Chapter 12: The Journey to the Underworld

As we walked inside, the lights on both sides of the corridor dimmed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info I don't know where we went to this mountain, and by the dim light, we found something terrible.

A pale human face, on the other side of the hallway, was smiling coldly at us, but apart from that creepy smile, the hallway was suffocatingly quiet.

The bamboo pole at the front stopped, and his hand held on to the wall, signaling us not to move forward. The width of the corridor narrowed as we walked a little further in, to the width of only one person. The bamboo pole in the lead stopped, and we were all stuck here. The people behind can only vaguely see the "human face" in front of them through the cracks.

"You... Do you see that thing in front of you?" said the bamboo pole tremblingly, the voice of fear echoing in the narrow space.

"Hmm..."

"Well, is there someone in front?"

"Here... Someone else but us? ”

The crowd began to talk softly, but no matter what they said, their feet were glued to each other, and no one dared to take a small step forward.

I narrowed my eyes, trying to see the face more clearly in the dim light. As the others discussed, I gradually saw the face clearly.

That face, except for the sneering mouth, the rest of the face did not exist, just a snow-white piece. Besides, that face was surprisingly large, almost as wide as the corridor, how could someone in this world have such a large face?

I interrupted the discussion of several people around me, asked them all to quiet down, and carefully looked at the "face" in front of me, and I told them what I thought. After a moment of silence, they all saw the "face" clearly and nodded at me.

"It's been more than ten minutes since I saw this thing, but this thing hasn't moved, it's not so much a living thing, will it.... Is that actually a dead thing? ”

"Dead thing? ... Jing Che, do you mean there's a dead man's face in front of it!? Didn't we meet a ghost!! The chatterbox seemed to be frightened by what I said, and he actually squatted there against the wall, looking at me with a timid look on his face and said.

"It's not a dead man, it's a thing that doesn't move." I explained to the chatterbox what he had misunderstood, and he was relieved for a moment, sighed lightly, and got back to his feet.

"Why don't we go and have a look, we can't be so scared that we go home. We have no way out anyway, so we simply explore this island. ”

As he spoke, he walked forward again.

Although this bamboo pole is covered with skin and bones, it looks like those sick people who smoked opium in the late Qing Dynasty, but the thin body not only contains great strength, but his courage is also much greater than that of others.

I followed him, a pair of long legs of the bamboo pole, and took a small step, but I had to take two steps to follow him closely. The two of us walked for a while, and the "face" slowly grew larger, but we never walked in front of it, as if it was an ethereal mirage.

I looked back at the team behind me, and the others didn't know if they had exhausted their physical strength from running before, or if they were haunted by fear in their hearts at this time, and they were walking cautiously against the wall, and they were seven or eight meters away from me and the bamboo pole in front of me.

"Li Qi, is there anything ahead? It's better to stop for a while and wait for the people behind, the two of us have already distanced ourselves from them. "This corridor is already narrow, I can't help but bend down when I walk here, and there is a bamboo pole in front of me that is more than a head taller than me is driving the road, I am firmly blocked by his body, occasionally from the gap next to his shoulder, I can see the lights hanging on both sides of the front, I can only ask the bamboo pole, from his mouth to understand some of the situation ahead.

I didn't walk a few meters before I asked the bamboo pole, and the bamboo pole kept repeating: "No", which should be the same situation now, so he simply didn't answer me and continued to walk forward.

"Jing Che."

After walking about thirty or forty meters, the bamboo pole suddenly stopped, stood in front of me, turned around, and looked at me.

"What's wrong?"

"It seems to have arrived at the place. I can't go ahead. ”

"Can't go?"

This corridor, with its smooth walls and two oil lamps appearing at regular intervals on the walls, looks like someone has built it deliberately. At this time, the bamboo pole said to me that there was no road ahead, which really surprised me, this person who repaired the corridor would not be so bored as to run to a desert island, and cut a corridor of several hundred meters into this mountain for no reason, and it was just a corridor, and nothing else was gone?

