Chapter 75 Little Yellow Flowers on the Green Wall

After walking forward for an hour, a corridor appeared on each of the two green walls on the left and right.

The crowd was at the intersection of four forked roads, with deep and bottomless corridors in front, behind, left and right.

Li Dong asked, "My urine is splitting again. Brothers, should we go left or right?"

Ji Ranzi: "What if these forks are there to confuse us? That would be the path to this maze. The path we've been taking doesn't go back, so I think we should just keep going forward."

"I also think it's better to move forward, Brother He, what do you think?" Xie Liang said.

"Well, go forward." Xu He's voice was light.

After walking for more than an hour, the soil on the ground became even wetter.

The mud is hard when you first step on it, but it will become soft after you stand on it for a long time, causing your shoes to sink into the mud.

"What the hell is this place? It's like stepping on someone's belly. Look, it's quite elastic." Li Dong said as he jumped up on the mud.

"Non-Newtonian fluid." Xie Liang said.

"Brother Liang is Brother Liang, he knows everything, but how is it related to cows?" Li Dong stopped talking.

"Don't stop, get moving," Xie Liang said, reaching out to pull Li Dong, urging him to move quickly. "This mud is just like the quicksand just now. People can't stay in it. If they stop, they will keep sinking into the mud!"

"This maze is much more complicated than I imagined. Let's hurry up and get through this section first." Ji Ranzi said.

I don’t know how long I walked, but the sky began to darken, and the liquid-like mud gradually turned into ordinary wet grass. The dense short grass covered the wet mud underground tightly.

Xie Liang looked at his watch. It was already past six in the afternoon. The sky was getting even grayer, and the air was filled with mist. It was starting to fog up.

"I've been walking for so long, I don't even know where I'm going." Ji Ranzi said.

Xu He looked towards the top of the green wall and said coldly to them, "I'll go up and take a look."

He drew out the black sword, climbed the vines on the wall with one hand, and inserted the sword blade into the wall with the other hand. Soon he climbed to the top of the wall.

With his previous experience, he quickly looked around after reaching the top of the wall, and while the lizard monster in the distance on the top of the wall had not yet reacted, he grabbed the vine and jumped down.

They had already gotten quite close to the center of the maze, but Xu He still couldn't see any special area, and it seemed like they still had a long way to go.

The fog gradually thickened, and I couldn't see anything more than one meter away, and the night gradually darkened.

Several people walked forward with flashlights, preparing to find a dry ground to rest for a while.

In the foggy corridor, a woman's cry for help could be faintly heard. Her voice was hoarse, as if she had been shouting for a long time.

"Did you hear that?" Xie Liang asked.

"What's wrong? What did you hear?" Li Dong asked.

Xie Liang stopped and said, "Someone is calling for help, listen carefully."

"It's true! It sounds quite scary, and with the fog, it's almost like a horror movie." Li Dong said.

After walking for more than ten minutes, a new corridor appeared on the left side of the green wall. Xie Liang shone his flashlight inside, but it was shrouded in a thick white fog, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

"Brother Liang! The sound seems to come from here. Do you want to go in and take a look?" Li Dong said.

"I'm fine with either. You guys decide." Ji Ranzi said.

For some reason, Xie Liang always felt that there was something wrong with the cry for help, but he couldn't pretend not to hear it, so he had to bite the bullet and walk in.

Xu He walked beside him, and Li Dong and Ji Ranzi followed behind.

The cries for help became clearer and hoarser.

After walking for a few minutes, Xie Liang could feel that the "woman" was right in front of him.

Sure enough, when the flashlight swept over, a black shadow vaguely appeared in the fog in front of him, sitting on the grass.

Xie Liang took out the bottle of maze supply water from his bag and quickened his pace towards the figure.

The moment he saw the figure clearly, he was so scared that he shouted, "Don't come over! It's a lizard monster! Run!"

"Xiaoliang!" Xu He hurriedly took his sword and rushed towards the shadow.

The lizard monster with a human head pounced on Xie Liang with a grin on its face. Xie Liang hurriedly stuffed the glass water bottle in his hand into its gaping mouth, turned around and ran behind him.

The lizard monster bit the water bottle into pieces and spat out the glass shards.

Just as its claws were about to grab Xie Liang, Xu He rushed forward and swung his sword to chop off one of its upper limbs.

The lizard monster roared in pain, and rustling sounds began to be heard on the tops of the green walls on both sides.

"It's calling its own kind! Let's run!" Ji Ranzi shouted.

At this moment, several lizard monsters jumped down from the top of the wall, surrounded them, and pounced on them with their mouths grinning.

Xu He raised his sword and stabbed at the lizard monster's eyes: "Focus on the eyes."

The four of them stood back to back in a circle, fighting while retreating, specifically aiming at the lizard monster's eyes.

The blinded lizard monster's movements gradually slowed down. Xie Liang and his group took the opportunity to break through the encirclement and ran towards the entrance of the tunnel they came in from.

Fortunately, the fog was very thick at that time, and nothing could be seen beyond half a meter. Whether the lizard monsters were blind or not, their movements slowed down, and they relied entirely on sound to track them.

When the blind lizard monsters caught up with them, they would not be discovered as long as they did not make any noise. But when the non-blind ones caught up with them, they had to stop and find a way to blind them.

"Ah!" Ji Ranzi's scream suddenly rang out.

