Chapter 458 Phantom Pain Pilgrimage
Wu Xian downward staircase may be the most dangerous place in the underground maze.
But does the will of the maze provide them with a way to survive?
If no matter which way you go it's a dead end, it's better to take the path that makes the maze will most uncomfortable.
It’s better to lose both than to win alone!
Besides, it is still unknown who will live and who will die!
From the dark cave behind, there came the sound of wind.
Wu Xian was the first to walk down the stairs.
After walking a few steps, he noticed that the carvings on both sides of the wall were very vivid.
On the walls on both sides of the stairs, there is a relief sculpture every few meters. The contents of the relief sculptures are similar, all of which are scenes of human torture, such as skinning, bone removal, tendon extraction, and intestine extraction...
The sculptor's skills were superb, and he portrayed the painful expression and the scene of flesh and blood being destroyed vividly. Through this relief, Wu Xian seemed to be able to directly feel the pain of the person being punished.
Especially the relief with eight small hooks that completely hooked up the lips made Wu Xian feel phantom pain.
My lips felt like they were being torn apart, and my teeth felt the biting cold...
Wu Xian quickly covered his mouth and looked down.
At the same time, Gong Xiujuan fell on the stairs, covering her hands and screaming. It seemed as if five toothpicks had pierced into the five fingers of her left hand.
Xu Meng scratched his back hard. The skin on his back seemed to be torn apart from the lower back and rolled up to the shoulder blades.
Wu Xian touched his mouth.
His mouth was relatively intact, but the pain was very real, and along with the pain came a strange pleasure that made him want to continue experiencing that feeling.
"Don't look at the relief, let's keep our heads down and move forward!"
Because of the pleasure, Xu Meng and Gong Xiujuan quickly regained their ability to move.
Everyone lowered their heads and walked down the stairs.
As Xu Meng walked, he raised his head to take a look at the relief. The intense pain made his body twitch, but the pleasure that followed made him feel so good that he felt like he was having the shakes.
Gong Xiujuan tried several times to look up at the statue, but Xiong Gang's big hand pressed her head down every time. After several times, she gradually regained control of herself.
Wu Xian didn't even think of looking up. He could understand why Xu and Gong found it difficult to restrain themselves. They had been suppressed in this underground maze for too long. Any degree of happiness was extremely attractive to them.
The full name of the Black Lord contains the word "extreme pain", which means that the Black Lord may have the power of pain. Then, the relief of the downward stairs may not be a punishment for visitors, but a reward for the Black Lord's believers...
During the journey, occasional cries of pain could be heard.
Because the stairs led downward, even if they lowered their heads, they could not avoid occasionally seeing the statue and suffering sudden pains, among which Xu Meng's voice was the most frequent.
What’s worse is that people cannot look up, which limits their field of vision.
No one knows whether something terrible is happening quietly in some invisible place.
During the journey, Wu Xian discovered two things.
First, the shadow.
The shadows of the people were only reflected by the blue flames, but not by the white flames of the skull lamps on the wall.
This means that the dazzling skull lamp is not actually glowing.
The environment on the stairs was still dark, and the bright white light was just an illusion beyond common sense, allowing them to "see" clearly, so they must not extinguish the torches.
Second, it was the sound. Most of the occasional cries of pain were very familiar, but there were two different female voices.
One of the voices belonged to Gong Xiujuan.
But the other one was not made of Liuli.
That means there is another woman following behind them!
Wu Xian turned around abruptly, holding a poker in his hand, and shouted, "Who is following behind? Come out, or I will take action!"
"My dear, wait a minute. I will come out soon."
Suddenly, some translucent things appeared in the shadow of the stairs above. These things twisted, squirmed, entangled, and crawled one by one...
It's a group of snakes!
The snakes gathered together and transformed into a woman dressed in white.
The woman was wearing a white, curved dress with a triple collar. She had red lips and green eyebrows, and was graceful and elegant. Her arms were curved like snowy lotus roots, her fingers were slender like green onions, and her black hair was tied up with two white snake hairpins.
The upper body looks like a graceful beauty, but the lower body covered by the dress seems to be crawling and wriggling. It looks more like a snake's tail than a human leg.
Everyone was shocked.
Except Liuli and Xu Meng, everyone else has seen her.
When they were out exploring together, it was this woman who helped everyone drive away a very tricky three-legged toad.
When the woman appeared, she bowed to everyone.
"Don't worry, everyone. My name is Bai Gu. I have been trapped in this maze for a long time. I just regained consciousness a few days ago. I heard that you wanted to kill the demon baby and escape from this underground maze, so I followed you and wanted to find an opportunity to help you and also seek a glimmer of hope for survival."
The reasons given by Bai Gu are quite tenable.
The underground maze is very large, and what Wu Xian and others have explored is only a small part of it. It is normal that there are other rebels.
But when she spoke, she always glanced at Wu Xian secretly, then looked away, and then her cheeks turned slightly red, as if she was very shy.
Wu Xian was overwhelmed.
He doesn't know this elder sister, why is she blushing?
After a moment of confusion, Wu Xian suddenly had an idea. He quickly opened the certificate of ordination for his relatives and found that his "affinity between dragons and snakes" characteristic had disappeared.
Wu Xian acquired this characteristic in the Eight Tombs Blessed Land.
After the end of that blessed land, in order to thank Wu Xian for his help, Liu Xiangu gave Wu Xian a one-time "Dragon-Snake Affinity", the effect of which was to increase a certain snake creature's favorability towards Wu Xian.
Liu Xiangu is a superior snake demon. The characteristics she gave to Wu Xian made Bai Gu's favor towards Wu Xian continue to increase. In the beginning, she just helped Wu Xian casually, but in the later period, she was thinking about Wu Xian all the time, so she followed behind everyone and planned to help secretly.
Wu Xian put down the certificate of ordination. Now that he was sure that Bai Gu could be trusted, his chances of winning this blessed land were greater.
But facing Bai Gu's burning eyes, Wu Xian felt like crying but had no tears. Can't there be a normal pretty girl who likes him?
Why is it either a hedgehog or a snake?
With the appearance of Bai Gu, the crowd's actions did not change. They still kept moving forward with their heads down. When they had walked halfway, they saw something more on both sides of the stairs.
Those things are shrines.
These shrines are placed randomly, with red cloth strips and dried wreaths hanging on them. What is enshrined inside is not statues of gods, but roughly carved black stone curse dolls.
As everyone walked by with their heads lowered, their eyes met the eyes of every cursed doll.
All the cursed dolls within their sight were very well-behaved, but when they walked past the dolls, they could hear strange crawling sounds coming from behind them!
(End of this chapter)
