Chapter 127: Don’t You Have Any Self-awareness?
Lin Yan thought about it more and felt it made sense. What thing could blow out the torch from dozens or even hundreds of meters away? Even if there was, why were his and Wu Xie’s fine? It could only be said that this should be a coincidence. There happened to be a gust of wind, Lao Yang was right in the wind’s path, and he happened to see him “performing the ritual.” By a twist of fate, he got scared like this.
Lao Yang looked ahead suspiciously: “But I clearly, clearly saw there was something.”
Lin Yan stroked the fur on the little white zombie’s shoulders, turned his head, and softly asked it: “Xiao Bai Bai, is there something ahead?” After all, it was a little zombie. If there were kin ahead, it should sense it, right?
The little white zombie rubbed against his hand and made a puzzled sound: “Ying Ying Ying?” Li Zai said gods and demons? Demons have things?
Lin Yan got the response. Though he was zero-level at ying language, he still confidently told Lao Yang: “Xiao Bai Bai said there’s nothing ahead. We can walk ahead with complete peace of mind!”
“Is, is that so?”
Lao Yang half-believingly turned on his flashlight and walked forward. Wu Xie quietly leaned to Lin Yan’s ear and asked: “What did Xiao Bai Bai just say? Didn’t you say you couldn’t understand before? How do you understand now?”
Lin Yan looked at him, pursed his lips, and confidently said: “I don’t know either. I don’t understand corpse language anyway!”
The little white zombie made a puzzled ying sound: “Ying Ying Ying?” Then how did Li figure it out before?
“Ah, this.” Wu Xie looked at the back of Lao Yang, who had been deceived, and suddenly felt a bit sympathetic toward him.
However, Lin Yan explained it this way: “This place is just a bit cold, with wind now and then. If there really were strange things, we’ve been in here so long. If they wanted to act, they would’ve done it already. Why wait until now? I think Lao Yang was just spooked, so I’m giving him a reassurance pill. Otherwise, scaring himself like this, when would it end? Don’t want to not even reach the tomb yet and scare himself to death with all the jumps.”
Wu Xie thought about it and agreed. Plus, he really hadn’t seen anything ahead, so he relaxed and followed toward the front.
Lin Yan stroked the little white zombie’s head: “If there’s something, Xiao Bai Bai will remind me, right?”
The little white zombie got excited and desperately rubbed against his neck: “Ying Ying Ying!”
Getting the little white zombie’s response, though he didn’t know what it meant, Lin Yan inexplicably felt a bit more confident.
Unknowingly, they had walked nearly an hour. Besides the increasingly narrow passage, there was still nothing. From their perspective, the cliff walls at the top had almost closed together, leaving only an imperceptible thin slit. They seemed to be walking in a passage leading into the mountain’s belly, the pitch-black passage with no end in sight.
The atmosphere gradually became oppressive. Wu Xie was both cold and scared, and couldn’t help asking Lao Yang: “Lao Yang, how much longer? Are you sure this road is right?”
He knew it was a stupid question, but now there was no other topic to talk about.
Lao Yang’s answer came from ahead, with a bit of echo: “This, this is nonsense. There’s only this one road total! If this is—wrong again, then we really, really can’t get out! What are you anxious about? At least there’s—still three or four hours of road to go!”
Three or four hours. Wu Xie couldn’t help feeling a wave of despair. If he didn’t say something or do something, he was going to be driven mad by this environment! So dark and cold, ahead he could only see Lao Yang’s back, ears only hearing their footsteps. A few more hours of nothing and he could scare himself to death!
“Let’s say something? It’s too quiet here!”
“Say, say what?” Lao Yang’s voice was also a bit impatient. He seemed affected by the environment here too.
“What did you say when you came here three years ago?”
“Three years ago? My—my cousin and them kept talking about down-dou things. I forgot what exactly we said!”
