Shadow Code

" "Skin?" I don't know why, but the moment I heard the word 'skin', I couldn't help but think back to a few days ago when that Mountain Demon had gone to the shop to give me a piece of skin. That piece of skin was about the same size as the piece of cloth I had just used, but that piece of skin was lost on the way back, and I didn't have much impression of it. Otherwise, I would have thought of the piece of skin and not the piece of cloth.

"Could it be the one you lost?" the pockmark asked.

"Hard to say, like!"

" If it's the one you lost, that's also true. Maybe the other party is just borrowing it, and after using it, he'll return it to you this way! "

"I'm the opposite of what you think. If you're an acquaintance, you can just say so. If you're a stranger, then what's the difference between borrowing secretly and stealing? Why do you need to return it to me after stealing it?"

" Maybe the other party just doesn't want to make things difficult for him. Maybe the other party isn't a stranger, and isn't an acquaintance either! "

"Damn, you speak as if you are that person. Don't tell me you are the most familiar stranger?"

"Why must it be for me, or maybe for you?"

" Someone sent Mountain Demon all the way to the shop to give you a piece of leather. You think no one will give you another piece in the middle of the night because I don't think this leather is for me! "

"I don't think it's a problem with the leggings. It's been a long way. The animals seem to have disappeared!"

"That's true, but if no animals come out, there must be something more dangerous. We have to be extra careful!"

"What could cause all the animals in the forest to run away?"

" You know, humans are the spirits of all living things, and are indeed very clever, but did you realize, people's progress in being close to nature is far inferior to that of animals, or it could be said that people's ability to sense nature is far worse than that of animals, or else, before the earthquake, animals would react to everything, and people would just not know, this time, there's nothing in the forest. The pockmarks held onto my leggings, hesitating whether I should tie them up or not. In the end, they still tied them up, and passed them to me, indicating that I should also tie them up.

" It doesn't seem right, pockmarked! "

" "What's wrong?"

"We arrived at the cabin in the evening yesterday, right?"

" "Nonsense!"

"Do you remember when we were walking toward the cabin, we were facing the sun, that is to say, we came from the east side of the cabin, and this would be in the morning, why is the sun still in the west?"

I told him about the instantaneous analysis in my head.

"Ma Zi, tell me, this wooden house isn't equipped with wheels, how could it be moved?"

"Wait a minute, it's easy for your thoughts to lead people into the ditch. Could it be that this isn't a morning, and it's just another evening?"

"What the hell, you can't be. According to what you said, we slept for a night and a day, and woke up in the second evening? "That's impossible, I didn't sleep well last night, I only wanted to sleep when the sun is about to up!"

" However, according to what you said, it is impossible for the wooden house to be moved. You should know that even if the wooden house could be moved, the kang and water vats inside would not have been moved! "

" Yeah, we were lying on the brick bed for the whole night. Whoever has the f * cking capability wouldn't be able to move the brick bed. That's even more impossible! Even if my eyes are wrong, the sun won't be wrong! "

"San-zi, San-zi, I think I agree with what you said. Say, do you think our eyes will lie to us?"

Let's not talk about that, pockmarks. If we continue analyzing like this, I won't even recognize myself anymore. Yesterday, didn't we see that the tree had become a living thing and the grass had become a living thing? Here, maybe, maybe, we really can't believe our eyes!

" If I find your corpse later, it won't be safe for one day. Fortunately, it's this season, and it won't rot so quickly, and the forest is so nefarious that there aren't even any grasshoppers. Otherwise, it's very possible that I would be torn apart by wild wolves! "

" "It's not really me, what's there to be afraid of? Why don't we do it this way? If the direction of the wooden house isn't right, we can talk about it later. This time, let's hurry up and find yesterday's route and follow it. First, we'll go to the cave and look for my corpse!"

" Yes, but there is one thing, the house is not in the right direction, if there is one possibility, it will be evening, and we will be passing by the place I mentioned before. In that place, there is a taboo, we can't leave at night, how about we avoid breaking the path and coming to the house for the night first, then, tell me, if that is possible, what should we do? "

" At least we know the time, the day and night, f * ck you, who knows if we can still be confused by this, but, I bet you don't care about the evening, life is certain, we're just looking for yesterday's road, let's go, I remember yesterday when I stepped on the insole and walked out of the grass, I casually threw a insole away, if we could find a insole, that's right! "

" "Then look for it!"

" "It's not hard to tell if it's morning or evening. Wait, when the sun turns high it will be noon, then it will be morning, and if the sun goes down it will be evening, and it will be evening!"

" San-zi, I keep having the feeling that someone is messing with us, you want to go to the cave, we have to pass through Blackwater Cliff, that place is the only way to go to the cave, that place is the most dangerous place, and if you want to say safe, that place is absolutely safe, because as long as you promise to leave during the day, that is fine, but, as long as you don't go out during the day, and stay at night wherever you go, then even god will not be able to keep you alive.

" Didn't I say to wait and see, at worst, we can just leave at noon, and hurry up! "

" If we leave at noon, I can't really guarantee that we'll have sufficient time.

" "Why don't we stay up for one more night? We won't be sleeping tonight, we'll be waiting for the morning!"

" "I'm just afraid that we'll wake up after a night. It's the same situation as today, and it's not that we want to sleep, but that this might be a trap. If we can't break it, we'll never find the morning!"