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Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Urgent

Mustard Seeds 倪匡 8049Words 2023-02-05
At the end of the previous story "A Place", I ended the story with the sentence "Because no one will have the opportunity to go to that place." Judging from such an ending, it seems that the story of "A Place" is over, and there will be no follow-up. Things have to be separated. At the time I definitely thought it was over.Although after listening to the narration of the rock, everyone had a lot of analysis, and they all agreed that there was indeed the existence of the place that the rock said, and believed that the experience that the rock said was a real experience.Hong Ling also volunteered to find that place, and although I don't know what she did next, I can also know that she must be working hard.

But before there is any new development in the matter, I really think that since the rock has spent more than 20 years, with the manpower and material resources he can use, he still hasn't found out. Although Hong Ling has such a wish, in fact, there will be nothing result. So I thought the story was over, so I used such a sentence. As for the new development of things later, it was something I couldn't predict at the time. I didn't have the ability to predict, and I couldn't know what would happen in the future. Fortunately, things developed again later, otherwise the story of "A Place" would have been criticized as a typical Wesley story with a beginning and no end!

(Although in fact many stories do have a beginning and no end, and not all stories have a happy ending, but people who read the stories always think that all stories should have the results in their minds. This is the biggest trouble for storytellers. Fortunately , the matter has a follow-up development, of course it can go on, if the matter does not continue to develop at all, how can I find something out of thin air?) (Am I right?) After the story of "One Place" had a follow-up development, I spent some time thinking about how to start the narrative.Of course, we can’t just say that if we want to do that, we have to say from the beginning that Hong Ling is going to that big island and how to find that place. The process must be very dull and boring, so we have to find another way.

Of course, there are many ways, starting with an unexpected thing. I was away from home for two days because of an incident (completely unrelated to this story).During these two days, Bai Su also happened not to be at home.So within these two days, if the person who came to us could not be found, we could only use various methods to leave a message to let us know that he had been here or that he wanted to contact us. There are many ways to leave a message, you can use advanced high technology, or you can use the most primitive method. And when I came back two days after leaving home, the message I saw was probably the most primitive and exaggerated.

As soon as I turned on the inclined road leading to my residence, I saw that the door of the house seemed to be a little strange. When I got closer, I realized that the strangeness was due to a sign hung on the door.The sign was almost the same size as the gate, and there were some words written on it, bright red, obviously written in red paint, the situation was the same as some people who owed usury loans and failed to repay them were violently collected. Anyone who sees such a situation at the door of their own house will not feel pleasing to the eye, and I am naturally no exception. While complaining in my heart how Lao Cai could allow such a thing to happen, I arrived at the gate as quickly as possible. in front of the door.

The first thing I saw were the two biggest words in red letters on the sign: BS. As soon as I saw these two words, most of the unhappiness in my heart disappeared.After I saw the word nonsense, the first result of my brain activity was: nonsense about this person.rather than nonsense. Friends who are familiar with Wesley’s story will of course have the same reaction as me. Nonsense, this man has appeared more than once in the story. He and Wen Baoyu are very congenial. It seems that he has also been infected with Wen Baoyu’s exaggerated style. my attention? Of course, I saw the message written by Hu Hua on the wooden sign with red paint almost at the same time:

Urgent!Please contact us now! ! ! These three! , it seems shocking, showing that the urgency of the messager is indeed very, very urgent. And under the signature, there is a line of numbers, of course a phone number. I know that Hu Hua acts quite prudently, completely different from Wen Baoyu's style of work, he said he was in a hurry, but he really was in a hurry! At this time, of course, I had no way of knowing what was going on, and my reaction was to immediately take out my mobile phone and press the number. I guess that's probably bullshit. Carrying a mobile phone number with you? The act of carrying a mobile phone with you has grown faster in the past few years than any science fiction author could have imagined.