How is this possible? There must be something ahead.

I put the bamboo pole sideways against the wall and moved me half a position, and I also turned sideways and squeezed through the space to the bamboo pole.

For the first time since I came in, I could see what I was seeing clearly. The grim and sneering "face" I had seen in the back had disappeared from my eyes, replaced by a snow-white wall, and a long crack lay at the bottom of the wall.

"How did you somehow conjure up a wall?" I touched the wall with my hand, tapping it a few times from time to time, and the wall responded to my deep, thick sound.

"Jing Che, don't you think this wall is a bit weird?" The bamboo pole was also staring at the wall at this time, holding his chin and studying it carefully.

"Of course it's strange that a wall suddenly came out of this hallway."

"No, I mean, the way the wall looks..."

"Look?"

When the bamboo pole said this, I looked up and down the wall again. Compared with the artificially built walls in the earthy yellow mountains on both sides, this snow-white wall is obviously not the same material as these, even if the dim light is still white. And the crack below, the two ends are upturned, and the appearance of an arc looks like a smiling mouth.

"That face!"

I said unconsciously by comparing the appearance of the "human face" I had seen before with the wall in front of me.

The bamboo pole seemed to realize it, and after a surprised "oh", he asked me, "Jing Che, could this wall be the human face we saw just now?" ”

"It should be, the pale cheeks, the only sneering mouth on the face, it is estimated that it is the crack of this arc. And the wall is the same size as I said before, completely blocking our path. If it's right, it should, the real face of Lushan we want to check is this wall. ”

"Well, why did you stop again? See the truth of that face? Hey? Is there a wall in front of this? ”

Wang Xun and the chatterbox behind him also came to us, and the chatterbox asked strangely when he saw that we had stopped, but when he saw the white wall blocking our way, he was also taken aback.

"This wall should be the face we just saw."

I told the two of them what I and the bamboo pole thought, and they couldn't believe it, and the conversation box opened even more, with a depressed face: "Hey, I said, the face I saw just now is really gloomy and ruthless, how can it be just a wall?" Moreover, this place is obviously artificial, who is so bored that they dig a little road into the mountains and directly block the wall and block the road? There is nothing, digging and digging without purpose, isn't this full of food? ”

I also knew in my heart that this place would never be so simple, and Jing Che insisted on letting me stay in his memory world, and he would not just let me see some meaningless things. But I pressed my hands against the wall and touched the edges from top to bottom, but I couldn't find anything that looked like a button. I had no choice but to feel for the crack underneath.

The crack was recessed into the wall, just enough for me to stick my hand in, and the crack was about the length of my finger.

I pressed my fingers against the innermost part and slowly scratched from left to right, but even though I was on the innermost part, the walls inside seemed to be softer than the surface.

Just as I scratched the crack with my fingers, the wall actually made a "boom" sound, and with this heavy sound, the wall slowly pulled up and inserted into the mountain.

There is a new way in front of our eyes!

"It turned out to be a trap."

This is the first mechanism I encountered in my life, and it was cracked by my crooked beating and wittyness, and I was a little excited to think about it, but I thought about it and thought that this was just Jing Che's memory world, and these were not really happening in my world, and pride was useless. So I calmed down my excitement and turned to look at the others, who were also startled by the mechanism, and were now staring at me with wide eyes.

"What do you think I'm doing?" I said, "Do you want to keep going?" ”

"Of course!" The bamboo pole regained his expression and said to me, "It's all here, there's no reason not to go forward." ”

"Hey, wait, look!"

Just as I turned to talk to them, the wall behind me had been completely pulled up, revealing the path behind the wall. And when the chatterbox saw the road behind the wall, he pointed behind me in a panic.

I looked at the front again, and there was a large space behind the wall, which could accommodate twenty or thirty people at the same time, and I didn't feel crowded. Directly in front of us, there are steps, and the place we are in now, although it is in the mountains, but in terms of elevation, it should still be on the ground, and the steps seem to be built down, and it seems to lead to a certain position underground.

