Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 458 [Chapter of Hidden Abyss] II: Spiral Hell

After hearing his words, everyone present felt somewhat uncomfortable.

Before the members of the expedition team went underground, they only thought that most of the dangers encountered would come from the geographical environment and pirates, but they did not expect to encounter such an evil thing.

It was Weber who broke the oppressive atmosphere of silence.

"I've also heard about this [Brother Aliu]... The legend of [Brother Aliu] is different from other strange stories, it only appeared a few years ago."

His words attracted everyone's attention, and the oppressive atmosphere was broken.

"About seven or eight years ago, when the number of new immigrants in Yanan City gradually increased, the legend of Brother Aliu appeared."

"At that time, the downtown area was in chaos. The new immigrants couldn't find a job, and many violations of law and order broke out. These new immigrants were deported to the direction of Smoky Lake. The street police did not kill them, but drove them away. Into the Smokey Lake."

"Everyone knows that there is no beach in the Smoky Lake, and the area next to the shore of Leprosy Alley is directly in the deep water area, so many new immigrants who were deported couldn't swim, and they drowned when they entered the water."

"At that time there was a legend that as long as you came to the bank of the smokey lake at 8:30 in the evening, you could see Aliu in white clothes. Aliu was a handsome young man with a warm heart. boats to bring the refugees deported from Yanan City into the Smoky Lake.”

"Aliu doesn't rely on oars or waves to row his boat. Those who have just boarded the boat don't know what he relies on to row."

"When the boat sails to the middle of the lake, Brother Aliu will ask the people on the boat whether they want to go to the island and become a man, or go into the water to become a ghost."

Everyone was attracted by the story Wei Bo told, and they were not afraid for a while.

Weber's voice reverberated in the spacious cave space, and the surroundings were so quiet that even the sound of water flow and wind were not obvious, and it seemed that his voice was the only one left in the whole world.

"If you answer 'go to the island to be a man', you will be thrown into the water by Brother Aliu and drowned, and you will become a water ghost who is carrying the boat forward—this is why Brother Aliu can row a boat without relying on an oar."

"If you answer 'Go into the water to be a ghost', Brother Aliu will say: 'They are all miserable people with only one life. After entering the smoky lake, they are no longer human. I will let you be that lonely ghost. Let's go." After Aliu brother said this, he would jump into the water and disappear."

"The people on the boat will drift with the water until they reach some random island, where they can settle down."

Jack Baldo couldn't help asking:

"What if you don't get to the island? What if you get to an island full of vicious pirates?"

Weber replied:

"If you don't make it to the island, you can only starve to death on the boat... Back then, someone found a boat full of dead bodies on the shore. This is the consequence of not being sent ashore by the current."

"If you drift to an island occupied by pirates... Who knows, women can be used to have children? Men can be used as coolies?"

What a weird urban legend...

After a few words, Chen Yan felt that the water flow under the boat began to speed up again, and George Lebster also spoke again at this time:
"We are approaching the next descending channel... This slope is not as steep as the previous one, but it is very long. Please be patient!"

After the shocking experience last time, everyone became more cautious. Hearing what the shrimp said, they immediately bent down.

After a few seconds of silence, the water became visibly more turbulent.

And at the next moment when the water flow changed its speed, a slight sense of weightlessness appeared.

Unlike last time, this time the sense of weightlessness is not strong, but you can still clearly feel that the bow of the ship is dropping, and the hull is tilting sharply.

Chen Yan estimated in his heart that the depth of the Alpha sector is 800 meters, and the slope of this descending channel is about 45 degrees. If the forward speed of the ship is calculated at an average speed of about 30 yards, it will be 30 kilometers per hour—that is, 1 Sailing 500 meters in one minute, a rough calculation, the entire voyage will probably take...

More than two minutes? !
how can that be possible?
Chen Yan couldn't imagine the result of his calculation. How could the calculated flight only take 2 minutes?Am I setting the variable incorrectly?
He thought about it again, even if the slope is slowed down and the average speed of the boat is reduced, it can only extend the entire voyage to no more than 5 minutes.

But from the time they entered the waterway to the present, it took far more than 5 minutes!

That is to say...

Chen Yan looked at the back of the shrimp man George Lebster.

In other words, the distance that the shrimp people led them to sail may have far exceeded the Alpha sector.

Chen Yan couldn't find the motive of the shrimp people to harm them at all, but the facts were in front of him, and the alarm bells in his heart suddenly rang.

He thought again:
'Or maybe... the waterway is not a straight line, but many spiral waterways that twist and turn. '

’ That’s the only thing that can explain the much longer than expected voyage time. '

'But I can't feel the change of the navigation route at all... This may be because the navigation environment is too cramped and the field of vision is narrow. '

"But now we can't do anything to the shrimp people. No one knows where this is underground. Without it, we might be trapped underground and never get out..."

