Nightmare Attack

"Who?" Li Bai looked at the clay figurines nearby, and was a little dazed for a moment.

Zhang Yuanchao looked at Li Bai with some concern, "Girl, what's wrong with you?"

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

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

At this moment, Li Bai didn't dare to delay any longer, and walked towards the well with a determined heart. Since the clues pointed to water, 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 carefully checked the well, they found that this was just an ordinary underground well. Li Bai stretched the lantern into the well mouth as far as possible. There was no foothold on the bare well wall inside, and the well water with a dark luster was very deep.

"Girl, this well is very deep, you should be careful not to fall into it." Zhang Yuanchao reminded.

Li Bai reached out and pulled off the remaining rope tied to the wooden wheel. The rope was much longer than she thought. She tied one end of the rope to her waist and tied the other end firmly 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 at first, and then immediately stopped her. "No, girl, how can I watch you go down here? I'll go if you want to!" This was not just talk. Zhang Yuanchao seemed to have a natural sense of trust in Li Bai. He pulled off the rope around Li Bai's waist and tied it tightly around himself. Then he inserted the lantern pole into his waist. After getting ready, he spitted twice into his palms and grabbed the rope to go down. But just as his body was about to sink into the well, Zhang Yuanchao suddenly stopped and looked at Li Bai with complicated eyes. "Don't worry, I will definitely wait for you to come out." Li Bai promised Zhang Yuanchao very seriously, "If you don't believe me, I can tie the other end of the rope to me."

"No, no, girl, you misunderstood. I, the old man... I want to tell you that if... if I encounter trouble down there, you can go by yourself, don't worry about me."

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

Zhang Yuanchao smiled with a complicated expression and did not answer. He loosened the rope and his body sank 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'll wait for you to come up here. You must be careful."

Li Bai could see that Zhang Yuanchao's relaxation was fake. He was very scared, and his hands holding the rope were shaking, but he still took the rope without hesitation to perform this seemingly very dangerous task on his behalf.

"Girl, there are no other holes down there, only water. Soon after, Zhang Yuanchao's slightly distorted voice came from the well.

"Plop! "

Accompanied by the sound of water, Li Bai's nerves suddenly tensed up, but the next second Zhang Yuanchao's voice sounded again, this time with doubt in his voice, "Girl, this well water seems... not very deep, I threw a piece of mud, and the sound of the water is not right."

Then Li Bai heard the "gurgling" sound of Zhang Yuanchao stirring the water, but before she could remind him, Zhang Yuanchao's scream suddenly exploded.

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

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

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

Zhang Yuanchao, a sturdy man, was frightened to a pale face, and cold sweat kept coming out of his forehead, "Bones! There are bones all under the well!"

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

Zhang Yuanchao swallowed his saliva and hugged himself tremblingly, "very small, very thin, it looks like... it's the bones of a baby."

Li Bai immediately turned around to look at the clay figurines near the passage, thinking that these babies were hatched from the clay figurines, but... 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 bones below, and those bones..." Zhang Yuanchao suddenly stopped talking here, then opened his mouth slightly, and looked behind Li Bai with extreme fear.

When he turned around, Li Bai was also confused. The statue of the Goddess of Birth that was standing by the wall not long ago actually moved again without anyone noticing, this time it moved one-third of the distance towards the cave entrance.

"Not good! "Li Bai immediately realized that soon, the Goddess of Birth would block their exit, and then the two of them would be dead.

However, judging from the actions of the Goddess of Birth, the strange passage was most likely the only way to leave here.

Without hesitation, the two immediately approached the passage, and Zhang Yuanchao seemed to have thought of something, and before leaving, he actually rolled up the well rope and carried it on his shoulder.

During this process, the Goddess of Birth did not make any unusual movements, and when Li Bai was about to enter the cave, the strange call appeared again.

"Li Bai..."

This time Li Bai heard it very clearly, 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, where the light was very poor, and only a dozen vague outlines of clay figures could be seen.

"Girl, I... I heard it this time too." Zhang Yuanchao looked at the clay figures with a nervous look on his face.

I'm afraid they won't be able to get away unless they figure out what's going on. Li Bai, holding a lantern, cautiously approached the clay figure in the darkness.

The workmanship of these clay figurines is very poor. Some of them don't even have facial contours carved. They look more like a thick layer of mud has been applied directly on the corpse.

Just when Li Bai was holding a lantern and looking at each one——

"Li... Bai..."

Li Bai's whole body trembled at this moment. She heard clearly that the voice came from the clay figurine, the clay figurine leaning against the wall!

And what was even weirder was that she actually heard a hint of familiarity in 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, and there was no doubt that he was kidnapped by Empress Zhusheng.

Li Bai walked forward quickly and soon felt two holes under the rough nose of the clay figurine, with slight breathing inside.

"He's still alive, he's not dead yet!" Li Bai was also shocked by what he saw.

Just when Li Bai was about to smash the outer mud shell and rescue the person, Zhang Yuanchao immediately stopped her, "This won't work, the dry mud will tear off his face! Use water, water!"