Chapter Twenty-Five Another Black Son

  After finishing my meal, I put the equipment bag on the stone steps of the stone wall as a pillow, and Da Fu stood there motionless like a statue, seemingly thinking of a solution. The more I got to know these two people, the more I couldn't figure them out. From the conversation with Da Gui that night, it seemed that Da Gui and You Shui Du were just in a cooperative relationship, but why did he listen to You Shui Du's words and not dare to disobey him?

  I glanced at his oily belly, and he was also looking at me at this moment.

  "Brother, did you bring a climbing rope? My climbing rope is not long enough!" said You Shuiguo.

  I don't know what he means, so I just nodded.

  "Lend me some," said Oil Jar Belly.

  "What do you want to do?" I couldn't help but ask.

  "Have you noticed that the stone steps behind us are splitting?!" "Oil and water ducts!!"

  Split? I turned back to take a look, and found that the stone stairs behind me were still intact. I thought he was joking with me, but all I saw was him urging me to say: "Close one eye and look, it can't be seen this way!"

  Yes, I closed my eyes and took a look, the scene behind me suddenly made me shocked and lost color, because the transparent stone steps behind us were slowly disappearing, the space behind was slowly becoming a piece of darkness, everything on it was falling into the endless abyss below, soon it would spread to the stone steps where we were!

  "What's going on?!" I was shocked and turned pale!

  Da Fu looked at me with a puzzled expression, not understanding the situation. I stood up and rummaged through my equipment bag, finally finding the climbing rope and handing it to You Shui Guo.

  "Quickly, tie the rope around yourselves and secure it to me. This four-dimensional space entity is not always stable, after a period of time, the things behind it will continue to split, and our space behind us will slowly disappear. It's like cell division, when new cells are formed, old cells die. I don't know if the newly split space in front is stable or not. Tie a knot on yourselves, use one rope to secure us together, gather your things and hurry up and run! If we accidentally fall down, either we'll be severely injured or we'll fall into an endless abyss with no end point. There's also a possibility that we'll merge with the splitting object and become new matter in this space!"

  We hesitated for a moment, then learned from the oil drum and tied a living knot on ourselves with a rope, and packed up our equipment bags and put them on our shoulders.

  Looked up and down at the oil drum

  "Alright, Da Fu, you go first, then it's Da Gui, I'm third, and Brother, you bring up the rear. Stay close to us, don't worry, just close your eyes and run. Who knows, we might get lucky and stumble upon the exit like a blind cat running into a dead mouse!"

  Everyone nodded in unison, and the fatty shouted loudly: "Run!"

  Because I was fleeing for my life, in order to lighten the burden, I didn't have time to pick up that woman's stone statue and run together. As the last one, I naturally saw it fall alone onto the stone steps where Oil Water Belly had been before. Although I'm not a good person, I've committed many crimes, including murder. But what was placed in front of me was someone who almost everyone would feel pity for when they see her. Watching her fall into the endless abyss below, did I still have that bit of conscience left? After hesitating for a moment, I furrowed my brow and squatted down to pick up the female stone statue with both hands. Just then, the rope on my body suddenly tightened, pulling me forward. Luckily, I was agile and only moved two steps forward before stabilizing my body. At this time, Oil Water Belly's urging voice came from ahead.

  "Lu brothers, we're all in a precarious situation now, don't bring that thing along anymore. Being infatuated with beauty is also dependent on the occasion!"

  I didn't pretend I didn't hear it

  "Run, space is shattered, it's already very close to us!" I said!

  Yu Shui Dui let out a sigh, waved his hand to signal Da Fu to lead the way, and suddenly tensed up as he ran down to the ground. Our group of people was like a train, closing one eye and desperately running towards the higher stone steps!

  The speed of spatial splitting is much faster than we imagine, as soon as our front foot steps out, the back foot immediately becomes an endless dark abyss, it can be imagined that if we slow down a little bit, we will fall into the bottomless abyss.

