"I don't know how long I have been hiding here..." The old man flipped his cloak and sat down slowly on the ground. "I just remember that I took a look there, just a glance, and all I saw was...disgusting
Bones and... strange things, they took away my eyes, and then I ran, and I heard someone chasing me behind me, a river... then I seemed to fall into a river, and when I woke up, I was in
Here it is.”
Xiaolan sat opposite her, the damp ground was cold, "So you don't even know where you are?"
The old man laughed silently, stretched out his hand and patted the wall beside him, "After living here for so long, I can actually figure out something. This should be underwater. I guess it is an underwater cave. I just walked
I've searched all the places I can reach, but I still haven't found the exit."
Xiaolan was silent for a few seconds.
"You...are you Lang?"
The old man grinned, revealing two rows of rotten black teeth, "I am, what, do you know me?"
Xiaolan shook her head, and then thought that she couldn't see, so she said, "I don't know you, but I know the legend here. I am this year's Jinxian, Lang's Jinxian."
"Master Jin Xian?" The old man's body stiffened.
"Yes," Xiaolan said loudly, "we are going to solve this matter completely."
The old man sighed softly and straightened up quickly, "You?..."
"This is a decision jointly made by several of us Jin Xian, including the Lang family's Jin Xian and the Mai family's Jin Xian." Xiao Lan added.
"The only sound of your activity here is yours," the old man hinted.
"I..." Xiaolan was speechless for a moment, "Well... they left by boat, and I accidentally... fell into the river, so..."
The old man suddenly became more energetic and said, "Then you must know where the exit is."
"That exit... we shouldn't be able to get out," Xiaolan was thankful for half a second because she couldn't see the disappointment in the old man's eyes, and then said, "But my entrance and your entrance shouldn't be the same. We can look for other exits.
, there is air circulation here, there must be a way out."
The old man cheered up, touched the spider's back and nodded.
"Then can you take me to where you came in first?" Xiaolan stood up.
The human-faced spider waved its front legs several times as if to demonstrate to Xiaolan.
The old man stood up tremblingly, holding on to the wall. Xiaolan wanted to step forward to help, but was stopped by the old man.
"Master Jin Xian, you're welcome. This little guy has always been with me. He doesn't want other animals to come near me... Go this way. There is a ditch ahead, so be careful."
Xiaolan looked at the human-faced spider lying on the old man's shoulder, "Are there any other animals here?"
"Of course there are, but not many." The old man turned another corner. "Occasionally there are some insects and snakes. Snakes have appeared here a few times, but this little guy is not afraid of anything. When he sees you
, it probably regarded you as its prey, but it probably thought that we were very similar, and guessed that we might be the same kind, so it drove you in front of me first."
Are spiders so smart?!
"Aren't spiders afraid of snakes?" Xiaolan slipped and stood firm.
"It's common sense," the old man said proudly, as if he was bragging about his own child, "but it's not afraid of anything."
The human-faced spider seemed to feel that the old man was praising it, and it also raised its front legs, just like a black crab.
"By the way," Xiaolan followed the old man's footsteps, "Now that you have seen the people at the end of the river, are there many people there? Why did they want to take away your eyes?"
"I don't know, I haven't seen anyone."
"Didn't you see anyone?" Xiaolan stumbled in surprise, "Who... I'm sorry, took away your eyes?"
The old man shook his head vaguely, took Xiaolan around another corner, and pointed ahead, "The place where I came in is right here."
Xiaolan took a few steps forward and observed that the structure was almost exactly the same as the area where she fell.
The same rocks, passages, and the same small hole on the roof of the shed. The only difference is that there is an exit on the other side of the cave. I don't know where it leads.
"It seems that you were also sucked in by the whirlpool," Xiaolan pursed her lips, "But there is no exit here. Come on, let's look in other directions."
Two people, one spider, turned to another passage leading to the open area, and started searching aimlessly.
***
"Isn't the night getting deep?" Jasmine wrapped her coat around her body and huddled in the depression at the stern of the boat.
After leaving the pool under the waterfall, the boat returned to the middle of the stream. The difference was that there were only three people left on the boat.
What's more, the stream that had been moving parallel to the moon now goes straight towards the moon.
The three of them took turns rowing. After being forcefully asked by Meili to rest, Jasmine was finally willing to put on the coat donated by Lu Qianqian and lean on the stern of the boat to take a rest.
"It's late at night and pitch black," Merry said as he paddled. "Really, is there an end to the river?"
The three of them fell silent together.
It seems to have been gone for a long time.
But at the end of the vision, there is still fog and wilderness.
Merry turned his head and saw Jasmine cowering behind the boat trying her best to prevent her eyelids from closing, so she smiled softly, "Jasmine, if you want to sleep, just take a nap..."
Lu Qianqian also turned around and looked at Jasmine tenderly.
When Jasmine heard this, her eyes widened. She shook her head and said, "I don't want to sleep. Let's change the shift. Meili, you are still injured. I..."
Before Jasmine could finish her words, she took a breath of cold air.
"What's wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable?" Meri grabbed her wrist.
Lu Qianqian realized something was wrong and turned to look in the direction of the bow of the ship.
"Merry, look."
They have been looking forward to it, but they are also afraid.
The end of the river has arrived.
The fog that had been lingering in front of us seemed to suddenly dissipate, leaving behind a dilapidated dock not far away and a ruin-like building against the dark night.
Jasmine suddenly became energetic, and the three of them leaned down, relying on the natural fluctuations of the water flow, and approached the dock little by little.
"No one." Lu Qianqian glanced at him.
The pier was empty, with only a solitary bollard standing in the night wind.
With a bang, the boat docked.
Lu Qianqian pulled the rope, carefully jumped onto the pier, and fixed the boat.
Meili and Jasmine jumped up soon after.
"Are you going in now?" Meili looked at the ruins and asked the two of them.
The answer is obvious.
"Be careful." Lu Qianqian walked at the front and said in a low voice.
Jasmine nodded, "The three of us must not be separated."
The three of them nodded together.
The three figures in the dark night approached step by step the ruins full of the smell of death.
And in the darkness, there were countless pairs of green eyes staring at them.