It's too dark...it's too dark around here.
Qi Zhuyue held her arms and rubbed them up and down, trying to warm herself.
It was so cold in this cave, especially coupled with the dampness, that one couldn't help but shiver.
She...she seems to...seems to have just escaped from the doppelganger state?
Although Bai Su said little and walked forward on his own, with Qi Zhuyue's unremitting efforts, she was able to find out a little bit.
For example, when Bai Su came in, he bumped into her doppelgänger, and then the doppelgänger ran away with her belongings? Then there was Wen Rongxuan... Wen Rongxuan, who didn't even know if he could be called a human, came out and slipped around twice.
Qi Zhuyue felt a headache when she thought of the name Wen Rongxuan. The impact the other party had on her before she fell into coma was too great. Her high inspiration made her easily fall into some panic scenes.
No, I can’t think about it anymore.
Qi Zhuyue ruffled her hair and forced her thoughts back.
Doppelgänger... Bai Su said he saw her doppelgänger.
Wait, how did she wake up? Doesn’t it mean that the original body that still exists in the doppelganger will always be sleeping? Is she special? ...Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhs!
Qi Zhuyue couldn't imagine where she was picked out from and how she was awakened.
Now her hands are empty, with no lighting or communication equipment... It is estimated that the doppelganger took them all away, but who gave them to the doppelganger? ...I can't think about it at all.
After digging deeper, the human woman found that what she knew was too incomplete, and she couldn't figure out the cause, process, and outcome of the matter at all.
She intuitively felt that Bai Su knew everything, but Bai Su only told a little bit and left her here.
Qi Zhuyue sighed, rubbed her arms twice more, and began to move herself in a small area.
She felt that there shouldn't be any danger here, but...but she still had to be careful.
The dim environment lasted for a while, and suddenly from a certain moment, lights lit up on both sides.
The light came so suddenly that the human woman couldn't adapt to it. She covered her eyes to avoid it for a while, blinking twice to wipe away the sour tears.
Looking to both sides, the string extending from the front lit the oil lamp on the wall.
The structure was a bit strange, but Qi Zhuyue had no time to look at it. The moment the light came on, her attention was attracted by the things on the cave wall.
mural? No, it’s not even close to the level of a mural.
The drawing skills of a matchstick figure were as rough as a child's drawings, and he briefly painted a few scenes that were completely incomprehensible. Qi Zhuyue could barely distinguish a few scenes that were similar to sacrificial scenes. As for the others... she could only If you can judge the painter, please don't paint again.
It may be that the person who drew the picture knew that his skills were limited, so he began to add words next to the pictures. The words were a bit indecipherable, and there were no maintenance measures. They were slightly weathered, and the original scrawled handwriting became even more difficult to read.
But the good thing is that he can barely read it. Qi Zhuyue looked closer and tried to understand.
"Sacrifice...using human sacrifices...first started with...Wen——" Qi Zhuyue suddenly stopped when she read the name.
For no reason, her head started to feel numb and itchy.
She seemed to remember this name, probably in "Wen Tao"'s memory.
Yes... yes, it seems to be Wen Tao's childhood playmate, the one Gao Tianyi dreamed of in his dream.
"Wen Tao" couldn't remember it at that time, and no one in the village mentioned it, but now she can know the answer.
——was sacrificed.
Wenjia Village tried human sacrifice for the first time, using Wen Tao's childhood playmate. If you want to ask why... he offended... "Wen Tao"?
The appearance of the same name on both sides confused the human woman. She looked back and realized that she had read it correctly.
The one who was sacrificed was "Wen Tao", and the one who was offended was also "Wen Tao".
But isn't she just "Wen Tao"?
Qi Zhuyue felt that she had been asleep for too long and missed the key plot.
Behind the wall were all bloody sacrifice descriptions, and the densely packed names represented how many people were buried here. Qi Zhu counted the months and found that the latest date was a year ago.
One year ago...October 10th?
Qi Zhuyue thought for a moment. It was October 7th when they entered Wenjia Village.
Do you want to go find... Do you want to go find Baisu?
The human woman's perspective shifted to the side, and at the moment she began to struggle, a harsh scream came from the end of the passage.
It was thin and childish, sounding like a child's voice.
A child, a little girl from Wenjia Village.
The two were immediately equated in his mind. Qi Zhuyue turned around and wanted to run in the direction of the sound.
