Monument of Life and Death

  Chapter 505 The Underwater World

  A creaking noise came from the innermost room.

  Xiaolan and Baomu took a few steps forward.

   "What's going on?" Xie Yan asked with an empty voice.

   Xiaolan did not answer, but moved a little further forward, looking towards the end of the corridor in the dark.

   "Get the beads."

  Listening to Xiaolan's words, Xie Yan immediately grabbed the orb and held it tightly in his hand.

  The three of them walked into the corridor together.

  Qin Sicong's back figure gradually appeared in front of them, he stood there blankly, looking up at the wall in front of him.

  "Qin Sicong?" Xiaolan asked.

  Qin Sicong turned his head stiffly, his eyes full of surprise.

   Then he raised his hand and pointed it forward.

  A mass of dark things is hanging on the wall.

  The thing was as long as one person, and it was in the shape of a spindle. The oil-black surface was covered with rough lines. A long rope dangled the thing, causing it to hang in mid-air, slowly spinning round and round.

   "What is this?" Xie Yan's eyes widened, "Like a... huge pupa."

   "Maternal body!" Xiaolan yelled out softly, and quickly stretched out both hands to grab Qin Sicong's sleeves, "Run! This is the mother body!"

   Xiaolan did not pull Qin Sicong's body. He trembled and shook his head with his lips, his voice was a little choked, "It... is my face."

  A few people looked at the giant pupa together. The pupa body was still spinning. Finally, a white flower was exposed in front of them. It was the face of the man they saw during the day.

  The man's face was serious, his eyes closed tightly, and his face was wrapped in a black pupa, looking extremely pale.

  Suddenly, he opened his eyes.

  Four people shook together.

  Dark eyes bleed, and the men’s eyes pierced them.

   The creaking sound is louder.

With a stab, a crack suddenly appeared on the black chrysalis, revealing the white flowers inside.

  A few black spots squeezed out from the gap, and buzzing sounds rang in the ears of the four people.

   "Run!" Xie Yan no longer lowered his voice, but yelled, "It's a poisonous bee!"

   Xiaolan pulled up Qin Sicong and ran away.

   "But...my face..."

   "I got my face, let's run!"

  As soon as Xiaolan’s words landed, the cracks in the giant chrysalis opened wider, and more venomous bees flew out of the chrysalis and pounced on the four people who hurriedly escaped.

  Xieyan kicked the gate, and the four of them quickly ran out.

  The black bee colony was like a dark cloud, following them closely, and one or two faster poisonous bees could even be seen passing by their ears.

  Four people ran on the trail, and the bee colony gradually approached.

  "What should we do?!" Jieyan waved a face of the poisonous bee with his sleeve and shouted loudly, "This thing won't let us go! Or else throw the beads away..."

   "No!" Xiaolan immediately retorted.

   "Water!..." Qin Sicong yelled while panting, "bees are afraid of water..."

   By the way, water!

   "Let’s go to the pond behind the village!"

   Xiaolan shouted, and led the four people to turn to the right. The pond was not far from them. After passing a house, a peaceful lotus pond appeared in front of them.

  The swarm seems to know what they want to do, and it's faster.

  The black bee colony is about to cover their heads.

  There is still half a step away from the pond, but Xiaolan's hand suddenly tingles. Before she even raised her right hand to see what was happening, her eyes went dark and she fell straight to the surface of the water.

  It's like having a long, long dream.

  In her dream, Xiaolan remembered that she had not rested for so many days.

  There is only endless floating and relaxation in the dream.

  There are also a few...faces that flashed from time to time.

  Face, there are faces everywhere.

  Don’t understand, and don’t want to think.

  If it weren't for an earthquake in the dream world, Xiaolan wouldn't even want to wake up.

   Therefore, when she opened her eyes, Xiaolan sat up as if the patient with severe waking up was disturbed by the dream.

  "Xiaolan!" Baomu in front of him hugged himself with tears.

   Xiaolan put away her fangs and stared at the people in front of her in a daze.

  Three faces of men.

   Xiaolan looked at the person holding him with Baomu's face, and only reacted for a long time, and then pushed him away, "What are you doing?!"

   "Xiaolan, we are all back," Baomu sniffed aggrievedly, "If you don't believe me, touch your face."

