Chapter 65 Predicament

  "On the second floor in a certain location, the corpse is still there. Yu Ming shone his light on the ground and said: 'There are signs of dragging.' A trail of blood had been drawn across the carpet."

  Ye Zhandao said: "I heard the gunshot, and about 40 seconds later I arrived. Then I saw someone running in that direction." This was his point of doubt - if you're going to shoot and run away, why delay for so long?

  "Take a look." The two pushed open the nearby room and started searching for the crime scene. But whether it was the flashlight or other reasons, they found nothing. It seemed that the bloodstain appeared suddenly.

  Two people were walking in the corridor, Ye Zhan suddenly stopped and took two steps back. Then he moved forward two steps again. He snapped his fingers. Yu Ming walked over and squatted down. Ye Zhan lifted up a floorboard, it was a stone slab. Ye Zhan put his ear on the stone slab to listen, then used a flashlight to tap on the ground. Slowly backing away, he discovered a floorboard with a recessed groove.

  "This is the old castle district," said Mingdao Yu.

  Ye Zhan didn't answer, grabbed the recess and pulled upwards, his fingers slipped. Ye Zhan spat on his palm, rubbed it, and shouted as he continued to pull up. But the stone slab didn't budge. Ye Zhan said: "Help."

  "Alright." Yu Ming bit his flashlight and pushed the stone slab to the left, revealing a cave entrance.

  Good grief, this kid knows the stone slab isn't pulled, yet he's still watching himself make a fool of himself. Yu Ming was wronged. When Yu Ming placed his hands on the recesses, he felt that it was better to apply force towards the left side.

  Yu Ming and Ye Sheng took out their flashlights and shone them inside, but it was too dark to see anything. Yu Ming threw in half a can of Coke, and about a second later, they heard some noise. Yu Ming said, "I estimate it's about 20 meters."

  "What were your scores in physics and math?"

  "Rotten." Yu Mingdao said: "There is a ladder."

  On the side of the cave entrance, a row of straight ladders extended downwards. The rusty iron ladder was covered in rust spots. Yu Ming looked at Ye Zhan, and Ye Zhan shook his head: "I'm not going down."

  "I won't go down either." Yu Ming replied firmly.

  A mechanical voice, Ye Zhan took advantage of the momentum to pounce on Ming Yu. A low gunshot sounded. A bullet hit the stone wall in the corridor. Ming Yu ran sideways with his hands and feet. Another gunshot was heard, and only Ye Zhan's cry was heard, as if he had fallen down into the cave entrance. Ming Yu shone his flashlight, but Ye Zhan was no longer seen in the passageway.

  A bullet hit the wall, Yu Ming hastily turned off the flashlight, got down on the ground and crawled forward. Yu Ming gasped for breath, calming his nerves. Suddenly he spoke in a female voice: "There's gunfire." Then he covered his mouth and made footsteps that sounded like they were getting closer and closer. He also made a rough male voice sound like it was approaching.

  At this time, he took advantage of the sound to cover up and pushed open a door. He rolled in. The flashlight shone on it, and it was a bathroom. There were rows of wooden partitions separating the bathrooms.

  The killer slowly moved forward, pushed open a door, and checked but found nothing. Then he pushed open another door. And then he pushed open the bathroom. He was wearing night vision goggles as he slowly advanced. All the way to the end, no one was found. Turned around and left the bathroom. Started walking quickly, seemingly wanting to take a shortcut to intercept survivors.

  When the killer came in, Yu Ming leaned against the wall by the door. When the killer walked inside, he stuck to the wooden railing of the first bathroom. The killer walked out and wouldn't notice the black under the lamp again. So he left like this.

  Yu Ming crawled out of the room and went to the entrance of the cave. He dared not shout, but he also didn't know if Ye Zhan was dead or alive. He didn't dare to go for help either, as the current situation seemed that the killer was already guarding a certain intersection. If he went for help, he would only be shot in the dark. On the contrary, going into the cave was safer.

  MD, Yu Ming cursed in his heart and grabbed the ladder to start climbing down. At first, the entrance was only that big. But soon he felt the emptiness all around. Yu Ming shone his flashlight downwards and could already see some things below. Yu Ming climbed down a few more meters, suddenly feeling something slippery moving on his hand, and when he shone his flashlight into his mouth, a snake raised its head just half a meter away from him.

  "Ah!" Yu Ming was startled and loosened his grip, falling to the ground. Then he landed. Yu Ming looked up in confusion and said, "Strange, nothing happened."

  "You're pressing down on me, it's nothing."

  Yu Ming's buttocks were spoken from below, Yu Ming fumbled to get the flashlight and shone it. Ye Zhan was lying on top of two skulls. Yu Ming was frightened and retreated several steps.

  "Pull me out, I've broken my leg." Ye Zhan said.

  There were no snakes or insects nearby. Then, Yu Ming grabbed Ye Zhan's hand and pulled him to one side. Only then did Yu Ming start to look around. This was a primitive limestone cave. Not too big or too small, about 200 square meters. There was wind, but the gaps were very small.

  With a loud "boom", the stone slab on top was pulled up. Yu Ming cursed, "Damn it, damn it, damn it." It seemed that his own shout had been discovered by the other party, and they simply came to bury him alive.

  "You're shouting so loudly, it's a wonder if others can't hear you." Ye Zhan said.

  "There's a snake on your hand, try it."

  "Is this it?" Ye Zhan raised his right hand, on which was a snake. His fingers pinched at the seventh inch, and the snake coiled around his arm.

  "Ah!" Yu Ming tumbled back several meters.

  "Help me up and let's see how we can get out of this damned place." Ye Zhan flung his right arm, tossing the snake to one side.

  Yu Ming helped Ye Zhan up, and Ye Zhan gritted his teeth: "My left leg is broken. You're not running away, what are you doing here?"

  "It's very complicated." Firstly, there are assassins blocking the way, secondly, I'm worried about Ye Zhan's life or death, thirdly, I'm curious, and fourthly, I'm hiding from the assassins.

  Yu Ming supported Ye Zhan to the stone wall and Ye Zhan said, "We need to dig out these stones."

  "I'm not a excavator." Big stones weigh over a ton. Yu Ming supported Ye's back and sat down, lifted his head to look at the iron ladder. The iron ladder was two meters high. Yu Ming said: "I want to go up to find someone."

  "The killer is just playing hide and seek up there. If you go up, it's looking for death." Ye Zhan said: "We'll spend the night here first, and then go up tomorrow morning."

  "No way, my friend is still up there." Yu Ming said: "I have to warn them."

  "Your friend is so capable, yet you're afraid of an assassin." Ye Zhan thought back to the car chase and shootout. And that woman was quite skilled too. Ye Zhan said: "Among your friends, you are the most useless."

  Yu Ming said, "You talk too much." Yu Ming jumped up and grabbed the iron ladder, but didn't hold on tight and fell down. Ye Zhan ridiculed him, but Yu Ming ignored him, felt something on the ground with his hand, shone a flashlight on it and put it in his pocket. Then he jumped up again and firmly grasped the iron ladder.

  "There's a snake above." Ye Zhan 'kindly' reminded.

  "I'm not afraid of snakes, just the ones that appear suddenly." Yu Ming explained in one sentence, climbing up. And didn't know if the snake fell down together. Yu Ming successfully climbed to the top with one breath. Then discovered a tragedy. This stone slab was pushed to the left, but there was no recess below, and it was quite smooth. Yu Ming stood on the ladder, couldn't use force at all.