C48

In the midst of the darkness, Zhu Yingqiong and I were dragged into the water by an unknown object, and Duan Hui was nowhere to be found. I struggled desperately in the water, and after a few mouthfuls of water, I could only feel a force grabbing onto my ankle, pulling me back with all my might.

I frantically started to kick backwards with my legs, but I couldn't kick anything at all. I could only turn around and dive into the water, wanting to see if it was a human or a Water Ghost dragging us. However, when I turned my head, I found that there seemed to be a faintly discernible green light under the water, wrapped around my ankles.

I was so angry that I didn't have a weapon in my hand and could only clench my fists and pounce on them. I saw that there were still a few figures huddled together under the green light.

Before I could think it through, I had already rushed to the location of the green light. Those figures were still motionless. I moved closer to them and stopped in my tracks. My face was filled with astonishment.

Those figures were actually all bones. They had died at the bottom of the water in a sinister manner and their postures were extremely strange, and there were also many firearms on the ground, which should have been the Sakyamuni Army from back then. Those green lights were the phosphorescence that radiated from their bones.

How could a human skeleton grab my feet?

I whirled around in the water and tried to stand up, but my ankle was still stuck in the water. I couldn't see anything, so I started to feel more and more anxious.

In the midst of my panic, I suddenly felt someone grabbing onto my back, followed by a strong burst of force. I was pulled upwards by someone, and with a splash, I charged out of the water, only to see Zhu Yingqiong gasping for breath and anxiously pulling at my clothes: "Run!"

It turns out that she has already escaped underwater. Without saying a word, I start to run underwater.

Our flashlight and the mine light had already been extinguished, and we could see a lot of green light under the water, which should be the phosphorescence of the bones. It seemed that a lot of people had died at the bottom of this waterway, so we charged forward along the waterway and picked up our backpacks.

"There's a dark river ahead, we're at the exit!"

In the darkness, I saw a bunch of white light emitting from Zhu Yingqiong's wrist watch. It turned out to be the watch on her wrist, following the weak light, we had already arrived at the entrance of the waterway, right in front of us was a roaring dark river. The sound of the water rumbled, and we stopped by the dark river.

Feeling that there was no water under our feet and that we had stepped on solid gravel, we heaved a heavy sigh of relief and collapsed onto the ground. The situation just now was too dangerous, I didn't even see what had pulled us into the water.

Breathing heavily, I took off my backpack and took out the items inside. By the faint light of my watch, I could see that a lot of things had been wet. Fortunately, we had put the important things into our waterproof bag in advance, so they weren't wet.

We turned on the flashlight again, and the light came out. The surroundings immediately became clear, and what appeared before us was a surging dark river. The sound of water roared, and it was over ten meters wide, flowing into the darkness.

On the other side of the dark river is an extremely spacious flat area. We saw many buildings, all of them extremely simple and crude, densely packed like a town, but many of the houses had already collapsed, and the most right side of the house was directly demolished. We saw more modern buildings, and it was even the Japanese's concrete and steel houses.

In my impression, the Underground City should be extremely splendid, having a castle and palace, just like the underground kingdom. However, what appeared in front of me was in pieces, just like a town, very different from what I imagined it to be.

The number of people living in this kind of place could at most be two or three thousand. Could it be that the so-called White Kingdom back then was actually a small tribe?

The White Kingdom back then was formed when Loong Liaan's veterans gathered together, there weren't many of them, and the reason why he was able to defeat the Tang Army several times was because he had the advantage in the terrain of the Wild Mountain.

How could they have the ability to build an underground kingdom? To put it bluntly, Underground City was like a tattered town moving underground.

We rested in place for a good while longer, discussing the so called Underground City with Zhu Yingqiong. I suddenly realized that something was wrong, and after looking around me for a while, I knew that something was wrong.

F * ck, Duan Hui is gone!

When Zhu Yingqiong and I met with danger in the cave, I remembered that Duan Hui was running towards the front. After that, the situation was so chaotic that we did not notice Duan Hui, and even after running out, we did not hear his voice.

I looked back at the water hole with my flashlight, but it was so dark I couldn't see anyone inside.

Zhu Yingqiong said: "When Duan Hui was running at the very front, could he have already escaped?"

My heart thought that it was also possible, thus I raised my head to shout, but the sounds of the shouts continued to echo. However, I did not hear Duan Hui's reply, only the sounds of Dark River s roaring.

This was strange. This guy didn't have any flashlight or equipment. Where could he run to?

I suddenly looked at the underground river in front of me, and my face instantly changed. Duan Hui was fleeing for his life without any light source, could it be that he accidentally fell into the river and was washed away by the water?

This possibility was very high. When Zhu Yingqiong and I came out, if it weren't for the faint light from our watches, we would have been tricked, because the dark river was too close to the water hole.

We searched the surroundings for more than ten minutes, and in the end, we returned to our original spot in disappointment. Duan Hui had indeed disappeared, although I really hated this fellow, I still felt uncomfortable thinking that this was a human life after all.

From the time we entered the Sky Cavern until now, it had been a dozen or so hours of danger. We were already so hungry that our stomachs were rumbling with hunger, so we could only stay there and rest to eat something to fill our stomachs. The food was becoming less and less, and now we have found the Underground City.

After I finished eating, I started to get up to find a way to cross the dark river. Zhu Yingqiong suddenly patted on my shoulder as she said with a grave expression on her face, "Chen San, don't go near the water's edge."

I looked back at her. "What's the matter?"

Zhu Yingqiong asked: "Did you clearly see what was in the pipe just now?"

I shook my head. Back then, it was too chaotic and I couldn't see anything clearly. Being able to keep my life was already a blessing from the heavens.

Zhu Yingqiong suddenly sat down where she was and took off her shoes to roll up her pants. I was stunned for a moment, not knowing what she was going to do.

I squatted down and saw that there was an additional purple-black mark on the snow-white skin of Zhu Yingqiong's ankles. It just happened to wrap around her ankles, and at first I didn't understand what it was, but when I looked carefully with narrowed eyes, my face turned pale with fright.

The handprint was not large, it looked like the handprint of a two or three year old child, but it was imprinted on Zhu Yingqiong's ankle.

I widened my eyes as I felt that it was unbelievable. Suddenly, I thought of the human bones I saw at the bottom of the water.

I quickly pulled up my pants too and looked at my ankle. When I saw that there were indeed a few handprints on my ankle, which were about the same as the one on Zhu Yingqiong's leg. They were all purple and green, as if they were imprinted on my ankle.

I was silent for a long time before I turned back and shone my flashlight on the waterway again. There was nothing but silence, but it was hard to imagine that there was an unspeakable danger lurking under the quiet waters.

"Don't go near the water unless you have no other choice. This place is too strange!"

I nodded with an extremely ugly expression. Just as I was about to get up and look for a way to cross the dark river, I suddenly heard a gunshot from the Underground City in front of me. It exploded under the deathly silence of the underground, and it was extremely ear-piercing!

Was Fourth Uncle and the rest in the Underground City?

and I looked at each other, feeling extremely shocked in our hearts, we anxiously ran along the edge of the dark river, and after walking for five or six minutes, we finally saw a suspension bridge built on top of the dark river. From the material used, it should have been built by the People of White Kingdom back then, but I saw reinforced steel plates on the bridge.

The source of the gunshots came from the very back of the Underground City. It was completely dark over there, and our flashlight simply could not reach that location, so we did not know what happened. We could only cross the suspension bridge quickly and enter the Underground City!