Chapter 73: Choose Left or Right
Tofu was even more scared and at a loss, as if I was just a monster that was about to go crazy. She screamed and immediately got ten feet away from me.
Assuming it was for my self-esteem, he asked tentatively: "Are you Chen Xuan or a fairy?"
I was going to be pissed to death and said coldly: "Fairy."
When Tofu heard this, he knew that I was talking sarcastic. He patted his chest and came back, looked at the dark and dark space around him, and said, "You said...will that thing be hiding in some place to look at us now? Old Chen, why don't we go out? Can I surrender?"
I couldn't help but slapped him in the head and said, "You think you are playing house? Although their purpose is Zhuanrui, I have killed their people before. We are now seen as a group. Why are you looking for death when you go out?"
Tofu said, "Then, what should we do? Let's wait for death here? What if that fairy appears again?" He said in his heart, he was afraid that the thing had not left at all, and the peach wood beads given by his grandfather had been destroyed. I don't know if the thing broke free. Eighty percent of the time he was thinking about how to take revenge on us.
But I didn't say this. Tofu was too brave enough. After thinking about it, I felt that waiting was not a solution, so I decided to act according to the original plan and find Zhuanrui and the other two. I had to see people alive and see corpses. After confirming their situation, we could arrange the next step. So Tofu and I used flashlights and went down to the hole covered with black quicksand according to the original plan. We used a pry to start destroying the wall.
The piled boulders are very rough, and the reason why they have not collapsed so far is entirely due to their own volume. Therefore, we took turns to divide the work and worked for more than two hours, and finally destroyed one of the big rocks.
After I completely cut out the stones, I was surprised to find that behind the stone wall was empty. When I looked closely, there was a man-made earth hole. Half of the space in the earth hole was covered with this quicksand-like material. When the light hit it, it was dark.
I observed and found that the quicksand behind the stone wall was not flowing, so I stretched my body halfway and used a flashlight to observe the surrounding environment. At this time, I suddenly figured out the structure of this place. I guessed that the entire ghost world was just like the previous tunnel battle. Every household had an underground entrance. In order to have a stable structure, the tunnels between different areas would be staggered up and down, and the entrances would be connected together. I guess that the tunnel we are seeing now is the principle of understanding, which formed the tunnel group I see now.
Since that's the case, these authentic things must eventually lead to the underground palace. I was delighted, looking at the dark sand nest in front of me, and was a little worried, and I didn't know what these black quicksand substances were.
Obviously, these things cannot be made by people from the Ghost Creatures, otherwise they would not be able to move around themselves. The only possibility is that these substances must have been formed during the thousands of years of the Ghost Creatures' demise.
This straight entrance is 80% the entrance to this family's tunnel. After Zhuanrui and Harichaga were swallowed by these things, there were only two possibilities. One is that the passage below has been blocked by these black substances, so the two of them will definitely not be able to survive. The second possibility is that the passage below is not blocked, but the two cannot return according to the original path. Eighty percent of them are already on the way to the underground palace at this time.
Thinking of this, I felt excited. At this time, Tofu asked me how it was. As soon as I told him about the situation, I gestured to him to come down. Then, the two of us climbed into the tunnel behind the stone wall. The black sand under us leaned over, feeling like we were lying in the desert, which made people feel very relaxed. Tofu looked back and forth and asked me, "Where are you going?"
At this moment, no one can know the specific location of the underground palace, and where can I make a judgment, so I said: "Go to the left but not to the right, pick the left." In the industry rules of digging mushrooms in the back-fighting, some seniors left a lot of experience. For example, when you can't find a way in the underground palace and need to choose any one, then choose the left but not the right. Because the left is the supreme, the right is the humble, from the perspective of superstition, the left is the auspicious, and the right is the Huns.
Although we are not in the bucket now, since we can't make a choice, we should just follow the rules of the flood. So Tofu and I chose to go to the left and crawled forward with a flashlight. Tofu probably was worried that I would suddenly grow an extra face, crawl for a while, and look back at me from time to time. This tunnel is logically speaking, people should be able to walk upright inside, otherwise the crawling efficiency will be too slow when escaping. In addition, it is inevitable that I will bring some things when escaping, so the tunnel must be taller and wider. But now, most of the black sand has been blocked by these black sand, and Tofu and I can only walk on our knees.
