Chapter 25 (1/2)
TY Chapter 25: Good Man Bad Man
Lu Chen shakes his head, “The spirit wood is still underage, so it can’t be traded for much spirit stones even if I were to cut it. It would be a pity. Forget it, let’s leave it here to grow for a while longer.”
Hong Chuan is slightly surprised. He takes a look at him and nods his head.
After the two of them rested for a moment more, they started to try looking for a way out of here. At this moment, they seem to be around 20 zhang or so from the top of the chasm. The path from the cave to the top of the cliff is mainly just a flat rock wall, so it would be hard to climb up. After staring at each other for a moment, they walk into the interiors of the cave to take a look.
66 meters
Unexpectedly, after taking a careful look, they realised that there seems to be another world inside the small cave.
Lu Chen twisted off a few pieces of wood and lights it up with an ignitable paper roll. He walks into the cave together with Hong Chuan. After pa.s.sing by several boulders, they see a twisted path ahead of them that leads into the interiors of the mountain.
The both of them exchange gazes. After a moment, Lu Chen says, “Let’s go, otherwise we would be waiting for our deaths here.”
Hong Chuan speaks in agreement and the both of them proceed into the depths of the cave.
As they walk into the interiors of the cave, they soon found themselves swamped in darkness, except for the torch that illuminates the rock walls beside them. They can see many sharp stone edges and protrusions from it. Proceeding on further, water drips from the top of the rock wall. There are algae growing in some location. Occasionally, the torch illuminates the presence of some small bugs crawling by.
The surroundings is almost completely silent. Soon, the pa.s.sageway narrows to a point only one person could pa.s.s at a time.
Lu Chen surveys the surrounding and states to Hong Chuan behind him, “It doesn’t seem that anyone has been here before.”
Hong Chuan nods his head as worry reflects in his eyes, “I wonder if there is a way out from here?”
Lu Chen replies, “It would depend on luck.” He continues walking forward. At the same time, perhaps to liven the situation and get the both of them to relax, Lu Chen smiles, “I remember that when I was younger, I would often hear people retelling stories in the tea house and taverns. Every time when a crisis happens, the bad man would meet with misfortune while the good man would always turn the hopeless situation before him into a blessing, such as walking into some heavenly residence and meeting with an opportunity of a lifetime, haha.”
Initially, Hong Chuan’s face is solemn but upon hearing those words, he bursts into laughter uncontrollably. He shakes his head with a smile, “Now that you say so, it does seem to be it.” After a momentary pause, he continues, “Just that, are we the good men or the bad men?”
Lu Chen smiles, “Who knows.”
In this world, it is easy to term a person as a good man and bad man, but it isn’t so when trying to differentiate between the two of them. At this moment, in the cave by the chasm in the wilderness, if one were to talk about luck, it would be hard to tell whether Lu Chen and Hong Chuan are the ‘good’ or the ‘bad’.
They feel that they have already walked for a long distance in this peculiar albeit natural road in the interior of the mountain, but they still aren’t at the ends of it yet.
Throughout the journey, they were lucky in the sense that they didn’t meet with any accidents. Yet similarly, they didn’t stumble upon any heavenly residence, peerless cultivation art, mystical secret manuals or some great inheritance.
On this point, it seems that the both of them… aren’t good and aren’t bad?
“I think that I am a good person.” From the back, Hong Chuan says in between his panting. After walking for such a long distance in this dark and narrow pa.s.sageway, he feels slightly fatigued. Furthermore, the surroundings are too dark and too quiet, inducing some inconceivable emotions in one’s mind. Thus, he feels impelled to talk to Lu Chen, “After walking for so long, we didn’t meet with any trouble. Thus, we should be fine.”