Chapter 112 Claustrophobia
They had heard this statement from people from other sects last night. Unlike Wukang Mountain, other sects had done some preparation for the situation before their disciples came to attend the meeting. There were no snakes, insects, rats, ants or the like in the Moon Sea, let alone wild beasts. It seemed that there were not even animals that lived locally. But there seemed to be some monsters.
Most people don't seem to be able to figure out what kind of monster it is. Even the organizers of the conference only said that there is danger, but did not specify what the danger is.
Wu Jinliang quickly stood back to back with him and said, "That is to say, either someone has been here, or a monster has been here."
Shi Chun looked around cautiously and said, "I'd rather it was a monster that came here."
As he spoke, he cast a spell to stimulate his blood and energy, and once again activated the supernatural power in his right eye. He looked around and checked repeatedly several times, but did not see any monsters. Instead, he discovered another interesting thing for the first time. The white misty form of Yan Ji's figure in his right eye had become very faint, and seemed to be about to completely dissipate.
From this, he could probably guess that after a certain period of time after a person's death, his right eye would no longer be able to see.
"I didn't see anything with my right eye in the surrounding area, so he should be gone." Shi Chun informed the other party briefly, knowing that the other party could understand and there was no need to be long-winded.
After hearing this, Wu Jinliang felt a little relieved and asked, "How should we deal with Yan Ji?"
Shi Chun: "It's too late to worry about anything. Just handle it as usual. You do it, and I'll be on guard."
Knowing that Yan Ji could see things that normal people could not see, Wu Jinliang took action immediately. He first searched Yan Ji's body, and then, like he did to Guan Wen, he cut off his hands, took off his bracelets, threw him into the pit and buried him directly.
Then he took out a wind scale from his belongings and gave it to Shi Chun, grinning from ear to ear, "One for each of us, we've really made a fortune this time, this thing is much more expensive than a house in the royal capital, and we can fly anywhere. There are five people in the Su Yuan Sect, and if we can get the remaining three, we can lie down and rest for the rest of our lives, hehehehe."
This thing is indeed a good thing for transportation and escape, especially in the current environment. Shi Chun didn't hesitate and took it and put it away.
However, at this moment, a scream suddenly came from outside, "Ah..."
The sound was not loud and was a bit far away, but I could still hear it vaguely.
The two looked at each other and quickly jumped out of the deep ravine.
As soon as he got outside, Wu Jinliang quickly threw Yan Ji's bracelet, talisman and other things far away.
"Ah..." There were more screams and the rumbling sounds of fighting.
The two were startled and quickly jumped onto the treetop to look around. They saw nothing, but they could see the source of the noise, which was the area where hundreds of people had scattered.
Shi Chun quickly fell into the forest, without landing, and flew among the branches of the forest. Wu Jinliang followed closely with a big knife.
The two men quickly ran to the top of the mountain where the crime had been committed, hid in the treetops and looked out into the distance. Suddenly, they saw many trees shaking in their field of vision, and then startled the people in the forest who were also watching and alert because they heard the screams.
They were people from those sects. Many of them didn’t know what danger they were in, so they just jumped out and fled towards the shore.
The terrifying thing is that when someone jumped into the air, he suddenly disappeared out of thin air.
Some seemed to be grabbed by some invisible entity and suddenly dragged back into the forest.
Wu Jin's eyes were filled with fear. "What the hell?"
Shi Chun saw a different scene with his right eye. There were many huge brown misty monsters, shaped like octopuses, but with several times more tentacles than octopuses. They could nimbly shuttle between the trees and dance in the air like butterflies.
Inside the monster's body, there was a flickering blue glow, exactly the same as the Insect Crystal.
Once the tentacles grab a person, they will drag him/her into a dark gap.
Someone jumped into the air and disappeared out of thin air, just because he jumped into the gap.
The gap was like a door, or like a monster's mouth. Once a person entered, it would suddenly close, or disappear out of thin air.
There is no way to fight against this invisible enemy, coupled with traps that appear out of nowhere.