But what surprised us the most was that at the entrance of the steps, there were two corpses lying on the ground, the corpses had long since decomposed and only bones remained, but the clothes and equipment they were wearing behind them did not look very rotten.

The sudden appearance of corpses made me even more convinced that this was no ordinary place.

I glanced at the bamboo pole, and he seemed to understand my thoughts, nodded his head at me, and said, "Jing Che, let's go over and see what happened to these two corpses." ”

With that, the bamboo pole and I walked towards the two corpses.

"I said, if it doesn't work, let's go back, it's strange to leave Sister Hu and the captain over there, let's go over and accompany them." The chatterbox, who seemed to be a little scared of the corpse, still stood there and began to retreat.

Bamboo pole and I are bent on getting this island clear, so naturally we have no fear of corpses. We walked over to the corpse and crouched down to search for something related to our identity.

But these corpses are wearing a lot of tools and equipment, but there is nothing to prove their identity. I touched my clothes for a while, and my fingers were cold, and I actually touched something cold. I took it out of the inside pocket of the corpse's clothes, but I didn't realize that it was just a stone.

"Jing Che, I found a stone here, and it was surprisingly cold. It's like a piece of ice. ”

"I have that too."

The bamboo pole also took out a stone from another corpse that was similar to the one in my hand, I didn't expect that these two brothers actually had a piece of this stone in their hands, and the cold nature of this stone was the first time I had seen it, and I became more curious about the two of them for a while.

The bamboo pole and I continued to search the bodies, but the two brothers seemed to have nothing on their bodies except these two stones, and the other pockets were clean and empty.

"Why did these two men die at the mouth of this staircase, and why did they only carry these two cold stones with them?" I asked myself, stood up, walked to the top of the steps, and looked down the steps.

Like the corridor behind him, there are two oil lamps every few meters, but even if there is light, when you look down, you can't see the end of the steps, but you think that the steps lead to the depths of the ground.

"Jing Che, go down? Something should happen down here, and it won't be peaceful. ”

Seeing these two corpses, the bamboo pole must have lost his score. Come to think of it, these two people must have encountered something when they died here, and it is very likely that something will happen under this staircase that will catch us off guard. But what Jing Che wanted me to see, it was very likely that it was at the end of this staircase. If Jing Che appears next to me again at this time, I will definitely hold him tightly and ask him directly to understand, and I will be guilty of the rest again.

"We're here, and if we can't go down and take a look, we can't figure out the truth about this island."

"Okay, Jing Che, I listen to you, let's go down together. But do Wang Xun and the chatterbox want to go down together? ”

"By the way, there's the two of them in... Wang Xun is a woman, it is not suitable for us to go down, and the guts of the chatterbox seem to be quite small, he should not dare to go down after seeing these two people die here. It's better to let them stay here and the two of us go down and watch. ”

I've seen this box, and there are a lot of timid words, and there should be a lot of things going on here, so let him go down together to be sure that the words are not finished. Although Wang Xun and Yuwen look very similar, after all, they are in Jingche's memory world, and I don't have the interest to grow up in the memory world. I thought I might be able to be more efficient with fewer people.

After discussing with the bamboo pole, I was going to go back and say a few words to the two of them. But as soon as I turned around, I found that the road I had been on was gone! Wang Xun and the chatterbox standing on the wall of the machine are also gone! There were only earthy yellow walls around them, and in this space, it was just me, the bamboo pole, and the two corpses. And the only thing we could go to was the steps in front of us.

"This.... Jing Che, how could this be? And the wall is coming down again? But I didn't hear a sound, did I? Seeing this, the bamboo pole couldn't help but get nervous, ran in a panic to the direction he came from, and carefully touched the wall, which faced him only with a simple and rough wall.

"Sure enough, the island will never be peaceful."

I looked down the stairs, what Jing Che wanted me to see, could it be down here?