Volume 2 Jade Void Lotus Chapter 24 Bloodstains
Waber squatted down, his eyes fixed on one place, "Well, that's right, there seem to be a lot of children's footprints here, it seems that someone has just done it here, and there are still a lot of them." ”
Then he lit a fire and continued his round, when he suddenly stopped, pointed to a fork in the road, and said, "All the footprints are concentrated here, and they entered from here." ”
Da Zhuang and I also hurriedly stepped forward to take a look, yes, it seems that there are dozens of people in this group, they came here first, and then entered this fork in the road together.
At this time, I felt as if my feet were separated by something, and when I looked down, it was a bronze bead the size of a small fingernail, and I picked it up and looked carefully, the workmanship of the bead was very exquisite, and the hollow carved with the pattern of auspicious clouds and flying birds, which was hollow, and there was still a torn metal wire in it, which should be part of something, and it looked a little familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere, but I couldn't remember how to think about it.
Da Zhuang thought that I had picked up the treasure, and he also grabbed it and studied it for a long time, and then threw it to me, and said with some disappointment: "It's just a broken copper bead, it seems to be a girl's thing." ”
I was shocked, I took the bronze beads to my nose and smelled them, and sure enough, there was a special fragrance, very familiar, "This...... This is Xia Ti's thing, I saw this thing when I was riding the same horse with her, and this copper bead fell from her hairpin! ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes were focused on the copper bead again, and Da Zhuang shouted: "It seems to be true, so what are we waiting for?" ”
As he spoke, he glanced at me, and we tacitly drew our daggers together and walked into the road in front of us.
"No, no, you'd better not go in, there's no beast in it, there's no man, there's absolutely no one, and I can't remember why, but you have to trust me." Uyingna shouted in fear, her voice trembling a little.
Da Zhuang quipped: "Sister, since you don't know why, don't follow the blind mixing, if you don't catch a few live roasts to eat today, I will have to run out of food." With that, he continued to walk inside.
Hua Bo handed me a torch and instructed: "Watch your step, follow the footprints, follow the behind, follow the front, and don't fall behind." ”
I nodded at Warber, and caught a glimpse of Uyingna still standing at the entrance of the cave and refusing to enter, biting her lip and staring at me with an extremely complicated gaze, looking at each other, which made me very unnatural, for there was a helplessness and resentment in her eyes.
I said to her, "I appreciate the kindness of the black girl, but one of our companions has been separated and is still missing, and we are all worried about her, so as long as there is a clue, we must find out about it." ”
Uyingna still didn't move, just nodded silently.
In fact, I still have a grudge against her, so I took a few steps with a torch, picked up Da Zhuang, who was walking in the front, and said in his ear in the smallest voice: "Don't you think there is something wrong with this Wu Yingna, she should still have something to hide from us." ”
Da Zhuang didn't shy away from it, and said: "There's nothing wrong, she just can't remember." ”
"Be quiet...... You go to the back and take care of Huabo, in short, be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years. I gritted my teeth and squeezed the words out between my teeth.
Da Zhuang saw that I was serious and nodded, but he muttered as he walked back: "People are much more accurate than you......"
At this moment, the formation changed to me in the front, followed by Huabo, Wuyingna and Da Zhuang, and after walking forward, I found a strange phenomenon, this place is much more spacious than when I first entered, and I can't see anything from the cave wall, that is, the road is in the shape of a slight trumpet, and the further forward it is, the more open it becomes.
I don't know exactly where the cave leads, but the wider it gets, the more you feel sure. I followed the footprints on the ground and walked forward, and there was nothing to worry about, since there were so many people walking, it must be a way to live, I guessed that Xia Ti was probably caught here by the people of the Western Queen Mother Country, looking at the footprints on the ground, they must not have walked for long, maybe they could catch up, thinking of this, I quickened my pace.
After walking another stick of incense, my head ran away, and then I looked at the ground, I don't know when the footprints were gone, my heart jumped, and I hurriedly stopped and looked back, fortunately Hua Bo followed closely behind, I said: "The footprints on the ground are gone." ”
Warber nodded, "These footprints seem to be gone right here." ”
I took a picture with a torch, and sure enough, the footprints only reached the place where Hua Bo was standing, and there was no one further on, "How is this possible, as long as they go forward, they will definitely leave footprints, if they don't go forward, where do people go, they can't disappear for no reason, right?" ”
"Judging by the pace, the footsteps have not changed, indicating that these people have not stopped and continue to move forward." Waber Road.
