Chapter 57 The Road to the Underworld

  "Is there really a 'Yin' world?" I couldn't help but take a deep breath and ask in shock.

  The old professor shook his head, then with some hesitation in his eyes, he moved his lips and finally said: "At that time, many things happened, we didn't go there, as for what that person said, I think it's not important at all. The underworld and the human world are no different, you must remember, those who went to the underworld are not considered human."

  Xiao Bo cast his gaze over us, looking somewhat surprised, and immediately regained his icy composure.

  The old professor saw her and didn't say anything else, but instead walked forward to the entrance of the 'cave' and patted Jason on the shoulder saying: "It's nothing, people have already died, things have also passed for so long."

  Hearing this, I couldn't help but speculate, was that person really Luo Ke?

  Jason's shoulders shook slightly, he clenched his teeth tightly, his eyes were bloodshot, and his gaze was filled with sadness as he looked at that person.

  The old professor grasped his glasses and exclaimed, "This death is very strange."

  Everyone heard and immediately surrounded the entrance of the "cave". I poked my head in, only to see that the person was wearing a minority ethnic costume, similar to what Baza and others wore. His face was deathly pale, his eyeballs almost bulging out, and he looked extremely terrifying overall.

  This person doesn't look like a foreigner at all?

  I don't know if it's because he was wearing Uyghur clothes, but I got a sense of dislocation. Just as I was about to ask, Yu Gang exclaimed in surprise: "This guy doesn't look like a foreigner at all! Bazaar little brother, the clothes he's wearing are exactly the same as yours!"

  His name is Tie Si Ka Da, he was our first good friend when we came to China. He's from Urumqi and two years ago, he was very interested in the places we were going to visit, so we went together. Here, we encountered many strange and bizarre things, everyone forgot about escaping, no one cared about anyone else. After I escaped, I never looked for Ka Da again because... Jason said, then suddenly burst into silent sobs, the suppressed tolerance exploding all at once.

  "I could have helped him out back then, but I didn't..."

  Jason covered his face with his hands, and that voice full of self-reproach was filled with regret.

  My heart ached as I listened, unable to imagine the kind of life Jason had been living for the past two years. At that time, my intuition told me it was an adventure seeking treasure, but who knew, it turned out to be a journey to death.

  In a dangerous situation, self-preservation is already in question, going to rescue others is a foolish idea.

  Jason's decision left his conscience with a certain amount of blame.

  I finally understand now, when Jason saw me for the first time, he didn't say a word and directly came up to hit me.

  Because I was greedy for money and sold him the map, they ended up on that doomed trip.

  "It was me who killed him..." His voice still strained, a heart-wrenching scream.

  I wanted to comfort him, but I didn't know if doing so would make him feel even more guilty or trigger his anger, so I suppressed my thoughts.

  "Jason, he doesn't want to see you like this either. We still have important things to do. Who knows, we might find Roko." Yu Gang's face wasn't looking good either.

  Right after that, we pulled Kada out from the 'hole'. Jason looked at Kada and said with a face full of apology: "My friend, rest in peace, I will find your family and treat them well."

  Jason put his hand over the bulging eyes, and as soon as he did, Kadath's corpse suddenly jolted and jumped up. His peeled hands tightly grasped Jason's arm, with black blood still on them, revealing the bloody flesh inside.

  "My god, it's blown up!" Yu Gang exclaimed in a terrified tone, his face deathly pale.

  At that moment, I was stunned and stood still, not knowing how to react. The Jason in front of me was suddenly grabbed by Kada who jumped up, and Jason shouted: "Lada..."

  Corpse revival refers to the phenomenon where a person who has died still has a bit of air left in their chest, and if this is disturbed by cats, dogs, rats or other animals, it can cause a false resurrection. They will then rush towards people and bite them like wild beasts.

  Kada has been lying at the entrance of this 'cave' for two years and suddenly came into contact with human air, which would cause a corpse explosion.

  "Kada..." Jason yelled out loud, hoping he could hear, but how would a dead person respond?

  Yu Gang reacted the fastest, holding a flashlight in his hand and running to Jason's side, hitting the card with all his might, but it was completely useless.

  Yu Gang cursed while pounding away, "Forgot to bring the black donkey hoof."

  "Damn it, Jason, shake him off quickly, or you're dead for sure." Yu Gang yelled.

  It's probably because of Yu Gang's words that Jason suddenly pushed Kada with great force, and with this push, Kada let go of the hand that was peeling off its skin, and his entire body fell backwards, unfortunately crashing towards me.

