Chapter 80 Endless Darkness He can't see anything anymore...
Immediately afterwards, the door to the next room was gently closed, followed by a series of normal footsteps, indicating that the person who opened the door had left with the two people.
As the footsteps faded into the distance, Han Shannan immediately applied an invisibility talisman, quietly opened the door, and followed them.
But contrary to what I had heard before, they did not go upstairs; instead, they started walking downstairs.
The two people walking at the front were the eldest and second eldest sisters of Biyun Pavilion. They walked down the steps one by one, but their bodies seemed to float in mid-air, and almost no sound of their footsteps could be heard.
And it was at this moment that he saw a scene he had never imagined.
Besides the senior and second senior sisters of Biyun Pavilion, there were many other people walking down from other floors, each followed by a dazed visitor, like countless slowly flowing streams converging into the same sea.
They slowly gathered near the statue in the center of the hall.
The statue still stood, but a hidden door had appeared beneath it at some unknown time.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed that the seemingly perfectly sealed statue actually concealed a hidden door.
He followed the flow of people and slowly walked towards the hidden door.
Although this move was somewhat risky, the opportunity was right in front of him, and he had no reason not to investigate.
Moreover, this place is eerie in every way. What if the door we can see tonight disappears tomorrow?
What if he can still see Li Chenjin today, but she disappears tomorrow?
She looks so weak, if she accidentally turns into something like this, can she still be saved?
It's best to take advantage of the present moment to investigate this place thoroughly and resolve this matter as soon as possible, lest things get complicated.
After stepping through the hidden door, he continued down the stairs in the passage.
The passage was long, but fortunately, the puppets around him, though no longer human, still needed candlelight for illumination; otherwise, he would have been blind.
Through the candlelight, he could barely make out the strange and eerie patterns on the walls of the passageways on both sides, as well as the incomprehensible characters carved around the patterns.
He looked at them for a long time and could roughly make out that the murals depicted two people.
One of them resembled the statue outside, while the other looked like a devout follower of that statue.
However, the deeper one goes, the more blurred and distorted the murals become, as if the people who created them had forgotten what they were trying to depict. No clues can be found, only a distorted and eerie feeling that makes one feel uneasy.
As soon as he finally emerged from the passage, before he could even breathe a sigh of relief, a sudden gust of cold wind swept in, extinguishing all the candles in the puppets' hands, as well as the candles hanging on the stone walls and the spirit stones used for illumination.
In this underground chamber, there is only one passage, and no other doors or windows, so where does the wind come from?
Han Shannan dared not think about it in detail, nor did he have time to think about it in detail, because...
He can't see anything now.
Endless darkness descended along with the eerie wind, engulfing everything around him and completely shrouding him within it.
His family all knew about his eye problem, so they would always leave a light on in his room at night.
After learning about his eye problem, Li Chenjin would not only leave candles in his room, but also hang lanterns outside the small building when he went out to buy things and returned late at night. Inside the house, a candle would be lit every few steps, and the warm yellow light would extend all the way to his door.
Therefore, although she wouldn't wait for him to return, he was deeply moved by the traces she left everywhere, and he would always take good care of her the next day.
Therefore, he had almost never been so thoroughly swallowed by darkness. He was so used to the kindness of his family and Li Chenjin that he almost forgot to be vigilant and to always keep in mind the problem of his two eyes.
He felt the darkness around him, his heart was racing, and his hands began to tremble uncontrollably.
In this darkness, a person's other senses are amplified infinitely, so he could clearly feel countless gazes coming from all directions.
The feeling of being silently watched was like icy lake water, slowly engulfing him and making him feel fear, something he rarely experienced.
He wanted to leave this place immediately and take out the tinder he carried with him to provide light, but his body was as if it were nailed to the spot by invisible nails, unable to move or even make a sound.
It was as if an invisible hand was gripping his throat, making it extremely difficult for him to breathe, and causing his chest to feel tight and painful due to lack of oxygen.
The eerie wind that had extinguished all the light around him was still blowing, and he could feel it brushing against his clothes, his neck, and his cheek.
Finally, a cold hand gently touched his shoulder, and he could feel something pressed tightly against his back.
Immediately afterwards, a chill gently blew onto his earlobe.
That aura had no warmth whatsoever that a living person should have; it was chilling to the bone, as if it could freeze him in place.
"Let's play a game..."
A faint, mournful voice, like a sigh, echoed in his ears.
To be honest, the voice was extremely strange. He couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman, or even their age, because there was clearly only one voice, but within that voice, it seemed to contain the voices of countless people, including men and women, young and old. Those voices seemed to be talking, and they also seemed to be screaming. They were intertwined together, sounding extremely faint, yet they made him feel dizzy and his spiritual energy began to churn uncontrollably.
It was as if the spiritual power within him had suddenly gained sentience, and had seen something extremely terrifying. It wanted to escape as quickly as possible, but could not find an exit, so it could only rampage through his spiritual veins, desperately trying to tear out an exit.
