C128 (1/2)

Even if Jin Xiaolou didn't believe in ghosts or gods, she would still run out subconsciously after seeing such a bizarre scene.

Behind him, a low and aged voice rang out, ”Is this old man that scary?”

After the old man finished speaking, he suddenly thought of something and took out a pine stick torch from behind him. He then took out a fire piston and lit it.

The dark cave suddenly lit up.

Jin Xiaolou then covered her heart that was thumping loudly, and turned to look back.

The old man had long silvery-white hair and was wearing maroon cotton pants. He was thin, and the wrinkles on his face made him look like a gnarled old tree. He looked energetic like a teenager, but his dark eyes seemed to be covered in a layer of white mist.

”The little girl runs faster than a rabbit!” The old man held onto the antler and gently pushed it forward. The deer then took two steps forward, ”Stop staring. This old man has been blind for thirty years.”

Jin Xiaolou was shocked, retracting her gaze from the old man's eyes, somewhat suspicious: ”You … Since your eyes are blind, how do you know that I'm a little girl and that I'm looking into your eyes? ”

The old man chuckled, ”I also know that there's a half-dead man lying at the entrance of the cave. He's injured, and even though you've stopped the bleeding, it'll be difficult for him to recover without the use of herbs.”

Jin Xiaolou trembled, but before she even had the chance to ask, the old man had already answered: ”If I'm blind, then my ears and nose are smarter. Inside the cave, one close, two sounds of breathing. It is so far away and so slow yet so ethereal. It must be a man whose body is unwell, and the smell of blood is faintly floating in the air. This old man does not need to see to know it clearly. ”

Jin Xiaolou knew that she had met an expert, and quickly bowed to the old man: ”I hope the old man can save the man at the cave.”

The old man shook his head and sighed, ”It's a pity that you guys came thirty years too late. Thirty years ago, this old man swore that he would never treat anyone in his life again.”

Saying that, he patted Lu Zi's butt, turned around, and left.

Jin Xiaolou was dumbstruck. She suspected that she must have been dreaming, or else how could an old man who appeared so strangely and acted so abruptly in a cave with nothing on top of the perilous peak?

And riding a deer...

Just as he was in a daze, the old man suddenly turned his head and shouted at Jin Xiaolou: ”This girl is really dumb, if I don't treat her, won't you come and beg me? If you say a few more words, perhaps things will turn for the better? ”

Jin Xiaolou was even more so full of question marks...

She fiercely pinched her thigh and grimaced in pain. After confirming that it wasn't a dream, she lifted her leg and ran for her life towards the cave entrance.

He sat beside Gao Lang and held his hands tightly. After resting for a long time, he finally calmed down.

He would definitely not be able to fall asleep now. Looking at the dim light in the cave, she tried to figure out what to do. After a long time, she raised her hand to touch Gao Lang's forehead.

Because the wound was infected and had become inflamed, Gao Lang had already started to have a fever, I'm afraid the elder was right, the blood had stopped, but if there were no medicinal herbs to cure the flames, Gao Lang's body would not be able to handle the fever.

”There are no ghosts or gods in this world!” Jin Xiaolou recited it three times in silence.

I think that the old man must be a hidden expert that lives in the mountains. Maybe he can really save Gao Lang!

Jin Xiaolou was no longer afraid. She quickly got up and walked towards the depths of the cave.

The exterior of the cave was narrow and spacious, and the deeper they went, the more moist it became. There were even water droplets that constantly dripped down from the ceiling, condensing into an upside-down gray stalactite.

There were also many stalagmites on the ground. Some were thick and some were thin. They all had different shapes.

Further up in the distance, beside a wall filled with stone ears, flowed a dark river. The river water was so clear that it looked like a layer of glass, causing Jin Xiaolou to click her tongue.

The more Jin Xiaolou walked, the colder it became. In the end, he could not help but hold onto both of her arms and keep rubbing them.

In front of him was a cave wall that suddenly became as narrow as a stone door.

A moist wind blew over, and what entered his sight was a wide and empty valley. The mountain top was split open, revealing two pine trees at a slanted angle, revealing a small half of the sky.

At this moment, a clear moon hung in the sky, sprinkling the valley with silver frost.

Inside the valley, needless to say, the craggy rocks formed a shallow lake as the dark river flowed out from underground. However, what surprised Jin Xiaolou was that in the middle of the lake, there was a small piece of dry land covered in grass.

The stalactite was completely snow-white, and layer upon layer piled up. It was about three stories tall.

The center of the three-story stalactite had been hollowed out by someone. It was surrounded by relief sculptures, made into curved cornice corners along the lines of the stone, and the windows were wide open. It was actually a small building built on natural stalactites.

A torch was stabbed into the ground in front of the stone building, and a wooden stake was tied to the deer.

Shocked, Jin Xiaolou waded through the water and headed towards the stone tower.

The relief on the stone tower was vivid and lifelike, as if it was depicted as the story of a small herb child picking medicinal herbs to study.

Behind the stone house, there was an open door. Just as Jin Xiaolou walked in, the old man's voice came out: ”Come in.”