Chapter 59: No Way to Escape

  Liáng Zǐ didn't know the reason behind it and asked: "What's going on? Isn't this just a dead child? What 'rejuvenation' is this?"

  I said to him: "Wait for a chance and I'll explain it to you later. This place is too eerie, let's get the thing out first."

  Zhou Huan wanted to study it again, but felt it was not appropriate, so she didn't delay any longer and quickly squatted down to remove the cuff from the child's corpse's arm.

  She was extremely careful, although this "ten thousand insect hand" had become the size of a child's hand, but his hand still maintained its original shape, so it was indeed not easy to take down.

  Zhou Huan spent a good half day's effort and finally managed to take down the legendary second treasure, the Lingyu wrist guard, and hold it in his hands.

  As soon as I saw it, I was shocked. The width of this wrist guard is about ten centimeters, and the surface emits a faint red glow that makes people unable to take their eyes off it after seeing it. It's truly worthy of being called a 'divine artifact'.

  Zhou Huan didn't stop, took off my backpack, pulled out a piece of paper-like foam, carefully wrapped the wrist guard and put it in, then turned around and walked towards Hei Lian.

  Liang Zi saw Zhou Huan leave and said: "What's the meaning of this? Just take one piece! There are still many in here, hurry up and take a few more."

  Liangzi said, then stretched his hand into the jade coffin and began to search the corpse of the child. In fact, I think that what's left in here is far inferior to the Lingyu wrist guard, but each item is still worth a fortune. It's not easy to come all this way, so it would be unreasonable not to take a few more pieces.

  It is said that people die for wealth. When I faced the treasure, I completely abandoned my rationality and started searching with Liangzi.

  I knew the location of a few substitute items left, so I reached out to touch the waist of the child's corpse. Sure enough, there was a belt made of silk thread and jade pieces tied together here. I had Liangzi gently lift up the waist of the child's corpse, then slowly untied the belt.

  "How about it? This thing must be worth a lot of money, right?" Liangzi asked excitedly.

  I couldn't help but drool at the sight of this belt, although I don't know if the connected silk threads are made of gold or not. This thing is an antique no matter what, and it must be very valuable.

  Because Zhou Huan took away my backpack, I originally wanted to hand it over to Liang Zi for safekeeping, but I was afraid that he would accidentally damage it, so I simply tied it around my own waist.

  After putting the belt away, Liangzi still didn't give up. He found a dazzling gemstone ring on the black and withered hand of the child's corpse, and he wanted to reach out and grab it.

  I remembered that among the seven treasures, there was no ring, and I vaguely felt something was off. Just as I wanted to stop him, I heard Zhou Huan shouting urgently behind me: "What are you doing? Be careful, it might be poisonous..."

  I turned around and saw Zhou Huan quickly running up to Liang Zi and reaching out to grab his arm.

  But she was a step too late, and at this moment, she heard Liangzi yelling loudly as he sat on the ground, his right hand clutching his left hand's middle finger, in agony.

  What's going on?! I immediately panicked, went over to grab Liangzi's hand, and found that his middle finger had already turned gray, the color was still getting darker and spreading towards his arm.

  "Chop off my hand, chop off my hand......" Liangzi was in so much pain that he almost fainted, yelling and screaming as he pulled out a dagger and threw it at me.

  I was completely flustered, holding a dagger with sweat all over my face, but I didn't know what to do.

  At this time, Zhou Huan shouted loudly: "Don't mess around!" After that, she squatted on the ground and quickly started untying her shoelaces.

  After the shoelace came undone, Zhou Huan shouted at me: "Throw away the knife and quickly grab his hand."

  "Ah ah ah, okay... " I quickly followed her words, tightly grasping Liangzi's hand, not letting him move.

  At the same time, I saw that Liangzi's entire left hand had turned black and was rapidly spreading up his arm towards his elbow.

  Zhou Huan's hands moved quickly, and she hastily wrapped the shoelace around the black area that was about to spread, wrapping it twice before using all her strength to tighten the lace, which seemed to have already dug into the flesh.

  Immediately, I saw the spreading blackness being blocked by the shoelaces, but the already darkened palm began to swell up. Liangzi's hands were originally big, and now they became even darker and fatter, making people feel particularly terrified.

  "Hurry up, cut off his middle finger." Zhou Huan urged me hastily.

  I didn't dare to chop my hand off, but cutting off a finger was still possible. I didn't have time to think about anything else. With one hand tightly grasping the middle finger of the beam, the other hand picked up the dagger from the ground and stabbed it into his fingertip.

  A black liquid immediately flowed out from the tip of Liang's finger, very thick and sticky, like a black line flowing onto the ground.

  That black liquid didn't seep into the ground or disperse, but instead merged together. When Liangzi's hand returned to its original color, all the black liquid that had flowed out actually formed a sphere.

  Zhou Huan saw that there was nothing else to do, so she went to untie the shoelace on Liang Zi's arm. Otherwise, with blood not circulating for a long time, this hand would still be in danger.

  Liang Zi had been in pain for a long time and was almost in shock, lying on the ground panting heavily, unable to say a word.

  When I went to see the black ball on the ground again, I found that its surface was extremely crystal clear, just like a large black pearl, very beautiful.

