Chapter 40: The Tunnel

When Lao Wu fell from the cave above, he was blocked by the roots of the trees in the cave and the masonry hanging out horizontally, and the strength of the fall was also weakened a lot, but after he fell into the bottom of the cave, he still fell so that the bones of his body were about to fall apart, and the surrounding environment was cold and dark, and the ground was full of damp brick walls and ash floors, and a lot of moss grew on the surface. The bandages on Lao Wu's arm wounds had already been hung up by the roots that had grown out of the trees in the process of falling, and the wounds that had just grown tender flesh had all collapsed, and blood slowly dripped down his fingers.

The darkness below is terrible, and it is completely impossible to distinguish the direction, the hole on his head has become very small, and Lao Wu doesn't dare to breathe in pain, let alone shout for help, so he can only lie in place and slow down. There is a gentle slope under him, the slope is not too steep, but there are many thick mosses on the slope, so it is extremely slippery, the root of Lao Wu's tail seems to be broken, this guy doesn't dare to sit anymore when he hurts, and he reluctantly wants to turn himself over, but the whole person slides down the slope with this movement.

I can't tell what this place is, Lao Wu only feels that he can slide down the slope for more than ten meters and still hasn't reached the end, the whole person is nervous, and he reaches out to touch the things on the side to stop himself, but this ramp is two or three meters wide, and he can't touch the surrounding walls even if his arms are straightened, and it is impossible to clasp the slope with his hand. It's good not to scratch randomly, this grasp is a little harder, it was like riding a slide, and this time it rolled sideways.

Lao Wu was also lucky, and after coming over, he hit the wall on the side without rolling a few laps, and his fingers stuck to the crack in the wall and stuck himself against the wall. But before he could congratulate himself on finally stopping, he suddenly heard a violent wheezing sound not far from his feet, accompanied by a strange squeak. Lao Wu secretly shouted at the time, what kind of rat nest is this, looking at the distance between his eyes is not much smaller than him, what kind of monster is this? Do you want to feed these beasts today?

But he didn't have any strength now, except for the slightest superfluous movement against the damp wall, he could only use his head against the wall to beg grandpa to tell grandma, I hope those beasts didn't find themselves.

At this time, I suddenly heard a sound from above, and a small thing rolled down the slope, and passed by Lao Wu's side, and then hit something, making a strange muffled sound, Lao Wu was stunned, and a few small green lights lit up under his feet, and he was still approaching his position.

Lao Wu was so frightened that he almost screamed, and his fingers pressed against the crack in the wall and pressed upward, but one arm was already injured and couldn't make it stronger, and the other was also numb and weak just now, so he could only maintain his current posture, and it was impossible to lift an inch upward. As the green light under his feet slowly approached, Lao Wu's heart rose to his throat, his eyes widened and he stared at the few small green lamps, and the frequency of panting became faster and faster, but he couldn't do anything, he could only wait for those things to get close to him.

At this time, Xiao Qi was rolling down the slope quickly, after Lao Wu heard Xiao Qi's exclamation, he knew that the child had also fallen, stretched out his injured right arm, and waited for the moment when Xiao Qi rolled off his side, grabbed his trouser leg by feeling, gritted his teeth and dragged him tightly, and stopped Xiao Qi beside him, and the two of them also collided together.

Lao Wu's hands hurt in his heart, but he hadn't forgotten what was under his feet, so he asked Xiao Qi to raise his vigilance and said the monster below.

Xiao Qi became nervous when he heard this, he was face to face with that thing, and they could feel each other's breath. Xiao Qi took a few breaths, clenched his fists with both hands, and planned to give the guy on the other side a bit.

Xiao Qi pulled his hand out from under his body while thinking so, and was about to hit it out when he had enough strength, but before he could punch, he heard Lao Wu gritting his teeth behind him and saying, "Qi'er, I can't catch it."

As soon as Lao Wu finished speaking, he really gave it away, and the two of them slid down together, Xiao Qi was facing the thing, and the two faces collided together. Xiao Qi's tears and nosebleeds flew when he was hit, and his body was uncontrollable and rolled down with Lao Wu, and the things on the slope were also rolled down by Xiao Qi and Lao Wu.

Time underground seems to be completely frozen, Xiao Qi opened his eyes and saw a bright light, not like the light of the usual oil lamp, like the electric light on the wall of the private room of the county restaurant, the warm yellow flashing light in this cold and damp underground actually gave people a warm feeling. Xiao Qi woke up a little dazed, his brain was not willing to think about things at all, his mind was full of warm yellow lights, the whole person seemed to be soaked in hot water, his whole body was hot, and he had to close his eyes and sleep well in a trance.

Just when Xiao Qi was about to fall asleep in a daze, suddenly there were water drops on his face, the water was cold and abnormal, only one drop made him wake up instantly, Xiao Qi sat up suddenly, there was no one around, Lao Wu didn't know where to go.

The light I just saw was the kind of electric light that was embedded in the wall and covered by iron mesh, probably because the voltage was unstable, and it flickered on and off, but it was much brighter than an oil lamp. Xiao Qi sat on the ground and saw that he was in a long and narrow passage, and behind him was the slope he had fallen, and there were many bricks and gravel around him, as if he had slipped down from the slope.

Xiao Qi remembered that there were several strange things in the slope just now in addition to Lao Wu and himself, and he also bumped into one of them, and at this moment he thought that the nose was extremely sore, and there were a lot of nosebleeds when he touched his upper lip with his hand, and his elbow also hurt when he raised his hand to touch the nosebleed, maybe he hit somewhere just now, but fortunately there was no injury on his head, he reluctantly propped himself up from the ground with his hands, coughed hard against the wall, and spit out a mouthful of blood from his mouth after a few times.

