He took a water bag and poured it little by little on the clay figurine's head. The dry mud melted away much faster than Li Bai imagined. After a while, Hu Jingyi's head was exposed.
It's just that Hu Jingyi today is very different from the fair painting teacher in their impressions. His eyes are gone and turned into two bloody holes. His whole face shows an unusually terrifying distortion, and his shriveled skin is tight. It is close to the bones, as if it has been squeezed dry.
The most horrifying thing was his mouth. The corners of his mouth were torn and his gums were outturned. Li Bai could imagine that this was caused by the fleshy tentacles of Empress Zhusheng getting in.
The torn mouth was still moving and making weak sounds.
Hu Jingyi couldn't see the two of them with this appearance. He must have heard their voices, so he used his last strength to call their names.
"How are you?" Li Bai poured a little water into Hu Jingyi's mouth. He was obviously very dehydrated.
"Ho...ho..."
But what makes Li Bai and Zhang Yuanchao regretful is that apart from saying his name, Hu Jingyi can only make meaningless whooshing sounds from his throat, like a dying old man who can't breathe.
Zhang Yuanchao swallowed and touched Li Bai with some embarrassment, "Daughter, this Teacher Hu is hopeless. Even if he is like this... we can't take him away."
Li Bai naturally knows this truth. If you can save, you can save. If you can't save anyone, you can't do anything. But what Li Bai thinks is that if Hu Jingyi still has some consciousness, then she might be able to find out some information here, such as who is it. After bringing him here and wrapping him into a clay sculpture, he might even know how to get out of here.
Thinking of this, Li Bai fed Hu Jingyi some more water, "Teacher Hu, can you hear us? I'm Li Bai."
"Daughter, you can't stay here for a long time, but don't let your kindness harm yourself."
Seeing that Li Bai had not left yet, Zhang Yuanchao was extremely anxious. After all, the statue of Empress Zhusheng not far away was still watching with eager eyes.
"Li Bai..."
"Zhang...Zhang Shanke..."
Hearing this, Li Bai's expression changed instantly. Zhang Shanke was the name that Hu Jingyi and his party called Zhang Yuanchao. The word "shanke" describes a person who takes people into the mountains. In today's terms, it is similar to a tour guide.
While Hu Jingyi was still conscious, Li Bai quickly asked the most critical question, "Hu Jingyi, do you know how to get out of here?"
"Ho...ho..." Hu Jingyi's withered face became even more distorted, and his body wrapped in dry mud started to shake for no reason, as if he was facing great pain, "Below... .Ho...ho ho...stomach...stomach..."
"Ah...ahhh!!"
Hu Jingyi, who was still weak just now, suddenly roared like crazy, and the scream was so sharp that it could pierce the eardrums. Along with the roar, a devastating scene appeared. Fierce scratching sounds came from Hu Jingyi's body. Then the mud shell on the abdomen suddenly cracked open, and a pitch-black baby hand came out. The sharp nails growing on the fingertips reflected the cold light.
Zhang Yuanchao, who was squatting on the ground, didn't react and was almost scratched by the baby's hands scratching randomly.
As the strange baby broke out of its shell, Hu Jingyi struggled a few times, tilted his head, and died.
Li Bai pulled up Zhang Yuanchao who was lying on the ground, and the two turned around and ran towards the depths of the tunnel.
Hu Jingyi's voice just before his death triggered a chain reaction, and scratching sounds began to sound in the originally quiet tunnel.
More and more strange babies are waking up, and Li Bai doesn't know what kind of monsters they are.
"Li Bai!"
"Zhang Shanke!"
...
Strange calls echoed deep in the tunnel, seeming to come from all directions.
Moreover, the strange baby that crawled out of Hu Jingyi's belly was already chasing them at an extremely fast speed. Li Bai turned his head and glanced at it. The black figure was shuttled in the darkness at the edge of the tunnel, stepping on clay figures one by one to chase them. Li Bai couldn't see clearly. It's clear, but the outline looks like a wild monkey that has lost its hair.
"careful!"
Suddenly being pushed, Li Bai staggered a few times and almost fell. A strong wind came from behind, but he was blocked by the burly Zhang Yuanchao.
Li Bai stood up quickly and looked at a clay figure a few meters away. On top of the clay figure squatted a baby covered in black and blue.
At this moment, the baby's face was painful and ferocious. One of its paws was raised, and the skin and flesh on it was melting away, even revealing tiny pale white bones.
Zhang Yuanchao was stunned for a few seconds, then looked at the water bag on his waist. It was the water bag that had blocked the blow for him just now.
However, the water bag was also scratched and leaked, and now it was dripping water with a few scratch marks on it.
"Quickly block the water bag!"
Li Bai immediately realized that these ghosts were afraid of water. Water was like strong acid to these strange babies. The baby skeletons under the well were a reminder.
No wonder... no wonder the villagers are telling them that Blackwater Village cannot leave, because these ghosts are afraid of water, and there is an entire Blackwater River surrounding the village, and there is no bridge on the river.
The injured strange baby became ferocious and roared at the two of them again. This time, Li Bai prepared some water in his hand and poured it on the strange baby.
"Wow! squeak...waah!"
The strange baby was thrown right in the face. The monkey-like strange baby was rolling on the ground in pain and could not even think about attacking anyone.
Li and Bai turned around and ran away. Behind the sound, more strange babies had awakened and were chasing them.
In the following process, they repelled several waves of strange babies with water. These strange babies were also constantly learning. They knew the power of water, so they kept testing, but few actually attacked.
Li Bai ran so hard that he was out of breath, "This... it can't go on like this, they are consuming our water."
There is not much water left. They only have three water bladders in total. They used one for Hu Jingyi before, and then the one on Zhang Yuanchao leaked a lot. With the consumption during this period, now they only have one water bag. There is only one left.
The road ahead was still endless, and Li Bai suspected that even if they went out, they would still return to the square.
what to do?
What to do?
Just when Li Bai was upset, Zhang Yuanchao gradually stopped.
"Daughter, don't run away, it's useless."
Looking at Zhang Yuanchao's face that suddenly calmed down, Li Bai's urging words stopped in his mouth. Now Zhang Yuanchao's feeling for him suddenly changed, became complicated, became heavy, became... and became a little unpredictable, suddenly I can't understand it myself.
"This road is the road of resentful ghosts. Those educated fortune tellers also call it the lost road. Where there are many people who have died, there is a lot of resentment, and these monsters are prone to appear."
Zhang Yuanchao breathed out and said slowly: "It's not those strange babies who won't let us go, it's these people...these people who died here who won't let us go. They have grudges in their hearts and want to keep us too."
Some people died, but not completely...
