bullyxtreme Chapter 244: Scared
Chapter 244: Scared
In another corner of the city, Zhang Liang and the little golden monkey were preparing to return along the familiar streets. The flashlight in his hand was dim and was about to go out.
"We have to go back quickly," he muttered to himself. This was almost their only guide in the darkness. Once the light disappeared, unknown dangers might come faster.
In the narrow alley, the three-person team walked quickly, tense and silent.
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However, when they were halfway through, they suddenly stopped in their tracks when they saw a shocking sight. On the road that was originally unobstructed, a huge stone tablet was erected, completely blocking the retreat. Zhang Liang suspected that this was just an illusion and could not believe what he saw.
He pulled out the key of immortality and threw it at the stone tablet. The crisp sound of the collision shattered his fantasy. The stone tablet was not nothingness, but a solid boulder, as solid as the cabin.
The force of the blow rebounding from his palm still makes him feel a dull pain. Zhang Liang and Dong Jun looked at each other and asked in unison: "What happened?"
Zhang Liang thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "I don't know either. I remember there was no such thing on the road when we came here. How did it suddenly appear in front of us? Are we lost?"
Dong Jun shook his head and denied, "I didn't go the wrong way. I was on your shoulder after entering the cave. We came back the same way, so it must be correct. But this stone tablet blocked the way for some unknown reason."
Zhang Liang carried Dongjun on his back, approached the stone tablet with a flashlight in hand, and looked at it carefully. There were actually a few lines of words engraved on the tablet, but they looked more like strange patterns.
Zhang Liang asked in confusion: "Is this text?"
Dong Jun nodded: "It seems that this place is related to the legendary tribe. These symbols are their writing, the legendary sacred text. I have seen it before and have studied it specifically."
Zhang Liang nodded and said anxiously: "Then take a quick look at what is written on this stele. Perhaps you can find some clues."
Dong Jun stared at it for a moment, and suddenly exclaimed: "It is written on the stele: 'Whoever enters will perish, but the heaven and earth will live forever'!"
Zhang Liang understood instantly, and after thinking for a while, he asked, "Could it be that we triggered some mechanism when we came in, causing the stone tablet to block the road, trying to trap us to death?"
Dong Jun pondered for a moment and nodded in agreement: "It's possible. So what should we do now? Go back to the cave?"
Zhang Liang thought for a while and suggested: "I'll look around first to see if there is any hidden mechanism that may be able to move the stone tablet." Dongjun nodded in agreement.
Putting Dongjun down, the two men groped around the stone tablet. After a while, they found nothing. At this time, the little golden monkey jumped to Zhang Liang's side, chirping and pointing, pulling his trouser legs, indicating him to go somewhere else. Zhang Liang immediately understood what he meant and followed with a flashlight.
They found a protruding stone on the wall at the corner, which was hard to detect if not paying attention. Zhang Liang pressed it carefully, but there was no movement around. Just when he thought the mechanism had failed, he heard Dongjun's cry from the front.
He hurried over with the little golden monkey, only to see Dongjun pointing forward blankly. The original stone tablet was slowly changing, melting like snow in the warm sun, and finally revealing a long stick inside.
After the stone tablet disappeared, the passage behind it appeared, which was the way they came. Zhang Liang looked at it carefully and said with emotion: "We can finally get out."
However, Dongjun still looked dazed. Zhang Liang became alert and shook her shoulders to ask what happened.
Dong Jun was shaken awake and recalled, "Not long after you left, the stone tablet suddenly changed. You only saw it melt, but there was something strange, or terrifying, just now. I saw a picture on the stone tablet, which looked like the valley we were in, and the terrain was very similar. In the picture, hundreds of thousands of people died tragically. They were not killed, but strangled themselves, dug out their eyes, and tortured themselves to death. The picture was so cruel that I didn't dare to look closely. It wasn't just one or two people who died, but hundreds of thousands of people. I was scared."
Zhang Liang was horrified after hearing this. If the scene was real, then there might be a pile of bones buried under their feet. Zhang Liang was well-versed in literature and practiced magic. He believed in the existence of ghosts.
If what he expected was correct, the feeling of being watched probably came from the souls of those who died tragically. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a chill running through his bones. Even though he had cultivated to become an immortal, he still felt powerless in the face of ghosts.
He quickly said to Dongjun, "We must leave. It should be before dawn now." Dongjun nodded.
Zhang Liang carried her on his back and rushed out. More than an hour later, they returned to the starting point just as the flashlight was about to go out. The bonfire they had lit earlier had gone out, and the sky was slightly lit by dawn, and the world was gradually getting brighter.
Walking out of the alley, Zhang Liang felt a cold sweat on his back. This was the first time he had truly felt the horror of the world since he traveled here, and it was also the closest he had ever been to death. He looked up at the shining morning sun and sighed from the bottom of his heart: "It's great to be alive."