When they came to the front, Hanako and the other three finally saw clearly the guilty man under the hanging tree.
But all three of them were dumbfounded.
"This? This is impossible!!" Xiang Mubai couldn't believe what he saw. The man with his arms stretched out, his head hanging low, his neck wrapped in red crystals, and his lower body turned into the roots of a tree, was actually himself.
Huazi couldn't understand all this. She covered her mouth and looked at Xiang Mubai beside her for a while, and then looked at Xiang Mubai in the sky.
Liu Ping was also dumbfounded, but he was more alert. His hand had already touched the weapon behind him.
"There must be something wrong with this!" Xiang Mubai looked at Huazi and Liu Ping in a panic. When he noticed that both of them were retreating, he said coldly, "What are you doing?"
Hanako stopped. She raised her hand and said comfortingly, "Bai Bai, I have the same opinion as you, but there is a similar record in the diary. We have to understand the situation first."
Xiang Mubai couldn't understand, he spread his hands and said, "What do you want to know? Can't you see? I'm standing in front of you, alive. Do you think I'm dead?"
Hanako didn't say anything, and Liu Ping said, "It's possible."
"What?!"
"Sorry, brother, be careful. Before you figure out the situation, I hope you take off your exoskeleton first." Liu Ping thought more.
Xiang Mubai was angered. He took a step forward and said, "Are you worried that I will kill you?"
Liu Ping was startled and immediately pulled out his gun and aimed it at Xiang Mubai's head and said, "Oh oh oh! Stop! I am worried about that. After all, even if you don't have an exoskeleton, Hanako and I will not be your opponents, right?"
"
Hanako was also startled, and she retreated to Liu Ping's side without realizing it.
Xiang Mubai understood. Although his expression was still cold, he could understand the worries of Huazi and Liu Ping at this time. But the question is... what is that thing?
Thinking of this, Xiang Mubai turned around and looked at the hanging tree and said, "Okay, since you are so worried, I will prove it to you."
After that, Xiang Mubai took off the heavy machine gun on his back and pointed the muzzle at "himself" in the sky.
Seeing this scene, Hanako was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly stopped her and said, "Wait! Bai Bai! Don't mess around!"
Xiang Mubai ignored Hanako. He could no longer keep calm. He pulled the trigger, the machine gun spurted flames, bullets whizzed out, and in the blink of an eye, the hanging tree was beaten to pieces!
The blood-red crystals exploded into crimson dust in the air!
Xiang Mubai's attack lasted for several minutes.
By the time the ammunition was empty, the hanging tree was in pieces and shattered into pieces.
And the air is filled with that weird crimson color everywhere...
When Hanako and Liu Ping saw this, their first reaction was to cover their mouths and noses. They were not sure whether these red substances would cause harm to their bodies. In short, this scene was not normal.
After venting his anger, Xiang Mubai sneered and said, "Look, that thing is not me at all!"
Both Hanako and Liu Ping were silent. They didn't speak or move. They just stood quietly aside.
Until the light in the hands of the nun statue was "polluted" by the red dust.
"Huh?" Xiang Mubai stopped laughing. He turned around and replaced the magazine of the machine gun.
While alert to the darkness around her, she asked Hanako, "Girl, is there anything useful in the diary?"
Hanako frowned and took out her diary to read through it.
Liu Ping's vigilance towards Xiang Mubai also decreased a lot, and he was also paying attention to the darkness around him.
In this lightless place, they have no idea what is hidden in the darkness. This is the most terrifying thing...
After a while, Hanako said, "I found it! There is a record that may be useful."
"Read it!" Xiang Mubai said coldly.
"Okay..." Hanako held the diary in one hand and started reading...
"The Lord of the past is here, the Lord of the past is here, and the Lord of the past will be there forever! Are we the masterpieces of the Creator, or are we a failure worth mentioning in their eyes? I keep asking myself, if one day humans and
The artificial intelligence created by ourselves realizes equal and free dialogue between consciousnesses. Are we the creators, or are we the masters of the past who are destined to be eliminated? What I saw in the murals is that the fruits of those bright red trees are a sign of doom.
