Chapter 57: Quietly Following
"Stop, don't move. I said in a suppressed voice, then adjusted my breathing and prepared for it.
Since this is a step, it is impossible to get a full set of steps, so you have to settle for the next best. Fortunately, my previous experience has taught me that just reciting mantras can be effective.
After another set of eight divine spells, I opened my eyes, and it was still pitch black all around. With the tactile feedback of my hands and feet, I knew that I was still on the spiral staircase.
"How's it going?" Assistant Zhao's voice trembled slightly behind her, her hands resting on my shoulders, and the sweat in her palms had already soaked through her clothes.
I hadn't explained to her and Zhang Liu before that I could use Dao techniques to travel through the illusion, because it was useless to say it, and it would only make my already dehydrated mouth even more offended. So I guess these two people can't figure out why I walked so well, I had to stop and dance for a while.
"Keep walking. I didn't answer, but continued to give orders.
Since this passage is not an illusion, then the only way to go is to keep going. Although I have been walking in the dark all the way, I also consciously observed the left and right walls with my body, and did not find any other forks in the road, so the square can only be in front of us.
There were so many people at this time, and after confirming that we hadn't fallen into another illusion, I felt like I had taken a reassuring pill, and my pace quickened a little.
In less than five minutes, we staggered down to the bottom of the stairs, and instead of a staircase, there should be another passageway.
No nonsense, no stops, I continued to grope my way forward.
After a corner, I was pleasantly surprised by what seemed to be a bean-sized fire in front of me.
"Pick up the pace, pay attention to the footsteps, there's light ahead, hold on a little longer. I opened my mouth, but no one accosted me.
I was about to turn around when I felt Assistant Zhao's hand on my shoulder suddenly increase its strength, and I felt that the nails on her hands were already embedded in my flesh.
I'm not used to being touched, and for other people's pleasures like massage, it seems to me that it's a kind of torture. I was so unaccustomed to eating that I was suddenly hit like this, and the natural conditioned reflexes of my body naturally burst out.
Raising his arms, shrinking his shoulders, twisting his neck, stepping forward, turning his head, a series of actions were completed at the moment when Assistant Zhao exerted his strength.
I don't know if it's because of the combination of the faint light source behind me and the adaptation of my eyes to the dark, I can actually see Assistant Zhao's face.
There were so many beads of sweat on her face that it seemed as if she had been sprayed with saliva, and her pretty face was also white, and even her lips were blue.
There must be something.
I opened my mouth to ask about the situation, but before I could say anything, she reached out and pressed my mouth, and at the same time put her other hand to her lips and made a silent gesture, and her eyes kept rolling from side to side.
I probably understood what she meant, and with a slight footing, I looked behind her.
Zhang Liu, who was behind Assistant Zhao, stood stiffly in place, not asking any questions because of our sudden stop.
I couldn't make out his face, only a vague figure. Maybe it's because of suspicion, maybe it's because of Assistant Zhao's performance, I always feel that this Zhang Liu doesn't seem to be quite right, but I can't say what's wrong.
So, is Assistant Zhao reminding me to pay attention to Zhang Liu, or is there something else?
I couldn't figure it out for a while, but at least nothing had happened yet. So I gently patted Assistant Zhao's arm again, signaling her not to rush at first, and then continued to turn in the direction of the light source, ready to continue walking two steps, and then look back when my sight is better.
Assistant Zhao should have understood what I meant, and put his left hand on my shoulder again, but the force was indeed much heavier than before.
One step, two steps, three steps, I was still relaxed and was so scared, even if there was an assistant Zhao behind me, I felt a cool breeze blowing behind me.
As I got closer to the light source in front of me, the path under my feet became clearer, and the speed of the whole team increased under my rhythm.
Soon I could see the end of the passage, which was supposed to be another hall, and the yellow candlelight was shining through it.
Because I have to be twenty or thirty meters away from the entrance of the passage at this time, the field of vision on the left and right is limited, so I can't judge the size of the hall for a while, but I look in the direction of this time, and I can't see the opposite side, and the area here is definitely not small.
As the brightness around me grew, I slowed down and gave my eyes time to adjust to the light.
When I walked out of the passage with more than ten meters left, I suddenly stunted, my waist and legs suddenly exerted force, and I instantly turned to look behind.
The scene that caught my eyes instantly made my scalp tingle and my brain short-circuited.
Zhang Liu, who was behind Assistant Zhao, stared blankly, staring at the front, his face was like a living dead, and he didn't need makeup to act in a horror movie.
But if it's just such a small movement, if you want to frighten me, who has really seen ghosts, it's obviously not enough. Therefore, the source of my fear is not Zhang Liu, but behind Zhang Liu.
Our original team of three people, I don't know when there was suddenly an extra person, he also stretched out his left hand, put on Zhang Liu's shoulder, tacitly cooperated with our formation, as if he had also come all the way.
That person was the same as Zhang Liu, with a dull gaze and a dead face. Looking closely at the past, the extra person can be regarded as a familiar face, it is the bodyguard who injured Zhang Liu before, Gordon.
This scene immediately reminded me of a well-known urban rumor, the Hong Kong-Beijing-Kowloon Railway advertising incident.
Legend has it that in 93, in order to promote the Beijing-Kowloon Railway, Hong Kong found 7 children to shoot advertisements. The specific content is to let them play a game of imitating a train on their shoulders. As a result, when the trailer came out later, everyone looked at it, but found that there was an extra child, and it became 8 people. And the extra child put on the shoulder of another child, and then he fell ill and died. Although someone came forward to refute the rumors later, of course, the vast number of people who ate up could not let go of this attractive theme, and the whole story became more and more evil in the end, and there are still advertising clips at that time circulating on the Internet.
We won't discuss the truth of this matter. Let's just say that the moment I turned my head and saw the extra Gordon, a cold air rushed down the soles of my feet and rushed straight to the Heavenly Spirit Gai.
Although the newcomer Gordon and the already obviously frightened Zhang Liu have not done anything threatening so far, I can understand in my heart that this guy is following behind the team without knowing the ghost, but he definitely didn't come to make a table with three missing one.
The word "run!" popped out of my mouth completely subconsciously.
I didn't care about pity and pity, I grabbed Assistant Zhao's arm, then gritted my teeth and opened my legs, and ran towards the light source with her in a daze.