Chapter 232

"And ankel? Where did he go? "

Hoffa heard someone asking himself. He stopped meditating. It turned out that Aldo was awake, and now he was looking around by the fire.

"Look for him as soon as you wake up." "Is it safer to be with him than with us?" Hoffa quipped

Aldo: "he is such a person, there is no way."

"You sound like a wife who has been raped by her husband has to protect him afterwards." Hoffa was even more sarcastic. He glanced at Chloe and thought she would laugh. But she didn't. She just looked at them coldly and pointed to the cave on the ground. "No, your friend has gone in. If you want to find him, please help yourself."

Aldo had been looking inside the cave for a long time. "Is that what I imagined? Why don't I remember seeing such things... "

after staring at the dark tunnel for a long time, Aldo didn't plan to go in. He straightened up, took out some beans from his arms and baked them. He didn't know where the food came from. It might be military food or he made it out of thin air.

Hoffa then remembered that he had not eaten or drunk water for several days. But strangely, he didn't feel hungry or thirsty at all.

Baked beans, the air filled with a faint fragrance. Aldo turns around with the beans and comes to Chloe.

Chloe hugs his knee when he comes.

Aldo didn't do anything, but bowed his head in front of her: "when I was in that room, I really didn't expect you to help me."

His tone was sincere and apologetic.

Chloe shook his head. He didn't talk or look at him.

Aldo sighed. He knelt down on one knee and offered the beans. "I'm sorry about that, Miss lemme."

Does this guy have a conscience!? Hoffa was surprised. He didn't think Aldo was lying.

Pop!

The baked beans were suddenly scattered by Chloe, and several of them rolled to Hoffa's feet. He secretly picked up one and threw it into his mouth. There was no taste at all, as if he had lost his sense of taste.

"To help you is just what the gods ask of my life." Chloe said in disgust, "but personally, I will never forgive you for what you've done and for what you've done to the monastery."

Her voice was as cold as the cold wind. Aldo touched the ashes and sat back to the fire.

Hoffa, who chewed beans, raised his eyebrows. Even when Chloe was most angry, he didn't use this kind of disgusting and cold tone. This made him curious. Before the nun knew him, there seemed to be something unforgettable.

There was a slight shock in the cave.

He thought it was Aldo who woke up. The previous monster came back and put his ear on the wall behind him. In fact, it is not the case. The shock is small and almost impossible to check. It is totally different from the previous monster attack.

"Do you feel like the hole is getting smaller?" Chloe said suddenly.

As soon as the nun reminded him, Hoffa realized the problem. The area of the cave where I hide has shrunk by a fifth unconsciously. I can't see it if I don't look carefully.

"It's really getting smaller." Aldo also said.

The ground was shaken again.

Hoffa carefully looked at the ground lines illuminated by the fire, which were shrinking and wriggling under some force. The hole is getting smaller. It's like the stomach wall of some creature, pushing a little bit toward the middle.

At the beginning, the sign was still very weak, but after a while, the change became more and more intense. The decadent and old train car in the middle of the cave made a sour creak. It was being squeezed like a helpless tin can because of the shrinkage of the cave.

The three people in the cave are even more unbearable.

Aldo flustered said: "this is not my imagination, I swear, I live so big, never seen such a thing!"

"Don't make a noise!"

Hoffa stopped him.

His heart beat violently, and his eyes locked firmly on the dark hole in the ground.

The opening did not shrink.

Sure enough, he thought hatefully, if something is controlling this nightmare, it must want to let itself into this narrow tunnel leading to the unknown.

The locomotive was only one-third of the normal size. The situation did not allow the three people to hesitate too much. They hurriedly picked up a few torches and got into the tunnel.

As soon as I went in, the sound of squeezing outside was loud, and countless rusty screws and parts sprang down everywhere.

It is conceivable that if they come in a little later, they will be squeezed into meat sauce at the moment.

"Please stop imagining. Don't you think our situation is miserable enough?" The nun snapped at Aldo.

Aldo apologized. "I'm sorry, Miss LeMay. I'm trying not to think about it."

"Wait, are you afraid of the dark?" Hoffa asked.

"What?""Are you afraid of the dark?" I asked

"I'm not afraid," Aldo thought carefully. "I'm not afraid. I think the dark and narrow places can give me a sense of security."

"It's not his nightmare." Hoffa said to Chloe, "it's no use blaming him. The owner of the nightmare has changed."

"A change?"

"Yes, the content has completely changed. I think one of the four of us must be claustrophobic or naturally afraid of the dark. "

Chloe, "..."

"ankle." "It's ankel's nightmare," murmured Aldo. "No wonder he became very strange when he entered the cave."

"Do you know him well?" Hoffa asked Aldo.

"I'd rather not know." Aldo wry smile, "he used to call people, all day a look invincible, but he has magic time is really better than me, who knows he will be afraid of the dark."

After the nightmare of collapse, Aldo's attitude towards him has changed. Although he is not as respectful as Chloe, he can speak.

Hoffa: do you know the monsters that may appear in the dark

Aldo: "I don't think there will be monsters. Ankel never reads stories."

Hoffa: "during the conversation, the space on the top has been completely blocked. They have no choice but to go down.

