailor was just a superficial method to increase muscle vitality in a short period of time and overdraw the body's energy. Overactive muscles excreted a large amount of sweat during activity, and at the same time eliminated toxins from the body. Stuart The man of the house was a blessing in disguise as he was the first to get rid of the illusion caused by the poisonous pink fungus.
It took Danny a short while to find the backpack, pulled out a torch, and lit it with a red phosphorus match. The light returned to the deep dark passage inside the hindworm's body. The wind blowing from nowhere made the flame flicker. Two people, a man and a woman, were lying in the distance. The sharp mica flakes on the stone wall shone brightly, not like a natural mechanism containing danger. Stewart endured the pain in his muscles and put on his robe, tearing off a corner of his clothes and cutting off his injured right hand. After carefully bandaging it, he punched out with all his strength, breaking the entire rock wall into pieces together with the sharp mica attached to it. Naturally, there were a few scars on the fist that were deep enough to show the bones. "Edward... Huh, why do you see that?" His shadow, not the little cutie I longed for," Danny spat fiercely, "Bah, damn poisonous mushroom..."
"Wow," cold water was poured on his head, and Jonah jumped up suddenly: "What's wrong, what's wrong, there are enemies, oops..."
A second later, he squatted down holding the back of his head. The old injury on his head was not easy to heal, and Danny hit his occipital bone with a accurate and hard flying stone. Now the astrologer's apprentice felt that his head was very heavy. Like a shot put, there are stars flying in front of my eyes, and I can't see anything clearly.
Danny Stewart walked up to Hannah, tilted the water bag, and poured cold water on his sister's head in the same manner. Hannah opened her eyes and sat up, shaking her hair, "Where's Dad, Danny, you see Dad Are you done?"
"You see," Danny closed the lid angrily and hung the water bag back on his waist, "he is having afternoon tea with the devil in hell,"
"What happened? You were hurt," Jonah asked, covering his head.
"No, I just cut it a little deeper when I was cutting my nails..." The man from the Stewart family held up his right hand, which was wrapped in three layers of gauze and almost as big as his head, and said angrily: "...Nonsense, of course I Is it because I am injured, or because of you two unsatisfactory guys,"
"I know what happened," Long Ji walked from the shadow that the torch could not illuminate, standing next to Yona and whispered softly, "He saw the person he missed the most,"
The astrologer's apprentice's eyes shone with great joy: "It's great that you are still here..."
Danny saw Jonah's behavior, strode over, waved his hand and branded a bright red palm print on the cargo friend's face: "You haven't woken up yet, that's an illusion, an illusion,"
"He's right, I'm just a phantom." The Oriental woman reached out to support Yona, lowered her head slightly, and sighed, "Your subconscious mind has told you that I can't be real. You just chose to deceive yourself. That’s all,”
The seventeen-year-old boy covered his burning cheeks, winked at Long Ji, and then bowed to Danny Stewart to apologize: "I understand, I understand, I'm sorry, Danny, for causing you trouble."
"Dad," Hannah said in a daze on the side.
"...It's not over yet," the man from the Stewart family sighed helplessly, covering his face, then rolled up his sleeves and walked towards his sister: "Don't blame me, sister, I will use my greatest strength to express my love. I hope Please forgive your brother for all your painstaking efforts..."
At this moment, Hannah suddenly pulled out "Cripple Henry's prosthetic leg" from behind and pulled the trigger continuously. A deafening series of gunshots rang out. In the flying smoke and dust, two men lying on the ground covering their heads looked at Stewart's contemporary head of the family. He blew away the smoke from the gun coolly, waved his hand, and returned the big gun to his back. He stared at the messy ground covered with bullet holes, "Hello, dad, goodbye, dad,"
"...Can you still see dad?" Danny shook off the gravel above his head and asked anxiously.
Hannah looked at the ground: "This form looks like it could be anyone, just saying hello, so I'm fine, thank you,"
Finally, the three of them could sit in the cave where the smoke had cleared, pack their bags, and discuss the strange experiences they had experienced in the past hour. "There is no other reason. I have observed that there are no special sounds, lights, or electricity in the tunnel." The mechanism must be the poisonous mist emitted by the pink fungus that was inhaled into our bodies and then attacked at this time," Jonah commented, "But the strange thing is that this fungus does not seem to be malicious, just a harmless phantom. That’s all, it even... makes people feel very warm,"
"Yes, it's very warm. It would be even warmer if it were cooked on a skewer." Danny sneered at this. "This is basically a natural protective mechanism, allowing people who trespass into the secret passage...such as us, to eat all the food." The pain, how long the poison will remain in the body, what antidote can be used to remove it, and whether the phantom will appear again, we are basically little frogs waiting to be slaughtered in the alchemist's laboratory,"
"Will appear again," Hannah replied expressionlessly, took out the magic pistol from her arms, and smashed the wall next to her: "Hello, dad, goodbye, dad,"
"...It happened again," a drop of cold sweat flowed from the Stewart man's forehead.
