"Fat man, come here quickly."
I was frightened and quickly waved my hand for him to come to me quickly.
Cui Hao still doesn't realize the crux of the problem, and he still goes his own way.
"It's not dangerous. Do you want me to search with you? Then I'll start from the right, okay?"
After saying that, Cui Hao turned around and walked to the right.
I immediately turned around and ran back.
"Fat man, come here."
Because of his sudden turn, the two figures were getting closer and closer to him.
As long as Cui Hao looked back to the left, he was sure to see two black figures floating in his direction.
"Fat man, turn back to the left."
I didn't have time to rush over, so I could only warn him to pay attention.
Cui Hao was yelled at by me and subconsciously raised his head and glanced to the left.
With a cry, he was so frightened that he trembled all over, turned around and ran in my direction.
"I'll go, what the hell is this?"
I quickly grabbed his wrist and pulled him to my side.
When the two gray-black shadows saw this, they immediately stopped in the white mist and never moved an inch.
"This, this, this, what on earth is this?"
Cui Hao stuttered when he spoke.
I shook my head, pulled him back a few steps, and held up the flashlight to shine into the depths of the mist.
Suddenly, several other black shadows also appeared from the depths, frightening Cui Hao out of his mind.
"I'm going. I was so close to them just now. If I had found out a little later, would my life have been lost?"
I nodded and simply tied the rope to the buckles around our waists.
"Don't stay too far away from me, do you understand? We are the only two who can rely on each other under the ground. If one of us loses the other..."
Before I could finish my words, Cui Hao immediately waved his hand to stop my next words.
"No, no, no, stop. I'm so frightened that my heart is about to burst out. If you die and I stay underground alone, I will go crazy."
Cui Hao turned to look at the two figures squatting by the pool.
"But I still want to take a look, what the hell is this thing? If I can't figure out the true identity of this thing, and if it is attacked by them all at once, I won't know where it will end up."
I nodded, I had the same idea.
I saw the puppet maid who could move before, as well as those weird and sinister human figurines.
Nowadays, these moving black shadows are nothing to us.
Cui Hao swallowed, raised his flashlight and shouted forward.
"Are you alive?"
I slapped this guy on the shoulder and forcibly dragged him forward two steps.
"What a waste of life, how can a living person live underground for so many years and still not die?"
Cui Hao awkwardly followed my footsteps and slowly approached the two black figures with me.
The closer we got to the hot spring pond, the slower the two of us went.
I held my breath and concentrated, fearing that if I alerted these two guys, they would kill me head on.
But the two of them have always maintained their original movements, staying motionless by the hot spring pond, as if they were in trance.
I picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at the feet of one of the figures.
With a bang, the stone was bounced to the side.
I pulled Cui Hao and lowered my voice.
"It seems like it's a real figure, not an illusion like a mirage. It's probably not easy to deal with."
Cui Hao nodded cautiously and approached me more cautiously.
"I've changed my mind, why don't we withdraw?"
I looked at him with a half-smile.
"How willing are you to go up and fight with Ren Mang? Don't be nervous. Let's go check out the situation. If something is really wrong, then retreat. Otherwise, what if we are looking for something around and don't know their details and are attacked by surprise?"
That's what worries me the most.
I'm worried that I don't know the strength of these things. If we are shocked by their sudden attack, we won't have much chance of survival.
After hearing my words, Cui Hao could only suppress his intention to retreat, and followed me towards the black shadow.
I raised my flashlight and pointed it at the faces of the two black figures, while slowly closing the distance between us.
Just when the distance between these two things shortened to only one meter.
I finally saw the faces of these two guys clearly through the layers of fog.
I was shocked and quickly pulled Cui Hao back two steps.
He was startled by me, rolled and crawled and rushed back after me. Even I stopped, but he was still sprinting forward, and ran a few dozen meters more.
"Fat man, don't run away. This thing hasn't come after you. Come back quickly."
I raised my flashlight and looked into the white mist. The two shadows were still squatting next to the pond, reaching out into the hot spring pool as if they were playing in the water.
Cui Hao's face was full of nervousness. After confirming that there was no danger ahead, he walked to my side again.