Hoffa walked in the front with a torch. The light of the fire could not disperse the darkness, but could only light up the small part under his feet. He could hear some secret breath, but he was sure that it was not his own, nor Aldo and Chloe's, but it came from the wall, like a living creature.

Aldo was close to Chloe in the dark, as if trying to protect her. But Chloe didn't appreciate it. When Aldo held up the torch and walked beside her, she didn't look good at all.

She quickened her pace and came to Hoffa, feeling a little bit more secure, but the corridor was only one and a half people wide.

Hoffa: "don't squeeze me."

Chloe slowed down unhappily.

After walking for 30 minutes, there was no sign of the end of the corridor, and the dark environment did not change at all, as if they had been standing still.

Hoffa, who is at the front, stops.

"Are any of you afraid?" He asked.

"Who, I'm not afraid." Chloe said at once.

"And you?" He asked Aldo.

Aldo scratched his head. "I feel fine."

"That doesn't make sense. It's not a real physical corridor. Everything we experience is illusory, so there can't be any bottomless hole."

"But we've been walking."

Said Chloe.

"It's just that we feel like we've been walking all the time," Hoffa said. "In fact, we haven't made any progress. In the last dream, the more intense Aldo was, the more terrifying the dream was. Like creatures like Bogart, they look for our weaknesses and constantly change our shapes. If the mind is calm and static, the environment here will certainly change. So some of us must be afraid. "

They stopped talking, and Hoffa turned.

He held the torch and looked up at their faces. Aldo looked at him stupidly. His broad face was full of force.

He raised the torch in front of Chloe again and stared at her face.

At the beginning, Chloe bravely raised her head and looked into his eyes, but when she looked at him, her face turned red and her back slowly arched down, just like a frustrated ball.

"You're afraid."

He said firmly.

"Why don't you just ask others? Why don't you say you're afraid?" Chloe didn't want to yell.

"Because I know the unknown is nothing to be afraid of, it's all my imagination."

"Well said, do you know what's ahead?" Chloe got excited. "If we go further, we will be farther and farther away from the ground, in case we can never go back. If there is another big centipede in front of us... "

Hoffa:" human beings need emotional tension and catharsis to confirm their sense of existence. Among them, the oldest and strongest emotion is undoubtedly fear, fear and fear, and they are also deeply attracted by it.

It is undeniable that when you are afraid of the darkness, your heart is full of expectation. If not, you may even feel lost and disappointed... "

Chloe covers his ear:" stop, stop, stop! "

Hoffa: "so the way to stop fear is to stop expecting. Don't expect the world to give you more surprises. Accept the boring setting of the world, and you won't feel scared. "

Chloe couldn't stand it any more. She suddenly pressed Hoffa on the wall. "Don't be conceited. Hoffa Bach, can you?"As soon as she spoke, the walls of the corridor began to contract. The stone walls on both sides pressed rapidly towards the middle.

Chloe grabbed Hoffa by the collar and yelled at him, "look! Your words worked. It's not as good as just now! Just now it was black, but now it's deadly! "

Hoffa's face is not good-looking. He didn't expect to change so fast. If he died in a nightmare, would he wake up or die?

He didn't know and didn't dare to gamble.

Aldo pulled Chloe off Hoffa. "Stop it, Miss lemme. It's important to find the way out."

Chloe throws away Aldo and runs to the front. Hoffa chases after them. The passage became narrower and narrower, from two to one, from one to half.

The three were originally facing forward, but later they could only walk sideways. Soon, they were stuck to the inner wall of the passage, and they couldn't move. The cold inner wall was constantly creeping, which brought people a sense of suffocation.

Hoffa was squeezed on the wall like a meat pie, and his consciousness was blurred. In a daze, he suddenly thought that if the magic was still there, maybe he could become an insect, but it was a pity that...

just when the passage narrowed to the limit, it suddenly opened again and changed back to the original. Almost suffocated three people all lie on the ground, panting and coughing.

Life shouldn't be lost, Hoffa thought. He stumbled forward. There is a bright light in front, which constantly changes the shape, sometimes big, sometimes small, sometimes closed, sometimes appear.

Running to the bright spot, he looked up.

As a result, I saw a row of square teeth. Each tooth was as big as its own head. When I looked down, I saw a creeping red carpet under my feet.

Teeth!

Tongue!

Mouth!?

He was stunned.

Did you just find yourself in the belly of some creature!?

Too late to think, seeing their mouth closed again, the three of them rushed out, squeezed out from the creature's teeth and fell to the ground.

Countless huge stone pillars are burning braziers, and the whole world is dazzling. Finally, standing on the solid ground, they were shocked by the scene in front of them before they could feel their own experience.

In the light of the sky fire.

In front of him was a giant with a height of 100 meters. He was covered with blood, his arm was broken, and his body was full of broken wounds. But you can see some of the original appearance.

It's ankel.

There's been an amazing reversal in their ratio, and it's coming out of ankel's mouth. It turned out that his intestines and throat were the ground that had just contracted and wriggled.

At the moment, ankel is holding a broken arm that has no hand, and gnawing at it. When he sees three people on the ground like ants, he throws away the broken arm, bends down and looks at them with interest.