Chapter 73

Everyone looked at each other, and then someone nodded slowly, as if he was persuaded, and hesitantly whispered, "That's it."

Le Yuan sneered in his heart: "I won't go with you. I still have to look for my friend. When I find him, I will look for you again, if I can find you."

The crowd had no opinion and looked at the park and walked away.

The scene returned to silence again.

The leader came out and said to the others, "We all have to rely on ourselves now. It is useless to rely on others. It is impossible for others to come in and save us. If it were possible, they would not have appeared now. If it were possible, we would not be here. We have already risked everything here. We must not regret it. Do you understand?"

He shouted again: "To survive!"

We should be able to do everything.

The crowd responded by shouting, "To survive!"

The atmosphere among the crowd suddenly became heated, as if the seed of fire had been planted.

The leader walked forward and said, "Since the man said there is a panacea here, let's look for it here. Maybe we can find it, maybe we can't. But didn't the man called Paradise also say that? He walked here for a long time and didn't leave. He was still looking for his lost friend. In my opinion, his friend has already died. But we can also give it a try to see if it is true."

Everyone nodded.

So the crowd lined up in rows and followed the leader, moving slowly forward, like a huge train with its head cut off.

There was a rumbling sound, and everyone didn't react for a while, thinking they were feeling unwell or had heard it wrong, or that it was an illusion. However, the environment began to shake, and the shaking environment told them clearly that this was not an illusion, but what they were about to experience.

"Could this be a major earthquake? We are already halfway up the mountain, how could we be hit by a major earthquake? Why are we so unlucky? Why does such a fate have to befall me?"

"The things in here are so strong, there is no sign of them falling off, it looks like they are both natural and ingenious, it's amazing! Maybe we can survive, you see, nothing is falling around us, even if this is a big earthquake, we won't be injured by things falling, let alone die! We just need to keep ourselves steady."

"My friend, be calm, steady yourself. If you can't steady yourself, hold your things, curl up into a ball, and lean against something or the wall as quickly as possible. There is nothing here, and there is no part of the wall to hold on to. Be careful."

the leader shouted.

After a while of shaking, the ground calmed down and everything around became peaceful, like the calm after a storm.

However, the leader felt inexplicably uneasy. He frowned and thought, something doesn't feel right here.

It seemed as if something dangerous was about to happen and he knew nothing about it.

This is not a good thing.

The leader tried hard to stand up from the ground, but found that his legs were a little weak and seemed to be shaking slightly. If this situation was discovered, his authority would undoubtedly be questioned. He could not accept losing the command now.

The leader gritted his teeth, controlled all the muscles in his body, stood straight, leaned against the wall beside him, and looked around without leaving any trace, trying to find a way to escape as soon as possible.

An idea suddenly occurred to him. He didn't have to stay here, and he didn't have to look for medicine. He had to leave now. If he left, maybe he could still survive.

However, he didn't know why he thought this way, nor did he know what to do after leaving, and he didn't know how to leave here.

The man before hadn't mentioned this at all, and the paradise they had met had gone away, so they hadn't asked anyone, and now they were stuck here.

The leader who realized the situation belatedly gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and had veins popping out on his forehead. He was very angry and felt that he had been deceived by his partner. Suddenly, his body stopped shaking and he stood straighter than before. He took a step forward, left the wall behind him, and shouted to the people who stood up with heavy breaths: "Everyone, we can't just sit there and wait to die!"

Someone chimed in: "Live! Live!"

The leader was very satisfied with their answer. He smiled amiably and continued in a louder voice than before: "We must first find an exit to leave here, so that we can get out at any time. Even if it's not safe outside, it's more familiar to us than here. We should find our way home in a familiar place instead of dying on the way!"

Everyone shouted: "To survive! To survive!"

The leader continued, "Form groups of three to five people. Everyone, spread out and look for exits and ways to leave. Once you find one, come back and report the situation immediately! Only one person is needed to report, and the other two will guard the exit. Don't let others occupy it. There may be more than just us here. If others reach the exit before us or even block the exit, we're done!"