Some people also cut off the tentacles that were wrapped around them and escaped quickly.
There were screams, cries of terror, sounds of fighting, and figures rising and falling and fleeing, making everything in sight a chaotic mess.
There was no way this would work, so Shi Chun shouted urgently, “Let’s go!”
He just turned his head and swung out his arm to grab Wu Jinliang urgently. He stared at the void in front of him with wide eyes. A huge brown misty monster was floating in front of them, silently, as if staring at them hungrily.
As soon as Wu Jinliang saw Shi Chun's reaction, he knew that something bad was going to happen.
"Retreat!" Shi Chun shouted.
Seeing the monster's tentacles grabbing him, he pulled Wu Jinliang and retreated urgently.
Suddenly, there was a sudden suction of air behind them. The two felt the light around them suddenly dim, and the scene in front of them seemed to have blown out the lights. They were suddenly plunged into endless darkness, as if they had suddenly jumped from daytime into deep night, and there was no light at all.
Shi Chun was so frightened that his scalp went numb. He knew at a glance that he had fallen into the trap of the gap. The special ability of his right eye also disappeared at this moment.
Being trapped in darkness would have been bad enough, but he also felt his body falling, stumbling left and right, and the weapons in his hands clanked against each other.
By the light of the sparks, the two vaguely realized that they were in a narrow gap.
Based on the reactions of the two, they quickly stopped falling and took out a sandalwood gold lighting piece one after another.
"spring."
"weight."
The two spoke in unison, with an instinctive concern in their voices, and they were worried about each other's safety at the first moment.
Hearing the sound, one looked up and the other looked down.
Shi Chun, with his legs spread out and supporting himself on both sides of the cliff, was looking down.
Wu Jin, whose sword was stuck on the cliffs on both sides, was hanging there with his hands on the handle of the sword and looking up. After seeing Shi Chun's action, he pulled himself up with one arm, supported himself with his feet on both sides, half-lying on his sword, grinning from ear to ear. A person might panic, but with companions, they all breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that their companions were fine.
After quickly calming themselves down, the two looked around. There were dark stone walls on both sides. They had just tested the hardness of the knives in their hands. They were extraordinary and did not look like ordinary stone walls.
The narrow space was very humid, with a faint mist floating around and water vapor on the stone walls.
There is no end to the crack at the top, no bottom to the bottom, and no one knows where the ends are on the left or right.
Just now, the tense scene of the swaying trees suddenly changed to a dark space in broad daylight. Moreover, it was such a narrow space that Wu Jinliang was really confused. "Chun Tian, what's going on?"
"I don't know. I only saw a strange monster that seemed to be related to the Insect Crystal..."
Shi Chun told him everything he had seen, and the sandalwood gold in his hand shot upwards.
It did not fly too high, hitting the stone wall less than twenty feet high. It did not reach the end, but because the stone wall was uneven, upward cracks could be seen and there was no end to the extended space before the light fell.
The sandalwood gold fell with a clanging sound, but Shi Chun did not reach out to catch it. He just lowered his head and watched it fall.
The light gradually dimmed, and gradually nothing could be seen. The sound of falling became smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared completely. I didn't know whether there was an end or not.
People can't squeeze through the narrow place, which is a bit creepy.
Shi Chun pulled his legs together and landed on Wu Jinliang's sword stuck on the stone wall. He inserted the sword into the sheath on his back and said, "I'll use my right eye again."
Wu Jinliang's expression tensed, knowing the consequences of using his right eye's ability too frequently. He turned over, sat cross-legged on his sword, and looked at him.
After the blood and energy stimulated the supernatural power of his right eye again, Shi Chun's body swayed again. He reached out to hold the stone wall, took a deep breath, and felt that the air here was very thin. He looked around with his right eye, and the more he looked, the more surprised he was.
There was nothing in the cracks of the stone wall. It was true emptiness. There was no dark green background, only the occasional linear light spot.
