Chapter 65: The Mysterious Shadow of the Paper Building

  With a familiar or unfamiliar face appearing one after another, they followed in succession into the black smoke, disappearing with the gradually fading chanting.

  I quietly said goodbye, although it was a happy moment, my heart still overflowed with a faint sense of sadness. I don't know why, maybe every separation is sad. As a liberal arts student, I'm naturally sentimental and prone to worrying, and I'm no exception.

  It's a pity, it seems like it's not a good habit, but I just can't change it.

  At this time, Tie Yi's one sentence choked me half to death, and my sentimental feelings suddenly became disoriented and couldn't find their way north!

  "When you were just talking to Hei Bai Wu Chang, why didn't you ask how we should get out of this secret room?" Tie Pi Kuang said with an innocent face, looking at me.

  It wasn't until now that I realized our current situation, and suddenly my intestines turned green with regret.

  "I'm not just thinking about the brothers in the coal mine below, I've forgotten my own affairs. Putting others before oneself is a selfish sentiment, but why didn't you say so earlier? If you had said something earlier, maybe we could have gone home and eaten mom's cooking by now."

  I immediately shifted my anger to Tie Yi's body, but unexpectedly he didn't push back or argue, and instead readily agreed. He clearly knew I couldn't do anything to him, with a dead pig not afraid of boiling water's annoying appearance.

  Now that Black and White are gone, it's impossible to catch up with them. Besides, I don't even know where to chase after them.

  It seems that I can only rely on myself to leave this place, after checking around with Tie Yi, Tie Yi locked the escape route on the quartz rock above our heads, at the brightest spot, which should be the closest point to the ground.

  I fully agree.

  After determining the direction of the plan, I looked at Tie Yi and dejectedly lowered my head, thinking that this time I couldn't even remember how many times I had been trampled by this guy, and couldn't tell who was the master and who was the guard.

  With a painful sensation in the back of my foot, the bronze-colored light flickered throughout the entire enclosed space. The moment the iron clothes fell to the ground, something pulled me rolling to one side, and then several large rocks fell on the spot where I had just crouched!

  As expected, along the crack, I saw the starlight on my head, and suddenly I was excited to dance with joy, shouting and cheering.

  I didn't expect we've been here for a whole day already.

  I was still immersed in the excitement of escaping death, when Tie Yi directly pulled out a rope, tied one end to Cheng Ying's short sword and threw it towards the gap, pulling it back, not knowing where it was stuck, but feeling that it could roughly bear our weight. Tie Yi then led the way, climbing up like a monkey.

  I watched this swift back view and couldn't help but shout "Awesome!"

  And I spent all my strength to climb up, resting n times in between, and finally couldn't move anymore, it was Tie Yi who pulled me up with brute force. When I reached the top, I felt like my body had fallen apart, and I didn't even want to love anymore.

  At this time, I looked around and found that our current location was at the top of the hill where the Kuangshan Tun mine was located. Following the faint starlight, looking down the mountain, we could see the iron-clad carriage almost buried in the yellow soil.

  I'm relieved that I had the foresight not to drive my own car, otherwise, if my beloved Porsche had ended up like this, I would have been heartbroken.

  At this time, the ground began to shake violently. Tie Yi shouted "Run quickly!" and we rolled and crawled down the mountain in a mad dash. As the sound of landslides echoed from behind us, the Kao Shan Tun mine had completely collapsed.

  When we ran to the car, I bent down and started vomiting, feeling like I had been drained of energy.

  After finally clearing away the yellow dust around the car, Iron Clothes and I suddenly transformed into two dusty raccoons. As soon as we got in the car, I felt myself going limp like a puddle of mud.

  It's really wonderful to live in the present life, even the voice of buying health care products on the radio is so pleasant. Life must be cherished, loved and deeply loved!

  Having experienced the drying up of the well, I finally believed that the world in front of me and my original worldview were two different directions. Perhaps in this world, when a worldview needs to undergo a qualitative change, the only proof is fact.

  That bloody scene left me stunned.

  I took a look at the Millennium Black Gold Stone next to my hand, although it was already wrapped very tightly, but still exuded waves of water vapor. I just had a slightly cool body feeling, but at least for now, it's just a black stick, except when my back itches and I can scratch it twice, otherwise it really doesn't have much use.

  So far, the life-threatening scare has basically been exchanged for a slight itch, which doesn't seem worth it in retrospect. Although I couldn't feel the chill that Iron Shirt mentioned, the temperature inside the car clearly dropped, and Iron Shirt had to use a cloth to wipe away the condensation on the windshield from time to time.

  I weighed the thousand-year-old Wujin in my hand, looking at Tieyi who was driving and asked, "Is this thing really that divine? I think it's just an ordinary stone, nothing special. Can it really draw a Tianfu symbol?"

