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The situation in front of us was completely out of our expectations. No one expected that someone would know that we were inside and lock the door. Because there had always been Beastmen guarding outside the metal gate, we never had the same question. Who was it that had locked us up when the Beastmen had just dispersed?

Hu Guangzu?

Duan Hui who did not know whether he was dead or alive?

Or was it a demon beast?

This doesn't make sense. What is the point of doing this?

There is only this one possibility, and he knows that there are a lot of us, so he does not dare to make a move. He only knows that the entire Fort House is extremely narrow, and the only exit is this iron door.

Using Zhu Yingqiong's words, we might not even be able to blast open a steel door even if we use grenades. I don't think we can use violence to break open a steel door, and we also have very little food and water. If we can't leave this place, we will die!

What should he do? What could he do to overcome the obstacles in front of him?

I fell into deep thought. The sea had already started to crazily crash against the door, the sound of metal hitting metal continuously reverberating under the ground. It was extremely ear-piercing, but the metal door didn't budge at all.

The metal sand from the hunting rifle slammed against the iron gate, but it was to no avail. The chains on the outside were simply too strong, and it was impossible to break them with just physical strength alone.

Everyone panicked when something like this happened. We had originally planned on retreating out of the underground once we got out, bringing all our equipment before coming in. But now our plans have been completely disrupted.

We used all kinds of methods to surround the iron gate. After an hour, we still hadn't opened the iron gate, but because the sound of the door knocking was too loud, we pulled the beastmen out. From the gap in the door, we could see that the beastmen had already surrounded us.

I stopped Hai Yang from slamming the door again. "Even if the door breaks open now, we still have to face the beastmen. The fellow who locked the door already figured this out, so we have nothing to fear."

Hai Yang scolded angrily, "It must be locked up by Hu Guangzu. When I go out, I'll f * * k it up."

I turned to Ji Xiang and asked, "Is there really no other way out of this place?"

Ji Xiang shook her head, her face pale, "There is only this metal door, the air vents and the drainage channels are impossible for anyone to enter, unless you know the Bone Shrinking Art."

David spoke in unpracticed Mandarin, "Can you push down the wall?"

Zhu Yingqiong shook her head: "All these walls are made of bluestone bricks and I don't know how many years they have existed for, it's simply impossible for us to push them down. Even if we can push them down, it would cause the walls to collapse and we would still be smashed to death or buried alive."

Hai Yang said dejectedly, "Then what do we do? We'll just have to hug each other and wait for death. "

Zhu Yingqiong sighed, "The only way is to wait. If Xing Sihai didn't die, he would have definitely found us underground, not to mention that the Crown Prince Chen is still here."

First of all, the underground was too wide, and the way we came in was completely different. Even if the Fourth Uncle came in, he might not necessarily be able to find us here, and even if he passed by the Anti-wall, he wouldn't know that we were trapped here.

Furthermore, it was unknown whether or not Fourth Uncle would be able to make it here alive.

However, there's nothing we can do at this moment and we can only maintain our Fourth Uncle's faith. Once our faith collapses, I don't know how much longer we'll be able to hold on.

We sat down together and began to discuss ways to get out, but it was to no avail. The Beastmen outside the iron gate saw that there was no movement and scattered, but Hai Yang disbelievingly bumped into us a few more times, immediately luring the Beastmen over.

It seemed that most of these Beastmen resided in the vicinity of the Anti-wall, and would be lured over whenever there was a stir in the wind or grass.

Time passed second by second, we took out all of the food, and we all split up a little to fill our stomachs, but we didn't have enough to eat, it would only make us hungrier, but the situation is special, the rest of the food can only be saved for us, after all, if the five of us were to let go, we would be out of food in less than two days!

I don't know how much time has passed, but the flashlight in the ocean suddenly went out, and declared that the battery had run out. Only then did we realize that we must save up on the usage of the flashlight, otherwise, if we were to fall into darkness, even if we were able to leave the Fort House, there would be no escape for us.