"Shh," Yona secretly made a silencing gesture to Long Ji beside him. The oriental woman's eyes turned into two crescent moons with a smile, "No one can hear me even if I shout, fool, I am Your phantom, your yearning, the yearning you hide deep in your little head, only you can see me, hear me, feel me, otherwise, I will sing you a song from the Eastern Continent,"
The astrologer's apprentice nodded slightly. Hannah Stewart noticed something strange about him, looked back at him, and looked away with a half-smile.
Long Ji stood up and walked lightly between the Stewart brothers and sisters. She turned around and the silver bells in her hair played a bright clear sound. Her lips moved and a long musical phrase floated out:
What evening is it tonight?
Baozhou Zhongliu
What day is it today?
Gotta ride with the prince
humiliated and treated well
Not sworn to be ashamed
My heart is constantly troubled
Learn about the prince
The mountains have trees and the trees have branches
I am happy with you, but you don’t know
The short song was over, but there was a faint lingering sound. Yona's eyesight went wrong, and the graceful figure had returned to him. "This song is "Yueren Song", which tells the story of the prince of the ancient empire. Does it sound good?"
Jonah squeezed out a few words from the corner of his mouth in a voice like a mosquito's chirping: "Good, what does it mean?"
Long Ji replied: "You know what it means. I am just a phantom. Everything I know is included in everything you know. You must have heard me singing this song while you were sleeping. Remember it. Its melody, if you understand its meaning, you can answer it yourself,"
The astrologer's apprentice frowned slightly. His memory was like a rusty gear turning. He could not find a clear memory, but the meaning of the song suddenly came to his mind. Yes, he understood the meaning of this short song from the Eastern Continent: a man rocking a boat on the river. The young girl fell in love with the prince crossing the river, and her song was full of bitter nostalgia:
What day is today.
Boating mid-trip.
What day is today.
In the same boat with you.
Your attitude makes me shy.
You have not despised me;
My heart is beating loudly.
Just because I saw you.
Mountains have trees, and trees have branches.
You don't know my love.
Jonah was struck by lightning and stood there, freezing all his thoughts. He remembered that on a cold night in Yingyingdu, while half asleep and half awake, he heard Long Ji, who was standing guard outside the door, chatting with Rose. The knight passed the long night talking. She told many past events about that man, and then she sang this short song in a low voice. Her singing voice was clear and transparent, and flew away gently in the night.
She was missing a man, her husband, the only reason for her to travel across the entire continent, her lover and enemy in this life, the man who committed crimes but made her miss her day and night.
So, this woman who is by her side, as gentle as water, and as smiling as a flower, is really just a phantom. She cannot be so close to him, because all her feelings have been given to the legendary man who has no idea where to end her life, leaving no trace left. To sympathize with the pale seventeen-year-old boy.
The astrologer's apprentice slowly turned his head, and the black eyes he was obsessed with were slowly disappearing into the air, "Thank you," Long Ji's phantom smiled: "It feels so good to be missed, you understand your true feelings. "If it weren't for the toxins in your body, would you still be able to feel your feelings for me? Is it love from the heart or a short-lived impulse? Do you have the courage to face the many impossibilities between us?"
"I, I don't know..." Jonah lowered his head.
"Goodbye when we meet,"
The sudden epiphany allowed him to defeat the illusion, but Jonah fell into a deeper entanglement. His ignorant emotional impulse made him confused. Fortunately, the Stewart brothers and sisters were studying the map together at this time and did not notice his gaffe.
"Keep moving forward. If the pink mushroom is a trap, there must be more traps waiting for us ahead," Hannah said, looking a little hesitant.
"Look, there is a shortcut here. In the area of the map I drew, it seems... a complicated spiral. What does this mean? It rotates downwards," Danny pointed at the map with his big, bandaged fist.
"See for yourself, those are your dirty finger prints," Hannah said.
At this time, there was a rumble of explosions in the distance, and the contemporary head of the Stewart family immediately stood up: "It's the enemy who is clearing the descent channel. They are coming. We can't wait any longer. Let's move on."