Volume 3 Chapter 23: The Crack

My heart tightened, and I thought of Uncle Tai. We haven’t heard from them since we rushed down the waterfall. Could it be that they have followed us here? I thought I thought, “No, it can’t be. The fire dragon formation outside can’t be extinguished for a while, and the tomb chamber has collapsed. They shouldn’t be able to get through. Second, to climb up, they would need lighting tools. The torches below have gone out, and there is no flashlight light. There is no reason for them to come up in the dark.

What the hell is coming up?

I broke into a cold sweat at the thought. We are now only a dozen meters in the air, with limited space to move around. It’s not easy to make big moves. If we really encounter something strange, I don’t know how to deal with it.

Old Itch He gave me a wink, meaning that we should take the initiative and rush down to take a look. I waved my hand to calm him down. Now that the enemy is in the dark and we are in the light, we must not be reckless. If Uncle Tai and the others really come up in the dark, it will be a fierce battle if we go down to meet them. Bullets don’t have eyes, and at such a close distance, they might kill each other. Thinking I had a plan. I took off my belt and tied the torch to a branch, then called Lao Yao and Lang Shiyi to hide in the darkness where the torch couldn’t shine.

The people below could only see the light of our torches. In this way, we also hid in the darkness, and instead of being caught off guard, we could take the initiative.

The three Each of us held our breath and used our hands to make a listening tube and pressed it against the copper wall. We could feel a very slight vibration coming from far away, the frequency was chaotic and fast, as if many people were scratching the lines on the copper tree with their fingernails. The more I listened, the worse I felt. There were only two of them, and I was afraid they couldn’t make such a loud noise. Could it be that the mice had followed them?

I regretted I regretted not having properly dealt with the hole earlier, and cursed under my breath. I switched the clapper to my right hand and the old itch standing above me loaded his gun. The two of us were ready to spring into action at any moment.

The intruder moved very quickly and without hesitation, and in the blink of an eye he was already under us. had not yet entered the range of the torch’s illumination, I could only vaguely see a few vague shadows, which seemed to be people, but also seemed not to be. I was so nervous that my palms were sweating, and my spirit was highly concentrated. For a few seconds, time seemed to have stopped.

Suddenly, the expression on Lao Yang’s face at the bottom became extremely frightened, and he yelled, “Fuck! Go up! Go up quickly!” Before he finished speaking, Liang Shiyi also seemed to have seen something, and he let out a very miserable scream. The two of them fled upwards like ghosts.

I I didn’t know what horrible thing they had seen, so I subconsciously looked down and saw something wriggling in the darkness, but I couldn’t see clearly. Lao Yang looked at me and yelled, “Lao Wu, what the hell are you standing there for, run!”

I saw that his face was extremely pale, and I shuddered. I didn’t care to find out what was going on, pulled out the torch, and followed him with clenched teeth.

I was I was infected by the expressions of Lao Yang and the others, my heart was pounding with anxiety, and I didn’t know what exactly was coming up. The more I climbed, the colder I felt, and the colder I felt, the faster I climbed. In the end, I completely fell into a state of madness, feeling only numbness in my scalp and stiffness in my body.

After half a cigarette’s worth of climbing, the cool master in front finally stopped. I climbed to his side and found that he was not unwilling to climb, but was really unable to climb any further. His face was pale and he had reached his limit.

He was sweating profusely and, seeing that I was still climbing, he suddenly grabbed my leg and said to me, “Wait… wait a moment! Don’t… don’t leave me behind. I… I’ll just take a break and climb with you!”

I was pulled to a stop by him and felt my legs go limp. I couldn’t even muster the strength to move and began to tremble uncontrollably.

Just now Swimming and climbing cliffs were all high-intensity exercises done in extremely stressful environments, and my muscles were already overwhelmed. Now I was climbing up a mountain, which was extremely exhausting. I didn’t realize it at first, but as soon as I stopped, my muscles immediately lost control, and even if I clenched my teeth, there was no way to stop it.

I was was burning with anxiety, but there was nowhere to exert my strength. Looking up, I saw pitch black and wondered how high it was. I was scared and thought to myself that it would take forever to climb to the top. Even if I did make it to the top, what would I do? It would still be a big battle, and I would be even weaker by then. I might not even be able to lift a gun. Thinking about this, I made up my mind and handed the torch to Cool Master Liang, while at the same time flicking my hand and pointing it downwards, saying to him, “Climb my ass! I’m too tired to climb! I can’t climb either. Forget it. I don’t care what it is. I’ll fight him!”

