Chen Ge had already prepared himself. No matter what happened, he would not open his eyes.
His body was swallowed by darkness, and the noise around his ears disappeared. It was like he was walking alone in the middle of the ocean.
The loneliness of being away from the world, the fear of the unknown, and the confusion about the destination.
Various emotions surged in his heart like the tentacles of a water monster were slowly strangling his body.
"I've experienced this kind of loneliness many times. To ensure that this kind of loneliness will not happen in real life, I have to continue this journey."
Chen Ge mumbled to himself. It was unclear whether he was purposely saying that for others to hear or to encourage himself.
After walking for about ten meters, Chen Ge's palm touched empty air. When he tried for the third time, the fork finally appeared again.
Without hesitation, he stepped into the fork.
The temperature dropped. Chen Ge had no idea whether he had made the right choice or not. He had never been a particularly smart person. The reason he had made it this far was due to his exceptional observation, courage, and courage that he had cultivated since he was young.
Touching the slippery wall, Chen Ge emptied his mind and did not think about anything.
He could only hear his own footsteps, but slowly, the rhythmic footsteps were disrupted, and something was following behind Chen Ge.
"Don't look, don't think."
If he could not see, then it did not exist; if he could not think, then it did not exist.
Chen Ge comforted himself that he was not being disturbed.
More footsteps appeared in the quiet tunnel. It appeared like Chen Ge was not alone in this place.
Initially, the footsteps only came from behind Chen Ge, but slowly, other than the side of the wall, the footsteps came from everywhere.
Chen Ge's heart felt like it was being scratched by a cat. He was very curious, but he still did not remove the makeshift 'blindfold'.
After experiencing so much, Chen Ge had a strong ability to adapt. He soon controlled himself and allowed himself to get used to the presence of the footsteps.
He kept reminding himself that the thing that made the footsteps did not mean to harm him. At least from the current situation, it appeared like the thing was just following Chen Ge.
"Am I walking on a path that only ghosts can find?" After a few seconds, Chen Ge found another problem.
Other than the sound of footsteps, there was also the sound of wheels rolling over obstacles in the tunnel.
"A car passed by me?" At that moment, there was only one car in the tunnel, and that was the taxi that the driver had driven in. "Who started the car? The driver didn't disappear? "
The driver that had driven Chen Ge to Eastern Jiujiang was someone that Chen Ge had found randomly on the street. It was too far-fetched to say that he was connected to the tunnel in Eastern Jiujiang; the probability was so small that it was negligible.
"It shouldn't be the driver. Is there something else driving?" Chen Ge was about to continue thinking along this line of thought when something even more unbelievable happened.
He could clearly hear the roar of engines, and there was more than one car driving past him.
"What's going on?"
With his eyes blindfolded, Chen Ge had no idea what was happening around him. He could only rely on his hearing to determine what was happening.
The footsteps around him gradually sped up, and those things seemed to be running in a certain direction.
"Is there something scarier chasing after them? Or has the thing that attracted them finally appeared? "Chen Ge did not know whether he should follow them or not. His eyes were blindfolded, and it was difficult for him to move.
After a moment's hesitation, he maintained his normal speed and kept his guard up. He used all the senses that he could still use to understand this' world '.
"The slippery feeling on the wall has disappeared, and it's much smoother to the touch like someone has cleaned it." Chen Ge wanted to remove the blindfold to take a look. He realized that ever since he entered the junction, the world had changed.
The tunnel on this side of the junction and the tunnel on the other side led to two different worlds.
He continued to move forward, and the tunnel became more crowded. He could hear the sound of people talking, and the further he went, the louder the voice became.
However, to Chen Ge's surprise, the people's voices were loud and piercing, but he still could not understand what they were trying to say. He could only sense the emotion that was contained in their voices — anxiety, anger, and a trace of fear.
"What's happening outside?"
Chen Ge did not stop moving. Even though he was still inside the tunnel, the situation outside was completely different from before.
There were footsteps, screams, car horns, and the sound of tires and engines. The tunnel appeared to be still in use.
