Chapter 36: The Cage
"Since everyone has arrived, then go down."
Li Taiyuan walked in front and reminded the other three to take the blood cloth and be ready to deal with the attacks of the vengeful spirits at any time.
To everyone's surprise, the long steps were as many as hundreds of chains. The bluestone road led directly to the ground. After finally reaching the platform, there was a deep and narrow tunnel ahead.
At the end of the tunnel is a prison cell.
When we came here, the disgusting smell of corruption in the air became heavier.
Because of the narrow terrain, the four of them had to walk side by side.
Li Taiyuan and Ning Tonghai are in front, and Wei Xi and Ruan Zhuyin are two girls who follow closely.
The air in the corridor was filled with dust and fishy smell. Accompanied by the "squeaking" sound of mice, you could also smell the rust smell in the air.
Looking at the narrow rooms on both sides of the iron railings, Ning Tonghai shone into the room with a flashlight.
The ground in the prison was covered with straw and some dirty cloth strips. The exposed ground was spread with some black sticky substances visible to the naked eye. Under the light of the flashlight, everyone saw a stone bed covered with stains.
A bronze mirror hung on the top of the cell; and the mottled walls of the cell were hung with all kinds of strange torture instruments.
Seeing this scene, the horror scene deep in my memory was awakened again.
The flashlight in Li Taiyuan's hand fell to the ground, and he squatted on the ground with a pale face, holding his head with both hands, and trembling all over his body.
"Are you okay? Are you feeling uncomfortable..."
Ruan Zhuyin hurriedly approached and checked, but before she could finish her words, her mouth was covered by Li Taiyuan.
Although he had a great headache, Li Taiyuan still keenly sensed that something had come in.
He shivered and picked up the flashlight and extinguished the light source.
Similarly, Wei Yixi and Ning Tonghai also sensed a certain gloomy and strange aura.
Ning Tonghai pushed open a false iron door and helped Li Taiyuan into the cell with Wei Yixi. The four of them squatted down along the wall, hiding their own traces.
In the empty aisle ahead, a strange sound came faintly.
The sound was very light at first, similar to the friction made by sandpaper on the ground.
However, as the sound approached, Ruan Zhuyin's body could not stop trembling.
Even if she crushed her bones and raised them to ashes, she could not forget the nightmare that was soaked in her bone marrow: the strange snake-body woman in the hospital duty room half a year ago... When she crawled, she made such a creepy sound!
The serpentine copper lamps on both sides of the corridor suddenly lit up, emitting strange blue-blue flames.
While the light appeared, the temperature in the cell suddenly dropped to zero. At the same time, a strange and distorted shadow gradually appeared at the corner of the wall...
Seeing this scene, Ruan Zhuyin's breathing became heavier and tears gradually emerged from her eyes.
In fact, Ruan Zhuyin has a very good psychological quality and has performed very well in past tasks. She is one of the few female players with strong strength.
But her only nightmare was the horror illusion she saw after being infected.
The terrible visual stimulation and the guilt that hurt her colleagues made her suffer from severe post-traumatic stress disorder. Although she had been seeing a psychologist for treatment, Ruan Zhuyin still could not overcome her fear of snakes.
Wei Yixi protected her partner tightly in her arms.
She knew Ruan Zhuyin's condition very well, so she clenched the other party's hand tightly, responded to her, and comforted her not to be afraid.
"rustle……"
The tingling sound passed through the corridor outside. As the sound became louder, Ning Tonghai plucked up his courage and glanced at the corridor as the thing was about to arrive outside the door.
The one who appeared in the corridor was a girl with her head tilted upside down and her collarbone was broken.
It was almost skinny and bone-skinned, with its exposed skin glowing blue-gray, and the positions of its facial and eyes were stitched through iron threads, making it look extremely ferocious.
Because it is invisible, it can only crawl along the corner of the wall with its hands aimlessly.
The lower body of the resentful spirit was cruelly crushed into blood mud, and the legs below the waist were broken into two soft and slim pieces of flesh because of their bones.