Xiao Qi was also shocked when he saw that he vomited blood, he knew that he might have suffered internal injuries after the impact, and sat down against the wall, drooping his head and inhaling, it hurt everywhere when he moved, and his lungs hurt when he took a breath, so he leaned his head back against the wall and looked at the light in a daze.

The electric lights were on and off for a while, but they illuminated the surroundings very clearly, and Xiao Qi inadvertently saw a trail of blood on the ground, extending to the far side of the passage.

Xiao Qi then remembered that Lao Wu was gone, so he stood up and walked to the other side of the tunnel following the blood stains. The tunnel is about more than one meter wide and two meters high, and the top is made of bricks and stones to form an arc to play the role of support, so a closer look reveals that it looks like a tunnel dug in the past, but the stone bricks are inlaid very carefully, as if it will be used for a long time.

There is an electric light every ten meters away from the tunnel, and every twenty or thirty meters you will find a lot of small intersections, which are pitch black and you can't see anything. Xiao Qi stopped every time he walked here, and called Lao Wu a few times, and then stretched out his head to take a look, but there was no light inside, and it was too dark to see where it was leading.

Xiao Qi was injured and his whole body hurt, and he walked slowly for more than ten minutes before he walked to the third electric light, and he found that there was a small door under the lamp, and the door was made of metal, and there were several iron plates riveted on it, which looked very solid, as if something was hidden. There was no handle or keyhole outside the door, it was just an iron plate, and it could not be opened from the outside.

Since the blood stains were long gone, Xiao Qi could only look for Lao Wu along the tunnel, and suddenly saw an iron door that made Xiao Qi very curious, he wanted to open it, but the door seemed to be locked, and no matter how hard he tried to open the door, he couldn't open it. Xiao Qi gasped a few times, took off the dirty clothes on his body, covered his hands, and then clasped the edge of the door and tried hard to open the door.

Just when Xiao Qi was fighting with the iron gate, his peripheral vision suddenly saw a figure running over at the end of the tunnel, and the speed was soon instantaneous, but Xiao Qi was in a nervous state, and he would notice a little movement around. The figure that suddenly ran over made Xiao Qi shrink his neck in fright, and quickly pressed his back against the wall and kept turning his head to look to both sides. There was silence in the tunnel, and Xiao Qi, who was quiet, could almost hear his heartbeat.

But just now I did clearly see someone running over in the tunnel, that kind of clear visual sense is definitely not dazzling, and suddenly there is a kind of person hiding in the dark waiting for an opportunity to attack him, Xiao Qi is very passive, Lao Wu does not know life and death, and he is lost in this strange tunnel, and the electric light on the wall makes a "silk" sound from time to time, which is gradually intensifying Xiao Qi's fear.

Xiao Qi carefully looked at the place where the figure ran just now, there were two small forks in the road, like two black holes, which became more and more black in the shadows of the bright lights. Xiao Qi was bold, and slowly walked over with his back against the wall to take a look, the two black holes seemed to be able to suck out all the light, and he couldn't see the situation inside at all.

Xiao Qi seems to be standing at a crossroads, standing in the middle, there are bright lights on the left and right, you can see your head at a glance, and there is darkness and silence in front and back, and you feel that a ghost hand will stretch out at any time to pull you in. He could only keep turning his head to look around, his heart was about to reach his throat, but fortunately his voice was small, otherwise he would have spit it out of his mouth.

An invisible sense of fear rose down his heels to the back of his head, causing goosebumps all over his body. Xiao Qi first shouted softly into the black tunnel: "Brother Wu? Is that you? But there was no response, Xiao Qi's hand attached to the corner of the wall just wanted to go in and see, suddenly there was a crackling sound in the distance, like a firecracker set off during the New Year, the sound in this small tunnel was particularly loud, Xiao Qi instantly felt like an animal holding his head and scurrying, he lowered his head and followed the sound to look over, it turned out to be a wall lamp in the distance flickering quickly and a lot of sparks.

Xiao Qi didn't know what was going on, and he didn't dare to go over to look, his intuition told him that something was wrong in this tunnel, and then he wanted to retreat to the slope and find a way to go out and bring his brothers in.

But before he could take half a step back, there was a sudden "buzz" sound around him, and all the lights went out in an instant, leaving only a few burning red filaments in the distance that still emitted a faint light, looking like a few erratic ghost fires from Xiao Qi's position.

The sudden extinguishing of the lights left Xiao Qi unprepared, and a strange feeling rushed to his brain, and a terrifying word filled his entire brain.

"Ghosts."

Xiao Qi remembered that he still had a fire fold in his trouser pocket at this time, so he quickly fumbled for it and took it out, took it to his mouth and blew it hard, and a small flame ignited in a few clicks. Xiao Qi swallowed a mouthful of saliva, shrunk his neck and slowly moved with a fire fold in his hand, trying to find his way to come.

With the movement of the hand holding the fire fold, the little flame was blown by his own exhaled breath is swaying, his own reflection is like a ghost swaying behind him, Xiao Qi's afterglow is a little distracted after seeing his own reflection, and when he looks at the target back to the flame, Xiao Qi's hair exploded in an instant, and his hand holding the fire fold was held by a pale, slender and ugly hand, and he didn't feel it at all.

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