After running for two steps, the person's speed slowed down again.
Should she...should lean over?
…
Hmm——How do humans say something?
Villain dies because he talks too much?
However, he is not considered a villain here, and "Wen Tao" is not considered a villain. The village chief himself who really seems to have taken the villain script is probably still talking nonsense outside.
Bai Su declined "Wen Tao's" self-recommendation.
Food must have a food position. If "Wen Tao" was just a human, he might think twice about it. After all, humans can indirectly provide him with some food to some extent.
After being declined, the little girl saw that the conversation collapsed and no longer restrained herself.
It is contrary to Baisu's purpose, and their identities have completely become that of predator and prey.
After several screams in succession, something crawled out of the curvature of the walls around the entrance of the cave.
The fish's head and the human body were as wet as if they had just burst out of the egg. They first fell to the ground and then slowly got up, their dead eyes rolling around, and finally faced Baisu.
A somewhat familiar look.
The man with the fish head was naked, stepping on the slippery mucus and shaking out his sharp fish webs and waving down with his claws.
Bai Su stepped back, but there were also fishmen approaching quietly behind him. They swarmed forward with silent roars and puffs of bubbles.
The black-haired young man gave in a few times before he felt it was in the way, so he had to stretch out his hand and grab the one closest to him.
But Bai Su's grip was too strong, or maybe the newly born fish-man's bones were too brittle. There was a click, and the fish-man opened his mouth in pain.
"Ouch--" It made a sound of separation from the fish in pain. The fish's head twitched twice, and it actually rolled its eyes like a human.
...like a human being.
After discerning something, the black-haired young man threw the murloc like a ball. While knocking down a piece of murloc, he put his hand back and used a claw to catch the intruder from behind.
Then he flipped his wrist and slammed the intruder from behind to the ground. After a muffled sound, he stepped on him.
Bai Su licked his gums and flicked the tip of his tongue between his lips.
No, the monster thought, these fish-men are basically... to put it bluntly, they are still human beings, and they are not palatable at all.
Not even interested in opening his mouth to take a bite, the monster's eyes looked back.
Sure enough... I still have to go to the coffin - ah, now I have to find the little girl.
At the end of the line of sight, beside the coffin, a little girl who was not much taller than the coffin was turning out of the coffin. With the support of two fishmen, she was holding the bones held together by it in her arms.
The girl turned her head when she felt Bai Su's gaze, bared her teeth fiercely, and jumped down to run out of the cave.
This can't let the food in your mouth escape.
A steady stream of fishmen climbed up from all around and from the ground. Some heads completely turned into fish heads, and some faces still had traces of human faces, as if they had not evolved completely.
If there are people from Wenjia Village here, they might be able to shout out the names of one or two who have not completely turned into fish faces. Unfortunately, there are no people present who know Wenjia Village deeply.
The little girl rushed towards the only exit and ran forward, driving all the fishmen to block the road.
But, it's not very useful.
In the face of such a disparity in power, all resistance is in vain.
The black-haired young man's hand hanging by his side suddenly turned into a ball of expanding cotton wool, hanging all the way to the ground. The moment he touched it, it was like a mold that had absorbed nutrients. In the blink of an eye, it had grown all over the fishman's body. .
The black-haired young man still seemed to feel that the speed was too slow. He waved his unchanged hand forward, protruding a few eyeballs, and the wriggling white catkins dispersed into mist, rushing forward crazily.
Whether it was flocculent or mist-like white, it approached the little girl's back in the blink of an eye. Just as he was about to touch it, the leading eyeball stopped.
What he observed, what he sensed.
Immediately afterwards, the white fungus and white mist faded away like a tide, and soon the traces were hidden in the cave.
The black-haired young man smacked his tongue, spread his legs, and stepped over the ugly mermaid lying on the ground.
He walked outside.
…
Qi Zhuyue stopped after taking two steps.
She pricked up her ears and listened to what was going on inside.
There were voices, the collision of objects... and the sound of something greasy scraping against the ground.
Qi Zhuyue couldn't hear clearly anymore, so she had to withdraw her ears, turn her back and walk further out.
As soon as she walked a certain distance, a series of hurried footsteps sounded behind her. She had no time to dodge, and the pattering movement approached her.
Then a somewhat heavy weight landed on her leg.
