Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The sound of the blunt thump grew louder and clearer, and I could almost see through the twisted hole a monstrous-looking monster shrinking into it, crawling towards me at a rapid pace.

"What to do, what to do......"

I tried desperately to find a way to crack this dead move, but my blank and stiff brain couldn't think of any countermeasures at this time.

“md！ Fight with it! ”

The big man roared angrily, picked up the iron rod that had fallen nearby, and clasped his hands across his chest, as if he was going to fight to the death. Looking at his posture like a tiger and wolf, I still couldn't stop sweating like rain. How long can this kind of situation of catching turtles in an urn be hard and rigid? Five minutes? If you're lucky, you can't make it to ten minutes? No, no, no, no, we will definitely die if we continue like this.

I fell to my knees, tugging at my unkempt hair in agony, the non-stop crawling sound hitting my throat like notes in a Grim Reaper's music, and I retched twice, spitting out only a few drops of fishy, bitter water.

In desperation, I stared at the dark and cramped cavern in front of me, and recounted everything that had happened before. From the moment you start to the moment you fall into such a desperate situation, there must be something wrong! What the hell are we ignoring?!

This near-death experience made me feel hot and dry, sweat running down every hair, and the already soaked clothes clinging to my skin, and the scratched parts only felt like fire. I wiped the sweat from my head, but the doubts in my heart could not be dispelled, obviously it was not so hot here before I came down? Why......

Suddenly! I had a flash of inspiration, and a most unlikely possibility came to mind.

The knocking sound was already close at hand, and I didn't care about calling the big man, so I fell to the ground first and patted the ground around me like crazy.

There's still a chance! There's still a chance to escape!

The big man probably heard something wrong, and turned his head to me while holding the iron rod in his hand,

"Hey! What are you doing! Are you stunned?! ”

I tried to take a little space out of my brain, which was about to be overwhelmed by all kinds of emotions and speculations, and replied,

"No, no, no...... It's not a dead end, there's ...... And also! It's not a cave, it's a trap! Organ...... Surely it will be able to open somewhere, there is a mechanism! Wait a minute...... TMD! ”

My hand, which kept flapping on the ground nearby, made a crisp echo when it hit a scratched stone face. I screamed excitedly, and immediately leaned down to blow away the dust covering it, revealing a complex pattern.

"What? What did you find! ”

The big man shouted urgently, and I could clearly feel the ground trembling rapidly nearby.

Knock knock!!!

It's that monster! It's about to break in!

I pinched my face and gritted my teeth as I stared at the direction of the lines. As if blessed by heaven and man, along one of the lines that stretched out, I found a small pit two fingers thick,

"Sticks! Stick! ”

My tone became shrill like a birdsong in the burst.

The big man moved his feet and kicked hard at the entrance of the cave, almost flying to my side. After seeing the hole I was pointing to, he didn't say a word, he raised the iron rod in his hand above his head, and then thrust it hard!

The hole and the iron rod fit together impartially, and I heard a series of clicks like raindrops, and the stone walls around me seemed to spin.

Real, or hallucinatory, there was a crack in the center of the ground that was originally intact, and dust roared into it. Then, the crack cracked into the stone walls on either side with rapid speed, splitting the entire cavern in half.

Before the screams could be heard, the dust had not yet settled, and the ground suddenly collapsed as if it had lost its support.

Time is outrageously slow at this moment.

As I fell, I took one last look at the hole in the distance, and a hateful face was exposed—a strange blue-gray face, a jaw that seemed to have been pulled out with force, and a pale jaw bone stuck in the air. Under my vein-covered forehead, a pair of hair-thin pupils were locked on my body.

But I know we're catching up.

I relaxed my body and held the flashlight with my right hand and pointed a standard middle finger towards the hole.

Then, the soul and body returned to the arms of gravity, and I fell.

"Ah———————————h

Flying in mid-air, I tore out my throat and screamed.

There is indeed another even bigger cave under the cave just now, the cave should only be an intermediate platform, and the wind I felt at the entrance of the security room at the beginning was probably emitted when this platform was opened, and it could be a monster, or a girl and a little girl. It seems that I am indeed blessed to be able to find the right train of thought in such a short period of time. But there is one more very important question that bothers me right now, and that is.......

Why is this pit so deep!

Three or four seconds have passed, and I'm still falling! Damn it! Am I going to be thrown to death if I finally escape? That's ironic, isn't it? But does it hurt?

