Thales stayed in the darkness for a while.
He calmed himself down, turned around, and walked away cautiously in the darkness.
'What does that guy mean?' Thales cautiously touched the cold rock wall beside him and thought with a heavy heart, 'I'll find a way out just by turning around?
'But …'
Thales raised his head and looked at the darkness in front of him. He could barely see anything, and he felt a headache coming on.
When he thought of the possibility of finding an unfamiliar head on the dark rock strata, or suddenly seeing a stiff face, the terrified prince finally gave up on the idea of activating the Sin of Hell's River to explore the way. He used his hands and feet to explore the rock wall beside him and the ground under his feet, not daring to relax.
However, the difficulty of the Black Track was beyond Thales' expectations. He had only taken a few steps when he immediately felt something strange under his feet!
* Crash — *
It was the sound of rocks rolling down.
Shocked, Thales could not react at all. He only felt that there was nothing under his feet. He lost his balance in the midst of his scream, his upper body leaned forward, and he fell down!
'What?
Knowing that he was in trouble, he subconsciously hugged his head and chest to prevent himself from suffering more damage from the impact.
However, Thales' luck was obviously worse than that. His elbows barely touched the ground, but he could not stop his body from falling. He continued to slide and even rolled forward due to the inertia!
'Sh * t!'
Thales thought in panic and pain. 'This is still a damn slope!'
* Crash … *
As his body continuously collided with the rock strata, Thales protected his head and face. He curled up his body like he did when he was beaten in the Abandoned House a long time ago, trying his best to avoid getting hurt during the rolling.
In the dark, his back hurt from the impact, and his knees and elbows were also bruised quite a bit. His clothes were torn in many places on the rough ground. The burning sensation spread throughout his body, and Thales could not help but curse this damned place again.
Finally, after rolling for the sixth or the sixteenth round, the dizzy Thales finally stopped with a loud bang and a sharp pain in his left elbow.
He touched a flat ground that was not so stiff.
"Damn it …"
In the darkness, Thales lay on the ground, moaning in pain.
'How should I … get out?'
However, in the darkness where he could not see anything, a low, hoarse, and chilling moan came faintly, "Ahhh …"
Thales, who was rubbing the wound on his elbow, immediately felt his scalp tighten.
"Who is it …" The voice was intermittent without any rhythm, and it faintly sounded out in the cavern, light and mysterious.
"Who dares to disturb my sweet dreams …" A gasp that sounded like a struggle before death followed.
A chill crept up Thales' back.
Seriously?
Thales exhaled in pain and shivered slightly in the cold air of the Black Track.
It was hard to believe that he had encountered those things again.
"Which idiot is it?" The voice continued, and there was a chilling rhythm to it.
"How dare you …"
He did not dare to move, much less make a sound. He only wished that he was a senseless and ignorant rock right now, afraid that he would be discovered by something unknown in the dark …
"How dare you come to my resting place …"
Eh?
Wait a minute.
Questions arose in Thales' mind as he listened to the terrifying soft moan.
This voice …
He raised his head abruptly and spoke in a trembling voice in the darkness.
"Kurtz?"
Surprised and puzzled, Thales asked tentatively in the dark, "Is that you, Kurtz?"
The panting in the darkness paused for a moment.
A few seconds later, the creepy, mysterious voice turned into an even colder laughter.
"Hehehe …"
The cold laughter reverberated in the air and spread out in a low voice, "So it's you, kid."
It sounded like …
Thales felt a chill in his heart. 'Why does it sound so strange?
He swallowed hard, and at the same time, with confusion and fear, he asked anxiously,
"You, you, you are still alive?"
The silence in the darkness lasted a long time.
During those few seconds, Thales could even hear his increasingly rapid heartbeat.
"No."
The cold voice came again.
Kurtz's voice was a little gloomy and even weak. There was an inexplicable ghastly feeling in her voice. "I'm already dead …"
Thales immediately froze.
He closed his eyes and sighed softly.
Sigh.
Kurtz, she …
At that moment, Thales said dejectedly, "I'm sorry, Kurtz. That was my fault. I couldn't …"
However, as if she was aware of his emotions, Kurtz's voice traveled into his ears once again.
