novelraw Chapter 181 The Oath
Chapter 181 The Oath
Before I could slow down, I noticed slight footsteps from behind, so I quickly turned my head, only to see a black figure that had just leaned out and disappeared into the crevice of the stone.
"Very good, you're addicted to playing hide-and-seek with your aunt, right?" I jumped up with the knife in my hand, and rushed towards him quickly.But after I chased it, the back of the stone was empty again, and I didn't see anything.
"You're good at it!" I sighed, thinking that I just wanted to tease me, and there was no malice towards me.
I turned off the flashlight, found a stone as a cover, and concentrated on listening to the movement around me with my ears.
When I am in the light, the enemy is in the dark, and I have no chance of winning in comparison.Now that we're all in the dark, that's better than hearing and reflexes.
After the lights went out, it didn't take long before there was another rustling sound, sometimes distant and sometimes near.I followed the source of the sound, and within a few steps, I felt that my eyes were empty. When I was about to turn on the flashlight, a strong hand stretched out from the cracks in the stone, grabbed my arm and dragged me in.
"...Well." My mouth was instantly blocked by him, and before I could struggle to shout out, I heard Brother Ling's familiar voice whispering next to my ear: "It's me, don't be afraid."
I fell silent, patted his hand to let him go, and asked in a low voice, "Why are you here?"
He didn't answer, and pointed to the open space, motioning for me to look for myself.
I crouched behind the stone and saw shadows and creaking noises outside.
At this time, the sky had completely cleared up, and at night on the plateau, after the dark clouds receded, it was dark blue, and there was also a crooked moon wandering out at some point, hanging in the sky.
After the light improved, I took a closer look and found that the movement on the grass was a large group of stone monkeys, probably at least dozens of them.They all landed on their hind legs, grasping their fronts and hugging their chests, crawling one after another.
"That action is like worshiping something?"
Because the picture was too weird, I could only hear my heartbeat beating, and I turned my head to meet Brother Ling's star-like eyes.
Seeing that he didn't speak, I couldn't help asking: "It... what are they doing? They seem to be worshiping something? But there are stones in front of them, and there is nothing to see." Speaking of this, I looked up at that Lun Wanyue said incredulously, "Isn't it worshiping the moon?"
Brother Qi Ling poked his head out a little, but he didn't wait for his answer.At this time, a white smoke suddenly rose in the quiet midair, and with a "bang", the flowers exploded.It illuminates the hundreds of meters around as if it were daytime.
"Someone put a flare on the camp."
But after this sound, those monkeys were frightened and fled around, and after a while, they all ran away without a trace.
"Get out!" After speaking, brother Ling got out first, and then gave me a hand.The two of us stood on the huge grass, and the air was filled with the fragrance of grass after the rain, mixed with a little bit of saltpeter.
Brother Qiling turned his back to me, and kept looking at the direction where the monkey worshiped just now, not knowing what he was thinking.I just feel that tonight, apart from his erratic whereabouts, he is also extraordinarily dignified. I can't understand him at all.
I looked up at the cold moonlight and sighed helplessly.
He turned around, held my shoulder and asked, "Isn't it pretty?"
"Huh?" I don't know what he is referring to?
"The moon, isn't it beautiful?" He asked again.
"Brother! I'm worried about your troubles, but you turn around and talk about the moon with me. You're obviously not on the same channel!" I thought weakly.
He muttered and said, "It should be pretty! Otherwise, how could those monkeys be like that?"
"What they worship is not the moon, but something in that mountain." Brother Qi Ling's words sounded particularly pervasive at this moment, and I couldn't help but feel my whole body shudder.
He noticed the trembling of my shoulders, lowered his head a little more, looked at me and asked, "Are you scared?"
I nodded, and said honestly: "One thing, mainly this... is too incredible."
He pondered for a while, and replied, "This time you are honest."
"Hey, when have I been dishonest? Besides, even if I tried to lie to you, didn't you see through it every time?" I raised my voice and choked him.
Brother Qi Ling was silent, and after a while, sighed: "That's true."
Taking advantage of the cover of the night, I gave him a white look angrily, and turned my face away.He leaned over and said patiently in my ear: "Since you are afraid, don't run out alone next time, no matter what you see."
"Does he know?" There was something in this sentence, which made my heart skip a beat, wondering what exactly does this guy know?Why are you not willing to speak frankly and clearly?
"Okay! Got it!" I don't want to talk too much with him, anyway, it's impossible to get something out of him here.
"Hey, by the way, I just saw a corpse in the cave over there. I don't know if it's Professor Sun?" When I mentioned this to Brother Ling, I remembered that I just tore off the thing and returned it to him. He didn't wash his hands, so he couldn't help but wiped his clothes a little disgustedly.
"Oh? Take me to have a look." Brother Qi Ling turned on the flashlight and motioned for me to lead the way.
The two of us walked to the edge of the stone crevice where the corpse was found, and brother Qiling shot the light in. This time I saw clearly that there was indeed a dead person inside, and there was more than one dead person.They curled up in the hole, sitting cross-legged, as if they were still in a meeting to discuss matters at the last moment of their lives.
Seeing this scene, my nose was inexplicably sore.Thinking about it, although I didn't have a deep friendship with Professor Sun, but a good person died in a foreign country in a blink of an eye, and it was still such a lonely and desolate place, which was embarrassing.