"If the tunnel wasn't sealed, it would be this lively inside, right?"
Chen Ge had no idea where he was, but there was one thing that he was sure of. Everything that he was experiencing was related to the real owner of the Bai Donglong Tunnel. There was a high chance that the owner had purposely led him to this place.
The noise around him became louder, and various voices rushed into Chen Ge's mind. It made it impossible for him to tell what was happening.
All he knew was that the owner of the footsteps was moving in a certain direction, and the cars were all moving in that direction.
"Why are they moving forward?" Questions surged in his mind. As Chen Ge was thinking, a different voice entered his left ear.
The surroundings were too noisy, and he could not hear it clearly. He only knew that it was a child's voice. It was crisp and intermittent like it was injured.
Chen Ge followed the 'crowd' and took a few steps forward, and the child's voice appeared again.
"Something's not right …"
This time, Chen Ge stopped moving. He realized something very strange. The child's voice came from behind him.
When all the 'people' and cars were moving forward, the owner of the voice stayed where he was and did not move.
If it was someone else, they might not have noticed this, but Chen Ge was different. To solve this situation, his nerves were tense, and he kept an eye on his surroundings.
He did not dare speak, afraid that he would expose the difference between him and the 'people' around him.
"Save me, save my mother …"
A few seconds later, the voice appeared again, and it was still at the same spot.
"This is strange. I can hear so many voices, but this weak voice is the clearest." He could sense the despair in the voice. It was hard to describe, and it made him feel uncomfortable. Just hearing it made his heart ache.
Turning around, Chen Ge had no idea what kind of danger was coming from behind him, and he instinctively moved closer to the voice.
Moving slowly, Chen Ge was like a blind man, slowly searching.
He got closer and closer to the child's voice, but at that moment, someone touched his shoulder, and someone shouted anxiously at him.
The voice was loud, telling him to leave as soon as possible like staying there would be life-threatening danger.
"These people are probably the souls that entered the tunnel with me earlier. They are running for their lives now, so the thing chasing after them is probably the owner of the tunnel!" Chen Ge's thought process was completely different from the 'people' in the tunnel. He knew his identity very well. He was bait, waiting for the owner of the tunnel to show up.
This was very risky, but this was the simplest way that Chen Ge could think of to get out of this situation. He had always been a straightforward person, and that was his style.
The 'people' in the tunnel obviously misunderstood him, and the voices around him became clearer. They urged him to leave, telling him that if he stayed any longer, he would really die!
Facing their persuasion, Chen Ge was unmoved. Soon, his ears picked up a new sound. It sounded like some kind of liquid was leaking. It was dripping, and it was very close to him.
Seeing that Chen Ge was unwilling to leave, the people who tried to persuade him abandoned him and left on their own. The tunnel became quiet again.
The messy footsteps disappeared, and so did the sound of tires rolling over the trash. The sound of car horns faded away like the tunnel had been completely abandoned by the 'people'.
"Save me, save my mother …"
The child's voice came from the spot close to the wall again. Chen Ge groped his way over and slowly squatted down.
He was blindfolded, so he could not see. He did not dare to speak, afraid that it would cause some unknown change.
After a few seconds of silence, Chen Ge reached out his unprotected hand toward the source of the sound.
His fingertips touched the cold liquid, and Chen Ge was very familiar with this feeling.
"It looks like blood."
He slowly exerted his strength, and his five fingers grabbed a slender arm.
"I'm stuck by the window. I need to go save my mother first. She's in the driver's seat!"
The child's voice entered Chen Ge's ears. He did not follow the child's instructions immediately but was suddenly reminded of something else.
The voice first came from beside his left ear, and Chen Ge could hear it clearly. Now that he had turned around, even though the voice was still close to the wall, the words that he said were very strange.
"If I'm stuck inside the window, then why did he talk into my ear from the side that was close to the wall? I've been sticking close to the wall to move! "
More importantly, before the driver disappeared, he also left behind a sentence. He said that there was something very scary on the left side of Chen Ge's face.
