Chapter 1626: Acquaintance

"Who?" Li Bai looked at the clay figures nearby, feeling a little confused for a moment.

Zhang Yuanchao looked at Li Bai worriedly, "Daughter, what's wrong with you?"

Li Bai looked at Zhang Yuanchao fiercely, and asked nervously: "Didn't you hear? Someone... someone called my name just now."

"No, old man, I didn't hear anything." Zhang Yuanchao became nervous after hearing this.

At this moment, Li Bai did not dare to delay any longer, and walked towards the well with a sudden heart. Since the clue pointed to water, then this well might also be the key.

Li Bai had a guess in his mind that the real exit might be hidden in the well.

But as the two of them inspected the well carefully, they realized that it was an ordinary underground well. Li Bai stretched the lantern into the well mouth as much as possible. There was no point on the bare well wall inside that could be stepped on, and the general The well water with its dark luster lies very deep.

"Daughter, this well is very deep, be careful not to fall in." Zhang Yuanchao reminded.

Li Bai stretched out her hand and pulled off the remaining well rope tied to the wooden wheel. The well rope was much longer than she thought. She tied one end of the well rope around her waist, and the other end was firmly tied to the wooden wheel for drawing water, " I'll go down and take a look, keep an eye on the rope."

Zhang Yuanchao was stunned for a moment, then immediately stopped him, "I can't help it, my dear, how can I watch you go down, old man? If you want to go, I'll go too!"

This was not just talk. Zhang Yuanchao seemed to have a natural sense of trust in Li Bai. He took off the rope from Li Bai's waist, then tied it tightly to himself, and then inserted the lantern pole into his waist, doing a good job. After getting ready, he spit into the palms of his hands, grabbed the well rope and was about to go down, but just when his body was about to sink into the well mouth, Zhang Yuanchao suddenly stopped, and then looked at Li Bai with complicated eyes.

"Don't worry, I will definitely wait for you to come out." Li Bai made a very serious promise to Zhang Yuanchao, "If you don't believe me, you can tie the other end of the rope to me."

"No, no, my dear, you have misunderstood. Old man...Old man, I want to tell you that if...if I encounter trouble down there, my dear, just leave alone and leave me alone."

Looking at Zhang Yuanchao's honest face, Li Bai was deeply shocked, "You...why are you so nice to me?"

Zhang Yuanchao smiled with a complex expression and did not answer. He loosened the rope and sank his body into the well little by little. Li Bai lay at the mouth of the well and said to the people below: "Remember, I'm not going anywhere. I'm just here waiting for you to come up. You must careful."

Li Bai could tell that Zhang Yuanchao's relaxation was just an act. He was very scared, and his hands that were holding the well rope were shaking, but he still took the well rope without hesitation and wanted to carry out this seemingly very dangerous task on his behalf. .

"Daughter, there are no other holes below, only water. Not long after, Zhang Yuanchao's slightly distorted voice came from the well.

"Plop!"

With the sound of water, Li Bai's nerves suddenly tensed, but the next second Zhang Yuanchao's voice sounded again, this time with doubts in his voice, "Daughter, the water in this well seems...it doesn't seem to be very deep, I threw a mud clod , there’s something wrong with the sound of the water.”

Then Li Bai heard the sound of Zhang Yuanchao playing with the water, but before she could say a word to remind him, Zhang Yuanchao's scream suddenly exploded.

"There is something under the water!" Zhang Yuanchao was so frightened that he dropped his lantern and climbed up desperately.

After hearing this, Li Bai immediately pulled the rope. Soon, Zhang Yuanchao, whose lower body was soaked, rolled out of the well mouth.

After confirming that nothing was following Zhang Yuanchao, Li Bai breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Zhang Yuanchao and asked, "What did you see?"

Zhang Yuanchao, a strong man, was so frightened that his face turned pale and cold sweat broke out on his forehead, "Bones! There are bones all down the well!"

Hearing this, Li Bai was also surprised, "What kind of bones?"

Zhang Yuanchao swallowed and hugged himself tremblingly, "It's very small, very thin. It should look like...the bones of a baby."

Li Bai immediately turned around to look at the clay figures near the passage. He thought that these babies were hatched from the clay figures, but... why did they all die in the well?

"Are you sure there is no exit below?" Li Bai confirmed with Zhang Yuanchao again.

"No, there are all bones down there. Those bones..." Zhang Yuanchao suddenly stopped at this point, then his mouth opened slightly, and his eyes looked behind Li Bai with extreme fear.

When he turned around, Li Bai was also stunned. The statue of Empress Zhusheng who had been standing by the wall not long ago actually moved without anyone noticing. This time, it moved a third of the distance towards the entrance of the cave.

"Not good!" Li Bai immediately realized that in a short time, Empress Zhusheng would block the passage for them to leave, and by then the two of them would be dead.

However, judging from the movements of Empress Zhusheng, that weird passage is most likely the only way to leave here.

Without hesitation, the two of them immediately approached the passage. Zhang Yuanchao seemed to have thought of something, and before leaving, he actually coiled the well rope into a ball and carried it on his shoulders.

There was no movement from Empress Zhusheng during this process, but when Li Bai was about to enter the cave entrance, the strange call appeared again.

"Li Bai..."

This time Li Bai heard clearly that the other party was weak, as if he was going to die in the next second.

"Who?" Li Bai immediately looked in the direction of the sound. The light there was very poor and he could only see the outlines of a dozen clay figures modeled after the lake.

"Daughter, I...I heard it this time too." Zhang Yuanchao looked nervously at the clay figures.

If they don't figure out what's going on, they might not be able to get away. Li Bai held a lantern and approached the clay figurines in the dark cautiously.

These clay figurines were poorly made. Some of them didn't even have facial contours carved. It looked more like a thick layer of mud was directly smeared on the corpse.

Just as Li Bai looked at them one by one with a lantern -

"Li...Bai..."

Li Bai shuddered all over. She heard it very clearly. The voice came from the clay figurine, the one against the wall!

And what was even more strange was that she actually heard a hint of familiarity from the voice.

"Hu Jingyi!" Zhang Yuanchao reacted more strongly than Li Bai, "This is Hu Jingyi's voice!"

Hu Jingyi was the painting teacher who disappeared on the first night. There was no doubt that he was also captured by the Goddess of Injection.

Li Bai walked forward quickly and soon felt two holes under the rough nose of the clay figurine. There was still a slight breath inside.

"The person is still alive. He is not dead yet!" Li Bai was also shocked by the discovery in front of him.

Just when Li Bai was about to break the outer layer of mud to rescue the man, Zhang Yuanchao immediately stopped her, "No, the dry mud will tear off his face! Use water, pour water!"