  Tie Yi stared ahead and said, "I heard from Xu Bo that the books 'Jin Suo Liu Zhu Yin' and 'Tai Shang Chi Wen Dong Shen San Zhu An' have records of the thousand-year-old black gold. But those profound things, even if someone explained them to me, I wouldn't understand. It's better to go back and ask Xu Bo about it later. Maybe he's awake now and can say something."

  "I hope so." I replied with a huff.

  He stared straight ahead, driving carefully and no longer paying attention to me. Of course, I didn't want to talk to him either. The conversation was completely uninteresting.

  However, this guy's driving skills are indeed good, fast and stable, obviously a master, windy and electric, quickly got on the highway.

  I pulled out half a pack of cigarettes from the car, having been suffocating all day. It was truly refreshing to be able to smoke comfortably. As I was savoring the smoke, through the haze, I saw what seemed like a figure waving and flagging down cars by the side of the road not far ahead.

  I glanced at my watch, 3 am.

  How could there be someone blocking the road on this godforsaken highway at this time? There doesn't seem to be any damaged vehicles nearby either. Could it be the mountain people from around here? It's really not easy in the middle of winter.

  As the distance between us gradually shortened, I guessed that the person who had stopped the car was a woman. When the headlights shone over, I saw a long-haired woman with her face covered, wearing a white dress and waving her hand. She seemed to be holding something in her arms. Behind her, a white wooden building suddenly appeared, but it was blurry and unclear.

  I'd like to have a strong sense of justice like Tie Yi, I'll definitely stop the car, thinking that this girl doesn't know how old she is, what she looks like, but looking at her wind-sculpted figure should be pretty good. This slow journey, boring black night with a beautiful female passenger is obviously a good thing.

  Who would have thought that Tie Yi would swiftly and stealthily pass by the woman's side, as if he hadn't seen her at all.

  I didn't even have time to shout "stop the car", and in the instant that the car passed by the woman, I saw through the window that her white clothes were stained with bloodstains all over. Under her disheveled hair was a face without any facial features, only a mass of flesh and blood piled up haphazardly on her face. Her mouth was drooping down with what looked like tendons or muscles, as if she had been hit in the face by a huge rock, and it seemed to be oozing out. In her arms, she was holding a long, dry bone. After seeing this bloody scene, I almost couldn't help but vomit.

  And that so-called white wooden building, I finally saw clearly that it was made of paper, and those figures on it were just painted paper people without facial features.

  "What's wrong?" Tie Yi looked at my pale face, "There is motion sickness medicine in the drawer on your right hand side. This guy seems to have seen nothing, I don't know if he is pretending to be stupid or has leukorrhea."

  A big guy standing in front of the car waving his hand, this guy didn't even react at all.

  I didn't speak, and from the ashtray I flipped out a cigarette butt, lit it with a trembling hand, took a deep drag, calmed my nerves, adjusted my tone, and said: "Big brother, you won't tell me you just saw nothing, will you? That woman who hailed a taxi! The messy stuff on her face! The paper building behind her! The paper man without a face!

  "My god, I'm scared to death! Just like a zombie, didn't you see her face and that's why you didn't stop the car?"

  The way Tieyi ignored me made me so angry! I spoke too quickly, and I forced the vomit that was rising up back down. A gurgling sound came out, and my mouth was filled with a bitter taste.

  Tie Yi withdrew one hand from the steering wheel and touched my forehead, "You don't seem to have a fever. What are you talking about? It's the middle of the night in this desolate place, how could there be someone stopping cars? Why is your head all wet?" This was clearly a state of being scared out of one's wits, yet Tie Yi actually said he hadn't seen anything at all?

  "Big brother, with something so big, you won't tell me you didn't see it at all? Even a blind person can see it! Do you think we should report to the police? We saw someone asking for help and ran away, is this considered a crime?" I pressed the cigarette butt in the ashtray hard, under the effect of this cigarette butt, I finally felt my heart fall back to its original place.

  I looked at Tie Yi's serious expression, and thought that this guy wasn't someone who liked to joke around either. Could it be that I really was seeing things? But how could the vivid scene possibly be an illusion? In the instant when the car passed by, I seemed to have even smelled the bloody smell in the air.

  I'm sure I didn't see it wrong. "Ah yo!" Tieyi slammed on the brakes, luckily I was wearing a seatbelt in the passenger seat or I would have flown out and gotten myself killed.

  "When you should stop the car, you don't stop it. When you shouldn't stop the car, you actually stopped! What's the use of stopping now?!" I rubbed my sore arm and shouted at Tie Yi.

  "If you're sure you didn't see things, then we must have run into something dirty", looking at Tie Yi's expression, I felt that things wouldn't be so simple, otherwise with Tie Yi's calm personality, he wouldn't have this kind of expression.