vrcanaries Chapter 771 Mirror Shadow
Chapter 771 Mirror Shadow
But at this moment, Li Ming suddenly pointed in the direction they came from and shouted, "Look!"
Everyone looked in the direction he pointed, and all the clear footprints disappeared!
There was only a thin layer of new snow left on the ground, as if everything that had just happened was an illusion.
"We're trapped." Zhang Qiang's voice trembled. "There must be something wrong with this place."
The atmosphere in the tent froze, and Chen Yile felt like his heart was about to jump out of his chest. He knew he had to calm down, but those strange images kept lingering in his mind.
"I want to go back." Xiaoyu's voice was filled with tears. "It's too scary here."
But Zhang Qiang shook his head: "All the footprints are gone. We can't find the way back at all."
At this moment, Chen Yile suddenly remembered the inscriptions he had seen on the stone tablet before: "We shouldn't dig through the ice."
He suddenly realized that perhaps the reason why the scientific expedition team disappeared twenty years ago was hidden in this sentence.
The cold wind was howling, and Chen Yile felt like he was about to freeze to death.
The temperature in the tent was getting lower and lower. Even wrapped in a thick down jacket, he could feel the cold spreading from his limbs to his whole body.
Outside the tent, the wind and snow were still raging, as if the whole world was trapped in this strange snowy mountain.
"This can't go on like this."
Zhang Qiang gritted his teeth, his lips already turning purple from the cold, "We must find a way out, or we'll die here."
Before he finished speaking, there was a slight vibration on the ground.
Before Chen Yile could react, he felt the snow under his feet suddenly loosen and he slid down.
He subconsciously tried to grab something, but there was only thin air at his fingertips.
He felt like he was falling rapidly, with only the whistling wind and the sound of collapsing snow in his ears.
His body hit something hard, and a piercing pain instantly penetrated his whole body.
When he came to his senses, he found himself lying in a small space.
All around him was a blinding white, but he soon realized that it was not snow but a wall of ice.
Chen Yile climbed up with difficulty, only to find that they had fallen into a huge ice crack.
Zhang Qiang, Xiaoyu, Li Ming and Ajie also fell nearby, and everyone's face was filled with fear.
At the bottom of the ice crack is a naturally formed ice cave. The walls of the cave are covered with crystal clear icicles, which reflect strange light in the weak light.
"Oh my God!" Ajie said in a trembling voice, "It seems like someone has been here."
Chen Yile followed his gaze and found a shabby tent not far away with a thin layer of frost on it.
What's even more strange is that the tent is in very good condition, as if it had just been set up yesterday.
“Is this the same tent from twenty years ago?”
Chen Yile remembered the disappearance of the scientific expedition team mentioned by the boss's wife.
Zhang Qiang approached the tent cautiously and gently lifted the tent cloth.
A chill hit me in the face. There was no snow inside the tent. Instead, it looked like someone had just left.
Xiaoyu suddenly exclaimed: "There is something here!"
Chen Yile took a closer look and saw a tattered notebook in the tent with some bloodstains on the cover.
He carefully opened the first page and a line of crooked handwriting came into view.
"They sleep in the ice during the day and come out at night."
Chen Yile felt his hands begin to tremble: "What does this mean?"
At this moment, Li Ming suddenly screamed: "Oh my God!"
Chen Yile turned around and saw Li Ming pointing at an iron box in the corner of the tent.
Inside the box was a rusty hunting rifle, but even stranger was the fact that the magazine was full of bullets.
"What's going on?" Xiaoyu's voice trembled. "The gun is rusty, but the bullets are brand new."
Chen Yile's heart was beating fast, and he subconsciously tightened the notebook in his hand.
The air in the tent seemed to become thick, and every breath was accompanied by a suffocating feeling of oppression.
Suddenly, Ajie let out a strange scream.
"what!"
Chen Yile subconsciously turned around, only to see Ajie staring at his back.
His face was as pale as paper and his eyes were full of fear.
"You, you're carrying someone on your back!"
"What did you say?" Chen Yile touched his back subconsciously, "There's no one on my back."
But Ajie's eyes became more and more crazy, and he seemed to be backing away completely out of control: "The person on your back, his face, his face is moving!"
Chen Yile felt a chill running up his spine to the top of his head. He turned around abruptly and looked behind him, but there was nothing.
"Ajie, calm down!" Zhang Qiang tried to comfort him. "It's too cold in here. You must be hallucinating."
But at this moment, Xiaoyu suddenly pointed outside the tent and exclaimed, "Look!"
Through the gaps in the tent, one could vaguely see countless black shadows moving on the ice wall in the distance.
Those shadows had no physical form, but one could clearly see them slowly approaching.
"They are coming." A hoarse voice suddenly sounded in the tent.
Chen Yile almost jumped up. There were clearly only five of them in the tent, but the voice did not belong to any of them!
"No!" Zhang Qiang suddenly grabbed the hunting rifle, "We can't just sit there and wait to be killed!"
He raised his shotgun and aimed at the dark shadows on the ice wall, but at this moment, Chen Yile suddenly discovered that the dark shadows were actually approaching them.
They have no physical form, yet they can pass through ice walls as if the ice walls themselves do not exist.
"Run!" Chen Yile shouted, "We have to get out of here!"
But at this moment, Ajie suddenly let out a heart-wrenching scream: "Help! They are coming! They are going to kill me!"
Chen Yile looked back and saw Ajie slapping his back frantically, as if something was really attached to him.
What was even more bizarre was that a pale human face suddenly appeared on the ice wall behind him. The face had no facial features, only empty eye sockets and a big blood-red mouth.
"Go!" Zhang Qiang pulled the trigger and the shotgun made a loud noise.
The bullets hit the ice wall, splashing ice chips, but the dark shadows seemed completely unaffected, and instead approached them even more frantically.
At this moment, Chen Yile suddenly noticed that the water bottle he was carrying reflected a figure - but that figure was not himself!
He subconsciously turned around, but saw nothing.
Chen Yile felt like his brain was about to explode.
"Why is there someone else's face in my water bottle?"
"Stop looking!" Zhang Qiang shouted, "We have to find a way out!"
They tried their best to crawl towards the edge of the crack, but those dark shadows seemed to never give up.
Chen Yile could feel them right behind him and could even hear their breathing.
Finally, they climbed out of the ice crack, but when Chen Yile looked up and around, the scene before him shocked him.
Countless pale human heads were floating in the distant sky. Those heads had no bodies, but you could clearly see that they were smiling.
What's even more bizarre is that there are flames burning in the eyes of those heads.