After entering the cave, the first section is very flat, with smooth surroundings and no obstacles, but it soon gradually gets higher and extends diagonally upward.
I felt a little excited because I felt that the higher I went, the greater my chances of escape were. Maybe I could follow this stone path to escape from this ancient tomb and return to the ground.
This idea was undoubtedly whimsical, because after drilling for about forty or fifty meters, the terrain became flat again, but the front was far from the end. I felt very unsure and had no idea where this cave was leading to.
Yes, but this is my only way out, and I can only move forward with one heart.
Slowly, the cave became wider, and I changed from crawling forward to crawling forward in doggy style, and the speed was much faster than before.
But soon I encountered a problem. This stone road had come to an end, but what appeared in front of me was not an exit but a fork in the road. The most troublesome thing was that there were not just one or two forks in the road, but seven.
Including the one I climbed just now, there are actually eight.
Damn it, is this dug out by a spider? I feel a little depressed. These seven stone paths are all exactly the same, and it’s really hard for me to choose. This is not like buying a lottery ticket and just choosing randomly. These can cost people’s lives.
If you choose the wrong thing, it will be a lot of fun.
"Forget it, it's a blessing or a curse. You can't avoid it." Since I couldn't make a choice, I simply didn't choose. I gritted my teeth and crawled into a stone cave.
When I first got in, it was no different than before, but as I went deeper, I gradually felt that this cave seemed particularly cold. The cold air kept pouring in from my collar, giving me goosebumps all over my body.
As I was crawling, I suddenly felt a pair of eyes staring at me from behind. At first I thought it was an illusion, but slowly the feeling became stronger and stronger, and I also heard some faint noises, which seemed to be there.
Something is slowly approaching me.
I felt chills all over my body, and an unpleasant premonition arose in my heart. I didn’t dare to look back, I just kept crawling forward.
Soon I encountered a turning point. The flat stone path suddenly sloped downwards, and the slope was very steep, about 60 degrees. This slope is difficult to control, and it may roll down all of a sudden, but in the past
With my figure and physical strength, such a stone road should not be a problem for me.
But just when I was about to climb down, my ankle suddenly tightened, and I felt my ankle being grabbed by a hand.
This unexpected incident scared me so much that I almost screamed. My hand was as cold as if it had been fished out of ice slag, but I was sweating all over my body, and the burrs on my body were very uncomfortable.
I couldn't care less about this. I didn't know what the thing behind me was, but it was definitely not a human being, so I had nothing to hesitate and immediately kicked it hard with my other foot.
"Ouch..." A miserable howl came from the semi-enclosed cave. The loud sound made my eardrums hurt. But strangely, this sound made me feel very familiar.
I became suspicious, so I didn't climb down immediately. I picked up the flashlight and shined it behind me.
Suddenly, a big round head came into view, with his hands covering his face, and blood kept flowing out from between his fingers. There was a bag hanging around his neck, a cowhide bag that was very familiar to me.
"Damn it, Fatty? Why is it you?" I really didn't expect that the person holding my ankle behind me was actually Fatty. The moment I saw his familiar face, my tense nerves finally relaxed completely.
Nothing is more touching than this.
The unlucky fat man was kicked by me until his nose started to bleed. When he heard my voice, he opened his round eyes and bared his teeth and shouted at me: "Damn it, little prince, if you don't do this, Mr. Gua, I didn't offend you."
, you can’t kick me like this."
I smiled at him sheepishly and explained to him: "Fat man, I swear, I really didn't mean it. Who told you to suddenly grab my feet without saying hello just now? I thought it was a ghost.
.”
"What? Ghost? Please, little prince, although I'm not as handsome as you, I can't have anything to do with ghosts." After finishing speaking, the fat man wiped his face and tore off some rolls of fabric from his body.
He blocked his nose and then continued: "There's nothing to say about this matter. Young prince, you can take care of it yourself. Mr. Gua hasn't even found his mother-in-law yet, so his appearance has been ruined. You have to be responsible for this matter."
, you can get me a mother-in-law when you get back, otherwise this matter will never be over."
When I heard that he was still joking, I knew it was okay. I couldn't help but chuckle and said, "Okay, there is an unmarried girl not far from my shop. I will tell you about it when we get back."
"Really?" The fat man looked at me suspiciously, rolled his eyes, and asked, "How old is your daughter?"
"Haha, he's not that old either, he's only about ten years older than me."