A disaster that will destroy all things! Should I become above all things, or fall below all things? Hmm... I seem to understand... Hmm... They are coming... They are coming..." After Hanako finished reading this paragraph
With her eyes wide open, she seemed to be able to hear their breathing. Those demons that were dormant in the darkness, hiding the ugliness and primitiveness in the darkness, they were coming...
"They? What are they? Are they the monsters your father mentioned before that dragged Xiao Zha away?" Liu Ping's attention was now focused on the darkness.
Xiang Mubai was similar. He found that the red color in the air was dissipating, but the darkness was also coming in like a tide, slowly swallowing up the light around them.
"I don't know...I don't know...but I have a feeling...this nightmare won't end so soon! We may fall into an eternal hell!" Hanako panicked, and there was a slight whisper in her ears.
There was a rustling sound, which was the sound of some unknown creature approaching quietly, like thousands of insects crawling.
Liu Ping was startled when he heard this, and then sneered, "Maybe? No, no, no, Hanako, we are already in hell! The place these lights want to guide us to may not be a way to survive at all, but a place of eternal doom!"
When Hanako heard this, her expression changed, and she trembled, "I'm sorry... I shouldn't have harmed you..."
Xiang Mubai's bullet was replaced. Hearing this, he said, "There is nothing to be sorry for. We are all voluntary! Besides, whether it is life or death, it is not certain who lives and who dies! Right, Liu Ping?"
"Yes!" When a person reaches a desperate situation, fear will turn into strength.
Liu Ping was like this at this time. He also heard the dense and subtle rustling in the darkness, but he was not afraid at all.
He tightened his grip on the gun and held a dagger in one hand, ready to face the devil!
But just as the three of them were getting ready to fight, a voice suddenly sounded behind them.
"Hey! Come here quickly! There's a boat here!"
The three of them were shocked when they heard this. When they looked back, they saw a woman with a gray cloth on her head.
Although she couldn't see her appearance clearly, she gave the three of them a familiar feeling.
Especially Hanako, she seemed to have seen a ghost.
Liu Ping looked at the woman who suddenly appeared warily, then pointed the gun at her and said, "Who are you?"
"Don't ask so many questions! Come here quickly! The light here can't last long! They will swallow everything up soon!" The other party did not intend to talk nonsense with Liu Ping and the others. She pointed to a wooden boat behind her and said, "Quickly
come over!"
The three of them looked at each other, and Liu Ping asked, "What should I say?"
Xiang Mubai hesitated for a second and then put away the gun, "Ignore it, let's go!"
"Okay! Let's go!"
The three of them hurriedly ran towards the ship.
Just when they all boarded the ship and the dim light on the bow came on, a huge wave seemed to rise in the darkness, extinguishing the guiding light in the blink of an eye.
Seeing this scene, the three of them trembled in their hearts, thinking to themselves, 'If it were just one second later, everything would be in trouble...'
The mysterious woman acts as the ferryman at the stern of the ship. She controls the direction of the ship, and most of her body is hidden in the darkness.
Liu Ping glanced at her and said, "No matter who you are... anyway... thank you."
"You're welcome." The other party was also very polite.
Hanako did not dare to look back at the mysterious woman at the stern of the boat. She was sitting on the bow. With the dim light from the lantern on the bow, she saw some strange black shadows passing by from time to time in the ripples in the darkness.
Xiang Mubai also noticed this, but he wanted to know who saved him even more.
"Girl, who are you? Can you be honest with us?" Xiang Mubai asked.
"My name is Youye, and I am also a poor man who is lost here." The other party answered quickly, but the answer was also very vague.
"Arino? Are you Japanese?" Liu Ping asked.
"Yes." Arino didn't say much. She would slightly change the direction of the ship from time to time, but was silent at other times.
