Chapter 1627 Acquaintance
“Who?” Li Bai looked at the nearby clay figures, feeling a little dazed for a moment.
Zhang Yuanchao looked at Li Bai with some worry, "Daughter, what's wrong with you?"
Li Bai suddenly looked at Zhang Yuanchao and asked nervously: "Didn't you hear? Someone... there was someone just now Call my name.”
“No, old man, I didn’t hear anything.” Zhang Yuanchao became nervous after hearing this.
At this moment, Li Bai did not dare to delay any longer, and walked towards the well with a sudden heart. Since the clue pointed to water, then this well might also be the key.
Li Bai had a guess in his mind that the real exit might be hidden in the well.
But as the two of them inspected the well carefully, they realized that it was an ordinary underground well. Li Bai stretched the lantern into the well mouth as far as possible. There was nothing on the bare well walls inside that could be stepped on. The focal point, and the well water with dark luster is in a very deep position.
“Daughter, this well is very deep, be careful not to fall in.” Zhang Yuanchao reminded.
Li Bai stretched out her hand and pulled off the remaining well rope tied to the wooden windlass. The well rope was much longer than she thought. She tied one end of the well rope around her waist and the other end firmly to draw water. On the wooden pulley, "I'll go down and take a look, and you should keep an eye on the rope."
Zhang Yuanchao was stunned at first, and then immediately stopped him, "I can't help it, my daughter, how can I watch you go down, old man? I will go if you want to go!"
This is not just talk, Zhang Yuanchao seems to have a crush on Li Bai. There was an innate sense of trust, so he started to tear Li Bai off The rope around his waist was then tied tightly to his body, and then he inserted the lantern pole into his waist. After he was ready, he spit into the palms of his hands twice. He grabbed the well rope and was about to go down, but just as his body was about to be submerged. At the entrance of the well, Zhang Yuanchao suddenly stopped, and then looked at Li Bai with complicated eyes.
"Don't worry, I will definitely wait for you to come out." Li Bai made a very serious promise to Zhang Yuanchao, "If you don't believe me, you can tie the other end of the rope to me."
"No. No, my daughter, you misunderstood. Old man, I...Old man, I want to tell you You, if...if I run into trouble down there, my daughter, just leave by yourself and leave me alone."
Looking at Zhang Yuanchao's honest face, Li Bai was deeply shocked. , "You...why are you so nice to me?"
Zhang Yuanchao smiled with a complex expression and did not answer. He loosened the rope and sank his body into the well little by little. Li Bai lay at the mouth of the well and said to the people below: "Remember, I'm not going anywhere. I'm just here waiting for you to come up. You must Be careful.”
Li Bai could tell that Zhang Yuanchao's relaxation was just an act. He was very scared, and his hands that were holding the well rope were shaking, but he still grabbed the well rope without hesitation. It seemed like he was going to perform this task on his behalf. Very dangerous mission.
"Daughter, there are no other holes below, only water." Soon after, Zhang Yuanchao's slightly distorted voice came from the well.
"Plop!"
With the sound of water, Li Bai's nerves suddenly tensed, but the next second Zhang Yuanchao's voice sounded again, this time with doubts in his voice, "Daughter, The water in this well doesn’t seem to be very deep. I threw a piece of mud, and the sound of the water is not right.”
Then Li Bai heard the sound of Zhang Yuanchao playing with the water, but before she could say a word to remind him, Zhang Yuanchao's scream suddenly exploded.
“There is something under the water!” Zhang Yuanchao was so frightened that he dropped the lantern and climbed up desperately.
After hearing this, Li Bai immediately pulled the rope. Soon, Zhang Yuanchao, whose lower body was soaked, rolled out of the well mouth.
After confirming that nothing was following Zhang Yuanchao, Li Bai breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Zhang Yuanchao and asked, "What did you see?"
Zhang Yuanchao, a strong man, looked frightened. Pale, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, "Bones! There are all bones under the well!"
Hearing this, Li Bai was also surprised, "What kind of bones?"
Zhang Yuanchao swallowed, trembling and hugged himself tightly, "It's very small, very thin, it should look like... a baby "
Li Bai immediately turned around to look at the clay figures near the passage. He thought that these babies were hatched from the clay figures, but... why did they all die in the well?
“Are you sure there is no exit below?” Li Bai confirmed with Zhang Yuanchao again.
"No, there are all bones down there, those bones..." Zhang Yuanchao suddenly stopped at this point, then his mouth opened slightly, and his eyes looked behind Li Bai with extreme fear.
When he turned around, Li Bai was also stunned. The statue of Empress Zhusheng who had been standing by the wall not long ago actually moved without anyone noticing. This time, it moved a third of the distance towards the entrance of the cave.
"Not good!" Li Bai immediately realized that in a short time, Empress Zhusheng would block the passage for them to leave, and the two of them would be dead by then.
However, judging from the movements of Empress Zhusheng, that weird passage is most likely the only way to leave here.
No longer hesitating, the two of them immediately approached the passage. Zhang Yuanchao seemed to have thought of something. Before leaving, he actually coiled the well rope into a ball and carried it on his shoulders.
During this process, there was no movement from Empress Zhusheng, but when Li Bai was about to enter the cave entrance, the strange call appeared again.
"Li Bai..."
This time Li Bai heard clearly that the other party was weak, as if he was going to die in the next second.
"Who?" Li Bai immediately looked in the direction of the sound. The light there was very poor and he could only see a dozen vague outlines of clay figures.
"Daughter, I...I heard it this time too." Zhang Yuanchao looked nervously at the clay figures.
I'm afraid they won't be able to escape unless they figure out what's going on. Li Bai held a lantern and cautiously approached the clay figure in the darkness.
The workmanship of these clay figurines is very poor. Some of them don't even have facial contours carved. They look more like a thick layer of mud has been smeared directly on the corpse.
Just when Li Bai was holding a lantern and looking at each one -
"Li...Bai..."
Li Bai's whole body trembled at this time, she heard It was very clear that the sound came from the clay figure, the clay figure against the wall!
And what’s even weirder is that she actually heard a hint of familiarity in the voice.
"Hu Jingyi!" The one who reacted more strongly than Li Bai was Zhang Yuanchao, "This is Hu Jingyi's voice!"
Hu Jingyi was the painting teacher who disappeared on the first night, and was undoubtedly kidnapped by Empress Zhusheng.
Li Bai walked forward quickly and soon felt two holes under the rough nose of the clay figurine, with slight breathing inside.
"The person is still alive, he is not dead yet!" Li Bai was also shocked by what he saw.
Just when Li Bai was about to smash the outer mud shell and rescue the person, Zhang Yuanchao immediately stopped her, "This won't work, the dry mud will tear off his face! Water, water!" (End of chapter)