"Damn it, you're almost thirty this year, right? She's more than ten years older than you, isn't she an aunt? But, it's better to be older, she knows how to love people, and by the way, what does she look like?
Sample?"
"Hey, there's nothing to say. If you marry her, you won't be afraid of being bullied by others in the future. As long as she stands in front of you, it's like a ghost retreating!"
After hearing this, the fat man looked at me with a hurt face, and said sadly: "Little prince, I finally understand why the mud monkey behaved like that. The one who is close to the ink is black. Only now I realize that the mud monkey is not like you."
In comparison, how come he is so cute?"
I heard him mention monkeys, and then I remembered the other people and asked hurriedly: "By the way, Fatty, why are you alone? Where are the monkeys and the others?"
When it came to business, the fat man immediately cheered up, but he also looked suspicious. He shook his head and said with a bitter smile: "Don't ask me, I don't know. I still don't understand. You are all by my side. Why?"
In a blink of an eye, I was alone."
I knew he was talking about what happened in the dormitory. It was a big mystery. Looking at the tattered clothes on his body, I guess he was taken to a secret room and tortured like me.
Even if I asked, I would definitely not be able to get any clues, so I didn’t continue to ask, stopped the topic and said, "Then what should we do now?"
The fat man was much calmer than me. He lowered his head and thought for a moment, and then said with a serious face: "There is no way out of here. We have to find a way out."
"How to get out?"
"There's nothing we can do, Lao Niu, Lao Niu, just be reckless! We'll just show off his tactics and mess with him no matter what comes, and we'll always find a way out."
This statement sounds a little uncomfortable to me, as it seems to mean breaking the jar and breaking it, but thinking about it, there is really no good way at the moment, so I can only continue to deal with this thunder.
The two of us climbed forward one after another, and soon the slope reached the bottom, and the cave became flat again. About five minutes later, we reached the end again. Now there are several forked roads in front of us, but this time there are fewer
, there were only three. We totaled it up and chose the middle one.
This time I took the lead, because the fat man also lost his wolf eyes, and now we only have a very unstable old-fashioned flashlight in my hand.
After drilling for about ten minutes, we reached the end again, but this time there was no road. The front was blocked by large rocks. It was a dead end.
"Fuck, it's all for nothing." The fat man cursed, and I looked helpless, so I was about to turn around, but then the fat man suddenly said "ouch" and then shouted at the top of his lungs: "Fuck, what the hell?"
Is something crawling on my body? It’s so itchy, little prince, hurry up and show me.”
When I heard something was wrong in his voice, I became a little nervous and raised the light to shine behind him.
When I saw the scene behind me, my scalp felt numb. The fat man's body was covered with a layer of insects, densely packed and countless in number.
Only then did I discover that there were many small holes in the stone walls around us, only as thick as chopsticks, and those bugs crawled out of those holes. But when I saw the appearance of those bugs clearly, I felt relieved.
By the way, these are not poisonous insects that bite people, they are just ordinary insects.
These bugs are called "straw soles" in the common saying in our hometown. They look like centipedes with many densely packed tentacles under their bodies, but they are much smaller than centipedes and are gray in color. They like to hide in dark places.
Although these bugs are the type that die when touched without biting, they are very troublesome if there are too many of them, because they will burrow into holes whenever they see them. If they crawl onto people, they may get into people's ears.
It's also very uncomfortable inside the nostrils.
After a delay, a lot of things crawled up my body, and some of them penetrated directly into the skin along the gaps in my clothes. The feeling of the many tentacles crawling on the skin was very itchy, which made people feel like they were scratching their heart and lungs.
When the fat man heard that it was a bug on the bottom of a straw shoe, he immediately relaxed his nervousness. He cursed a few words in a low voice, then rolled on the ground twice, then tore some cloth to plug his ears, and the two of us followed the original path.
The road goes back.
Climbing backwards is much slower than climbing forwards. Although the fat man is bloated, his movements are quicker than mine. I can no longer see his shadow after just a few minutes of climbing.
By the time I returned to the original fork in the road, it was already half an hour later. I was already sweating from exhaustion. I was just about to complain when I suddenly realized that something was wrong. The fat man had disappeared.
I yelled twice in a hurry, but got no response, and my heart suddenly panicked. How could it be possible, he was clearly in front of me, and why did he suddenly disappear?
My mind was a little confused. Could it be that the fat man left me and ran away? But after thinking about it, I thought it was impossible. In this kind of environment, it is much better for two people to be together than alone. The fat man must also understand this truth.
, there is no reason to leave without saying hello!