Merchant of the Underworld

So I immediately retorted: "Forget it, I don't think Butcher Zhou would tie people here. After all, there are fruit trees everywhere here, and villagers come up the mountain every day. It's too public..."

Originally, I thought that the man in the fake T-shirt would persuade me and encourage me to move on.

But unexpectedly, the man in the fake T-shirt didn't say anything more. He simply said "Oh" and took the lead to go down the mountain.

But we had just taken two steps when we suddenly heard a cry for help coming from behind.

When I heard it, I immediately felt a little numb, because the voice asking for help turned out to be that of a girl, and it sounded very much like Yin Xinyue's voice.

Although I couldn't hear clearly and it was intermittent, I had no clue now. I finally got a few clues, so how could I give up so easily?

So I immediately stopped the man in the fake T-shirt and ran towards the place where the sound came from without saying a word.

The fake t-shirt man followed.

There were no fruit trees planted in this area, and there was not even a blade of grass within a hundred meters. It was all bare. As I got closer, the cries for help got louder and louder!

This time I heard it very clearly. It was indeed Yin Xinyue's voice. Yin Xinyue's voice was pitiful, full of fear and anxiety. I felt so distressed that I couldn't care less about anything. I had long forgotten the warning in the note.

I ran to the place where the sound came from in one breath. The sound seemed to come from a cave.

When I got closer, everyone was dumbfounded.

The cave was vertically downward from the top of the mountain. It was pitch black inside and it was unknown how deep it was. Yin Xinyue's weak calls for help kept coming and going inside.

As soon as my mind became hot, I wanted to jump down to save others.

But I finally restrained my thoughts and couldn't do this. This was a well, and it was a talking well.

If I jump down, something very dangerous will definitely happen. I might even lose my life here, let alone save Yin Xinyue.

So I resisted the urge and shouted into the cave: "Yin Xinyue, are you down there?"

Help, help!

Yin Xinyue shouted for help.

I immediately comforted her: "Don't worry, I'll go down and save you right now."

Forget it, no matter what is taboo or not, the top priority is to rescue Yin Xinyue.

Even if I am in trouble, I will not hesitate.

But before I went down, I suddenly felt a big hand grab my arm, and then pushed hard. I was a little unsteady and about to fall into the hole.

I was shocked, and subconsciously looked back, but I was horrified to find that the man pushing me was actually the man in the fake T-shirt.

The fake T-shirt man had a sneer on his face and ferocious facial features, which was no longer the expression that the T-shirt man should have.

I looked at him in horror: "What do you mean?"

"It's not interesting." The man in the fake T-shirt said: "If you interfere in our affairs, you will be punished..."

"You're not the T-shirt guy." I said, "Who the hell are you?"

He laughed, reached out and grabbed his face, and then tore it off hard, revealing the face under the mask.

Damn it, it turned out to be Butcher Zhou.

Seeing Butcher Zhou's appearance, I felt sick: "You bastard, how dare you pretend to be a man in a T-shirt? I'm not afraid that he will kill you!"

Butcher Zhou's smile became even more ferocious, and his voice gradually returned to his original voice: "Come on! He can't save himself now, how can he have time to save you."

"Bah!" I cursed: "The man in the T-shirt is so powerful, how could he be in trouble? Stop talking nonsense."

Although I said I was confident on the surface, my heart still skipped a beat at this moment.

I think what Butcher Zhou said is true. If the T-shirt man was okay, he would have come to rescue me directly instead of leaving me a small note... What exactly did he do to the T-shirt man?

"Okay." Butcher Zhou said with a smile, "Then I'll send you to reunite with him!"

After saying that, Butcher Zhou pushed hard and tried to push me into the cave again.

In panic, I grabbed the stone at the entrance of the cave. Butcher Zhou, however, refused to give in. He drew a sword from his back and hid towards my arm.

In desperation, I could only let go of my hand.

Despite this, the sword still left a deep scar on my arm.

My body was falling rapidly, surrounded by the cool breeze. I tried to grab something, but found that there were smooth stone walls on both sides, and there was no place to start...

This cave is really deep, and I didn't fall to the bottom for a long time. I felt even more uneasy. If I didn't find a way to slow down the force of my fall, I would definitely be thrown to death in the end.

I immediately stretched out my hands and feet and got stuck on the stone wall. Although my body was burning with pain, I still persisted.

