City of Lies One Hundred and Two. The underworld
"Shhh Where is this?! β
The empty environment, the cold breath, Jiang Wenwen woke up in a trembling, there was darkness around her, only the hard stone under her made her realize that she had fallen to the ground.
"Is this the bottom of the pothole? I didn't get killed..."
Jiang Wenwen struggled to stand up, her leg seemed to be injured, but only slightly sprained.
Then there were some abrasions on the left side of her body, and the rest of her body was healthy, which also made her a little incredible.
However, this may also be a good thing.
Jiang Wenwen leaned against the wall and walked forward slowly.
"It doesn't look like an artificially built crypt here, it's more like a naturally formed one..."Jiang Wenwen looked at the front and back, and then at the top. This place is bottomless, and it's hard to imagine that a labyrinth could be built on top of it..."
For some reason, she could always smell a rancid smell here, the long-standing rancid smell of rotten fish.
"It's so damp here, and the stone walls are full of water, is there a water source nearby?"
She hadn't drunk water for almost three days, and if she continued like this, she would die of thirst here sooner or later.
In general, damp underground caves will have water flowing through, and the old people say that the underground passages are the evidence left by some groundwater when it passes.
When Jiang Wenwen once went to other places for investigation, he drank groundwater once, and there was no peculiar smell, and it was even a little sweet, except for a slight earthy smell, but after filtering, it became extremely sweet.
She could only hope for now that there was an underground river that would give her a breath of relief.
The further you walked in the crypt got darker and darker, and the place where she had just fallen was the only one with light, for above it was the collapsed floor of the hall, and there were lights on it.
It's not easy to walk in the dark, but she can follow the wind, and through the position of the wind here, determine where the water is and where the outlet is.
"Huh? There's the sound of running water! There is indeed an underground river here! β
Jiang Wenwen had never been so happy, there was no need to say how important water was to people, and she had finally realized it now.
After a few more turns, she finally saw the underground river, which was not big, but at least it had a water source now.
She hurriedly rushed forward, knelt on the ground and gulped the water inside, not even caring if it was dirty or not.
"Ahh It's so cool! Jiang Wenwen wiped his mouth and sat on the ground. Although the water has a strange smell, it can still be drunk, and it can be regarded as alive! β
The underground river is very fast, and because of the water, the temperature here is also relatively cool, and it is also slightly brighter, so that she can see the surrounding environment less clearly.
"It looks a lot more empty here, and there seems to be a lot of animal smell left around, so it doesn't seem like a good place to camp..."
Jiang Wenwen didn't want to stay here, with her physical strength, it was better to find a safe shelter as soon as possible to rest first, it was better to get some food, or a better source of fire, but she didn't have anything now.
At that moment, she suddenly felt as if there was something in the water? Extremely curious, she hurriedly stepped forward to check.
The dark water rippled, and she couldn't see what was inside, but it looked like a human figure.
"Is there a man in there?"
Jiang Wenwen couldn't believe this conjecture, and stretched out his hand to pull the thing out of the water.
When she touched that thing, it became clear to her that it was really a person.
And when she pulled it all out, a feeling of extreme nausea enveloped her body, and her hands had already let go of the thing, and she quickly fled from the water's edge.
"Gross! Vomit!! β
Jiang Wenwen kept vomiting, almost vomiting out all the water he had just drunk.
She dragged up a corpse, the surface of which had been swollen and whitish from blisters, probably having been flooded for more than a few hours.
However, the skin on the surface of the corpse was still largely intact, except for some limbs with abrasions, but not death.
After Jiang Wenwen eased his emotions, he returned to the shore again, wanting to see the corpse again.
As a suspense novelist, she often goes to the morgues of major hospitals and crematoriums to collect materials, and has seen many corpses, but she has never touched the corpse herself, and this time, she has no idea how many corpses she has encountered.
Jiang Wenwen was once a smash hit suspense mystery novelist, but in recent years, she has been lonely, because of the rise of Shuangwen, as a major branch of online literature, it has stolen most of the business of physical books, and she, as the leader of physical books, will definitely be affected.
And if you want to solve this situation, you have to come up with better novel ideas to attract readers.
And what she chose was to participate in this secret room game.
Jiang Wenwen walked slowly to the corpse, although the corpse was already swollen, she could still tell at a glance that she was Feng Xiaoling.
"Looks like she fell from above, and the bloody handprints on the wall should be hers..."
After carefully observing Feng Xiaoling's corpse, Jiang Wenwen got up and stood up, her body was extremely uncomfortable, not because of poisoning, but extremely nauseated, and she retched when she thought that she had actually drunk the water soaked in the corpse.
"Let's get out of here..."
Jiang Wenwen sighed at Feng Xiaoling's corpse, and then left here.
Underground rivers are particular about it, and the water generally flows from the top to the bottom, so if you go upstream, you will definitely find an outlet.
Jiang Wenwen also thought so, and walked up the stream, and sure enough, a cool wind blew, and this wind also heralded victory.
She actually didn't expect to win the game, and the material was his real purpose, but if she could make some money from it, then she was not unacceptable.
"There's a light there?" Jiang Wenwen's eyes lit up, looking at the light of the year ago, his consciousness was a little trance. "It looks like I really stumbled into the exit by mistake!"
Jiang Wenwen quickly quickened her pace, wanting to leave this ghost place quickly, but when she was about to reach the entrance of the cave, she found that there seemed to be a figure there...
"Huh? Is there anyone there? Could it be that he is also one of our people? β
Her first reaction, it was the people from the game organizers, and it was here to prove that the first person to reach the exit was there.
But when she got closer and closer to the figure, she found that it was Jack, who had been with them before.
"Jack! Why are you here?! β
Jack stood in place, looking very abnormal, not paying attention to Jiang Wenwen's words at all, just taking care of himself and not knowing what he was muttering.
"No one... Get out of here..."
"What?" Jiang Wenwen didn't hear clearly, and took a few steps forward. "Jack, are you alright?"
"You're all going to die here!"
Jack yelled and rushed towards Jiang Wenwen, only to find that Jack was covered in blood and holding a sharp stone in his hand that she didn't know where to find.
Seeing this, Jiang Wenwen hurriedly ran back, constantly thinking about how to escape.
But Jack followed very hard, and in her current state she might not last more than five minutes before she would be chased and killed.
After thinking about it, she only thought of one way, and that was to use the underground river next to her.
"Dead or alive, resigned to fate..."
Jiang Wenwen glanced back, Jack was only two meters away from her, and she had no choice.
She quickly turned, dodged Jack's fatal blow, and jumped into the river.
She wanted to jump into the river and swim upstream, but she seemed to be a little naΓ―ve, because the river was so turbulent that she couldn't control her movement in the river.
She can only go down the current now, and what should be said about her current state is what she should say about following the current.
For some reason, Jack didn't catch up, he just watched from the shore, not sure if he was scared or didn't want to chase, in short, he didn't go into the water.
Jiang Wenwen had swam a little, but she didn't choose to go ashore, because she hadn't left Jack's sight yet, and if she went ashore now, she would definitely be chased by Jack.
"Jack is going to kill too... Will there be two liars in this game? β
Her mind is very chaotic now, and she has always thought that Zheng Meng is the liar among them and the only murderer.