"Sister!" A clear girl's voice sounded, with a hint of crying, "Sister...sister...sister Wen Tao woo woo woo woo."
Qi Zhuyue's body suddenly froze.
A warm and cold touch came from the back of the leg.
She can understand the warmth. Human body temperature has temperature.
So, what is the cold thing?
Before Qi Zhuyue could think about it, the girl's cry behind her changed tone. She cried and said that she was so scared. She said that someone was going to eat her. She also said that the big brother with black hair had become so scary.
"He...his hands can move." He stumbled, and the cold touch was leaving. "The black-haired brother's hands spread out...like many threads...white, white, they are all moving..."
Qi Zhuyue didn't quite understand what the little girl was talking about, but she imagined it and felt that it was a scene of someone having sex.
The black-haired big brother...referring to Bai Su, right?
Qi Zhuyue took two breaths: "Wen, Wen Hong?" She remembered that the little girl in Wenjia Village should be called this name.
The girl responded with a dull sound, and then Qi Zhuyue asked the girl to loosen her grip a little so that she could turn around.
I don’t know how a little girl can be so strong, even if she is scared, it’s a bit...
The girl released her hold on Qi Zhuyue's legs and turned to tugging on the hanging hem of her clothes. The human woman twitched inaudibly twice but did not pull out.
When Qi Zhuyue turned around, she could see the little girl's face clearly through the lights on both sides.
The girl's face was full of tears, her eyes were red and swollen, and her mouth was so pouted that she could hang an oil bottle.
Her clothes were a bit messy, and her sleeves and skirt had dark brown stains from nowhere, which were very eye-catching. If she looked around carefully, she could see that there was still incompletely dried mucus on the back of her heels.
However, this is not the most eye-catching.
Qi Zhuyue lowered her gaze, and she saw the little girl holding a handful of clothes in her hands. Judging from the size and style of the clothes, she should be wearing a windproof coat.
Now, the coat was taken off and the whole thing was rolled up in his arms.
...not just a group.
Qi Zhuyue's eyelashes trembled, and she saw the weird, not-so-obvious edges and corners between the folds of the fabric, which were curvatures that could only be lifted up by hard objects.
For no reason, she thought of the cold touch just now.
After the girl came face to face with her, the cry reappeared on her face, her nose twitched, and she tried to grab the hem of Qi Zhuyue's clothes to climb up, or to pull the adult to squat down.
Qi Zhuyue felt her collar tighten, and she couldn't get rid of it, so she could only lean down slightly.
As soon as she lowered her head, the girl took a step further and grabbed Qi Zhuyue's cuffs from the hem of her clothes.
"Just...something terrible just happened."
Half pushing, Qi Zhuyue was grabbed by a force coming from in front of her, listening to the little girl complaining about everything that had just happened in the cave ahead.
Partly to match the tone and logic of a child's speech, the girl spoke very quickly, and her words were topsy-turvy and occasionally contradictory, but Qi Zhuyue was able to roughly piece together what the girl wanted to express.
She wanted to say...she wanted to say that the black-haired young man was a monster.
Bai Su...is he a monster?
Qi Zhuyue raised her hand twice in confusion. She could not move it, but she still wanted to say: "Then do we have to run out first? Isn't it very dangerous to stay here?"
"We can't run away." The girl, uncharacteristically, grabbed Qi Zhuyue's wrist tightly, "He, he is too scary, we can't run away."
The girl's eyes looked over Qi Zhuyue's shoulders toward the deep passage behind, and seemed to be resting on Qi Zhuyue's neck, not knowing what she was looking at.
Little girl: "That big brother is going to catch up."
Qi Zhuyue: "So we——"
The human woman's voice stopped suddenly, and she saw the person coming directly in front of her.
The black-haired young man walked slowly, with one hand in his pocket and a leisurely look that was incompatible with the atmosphere of this space.
He saw Qi Zhuyue and raised his hand to say hello.
"Hi."
"He's the big brother who can eat people!"
The little girl said to Bai Su, she half turned around, put one hand around Qi Zhuyue's arm, put the folded clothes in it, and pointed the other hand at Bai Su.
It quite feels like the evildoers are the first to complain.
However, what the little girl said was true.
The hand that had just said hello was put down, and the black-haired young man tilted his head and looked at Qi Zhuyue.
He seemed to be asking, who do you believe?
(End of chapter)
