Chapter 384

After being cursed.

When Wu Xian looked at the pitch-black cave entrances around him again, he felt that every entrance radiated bone-chilling coldness.

He could not hide here for seven days.

He needed to find food and find god-worshipping items to improve his strength.

Therefore, Wu Xian must go out to explore, but once he went out to explore, he would leave the safe light, and the pressure brought by the omnipresent darkness was truly too strong.

Wu Xian looked at the palace lantern.

"At least this lamp is bright enough; there is at least one safe zone."

Wu Xian had just finished speaking.

Whoosh! The light of the palace lantern dimmed instantly, changing from a warm yellow light that could illuminate the entire cave to a dim candlelight that could only illuminate a small area.

Wu Xian broke out in a sweat and hurriedly ran under the palace lantern.

Huang Huang Debiao and his wife, as well as the crazy woman, also hurriedly came to the place with light.

Xia Xia Caoqing looked up and said: "The candle inside the lantern seems to be burning out. Is there any candle anywhere?"

Huang Huang Debiao walked toward the small temple.

"Maybe there are candles here..."

He had long been curious about this temple, but out of fear, he had never dared to approach it. But this place was about to fall into darkness, and only this temple could be explored.

Wu Xian examined the surrounding combustibles.

As long as there was fire, there was light. Without candles, relying on burning things could also last for a while.

Suddenly, his face showed joy; there was dry firewood next to the crazy woman. Relying on that dry firewood, he could at least hold on for a long time.

But immediately.

Wu Xian thought of more.

If the candle had been on all the time before, the crazy woman wouldn't have needed to collect dry firewood, unless... this lantern was meant to be on and off! Just as Wu Xian wanted to ask the crazy woman for dry firewood.

Huang Huang Debiao, who went to explore the temple, walked back. His movements were stiff, his hands and feet moved in unison, and his face was covered in cold sweat. Clearly, he was scared out of his wits.

Wu Xian asked curiously: "What's in there?"

Huang Huang Debiao shook his head rapidly: "I, I didn't see clearly. When I was about to lift the curtain, I suddenly felt very afraid, as if something terrible would happen once the curtain was lifted, so I didn't dare to go in and came back."

After speaking, he pulled Xia Xia Caoqing, and his attitude was no longer tough.

"What should we do, wife? There really seems to be a ghost here. Can the search and rescue team really find us? Can we really get out of here alive?"

The man who had a hot temper just now became incomparably fragile at this moment.

According to Wu Xian's experience in the Fudi, the things in that temple were definitely not ordinary. He had originally thought that there might be a god-worshipping opportunity there, but now it seemed that it might be the source of disaster.

Wu Xian sighed: "Since we can't find candles, let's light a fire. We must at least light a fire before the candle goes out. I think none of you want to fall into the pitch-black darkness."

"Don't light a fire, don't light a fire!"

The crazy woman suddenly shouted at Wu Xian.

"The palace lantern can only last for another hour at most!"

"As long as we tell a story that satisfies the statue within this hour, the lantern can shine for another eight hours!"

Wu Xian looked at the crazy woman in surprise; she really knew a lot.

From her appearance, one could tell that she had been surviving in the cave for a long time. The fact that she was still alive was enough to show her rich experience.

As for her strange madness, it was very likely that she had been forced into mental instability by the "Darkness Fear" curse.

"A story?"

Xia Xia Caoqing's face brightened. "I am a writer and have many stories to tell. What kind of stories does this statue like to hear?"

The crazy woman's movements stopped, and she grinned. Several teeth had already fallen out of her mouth, and her red gums were exposed.

"Of course, it's a horror story!"

Horror story...

Huang Huang Debiao and Xia Xia Caoqing fell into silence at the same time and felt their bodies go cold. Anyone who had watched horror movies knew that in this environment, telling ghost stories was a completely suicidal act.

And who could prove that what this crazy woman said was true?

Come to think of it, telling a story to a statue was itself a very eerie thing.

Xia Xia Caoqing waved her hand reluctantly: "I, I am a romance novelist and don't know how to tell ghost stories."

Wu Xian did not feel surprised at all. In this Fudi, this was simply a very normal development.

The crazy woman urged anxiously: "Tell it quickly, I have no more stories to tell. This statue only listens to stories of personal experience; false stories heard from movies or novels are useless."

Huang Huang Debiao, who had been very tough just now, was already shivering uncontrollably.

Wu Xian also had a difficult expression.

According to this requirement, Wu Xian was the most suitable person to tell a story.

Because he had countless horror stories to tell; he could sit here and talk for a day and a night without stopping.

But was that really good? The identity document said "strange words and weird talk urge ghosts to rise." The strange words and weird talk were probably meant for this, so he didn't want to be the first to tell a story. It was best to wait until the mechanism of the story was determined before deciding whether to speak.

Seeing that all three were hesitant, the crazy woman was so anxious that she scratched her head.

"Say it quickly, say it quickly! Once this lantern goes out, very terrifying things will appear in the darkness, and then all four of us will die!"

"Don't think about hiding it, don't think it's hard to speak. Everyone who comes here has a story!"

The crazy woman's urging instead made Huang Huang Debiao and Xia Xia Caoqing feel suspicious, and they were even less willing to tell a story.

Time passed bit by bit. The crazy woman was so anxious that she stomped her feet and kept looking at her pile of dry firewood. It seemed she intended to light a fire before the lamp went out.

Suddenly.

A terrifying roar came from the darkness.

The sound was neither human nor beast, and it made everyone's heart tremble.

Wu Xian raised an eyebrow. This was the sound of the thing that had been chasing him before. It seemed that it had sensed the light here dimming, so it wanted to launch an attack.

But Wu Xian was also eager to try. Taking advantage of the fact that there was still light, he wanted to see the true face of that thing.

After all, only by killing the malevolent entity could one obtain a god-worshipping opportunity. Blindly escaping would only make the Fudi journey increasingly difficult, so this was a rare opportunity.

The crazy woman was even more frightened, squatting on the ground with her head in her hands, crying while saying some inexplicable things.

Xia Xia Caoqing bit her lip. She knew she couldn't hesitate any longer, so she walked to the big-eared statue holding the lantern.

"As long as I tell a story, I can make the lantern shine, right?"

The crazy woman looked up happily: "That's it, tell it quickly. This lamp will get dimmer and dimmer. Once the lamp goes out, it will be too late."

Xia Xia Caoqing sat in front of the statue, was silent for a short while, and after conceiving her words, she finally spoke.

"My story starts from half a month ago."

"At that time, I had already set a marriage contract with Huang Debiao, but I thought that once I got married, I would lose my hobbies and have no more opportunities to go hiking."

"So I found a few friends, and we agreed to go mountain climbing together."

(End of chapter)