Dark Cave - part 1 - Chapter 1
Late one Mid-Autumn night, a lone figure, dragging a long bag, walked along the stone path of the Cemetery of All Nations.
The man was wearing a long black windbreaker, and his long hair was gray in the dim moonlight. He seemed to see the distorted and blurred shadow cast by the moon, and he looked up and sighed.
A gust of wind made his windbreaker rustle, and at that moment, his body froze.
He saw a firefly.
For some reason, he felt that the appearance of this glimmering elf was not accidental.
his body was frozen, his heart was trembling, and his eyes followed the small light. The firefly seemed to know where the visitor was going, and flew all the way to the ” Wind Festival Garden ” , the highest-end garden in the International Cemetery .
The man finally started walking again, but his steps were more difficult. He was over 80 years old and had severe rheumatism and diabetes. Normally, it was not easy for him to walk such a long distance, not to mention that he was dragging the increasingly heavy bag.
That tiny firefly, like a will-o’-the-wisp, shuttled through the cemetery and flew straight to a newly erected tombstone, lingering there?
At this moment, he squatted slightly, enduring the pain in his knees caused by rheumatism and walking, and reached out to gently stroke the name on the tombstone that had accompanied him in nightmares for most of his life, muttering to himself so softly that only the firefly could hear it; two lines of old tears slid down, and only the firefly could see it.
Amidst the sadness, a chill ran down his spine: What does this firefly mean?
The old man could not help but become alert , stood up and looked around. Apart from the rustling of branches and leaves, there was no other sound.
He squatted down, opened the long bag, took out a shovel, and thrust the shovel forcefully into the soil in front of the tombstone.
The soil was constantly turned up, and the pit gradually became deeper and wider.
Suddenly, he seemed to sense something, raised his head, and his heart tightened: I don’t know when, two fireflies appeared in front of the tomb, dancing leisurely. He looked down and wondered why they dug such a big hole, just big enough to fit his body? Maybe, this is my destination.
1
The black and heavy door was pushed open with difficulty, and a young pale boy walked hesitantly into the gloomy and dark world.
In front of him was a long corridor that seemed to have no end, and on both sides of the corridor, there were vaguely some rooms. The child opened his eyes wide, but he could not see the furnishings in the room clearly. There seemed to be someone in the room who frightened him, with resentful eyes.
He walked forward slowly, very reluctantly, as if just to complete a mission. Vicious eyes shot out from different rooms, following him and burning him. A thick layer of confusion and fear covered his pale face. He heard some faint and strange sounds again. It sounded like human voices, like water flowing, and there were also ding-dong sounds.
Keep going and don’t give up, you are the key to this .
Perhaps , this is the origin of his name. Perhaps, he entered this dark world again, each time more important than the last, each time closer to the truth. In front of his eyes, more blurry and terrifying images flashed from the darkness, like human but not human. He dared not look at them, preferring to look forward, where there was a star of light after all.
The starlight was flickering and so small that it looked more like a firefly.
More light appeared . He saw the lamp hanging from the ceiling of the corridor. The light illuminated an old iron table. On the table, a person was lying, with long hair hanging down from the edge of the table, swinging weakly. Was she a man or a woman? Judging from the long hair, she should be a woman. She was wearing white … a windbreaker, a long skirt, and a bed sheet ? What happened to her?
He walked forward cautiously, getting close to the woman’s face. Perhaps, his mission was to see her face clearly.
Suddenly, the woman opened her eyes, a pair of familiar eyes that frightened him and made him take a step back. Her eyes, like those in the rooms on both sides of the darkness just now, were resentful and angry.
He wanted to cover his eyes, but when he raised his hand , he found something in his hand. It was as blurry as everything else here, and the only thing he could see clearly was the flash it made when it intersected with the lights in the air.
” Stop! Stop! Terminate the experiment! ” Professor Ren ordered sternly. Two graduate students and an experimenter hurriedly removed the various electrodes and lead wires connected to Guanjian’s head and body. Huang Shiyi wiped the sweat off Guanjian’s face with a tissue and pressed two plump alcohol cotton balls on his temples.
Guan Jian finally opened his eyes. Professor Ren breathed a sigh of relief and said, ” Xiao Guan, I was really worried …”
Guan Jian smiled, and his slightly pale face had regained some of its usual cheerfulness. ” Don’t worry, they’re just illusions, right? I’m actually used to it … really. ”
Huang Shiyi finally smiled, her soft face shining in Guan Jian’s eyes, ” I’m glad you’re okay, you were so scared. ”
Guanjian has a handsome face with a hint of childishness and thick black hair. His eyebrows and eyes are dark and thick. He is tall and has broad shoulders . He is an old member of the swimming team of Jiangyi University . Huang Shiyi has been working in the laboratory of Professor Ren since she entered university , working as an experimental assistant. She has developed a relationship with Guanjian, the ” experimental subject ” . Huang Shiyi’s father died young, and she and her mother depended on each other for life. This probably cultivated her independent, mature and gentle personality, which Guanjian admired.
