The dinner table was silent. I looked at Poker-Face. The rain outside had stopped, so he withdrew his gaze from the window and looked at us.
To be honest, I was a little hungry.
I didn't think they had interacted before going to Thunder City. But I had also never asked and they didn't ntion it. I couldnt help wondering if they didn't find anything useful in the end, so the both of them were too embarrassed to ntion it.
The younger ones were already hungry and their eyes were looking around greedily. This was fate. If you wanted to embarrass anyone in this world, there would be so things that would co back to bite you in the ass. Xiao Hua waved his hand for the food to finally be served. I figured a lot of dishes had been cooked and were being kept warm, so they would be served one by one shortly.
We all looked at Black Glasses. Before he continued speaking, he opened a bottle of beer and poured it for himself, "The two of us went a little deeper. I wont talk about the specific process, but he helped get the thing off of my back."
"How?" I asked.
"By listening to thunder." Black Glasses glanced at Poker-Face, as if asking for his permission to continue.
When Poker-Face nodded, I imdiately frowned. Hmm, thats interesting. The two of them have to get permission from each other to talk about these things.
Black Glasses took a sip of beer and kept talking.
The two of them stayed on the riverbank for a long ti. Black Glasses was almost completely blind by this point and only had a little bit of light perception left.
Poker-Face was sitting opposite him, surrounded by the sll of fried shellfish.
"If you leave, be sure to squeak." Black Glasses said to the darkness in front of him.
"Will your eyesight recover?"
"I dont know. Based on past experience, if I keep my head down and stay still, my eyesight may be able to slowly recover," Black Glasses said. "Can you swim against the current here?"
Poker-Face didn't answer him, but Black Glasses felt as if he ca to stand in front of him and put his hand on his neck.
Warmno, it was hotblood ran down his neck. This was the residual blood from Poker-Face's hand wound just now. He knew that it was harder for this man's blood to coagulate compared to normal people.
"Can you also cure cervical spondylosis? Youre stealing this blind mans job." (1)
"No."
"Can you see whats behind ?"
"I can feel it."
Black Glasses sighed, "Do you think its afraid of you?"
There was a mont of silence, and then Poker-Face said, "Its not afraid."
"Then go, Black Glasses said. This is between and it."
No sooner had he spoken than a strange sound ca from the depths of the underground river.
Black Glasses concentrated on the sound, which ca in bursts one right after another. He realized that it was thunder. It was raining again.
How could they hear thunder when they were in an underground river?
"Mute.." his voice trailed off as he heard the sound of soone entering the water. The words, go and take a look" got stuck in his throat. He laughed and felt around him. Food and weapons were all within easy reach, and there was also a can of beer.
He picked it up, opened it, and took a sip.
To make a long story short, Black Glasses mustve felt very comfortable now that he had beer in the underground river. But that isnt important. Poker-Face soon swam back, ca out of the water, and grabbed Black Glasses.
"What's going on?" Black Glasses asked. He couldn't see anything, so he didnt know what the current situation was.
"Its thundering. Everything in the water has co out, and theres a riverbed downstream with bronze devices for listening to the thunder," Poker-Face said in his heart. In fact, Poker-Face didnt say anything at all and just dragged him into the water so that they could float downstream. But for the convenience of understanding, Black Glasses told us what he thought Poker-Face was thinking "in his heart" at that ti.
The two people drifted down along the current and soon ca to the next beach. At the mont they ca out of the water, a huge clap of thunder just so happened to sound.
Thunder in the underground river definitely couldnt described as thunder. If anything, it was more like an earthquake. The whole ground was shaking and Black Glasses felt a rush of air billow out.
In an instant, his eyes could see things again. The immortal thing on his back appeared to have been shaken off by the loud sound.
But as soon as the noise stopped, he was blind again.
Then, there was another clap of thunder and he could see things before his eyes. This ti, it was like he could see the sound coming towards him with the naked eye. He also saw a huge bronze implent hanging upside down in the rock stratum above the underground river.
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TN Notes:
(1) Cervical spondylosis is a general term for age-related wear and tear affecting the spinal disks in your neck. In so Asian countries, massage therapy is a natural career path for visually impaired people, so thats why Black Glasses said Poker-Face would steal his job.
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