In the dim Dark Channel of the Karez Well, Qing Wanglai reached out and caught the dust slowly drifting down from above due to the tremors.
The unstable structure left everyone present somewhat uneasy.
Qing Wanglai called out to Li Huowang, who was smashing his head against the wall in the distance, looking hysterical. "Li Huowang, you'd better stop smashing it. Who knows when this Karez Well was built? If you cause this Dark Channel to collapse, all of us will be buried here."
Li Huowang stopped. He suddenly froze like a statue. What made him stop was not Qing Wanglai's words, but Zhao Shuangdian's finger held upright before her lips.
"Shh." Zhao Shuangdian's hush gradually quieted every sound.
She seemed to have discovered something. Once Li Huowang became certain that she had not merely discovered one of his hallucinations, his heart began pounding faster and faster.
Seeing Zhao Shuangdian silently crouch down, Ba Nanxu beside her immediately threw himself into her arms, dropped to both knees, and braced the gun's barrel and body against his back and buttocks.
Zhao Shuangdian aimed into the pitch-black Dark Channel ahead for a long while. Then, as she suddenly pulled the trigger, a sharp pop rang out, and blood gradually began seeping through the darkness in the distance.
"We didn't come to the wrong place? Could it be... not everything that happened before was my hallucination?"
The moment that thought surfaced in Li Huowang's mind, he was overwhelmed with ecstasy and charged forward. The gunfire behind him did not slow him down—instead, it made him move even faster.
When Li Huowang emerged from the darkness again, he was dragging a terrified Black man by both hands. "Can you see him? Can all of you see him now? Is this person really my hallucination