Author: Youdaoyan

Li Duojin felt the dark and howling wind in the underground. He looked at the bloodless Chen Xiaolin: "Now you have three choices. Wait for me here, get back to the car immediately, or go down with me."

"Don't leave me alone." Chen Xiaolin chose the third option without any hesitation, with a hint of pleading, "I want to go down with you."

For Chen Xiaolin, the first two options are like waiting to die. She will be alone and bear the fear of the unknown. She doesn’t want that feeling. Although Li Duojin has a lot of weirdness, at least he can

Feel a touch of warmth and security.

"Okay." Li Duojin nodded and led Chen Xiaolin to find the way down to the crack in the ground.

After a search, Li Duojin only found a steep slope with an angle of almost 70 degrees. If you are not careful, you will enjoy the experience of almost vertical fall to death.

Li Duojin grew up in a mountain gate and has rich experience in climbing, but Chen Xiaolin is different. As a reporter, her long-distance running endurance and short-distance sprinting can be tested, but rock climbing is really difficult for her.

When he discovered the steep and dangerous slope, Li Duojin was also a little worried about whether this beautiful reporter who tasted tender meat would have the courage to come down with him. If she was too scared to move, he might have to waste a lot of time on it.

.

But the reality is that Li Duojin looks at Chen Xiaolin with admiration.

Chen Xiaolin grew up in a family with good circumstances, but she did not lack pride and courage. She gritted her teeth and followed and imitated Li Duojin's movements as she came down the ramp.

The slope becomes more rugged and steep as it goes down, and there are even a few sharp stalagmites all over the ground and on the top of the cave. If you are not careful, you may be scratched and punctured by sharp sharp stones, or fall off from unstable stones overhead.

Come down and smash him to death.

Li Duojin looked back at the way he came from. The light above the entrance was weak. He glanced at Chen Xiaolin silently. Chen Xiaolin, who had withstood the danger, was much calmer. She nodded towards him.

They all knew at this moment that they had no way out.

Just when the two of them were not sure how long they would have to go through the near-vertical slope, they were pleasantly surprised to find that they had arrived at a gentler slope, and they no longer needed to worry about their footing or the fantasy of being dropped to death.

Stepping on a gentler slope, the two of them felt as solid as stepping on flat ground.

Chen Xiaolin noticed that the clothes on Li Duojin's back were almost completely torn, and the bloody scratches and dirt were stained on his back. She couldn't help but want to touch those wounds, and said to Li Duojin with some guilt.

: "I'm sorry, it's all because you had to support me along the way, which caused you to get hurt."

"It doesn't matter, the pain actually made me calmer." Li Duojin smiled slightly at Chen Xiaolin, then he rubbed his arms, feeling every tightly contracted pore and bulge, and asked doubtfully, "You have

I don’t feel like the temperature here is a bit low.”

"Well, it's very cold." Chen Xiaolin nodded and breathed a sigh of relief. The white mist was visible to the naked eye.

The highest temperature here is only about ten degrees.

Continuing to move forward, Li Duojin and Chen Xiaolin felt more and more strange about the spatial structure of this underground area. Along the way, the gravity and magnetic field seemed to shift, so that sometimes the two of them didn't know whether they were walking on flat ground.

On a normal vertical slope, it is still difficult to climb down on flat ground.

The weirdness is far more than that, the environment is also quite strange.

When the two of them walked to the back, they actually stepped into the snow with their feet. Is there snow in this place?

Moving on the snowy slope that did not reach the soles of their feet, Li Duojin and Chen Xiaolin endured the invasion of ice and cold, which passed through the bodies from the soles of their feet and went straight to their brains.

The cold was about to freeze his body, but Li Duojin did not lose his mind and thinking. He suddenly noticed a strange-shaped boulder standing on a section of the slope. He picked up a flashlight and shined it, only to find that the black boulder was facing him.

Under the bright light, the reflection of the text symbols appeared.

What is an ordinary natural boulder here? It is clearly a stone monument!

Li Duojin suppressed the shock in his heart, and he and Chen Xiaolin moved closer to examine the black boulder, and carefully read the remaining words on the boulder.

A poem was left on the black boulder in the middle: "The north wind shines in the Tianshan cave at night, looking for a lonely man like a dead jade man's bones. The empty man is silent, stealing the soul and losing his mind, and thousands of corpses..."

"What a familiar poem." Chen Xiaolin murmured.

"It's a poem from the broken calligraphy and painting of Ye Gong in Zheng Yu's villa." Li Duojin recognized at a glance that these poems and carvings were definitely written by Ye Gong himself. He had been here before and left his mark on this stone.

He said his own words.

Chen Xiaolin suddenly woke up, and immediately looked at the strange words between the lines, and exclaimed: "What on earth did he see here? What is that empty man? Why did he encounter thousands of soulless corpses?"

Li Duojin said solemnly: "I don't know now, but I guess it is very likely that Zheng Yu's madness is inseparable from this poem. He may have discovered it from this complete poem.

Something, thus coming into contact with some kind of taboo.”

In order to find out the truth, the two of them could only ignore the "warning" left by the madman's ancestor on the stone tablet and insist on going underground.

When they reached the ground, they saw the bright light above their heads, which was the crack they had seen on the ground before. It was about three hundred meters away from them at the moment.

Walking in the sunshine, the two of them did not feel that the coldness on their bodies had been resolved at all. They saw that the road paved by the sunshine led to a gloomy and dark cave. They bravely moved forward and walked into the dark cave.

inside the cave.

Turning on the lighting mode of their mobile phones, the two of them looked around, breathing rapidly and their pupils shrinking. They saw strange skeletons that had lost their skin and flesh, with their heads hanging down, their hands intertwined and their chests folded, in a meditating posture, like those on a display shelf.

Goods are also scattered around the cave.

No, those bones are more like believers. They died in some kind of pious worship ceremony, facing a giant corpse in the center of the space.

The corpse faced Li Duojin and Chen Xiaolin with its back. Its skeleton was three times the size of a normal person, and its bones grew strangely. Based on the characteristics of normal human bones, there were irregular patterns on the ribs, arm bones, and vertebrae.

Other bones grew out, sharp and slender, like sharp spears.

The corpse of the giant was in the same dead state as the corpses of the surrounding believers. They were in the same meditating posture with their hands intertwined and their chests crossed. However, its pair was surprisingly large. If you didn't look carefully, you might think they were some kind of wings.

, instead of hands.

"Ugh!" Chen Xiaolin looked at the giant's corpse, her eyes filled with fear, and her tears flowed out along with the vomit. She knelt on the ground, almost going crazy with fear from the sight in front of her.

I saw that the missing Wang Kuishan was hugging the giant's bones at this moment. His body was penetrated by the sharp bones, and his flesh and blood melted into the giant's bones little by little. When he died, he showed a sick smile.

His head was pressed against the ribs of the giant's corpse, and his brain was swollen and beating like a heart...

This story is inspired by a very unknown, low-scoring and unpopular short film with grammatical elements, called The Empty Man. I recommend that people who are bored watch it.
Chapter completed!