Just when my mind was mixed, the huge impact and the cold torrent instantly overwhelmed me, and I must have fallen into some waterhole.

"Poof————"

After sinking half a meter, I swam to the surface of the water and spat out the slightly rusty pool in my mouth. The quality of the flashlight was surprisingly good, and I was overjoyed that the impact and soaking had not extinguished it, and I held it above my head while my feet paddled in the water to keep my balance.

"Hey! What about you? You okay! ”

I tried to spin around, trying to find the man's trace. A few seconds later, a large, round head popped up next to me.

"Wow - exciting!"

The big man shook his head like a seal, and the flying droplets splashed me in the face. I swam away twice in disgust, but I was completely relieved to see that he was safe.

I held my flashlight up and shone it up, and the distant dome was tightly closed, and it seemed that the monster threat was over.

I shuddered at the thought of the mutilated face I had just seen.

"Let's go ashore first, it's too cold in the water."

The pool that had been closed underground for a long time was cold to the bone, and the tips of the hands and feet were slowly losing sensation.

"Huh! Little brother, look there! ”

The big man pointed in one direction, I turned on the flashlight to look, and sure enough, there was a dry platform more than ten meters away, and there was a small hole half a person high two meters above the platform. I slipped my flashlight into the neckline at the back of my neck and swam there like a frogman with a searchlight on my back.

The incapacitated left arm was in the way, and when I struggled to crawl to the shore, I had no strength to move except to take out the flashlight and throw it aside. The big man also crawled out of the water after him, his physical strength was much better than mine, and he couldn't even breathe a little faster after swimming this short distance.

After wiping the water from my face, the big man came to me and helped me up, I sat cross-legged on the hard and cold ground, so tired that I could only shake my hand at him, at least for a short time I could not continue walking.

Seeing this situation, the big man also lay on the ground a little helplessly. After half a ring, I was almost rested, and the turbidity in my lungs was cleared. When I was about to discuss my next step, Dahan suddenly asked me,

"Little brother, did you think they would be here?"

I thought about it for a while, but I couldn't find any evidence that they had been here.

"Alas...... I don't know, I can only take one step at a time. ”

The big man picked up a stone and threw it into the pool that had just calmed down. The stones submerged in it, and suddenly there were waves, and the slight sound of water kept intertwining and reverberating in the vast space.

"Hmph, take it one step at a time, look at ...... one step at a time"

Immediately, as if thinking of something, he straightened up and looked at the overlapping waves in the distance, muttering a sentence in his mouth. I leaned closer and could hear it clearly.

"They must still be ......"

After discovering that I was eavesdropping, the big man didn't mind, he looked at my eyes and raised the corners of his mouth to make a smiling expression, but I couldn't see any joy or relief in this face. When he finished laughing, he stopped looking at me and looked at the dark lake.

"Actually...... I'm not completely amnesiac anymore. ”

Dahan was silent for a few seconds and then said, although I was a little surprised, but now I have no defense against him, I just feel that he has something unspeakable.

"That'...... What do you remember? ”

He didn't continue for a long time, so long that I thought he was asleep. Just as I was about to ask again, the big man's voice finally rang out again,

"I remember having a daughter."

I was a little surprised, and asked,

"Daughter? Who is it? ”

"I don't remember exactly...... But I could feel that it was one of them. ”

I thought about it carefully, and the faces of the big man and the two of them were stacked together in my memory, and after careful comparison and verification, I did notice that the shape of the girl's facial features was somewhat similar to the big man, but in order to confirm, I first asked him tentatively,

"Which one do you think it will be?"

“…… I really don't know. ”

Dahan is not a person who is good at disguising his feelings, and his sadness and anxiety are clearly engraved on his face. I decided not to rush to say what I was conjecturing, but I couldn't bear to watch him continue to languish, so I stood up and handed my right hand to the big man who was sitting on the ground with his legs curled up

"Then keep walking! These things can only be cleared by asking them face to face, and they must still be waiting for us! ”

After listening to this, the big man was stunned for a few seconds, but then he grinned again, and I seemed to see his previous momentum return to his side, he grabbed my hand and stood up, and roared vigorously,

"Let's go!"

At the end of the rest period, the physical and mental fatigue is also relieved. I bent down to pick up my flashlight and looked at the next target, the cave above us.

