Wen Na took the lead and explored the path for us at the front. I followed behind Xiwu and shuttled between the chains and gears bit by bit.
Once someone starts the elevator, these gears will drive the iron chain to rotate. We must be very careful and look at the road under our feet. As we climb higher and higher, there are layers under our feet. If we are not careful, we will fall into Among these gears, they were twisted into pieces.
At the end of the climb, my hands were red from wear and my arms had no strength at all. When I looked up, I was still far away from the top of the mountain. How long would it take to climb...
Wen Na kept encouraging me from the front, but I was still far behind, and the distance between us was getting farther and farther.
"Be careful!" Xiwu above the head exclaimed. At the same time, a black shadow fell towards me. At this time, my hands were tightly grasping an iron chain. I couldn't react in time and was struck by this. The shadow hit!
All of a sudden I woke up!
What hit me was nothing but a mollusk! If my memory is correct, this should be the Black Iron Snake that disappeared in the dark level!
Those snakes crawled along the pipes and into this huge mechanism, and they would attack unexpectedly!
It is already extremely difficult for us to climb the rock without protection here. Now that there is this black iron snake appearing, the road to the top with no end in sight is even more difficult.
This walk was extremely hard, and I almost got stuck in the gears several times. From time to time, the bodies of several black iron snakes fell from above my head.
Later, Liuliu also came to help, and with Liuliu dragging me, I finally climbed to the top of the mountain.
"That's it." Wen Na said. Let the spiders lead the way.
"Do the people in the shelter know about this passage?" I asked.
"I don't know. This is an escape route specially built for us by Xuanyi, just in case. He has foreseen everything." Liuliu replied.
This road really doesn't look like it was built by humans, because humans can't cross it at all. Only spiders can cross it with their long legs.
This is an arched passage with everything below suspended.
"How do we get there?" I asked Liu Liu.
"This is easy to handle!" Liuyou said, ducking down and motioning for me to climb onto his back. I did as I was told, and Liu Liu's back was smoother and wider than I imagined. I sat on it and finally took a breath.
Everyone else passed through this arched passage with the help of the human-headed spider.
There was a faint light at the end of the passage. We moved towards the light and finally left the shelter.
"Come out." A few of us stood on the rocks outside the passage, feeling the baptism of the sun again.
"Look over there." Xiwu pointed in a direction. I saw that that should be the door where we entered the shelter. There were sentries patrolling the door. "Where we are standing now happens to be a blind spot for their patrol. It seems that this is the design. The people in the passage had foresight.”
We rested for a while at the top of the mountain, and then left here non-stop via the opposite road down the mountain. No one said anything the whole way, they were all concentrating on the road. It wasn't until we were far away from the mountain that we finally rested in peace.
By now it was already dark, so we found a sheltered corner, lit a bonfire, and prepared to spend the night.
"What are you going to do next?" Xiwu asked me.
"I'm going to find my sister. Where are you?"
"Can't we follow you?" Xiwu frowned slightly, seeming a little unhappy again.
"Okay, okay, of course!"
"What about your human-headed spiders?" Xiwu pointed at Liuliu behind me.
"Take it with you~" I said.
"Hey, Master, you are going to throw us away after you let us do our work... We can't let you run away this time! I will always follow you and protect you!"
"But you are too big...it's too eye-catching when you walk on the road...and you probably eat too much...I can't afford it..."
I muttered quietly.
"That's it~wait!"
Liuliu's body was like origami, folding up those huge tentacles inch by inch and constantly retracting them under its head. In the end, only one head was left.
"Is this small enough?"
He asked me happily as he bounced on the ground like a ball.
I looked at his ugly face, with a black line on his head.
"Well, it's pretty good, pretty good..."
Fortunately, here, there are few people around. Otherwise, anyone who sees a dozen floating human heads jumping up and down next to the bonfire would probably be frightened to death. If word spreads, this mountainous area will probably have a few more terrifying legends.
For the next ten days or so, we tried our best to avoid major roads and travel through some mountain trails to avoid being detected by patrols nearby.
Finally, on the nineteenth day of our advance, we saw a town appearing in front of us. Everyone was shocked by it. When we entered, we found that it was a different situation.
The buildings of the past have long since collapsed, and some low-rise houses have also been damaged to varying degrees. There are traces of smoke and fire everywhere. There are still some cars covered with dust and mud on the street, but the windows are smashed and the tires are smashed. Out of sight too.
"There should be people here. Look, there is still smoke there. Let's go in and take a look first, and let your spiders and the others wait outside for a while." Wen Na said.
I nodded, settled down, and walked closer to the town. Sure enough, there were people on the street. The smoke we saw outside was the fire that people on the street lit in the middle of the road. They seemed to be roasting something. When they saw us approaching, they all looked wary. I took a sneak peek and saw that they were probably cooking. They were roasting a leg, a human leg.
Those few people, seeing us getting closer and closer, all took the axes and shovels and other weapons around them and made desperate gestures. .
"We're not robbing, we're just passing by." I raised my hands to indicate that I didn't want to cause trouble.
"Let's go! Let's go!" One of them held up an ax and grinned at us. It seemed that he couldn't communicate with them anymore. A few of us had to slowly exit this intersection.
Beside the wall at the end of the road, there was an extremely stinking smell. There were many incomplete corpses. I think many of those incomplete limbs must have been eaten...
From behind the pile of corpses, a head suddenly popped out, opening its mouth to reveal a mouth full of rotten and blackened teeth. There was a horn on the top of his head, and something seemed to be moving in the horn!
I took a few steps back and saw clearly what was in the corner... It turned out to be maggots... The accumulation of pus on the top of this man's head actually formed a corner...
Oh my god...these refugees ate everything on the street...and in the end they could only eat the limbs of their own kind...
When I was in the outpost laboratory, I didn’t understand Dr. Marin’s research at all. I even felt that his research was against moral ethics and the laws of nature. But now that I saw the real scene of cannibalism being staged, I realized that my previous opinions were wrong. How narrow-minded...
'Let's get out of here! ' Wen Na urged in a low voice.
Those people did not stay where we were after we left the intersection. Instead, they held their weapons high and followed us ten meters behind us. Could it be possible that they regarded us as a snack tonight?
We quickened our pace and crossed a street. We saw a high wall with layers of iron wire wrapped around it and a lot of broken glass, as if a fortress had been built to prevent outsiders from intruding.
"I'll go in and take a look." I said to Wen Na, and then I stood in the corner, ready to come out of my shell.
"Don't reveal yourself! If you want to inquire, come out quickly. We will discuss it in the long run!"
