Chapter 56: Spider Web-like Tunnel

  Chen Yan 'Revelation' stared at my face with determination, then grasped the exquisite black handgun in his hand.

  I looked at his face in a daze, he smiled happily, and I was so angry that I couldn't help but laugh out loud too.

  "Aren't you afraid of death?" I suddenly asked.

  Chen Yan shook her head: "You're still not a qualified detective, so you can't die."

  I sighed and said, "We've all been used."

  "As long as we can get out of here alive, everything else can be figured out later." said Chen Yan 'Lu'.

  Then he pushed me again and I started crawling forward slowly.

  My mind was racing for a solution, the heavy blow I had just received was too great, my spirit was already deranged. But those police officers didn't believe me at all.

  Morning exercise, "Luo" absolutely cannot appear in their line of sight, otherwise they will be shot immediately.

  I had already made up my mind. Just as I was about to tell Chen Yan 'Lu', when we first returned to the prison, suddenly, the corridor ended, and a small bluestone slab blocked our way forward.

  "What's going on? Morning research 'Lu'? Is there still a mechanism here?" I turned my head in surprise, greeting Morning Research 'Lu'.

  Chen Yan looked at the bluestone slab with a pale face and quivering lips, unable to utter a word.

  I suddenly had a bad premonition in my heart.

  "When I came in just now, there was no bluestone slab." Chen Yan 'Lu' gritted her teeth and said.

  I widened my eyes in surprise - could it be that this stone slab had flown out of thin air?

  Chen Yan furrowed her brow and said, "Could it be that we just climbed into a different passageway?"

  "How could there be another way? I patted the bluestone slab, but suddenly patted an empty space." I shuddered and turned back, that stone slab was gone.

  However, there were three forked paths in front of me.

  I stared at the passageway in front of me with a pale face, and the cold sweat on my back instantly soaked my clothes completely wet.

  Damn it, I narrowed my eyes, and earlier it absolutely wasn't my eyes 'playing tricks on me'.

  Chen Yan looked at the fork in the road with an ugly expression and continued: "When I came in, it was one road."

  I took a deep breath and turned around, pushing Chen Yan 'Lu' back to climb, Chen Yan 'Lu' didn't understand.

  "I said: 'First go back, I have two tenths of confidence to find Shen Chong and then there will be a chance to re-investigate the case, can't bear the black pot for others.'"

  Chen Yan 'Lu' 'Yu' speech and then stopped, I was surprised and pushed him.

  His pale face indicated for me to look ahead.

  I stuck my head out from behind his back, and my heart suddenly fell to the bottom of the valley.

  Three forks in the road appeared on our way back.

  I and Chen Yan 'Lu' didn't crawl very far, and we definitely didn't enter any other forks in the middle of the way. This passage is obviously a straight line, how can there be a fork in the road?

  "Damn it." Chen Yan cursed in a low voice.

  I gritted my teeth and was about to head down a fork in the road when Chen Yan's "Lu" suddenly grabbed my hand.

  I was just about to speak when Chen Yan's face turned pale and said: "Mimi, have you heard of the Spider Tomb?"

  The words 'Dungeon' made me feel like I was in an ice cellar. When we were studying this major, the first thing that was instilled in us was the underground tunnels under each famous prison.

  It is well known that life in prison is worse than death, especially for some serious offenders. Before they enter the prison, they may have been very glorious, but after entering the prison, their lives will be miserable.

  Almost every prison has a breakout incident. There is a famous prison in the United States with at least hundreds of years of history. Inside, all are locked up with some extremely evil poor guys, to escape, they started digging tunnels underground, over the centuries, the underground of that prison has been dug into something like a spider web of holes and caves.

  Every road has at least one fugitive escaping, and similarly, no one stops them from entering the underground passage because there is no death penalty in America, and every person here has enough capital crimes to die ten thousand times.

  They escaped, so they will die.

  Once a person disappears from prison, an underground passage will have one more dead soul.

  Apart from the first batch of prisoners who escaped from underground at the very beginning, no one else has ever left the underground alive.

  It gradually came to be called "Spider Tomb" or "Hole".

  Because inside, all are the souls of dead felons. They wander in the corridors every day, but never leave. Interpol dare not enter, only guarding each exit, new escaped prisoners trying to escape, the first barrier they face is the souls in the Spider Tomb.

  "Are you saying that what we've encountered is a vengeful spirit?"

  "I don't want to believe it either, but is it possible that the tunnel at both ends was dug out by someone on the spot?" Chen Yan 'Lu' clenched his fist and said in a hateful tone.

