72 Who is it?

◎Come down, come down◎

Are they back again?

"What's going on?" Shen Jia murmured in surprise. They were clearly walking in a straight line, and the road beneath their feet was getting noticeably steeper. This meant they were always moving towards the top of the mountain. Even if they walked slowly and accidentally took the wrong path along the way, judging from the feel of their feet, there was no way they could return to their starting point.

She looked around in a panic, trying to find some clues to verify that this was not the hillside she had just been to, but the marks they had made not long ago were still clearly engraved on the tree trunk, forcing her to face reality.

“…”

This is the hillside we were just seeing.

Strangely enough, they came back.

"Sister Yang!" As the team leader, the most stable and experienced, Sister Yang was always the one everyone depended on. The NPCs looked at her with pale faces, asking in panic, "Are we stuck in a maze?"

"I'm not sure yet." Sister Yang lowered her eyes silently. This journey was really too evil, so evil that so many things happened one after another before they even entered the tomb.

Sister Yang also felt a little panic about this, but there were so many team members behind her. If even she was knocked down, the entire team would surely collapse.

She could only do her best to calm herself down and come up with a half-decent excuse: "I think it might be that we were all too tired and too hungry, coupled with the bad weather, that this is why I'm hallucinating."

But obviously, this reason doesn't stand up to scrutiny: "Hallucination?"

The NPCs disagreed with her statement: "How could so many of us have the same hallucination?"

"There's something in this mountain. I bet it's responsible for everything that happened before! It wants to kill us, that's for sure!"

"What should we do?" Until this moment, the NPCs finally had the idea of giving up. Various changes destroyed their already uneasy mood. If they had given up moving forward and knew how to cut losses in time, perhaps such a thing would not have happened.

There is no more time for them to change direction and try to explore again. Since the way forward is blocked, what about turning back?

Isn't it...they can stay away from danger and return home safely.

Unconsciously, all the NPCs shifted their gaze and stared silently at the hillside below. They found that fog had formed under their feet when no one noticed. The fog was extremely thick and happened to gather in the middle of the hillside, making it impossible to see the situation behind the fog.

But I figured it shouldn't be a big deal. From my memory, the slope wasn't very high, so even if I fell, I wouldn't be seriously injured. Once the thought came to me, my desire to act on it grew stronger. I swallowed hard and said, "Why don't we just go back?"

His words were echoed by the other NPCs, and more and more people chimed in: "I think so too."

"Everything has gone wrong along the way. I guess this mountain doesn't welcome us. If we continue to move forward, who knows what will happen next."

"Don't you want the treasure anymore?" Sister Yang said with some regret.

Shen Jia bit her lip and said, "I do, but in this situation, I'm afraid everyone will meet with misfortune before we find the treasure. Rather than being wiped out and dying here, it's better to give up for now."

"Sister Yang, let's go back."

That's all we can do.

There are very few records about Musoğlu on the Internet. The previous information and documents were collected by Sister Yang after a long time of research, but now it seems that this preparation is obviously not enough.

After a while, Sister Yang nodded and agreed with everyone's decision: "Okay."

"Then who of us goes down first?" she asked afterwards.

"I was the one who suggested turning back, so I'll go first." Dali raised his hand. He was the tallest and strongest in the team, so if he really got a few minor injuries, it wouldn't be a big deal. "I'll call you when I get down there. You can go down when there's no danger."

"Okay." Sister Yang nodded, "Be careful."

"Wait." When several people were talking, Qi Qiuxue suddenly opened her mouth to stop them.

Dali turned to look at her, confused: "What's wrong?"

"To be on the safe side, be prepared before going down." The dangers within the dungeon were far beyond imagination. The moment Qi Qiuxue saw the thick fog, she instinctively sensed something was amiss. "Liu Ge."

"Yes." Liu Ge understood what she meant and immediately took out a weapon from his backpack, switching the chain blade to chain mode. "Tie this chain around your waist. If anything goes wrong when you go down, tell me and I'll pull you up right away."

"?" Dali was quite surprised to see the chain in Liu Ge's hand. "Where did you get such a big chain?"

"Why so much talk?" Liu Ge was too lazy to explain to him. He swung the chain forward and tied the other person up tightly.

Dali lowered his eyes and pulled the chain, which was tight. This gave him more courage and confidence. He walked to the front of the hillside, bent down and climbed down silently.

In a moment, he passed through the thick fog and was then covered by it.

