In the dark and terrifying tunnel, he closed his eyes on his own initiative, claiming that it was a different way of looking at the world. The taxi driver couldn't understand what the point of Chen Ge doing this was.
If I close my eyes, will the monsters in the tunnel disappear? How is this different from trying to cover one's ears and steal a bell?
Even though he had many doubts in his heart, the driver still followed Chen Ge obediently. The man in front of him was the only one he could rely on. He couldn't imagine himself being alone in this dark tunnel.
Chen Ge didn't know what the driver was thinking at this moment. With his eyes covered, he was completely immersed in darkness. The surroundings became even quieter. Perhaps due to the high level of nervousness, his body temperature was slowly dropping. If someone accidentally touched him, they would probably think they had touched a corpse.
Chen Ge's world has become different from before. He can only rely on his sense of smell, hearing, and the touch of his fingers to re-recognize everything around him.
The wall was uneven, and he could occasionally feel moss. Since it was invisible, when he felt the sticky feeling on his fingertips, Chen Ge got goosebumps.
"If we keep going like this, can we find the exit? It shouldn't be that simple. The prompt from the black phone may have a deeper meaning." Chen Ge blindfolded himself and led the way. He could not see anything. The darkness, the coldness, the strange noises, the peculiar touch on his fingertips, everything seemed to wash over his nerves like a wave.
Relying on his extraordinary psychological quality, Chen Ge resisted the urge to take off his sleeves and walked forward slowly but firmly, step by step.
Don’t look, don’t think, and empty your mind.
Chen Ge adjusted his breathing, just like the first time he did a nightmare-level daily task. At this moment, there was only one thought in his mind, to find the real way out.
Without the concept of time in his mind, Chen Ge didn't know how long he had been walking. Unlike the last time he did the nightmare-level daily task, this time he didn't even count his heartbeats and footsteps, completely emptying his mind.
As Brother Chen walked and stroked the slippery wall, his hand suddenly touched nothing.
"Is there a hole in the wall?" The Bailong Cave Tunnel goes straight without any turns, so there shouldn't be a situation where you end up touching nothing.
Do you want to take off the blindfold and take a look?
Before Chen Ge made a decision, his arm was suddenly grabbed by someone. He could clearly feel that the person who grabbed his arm was shaking violently.
"Calm down, what did you see?" Unknown things are often the most terrifying. After losing his vision, Chen Ge's emotions were easily affected by the people around him.
"On your left, that thing is on the left side of your cheek. It's very close to you. Don't move, don't move!" The driver was anxious, with deep fear in his voice.
"Don't panic. Describe to me what that thing looks like. Is it a human? Or a bug?" Chen Ge stood there, motionless.
But he waited for a long time but no one responded: "Are you still there?"
In the empty tunnel, there was only Chen Ge's own voice, and the driver seemed to have disappeared.
"What did he see just now?" If the driver simply disappeared, Chen Ge would not be too excited, but the driver left such a message before disappearing.
It clearly told Chen Ge that at this moment, there was something special on the left side of his cheek.
"The driver's disappearance should be related to the thing on the left side of my cheek, but it's not necessarily the case. The driver might have had an accident when I was blindfolded. There has always been another person following me, and he was deliberately leading me to pay attention to the left." Chen Ge didn't know what the truth was. All he could do was to try within a limited range.
Raising his arm, Chen Ge touched his left face. There was nothing on his face. He breathed a sigh of relief and slowly pushed his hand towards the wall.
His fingertips soon touched the cold wall, but he didn't feel anything strange.
The fingers stretched forward and stopped at the edge of the wall and the hole.
"There is a fork in the straight tunnel. Do you want to go in and take a look?" Resisting the urge to take off the blindfold, Chen Ge raised his hands and moved his body towards the fork on the left little by little like a blind man.
"Where does this road lead to?" It was clearly a tunnel, but it felt like walking out of a maze. Every few steps Chen Ge took, he scratched the wall hard, leaving a mark.
They walked in the tunnel like this for a few minutes until Chen Ge's fingers touched nothing for the second time.
Another fork in the road appeared in front of him.
Brother Chen blindfolded himself and tried it because he got the hint from the black phone.
But the results of the experiment made him very uneasy. In this tunnel that was supposed to be straight, there seemed to be countless forks in the road, just like a person's fate, never knowing where he would go next.
"Xu Yin." Brother Chen was worried that if he took off the blindfold directly, he would see something he shouldn't see and put himself in danger, so he called Xu Yin out before opening his eyes.
A faint smell of blood floated in the air. Chen Ge took a deep breath and his nervous mood slowly calmed down. Xu Yin brought him an unprecedented sense of security.
Rubbing his eyes, Chen Ge used his Yin pupil to look around.
He was surprised to find that he was still standing at the place where he had left at the beginning, and a few meters behind him was the taxi covered with bloody handprints.
The car was still there, but the driver had disappeared.
Accompanied by Xu Yin, Chen Ge walked forward along the tunnel. He did not see the fork in the road, nor did he find the mark he had made.
The tunnel I see when I open my eyes seems to be different from the tunnel my body is in when I close my eyes. It is a feeling that is hard to describe, as if one is reality and the other is a dream, and reality and dreams are intertwined to form a cycle of reincarnation.
"No wonder Shadow suffered in this place. I was lucky to get out alive last time."
The Bailong Cave Tunnel is very special, and Chen Ge doesn't know what exactly caused this peculiar place.
"Which one is real, the tunnel I see now with my eyes open or the tunnel my body is in when I close my eyes? Why do those wandering ghosts insist on running in here? Do they really regard this tunnel as a reincarnation?"
This trial mission was much more complicated than Chen Ge had imagined.
He didn't dare to be careless, so he opened the comic book and released all the employees.
"Lao Zhou, Duan Yue, you two stay beside the taxi, and everyone else follow me forward. Don't be too far away from each other." Chen Ge had been to this tunnel before. He searched the Internet for all the information about Bailong Cave and knew the actual length of this tunnel.
At this time, he called out all the employees just to prove his guess.