This time, it was different. "But …
"If you climb down from my body right now …"
Kurtz's weak voice became clearer, and Thales gradually grasped the dissatisfaction and anger in her words. "If you don't continue to suppress me …
"I can still be resurrected."
Thales felt a chill run down his spine. Then, realizing something, he let out a startled cry and quickly climbed back in a flurry.
He left Kurtz's pitiful back.
'I was wondering …
'Why is this piece of land so warm and so …
'Soft?'
While Kurtz moaned in pain and hissed in dissatisfaction, Thales, who was embarrassed and terrified, apologized profusely, and escaped the crime of manslaughter.
In his haste, he helped up the pitiful Kurtz, who had escaped death and was panting on the ground.
"You, you're actually alright … I saw you …"
In the darkness, Thales tugged at Kurtz's arm with surprise and excitement. He blurted out, "You're actually alright!"
Thales could feel that Kurtz was rolling her eyes at him in disdain in the darkness.
"Look at what you're saying, this is nothing …" The seamstress was still weak, but her words had returned to normal. "I grew up among piles of dead people!"
The seamstress leaned against a protruding rock and panted. "You're very tough!"
Thales exhaled deeply and curled up the corners of his lips.
"Is that so?"
"I'm glad that you're alright," the prince whispered.
Kurtz's grumbling stopped for a moment.
A second later, her loud voice rose again.
"It's just that the rock strata collapsed out of the blue." Kurtz seemed to be pounding her back hard in the darkness. "I'm indeed a little unlucky. It feels like wherever I go, the ground collapses …
"I must have forgotten to bring my lucky leggings when I went out …"
Thales raised his head.
"The rock strata collapsed," he nodded and repeated. "So …
"You can't see those souls of the deceased …"
Thales whispered.
Kurtz's puzzled voice rose from the darkness. "Huh?"
"Those what?"
Thales snorted and shook his head gloomily.
"It's nothing."
So, he was the only one who could see and knew that the collapses were the work of the souls of the deceased.
Thales remembered when they appeared in the rock wall.
Whether it was the Sin of Hell's River that caused them to show their violent forms, or the cleansing of the Power of Eradication that allowed his eyes to see those souls of the deceased …
Thales sighed. 'This method of using the Sin of Hell's River to strengthen my eyesight or hearing might seem very convenient, but …
'This is practically the same as seeing ghosts with my eyes open.'
At this moment …
* Rumble … *
As a low rumble sounded, the ground shook again!
Thales and Kurtz held their breaths at the same time.
"It can't be?" The seamstress' voice rose in disbelief. "It's going to happen again?
Is it really going to collapse wherever I go? "
A loud crash rang in their ears. * Bang! *
Thales subconsciously raised his arms to protect his head and retreated as he sensed the crushed stones charging at him.
The ground shook more and more violently.
A strange ominous feeling rose in Thales' heart.
'No.
'This tremor …'
Thales had a strange feeling, as if he knew what was about to happen here.
The prince suddenly remembered Silver Shadowman's words from before, and his face turned pale.
"No, this time …" He tried his best to suppress his panic and palpitations, but he could not remain optimistic. "This time, it's for real …"
Thales jumped up from the ground and grabbed Kurtz's arm. There was panic in his words that he could not suppress.
"Go!"
He supported himself against the rock wall in the dark, and panic grew in his heart. "The entire Black Track, the entire Black Track is about to collapse!"
Thales urged loudly, "Leave!"
Kurtz let out an "Ah" and said in puzzlement, "But why are you —"
* Thud! *
Another piece of rock fell not far from them.
Both of them were shaken so badly that they swayed!
"F * ck!" Exasperated, Kurtz no longer hesitated. She struggled up from the ground like a rabbit and ignored her injured leg. She leaned against Thales' shoulder and limped forward.
* Boom! *
The slope they tumbled down was buried by crushed stones.
However, after they advanced a few meters in the dark, Kurtz sighed heavily and pushed Thales away.
"No."
The ground continued to tremble, but Kurtz's dejected voice traveled into their ears.
