Mermaid Reef

The depth of the cave increases and the air becomes thinner.

Juan was forced to gasp for breath.

At this time, the upper cave was flooded, and the bad thing that washed away many rock walls turned into a good thing, and more fresh air flowed into the cave.

"You can rest here." Jason led Juan to a flat hole.

Juan shone a flashlight ahead, and found that the hole was not even half a meter wide, and the gap was long and twisted.

"I can't go this way." Juan stopped immediately.

"I know, but this gap is through the upper floor, a little fresh air."

Jason explained that this is the natural oxygen supplement point he found for investigators.

Juan: "..."

Juan was not moved at all.

If the generous remuneration and proper care are all to make you willingly sacrifice your life, or to lose your life, as long as you are not a fool, you will always reflect on whether it is worth it.

Juan's problem was "going if it's not worth it". Other investigators had never experienced the consequences of rejecting Jason, so Juan didn't dare to try.

——The evil god has credibility, and that is when the evil god is in a good mood.

Juan leaned his head to the opening of the rock crevice, took a few breaths, and the suffocation in his chest was relieved.

But he found it a bit strange.

stench...

Is it an illusion?

It is inevitable that there will be peculiar smell in the cave, and the fishy smell may come from anaerobic bacteria in the water or holes emitting toxic gas deep underground.

"There's something inside." Jason said suddenly.

Before Juan could react, Jansen stretched out his hand and made a light move, and immediately there was a grinding sound from the cracks in the stone.

It was as if something stuck inside was struggling.

Juan closed his eyes in fear, hugged his head and curled up into a ball.

"It's not an evil god, nor a mutated creature, it's just a bone." Jason said in a low voice.

Juan opened his eyes, just in time to see a chubby thing "running" out of the narrow stone crevice.

"Crack."

Juan looked down and found that it was a miserable white skull.

He backed away in fright, and the flashlight flew out.

Jason caught the flashlight.

—— These are consumables, they will be gone after they are used up, so they should be used sparingly.

Juan has dropped the flashlight seven or eight times in various dangerous situations along the way, and has been forced to get used to the reduction operation of the evil god. He took back the lighting tool from the evil god with a stiff expression, and started to study the skull on the ground again.

It is indeed human remains.

But it was too clean, with no flesh or hair, and no blood stains could be seen.

This makes the skull look fake, like a model from a college biology class.

Juan looked again at the crevice in the stone. It was so narrow that only a cat could get through it, but no one could squeeze through it.

"Could it be that the other end of this passage is a wide opening and a small opening. This person slipped and fell, and his bones got stuck in the gap?" Juan asked in horror.

Jason vetoed this guess and replied: "There is only this skull in the passage."

"Uh!"

Juan thought he couldn't ask who dropped his head into the crevice of the stone!

This is not the guillotine of the French. How can there be no skulls rolling around?

Well, the unfortunate victims anyway, perhaps Professor Terekin's missing friends?

Juan searched in the backpack, took out a piece of cloth to wrap the skull, put it back in the rock crevice, and carved a simple cross on the nearby stone with a dagger.

It's not an ideal grave, but there's no way, the space in the backpack is limited.

Back then, tens of thousands of bones were released in the catacombs of European churches.In some tombs, the skull, leg bones, and sternum of the deceased are separated and piled up into walls or bone platforms, which look very spectacular, but Juan feels creepy every time, thinking that this thing is similar to the bone pits in the remains of ancient civilizations in South America .

Juan sighed and prayed for the victim.

Jason watched quietly, and when Juan stood up, he asked curiously, "What if this person doesn't believe in God?"

"...There are only two kinds of gods on this planet, one is the evil god, and the other has never existed before." Juan said sullenly.

Jason thought about it and thought it made sense.

There are believers in the ancient gods, including Gemil. Humans who sailed on the Nordic ice seas worshiped (respected) the god of the sea.

In fact, most of the power of the Sea God is imagined by humans. Gemil is not interested in overturning human ships, and he is not so moody. Shipwrecks at sea are mostly caused by weather problems. Ordinary people are not so easy to encounter mysterious events.

But human beings don't know this. Human beings are afraid of the unknown. Evil gods are unknown, and so are natural disasters. They can't tell the difference.

So they imagined all kinds of stories, wrote legends for the gods, and turned fear into obedience, worship and begging for mercy.

Make excuses for failure, seek a sustenance for unhappy life.

If you imagine a lot, many "gods" who don't exist will appear.

Compared with evil gods, of course non-existent gods are more benevolent, will protect humans, and obey the rules more, and will benefit humans a lot...Since they don’t exist, it’s okay to brag about them.

Since it does not exist, what does it matter if there are differences in beliefs?

Jason thinks Juan's words are very interesting, or that humans in this era have become interesting.

