Chapter 14 escape

He lay down on the ground cautiously, not even daring to breathe.He knew that he had to be like this, he had been lying down for half an hour, maybe even longer, he couldn't make any sound, he even hated the sound of his own heartbeat, his state of mind was so frightened and tense that sweat dripped on his face When it ran across his face, it sounded like a torrent rushing loudly to him. I must escape!He kept repeating this sentence in his heart: must! The reason why he had to escape was very simple, and he knew it no matter how clearly he knew it: because if he couldn't escape, he would die.He was running for his life, life or death, it was that simple.

Who wants to die?Although living may not be really happy, as long as there is a chance of life, no one thinks of death, especially if they don't want to die at all, then they have to struggle for life even more.He's not even a very hardworking person, but facing life and death, he knows that to survive, he has to run, to run for his life. He clenched his hands tightly, holding them so hard, his nails sank deep into his palms, and the knuckles made a sound occasionally, and he let go of his hands as if he had been struck by lightning, but immediately squeezed them again, and he He felt that as long as he clenched his hands tightly, although he could not grasp anything, at least he could grasp himself. Only in this way could he strictly control his breathing so that there was no sound at all between exhalation and inhalation. come out.

There was darkness all around, how long he had been fleeing before he came to this corner, even he himself was a little blurry.That's right, that was what happened just now, but because every nerve and every brain cell in his body was only focused on escaping, he couldn't pay attention to anything else.It didn't matter to him what he passed by just now, because that was already in the past. For him, the important thing is: go forward and see what kind of obstacles you will encounter. He has to escape any obstacle.Only by escaping those obstacles can he escape, otherwise, he will die!

He who has been lying still, the muscles of his whole body are like bouncing stones, and the tension makes his muscles stiff and stiff.But the strong desire to escape made his muscles keep jumping. This kind of jump is accumulating strength, a kind of strength that is almost unattainable by humans, only with this kind of strength can he escape! He opened his eyes as wide as possible and looked forward, he didn't even know if he could escape forward, but he had to go forward, there was no way to go back, there was no way. He started to move, slowly at first, straightening his fingers that were stiff and painful from holding them tightly for too long, and there was severe pain on the knuckles of his fingers, as if a poisonous scorpion was stinging.Then, he reached for the ground sometimes, he was a little unsure if there was a ground.Is there really a ground?The earth, which can bear all weight, can make people feel at ease, crouch on it, and don't have to be afraid of being suspended?Suspending in the air is an extremely terrifying experience. A person is suddenly suspended in the air. He can't go up or down. Thinking of hanging in the air, his whole body will tremble!

Fortunately, at this moment, he was sure that he was lying on the ground. It seemed that the ground was quite firm and could bear his weight.His hands touched the ground, his fingers were like snakes that had been hibernating for a whole winter, and he began to move forward carefully and with difficulty, one point, one inch, just as he felt a kind of ecstasy in his heart, as if there was no obstacle ahead, At least he could move his body violently, take a step forward, and when he was one step closer to the successful escape, his fingers touched a cold, smooth wall! Another wall like that!The cry that came out of his heart, if it turned into a sound, it might be the most tragic sound in the world: Another wall like this!

He couldn't remember how many walls like this he had climbed, smooth and cold, with nowhere to climb.When he encountered such a wall for the first time, he scratched it with both hands, hoping to scratch some traces so that he could climb up along those traces. But he scratched and scratched, and finally, the pain had turned into numbness. The cry of despair he uttered was the cry of pain in every cell in his body, but the wall was still so cold and slippery. Going to bump, jumping up desperately, exhausting every ounce of strength that the body can emit.He was suffering so much that even he himself didn't believe he could bear it, and finally overcame it. He lay on the ground for a long time, waiting for his almost dead body to slowly wake up.

However, compared to encountering such a wall for the second time, the pain of encountering it for the first time is simply nothing! The same wall, one after another, he thought many times: I don’t climb over it anymore, I don’t run away anymore, the pain is still there, I’m too tired, too tired, too tired to do anything To the point of hard work, if you can't escape, you can't escape, die When he thinks of death, his whole body will tremble, the thought of dying, like lightning, flashes across his mind, and with just that flash, he will slowly straighten his body, enduring the kinks in his internal organs , endured the patchwork after the bones of the whole body were scattered, took a hard breath, and then stood up slowly, knowing very well in his heart: He doesn't want to die, he wants to run for his life!