"Coincidentally, the thing that the driver said is on my left cheek, and the child's voice came from that spot as well. If the driver was not lying, then the scary monster that terrified him should be the 'child' that I'm currently talking to."
Chen Ge slowly understood that the reason the driver had disappeared was probably because he had seen the monster's real face and ruined the man's plan.
"My mother is in front, please save her, please save her, please?" The voice was so sad that it was hard to reject it.
"Okay, I'll help you." Chen Ge had no idea what kind of scary face was hidden behind this childlike voice. He chose to follow the man's request to save the mother because he believed it was the right thing to do.
With the child's guidance, Chen Ge bent down and slowly moved forward.
The dripping sound did not stop, and there was a strange smell in the air. The more Chen Ge moved forward, the more danger he felt.
With the blindfold blindfolded, Chen Ge could not see anything, so he could only slowly explore.
His hands soon found the outline of a car. He bent down, and his hands touched the woman's hair.
Without saying anything, Chen Ge's hands moved slowly. He grabbed the woman's shoulders and pulled her out from the toppled car.
"Take her away! Quick! Quick! " After the child saw Chen Ge save the woman, his voice became shrill. He was not like other children who would cry when they were injured. There was a maturity in his voice that was not present in his peers.
Chen Ge had no idea what the child was up to. He dragged the woman several steps away before he suddenly stopped.
"Go! Don't stay here! "
Ignoring the child's scream, Chen Ge carried the woman on his back and returned to the child's side.
He could not see, but his hands kept searching around the car window. He had a general understanding of the child's situation.
The child's lower body was stuck inside the window, and the broken glass pierced his lower abdomen. If Chen Ge tried to drag him, it could easily cause a second injury.
Using his hands, Chen Ge tried to lift the car, but he could not do it alone.
"Don't worry about me. Take her and go!"
Perhaps it was because of the pain or something else, the child screamed at the top of his lungs.
"If I leave you here, even if your mother survives, she will blame herself for the rest of her life." Chen Ge could not help but say what was on his mind.
When he said that, the surroundings suddenly became much quieter, but it soon returned to normal.
"My body is stuck, and I can't get out. Go! Or else everyone will die! "
After confirming that his words would not affect this world, Chen Ge gathered his courage. "I have an idea that might be able to save you, but it will be very painful, and I cannot guarantee that you will survive."
"What is it?" As long as there was a chance of survival, most people would fight for it.
"Your hipbone is stuck by the deformed car window. I can drag you out by force, but that way, your lower body will be crippled, and the wounds on your body will worsen." Chen Ge had a general idea from his hands. It was because he had not seen the overly gory scenes that he dared to suggest such a bold idea. "Like you said, if you stay here and die, there might be a chance of survival."
"But if I die in the process of dragging you, won't you become my murderer?" the child suddenly said.
If this was in real life, perhaps Chen Ge would have hesitated, but in this place, he did not panic at all. "As long as I can increase your chance of survival by one percent, so what if I have to bear the curse for the rest of my life?"
He lay on his side on the ground. His feet stepped on the deformed car window, and his hands hugged the child's upper body. "It will be very painful later, but as long as you can endure it, life will start over."
He started to pull, and the boy's body was deformed from the pull. The sound of bones dislocating was extremely shrill. The boy's skin was cut open, and blood kept pouring out, but Chen Ge did not plan to stop.
He used all his strength and finally managed to pull the boy out from the deformed car window.
"Success! Are you alright? "No one answered Chen Ge, and the tunnel appeared to have become much quieter.
Chen Ge had no idea what was going on, but he had a feeling that something was not right — the scary monster that was chasing them was coming?
Even at that moment, Chen Ge did not forget about the woman on the ground and the boy next to her even though he knew that they were not human.
"Something might be coming. Be careful." Chen Ge carried the woman on his back and picked up the deformed boy on the ground. To his surprise, the boy in his arms was much heavier than the woman on his back. The two of them were not even on the same level.
At that moment, he stopped worrying about that and jogged forward.