"Master Man, why are you so startled? I just thought you had seen a ghost. You were so scared that you didn't dare to stop."
He looked up and down in front of him, staring at the two figures cautiously.
"Why, did you see their faces clearly?"
I nodded and took out my phone.
Just when I was approaching these two ghosts, I turned on the screen recording button in advance and kept pointing the camera of my phone forward to take pictures.
Although there was water vapor rising in the middle, the visible light of the flashlight was not weak, so it still illuminated the faces of the two people through the mist of water vapor.
The fat man took my phone and clicked on the video.
At the end, his face fell down again.
"Oh my god, is this a living person? Why does it look exactly like a real person?"
I shook my head and tapped the legs of these two people.
Cui Hao stared at the ground carefully for a long time but couldn't see anything.
"Is there anything wrong with this? I feel like it's quite normal. And the fog here is so thick that I can't even see what their lower bodies look like."
Because when we went to look at it, the two of them were half sitting on the ground, or kneeling on the ground.
Coupled with the rising water vapor around them, the fog increased, surrounding the two of them, and it was almost impossible to see what the lower bodies of the two looked like.
I shook my head and pointed at the photo of the two people near the waterhole for Cui Hao to see.
"Who asked you to see this? I want you to see their shadows."
The light of my flashlight shone on the pond. Since the pond between the two people was relatively close, the figures of the two people could be clearly reflected on the pond.
With the help of the reflection on the hot spring pool, I quickly saw the legs of the two of them.
But immediately, I felt trembling all over my body, as if I had been pricked by needles.
Cui Hao also looked at the video in his hand with great disbelief.
"Is this, is this true?"
I nodded firmly.
"It should be real. It can't be synthetic, right? I just took this photo."
I pointed to the other black shadows in the corner.
"I suspect they are the same. Everyone's feet have changed or been artificially made to look like this. How many more people will this emperor want to harm?"
In the photo, two people are squatting by the river and playing in the water.
It's just that in their lower bodies, although their thighs are connected, their calves are completely wrapped in white threads.
These white filaments spiral around each other, forming a cloud-like appearance.
It looked as if these two people had transformed into immortals, stepping on auspicious clouds.
Originally, this scene should have seemed extremely shocking and desirable.
However, my video clearly captured two fist-sized spiders crawling on the knees of these two people.
As for the white silk, they are all spider silk.
I don’t know what species these spiders are, but the silk they spit out is still intact despite the baking of water vapor and the friction of movement.
Cui Hao stared at the content in the video with his mouth agape and was speechless.
"What the hell is this? Is the emperor crazy? In order to restore a fairyland, he brought out these people and this terrible spider?"
Cui Hao looked at Miwu carefully, his face full of confusion.
"If I read it correctly just now, these two figures should have been alive before death. They don't look like clay sculptures. Their skin seems to be real."
I nodded.
Nowadays, silicone and various soft materials are available, so it is possible to imitate an almost lifelike human-sized fake doll.
But there were no such things in ancient times.
If they want to imitate a person, they can only use wood, clay sculptures, ceramics and other things to make human figurines.
Some even use cloth for sewing.
But I have never seen such lifelike human figurines. I am sure that the appearance of the two shadows we just saw is definitely about their character.
Even if they are not living people, they may have been made into puppets or the like and put on specially processed living human skins.
Thinking of this, I suddenly felt nervous.
I immediately looked back at Cui Hao.
He met my eyes and seemed to understand what I meant all of a sudden.
"Are you saying that this thing could be a shroud?"
I nodded.
If it weren't for the shroud, I don't think there would be anything that could fit the skin so well, right?
But at the same time, I thought about the huge spiders on them.
Only by getting close to these two corpses could I see whether they were covered in real human skin, or whether they were living people who had died and been processed into mummies.
But if you want to get close to these things, you have to deal with the fist-sized spiders on them.
Spiders are inherently difficult to deal with, and the spiders on them are huge.
I couldn't think of a way to deal with these black spiders in order to get a chance to get closer.
I looked up at the misty pool and immediately fell into confusion.
"Fat man, how can we get close to these two corpses and take a look?"