'In short...you must be more vigilant! '

While Chen Yan was in awe, he suddenly saw movement in Swarm in front of him on the right.

He scratched his head, got up slowly, faced the outside of the cabin, and said in a low voice:
"What did you say?"

Everyone noticed his abnormality, and George Lebster at the front said in a trembling voice with fear:
"Aliu brother is calling you! Don't see him! He is under the boat! If you see him, he will appear in front of you, and we will all be finished!"

Chen Yan cursed, took out the Bailu-[-] model in return, and loaded it.

The sound of the metal bite of the shotgun stimulated everyone's nerves. Jack Baldo in front of Chen Yan and Weber beside him grabbed Swarm's black clothes to prevent him from poking his head out.

Swarm's movement of poking his head out of the hull was stopped, but he was still listening, and made a burst of doubt:
"Huh? Underground Styx? What is that?"

"This is the underground river Styx? Why? There are dead people in the water? They say you can't look underwater. Who knows if what you say is true or not."

"Huh? Shrimp man? What happened to the shrimp man?"

"Deep water area...is this a deep water area? Isn't this a river channel? How is it a deep water area?"

George Lebster's voice has nearly collapsed:

"Stop listening to what he says!"

Swarm suddenly turned his head and said to Chen Yan with a serious face:

"It's about everyone's safety, and I want to verify one thing."

After he finished speaking, he sat up abruptly, with such strength that Jack Baldo and Weber couldn't catch him at all.

The next moment, he had poked his face out of the boat.

Almost at this moment, Swarm's body trembled violently, as if something gave him a huge shock.

Before the trembling was over, he stretched out his hand, wiped his face, and then threw it into the river.

In the darkness, two little things flew out.

Chen Yan raised his head at this moment, and clearly saw that they were two round balls——

Swarm dropped his own eyes.

Also after discarding his eyes, he sat back in the cabin, as if nothing had happened, and said in a calm tone:

"There is a strange thing underwater. I have cut off the link with that thing, so nothing will happen for the time being."

Chen Yan asked in a low voice:

"What's under the water?"

Swarm immediately responded:

"It can't be said that you can't have too much [connection] with that thing. Once the [connection] reaches a certain level, He will appear in front of us."

Jack Baldo suddenly realized the voice:

"It's a triggered cursed spirit!"

Swarm said in a deep voice:

"Stranger than that... I can't tell."

He went on to say:

"It's dangerous here, we must leave as soon as possible."

Since getting to know Swarm, Chen Yan heard the tone of "fear" from him for the first time.

Chen Yan realized the seriousness of the matter.

He turned to look at the bow of the boat.

Under the pale light of the searchlight, the shrimp man remained motionless, his back extremely stiff.

Chen Yan turned his hand and pointed at the shrimp man's head with the egret, and said in a low voice, "Jack! Pull him over and have a look!"

Jack Baldo, who had already carried the submachine gun "Big Toast" in his arms, leaned forward, grabbed the shrimp man by the back collar, and pushed him face up to the bottom of the boat.

Under the light of the searchlight, the shrimp man was already stiff, foaming at the mouth, and rolled his eyes—he was in shock!
How is this going?

Chen Yan gritted his teeth, took off the miner's hat, opened the power supply room containing the Snake Kiss Rock in the searchlight on the cap, took out the Snake Kiss Rock with the leather miner's gloves, and pressed it on the shrimp man's chest——

"boom!"

An electric spark exploded, and the shrimp man's chest was burnt black.

But such a move actually worked, and with a groan, the shrimp man opened his eyes.

"Brother Aliu led us in the wrong direction, hurry up, go left, don't stop..."

Before he finished speaking, he rolled his eyes again.

The second after he was shocked again, Swarm said in a hoarse voice:
"He is coming again... we must hurry up!"

So far, I can only trust the judgment of the shrimp people.

Weber whispered:
"Let me do it! I can row a boat!"

In order not to see things underwater, Weber turned off the searchlight above his head, sat on the bow, picked up the oars, and began to control the boat to sail to the left.

Chen Yan put the Snake Kiss Rock back into the searchlight. Just as he put his helmet back on, he suddenly saw, on the side of the boat beside him, in the light of the searchlight, at some point there was a pale hand on the side of the boat.

His complexion changed drastically, and he punched it. He wanted to smash the pale palm away, but the pale palm, which was so fast that it was incredible, grabbed the glove tightly.

He struggled violently in a panic, and even broke free with the miner's gloves and the white gloves inside to prevent synesthesia.

His hands were exposed to the air, and the inertia of breaking free from his pale palms in a panic made him lean to the side, and his ungloved hand swung out and touched Swarm's face.

The next moment, there was a "boom" in Chen Yan's head.

(End of this chapter)