With his eyes blindfolded, Chen Ge could not see the road. He did not run for long before he tripped and fell.
He did not say a word. He stood up, picked up the boy, and carried the woman as he continued forward.
Stumbling, his body knocked against the wall in the tunnel. After who knew how many times, when Chen Ge stood up and wanted to pick up the boy, a voice came from beside him.
"Are you an idiot?" This voice was the same as the boy's, but the voice was no longer in pain. If anything, there was an additional trace of coldness and resentment.
Chen Ge did not reply. He wanted to pick up the boy again, but he touched empty air.
"There really are people like that in this world." The voice came again, and this time, it came from above Chen Ge's head.
Chen Ge stood where he was. Just as he did not know what to do, someone patted him lightly on his shoulder. A pair of bone-chilling hands curled around his neck and peeled off the blindfold that covered his eyes.
Opening his eyes, Chen Ge turned to look and realized that it was the woman from the tunnel who was standing behind him.
However, compared to last time, she was much prettier. At least her skull was not cracked, and her facial features were where they should be.
"It's you?" Chen Ge smiled. He was about to go over to get to know her when a giant spider's shadow loomed over him.
Lifting his head to look, the smile on Chen Ge's face froze. Even though he had seen so many ghosts in his life, he could not help but feel a trace of fear.
Just above Chen Ge's head hung a giant red spider made from countless lingering spirits and ghosts.
The red was even more glaring than the red dress on the woman from the tunnel. It was as if blood was flowing inside it, and it was about to drip down.
"Why aren't you talking?" The voice came from the spider's head.
Following the voice, Chen Ge realized that the spider's head had been replaced by a boy. He only had his upper body, and his lower body was that of the giant spider.
His feet gripped the wall, and the boy hung upside down behind Chen Ge. His eyes were filled with venom and cruelty.
"It wasn't you that I was hugging earlier, was it?" Chen Ge's one sentence caused the boy to not know how to continue the conversation. Actually, he did not expect Chen Ge to carry him and escape with him. Both the man and the ghost felt uncomfortable.
"It's fine. I didn't do it on purpose." Chen Ge found an excuse for himself. Without waiting for the boy to reply, he changed the subject. "I came to discuss something with your mother, but I didn't expect something like this to happen. I know your heart is filled with hatred, so I won't try to console you. I just feel that if you have any need, I can help you fulfill it, even if it's for revenge."
Chen Ge's words were completely different from what the boy expected. He did not expect the boy to say something like that in a situation like this.
He did not know what to say, so he kept quiet for now.
"It's fine if you don't want to tell me, but can you tell me why this tunnel has become like this?" Chen Ge asked the question that had been bothering him. White Dragon Cave Tunnel had even managed to defeat the shadow, so there had to be a big secret hidden here.
The boy opened his mouth. He felt like he should not have shared his past so easily, but after giving it some thought, he could not come up with a reason to argue. In the end, with the cooperation of the woman from the tunnel, the boy gave Chen Ge a rough description of his past.
He was the child of the woman from the tunnel. Several years ago, the woman divorced her husband and drove the child back to the countryside.
When they passed through White Dragon Cave Tunnel, they got into a car accident. It was a series of collisions, and one of them was an oil truck.
It was unclear which car the fire originated from, but it got closer and closer to the oil truck. The other cars and people in the tunnel ran for their lives.
At the time, the child was stuck inside the car window, and the woman was covered in wounds. She crawled out from the car, but with her strength alone, she was unable to save her child.
She cried for help from the people around her. She chased after the passing cars, hoping that they would stop. As long as one of them agreed to help her, they would be able to pull the child out.
However, when their own lives were in danger, no one was willing to lend a hand.
In the end, the woman, who should have been able to escape, did not choose to leave. She returned to the car to stay with her child until the fire spread to the oil truck.
From then on, White Dragon Cave Tunnel was no longer peaceful.
Many drivers would see a woman in a red dress standing at one corner of the tunnel. She would wave at them, hoping that they would stop. Some even witnessed a monster trying to attach something to its lower body …
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