After putting on my clothes and running out, I was plunged into darkness again. I ran forward a few steps and felt that there were forks on both sides, so I returned to the cave and pulled a torch from the stone wall. When I was about to go out, I heard a muffled "crackling" sound from the coffin, which seemed particularly strange.
My heart skipped a beat. Damn it, there must be a zongzi in the coffin, right? I thought it would be better to avoid trouble. Chasing Su Yao was more important. The whereabouts of Shen Bing, Tiandeng Zhaoxin, and Ding Wumao Liu were all on her mind.
I hurried out of the cave, and under the light of the fire, I saw two forks on both sides of the road. I stopped and listened for a while, but I didn't hear any footsteps. I wondered where Su Yao, Wang Zijun and Lu Fei had gone. I decided to keep going forward, running along this straight tunnel, but after running more than 50 meters, I reached the end, a dead end.
I had no choice but to return to the fork in the road. I stood there and looked around for a while. This cave seemed to be naturally formed. Only the circular cave at the back was artificially repaired. This place was completely kept in its natural state. When I decided to chase to the left, I heard faint footsteps again. Damn, there were footsteps on both sides.
I decided to go left first. After entering this fork in the road, I found that the space ahead was getting smaller and smaller. I couldn't even stand up straight after running for more than ten meters. But the footsteps became clearer and clearer, so I just crouched and walked forward. As soon as I turned a corner, a face suddenly appeared in front of me. Oh my god, wasn't the thousand skins killed? Could there be another pair
He didn't even bother to see what the face looked like and just smeared it with a talisman.
"Brother Xi, it's me!" Lu Fei shouted, panting.
I quickly stopped and saw that it was indeed this guy. He was sweating profusely and it seemed that he didn't catch up with Su Yao. So I asked him, "Did you lose him?"
"I took the wrong road. Wang Zijun took the right path, but I didn't listen to him. The road ahead is a dead end." Lu Fei said a little ashamedly.
"Then let's run back quickly."
We both turned around and ran back to the fork in the road. We saw Wang Zijun running out from the other side and said breathlessly, "Su Yao ran away. I'll come back to pick you up."
When the monkey kid escaped last night, he took the wrong road, so he knew that going forward and to the left was a dead end. But Lu Fei didn't listen to him just now, so I also took the wrong road (actually, I can't blame Lu Fei, it was my poor planning). After he ran out, he saw that Su Yao had already escaped and couldn't be seen clearly, so he came back to meet us.
We followed the winding tunnel on the right and came out of the underground cave. We ran back to Mr. Shi and the others, and only then did we sit on the ground and catch our breath with relief when we saw that they were all safe and sound.
Mr. Shi said that he saw a figure running past him and up the mountain ridge, but he didn't chase after him because he couldn't tell who it was.
After taking a few breaths, I asked them to wait here while I went to chase Su Yao. No matter whether I could catch up with her or not, I had to find Shen Bing's whereabouts.
After two nights of no sleep, I felt a little weak after climbing the ridge, but I was thinking about Shen Bing, so I gritted my teeth and ran forward. I ran to the bare tree in one breath, but I didn't see Su Yao. This woman is not a pushover. She is running for her life now, and she must run faster than a rabbit.
I looked at the big tree and touched my nose. Suddenly, I thought of something, so I ran under the tree and opened my yin-yang eyes. I saw the corpse spirit lying on the branch, swaying back and forth, looking very comfortable. However, it also heard the footsteps, turned its head and looked at me, and was so scared that it almost fell off the branch, and hurriedly turned over and climbed up.
"Master, why are you back again?"
"How many people passed by here after I left?" I asked, staring at it.
"Seven or eight people went east from here last night, and just now a woman went west."
I was startled. Why wasn't Shen Bing here? I asked him a few more questions. Shen Bing had indeed never come back. I asked him if there was any other way out of the valley in front of him except this ridge. He shook his head and answered decisively that there was no way out. The valley in front was the final end of this ridge. If we wanted to go east, we had to go back to Beisanpo and go around north.
This means that Shen Bing is still in the valley, maybe in an underground cave. There must be places in there that we haven't reached. Shen Bing may be hiding in some secret corner.
I hurried back to the valley, and it was already past nine o'clock in the evening. I found that the group had disappeared. I felt something was wrong, so I shouted a few times, and the sound kept echoing in the valley. I waited for a while, but there was no response.
A mountain breeze blew over me, and I shuddered all over. Did something happen to them? I hurried to the cave where Wang Zijun had been hiding, called out twice, and looked around inside, but there was no sign of anyone. I felt more and more depressed. Among the eight of them, there were three children. No matter what the adults did, the children could not be frightened or hurt again.
Finally, he fixed his gaze on the northeast corner of the cave and hurried over. Now that he had no more incense, he could only chant incantations and burn talismans. On the one hand, he could clear the way and drive away the evil spirits, and on the other hand, he could temporarily see what was going on below. First, he made sure there was nothing unusual below before jumping down.
As soon as I stood still, I felt a burst of bone-chilling wind blowing out from the cave entrance on the left, which made me shiver all over. Damn it, this is the ghost wind, the evil spirits in it are not cheap, and they feel more ferocious than dead skin. At this moment, I only have the yellow talisman in my hand, and the ghost-suppressing token and soul-capturing bell in my bag, so I took out the ghost-suppressing token and a talisman and held them in front of me and entered the cave entrance.
The further I walked, the colder it got, as if I had entered an ice cave, my whole body aching from the cold. I kept blowing warm air on my hands, my heart pounding, and I followed the path in my memory towards the circular cave.
Fortunately, we didn't encounter any problems along the way. We soon reached the fork in the road. Then we heard a muffled "creaking" sound coming from the direction of the cave entrance. It was particularly clear and piercing in the darkness. My heart jumped suddenly. It sounded like the lid of a coffin was opened. Was the zongzi inside going to come out
Fortunately, there was still a little glutinous rice left in my pocket. I put the ghost-suppressing token back into my bag, replaced it with the soul-catching bell, and moved towards the cave entrance step by step.
The light coming out of the cave was much weaker and not as strong as it was in the morning.
When I got there, I stopped and looked inside. Most of the torches on the cave wall were extinguished, with only two still burning. The light inside the cave was also very dim. I vaguely saw twelve corpses surrounding the coffin, all sitting with their faces facing outwards. I was shocked. Who turned them upside down
At this moment, there was a loud "bang" from the black coffin. The coffin lid burst open and fell heavily to the ground with a thud. A corner of the coffin sank deeply into the ground.
Damn, the coffin is indeed made of steel, but I wonder what the person inside looks like. Thinking of this, my heart started beating violently again.