Shadow Code - C39
” “Kid, what’s your name? I’m Zhang San, you can call me Third Uncle or Third Brother. Let’s get to know each other!”
” Zhang San? Oh, my name is Li Si, you can call me Fourth Nephew or Fourth Brother! ” The baby blinked.
” I wasn’t born when he came! ”
” Then, have you been here before? ”
” Of course, I’ve never been here before, so why would I have this photo? ”
” That might be your grandfather. Um, where did the Village Chief go to find him? ”
” “No, look at the background, it’s this room!”
” How can this picture tell that it’s this room? ” I looked at the blurry background, but I couldn’t make out anything except the darkness.
” Light! ”
Only a fool would believe that this is the house. Come, child, count up a few questions, I’ll give it to you, brother, in a bit, bring your brother out from behind the curtain that you just escaped from, and I’ll take you out of the village to hunt! “” No, no! “The pockmark took the picture and put it back.
” “You’re talking about the train. No one can move the kerosene lamp in this room. The light of this kerosene lamp is in the background. If you don’t believe me, I’ll show it to you!” When the child heard that the pockmarked child despised him, she became unhappy and insisted on proving that her words were true, so she found something to light the lamp.
” Little brother Li Si, can you explain to your brother about this lamp? ” It was just a muscle in his body. Of course, this question had been answered wrongly by the child.
Sure enough, Li Si said, “What are you talking about? Light? Did you see that? Did you see it, too? You saw it all. What am I going to talk about? ”
I have observed that this child, you don’t need to ask him directly, what do you want to know, you need to talk indirectly, you can naturally come up with the answer you want if you want to rush things out. The pockmarked child is speechless, he could only look at me, I’ll move a stool over to Li Si, everyone sat down.
“Why can’t you move this lamp? What if you go to the latrine at night and use it? ”
“Something bit on the base of the lamp. Whoever moves is bitten. I won’t go to the latrine in the middle of the night. My bladder is big, so I can pee for an entire night!”
“Something?” This answer surprised both pockmarked and me. Could it be that there were dangerous living beings in this room?
“Who was bitten? How do you know you’ll be bitten if you move? ”
“The person bitten is dead, many people in the village are bitten, dead, that’s why we can’t move!”
However, why is it that such a dangerous thing is only a common living object in the village? Since even the most unremarkable thing in the castle has such a complicated background, then wouldn’t this seemingly unimaginable building itself have an unfathomable background?
“Was there a lot of people in this village? Just one lamp was enough to kill some people. Are there any other deadly objects?”
As you can see, this building is only a part of the ground, and it is still sinking. If it were all sinking, then it would never appear again, even if it was the next year’s La month. As for the underground part, it has already sunk even more, so this is a tall wooden building with hundreds of floors.
Li Si’s words made me and pockmarked dare not to imagine, a hundred storey tall wooden building, or a conch style, whose work is this? How could there be such a rare building? If the Eiffel Tower was only hair in the world, and the Paris Tower was to the side, it would be a shocking architectural miracle both at home and abroad. But why did it sink? It turns out that underneath the topography of the Tudou Mountain Basin, there are still hundreds of layers of fallen wooden buildings buried. My god, if there wasn’t a part of me that could see it, I would have thought this kid was crazy.
But the light of this lamp is truly strange, as we have seen. The words spoken by this child can’t be false. It’s just that the environment of his life is very hard for us to come into contact with, which is why people doubt him.
” Li Si, do you know why we have to keep sinking? If one day, this place really falls into the depths of the earth and is gone, what will you do with Grandfather? ”
” We are waiting for a man, he! ” When Li Si said those words, his eyes no longer held the mischievousness and childishness of a child. He was like an adult, filled with worry. The person he was referring to was Mountain Demon in the photo.
” “Come, Li Si, let’s go hunting some game in the forest and have a good dinner with grandpa tonight. How about it?” The pockmarked man stroked Li Si’s ponytail.
“Are you running out of dried melon? Are there still a lot of questions?” Li Si pushed away the pockmarks on his hands and unhappily fixed his hair.
“You’re a ghost, then that’s what Uncle is thinking. Let’s not go, it’s a hundred times more delicious than the meat you’re eating!”
Li Si seemed to have always been in the village with his grandfather. He probably never left the castle, and after a few words from the pockmarked person, he started to drool, and then looked at me as if he trusted me more. I nodded, and suddenly started to like this child in my heart.
No one knew where the Village Head old man went. The smoke from Li Si’s roasted meat skewers was gone from the castle. It was like a three-dimensional painting. It was lifeless and it was difficult to confirm that this was real.
After blowing on the oil lamp, Li Si happily led us out of the room. However, this time, he didn’t bring us along the corridor. Instead, he opened the door halfway and revealed another narrow door.
Before pockmarked and I could see what it was like to open the narrow door, we were in another place, a place that looked like a house or a forest, full of leafy trees and flowers, and the smell of green leaves and flowers was really in my nostrils, making me feel like I was in a paradise, but there were all sorts of facilities in the house, tables, chairs, beds, and on the walls were wooden bows and arrows, each of which looked like a fine art piece, and everything here was wood, and I could even see wood growing itself, like a table that had been cut, but there were only two or three of them, and there was only one new bud to be completed, according to the trend.
I asked if Pappy was doing this somewhere in the castle, and Li Si nodded.