"Well... then, girl, where are you taking us now?"
"Go to the next place with light."
"The next place with light?" Xiang Mubai was startled, then looked at Liu Ping, who immediately understood.
He turned around and asked Hanako quietly, "Is there a place with light recorded in the diary?"
Hanako nodded and said, "Yes, the next place is deep underwater, we have to dive down." 139 Novel
"Ah? Are you still going to dive?" Liu Ping looked at the turbid water on both sides of the boat and frowned, "The water is so murky, can we still see light when we get into the water?"
"The light is in the heart, not in the eyes. No matter how cloudy it is, you should still be able to see clearly." Hanako said.
"Uh... are you serious?" Liu Ping didn't believe any nonsense in his heart.
Hanako nodded, "That's what it says in the diary."
"Then has your father found the final answer?"
"have no idea……"
"have no idea?"
"Well... the diary records a very small part of the content... and it also contains a lot of suggestive descriptions. I am not sure how far my father went and where he ended up."
"I'll go...then based on this, we don't know if we can escape, right?"
"Yes..." Hanako's mood was very low. She stroked the diary in her hand, as if she was feeling a long-lasting past.
Maybe there was still hope in Hanako's heart at the beginning, but now...she is getting more and more confused...
"Ha..." Liu Ping was stunned for a while before he accepted the reality. He sighed softly, sneered, then turned to Xiang Mubai and said, "Brother Xiang, we may have to go into the water later."
Xiang Mubai was stunned when he heard this, then sneered and said, "Okay, I just want to take a good bath."
Liu Ping was happy. He looked at the ferryman at the stern of the boat and said, "Hey, girl, is our next stop underwater?"
"Yes, it's right ahead. You have to prepare in advance." The ferryman pointed to the front and said, "Do you see that blue line?"
Liu Ping looked back and saw that a blue line appeared vaguely in the darkness, but it was very unclear.
"I saw it, what is that?"
"Fall."
"What?"
"The Enlightenment Falls can help you pass through the center of the earth. The drop is 3,900 meters. Are you ready to scream?" the ferryman said with a smile.
But Liu Ping was stunned, "How much?"
Xiang Mubai told him, "Thirty-nine hundred meters! Haha! Are you scared to death?"
"Holy crap! Are you sure this is a waterfall?!" Liu Ping was indeed frightened, but soon he was no longer so scared, and he was ready to fight anyway.
"Yes, hold on tight. The current will be very turbulent next. You can only hope to reach the next stop if you stay on the boat!" The ferryman said and suddenly adjusted the direction. With a delicate flick, the bow of the boat turned into the stern.
, the stern became the bow.
"Oh!!!!!!!!!!!! Hahaha! Exciting!" Although Liu Ping was almost thrown out, he laughed excitedly.
Hanako clung to the hull of the boat and lowered her body.
Xiang Mubai is very big, but fortunately he is sitting in the middle of the boat, and the flick of the tail is just a turn for him.
"Are you familiar with this place?!" Xiang Mubai asked.
"Yes, but I have never had the courage to face the fate I should face." The ferryman's words are very thought-provoking.
"Then how long have you been trapped here?" Liu Ping asked.
"I don't know...I don't remember..." The ferryman stood at the bow of the ship, controlling the direction. The darkness behind her was fading, and it felt like the sky was waking up in the early morning.
"Hey...it seems that our fates are almost the same..." Liu Ping chuckled, and then asked, "Hey, by the way, how did you get here?"
"It should be similar to yours. It's just curiosity."
"Oh? Then we should be different. We are here to find a way out." Liu Ping said with a smile.
"A way to survive? Why do you think there is a way to survive here? This is the most dangerous place on earth. There is only a way to die here and there is no way to survive." The ferryman was surprised.
Liu Ping smiled bitterly and said, "You are right, but we didn't know this place was so evil before we came down..."
"Then you are quite unlucky."
