C48 (1/2)

The road ahead was practically blocked. Elder Li was not in a hurry as he wobbled his way into the tunnel ahead. This is the third side of the ”Y” font.

With just the three of us, Song Ping had already been frightened by what happened. After all, he was the leader, and even though there was an elder in charge in front of him, he was still the one being punished. Elder Li looked at him and asked, ”Your father is from the Song Family?” ”Yes.” Song Ping said, ”You know my father?”

”Back then, we were all in the same class, and then there was a research institute. ”I can't, I might as well retire to this small institute.” Elder Li waved his hand and suddenly turned around, ”I know, you are the child of the Zuo family. Your father is called Zuo Ping Shang, right?”

”Right.” I wiped the sweat off my forehead and thought to myself, Is everyone that awesome now? You know me from so far away.

Song Ping continued to be stupefied. He probably thought that I was just here to make up the numbers, but now that my thoughts have been turned upside down, it was hard to tell what he was thinking.

After taking two more steps forward, my body could stand up straight. The space in front of me was now about two and a half meters high. I stood up straight and my vision was especially high.

”What is this!” I was so shocked that I almost swore in front of Elder Li. As he focused his eyes, he could not help but be at a loss of whether to laugh or cry. It was the face of an ancient lady with no eyes. However, because the marks on her eyes were almost worn out, she was scared out of her wits.

Elder Li and Song Ping were shocked by my sudden appearance. After seeing my embarrassed smile, they continued walking forward.

My heart churned. From my vantage point and height I could see the very long head-engravings. He didn't know if it was because his eyes were particularly shallow or because of something. At first glance, there were no eyes on the densely packed faces.

Not only did they have no eyes, the entire board was filled with heads. One head was squeezed while the other was squeezed. All of them had eyes but no noses or mouths. It was one thing if he didn't realize this was a face, but at the moment, it looked like a faceless woman embedded here, exposing her head.

”Stop!” Elder Li shouted. I stopped in my tracks and looked straight ahead. However, my body had turned into a bluestone slab.

I've seen too many of these recently. The top plate was even higher than the mud, creating a higher drop. Elder Li tremblingly squatted down and pressed his hands on the top of his head. Suddenly, a small piece of stone smashed into his head. The two sides of the stone suddenly turned and turned into a dead end.

Holy shit, we haven't even gone in yet. Is the game really that big?

Just as I was thinking soundlessly, something came crashing down on my head like it was raining, but it was more painful than the rain hitting my head. I didn't dare to look up for fear of smashing my eyes. I reached out my hand to touch it and rubbed my fingers together. When I looked down, they were all dirt. Elder Li stomped on the wall in front of him, causing the door to turn again. Crack! Crack! The path from earlier appeared again.

Without him saying anything, we followed behind him and entered the room. The door wasn't closed, and it remained the same as before. The road behind us was still rustling with dirt. We were stunned, but Elder Li said: ”Watch!”

I turned my head and saw that the soft footprints on the road were completely covered by the dust. In a few seconds, a thick layer of soil fell down, revealing a layer of white and green stone slabs.

Not only was the stone slab a different color, but its surface was clearly concave and convex. I stumbled and almost fell into a crack in the stone. They were all densely packed together, with the back of the head embedded in the stone, facing us, the black eye sockets were filled with mud, and the open jaw seemed like it was going to eat us.

Elder Li turned around and left. I closed my eyes and pulled my thoughts from the Skeleton Road. Elder Li asked in a low voice, ”Do you know why you had your head stuffed with dirt?”

”All I know is that the Egyptians believed that the eyes were the windows of the soul, and that the soul entered the world of the dead from the eyes. I wonder if that's what the ancient times thought?”

”No,” Elder Li glanced at Song Ping, who was still in a daze, ”Why is it that so much dirt doesn't fall down? Every bone is made of soil, and the more there is, the more there is, the more sticky it is.”

”Understood.” I suddenly understood.

”Sure, it wasn't in vain for me to let you see.” Elder Li smiled in satisfaction.

The feeling of being a fodder in my heart rushed through me like a galloping horse. Just now, you … Are you messing with me?! I would rather not know than to look at the dense crowd of heads. Although I wasn't scared, my body was still filled with habitual nausea.

”You know the way here?” Song Ping asked. I also had the same question in my mind. After all, Elder Li's attitude was too light. It was as if he was strolling in his own backyard.

”You guys didn't look at the top of your heads?” He said resentfully, ”Didn't any of you see the charms on the short wall when you first came in?”

Me: ”…”

Song Ping: ”...”

That's not nonsense. The two of us had our heads lowered as we walked. Our backs were bent as we focused all of our attention on the ground and the ground below us.

Elder Li looked at the top of our heads and explained, ”Actually, it's better if you follow me. These two roads lead to the main room anyway. If there's too little people to take care of, that side might already be in dire straits. ”