His spiritual veins began to throb with pain due to the surging spiritual energy, and the pain intensified, eventually piercing through his entire body in the blink of an eye. This caused his face to twist uncontrollably into a ferocious expression, and his heart to pound wildly in his chest, causing him sharp pains in his chest. Cold sweat instantly soaked through his clothes.
In just a moment, he was soaking wet and looking utterly disheveled, as if he had just been pulled out of the water.
But the voice seemed oblivious to his pain, remaining close to his ear and whispering, "I'll give you... an hour... If you can escape... I'll let you go... If you can't... I'll... eat you... and then..."
"Shh...no...the sound...is starting..."
"I... my junior brother..."
As the voice rang out, Han Shannan's tinnitus worsened until he could no longer fully hear the whispers.
What else?
What do you not want?
What's wrong with your voice?
What has started?
Who is the junior brother?
He shook his head and realized that the constant buzzing in his ears made it impossible for him to think about those questions. He just felt that the invisibility talisman was indeed unreliable. Even though the effect hadn't expired, he was directly grabbed by the thing below.
The surrounding lights had come back on sometime earlier, and when he looked closely, he found that all the people who had come down with him were nowhere to be seen.
He subconsciously looked behind him, only to find that the passage he had come from had disappeared. Although he was still in the same place, he could no longer return the way he came and could only look for a new way out.
He wanted to call for help directly, but he was worried that the thing was still lurking around him, waiting for him to call that old bastard Shen Zhengyuan so that he could wipe them all out in one fell swoop.
After thinking it over, he had no choice but to suppress the urge to call for help and decided to first try to find a way out and then see if he could find any clues in this place.
Thinking this, he lifted his foot, cursing the thing that was neither human nor ghost in his heart, and chose a path that looked somewhat pleasing to the eye.
Considering his good luck since childhood, he even managed to grab the most valuable item during his first birthday celebration. Now he's just looking for a way out, and he'll surely find it in no time.
He just didn't know if that thing kept its word. What if it suddenly went back on its word and tried to kill him after he found the exit and was about to leave?
However, it's normal for it to go back on its word. After all, that thing didn't sound like a reliable entity that would keep its promises. But he had no other choice at the moment and could only try to find a way out by following its advice.
Following the method he had chosen before, he passed through four or five forks in the road. Although he didn't encounter an exit, he also didn't run into anything he shouldn't have.
Sure enough, he was born with incredible luck...
Before he could finish his silent words of encouragement, he suddenly caught sight of a dancer standing quietly at the end of the corridor.
When the dancer saw him, a beautiful smile appeared on her face. She gracefully bowed to him, and when she looked up, her eyes seemed to hold a pool of spring water, shimmering and sparkling, like a fairy descending to earth.
Then, she lightly touched the ground with her toes and began to dance gracefully in place. Her waist-length hair, like a waterfall, fluttered in the air along with her clothes, making her extremely beautiful.
However, the next moment, with a gentle wave of her slender hand, her figure suddenly disappeared, and when she reappeared, she had moved forward more than five feet from her previous position.
Then, twenty feet, fifteen feet, ten feet...
Each time he disappeared, he would reappear closer to him than before.
As her slender fingers gently brushed across the stone wall, leaving deep marks, it was as if the stone was as soft as tofu to her.
Han Shannan isn't stupid. Even if he were, he should know to run away by now.
It seems that even if he's incredibly lucky, he's bound to have one or two bad days. He should never say he's lucky again!
He used almost every ounce of his strength, running forward as fast as he could.
But as he fled, the dancer danced faster and faster, covering a greater and greater distance. Several times, she even appeared directly behind him. Hearing the sudden, close sound of silver bells behind him, he was almost scared out of his wits.
At this point, let alone finding a way out, he hadn't even had time to figure out which direction to take. He just ran wherever there was a road, completely forgetting what roads he had taken or what places he had been to before.
In his panic, he ran into a secret room. Inside the room were many iron cages, and those cages contained the men and women who had disappeared in the Weeping Dew Pavilion!
Author's Note: Watching Douyin (TikTok) is useful, it's really useful! One yuan can feed you for a whole day; all you need is boiled soybeans and onions to maintain your vital signs and avoid starvation. My God, how can such a genius exist? My God, it's amazing, truly amazing!
Then I searched around and found that potatoes were cheaper, so I decided to try boiling them. I haven't thought of anything to make with them yet, so I'll just boil them in plain water for now.
I just can't eat oatmeal anymore. After eating oatmeal for every meal for so long, I really feel like throwing up just looking at it. [laughing and crying emoji]
Um... if I update later than usual one day, or accidentally miss an update, don't worry. I'm probably just malnourished and fainted from hunger. I'll continue updating when I wake up, hehehe.
Although I feel like an author like me, earning only a few cents a day, probably won't be noticed much, but what if? Hey!
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