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  I found that no matter what the situation was, it seemed to be unfavorable to us, so I said: "Now it's not safe to walk rashly, I think we should wait here, Xiaohua and others woke up, if they can't see us, they will naturally come to find us, I remember we didn't walk too far."

  The face of passerby A was hidden under the brim of his hat, and his expression couldn't be seen. He just slightly nodded and sat down against the wall, occasionally taking out a cigarette from his pocket and asking, "Do you have a light?" I took out my lighter from my pants pocket and handed it to him. The two of us leaned against opposite walls, not saying much. To this day, I still don't know his name. I thought that going on like this wasn't a good idea, as we would likely be working together in the future. Moreover, judging by his skills, it was better for me not to offend him. Just as I was about to find a topic to break the silence, passerby A's smoking motion suddenly paused, and then I saw him slightly tilt his head towards the passageway on our left side, seemingly listening to something. At the same time, I also heard a faint sound, "drip, drip, drip", which sounded like a phone ringing.

  Why is there the sound of a mobile phone ringing in this kind of place? I was stunned, thinking about whether or not to go take a look. Suddenly, passerby A stomped out his cigarette and picked up the cold butt, saying only one word: "Run!" Before I could even react, he had already taken off running towards the passageway on the right. At the same time, the sound of the mobile phone ringing became clearer, but upon closer listening, it seemed to be mixed with a strange grinding noise, like teeth chattering, making a "ke ke ke" sound.

  I suddenly felt a chill down my spine, and without saying another word, I took off running. The pedestrian was holding that cold cigarette butt, moving extremely fast, and in just an instant, he vanished from sight. I hastily ran forward, feeling like the sound of my phone behind me had disappeared, but that eerie grinding noise kept following me. I didn't dare look back, only hearing the sound getting closer and closer, as if it was right next to my ear. Suddenly, I felt a cold sweat break out on the back of my neck.

  I sprinted all the way through the tunnel, and it seemed like there was no end in sight. At this point, I vaguely saw three forks appear ahead of me. The fork mouths were extremely irregular, clearly formed naturally. It seems that I had fallen into a maze-like underground cave this time. What bad luck!

  I kept running forward, but the sound of grinding teeth behind me was getting closer and closer. I quickly turned my head to look back, and under the eerie green glow of the cold smoke and fire, I saw a fluffy ball falling from the top of the tunnel.

  Two slender legs covered in joints, with unknown abilities, tightly adhered to the top of the tunnel. Several long tentacles spread out like a spider web, sealing off the rear path. A pair of bright red eyes peeked out from the fluffy ball, shining with a hint of red in the dim green light, looking exceptionally terrifying. The sound of grinding teeth came from the mouth hidden under the fluff, which was now wide open, revealing rows and rows of sharp fangs inside, a deep crimson color that made my scalp tingle. What the hell is this thing?!

  I sprinted forward, now I had arrived at the entrance of three tunnels, which one should I take? Damn it, where did that passerby go? No time to think, the sound behind me was getting closer and closer. Subconsciously, I turned a corner and ran into the passage on my right-hand side. Before I could run deeper, my foot suddenly tripped and I was caught again.

  I was startled, if it were in the past, I'm afraid the person who scared me would have been softened, but after experiencing so many things, my courage has been practiced, and I know that being afraid now is useless. I immediately drew out the dagger from my waist and stabbed at the foot of the bed. Before my knife could even stabilize, a ball of fur suddenly pounced in front of me, and at the same time, a scarlet mouth with sharp teeth bit towards my head.

  It came too fast, I couldn't dodge in time, and just barely managed to turn my head at the last second, but a sharp pain followed on my shoulder, and then I felt something hot flowing out.

  The dagger that was thrust into the ground immediately retracted and stabbed towards the furball, but unexpectedly, it slipped off like a bar of soap. The creature opened its mouth wide and bit towards my head, and at such close range, I couldn't react in time. However, just as suddenly, the bloody maw stopped in mid-air. I quickly retreated backwards, only to see passerby A appearing out of nowhere, executing another Black Tiger Heart Piercing move, his hand piercing straight through the furball's body. The blood splattered all over me, and a pungent smell assaulted my nostrils, making me feel like vomiting.

  Passerby A swung Mao Ball's corpse, saw me still sitting on the ground, and his mouth corners which had never had an arc slightly curled up. He made a "tsk" sound with his tongue, directly kicked my leg, saying: "Get up, do you want me to carry you while running?" After finishing speaking, he himself took the lead in escaping for his life. I came back to myself, heavily slapped my own head, and hastily followed him. This time I knew that this kid had some skills. Now I didn't have any weapons on me, if I were to lose him, I would absolutely be bitten to death by those things.

  Passerby A moved extremely fast, and I almost lost him several times. After running for an unknown period of time, this tunnel still seemed to have no end in sight. My head started to feel oxygen-deprived, and although we were underground, this was a high-altitude plateau at 3,500 meters above sea level. After all this exertion, my brain started to feel dizzy, my ears rang, I gasped for air, and my vision began to blur. I gritted my teeth and followed him for another stretch before finally stumbling and falling gloriously.