Dark red blood was constantly seeping out from the dusty black robe of the resentful spirit, and the heavy clothes moved forward with it, rubbing against the ground, making strange rustling sounds.
Seeing this scene, Ning Tonghai couldn't help swallowing. Wei Yixi comforted Ruan Zhuyin, and frowned and clenched the blood cloth in his hand...
Fortunately, the resentful spirit did not know the specific location of the four people because it was invisible.
It climbed along the ground, stretched out its dirt-covered hands, and groped around on the ground.
Through the patterns and appearance of the other person's clothes, Li Taiyuan could barely tell that this resentful spirit was one of the town girls who had prayed in the mourning hall this morning.
In this way, they did not escape the murderous hands of the mulberry spirit, and were cruelly killed and fell into evil spirits.
When the town girl's blue-gray grimace appeared beside the iron fence, Li Taiyuan quickly put the blood cloth on its forehead.
The flames suddenly rose, and the evil spirit let out a silent wail, turning into black smoke and disappearing in front of everyone.
"It's okay, it has disappeared." Wei Yixi comforted Ruan Zhuyin softly.
"I didn't expect that this is really a prop that can exorcise ghosts!"
Ning Tonghai touched the blood cloth in his pocket with a little regret, hoping that he could take them out.
"Be careful next, there is more than one thing." Li Taiyuan's words made Ning Tonghai take a breath of air conditioning.
"How did you know?" Ning Tonghai couldn't help asking.
Li Taiyuan did not answer his question, but instead showed a strange smile.
His bloodless face looked particularly strange under the blue firelight. Looking at the other party's dark eyes, Ning Tonghai always felt an indescribable sense of weirdness in his heart.
He looked back at the other two people. Wei Yixi was still concerned about Ruan Zhuyin's situation at this moment, and seemed to have not noticed what happened on their side at all.
Seeing that her partner was safe, Wei Yixi took the lead in walking out of the cage. Ruan Zhuyin followed closely behind, but when she got up and passed through the corridor, she suddenly felt as if she had kicked something.
Ruan Zhuyin bent down and picked it up, and found that it was a blood-stained pottery.
The moment she touched Tao Wu, Ruan Zhuyin's expression suddenly became dull. She put the Tao Wu into her pocket without telling her other companions.
As he continued to deepen, Ning Tonghai discovered that although the surrounding environment was dim and the terrain of the secret room was complicated, Li Taiyuan never led a missed road.
And the secret passage just discovered...
It was obviously the first time we came here, but his performance seemed to be very familiar with this place.
Looking at Li Taiyuan walking ahead, Ning Tonghai's doubts became increasingly serious.
When the flashlight slid through the back of the other person's head inadvertently, Ning Haitong's light suddenly noticed that something very strange appeared in the shadows reflected on the wall.
The thing's head was drooping softly on his shoulders, half of his body on his left was eaten up, and the half of his body below his waist hovered on the ground like a twist, which was extremely strange.
Ning Tonghai was startled by the shadow mixed in the team and stopped suddenly.
"What's wrong?"
His sudden pause aroused the vigilance of Wei Yixi and Ruan Zhuyin behind him. The two thought that the evil spirit appeared, so they quickly took out the blood cloth.
At the same time, Li Taiyuan, who was walking in front, also turned around.
But as soon as everyone stopped, Ning Tonghai found that the shadow on the wall had returned to normal.
But Ning Tonghai firmly believed that he had never read the scene just now.
He was terrified to realize that a ghost disguised himself as his companion and sneaked into the team.
"Did you see anything?" Li Taiyuan leaned over to Ning Tonghai and patted his shoulder.
The other party's hands were very cold and there was almost no temperature.
When he met his sight, Ning Tonghai shivered. Li Taiyuan's eyes were like ghosts, exuding a strange threat.
"No... it's okay, I didn't pay attention to my feet just now and I was tripped."
Looking at the other party's pale face, Ning Tonghai dared not tell the truth, so he could only make up a lie.
Wei Yixi and Ruan Zhuyin breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this.
"Oh, then keep moving forward." Li Taiyuan turned around and walked forward again.
Chapter completed!