I thought I was only bumped by that monster, but who knew I would be bleeding from my waist.
Taking off my clothes, a scarlet wound was constantly bleeding.
Seeing this wound, I myself gasped for breath.
"Don't move! Be careful of infection!" Wang Yang said, rummaging through his backpack, and took out some gauze and alcohol.
He told me to bear with it, and then poured the alcohol onto the wound.
For a moment, I felt like my body was no longer my own.
The pain almost made me faint, and my limbs started to tremble uncontrollably.
After treating the wound, Wang Yang told me to take off all my clothes and then bandaged the wound for me with gauze.
"We need to find a way out quickly, this wound of yours might get infected," Wang Yang said.
I nodded weakly, unable to say a word. He took out a plastic bag from his inner pocket, took out a pack of cigarettes, lit one, and handed it to me.
I put the cigarette in my mouth and took two hard puffs before I felt the pain wasn't so bad.
After finishing the cigarette, Wang Yang wrung out my clothes a bit and had me put them on.
Although the clothes were still wet, it was better to wear clothes than none at all.
After eating some food, supported by Li Zhasì, we walked into the passage.
According to Li Zhasì's description, passing through this passage should lead to their previous fork in the road. Only by following that fork back would we be able to get out.
But who knew that this passage seemed to have no end. We walked for more than half an hour without seeing any fork.
"Damn it, is there no end to this road?" Wang Yang cursed and asked Li Zhasì, "Did you guys really come in from here?"
Li Zhasì was also uncertain at this point and said, "We just followed the passage and reached that pool..."
"Was the road you took this one?"
Li Zhasì looked around and shone his flashlight.
Seeing his expression, I knew that this guy had probably forgotten.
After all, he had never been into a tomb before. Experiencing so many things at once, it was already good that he wasn't scared out of his wits.
Wang Yang glanced at me and then at Li Zhasì and said, "Never mind, you guys wait for me here. I'll go ahead and check."
I nodded in agreement with his suggestion.
Now that I was seriously injured, I was already slow when walking, and I still needed Li Zhasì to support me. I was suffering myself.
It was better for him to go ahead lightly and check the situation.
Li Zhasì and I sat down against the wall, and Wang Yang, alone, quickened his pace and continued forward.
"Boss Xiang, have you been to many ancient tombs?" Li Zhasì asked, looking at me.
I said, "Why do you ask?"
"I can see that you and Boss Wang are not ordinary people..."
I smiled and said, "You figured that out?"
Lighting a cigarette, Li Zhasì and I started chatting. I told him that I had been into two tombs before, and each was more dangerous than this one, but I had gotten out in the end, so he shouldn't worry.
After I said that, Li Zhasì's face finally showed a long-lost smile.
But soon, he stared at me with a look of extreme terror, his eyes wide open.
Before I could ask him what was wrong, his pupils dilated further, as if he had seen something incredible.
I quickly noticed that his gaze seemed to be looking behind me.
Behind me was the stone wall, and I could clearly feel that I was leaning against it. There shouldn't be anything else.
Could there be something on the stone wall?
"Ghost!" Li Zhasì shouted, kicking and scrambling backward on the ground.
With his commotion, my nerves also tensed. I reached out and grabbed a stone from the side.
The moment I made up my mind, I threw myself forward, turned around, and was about to go into battle with that thing with the stone when I froze.
The flashlight beam shone on the stone wall. I saw that where I had been sitting, the stone wall was carved with many patterns.
Upon closer inspection, I saw a ghost head carved on it.
Moving up along the direction of the ghost head, I then discovered that the stone walls of this passage were all covered with murals.
Dropping the stone in my hand, I slowly stood up and looked around.
Li Zhasì seemed to have discovered that these were just murals at this moment and came closer to look with me.
The patterns in the murals roughly meant that a person had done something wrong and was imprisoned in a place, guarded by many evil spirits.
The person only had a back, with no specific appearance.
I took a few more steps forward, wanting to find out what the person had done wrong, but found that the murals stopped ahead.
In other words, only the place where we rested had murals, and the other places were empty.
No wonder, if this cave were all murals, we would have discovered it long ago as we walked.
But why were only this section of the walls covered with murals?
Soon I discovered that below the murals, there was actually a door painted. My heart stirred, and I knocked on it with my hand, only to find that it was hollow.
"See if you can push it open," I said to Li Zhasì.
He pursed his lips, seeming to still be a bit dazed, but he did as I said.
He placed his hand on the stone wall and pushed hard, and the door actually opened!
I didn't expect there to be a hidden door here.
Just as I was about to go in and check the situation, Li Zhasì grabbed me and said, "Boss Xiang, how about we wait for Boss Wang to come back before going in?"
I hesitated. I was extremely curious. It made no sense to have a hidden door in a passage.
Generally, underground palaces rarely had hidden doors, unless they were escape routes left by the workers who built the palace.
But this hidden door was clearly not left by the workers themselves. After all, who would put so many murals around a hidden door?
Could this be the way to the main tomb?
Or, could this be a secret passage out?
Seeing that I still wanted to go in, Li Zhasì held me tightly, refusing to let me enter.
In the end, I had no choice but to listen to him and wait for Wang Yang to return.
Wang Yang was gone for more than half an hour.
"It's a dead end ahead," Wang Yang said.
I told him about the hidden door, and he also curiously went over to take a look.
"How about it, do you want to go in and see?" I asked.
Wang Yang hesitated and said, "I'll go in first."
Saying that, he directly squeezed inside.
The hidden door was only about 1.6 meters high. Seeing him go in, I didn't hesitate and followed him.
Behind the hidden door was another passage. I didn't know where it led, but since we had come in, we had to see it through.
After walking for a while, I smelled a rotten plant odor, which is very common in forests.
Why was there the smell of dead wood here?
Soon, as we emerged from the passage, we discovered that less than two or three meters away from us, there was a cliff!