Chapter 71: This Is Way Uglier Than A Sea Monkey!
When Lin Yan and Wu Xie turned their heads, they didn’t expect the thing behind them to be only one or two centimeters away from them. If they retreated a bit more, it would probably be right in their faces!
If it were a zombie or something, they wouldn’t be scared like this. They were people who had experienced the baptism of that sea monkey’s big face. What else could disgust them? But hair was different!
In front of them was a clump after clump of wet, soggy hair that almost covered the entire corridor behind them! That strange fragrance came from the hair. Although the flashlight was off, under the faint light at the cave entrance, there seemed to be something extremely white in the pile of hair.
That was a dead person’s hand, pearly and jade-white, with ten slender fingers, but the exposed nails were long and sharp. When they turned their heads, that hand was lifting upwards, brushing towards their necks—
Wu Xie and Lin Yan panicked and huddled together, squeezing right up to Fatty. The two of them nearly squeezed him breathless: “What the hell are you squeezing me for? Move to the side a bit, I’m out of breath!”
Fatty finally managed to separate Wu Xie and Lin Yan and pull them to the sides. Taking a quick look, he saw an arm gleaming in the pile of black: “Holy shit, a zombie? With hair on its head?”
He recognized it at a glance. This overwhelming hair, if nothing unexpected, was the one that had rolled out the corpse from the entrance stone slab! So the question was, was this the hair that rolled the corpse, or the corpse that grew the hair?
That thing didn’t know if it had been discovered by them, but since they screamed, it stopped in place and no longer moved. From Fatty’s angle, he could just see most of the face covered under the hair. That pale face had some deathly blue tint, but it was clear that before death, it should have been a stunning beauty: “You… who are you? Please hold me.”
That voice was like an orchid in an empty valley. Even knowing the thing in front of them was a corpse, Wu Xie and Fatty felt an impulse to embrace it. Only Lin Yan had a face full of collapse: “Holy shit, this is too ugly! This world actually has something uglier than a sea monkey! I’m fucking going blind!”
“Ugly?” Wu Xie and Fatty barely regained their consciousness and looked at Lin Yan. Although it was a corpse, how could it be called ugly? Under their puzzled gazes, Zhang Qiling suddenly turned on the flashlight and shone it on it. Only then did they see its full appearance—the entire corpse had been soaked by seawater until it was almost transparent, its face as big as a sea monkey’s, with eyeballs that were eerily pure black! The key point was that overwhelming, silently wriggling black hair!
Lin Yan finally knew why he hadn’t noticed earlier. This hair moved just like the mechanisms under the tomb—completely silent. Even with his hearing much sharper than an ordinary person’s, he hadn’t heard the slightest movement!
But this wasn’t scientific. Anything moving should make a sound, let alone in such a narrow space in the corridor, with the hair dragging a corpse! Lin Yan now finally understood that in this world, some things just didn’t follow science!
“This, what the hell is this!” Fatty wailed. Watching a beauty turn into this ghostly appearance, anyone would be unable to take it! As they involuntarily retreated, Zhang Qiling came towards them with the flashlight: “This is the Forbidden Woman! Does anyone have a lighter? This thing fears fire!” Fatty stiffened all over, then remembered his equipment had all been thrown in the side chambers while fleeing for his life. He could only look at Lin Yan with pleading eyes: “You’re up, young comrade!”
Lin Yan first rummaged in Wu Xie’s backpack. After flipping a couple times, he saw a pile of dry rations instead, but no lighter: “Didn’t you bring a waterproof lighter down?” Wu Xie was stunned, still not recovered from the earlier shock: “Oh, I think it’s on you… I wanted to make more space for dry rations, so I took it out and casually tossed it into the small pocket next to your backpack.”
Lin Yan reached over to the side of the backpack and felt something in the left pocket. Pulling it out, it was indeed a lighter. He hurriedly lit it and pointed it at the Forbidden Woman, hoping to scare it away.
The Forbidden Woman did shrink back when the firelight flared up, but then it seemed enraged. The black hair at its feet surged rapidly, actually surrounding them! Zhang Qiling immediately leaped in front of them with his knife. Lin Yan saw that the tattoo on his back hadn’t appeared yet, had a flash of inspiration, patted his shoulder, and handed him the lighter: “You take this!”
Zhang Qiling turned his head to look at the lighter that appeared beside him, slowly turned back, and stared at Lin Yan with a gaze like he was staring at a dead man.
Lin Yan chickened out and awkwardly took the lighter back. At this time, Wu Xie, who had been forgotten for a long time beside them, saw the hair almost reaching their feet and finally snapped back to his senses: “Lin Yan, I have alcohol in my bag. Let’s burn it!”
Lin Yan, who had forgotten there was a medical kit in the bag, was stunned for a moment, then started frantically rummaging in the bag: “Why didn’t you say so earlier when I was getting the lighter!” If he’d said earlier, he wouldn’t have been glared at by Zhang Qiling! He had almost thought he was going to be chopped down on the spot!
Human survival instinct is infinite. Wu Xie had originally put the medical kit deepest in to make more space for dry rations. Lin Yan forcibly dug it out within five seconds, took out the alcohol, and handed it to Zhang Qiling in front of them. Zhang Qiling took it, splashed the alcohol on the Forbidden Woman and around it, then snatched the lighter from Lin Yan’s hand and threw it in: “Go!”
The Forbidden Woman let out a scream when singed by the fire. That overwhelming hair crazily writhed toward the center, wrapping it up like a black cocoon. As they fled toward the exit, they could still hear its muffled, indistinct wail of agony, shrill even through the cocoon.
“Holy shit, you scared me to death. This is the first time I’ve seen such an ugly zombie!” Fatty fled frantically while still shaken. The Forbidden Woman had been too beautiful before revealing its true form. Seeing its real face, he had nearly vomited up last night’s dinner and still felt nauseous. Wu Xie chimed in with complaints: “Who says it isn’t. Especially how beautiful she was before.” Thinking of the Forbidden Woman’s appearance before revealing its true form, even while fleeing, he felt his mind swaying a bit.
Lin Yan, who was in front, rolled his eyes. He wasn’t affected by the Forbidden Woman. From the start, it had been that uglier-than-a-sea-monkey appearance in his eyes. He couldn’t even imagine what kind of stunning beauty Wu Xie and the others had seen: “Forget it, you guys. Let’s get out first and talk later!”
Zhang Qiling, bringing up the rear, silently looked back at the Forbidden Woman disappearing into the darkness behind them. He didn’t know why, but he always felt this Forbidden Woman looked familiar, yet couldn’t remember who it was. This inexplicable thought disturbed him, making him feel somewhat uneasy. Looking at the three people ahead who were almost turning into spiders, crawling hand over foot, he pursed his lips and still reminded them: “Hurry up. It’s not dead. It’ll definitely follow behind us.”
Fatty let out a strange yell at that, his already fast speed suddenly increasing even more, directly overtaking Lin Yan and leaving him dumbfounded: “Holy shit, it’s not dead? Then we better hurry up and escape!”