What he saw on the stone wall and in his left eye was actually the same object. This was a rare sight after his right eye acquired superpowers, a substance that was both real and illusory in origin.
Or because the stone wall was uneven, my right eye couldn't see where the end was or where the way out was.
After a long while, he said, "Jinliang, this damn place is different from the outside world. I'm afraid even the immobilization talisman will be ineffective."
Wu Jinliang was quite surprised, "Ah, what's going on?"
Shi Chun: "Let's find a way out first."
Wu Jinliang was worried: "This is endless, we won't be trapped to death here, right?"
"Stop talking nonsense here." Shi Chun spat in his face, then leaned over, picked up his arm, grabbed the cuff of his sleeve, and tore off a circle.
Wu Jinliang asked curiously, "What's the matter? You've only worn nice clothes for a few days?"
Shi Chun peeled off the silk threads from his clothes, then took out some gold shavings and tied them up, then tied them around Wu Jinliang's body, tying them in multiple places. "The air here is thin, and there is probably no air originally. It came in from outside when the space was opened. Free up your hands and feet, save energy, and make it easier to light up."
So that's how it is. It's a good idea in this dark environment. Wu Jinliang immediately followed suit and tied sandalwood on Shi Chun's body.
Tan Jin was tied up with more and more things, and his body became brighter and brighter. The scene between the two of them was quite warm, and Wu Jinliang suddenly chuckled.
Shi Chun: "Why are you grinning like an idiot? You can still laugh."
Wu Jinliang chuckled, "I suddenly remembered when we were young. They said we had grown up and had bigger appetites, so we had to earn our own livings in the future, and then they threw us two broken knives. Later, we were extremely hungry, so we rushed out to fight with others. Several of our friends died, and we were beaten half to death. Then one day, you said you wanted to seize the position of the head of Dongjiuyuan. Do you remember what you said to me?"
Shi Chun, who tied up Tan Jin, was silent. I don’t know if he really forgot, but he shook his head anyway.
Wu Jinliang chuckled and said, "You said: From the day I picked up the knife and fought with others, every bite I ate was snatched by myself."
Shi Chun frowned, "It's already this time, why are you talking about this?"
Wu Jinliang: "What I mean is, we can definitely get out, don't give up."
Shi Chun rolled his eyes, tied another one on him, and threw away the rag in his hand, "Okay, that's enough."
Wu Jinliang then withdrew his hand, looked up and down, left and right, and asked, "Which way should we go?"
"Of course, we'll take the easiest way." Shi Chun looked down, "I don't believe there really is a bottomless pit." After saying that, he jumped off the knife.
"Why are you in such a hurry? Wait a minute." Wu Jinliang quickly split his legs to support himself on both sides, picked up the knife in his hand, put it on his shoulder, retracted his legs and jumped down.
Not long after, Shi Chun suddenly found that she was stuck with her legs spread open again.
He landed in front of it and also got his legs stuck. Just when he was about to ask what was wrong, his eyes fell on the stone wall. He was stunned. It turned out to be a mural, and an extremely large-scale stone wall carving, with mountains, rivers, pavilions, and towers and so on. He didn't know who had the leisure to carve them.
He immediately said happily: "If someone carved a mural, it means there is a way out. Let's find it quickly."
Then, like a glowing spider, it quickly moved back and forth between the cliffs, up and down, and like a duck shaking its butt, its movements were very fast.
Shi Chun was moving slowly to look at the contents engraved on the cliffs on both sides. The stone wall was very hard, and it was difficult to make scratches on it. This was indeed a huge achievement, and the person who did it must have a very high level of cultivation.
Suddenly, Wu Jinliang's voice came from far below, "Spring, here, come quickly."
Shi Chun moved his eyes downward, then floated sideways, and quickly pushed his foot against the stone wall, landing on the opposite side, where there was an intricately carved cave entrance that looked like a courtyard gate.
There was a flash of light inside, and Wu Jinliang emerged, holding an ancient metal bracelet, and asked with a trembling voice: "Chuntian, guess what this is?"
(End of this chapter)
