When Qin Yin and Wen Ling saw the little gecko getting into the cave, they followed in without much hesitation.
The space in the cave became narrower and the darkness became thicker. Qin Yin reached out and tapped the edge of the flashlight, and the faint light became brighter.
Wen Ling supported Qin Yin and looked curiously at the side wall of the cave.
Qin Yin limped and slowly frowned.
"I feel a little familiar here."
She stared at the series of small stalactites above her head, half-formed like a line of small fluid-filled blisters growing from the top of a cave.
Wen Ling tilted his head, "Been here?"
"I don't know... I forgot," Qin Yin pressed his forehead, "We did enter a cave last time, but it was different from this one... Maybe it was for other reasons?... Oops, I can't remember either. It’s clear, it’s been too long…”
The gecko was waiting for them about five or six meters ahead. When they approached, the little golden guy swooped away again and continued to wait in front.
One of them was disabled and the other was weak, and they moved slowly. After a while, Wen Ling started to pant.
"Are you tired?" Qin Yin turned around and asked, "If you are tired, let's take a rest. I guess the little gecko won't be angry."
Wen Ling shook his head, waved his hand, drank a few sips of water, and then helped Qin Yin up.
"But it's no wonder you're tired," Qin Yin said, "Have you noticed that we have been walking uphill?"
"Um?"
"Didn't you notice?" Qin Yin stamped his feet, "This land is not flat, it has a slope."
"Ah..." Wen Ling realized it later and scratched his head with an innocent look on his face.
Qin Yin pursed her lips and looked at Wen Ling's face without saying a word.
Just looking at the innocent look on her face, who would believe that she belongs to a magical species that can see all things?
When they paused, the little gecko impatiently ran around its tail three times. Seeing the two starting again, it continued to crawl forward. The slender but bright golden streak traveled up the ground in a zigzag shape. As they walked, it was like a God-given coordinate, guiding them on the way forward.
Then, the coordinates were called.
The little gecko stopped somewhere directly in front of the two of them and made a cooing sound.
The two were startled, and after identifying the source of the sound, they ran over in a hurry.
"Oh my god, this is what the gecko calls like," Qin Yin jumped faster on one leg, "What's wrong, little gecko? Did it hit a rock?"
The light of the flashlight shone down on the gecko, and the two looked down.
There is indeed a white thing blocking the road in front of the gecko. The thing is pale and sharp, and is long and thin...
The expressions of the two suddenly turned bad.
It was a human finger bone.
It's a finger.
Unexpected, yet expected.
Qin Yin bit her lower lip and stared at the phalange in silence.
"This... this..." Wen Ling was frightened. She pointed at the bone and looked at Qin Yin with wide eyes, as if she was complaining.
"Don't be afraid," Qin Yin stroked Wenling's hair, "It's just a bone. After all, you can't expect anything good to appear here, right?"
"No..." Wen Ling's face turned red, "She..."
Qin Yin looked at the bone, "It? Do you know this bone?"
Nod nod.
What?
Qin Yin was a little confused, "You can recognize this. Do we usually appear as skeletons in your eyes?"
"Above!..." Wen Ling's other hand pointed to the top of his head.
"Above? Cave wall? Moss? Stalactites?..."
"No……"
"What is that? Woods? Mountains? Lianshui Village?"
"Down...down..."
Too good.
Wen Ling quickly pressed his hand down.
"Where is that?...Oh, I see, is it the pool where Xiaolan disappeared?"
Wen Ling nodded fiercely, "Dead man!"
Qin Yin looked at Wen Ling, then at the bones, then at Wen Ling, "Does this bone belong to one of the dead people?"
Wen Ling finally relaxed and nodded with satisfaction, "Yes..."
"Are any of those female corpses missing a finger? I didn't notice."
Wen Ling put on a serious expression, shook his head and said, "No."
"Nobody's missing a finger?"
"right."
"Then what's going on with this one? It can't be brought here by us, right? Is it Xiaolan?"
This imagination is too big. No matter what Xiaolan says, he will not break off other people's fingers and throw them around.
Wen Ling also started to think, his index finger tapped on his chin, and the light of wisdom (not) shone on his light gray pupils.
After a while, she faintly raised her arms and pointed to the top of her head, "Fake."
"Are those corpses above fake?"
Wen Ling nodded, "Illusion."
"So this bone is real, right?"
Wen Ling hesitated for a while, then shook his head.
"what happened?"
"Weird." Wen Ling snorted.
"Then... should we take it away?" Facing Wen Ling's confused eyes, Qin Yin explained, "After all, we can't waste it here, we have to continue..."
When the flashlight was shined forward, both of them fell silent.
There were several human bones scattered on the road ahead, as if someone was dropping bones while walking.
At least, they don't need to take this finger bone with them.
After all, it was all before.
The little gecko crawled to their feet, and Qin Yin bent down to pick it up.
"It seems we don't need it to guide us," Qin Yin said, "We can just follow the bones."
Bones all over the ground.
The two of them carefully avoided the bones on the ground. The further they walked, the more and denser the bones became. Wen Ling accidentally stepped on a skull. When the creaking sound sounded under her feet, she was so scared that she almost knocked Qin. The sound was thrown out.
There were more and more bones, and eventually, the two of them were almost wading in a sea of bones.
How many human bones must this be?
Long, round, vertical, sharp...
Only the bones remain.
Because of the reflection of these bones, the cave became a little brighter. The two turned a corner and the moment the flashlight light shone forward, the surroundings suddenly lit up, as if a light was turned on.
The two of them looked forward in stunned silence.
A wall made of bones stood in front of them, blocking their way.
This is a mountain of bones.
***
"What is that thing?" Shen Fu followed Fool and Baomu and asked curiously, "Why should we follow it?"
The three of them walked through the jungle in the dark night, not far away there was a faint golden light.
"Before going up the mountain, Xiaoguang picked up a gecko," Baomu explained, "It might be it."
"Then we...are going to catch it?"
"No," the fool said, "This gecko should have been with our companions. If we follow it, we will most likely find our companions..."