   Xiaolan looked at the three of them, then looked down at herself.

   "If you don't believe me, look at the water, there is a pool of water." Xie Yan held his arm and pointed behind Xiaolan.

   "I'm back..." Xiaolan touched her face in disbelief, "Is...Is this level over? Have we cleared it?"

  The three shook their heads.

  "Not yet," Baomu helped Xiaolan up, "but we finally understand the content of the fourth page."

  "Fourth page..." Everything about the book in the coffin slowly returned to Xiaolan's mind, "What is it?"

  "It is the lotus leaf." Xie Yan took out the painting and said, pointing to the irregular circle on it.

  "Lotus leaf?"

   "Yes, the lotus leaves in this pond are painted on this painting, which refers to the pond. We just jumped into the pond and arrived here."

   Xiaolan listened to Baomu's words, and then looked around her body.

  They were at the end of a long and narrow tunnel. There was a deep pool beside the four of them. The tunnel was so deep that there was no way to see that end. Only the orange wall lamps that appeared occasionally on the rock wall provided a glimmer of light.

   "This is... the space under the pond?" Xiao Lan asked incredulously.

  The three nodded.

  "You were stung by a poisonous bee, but it doesn't seem to be a big problem," Qin Sicong pointed to Xiaolan's hand, "It's just a little more sleep."

   Xiaolan nodded, "That book..."

  Xieyan quickly unfolded the book, took out a few wet sheets of paper, and the four people gathered together to read it.

  "Since the fourth picture is a lotus leaf, it points to the space under the pond for us. The meaning of the fifth picture, is it just..."

  Everyone looked at the long narrow tunnel in front of them.

   "What's inside?" Xiaolan asked.

  Baomu shook his head, "We tried to walk forward, but we couldn't make it. We wanted to come back here first. After all, you are still dizzy and you may need water."

"thank you all."

   Xiaolan smiled, only to realize that he was indeed thirsty. After he was full, he wiped his mouth and looked towards the tunnel.

   "What does it mean to be unable to walk? Is this tunnel very long?"

"not that simple……"

  The three straightened up and looked into the dark tunnel together.

   "Let's take you through it once, and you'll know it after one walk."

  Four people were walking in the tunnel. Xiaolan looked at the side wall of the tunnel against the fifth page of the book in the coffin.

"right here."

   "There is nothing to deny," Xie Yan said lazily, "but the problem is, hey, you'll understand later."

  The four people walked for another ten minutes.

   Xie Yan snorted, "It's almost done."

   Xiaolan looked at them curiously.

   "It should be almost done," Qin Sicong turned around, "Let's turn our heads back."

   "Look back?"

   "Well, you look back."

   Xiaolan turned around and walked a few steps behind the three of them, suddenly her eyes widened.

  They are back.

   "Look, that's it," Xie Yan pointed to the tunnel helplessly. "No matter how long we walk, we will never reach the end, and once we turn around, we will be back to where we started."

   "We suspect... we have never walked in at all," Qin Sicong said.

   "You mean, we have been wandering around the entrance of the cave?" Xiaolan concluded.

  The three nodded.

   "Will it be, only when nine people arrive, we can..." Qin Sicong said softly.

  The four were silent for a while.

   "You mean we can give up?" Xie Yan said grimly.

   "I didn't mean that..."

   "Then you have been among those nine people and nine people. Now there are only four of us left. Are those still useful?"

   "I just put forward an idea."

   "It’s pretty good..."

Qin Sicong, who was a tall man, was flushed by Jie Yanpao. It was Xiaolan and Baomu who interrupted their quarrel, and the atmosphere finally eased.

   "That's right," Xiaolan stood up abruptly from the ground, "Since we are all changed back to the original state, where is the bead? Is the bead still there?"

   "I won't be there when I woke up," Xie Yan shrugged, "Maybe it's his face."

  He pointed to Qin Sicong.

   "Oh," Xiaolan frowned, "We haven't seen what was drawn on the last picture."

  The others seemed to have only thought of this, and looked at Xiaolan blankly.

  "Do you remember the painting you saw on the beads?" Xiaolan asked Baomu and Jieyan.

   "I remember there were a few wavy curves," Baomu gestured with his fingers, "but I didn't see the details clearly."

   "Me too." Xie Yan said quickly.

