Although I was lying down very simply, when I smelled the wet earth smell, I couldn't help but feel panicked and scared.
It’s not my fault. After all, being buried alive should be scary to everyone. What's more, I still don't know what weird things I will encounter after entering the Immortal Ridge. That fear of the unknown only worsened my fear.
After I lay down in the grave, Zhang Hazi didn't hesitate and started covering my body with soil with a bamboo strips knife.
I don’t know if he couldn’t see or because he wanted to retaliate against me. When he poured the soil, he perfectly avoided the area below my neck and only poured it on my head, which made my ears and nose full of dirt. Mud.
I was about to scold Zhang Hazi, but as soon as I opened my mouth, I was fed a mouthful of mud, forcing me to swallow back the words that reached my throat.
I didn't scold him, but he gave me a scolding. He said, lie down and don't move, otherwise you won't be able to enter Shenxianling and save your wife. No wonder I didn't say hello to you in advance.
Out of instinct, I turned my head left and right to avoid the mud poured by Zhang Hazi, but after hearing his words, I restrained my instinct and lay motionless in the pit with my mouth and eyes closed.
I could breathe normally at first, and even if there was some mud stuck in my nostrils, it would not affect my breathing. But as the mud got thicker and thicker, I began to feel that it became difficult to breathe. That almost suffocating feeling made me instinctively want to reach out and scratch away the mud on my face.
But when I wanted to raise my hands, I realized that my hands and feet could no longer move, not even a hair.
Hasn't Zhang Hazi been taking care of my head with mud? When did he bury my body too? This speed can no longer be described as fast, it can be completed in seconds!
I don't know why I am still thinking so wildly even though I am already deprived of oxygen. I only know that my thoughts have begun to drift in all directions uncontrollably. Even if I tried to concentrate, I couldn't come up with a complete sentence.
The extreme pain caused my drifting consciousness to begin to fade away. I seemed to see Ling Jiang appearing in front of me again, waving gently to me. But when I tried my best to grab it, I found that it was just an illusion. With a slight touch, it disappeared without a trace like smoke.
But soon, the disappearing smoke reappeared, and finally formed the appearance of Ling Jiang under my nose, waving to me gently.
I knew it was fake, but I still couldn't help but want to catch her, so I desperately raised my legs and ran towards Ling Jiang.
But no matter how I ran, she was always seven or eight steps in front of me. If I was faster, she would be faster, if I was slower, she would be slower, as if there was a piece of bamboo between her and me, not much. Quite a few.
As I was running, my feet seemed to suddenly become empty. Then I felt that my body was falling continuously, as if I had fallen into a bottomless abyss. The gusts of wind beside my ears told me that I was falling very fast.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but I actually felt that the pain of suffocation seemed to disappear at this moment - not because I could breathe, but because I suddenly felt that I didn't need to breathe.
Before I could recover from this novelty, I found that I had stopped falling, and the world in front of me had changed dramatically.
At this time, I was no longer lying in a grave on the top of the mountain, but standing in a huge cave with no sides or top visible. I stand here as if I were an ant, humble and insignificant.
Could it be that this is the legendary 'Fairy Ridge'?
Unfortunately, there was only weak light in the cave, and I could only see the approximate size. I didn't know what the layout was like, so I didn't know for a while whether this was the real Immortal Ridge.
I forced myself to calm down, and then took a few tentative steps forward with courage. I didn't go very far when I felt like I was being watched.
Although this feeling is very strong, I can't determine the direction of my gaze, which seems very contradictory - you know, when someone is staring at you, you will definitely notice it, and the feeling will be strong , you should be able to determine where the other party is at the first time.
But I looked forward, backward, left, right, even up and down, and didn't see anything. Let alone eyes, I have never even seen anything that looks like eyes. There was just endless darkness, filling every space I could see.
This is a bit unreasonable. If I can't see the other party, the other party should not be able to see me. After all, there is no obstruction here. The line of sight I look at should be the same as the line of sight they look at.
I stood there and watched for a while. After I found nothing unusual, I had no choice but to shake my head and continue walking forward.
Because the light was too dark, I was very careful with every step I took. Before I stepped down, I would test it with my toes. Only after I was sure it was a hard surface, I settled down and shifted my weight. This method worked very well, and I walked a long distance without any incident.
But people are all inert. When I have been walking smoothly, I subconsciously think that there is no problem with this piece of ground. Especially when I have been walking for I don’t know how long, this inertia is particularly obvious. .
So later on, when I moved forward, I was already very willful and casual. But just because of this carelessness, I almost fell into a puddle of unknown depth.
The puddle was very confusing, because there was a protective layer on the surface that looked like ice, so when I first stepped on it, I didn't notice anything was wrong. It wasn't until I started to shift my weight that there was a sudden click under my feet. His body began to fall, and his calves suddenly felt cold.
Fortunately, I still had one foot standing on the hard ground, so I quickly leaned back and sat on the ground, falling on all fours.
Before I could recover, there was a loud bang in the puddle in front of me, and a burst of green fire appeared!
Will-o'-the-wisp?
When I saw this scene, my heart almost jumped out of my throat! If I were one step late, wouldn't I be burned to the ground by this will-o'-the-wisp?
With lingering fear in my heart, I stepped back and then stood up, wanting to see how long the will-o'-the-wisp would last and whether it would delay my progress.
But as soon as I stood up, I fell to the ground again, because I saw that this green flame on the ground started from the point where I stepped on it, like a fiery snake, and flew towards both sides with lightning and flint all the way. Jump away...
If only that was the case, I wouldn't be so panicked. What frightened me was that the fire snake had been spreading towards both sides for almost half an hour, but instead of stopping, it split and started moving towards the cave wall again. Running left and right...
The flames on the wall continued to spread, and when they reached a fork in the road, the fire snakes split again. One continued to spread forward, and the other branched off along the wall, igniting another fire snake, and then these fire snakes again Spread simultaneously...
I don’t know how long this fire snake has spread, but I can clearly see that on the wall, between every two fire snakes, there are mummies inlaid with eyes open and staring at me!
