Chapter 3: Barren Mountains and Caves (II)
At the same time as the screams came out, Xiao Zhi and Cao Mianmian were also startled. Xiao Zhi's right hand subconsciously fished out but was empty, he immediately jumped up and shouted: "Zhu Xiao! ”
"Ahh!!h In response to him, Zhu Xiao's sharp and piercing scream was still there, and in the dark, her voice was flying away.
"Smack!" Xiao Zhi and Cao Mianmian turned on their headlamps at the same time, and the two lights suddenly illuminated half of the cave. Although the light of the headlamp is relatively soft and not dazzling, but the environment from darkness to light in an instant, Xiaozhi and Cao Mianmian have not adapted for a while, and they are still stabbed at the moment when the headlamp is turned on, and they subconsciously close their eyes.
After blinking a few times quickly, Xiao Zhiqiang endured the strong discomfort in his eyes, half-squinted his eyes and tried to look in the direction where the voice came from, just in time to see Zhu Xiao's last figure flash away at the entrance of a hole in front of him.
"Zhu Xiao!" Xiao Zhi shouted, picked up the folding shovel, grabbed Cao Mianmian's hand with one hand, and shouted: "Chase!" The two of them didn't even have time to pick up the backpacks on the ground, and chased straight towards the hole where Zhu Xiao disappeared last.
The roads in the cave are intricate, fortunately, Zhu Xiao's heart-rending screams have not stopped along the way, Xiao Zhi and the two of them chased after the sound relentlessly, although they never caught up, but they were lucky not to lose it.
The two chased after each other, and they didn't know how many caves they had passed through, and at this time they didn't have time to think about the emotion of "fear", they only knew that no one could have an accident anymore.
And at this moment, Zhu Xiao's scream in front of him suddenly stopped, and then turned into a cry. Xiao Zhi and Cao Mianmian also stagnated, and looked at each other from behind.
Zhu Xiao...... Seems to have stopped?
"Be careful." Xiao Zhi reminded in a whisper.
Cao Mianmian nodded, hid behind him, and tightly tugged at Xiao Zhi's clothes.
Xiao Zhi tightened the folding shovel in his hand, took a deep breath to strengthen his courage, and then carefully took Cao Mianmian and leaned towards Zhu Xiao's cry little by little.
The road ahead gradually contracted and narrowed, and the stalactites were no longer visible. It seems that it is no longer a cave, but a gastrofis, a crack that was torn in the interior of the mountain due to earthquakes in ancient times. The whole passage is wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, triangular in shape, and the higher you go, the closer it is to the middle, and the rocks in the road have turned gray-black. However, Xiao Zhi and the others had no intention of caring about it at this time, and they didn't notice the obvious changes in the surrounding environment. They moved forward cautiously little by little as if they were walking on thin ice, and Zhu Xiao's cry became clearer and clearer.
Soon they found Zhu Xiao, who was curled up alone in the darkness with her back against a rock, her head in her hands tightly and her face buried between her knees, her whole body clenched into a ball and cried, crying heartbreakingly, crying like a child in fear and helplessness. Seeing that Zhu Xiao was fine, Xiao Zhi and Cao Mianmian breathed a sigh of relief. Xiao Zhi cautiously looked around to make sure that there was nothing hiding, so he whispered very quietly, as if he was afraid of disturbing something, and called softly: "Zhu Xiao." ”
At this moment, Cao Mianmian pulled Xiaozhi suddenly.
Xiao Zhi looked back at her, but saw Cao Mianmian's frightened look on his face, and his whole body trembled even more. Slowly raised his fingers, which were also trembling violently, and pointed in Zhu Xiao's direction tremblingly.
Xiao Zhi's face froze, and he slowly turned his head to look in the direction that Cao Mianmian was pointing, and in the next moment, the pupils in his eyes suddenly contracted, and his face also showed a shocked expression.
Is that...... What the...... Stuff?!
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There are still many things in this world that cannot be explained by science, such as the Yougo No Return Island near Rudolph Lake in Kenya, the Death Highway in Idaho in the United States, and the Ghost Highway in Beiyi, Taiwan, etc.
Xiao Zhi is an atheist, he believes that all phenomena in the world can be explained by science, but he has not found the right way for the time being. But since he was lost in this underground cavern, everything he has experienced has turned his previous perception upside down. For example, at this moment, the one he saw with his own eyes - the shadow.
On the rock wall where Zhu Xiao's back was leaning, a figure suddenly appeared standing still! And the figure's head hung slightly, like ...... It's like it's staring straight at Zhu Xiao.
God testified, Xiao Zhi dared to swear that he had absolutely never seen this shadow just now, but at such a moment of turning his head, there was an inexplicable shadow on this rock wall.
Where did this figure come from?
Inexplicably, a cold chill rushed from the spine to the brain, and then exploded in the cranial cavity. For a moment, Xiao Zhi only felt that even his heart was about to stop. The whole body was like being in an ice cellar, shivering with cold. Every pore in the whole body opened up in an instant, swallowing a suffocating cold.
His eyes stared at the figure that appeared out of thin air on the wall without blinking, and his body trembled uncontrollably. Cao Mianmian was not much better, her eyes were full of panic and fear. Both hands tightly tugged at the corners of Xiao Zhi's clothes and didn't dare to let go, and her legs were even more weak to tremble slightly, making people wonder if she would sit down directly in the next second.
And the source of what makes them feel so frightened is because of the shadow that appeared out of thin air.
Because, this figure does not belong to any of the three of them.
Xiao Zhi and Cao Mianmian are both behind the light source, and it is impossible to produce shadows. And there is only one Zhu Xiao in the irradiated range of the headlamp, but Zhu Xiao is tired and hugging in the corner and crying at the moment, but this shadow is upright, so this shadow will definitely not be the three of them.
So who does this shadow belong to?
Xiao Zhi didn't dare to guess, because he was more afraid to know that the result would be creepy. He didn't dare to move, as if he feared that even the slightest movement of his finger would lead to unpredictable and catastrophic consequences. The only thing he could do now was stare at the figure so hard that he didn't dare to blink his eyelids until his eyes were sour. His hands were even tighter on the folding shovel, so tight that even his fingers had faded from blood.
Time passed in such a tense and oppressive atmosphere. Xiao Zhi and Cao Mianmian didn't dare to move, and the shadows didn't move, only Zhu Xiao's cries in the cave were still coming and going.
I don't know when, a drop of cold sweat slipped down from the corner of Xiaozhi's forehead, and it wasn't until this moment that he was shocked to find that his clothes were soaked in cold sweat at some point.
At the same time, he also came to his senses and realized that he could not afford to wait. The tactics of not moving the enemy and not moving me are obviously not suitable for this moment, and if this stalemate continues, not to mention whether they can continue to endure this kind of torture mentally, the battery of the headlamp alone cannot be wasted.
Xiao Zhi's sour eyes moved slightly, and he quickly glanced at Zhu Xiao, who was still crying, and immediately returned to the shadow in the next second. Gritted his teeth and made a decision.