Xiao Tangqiu was filled with excitement, but suddenly felt dizzy, and that familiar feeling came back...
Oh no! It's too late! I have to go back again! Why at this moment?!
At this moment, the sun rose and the sky became completely bright.
Xiao Tangqiu watched helplessly as the torii gate not far away gradually disappeared before his eyes, feeling extremely unwilling. Just a little bit! Clearly just a little bit! Clearly they had found the shrine! Clearly they were only one step away from the shrine!
The next second, his vision went dark and he lost all consciousness.
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When Xiao Tangqiu opened his eyes again, he was back in the familiar tunnel. Not far away, he heard Tang Mianmian's familiar voice: "Fuck! We're back in this tunnel again?"
He subconsciously turned around to look for Shen Yuan. When he found that Shen Yuan was right beside him and was also looking for him, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, but soon he became discouraged again: "What a pity, we were so close to finding the shrine..."
Duan Hongzhen was also very annoyed: "Damn it! We were so close! But that damn shrine seemed to suddenly appear after dawn. Does this mean that it only appears after dawn and disappears at night?"
Xiao Tangqiu also thought of this problem: "But we have no way to stay in Baigui Village during the day. Does this mean we will never be able to find the shrine in this lifetime?"
The two of them told Xue Junli and the others what happened last night. Xue Junli frowned slightly and asked, "The shrine only appears during the day?"
Xiao Tangqiu smiled bitterly and said, "I'm afraid that's the case. Otherwise, we wouldn't have searched for most of the night without finding it. If the shrine is an important plot clue, then isn't this a dead end?"
Xue Junli said firmly, "The system can't possibly set us up for an unsolvable dead end. Either we haven't met the conditions to trigger the plot, or we've missed some crucial plot clue or important item."
Duan Hongzhen nodded: "That should be the case. It seems we must have missed something last night."
Xue Junli's eyes darkened: "Next time we will search together."
At this moment, footsteps suddenly sounded not far away.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and Xiao Tangqiu became alert instantly, but soon, several familiar faces appeared in front of them.
Upon closer inspection, they saw that they were the newcomers who had parted ways with them before.
The leading man in the argument immediately became smug when he saw them: "So it's you! How's it going? Killing zombies again?"
Xue Junli looked at the argumentative man coldly, not wanting to pay any attention to him, but the guy approached him blindly: "You guys are really wasting your time! You went out and killed zombies all night? We stayed in the tunnels without doing anything, but we still survived well. You worked so hard, but did you get anything in return?"
Without waiting for Xue Junli to speak, Duan Hongzhen raised his eyebrows, and the knife in his hand flew out, instantly piercing through the glasses on the nose of the man who was arguing!
Duan Hongzhen used force very cleverly. He neither shot the lenses of the glasses to pieces nor penetrated the lenses to hit the eyeballs. Instead, he just let the knife penetrate the lenses, and the tip of the knife stopped one or two millimeters away from the eyeballs of the man who was arguing with him. The control of force was so clever that it was almost demonic!
Xiao Tangqiu, a bystander, was terrified. If Duan Hongzhen's hand had been crooked for a moment, or if he had used a little more strength, it might not just be the glasses lens of the argumentative man that would have been shot through!
Not to mention the man who was the one involved in the argument. He was so scared that he sat down on the ground, covering his eyes and screaming: "Ahhh my eyes! My eyes! What did you do to my eyes!"
Duan Hongzhen sneered: "Don't worry, I didn't shoot your eyes out, why are you screaming? Are you trying to scam me?"
The argumentative man wailed for a while before realizing that his eyes didn't hurt. He took off his glasses tremblingly and saw that the knife was only stuck in the lens. He was relieved at once, but despite this, he was still scared to death.
The other newcomers were also frightened by Duan Hongzhen's swift and decisive move, and they dared not breathe, as drooping as quails - Horrible! So terrible! Much scarier than those zombies!
Duan Hongzhen crossed his arms and said, "If you want to be lazy, then be lazy. I can't control you. But if you are lazy and still show off in front of me, don't blame me for teaching you a lesson."
The man who was arguing was so scared that he was shaking and couldn't say anything.
"Get out!"
As soon as Duan Hongzhen finished speaking, the argumentative man tucked his tail between his legs and wanted to run away, but was stopped by Xue Junli with a "Stop". He looked at Duan Hongzhen, then at Xue Junli, and felt torn.
Duan Hongzhen scratched his ears and said, "Someone wants to ask you a question. Answer it and then get out."
Xue Junli frowned and asked, "You guys stayed in the tunnel the whole time yesterday. Did nothing really happen?"
Duan Hongzhen gave the argumentative man a cold look and said, "Answer me!"
The man who was arguing immediately replied tremblingly: "No! No! Nothing really happened!"
Xue Junli asked again: "Did you encounter that black subway car?"
The argumentative man shook his head hurriedly. "No, after we returned to the tunnel, we found it had turned into an ordinary abandoned tunnel. Apart from the exit in the direction you left, the end of the tunnel was just inside. There was nothing in the tunnel, no subway or tracks at all. After searching around and finding no danger, we made a bed on the ground and went to sleep..."
Duan Hongzhen sneered, "We're out there fighting tooth and nail, and you're all just relaxing and sleeping soundly."
The argumentative man was too timid to answer. At this moment, a "clang clang clang" sound suddenly came from not far away. His face suddenly changed. "This is impossible! This is impossible! There was clearly no subway before!"
Xue Junli made a quick decision and said, "Let's go!"
Everyone hurriedly ran towards the direction where the sound came from.
Clang clang clang——
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