Chapter Twenty-Six: Leap Forward
There is no road ahead, but there are monsters chasing us behind. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info this time it's dead. At this point, I couldn't help but feel discouraged.
"Let me go!" I said to the man, "Looks like we're all going to die here." β
At this moment, I heard the footsteps of the giant beast on the other side of the road. Maybe not even ten meters away from us. But despite all this closeness, only the man carrying me had a dim glow stick in his hand, so he could see the monster clearly.
The beast was a little closer, and I could now faintly see its silhouette. The giant beast can stand on two feet, is two or three meters tall, and has a fairly well-developed upper body. I shuddered and swallowed heavily. What kind of monster is this?
"The monster is coming." I said to the man.
The man just now didn't speak, kept looking behind him. Didn't he say that there was no road, what did he do after watching for so long?
"Can you swim?" The man asked me suddenly.
"What...... What the? I wondered what he was asking suddenly.
Without waiting for me to answer, he continued, "Then hold your breath, understand?" Hold your breath quickly. β
As I spoke, I felt the man's body jump, and suddenly I felt a piercing chill all over my body. We jumped into the water. Although the person told me to hold my breath beforehand, in this case, my reaction was still a bit slow, and it took a few sips of water to react.
The water here is very cold and feels like ice water taken out of the fridge. I was shivering with cold. Although I rested a little while the man was running with me on his shoulder, my hands and feet were still weak. I struggled to climb up. But the hand was grabbed by the man, and he kept carrying me into the deeper water. He was a fast swimmer, and I was like I was being pulled by a champion swimmer to dive, I didn't have to exert my strength, I just had enough oxygen. The man grabbed mine with one hand, and with the other he kept sliding the water and swimming deeper.
I'm still wondering where this is? Why is there a waterhole at the end of the secret passage? I looked back to see if the monster was chasing after me, but it was pitch black and I couldn't see anything. The only source of light was the glow stick in the man's mouth.
Soon I found out that we had swam to the bottom. I looked at the bottom of the water by the light of the glow sticks and was startled. If it's not in the water, and the temperature is low, my cold sweat comes out like rain. I choked on a mouthful of water for this.
Although there is a lot of silt at the bottom of the water, you can see a lot of human bones peeking out of the mud. It's all parts of the human body. Some are skulls, some are hand bones, and some are foot bones. Only part of it was exposed, and the rest was buried in the mud. It's full of human bones, and it's a horrific scene.
The man showed no fear at all, he just kept swimming along the bottom of the water. At this time, I felt that the breath I had just closed was almost exhausted, and my body began to work. I pulled the man, and he turned to look at me, and I pointed to my mouth, indicating that I was running out of oxygen. He seemed to understand. He sped up and swam forward. I also started to swim with the rest of my strength, because I didn't know if there was an end here, all I could do was keep swimming.
We swam to the end of the waterhole and found a hole nearby, and we immediately swam into it and started swimming up in the hole. I saw a light on top of the water hole. Looks like we've found an exit, and we don't know if we'll be able to get outside, but at least we've found an exit to another place, so we don't have to look back and fight the monster.
The hole gets narrower the higher you go. In the end, it can only fit just two people upstream together. At this time, the cave is fixed in a very regular circle, surrounded by stone slabs. At this time, I was almost holding my breath to the extreme, my brain felt dizzy due to the lack of oxygen, my heart felt slower and slower, the sound of my heartbeat was invisibly amplified several times, and an indescribable pain invaded my whole body. Seeing that the light above is getting brighter and brighter, the end is not far from us.
Suddenly, my body sank, and I didn't know what was grabbing my feet. I was frightened and struggled desperately, but I couldn't break free or swim up. The man was stopped by me at the same time.
I thought to myself: Could it be that monster catching up with us? But it was still pitch black when I looked down, and I couldn't even see what was pulling my feet, but I felt like a hand.
I was constantly struggling, and my body was not strong enough to break free due to physical exhaustion and lack of oxygen. I couldn't hold it anymore, I ran out of oxygen.
I saw the man swim straight to my feet. The glow stick in his mouth lit up my feet. It wasn't the monster I saw in the secret passage that grabbed my feet, but it gave me the creeps. It was a human skeleton, and one of the human bones' hand was gripping my foot tightly. I felt it was the call of the dead, and it wanted to drag me down to be buried. I looked at its black hole like an unfathomable eye socket. I exhaled my last breath, and then I lost consciousness.