I said, "Could it be that they were afraid of being exposed and erased the footprints in front of them?" ”
Warber shook his head, "Impossible, even if it is wiped off, it will inevitably leave traces." And I don't think they bother to do that kind of thing at all, look! As he spoke, Warber suddenly pointed to the wall of the cave beside me.
There seemed to be scratch marks on the cave wall, and there were some black-brown sticky objects, I touched them with my hands, and there were blood stains that were about to freeze, and I speculated: "Could it be that these people have encountered some monster attacks when they come here, maybe they have all encountered accidents, there are no footprints, only blood and scratches." Then Xia Ti must be in danger, we have to hurry. As I spoke, I strode on.
"Wait, Yang Zi, I don't know what's going on here, but this place is anything but unusual, haven't you noticed? The entrance to the cave narrowed suddenly. Warber said to me loudly.
It seems that this is the case, the cave was still very spacious, just a few steps away, and the cave here suddenly became narrow and cramped, and I didn't even notice it, which is also very strange.
I was wondering, and suddenly, I heard a shout from the back of the team: "There are ghosts!" Ghosts! ”
Everyone hurriedly looked back, only to see Da Zhuang, who was walking last, leaning against the cave wall tightly, his face was pale, his face was covered with sweat, and he pointed to the ground and said in a trembling voice: "Footprints behind, footprints, footprints...... Gone! ”
Seeing this, Hua Bo and I hurried to check, but I don't know why, I was obviously going to be strong, but it seemed to be getting farther and farther away from him, to be precise, I was getting farther and farther away from them, and they were turning, their feet were on top and down, at this time, I could only see a light in Uyingna's eyes, and the light shone on my face, she didn't have any expression, like a dying person, and said to me weakly: "Put out the torch, and your heart will turn ...... at will."
They spun around, their feet slowly upward, and their heads down, and gradually disappeared, so that I didn't even hear what Uyingna was saying, oh my God! What's going on, is it another hallucination?
"Put out the torch", I glanced at the torch in my hand, and suddenly realized that the person who was spinning might not be Huabo, because the direction of the flame can only be upward, and the torch in my hand, the flame pointed to the side, and the person who was spinning was me, and my body had turned sideways.
Suddenly, I felt dizzy, unsteady on my feet, fell heavily on the cave wall, turned over several times, and when I landed, the blood flowed, and the torch was also scattered, and it went out, but I felt better in the dark, and struggled to hold on to the cave wall and stabilize my body.
My hands felt slimy and smelly, and suddenly, a pair of bright spots appeared in front of me, slowly drifting to my eyes, it was the eyes, the eyes I had seen at the entrance of the cave before, and I quickly lit a fire.
By the light of the fire, the eyes were gone, and the walls of the cave were covered with blood and scratches, and my hand was pressed against a bloody handprint, a small bloody handprint, it should have been a child's, the blood had not yet coagulated, it had been left not long ago.
I felt dizzy again, and quickly extinguished the fire, the darkness will make people more comfortable, the cave here seems to move, people will circle in it, it's okay when you can't see it, if you can see it, it's dizzy, the group of people before us walked here and suffered the same thing, they were also broken on the head and bled out, but there are no bodies here, they should all have walked out, or, or they were all devoured.
I also tried to walk forward in the dark, but before I took two steps, the shining eyes came again, and they were about to float in front of me, and I didn't dare to light the fire again, so I had to draw my sword and slash at those eyes, which suddenly split into two, and became two pairs, four eyes, exactly the same, staring straight at me, I slashed a few more swords, and several more pairs of eyes, densely dizzy and disgusting.
I had to tear off a strip of cloth and blindfold my eyes. Whatever he was, I turned my heart on and tried to move forward.
As soon as I took two steps, I felt as if I had stepped on something, soft, like, like a dead body, I suddenly became unstable, and fell again, the ground was hard, there was nothing soft, only the sharp stone wall hit my head and bleed.
I'm scared, could it be that those eyes are doing something? I tried to get up, sat on the ground, adjusted my breathing, and suddenly remembered a story about the Devil's Forest, when I was a child, Ah Weng told me, that once upon a time there was a Devil's Forest, it is said that there was the ugliest evil ghost in the world, and the people who lived around tried to walk through the forest, either died or went crazy and none of them were spared, but only one foreigner passed through the forest unharmed, and everyone asked him what method he used to do it, but the stranger said, what kind of method does it take to pass through a forest? It turned out that the stranger was a blind man, and he was not afraid if he couldn't see it, but in fact, evil spirits don't harm people, and the reason why people go crazy and die is because of their own hearts.