Gradually, the crowd could no longer see his figure or hear the sound of him climbing. They could only see that the chain in Liu Ge's hand was getting longer and longer, extending downwards.

Is it that deep? The terrain here isn't that high compared to the slope below, right?

"Dali, Dali!" Xiao Liu, who had been living with him, was a little panicked. He knelt in the snow, lowered his head, and shouted his name loudly, but no matter how he called, he never got any response.

"Keep your voice down." Liu Ge warned. Shouting in the snowy mountains was not a good idea. "Be careful not to cause an avalanche."

After he finished speaking, before Xiao Liu could say anything else, Liu Ge suddenly felt the pulling sensation on the other end of the chain disappear abruptly: "Wait, it seems he has successfully landed."

"Really?" Xiao Liu breathed a sigh of relief. "This bastard, is he trying to scare me on purpose?"

"Da Li!" He controlled his voice and called out the other person's name again, "How's it going down there? Is it safe?"

"...Safe." A few seconds later, Dali's voice came slowly, but for some reason, it seemed to lack the excitement just now and sounded very dull.

But Xiao Liu didn't notice anything wrong and was still resentful of the other party's silence. "Why didn't you pay attention to me just now? Wait, I'm going to come down and settle the score with you!"

"Come quickly." After he finished speaking, Dali's voice came again, still calm and without emotion.

Even Xiao Liu noticed something was amiss, but he didn't think much of it. He just said, "Still pretending to be profound. Wait for me..."

"Don't move!" Qi Qiuxue stopped him with a firm tone.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Liu looked over, somewhat puzzled.

Qi Qiuxue looked at Liu Ge again: "Try to pull the chain back."

"Okay." Liu Ge nodded and tentatively pulled the chain back. This time was different from before and it was obviously a bit difficult.

But Qi Qiuxue didn't stop, so Liu Ge continued to recover. Gradually, as she moved, a clear sound suddenly came from the bottom of the slope.

——It sounded like something heavy being dragged along the ground.

broken.

Qi Qiuxue's face changed, and she walked directly to Liu Ge and pulled the chain back with her. Seeing this, the others hurried to follow. Everyone worked together to pull back the force that had just gone down.

"What's wrong? It's safe down there."

"Don't you want to go home? Come down quickly."

"Come down, come down."

Dali's calm yet eerie voice came from behind the fog, which made people feel creepy. Everyone was scared, but they didn't dare to stop what they were doing. Gradually, they saw Dali's feet, legs, waist, chest, shoulders, and hair.

He was hung upside down and pulled up face down.

As if he had lost consciousness, when Liu Ge retracted the chain, Dali still maintained the posture he had just been pulled up, burying his head deeply in the snow, as if he could not feel the slightest bit of coolness.

"Dali, what's wrong with you?" Xiao Liu quickly stepped forward and turned him over. The moment he saw Dali's face, he fell to the ground with his mouth wide open.

"What..." The other NPCs who arrived one after another were all stunned, with expressions of fear and despair on everyone's face. Seeing this, Qi Qiuxue frowned, squatted down and put his index finger close to his nose to test his breath.

Dali is dead.

His body was stiff, his breathing was stagnant, his face was expressionless, his lips were tightly closed and his eye sockets were empty. Like Wang Qiang, his eyeballs had been gouged out by something in that extremely short period of time, and several strings of frozen blood hung on his cheeks.

"How could this happen? How could this happen..." Xiao Liu was shaking like a sieve. This sight was a huge blow to him. "Da Li is actually dead. How could he die so suddenly?!"

"Who dug out his eyeballs? Who wanted to kill him!" His mind was in a mess. In extreme panic, he felt like vomiting, but there was no food in his stomach that had been hungry for a long time. Xiao Liu could only bend over helplessly and retch again and again.

But this is not the most terrible thing.

Qi Qiuxue silently stared at the thick fog beneath her feet, her voice soft, "Having his eyeballs gouged out must have been incredibly painful. In what state did he die? Why haven't we felt him struggle, or even heard a single wail?"

"It would be too difficult to attack while we are pulling it upwards. The most convenient time to attack is after it lands."

"But if his eyes were gouged out and he died miserably at that time, then who was it that kept responding to us afterwards?"

【Author’s words】

I'm so busy today that I failed to update twice a day. I'll give you guys a little red envelope in the comment section of this chapter instead. I'll give it to you guys when I update tomorrow. Hug you all~

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