1TWITF[C Chapter 126

Chapter 126

He was startled. How could a severed hand be grabbing Lu Yanli’s foot? He looked again, and the hand was gone, as if he had imagined it.

The knife didn’t think he had imagined it.

Not to boast, his eyes were sharp. He could see the hairs on a fly’s leg from a hundred meters away. He wanted to tell Lu Yanli to be careful, but then he thought, what if Lu Yanli hadn’t noticed anything? He might scare him by saying too much, so he held back.

After Lu Yanli landed lightly, the knife made a point of looking at the bottom of his pants.

“What, see something?” The knife immediately denied it, looking around, afraid of causing a commotion.

Lu Yanli had no related memories in his mind. He shook his head. “I don’t remember.”

The knife seemed to have connected it to something. His face turned serious.

Lu Yanli took the opportunity of squatting down to pack his bag to look at his ankle.

There was a red handprint there.

He didn’t say anything, stood up, and looked ahead. The headlamp on his hat shone into the darkness, and he couldn’t see anything.

The others were fine, but Lu Yanli felt cold all over, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

He breathed out and rubbed his hands, watching the others acting normally, and continued to walk forward silently.

As he spoke, a hand patted his shoulder.

Lu Yanli said, “I’m fine.” At the same time, he forcefully shook off the hand on his shoulder.

When they had just passed a small ridge, the knife had helped him carry the bag behind his back. He was holding the bag in one hand and the flashlight in the other. Where would he have an extra hand to pat his shoulder?

The hand fell to the ground and disappeared in a flash. The knife only saw something white falling from Lu Yanli’s body. He rubbed his eyes, thinking he had seen it wrong, mumbled a few words in confusion, and continued to walk forward.

Lu Yanli knew that he had been targeted as soon as he entered this world. He took a thin jacket from his bag and put it on as he walked.

He heard a voice from the depths of the darkness…

Gradually, the voice grew louder.

It was singing.

As before, the others were unaware, still talking and laughing, discussing the direction of their research.

Yes, that’s right.

Special “care” everywhere.

Whether it was “people” or these things that might not be people, they were all targeting him alone.

That’s why he didn’t trust them at all.

The knife agreed readily, and Fang Ping, who was walking in front, also said okay. Soon, they heard the sound of flowing water.

Passing through a narrow passage, the front suddenly opened up, and an underground river flowed rapidly.

“Be careful, this river is highly corrosive,” said Team Leader Yang.

Team Leader Yang picked up a bamboo pole from the bank, walked to the front, stepped on it first, and made sure it was solid before moving forward little by little, holding the bamboo pole in his hand and poking it into the river to test the depth.

“What does this river look like in your eyes?” Lu Yanli suddenly asked the knife.

The knife: “Huh?” He scratched his head. “It’s just a river, isn’t it? Nothing special.”

“Is that so?” Lu Yanli didn’t say anything.

Fortunately, this river wasn’t wide, only seven or eight meters from one bank to the other. Lu Yanli calculated his speed and thought he could give it a try.

“I’ll go at the back.”

Based on the malice of these things, he didn’t think he could cross safely.

Unable to persuade him, the knife had to go up first. He thought Lu Yanli was afraid and wanted to retreat, so he found an excuse to stay by the river. Therefore, he kept looking back as he walked. Lu Yanli was still standing well on the bank, not knowing what he was preparing to do.

Lu Yanli picked up a bamboo pole, weighed it, made sure it wouldn’t break easily, and stood cautiously by the wooden stake.

He took a deep breath, took a few steps back, ran, and rushed up in one breath, his figure so fast that he almost appeared as an afterimage.

The others were startled, not understanding why he was doing this. Wouldn’t it be better to cross slowly like the others? What if he fell? Before they could come back to their senses, Lu Yanli had already strode to the middle of the crude round logs—

The four round logs broke at the same time in an instant.

Sure enough, it was happening again.

The bamboo pole in his hand suddenly plunged into the river water in front of him. He heard the pierced corpse let out a scream. Lu Yanli ignored it and used the force to throw himself towards the bank like a high jumper.

The rock wall was slippery, and ordinary people couldn’t hold on at all. He inserted the dagger into the rock crevice, moved forward alternately with both hands, and after reaching above the land, he pulled out the knife forcefully with both hands and landed firmly on the ground.

Everything happened too quickly. Before everyone could react, Lu Yanli had already landed behind them. Team Leader Yang turned his head in surprise, then turned his head to look at the river, opened his mouth, and finally found his voice.

“That… you weren’t splashed by the river water, were you?”

Lu Yanli knew that the widening of the two banks just now was probably an illusion, but if he really fell down, that might not be an illusion. He didn’t say much, put away the dagger, and waited quietly for the team to move forward.

The more he interacted with weird things, the more likely he would be alienated.

Although he hadn’t yet found evidence that these “people” weren’t people, he tried to avoid interacting with them as much as possible.

Team Leader Yang wasn’t angry at being given a face. He scratched his head and continued to arrange work.

It seemed that no matter how indifferent Lu Yanli behaved, they didn’t notice anything wrong and still gave him enthusiastic care.

The coldness on his body became heavier, and he heard those voices again.

The knife patted his chest and said okay.