  We ran desperately forward, I don't know how long we ran. Because I had a backpack on my back and was holding a "person" of over 100 pounds in my arms, my legs were already numb, my strength was gradually failing, my breathing became urgent, and the others like Oil Barrel Belly weren't doing much better. Even the strongest fat guys are afraid of climbing stairs, the speed of blood circulation is not something that fat people can bear.

  After running for about five more minutes, Da Fu and Da Gui's speed also slowed down gradually. I could hear the heavy breathing of several people. Now I am completely relying on my willpower to support myself, and my spirit has entered a state of numbness. My feet feel as if they are not attached to my body, heavily sinking into an immovable mountain. My hands slowly lose their grip, almost unable to hold onto the "person" in my arms, several times nearly dropping it and hitting my own feet!

  "Stop quickly!" I suddenly heard Da Fu shouting loudly.

  I realized what might happen now, stopped in my tracks, closed one eye and took a look around the people in front of me. In my heart, I only had the desire to survive. Everything behind me was splitting into fragments and falling into the endless darkness below! What's going on? I saw that the stone steps in front of me were also rapidly splitting and disappearing, and the ones behind us were the same. A terrifying fact was already staring us in the face - we were trapped with no way out! We're done for!

  Da Fugui and I were stunned on the spot, this sudden change made us unacceptable and dare not accept it. But what can we do if we don't accept it? At most two minutes later, the space will split and attack from both sides, at that time we will also become a dead ash, something that does not exist in this four-dimensional space. I am unwilling to die like this! Da Fugui walked down to me with a big smile on his face, making me more and more unbearable.

  "Brother, what do you mean by this scene? Doesn't it look just like a movie?" asked You Shuizhu.

  Is the oil drum really fearless of death, or does it want to die? I'm confused. In movies, miracles always happen when the protagonist is about to die, but this is the real world, where there are no miracles!

  "What do you mean?" I said.

  Oil and water don't mix

  "Brother, you've been misunderstood. This isn't a battle between Alien and Aoi Sora. Although there's a woman here too, she can't satisfy my years of craving for pure yang energy. What I mean is, are we brothers arranged by heaven? Look at this, isn't it like we're destined to die on the same day? In other words, today we're sworn brothers in life and death!"

  The mention of oil slicks makes my whole body get goosebumps, and a big old man also says this? At this time, Hei Zi also gathered in front of me, I don't know if it's the fearless spirit of You Shui Du that infected Da Fu Da Gui, but on their faces, I surprisingly saw no desperate eyes that should be present in the face of absolute death.

  "We who make a living by eating the flesh of the dead will not come to a good end, sooner or later we will all have this day, it's just a matter of time. We've seen through everything from a long time ago, don't be surprised at us. If you were me, being alive would only be a hollow shell, fundamentally without the qualifications to enjoy the inner beauty of the world." Da Gui said.

  Oil drum also patted my shoulder

  "Lu brothers, you've lived for decades, and now that death is approaching, can't you even crack a smile? As the saying goes, 'laughing makes one look younger, sex functions better every day'. You're always keeping a straight face, if someone like Pang Ge who knows you well didn't tell me, I'd think you've been heartbroken for 33 years."

  I didn't understand You Shui's joke, staring blankly at the space that split us into dumpling wrappers, my mood was especially heavy, I couldn't be as open-minded as You Shui and others.

  I weakly lean against the wall, lighting what may be my last cigarette in life. Some people say that when a person is about to die, they are either calm or angry, but I am now more contradictory than ever, with a contradiction of wanting to be free yet unable to be free.

  "Brother!" Just then, a voice suddenly rang out from behind me, extremely familiar. It was Hei Zi's voice! I couldn't be more familiar with Hei Zi's voice! But hadn't he already died in the Man-Eating Blood Vine Forest? How could he be here? The oil lamp holder also heard the voice and his expression changed to one of obvious surprise. At this time, the wall behind me suddenly opened up, and before I could react, I grabbed onto the stone statue of the woman and fell into the wall.