Chapter 26 - Studio City 12
Chapter 26: Studio City (12)
My fingers pressed hard on the inner wall of the cave, and I knelt forward again and again. My knee hurt, and my calf, including the cut skin, was extremely painful. I bit my teeth and move forward. I finally reached this point.
I remembered that before my grandfather died, he met my parents. At that time, I was sitting at the door feeding the Shar Pei. What I heard was that he was short of money and needed support from my parents.
The sun was shining, and the lazy sun shone gently on me through the leaves. My grandfather stood beside me holding a leather bag that was painted yellow.
“Dante, my grandson, if one day you meet an opportunity, as long as it is worth it, then don’t look back. Just move forward, because this is your own choice.”
It’s inexplicable. No matter what the opportunity was, I had to distinguish whether reality was feasible or not. But after my grandfather said this to me, he walked on the road to blooming flowers. At that moment, I found my grandfather’s back was very lonely. Grandfather became abnormal, often researching ancient objects, including talking about demons and going back in time. This was also the colloquialism he often carried. Everyone thought he was crazy.
Fresh air rushed in front of the cave. Now, I had a glimmer of hope, because the fresh air had doubled my spirits. Moreover, this was not the main thing, because I vaguely heard the shouts coming with the air.
That voice was exactly the screams of Rui and the other slaves. My frustrated confidence was ignited again, and I finally reached this point. Rui is not dead yet. Rui is really not dead!
With tears in my eyes, I clenched my teeth. I must save Rui. At this moment, I thought of Rui throwing a rope at me. Even if the rope Drew blood from his waist, I would not abandon him.
On the unclear pirate ship, in this ancient and unknown studio city, Rui’s life-saving grace to me was the gratitude that made me walk all the way here. Grandfather’s words were very applicable this time.
Shake~
There was a sudden popping sound from the cave. I looked behind me. A strange fish opened its mouth and smashed the cave corridor behind me. They might have noticed me through the water seeping through the cave.
The lake roared and rushed towards me. The water rushed my body forward. The lake water instantly filled the cave corridor. I swayed my arms, regardless of the pain in my legs. As long as my leg permitted, I would go forward.
A baby with a mouse’s head suddenly emerged from the crystal. It bit at me. I grabbed its neck and threw it back. Such a human-like, inhuman monster could no longer be called an animal.
The crystals behind me kept cracking, and black fishes swam towards them. They were in groups. The baby mice that just got out of the crystal became their food, but this could only stop them for a moment.
I was swimming quickly, which was a lot faster than crawling. The road in front of the cave began to change. It was completely artificially constructed, and it blended perfectly with the natural cave.
Bang!
Just as I accelerated forward, the cave in front of me was smashed by a huge strange fish, and rubble was scattered everywhere. It aimed its eyes at the opening of the cave and kept shaking. I moved forward. The road was blocked.
I looked around in the water. Behind me was a turbulent school of black fish. In front were strange fish, and above and below were the inside of the cave.
I thought about how to get out. I grabbed a mouse baby floating towards me. After I grabbed it, it opened its mouth and wanted to bite my arm. I grabbed its body and pierced its mouse’s mouth into the strange fish’s eyeballs.
In the broken eyeball of the strange fish, I saw black fishes densely entangled in it. At this moment, the body of the strange fish turned to one side, and the black fish was twisting in the eyeball. It seemed that the baby mouse’s intrusion made them not rush out.
I took this opportunity to move forward. Now, the water source became turbid and gray, but I didn’t dare to stay. When I hadn’t swam a few meters, a loach with a huge body twisted towards me. It swam like a snake in an S-line. I turned and swam, sticking my body to the top of the cave. I hoped the gravel above the cave could protect me.
A group of black fish rushed out of the rock cave behind me, like a group of locusts. They did not attack me, but slammed into the twisted body of the loach.
The loach twisted its body, opening its mouth wide and fighting with the school of fish, but things did not develop so well. A lone black fish rushed towards me, sliding in my ugly posture, but I was not as agile as it. Its open mouth filled with sharp teeth bit my chest, and I nervously grasped the thick vines floating in the cave.
It bit on the thin vine, and the impact it caused pushed me against the rock wall. The air in my lungs almost spurted out.
It bit the vine, but fortunately, it was only more than one meter long and not very large. At a larger point, I didn’t think I could block its power.
It found that it was not biting the prey it wanted, but its teeth had been entangled by the twisted vines. It shook its head. This force led me to sway in the water.
“Wild horse!” I mustered up the courage to try this unrealistic method, but this was the only way. It was difficult for me to escape by just swimming.
I gripped the sides of the vine tightly with my arms. It was still swinging its head desperately. It took me downstream. I couldn’t control it like a horse. A wriggling two-meter blue shadow loach found its impact. Under us, it began to float upward.
I couldn’t control this black fish. Its strength was too great. The vine broke away from my hand. I floated upwards like a stumbled person. The black fish broke free from the vine and rushed towards me.
At this time, the loach that came up shredded the black fish with a few bites. It swam to me and surrounded me with its sturdy body. It seemed to be looking for something, but it did not bite me into two..
As I was floating in the water, I calmed down a bit and found that there was an extremely dim blue light behind my pants. The irregular marks on them reminded me of a fall in a stone house. At that time, the liquid from the specimen bat stained my clothes. I almost vomited because of the smell. The place where the blue light flashed was exactly the same as the traces of liquid spilled on my clothes.
