Chapter 104: White Dragon Horse, Female Water Ghost, Thumbelina
“Brutal… What a waste of heavenly treasures!”
Wang Pang Zi looked at the sacrificial burial pit filled with so many human and animal corpses, with a tearless expression, but his gaze finally fell on the piles of ivory.
Hu Ba Yi couldn’t help but say:
“Commander Wang, I think you’re not pitying these sacrificial burial victims, but regretting these ivories!”
Wang Pang Zi smacked his lips:
“Yeah, so much ivory, if only we could transport it all to the Capital City…”
Xue Li Yang couldn’t help but sneer:
“Don’t even think about it. This ivory has been here too long and can’t be used anymore, and you couldn’t carry it anyway!”
At this point, Xue Li Yang looked at Fatty and suddenly fell silent.
Wang Pang Zi felt a bit panicked under her gaze and said:
“Commander Yang, why are you staring at me?”
Xue Li Yang smiled and said:
“I think if we were Tang Monk and his disciples, you could be Zhu Bajie—greedy for money, lustful, gluttonous, and fond of alcohol…”
Wang Pang Zi hurriedly said:
“No, no, no, I’m just regretting these ivories, how did I become Zhu Bajie!”
Hu Ba Yi laughed instead:
“If Commander Wang is Zhu Bajie, then Master is Tang Monk, after all, he is the Master. But he’s not nagging or pedantic! Then who are Little Brother and I?”
Xue Li Yang pursed her lips and smiled:
“Reluctantly, you’re a Senior Disciple, you still have some skills and are quite talkative. Little Brother doesn’t like to talk, like a silent gourd, although he’s quite capable, but even if he’s Sha Wujing! But among you all he is the Senior Disciple, so it’s not quite right…”
Zhang Qiling had not spoken all along, but upon hearing Xue Li Yang’s evaluation, he neither agreed nor disagreed, seemingly indifferent to all this, yet a faint trace of amusement appeared in his eyes, as if he quite enjoyed this atmosphere of being with them.
Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi quietly exchanged a glance, both with mischievous smiles on their faces.
Wang Pang Zi said:
“Then that’s not right. Commander Yang, how did you forget to include yourself? On the journey to the west, there are only four master and disciples. Don’t you have a place?”
Hu Ba Yi smiled and said:
“How could there be no place? Isn’t there a White Dragon Horse!”
Wang Pang Zi grinned:
“Alright, so Master’s Wife is the White Dragon Horse!”
Xue Li Yang immediately flushed with anger, closed her mouth, and glared fiercely at the two.
Hu Ba Yi and the other immediately didn’t dare to speak, exchanged a glance, but both were holding back laughter.
Master’s Wife being the White Dragon Horse is no problem.
After all, only Master can ride it!
Su Mo didn’t speak throughout. At such a time, it wasn’t appropriate for him to interject. Seeing Xue Li Yang’s face flushed with anger, he walked over, smiled, and gently pulled her hand:
“Alright, stop bickering. We’re almost at the place ahead!”
Only then did Xue Li Yang’s expression soften a bit, though her face was still red. She seemed to have guessed what Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi wanted to say, quickly shook off Su Mo’s hand, and walked forward.
Walking forward along the tunnel full of sacrificial burial pits for a distance, they soon reached the end of the tunnel. Ahead was a natural cave with a large amount of accumulated water, dark and black like a pool, with no way forward.
There were even a few wooden ancient boats by the water’s edge, but they had rotted away leaving only the frames. Hu Ba Yi then inflated the air bladder from his backpack and fixed it to the boat frame, making it into a simple raft.
The five people sat on the raft drifting forward, seeing many huge stone pillars in the water, like a forest of seabed coral trees, and the cave ceiling was very low, creating a very oppressive feeling.
Xue Li Yang took out a signal gun and fired a shot forward.
The signal flare drew a bright arc in the air, and soon a magnificent, bizarre, and extremely terrifying natural wonder appeared before everyone’s eyes.
Those stone pillars like coral forests were actually tree fossils left from ancient times. Everyone felt as if they were in a silent fossil jungle.
Fossils are the petrified bones after trees die, that is, the corpses of ancient trees. In fact, everyone was drifting through a jungle of corpses. With the extremely low temperature here and the drifting cold yin energy, it felt even more eerie and sinister!
Although Hu Ba Yi and the others were very bold, seeing this scene, they couldn’t help but feel a bit nervous and all closed their mouths, no longer speaking.
The flare gradually dimmed, and the distant scenery little by little merged into the darkness.
At that moment, a pale white figure suddenly emerged from the dark water below.
Under the residual light of the flare, that figure appeared entirely pale white. At first glance, it looked like a woman dressed in full mourning white, but her posture seemed very eerie.
As the flare’s light extinguished, the woman’s figure also gradually disappeared into the darkness.
Xue Li Yang quickly took out a spotlight and shone it toward the woman’s position.
The moment the light suddenly brightened, everyone was startled.
They saw that in a short time, the woman had drifted to just a few meters away from them. Her face, pale as frost, clearly appeared under the light, with distinct facial features. Her eyes were wide open, the eyeballs dead-fish white, and her whole body was shrouded in a faint ghostly blue glow!
Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi were all startled. Hu Ba Yi even quickly pulled out black donkey hooves from his backpack, ready to stuff them into its mouth in case the woman drifted over and came back to life as a zombie.
Who knew that in the blink of an eye, the woman’s corpse suddenly sank back into the water, arriving silently and disappearing abruptly, like a ghost!
Hu Ba Yi and the others were all scared pale, not knowing if this woman was just a floating corpse or a female water ghost!
“Let’s go, speed up!”
Su Mo suddenly said at this time.
Zhang Qiling nodded, then took out an entrenching tool and, with Wang Pang Zi on left and right, paddled the water. With the entrenching tool’s help, the raft’s speed increased a lot.
As they were going, a fist-sized water spider suddenly crawled over the water surface ahead.
Hu Ba Yi couldn’t help but exclaim:
“Damn, the water spiders here are actually this big!”
The water spiders everyone usually saw were at most finger-sized, but this one was fist-sized, dozens of times larger than those elsewhere!
No sooner had the words been spoken than another fist-sized flying insect flew over from ahead, its wings spanning nearly a foot wide, covered in fine hairs all over its body.
Everyone couldn’t help but be extremely astonished.
At that moment, there was a loud bang from the water, followed by a toad as big as a car suddenly leaping out of the water surface, protruding a huge snake head from its mouth, wrapping the flying insect with its tongue, and swallowing it in one gulp.
With the appearance of this toad, more giant creatures appeared ahead!
Dragonflies as big as wheels, fist-sized water spiders, toads the size of small cars…
This cave was like a world of giant creatures. Some insects common outside had grown extremely huge here, and Su Mo and his four companions seemed like a few suddenly shrunken Thumbelinas entering a primeval jungle!
