Chapter 37 Hope
The distant fear from the dark abyss clamped my soul to death.
Through the thick dust on the surface of the slate, I couldn't even imagine what kind of nightmare was lodged in the gap between the inches beneath my feet.
Is the man who was lost and found still him?
I glanced at the severed arm twitching against the wall, the pungent stench of pus splattering around it.
"Your Excellency—"
Wei Ming snorted softly, sounding like she was enduring great pain,
"Please, please...... Let me out...... Ahhhh......h
But between his staccato words, there seemed to be the sound of a foreign object wriggling. My heart sank, and I hurriedly grabbed Yao and retreated a few steps away, staring at the shaking slate, something - whether it was Wei Ming or some other extremely mysterious creature - was trying to break into a world that was contrary to it.
In the almost beast-like cry, the stone slab also churned more and more violently, and with each collision, it would lift off half a minute, revealing a miserable white shadow that flashed under it.
"Ge, Your Excellency, I, I was wrong, hehe, lie! It's not at all, hahaha! Not at all, depraved! Evolve! This, uh-hehe, it's-"
In an instant, Wei Ming's inhuman plea came to an abrupt end, and the stone slab suddenly stopped moving, leaving only a bleak silence and an extremely cold air in the entire narrow and dim corridor.
Just when my scalp was numb and the corners of my eyes were about to crack, from the bottom of the sealed stone slab, suddenly there was a strange sound of bone joints hitting and rubbing, and words like curses,
"The forest won't let go of its prey."
Hearing this sinister tone, my pupils shrank a little for a moment, and I staggered against the hard wall behind me.
The chill that enveloped it was so strong that the splitting pain crawled all over the throat in an instant.
"It's it..."
I muttered to myself, and what was in front of me was no longer the darkness that permeated the light, but the huge figure that had almost driven Yao to death.
"Hehehe......"
In the dim glow, the monster's grin faded away. And I couldn't hold my weak legs anymore, and I sat down on the ground, and when there was no more congested hissing in my chest, all I could hear was the sound of my molars fluttering.
"Just now, what was that?"
She turned her face slowly, her round eyes staring straight at me, but all I could do was shake her head helplessly to block her unrealistic delusions.
"Why do you think I'll know?"
I saw that Yao's face had become much more ugly, and after a few struggles, she also sat against the wall and sat an arm's length away from me.
"So what do we do now? Waiting to die here? ”
Yao hugged her legs, buried half of her face in light clothes, and stared blankly at the deformed stump in front of her as she spoke, listening to her indifferent tone, it seemed that she really took "waiting for death" as a choice after serious consideration.
I looked at Yao silently for a long time, although it was not the same predicament, but her state at this time was far better than in that abandoned school. Although I knew that there must be a reason for this sudden change, I still couldn't fathom it.
"Take it one step at a time."
I looked back weakly, and at the same time leaned the back of my head against the cold stone bricks, and while relaxing, I also began to observe the scene around me.
Squatting in the long corridor with no edge to the left and right, my vision has never been so comfortable, mixed with unknown minerals between the walls, softly shining in all corners, although a little drowsy, but much better than a dark cave.
Breathing in the tranquil air, I looked up at the ceiling a few meters away, its pale gray surface carved with a large number of patterns, and at first glance it seemed that all the voids had been filled with these tangled marks, except for a few vacant spaces inlaid with a few crystal clear gemstones.
I sighed, staggered to my feet, and walked to the opposite wall, carefully studying the ripples. As my eyes moved, I suddenly noticed that there were many milky white droplets in these half-knuckle-deep ravines, and the peculiar luster immediately evoked the clues wandering in my mind.
"Is it ......?"
As I thought so, I half-crouched down, and the lines that had detached from the ceiling were also visible to me through the thick stone wall, and finally into the inconspicuous grooves along the edge.
After seeing this scene, it dawned on me that this huge corridor, which is more than ten meters long and wide, is actually a pipeline that plays a transportation function, and what it transmits is probably the same substance as those hidden in the blood vessels in the rock crevices.
I looked away and turned to look at Yao behind me, who was still curled up at the foot of the wall, her dull eyes unsure of what emotions were brewing.
"That's right."
Tiptoeing down the empty corridor, I whispered to the long-silent Ten of the Devil,
"What did you mean by saying that you were too late?"
"Ha-don't worry, it'll be right away."
After a short time, he replied yawning, but after listening to it, I always felt that this unscrupulous old man seemed to have withered a lot.
However, at this moment, a strange tone suddenly poured down from above my head, as if thousands of rivers were gathering in one place.
This time, even Yao, who had not seen movement for a long time, raised her head vigilantly and looked at the intricate lines on the surface of the dome.
Beyond the pile of mud and rock, something was rapidly approaching.
In a moment's time, a pale speck appeared in my field of vision, and then quickly spread, and in a few seconds the stacked ravines were all encompassed, and the entire ceiling crumbled like a rain cloud about to burst.
The faint fluorescence is refracted by this mysterious liquid, emitting a strange lilac light that shines on the skin and causes a slight burn.
Suddenly, as if someone had pierced the milky white, countless torrents roared into the recesses between the walls on both sides, and then rushed to the bottom at a speed beyond the reach of the eye, and finally extended into a distant unknown area.
Yao walked up to me in confusion, staring blankly at the snow-white stone wall, and her breathing became much heavier between opening and closing.
"Alright, let's move forward."
Yu Shi muttered softly, as if one more word would kill him.
Hearing this slightly hoarse voice, I hurriedly looked away from the chaotic lines, the space inside the corridor was already soaked in the luster of illusion and reality, as if looking at it for a second would suck people's souls into it.
Shaking my swollen head, I leaned over to Yao's side and tried my best to make up reasonable lies,
"Hey, let's keep going, it's not a way to stay here."
Halfway through the sentence, I saw Yao still staring at the milky white Gulf Stream flowing in the sky, and the dark pupils reflected the brilliant light scattered around her.
"Yao?"
With a soft snort, I stepped forward and tapped her on the shoulder.
With an expression as if she had woken up from a sweet dream, Yao turned her face sleepily and replied in a trance,
"Huh? Where are you going? Why not ...... here"
With that, she really bent over and prepared to sit back down.
Seeing this scene, I didn't have time to react for a while, so I had to drag her towards the direction designated by Yu Shi first.