The key is an extremely special person who can see ” them ” .
It was already dark when Huang Shiyi walked Guan Jian to the back door of the Institute of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine and asked, ” What did Professor Ren say? ”
” He wondered why I had only recently started to feel that way, ” Key said .
” You mean ‘ they ‘ ? ”
” Yes, ‘ they ‘ have been with me since I was a child, but at that time they were all very simple and direct images. A few years ago, ‘ they ‘ completely disappeared. But recently, those unique and strange images have appeared again during hypnosis, the corridor, the eyes, and the person on the iron platform. It seems that ‘ they ‘ are coming back. Professor Ren is also in a dilemma . You know, he did experiments on me when I was a child, but I didn’t see the dark corridor and those ferocious eyes at that time; and why were those images always so blurry before, and why have they gradually become clear recently, and I can see that it is a woman …”
” Can you confirm it’s a woman? ”
” Very long hair …”
” Boys also have long hair. Don’t forget, boys nowadays are very androgynous. ”
” That’s true, but the hair is very long, ” Guan Jian stroked Huang Shiyi’s silky long hair, ” probably as long as your hair. ”
Guan Jian shuddered , and the hand that was stroking Huang Shiyi’s long hair also trembled, and he pulled it back as if he had been electrocuted.
” Look how good you are at talking. ” Huang Shiyi also felt it and gently patted the key hand.
Guan Jian had no choice but to point to a corner of the wall not far away: ” What is that? Why is there smoke? ”
It was a small iron-made platform, only one meter high, with dense vegetation nearby. The platform itself was exquisitely made and had a great decorative effect. The interesting thing was that the platform, about half a meter in diameter, was curved and concave, more like a big bowl. In the ” bowl ” were a few pieces of freshly burned paper. There was no one around except the two of them.
Huang Shiyi muttered, ” It looks like a small altar. It looks a bit weird. ”
” It’s quite strange. By the way, how long will you stay in the institute? Come back with me. ”
” Look at what you are thinking about! It’s only 2:30 now. You know my shift today will end at 7:00, and then I will go directly to the Second Affiliated Hospital to start the night shift …. You should be on the night shift as well, right? ” Both of them are currently interning at the affiliated hospital of Jiangxi Medical University.
” Yes, for today’s experiment, I also took the night shift. However, I have to take a break for about half an hour. ”
” Dating that Miss Zhuge? Aren’t you afraid that I ‘ll be jealous? ” ” Vegetative ” is a special term for ” being jealous ” between two people.
Guan Jian laughed and replied: ” Can you confirm that it is a woman? ”
” Well, even a fool knows that people named ‘ Zhuge Shengnan ‘ are 120% female. ” Huang Shiyi looked at the key point half teasingly and half tentatively.
It was barely dinner time, and the campus of Jiangjing Second Medical University was already filled with thick twilight.
” Xiao Jian, you are really just a show-off. You are so weak! A gust of wind can blow the rice bowl to the ground! ” Chu Wenguang, a roommate who was walking to the cafeteria with Guanjian , teased him as he saw Guanjian bending down to pick up the rice bowl that had fallen on the ground.
Only Guan Jian himself knew that at the moment when the wind blew in his face, he saw ” them ” again .
It seems that ” they ” appeared suddenly, without any warning, just like in the past, with blurry and hideous faces.
His skin was hopelessly numb and tight, and the roots of his jet-black hair were uncontrollably oozing sweat. The sweat beads were very small, and might disappear if the wind blew, but ” they ” were like a hoop, pressing down on his head.
The appearance of ” them ” is always accompanied by the accidental and unaccidental deaths of people around him. His special ability has aroused the interest of some scientists. Death, experiment, death, experiment, death, experiment, what remains in his memory is fear and sadness. Fortunately, since the age of seventeen, he has no longer seen ” them ” on his own , lost the ability to see ” them ” , and lost the value of being studied .
He was finally able to study, play, and exercise quietly, and was admitted to the top-notch Jiangjing Second Medical University, where he began to live a life that truly belonged to him. Although he had to go to Professor Ren’s lab every now and then to do experiments, the burden was not too heavy.
However, on this evening before the storm, ” they ” appeared before his eyes again . What would happen? Whenever ” they ” appeared , they were related to people he knew.
” What’s so tense about? You miss me after just three hours of not seeing me? ” Huang Shiyi said with a smile on the other end of the phone.
” Are you still in the lab? Are you alone? ”
” Of course not. There are a lot of people in the room. ”
Although I felt relieved, I still felt a little uneasy.
At 9:15 in the evening , it had been raining for a while .
a rainproof sports suit, walked out of the internal medicine ward of the First Affiliated Hospital of Jiangjing Second Medical University where he was doing his internship. Across two streets, it was Jiangjing University , which became the ” front garden ” of Jiangjing Second Medical University because of the richer extracurricular life and more interesting scenery of the comprehensive university. After entering the gate of Jiangjing University, Guan Jian walked quickly to the ” Purple Bamboo Forest ” , the classic love place of Jiangjing University .