"Still unconscious?" Xiong Zhiqi looked at Zhou Bin lying on the ground and asked.
"He's been kicked in the crotch by me." Zhao Zhuo shrugged, his current strength was indeed much greater than before, dealing with ordinary people, or even a weak guy like Zhou Bin, it was really simple.
"We have to wake him up." Xiong Zhiqi squatted down, stretched out a finger and lightly poked Zhou Bin's chin.
Zhao Zhu clearly saw that Xiong Zhiqi's finger turned bright red as it moved, like an electric soldering iron, emitting a wisp of white smoke in the air.
"Ah!!!!!!"
Zhou Bin let out a miserable cry and was awakened by the pain. His lower jaw didn't bleed at first, but left a deep-colored scar.
"If you don't want to die, go down first and I'll give you ten seconds to hesitate." Zhao Zhu said with a gun pointed at Zhou Bin's forehead.
"I'm going down, I'm going down, please don't kill me, whatever you do, don't kill me. As long as you don't kill me, I'll do anything." Zhou Bin quickly nodded and ignored the pain in his jaw, using both hands to support himself on the ground, slowly lowering his body into the pit.
"It's so deep down there, just like a well." Zhou Bin said, "Do I still need to continue going down?"
"Keep going down, hurry up." Zhao Zhuo scolded.
Zhou Bin fell silent, but judging from the sounds coming from below, he continued to move downwards, his legs and arms stuck to both ends of the pit, relying on this method to slowly move down.
"It's almost done, let's go down too." said Xiong Zhiqi.
"I'll go lock the doors and windows, you go down first." Zhao Zhuo said as he went to check the doors and windows. When he came back, Xiong Zhiqi had just gone down a short distance. Zhao Zhuo put away his pistol, took off his suit jacket, and also climbed down into the pit.
This feeling of being in a pit, Zhao Zhu had experienced not long ago, just in the previous task world "Manqing Longmai", but compared to Manqing Longmai, the pit here can only be described as small magic seeing big magic. Before long, Zhou Bin's voice came from below:
"That's it."
"Is there a road nearby?"
"There is a road, but it's very narrow."
"You go in first, we'll come down too."
When they reached the bottom of the pit, there was a narrow slit. Xiong Zhiqi also used a lot of force to squeeze in sideways, and Zhao Zhu followed suit. Behind the slit, the space became much more spacious, but Zhao Zhu clearly felt a chill, and the temperature inside seemed to be much lower than outside, with high humidity as well.
The ground was very soft, not stone, and somewhat like sand. Zhou Bin stood a few meters away from Zhao Zhu and Xiong Zhiqi, not daring to get close or run away. There was also no place to escape here.
"Could it be that the guy dug an air raid shelter under his own floor?" Xiong Zhiqi muttered to himself, "Don't even say it, it's really possible, there are all kinds of perverts and psychopaths in this group, it's not impossible for someone to do something so stupid."
"Stop indulging in scattered thinking, when you have time, take a good look at what's under your feet, and see what it is that you're actually standing on."
"What's underfoot?" Xiong Zhiqi muttered, then lowered his head and reached out to brush away the mud below. Suddenly, a face appeared before him. "Damn it, a corpse!"
"Corpse?" Zhou Bin, who was standing beside him, also heard these two words and was stunned, looking like a frightened bird.
"Not just one, this underground fault of about twenty or thirty square meters is paved with several layers of corpses, estimated to be a mass grave." Zhao Zhu said as he walked towards the side wall. He used the gun butt to knock on the wall surface several times, and a shallow white mark appeared on the wall surface: "Concrete wall, this is not a natural cave, it's an underground room, artificially built."
"What's the point of building this? Just for storing corpses?"
"I'm not sure either, but this basement should be quite old too. The corpses here, no freezer, and it's very humid and hot nearby, but these corpses haven't rotted, they're just buried in the mud. Don't you think that's strange?"
"If all of these are corpses, then will that guy from our group also be lying here?" Xiong Zhiqi asked.
"Maybe..." Zhao Zhu was about to speak when he suddenly saw a shadow appearing behind Zhou Bin, getting closer and closer. Zhao Zhu didn't directly alert him, but instead changed the subject: "Daxiong, I think we should go up, there are too many dead people here, it's too ominous."
