Chapter 54: Concealment

I walked down the dark passage inside the black wooden box, the oncoming air was getting colder and colder, I was wearing thin clothes, plus I had just fought with the monster, my clothes were scratched and wrecked, and for a while, I shivered with cold. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The staircase down is a half-natural, half-artificial one, originally a sloping shaft cave with grooves carved into the walls for footholding, which is not surprising if the treasure collectors had deliberately done so. The black wooden box just covered the shaft, presumably to protect against the monsters outside. It's just that they didn't think it through at the time, thinking that this cave system extends in all directions, and even if this opening is blocked, there are still other entrances. However, where did the female ghost come from, which made me very curious, and I still vaguely remember that in the mass grave outside, there seemed to be such a lonely grave for a woman, but I don't know what it has to do with this female ghost. Could it be that Daoist Zhang used the evil magic he mastered to subdue a female ghost in a mass grave outside, sealed it in some kind of vessel, and then brought it into the depths of the cave, but unfortunately Uncle Ma broke the seal, so he fell into the way of the evil ghost? It's very likely that after the meeting, I'll have to ask Uncle Ma well.

We climbed down the excavated stairs for dozens of meters, and we didn't know how deep we had entered the ground at this time, but we estimated that we were at least a few hundred meters underground. Below is a very spacious hall, more than 300 square meters, with a layer of soil accumulated with sediment, and some traces left by artificiality, scattered with a few rusty excavation tools and excavated mounds, I don't know what those people wanted to dig here. At the end of the cave hall, there are two or three branch caves, each four or five meters high and wide, which stretches in different directions, and it is not known where it leads. After I went down to the hall, my strength gradually recovered, so I helped Yang Xue down. The wound on Yang Xue's waist was too deep, it was very serious, and her face was almost pale due to excessive bleeding, and she didn't know how long she could hold on. I no longer want to find any treasures for the restoration of the country now, and I am thinking about getting out quickly and sending Yang Xue to the hospital for treatment.

Because the temperature down here was too low, we wore less clothes, and gradually we couldn't bear it. I hurriedly took a few spare clothes from my backpack and divided them among them, and took out three more survival blankets and draped them over my body. We rested on a stone shelf in the center of the hall, Yang Xue and Uncle Ma replenished a little food and water, but I couldn't eat anything. Speaking of which, since I escaped from the sinkhole world alive, I have rarely eaten anything anymore, not because I have no appetite, but after stuffing things in my mouth, I can't swallow anything, as if I swallowed a fly and was disgusting. The metabolism has also become very slow, and I haven't wanted to go to the tuba or anything for several days, and I don't even want to drink water. I didn't know what it was, but when I was in the hospital, I was really uneasy by the strange behavior of the attending doctor. I wondered if I had some kind of anorexia, or I wouldn't be able to eat, and if I continued like this, my body would inevitably be unable to bear it because I couldn't get nutritional supplements. But what's even more strange is that I haven't eaten for a long time, and I don't feel a trace of hunger.

When my thoughts were wandering, Yang Xue on the side suddenly called out to me, I came back to my senses and asked her what was wrong.

Yang Xue glanced at me and said, "What are you thinking?" ”

I said think of something messy, nothing important.

Yang Xue sighed and said that she really shouldn't have come this time, she originally thought that nothing would happen, but she didn't expect that after coming in, she would almost die. Persuaded me that after finding Yang Tao, go out quickly, and stop obsessing about any treasures.

At this time, Uncle Ma suddenly interjected and said:

"Why did you two suddenly appear up there? I said lad, you're not ......"

I was afraid that Uncle Ma would say too much and show his feet, so I hurriedly interrupted him and said:

"Don't worry about that, by the way, I was about to ask you, what are the caves at the end of this hall, where is the ice cave you are talking about, why didn't you see it?"

Uncle Ma thought for a while, and then said: "Do you see the three branch caves at the end, the one in the middle, yes, is the triangular hole, after entering, it is the ice cave, the temperature inside is lower than here, and I don't know how it freezes." Do you see the circular cave next to it, that's the way I came, but if we want to go back, I think it's safer for us to go back the way we came. ”

Go back the way you came? I secretly figured out in my heart, Uncle Ma and Yang Xue in front of me were three people from parallel spaces, and the two of them were still in the dark and didn't know the inside story, but I knew very well. If they know the truth, they will inevitably ignore my hindrance and go to find the space where they were originally located, although this search is in vain, because once they are lost in the turbulence of space, it will be difficult to go back. At that time, not only will this Yang Xue in front of me abandon me, but even Uncle Ma may also make some uncontrollable actions in order to return to his own space. No, I have to hide the truth, and besides, if I go back the way I came, when I pass through the dark area, I will inevitably have spatial coherence, and I am afraid that there will be more accidents at that time.

Thinking of this, I had a plan in my heart, so I said to the two of them:

"I don't think it will work to go back the way we came, those cave monsters already know about our group of intruders, I'm afraid they have been lurking there for a long time, if we rush back, it will be tantamount to death. In my opinion, we might as well find another way out, a large cave system like this, which spans beyond imagination, and there must be more than one exit. ”

"Cave monsters?"

Uncle Ma frowned suddenly, obviously, he didn't know that Yang Xue and I were attacked by those humanoid monsters, and when I heard me talk about the so-called cave monsters, he immediately asked me what was going on. So I told Uncle Ma about my previous experience, as well as the appearance of those monsters, and their vicious and cruel nature.

Uncle Ma listened to me describe what happened in detail, and asked me a few more about the specific situation of those monsters, he listened to it, his brows furrowed, he didn't say a word for a long time, it seemed that he was trying his best to search for something in his memory, and the appearance was very strange, and after a while, he gasped and muttered in a trembling voice:

"Mountain...... Ghost. ”

"What?"

I was taken aback when I heard this, what kind of mountain ghost? Is that the name of that monster? What does Uncle Ma know about those bloodthirsty humanoid monsters? (To be continued.) )

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