  I didn't even have time to dodge, and Kada had already knocked me down. He stretched out those sticky hands of his, grabbed my clothes, opened his mouth towards me, and a foul smell wafted out, almost making me vomit.

  If I let him take a bite of me, I'd probably turn into a zombie.

  I lifted my foot and kicked the guy next to me, but no matter how hard I kicked, I couldn't kick him far away. I was desperately kicking him, feeling like I was just tickling him, with no reaction at all. Instead, he seemed excited, moving his mouth towards me, as if he wanted to say something, but I thought it looked more like he wanted to eat my flesh.

  "Damn it, don't come over here!" I kicked my legs with all my might, and the fear in my heart surged towards me like a tidal wave, I didn't know why that dead person's strength was so great.

  "'Beat' him to death......" Yu Gang shouted, his two hands grasping the dead man's clothes and pulling them backward.

  At the same time, the rest of the people also reacted and came to help pull away the dead body that was pressing on me. However, no matter how hard they pulled and tugged, it had no effect. The dead person seemed to have recognized his wife and was determined to press down on me, with both hands tightly grasping my shoulders.

  I'm crying with a sad face, Khada. I like plump and white women, but I don't like men covered in blood.

  What have I done to offend anyone? At that moment, I was so angry that I wanted to slap myself for reacting too slowly. If only I had reacted faster, would I have been overpowered by others?

  Thinking of being pressed down like this, I thought of the movement on the "bed", and was crushed by a dead person for the first time. I still want to leave it for my neighbor's sister, or if not, leaving it for Xiaobo is also okay. Thinking about this, I almost died of frustration.

  "Bang, bang, bang..." Several shots were fired, and then I smelled a strong bloody smell, splashing onto my face, so pungent that it made me want to vomit.

  As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw the bloody and blurry head in front of me. There were three thumb-sized holes on his head, with blood constantly gushing out from them. If it was fresh red blood, that would be okay, but unfortunately, Kadah had been dead for two years already, so all that came out was some blackish polluted blood.

  Black blood, who knows if there's a virus in this thing, at that moment, I completely collapsed.

  Because the head had a few more "holes", its force slowly became smaller, those hands that were tightly pinching my shoulders suddenly loosened, and I was pulled away from Kada.

  I sat up with a start, my heart racing, and saw Xiaobei's pale face in front of me. She was holding a gun, pointing it at the corpse, ready to fire if it made any sudden movements.

  I was so moved watching Xiaobo, I almost wanted to devote myself to him.

  Only to see the corpse being thrown aside by Yu Gang and others, it was twitching on the ground, but not completely dead. Yu Gang kicked the corpse hard several times and scolded: "This damn thing, even after death, doesn't let people be at peace, still wants to find Chen Cu as the mountain village lady."

  Before he could finish speaking, Huang 'Mao' shouted: "Where did that cow escape from?"

  I climbed up, wiped the dirty blood on my face with my sleeve, and then looked over. Huang Mao was standing at the entrance of the cave, looking dazed, as if thinking about what to do next.

  Niu Gu Zai, Huang 'Mao' called Ba Za just like that, probably because of the clothes Ba Za was wearing.

  I heard Huang 'Mao' say that, and subconsciously picked up the flashlight to sweep around, but didn't see Baza's figure anywhere. Wasn't he supposed to go back to Palan Village? Why did he want to go down from the 'cave' entrance? And why was he sneaking away quietly without telling anyone?

  "Damn it, I reckon that little brat is definitely plotting something 'sneaky', all the way here I could tell he was very interested in this place, pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger." Yu Gang cursed, seemingly feeling ashamed of Baza's behavior.

  "Alas..." I hastily sighed, feeling a bit down and unable to figure out why Baza was doing this.

  "Little brother, people die for wealth and birds die for food. Bazaar also has his own motives. You don't have to be too hard on yourself." The old professor said lightly, not taking it seriously at all.

  Yu frowned and guessed: "The people in this village are all very strange, maybe they say that this place is some kind of terrifying place, definitely hiding some unspeakable secrets."

  When I heard Yu Gang's words, I couldn't help but think seriously. Baza seemed to be very eager to come to this place, and Paka Hai had been urging him to hurry back. Originally, Tiebu Li only instructed them to take us into the forest and that would be enough, but Baza insisted on following us. I remember the expression on his face was extremely interested, now thinking about it, I always feel that he was too enthusiastic, I reckon he must have thought of coming here long ago.