Chapter 7: Escaping from the Basement

  The damp and cold temperature of the basement quickly made my body icy, occasionally a few insects crawled by, I was really glad they didn't crawl onto me.

  After a while, just as I was about to doze off again, my leg suddenly started itching and I let out a scream. This woke up the sleeping Ren Chenluo, who crawled over to ask me what was wrong. In a panic, I asked him to help me quickly untie the rope, but after struggling for several minutes it remained stubbornly in place. I wailed in despair as the insect's biting grew more intense, and despite wearing underwear, I could still clearly feel the pain spreading.

  "What's wrong with you?"

  I rubbed my sore legs together, hoping to alleviate the pain and itching. It seemed like I had no choice but to take off my underwear, my face red as a tomato, I looked at him, gritting my teeth: "Help me take off my pants, quickly!"

  He heard this and took a few steps back in fright. "Mimi...this is no joke..."

  "Who's kidding you? I've been bitten!" I said anxiously. What is he thinking at this time?!

  "Oh, oh!"

  Yan 'exposed' turned her face to look elsewhere, unfastening my belt. I also felt particularly uncomfortable, my wrists struggled and rubbed a red mark.

  After taking it off, I took off the 'pants' and a thin layer of black silk stockings. I screamed!

  What is that thing! A snake-like thing on my left leg, sucking blood with great relish!

  "How detestable! Something like this actually exists!" Yan 'Lu' tore open my shorts, grabbed the black "little snake" and threw it out with force.

  The sticky stuff on its body is all over me and his hands are covered with it.

  I burst into tears, it hurt too much, the heart-wrenching pain overshadowed the itch.

  "Got poisoned, Mimi. I need to suck out the venom." He said as he came over and squatted down beside me after dealing with that damned insect.

  I shook my head and backed away wearing only underwear.

  "Do you want this poison to spread throughout your entire body?!"

  His serious face told me this wasn't a joke, I thought for a moment and finally said: "It hurts, hurry up."

  He nodded and climbed down, saying "Excuse me."

  The warm and tender tongue "licked" my thigh, and the sensitive body trembled slightly. Soon, the pain subsided, and he spat out a lot of black blood. I couldn't bear to look at it, that disgusting thing, and found it early.

  After several tens of minutes, all the toxic liquid was finally sucked out. He helped me put on my 'pants', and now I'm in a good shape...my innocence is intact...

  Time is still passing by, "It seems we're stuck here. He never intended to come back and deal with us."

  "I'm so hungry." Looking at my empty stomach, I helplessly stared at the 'door'.

  Another day and night passed, we were already lying on the ground exhausted and starving, unable to move. He suddenly stood up and told me to run quickly up the stairs, we were shocked to find that from the various corners of the basement, dozens of black insects like small snakes emerged from the crevices!

  It's all over!

  I shouted in my heart and ran to the door with all my might, enduring hunger.

  At this time, a sense of despair for the world flooded the whole body. Desperately using his shoulder to collide with the wooden 'door', there was no sign of movement at all.

  "Who, who can save us! Come quickly! Save us!"

  Chen Yan 'Lu' was struggling hard in a place less than ten steps away from me. He used his shoes to trample the black insects to death, and the crushed insects splashed out black juice.

  I clutched my stomach in disgust, even though there was nothing left to throw up.

  Dozens were eliminated, but more and more came. Almost endlessly flowing in from the cracks, I was exposed to too many at once and poisoned in several places: face, arm, foot, leg, back...

  My anguished screams, one after another, soon those insects drowned him as he crawled towards me.

  "No! Don't come over! Ah——!" I wildly kicked my legs, hoping they would stay away from me.

  "How hateful! These insects are probably here for revenge; we killed their companions yesterday!"

  Yan 'Luo' ran over, his face was blue and purple. He looked like he had been beaten up, but I found that the neck that was bitten first had already turned black!

  No, at this rate, he will die of poisoning!

  At this time, a voice similar to Liu Ke's suddenly sounded from behind the 'door'.

  "How was it?"

  "When are we getting out! When are we getting out! You damn thing, why did you pretend to be our companion and lock us up in this place!" I shouted anxiously, as Ren Luo rushed over and crashed into the door.

  My lower body is aching so much it's unbearable! It has already been gnawed and sucked dry.

