Chapter 1: The Barren Mountains and Caves (I)

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The black space dyes everything as black as ink.

Fear is creeping in.

The duckweed that has lost its roots and the reincarnation that has broken the road are all composing the most desperate fragments.

Walking in a world without the guidance of the stars, I suddenly discovered-

Night, it turned out to be so desperate, so dark......

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This is the depths of a dark underground cavern, dark, as if it has existed here for thousands of years. Without the light shining on it, the entire underground world was only dead silent and pitch black.

In this cave where you can't see your fingers, in this world of silence, only the huge passage as complex as a spider's web, which is submerged by stagnant water, silently tells the buried historical truth and witnesses the glory of the moment. Occasionally, an eerie cold wind blows from nowhere, making a "whine" sound, as if someone is whispering in the ear, and the fear that comes from the deepest part of the heart arises spontaneously.

A quiet world, a quiet dead silence like a grave.

Suddenly, a not-so-bright flashlight suddenly appeared at the end of the darkness, breaking the silence of this place for thousands of years. As the pillar of light moved, three staggering figures gradually walked out of the dark end. These are three men, two women, all of whom are not very old, about their early twenties. Wearing warm hiking clothes and carrying bulging backpacks, it should be a team to explore this underground cave.

However, the three of them were not in a good state at this time, the only man in the team had a headlamp on his head, a folding shovel in his hand, and his face was tired but he was strong enough to walk in the front to explore the way. The two girls supported each other and followed behind the man, their expressions also sluggish.

Before she had gone far, one of the girls whispered in a hoarse voice, "Xiaozhi, I can't walk." ”

Xiao Zhi stopped, panting slightly. First, he vigilantly observed the surrounding environment, then looked back at the way he came, and finally his eyes fell on the two women, hesitated for a while, and finally nodded.

The two women breathed a sigh of relief as if they had been amnestied, and immediately impatiently found a place to unpack their backpacks and sit down, gasping for breath with their mouths open.

The woman who spoke before took out the kettle and tilted her neck to pour saliva, but after waiting for a long time, not even a drop of water came out of the mouth of the kettle. The girl licked her dry lips and asked in a dry voice to the other woman next to her, "Mianmian, is there any water?" ”

Cao Mianmian shook his head with a bitter face.

The woman named Zhu Xiao looked at Xiao Zhi again, but Xiao Zhi also shook his head with a wry smile.

Zhu Xiao twitched the corner of her mouth self-deprecatingly, wanting to cover the lid back, but this kettle seemed to be against her, and the lid couldn't be screwed on.

"I've had enough!" Zhu Xiao slammed the kettle on the ground, making a muffled "bang" sound, and it spread layer by layer in this dark space. Cao Mianmian next to him was startled by this sudden movement, and turned his head to look at Zhu Xiao but did not speak. Xiao Zhi only raised his head to look at her, and then lowered his head again.

Trapped in this damn ghost place, the heavens should not be, and the earth should not be spiritual. Watching his fellow partners have accidents and die one by one, anyone else will be tortured and go crazy. The three of them have been able to support it until now, and their nerves are tough enough.

Suddenly, Zhu Xiao hid his face and cried bitterly: "What the hell is this place?" I want to go home...... Woo......"

Zhu Xiao's cry rippled in this quiet cave, and soon there were countless echoes, sounding like a lot of people gathered in their ears and crying wantonly, a bit rash.

Xiao Zhi and Cao Mianmian didn't speak, nor did they stop Zhu Xiao from venting their emotions, they just lowered their heads and remained silent, as if they had accepted their fate, just waiting for the final judgment.

Go home? ……

Will they ever be able to make it back alive?

Raising his head, Xiao Zhi's tired and godless eyes looked into the dark depths when he came, and there was a deep despair in his eyes.

The legend of Ghost Face Ridge is actually true......

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The place where Xiao Zhi and the three of them are at the moment is called Ghost Face Ridge by the locals, but they are not in the beautiful mountains and forests of Ghost Face Ridge, but completely lost in the maze underground.

Ghost Face Ridge is also called Rentou Ridge by the local mountain people, it is a mountain range located in the depths of the Qinba Mountains, the most in this area is the karst landform karst cave group, a hole is connected with a hole in it, intricately intertwined, forming a natural labyrinth array. It is said that this maze leads all the way to the depths of the Daba Mountains, and even connects to the end of Shennongjia. But no one can confirm this, for it is said that no one who has fallen into this cave has ever been able to go out again.

The name of Ghost Face Ridge comes from the fact that it is a dirt slope surrounded by mountains. This dirt slope, called Ghostface Mountain, is very peculiar, it is not connected with other majestic mountains, but stands there alone. And nothing grows on the bare mountain, not even a single weed, which is in stark contrast to the surrounding mountains, and it looks out of place.

The most peculiar thing is that this dirt slope, it still has a human face. If you look down from the air, you will be surprised to find that this dirt slope actually has facial features. It has a nose, eyes, and even a mouth, and it is a giant three-dimensional human face emerging from the ground. According to the locals, this face is Xingtian. At that time, Xingtian was beheaded by the Yellow Emperor and his head was abandoned here, and finally Xingtian's head turned into this mountain of human faces, and he has been resentful ever since.

Of course, this is just a local legend. However, although this is only a legend, this place of Ghost Face Ridge is really evil. It is said that there are often some creepy and strange things in this area, and some people have even witnessed the Yin soldiers borrowing the road in the vicinity. Every year, people come here to explore, but very few end up making it back, and no one knows what happened to those people, because almost nine times out of ten the people who came here are missing, and they have not been seen again.

However, not long ago, a team of seven people came all the way to this place. This team is Xiao Zhi's group, they are not a professional expedition team, but a group of like-minded outdoor adventure enthusiasts, because they were attracted by the legend of Ghost Face Ridge, so they met to explore this place together. It's a pity that at that time, this group of young people who don't believe in evil haven't realized that the mystery and horror of Ghost Face Ridge are far beyond their imagination.

After all the hard work to find this place, before they could start the adventure they saw as fun, accidents had already happened, and then they were trapped in this vast underground cavern with no way out.

What's even more terrifying is that soon after, the other members of the team either disappeared inexplicably, or died mysteriously in front of them, and in the end, only Xiao Zhi and the three were still surviving. However, as time went on, they ran out of food and water, and by this time they had run out of ammunition and food, and their hopes were getting slimmer.

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