  "The longer time stays still, the more dangerous it is. We must take a path." I have a hunch that things are not as simple as they seem here. Are there ghosts? Has someone died on this passageway?

  Three roads lead away, three roads come back. Which one is true, which one is false?

  I took a deep breath and "fished" out a coin.

  Morning dew is slightly chilly, I shake my head and toss up a coin.

  With a light clinking sound, the coin rose from my hand in an elegant posture, spinning rapidly for who-knows-how-many rounds, and finally landed straight into the mud.

  "Go down the middle." I gently patted the coin into the soil, then crossed over to the path in the middle.

  "I'll go ahead." Chen Yan 'Lu' grabbed my hand.

  "No way, what if we go out and there are police outside, you'll be finished." I furrowed my brow and crawled into the passageway.

  This road seems much narrower than before, with a faint chill in the air, and I shivered with cold.

  Chen Yan 'Lu' didn't say a word and quietly followed behind me.

  I climbed for about half an hour, and there were no more forks in the road ahead, but the chill began to slowly increase. I was a bit cold and shivering.

  Chen Yan put his jacket on me from behind, I didn't refuse.

  Crawling and crawling, the passage in front of us has reached its end again. Similarly, a bluestone slab blocks our way.

  I gritted my teeth and pushed the stone slab with my hands, but it didn't budge.

  "Dead end, shall we go back?" Chen Yan 'Lu' spoke up. His voice was trembling, his upper and lower teeth chattering.

  "I'm giving you back your clothes." I frowned and was about to take off my jacket.

  Morning exercise 'dew' shook her head and refused, we turned around and started climbing back in the direction of return.

  This time, it was Chen Yan 'Lu' who took the lead. But he didn't climb out a few steps before stopping, and I pushed his back.

  Chen Yan 'Lu' stiffly turned her body around, holding a coin in her hand.

  My heart suddenly fell to the bottom of the valley, and in front of me, three more paths appeared. And that coin was actually the one I used to ask for directions earlier.

  "Could it be a ghost hitting the wall?" Morning dew 's voice was filled with resentment.

  I've heard many stories about ghostly walls, where ordinary people are mesmerized by evil spirits and mistake cemeteries for streets, spending the whole night wandering around in circles, or after entering a forest, they can't find their way out again, only to wait until the rooster's crow at dawn when the ghostly wall will disperse.

  I'm getting desperate. If it's a dead end, then there's no way sunlight can get in here. Doesn't that mean we'll be trapped here until we die?

  No, it must not be a ghost hitting the wall. I narrowed my eyes and said word by word: "Now there are many scientific 'drugs' that can cause hallucinations. We may have inhaled this 'drug' somewhere, what we see in front of us is not necessarily real."

  "But I didn't have any problems when I came in." Chen Yan said resolutely.

  I furrowed my brow in thought, but suddenly Chen Yanluo said: "Climb again, you wait for me here." I didn't have time to stop her, and Chen Yanluo had already entered the middle passageway. Time slowly passed, about half an hour later, a rustling sound came from behind me, and I quickly turned my head to see Chen Yanluo's pale face appearing in my line of sight.

  "There's no way to explain it, even if it were a 'medicine', how could we possibly go back to the same place?" Chen Yan rubbed his hands together, chilled by the cold dew.

  I remembered that day when Liu Yamei and I were in the underground passageway, treating a straight downward passage as a circle. This was by borrowing from the human brain's neural reflexes; being in a large number of identical environments would cause your brain to produce illusions. Subconsciously issuing commands, this is a circle.

  But this place is clearly different from the underground passage of the school.

  "The path in the middle was blocked, and then you came back, but walked behind me, a fragment of space?" I shook my head and crawled into another passage. Strangely, this passage was warm inside.

  After applying 'Lumin' in the morning, her complexion also became much rosier.

  But in the dark of night, such redness seemed a bit frightening. I somewhat uneasily placed my hand on Chen Yan's 'Lu's' forehead, and it was scorching hot.

  I involuntarily returned the clothes to Chen Yan 'Lu', then ignored his words and slowly crawled forward.

  Suddenly, I seemed to catch a whiff of a faint, fishy smell.

  The flavor is just around us, I quickened the pace of my crawl forward. Chen Yan's mobile phone screen had dimmed a bit, it was low battery and the phone automatically switched to power-saving mode.

  Before long, he and I could only grope in the dark and crawl inside this tunnel.

  At this moment, I suddenly saw a black figure in the passage ahead, curled up together.

  Is anyone there?

  I quickly crawled over and when I was two meters away from him, the flashlight's beam was enough to illuminate his body.

  I looked pale-faced at the person in front of me, with a terrified gaze and wide eyes.