  "This isn't something you can handle, the water is too deep. I advise you not to continue exploring out of curiosity." The man said slowly.

  "I cried out, 'Please, please spare us!'"

  Xuan 'exposed' couldn't open the 'door', and scolded him repeatedly.

  His footsteps got closer and closer, almost right behind the 'door'. Two things were thrown in from a crack, which I caught.

  Pretending to be Liu Ke, he continued to speak in a calm and unhurried tone: "This explosive can destroy the underground room, but there is only one bottle of antidote."

  "Why, why is this happening to us!"

  "From now on, whatever happens in school, don't get involved again. Otherwise..."

  The hemp rope in my hand was unintentionally bitten off by a black insect, and I opened the lid of the small medicine bottle, letting the gradually blurred will drink it.

  The "explosive" can be ignited by just rubbing it against the wall twice, and I trampled to death a few black bugs that were very close to me.

  Perhaps it's the smell of grass 'medicine' that makes them dare not approach us for the time being.

  I snapped the hemp rope still wrapped around my wrist, and 'Luo' had already fainted. This time it was my turn to protect him, a strong obsession made me think of an uncertain plan.

  I held up the empty medicine bottle and charged at those insects. As expected, they retreated uniformly. Soon, more than 30 of them retreated to the corner of the wall, not daring to come near.

  I leaned him against the farthest corner from the 'door', rubbed the explosives on the wall a few times, and the fuse quickly ignited, making a "sizzling" sound. I quickly threw the explosives out along the crack, letting it blast away from Rourou as much as possible, then quickly ran back to hug him. With my back facing the wooden 'door', hoping to protect Rourou from the impact of the explosion.

  I silently count down three seconds in my heart; 3......2......1......

  Rumble!

  I almost got blown away by the huge impact, fortunately I was holding onto Lingyu, and our combined weight didn't allow us to fly off, we rolled a few meters.

  My tightly closed eyes suddenly opened, and I couldn't see where we were. Everything was grayish-brown dust and smoke! That deafening sound was too loud, my eardrums are still in severe pain.

  After a few minutes, I stood up, and the dust had settled.

  It turned out that this was the basement of an abandoned physics laboratory. The school had built a new campus, with a new physics lab, a new girls' dormitory building, a new cafeteria, a new fountain and playground. On this side, the old physics lab, the old girls' dormitory building, the abandoned dirty cafeteria and the garbage pool that had accumulated day after day were all unmanaged, not to mention the overgrown playground.

  So even if there's an explosion here, no one will find out. The abandoned physics lab is in the most remote location, and even if we shout our lungs out, no one will come to rescue us.

  Damn fake Liu Ke, I must find out!

  I supported Ruo and we hobbled out of the bombed-out basement, one stumble at a time. If I went to the infirmary like this, I'd definitely be suspected.

  He was placed on the abandoned fountain pool platform, and I looked for clean water resources. Fortunately, a faucet was found in the center of the pool, and I looked at the pool that needed to be crossed. Wow, all were garbage bags, black "colored" water with green algae floating underneath.

  Looking at the struggling 'Luo' in front of me, I decided - go all out!

  Without hesitation, I rolled up my pant legs, took off my shoes and socks. As I took the first step, the icy cold water stung my nerves, making me shudder!

  I was almost crawling on the moss-covered ground, making slow progress. Occasionally I would step on something that made me slip and before I knew it, I had broken out in a cold sweat.

  Finally arrived at the central, turned on the faucet...

  Damn it!

  Not a drop of water came out, and just as I was about to give up in despair, the faucet suddenly turned on by itself! I got such a big fright that I almost fell into the sink.

  Suddenly heard the sound of water, just when I thought it was going to be clear water, a strand of black dirty water splashed out!

  I feel like I'm boiling over with rage and want to curse this school to death.

  The sky is no longer blue, the dusk has dyed the sky with a stroke. I didn't realize I had been scribbling for so long, pulled out my phone and found that there was no signal here. The idea of making a call completely dissipated, I jumped down in a bad mood to return to Yan's side.

  Suddenly slipped underfoot, don't know what was stepped on, ankle twisted - "Ah!" Elegant fall into the water!

  "It's all right!"

  A magnetic and masculine voice came from ahead...