When Qin Yin and Wen Ling saw the little gecko getting into the cave, they followed in without much hesitation.
The space in the cave became narrower and the darkness became thicker. Qin Yin reached out and tapped the edge of the flashlight, and the faint light became brighter.
Wen Ling supported Qin Yin and looked curiously at the side wall of the cave.
Qin Yin limped and slowly frowned.
"I feel a little familiar here."
She stared at the series of small stalactites above her head. The stalactites were not yet fully formed, like a line of small blisters filled with liquid growing out of the top of the cave.
Wen Ling tilted his head, "Been here?"
"I don't know... I forgot," Qin Yin pressed her forehead, "We did enter a cave last time, but it was different from this one... Maybe it was for other reasons?... Oops, I can't remember either.
It’s clear, it’s been too long…”
The gecko was waiting for them about five or six meters ahead. When they approached, the golden little guy swooped away again and continued to wait in front.
One of them was disabled and the other was weak, and they moved slowly. After a while, Wen Ling started to pant.
"Are you tired?" Qin Yin turned around and asked, "If you are tired, let's take a rest. I guess the little gecko won't be angry."
Wen Ling shook his head, waved his hand, drank a few sips of water, and then helped Qin Yin up.
"But it's no wonder you're tired," Qin Yin said, "Have you noticed that we've been walking uphill?"
"Um?"
"Didn't you notice?" Qin Yin stamped his feet, "This land is not flat, it has a slope."
"Ah..." Wen Ling realized it later and scratched his head innocently.
Qin Yin pursed her lips and looked at Wen Ling's face without saying a word.
Just looking at the innocent look on her face, who would believe that she belongs to a magical species that can see all things?
When they paused, the little gecko impatiently ran around its tail three times. Seeing the two starting again, it continued to crawl forward. The slender but bright golden streak traveled up the ground in a zigzag shape.
As they walked, it was like a coordinate given by heaven, guiding them on the way forward.
Then, the coordinates were called.
The little gecko stopped somewhere directly in front of the two of them and made a cooing sound.
The two were startled, and after identifying the source of the sound, they ran over in a hurry.
"Oh my god, this is what the gecko calls like," Qin Yin jumped faster on one leg, "What's wrong, little gecko? Did it hit a rock?"
The light of the flashlight shone downward on the gecko, and the two of them looked down.
There is indeed a white thing blocking the road in front of the gecko. The thing is pale and sharp, and has a long and thin...
The two of them suddenly looked bad.
It was a human finger bone.
It's a finger.
Unexpected, yet expected.
Qin Yin bit her lower lip and stared at the phalange in silence.
"This... this..." Wen Ling was frightened. She pointed at the bone and looked at Qin Yin with wide eyes, as if she was complaining.
"Don't be afraid," Qin Yin stroked Wenling's hair, "It's just a bone. After all, you can't expect anything good to appear here, right?"
"No..." Wen Ling's face turned red, "She..."
Qin Yin looked at the bone, "It? Do you know this bone?"
Nod nod.
What?
Qin Yin was a little confused, "You can recognize this, don't we usually appear as skeletons in your eyes?"
"Above!..." Wen Ling's other hand pointed to the top of his head.
"Above? Cave wall? Moss? Stalactites?..."
"No……"
"What is that? A forest? A mountain? Lianshui Village?"
"Down...down..."
Too great.
Wen Ling quickly pressed her hand down.
"Where is that?...Oh, I see, is it the pool where Xiaolan disappeared?"
Wen Ling nodded fiercely, "Dead man!"
Qin Yin looked at Wenling, then at the bones, then at Wenling, "Does this bone belong to one of the dead people?"
Wen Ling finally relaxed and nodded with satisfaction, "Yes..."
"Are any of those female corpses missing a finger? I didn't notice."
Wenling put on a serious expression, shook her head and said, "No."
"No one is missing a finger?"
"right."
"Then what's going on with this one? It can't be brought here by us, right? Is it Xiaolan?"
This idea is too big. No matter what Xiaolan says, she won't break off people's fingers and throw them around.
Wen Ling also started to think, and tapped his index finger on his chin, his light gray eyes shining with the light of wisdom (not).
After a while, she faintly raised her arms and pointed to the top of her head, "Fake."
"Are those corpses above fake?"
Wen Ling nodded, "Illusion."
"So this bone is real, right?"
Wen Ling hesitated for a while and then shook his head.
"What's going on?"
"Weird." Wen Ling snorted.
"Then... should we take it away?" Facing Wen Ling's confused eyes, Qin Yin explained, "After all, we can't waste it here, we have to continue..."
When the flashlight was shined forward, both of them became silent.
There were several human bones scattered on the road ahead, as if someone was dropping bones while walking.
At least, they don't need to take this finger bone with them.
After all, it was all before.
The little gecko crawled to their feet, and Qin Yin bent down to pick it up.
"It seems we don't need it to guide us," Qin Yin said, "We can just follow the bones."
Bones all over the ground.
The two of them carefully avoided the bones on the ground. The further they walked, the more bones there were and the denser they became. Wen Ling accidentally stepped on a skull. When the creaking sound was heard under her feet, she was so frightened that she almost killed Qin.
The sound was thrown out.
There were more and more bones, and eventually, the two of them were almost wading in a sea of bones.
How many human bones must this be?
Long, round, vertical, sharp...
Only the bones remain.
Because of the reflection of these bones, the cave became a little brighter. The two turned a corner and the moment the flashlight light shone forward, the surroundings suddenly lit up, as if a light had been turned on.
The two of them looked forward in stunned silence.
A wall made of bones stood in front of them, blocking their way.
This is a mountain of bones.
***
"What is that thing?" Shen Fu followed Fool and Baomu and asked curiously, "Why should we follow it?"
The three of them were walking through the jungle in the dark night, with a faint golden light not far away.
"Before going up the mountain, Xiaoguang picked up a gecko," Baomu explained, "It might be it."
"Then we...are going to catch it?"
"No," said the fool, "this gecko should have been with our companions. If we follow it, we will most likely find our companions..."