As he spoke, Zhao Zhu slightly turned his body and used his eyes to signal Xiong Zhiqi to look towards Zhou Bin's position. Xiong Zhiqi looked over and saw the increasingly large shadow behind Zhou Bin, and immediately opened his mouth:
"Wow... wow, this corpse under our feet is so sticky and soft...... Brother Zhao was right, I don't want to stay here either. Let's end the adventure and go up. You're the last one to come up, Zhou Bin, in reverse order of what we did earlier, got it?" Xiong Zhiqi said, pointing at Zhou Bin.
Zhou Bin didn't want to stay in this place full of corpses for a moment, and when he heard that Zhao Zhu and the others were preparing to leave, he wouldn't care who went first or last, as long as he could get out.
Zhao Zhu went through the narrow slit first, followed by Xiong Zhiqi.
At this time, Zhou Bin suddenly muttered to himself: "Ah... it's so itchy."
Zhou Bin reached back and scratched his own back, feeling a slippery sensation. He brought his hand back to look at it and was shocked to find that his palm was covered in blood and flesh, with small black holes all over the surface. The holes were densely packed and neatly arranged. Zhou Bin was terrified, and he started frantically touching his own back, only to discover that he could actually dig into his own body. His entire back had rotted away like it had been eaten by insects, leaving a gaping hole.
Next, Zhou Bin saw that his palms also began to appear with those dense black spots, the black spots were constantly spreading and condensing. Zhou Bin used one hand to scratch the back of the other hand, and a whole piece of skin fell off, as if his own flesh and blood had become empty, like an old tree hollowed out by insects.
"It's unbearable, ah! I have to get out of here, I have to get out of here!!!!!!" Zhou Bin rushed towards the narrow slit like a madman, he had to leave this place, where there were not only corpses but also unknown great terrors.
Xiong Zhiqi stood outside the seam, saw Zhou Bin rushing over, and immediately kicked him away. Zhou Bin was caught off guard and was kicked back several times, after which he couldn't get up again because his flesh and blood began to fall off like an avalanche, leaving only a skeleton behind, with black spots appearing on the bones, densely packed together.
"What's going on? What is that thing?"
"It's a worm, a very frightening worm, this place is its nest."
"Then why don't we hurry up and run?"
"The bug can't come out, no special container, it comes out and dies. Do you feel the temperature difference between inside and outside this gap? It's actually quite obvious?"
"Uh... it's true, I shivered when I just went in."
"So, for the time being, we can rest assured. Let's not go in anymore, and it will be absolutely safe. Otherwise, do you think this tunnel, that floorboard, can stop these bugs? If they can come out, I'm afraid the entire residential area will be affected. Forget it, this thing is not something we can handle for now, let's go up first."
Zhao Zhu re-stuck himself to the wall of the pit and started moving upwards. After about ten minutes, he returned to the room, and Xiong Zhiqi also climbed up later. Both of them had obvious mud stains on their bodies.
"Huff...huff..." Xiong Zhiqi panted heavily, then said: "Zhao Ge, do you think it's possible that the group of brothers who lived here before had already discovered the underground pit with a hundred people and the secrets inside? So they decided to make a desperate attempt to get in and try their luck before entering the next task world, and ended up dying there?"
"I guess... it's just like that."
Xiong Zhiqi's phone rang at this time, and it was a text message. After reading it, Xiong Zhiqi said to Zhao Zhu:
"Zhao Ge, the buyer of the insect has been found, he said that he will fly to SZ soon to trade with us."
"Let's clean up the fingerprints here first and then we'll go home to rest for a day, let's buy tickets back for the day after tomorrow."
"What about your cousin then? We've pushed her lover into the worm's den to be devoured." asked Xiong Zhiqi.
"I previously put her to sleep in the toilet, and then gave her some water mixed with a small amount of ghost ginseng powder. Although the amount was not large and the concentration was not high, I estimate that it should be no problem for her to slowly weaken and fall ill. What kind of woman can prepare to kill her future father-in-law? Which man would dare to marry her?" Zhao Zhu said calmly.
When he heard this, Xiong Zhiqi couldn't help but swallow his saliva, as if he was the one who had drunk that water.