When the old man heard me say this, his face twisted and he almost fainted and fell from the bronze tree. I quickly helped him up and looked around. I found that Lao Yi had disappeared and asked him, ‘Where is Lao Yi? Was he above or below us just now?’

The old man almost had no strength to speak and waved his hand, pointing down.

I remember I remember that when we were climbing, we were running all the way. Lao Yi saw me holding the torch and, in order to protect my rear, really let me fall behind. I hurriedly asked the cool master to look down with the torch. This light almost scared my soul away. I saw that in the darkness below, there was a person lying on the bronze tree like a monkey, looking at us expressionlessly.

This person’s face was as big as an ordinary person’s, and his facial features were like those carved in stone, with no human touch at all. The cool master When he lowered the torch, it suddenly retreated, as if it was afraid of the flame. However, at the same time, it revealed a strange expression on its face, which was neither a smile nor a frown.

When I saw this face, I shuddered and thought to myself, “Old Itch was under us, but now he’s disappeared. Could it be that he’s already been killed? But then I thought, if he had already been killed, he would have fired his pistol.

Master Liang When I saw this face, my soul flew away, and I screamed and fled upwards. I wanted to stop, but it was too late. I looked back down and suddenly discovered that the strange giant face had already come up and was almost at my feet.

Just now It looked fine from a distance, but now it was so close that I could see the whole face sneering at my feet. How could I not panic when it came out of nowhere? I reflexively fired a shot, and heard a loud bang. The gun spat out a flame, which hit the giant face right in the face.

This The shot was too close, and the iron sand bomb directly blasted the entire giant face to pieces. The traction force tore the giant face’s body off the bronze tree and fell into the darkness.

I didn’t I didn’t expect the pistol to work so well, and I was relieved. I was about to go up and grab the old man when suddenly two more pale faces appeared where the giant face had fallen. I was shocked and tried to shoot again, but even after twice pulling the trigger, there was no response. I immediately thought that the pistol could only hold two bullets, and after shooting, I had to manually eject the bullets and reload them to continue using it.

But I couldn’t possibly reload the gun in such a calm manner. As soon as I opened the chamber, a claw had already reached my shoulder. I turned around and saw a giant face coming up close to my nose. It turned out that something had snuck up behind me.

Liang Shiyi had already taken the torch away, and the light was gradually getting dimmer. I couldn’t see the person’s facial features clearly, and I couldn’t tell what it was. I had no choice but to jump out of desperation and head-butt it.

I I hit it with all my might, but I didn’t expect the face to be as hard as a rock. It made my head buzz and I almost fell from the tree. At this moment, I suddenly heard Lao Yi yell from somewhere, “Get out of the way!” At the same time, there was a bang and a flash of light, and a copper tree next to my head was hit, sending sparks flying in all directions.

I was I was almost stunned by the shot, and hurriedly retreated to the side. When I touched my face, I was horrified to see that the bullet had actually left a bloody mark on my face.

Lao Yang continued to shoot down below, and for a while the bullets were flying everywhere, with sparks everywhere. Unfortunately, none of the shots hit the target, and almost all of them hit the copper tree. A few bullets even bounced a few times, flying around in front of my eyes like marbles.

I had no time to worry about the monsters. I dodged left and right, cursing in my heart, “Old Itch’s a lousy shot. If he keeps this up, he might kill me today.”

However These shots bought me time. The freaks were a bit wary of the bullets and retreated. I took the opportunity to take out two bullets from the iron box under the barrel of the gun and put them into the barrel. I cocked the gun and aimed at the closest freak face and fired, sending it flying out and falling off the copper tree.

The threat in front of me was lifted. The threat in front of me was lifted, so I immediately looked down at Lao Yi, but I found that more monsters had poked their heads out of the darkness. There were already more than a dozen giant faces that I could see, and these things seemed to be looking at me, almost moving at the same time, like ghosts, and circling me.

I was so scared that I couldn’t think of what these things were. Judging from the shape of their bodies, they should be people, but how could people climb in a posture similar to a monkey? And these monsters had such big heads that they were already beyond the scope of normal people. But , if they are not human, then what are they?

In the blink of an eye, two monsters jumped to my side. One grabbed my foot and pulled me down, while the other one directly crawled onto my neck. I knew that I would not have another chance to reload, so I immediately turned my gun into a hammer and smashed it hard on the monster’s face.

I originally wanted to knock the monster off the tree, but it just leaned back a little and immediately came closer. At this time, I suddenly noticed that the giant face made a crackling sound and a crack appeared.