Fang Fang lit the candle with the lighter she carried with her.
The candlelight illuminated the surrounding area for several meters, and it was dark in the distance. Underground was an ancient road made of mud and stones. Fang Fang saw a rusty hanging lamp on the wall, but it had run out of oil.
"Let's go forward and take a look." said Wang Xiaohai.
Fang Fang handed Wang Xiaohai a candle, and they each held one and walked slowly forward.
The darkness around us is like a giant beast that devours people. Most of the fear comes from the unknown, just like a door that is always closed in the dark. If you dare not open it, you will always be afraid. When you muster up the courage to open it, you will find that what you have been afraid of is the air.
“Crack…”
There was a sound of breaking under Fang Fang's feet. He felt like he had stepped on something, so he lowered the candle and looked down.
“Oh my god—”
He was startled. He had stepped on a skeleton and dented its chest!
A centipede twisted its body and crawled past his feet.
"Is this place the underground cemetery of the ancient castle?" Fang Fang's voice trembled a little.
"You're overthinking it! Would you dig a graveyard in your home?" Wang Xiaohai scolded. "Don't scare yourself! This person is probably an ordinary person. He died here because he couldn't open the lid."
The two continued to explore forward.
"Come to think of it, Brother Xiaohai, you've sealed the lid shut. How are we going to get out?" Fang Fang was halfway there when a thought suddenly occurred to him. "When I jumped down just now, it felt quite high, at least three meters. To jump three meters into the air and then forcefully push away a two-hundred-pound boulder, even a beginner in the Qingwu martial arts world would find it difficult to do that!"
Wang Xiaohai agreed when he heard it, thinking that he had blocked his own way!
Unexpectedly, in order to avoid the crisis, they trapped themselves to death!
"Try forward."
As Wang Xiaohai spoke, he and Fangfang continued to walk forward in the darkness holding candles.
Two minutes later.
"There's a fork in the road." Fang Fang reminded.
Two corridors appeared in front, one on the left and one on the right.
"Go right first, and then go back if the situation is not right." Wang Xiaohai said.
The road on the right is a bit bumpy, and if you're not careful you might get stuck.
In the candlelight, I could see small round pits below, densely packed like a nest, as if some horrible insects had once bred here.
"There's something nearby." Fang Fang reminded.
Wang Xiaohai shone the candlelight and saw rows of wooden fences standing on both sides, tied and fixed by countless iron chains. Behind the wooden fences was a thatched kang, with a toilet next to the kang and several skeletons on the kang.
"So this is an underground prison!" Wang Xiaohai understood. "It was where the castle used to imprison people."
A dozen meters ahead of the cell is the torture room, which contains rows of intimidating torture instruments. Although they are rusty, there are still dark red blood stains on them.
"It's the end, there's no way out," Fang Fang said.
This underground cell made him feel cold and terrified.
"Go back and take the road on the left." said Wang Xiaohai.
The two of them retreated to the fork in the road and walked to the left.
On the left are several rest rooms for the guards. There are no skeletons on the road, but there are one or two skeletons in several rest rooms.
"Huh?" Fang Fang said, "Brother Xiaohai, this skeleton's posture is different from the others!"
"What's different?" Wang Xiaohai walked over with a candle.
"This skeleton is wearing glasses and sitting on a chair," Fang Fang said. "He seems to be reading a book?"
"What book? It can't be the novel written by Zui Chu Er!" Wang Xiaohai also walked to the side of the skeleton wearing glasses and took the book held in his bony hand.
"Eighteen Erotic Pictures?" Wang Xiaohai frowned at the title. "Read this before you die?"
"No, there is another book underneath this one!" Fang Fang pointed at the table.
"Could it be that Zui Chuer's book is hidden at the bottom?" Wang Xiaohai picked up the book below and saw that the cover read: "Detailed Explanation of the Secret Passage in the Ancient Castle".
It’s not Zui Chu Er’s book. Fang Fang is a little disappointed.
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