Chapter 19: Tiny
Ma Ming's expression was serious, he didn't say a word, I said that I was about to turn back, but he pressed the back of his head and pulled his eyes back, and said in a deep voice: "If you still don't die fast enough, just go and see." ”
When I heard this, I didn't dare to look back. The two of them moved forward in silence, and after a while, I couldn't help but say, "Manager Ma, don't you think...... Are the footsteps getting louder? "It's not just getting louder, it's getting faster.
Suddenly, Ma Ming stuffed the parchment paper to me, I touched this thing and thought in my heart, and asked Manager Ma what you are doing.
Ma Ming said: "You come to see the road, I'll deal with the thing behind." I was stunned, and in this short interval the owner of the footsteps seemed to understand our conversation, and at first he was just walking in a hurry, but now he sped up and ran, and the sound of the clatter hitting the floor tiles was like a violent storm, and it grabbed the heartstrings of the people.
Ma Ming saw that I was stunned, so he pushed me and shouted, "What are you doing in a daze, run!" ”
I said "oh" twice, and I didn't care about the diaphragm in my heart to the map made of baby skin, ran around a corner, and two roads that showed the word fork appeared in front of me, I unfolded the map to look at it, compared to our current position, and chose the left without hesitation.
I shouted, "Ma Ming, keep up!" Then he ran into the left passage without looking back. The clicking sound behind me was like a spell urging my life, not only did not disappear as I chose the right path, but became more and more rapid and loud, and I dared to stop when I heard it, and ran desperately with the speed of the high school speed measurement of 100 meters.
In the process of running, I realized that the tunnel of Qingtong Manor was much larger and more complicated than I imagined, and the tunnels were connected one after another, as if they were endless. I even suspect that they have hollowed out the entire underground of Qingtong Manor to build such a shelter, the terrain is rugged, and the structure is delicate, like a small mausoleum.
I had to refer to the map as I ran, and the flashlight was in my mouth, and my saliva even ran down my chin. I don't know how long I ran, but the footsteps behind me finally faded away, I crossed my waist and stopped, panting like a cow, took out mineral water from my backpack and poured it hard, and then slid down to rest with my legs limply against the wall.
At this moment, I was desperate to discover a fact: I don't know when it started, Ma Ming is gone! I almost spewed out a dirty word in my heart, I looked at the map to lead the way in front, and reminded him every time I passed a fork in the road, just like that, Manager Ma can still get lost, is he stupid?
But it soon dawned on me that I was the one who was missing, and when I unfolded the vellum to see where I had gone, I realized that I had taken it backwards in the first place! No wonder the footsteps kept chasing me, and the skin paper was reversed, that is, I had chosen the wrong path from the beginning. Thinking about this, I came down in a cold sweat. I still remember that just half an hour ago, Ma Ming said that there is only one dead end if you go the wrong way!
However, it still looks pretty safe now, and it should be too late for me to go back in the opposite direction against the map...... Right?
Thinking of this, I didn't care about resting, so I stood up against the wall, carefully checked it repeatedly, and retreated according to the original path. I couldn't remember the exact route because of fear and hurry, but I still had a vague feeling that I had run around about seven or eight corners, and as long as I followed the turns, I should be able to return to the entrance where I started. At first, I was a little worried, afraid that if I went back, I would meet the owner of the clattering footsteps, but I would never dare to follow the wrong path of death.
But after trying to walk back for a while, nothing unusual appeared, and I was relieved to think that maybe the dirty thing had left, and the speed of walking back increased.
In this way, I walked back for another ten minutes or so, and when I passed the eighth corner, a huge relief of Yama with a fire burning behind me appeared in front of me, and I was overjoyed, and I remembered that Ma Ming and I were separated from each other near here. The appearance of the Yama relief indicates that it is not far from the place where it began.
I glanced at the rakshasa reliefs around me, and the candles lit by Ma Ming were still burning as usual, illuminating this small square world, which also made me feel a lot more at ease. I left the Rakshasa corridor and passed through a small tunnel that was completely dark, and I ran forward excitedly when I saw a faint light shining in front of me, and when the scene in front of me appeared in my eyes, I was suddenly stunned.