Brother Qiling looked back at me with a sad face, twitched the corners of his mouth, and said to me, "There is no professor here."
"How do you know?" I was delighted to hear what he said, but at the same time I couldn't believe it.
He cast the light in again, shining on the corpse, and analyzed: "Professor Sun appeared in the county a week ago. If something happened to him, the corpse would not have been corrupted to this extent in a short period of time."
I took a closer look, and saw that the clothes on the corpse inside had been severely weathered, and the body was even more shriveled, and it was unlikely that it had just died.
"That's right." I smiled embarrassedly and agreed.
After he got up, he patted the ashes on his hands, bowed his head and said to me: "Go back!"
I stared intently at the corpses inside, and asked him, "But you don't want to know why these people died here? How did they die?"
"I don't want to." After he finished speaking, without waiting for my reaction, he picked me up from the ground, carried me on his shoulders, and walked away.
"...Hey, put me down quickly, it's embarrassing!" I yelled at him while struggling.
He ignored it and walked straight to the camp.I was so disturbed by him that I lost my temper immediately, and hurriedly begged for mercy and said, "Okay! I don't want to know, okay? Let me down, I'm so sick, I'm about to vomit."
Hearing this, he put me down.I punched angrily, and ran towards the camp on my own.
The people in the camp had already returned, and when they heard my footsteps, they immediately stood up vigilantly, and only relaxed a little when they saw that it was me.Wu Xie saw that my face was flushed from running, and hurriedly asked, "What's going on?"
Fat Brother added: "Sister, have you been kicked out by a ghost? You ran in such a hurry."
I cast a blank stare at the person behind me and said, "Almost!"
Seeing Brother Ling coming out of the shadows slowly, they rushed to meet him and said, "Brother is back."
Brother Qi Ling nodded to them, then turned his gaze to me.
I can't be bothered to talk to him.Xiao Rongyuan was counting the things recovered, when he saw me coming back, he came over and asked, "Are you all right? Zilin"
"It's okay, have you found everything?"
"There are still two bags short, but it should be enough." When Xiao Rong answered me, he looked me up and down, and he was relieved when he saw that I was not injured.
Xiao Rong looked behind me again, and asked in an obscure tone: "Did you go to find him?"
"Ah?" When I turned my head, Brother Qi Ling had already walked behind me.I blushed, shook my head and said, "No..."
Xiao Rong didn't know if he heard what I said, but he looked at Brother Qi Ling calmly, and Brother Qi Ling also stared at him expressionlessly.Neither of them spoke, but their eyes were already tense. This scene reminded me of the time in Beijing.
"Could it be that senior Xiao Rong hasn't forgotten his love for me?" After coming up with this horrifying theory, I couldn't calm down anymore.
I raised my forehead and said "Ouch" to Fat Brother, complaining that I had a headache, and told him to hurry up and get me the medicine.Brother Qi Ling frowned after hearing this, followed me back to the tent, while Xiao Rong stopped outside the tent, stopped for a while and then left.
After going back, I simply got into the sleeping bag and refused to eat, and they didn't take me out.The three gathered together and whispered a few words before going back to rest.
I was almost suffocating in it, so I took a sneaky breath from the mouth of the sleeping bag, and caught a glimpse of Brother Ling with his hands on the pillow, looking at me meaningfully.
"...Have they left?" I stretched out my head, and after making sure, I sat up loudly, thanking myself for escaping.
There was a small electronic light in the tent, reflecting his face very softly.He stretched out an empty hand to me, and said, "The fat man told me that even if you wake up in the middle of the night, he will give you medicine. I didn't expect you to wake up earlier than he expected."
I knew he was making fun of me for pretending to be sleeping and escaping the drug, so I didn't care. I pushed his hand away with a smile, and replied, "I don't feel any pain now. I'll take it when it hurts."
He sat up, straightened his long legs, patted them, and signaled me to lie down.I glanced outside, worried that someone would feel embarrassed if they saw it.
Seeing me hesitate for a while, he moved his hand over again, and said in a deep voice, "Otherwise, you should take some medicine!"
"No, no, no." I obediently put my head on his lap, he smiled lightly, stretched out his fingers, and slowly began to massage my head, which was very comfortable.
"Are you afraid of being seen?"
"..."
"Afraid of being seen by someone?"
I opened my eyes suddenly, and saw fleeting hesitation flashed in his eyes, and then he regained his composure, but this sentence made my heart suddenly tingle.
"Does he still not trust me?"
"No one, I just feel embarrassed. In fact, I don't need to care about other people's opinions." I laughed at myself.
"I regard you as my wife, and I should treat you well." He stopped what he was doing and stared at me.
My heart trembled, as if a well of honey had been born inside, and the sweetness oozing out instantly submerged the pimple just now.
"Then can you do it, believe me no matter what, no matter what you see or hear, just believe what I say?" I asked.
"Hmm." He nodded.
"Okay, since that's the case, then let's agree, never ask each other, never owe each other, make a promise for life, and get married forever?"
After hearing this, he lowered his head slowly, and his cold lips were printed on my forehead, as if he had stamped our verbal oath, and then he confirmed: "Okay!"
The author has something to say:
The writing is top-notch, and I feel that every chapter pushes myself to a dead end!
By the way, what kind of ending do you hope for?See if it matches what I had in mind.