“Alright, there's no other danger here. Just hold your breath, we're all fine.”
The barber looked very serious.
In the narrow space, people could not switch positions. Wu Jinluan took deep breaths in succession and he was the first to crawl into the hole.
I followed in.
The Cloud Ocean Mountain has good water quality, giving Wu Jinluan the experience of scuba diving.
For me, it was as if I had entered a cave system beneath the deep pool.
Just, it's a bit longer here, and the environment is much worse.
Old Gong's head was floating in front of me, and he blew a few bubbles out of his mouth. Although it was easy to see, the sound was not very clear underwater, and only the ripple in front could be felt.
It took about two or three minutes before we were all in the water. Wu Jinlan was moving at a good pace in front, and we had climbed at least thirty meters. Although our speed was slightly slower under the underwater pressure, it was negligible.
Just then, a strange thing happened.
In front of Wu Jinluan, he suddenly stopped and quickly retreated!
In an instant, his feet were almost on my face!
Wu Jinluan kept gesturing, indicating that we should retreat!
I was slightly alarmed.
There must be something unusual ahead!
Lao Gong instantly passed through Wu Jinluan's body, indicating that he had gone to the front.
I put my hands on Wu Jinluan's foot, indicating that he should calm down.
The next second, Lao Gong returned with a look of uncertainty.
He shook his head violently, indicating that we should retreat!
This time, we can only retreat!
It took us about two or three minutes to retreat several tens of meters, with the added challenge of moving quickly backwards. Wu Jinlan and I eventually made it out.
The people behind us naturally made it out earlier.
Everyone was panting heavily, with occasional dripping sounds……
"What is it?" I wiped some water off my face.
There must be something blocking ahead, otherwise Wu Jinluan and Lao Gong would not retreat in unison.
"It's hard to see, but I saw a shadow. It's grayish white... four thin legs." Wu Jinluan turned around with a look of horror in his eyes: "Having a ghost in the deep mountains isn't unusual... My skills aren't good enough to deal with it..."
"I can't recognize it either, but I can feel that it's very fierce..." Lao Gong shook his head.
"Where did He Yan disappear!" The faint voice of some surprise echoed.
It comes from a place called "Yin Palace".
"How could that be? Where are the others?" asked the barber, who was standing next to me.
"They're all here!" someone else spoke up.
He Yan, of course, refers to that old witch. He is at the very back of our group……
If anything is going to happen, it would only be to the people at the tail end...
"There's blood on the ground... hoo..." Someone sucked in their breath.
"I was crawling forward just a moment ago, and He Yan kept pushing me. I kicked him twice too. How could I have climbed so fast? There were people ahead of us... Was he trying to warn us that there was something behind us?"
"There's something ahead too, Mr. Wu said it's a four-legged ghost creature..."
The four of them were talking incessantly, making the already cluttered and chaotic space feel even more so.
"Everyone, be quiet!" Lao Gong raised his voice a bit.
"Move towards the center... retreat to a position further away from the water... there are two eyes in front of me on the water surface!" Wu Jinlan spoke with suspicion, pulling out a bell.
However, the space here is too narrow. Even if we use a magical artifact, it would be very limited!
If I was in front, it would be better.
Lao Gong suddenly rushed towards Wu Jinluan's front.
I can vaguely see that he's close to the water surface there...
He was staring at the underwater and kept grinding his teeth.
The people from the Yin Palace are retreating...
I retreated with them.
There is a high point between the two flooded cave sections, which is a bulge.
After the group stopped, there was a distance of about 100 meters ahead and another 100 meters behind before reaching the water surface.
Blood, I saw it. There was a long streak of blood on the ground. After our clothes, hands, and feet rubbed against it, it became evenly painted on.
"Who was the pessimistic one just now? It's you, right, the one who gives ghosts haircuts?"
Lao Gong was squeezing against me from behind.
I reluctantly turned my head back and saw that the barber was looking at me with a sorrowful expression.
"I... I... I don't know either... I mean, it's good that there's no danger here... I..."
"Lao Gong, under this situation, we shouldn't blame people," I said in a serious tone.
Lao Gong only remained silent after that.
For a moment, only silence remained, accompanied by the sound of dripping water in the silence.
"F*ck, what kind of ghost creature, I'm not afraid of it at all."
After a few minutes, Lao Gong couldn't take it anymore, and he continued to move forward.
Wu Jinluan didn't say anything either.
Lao Gong isn't afraid, Wu Jinluan is afraid, and the people behind are afraid.
I don't feel scared because, in my opinion, this ghost creature is just that, a ghost creature. How strong can it be?
Mostly because I've seen a lot of ghost creatures and eaten quite a few of them.
The space is about half a meter up and down, so I could switch positions with Wu Jinluan.
The problem is still in the rear, even if I take the lead and pass through in front, no one behind me will take care of it, so something will still happen.
Then we can only stop moving forward.
But if Lao Gong can deal with that thing, then...
If he can deal with that thing upfront, and also go and deal with the one behind us, we can still move forward.
It took Lao Gong about ten minutes to come back.
He said despondently, "I've really seen a ghost. It just disappeared into thin air. It was showing off in the water when it met people, but Lao Gong was too slow to seek revenge, and it ran faster than a ghost."
"Wait." I pressed my hand to the bridge of my nose.
The people from the Yin Palace didn't have any other opinions. They didn't maintain the crawling position on their hands and knees, but instead bent their bodies and sat against the cave wall.
Wu Jinluan also sat up, but his body couldn't straighten out; it was curved.
I'm not much better either.
At this angle, I could see the previous path ahead. The flashlight cast a bit of light, illuminating the dim red blood reflecting off the surface.
I could also see a shoe, belonging to the witch ghost He Yan.
Lao Gong muttered a few words: "When we return, see Fe Huang and settle his family well. Don't let him die in vain."
The rest of them were no exception. They all had sorrowful expressions on their faces.
The barber seemed a bit better, but the other three men looked extremely distressed.
"This... the last time... didn't anyone die..."
"How could this happen this time, and someone died... We shouldn't have listened to He Yan's advice. He came here to take a risk, and I came to see what it was like... It's already been very beneficial for me by asking Jing Shan for five of the precious herbs..."
"Can we go back..." The man next to the barber, with a face full of sorrow, said, "My mother is old, and my children are young... Let me out first... put me out... let the rest of you come in... I don't want to die..."
"Shut up!" Lao Gong cursed: "Life and death are fate, wealth and rank are in the sky. But it's what you say."
"I didn't say that... it was He Yan who said it. He's dead and gone... his bones are gone, eaten by ghost creatures, who knows if he can even be reincarnated... " The man still looked frightened: "I'm going back, I'm just going to carry the coffin... Master Luo, you're a Taoist. You can't say we have to die here! Mr. Wu, you're a scholar. You shouldn't say that either! I'm going back! I want to go back!"
Wu Jinluan's face was extremely ugly.
Although only one of the four remaining people was mentally unstable, it made the other three people even more depressed, with a stronger sense of fear...
