Chapter 80. Truth About Wanshi Ridge
Arc 3 : Supernatural Horror Movie Nightmare.
There was no light in this long and narrow passage, and it was even darker than the tunnel. Fortunately, they were all traveling, and they brought outdoor flashlights with them, which had a long battery life and a wide range of illumination.
In order to save power, only Liang Fei, who was walking in the front, and Du Yan, who was walking in the back, each turned on a flashlight.
The inner wall of the passage was very smooth, without any unnecessary carvings, and it felt like an air-raid shelter, but it was much narrower than an air-raid shelter. People have no idea what the purpose of this passage was.
After walking along the passage for a while, they suddenly heard a long train whistle from behind them. Then, they heard the train start moving.
The group paused for a moment but did not dare to look back.
At this time, Du Yan said: “Why did you stop? Are you going to go back through the tunnel?”
The people in front of him shook their heads wildly, thinking about the wooden faces that had just been pressed against the glass.
“No, no, no, don’t go back, keep moving forward.”
In the long and narrow passage, it was silent, and the only sound that could be heard was the sound of people’s footsteps. Not sure how long they walked, and everyone felt that they had almost emptied their mind, and only their legs were moving mechanically.
The seemingly endless narrow passage was about to destroy everyone’s sanity. At this critical point, the passage came to an end.
The view in front of them suddenly opened up, and the wind blowing was cold. Everyone stopped at this moment.
Perhaps out of fear of the unknown, Liang Fei subconsciously shone the flashlight towards the ground, like an ostrich burying its head in the sand, not daring to face reality.
Du Yan raised the flashlight in his hand and asked: “What’s wrong?”
Outdoor flashlights use xenon light sources, which can emit light far away. When Du Yan raised the flashlight in his hand, everyone realized that the space in front of them was surprisingly large.
Liang Fei exclaimed: “What kind of place is this?”
Du Yan took a look and said: “It should be a natural cave.”
After speaking, he moved the flashlight and scanned the surrounding area roughly. It can be seen from the surrounding stone walls and the long stalactites hanging upside down from the cave roof that this place was indeed a natural karst cave, as Du Yan said.
Zhou Tian had always been careful. Now that she was in an open space, her fear had eased. She immediately noticed something wrong: “Look ahead. The scope of this cave may be more than what is in front of us.”
Everyone looked in the direction of her finger, and sure enough, the height in front of them gradually decreased, but it still looked like a deep cave that led to nowhere.
After Zhou Tian’s reminder, everyone turned on their flashlights and started looking for a way out. They found that there were at least five or six forks in this huge cave.
Liang Fei was very frustrated: “It’s over. In this cave, I can’t tell East from West. Which direction should we go?”
Xu Yuan also looked worried: “It is easiest to get lost in a cave. Perhaps the most reliable way is to find the water source and follow the direction of the underground river.”
Wei Zizhe said: “Underground rivers are not necessarily reliable. I have been to a cave before. The underground river there extended to a certain place, and the mountain wall and the river surface were completely integrated together. There was no way to get out…”
For a moment, everyone was hesitant as to whether or not to continue moving forward.
Du Yan pulled out a compass from his backpack and said: “Based on the direction of the tunnel and the time we have walked, if we walk a little further, we will return to a familiar place.”
When Liang Fei heard this, he came forward and said: “Wow, bro, is this official merchandise of Xunlong Dianxue you have? It’s so realistic, can it really work?”
“…” Du Yan looked at him speechlessly: “You missed the point. Only you and I have been to the familiar place I just mentioned.”
Liang Fei suddenly had an idea: “Are you talking about the cave under the ancient village well? These caves are connected?”
Du Yan nodded and said: “According to my calculations, if we go in that direction, we should reach the ancient village.”
As soon as these words came out, everyone’s eyes were focused on Du Yan’s face, all with horrified expressions.
Zhou Tian’s emotions, which had just calmed down, were suddenly suspended in mid-air again. She said blankly: “I don’t want to go to that weird place in the ancient village again.”
Wei Zizhe said: “How about we just go back?”
Du Yan said: “Comparatively speaking, the ancient village is much safer than the unknown tunnel and the inexplicable train behind…”
As soon as Du Yan spoke, everyone started to hesitate again. Everyone in the ancient village, in fact, except for Liang Fei’s unexpected fit, didn’t seem to see anything scary, but the strange passenger on the train just now was witnessed by everyone.
Liang Fei immediately changed sides and said: “I also think it would be better to go to the ancient village. At worst, we can just leave right after we get out of there.”
“Well, I agree.” Xu Yuan also nodded and said: “However, there are so many forks in the road ahead, and it is also a problem which one to go.”