But the further down I went, the bigger the space became, and my body soon couldn't get stuck on the stone wall. But fortunately, I fell heavily to the ground at this time and did not suffer much damage.

Although it hurt, I gritted my teeth and stood up. There was only one thing on my mind at the moment, and that was to save Yin Xinyue!

I called Yin Xinyue softly, and it took a long time before I finally got her response: "I...I'm here."

I immediately turned on the flash of my phone and looked around, and finally spotted Yin Xinyue's figure in a corner.

She curled up, clasping her knees with her hands, squatting in the corner. After seeing me, I finally couldn't help crying.

I immediately ran up, held Yin Xinyue in my arms, and gently comforted her: "Okay Xinyue, stop crying, didn't I come to save you?"

She wiped her tears and stopped choking: "Brother Zhang, look around here...what is it?"

"What's wrong?" I inexplicably increased the brightness of my phone, but was frightened by the scene in front of me and my heart was pounding.

God, did I fall into hell? The Hungry Ghost Hell among the Eighteen Hells?

In this small underground space, there were densely packed mummies.

The mummy has not rotted, but its skin is a little blackened. The clothes on its body range from ancient times to modern times.

The facial features of the corpse are still there, and the face is extremely distorted, but the body is reduced to skin and bones, and the empty eye sockets are staring at us...

I took a breath, and even the air was filled with a smell of decay.

I hugged Yin Xinyue tighter and dragged her to a corner where there were no corpses. I didn't dare to look at the corpses anymore and just comforted Yin Xinyue softly.

Yin Xinyue finally recovered a little bit, and then she told me a piece of news that made me desperate.

Yin Xinyue's experience was exactly as I thought. She went to Zhou Laoshi's house, only to find that Zhou Laoshi was eating a very strange plant. The plant was sent by Butcher Zhou.

Yin Xinyue was very surprised, why did Zhou Laoshi not eat the big fish and prawns, but he chose to eat this seemingly unappetizing plant?

She was about to go up and ask, but suddenly she felt a pain on the back of her head, fainted, and even the peach wood sword in her hand was taken away.

When she woke up, she appeared here and found the dying man in the T-shirt. The man in the T-shirt had wounds all over his body. It didn't look like a knife wound or a wound caused by an external force. Instead, it looked like a natural split in the skin.

The man in the T-shirt is even thinner. He seems to be able to move only his eyes and not say a word.

Yin Xinyue quickly treated the T-shirt man's wound, but she didn't have any materials on her body, so all she could do was bandage the T-shirt man.

She then fell asleep unknowingly, and when she woke up, she found that the man in the T-shirt had disappeared, and he must have escaped from the cave.

After listening to Yin Xinyue's words, my heart suddenly sank. In my mind, a man in a T-shirt with mediocre fighting ability was actually beaten into a dog. But how did he escape?

And Yin Xinyue just said that after Butcher Zhou knocked her unconscious, the first thing he did was to snatch the small peach wood sword from her hand.

Inferring from this, Butcher Zhou must know the function of the peach wood sword. Maybe Butcher Zhou is also a man of virtue!

Also, his disguise and bone-shrinking skills are so fake that they can even imitate his voice... It seems that we have encountered a powerful enemy this time.

No wonder Butcher Zhou was so arrogant, saying that even the man in the T-shirt could not protect himself.

My heart sank into the abyss, and I cursed myself why I was so stupid? The man in the T-shirt clearly warned me not to violate those three taboos, but I happened to violate them, damn it!

Yin Xinyue asked me if there was any way to escape? I comforted her and said not to worry, I had already made arrangements.

Yin Xinyue seemed to know that I was comforting her, so she didn't ask further questions.

I'm also scratching my head and thinking about a way, how can I escape from here?

However, when I was thinking of a solution, confusions still kept popping up in my mind.

Why did Butcher Zhou pretend to be a T-shirt man and lead us here? What are the mummies in this cave doing?

Yin Xinyue soon fell asleep in my arms. She may be too weak, after all, she didn't eat or drink all day.

I put Yin Xinyue down and looked around for something that could help us escape. But except for the grass all over the ground, there are no other plants, let alone rattan.

I was a little annoyed, so I squatted down and pulled out a piece of grass and observed it carefully.

There is no sunshine at all in this place, and there is not much rain. How on earth do these grasses grow?