Zhu Yingqiong suggested with her opinion. The five of us sat in a circle with our hands turned off, there wouldn't be any danger inside our Fort House for the time being anyway, so it would be possible to switch on the flashlight when there were special circumstances.

After turning off the flashlight, darkness immediately engulfed the entire space. We huddled into a circle, and at first we could still hear the ocean discussing the difference between English and Chinese with David, saying that they had already formed a deep friendship and opened a little flower of friendship on behalf of the two countries. But then, time slowly passed and everyone fell silent.

All we could hear was the sound of each other's breathing and the silence of the underground space. It was like turning off the lights at home and sleeping.

I was sleepy and yawned a few times to cheer myself up. Then I started to think back to my journey and tried to figure out the riddles again, but I couldn't find any results. I shook my head to clear away my frustration and closed my eyes to rest.

The dry waiting was always boring, and in this underground cave without any light, it was even more boring. Everyone's heart was filled with a ball of fire, and the wounds I had received from the beastmen's bite started to ache again. Thus, they turned on the flashlight and asked the sea to help me change the gauze.

The flashlight was so bright that everyone could not help raising their heads to look at it. Their eyes were unable to adapt to the light source, so they covered their eyes with their hands.

I habitually glanced at the Fort House, then looked at the rest of the people. After that, I apologetically smiled, and asked Hai Yang to help me change the bandages while I fished out cigarettes from my backpack.

But the moment I took out my cigarette, I suddenly felt something was wrong. I frowned and looked back at the crowd, then recalled the flashlight. I immediately stood up, cold sweat pouring down my body like a waterfall.

F * ck, I just saw a stranger!

There were a total of five of us. The moment I switched on the flashlight, I subconsciously counted, a total of five, so I didn't pay attention to it at all. However, the moment I turned around to take out my cigarette, I suddenly realized that, damn it, I didn't count myself!

Everyone knows that when we are counting people, we often forget to count ourselves. In my heart, I have always been thinking about 5 people, so when the flashlight was lit just now, I clearly counted 5 people, but I forgot to count myself. In other words, there was an extra person sitting in the middle of us.

Thinking about this, my scalp suddenly exploded. It was as if my entire body had been electrocuted. My entire body felt ice-cold, as if I had fallen into an icehouse. There was a person sitting in the middle of us in the darkness.

I shouted nervously, "Everyone, quickly turn on the flashlight!"

My voice was panicky, and I didn't know what I was panicking about, but everyone was startled by my voice, or maybe by the sound of my voice, and everyone turned on the flashlight.

Suddenly, a few light beams shot out from my flashlight, brightening up the room. They all raised their heads to look at me with puzzled expressions, not knowing what I meant.

My eyes widened as they swept across everyone within the Fort House. All of their faces were as white as paper, but after I counted again and again, I realized that there were only five people, and there wasn't even a sixth person present. I immediately collapsed on the ground and looked at them with a pale face, not knowing what to say.

Am I wrong?

Maybe I was wrong. At that time, I was the only one who turned on the flashlight, and it was just a casual glance, so it was normal that I was wrong. Furthermore, I had been in the cave for such a long time, so my nerves had already tensed up.

I laughed self-deprecatingly and was just about to tell everyone that there was nothing wrong when my eyes suddenly widened once again. I discovered that there was a gap in the space where the five of us were sitting. A gap that was as wide as a person.

I clearly remembered that back then, everyone was tightly curled up in a circle and definitely not as wide as a person. I didn't dare to believe it, so I stood up and walked to the crack to sit down.

It was exactly where he was sitting!

My face immediately paled. If that was really the case, then wouldn't it mean that there was an extra person sitting with us in the darkness? And when I told everyone to turn on the flashlight, he completely disappeared?

When everyone saw my nervous appearance, they didn't know what had happened. I swallowed my saliva and told them what had happened. Everyone's expression was stunned as they subconsciously looked at the two sides of me. However, there weren't any unnecessary people.

Hai Yang stared at me and said, "Sanjin, don't scare us like that. There are only five of us, are you seeing things?"