The lizard monsters around who heard the sound immediately pounced towards her. Xie Liang quickly reached out and grabbed her coat, pulling her towards him.

Xie Liang covered her mouth with his hand, signaling her not to speak. Seeing her nod, Xie Liang let go of his hand.

After fighting and running for a long time, none of them saw the entrance they came from.

At this moment, two forks in the road suddenly appeared on both sides, one on the left and one on the right.

Everyone was very tired and had no time to think about it, so they entered one of the corridors.

After they entered, the green wall began to move again and the entrance gradually closed.

That day, the ground of the corridor was covered with dense short grass, and the vines on the wall were hung with small yellow flower buds. The white fog was thick, and the flashlight could only see a vast expanse of white.

"Hiss." Ji Ranzi let out a low cry.

"Beauty, are you okay? Are you injured?" Li Dong asked.

"I have disinfectant and bandages here." Xie Liang said as he rummaged through his bag.

The lizard monster bit a bloody hole in the sleeve of Ji Ranzi's leather jacket, and a large piece of flesh on her arm was also bitten off.

Seeing that she couldn't treat the wound with one hand, Xie Liang asked Li Dong to help with a flashlight so that he could free up his hands to help her treat the wound.

"Will they follow us following the smell of blood? A lot of my blood has flowed onto the ground. Let's move forward a little and wait for the fog to clear before finding an exit." Ji Ranzi said while enduring the pain.

"Well, let's move forward a little." Xie Liang said.

Not long after walking, another fork in the road appeared.

Everyone unanimously decided to go in and rest first, and then see which way to go after the fog cleared.

They sat cross-legged on the ground beside the green wall of the corridor, took out their apples and started eating.

"What a pity for my bottle of water." Xie Liang said while eating an apple.

Li Dong handed the water to Xie Liang and said generously: "Here! What's mine is yours, drink mine!"

"I'm not thirsty yet. Brother He's water is still in my bag. I just feel a little bit disappointed."

"It's nothing to regret. Let's take turns to take a nap." Li Dong said as he ate the rest of the apple in big mouthfuls.

As the night deepened, the fog grew thicker.

No one noticed that the small yellow buds on the vines on the green wall were gradually blooming.

Xie Liang remembered that he fell asleep leaning on Xu He's shoulder, but when he woke up, he found that he was the only one left in the corridor - where did the three of them go?

He walked forward a few steps and found a fork in the road.

Did they come in here? Thinking of this, Xie Liang walked in.

As soon as he entered, Xie Liang was grabbed by the neck by a lizard monster that suddenly jumped out.

He struggled to grab the lizard monster's neck. Just when he thought he was about to suffocate to death, Xu He's voice came to his ears:

"Xiaoliang, Xiaoliang...let go."

There was also Li Dong's voice: "Ah! Brother Liang...quick...let...let go..." It sounded like he was in pain.

At this moment, Xie Liang felt a chill on his head. After a shudder, he found himself still sitting in the same position as before he fell asleep, with both hands tightly pinching Li Dong's neck!

"Wow!" Xie Liang quickly let go of his hand and asked in shock, "What's going on?"

"Brother Liang..." Li Dong covered his neck with his hands and gasped, "Your grip is really strong. You almost strangled me... Fortunately, the beauty was in time... and sprinkled some water on your forehead in time."

Xie Liang only then realized that there were still drops of water on the ends of his hair on his forehead, and Xu He was wiping them off for him with a handkerchief.

"I had a dream. A lizard monster pounced on me. It pinched my neck and I pinched its neck. Then I heard Brother He calling me and your voice, and then I woke up." Xie Liang said to Li Dong.

Ji Ranzi pointed at Xu He with her uninjured hand and said, "I was pinching him just now, and he pried my hand apart, and I woke up." Then she pointed at Li Dong, "I woke up and saw you two pinching each other, and then he pried Li Dong's hand apart. This handsome guy has really strong hands."

"Fuck, no wonder my hands hurt so much. Brother He treats me differently. Is this the difference between a wife and a concubine?" Li Dong complained.

Ji Ranzi laughed: "So I am also a concubine? Even a beautiful injured woman like me doesn't get this treatment. Oh, I feel heartbroken again... I was planning to go out and pursue Xie Liang."

Upon hearing this, Xu He looked at her with a gloomy expression.

Ji Ranzi curled her lips and changed the subject: "Fortunately, someone is keeping watch, otherwise we would have strangled each other to death. There is something wrong with this corridor, everyone be careful."

Xu He stood up, plucked a small yellow flower from the vine on the green wall, squatted in front of Xie Liang, and whispered, "There's something wrong with the pollen."

Li Dong stood up angrily: "It's really hard to guard against! What should we do? Should we stay here?"

"There are flowers like this everywhere here. Did we take the wrong road?" Ji Ranzi asked.

"We don't know which path is the right one, as long as we walk towards the center of the maze. The fog is so thick that we can't see the position clearly even if we reach the top of the wall. Let's stay here and wait for the fog to clear." Xie Liang said.

Ji Ranzi looked at the wall of small yellow flowers behind her and said, "I feel uncomfortable when I think about having to stay with these terrible flowers for so long."

"As long as we don't sleep, it should be fine." Xie Liang said.

A few people sat back in their original places, chatting casually, waiting for the white mist in front of them to dissipate.