Path of the Dead Prequel: Wings of Silver

She sighed, picked up a cigarette, and said:"You and Chuuk are very similar in this regard. You may have lost a lot, and it is easy to sanctify the word mother. In fact, people have to experience a lot in life, and most people have no experience at all." I experience it, so I don’t feel that way. For example, I am the kind of incompetent mother."

"I have a memory. Besides, my mother doesn’t have any strange diseases. She has always been healthy and has not been in the hospital for decades."I reached out and took it, played with it on my fingertips, and said,"Let's get back to the point and finish talking about your little cousin."

However, when the boy was fifteen years old, he disappeared one day. The police intervened in the investigation for more than half a year, and finally dug up the buried bones in the farmland near Burns. It was his father who murdered the boy, and Chuuk accidentally She overheard a conspiracy between him and his mistress, and the two planned to set fire to the house and cheat the insurance. After the boy's death, strange things began to happen frequently, that is, he would continue to appear in Sister Di's dreams, as if he had grown up year by year while alive. At first Dixie thought it was caused by missing her too much, so she went to see a psychiatrist, but everything turned out to be normal. Later, her own family broke up, and the boy in her dream became her spiritual sustenance.

"What was the quarrel about? I can't remember. In short, I said the wrong thing, which inadvertently hurt your self-esteem and made you furious. During the fight, you said some words with tears in your eyes. Both the content and the wording were exactly the same as his original words. Not only did I fall into a trance, I blurted out Besson. After hearing this, you collapsed instantly, then let go of me and hugged your face. Started crying"

"I had heard about this Burns case, probably a few years ago, and I was still wondering what kind of parents could do such a cruel thing. Okay, everything is over, go on. I reached out and stroked her back and asked,"What did I say?" Will it cause you so much psychological confusion?"

That happened at the funeral after Dixie's toddler had an accident. Chuuk also came on the same day. He may have wanted to comfort the grief-stricken Dixie and whispered to her under the tree. This child had never enjoyed the warmth of a normal family. He had been hurt, the fact had happened, and he could no longer regret it. He was very happy in this short life. Compared with him, Sam said emotionally that being willful and rebellious was normal in the eyes of normal children, but for him, it undoubtedly became a species. Extravagant hope, it was the child's life, not Dixie's fault. In short, after hearing this that day, Sister Di seemed very unhappy, so she drove him away. After another six months, the boy disappeared. And in the last reincarnation, I don't know Why? I said the same thing, but in a different tone. Most of them were curses and self-pity.

"I understand, all kinds of psychological troubles are intertwined in your heart, and you are suddenly crushed."I sighed deeply and lit up the cigarette

"You don't understand, or I don't understand myself now. It seems that this incident has never happened, and Chuuk has never been killed at all. Can you understand? I don't know how to describe this. It's like a nightmare. After you take drugs, it feels very real, but it never happened at all, but the memory is retained. She raised her hand toward the depths of the cave and said,"This is what I'm eager to find out right now. You and I must escape from this phantom sun as soon as possible to witness everything with our own eyes.""

"Could it be said that you are also the chosen one?"I was secretly surprised. I stood up with her and walked forward, saying,"I have had some unusual experiences. Maybe you think they are a fantasy. Come, let me tell you the past."

After ten minutes of zigzagging and groping in the dark, I finished describing what happened at Lycu's ancient mansion. Dixie was shocked after hearing this and kept asking me for various details. In this way, we arrived at the center of the waterfall. , it is a naturally formed round lake, shaped like a crater. The mist in the center of the lake is lingering, as if there is a charcoal fire burning underneath. Looking at this vast world, I can't help but marvel at the miraculous craftsmanship of nature. At this moment, Di My sister noticed that something seemed to be shining among the lichen not far away.

As we got closer, we parted the thick fog, leaned down and looked carefully, and saw that it was a birdcage-shaped glass vessel filled with water. Stained with dark green thick juice, soaked in a heart that was still beating, it was completely unknown. And next to this thing, there were neatly piled clothes and pants, and they were pressed down with a bunch of metal chains.

"We have really been to this damn place, come and see it."While she was kneeling in front of the pile of rags to study, I walked around and soon saw several sets of messy footprints and a cigarette butt. This situation showed that we had been here more than once, and now we What she is doing is repeating the past. So the question is, what danger happened after that?

Feeling the murderous intention, I asked her to take care of herself before saying anything else, and followed the footprints towards the round pond. As the footsteps moved lightly, The mist fell backwards, chasing the place where the footprints disappeared, that is, the edge of the pool. I concentrated my mind and began to look around, and gradually I could make out the blur underneath. When I saw this clearly, I couldn't help but gasp, and instantly I was stunned on the spot!

