Chapter 41: A Dream of Huangliang
When I woke up, I found something was wrong. It took me a long time to slowly recover my memory: how to leave the Lama Temple step by step, how to return to the bar, how to faint.
My eyelids were as heavy as if they were filled with lead and could not be opened at all. I could only rely on my sense of smell and touch. I smelled a particularly familiar smell.
That being said, I was taken to the hospital, which is great.
I fell asleep again in a drowsy and was soon asleep, but this time I only fell asleep in seconds. After a few seconds, I suddenly woke up, and this time my eyes could finally open.
As soon as I opened my eyes, I realized that I was not in the hospital I thought I hadn't seen the white ceiling, although I was already very familiar with that kind of ceiling.
What I saw was the top of a very old building, and after a closer look.
I realized that this was the structure of the Lama Temple. At this time, I turned my eyes and looked around, and saw Zhang Haike, Zhang Haixing, and the big Lama sitting not far from me.
I lay on the wooden floor with felt hanging around and fire stoves. The fat man was lying beside me. I slowly sat up. At this time, they found that I was awake and walked towards me while saying something to each other. My ears were not very good. After looking around, I asked, "What the hell is going on? Am I going down the mountain? Isn't it all full of bugs?"
Zhang Haixing walked to me and shook a bell in his hand. I looked at it and found that it looked very familiar. After careful identification, I found that it turned out to be the hexagonal bell I had seen before, and the bell made a very crisp sound.
Zhang Haixing leaned down and asked me, "Do you know what this is?" I wanted to shake my head and nodded. Although I knew that hearing too much this thing would make people hallucinate, I really couldn't name it.
Zhang Haixing kept shaking the bells in my ears, and the more I listened, the more I became more and more awake. I slowly felt the gloomy air attached to my mind dissipated, and then I saw a strange shelf between me and the fat man, with six or seven such strange hexagonal bells hanging on it.
"What is this?" My thoughts became clear and I asked Zhang Haixing.
Zhang Haixing said: "I can't tell you now that this is a technology we discovered a long time ago. Through the combination of different types of bells, we can make people have various hallucinations. These hallucinations are very, very real. If I don't tell you, those experiences are born like this, you will feel that everything has happened."
When I looked at the bells carefully, Zhang Longban walked over.
He walked to me and carefully poured the contents of the spoon onto the bell, and I smelled a special scent.
Zhang Haixing continued: "We dare not use it casually, because we don't know what the consequences of different combinations will have, so we use melted rosin to block it."
I knew that even they didn't know the operating mechanism of this kind of thing, so I stopped asking. But Zhang Haixing continued to explain to me a little proudly: "Our Zhang family has studied this thing for a long time, so we mastered the twelve uses."
"The one I just used for you is the lightest effect." She smiled. For some reason, I think her expression looks a little gloating.
I remembered all the experiences I had in the ancient tomb before and knew that if this thing was not used properly, it would have disastrous consequences, but I didn't think they used me lightly because the cold and the pain of insect biting was too clear.
I vaguely realized that this seemed to be another test, so I asked Zhang Haixing: "What is the purpose of doing this, what about those Germans?"
Zhang Haixing said: "This, my brother will explain it to you later, but I can congratulate you on passing the cusp that an ordinary person is very sad."
I looked at the fat man and asked, "What about him?"
Zhang Haixing said: "He is a little worse than you, but with him, you will feel more at ease, so you can pass the test."
I asked, "Why is this?"
"Some people can't wake up after being hit by this kind of bell. For example, he." Zhang Haixing pointed to the fat man, "But, you are different. You can wake up by yourself, which means that you have experienced a higher level than this before. Think about it, have you experienced a very, very illogical situation?"
I frowned. Zhang Haixing said: "It's true, but it's absolutely impossible."
I don’t want to think about this problem anymore. On the one hand, I feel a splitting headache, and on the other hand, I hope to hear Zhang Haixing continue to talk.
Zhang Haixing said: "Entering the snow-capped mountains is very important for the immunity of this bell. We need to know whether you have the ability to resist all changes. Although we don't know what kind of situations appear in your hallucinations, we know that this is definitely what you fear the most. You are very, very desperate, and this despair will cause extreme pain and rejection reactions. But in this case, you are asking for it, which is quite difficult. From this we know that you are a person who can accept any difficulties and will not give up on yourself because of this difficulty. You are a person who can solve any crisis. The most rare thing is that you wake up by yourself after the hallucinations disappear, and many people can't wake up."
I wanted to say to her, "I'm not a fucking person who can solve any difficulties, and how do you know what it is like in hallucinations?" but I really don't have the energy to argue.
Zhang Haixing said: "We can hear you and use words to guide your hallucinations. We can hear all the things you say in the hallucinations. What makes me most relieved is that your words are very positive. Unlike the fat man, what he said in the hallucinations is simply unpleasant. I don't know what he is thinking in the critical moment."
I looked at the fat man. Before the fat man woke up, Zhang Longban gently shook the bell in the fat man's ear. The fat man slowly reacted a little and was muttering to himself: "Don't leave, don't leave, you kill me, I'm willing. Death under the peony flowers, being a ghost is also romantic."
Zhang Haixing glanced at me and made a helpless expression. I sighed and said to myself: For the fat man, if it is really something he fears the most, it may not be something he cannot bear, but it may be something he is afraid of facing.
Although it was a dirty word, maybe he saw the ghost of clouds in his hallucination?
I looked at Zhang Haixing's eyes, then at my palms and body, and found that there was no wound on my body. It was indeed an hallucination just now, and I felt moved in my heart. Suddenly, I began to feel confused about everything in front of me.
Zhuang Zhou Mengdie, I don’t know if he is Butterfly Mengzhou or Zhou Mengdie. Is there really no need to figure out so clearly many things?
Zhang Haixing saw my doubts and said, "You don't have to worry about anything. I know what you are worried about. At the beginning, we did find that this thing was very dangerous, but just think about whether this thing can happen reasonably in the process you just experienced, and you will understand whether you are hallucinating or in reality."
The temple was full of bugs just now. I looked around the temple and thought about it. It was indeed impossible for this to happen.
All hallucinations are sudden. If they weren't so real, I would definitely find myself in hallucinations.
The most terrible thing is that even the pain is real.
Then Zhang Haixing said again: "Think about it again, are these terrifying things you have experienced that you are afraid of?"
I remained silent and touched my body. Zhang Longban handed over a cigarette. I lit it and said, "Everyone has a little understanding. Please let me have a good rest."
Zhang Haixing is so excited that I realized that she should not be very old, and this kind of vitality is still different from Aning's stability.
She was a little unhappy when I slapped her. She glared at me, turned around and left, leaving her words: "Then wait, my brother talks more than me. Let him serve you. You can see yourself."
However, Zhang Haike did not show up. After the fat man woke up, I told him nonsense and explained the matter. I thought it happened after I returned to my room with him. The bell might have been installed on the door. When we pushed the door in, we were very excited and didn't notice anything strange. We didn't know when the hallucinations would appear.
It took the fat man a long time to believe that our bodies were very weak, not tired, but a feeling of losing strength. At night, Zhang Haike did not come, and Zhang Haixing came again. This time, she brought some things to show us.
Chapter completed!