luo jia shan ju
Chapter 168 Ghost Fish
No one dared to guarantee an answer to Dodge's question.
Everyone confronted the huge, strange fish before them, unsure of what would happen next.
The Fatty was quite frightened. After being seriously injured, he felt his strength was greatly diminished. He was already thanking the heavens for being able to recover quickly.
Regardless of where this ghost fish came from, its sudden appearance in the pitch-black environment, followed by its eerie stare, had already sent enough danger signals.
"Brother Levan, you lead the way. Let's get out of here quickly." The Fatty felt the situation was not good and urged everyone to prepare to leave as soon as possible.
Levan stared at the ghost fish. Under its gaze, he picked up the torch and retreated quietly, facing the fish.
The Fatty, Zoey, and Dodge also followed Levan, retreating.
They retreated one step, and the ghost fish followed closely, stepping forward as well. It seemed determined to get them, relentlessly following them.
The illuminating orb on the ghost fish's forehead illuminated their path perfectly, making it almost unnecessary to hold the torch.
Levan suddenly turned and sprinted away, the others following behind.
They ran for over a hundred meters in one breath. The light behind them pursued relentlessly, indicating that the ghost fish had not given up easily.
During the run, the Fatty glanced back and saw that the ghost fish had already crossed the crystal grid and was now only a dozen meters behind them.
The Fatty didn't know why such a monster was growing on the other side of the crystal grid, how the ghost fish crossed it, or how it swam in the air.
But with danger so close, the answers to these questions didn't matter anymore.
The ghost fish swam freely in the cave passage, and it looked like it was about to catch up with the Fatty, who was at the end of the line.
The Fatty noticed the light source getting closer and closer. He vaguely felt that his butt was about to be scorched by the light, and he didn't know if this feeling was an illusion.
"Damn it... the ghost fish is catching up! Run! This Fatty can hold it off for a while..."
The Fatty said these words with a heroic and high-spirited air, as if he were ready to die.
"I'll stay with you. Maybe we'll have a chance of winning together." Zoey refused to leave the Fatty to die alone.
Obviously, the Fatty was now going to his death bravely, and it would be a greater loss for Zoey to join him. The Fatty immediately refused, "Tell our little Yu sister not to wait. This Fatty won't be coming back..."
Just as the Fatty and Zoey were at a standstill, Levan suddenly shouted, "There's light..."
The Fatty and Zoey's attention was drawn to Levan.
"There's light ahead! We're saved!"
Levan said excitedly to the people behind him.
The Fatty turned his head and looked forward, and there was indeed a glimmer of light ahead, but it was still some distance away.
The Fatty turned his head again and glanced at the ghost fish behind them. The light bulb on its forehead was almost hovering over their heads.
"Damn it, run! The ghost fish is catching up!"
The Fatty howled and ran forward with all his might.
Dodge also saw the light ahead, exerted strength in his feet, and ran forward desperately.
This time, when they accelerated, they actually maintained the same speed as the ghost fish, and it didn't catch up.
They maintained their current speed and ran forward desperately.
The light ahead was close at hand. Everyone thought they could finally break through the darkness and reach the light, so they used the last of their strength and rushed towards the light.
The group crossed the boundary between light and darkness, and the ghost fish did not chase them.
Everyone lay on the ground, gasping for breath. They had just run at least a thousand meters desperately, plus the last hundred-meter sprint, their lungs were about to explode.
"Damn... got my life back... that was really... not easy."
The Fatty's words expressed the feelings of the others, especially Dodge. If Dodge had known that the road ahead would be so dangerous and tortuous, he wouldn't have followed the Fatty and those "plague gods" to find the meteorite, even if old man Strange had beaten him to death.
However, thanks to her physical condition, Zoey recovered the earliest, and the Fatty's condition quickly recovered as well.
Levan and Dodge, however, were still panting heavily and had not adapted for a long time.
Moreover, they had been in a dark environment for several hours, and their eyes could not adapt to the current bright environment.
From dark to light, it was just a moment. Their eyes were like being blinded by a strong light. Their vision was completely white, and they were no different from blind people.
They were breathing unevenly and couldn't see, so they were unable to judge whether the current environment was safe or not.
After about ten minutes, everyone's eyes gradually adapted to the environment and brightness.
The crystal grids had all disappeared. Looking back, the cave passage they had just run out of was also gone, as if the cave had never existed.
They now seemed to be in a modern human city. Many of the buildings here were extremely similar to the buildings in the external real world in terms of their nature and structure. They could also see many shadows of modern technology.
"Brother Levan, have you seen this place before?"
Levan shook his head. The Fatty guessed from his dazed look that Levan was also visiting this place for the first time.