When I slowly opened my eyes, someone was pressing one hand on my chest and the other on my stomach. Suddenly I felt something gushing out of my stomach, and I kept spitting up.
I slowly came back to my senses and sat up. At this time, I found myself lying under a lychee tree, surrounded by forest. Not far away there is a dilapidated old well stuffed with stones and wood.
"Where is this?" I asked the man.
"This should be the forest next to the village." The man pointed to the front and said.
In the distance in front of me was an endless house with torches lit inside. But the village was a bit far away from us, and there were trees nearby, so the fire didn't reach us.
From a distance, the village is full of two-storey sloping ceiling flying corner towers, and it is estimated that the mud houses on the first floor are blocked by the flying corner towers. Deeper in the village, there seem to be towering buildings. But I could only see the black outline, because there was no light at all in the deeper places, and even the moonlight seemed to be absorbed when it reached there, and I couldn't see a little light reflected at all. It's intimidating.
Not far in front of us was a small river that separated us from the village. This river is probably connected to the river at the entrance of the village. It could be a moat, which would encircle the entire village to protect the village. There is no bridge in this vicinity, the river is more than 20 meters wide, and it is generally difficult to cross without ferries.
"Where are we now?" I then asked. My head hurt a little and the water in my stomach didn't seem to finish vomiting, so it was very uncomfortable.
"It turns out that the waterhole in the secret passage leads to this well." The man pointed to the mossy old well not far ahead.
That's when I remembered what had just happened. I hurriedly asked, "What about the skeleton that grabbed my foot?" Did you catch up? Where is it now? β
"There!" The man pointed to my left.
"Ahh I quickly jumped. There was a human hand there, but there were bones left.
"There's a ghost in that well, and that skeleton wants to pull me down, don't you want to harm me by putting that hand next to me?"
"I don't know if there's a ghost in the well." The man said, "But I know the skeleton isn't what you think, and it doesn't mean to pull you down?" β
"What?" I was surprised and said, "That skeleton can move, it's pulling my feet." β
"When I went to your feet just now, I found that the skeleton was stuck on the stone slab of the well, and his hand was stuck in your pants. So you feel like he's pulling you. β
"Is there such a thing?" I still have palpitations.
Then I sat down and lay down on the ground. The outside temperature was much higher than that of the secret passage, so although I was soaking wet, I didn't feel too cold. But I'm already tired. I could see through the gap in the lychee trees that the moon had set in the west, and it seemed that it was late.
"Hey, what's your name?"
"Everyone calls me Xiao Li. You can call me that, too. β
"Xiao Li, what kind of work are you doing? You're very good. And you're very bold, and you're not scared when you see those skeletons. You must be doing something special. β
"That's right! It's still quite special. Xiao Li smiled and said, "I'm a security guard." β
"What! Who the hell are you lying to your boss! How can a security guard have that kind of skill?"
"Why not? The job of security guards is to protect the safety of people and property, and it definitely requires such good skills and courage. β
"I don't believe it."
"It's true, I didn't lie to you. I'm really a security guard. Xiao Li said, "But remembering the previous training was really hard!" "He makes a very obnoxious look, like you know he's lying, but he looks very naΓ―ve, and that naΓ―ve look is trying to cover up a lot of abnormal subtle movements that are caused by human instinct when he lies. This is what I learned on my own in behavioral psychology when I was in college. That's when I wanted to go over and punch him twice. But the thought that I was now physically exhausted, and that he could subdue me with his hands and feet tied in the secret passage, I thought it was better to think about it.
But I still scolded angrily: "You still lie to me, do the security guards want to train?" Isn't the security guard just standing at the door every day playing with his mobile phone? β
"Of course you have to train! Haven't you heard that security guards are required for military training? β
"I ......" I was speechless for a moment. I don't know if he's playing on me, or I can't reveal his identity. Then it occurred to me that I had a whole bunch of questions for him.
"Who the hell are you? Why are you here to save me? Who sent you to save me? What is this place? How can I get out? β
"You ask so many questions at once, how do you want me to answer?" Xiao Li said, "You ask one by one. Answer all that I know. β
It suddenly occurred to me that there was a very important issue, a matter of life. I sat up abruptly and said, "You answer me this question first." And what about monsters? Where is the monster in the secret passage now? "I forgot about it just now because I was tired and scared.
"It should still be there." Xiao Li pointed to the ancient well not far away and said.
I was shocked, and my back was cold, and it turned out that the monster was not far away.