So what is the scene at the bottom of the pool? In fact, it is a mudslide vortex, with accumulated and floating black mud, emitting some indescribable smell. The entire land is slowly rolling toward the center of the lake, and when it reaches the lake The heart spreads in all directions, in an endless cycle. Between the walls of the pool, there are various thorny shrubs, which seem to prevent people from going down the steep slope. These sights cannot make me speechless, and the most surprising thing is that in There was a blue object hanging in the mud near the center of the lake. It was not a monster, but a dead person. This guy was the blue female ghost that shuttled through the 0514 warehouse and caused trouble all year round!

Hearing the cry, Sister Di also quickly She came to stand next to her, walking without stumbling as much as I did. According to her, ever since she ate that suspicious berry, there has always been a light in front of her eyes to guide her like a beacon. I waved her hand to let her ignore these useless things., and to identify what is at the bottom of the pool. She asked me to step aside, got down on my knees, and began to look at it carefully.

After looking at it for a long time, she suddenly said:"It seems to be some kind of sacrifice. The purpose of this person is to come here.""

"How can you tell? You say yes?"Seeing her serious expression, I couldn't help but start to argue. I also lay down next to her and watched, and asked:"This woman has spent so much effort to come to this waterfall and drown herself in the lake. It's really amazing."

"Following a person's basic behavior, she would not cut off her arm unless absolutely necessary. There must be an extraordinary reason for her to do so. As for the sacrifice, it was a fact on the surface. The path into the mountain did not originally exist, but she made it through her own skills. She raised her head and happened to look into my eyes. She couldn't help but said angrily:"You should also look around, don't waste your time.""

"What are you looking for? The footprints disappeared when they got here, and there was nothing else to see." I shrugged, indicating that I was nowhere to be found

"Anything but footprints! Listen, you and I have never been here, but the traces of the last time remain. The biggest question now is, what happened when we got here in the past? In other words, when we saw our own footprints last time and again, we would have a premonition of danger and leave a mark to remind others who came after us."

"Great, why didn't I think of this?"I couldn't help but cheer up a little, and I started to take myself as the center of the circle, flipped it over on the ground and started searching carefully. From the reminder in the note to the berries blooming at the entrance of the cave, they were all like invisible spider threads guiding us. After all kinds of hardships, Afterwards, I naturally would not miss any detail, and the footprints are the best evidence.

Sure enough, in the mud four meters away from my ankles, I found another set of text, with only a few words and no subject, and the content was:.As for who it is, there is no explanation. I searched all the nearby areas and only found this

"Eh? It seems you were the one who left the message."Sister Di didn't know when she stood behind me and looked at me. She frowned and said,"My handwriting is very close to each other. It's obvious that the person who went down is referring to me. Of course there is a possibility that the two of them went down together."

"Never mind who left the message, why did you have to go down? What's the motivation for continuing?"

"I don’t understand this either, so why not try to clarify this matter from another angle."She helped me up and raised her finger towards the other side. The lake in front of me was an irregular oval, wide at one end and narrow at the other. Standing at the current position, the sight was completely covered with fog, and it was difficult to see clearly the appearance of the dead man in the center of the lake. Sister Di I suggest you take a detour to the other side, which is closer to the center of the lake. You may be able to understand this person’s intentions.

"I suspect that this woman is the mirror master."She started to take out cigarettes as she walked. When the box was brought up to her eyes, she found it was empty.

"Mirror Master? What the hell is this? Besides, you're a journalist, how come you don't know as much about these strange things as a detective?"I carried the half-smoked cigarette over and asked her not to throw away the cigarette case. She could also write after opening it. It was a scarce resource.

"In the process of reporting, you will come into contact with all kinds of people. Even if you don't meet them, you will hear and see some of them when the station sometimes conducts open-ended interviews. How I know this is not important, just the specific objects she left behind. She harvested a part of herself as a sacrifice, cut out her heart but was still able to get into the pool. This was unusual, so she was very similar to the Mirror Master's characteristics."

Through her introduction, I roughly understood the meaning. Mirror masters, also known as flag mirror masters, refer to a type of people who are rarely heard of and exist in real life. They are good at making keys to open various deliberately concealed illusions. And that kind of key is called a quality key. To put it bluntly, it is a part of one's own body. When the act of untying is completed, such a person can take it back completely and continue to live.

I shook my head repeatedly as I listened, thinking that you have such a bright future. A beautiful woman who can't do anything, but insists on believing all kinds of nonsense. The power of ignorance is beyond imagination. The reason why the detective is good at this is because he has been in this industry for a long time, and he can be regarded as an insider in the industry. Why are you just joining in the fun?

"Comparatively speaking, during the days when I lost my son, I couldn't muster the energy to do anything. I lay down all day long, and my career fell into troughs again and again. If you, an extremely important person, passed away, how would you heal the trauma? When I heard that there was a séance in a certain place, and there was a method of picking up souls, whether it was a scam or it was real, I started to contact spiritual mediums. This is how I heard about the mirror mirror master."

"Too."Looking back on my boyhood, I would feel uncomfortable for several months if a mouse I had been with day and night died, let alone a relative. I curled my lips, put my hands back in my trouser pockets, and asked,"What happened next?"