At that time, I just took a few glances and didn’t care too much. Was it really the strange liquid that made the saber-toothed tiger and this loach help me?
With all my courage, I swam to the head of the loach, with its mouth filled with sharp teeth slightly open, and I could feel that I would be eaten by it at any time.
I wanted it to take me out of here. It was probably the same as the saber-toothed tiger. I tried to hug its head with both arms, but it didn’t resist.
“Can you take me out?” I thought to myself. At this moment, it was swimming quickly like a saber-toothed tiger seemed to understand my thoughts. The current began to surge rapidly, and my arms tightly wrapped around the loach.
There were dead strange fishes and black loaches everywhere along the way, black fishes were biting their prey in groups, and the loaches below me were really too small to face them.
This loach did not take me above, but below. It led me towards the cave below, and I pressed my head against the loach’s back.
The road below was so dark. Even if I couldn’t see anything, my skin could still clearly feel that the foreign matter in the water source was decreasing.
The green light lit up. Five different strange fishes burrowed out of the soil, and the water flow was rolling rapidly, which almost drove me and the loach.
Five huge and strange fishes. They were like triangular mouths, like crying lips, which could not hide their sharp teeth. What was more important was that their lips were covered with green glowing water plants.
They stood still and surrounded me and the loach. Each of them was not inferior to the strange fish in size, but it was more frightening than the strange fish.
Guru~
A strange fish rushed towards us. The loach twisted its body and slid its head, and the other four rushed towards us.
The blue light of the loach under me became brighter than before, and several huge black loaches came out of the mud and hit the strange fish rushing towards us.
The mud under the lake was flying, and there was mud color everywhere, which made me see nothing, but the churning water told me they were fighting.
Even though I tried desperately to save air in my lungs, I still started to feel uncomfortable because I couldn’t breathe. What happened now was less than a minute, and all the events happened too fast.
The loach led me to sprint again. According to my cognition, his swimming only lasted a few seconds before it began to float upwards. In the darkness of the upward movement, I felt like I had passed through a tunnel.
The water was beginning to clear, and there were luminous plants everywhere, but this was not a good thing. The black fishes roaming in groups found us.
There were no strange fish here, some were just black fish. It seemed that they were separate.
“I definitely have to pass through, everything is up to you.”
The loach under me had the fins erected on its back, and I noticed that it had a tail on its tail. This was not what a loach looked like, what kind of animal was this? I still could use a loach for the time being, because I couldn’t use an accurate name to generalize it.
The black fish was like an angry bee after losing its home. The black fishes rushed towards us. The loach otok me along the bottom of the lake, like a flying bird.
A group of snakehead fish appeared under the soil. The loach led me to swim to the left. The upper row of snakehead fish directly hit the location where we were just now, and the water weeds we had just swam by were smashed.
The black fish condensed towards us into a long black rectangle, just like a black asphalt road, but this was a school of big fish, and there were groups of small fish around. The loach and I were forced to follow the farthest side.
But the waves of small black fishes dashed against the rock wall we slid, like arrows. I was nervous to death. I entrusted everything to the loach. All I could do was hold the head of the loach tightly. Its head was not very slippery. Iit was a bit rocky.
Things never stabilized. In front, the stone wall exploded, and the mouse babies that fused together suddenly rushed out of the stone wall, and its blackened immature body showed up with rat fluff.
Could it be our arrival that made it awake? Its body looked awkward, but it was very fast. Its whole body was the head of a mouse. The head on its body was biting towards us. The loach led me to rotate a few times and rush through its bite. At that moment, I saw the huge crystal inside the stone wall, and the huge baby mouse might be in there.
There were black fish in all directions, as well as the hairy mouse babies. The loach took me to swim along the bottom of the lake again, but I couldn’t hold on anymore. My lungs were about to explode.
At this moment, a trace of blue blood floated up and slid in front of me in a flash of water. I noticed that the loach was injured, but it still swam forward indifferently, as if to achieve some purpose.
In front, there was a dark hole, which was the exit. I got excited when I saw it. The black fished were all behind. They couldn’t catch up temporarily.
The blue shadow loach led me to the entrance, but I felt a rush of water. Something was wrong!
The loach shrank its head slightly, sliding me off its body and pushing me up. Why did it do this? I hesitated for a moment.
A black fish with a huge body rushed out of the hole, and it directly bit the loach, and the loach twisted its body and struggled.
It is to protect me!
The blue blood was drifting in the water. I glanced at the loach, not daring to look at it again. It would rather sacrifice itself to send me here, but why did it help me so much.
I seized this opportunity to swing my arms and swim towards the black hole. The black hole was full of gray skins shed by huge black fish, and when I encountered it, it looked like gelatinous aspic.
It’s over!
It’s pitch black here. It’s a dead end. The front and the left were dead ends. Since the loach sent me here, there must be a reason. I continued to touch the stone wall with my hands to see which side of the stone wall was. It is different. Finally, a pull ring was on the stone wall above.
I pushed my legs on the rock wall on the left and pulled the tab with my arms. My calf was not very painful in the water, but my leg didn’t have much strength.
The top slab seemed to be stuck, I pulled it hard just to pull the slab down a little bit. I might need more time.
But now, a little extra time was a luxury for me. I saw a pair of shining white eyes at the entrance of the cave. It was the huge black fish that killed the loach. It swallowed the loach so quickly!