Chapter 49: Straight Path

  Those cockroach corpses rotated a few times on the spot as if they were alive, and after discovering a group of their own kind on the ground, they actually ate those cockroaches one by one until they were clean. Some of the cockroaches escaped, while others did not escape and became the meal in the mouths of these cockroach corpses. After eating up the weak and small cockroaches, dozens of cockroach corpses were left.

  They were spinning around in the same spot, which was exactly where Liu Yamei had stepped on a cockroach before. It seemed like they were looking for something. Before long, the dozens of dead cockroaches suddenly and quickly chased after us in the direction we were heading.

  The two of us had entered a new room by now, which was not the previous bookshelf but an ordinary temporary storage room similar to a supermarket. We were both surprised to see row after row of iron cabinets here, and Liu Yamei curiously opened several cabinets and looked inside.

  "Ah!" I was startled by Liu Yamei's exclamation, because she opened a cabinet and saw that it was filled with a large pile of cockroach eggs. After seeing the dense cockroach eggs, I immediately got goosebumps all over my body and walked to the side in extreme tension, then pulled Liu Yamei and said: "Let's get out of here!"

  Regardless of whether Liu Yame agreed or not, she directly opened the next "door" and ran out. I have a kind of claustrophobia, those small, dense insect eggs are what I fear most, what makes me feel most disgusted. Every time I see them on TV, I dare not look straight at them, it's too scary.

  Liu Yamei and I nervously closed the iron door, but just as we did, we faintly felt a wave of rummaging sounds coming from the room. The two of us were startled and hastily ran forward, stopping only after running for a distance to catch our breath.

  "What's going on in that room now? It's really scary, no wonder there are so many cockroaches here! This is a cockroach nest!" Liu Yamei swallowed a mouthful of water and patted her chest with a look of fear.

  I was also in a similar state, both of us were scared and our faces turned pale. I looked at the door and had a bad premonition, suddenly a group of cockroaches crawled out, we saw them and immediately changed color, looked at each other and hastily said: "Let's go!" Without stopping, we ran forward.

  The path here is not straight, but winding up and down, with 90-degree turns appearing from time to time, making the two of us run a bit dizzy. After running for a while, we suddenly felt our heads spinning, I hastily stopped, panting anxiously, feeling like everything around me was spinning.

  "What's going on? Why is it so strange here? Wait, Liu sister, I feel like we've gotten 'lost' somehow?" After saying that, my face slightly changed color.

  "We can't be lost, this is just a single path, how could we get lost? Hmm, now that you mention it, it seems to be true. We've been running for a while now, haven't we? Why do I feel dizzy all of a sudden, is this a circular passageway?" After Liu Ya Mei said this, I was also shocked and looked around.

  "Liu sister, what you said is right, there are all kinds of channels here, oh no, what's that sound!" I suddenly changed my face and listened carefully, only to see a large number of cockroaches chasing after us again. The two of us were so scared that our faces turned pale, and we didn't even have time to call out to each other before we both turned around and ran away.

  The two of us ran frantically forward, without any intention of stopping, because we couldn't afford to stop either, because the cockroaches behind us were chasing after us crazily one by one. I didn't doubt that if we stopped, we would definitely be eaten by these cockroaches.

  I have a kind of sad feeling, why people came to this library's basement, just like becoming an ant, basically being chased and beaten by these cockroaches, can't even fight back, the cockroaches are not afraid of people chasing them.

  The two of us ran for a while and suddenly felt dizzy again, it was really unbearable. I couldn't help but lean against the wall, panting heavily with my mouth open, looking very disheveled. Liu Yamei was the same, seeing me stop, she also stopped, panting heavily.

  "We just ran around in circles again, didn't we? Did you see that? Is there no 'door' leading to the next passage here? What's going on? We're running around in circle after circle!" Liu Yamei said anxiously.

  I nodded and said, "Liu sister, I just saw that in the middle of the wall while we were running, there seemed to be a 'door'! It seems that because we were chased by the cockroaches behind us, we didn't notice that door for a moment. If we continue to run, it will only end with us being exhausted! This design is too terrifying!"

  A huge and eerie cockroach chased me and Liu Yamei, almost losing our ability to think, only knowing that we were running non-stop. However, as we ran, we suddenly discovered that we were actually circling inside the corridor.

  This passage seemed to have become a circle, and Liu Yamei and I could only keep turning inside. In fact, I saw that there was a hidden 'door' in the passage, but its position made it difficult for us to discover when we were running.