  What on earth is that thing? Just as I was wondering, the black ball suddenly spun around in place a few times, and then, as if it were alive, rolled rapidly off in one direction.

  "My god, what's going on......" I stood up and inexplicably wanted to chase after.

  "Get out of the way quickly..." Zhou Huan shouted from behind me.

  I immediately turned around to look, and saw Zhou Huan running over with a gun, pushing me aside with one hand, and then firing a shot, shattering the black ball that was rolling forward.

  Just as I was marveling at her incredible marksmanship, the black liquid that had been splattered all over the floor suddenly transformed into countless small black beans, which rapidly rolled in the direction of the wall.

  This time I'm really stunned, what is this thing? It's strange enough that it can move, but being broken apart and still able to split into multiple bodies is just too bizarre.

  "Not good, everyone retreat quickly." Zhou Huan saw this scene and was also shocked, turning his head to shout at us.

  I didn't have the energy to think about it anymore, so I went back and tried to pull Liangzi who was lying on the ground. Although Liangzi had already woken up, his body was extremely weak and hadn't recovered any strength at all. I pulled him twice but couldn't get him up.

  Just as I was about to shout for my mother, Hei Lian came running over with a rope. Although he's roughly the same build as me, he has incredible strength. Grabbing both of Liangzi's arms, he lifted him up in one swift motion and then turned around and slung Liangzi onto his back.

  When I saw this situation, I guessed that Hei Lian was planning to carry Liangzi up the iron chain on his back. However, this is too difficult. With Liangzi's weight of over 200 pounds, it's almost impossible for him to carry him all the way to the top.

  "Hurry up and tie us together with a rope." Black Face said as he threw the rope into my hands.

  Although this method is a bit unrealistic, I have no other way now. Can't bear to leave Liangzi here?

  Thinking of this, I quickly tied them together with a rope according to Hei Lian's words.

  After tying up, Hei Lian didn't say a word and ran to the wall, grabbed an iron chain and started climbing up. Zhou Huan and I didn't dare to delay, so we followed closely behind him, one on the left and one on the right, and climbed up together.

  I had only climbed a few meters when I heard the sound of crackling and popping coming from all directions. I turned around, shining my flashlight downwards, and saw that the large jars in the wall below me were all shattered. As the dark green liquid flowed out, strange creatures emerged from within.

  I was shocked and shouted at Zhou Huan: "What's going on?! Are all the people in this jar really dead, and they're all pretending to be resurrected?!"

  Zhou Huan also seemed to be puzzled, and after stopping for a few seconds, he said: "It doesn't seem like resurrection. Look at the way they move, it's all very strange. I think that small black ball played some role, reviving everything in this jar."

  After listening to her finish speaking, I remembered that both of us still had our guns slung over our shoulders, so I asked: "What do we do then, fight?"

  "What's going on! How can you hit so many at once, hurry up and keep climbing."

  When I heard Zhou Huan mention the number, I was shocked all over my body. Thinking of the dense and numerous water jars or pottery-like things on the wall of this deep pit, if there were those monsters inside, even an army would not be able to stop them.

  I looked up and saw that during the gap when I was talking to Zhou Huan, Hei Lian had already gone far ahead with Liangzi on his back, swaying precariously and making one's heart ache.

  I didn't have time to think about it, I just followed and climbed up. In fact, there are handrails and footrests on the iron chain, as long as you have enough physical strength, going up is much easier than going down.

  Hei Lian was physically strong, but after all, he was carrying a large load on his back, and before long, he was caught up by me and Zhou Huan.

  The two of us couldn't just leave them behind and go first, so we rested in place for a while. I wanted to cover Black Face as he went up first. I saw that Black Face was silently climbing upwards without stopping, and I thought: this person's willpower must be incredibly strong, it's really pitiful for him. If Liangzi can survive this time, I don't know how to thank him enough.

  As I was indulging in these wild thoughts, I heard Zhou Huan shout: "Not good, they're catching up, prepare to fire."

  As soon as she finished speaking, I looked down and saw that indeed several human-shaped monsters were following us. What surprised me was that they didn't climb the iron chain, but instead stuck to the wall and crawled up in waves, looking like a giant insect, extremely eerie.

  Just as several monsters were about to reach our feet, I looked up and saw that although the black face had not stopped, its speed had clearly decreased a lot. In my anxiety, I shouted at Zhou Huan: "Hit it, otherwise it will be too late."

  Zhou Huan wrapped one arm around the iron chain, securing his body, then raised his gun and fired at the nearest monster, blowing its head off with a burst of bullets.

  I was just about to learn from her and shoot, when I found that the monster that had been blown up didn't stop or fall down. Instead, countless insect-like creatures the size of cigarettes crawled out of its neck stump, densely covering the wall and rapidly closing in on us.

  "I shouted in surprise: 'Oh no, how can there be so many bugs inside? What should I do?!'"

  Zhou Huan stopped shooting and shouted in terror: "I understand, it seems that this 'Ten Thousand Insect Hand' is indeed formidable. He's actually using human corpses to raise these insects. That black sphere must be responsible for reviving them... It looks like we're really out of options this time..."