"Who says it's not...but...it's quite enjoyable to be able to come to such a place and experience it in your lifetime, isn't it, Brother Xiang?"
Xiang Mubai said with a cold face, "Shut up. If you hadn't betrayed Mr. Yinsi, how could I have fallen into this state?"
"Betrayal? Haha...yes...betrayal." Liu Ping didn't want to argue with Xiang Mubai about this.
It was also the first time for Hanako to hear Xiang Mubai and Liu Ping talking about things between them, and she couldn't help but be a little curious.
"Lord Yinji? Who is he?" Hanako asked.
"Um...it's nothing, it's just the past tense." Liu Ping tried to be vague.
Unexpectedly, Xiang Mubai sneered and said, "Liu Ping, you can't hide. As long as you are still alive, Lord Yinsi will find you."
Hanako was even more puzzled when he heard this.
But Liu Ping stopped talking.
The ferryman was also silent.
About ten minutes passed.
The huge roar could be faintly heard, and the ferryman turned around again and returned to the stern of the ship.
At this time, the darkness had faded a lot, and one could vaguely see the wreckage of countless ships, planes, and submarines in the surrounding waters.
Although they could only barely see the outline of these wreckage, this scene still shocked the three of them.
"When I go... this place... why does it look like a cemetery? Could it be that all those mysteriously missing ships and planes fell into this damn place?" Liu Ping couldn't help but sigh when he noticed the wreckage.
"This is just the tip of the iceberg," said Ferryman, "there will be more shocking things ahead."
"What's more shocking?" Liu Ping's curiosity was aroused. He got up and came to the bow of the ship, intending to take a look at the more shocking places.
But Hanako pulled him down and sat down.
"Be careful, this place is very dangerous." Hanako said seriously.
Liu Ping was stunned. "Danger? Where is the danger?"
Hanako opened the diary and read, "I have always been yearning for the world beyond the earth. I feel that I already know enough about the world I live in... But I was wrong... Whether it is the bottom of the ocean or the depths of the forest, there is always
There are places that we have not yet set foot on... let alone the inner earth world? After passing through the dark and lightless shadow, I continued to move forward in the cemetery full of debris... Originally, I planned to take a rest here.
I thought this could be a place for me to sit and rest, but I was wrong... They are here! Not a demon, but more evil than a demon! Not a monster, but more hateful than a monster! Not a beast, but more evil than any beast.
More bloodthirsty!"
After reading this paragraph, Hanako closed the diary and turned to ask the ferryman, "Excuse me...are there many lost people trapped like you in this area?"
The ferryman didn't speak, she was doing her work quietly.
Xiang Mubai and Liu Ping were already on alert.
The two people who have been working at the tip of a knife all year round naturally do not believe in the so-called pure goodwill, so from the beginning, they did not regard the ferryman as a good person.
Even though she has done nothing to threaten them so far.
"Excuse me..." Hanako planned to repeat the question.
The ferryman suddenly said, "As you have read and guessed, there are indeed many lost people in this dark land whose souls cannot find rest, but I am not one of them. I am here to serve as the ferryman to pick up the lost people."
To quote the truth, you need my salvation, so you can rest assured that I will not dedicate you to them, nor will I allow them to target you. Of course, the premise is that we must fully trust each other and you must continue to stay.
On the boat until we reach Revelation Falls."
After listening to the ferryman's answer, logically speaking, the three of them should cooperate obediently.
But Xiang Mubai didn't trust the ferryman. He said coldly, "Why should I think what you said is the truth?"
The ferryman remained silent. She looked forward, her eyes twinkling.
Liu Ping and Xiang Mubai had similar ideas. He was not the kind of person to sit back and wait for death, so he drew his weapon and said, "Girl, if you want to convince us, you have to provide strong evidence."
Hanako said nothing, but she was also shaken. She stared at the ferryman, looking forward to her evidence.
The ferryman was silent.
Xiang Mubai lost his temper and said, "Stop the boat!"