Since that person wasnât speaking, it fell silent again. Soon though, Tang Doudou heard heavy breathing come from not far in front of her. It sounded like the panting of someone doing heavy exercise.
âIs that you?â Tang Doudou tried to light up the torch again to get a look, but that person stopped her.
âDonât light up that thing. I canât look at light.â
Tang Doudou asked, astonished, âWhy?â
âAfter being in the darkness for too long, light burns the eyes like fire.â That personâs tone was very sad.
âAre you really a person?â
âIâve already talked to you too much. Itâs up to you whether you want to believe, I wonât repeat myself. In any case, anyone that stays here who doesnât die will become like me.â When that person saw that Tang Doudou still didnât believe him, his voice became emotionless again.
From the looks of it, this person was very familiar with this place. If she got to know this person more, she might be able to learn more about this place and Ninth Uncleâs motives.
âNo, no, I believe you! I do!â said Tang Doudou hastily.
That person just said, âItâs up to you whether you believe or not. If it werenât for the fact that he said heâd allow you to know the meaning of a true psychopath, I wouldnât have bothered with you.â
Tang Doudou silently remarked that it made a lot more sense even as she asked, âWhy would you bother with me do to this?â
âHaha.â That personâs laugh was chilling. âBecause Iâm bored.â
Fudge!
How could she have forgotten that they were in a hole inside a sinkhole? Even if this person was human, his mental state definitely wasnât normal.
However, the good thing was that this person still hasnât exhibited any weird symptoms.
So this conversation could still be continued.
However, the light swaying of the surroundings was starting to get stronger. Tang Doudou didnât know what Ninth Uncle intended to do, but she had already given up on the situation. Sheâd just deal with things as they came.
She felt for her flat bag of pickled plums. Hopefully, Baili Yiling and Mu Ye would be able to see that trail of pickled plums.
âAhem, is that so?â Tang Doudou sat down on the ground and started revolving her energy to recover her inner strength. âHow long have you been here?â
âI donât know,â said that person. Then he added, âIâve forgotten. But itâs been a very very long time.â
âWhen I came in earlier, I saw that there were a lot of corpses outside. Were they people that died in here?â
That person was silent for a long while. Then he seemed to laugh. âHe actually put the corpses outside? He sure is fearless. If someone found them, heâd die countless deaths.â
Tang Doudou latched onto this topic, âDo you know what exactly heâll be doing? I want to be mentally prepared.â
âMentally prepared? Iâd advise you to give up preparing and just leave before he actually does anything to you.â
âI also want to leave, but thatâs easy to say and not so easy to do.â
âItâs not hard to leave,â said that person.
Tang Doudou was skeptical. If it was easy, why had he been trapped here for so long?
That person seemed to guess what she was thinking. âI donât want to leave.â
âSince you came from outside, youâve definitely seen what this thing is. Itâs not very tall. With your qinggong, youâll be able to fly out. As for whether youâll be recaptured once you get out will depend on your luck. If youâre lucky, he wonât be guarding outside and your chances of escape will be 100%. If he is guarding outside and you can beat him or outrun him, your chances will be 50%. If you fail, then your fate will be having your meridians and limbs crushed before being thrown back in here.â
When that person got to his last sentence, his voice filled with intense hatred. Tang Doudou immediately realized why he said that it was easy to escape, but he didnât want to escape.
It wasnât that he didnât try, but that he did and failed. His limbs and meridians had been ruined. That was why he would become so tired from moving that heâd pant to catch his breath.
âWith how much he hate me, he definitely wouldnât leave until he sees with his own eyes that Iâm barely a breath away from death.â Tang Doudou shook her head helplessly, then started walking forward in order to figure out where exactly that person was.
She finally understood why she didnât see the person earlier. The first reason was because there was only a brief moment of light. The second was that the personâs limbs were crushed, so he definitely wasnât standing. This means that while she was looking around, the person in front of her had been lying on the ground with his eyes shut tight. He only used his inner strength or some other method to extinguish the rolled torch once she turned around to look at the wall.
So the question was, why couldnât she find the rock wall even though she had seen it earlier?