  Just then, the rustling sound of cockroaches crawling behind her started again. Liu Yamei's face turned pale as she leaned against the wall, trembling with fear, and asked: "What do we do now?"

  I frowned, this 'female' police officer's courage really wasn't great, only her mouth was a bit sharper. My heart was equally tense, but slightly better than Liu Yamei's.

  "As long as there's a 'gate', we'll have a way out, we just need to run another lap. As long as we can see that 'gate', maybe we can get out!" Liu Yamei's spirit was still very tense, but compared to earlier, it had improved a lot.

  The fear in my heart hasn't decreased by half a point, if that 'door' opens and inside is another even more terrifying trap, perhaps the two of us can only die here, not even leaving behind our corpses.

  Thinking of being devoured by those disgusting carrion-eating animals after I die sends shivers down my spine.

  But now if we don't go, when we are exhausted from running, we will become the meal on those cockroaches' plates.

  The last resort is often the best one and also the only one.

  Liu Yamei and I kept running, after all we were women, our speed was getting slower and slower. The rustling sound of the cockroaches crawling behind us was getting closer and closer, it felt like they were crawling on my heart, my whole body was numb and sore.

  In the darkness, there was no light, and my sense of time was very low. I didn't know how much time had "passed", but I could feel that I had at least run through this channel for another round, yet I still hadn't seen that dark "door" that I saw the first time.

  Liu Yamei despairingly let go of my hand and then squatted on the ground, sobbing.

  The terrifying psychopathic murderer is not scary, what's scary is the unknown fear. In this underground passageway, we clearly entered through an iron gate, but as we ran and ran, this passageway suddenly turned into a circle. And the hidden door I originally found was gone too.

  In the quiet corridor, our breathing seemed particularly urgent, and the sound of sobbing added an eerie atmosphere to the passageway.

  Stillness? Breathing sound?

  My face turned pale in an instant.

  Those cockroaches didn't come after me just now.

  I suppressed the fear in my heart and turned back, but there was nothing in the empty corridor.

  Judging from the speed of those cockroaches just now, we've stopped for so long that they should be at least ten or more meters behind us by now, but there aren't any.

  A terrible thought rose in my mind.

  Unconsciously, Liu Yamei and I ran into another channel. We were completely separated from those giant cockroaches.

  What kind of place is this! School, what kind of school am I attending!

  I bit my lip and pulled Liu Yamei, who had clearly given up, to continue moving forward. I couldn't stop, once the breath in my chest relaxed, I would really die here, and Liu Yamei was clearly hopeless.

  Now, I don't want to find anything from this damned place anymore. I just want to leave here quickly. Life is more important than anything else.

  This time, I didn't run. Liu Yamei followed closely behind me, her eyes dull and lifeless, lost in thought. Her situation was already quite dire. This passageway couldn't be a completely enclosed circle; otherwise, how could we have gotten in? I refused to believe that ghosts really existed in this world. Even if they did, it's not like they could just magically transport us from one place to another out of thin air.

  I took out my phone and checked the time, but before I could see it, the screen suddenly went black. Out of battery? My face turned pale in an instant, although there was no signal here, the phone was still the only means of communication, and running out of power meant that we were completely cut off from the outside world.

  Liu Yamei's phone should have some battery, right? I tried shaking her a bit, holding onto the last shred of hope, and anxiously said: "Sister Liu? Sister Liu? Can I use your phone?" Liu Yamei smiled slightly, with a thread of saliva trickling from the corner of her mouth, making me wrinkle my brow. But she started to slowly search herself, and I let out a sigh of relief. Liu Yamei's phone should be usable.

  But her smile made me feel a bit numb in the scalp, Liu Yamei must not go crazy, otherwise, after going out, how can I 'account' for it? But can we still get out?

  The quiet corridor was left with only Liu Yamei's sound of taking out her phone, after a long time, I found something wrong, Liu Yamei was still 'searching' in her own bag, then smiled foolishly.

  I suddenly grabbed her hand, and she giggled: "Gone, gone!"

  Liu Yamei smiled foolishly at me, and saliva even flowed from the corner of her mouth. Her current appearance is exactly the same as those poor lunatics in the mental hospital.

  My face turned pale all of a sudden, her mobile phone was gone, it must have fallen somewhere while running.