"This isn't the route I know … The lights are broken, it's too dark, I can't find the way at all …"
In the face of Thales' puzzlement and anxiety, Kurtz said dejectedly,
"Besides, my leg … we can't walk fast …"
Thales furrowed his brows.
'No.
No! '
"Go." Kurtz laughed mournfully in the midst of the rumbling. "If you're lucky, you might be able to sneak out …"
Thales finally managed to stabilize his balance amidst the tremors.
In his anxiety, he subconsciously grabbed Kurtz's arm. "No, we definitely have a way, we can't let —"
But he was held down by Kurtz!
"If you go out, tell the cripple that I've completed his task." Kurtz panted and laughed softly. "Also, tell him to forget about that girl."
"No!" Thales refused resolutely and roared, "Get up!"
Thales wrapped Kurtz's arm around his neck and held her waist, trying desperately to lift her up. "It's not the end yet … Get up, you bastard!"
A clear sound rose, and the rock stratum behind them shattered inch by inch.
* Crash — *
A cave not far away from them seemed to have completely collapsed.
The teenager lost his footing and fell on the rock wall with Kurtz.
"Let's go …"
Kurtz panted and pushed his shoulder, urging him to leave. "If you don't want to be buried alive now …"
'No.'
Thales gritted his teeth in the darkness.
'I just can't find the way, right?
As long as … as long as I can see clearly … '
He supported himself against the rock wall. Indignant, he was about to activate the Sin of Hell's River and enter the "hell's senses" that he had always hated.
But before he could summon the Sin of Hell's River, the moment he supported himself against the rock wall …
Thales felt the tremors in his hand, but his heart became calm at that moment.
'Strange.
'There's something different …'
Thales was stunned.
'His senses …'
"Hey, if you don't leave now, we're all going to die here …"
In the darkness, Kurtz cursed in exasperation as she pushed Thales with all her might, but her urging was futile.
But then, she seemed to have thought of something and laughed.
"Forget it, forget it," Kurtz said with a chuckle. There was fatigue in her voice. "Dying together with a prince, and before we died, we even pulled and hugged each other, and never left each other …"
Thales was immersed in his own senses and did not have time to care about anything else.
At that moment, Thales touched the cave wall and felt the roughness and layers unique to the rock stratum. There was a strange throbbing in his heart.
"When I was still a girl," Kurtz sighed and leaned against the rock wall absentmindedly, "I dreamed of this day. I dreamed that one day, a good, powerful, handsome, elegant, and focused man would discover me, a beautiful little white flower blooming in a swamp, and would ride a horse to carry his princess home …"
Thales did not pay attention to Kurtz's words. He touched the rock wall and felt that his surroundings were different from his senses. He was even more surprised.
'This is …
'It feels like …
'I'm touching the pulse of some living creature …
'Pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse …
'It's like …
'It's like the earth breathing.
'It's like the mountains dozing off.
'It's like the rocks snoring.'
Thales trembled as he touched the rock stratum and sensed the information coming from it. He was incredibly surprised and amazed.
'What exactly is this …
'No.
'It's not important.
'What's important is …
Most importantly, Thales raised his head absentmindedly and looked in one direction gently. 'There.'
Even though he could not see anything.
But he knew.
'There.
It's there! '
"Until that night, when those drunk soldiers snuck into my tent …"
"Son of a b * tch …" Kurtz snorted and shook her head slowly. "What prince? What wedding? The stories I heard when I was young are all fake. The prince will indeed marry the princess, but don't worry, there's only one princess, and it's definitely not you …
"In the end, you'll realize that the most reliable man is the bastard beside you who curses all day long, has a body full of problems, and refuses to repent …
"Even so, his eyes aren't on you. He's always thinking about a b * tch in his dreams …"
At this moment …
"No!"
Thales struggled up from the ground. As Kurtz cried out in surprise, he wrapped his arm around the seamstress's voluptuous waist and forcibly lifted her up!
The prince, who had understood something, gasped for air. His body could not help but tremble because of his excitement.
"We won't die here!"
The ground began to tremble again.
The falling rocks behind them became more frequent.
In the darkness, Thales tried his best to lead Kurtz forward. He shouted angrily,
"Follow me!"
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