Wu Xie irritably scratched his head and turned to ask Lin Yan: “Lin Yan, do you have anything to pass the time? If we don’t talk, I’m gonna suffocate!”
Lin Yan held the little white zombie in his arms. He clearly wasn’t as irritable as the two ahead. At least he had something to do: “Normally at night when it’s quiet, shouldn’t we tell some ghost stories?”
The footsteps of the two ahead paused for an instant, then sped up to get away from this disaster. Even now and still telling ghost stories? Can’t tell some living world stuff? They’d rather choose silence than listen to ghost stories. They just wanted Lin Yan to shut his mouth.
With Lin Yan saying that, Wu Xie immediately felt that quiet wasn’t so bad. Enjoying darkness and solitude was a must-learn life lesson! He felt his life had been elevated! Just like that, after walking nearly half an hour more, Lao Yang suddenly stopped.
“What’s wrong?”
Wu Xie nearly crashed into him headfirst and barely stopped.
Lao Yang tremblingly turned his head, pointed ahead with his finger, swallowed, and said: “I I, I said there’s—something ahead! Look!”
Lin Yan curiously peeked out from behind Wu Xie. The passage here could barely fit one person. Fatty’s build would probably get stuck: “There really is something! What’s this?”
Before, in the torchlight, he had only glimpsed a white dot. Now he saw its true face—it was actually a big stone?
No, not a big stone!
They used the flashlight from top to bottom, illuminating this thing completely. It was actually a hand! A huge stone human hand!
Wu Xie incredulously gestured. One finger was wider than his thigh! But it seemed to be holding something?
Though this stone statue was carved from stone, under the flashlight it looked like a real person. Looking closely made one’s scalp tingle. What level of carving craftsmanship was this!
There was some gravel beside this hand. Wu Xie only had time to say “careful” before Lao Yang wordlessly started climbing onto the stone hand. As he climbed up the slope bit by bit, they discovered that above the cliff wall was a stone statue carved relying on the mountain’s contour. The head to chest part had been blasted off by someone. Maybe that was why the stone hand had fallen here.
So the question was, what was the person who blasted this statue thinking? Just to block the road? If so, this operation was too stupid. Even for them, climbing over would only take one or two hours. What could they do in one or two hours? From the stone’s appearance, it had definitely not been blasted recently.
If not to block the road, what was the goal of the person who blasted the stone statue? Just to destroy the stone statue? Then what did this stone statue represent?
“Wait, what’s that behind it?”
Lao Yang had climbed quite high. His flashlight had just seemed to shine on something, flashing by. Wu Xie didn’t see clearly. He took off his backpack and handed it to Lin Yan: “Help me hold this. I’ll go up and check. There seems to be something behind that stone statue!”
Lao Yang had also noticed by now. He held the stone statue with one hand and shone the flashlight behind it with the other: “Come up quick! This, this stone statue has something behind it!”
Wu Xie climbed to his side and then saw that behind the stone statue was a huge cavity.
He suddenly realized that the person who blasted the stone statue’s goal was definitely not just the stone statue, but the large tomb that might exist behind it!
“This tomb has already been raided by someone, right? Still going in to check?” Lin Yan’s voice came from behind, startling both of them, especially Lao Yang.
He looked at Lin Yan in shock. Lin Yan had climbed up carrying two packs without even panting: “You you you, how did you get up here?”
“Climbed up.” Lin Yan glanced at him, a bit baffled. Wu Xie understood why Lao Yang was surprised. He had been the same when he first learned Lin Yan’s strength had increased. But he cared about something else.
“How did you know this is a tomb?”
Lin Yan looked at him like he was looking at a silly child: What kind of person are you, Wu Xie? Don’t you know in your heart? Besides a tomb, what else could the place you’re going to be? If not a tomb, then a coffin. It couldn’t possibly have a foot massage shop here, right? That’s Fatty’s specialty!
(I finally got the second vaccine shot done! So not easy!)
