Chapter 72: The Truth (4)

  "What exactly did you do to Xiaoyuan?"

  "Want to come and take a look! As long as you step forward, you can see your best friend. I think she must be eager to see you too!" Li Jing smiled slyly, covering her mouth with her hand, her body slightly trembling from laughter.

  Her laughter sounded extremely piercing in Su Jin'er's ears, she looked at the dark room, fear rising from her toes to the top of her head, as if a small insect was slowly crawling over her back, wanting to stretch out her hand to grab it, but found that her body couldn't move.

  The last time I had this feeling, Xu Mengguang died, and this time...

  However, her concern for Lin Yuan's safety overcame her fear, and she stepped into the room. The dim candlelight made the originally empty room seem even more eerie.

  "Where is she?"

  She didn't see Lin Yuan when she walked into the house.

  "Haha, go down and you'll see."

  Su Jiner felt her feet leave the ground and her body rapidly descended. She didn't even have time to think about what was happening.

  Li Jing's deceitful laughter disappeared from above, Su Jin'er heavily fell to the ground, her back hitting the hard ground, her body feeling as if it had been broken in two, she took big gulps of air, and when the pain in her body slightly dissipated, she opened her eyes.

  Surrounded by an inky blackness, nothing was visible, the silence was terrifying, only her heavy breathing could be heard. She stretched out her hand to feel around, but touched nothing. A putrid smell assaulted her nostrils, causing her stomach to churn violently.

  "Haha! You're really stupid, you and Chu Fei Fan are the same, only caring about others' safety, but forgetting your own, truly kind-hearted! However, in the end, you will still die here."

  Li Jing's voice came from above her head, she raised her head, but saw nothing.

  "Where is Xiaoyuan?" she asked loudly.

  After waiting for a long time, without hearing Li Jing's response, Su Jin'er got up from the ground. After her eyes adapted to the darkness, she could barely see that about two meters away from herself was a wall. She felt her way over and leaned against the wall, taking deep breaths to calm her wildly racing heart.

  She stood there for a while, and didn't feel any difficulty breathing, except for the slightly rotten smell, the air was still circulating, which meant that this place wasn't sealed off, maybe she could find a way out. She rubbed her arm, then slowly started walking forward, after about 10 meters, the path began to turn left, she waited for a moment, then slowly stepped out, relying on her intuition, she knew that this was a very long road, only she didn't know where the end of the road would lead to. The strong palpitations gradually disappeared, she calmed herself down, then slowly walked forward, no matter what lay ahead, she had to keep going, maybe Lin Yuan was waiting for her at the end of this underground passageway, but would those police officers she called find out that she fell into this dark underground tunnel?

  Su Jiner suddenly felt that Li Jing was right, she was stupid. Although she had told the police before coming here, she had forgotten. Perhaps their goal was just to lure herself and then kill herself.

  She walked for a long time and still hadn't reached the end, as if this road didn't have an end at all.

  Suddenly, she heard a faint footsteps, seemingly walking towards her direction. She held her breath and listened carefully, the footsteps were heavy, every step seemed to be stepping on Su Jin'er's heart, her heart started racing again. She stuck tightly to the wall, sweat dripping down her forehead, the intense palpitations made it hard for her to breathe, her tense emotions left her body stiff, her legs trembling non-stop, almost unable to stand.

  She slowly crouched down at last.

  Who is the owner of the footsteps? Why does it make such a heavy sound.

  Her eyes stared straight ahead without blinking, although she wanted to close them and not see the owner of those footsteps, but her eyes seemed to be disobedient.

  At last, a vague figure appeared in the passageway. Her violent gasps for breath were audible as the figure loomed large, its height completely unlike that of any human. Its entire body almost filled the entire passageway, and it moved forward with great difficulty, each step seemingly requiring all its strength. It would stop to rest after every step before taking another one. Su Jin'er leaned against the wall, her legs trembling uncontrollably with fear. If he walked up to her side, he would definitely discover her, and might even crush her to death.

  She struggled to get up against the wall, then slowly backed away, trying to return to that relatively spacious room before the monster discovered her. At least she wouldn't be crushed by its massive body, and if she was crushed, when people found out, she might become a legend.

  As she thought of this, she actually smiled, and her legs gained strength. She looked at the monster and took a step back, the monster took one step, and she took two steps. However, the back that was hit earlier suddenly started to hurt again. She took a deep breath and found that as the monster approached her, the smell of rotting flesh grew stronger. Was this monster specifically eating corpses?

  She suddenly remembered that the monster might be eating rotten corpses, and she felt a wave of nausea. Looking at the monster's gaze added to her disgust, while her fear seemed to decrease slightly.

  She finally retreated to that corner, then turned around, still not daring to run, carefully retreating to a relatively spacious spot, hiding in the corner and staring at the passageway.

  The footsteps slowly approached, and as the footsteps drew near, her heart, which had just calmed down a bit, started racing again. She hugged her knees and curled up in the corner of the wall. But just when she thought the monster was about to appear, the footsteps suddenly disappeared, as if they had never existed at all. Su Jin'er furrowed her brow, staring into the dark passageway.

  What's going on?

  After waiting for a long time, the footsteps still didn't sound again. She stood up in doubt and slowly approached the corridor. The sound just now should have disappeared at the corner. Could there be a door leading to the back over there?

  She walked slowly over, every step taken with care, and then she saw a scene that she would never forget for the rest of her life.

  There was no longer the shadow of that huge monster in the corridor, only a corpse hanging at the corner, a long-decayed corpse. Although she couldn't see it, the nauseating stench told her that the corpse must have decayed.

  She leaned against the wall and vomited, vomiting until there was nothing left to vomit. Her stomach was in severe pain, and she ran forward, no longer caring about fear, just wanting to escape, to get as far away as possible.

  Her footsteps sounded particularly jarring in the corridor, her heavy breathing, wind blowing into her throat, entering her stomach, wave after wave of sharp pain.

  She didn't know how long she had been running, but she was exhausted. She leaned against the wall, panting heavily, her brain reeling from lack of oxygen as if billions of ants were crawling on it, a splitting headache that made her clutch her head and double over in agony.

  Her brain gradually lost consciousness, she fell to the ground, and lost all sensation.

  She opened her eyes to find herself surrounded by a vast expanse of whiteness, devoid of any objects or sounds. She tried to speak, but her throat couldn't produce even the slightest sound, and her ears seemed to have lost their ability to hear. Yet, her mind was crystal clear, and this wasn't the first time she'd experienced this sensation.

  She thought in her heart.

  She wanted to stand up, but her body couldn't move. She didn't even know if she was standing or lying down. What terrified her more was that she couldn't feel her own body, nor could she feel her limbs. What on earth was going on?

  Am I already dead?

  Is this what people usually call hell?

  But isn't hell because it's dark? Like people usually say there are eighteen levels, each level has a little devil guarding it, and those little devils are all ugly? Or did she not enter hell but entered heaven instead?

  She smiled wryly, how could that be possible! Although she hadn't done anything bad, it wasn't enough to get into heaven, because she hadn't done anything good either! It's said that the angels in heaven are very busy, so how would they even notice an ordinary person like herself?!

  Her thoughts became increasingly strange and were no longer those of an atheist from the mortal world. Had she already become someone else?

  At this time, her brain was abnormally active, with uncontrolled and chaotic thoughts, whatever strange ideas she had, she would think in that direction, and even felt that she was already an immortal, so nothing could be felt.

  Even so, shouldn't you still be able to feel your own body and limbs?

  It's really a strange feeling.

  Just as she didn't know what to do, that blank world began to distort, and the original white space was covered in black.

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