"I first heard about them because it is said that these people can let you reunite with your lost love through dreams. I have been in contact with more than ten people, and almost all of them are scammers, which makes me feel frustrated. Finally, I heard from knowledgeable people that real mirror masters disdain the world and don’t care about money and inducements. They pursue higher-end things, so they won’t show up casually and make a living by taking orders."

"Maybe someone in a certain world will know the details about this kind of thing."I answered casually

"And people are always like this. Even if they know that they can't be saved, no matter how hard they try, they will still exhaust all their efforts to find them. Not to mention relatives, even cats and dogs raised at home, this will probably happen. She seemed uninterested. She was just talking to herself and didn't listen at all. She said,"But why did this mirror master bother to break into this damn place and insist on going into the pool?" What is she pursuing? If you don't understand this, it's impossible to leave this place, it's like a switch!"

"Why do you say this?"After hearing the news, I couldn't help but tremble. Looking at the water jets splashing around, I asked

"It doesn't matter how many dreams you have experienced, five or seven. But every dream is like a piece put together by you and me, with a beginning and an end. No matter who completes the result, it has all been released, so we can meet again in the warehouse without repeating the cycle. The same is true here. You and I have to accomplish something before everything can end. She raised her head, punched me hard, and said,"In this case, maybe if this goes on, it is alluding to the process that you and I have to go through. Could it be that?" ah! I see!"

"What do you understand about you? The preface does not match the postscript!"I shuddered after being yelled like this.

"Come closer and take a closer look!"Sister Di couldn't help but hold my hand, pull it to the edge of the pool, point to the corpse floating in the mud, and said:"You can see more from this angle. It's not a simple liquid mud, it's more like a magic circle. , there is light under the soil! They all appeared in the shape of broken pieces!"

I wiped off the hot sweat and imitated her position of flattening my body against the edge of the pool. Sure enough, looking from this side, I could restore most of the female corpse. The blue color all over the body that was originally the most incomprehensible was actually the result of being soaked in water for a long time. The mud is covered with endless lichen, which seriously changes its nature. Even those like us who have just entered the cave are stained with bits and pieces of spores. This woman cut off her left arm before she died, and the wound is clearly visible. For some reason, the body was well preserved, as if it had just died. There was no trace of what happened so long ago. As for whether there was light underneath? I had never tasted the berries at the entrance of the cave. Looking around, I could only guess When I saw the thicker loose soil under the silt, it looked like a bowl of red bean porridge. It seemed not as mysterious as described.

"Or, should I go back to where I was and try swallowing a few fruits?"I couldn't help but want to get up, pointed to the distance, and asked

"It's not necessary, it's enough that I can see clearly. Our judgment was correct. She is indeed a famous mirror artist, a very powerful one. This man completed some kind of ritual in the corner, then took off his clothes and started to get into the pool. The hand and footprints reflected on the pool wall along the way looked like something had been punched through, with light shining from the inside out. She seemed to be planning to step into the light, but somehow she failed. She grabbed my arm and said,"Then the key will be sorted out.""

"Where did the key come from in the pool? How did you find it so small?"I searched for a long time and couldn't find what she was pointing to.

"She herself has turned into a key. The lake is like a huge door lock that needs to be opened by her, but she is blocked by something that prevents her from entering the lock cylinder. With such a deadlock, it would be strange if there were no problems in the 0514 warehouse."

Just at this time, a vague and strange sound began to come from the vast cave. It is difficult to describe the specific noise. It was a unique noise in extreme silence, just like the clicking sound next to people's ears in the dead of night. Not only did I sit He stood up and pushed her, looking around in horror.

"Could this be the sound of drumming that I often heard in the past? I pricked up my ears, listened carefully, and asked,"Or is it the heartbeat?""

"I didn't hear anything. Could it be your imagination?"Sister Di also frowned and listened carefully, asking

"Impossible, the sound kept coming and going, how could you not hear it?"The dull noise was accompanied by ripples and spread deep in the ear canal. I was sure it was just the two of us here, and this sound was like a dirty talk that only I could hear. I dug hard in the ear canal and saw Dixie blinking. , her lips opened and closed like a goldfish, but her voice could not be heard.

"What do you want to say?"I was searching in my mind to recall what Marlowe said about lip reading in the past, hoping to quickly understand what she meant! At this moment, my ears were shocked to the point of hearing loss, and I couldn't help but hug my head and roll to the ground..

The severed limbs of a female corpse not far away suddenly trembled, catching my attention. At first I thought it was my eyesight, but when I examined it carefully, I saw that the flag mirror master’s closed eyes suddenly opened. 8

: 30S

Path of the Dead prequel Wings of Silver root explanation:

Strange tree: Suspected to be humanoid.

Burns: Eagle County, Colorado.

Chuuk: Dixie's younger cousin, similar in age to Alex.

Luc Besson : French director.

Mirror Master: A special kind of person who is good at making keys.

Quality Key: The Mirror Master himself.

Single title: NoEscape