Indeed, they were almost there. After turning a few corners, the road ahead obviously became different, not like the ones they had dug out. The road surface was flat and wide, and the walls began to have patterns. As they walked forward, they saw a door.

Lu Yanli had seen this door before.

He had played the elevator game with Chu Xiu. He had entered a different world that initially disguised itself as his home. When he escaped from the street to the end, he saw a door.

A pitch-black metal door about two or three stories high, rusty and without any patterns, was completely different in style from the surrounding walls with exquisite decorations.

He didn’t open that door at the time, but now…

Team Leader Yang reached out and pushed the door open a crack.

“Come in quickly.”

Lu Yanli walked at the end.

As if possessed, he turned his head and glanced back before entering the door.

At the end of the long road, stood a red figure!

“Let’s go.” The knife reached out to pull him, and was surprised, “Why are your hands so cold? Are you sick?”

“No.” Lu Yanli withdrew his hand. When he looked over again, the red figure had disappeared.

That figure… didn’t seem like a ghost, but more like a statue of a god he had seen before.

His head hurt even more…

Lu Yanli entered the tomb chamber.

*

Another world.

What was missing?

Zhuang Ci thought for a long time and finally sorted it out. None of the other novels had the “evil god” described by the female neighbor. All her fear came from this “god.”

This was difficult.

Zhuang Ci looked at the novels on her phone, thinking: Will she update tonight?

What will be the end of Zhuang Ci in the story? She shouldn’t die, right?

If she dies, will I also…?

Thinking of this, Zhuang Ci shivered. It was already dawn, but she didn’t feel sleepy. After getting up and washing, she prepared to change clothes and go to work.

Opening the closet, Zhuang Ci didn’t know why, but she picked out a coat that wasn’t her favorite style. She put it on and rushed to catch the subway. When she swiped her card to enter the station, she suddenly froze.

Is this coat… mine?

Did she buy this khaki coat?

What she was wearing… wasn’t a khaki coat at all, but human skin! Her hands went through the human skin’s arms, and the human skin’s feet were tied in a knot around her waist. The hood behind her was also a peeled-off human face with long hair.

Zhuang Ci entered the subway unknowingly, and suddenly thought of the story of “The World Inside and Out” that she had read, and couldn’t help but panic.

The people around me… won’t they also become like that?

She resisted the urge to scream, but the monsters seemed to have locked onto her. The moment she opened her eyes, all the monsters in the carriage turned their heads to look at Zhuang Ci.

“No… don’t… help…” Even Zhuang Ci didn’t know who to ask for help. She slowly retreated until her back hit the cold door.

She had nowhere to retreat anymore.

Those things surrounded her, their faceless faces seeming to be looking at her. Zhuang Ci could feel their ubiquitous malice.

She suddenly thought of that novel.

In the novel, Zhuang Ci survived by praying to the “god”!

A sharp claw pierced her shoulder blade, lifting Zhuang Ci high.

Another sharp claw pierced through her leg bone, and blood splattered.

“Please, anything is fine. Let me live!!”

The subway arrived at the station.

Zhuang Ci opened her eyes and found that she was still standing in the same place, and everything around her was normal, as if everything that had just happened was an illusion.

But…

She lifted her arm.

It was covered with red marks.

Strangely, the image of the faceless woman reduced her headache by a few points. Zhuang Ci was delighted and felt that she had found a way, and quickly recalled the image of the faceless woman.

She… is very slow, and her speech and actions are very slow… wait? Who is she? Why do I know her name?!

Wake up!

Zhuang Ci covered her head.

Zhuang Ci’s eyes widened and she woke up suddenly.

Zhuang Ci nodded, with lingering fear.

She had completely remembered that she hadn’t lost her memory when she first entered, but when she contacted the others to enter the spiritual medium town, all her memories were erased and she lived a strange life as an office worker.

Looking at the coat again, Zhuang Ci took it off and threw it aside.

There was no such coat in her residence!

The stripped human skin slowly melted on the chair, turning into a pool of fatty liquid.

“After finding the others, we must re-enter the spiritual medium town once, there are traces of Lin Chu’s activities there, she is still alive.” Zhuang Ci said firmly, “First merge with Lin Chu! Let her lead us.”

“Okay!”

She had already found the entrance to the tomb. This world didn’t hide the news of the ancient tomb, and everything went very smoothly.

However… in this world, she found Chu Xiu, but not Lu Yanli.

Yu Huaiyao was not old, but he was experienced, and everyone trusted him very much. When they heard him call, they quickly came.

Strangely, there was also a young girl with Yu Huaiyao.

Lin Chu walked in the middle, with a rope tied to her body. In mid-air, she looked down. There were several swaying beams of light, which were the people who had gone down earlier to prepare for response.

Sure enough, the same tomb chamber in different worlds was the same.

She saw some familiar things.

Er Dai Kingdom…

After her feet stepped on solid ground, Lin Chu saw the words and patterns on the walls.

Yu Huaiyao explained: “We are still translating now. There is not much record of this kind of writing, so we can only rely on speculation.”

The text was unclear, but the murals were easier to understand. Yu Huaiyao was able to speculate on the general identity of the owner of this tomb based on the murals – perhaps a member of the royal family of the Er Dai Kingdom.