It can be said that the mobile phone that is carried around has almost become an integral part of a person's body, and the number on the phone will soon become a person's code. Through this number, one can know everything about this person. This is a typical example of scientific progress that has brought about great changes in people's lives.Whether this kind of change is good or bad, no one knows, but once the change happens, it seems that there is no power to resist it, isn't it?Even Bai Su and I have this thing.And this thing can at least make me get in touch with nonsense one minute earlier at this time, it cannot be said that it is useless.

The phone rang only half a time before I heard nonsense, shouting: Wesley! It is definitely not too much to say that he is calling for help.I hurriedly said: What do you want me to do? Since it was extremely urgent, it was affirmed from the fact that he answered the phone as soon as he talked nonsense and his tone, so I didn't have time to ask him what happened, so I just asked him directly what he wanted me to do. In this way, we can strive for action in the shortest possible time without having to spend time studying the ins and outs of things. Hu Hua immediately replied: Quick!Come to me quickly!

I had already got out of the car in order to see the words on the sign clearly. At this time, when I heard the nonsense, I immediately jumped into the car. Before I closed the door, I asked: Where are you? Because of his anxiety, the nonsense he said didn't sound very coherent, he said: "Chen Changqing is Chen Changqing's big house in Xiaobao's place!" Of course I know what happened to Chen Changqing's big house. Many strange things happened in this big house, and no one knows how many more strange things will happen there. This big house seems to be the source of strange things.There will be an endless stream of strange things coming.I still didn't ask what happened, but said: I've got on the bus and will be there soon.

