Chapter 238: Hands in the Water
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The crack was sharp and lightning-shaped, and the woman was the first to get in, followed by me, and the gravel inside had a large drop in height, and it was very physically demanding to walk on it. /p>
After walking for about five minutes, I suddenly realized one thing, why was this woman still trapped on a boulder if she knew the way out? /p>
"Can this road lead to the outside?" I asked with some relief. /p>
"I can't." She replied decisively. /p>
I quickly stopped, "Where are you going?" β/p>
The woman didn't stop, glanced back at me, and continued walking, "Ahead is the mainstream of an underground river. β/p>
I didn't understand what she meant, so I didn't hurry to follow, and stood there waiting for her to finish speaking, when she slowed down, turned her head and looked at me and said, "There is an area where I have to use the help of dead men to pass, and I don't know if there is an exit after passing." β/p>
"Am I dead?" I feel like I'm more alive than a dead man through and through. /p>
"Half a half, but it might be better, I've tried carrying the corpse on my back, but it didn't work." After speaking, the woman urged: "Hurry up, those insects can smell you, and when the water on your body dries up, they will chase after you." β/p>
There was a strange smell in the waterhole, and I guess this strange smell would temporarily cover my body with the smell of death, and I hurried to move on. /p>
I seem to have a special relationship with the underworld, and I can always enter this kind of dark space for various reasons, and then I am in danger with different tricks. /p>
I tried to contact Gu Yu as I walked, but apparently the crack was still within the 'signal shielding' range, and my brainwaves couldn't be sent. /p>
Walking in such a pristine underground crack, and the feeling of traveling, there is no guide, no route guidance, and no safety measures, every time you step on a stone, you may step on the air, light flash, heavy fall. /p>
Fortunately, my physical strength returned to a normal state, and I didn't gasp or fall behind with the woman, and her breathing was even more even than mine, and I couldn't help but wonder if she was human, if not a zombie, maybe some other humanoid. /p>
Now that someone is showing me the way, I am not embarrassed to ask such a sensitive question, and it seems rude to ask a stranger directly, 'Are you human?'. /p>
The stones that have been washed away by water for many years should be very slippery, and I don't know when this tributary dried up, these stones have long since dried, and the edges and corners have been polished off by the water, but there is no need to worry about bleeding after falling. /p>
"You come here, I have to carry you the rest of the way." The woman stopped abruptly and beckoned at me. /p>
Thinking about what she said about carrying the corpse, I secretly praised her psychological quality, stepped forward and carried it by her, her strength was not smaller than mine, and she carried me neatly, her breath was not chaotic, and she walked forward for about a few minutes. /p>
I saw an exit in front of the crack, and outside of the exit was a river beach, and the roots-like things had grown up to this point without crossing this exit. /p>
Since there are no roots, this should no longer be a dangerous area, but I think it is from this moment that women really get nervous. /p>
Forgive me for my lack of imagination, I can't think of anything worthy of her rivalry by the underground river, is there a creature more feared than a white bug to move here? /p>
"It's the rainy season, and the underground river is bursting, which is good for us." The woman confessed without a beginning or end, her eyes fixed on the turbulent water in the river. /p>
I didn't know anything about geology, except that the current was so fast that I couldn't see the other side of the river, and the river beach at my feet was less than a meter wide of dry land for us to walk on. /p>
"If it rises again, it will drown us, are you sure?" Looking at the raging water, if there is another rainstorm on the surface right now, the two of us will have to be swept away by the flood. /p>
"It's okay to drown, I can take you upstream even if it's against the current, as long as you don't-" /p>
Before she finished speaking, a splash suddenly appeared in the river at her feet, as if something in the water was going up, but after the splash turned over, the water surface quickly returned to normal, and nothing came up. /p>
"Don't let go, for the sake of me leading the way, don't fool me." The woman instructed. /p>
"Don't worry, I expect you to swim against the current, take me to jump over the dragon gate, and go forward boldly." I tightened my arms around her shoulders. /p>
The woman is surrounded by only two pieces of cloth, which will cover the key parts, and I can feel her body temperature, breathing, and heartbeat up close, but these standards have long been outdated, and they only prove that she is a living thing, not that she is a person. /p>
Almost every ten steps, a splash would emerge from the river, but I never saw what was underneath the water. /p>
"You're just afraid of those things in the water? Is it a piranha? "I remembered an old foreign movie I once watched, where people who were playing in the water were suddenly attacked by piranhas, and the blood stained the sea red. /p>
"Cannibalism, but not fish." The woman frowned as she spoke, and I looked down to see that the road ahead was getting narrower and narrower, and there was a section only a foot wide, and if she wanted to pass, she would inevitably step on water. /p>
Although the woman frowned, her steps did not stop, she seemed to have made up her mind, this time she had to break through, she must have tried more than once before, but they all ended in failure. /p>
