Chapter 4: The Black Cauldron
Seeing Xuan Yang covering Li Huowang's mouth, the others with the fire box quickly rushed up and surrounded Li Huowang with bad eyes.
"Not leaving, right? Then you will die here today! There's absolutely no way we'll let you go and tip off that mangy head!"
Regarding his current life and death situation, Li Huowang was half-panicked, and after he breathlessly rolled his eyes, he cursed in his heart about the direction of this hallucinatory plot, and directly closed his eyes and began to take a deep breath.
When he opened his eyes again, he realized that he was already bound to the hospital bed by a wide belt, and those senior brothers and sisters surrounding him had already disappeared.
"Auntie Wang, I'm awake, can you untie me?" Li Huo Wang called out to the microphone at the bedside to the night nurse, he desperately wanted to see if that jade pendant was now in his clothes.
However, after shouting for half a day but there was no response, Li Huo Wang understood that Nurse Wang was secretly chasing after the Mary Sue TV bureau again during her night shift, she always likes to be lazy so much.
Li Huowang looked down at his chest that was wrapped in the blue and white hospital gown, and desperately twisted, wanting to sense whether there was a jade pendant in his chest or not through squeezing.
However, his body was now bound to death, and he felt both there and not there. After trying several times, he gave up helplessly.
Li Huo-wang, who had made a cut, could only lie on the bed and pray that Nurse Wang would have mercy on the camera after she finished the drama.
Late-night environment, even the second floor of the hospital is very quiet, Li Huowang fell asleep. When he woke up again he found himself lying on the cold cave floor.
He was still in the same position, but the guys who had attempted to escape before were already gone.
"Che, just you NPCs want to deal with me?" Li Huowang pulled out the jade pendant from his bosom and gently turned it upside down in his palm, and stuffed it back into his bosom.
When he reentered the big bunk where he stayed, he laid down in the haystack and patiently waited for the daytime to come, thinking of the value of the jade pendant, he was so excited now that he couldn't sleep at all.
Without a clock, Li Huowang had no idea how long it had been, and when he saw his brothers and sisters on either side of him begin to wake up, he sat up himself.
"It's dawn over here, so it's about time for Auntie Wang to change shifts. Why don't I go back and take a look first now? Nurse Ai is much more dedicated than her."
Just as Li Huowang was hesitating, a rush of footsteps came from the doorway.
A Daoist child wearing a black Daoist robe with a headband of hair came in from outside in a panic.
"All be quick! Master has asked everyone to gather at the Hui'an Hall!!!"
This sudden news left everyone puzzled, but since it was Master who wanted to go, they had no reason to refuse.
Soon, inside the largest cave of the so-called Hui'an Hall, all the disciples had arrived, and the light of the torches illuminated the doubts on everyone's faces clearly.
Li Huo Wang keenly perceived one thing, the crowd was missing some, in addition to Xuan Yang, actually also missing a few of Laizi head master's personal disciples.
"Aigoo, this is following along and escaping?" He thought as he watched the scene in front of him, giving him the feeling of chasing a drama.
When a head poked out from the dark, writhing tunnel, all the Daoist children except Li Huowang subconsciously hung their heads.
It was their master, Danyangzi.
"Cough~!" A cough made everyone's body tighten.
"Last night during the second shift, someone was trying to escape, including two of Master Dao's own disciples, this Master Dao I am heartbroken!!!"
The words in his mouth were heartache, but the hostility on his face was so large that it was almost on the verge of coalescing into substance.
"This has been discovered? These Xuan Yang guys are really lame." Li Huowang skimmed his lips.
"As the saying goes, without rules, mistakes will be punished, this is the rules of my Western Mountain Donghua Sect! All follow me."
All the disciples didn't dare to breathe, silently following Danyangzi's back as they walked forward.
Passing through large and small caves, and crossing by a fast flowing underground river, they soon arrived inside a classroom-sized damp cave.
Li Huowang saw that those who escaped last night were all tied up and piled up in a corner.
With shriveled expressions, they saw their master and instantly struggled with excitement, as if trying to say something, but the rags in their mouths prevented them from saying anything.
As if he did not want to listen to their defense, Danyangzi turned one hand inside out to form a Dao seal and pointed forward. "Open!"
The smooth ground of the cave that had been washed away instantly opened a large hole, escaping these people instantly fell in.
The next moment from inside the cave, hysterical muffled cries and screams accompanied by the sound of blood and flesh tearing and the sound of bones breaking constantly resounded.
In the face of this horrifying scene, many dao children's legs had begun to tremble, their eyes were even more eager to close.
"Come closer to me! This is what they get for running away!" Danyangzi's words caused everyone's faces to swish several shades of white.
No one dared to disobey the master's order, and all of them pushed and shoved their way to the edge of the cave.
The cave was dark, very dark, pitch black.
The dark circular cave was like a whirlpool, as if it wanted to trap everyone in.
After careful identification, Li Huowang saw that inside the cave was a large black tripod, with certain twisted talismans built and pressed into the edges of the tripod's mouth.
Something seemed to be moving inside the tripod, but Li Huo-wang could not see it clearly, and the only information he received with his organs was the pungent and disgusting smell of blood inside.
Regardless of what was contained within, it was certain that it was definitely very dangerous.
"What's inside the illusion shouldn't reasonably hurt me, nothing like that has ever happened before."
Although he said that, his heart hung in the air, intending to be ready to retreat to the hospital at any time.
"Swish-!" A circle of writhing black shadows instantly drilled out of the hole, wrapping around one of the senior brothers beside Li Huowang and violently shrinking back.
Everyone was terrified by this scene, and backed up to the smooth wall of the cave, and if it weren't for the fact that Danyangzi was staring right next to them, they were afraid that they would have run out long ago.
The expressions of almost everyone present became very frightened at this time, their hearts trembling as they guessed what that thing was just now.
But these guesses did not include Li Huowang, because just now he stood closest, so he saw it clearly.
That is a mass of fleshy textured black material, slippery sticky skin with a clump of short, constantly trembling black tentacles!
Based on this alone, Li Huo Wang could be certain that what Danyang Zi was keeping in this cave was definitely not a normal thing that existed in the world.
As for what exactly it was, Li Huo Wang couldn't guess nor did he want to walk over and look at it again.
Although he knew that all these things came out from inside his brain, Li HuoWang really wanted to understand why his illusory things would be such things?
Li Huo Wang surveyed everything around him that was incomparably real, and a terrible conjecture suddenly came to his mind. "Could it be that this terrifyingly bizarre world is real?"
This conjecture instantly made Li Huo Wang's body tremble, he thought of the people who had died before, if those people were real and not his own hallucination, then he would have died even if he had just been yanked by that thing?
Li Huowang was almost crushed by this suffocating fear, he took a few hard deep breaths and immediately opened himself up in the way Dr. Li had taught him.
"These are all illusions, even if they are real they are all illusions, Li Huowang, you must never get lost in these illusions again, they are all created by you, what are you afraid of."
"Yang Na is still waiting for me, I can't fail her. I can overcome all of this! Definitely can!"
After Li Huowang's self-explanation, his emotions gradually stabilized enough to be frank about everything in front of him.