At this time, I seemed to hear Hu Hua talking to another person. Because when he said this, he might have some actions that he didn’t want me to hear on purpose, so his words sounded very vague, as if he was saying Wesley to others. Immediately or something, not sure. This made me very puzzled, and I immediately asked: Who are you talking to? Nonsense's voice sounded very confused: talk about it when you come, talk about it when you come! I wanted to ask more questions, but I immediately thought that it would take less than 20 minutes to arrive. Since he said so, he probably won't be able to ask anything on the phone. There is no need to waste time. I want to use this time to do other things. matter. First of all, I quickly think about the situation of my recent contact with nonsense. The exact date of my most recent meeting with Hu Hua was not immediately available to me, as nothing major happened that time to provide an immediate memory. I remember that nonsense came with Wen Baoyu. At that time, Wen Baoyu had already started to have contact with Baodi and the elders in Baodi, but he was not addicted to it. I guess it was at the beginning of this period, because he was ready for a long time. Staying in Baodi, so I entrusted Hu Hua to take care of the big house, so I asked Hu Hua to come to me together and explain this matter to me. Because things have nothing to do with me, although the big house is very interesting, there are too many interesting things around me. For no special reason, I can't spend too much time in the big house. Of course I have no objection to Wen Baoyu entrusting Hu Hua to take care of the big house. I remember Wen Baoyu once said to Hu: I may not come back for a long time, you can completely treat the big house as your own! So since Hu Shi was in that big house at this time, I had reason to believe that something strange might have happened in that big house again, which made Hu Hua want to meet me urgently. Of course I know that if something strange happens in that big house, it can be any unimaginable thing, and I can't make any assumptions at all, so don't waste your energy. The next thing I have to do is to contact Bai Su. Originally, I was supposed to contact Bai Su after returning home, but because of the urgency of talking nonsense, I could not enter the house, so I had no choice but to contact Bai Su at this time. As mentioned before, the communication is still carried out by wireless phone. Not only can the voice of the other party be heard but also the appearance of the other party can be seen, and no matter how far the two parties are apart, it is not a problem. At this time, Bai Su was in Romania, half a world away from me, so the contact was like a face-to-face interview. (The situation mentioned above is by no means imagined in fantasy novels, but something that actually occurs in real life. Of course, this situation used to be a very common assumption in fantasy novels.) (Fantasy turned into fact is an example of countless fantasies becoming fact.) So Bai Su's first sentence is: You seem very nervous, something happened? I immediately told Bai Su about the nonsense message and the phone call with him, and Bai Su said: "Is it related to Xiaobao?" Because Wen Baoyu's thinking is getting more and more weird, Bai Su and I have been very concerned, but there is absolutely no way to affect Wen Baoyu's brain activity. The ability of Elder Baodi is obviously far superior to ours, so we have no choice but to watch Wen Baoyu approached the elder, not knowing how far he would end up. But what we know is that things are obviously getting worse and worse, so any development related to Wen Baoyu will make our hearts jump, feeling that an unstoppable huge disaster is approaching, and it will happen sooner or later. Because Hu Hua had a good relationship with Wen Baoyu, Bai Su naturally thought that the matter might have something to do with Wen Baoyu. I was taken aback in my heart, and smiled wryly: I hope it doesn't have anything to do with him! I have such a reaction, of course, because no matter what happens, it is better than Wen Baoyu's new tricks. If something happens in Wen Baoyu's place, it must be related to the elders, and it must be another step towards disaster! Bai Su paused for a moment: Contact me anytime. I also said: contact me at any time. At this time, the car had already turned into the straight road leading to the big house, and I also saw Nonsense at the gate, waving his hands at me and jumping constantly. The car stopped, opened the door, and I asked loudly: "What's wrong with Xiaobao?" Hu Shuo was taken aback for a moment, and asked back: Xiaobao? Seeing his reaction like this, I knew that the matter had nothing to do with Wen Baoyu. It didn't matter if I said I was useless, I was naturally relieved. From this, we can see how seriously Wen Baoyu's matter troubled us. I saw that Hu Hua's face was pale, and he grabbed me, his hands were also cold, so I knew that the matter was true, at least for him, it was no small matter. I opened my arms and gave him a gentle hug, which was worth a thousand words and made him immediately understand that no matter what happened, I would do everything in my power to support and help him. His expression obviously calmed down a lot, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said: Let's start from the beginning, come on! He walked to the house and couldn't wait to pull my clothes forward. His abnormal behavior proves that things may be far more weird than I imagined.But he is alive and well, and there is obviously no problem with his health. No matter how serious the matter is, it will not involve the level of life safety, so I secretly blame nonsense for making a fuss out of a molehill. Nonsense said that the matter needs to start from the beginning, but he kept pulling me into the room without saying a word. I urged him repeatedly, but he always replied: Let’s talk about it when we get to the scene, otherwise I really can’t explain