Erosion

Chapter 283 The Crossroads of Death

“Walk with your head down and your feet down, don’t look around.”

Dr. Chen smiled sarcastically: "Okay, okay."

It seems that this person knows very well the principle of having to bow his head under the roof of others. No matter what he says, he immediately nods his head and agrees.

But soon, Wei Yuan's team faced the first serious choice - a fork in the road.

There were many forked roads in this underground tunnel, and before them were forked roads leading to three different directions.

Zhang Zheng looked at the three forked roads with his flashlight in astonishment, and found that each road was covered with footprints of different shades.

"There are footprints of people walking on the three crossroads?" Zhang Zheng chuckled. What about cheating? How else to go?
It was like standing at the crossroads of death. The method of identifying the way forward by relying on footprints suddenly stopped working. The key is that none of them have any memory of these roads.

In your memory, have they ever walked such a road?

Everyone stood hesitant in front of this fork in the road. Zhang Zheng boldly shined his flashlight forward, but unfortunately he couldn't see anything. Like three big mouths that can eat people without spitting out bones.

"Old Wei, which way should we go?" In the quiet passage, you can even hear the heartbeats of several people and their breathing is not smooth.

Wei Yuan frowned tightly and seemed to be thinking.

Dr. Chen pushed up his glasses and looked over hopefully. "S-let's take the middle one, shall we?"

Zhang Zheng and Zhao Ying both glanced at him, both of them obviously doubtful, "Why."

The doctor's eyes evaded: "I just feel that there seems to be an impression..."

Impressed? "You wouldn't deliberately lead us to our death, would you?" Zhang Zheng still couldn't trust this outsider.

Dr. Chen seemed to be frightened. He kept waving his hands on his chest, and his voice was so excited that he said, "How, how is it possible? I want to go out more than you all!"

There is nothing wrong with this sentence. From the beginning to the end, he acted like he was scared to death.

Besides, who would want to stay in this dark underground place?
Zhang Zheng and Zhao Ying looked at each other, still a little undecided. "Actually, what I find even more strange is, why are there footprints on these three roads?"

They had just decided to find the way they came based on the footprints, and now such a strange situation immediately appeared.

Zhang Zheng rolled his eyes and asked, "Are they left by the previous workers?"

Zhao Ying also turned on her flashlight and was carefully observing the footprints on the ground, but her tone became softer the more she looked at them: "No, look carefully, these footprints are all new."

The messy feeling on the ground, the layers of crushed footprints, and the different shades of footprints looked like they had just been stepped on. But those workers have been missing for a long time, how could they leave any more footprints?

Since they are not workers, they have not passed by either. What the heck?

The temperature around him seemed to have cooled down a bit, and Zhang Zheng stuttered a little: "To be honest, I don't want to enter any of these three crossroads. Let's find another way."

He said and looked at Wei Yuan.

In this case, Wei Yuan couldn't make a decision at all.

At this time, Jiang Shan, who was held by Zhao Ying, suddenly raised his hand again and pointed directly at the passage in the middle.

Zhao Ying looked at her in surprise: "Ashan?"

Jiang Shan's eyes were staring at the passage, just like the expression she showed when she went down the cave, as if there was something inside that attracted her.

A hint of surprise flashed in Dr. Chen's eyes.

Zhang Zheng swallowed: "What do you mean, let us go this way?" Jiang Shan kept his hands raised and did not speak.

Zhao Ying was originally hesitant in the face of fragmentary steps, but now she seems determined: "We will listen to Ashan."

"You wait a minute, you wait a minute," Zhang Zheng held his forehead, "I have no objection to listening to her normally, but her current situation... are you sure you can believe it?"

Zhao Ying said: "I believe in Ashan at any time."

Zhang Zheng was speechless.

It is undeniable that after entering this hole, Jiang Shan's body movements increased and his words also increased.

Does this mean that Jiang Shan is recovering?

Zhang Zheng, Zhao Ying and others all knew that if Jiang Shan recovered, their team's hope of going out would be greatly increased.

Since Ashan pointed out this road, Daoshan Volcano must also enter.

Wei Yuan could only say: "Then let's go in the middle."

No matter what, there is a direction, which is better than nothing. At the moment, they have no better choice.

Dr. Chen nodded happily while wiping his sweat: "Okay, okay."

No matter how Zhang Zheng looked at it, he thought this doctor was very strange, but he had no choice but to accept it at the moment.

Wei Yuan was the first to enter the passage in his wheelchair. Now he is the only one who knows the secrets in this passage. From the moment he knew about it, Wei Yuan already understood that there was more danger than danger. Since the chances are high, it's better to take a gamble.

As soon as I entered, I felt a chill. Although the ground was already very cold, the chill still penetrated deeper into my bones.

Jiang Shan's arms naturally lowered themselves after entering the passage, as if she really still had a clear perception of the outside world.

But the flashlight illuminated the underground road, and Zhang Zheng felt chilly. The further he walked in, the more messy footprints appeared. Even if he looked carefully, there were some walking backwards.

In other words, someone returned from this channel.

"Look, there are many footprints going in, but there seems to be only one coming out?"

The mud made the human footprints extremely clear, a pair of double-layered footprints, one deep and one shallow.

There was only one row of footprints, and the footprints going out looked very unique and solitary.

"Why is there only one row of footprints?" Doesn't this mean that they are clearly told that this road leads to no return?
Zhao Ying also bit her lip. No one had a clue at this time, but the abnormal footprints really deepened people's uneasiness. "Suppose these footprints were left by previous workers. They all entered this tunnel, but only Come out alone."

This doesn't look like a good sign.

"Do you really want to keep going?" Zhang Zheng said bitterly, "I have claustrophobia. Really."

It was still too late to exit now. This cave looked like a horror movie he had seen before. The key was that the protagonists in that movie really died. It was scary. It was really scary.

"These footprints look very messy, like they were left in a hurry." Normally, there is a certain pattern in walking. There is almost no big difference in the distance between steps and the depth of the footprints.

But the footprints they saw now were all in a mess. It seems that the chaos at that time can be vaguely seen from these footprints.

Zhang Zheng had nothing to do with the cute Jiang Shan. He could only glance sharply at the timid Dr. Chen: "Tell me! Did you hide something from us on purpose?!"

Dr. Chen still looked frightened and denied it strongly: "Lying, lying to you, what do I gain?"

Zhang Zheng stared at him because he couldn't think of any reason why the doctor wanted to trick them, but what he did was really weird.