Endless Road of Corpse - C77

We only stood in front of the arrow for a moment, and then the terrifying howls coming from behind us came closer and closer, and by then the man in black had already joined the men in white, one in front and one behind, one black and one white, like the Black and White Impermanence who had just walked out of hell, staggering but steadily towards us.

There’s no time for us to think, we just have to continue running inside, and before long, we reached the staircase that I fell onto. I hesitated, but the Black and White Impermanence that was following behind me did not have time for me to think, San Mao picked up Mao Tou once again, and the four of them ran down the stairs.

As soon as I walked up the steps, I felt my feet go soft. The cement floor started to disappear from here, replaced by soft, fine sand. I stepped on it and sank half a shoe into the ground. The sand made it even harder to walk. It was as if we were walking on snow. Every step we took, we would pull up high. We couldn’t even run. We could only struggle forward slowly. San Mao walked down the stairs and put Mao Tou down, but instead, on the ground like this, Mao Tou gained the advantage. Because he was light, his shoes did not sink too deep, so he quickly swung his two short legs and ran around like a dog on the sand, walking to the front. As he ran, he shouted:

“Is this a tunnel? There wouldn’t be any dumplings inside, would there? I told you to bring the black donkey hooves! ”

This huge cave did not have a single trace of a man-made opening, and it was also abnormally spacious and pitch-black. In the few flashlights in our hands, in this underground space, there were only three dim lights. The greenish-white lights quietly disappeared not far away, as if they had been absorbed by the endless darkness.

We ran through this endless darkness like we were running towards the gates of hell, and behind us, the moans of the Black and White Impermanence grew closer and closer, they never seemed to get tired, and my legs hurt more and more, and every step I took felt like there was a red-hot iron stirring inside my calf muscles, and my throat felt like it was being filled with chili, and the pain was so intense that for the first time I had the thought — I’m not going to die here today, am I?

Just as my heart gradually sank into despair, I suddenly felt a chill beneath my feet. Following which, the sound of water splashing could be heard as we stepped into an underground river. The river was shallow, but it would soon reach my ankles. However, it made it even more difficult for us to walk, causing our speed to slow down.

Even though it was difficult to walk, no one stopped. It was obvious that the two living corpses behind us were a great deterrent to us. It was as if everyone would rather die from exhaustion and drown than face such an unimaginably terrifying existence. Everyone was exhausted and didn’t have the strength to talk. All they knew was that the water was flowing steadily under our feet.

At this moment, I suddenly had a thought. Why did I hear the sound of water splashing everywhere? I thought about it and realized it was the phone, the one that used the Morse code to call SOS and told us the latitude and longitude of the place.

I looked around quickly. Since I had heard the same sound, it meant that the person who had sent out the distress signal must be nearby, and that person, whether or not he was MaggieQ, was able to send out the distress signal. This meant that his temporary safety could be guaranteed, and our current situation was not that we needed him to save us, but that he was needed to save us.

Just as I was about to stop the three of them and tell them what I had discovered, Mao Tou, who was in front of them, suddenly exclaimed:

“Damn!” What was going on! “Howl …” His curses came to an abrupt stop, as if someone had suddenly covered his mouth.

Startled, I immediately lowered the flashlight to see what exactly was happening to Mao Tou. However, wherever the flashlight went, there was only green black, calm water. Mao Tou’s figure was nowhere to be seen.

I was puzzled for a moment. How did this person disappear in just a few seconds? Did he fall into the water? I looked at my feet, but even though there was a slight increase in the water level, it was only enough to cover my calves and stomach, and even though Mao Tou was small, he wasn’t completely submerged.

While I was thinking, I took a few more steps forward. Suddenly, the space beneath my feet became empty. There was actually a huge drop in the water!

“F * ck!” I only had time to exclaim in shock before I was swept away by a powerful force. It turned out that although the water surface looked calm, there was a powerful undercurrent flowing beneath it!

I felt like I was being carried away by the current, and I couldn’t even open my eyes, and my ears were filled with the gurgling sound of the water, and I had to use all the strength in my body to push myself out of the water to take a breath of air, and I immediately felt exhausted, and choked twice, and my chest felt like it was about to burst, and just when I thought I was sure I was going to drown here, I suddenly felt empty beneath me, and I fell down again, but fortunately, this time, after I entered the water, the current wasn’t too fast, and I struggled to surface. Here was a pool, and above it was a waterfall, and I fell down from the top of the waterfall.

Luckily, with my previous experience of falling, I had the flashlight’s cord firmly attached to my wrist. Fortunately, this expensive Surefire flashlight was as good as the water repellent it boasted about, completely unaffected by being in the water for so long.

I shone my flashlight everywhere, found the closest water bank, and swam to the shore. After I swam to the shore, I immediately looked around for Mao Tou, and quickly found him on the other side of the pool, on a high ground. Because of the angle, I could only see his head and his extremely weak light source.

“Mao Tou!” I called to him, but he didn’t respond. I called again, but there was no response, and I was startled. I thought something had happened to him, so I ran towards him.

Mao Tou was right at the top of the stairs, this time I was really anxious to save him. I didn’t think too much about why an artificial staircase would appear in the depths of the underground, I merely took a few steps and ran up.

Running up the stairs, I saw Mao Tou standing straight, his flashlight shining in front of him without moving an inch. I was about to scold him for not answering when I heard him say softly after swallowing a mouthful of saliva:

“Brother Yuan… This time, we’re rich! ”

I followed his light and saw a huge rectangular object in front of me. When I looked closer, I realized it was a coffin!