Chapter 301 - 53_3

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Chapter 301: Chapter 53_3When I crawled out, they had already gone down, following the rope ladder. "You said a rope ladder?" Li Zhiyuan began to try sketching out the scene in his mind as best as he could based on the woman’s simple description, not missing any detail. "It was set up by Zhu Changyong." "Was there also a Zhu Changyong on the other side?" Li Zhiyuan suspected that Xu Wen was not looking for the groups of Honda or Ashley, but most likely this Zhu Changyong. "Yes, when I came out, they had already gone down the ladder, they were communicating. My husband was there, too. Two husbands. When the two of them stood together, I, as a wife, couldn’t tell which one was real." "And what about you, did you see another you?" The woman’s lips curled into a smile, and the extent of this smile was gradually expanding, a profound meaning apparent in her eyes. Instead of directly answering the boy’s question, she responded with a counter-question: "What do you think?" Li Zhiyuan slightly shifted his body and continued to ask: "You said they started fighting afterwards?" "Yes, they did. A lot of people died. They were lying on the ground, a blur of flesh and blood." "Who died?" "I can’t remember. Anyway, the only ones left standing alive in the end were unique." "Did that include you lying on the ground?" "What do you think?" Li Zhiyuan straightened up again, looking down at his fingers, and asked, "So, was there only one Zhu Changyong left?" "Mm." "And what happened next?" "We went back in again." "The same hole?" "No, this time it was a door because the remaining Honda found that this door could be opened. Not fully, but enough to pry open a gap just big enough for a person to squeeze through sideways." "You formed a team again?" "Mm." Li Zhiyuan really wanted to ask, how could you tell who was who among the survivors, who came in with you and who was from the group you encountered later? And the door you couldn’t enter from the outside can now be entered. So, have you actually gone inside, or have you come out? But he didn’t dare ask too detailedly. He had already sensed fluctuations in the woman’s condition. This fleeting calm, obtained only after venting, was like drinking poison to quench thirst. It was also because the incident had just happened recently. Without a doubt, her mental issues were going to worsen. Eventually, the occasionally present sanity and calm would be completely submerged and covered. This meant that he was likely the last person to learn about the situation from her. Li Zhiyuan inwardly cursed Xu Wen again. If he hadn’t come today, this piece of information would be buried forever. No wonder Li Lan didn’t take you, her secretary, on that project. "After you went through the door again, did the environment change?" "Yes, it became very open and bright inside, with the sun, moon, and stars all above us." Searᴄh the Nôvelƒire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. "What exactly was there, I mean, beneath your feet?" "Underfoot, there were pits, next to each pit stood a stone sculpture, with water in the pits. Bronze chains were tied to the sculptures, extending into the adjacent pits." "How many were there?" "Countless. We continued forward, towards that... house." "A house? There was a house there? How big?" "Very large, extremely large." "Shouldn’t that be a palace then?" "It’s not a palace; it’s just a house. It had two horns, long whiskers, and a terrifyingly large mouth." "An animal? A gigantic animal?" "It’s not an animal; it’s a house." Li Zhiyuan sighed inwardly. The woman’s condition was deteriorating, and her narrative had become increasingly halting; he could no longer clearly envision the environment in his mind. "Did you go into this house?" "I didn’t. I was left behind. My husband and the others went in, into that house." "Who specifically are ’your husband and the others’?" "Honda, Ashley, Zhu Changyong." "Who stayed with you?" "About four or five people, I guess." "Why did you split up?" "Because we had to hold on to the rope." Her description was losing its logical progression. "Hold the rope? What happened to the path leading to that house?" "It was flooded." "I thought it was dry. Where did the water come from?" "The water from the pits started overflowing. They were walking forward with ropes tied to them." As she spoke, the woman stood up, her body beginning to tremble. "And then what happened?" Li Zhiyuan felt that he couldn’t wait any longer and needed to clarify the outcome. "Then darkness, all turned black, the thing inside the house awakened, and the sun, moon, and stars above disappeared. I only saw a circle of red, like a big eye. It awoke, it was angered, and they all crawled out of the pits—so, so many, countless..." "What were they?" "So many, all of them... the rope broke, the rope tied to my husband broke, they were swallowed by the house, ah, ah, ah!" Li Zhiyuan stood up: "What about you? Your group that stayed behind?" The woman clutched her head, "I was running, we were all running. We crawled out through the door, that gap was just enough for one person to squeeze through. They were still trying to push through when someone bashed two others dead with a pickaxe and squeezed through first, then I followed. I left my husband behind, I abandoned him." "You couldn’t save him; it’s not your fault." "Is that so..." The woman’s emotions stabilized slightly upon hearing his words.

Chapter 301 - 53_3

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