Chapter 48: Choosing

Yes, there are three forks in the road ahead, and which one to take is now the biggest problem.

One of them is straight ahead, one is a direct turn, and the other is diagonal. The diagonal one is very different from the other two because there are no reliefs of hungry ghosts on it.

“Sanwa, don’t choose that straight road. I almost threw up when I walked straight. If I look straight, there might be a ghost blocking the road.” I hadn’t even spoken yet, and Su Rou had already said it.

The kid is stubborn. After suffering a loss on the straight road, he would never take the straight road again.

The light from the oil lamp was very limited, and I had already turned it down to the minimum. I was afraid that the lamp oil would be wasted, so the light was not bright enough to illuminate the road ahead and allow me to make a direct judgment!

Human psychology is often very strange. There is a saying that once bitten by a snake, you are afraid of the well rope for ten years. Not to mention that we have just experienced it. I thought that the crispy meat would not affect me, but my subconscious mind ruled out the straight path.

I said, “I think it’s easier to have traps on the straight road. We’re not going to take this road, and the master and the others have to solve the tomb’s problem, so it’s impossible to go straight, right? What do you think, Yue?”

In fact, I’m not sure. This tomb is too strange. The scene I just experienced made me feel like I was facing something I didn’t want to face, but had to. If we’re not careful, this tomb could be a matter of life and death.

I don’t know if Ling Ruyue had the same thought, but the answer she gave me was the same: “Yes, Third Brother, we won’t choose that straight path.”

In this way, the straight road was ruled out, and the remaining two roads were difficult. Even though we were young and had youthful minds, we all understood that finding the master was our guarantee of safety.

Even though it was so dangerous, we refused to back down. I guess only young people have this adventurous spirit.

Just as we were hesitating, a strange thing happened. A voice suddenly came from the curved road, very much like the sound of a woman laughing. The laughter was not at all pleasant, but rather cold and simple, a sound of laughing for the sake of laughing, chilling to the bone.

The three of us looked at each other with a chill down our spines, and almost at the same time, without hesitation, we ran into the sloping road!

After running into the road, the sound behind us gradually disappeared. The three of us stopped in a daze. I was sure that we had almost run, but we were in fear and didn’t realize it.

Now that we had stopped, we could hear each other’s heavy breathing and the pounding of our hearts. The key was not the distance, but the fear.

“Damn it! What was that sound? My legs felt weak as soon as I heard it,” Su Rou cursed.

Indeed, the sound has a magical power that makes people feel fear and shrink back in their hearts, as if they were facing a very powerful existence and were completely powerless to resist.

“You forgot? Guo Er and the others mentioned this sound before, but they didn’t say it was so terrifying.” I was a little confused. I felt like I had grasped some of the problem, but I didn’t.

“How would I know? I guess Guo Er didn’t go to school and didn’t have much education, so he didn’t describe it well enough.” Su Rou picked up the water and took a sip, then handed it to Ling Ruyue. The kid was so stubborn that it was pointless to ask.

Ling Ruyue took a sip of water, recovered, and handed the water to me before saying, “It was very scary. That kind of horror made Hua Feifei react, and she was very agitated in the bamboo tube.”

While talking, Ling Ruyue took out Hua Feifei. Sure enough, Hua Feifei was very restless and crawling around, and the feeling that it was ready to attack at any time was very obvious.

“Put it away quickly, don’t bite me later.” Su Rou didn’t have the heart to understand what Hua Feifei was thinking, instead he looked at the tomb passage.

After looking at it for a long time, he said to me, “Sanwa, did you notice? This tomb passage is different.”

I said in a bad mood, “I found it a long time ago. There are no reliefs of hungry ghosts in this tomb passage, right?”

“Yes, it feels like we’ve entered two tombs.” Ling Ruyue also chimed in, and then she said, “But the key is, can we find Master and the others by taking this path?”

I said in a bad mood, “There are two ways. The first is to go back to the three-way intersection and wait. The second is to go back. But no matter which way, we have to wait until we pass by there again. Who knows what’s there?”

“That’s right, I’m not going back!” Su Rou was anxious. He couldn’t stand listening to that sound again. If he thought he might have to face it, he would be even less willing.

“Hey, it would be great if Xiaohei were here,” Ling Ruyue suddenly sighed.

“What is Xiaohei?” I couldn’t understand. I thought Xiaohei was usually the name of a dog.

“A kind of worm. They can sense each other’s position from a distance. Grandma had one. As long as we were in the tomb, I could release the worm and follow it to find Grandma. Unfortunately, Grandma was afraid that I would follow her and took it away.” Ling Ruyue said in a low voice.

Su Rou said without a care in the world: “In that case, your grandmother knew you pretty well.”

“Damn you, what did you say?” Ling Ruyue said, about to turn her face.

I was too lazy to listen to these two people talking nonsense, and said, “Stop it. Aren’t we miserable enough now? Let’s go. We can’t stay here anyway. Anyway, whether or not someone is here, we have to find out.”

“Sanwa, do you mean to go in?” Su Rou asked carefully.

“What else? Don’t you want to see the gold and silver treasures? We’re taking this road to see the gold and silver treasures!” In fact, I had a good idea about taking this road, which is why I dared to go in and look for my master and the others.

My thinking was that if my master and the others weren’t in there, we would go out and wait in the tomb passage, because at that time, my master and the others would most likely have finished dealing with the other two roads, and they might rush here. At the very least, the sneering woman would have to be dealt with by my master and the others, right?

“Treasure? No, Sanwa, you have to tell me what’s going on.” Su Rou grabbed me.

“Right, San Ge, why can we go in and look?” In fact, Ling Ruyue was scared. This tomb passage was relatively quiet, giving people a sense of security.

“Because my master once said that this tomb is probably a tomb within a tomb. Now that I’m inside, I can confirm this. You haven’t noticed it, but this tomb passage is completely different from the other two. The two tomb passages that extend into it are the real Hungry Ghost Tombs, and this one should be the tomb within a tomb that the Hungry Ghost Tombs are attached to. So the tomb after going down will definitely not have any Hungry Ghosts. At most, there will be dead people in it, dead people who have been dead for many years. Are you afraid? I’m not afraid anyway!” I’m telling the truth. I’m not afraid of the dead.

“What if, what if… there are ghosts?” Su Rou said nervously.

Ling Ruyue is a girl after all, and she was scared by Su Rou’s weird tone, so she suddenly grabbed my arm.

I slapped Su Rou’s fat meat with a loud ‘pop’ and said, “Don’t scare people with that tone! This person can’t be scared, and he can’t scare himself, because if he is scared, his aura will be weak. When his aura is weak, he will be easily confused and haunted by ghosts. You little brat, you’re asking for a beating!”

Su Rou immediately puffed up his chest and said, “I’m not afraid! I just killed a demon, and I still have a lot of blood left. I can kill as many as come at me!”

But Ling Ruyue said in a somewhat decadent tone, “Feifei can’t consume too much venom. He needs to rest.”

And I didn’t say that the blood in the middle finger is actually limited. For example, it can only be used once or twice a day, and only in those one or two times is there that much yang energy.

However, how many ghosts can there be in a tomb? In my opinion, there is only one person buried in a tomb. Even if there is a ghost in the worst case, there is only one, and I can still think of a way to deal with it. Besides, there may not even be one.

After comforting Ling Ruyue and reassuring her, I took the crispy meat and Ling Ruyue and strode into the tomb passage. What I didn’t know at the time was that I had just let a ghost fly away, and my luck was at its lowest. I thought I had everything under control.

What happened next was beyond horror.