Although the cave was above, but fortunately it was only a little more than two meters above the ground, I turned to look at the big man and suggested to him,

"So, I'll step on you first, and then I'll pull you again, how about it?"

But the big man asked me with a serious face,

"Huh? Why can't I go up first, I can't pull you easier? ”

I felt so angry and funny, I really wanted to rush over and slap him on the useless head,

"You're stepping on me? Do you think I'm dying fast enough? ”

"Uh......"

The big man scratched his head, looking a little embarrassed,

"That's, that's good! Little brother, look at it! ”

"Nonsense, just don't move!"

The big Hanliso ran to the bottom of the cave, leaning his back against the rock wall, and his hands were folded on the surface of his right leg.

"Come on, little brother!"

Seeing that he was ready, I also bowed down and rushed towards the entrance of the cave. At a distance of one meter from the big man, my left leg slammed on the ground, and the whole person took off with the help of the right leg at the same time, and the sole of the foot just landed on the palm of the big man. The big man also saw the opportunity, and his arms as strong as corbels were raised above his head, and I was bounced up by this huge force and drilled into the hole accurately.

"How?"

Dahan shouted below.

I patted the dust on my face, and was glad to find that this set of smooth operations did not scratch anywhere.

"It's up! Ha ha! ”

"Good! Take a look, it's easy to walk inside! ”

Just as I took out my flashlight to take a look, I noticed something not far ahead, I squinted, and the light of the flashlight hit it straight. But when I saw the small body clearly, I was shocked and speechless on the spot—

That's a person! And look at that costume, it's the girl who disappeared before!

I hurriedly shouted behind me,

"Hey! I've found them! ”

"What! What did you say?! ”

"That girl! She's lying here! ”

Without bothering to listen to the big man's questions and exclamations, I quickly crawled up to the girl's side and lay her curled body flat in front of me. I roughly scanned it with a flashlight, and there were no obvious external injuries on her body, except for the scratches on the back of her hands and cheeks, which showed dark red blood, and she probably just fainted from excessive start.

"Hey! Wake up! ”

I set the flashlight aside and pinched the girl's midriff hard and yelled loudly into her ear.

Finally, the girl's eyelashes shook a few times and slowly opened her eyes.

Inside the long, dimly lit cavern, I wasn't sure if the girl had recognized me, but I watched as her gaze changed from confusion to horror, from panic to panic, and finally to extreme madness and despair—memories of before she passed out, writhing misshapen tentacles into her brain.

The girl finally screamed.

"Ahhhh———hhh

I could barely hold down her twitching torso, snow-white foam trickling down the corners of her gaping mouth, and I could see the sanity in her pupils being eaten away.

If she continues like this, she'll go crazy.

Before I had time to think about it, I let go of the hand that was pressing on her shoulder and slapped her hard in the face.

With a crisp sound, the girl finally fell silent, but immediately, the screams of horror turned into uncontrollable crying, the girl's petite chest rose and fell desperately, and a touch of purple appeared on her pale red lips.

Thankfully, she came to her senses.

"Do you still recognize me?"

I picked up the flashlight and shone it on the girl's face with a non-glaring outer ring, and my hanging heart finally stabilized after seeing her nod.

"Hey! Little bunny, you have to talk back! How is she! ”

Only then did I have the energy to deal with the problem of the big man.

"It's okay, she's okay!"

"What about the other one! How about the other one! ”

Suddenly, as if my heart was being clutched by a huge iron claw, I only felt that my lips were dry and terrible, because from the time I came up until now, I had only seen a girl.

And the maiden is not here.

"What about her? Where's that girl?! ”

I shouted again, the sound amplified into a shrill roar in the narrow space.

The girl looked at me and cried even more. Just when I thought I had scared her, she stumbled out the truth in the middle of crying that made the corners of my eyes almost burst.

"Woo woo, sister, sister she, cough cough, woo woo-"

"What's wrong with her? Where is she? ”

"Sister, she was by something! I can't see—woo-I can't see anything—"

"And then?! What happened to something! ”

The little girl's voice became trembling and smallened,

"I can't see, woo——, but I touch, I touch, I touch—"

"You've touched something! Say it! ”

The little girl was almost gasping for breath, and just before she was about to lose any words because of lack of oxygen, I heard something that would have scared me for the rest of my life.

"Woo-I touched,

Sister's head. ”