Tofu was in front of me, and when I looked over from me, I could only see his butt. After crawling for a while, we gradually saw some other entrances and exits, which should be connected to other houses. However, in order to prevent another stone statue from being provoked, we did not dare to make any more trouble. We treated it as if we had not seen it, and focused on finding the entrance to the next level of authenticity.
Because it is underground, the temperature in this place was originally a bit low, but because Tofu and I have been working physically and have been climbing for so long, not long after, a layer of oil sweat appeared on our body, and the black sand-like things stuck a lot on our body.
I had been crawling for a long time and I felt very uncomfortable on my face, so I took off the mask. But after this, I realized that this tunnel was filled with a strange smell, and it was a bit fishy, like the smell of snake gall that I had smelled before.
I thought to myself: Could it be that there are snakes in this place?
After all, after more than two thousand years, the world has changed and the hard Gobi landform is prone to cracks underground. It is not surprising that some things like snakes and scorpions go down to the ground along these cracks. I couldn't help but secretly raise my heart and instruct the tofu in front of him to be careful of things like snakes and scorpions.
Tofu climbed in front with his butt. When he heard that there might be snakes in this place, he was a little scared. The boy was scared by the snake king before. When he saw the snake, he became nervous immediately. At this moment, Tofu suddenly stopped, reached out and grabbed his back, and said, "It seems that something has fallen on my back, not a scorpion, right?"
I said why are you so much trouble? As I said, I stretched my neck to see. When I saw it, I suddenly found that there was a worm like a centipede on the back of the tofu. The insect was bare-headed and hooked, and its tail was shivering. As it moved, something like black sand fell from its butt. In an instant, I suddenly understood and couldn't help but feel shocked: "Damn it, it turns out that we are crawling on the centipede shit!"
"What? What's not shit?" Tofu didn't understand and shook his body. The thing that looked like a centipede was thrown into the pile of "sand". The centipede drilled into the sand and disappeared.
I said, "It's not that you don't poop, it's centipede shit!"
As he said that, he told Tofu about what happened just now. Tofu suddenly shook his whole body, with a disgusting look on his face, as if he had eaten a fly, and said, "You mean, these black sand are actually all the shit of the insect? Then, how many centipedes need to pull together to pull so much? Besides, centipede shit is not like this, right?"
I also felt disgusting enough. When I thought of these things that stuck to me because of sweat and even drilled into my crotch along the thin slits of my pants, they were actually some insect shits, and I felt numb and itchy all over. I endured the nausea and said, "I said that the insect looked like a centipede, but I didn't say it was a centipede. This is the same as a whale like a fish but not a fish."
Tofu said, "Don't, you've got me confused. Then, are we still crawling now?"
I said, "What should I do if I don't climb? What if I don't climb? What should I do if I don't climb? Continue."
After thinking about it, I signaled to stop tofu first, and then grind a smokeless stove from his equipment bag. The stove is about half the size of a basketball, and there is a handle on it, so that it can be moved at any time. I broke up a piece of solid fuel and lit it, then took out the sulfur sheet and threw it in, watching the smokeless stove slowly emit a thick smoke.
Tofu was puzzled and asked me what I was doing. I analyzed and said, "Look, the amount of these shits is so large, what does it mean? It means that the number of insects just now is very large, and they may have been breeding in this place for hundreds or thousands of years. At this moment, they might be sleeping in the cracks in the ground, or they might be hiking under the shits. Anyway, I ignored us for the time being, but if they all came out, what would that scenario be? The sulfur brimstones can deworm after evaporation. I hope it is useful and I would give us a safe."
When Tofu heard this, she immediately raised her thumbs up and said, "You are still thinking about it. Throw more quickly. It is best if they smell it, and hide quickly." As we spoke, we packed up, put on the gas mask again, twisted the smokeless stove and continued to climb forward, and soon found a downward passage.
This passage is vertical, with stairs on the earthen wall. From this position, you can see that the next passage is also filled with insect shit. Fortunately, we have gas masks, and these insect shits are relatively dry. If it is the kind of sparse insect shit, I guess Tofu would rather die than climb forward.
The stairs were also filled with insect shit, and there was no way to settle down. Tofu and I used the easiest method to jump down directly, just as easily as jumping to the desert.
Chapter completed!