Chapter 654 Black Palm
Everyone's expressions became serious and tense.
Everyone realized that perhaps this ghost fire plank road, like the cliff hanging coffins they encountered before, also hid a large number of crawling corpses!
So he moved much more carefully than before, and had to firmly grasp the hollows on the rock wall before taking the next step.
Wu Xian looked left and right as he walked.
The problem he faced now was, if there were a large number of corpses hidden on the plank road, then where were they?
The lighting here is good, and there is only a plank road, with smooth rock walls above and below, and no coffins for the bodies to hide...
Could it be under the plank road?
Wu Xian squatted down slightly and looked down through the gap between the wooden boards of the plank road, and then he saw a pair of bloodshot eyes bulging from the eye sockets.
hum!
The plank road suddenly shook, and everyone screamed in turn. They all felt that something seemed to be crawling quickly across the plank road beneath them.
Wu Xian took a deep breath, stood up with the help of the rock wall, and pointed his finger towards the bottom of the plank road.
"There are crawling corpses!"
"Just below, in the blind spot blocked by the plank road, there are crawling corpses following us... but I'm not sure how many there are."
This discovery, to a certain extent, explains the origin of will-o'-the-wisp.
But the existence of the crawling zombies made everyone even more nervous.
When everyone was walking along the rock wall, they kept their feet closer to the inside, for fear that they would be grabbed by hands reaching out from below if they were not careful.
The atmosphere became dangerous and depressing again, and the slightest disturbance would make everyone nervous.
Wu Xian was thinking as he walked.
He hadn't said anything else. He felt that the pair of eyes he had just seen looked familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere before.
But after all, there was a wooden board between them and the vision was not very good, so he was not sure whether it was his illusion.
In addition, are the ghost lights on the plank road really made by those crawling corpses? The plank road is less than half a meter wide. Even if there are crawling corpses following, the number will not be too large. Is it possible for a small number of corpses to form a large number of ghost lights?
Maybe the bodies are still hidden somewhere else!
It's this hole!
Wu Xian suddenly looked at the concave hole in the rock wall.
The pit was originally just a cylinder with a diameter of ten centimeters and a depth of ten centimeters, but as they gradually descended, the cylinder became deeper and deeper, and now they had no idea how deep it was.
People didn’t pay much attention to the depth of the hole before, because if they wanted to use the hole to maintain balance, they only needed to hold the outside of the hole.
Wu Xian looked towards a hollow with caution, but it was pitch black inside and he couldn't see the bottom. The light from the ghost fire outside couldn't reach that deep.
So Wu Xian took out a kerosene lighter, which he had found on the numb excavator, and started turning the dial.
Brake, brake...
There was a sound, a flash of sparks, and three times later a flame ignited, illuminating the interior of the cave.
Wu Xian breathed a sigh of relief.
This hollow was about 40 centimeters deep, and the inner layer was completely sealed with stone, so there was nothing strange hidden inside. He then tested two more hollows, and found that they were all completely sealed, so he was relieved.
But the question arises again, those shallow pits can be said to be used to assist walking, but how did these deep pits appear?
puff!
A cold touch appeared on Wu Xian's ankle.
Wu Xian, who was walking while thinking, suddenly stumbled and fell on the plank road, and almost rolled down due to loss of balance.
His heart was pounding. When he looked back, cold sweat broke out. He saw that his leg that was sticking to the rock wall was firmly grasped by a pitch-black hand!
This is an arm without clothes, the skin is black, dry and rough, like a plucked chicken, and the nails are twice as long as those of a normal person!
The arm stretched out from the hole below and grabbed Wu Xian's leg like a pair of pliers. Wu Xian kicked and struggled several times but the arm did not loosen. The arm was still exerting force with its fingers, trying to drag Wu Xian, a living person, into the hole that was only ten centimeters wide!
At this tense and critical moment, Jiang Huaian, who was behind Wu Xian, suddenly drew out the Zhanlu sword. The blade reflected the light of the ghost fire and cut off the black hand that was grabbing Wu Xian's leg. Then he put away the sword beautifully.
The commotion here attracted the attention of everyone on the plank road.
Wu Xian held onto the wall and stood up with weak legs. He pulled the black hand off his leg. Even though it was broken, it still had a nervous grip like a skinned bullfrog.
Jiang Huaian, a reliable teammate, put away the Zhanlu Sword and said, "What's going on? Didn't you just check the cave?"
Wu Xian threw his severed hand down the plank road and said with a livid face, "I just looked at the three concave holes above, and they are indeed closed, but there are tens of thousands of concave holes here... Either the condition of the concave holes is random, or only the concave holes below have problems!"
Jiang Huaian's eyes widened, and he suddenly thought of something.
"I understand!"
"This plank road is right next to the tunnel I discovered!"
The tunnel that Jiang Huaian referred to was a road leading downwards that Jiang Huaian and Fan Qingyue's team had discovered in the crack cave.
The tunnel discovered by Wu Xian's team was wide and empty, while the tunnel discovered by Jiang Huaian was narrow and crowded, with countless humanoid evil spirits with green eyes crammed in the narrow tunnel.
"That narrow tunnel is inside the rock wall, and this plank road is outside the rock wall. These hollows connect the inside and the outside. The evil spirits squeezed inside can stretch their hands out of the hollows to attack us!"
Jiang Huaian's inference made everyone's already tense mood even more tense.
Everyone looked at the rock wall in silence. The plank road was densely packed with holes, and each one was pitch black. If we didn't verify it, who would know if something would come out of it?
After hearing this, Qu Ying became even more nervous. She grabbed her husband's hand and looked carefully at a hole.
As a result, she saw a green eye in the hole, looking at her, and the eyelids even blinked.
"what!"
Qu Ying screamed, and a black hand suddenly grabbed out from the rock wall. Even though she subconsciously dodged, her hair was still grabbed.
A huge force came from the rock wall, and Qu Ying's entire face was pulled and squeezed against the rock wall.
And her scream was like a fuse, igniting the evil spirits squeezed behind the rock wall, and black arms stretched out from countless holes at the same time!
These arms were like thorn bushes growing on the rock wall, scratching at the air randomly. In just a moment, they grabbed several new family members, and there were four or five hands on the screaming Qu Ying!
Qu Ying’s face was squeezed into a pancake shape. She screamed and shouted: “Liu Chen, Liu Chen, please save me, quickly…”
The red, green and blue ghost lights flickered, and Qu Ying's screams were like heavy metal instruments in a nightclub, playing this terrifying and chaotic music!
(End of this chapter)
