Chapter 15
"What...can you do for me?" Ji Dongzang looked at the two uninvited people suspiciously.
"You look 'better'?" Qiu Lian glanced at her blood-stained bandage.
Ji Dongzang rolled his eyes at Qiu Lian and refused to answer this obvious question.
Qiu Lian didn't care and directly stated his purpose: "Come with me to save someone."
"What?!" Ji Dongzang's eyes suddenly widened.
He looked at Qiu Lian like he was a madman, then glanced down at his own horrible shoulder and bruised body, "Are you serious?! No! Don't even think about it!"
…
However, at this moment...
Ji Dongzang was gritting his teeth and stumbling after Qiu Lan, running wildly in the last rays of the setting sun.
She mechanically moved her lead-like legs while trying hard to recall the strange conversation she had just had with Mrs. Shen.
blank!
It was as if a piece of my memory had been dug out, leaving only vague fragments and a strong sense of unreality.
She only vaguely remembered Madam Shen's bottomless eyes, and...
A vague promise?
The other party seems to have promised something?
Then what?
Then, her consciousness seemed to be pulled by invisible silk threads, and her body rushed out uncontrollably following Qiu Lian, like a hypnotized puppet!
This belated realization was like a bucket of ice water poured over my head!
After the winter hibernation, I felt a chill.
The frantic pace slowed down involuntarily, almost stopping.
"Don't stop!" Qiu Lian noticed her hesitation and didn't even turn his head.
He grabbed her wrist tightly and dragged her forward roughly!
"Hey! Qiu Lian!" Ji Dongzang was pulled and staggered, almost falling down.
She lowered her voice, filled with barely suppressed anger and fear, "Have we been brainwashed by that lady?! This is wrong! Do you feel it?!"
Qiu Lian remained silent.
He just pulled her hand harder as she ran, as if to crush her doubts as well.
Ji Dongzang had no choice but to stumble and follow, each step filled with fear of the unknown.
When the familiar scene suddenly came into his eyes, Ji Dongzang's blood seemed to freeze in an instant!
It's that cave!
The nightmare place where I first encountered the weird little girl, the terrifying black goat and the twisted ugly man!
The entrance of the cave was gaping in the twilight, like a huge black mouth leading to hell, emitting suffocating coldness and ominousness.
Ji Dongzang took a deep breath, forced himself to suppress the surging fear, and instantly entered a state of maximum alert.
Qiu Lian felt the change in her breath and loosened his clenched hands.
He quickly leaned close to her ear and said to Ji Dongzang in an almost imperceptible whisper, "Don't turn on the flashlight."
As he went deeper, the familiar whipping sound hit Ji Dongzang's eardrums again.
Clearer and more violent than last time.
Every "crackling" sound was filled with impatience, hitting the wall of the cave and her tense nerves fiercely.
The cave was pitch black.
Ji Dongzang could only stick close to Qiu Lian's back, almost following in her footsteps, step by step in the fear of the unknown.
Each step was on the cold stone ground, the sound swallowed by the violent crack of the whip, leaving only the muffled sound of his own heartbeat like a drum in his chest.
Finally, Qiu Lian stopped in front of a cave entrance that was so narrow that only one person could pass through sideways.
Ji Dongzang took advantage of the slight obstruction of Qiu Lian's body outline to see over, and his heart suddenly jumped!
look familiar!
Isn't this the place the fox brought her to last time?
However, the smell emitted by the "thing" in the cave was completely different from last time.
At that time, there was a rustling sound that made your scalp tingle, and it was full of prying and weirdness.
At this moment, there was an extremely clear "crackling! snapping!" sound.
There were also heavy and rapid "hiss-hiss-hiss" breathing sounds in between.
There is uncontrollable anger, frenzy, and a kind of brutality that is almost tangible.
Just listening to it makes one's skin tighten and one instinctively wants to step back.
How could this be a place for people who need to be "rescued"? This is clearly a place for delivering food to a ferocious beast on the verge of losing control!
The doubts in Ji Dongzang's heart suddenly grew.
She couldn't help but pat Qiu Lian's tense shoulders gently from behind.
Qiu Lian looked back.
Ji Dongzang quickly drew a large question mark on Qiu Lian's shoulder with his index finger—a silent question: What the hell is going on? Where are the people?
Qiu Lian responded by quickly turning his head away, avoiding the silent questioning.
Ji Dongzang felt the pain in his wrist and the heavy aura emanating from Qiu Lian.
Qiu Lian’s brief words just now were running rapidly in my mind.
Go save someone.
But behind this narrow cave entrance, apart from the heart-pounding violent crackling and heavy breathing, there was no trace of human voice.
There was no groaning, no cry for help, only a dead silence dominated by violent force.
Ji Dongzang felt that if there really was someone here, then they were too late.
At this time, Qiu Lian turned around and whispered to Ji Dongzang, "Let's go in and kill it first."
???
What to kill?
That grumpy "thing" in the cave?
Qiu Lian stood in front, and Ji Dongzang couldn't even see a single glimpse of the thing!
Almost instinctively, Ji Dongzang moved sideways and squeezed past Qiu Lian.
I peeked into the narrow hole, wanting to know what was inside!
brush!
Something unexpected happened!
