chapter 23

I thought the cave was dark and wet. When I landed, I realized that it didn’t bring me any discomfort.

When I settled, I was in a puddle, and the water couldn’t even be submerged. I could see that along my right side was a hole that extended out. A person did not dig that hole, but more like a crack. I walked along this crack, and it didn’t take long for me to feel something was not right. It felt like I went to the parking lot on the second basement in summer. That coldness penetrated directly into the bone.

I travelled carefully, raising fear that there would be an institution here. But I walked for ten minutes and found nothing wrong, so my courage began to grow.

There was a bend in front. Because of my ability to have night vision, I walked very fast. I took a big step and turned, but just after rolling, I felt a thump under my feet, as if I stepped on something.

I stopped suddenly. When I lifted my feet, I saw a sticky thing under my feet. Judging by the shape, it should be a scorpion-like bug before I stepped on it.

I lowered my head and started rubbing my feet. After a few rubs, I just raised my head, and I was terrified and took three steps back. I saw a crowd of people staring at me on the ground.

In this way, after retreating behind the curve, I turned and ran. But I stopped after running for dozens of meters. I began to recall the appearance of these faces. Then I leaned on the wall and lighted a cigarette, thinking while smoking, the faces of those faces did not seem three-dimensional. In my memory, these things are more like bugs lying on the ground one by one.

So I gave myself the trend of boldness and curiosity, and I walked towards the bend again. After reaching the curve, I slowly stretched out my head, and at a glance, I saw a large number of faces of people filling the passage.

If I look closely, although these human faces show all forms of human beings brilliantly, they are more like a picture of where to draw, and in the shadow below this human face are legs lined together, above these legs are two bean-sized eyes.

These are the face bugs that I have never seen much. They may have evolved to look like human faces to protect themselves and prevent natural enemies from attacking them. As long as the natural enemies come, use the face to face the natural enemies, then the natural enemies will be frightened.

Although this can be regarded as a coincidence of evolution, it is too terrible for me at this time.

These insects look like a scorpion with a relatively durable shell, eight legs, a largemouth in front, and sharp teeth inside. Dragging a long tail behind, the tail cocked up, with a triangular spear on it,…….. probably a weapon used to attack.

To tell the truth, although I knew that these were just a giant bug, I was still a bit creepy when I looked at those different faces. But when I looked up into the depth of the hole, I found that there was a doorway in front, and under the doorway were two black-painted door panels. When I saw these two doors, I immediately thought of those two doors in my house. These two doors look so familiar, and they looked the same as those in my house. I even vaguely saw the pattern from the two doors, and I couldn’t see clearly from far away. To find out what is behind these two doors, I have to pass these faces.

I had a feeling that these things here must be related to the changes in my family,…whether there is any baby inside. Although I have no definite evidence, I believe in my feelings that I have to go over and see what is behind this door. If I can get to the underworld through here, I will simply go to my wife and forget it. I miss my wife.

When I thought about my wife, my courage came and took two steps towards these insects, but after these two steps I found out that these insects are not the ground, nor the rocks, but the ground has been covered up by bones.

The bugs were gnawing at the bones and making a squeaking sound. But after I took these two steps forward, these bugs turned around, the tail was raised high, and the big mouth was opened. The teeth inside were like serrations, one by one, issued to me ……. a horrifying threat.

At that time, the faces of those people had changed, and they even showed an angry gesture.

I took two steps back again, and these face bugs were considered relaxed. The faces on their backs also became calm. Then, all of them got under the bone, that is, in just ten seconds, all of these face bugs were gone. Only the group that was trampled to death was still on the ground.

But I knew that this trap has been laid out. As soon as I walk over, these things will immediately flow out and cover my whole body. In a few minutes, I will become a bone, no difference from these on the ground… These insects might be surviving by eating humans.

A worm with such a big face is already scary enough, and the face adds to human fear. At this time, while accepting the temptation of the two doors in front, I endured the fear brought by this face bug. I am very contradictory.