The crowd shouted even more angrily: "In order to survive! In order to survive! As long as we can survive, we are willing to do anything, we can do anything! No one can stop us! We will definitely survive! We must survive! We must get out alive, we must go home alive! No one can stop us!"

Suddenly someone screamed: "Snake, there is a snake, there is a huge snake here, it seems to be poisonous, who can save me? Save me, ah ah ah——"

There was a rustling sound and everyone looked in the direction of the sound. They actually saw a huge venomous snake lurking in the darkness. The markings on its body moved as it breathed and crawled, like a huge, mottled yellow leather jacket. There were yellow, white, red, green, and no one could tell how many colors there were. They only knew that it looked terrifying and extremely poisonous.

Someone murmured, "This is unbelievable. This is simply a terrible dream. I don't want to live anymore. No, I want to live. I shouldn't live here. This is not my home. This is not my bed. I want to live. I want to leave here. I want to wake up from this nightmare. That is the most important thing I should do!"

As he spoke, he actually staggered towards the snake.

The snake did not disappoint him. It looked at him the moment he moved, pounced towards him, opened its bloody mouth, and swallowed him whole in one gulp. Everyone stood by, stunned, and no one shouted. They clearly saw the snake's belly bulging, and the outline of a living person gradually appeared, squirmed twice, and then disappeared.

It was as if that person had been quickly digested.

I don't know why, but even though the scene was so quiet that only the sound of each other's breathing could be heard, everyone could vaguely hear the screams of someone being digested.

That's horrible.

Someone stood there with a pale face, but he couldn't stand steadily. His eyes went dark, and he staggered to the ground with a thud. The sound was not loud, but in such a quiet environment, the sound was not small.

The snake suddenly turned its head and looked at the person lying on the ground. The person seemed to be unconscious. The snake swam over slowly, as if taking a walk after dinner, and saw the small dessert and prepared it as a snack.

The leader waved to the others who were still paying attention to him, signaling them to quickly follow him and leave the scene.

There is already one body here, not more.

As for the unconscious person, we can only hope for his own good fortune. If he cannot survive, it is fate. If he survives, it means he has escaped a disaster. No matter what, if we can meet again, we will consider what to say.

Everyone followed the leader.

The snake did not turn its head, as if it had no interest in them, or as if it knew what was about to happen to them.

There was a hint of sarcasm in his grey eyes.

No one noticed this.

The leader was walking in the front, and now he was the first to escape. He tried his best to hold his breath. He had been walking for most of the day and felt that his whole body was shouting. He was almost exhausted. He looked back and did not find any snake chasing him. He breathed a sigh of relief, found a slightly flat place, waved to everyone, and said that it was time to rest.

Everyone sat down.

However, before they could rest for a while, a huge white rat jumped out from the front.

They were horrified, having never seen such a big rat before. This rat was different from ordinary rats. Its eyes were bigger than a cow's. They didn't know how such a big rat appeared in the world. But when this rat appeared in front of them, they had to believe that they could really be so unlucky.

The leader stood up again. This time he was a little weak, but he couldn't show it. He quickened his pace, turned around and signaled everyone to follow him and run away.

His speed was not fast, but not slow either. No one noticed that he seemed to be in poor health. Everyone looked back cautiously to see if the mouse had caught up with him.

Someone murmured, "Why are all these rubbish here? It would be great if they were all dead! Damn, why are we seeing this? Aren't we supposed to be in some bigger and neater Taoist temple, finding a panacea to cure our sudden illnesses? This is not normal at all, this is not fair..."

As he was speaking, the mouse chased after him, and without looking for anyone else, it found the person who had spoken, and bit him dead.

The ground was covered with warm blood. The person running behind was splattered with blood and shivered. He suddenly felt a chill in his heart and quickly quickened his pace, not daring to look back for a short while.