I slowed my breath and tensed up for her, put my arms around her shoulders, and reached out for mental energy, but there were no active brain waves in the water. /p>
"You're lucky, you know, I wish I could touch your light." As she spoke, one foot had already stepped into the water, and she continued to wade on. /p>
After a few steps, there were several splashes in the river next to me, as if we were passing by, alarming something, this feeling of knowing that there was something around me, but not knowing what it was, made me very uncomfortable. /p>
Especially the number of splashes is increasing, I can see something following us in the current, but unfortunately the river is so muddy that I can't tell what kind of creatures it is, I can only roughly tell that they are more than a meter long, of course they are hidden underwater, and the actual size may be a little different from my estimate. /p>
"Why don't you kill one?" I hated unknown threats, so I wanted to take the initiative. /p>
"No, killing their own kind will only anger them, if you want, you can put some blood into the water." The woman vetoed my proposal. /p>
"That's even worse, my blood...... Drinking it will mutate normal creatures, and they will become stronger. β/p>
"Oh? You're a zombie. β/p>
"There's still a difference between zombies and zombies." I think of the monster bride and think the surprise between me and her is palpable, "I'm a zombie, you know, right?" β/p>
"Zombies? Isn't that the human being infected by the virus in a science fiction movie? β/p>
"You don't know that the movie has come true? Y-How long have you been here? β/p>
"Probably, two years." /p>
"My God, you're really good, tell you, the outside world has changed a lot, last year in November there was a wave of mutations, and now there are fewer living people and more zombies, oh yes, some people have evolved abilities, also called abilities, but I think your ability is not worse than them." /p>
"What about you, how are you different from the zombies in the movie?" /p>
"So, you can't copy everything, I'm a zombie who hasn't been in the movie." /p>
"That looks like I shouldn't have died." The woman let out a cold sigh. /p>
I thought about it, if I lived alone underground for two years, facing those roots and boulders all day long, I was afraid that I would not be as calm as her, so I couldn't help but admire her. /p>
I wanted to ask again about the passage hole, and her blushing state, but at that moment, a claw stretched out in the water. /p>
The withered claw clasped her ankle, and when I looked closely, it was not a claw at all, but a dry hand. /p>
Because it was too thin and dry, and the nails were so long, I thought it was an animal's claw, but I immediately saw a bracelet on the wrist of this hand. /p>
I've never seen an animal wear a bracelet, and since the shape of the skeleton of this hand is human, I almost subconsciously reached out and kicked that hand. /p>
But the woman stopped me and said let it go, and she stopped and stood quietly, and the hand clasped her ankle and did not make any other movement, but held it firmly. /p>
After a stalemate of about ten seconds, the hand slowly let go of the woman's foot and retracted back into the water. /p>
"What's going on?" I asked softly. /p>
"It's tempting." The woman whispered back. /p>
After the withered hand retracted into the water, the woman did not rush to walk, waited for a while, and then took another step, the woman's height was about the same as mine, she carried me on her back, and my feet were actually very close to the water, in order to prevent my feet from being suddenly attacked, I stretched my legs forward and raised them as high as possible. /p>
When that hand was stretched out just now, my first thought was 'water ghosts', but when they move in the water, they look like fish, and in my impression, water ghosts belong to the category of ghosts, which should be formless and incorporeal. /p>
"This is a zombie." After pondering for a while, I expressed the conclusion in my mind. /p>
"These can only be regarded as moving corpses, and the really powerful guys are in front." /p>
"It's not that the dead man's ditch hasn't buried people for a long time, where are there so many corpses, don't tell me that they were left a long, long time ago." /p>
"You're right, there were two small countries in this place a long, long time ago, and they fought in the Dead Man's Ditch every three or five days, and the Dead Man's Ditch was not called the Dead Man's Ditch at that time, but there were many dead people, so it had this name." /p>
"And then?" /p>
"Two small countries were wiped out by another big country, and the battlefield was also here, and the soldiers who died in the battle were thrown directly into the river, and it is estimated that it was also the rainy season, and the corpses washed here along the current." /p>
"How do you know?" /p>
"The people of Benshan have their own tricks." /p>
As soon as I saw that she didn't want me to inquire about this, I changed the subject and asked, "Then since these dead people have been dead for a long, long time, why haven't they rotted into white bones, and are still hiding in the water to arrest people?" β/p>
"Because a long, long time before they died, there was something that settled here, and the dead came in and just became puppets of that thing." /p>
I was about to ask what it was, when the woman turned a corner, and the beach in front of me suddenly became open, and on the bank of the open river, I saw a huge tree. /p>
The tree can't be described as towering into the sky, it is more like a giant tree-shaped terminal, with countless roots extending in all directions, even in the river. /p>
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