Chapter 37 Look, it’s coming out!

Quiet. Everything was strangely quiet. After the enchanted stone fell to the ground, we were all on the edge of our seats, but all we heard was silence, an eerie silence, as if nothing had happened.

Ruxue didn’t even look at the enchanted stone on the ground, and continued to use the ice pick to strike another enchanted stone. The entire stone chamber was absolutely silent, and only the sound of ‘ding-dong’ echoed in the stone chamber.

Nothing happened. Could it be that my spiritual senses were wrong? I shook my head and thought carefully. Was the danger I felt this time just because of the strange environment, causing me to be suspicious, rather than the effect of my spiritual senses?

However, the dangerous feeling that arose from the bottom of my heart not only did not disappear, but it intensified. It was as if every action of Ruoxue was striking my heart, and every time it fell, every time it rang, my heart would tremble.

The second enchanted stone was finally about to fall. Ruoxue suddenly stopped moving, looked at me quietly, smiled at me, and then said softly, “It should be very dangerous, but I’ve never asked you this question. I want to ask you today.”

I was puzzled, and I asked, “What question?”

“Do you trust me?” Ruoxue asked me this question.

“If I didn’t believe you, I would have stopped you.” I didn’t think about it at all, and the answer came out of my mouth.

What I didn’t say was that even if Ru Xue lied to me and cost me my life, I would still not disbelieve her in the end because I would not want to! It is better to be deceived by her and be confused by her lies than to be awake and not believe her.

This is probably what love is like: drinking poisoned wine with a smile, and finding it as sweet as honey!

“That’s good.” Ru Xue turned her head and started tapping on the stone again. She didn’t look at me, but said softly, “It’s a controllable danger. If one day I encounter a danger that I’m not sure I can handle, but I have to explore it anyway, I’ll die, but I’ll let you live.”

“What do you mean?” I was anxious. I didn’t understand why Ru Xue suddenly told me this. Thinking about her strange behavior, I couldn’t stand it for a moment and asked out loud.

Ru Xue didn’t say anything, it seemed that she was too engrossed in tapping the enchanted stone, and after the final tap, the second enchanted stone also fell. I was about to ask again, but at this time, a “earth-shattering” roar suddenly sounded in the stone room!

It was not a human roar, nor was it definitely a beastly roar. It was a strange roar that could not be described, directly resonating in the soul of a person, like the roar of an unknown thing that had slept for a thousand years and finally woke up.

And this roar was terrifying, making people feel inexplicable fear, and even causing a cold sweat to break out on my forehead.

Then, there was a restless ‘humming sound’!

Everyone’s faces became uncertain, especially Lao Zhang, who suddenly crouched down and instinctively covered his head. This is no wonder for Lao Zhang, because the sudden change in the stone room was too terrifying to prepare for.

The ‘humming sound’ only lasted for less than two seconds before it stopped, and the roar only lasted for one second before it disappeared, so quickly that it made people doubt whether it had ever existed.

This change was only a matter of seconds, it was violent, and it was over just as quickly. It made me feel like I had survived a catastrophe. Looking back, I saw that Brother Chengxin, Old Zhang, and even Old Wu were all like this.

Old Wu was looking at Ruoxue, who was still staring at the portrait of the blind fox, and wanted to say something, but he was so shocked that he just opened his mouth and nothing came out.

I took a deep breath and, after my emotions had finally calmed down a little, I wanted to continue to ask Ru Xue what was going on. But at that moment, the entire stone chamber began to shake. This shaking was not obvious at first, just a slight shaking, but later it became a more violent shaking with a “zaza” sound. The main place that was shaking was this stone platform, and Cheng Xin Ge, who was originally sitting on the stone platform, was directly shaken down.

During this chaotic process, I only heard Chengxin brother shout, “There’s an exit!”

Lao Zhang suddenly turned around, but I was concerned about Ru Xue and didn’t care whether there was an exit. I looked at Ru Xue with a heavy heart. Under such violent shaking, she still stared at the “blind fox” and I didn’t know what she was thinking.

I was sad because she was troubled, and I knew nothing about it. But in my heart, I wanted to take all of it for her!

Just as Master said in his most simple words, “Ling Qing can take my life if she wants to.”

The shaking continued for a minute before it finally stopped. Chengxin stood up from the ground, and Zhang, who had walked over, also shouted in surprise, “Really, there really is an exit!”

Old Wu had already floated over, shouting, “I’ll take a look, I’ll take a look!”

I couldn’t care less about this. After I was able to stand up, I rushed to Ruoxue’s side and held her in my arms. At that moment, I was really helpless. I was almost begging Ruoxue, “Please, don’t look. No matter what it is, don’t be curious. I just want you to live a peaceful life. Even if I can’t stay with you, it would be a blessing to be able to watch over you until you die of old age.”

Ru Xue touched my face gently in my arms, then her face turned pale, but she smiled and said to me, “Silly, I’m fine. I’ll tell you when I get out, okay?”

“Mmm-hmm!” I tightened my arms. In my opinion, as long as Ru Xue was willing to tell me, then everything would be fine. Even if it was a sea of knives and fire, I would be willing to accompany her to go through it.

But the next moment, I felt Ru Xue’s body tremble slightly, and she suddenly pointed at the “blind fox” and said to me, “Look, it’s coming out, it’s really coming out.”

What came out? At that moment, I could hardly describe my feelings. As soon as Ruoxue’s words fell, I almost felt my scalp explode. Once upon a time, I faced the most terrifying zombie, the “old village chief.” Once upon a time, I faced the “little ghost” that would not die as long as it had resentment. But none of them made me feel as scared as this time.

Yes, it was fear.

I almost froze in my tracks as I looked at the place where Ru Xue had pointed. It was the blind fox’s empty eye. I saw a long, golden-yellow bug with blood-red eyes and three strange purple stripes on its back crawling out of it.

Is it a centipede? No, I could do almost nothing but watch it crawl out. At first I really thought it was a centipede, but then I saw that it had a pair of transparent wings that were as red as its eyes, and it didn’t have as many legs.

So what is it? I swear I have never seen such a bug before, even in the animal world, even in the Miao village where I saw many strange bugs cultivated by the Miao people, I have never seen such a bug, nor anything similar.

My attention was completely drawn to this strange bug, and I unconsciously held Ruixue in my arms even tighter. At some point, Chengxin and Zhang also stood beside us, inexplicably drawn to the attention of this bug.

It finally completely crawled out. The so-called length was only about half the size of a palm, but with its unusually strange color, I thought it was something with a strong poison. That’s why I thought it was so dangerous!

That’s what I thought.

“It’s not poisonous,” Ru Xue whispered in my arms, and then she said, “But if I’m not mistaken, it’s even more terrifying than poisonous, right?”

As soon as Ru Xue finished speaking, the bug circled half a turn and suddenly flew towards Ru Xue!

My mind went numb, and all I could hear was the phrase, “It’s more terrifying than poisonous!” How could I let it get near Ruoxue? Almost subconsciously, I reached out and grabbed the bug, and it was true that I caught it in my hand.

“Don’t!” Ruoxue suddenly broke free from me and shouted.

“It’s okay, it just came out and is flying slowly…” I smiled and tried to comfort Ru Xue, but suddenly my hand that was holding the bug felt an incredibly painful pain that came from my soul. It was so painful that I couldn’t hold the bug at all!

I shouted, almost instinctively letting go of the hand, and the bug flew out!