A cold, rough, ring-shaped object with unimaginable toughness popped out from the dark depths of the cave!
It precisely wrapped around Ji Dongzang's wrist, which was holding onto the cold rock wall, with terrifying force!
Ji Dongzang only felt severe pain in his wrist bones.
She didn't have time to think about it. All her strength burst out instantly, her waist sank, and her feet pressed hard against the ground.
Trying to resist that terrifying pull!
The skin on my wrist was rubbed by the rough surface and it hurt so much.
However, this resistance seemed so futile in the face of absolute power.
Qiu Lian only had time to look back in shock, his pupils suddenly shrinking in the darkness.
Right in front of her, Ji Dongzang's figure was suddenly pulled off the ground by a huge force.
Disappeared in the thick darkness!
All that was left was a little dust and Qiu Lian's suddenly empty hand.
Qiu Lian's face changed drastically, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he didn't hesitate at all.
She lowered her body and rushed into the narrow cave that was only wide enough for one person to pass through.
As soon as I entered, I was hit by a deeper sense of chill and confusion.
There is no straight path inside the cave, but many forks in the road, like an intestinal maze.
The only entrance halo behind him disappeared completely after turning a corner.
Qiu Lian immediately stopped, concentrated and held his breath.
Swish, swish, swish... swish, swish...
A faint sound of scales or hard objects scraping against the rock wall came from a certain direction.
But it is erratic, sometimes left, sometimes right.
She quickly followed the direction of the clearest sound for a few steps, but the sound strangely became weaker and shifted.
Finally, it completely disappeared in the depths of the maze-like fork in the road, and not even a trace of its breath could be detected.
Absolute darkness swallowed everything.
Qiu Lian stretched out his hand, and his fingertips touched the cold, slippery, and uneven rock wall.
She lost her direction and her goal.
The "thing" that abducted Ji Dongzang, along with Ji Dongzang himself, seemed to be completely dissolved by the darkness.
Even the way they came in could no longer be found in this chaotic darkness.
…
Bang!
On the other side, Dongzang was roughly dragged into the cave by the huge force.
First, the whole person was lifted into the air and slammed hard on the uneven ceiling of the cave.
The pain made her eyes go black.
Then it fell heavily to the ground!
The hard rock made her internal organs seem to shift.
But this is just the beginning.
The rough ring tightly clamped her wrist and dragged her mercilessly as she slid rapidly on the ground!
His body rubbed and bumped against the rugged ground, gravel and unknown wet and cold filth like a torn sack.
The sharp stones scratched her clothes and skin, and burning pain continued to come from her back, shoulder blades, and legs.
The severe pain was like a tide, hitting her nerves in waves.
However, perhaps it is because I have experienced too much pain during this period.
Ji Dongzang's body actually developed a sense of numbness and adaptation in the extreme pain.
The initial panic and struggle gradually subsided, and rationality began to return.
As he was dragged over a raised stone step again, Ji Dongzang endured the severe pain.
He raised his still movable right hand with difficulty.
Trembling and searching, she fumbled with the object wrapped around her left wrist.
Cold, rough, covered with fine and tough textures, with an inhuman sense of power...
Feeling the touch from her fingertips, she had a vague guess.
BANG!!!
The monster seemed to be extremely frightened!
The thing wrapped around her wrist suddenly loosened, and then it was like a whip full of power, with a sound of breaking through the air.
With a crisp "pa" sound, it hit Ji Dongzang's jaw hard!
"hiss…"
The severe pain exploded instantly!
Ji Dongzang was caught off guard, his teeth knocked against each other violently, and he bit his tongue hard!
A strong smell of rust instantly filled my mouth.
The huge force of the blow threw her away.
He barely came to a stop after his back hit the uneven rock wall hard.
Her bones seemed to be falling apart, and a fishy-sweet taste surged in her throat, but she forced herself to swallow it down.
In the darkness, the rustling sound approached again, with a creepy urgency.
Ji Dongzang suppressed the uncontrollable trembling caused by the severe pain, closed his eyes tightly and concentrated his mind.
She poured all her strength into her right hand, which was gripping the triangular spike.
That was her only support at the moment.
It's coming.
Ji Dongzang could feel the flow of air, carrying an indescribable smell mixed with earthy and some kind of cold fishy smell.
Then, a cold hand.
He touched her cheek gently, tentatively.
The touch was smooth and strange, and the fingertips, with an inhumanly low temperature, slowly moved across her cheekbones, eyelids, and the corners of her lips.
With an almost morbid lingering nostalgia.
All the hairs on Ji Dongzang's body stood up.
This feeling instantly reminded her of those ancient legends about the monsters hiding deep in caves and specializing in peeling human skin...
However, it is indeed a human hand.
Ji Dongzang would never feel wrong.
There was dead silence all around, except for the sound made by the thing itself.
Being so close, Ji Dongzang could clearly hear the continuous, strange, muffled sounds coming from its abdomen.
The sound was like an old kettle boiling and roiling inside, or like something hard colliding and rubbing against each other in the cavity.
It makes a dull "gurgle...click...gurgle..." sound.
It was particularly harsh and unsettling in the absolute darkness.
The hand's caressing did not stop.
It slowly moved down and reached into Ji Dongzang's slightly open collar!
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