In the past, the gray sect, which had mastered mystical knowledge and strange power, still used faith as a barrier and banner to control the lower members. The members of the sect sincerely felt that they were God's servants and drove out evil for God. The power of the devil--Hans was convinced of this statement before he left Venice!

Juan rested enough and started on the road again.

In the extreme exhaustion and the deep darkness, he had an illusion that this cave seemed to have no bottom.

The passage sometimes goes up, sometimes goes down, and there are also left and right twists and turns.

Juan was lying near the rock wall and heard the rumbling sound. He couldn't tell whether it was the underground magma activity or the flood of the underground river.

He began to lose his sense of direction.

Hearing also became dull.

Juan suspected that he was hallucinating. He heard the wind in the crevices of the rocks, and the wailing of unknown beasts.

But Jason didn't say anything, only the sound of stones rolling down and water dripping from the roof of the cave.

Juan touched his drowsy head, crawling slower and slower.

He didn't realize that Jason, who was leading the way in front of him, turned his head to look at him with a subtle expression.

"……call."

The wind came again.

Juan suddenly saw a slender and strange tentacle flying in the air like a whip.

What kind of hallucination is this?

Juan raised the flashlight subconsciously, and then his body froze instantly.

The light from the flashlight went out, the consumable lost its function, when did it go out?

Since the flashlight has no light, why can he "see" the flying slender tentacles?

No, it seems that there is another one!

Juan suddenly heard the sound of his heart beating violently, as if it was about to leave his chest cavity. He also felt the muscles of his whole body twitching, as if he wanted to "run away from home".The blood turned into magma, which made his whole body scorching and painful. He opened his mouth to shout for help, but a strange twisted and hoarse sound came out of his throat.

"boom!"

A crude canoe was turned upside down and directly covered Juan.

Juan was knocked to the ground, unconscious.

But where he was originally standing, there was a terrifying monster.

It looked like a centipede magnified countless times, with five long whip-like tentacles growing on its head, flexible and soft.

Most of its body was shrunk in the crevice of the rock, only its head sticking out.

There are circles of strangely arranged sharp teeth in the mouth, which are chaotic and weird, and it will make people go crazy just by looking at them.

There are no eyes on the head, only those tentacles, which look like a blooming sea anemone, and below the tentacles is a terrifyingly shaped mouth.

The monster bites an empty space.

It turned left and right hesitantly, and its whip-like tentacles searched around, as if catching the trace of prey.

Soon the monster found the upside-down canoe.

"rustle."

Another part of the monster's body came out.

It was about to grab the canoe with its tentacles, waiting for the moment when the human being turned around in horror and saw itself, screaming and screaming.

——If you're lucky, this prey will be crushed into a pulp on the spot, and sprayed into its huge gaping mouth.

The monster judged instinctively that the vitality of this prey was a bit strong, and it might need to take a bite.

I just bit it off, so it shouldn't happen the second time.

The monster raised its head and body high, its teeth moved randomly along with the oral muscles, like an excited hunter.

"boom!"

The canoe shattered and splinters were scattered.

At the same time, the centipede-like monster was dragged out, and its body completely escaped from the cave where it was hiding.

White frost spread along the hideous giant insect-like body, and it became thicker and thicker.

The monster struggled frantically, but it fell into a trap, starting from its staring at the two humans approaching the nest.

This monster has no brain and no "human common sense", so it doesn't notice anything unusual—how could the canoe appear out of nowhere in the burrow?That's not an investigator covered by an upturned canoe, that's a bait, a mousetrap!

Jason hid in the darkness, quietly waiting for the prey to come to his prepared position.

Then--

The vines bound the monster through the ice.

The monster struggled with great strength, and the ice continued to shatter, but the speed of freezing was faster than the speed of shattering.

Jensen gained Gemil's power again through some means. This kind of ice seal also has the effect of time stagnation. The evil god who fell into the trap roared angrily, but he couldn't stop his movements from getting slower and slower.

Facing the crisis of life and death, it no longer cared about the tiny human lying down, and began to crawl desperately into the crevices of the rocks.

It thought that running all the way, the cave would collapse all the way, hitting the enemy and forcing the enemy to let go.

But the expected thing didn't happen at all, the opponent's body or avatar was more capable of piercing holes than it.

No matter how long, how narrow and twisted the gap is, it will not be affected.

On the contrary, the frost on the surface of the body began to seep into it.

The water on the cave walls is also freezing.

The originally slippery and complicated crypt turned into an ice and snow slide. It couldn't control its own speed, and couldn't get rid of the enemies, as if it was going to be "frozen" together with its own lair.

It was forced to make feeble, ingratiating cries for mercy.

Vines ignored it.

Continue to wrap around and drag up carefully.

"Gamil!"

Stop watching the show and come and take over.