"Boom!"
As everyone entered, the Stone Gate began to close.
Inside, it could no longer be called a corridor. Although the four walls still had clear edges, it was very wide and high, standing here even gave one a sense of insignificance.
Moreover, as the Stone Gate completely closed, green eerie glows gradually erged from the walls on both sides and above.
Lin Shuyou stared at the glow on the wall in front of him, instinctively asking, "Erald?"
Yin ng: "If it really were erald, wouldn't those in the stone gambling business all be out of work?"
Tan Wenbin corrected, "Even those selling eralds would be out of work."
Zhao Yi walked over, covered his hand on the stone, carefully touching it, then frowned and said, "It doesn't seem like erald, more like so sort of patina."
Li Zhiyuan lightly tapped on the wall with his knuckle, listened closely to the echo, and confird, "There should be liquid inside."
"Liquid?"
Everyone believed Brother Xiao Yuan's judgnt, so it seed even more incredible.
Tan Wenbin looked around, except for the ground, all three other sides were green: "If it's liquid, aren't we now like standing in an aquarium?"
Yin ng: "What does an aquarium look like?"
Tan Wenbin: "Spend less ti shopping."
Yin ng: "When I return to Nantong, I'll go see the aquarium."
Tan Wenbin shrugged: "You can't see it in Nantong now, try looking in Jinling next ti."
Nantong has its own aquarium which only opens in the sumr for elentary and middle school students to visit, but the aquatic creatures inside are all kept in glass tanks, not only are the species not very diverse, there are also many temporary perforrs from the market.
At the mont the brightness reached its peak, a black silhouette suddenly appeared inside the wall.
It appeared very abruptly and got closer and closer, as if about to burst out from within the wall.
All of them stepped back a few paces, forming a defensive array.
The silhouette stopped once it got close to the wall, from its shape, it sowhat looked like a person because it had the outline of a head and neck, but the limbs were not present.
Moreover, after the first one appeared, on both sides and above the walls, the second, third, fourth... began appearing consecutively... The silhouettes increased in number, as if stimulated or drawn by sothing, starting to gather at the interior edge of the wall.
The sheer number was unimaginable, densely packed, bringing a chilling sense of oppression.
Tan Wenbin: "Now...it kind of looks like Nantong's aquarium."
A water tank surrounded by students.
This group, instead, seed like the subjects being viewed inside the tank.
Zhao Yi looked at Li Zhiyuan and asked, "Are they living beings?"
Li Zhiyuan shook his head and replied, "I hope they are."
Zhao Yi paused for a mont, then nodded, "Hmm."
If they were living beings, it might be so kind of special flora or fauna, which wasn't much to worry about. However, if they were dead objects... the variations with dead objects could be too many.
Li Zhiyuan: "Let's keep going inside, don't linger here too long."
Everyone started moving ahead, this feeling of being "watched" by nurous black silhouettes was really unfriendly, but for now, they couldn't breach the walls, nor had they shown any danger.
If they just looked, then let them look.
Not far ahead, descending steps appeared, below was a kind of divided circular hall.
Above the head, green stones dangled down, at each tip, white circles adhered, upon closer inspection, resembling cocoons.
This place was different from before, not only were both sides and the ceiling green, but even the floor was too, the entire environnt was completely enveloped in a green texture.
Also, as if sensing the presence of strangers, more black silhouettes either appeared or simply followed from previous locations, swarming here.
"Drip...drip...drip..."
The sound of water dripping, initially very light, scarcely audible, gradually grew louder, and when it reached a piercing level, it suddenly fell silent.
anwhile, atop a thick green hanging stalactite, a silhouette squeezed in, the shadow slid down internally and finally subrged into the white cocoon below.
The white cocoon gradually expanded, began to sag slowly, shouldn't take too long before falling from above to the ground.
Tan Wenbin: "If what ultimately falls is a person, doesn't that indicate that these silhouettes within the walls..."
Zhao Yi: "Are all people."
Lin Shuyou: "Then here, how many people are there?"
Just the number of silhouettes appearing currently was already hard to count.
Zhao Yi: "It's normal, this place should inherently hold so strangeness, but no matter how strange, constructions can't appear out of thin air, after all, it's built by people."
"Thud!"
A muffled sound ca from below, ripples constantly radiated out, the silhouettes within the surrounding walls started shaking, like silt stirred within a pool.
The sound ca from a coffin, its lid surface sticking to the wall below.
Lin Shuyou: "This thing's coming out, surfaced!"
On the ground, the coffin slowly erged, as if undergoing so kind of penetration.
Clearly transitioning from eerie green back to reality, yet there was a sense of returning from hell to the mortal world.
Also, the surrounding silhouettes seed to suddenly lose interest in Li Zhiyuan and others, all spontaneously began gathering towards that coffin's location, like waiting for it to open so they could surge out along with the broken gap.
However, the coffin stopped halfway when floating upward.
Like a cork in a wine bottle, it was stuck there.
Below it, a large aggregation of silhouettes, like a giant beehive.
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