I made myself the protagonist

Chapter 301 Crisis
According to the message from Zhu Qingrong, Ling Yun and Yan Ru walked into the forest after abandoning their car, and found many messy footprints on the ground around the entrance, including obvious traces of dragging.

Ling Yun suddenly noticed that in the grass, there seemed to be some metal objects that shone dazzlingly under the refraction of the sun.

He stepped forward to push the grass away, and soon found some mottled blood stains on the leaves. The reflective thing was a blood-stained rose gold ring.

"This is Zhu Qingrong's ring. He always regards it as a treasure and never leaves it." Yan Ru recognized it all at once: "It's strange, how could he be so careless and land here?"

Ling Yun considered Yan Ru's statement, turned the ring around, and found that the English word Carla was engraved on the inner wall.

Yan Ru said that this was the name of Xu Fei, Zhu Qingrong's deceased wife.

Looking at the blood on the grass, Ling Yun stood up, silently clenched his fists, and stuffed the ring into his pocket.He didn't ask Yan Ru to go together, but entered the forest alone.

Seeing the back of the other party gradually going away, Yan Ru hesitated for two or three seconds, but still gritted her teeth and followed.On the way here, when she asked Ling Yun if he was sure of rescuing other people, the other party told herself: Make a deal with the devil with desire, no one can escape unscathed.

Ling Yun was right, and Yan Ru didn't think that Zhu Qingrong could bring his dead wife back to life like this.Although the other party killed two of his companions, thinking about his past help to her and the other party's young daughter, Yan Ru's heart softened.

Although it feels hopeless, there is always a chance to try.She decided to work with Ling Yun to stop Zhu Qingrong's crazy behavior.

The two walked along the forest and soon came to the vicinity of the waterfall.Yan Ru flipped her wrist, and shot out several tough silver threads from her palm, directly piercing through the waterfall.After some probing, she finally pinpointed the location of the cave.After fixing the silver thread, she and Ling Yun entered the cave respectively.

There was a loud bang behind him, and inside the dark cave, a strange wind whizzed past, it was so cold that Yan Ru, who was soaked all over, had goosebumps all over her body.

The cave looked deep, but it was pitch black inside.There are dense and opaque moss in the gaps of the surrounding stone walls, and there is a faint fishy smell in the air. Just standing at the entrance makes people feel chills down their backs unconsciously.

Ling Yun took off his wet coat, wiped the water from his face, took out a flashlight from his backpack and handed it to Yan Ru.

The situation in the cave was far more complicated than they thought at first, with strange rocks all around and winding terrain.On the stone pillar above the head, water droplets continued to drip down along the stone wall, and the road under the feet was also extremely sticky and slippery.

After walking a few steps, Ling Yun stopped again.With sharp eyes, he immediately saw a few drops of dark red blood on the ground. The blood stains looked very fresh, and they should have been left not long ago.

As we walked, a three-way intersection appeared in front of us.

"Which way should I go?" Yan Ru shined a flashlight into it, and lost her mind for a while.

"Left." Ling Yun was silent for a few seconds, and quickly gave the answer: he found a few unobvious drops of blood on the road leading to the left again.

"This should be the clue left by Tang Yao. It seems that she was still conscious when she was taken away. If so, before..."

Ling Yun's eyes lit up, and his sorrow eased a bit.He said to himself what Yan Ru couldn't understand, and before the other party had time to ask, Ling Yun had already pulled up his legs and walked inside.Afraid of being lost, Yan Ru had no choice but to follow quickly.

After that, every time Ling Yun passed a hole, he would stop to observe the traces around him.Bloodstains are not everywhere. Ling Yun speculates that Tang Yao should have created wounds on her body and healed them quickly, so as to ensure that Zhu Qingrong will not be noticed by leaving marks when passing important road sections.

The terrain of the cave is complicated, and it takes a lot of time and effort just to explore the way.Now, thanks to the clues left by Tang Yao, Ling Yun can find them without any effort.

As it continued to go deeper, the road ahead became narrower and narrower, and only the next person could pass through.

Ling Yun walked in front, followed closely by Yan Ru.The smell in the air became more and more strange, and it seemed to be mixed with a bad smell.In this dark, quiet, claustrophobic and mysterious natural environment, Yan Ru's mood was gradually affected.She licked her dry lips and looked at her watch: nearly half an hour had passed since the two of them entered the cave.

Although they were not attacked during this time, Yan Ru always felt uneasy about being watched.Fearing that something would appear from the darkness, she couldn't help reaching out and grabbing the clothes behind Ling Yun.

Fortunately, the other party didn't care about these things, and in order to take care of his feelings, he slowed down a bit.

"Are you really not afraid at all?"

In order to disperse the fear, Yan Ru decided to say something to ease the atmosphere: "To be honest, if you were someone else, you would definitely choose to be wise and protect yourself after knowing the truth, and you wouldn't fall into a trap like you."

"I'm afraid." Unexpectedly, Ling Yun responded to himself: "But what I'm afraid of is not that I will die, but that Tang Yao and the others will encounter accidents."

"Can other people's lives be more important than your own?"

Hearing this, Yan Ru couldn't bear it anymore.Ask yourself, even if her best friend is in crisis, she may not be able to make such a straightforward decision.

Thinking of Zhu Qingrong's behavior, Yan Ru tentatively asked: "For you, those people should be more than just teammates, right? That Tang Yao, is that your girlfriend?"

Along the way, Yan Ru noticed that Ling Yun seemed to be extremely concerned about the safety of this girl.

"...No." Ling Yun was slightly taken aback, and quickly denied the other party.

"Oh. I heard you kept mentioning her on the way, so I thought you two..." Yan Ru was talking, when suddenly, Ling Yun in front of her stopped.

"What's wrong?!" Yan Ru straightened her body immediately, she poked her head out and looked forward, but suddenly found a pitch-black coffin lying in the middle of the road, blocking their way forward.

"I gonna go see."

Ling Yun signaled Yan Ru to stay where he was, while he touched it with a flashlight.He gently touched the top of the coffin with his hand, and when he touched the gap, he suddenly exerted force and lifted the coffin up.

At the same time as the coffin was opened, the smell of blood rushed to the face, instantly permeating the entire cave: Lying in this coffin was a male corpse with his hands folded on his abdomen, with a livid complexion.The male corpse opened its mouth wide, and its tongue had disappeared; an indescribable stench exuded from the pitch-black mouth, and two coins were covered on the two protruding eyes.

Yan Ru bravely stepped forward, and immediately frowned: the person who died in front of her was Wilson.

It is worth noting that Wilson's shirt below the neck and chest was covered with a lot of blood. The skin of the corpse had been completely stripped off, leaving only red muscles and white bones. The bottom of the coffin was also soaked in blood.

"Could it be the captain too...Zhu Qingrong did it?" Yan Ru resisted her nausea and said.

"Yes. A human skin is needed for the sacrificial ceremony." Ling Yun said calmly.

After listening to the other party, Yan Ru only felt that her scalp was numb.There was a rustling sound from the depths of the cave, like a hoarse bellows, like someone whispering.

Ling Yun pulled out the nano saber soaked in holy water from his waist, and put on a defensive posture.A chill gradually spread to the back. At this time, Yan Ru suddenly began to regret, regretting that she shouldn't follow, and shouldn't be so naive to think that Zhu Qingrong can still be saved.

(End of this chapter)