It was a huge relief of Hades with a fire burning behind it.
I'm back in the Rakshasa corridor. In my own sense, I didn't turn a corner, I kept going straight, and there was no reason why I would go back to this hallway. I thought back to this familiar experience, and a chill ran through my feet, but I didn't want to show fear, so I walked again. I was sure I was walking in a straight line this time, but half a minute later, the Yama relief appeared in front of me again.
This time I noticed the candles more. Although the candle has always been burning, it is reasonable to say that it will become more or less shorter after so long, but the candle in this corridor seems to be still, burning quietly for a long time, but not even half a drop of wax oil drops. In this space, time seems to stand still.
I dropped my flashlight and was about to pick it up, when I suddenly noticed...... Behind the room on the left, there stood a pair of feet. I don't know when I was standing there, but I could see that it was a woman's feet, with slender and snow-white ankles, stepping on high heels, and two small mallets tied with wooden ropes on her feet. In a hundred-year-old tunnel, a third stranger has appeared......?
I was so frightened that my scalp exploded, and my breath suddenly became short, which means that the footsteps are gone, and they are waiting for me here. I maintained the position of picking up the flashlight for a long time, and suddenly I saw the feet move, as if I realized that I had sensed its presence, and was about to push the door out.
I immediately ignored the three-seven-twenty-one, spread the girl and ran wildly, running around and around the only exit, but every time it appeared in front of me the exact same Yama relief, and the footsteps were getting closer and closer, I was going to be desperate by the approaching horror, at this moment, suddenly something cold and soft swept from the back of my neck, I thought it was a bug, reached out and grabbed it, but I didn't expect to grab a large handful of long black hair.
In the small corridor, I suddenly remembered the sizzling sound, like the sound of some kind of insect crawling through the wall, the sound was very close, and I looked around, left and right, but there was no abnormality. Finally, I was keenly aware of something, and the light of the flashlight swept up the ceiling, only to see countless cracks in the ceiling, like the hair of a living creature like dancing algae out of it, the picture was strange and strange.
The moment I looked up, my hair was like a cobra locked onto its prey, and it suddenly jumped at me. I couldn't dodge before they got wrapped around my neck and jerked up with my feet dangling.
The force of the hair twisting was like a big man pinching my neck, and my face turned red, my mouth opened, and a few broken moans came out of my throat. The flashlight rolled down from my hand, and it went out after a few flashes, and I felt my vision gradually blur in front of me in my suffocation, and I thought unwillingly that I would die before I was born, and I am afraid that I will have to confess here today. Manager Ma, Manager Ma is here to save me!
Just as I was thinking this, suddenly my calf tightened, someone hugged my calf from below, and a voice came: "Hold on, I'll save you!" ”
It was a somewhat familiar, and crisp woman's voice. Listening to the voice, it feels soft and weak, but the strength is surprisingly large, and the skills are also extraordinarily agile. She grabbed me and jumped up like a monkey, wrapped her legs around my waist, and cut the hair around my neck with two or three sharp blows.
I fell from the air with a poof, and I was dizzy all of a sudden, and I was still dizzy in front of me, and my hand was grabbed, and the woman who rescued me picked up the flashlight with one hand, and pulled me to run with the other, and said, "Hurry up, they are going to catch up!" ”
I didn't know who she was, but I wasn't at least a bad guy who would kill me in this environment, so I let her pull me and run after her in the darkness of no light. She had a lot of strength, and I stumbled a little because of dizziness in the middle of the way, and when I almost fell, she pulled me up and dragged me away.
I don't know how long I ran, but in the darkness there was only my rapid gasp, she seemed to be at ease, and with such a large amount of exercise, I didn't see her breathing unsteady or staggering. With her with me, I never hit the wall again and met the Rakshasa corridor that I couldn't get out, we passed through one tunnel after another, I shook her off in a secluded corner, panting and waving my hand: "I can't do it, stop." ”
The woman stopped and swept me with her flashlight, as if to see if I had run out of breath. Swept away by the light of the flashlight, I saw her face clearly in the dazzling eyes, and to my great surprise, this person turned out to be a star Xiaoxiao raised by real estate developers.