it! At this time, I paid attention to the demeanor of nonsense, and found that things were a little strange.In the beginning, I was affected by urgency. In terms of thinking, I always thought that nonsense was in some danger, and even my life was threatened. But after meeting him, he looked less and less like him. His expression looked more like extreme excitement. Although his face was terribly pale, but people in a state of extreme excitement will also appear this way. situation. And he was not in a hurry to tell me what happened, but to start from the beginning, and all the signs showed that there was no danger. After figuring this out, if I didn't know that nonsense is not a fuss, something out of nothing, I would have pushed him away, turned around and left. Although I didn't do this, my face was not so pretty, and I snorted to express my dissatisfaction. Nonsense has a keen sense of nonsense, and he immediately sensed my dissatisfaction. He looked at me, breathless, and said: Don't blame me. After you know what happened, you will definitely not blame me. Although I know that everyone handles things differently, like me, I am impatient, and I will tell what happened as soon as possible.And nonsense, with a slow temper, likes to start slowly from the beginning. In other words, since you are impatient, then even if the nonsense starts from the beginning, when you narrate, you can tell the matter first! It's not that I haven't thought about it in this way, and the result of my thinking is that it is easy to understand things only if they start from the beginning.And that's the only way it's very interesting.So now when I narrate, I use the method of nonsense at that time. At that time, I saw a complex look on Nonsense's face.Since all kinds of weird things can happen in this big house, I don't doubt nonsense. I was dragged by nonsense, went up the stairs, and went up to the third floor in one breath. I can say that I am very familiar with this big house of Chen Changqing, but I can also say that it is very strange. This kind of statement does not contradict what I am familiar with it is the part that can be seen, but what I know very little about it is the part that cannot be seen. According to Wen Shiyu, the secret passages, secret rooms, large and small There are so many hidden spaces, it's unbelievable. According to Wen Baoyu, no matter how you imagine, it is more than ten times more than what you imagined! Wen Baoyu once spent a lot of time trying to figure out all the secret rooms, secret passages, etc., but after a period of time, he gave up because he felt that it would be difficult to complete his life. Wen Baoyu once reported to me some of the achievements he had made, which were indeed beyond imagination. Just a few examples he gave can become a special masterpiece in this field. Of course, I don't need to give other examples here, because the next nonsense will take me to see a typical example in this regard. When I got to the third floor, I knew that there was a part of the insect specimen room on this floor. Hu said that he was an entomologist. This part should be the part that he was most interested in in this big house. And at this time, what I suddenly thought of was that not long ago, I heard the narration of the rock.In the description of the rock, all the creatures in that place, except for the human beings, have no difference in appearance except for the skin color that has never been seen before, while other creatures are all strange shapes that have never been seen before.He mentioned a beetle whose tentacles were in the middle of the body, and when it flew the carapace split into four pieces. I don't know this strange-shaped beetle, nonsense, does this entomologist know its origin? I always think of what to do and do it immediately, so although at this time it seemed that nonsense would not answer, I still said it, and described in detail the shape of the beetle that the rock saw in that place. Nonsense was completely absent-minded, with a dazed expression. After listening to my question, he didn't have any real answer. He just sighed leisurely and said, "Who knows?"Anything can happen! Seeing him like this, I didn't ask any more questions, because it was very obvious that if he didn't solve his problem first, he couldn't get out of this half-dead mental state, and couldn't answer anything. He reacted the same way. And judging from his reaction, what happened must fall within the range where anything can happen, which aroused my curiosity.Nonsense dragged me around in the corridor on the third floor. I dare say that even a person with the best sense of direction will be dizzy if he comes here for the first time. I told Hu Shi several times not to hold me, but Hu Shi refused to let go like a man caught in a lifebuoy in the ocean. It was only at the end of a corridor that the nonsense stopped. At this time, what we are facing is a door. In this big house, there are at least three hundred rooms, and the door shapes are different. Some are normal rectangles, some are round, some are triangular, and more are irregular. Indescribable shape.At this time, the shape of the door in front of us is indescribable, like a fat snake, bent three times, thick at the top and thin at the bottom. It won't be long before I know what the situation is and will explain it right away. Nonsense was at the door, took a deep breath, and went to open the door.The way to open the door is also very special, first he reaches out and pushes on the door, the whole door sinks inward, and then moves to the right to move the door away. It was very dark looking inward, and for a moment I couldn't see anything.I only saw a little yellow light, and after a while, I realized that it was the light from an oil lamp. I explained nonsense: When I first came in, it was like this. At this time, I have already seen clearly that although the light of the oil lamp is extremely weak, as the saying goes: A lamp is like a bean, and the situation in