C77 (1/2)

We only stood in front of the arrow for a moment, and then the terrifying howls coming from behind us came closer and closer, and by then the man in black had already joined the men in white, one in front and one behind, one black and one white, like the Black and White Impermanence who had just walked out of hell, staggering but steadily towards us.

There's no time for us to think, we just have to continue running inside, and before long, we reached the staircase that I fell onto. I hesitated, but the Black and White Impermanence that was following behind me did not have time for me to think, San Mao picked up Mao Tou once again, and the four of them ran down the stairs.

As soon as I walked up the steps, I felt my feet go soft. The cement floor started to disappear from here, replaced by soft, fine sand. I stepped on it and sank half a shoe into the ground. The sand made it even harder to walk. It was as if we were walking on snow. Every step we took, we would pull up high. We couldn't even run. We could only struggle forward slowly. San Mao walked down the stairs and put Mao Tou down, but instead, on the ground like this, Mao Tou gained the advantage. Because he was light, his shoes did not sink too deep, so he quickly swung his two short legs and ran around like a dog on the sand, walking to the front. As he ran, he shouted:

”Is this a tunnel? There wouldn't be any dumplings inside, would there? I told you to bring the black donkey hooves! ”

This huge cave did not have a single trace of a man-made opening, and it was also abnormally spacious and pitch-black. In the few flashlights in our hands, in this underground space, there were only three dim lights. The greenish-white lights quietly disappeared not far away, as if they had been absorbed by the endless darkness.

We ran through this endless darkness like we were running towards the gates of hell, and behind us, the moans of the Black and White Impermanence grew closer and closer, they never seemed to get tired, and my legs hurt more and more, and every step I took felt like there was a red-hot iron stirring inside my calf muscles, and my throat felt like it was being filled with chili, and the pain was so intense that for the first time I had the thought — I'm not going to die here today, am I?

Just as my heart gradually sank into despair, I suddenly felt a chill beneath my feet. Following which, the sound of water splashing could be heard as we stepped into an underground river. The river was shallow, but it would soon reach my ankles. However, it made it even more difficult for us to walk, causing our speed to slow down.

Even though it was difficult to walk, no one stopped. It was obvious that the two living corpses behind us were a great deterrent to us. It was as if everyone would rather die from exhaustion and drown than face such an unimaginably terrifying existence. Everyone was exhausted and didn't have the strength to talk. All they knew was that the water was flowing steadily under our feet.

At this moment, I suddenly had a thought. Why did I hear the sound of water splashing everywhere? I thought about it and realized it was the phone, the one that used the Morse code to call SOS and told us the latitude and longitude of the place.

I looked around quickly. Since I had heard the same sound, it meant that the person who had sent out the distress signal must be nearby, and that person, whether or not he was MaggieQ, was able to send out the distress signal. This meant that his temporary safety could be guaranteed, and our current situation was not that we needed him to save us, but that he was needed to save us.

Just as I was about to stop the three of them and tell them what I had discovered, Mao Tou, who was in front of them, suddenly exclaimed:

”Damn!” What was going on! ”Howl …” His curses came to an abrupt stop, as if someone had suddenly covered his mouth.