I have encouraged myself in my heart countless times to rush past, but when I thought about the scene where the bugs ate it, I would shrink back once. In the end, it was fear that defeated temptation. I was about to give up, at least, go out first, and come here again when I am ready.

At this time, one of the two gates across the door creaked a little. A crack seemed to have appeared in the gate. My first reaction was to hide, and I said, is there anyone here?

I slowly raised my head to observe but saw nothing. But then, a shadow flew directly towards my face, and the speed was so fast that I couldn’t dodge at all. Immediately, I felt that my forehead was directly torn, and the blood was hot. But then, the attack ended abruptly, and I saw a half-height yellow skin squatting on the white bone not far in front of me, staring at me.

It seemed shocked, and I was also puzzled. My heart said that even if the yellow skin became fine, I had never heard of the yellow skin attacking humans. Then I figured it out. This yellow skin should be the natural enemy of those face insects. Huang Pizi attacked me like a face bug just now, but then found something wrong, stopped the attack, and squatted on the ground to start observing me.

I wiped a handful of blood on my face, and the wound healed quickly, and the pain disappeared. I looked at this dog’s significant yellow skin, the slender figure, squatting there like a girl. This is the first time I saw such a significant yellow skin, muttered: “It should be fine even if it is so big!”

I took two steps forward, and the yellow skin turned around and ran. After a few steps, I crouched over the bones. Afterwards, he started to beat the bones with his hind feet, the rhythm is like walking. Yes, it is imitating human walking.

Sure enough, there was movement under the bones, and I hadn’t waited for me to see. The yellow skin was short, and one end got under the bones, and it swayed a few times underneath. When it came out again, a pair of paws held a face bug got out, and at the same time, there were three scratches on the face of the face bug, revealing the tender meat inside.

This face bug should be a property of crabs, but I can eat crabs, and it is absolutely impossible for me to eat face bugs. But the yellow skin didn’t matter, and when he opened his mouth, he swallowed the flesh of the face bug. Not only does it eat meat, but it also doesn’t even let go of the shells and legs. In the end, he ate a clean meal, then turned around and walked towards the two doors step by step. After entering the door, the door closed with a creak.

The whole cave was quiet again. At the same time, the yellow skin again aroused my curiosity, and the fire of desire to find out was rekindled. I started to move forward, step by step, every time I took a step, my heart was beating faster.

When I stepped on the first bone, I heard a click, and the bone was crushed by me. At the same time, I also knew that those facial insects who have drilled underneath must have noticed my footsteps. Maybe in the next step, these insects will gush out, leaving me with only one hair. It’s a bone!

But this time let me back, I am even more unwilling. I even felt that as long as I passed that door, I could see my wife, Dai Yue. It was more like a rope in front of me, pulling me forward.

In fact, it may be that the door has something magical that attracts people to the past. Otherwise, there will not be so many bones on the ground! I believe these people are here to find the treasure!

My heartbeat is faster, as the extreme fear makes my heart beat faster, and every time I take a step forward, the heartbeat is not as fast. At this moment, I felt that the questions were rising rapidly, and an inexplicable passion burst out. I lifted my legs and ran towards the front. When I ran to the centre of the bone, I stepped on a skull and slid underneath. I lay directly in the bone.

It was at this time that those people’s faces flooded out of the ground like insects and tides, but in a flash, I was drowned. This first bite was on my shoulder, and my heart was over, and this was over.

The pain of the bone made me yell, and my heartbeat was speeding up again. I estimate that my heart rate should be around 200 at this time. Questions were still rising. These bugs began to tear my body, and blood burst out. But the heart didn’t stop there. My fear reached an extreme height, and the heart’s beating speed reached an extreme speed. I feel about 800 at this time!

Of course, this is just a guess. This time, I felt my body burn with a scream. These bugs jumped from me in an instant and burrowed directly into the ground. And I also felt alive and crawled out of this bone.

Not far away, I looked back, and I crawled out of a red bloodstain!