  My mobile phone is out of power now, and if Liu Yamei's can't be found either, we will really lose contact with the outside world.

  As I thought of this, I immediately pulled Liu Yamei's hand and was about to go back to find my phone, but unexpectedly Liu Yamei suddenly broke free from my grasp. Then she smiled at me with a ferocious expression. Suddenly she burst out laughing.

  I was so scared that I almost lost my soul, and suddenly fell to the ground. When I came to my senses, Liu Yamei had already run out alone, stumbling and staggering, leaving me with only a back view.

  I was thrown quite hard, my buttocks and legs were in severe pain, I guess the blood was cleared. I gritted my teeth and got up, Liu Yamei's back figure had also disappeared.

  I gritted my teeth and struggled to run forward, still calling out Liu Yamei's name. But what terrified me was that Liu Yamei had vanished into thin air. It was just a matter of minutes, when her figure disappeared from my line of sight, she was gone without a trace.

  This time, I'm really desperate. Have we entered hell? On all the roads here, it seems as if there's an invisible hand leading us towards an unknown abyss.

  Now I even want to die in a cockroach's mouth, it has become an extravagant hope.

  I clutched my phone tightly, despairingly thinking, would they come to rescue me? Chen Yanluo and Liu Ke had been caught, even if they entered the basement, they probably wouldn't be able to find me. I had already stepped into another world.

  Just at this moment, I suddenly heard a sound like dripping water.

  It seems I've found the last hope, where there's water, there must be a passage, and the source of the water is the exit.

  I started listening carefully to the source of the water and then walked step by step in that direction.

  It's in the opposite direction, which is where we just came from! If it's still a circle here, if I go in another direction, I'll definitely meet Liu Yamei again.

  The sound of dripping water, getting closer and closer.

  It's as if it landed on the most sensitive spot in my heart, and with each hit, the "goose bumps" on my body grew more and more.

  When the sound of water droplets was clear in my ears, I noticed that there was a winding stream underfoot, slowly flowing towards my feet.

  It's too dark here, can't see what color the water is, whether it's clear or murky, but I don't want to get stained by it, so I quickly dodged to one side, and it flowed past very quickly.

  I continued walking back.

  But as soon as I took a step forward, the cold sweat on my back had already soaked through the clothes on my back.

  I immediately turned back.

  The water underground has flowed out another meter in just two steps' time and is still flowing rapidly downward!

  I stared at its flow with a pale face, and the fear in my heart slowly magnified. The water on flat ground couldn't possibly have such a fast flow rate. This is a slope! A very gentle slope! If I didn't turn back to walk, there's no way to discover it!

  No, without water, I wouldn't have been able to discover it either!

  Here, it's not even a circular passage at all!

  It's falling down slowly with an extremely slight tilt! I desperately start reasoning.

  In this passage, almost every place is built in the same way. In a dark environment, Liu Yamei and I couldn't carefully observe our surroundings at all. After running for several laps, we mistakenly thought that we had entered a circle! Then we would keep running non-stop, thinking that we were still in the same passage, constantly looking for other roads, but unknowingly kept running downwards.

  Thinking of this, the cold sweat on my back had almost turned into a stream, soaking my clothes completely.

  The sound of dripping water is getting closer and closer, but now I'm starting to hesitate.

  If I go further up, maybe I can get out, but I'll still face those cockroaches again.

  But if I go down further, I will really fall into an endless abyss.

  Liu Yamei has already gone down.

  Going back, I may not be able to go back, heaven knows what else is there besides cockroaches.

  But if I go back, it's equivalent to sentencing Liu Yamei to death.

  She's running down! This time, I don't know how far she has run.

  If I leave here and come back again when I can find someone, I may not be able to find Liu Yamei again.

  Thinking of this, I resolutely turned around, no longer going up, but instead turning my head and running down.

  Now that we've found out about this channel's problem, if we find Liu Yamei, we'll be able to get out!

  I ran and stopped again, then took out my phone and smashed it to the ground in an instant. In a moment, it became debris.

  I picked up these pieces and left a small piece on the spot.

  Then he ran down again, and every time he ran a short distance, he left behind some mobile phone fragments.

  I don't know what other dangers will happen after finding Liu Yamei. In case we can't resist, we can only hope and wait for the people who come to find us.

  Such an obvious sign, if they can't even discover it, then there's no need for them to be classmates with me. I thought bitterly.

  Darkness, once again approaches—