  At this time, I fell down and really wanted to slap myself in the face. When I looked up again, that kid was already gone without a trace. My heart was so sad that I couldn't cry. At this moment, I fell to the ground and couldn't get up again. The muscles on my legs were twitching uncontrollably. I lay on the ground with my ear cocked for a long time, but there was no sound of grinding teeth or that strange mobile phone ringtone. I couldn't help but slow down my breathing and lie on the ground panting heavily.

  After lying on the ground for a long time, my breathing finally calmed down. At this point, the pain in my injured shoulder became even more severe. I looked at it and saw that it was covered with blood, fortunately, a layer of scab had already formed, so there was no bleeding, but if I continued to run like this, I would definitely die from blood loss.

  It's still relatively safe for now, so I immediately tore off a piece of clothing and barely managed to wrap the injured area. The torn part exposed half of my belly. I looked down and couldn't help but laugh bitterly - what the heck, am I supposed to do a belly dance or something?

  I rested for a while, then got up and continued walking forward. Although I didn't know where the road led to, the way back only had one path, and who knows how many of those long-legged brothers were still on that road. Walking forward at least gave me the possibility of meeting someone like Road Person A, and if I was lucky, maybe I could even find an exit.

  I was mentally preparing myself while moving forward with a cold cigarette, the tunnel inside was very dry, I occasionally looked up at the top and didn't see any cracks, estimating the time, it had been over an hour since we entered this tunnel, now it's probably around 3 or 4 in the morning, if someone from Xiaohua's group got up in the middle of the night, they should have discovered that I and Luren A were missing by now.

  I walked along the tunnel for a long time, and again two forks appeared in front of me. I stood at the fork and looked at it for a while, suddenly finding that one of the tunnel entrances was written with a word, a crooked and twisted evil character, apparently scratched by some sharp object. My heart suddenly warmed up, and people can't be judged by their appearance. Although passerby A looks like a hooligan, he is quite kind, and immediately ran towards the tunnel with the word.

  For the next period of time, I don't know how long I walked in the tunnel. Every time I came across a fork in the road, I could find a crooked and twisted evil character. I looked at it for a while, damn, I didn't know how to write better, uncultured, really scary.

  I followed the information left by passerby A, and I don't know how long I walked in the tunnel. At first, I expected to see the exit at the next turn, but as time went on, I almost became numb. Finally, when my stomach started to feel hungry, I began to get anxious, because this meant that I had been walking for a considerable amount of time. After walking for an unknown period of time again, I started to feel thirsty, and by then, I had already begun to lose my sense of time. But I knew that outside, it must have already dawned.

  Passerby A was also moving forward, at the fork in the road, I would occasionally see the evil character he left behind. At first, I was still mocking how ugly that character was written, but by the end, I almost yearned to see that character. As soon as I saw it, I felt like I wasn't alone in this long tunnel. The feeling of loneliness and silence, at first didn't feel so bad, but by the end, my nerves were stretched to their limits, as if I would never be able to walk out.

  After seeing that strange character for who-knows-how-many times, a faint sound suddenly came from the quiet tunnel. My body stiffened and I concentrated on listening carefully, only to find it was just my phone ringing again.

  Drip! Drip! Drip!

  Drip! —— Drip! —— Drip! ——

  A faint sound came from the unknown darkness in front, I thought of Mao Ball Brothers, and was almost startled to jump my feet, then quickly calmed down, thanks to Wang Canghai's training, more drilling, nothing else grew, but courage increased.

  I listened to the sound that was sometimes far and sometimes near, slowly calming down, because it wasn't necessarily Mao Qiu's brother's, it could also be a passerby's phone. Now in this tunnel, there were only two living people, me and him, apart from the passerby, no one else came to mind. I immediately held up my cigarette lighter and ran towards the direction of the sound, but after running just a few steps, the sound suddenly stopped.

  The surroundings instantly returned to a dead silence, and at the same time, the cold cigarette lighter in my hand became even dimmer, the phosphorus was almost used up, originally it had an illumination range of five or six meters, now it shrunk to about one meter, I could hardly see anything except what's right in front of me.

  I stared into the darkness ahead, stopped in my tracks and pricked up my ears to listen. The sound disappeared as mysteriously as it had come. Suddenly, I made a connection and remembered the wild chicken neck that had lured me forward in the water cave of the Queen Mother of the West, which also made strange sounds.

  I suddenly felt a chill down my neck and didn't dare to move forward, so I ran ahead and saw some strange things. Just as my imagination was scaring me with a chill down my spine, a figure appeared in the darkness ahead.

  That figure stood still in the distance, like a statue. I almost jumped out of my skin, damn it, just now there was nothing, where did he come from? Subconsciously gripping the dagger in my hand, I hesitated whether to move forward or not, when the figure suddenly moved and slowly walked towards me, at the same time, that dripping phone sound started ringing again.

  At this time, I saw clearly that the person who came was passerby A.