Chapter Fifty I Have Been Here Before

  I clearly remember that Yu Gang said Tang Guangze hired him to protect me and even paid him. Now he still wants money, trying to cheat me, no way.

  Yu Gang was displeased as soon as he heard it, and shouted: "If it weren't for me, you would have died countless times."

  I was too lazy to care about him, so I looked around this stone room and was surprised to find a stream of bubbles at the "door" of the stone room. I quickly ran over to take a look and found that the top of the stone room was flowing with water, but for some reason, the water was isolated and didn't flow here at all.

  Is this stone chamber under the marsh?

  Why can't this water flow in? What's causing it?

  I turned to Yu Gang and asked, "Don't you think this stone room is a bit strange?"

  Yu Gang nodded and said, "I knew it earlier, this stone room is at the bottom of the water."

  At this time, the old professor suddenly spoke up and said: "The water flow here is due to some geographical reasons, maintaining a very strange density. This density keeps the water flow at a constant speed and rotation direction, always bringing people who fall into the water or are brought to the 'door' of this stone chamber. When I first discovered this secret, I felt that this mechanism was really too brilliant. The miracle of nature combined with the wisdom of the ancients can only be described by the four words 'cleverly stealing the work of heaven'."

  "So that means we're now in... the underworld?" My throat moved with difficulty before I finally managed to say those two words.

  "Yes." The old professor nodded calmly.

  At this time, Baza interjected from the side: "I thought it was going to be really scary here, but it's just a stone house, nothing special."

  At this time, Jason suddenly shouted loudly: "I remember, it was here, I have been here before..."

  This woke everyone up, and they tacitly confirmed the correct location.

  "Do you still remember how you got in back then?" I asked with a slightly tense expression.

  Jason shook his head in pain, rattled his teeth, and then said, "I don't remember, anyway it's not here."

  "At that time, we were rowing a boat on a river and encountered a storm. After the boat capsized, we were washed away by the waves of the river and when we woke up, we were already in this place." Jason recalled the past events.

  "That river was originally calm, nobody knew why that day, the calm surface of the river suddenly had waves, a group of us sank into the river, I remember a friend who couldn't swim sank down, don't know where he was washed away by the 'waves'."

  Jason's face became more and more painful as he spoke, as if someone was cutting his flesh with a knife, and he looked at the stone room in terror.

  The boat can be capsized in the river, it seems that the wind is indeed big enough, and it's probably not just a simple storm.

  Jason spoke with his eyes fixed on the stone room, as if trying to find something relevant from it, but his expression told me that he didn't find anything.

  This stone room doesn't seem to have anything, but it has a bit of a gloomy and depressing atmosphere, giving me the feeling that I'm standing in the underworld. No matter how I think about it, I feel a chill down my spine.

  At this moment, someone chimed in and said: "I don't see any rivers around this village. How is it possible to bring them here?"

  I immediately negated his statement, because I remembered the last time I was dragged by something in the river, although I didn't know what kind of ghost thing it was, but that scene was deeply impressive: "Do you still remember the river in the bushes last time? I saw you went to the other side of the bank, so I..."

  "Right." Yu Gang nodded in agreement: "Wait a minute, where did I go ashore? I've been enjoying myself in the water all along..."

  This is where I was wrong, I clearly saw Yu Gang standing on the shore wearing only a pair of shorts, curiously stretching his head to look at the pile of stones over there.

  "What I saw, could it be that my eyes are playing tricks on me?" I muttered to myself quietly, was my brain flooded with water at that time? This doesn't make sense.

  As soon as this was mentioned, Yu Gang said shamelessly, "If I hadn't pulled you up that time, I reckon you would have been done for. Whether you knew how to swim or not, you'd still sink. I don't even know if you guys have a sense of crisis."

  I impatiently waved my hand at him, this guy always talks about this non-stop, my ears are numb, if I wasn't in a good mood after narrowly escaping death, I would definitely give him a kick.

  I didn't bother with him anymore and turned to ask Jason, "You said your friend was dragged away by a monster in the stone room, is it this one?"

  All I saw was Jason shaking his head, with a bewildered expression. He said, "It's not this room, the wall in that room had a painting on it, but here there's nothing, and you can't tell anything from it. However, I remember coming here before."

