"Where are you looking?" The thick legs with human faces carved on them stabbed towards Chen Ge and stopped in front of his eyes. The boy seemed to hate being looked at like this.
"Sorry, I lost my composure." Chen Ge retracted his gaze and stopped staring at the place where the boy's belly and the spider's body were connected.
If the "door" of the Bailong Cave Tunnel is really on the child, the other party will definitely not tell Chen Ge. If not, there is no point in continuing to dwell on it, so Chen Ge decisively ended the topic: "If you don't want to talk about it, then change the subject."
Chen Ge became serious: "This is my last question. It concerns the safety of all of us, so I hope you won't hide anything on this issue."
"Ask ahead." The boy retracted his terrifying and ferocious front paws.
"Did you see a shadow enter the White Dragon Cave tunnel in the late night of the past few days?"
When the word "shadow" was mentioned, the boy's expression immediately changed: "Are you here because of him?"
"It seems you know something." Chen Ge was a little excited. He finally found someone who knew more about shadows.
The temperature in the tunnel suddenly dropped, and a howling cold wind rushed out from deeper into the tunnel. Neither the child nor the female ghost in the tunnel spoke.
They were silent for a long time, and finally the child jumped down from the wall, supporting his body with a few legs, allowing him to look down at Chen Ge from above.
This monster was very large, and its standing posture at this moment gave Chen Ge a strong sense of oppression.
"Go back. The more you know, the more you will fall into fear." The boy's voice trembled slightly when he said this.
"Are you afraid?"
"No!" The child suddenly became excited and raised his legs to sweep towards Chen Ge's chest.
With his hands protecting his chest, countless human faces rushed out from the walking legs, but stopped at the last moment.
"We have a common enemy. I can help you in every way." Chen Ge looked at the walking foot that was close at hand and slowly lowered his arm. If the boy wanted to hurt him, he would have been knocked away just now.
After a long time, the boy slowly lowered his body and looked at Chen Ge straight in the eye: "That guy is a lunatic. This is not his first time in the White Dragon Cave Tunnel."
"He has been here before? Was it a few years ago?" Chen Ge recalled the strange scene he saw in the Bailong Cave tunnel last time, when his young self was murdered.
"Do you know why my mother and I have been hiding in the tunnel and never stepping out of this place?" A flash of uneasiness passed through the boy's eyes.
"Is it because of Shadow? Does he want to hurt you?"
"Who knows? That guy comes here every year, and he's stronger each time. I can only use my own abilities to stop him." The boy didn't feel threatened by Chen Ge, but he felt vaguely uncomfortable with the shadow of the man in front of him: "I hate shadows."
"I've seen Shadow a few times recently. It's only been a week, but he's become stronger again. I don't know how he did it."
Perhaps the information Chen Ge revealed made the boy feel uneasy. After the child exchanged glances with his mother, he said to Chen Ge: "I can tell you everything I know, but you have to promise me one thing."
"No problem." Chen Ge agreed without asking what it was about. His straightforwardness made the boy feel a little uncomfortable.
"I want you to tie this spider silk around your neck." The legs under the boy's body stretched out in all directions, and a thin crack appeared where the spider's body was connected to the boy's body.
A strong, pungent smell of blood wafted out from it, and blood dripped down his body. As the cracks widened, the boy's expression became hideous and terrifying.
He put his hand into the crack, and it looked like a person putting his hand into his own stomach.
"Tell me your choice." The boy slowly stretched out his hand and took out several blood-red spider silks from the crack. They stuck together and slowly turned into a thin red rope as the child pulled them.
Looking at the voice that was still dripping with blood, Chen Ge did not show any fear in his eyes. His answer was still just three words: "No problem."
Chen Ge took a step forward and walked in front of the boy. His movements were quick and decisive without any hesitation.
His decisiveness made the boy suspicious, and he looked at Chen Ge carefully. He felt that this seemingly kind man might be a devil full of self-destructive desires deep down in his heart.
Approaching the boy, Chen Ge finally had the opportunity to observe the cracks on the boy's body up close.
Fresh blood, spider silk that resembles blood, and a bloody smell that is so strong that it is suffocating, all of the above characteristics are consistent with the "Blood Gate".
Taking the spider silk with both hands, Chen Ge smiled at the boy. In his heart, he frantically called Zhang Ya's name, wanting Zhang Ya to see if the spider silk would put his life in danger. Unfortunately, Zhang Ya did not give him any response.
The spider silk slowly approached his neck. Chen Ge no longer hesitated. Just when he was about to strangle his neck with the spider silk, the female ghost in the tunnel next to him stood up and stretched out her hand to push the spider silk aside.
Maybe it was because Chen Ge left a good impression on the female ghost in the tunnel the last time he came in, so the female ghost in the tunnel helped him this time.
"Are you really not afraid at all?" A trace of doubt appeared in the boy's eyes full of resentment. He turned around and said, "Come with me. I know a lot about shadows. Maybe we can cooperate once."
At first Chen Ge didn't understand why the boy changed his mind. He followed the child and continued walking forward. It seemed that something rubbed his hair. When he looked up, Chen Ge's eyelids twitched slightly.
In the center of the tunnel, on the dark top of the tunnel, there are "corpses" hanging everywhere.
Their necks were all entangled with spider silk, as if they were hanging, with their feet hanging down.
"Once you are entangled in the spider silk, you will die. I don't know why my mother would stop me, but I respect her choice." The boy's heart was twisted by anger and hatred. The only person he cared about in this world was his mother.
The boy climbed up the wall. This "corpse forest" was where he usually rested. "I saw Shadow a long time ago. He was not so strong at that time. He was just a kid a little older than me."
"I don't know where he came from or how he appeared. I only know that he has been looking for various children, and it seems that he wants to feed these children to something called a ghost fetus."
"He told me that he needed to build a door in Liwan Town. I didn't understand what the door meant at first, but later I realized that this is what he meant." The boy moved his body, blood flowing out. A crack appeared between his upper body and the giant spider's body, and a large part could be clearly seen sunken. "I have a deformed door. This door is stuck in my body. I pushed it open little by little when I was burned by the fire."