Chapter 644 Three Forks in the Road
On the way back, nothing unexpected happened.
Only occasionally, I would encounter some small animals that flashed by, such as mice, bats, centipedes, and the like...
These little animals are not scary at all, they can even be said to be somewhat cute, providing some vitality to this depressing cave.
When Wu Xian and his five companions returned to the entrance of the crack, they found that the others had already returned.
Both Huang Yuanjiang's group and Jiang Huaian's group were intact, no one was missing, and no one was missing limbs, but everyone looked a little bad, obviously they encountered something during the exploration.
In addition, Wu Xian also noticed that the condition of the middle-aged man Fu Dahai was slightly abnormal. Although he had no injuries on his body, his expression was a little dull, and his two eyes were looking in different directions.
But Wu Xian did not ask immediately. Things had to be dealt with one by one. Since General Huang Yuan chose to bring Fu Dahai back, the situation might not be as bad as imagined.
Then everyone gathered around the campfire, added some firewood, and told each other about their experiences of the exploration.
The first group introduced is Huang Yuanjiang and Lan Xuan.
General Huang Yuan was a little confused about the direction: "Let's go west... Never mind, we'll just explore that side, sticking to the edge of the crack. We walked a long way and saw many people with numb expressions."
"Those people made the atmosphere weird, but it was generally safe at first. The biggest shock was seeing a few oversized crickets."
"As we continued walking, we saw the road getting narrower and narrower, and we walked into a man-made tunnel."
Han Yu raised his hand immediately after hearing this: "We also encountered an artificial tunnel. The height is no more than two meters, but the width is at least ten meters, going down all the way..."
Lan Xuan shook her head: "No, we encountered a small path. The widest part was less than one meter wide, and the narrowest part was barely wide enough for a person to pass through."
"The road smells bad and is filled with filth, but it slopes down all the way."
"We wondered if we could get down to the bottom of the Valley of the Dead through this road."
"So we continued to move forward and found some diggers who were carrying pickaxes to dig out the wall. We also stole two pickaxes from them..."
"Further down, the width of the road becomes uniform, all two meters wide, and there are neatly built steps on the ground. On the wall near one side, there are runes with unknown meanings."
"This tunnel exudes an endless chill from the bottom, which makes all five of us shudder. When we continue to try to go down, we turn a corner and find that below..."
Lan Xuan stopped talking here. Yuan Buyai, the rock climber in their group, took over the conversation in a trembling voice:
"There are heads everywhere down there!"
"No, to be precise, it's people. Countless people were crowded in the narrow two-meter aisle. We could see heads crowded together."
"When they heard us passing by, they all turned their heads towards us. Their movements were terrifyingly uniform. Their eyes were all a terrifying dark green color, and their expressions were cold and emotionless. When I was stared at by hundreds of pairs of eyes, I dared not move!"
Thinking back to that scene now, the five members of Huang Yuan’s team still feel a chill down their spine.
"After staring at us for a while, those hundreds of people rushed over with their fangs and claws bared. However, they were too crowded and could not run fast. This gave us a chance to escape from that narrow tunnel, and they would not leave that narrow tunnel."
"After we came out, we found that Fu Dahai looked a little different."
"He was unresponsive and couldn't focus. When we asked him what happened, he said that when we went down to explore, there were always six people in the team!"
"The sixth person was a beautiful woman in white. She and Fu Dahai were very close, and they were almost always hugging each other."
"When we were chased by those green-eyed people below, we got separated from the mysterious sixth person, and Fu Dahai became what he is now."
Fu Dahai smiled naively, covering his lips as if he was missing someone: "When she left, she said goodbye to me properly. It wasn't an accident that we got separated." Everyone immediately asked Fu Dahai, but he couldn't explain anything clearly anymore.
Then it was Wu Xian's team's turn to explain the situation, with the main point being the strange abilities of the 'Red Light Head'. If you encounter a Red Light Head and there are too few people, it is best not to resist and to run away.
The other two groups encountered downward tunnels, but these two tunnels were of different widths and did not seem to be dug for the same purpose.
There are a lot of dangerous things under the two tunnels. It is not realistic for them to go down to the bottom of the Valley of the Dead through any of the tunnels.
Finally it was the turn of Jiang Huaian group.
"The direction we are looking in is similar to Brother Huang's direction."
"We didn't encounter any evil spirits on the way. We went deeper along the opening of this crack and walked along the path over there for a while, and then we found another slightly smaller crack cave entrance."
"There were red paper strips hanging above the cave, and several statues of gods carved into the rock wall. The images of the statues made people feel uncomfortable, and they didn't look like statues of righteous gods."
"After walking past a few statues, you will find a plank road. That plank road is different from the one at the entrance of our crack cave. It extends all the way down to an unknown distance. The narrowest place is half a meter wide!"
After hearing this, Wu Xian's eyes lit up.
"This is the road. We can go down to the bottom of the Valley of the Dead from this road!"
Jiang Huaian shook his head: "I thought so at first, but when we were walking back, I suddenly felt some pain in my body, and then..."
Fan Qingyue, who was in the same group with him, lifted up her clothes around her belly and saw a dark blue handprint on her side!
Fan Qingyue said with a dark face:
"I don't know when this handprint appeared, nor do I know what kind of harm it will bring to us. At least now it's just pure pain."
"Each of us has at least four or five such palm prints on our bodies."
"We were just standing at the entrance of the crack and looking down for a while. We didn't do anything extra, but we still got caught!"
"The damage from the palm print wasn't that great, but the worst thing is, we don't know how we got hit!"
The scene fell into silence.
Three roads have been discovered so far, but there are strange things on all three roads. Which road should they choose to get down to the bottom of the Valley of the Dead?
The silence lasted for a while, and Miao Ling suddenly laughed.
Everyone looked at him, but he pointed at Fu Dahai, who was making faces at Miao Ling with a rather abstract expression on his face.
Being interrupted like this, everyone stopped thinking.
A long time had passed since they got on the bungee jumping machine, and according to the time on their mobile phones, it was already eight o'clock in the evening.
Everyone hadn't had much rest, and their bodies and minds were almost at their limits. What they needed to do most now was to eat and rest.
So several people from Wu Xian's group placed the supplies they had snatched from Hong Dengtou in front of everyone.
But as soon as the supplies were unfolded, Wu Xian's expression changed slightly. The appearance of these foods was no longer the same as when they were snatched away just now!
(End of this chapter)