  "Why am I so sure?" I wondered, and from his expression, it seemed as if this thing had just happened.

  Jason's gaze fell on the stone wall to one side, and he slowly walked over, stretched out his hand, pointed at the stone wall and said: "This is the mark I left behind. At first we wandered around here for a long time but couldn't find our way out, so we left a mark. Although carving things into stones is uncivilized behavior, we really had no other choice."

  I looked in the direction he pointed, and all I saw was a rough stone wall with a crooked "J" carved on it. It must have been Jason who carved his initials on it. The "J" seemed to be carved a long time ago, not like two years ago.

  The characters on the stone wall seem to be from the same era as the stone wall itself, and the stone wall was built at least a few thousand years ago.

  The letter above also gives me a feeling of that era. I looked at the letter with suspicion, but in my heart, I was thinking about what could have caused it?

  This is really unscientific, from an archaeological perspective, this is a major discovery, but I am not an archaeologist.

  I took a glance at each of their expressions, I don't know if they've discovered the issue, looking at their faces there's no change, and I didn't plan on mentioning this discovery either.

  Suddenly, the old professor's expression changed, and he asked seriously, "Did something happen here?"

  Jason shook his head and said, "At that time we didn't know it would be so dangerous here. If we had known, we wouldn't have come even if you killed us."

  Huang 'Mao' shook off the water on his body and stepped inside: "You guys think that person we just talked about outside, might be intentionally deceiving us? Maybe there's no such thing as an underworld offering, perhaps they were just playing a prank on us, it was a malicious joke..."

  "I don't think that's likely to be a prank or some kind of 'plot'. The person who was talking outside the courtyard, his tone was absolutely not joking, and he had no reason to do so." The old professor immediately denied Jason's speculation.

  I think the old professor's words are not wrong, if it is a prank, then how would he know about the black 'colored' dark pattern box? And wouldn't know that we went to find that so-called 'yin' space, and even if he knew, why would he do this? Is there any reason?

  "What makes you so sure." Jason said with a tone of discontent.

  "Intuition." The old professor only took two words to fill in, seemingly unwilling to entangle himself further.

  "Intuition can get you killed." Jason shrugged and snarled.

  When Jason first bought that map, his intuition told him it was because there must be treasure inside. Because his intuition at the time got his friend Roco killed, now he thinks intuition can get people killed. I think he still carries deep guilt and doesn't believe in anyone's intuition anymore.

  Intuition can sometimes be fatal. Although I have great confidence in my intuition, there are times when I need to think thrice.

  "Stop arguing." Xiaobo stood up from the ground, she said in a low voice: "Since we've already come this far, it's impossible to turn back now. The key issue is that person hiding in the dark giving us hints, he not only knows that the box is an offering to guard the 'yin' world, but also knows some things from that year, especially what happened at Tieban River, so this person is very important, we must find him. I have a hunch that he's deliberately leading us here, so I believe he'll appear again."

  As I listened to Xiaobo's words, I suddenly had a misconception in my heart that this 'woman' seemed to know the person hiding in the dark giving us hints.

  Although Xiao Bo calls the old professor "teacher", the old professor is actually a bit wary of this "woman". In short, it seems that everything they do is at her command. The people in her team seem to be extremely afraid of her and no one dares to disagree with her when she speaks. Sometimes even the old professor doesn't dare say anything to her.

  I remember, the old professor told us to be careful with the thin ice.

  Estimated, her team died two people, pulling me and Yu Gang, that's just right.

  She would really do something like that, die for a ghost.

  Thinking of this, I couldn't help but shudder, this 'woman' is really terrifying.

  At this moment, Baza suddenly burst out laughing and said with a scornful face: "I thought it was really scary, but it turned out to be just a broken stone room. What a joke! Those old men have been deceiving us all along, there's nothing special or thrilling at all."

  Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but furrow my brow. It seemed he was here to have fun. If Iron Cloth had just let him lead us into the forest, that would have been enough. But unexpectedly, this little guy insisted on following us and taking a look around.

  He found out it wasn't as scary as the people in their village said.

  I don't think so, after all, the white bones piled up on that piece of dead land are fake, and I don't know how many people and animals died. Nor do I know what killed them.

  The old professor said it was that patch of white fog, which means it's a man-eating fog.

  Does fog really eat people?