front of me is like a lamp, but the oil storage part of the lamp is very large, it is a bigger than People are even taller, and at least two people can hug the thick big urn. It is estimated that such a big urn can hold at least a thousand kilograms of oil to light such a tiny lamp. I don't know how long it can last. In such a situation, this kind of lamp is usually called: Wannian lamp, and such lamps generally appear in very large-scale ancient tombs. At that time, although the sky was bright and white outside, the scene in front of me was so gloomy, so it made people feel very strange. Hu Hua was obviously very familiar with this room. He strode in. I saw him turn up the light with a thin wooden stick, then lit the thin wooden stick again, and lit another dozen oil lamps. In this way, the room becomes brighter, although it cannot be compared with an ordinary electric light, but it is also enough for me to see the situation in the room clearly. The room was quite large, about fifty square meters, and there was nothing else except about twenty oil lamps of various shapes and sizes. It looks like a collection room for oil lamps. There are collection rooms for various items in this big room, and there is a room dedicated to collecting oil lamps, which is nothing special. The oil lamps in the room all had huge lamp bases, more than half of which were taller than people, and some of them were holding lamps in the hands of people, and those people were taller than me.There is a lamp base that is a bronze phoenix about half a man in height. Its body is inlaid with all kinds of precious stones. Although the light is not strong, the precious light is flowing and dazzling. To describe these oil lamps in detail, even roughly, would take at least tens of thousands of words. Although it is interesting, it has nothing to do with the story, so of course there is no need to spend more words. I had a good look at the room, which was unquestionably peculiar, but I couldn't see anything that could make Hu Hua so unhinged.If it is difficult to estimate the value of these collections, then there are at least three hundred rooms in this big house with the same collections that cannot be valued! For a moment, I had no concept in my mind and was very puzzled, and I looked at Nonsense. Hu Hua took a breath, stretched out his hand and pointed to the right, I followed his pointing, and saw that the wall he was pointing at was very special. The wall is about three meters high and seven meters wide, with flying dragons and phoenixes dancing on it, a painting of wild cursive calligraphy. At first glance, the calligraphy seems to be alive under the light of the oil lamp. Each character has its own movement, which is weird and inexplicable. For at least half a minute, I couldn't figure out what was going on that would cause such a strange scene to appear before my eyes.So when I approached the wall, I was very careful, lest those monster-like cursive characters would suddenly fly towards me. It wasn't until I got close that I saw the real situation clearly. It turned out that those words were not written on the wall. The situation is very special, and I need to explain it in detail before I can say it clearly. Those characters are all three-dimensional, and they seem to be carved from very solid ebony. The three-dimensional part of those characters is about 20 centimeters. If you look at the front of the character, it looks like a flat character. If you angle it slightly, you can see the three-dimensional part of the character.Since the lights are reflected from various angles, shadows appear on the three-dimensional characters, and the lights flicker indefinitely, so those characters seem to be alive. After figuring out that it was such a situation, I couldn't help but burst out laughing. The obviously nonsense attitude affected me and made me nervous. I let out a sigh of relief, stretched out my hand to touch the last few characters, and felt very smooth. The carving process is obviously due to a very master who wants to turn a piece of calligraphy into a three-dimensional sculpture without destroying the charm of the original calligraphy. It is a very difficult job, and it cannot be done by a non-extreme master. When I saw this wild grass for the first time just now, I just thought it was calligraphy, and I didn't feel that it had been processed at all. From this, we can see that the person who processed this calligraphy is a master with extraordinary attainments. After talking for a long time, what exactly is written in this calligraphy?Since you want me to read nonsense, of course there is a reason. So I took a few steps back, and I could see the whole calligraphy clearly. It is very difficult to recognize each character written in cursive script. Even experts, when faced with a cursive cursive, they will not be sure that they can recognize every character. But at this time, I only looked at the calligraphy for a few seconds. If I was asked to read every word, I could do it. It's very simple to say, in this wild cursive calligraphy, I will definitely not be able to accurately identify more than a quarter. However, among the characters I know, I first saw the Yellow River, then I saw the five-flowered horse, and then saw the ancient sages, and some other very familiar words and sentences. After seeing these words, I believe many people can know that this calligraphy is written in Li Bai's famous poem "Water from the Yellow River Comes from the Sky". As long as you know how to recite this poem, you can recognize all the cursive characters without any difficulty. I took a deep breath and said, "It turns out that the water of the Yellow River comes up from the sky. What have you found here?" Seeing nonsense, I really want to test whether I can discover anything, and he obviously has. However, he was also eager to tell me the problems he discovered, so he sighed and gave up the idea of ​​testing me.
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