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There were two beeps in the earphones, and since I was feeling guilty and didn't say anything, he continued to ask, "Xu Ranxing?"
There is a famous saying in this world: When the divine beast is silent, it must be causing trouble.
So embarrassing, I am that naughty kid.
People who had a lively childhood like mine must have had rich experience. They know that once they are called by their full names at home, mixed doubles will follow. Our family is relatively democratic, and my parents never believe in corporal punishment. So, my brother was the one who was responsible for beating me up.
In an instant, the memory of ghosts howling and wolves howling came to my mind, and I reflexively felt the back of my neck tighten and my buttocks felt a little cold.
But I couldn't run away at this time, so I immediately changed the subject and asked him where he was and what the situation was.
This trick always works. The other end probably sighed and said, "I'm fine. I'm separated from you by a wall. I can't see clearly without a light. But I can vaguely see your light when I look up from here."
I felt relieved, not forgetting that there were still people trapped here, so I asked him how Gao Liu was and whether he was also nearby.
"Well, don't worry, we didn't get lost. We're only a few steps away from me now."
At this point, the words suddenly became as vague as squeezing toothpaste. I was a little confused, but then I thought about it and remembered that Zhang Tianyi didn't want to contact other people. Gao Liu's situation was probably the same as mine, and he was also blocked somewhere.
My brother probably didn't communicate with her, but just silently paid attention to her movements.
That's fine, I'm confident in Gao Liu's skills. As long as nothing goes wrong, the three of us will be able to reunite sooner or later.
However, no matter how much you worry about it, the most urgent thing is to observe it quickly to find out what the structure is.
I held my breath, prepared to be startled at any moment, said something to him, and then carefully swept the miner's lamp out horizontally.
As the light reached, the first thing I saw was the full view of the green stone wall behind the old female corpse.
I call it a "stone wall" because most of the old man's body is sunk into it, and the interface between people and objects is like hot amber that has been cut open and has not yet completely solidified. The sticky green color is about to fall off, spreading out in dots and covering the entire surface. Looking at it as a whole, the most accurate description I can find is a melting stone wall.
A stone wall, a human body half sunk in, this scene aroused some kind of discomfort that was hard to describe. Especially since the body seemed to have been drained of water and blood, it made me feel a little creepy.
The first thing that came to my mind was the stone walls and the green color surging above my head. Is this how people are drained and filled up?
Why are there long-dried and solidified blood mists, sticky blood mists, and fresh blood mists? Does this thing still classify blood mists into wet and dry? Where does the fresh prey come from? Did it just eat? Who did it eat?
When I thought of the swollen corpses floating upright on the upper layer of the lake, and the tree roots that were tangled like a tangled web and connected to the human body, my scalp started to numb. I thought to myself, this is a buffet. This thing is like having a feast in the middle of a conveyor belt sushi, sucking to your heart's content with a straw.
The more I thought about it, the creepier it became. I looked carefully and confirmed that the old man would not get up again to greet me. Only with great difficulty did I convince myself to turn around and look somewhere else.
"Brother," I looked around and complained, and found that my faint voice in the silence was more frightening than a corpse, "There is a dead person here."
The person on the other end probably didn't know what to say to me regarding such a nonsensical topic, so he just tapped the earphones to get me to concentrate.
I continued to look to the right, and it was still the same green color, but now I found that the structure here seemed a bit strange.
Well, if this is a strange house, then the basic structure of the house is still similar. For example, even if there are no load-bearing walls, there should be some load-bearing pillars at a certain distance.
If this is a giant creature, regardless of how big it can be, whether the environment of a lake, including oxygen, water pressure, food, etc., can keep it alive, we should also be able to see some of its organs.
At least, there should be gills and a filter, right?
But as the lights passed by, the left and right sides were very narrow, while the front and back were very wide, like a plain with no visible boundaries, without any support. It was like... like a streamer magnified countless times.
No, the streamers are probably not that regular. The narrowness on the left and right is very stable. I measured it with my arm's length and walked forward for about five minutes, and found that at least the width did not change at all. This made this thing, which I thought might be an animal or a plant, have a hint of artificiality.
The surroundings were very stable, and there was no sign of drifting or paddling. If I hadn't been chasing that blue dot before, I would never have imagined that this place was constantly diving.
Also, the faint air current that had caught my attention earlier has now disappeared without a trace.
However, apart from the suspicious old man, there is no danger here at the moment. I gradually relaxed, but I was more confused and puzzled.
I continued to move forward. At this time, the accumulated water had almost disappeared. I lowered my head and saw that only some moisture remained under my feet, but it was not transparent, revealing a blue and gray base.
No. I stopped for a moment. How on earth could Zhang Tianyi see the light from below through such a partition?
"elder brother?"
I immediately called out into the headset, and his reply was a little slow and not very clear. "Yeah, I'm here."
The voice was still familiar, but I was already a little suspicious. I always felt that it sounded unnatural, so I subconsciously asked, "Do you still remember the body just now? I don't think it's right."
The person on the other end of the headset didn't seem to doubt me, and answered me naturally, saying that he could only see some light from above, and the specific scene was difficult to observe. Then he asked me what happened to the body and asked me to stay away from it as much as possible.
Then I remembered that I was just observing on my own without describing or conveying any information, and I felt a little embarrassed.
I quickly made amends and described it to him in detail.
But Zhang Tianyi thought about it and suddenly asked me, "How far are you now?"