However, now, his fingers touched such a wall again!That made him tremble with despair and anger.His fingers retracted immediately, hoping that it was just an illusion, there was no wall in front of him, he could stride forward no, that is too much hope, not striding, even in the thorn bushes, step by step Climbing forward, being covered in blood by thorns, being torn off the skin and flesh one by one by sharp and hard thorns, he is willing, it is better than bumping into such a wall again many! Please, stop being a cold smooth wall, no!don't want!While rolling those words in his dry throat that seemed ready to burn at any moment, he trembled uncontrollably, and stretched out his fingers again.

Praying seemed to be of no use at all, no matter how sincerely he prayed or how hoarsely he prayed, it had no effect at all, none of his prayers matched his wish, and this time was no exception, the miracle did not appear, and he tried again Stretch out your fingers, and what you touch is still the cold, smooth wall. His fingers moved on the wall, and the man slowly stood up, stretching his hands as far as possible, hoping to touch the top of the wall, but he didn't touch the top of the wall, he still had to repeat it for an unknown number of times suffering. In order to escape, you are not afraid of any obstacles!He cried out in his heart: But how many such walls are there?It would be better to be a mountain of knives or a sea of ​​fire than this kind of cold wall!Is it such a wall that stretches forever?I have no hope of escaping at all?

The last thing I want to think of is this sentence, if I can never escape, then there is no need to escape, but I know clearly that I must escape, I must! He sighed, since he must escape, then continue to climb over the wall in front of him. Everything was like a nightmare. When he exhausted all his strength and finally fell down from an unknown height, at that moment, he directly felt death, that shuddering feeling. I feel that he doesn’t want to die, he wants to escape, and he can definitely escape. After escaping, he will be free, happy, have everything he wants, and have life. No more darkness, no more walls like this, no more trembling, no more pain, no more cold sweat, no more fear, no more feelings he didn't want.

He sat on the ground again, put his ears to the ground, and listened for the footsteps of his pursuers.There was a dead silence. I should be able to escape.He thought: I have made such great efforts, I should be able to escape!I am not afraid of such a wall in front of me.Because I know what it will be like after escaping, it is worth my best effort to endure everything now. His body began to change from stiff to squirming again, the flesh on his face trembled, and the sweat fell to the ground due to the shaking of his muscles, making a pattering sound, like a shower of rain on a stone slab. No matter what, I am moving forward, no amount of obstacles can stop me!he kept telling himself. So, his fingers moved forward again, and his body moved forward, point by point, inch by inch.So, his fingers touched the cold, smooth feeling again. This time, he didn't keep silent anymore, he stood up abruptly, and roared with the loudest voice he could: There is no obstacle in the world that can stop a man who is determined to run for his life! He yelled and yelled and yelled, and he really believed it, that there was nothing in the world that could stop a man determined to run for his life! He began to climb the cold, smooth wall again. He was running for his life, so there were bystanders, not only there were, but there were many.Many people watched him doing his best, trembling, gritting his teeth, sweating, every part of his body was bursting with pain, making it almost impossible for bystanders to remain indifferent, saying: what is he doingLooking at his appearance, it seems that he wants to overcome some obstacles and escape! Didn't you hear him calling?He wants to run for his life! Yes, he made up his mind to escape, he said: There is no obstacle in the world that can stop a person who really wants to escape!But there are no obstacles in front of him, he can walk forward like a walk, why does he have to crawl and scratch, so painful, but always just stay in the original place?Is he a mime? Of course not, he was running for his life, he was climbing over obstacles, trying to escape, exhausting all his efforts, trying to escape. Haha, I can't see any obstacles! Of course you can’t see it, but the obstacles he encounters are beyond his reach. He thinks that there is no obstacle in the world that can stop a person who really wants to escape, but he is wrong, tens of thousands of obstacles can’t stop him, There is only one obstacle that can easily achieve the purpose of blocking! Ah, what obstacle, so powerful? It's the obstacles he built himself. (End of the book)