Du Yan replied: “Don’t worry about this at all, just follow me.”
The reason why Du Yan was so sure was simple, because at the intersection of one of the forks in the road, there stood a woman in red. The beautiful woman gently waved at Du Yan.
The source of danger in the ancient village lies in the vengeful ghost Fan Shi. Now, Fan Shi was leading the way and had become Xiao Lang’s subordinate. Even if Xiao Lang hated him because of the notebook left by Du Yan, he would not vent his anger on his roommates who spent day and night with him.
Therefore, the trip to the ancient village was completely risk-free for other people.
The group followed Du Yan forward, but before they reached the fork in the road, Liang Fei did something weird again.
He said very embarrassedly: “Sorry, I have urgent needs and I want to go and take care of it.”
Wei Zizhe couldn’t help but complain: “Why do you have so many problems?”
Liang Fei scratched his head and said in defense: “Didn’t I drink a cup of milk tea before we set off? You know milk tea is a diuretic. I originally wanted to go to the toilet after getting on the train, but who would rush to go in that situation? I have tried my best to hold it in until now. You don’t want to see me peeing in my pants, do you?”
After saying that, Liang Fei walked to the side. Xu Yuan asked at this time: “Do you want me to accompany you?”
Liang Fei paused and rejected the idea: “I’m not an elementary student. I’m afraid I won’t be able to pee if you accompany me.”
Although Liang Fei refused Xu Yuan’s company, for safety reasons, the others still used flashlights to shine on Liang Fei to prevent him from walking out of sight, while Zhou Tian turned her back.
Liang Fei only walked forward a dozen steps. After all, he would still feel a little scared if he was too far away in such a dark place.
After a while, the sound of the water stopped, Liang Fei quickly solved the problem, and everything went smoothly.
However, when he was walking back, he tripped over something and almost fell to the ground. Liang Fei reacted very quickly and used one hand to hold on to the giant stalactite next to him to stabilize his body.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he put his hand on it, he let out a scream, then hurriedly let go and fell down on his butt on the ground.
“Why are you so startled?” Xu Yuan said to him while walking towards Liang Fei.
Liang Fei pointed at the giant stalactite and said: “What is that?”
The light sources in everyone’s hands shone in the direction of Liang Fei’s finger. They saw a human hand sticking out from the pile of stalactite-like objects. The hand was not a skeleton but shriveled up as a mummy, with brown skin tightly attached to the hand bones, looking emaciated.
The hand stretched outward, as if it had tried to struggle to escape from this place before dying. It stood there alone, looking very strange.
When Liang Fei saw it clearly, he rushed back, rolling and crawling, and pulled Xu Yuan, who was halfway there, back to the group.
Du Yan, however, headed in that direction with a flashlight in hand. Xu Yuan called out from behind: “Xiao Lang, what are you looking for?”
Du Yan said: “It doesn’t matter, it’s just a hand, and it won’t move. Let me see what’s going on?”
It’s just a hand, nothing more? The nonchalant tone of the person in front suddenly calmed down the somewhat panicked people.
Du Yan stopped in front of the giant stalactite and found that this stalactite-like object was more than ten meters high, and there were several similar stalactite piles next to it.
He moved closer, shone the flashlight on it, and carefully examined it from top to bottom for a long time. Du Yan frowned and found that what he saw was not a stalactite at all, but a huge pile of petrified corpses.
The hand that Liang Fei reached up happened to be stretched out alone, and it was not petrified, which was what Liang Fei discovered.
Du Yan put a flashlight on it and shone it over, and the outlines of the corpses inside were vaguely revealed. Judging from the clothes that were not completely rotten, these were probably the corpses of the wandering ghosts who liked to block the tunnel.
“It’s just some fossils. I’ll go over there and take a look.” Du Yan said and walked towards another pile of corpses.
The pile of corpses here was not as petrified as that one, and the piled corpses were clearer. Du Yan took a closer look and found that the origin of these corpses was somewhat different from what he guessed.
There were records in the history of Shunping City that it was once massacred due to war, and almost all the people in the city were killed. According to unofficial history, the corpses were thrown into the nearby mountains, so the mountain was called ‘Wanshi Ridge’ by the locals.
With these data as evidence, Du Yan’s first thought when he saw the pile of corpses was that these were civilians who died in the massacre. However, it now appears that these corpses were not civilians.
These corpses were well preserved in a special environment. Du Yan found the same characteristics on almost every corpse with its face exposed. On their faces, the word ‘criminal’ was marked.
These corpses were clearly the prisoners on death row in ancient times, not the civilians at all.
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