Chapter 63

Lin Yi, Wu Xie, Uncle San, Xiao Ge, Pan Zi, and A Kui stood by the mountain stream.

The old man leading the way smiled and said, "It's still too early. The boatman definitely hasn't started work yet. Let's rest for a bit and have a smoke."

Wu Xie looked at his watch and said, "It's past two in the afternoon, and he hasn't started work yet. What kind of working hours does this boatman have?"

The old man laughed and said, "There's only one boatman here, and he's the best. He starts work whenever he wants. Sometimes he doesn't work for a whole day, which can drive people crazy."

He paused and added, "There's no way around it. For miles around, he's the only boatman. He can do whatever he wants, and even the village chief can't do anything about it."

Faced with such an arbitrary boatman, everyone was at a loss.

Uncle San remarked, "Then shouldn't you hold a meeting and replace him with someone more efficient?"

The old man smiled and said, "We've thought about it, but you're from out of town and don't know. The mountain god here only listens to him. Anyone else who enters that cave will never come out. Only he can take people through, and no one knows how he does it."

"Ah, so we still have to go through a cave ahead?"

Uncle San was surprised and immediately took out the map. After looking at it for a while, he suddenly realized, "It really is a river cave. Old man, can this cave really eat people?"

The old man chuckled, "That's what the previous generations said. I don't remember clearly, but I heard it from my family. I don't know if it's true."

Everyone exchanged glances, thinking it might be related to an ancient tomb, and urged the old man to tell more.

Seeing everyone's interest, the old man got excited, took a puff of his cigarette, and began to tell the story.

It turned out that the cave had been there even before the village was established. Unfortunately, no one knew that the cave was connected at both ends.

The cave was very strange; once someone entered, they never came out. Over time, the villagers believed that there was a snake spirit inside, which had set up hidden stakes in the water to prevent boats from entering.

One day, a man suddenly appeared in the village, rowing a small boat from the cave. He claimed to be a peddler from outside, but the villagers didn't believe him and said he was a snake spirit in disguise, wanting to beat him to death.

Fortunately, at that time, a few wives from neighboring villages recognized his Xiangxi accent and vouched for him, saying he was indeed a peddler who visited their village every year, bringing cosmetics from outside.

A few clan leaders sent some fast runners to the neighboring village to verify, and it turned out to be true, so they let him go.

Since then, the cave seemed to recognize people, and only the peddler's family could enter and exit freely, without any mistakes for hundreds of years.

The old man finished his story, took another puff of his cigarette, and said, "We rarely use this water route. There's a mountain path on the hilltop, and we usually take that one. But you have too much stuff, and the hill has been unstable in recent years, with rocks falling frequently. Several people have been crushed. We don't want to take that risk, so let's wait."

Everyone looked up and saw the steep mountains and overlapping ridges. The mountain path indeed looked difficult to navigate.

If it were before, Lin Yi would definitely suggest taking the mountain path, even if it was more troublesome. After all, there were "zombies" in that river cave! Not the kind for the Dragon Boat Festival!

Although following Xiao Ge (Zhang Qiling) should be relatively safe, it was only relatively so.

Now, with the "Three Pure Bells" and the large group, Lin Yi wasn't afraid anymore. He also wanted to test the power of the item created by the system.

Uncle San pointed to the old man's dog and asked, "Can this dog enter and exit the river cave without any problems? Didn't you say you use it to send messages?"

"I don't know. It's just what the previous generations said. Who knows if it's true?" The old man tapped his pipe on the ground and shook his head.

Uncle San was slightly taken aback, thought for a moment, and then clapped his hands at the dog, saying, "Come here."

The dog obediently ran over, and Uncle San picked it up and sniffed it, his face changing. "My goodness, what is this smell?"

Pan Zi also came forward and sniffed, his face changing. "This is the smell of a corpse!"

Wu Xie and A Kui both changed their expressions, but Lin Yi and Xiao Ge remained calm.

Lin Yi said calmly, "It seems the river cave ahead is a corpse cave."

Everyone looked at him, some curious, some surprised. Wu Xie couldn't help but ask, "What is a corpse cave?"

Lin Yi smiled and said, "It's a place where bodies are piled up. Where there's a corpse cave, there must have been a massacre. In such places, living things that enter can't come out!"

He paused and added, "But I've heard of a method where children are fed human flesh from a young age, accumulating the smell of death in their bodies. When they grow up, they become like the dead, invisible even to ghosts."

Wu Xie was shocked and said, "You mean the peddler's family is alive because they grew up eating human flesh?"

Uncle San also looked surprised at Lin Yi and said, "Little brother, you know a lot. A few years ago, I found a similar cave in Taiyuan, Shanxi. It was a place where the Japanese had massacred and piled up bodies.

At the time, I thought it was interesting and conducted an experiment, putting dogs and ducks on bamboo rafts and setting up cameras to push them in. The cave was about a kilometer long, and I prepared enough cable.

Inside, it was pitch black. The rafts disappeared, and when I tried to pull them back, they suddenly flipped over. In the end, I only saw half a face, too close to the screen to make out what it was."

Hearing such a terrifying story, Wu Xie and A Kui were both frightened, except for Uncle San, Lin Yi, Xiao Ge, and Pan Zi.

Wu Xie was experiencing this for the first time, so his fear was understandable.

A Kui, a tall man over 1.9 meters, was also very scared, his face turning pale.

At this moment, everyone exchanged glances, thinking the old man was trying to lead them into a "corpse cave"!

Everyone became more alert.

The old man's expression changed, and he called to the dog, "Lvdandan, go get the boat!"

The dog barked and jumped into the water, swimming to the back of the mountain.

Uncle San said, "We'll be passing through the corpse cave soon. Everyone, stay alert."

After a while, "Lvdandan" swam back, and the old man slapped his pipe on his pants. "Let's go! The boat is here."

A flat-bottomed boat emerged from behind the mountain, towing a raft. A middle-aged man who looked like a mountain dweller stood at the bow.

Lin Yi looked at the middle-aged man at the bow, thinking about how he had grown up eating human flesh, and felt a chill. The thought made him feel sick!

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