  Not to mention Qin Sicong, he was talking to the giant chrysalis at that time, and he didn't even see what the beads looked like.

  The three people squatted on the ground and scribbled some weird things according to memory. They couldn't see why, but there were too many things they didn't understand, and it was not bad at all.

  After checking the contents of the book in the coffin, everyone looked at the tunnel again.

  How do you go through this tunnel and find the nine doors in the coffin?

  "Otherwise, try to go further this time?" Xie Yan asked.

  So everyone really left again.

  Walk until the three men are tired, and when they turn around, they once again see the familiar pond.

   "Walk backwards once?"

  The three of them walked backwards, watching them get farther and farther away from the entrance of the tunnel.

   "Is it done this time?" Xie Yan said, turning around.

  Others followed him and turned around.

  They are back again.

  The four people squatted down on the edge of the pool, looking desperately at the four faces that finally returned to themselves.

  Jieyan flipped through the blank book in the coffin irritably, as well as some of the paintings they copied.

  Xiaolan and Baomu back to back, concentrating on them.

  Qin Sicong sat cross-legged beside the tunnel and sighed boredly, then he reached into his front and fumbled for a few times, and took out something.

  As soon as Xiaolan saw the thing, she stood up and made Baomu almost lie down.

   "The mask is still there?!"

  What Qin Sicong held in his hand was the black wooden mask.

  Qin Sicong looked at the three people who suddenly approached, "Ang".

   "Why didn't you say that this thing is still there?!" Xie Yan complained openly.

  Qin Sicong handed out the mask at a loss, "I...I don't know what this has to do with..."

   "What if the clue is on the mask? Are you responsible?..." Xie Yan complained cursingly.

   "But when we walked through the tunnel just now, this mask was always on me," Qin Sicong defended, "Aren't we still going out?"

  "Since it is a mask," Xiaolan handed the mask back to Qin Sicong, "You can try it on your face."

   "Wear it on the face?"

   "Hmm."

  Qin Sicong picked up the mask awkwardly and met his own face. When his eyes looked at them through the two holes in the mask, the three of them shivered involuntarily.

  Qin Sicong's shy and friendly eyes, after passing through the two diamond-shaped holes, actually gave people a kind of cold fear like a thorn on the back.

   "What's wrong?" Qin Sicong said as he wanted to take off the mask.

   "No, don't take it down," Xiaolan held him down, "Just wear it like this, turn around, we enter the tunnel and walk forward."

  The three of them followed the inexplicable Qin Sicong, step by step, slowly entering the tunnel.

  Four people passed a wall lamp.

   A whistle, it seems that a warm wind blows by, and the surroundings suddenly become brighter.

  The faint flame in the wall lamp suddenly became larger, illuminating this dark area.

  Qin Sicong was taken aback by the flames and almost took off the mask, but was caught by Xiaolan and Baomu one by one.

   "Don't be afraid, just go forward like this." Xiaolan said, pushing Qin Sicong halfway.

  Baomu also nodded, "We may have walked in."

  The four people walked to the second wall lamp, and they whirred again, and the second wall lamp was also lit.

  Xieyan mustered up his courage, turned his head to look, and said excitedly, "It's finally not a pool of water anymore!"

Behind    is a tunnel that has become brightly lit.

  The ninth light was also lit.

  A red-brown curved wooden door appeared in front of them.

   "Why is it just one?" Jie Yan looked at the door and then at the sixth picture in his hand.

  "Do you want to open it?" Qin Sicong asked Xiang Xiaolan, holding his mask down.

  Xiao Lan stretched out her hand, the brass door handle was not cold, on the contrary, there was a slight warmth, as if someone had just used it not long ago.

   Twist.

  The wooden door opened silently, revealing the world behind the door.

  It was a wide semi-arc space, and nine doors lined up one by one, appearing opposite them.

  The anti-inflammatory probe looked for a long time and asked, "Aren't you going in?"

  No one has the meaning of going first.

   "Give me the mask, and I will go in first." Xie Yan stretched out his hand towards Qin Sicong.

Before Qin Sicong could react, Xie Yan went straight to grab his mask. The two robbed and staggered by the narrow door. Xiaolan looked at the appearance of the two, pretending to touch them, and the two fell in neatly. Inside the door.

  (End of this chapter)