I said nervously, "I also suspect that I was seeing things myself, but look …"

I pointed to the person's wide slit and said, "That person was sitting over there!"

On the left and right side of the crack were Zhu Yingqiong and Ji Xiang. Both of them shook their heads at a loss, indicating that they did not feel there was someone else sitting beside them.

Zhu Yingqiong said calmly: "Everyone, search around for him. There really is someone who has to still be in the Fort House; he won't be able to escape!"

One by one, we got up and started searching with our flashlights, but our Fort House was extremely narrow, and other than that metal table and a few large wooden boxes, there was no place to hide. However, we had already searched for two places, but found nothing, not a single person.

Zhu Yingqiong said: "Chen San, you must have seen wrongly, if there are additional people, he would definitely come in through the metal door, but the metal door did not move, there can't be anyone else."

David also said: "I think so too, there's no way there would be another person out of nowhere."

Hai Yang took a deep breath and asked, "If Sanjin is not mistaken, could it be that there is something dirty in this house? We have encountered a ghost? "

I thought to myself, ghost my ass, once I encounter something, I'll bring it up to the ghosts and gods, where did the ghosts in this world come from?

There was nothing wrong with my guess, but I subconsciously trembled a little. I could feel that it wasn't an illusion just now. There was indeed an extra person, but why did it suddenly disappear?

I looked up at the vent. It was in the middle of the wall, about the size of a bowl.

I looked at the underground drainage passage. It was located in the corner, and the opening was only the size of a human head. It was impossible for a person to enter through the drainage passage.

I trembled as I lit up my cigarette and asked Ji Xiang, "When you came in, were you sure that there was no one else here?"

Ji Xiang, Hai Yang and the other two were the first to enter the Fort House. Hai Shui was always carefree, and was one of those that could cause a ruckus at any time. She might not be able to see through to Ji Xiang due to her carelessness, and since David's national language was bad, I couldn't be bothered to communicate with him.

Perhaps there was someone hiding here before them. When they saw them enter, they didn't dare to show themselves, so they hid.

When I asked this question, and didn't hear a reply from Ji Xiang for a long time, I couldn't help but to turn my head, only to see that there was no one behind us. I turned my head to look, only to see Hai Yang and David were currently searching through the boxes while Zhu Yingqiong was knocking her fingers on the stone wall.

Where's Ji Xiang?

I rotated my body and looked at it once, then suddenly sucked in a breath of cold air. In the narrow Fort House, there was no sign of Ji Xiang at all.

"Where's Ji Xiang? Where did you go? "

I grabbed Hai Yang and asked with my voice trembling. Hai Yang subconsciously turned around and pointed at me, "Isn't she always standing there …"

But before he could finish speaking, his pupils dilated, he saw that the area behind him was completely empty, with no sign of Ji Xiang at all.

"Damn, where is he?" Where did you go? "

Hai Yang asked in shock, then looked around, only to find that Ji Xiang was not there. She shouted loudly: "Damn, Human Transformation skill? Big sis, this is not the time to be hiding, quickly come out! "

But when the voice came out, there was no reply from Ji Xiang. Zhu Yingqiong and David did not know what happened and they both came over, I quickly explained everything, their faces turned green, they turned and looked around, but Ji Xiang was also nowhere to be seen.

We were busy looking for the sixth person just now, so we didn't notice Ji Xiang's situation at all. How could a person suddenly disappear into thin air?

I felt my scalp go numb, I anxiously rushed towards the iron door and pulled, but the iron door still did not budge, looking out from the gap, the iron lock was still there, showing that it was impossible for Ji Xiang to exit through the iron door.

But there were no other exits from the Fort House, how did Ji Xiang just disappear?

David drew a cross on his chest as he whispered the words "Blessing of Jesus", and we started to search through the Fort House again, inch by inch. However, we were able to see through the originally narrow Fort House with a glance.

A few minutes later, everyone sat down in a dejected position and looked at each other, their faces ashen. Ji Xiang had indeed disappeared, disappearing into thin air inside the sealed Fort House!