A five-minute walk isn't that far. I subconsciously lowered my head and did some calculations in my head, and then I suddenly saw it out of the corner of my eye, and I felt cold all over.
There is something.
I don't know when there was a thing standing far behind me.
Amidst the sudden acceleration of my heartbeat, I heard Zhang Tianyi's voice in the headset, saying quickly and seriously, "From what I can see, your light only moved forward a few steps and then did not move again. Xu Ranxing, are you sure you moved forward for five minutes?"
I stood stiffly where I was, not knowing for a moment whether I should run forward or not because of this sentence.
Then, he added into the headset: "The image of the female corpse you just mentioned seems familiar to me."
Familiar, familiar with what? I was really a little weak, but I still had time to think about this question. What can I associate with the female corpse sinking into the wall? Is it those fishmongers in TVB police and gangster movies who force people to drink cement?
No, an idea suddenly occurred to me and my hair stood on end.
It's not that it's sinking, it's that it's just crawling out halfway.
Well, this scene really left a deep impression on me too.
At our age, we were exposed to a lot of news during our childhood, and we had seen some old-fashioned funerals in the countryside, where two lonely graves of ancestors were dug out from the mud at the entrance of the village. Folk customs or tomb archaeology programs were very popular.
That is "the woman opening the door".
Probably since the Han Dynasty, this has become a very common subject in ancient sculptures and paintings. However, most of the finished products are made of stone and appear in tombs and temples. A carved false door is half-covered, with only a slight gap, through which the woman sticks half of her body out, spying on the strangers outside.
However, this is not a tomb, and the stone wall that seems to be alive is definitely not a false door.
Moreover, my white sweat broke out all of a sudden and I kept screaming in my heart. Moreover, that was not a stone sculpture, but a real corpse!
How could a living person be made into a picture of a woman opening a door? What door is she guarding?
What I saw in my peripheral vision was clearly the old female corpse in the stone wall, most of it sticking out.
And I was not far away, just a dozen steps away from the wall.
The woman opening the door probably symbolizes a maid in the tomb. The false door is the entrance to the pavilion. Behind the stone wall should be the unfinished courtyard room that exists in people’s imagination.
The most important thing is that the woman who opened the door should be leading the living to the fairyland, or leading the dead back to the human world.
Now, in that thing's eyes, am I a living person or a dead person?
If it comes out, where will it take me?
I was sweating profusely.
In the silence, the person on the other end of the headset was silent for a moment, and then understood.
"If you run forward now, you might continue to alarm that thing." Zhang Tian paused, "Or it might just keep spinning in circles and not run far. So... are you ready?"
I nodded slightly in almost stillness, not realizing that he couldn't see it, and my palms were covered with sweat.
There was no need to say more at this moment because of the tacit understanding we had established over the years. I did not speak in response, but just glanced behind me again. The old female corpse held her head high, with only a little flesh still attached to the stone wall, and the sticky green color overflowed and piled up at its feet.
I took a deep breath and suddenly closed my eyes.
"Five, four, three..."
I heard a countdown in my headphones. I held the mining lamp tightly, kept my body as low as possible, and took a step forward very slowly.
"clatter."
The footsteps were extremely clear on the wet ground.
"It's moving, keep going."
I took another step forward. Two steps, three steps, about ten steps away. The chill behind me became heavier and heavier, getting closer and closer, and the confusion caused by the entire environment structure kept flashing through my mind like a distraction.
"It's off. Your light is gradually turning. Left, left again, good."
In the darkness, as if I was tightly grasping an invisible leash, I swallowed the large amount of saliva that was secreted due to nervousness and continued walking.
After walking another seven or eight steps, the headphones reminded me again that I had to adjust the direction.
My deviation seems to be getting bigger and bigger.
I felt a chill in my heart and suddenly felt a faint air flow beside my ears.
This time the air flow was warm and extremely cold. It was no longer a metaphor, but something really was blowing gently in my ear.
My feet felt heavy, and at that moment, I felt something standing on tiptoe and stepping on my heel.
At the same time, there was a block in front of me. I hit the stone wall and felt myself stepping into the sticky blue blood.
I seemed to have walked to the "door".
"Don't stop."
There was a pause in the headset, and then a firm voice said, "Trust me, don't stop!"
I probably had tinnitus for two seconds, and countless details replayed in my mind.
The next moment, ignoring all the sharp warnings from my body, I stepped forward suddenly. The sticky texture squeezed in from all directions and swallowed me up. I quickened my pace towards the depths of the wall amidst the huge resistance.
I can trust Zhang Tianyi.
A voice of enlightenment told me that I knew where I was and why I couldn't get rid of the woman who opened the door.
The woman who opened the door was the fairy servant who led the way. She was called a fairy concubine or goddess, wearing a six-jia headband, a silk shawl, and a necklace and ribbon.
The strange structure of the place where I am now is exactly like an enormous shawl stretching out in the water.
The shawl was wrapped around the shoulders and arms of the fairy servant. I was in it. The more I walked, the more I followed the fairy servant and paid homage to her, offering her sacrifices.
What can I offer here?
My heart skipped a beat and I knew I had to take the risk.
To break the impasse, I have to leave this immortal shawl that is watered with blood and disguised as a floating green color while diving deep.
There was no need to be reminded at this point. I crashed into the wall, immediately chose a direction to turn, and pushed out with all my strength.
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