Chapter 5: Black Haired Zongzi

  At this moment, I only feel that death is so close, and the two eyeballs of "Songzi" stare at me straightly, as cold and ruthless as a beast, like a messenger from hell, making my heart tremble with fear!

  At that moment, a faint "creak" sound and vibration were heard, and the ground beneath his feet suddenly sank down, as if the ice under his feet had shattered instantly, feeling uneasy and at a loss.

  Everyone in the cave, including the corpses and snakes, lost their balance and fell straight down. After a moment of stunned confusion, there was great hope and joy - the mechanism had broken!

  "Run fast!" Because there were dead people and snakes as a cushion, I didn't receive any impact, and almost jumped up the moment I landed. All I can say is that in times of crisis, it's even more able to stimulate people's potential energy! We used all our strength to run wildly without looking back, pitch black, completely unable to see anything, could only rely on our own feelings. Despite this, I was still afraid that if I wasn't careful, I would crash into a wall, and that would be disastrous...

  Huff... huff...

  The sound of heavy breathing was right next to my ear, indicating that the three of us hadn't scattered. Unfortunately, after running around, our mouths were dry and our tongues were parched. We had no choice but to stop and rest for a while, listening to the sounds, there were no strange noises behind us, our eyes gradually got used to the darkness, blurry, but still couldn't see clearly.

  The stench of corruption hangs in the air, this is the smell on our bodies, the smell of snakes and corpses doesn't dissipate easily, we can only endure it.

  Bang——

  In the silence, a faint voice suddenly echoed from the front, my heart also skipped a beat. I felt someone grabbed my sleeve and thought it was Su Dai, so I didn't pay much attention. The voice got closer and closer, not allowing us to be distracted for even half a moment.

  I forced myself to calm down, but the indescribable feeling was very strong.

  Only Wu Xiao's weak voice was heard, "Something is coming over, right?"

  "En." I nodded, and that was the sound of footsteps, running! Could it be Song Ah? I was guessing, and the next moment, a flame came over. I took this opportunity to take a quick look around, and found myself in a small tomb chamber. The walls were cracked all over, looking like they might collapse at any moment, frightening to behold. There were no extra burial goods around, just one or two scattered things that had been severely damaged. Coffins were scattered everywhere, but I didn't see any corpses!

  As soon as I took a glance, I heard the rough and violent sound of panting. My heart skipped a beat as I hastily looked over to see a man in the darkness holding a torch in one hand and a large axe in the other, his body covered in wounds, looking extremely disheveled, and at this moment rushing towards us with incredible speed.

  "It's Song Ah!" I exclaimed with joy, but after seeing the three of us, Song Ah was stunned and waved his torch while shouting loudly: "Run quickly, run quickly!"

  Run? I was in a dilemma, "Where to run?" Behind were snakes and a pile of corpses!

  "It doesn't matter, just leave quickly and find a place to hide!" Song Ah didn't explain much either, looking back while wielding his sharp large chopper, he rushed past me, I felt a sudden gust of cold wind, gave a shiver, and hastily followed up.

  "What on earth is it? Hiding what—" Wu Xiaoshuai's words were cut off by a sudden cry.

  I turned around and immediately understood what had happened, my feet ran even faster as if they were greased. What followed behind Song Ah wasn't a person, but a tattered and worn-out creature that reeked of rot all over its body - it was a green-faced, fang-toothed zombie! Also known as "zongzi" in the tomb raider's slang! Even more bizarrely, its body was covered with many black hairs!

  "My god, it turns out that there are actually living zongzi in this world! For crying out loud, if you're dead, just lie properly in the coffin and don't run around like a madman! You almost scared me to death!"

  As I saw the three of them flash into a tomb, I rushed over quickly, but didn't expect to bump into Song Ah at the entrance. I stumbled for several steps before regaining my balance and hastily asked him what was wrong?

  "There's a coffin inside!" Song Ah said, still wanting to run outside. I grabbed his arm and said, "No way, the zongzi is already chasing us!" As I looked back, unexpectedly, that zongzi had seen us, its eyes seeming to flash with malice, directly rushing towards us.

  "Damn it! Let's go in first!" Song Ah also saw the zongzi, so we four retreated and went back in. After going in, we indeed saw a large black coffin placed in the middle of the tomb chamber. Seeing that the zongzi was about to arrive, I got anxious and sweated profusely, saying: "Or else, let's use the coffin to block the door first?"

  I'm also at my wit's end, so I said that. Unexpectedly, Su Dai nodded in agreement: "For now, it can only be this way!"

  Wu Xiaoshou looked like he wanted to do the same, but was still very afraid and said: "Aren't you guys afraid that the things in the coffin will also rise with the corpse?"

  "Can't take care of so many things, let's try our luck!" Song Ah said, and then put the torch on the ground. After that, the four of us used a lot of strength to push the coffin to the door. Almost at the same time, the coffin was hit hard, almost falling down. I quickly used force to stabilize it. Fortunately, we were four against one, and not only did the coffin stand upright, but it also blocked the doorway tightly.

  The dumplings, however, continued to crash against the door non-stop, and it seemed like we were about to collapse under the pressure. Just as suddenly, the crashing stopped, and all that could be heard was our own heartbeats. As for the dumpling outside, perhaps it had left or perhaps it was waiting for us to come out - either way, I had lost all my strength and slumped against the wall, sitting down in exhaustion.

  "This is great, the zongzi can't get in and we can't get out. If something unfortunate happens to us today, we'll all be stuck here!" Wu Xiaoshou also sat on the ground, his face pale with defeat.

  Song Ah re-lit the torch, and the tomb instantly regained its brightness. The ground was very cool, and after intense exercise, his whole body ached again. It's really not suitable for me to do physical labor!

  After calming down for a while, I asked discontentedly: "Where did you three go at the beginning? Why did you leave me alone there?"

  Song Ah was taken aback, frowning and replied unpleasantly: "I'd like to ask too, I was speaking just fine, how come when I turned around, all three of you were gone?"

  "This can't be blamed on me!" Wu Ma You immediately came up with an excuse, "Who knew those snakes were so vicious and could quietly drag Grandpa Wu away without anyone noticing? You say they dragged us away just like that, why only me and Su Dai's sister? Your skin isn't much thicker than ours, is it?" Which means he was boasting about his own thin skin.

  Get used to it, there are many shameless people out there...

  "En." Su Dai nodded, his face also filled with doubt. "Those snakes were indeed stealthy, even I didn't notice their approach."

  Su Daigang had just finished speaking, and Wu Xiaoshou couldn't wait to ask me: "You already know about our situation, what about Fengzi? What's going on between you and Song Ah?"