This is a natural cave!
Many spirit tablets are placed here.
The area is not very large, but it is spotlessly clean and lit by many candles. It is clear that this is the place where the Xiao family holds ancestral worship ceremonies, and ordinary people are strictly forbidden from entering.
In the entire cave, the most striking is a stone statue, its deity or perhaps an ancestor of the Xiao family indiscernible. It stands over three meters tall, incredibly imposing, looking down upon the spirit tablets of its descendants.
At this moment.
Brother Shan sees that the rope he climbed up is tied to the neck of the Xiao family ancestor. Whether it's an illusion or a trick of the light, Brother Shan feels the ancestor's face is ashen.
"It's not going to strangle him, is it?"
Brother Shan mutters foolishly.
"What did you say?"
Little Bi asks, looking confused.
"Why did you tie it to his neck?"
"Damn it, are you blind? Look around. Besides spirit tablets and offerings, he's the only thing here that can be tied to. What, you want me to tie it to your neck instead?"
As Little Bi speaks, he grabs an apple from the offering table and takes a huge bite, eating half of it.
"That's not what I meant."
Brother Shan is still a bit dazed.
"It's not your father, so what's wrong with tying a rope?"
"I mean, I... damn..."
Just as Brother Shan is in a daze, the statue, over three meters tall, suddenly moves. The Xiao family ancestor seems to have come alive, his face ashen, and begins to tilt, crashing down towards Brother Shan and Little Bi.
"Oh no, it's falling!"
Little Bi immediately pulls on the rope.
That's right.
Brother Shan felt something was wrong because he thought the statue was unstable, but in his haste, he hadn't thought it through. Only now that he's reacted, the statue begins to fall.
With a dull thud.
The Xiao family ancestor shatters into pieces!
Little Bi is slender and cannot hold the rope with a person climbing. With one tug, he is dragged down, and the rope begins to descend rapidly.
"Holy hell!"
Brother Shan, who is robust, has no time to think. He grabs the falling rope, wraps it around his waist twice with incredible speed, securing it tightly.
He kicks off the cave wall with both feet.
He freezes diagonally in place!
"Ah, damn it!"
Brother Shan is almost choked to death by the rope. To save time, two people are on the rope, and one person pulling two is not something an average physique can withstand.
"You're useless too!"
At this moment, Little Bi gets up from the ground. With the apple in his mouth, he starts kicking the shattered Xiao family ancestor, yelling, "With your pathetic appearance, you think you can protect your descendants?"
"Little Bi, you son of a bitch!!!"
Brother Shan curses in a voice like a duck's.
"Why are you cursing me?"
Little Bi continues to kick like a madman.
"Come help me, I can't hold on!"
"This is really bad, coming!"
Little Bi spits on the broken statue, throws the apple core at it, and then reluctantly shuffles towards Brother Shan, who is about to be strangled to death.
But at this moment.
Danger arrives.
Fast footsteps from outside the cave entrance make Little Bi alert. Having been exposed, he suddenly draws his knife and turns, only to freeze!
It's not people from the Xiao family who have arrived.
It's the Xiao family's dogs.
Two large, completely black dogs rush in, tongues lolling. In the candlelight, their eyes flash with terrifying red light. Their mere presence is enough to make one wet themselves.
"Holy hell, what kind of dogs are these?"
Little Bi shouts, trembling, holding his knife.
Brother Shan turns his head and is stunned!
"Damn it, they're Cane Corsos!"
"These black bastards are so dark!"
"Black my ass, we're finished!"
"Hold on, I'll kill them both."
"Heh!"
Brother Shan laughs a laugh of utter despair. He accidentally loosens his grip and nearly slips out of the cave. He desperately braces himself again and shouts, "Hurry up and get on, if we kill one, we might survive."
Before he finishes speaking.
The dogs strike first!
Like two beasts, the two pitch-black Cane Corsos split up and pounce on the two intruders. One immediately knocks Little Bi down, while the other lunges at Brother Shan.
"Aaaah, so fierce?!"
Little Bi is knocked down by the dog, his knife knocked away. He desperately clutches the dog's head, but the dog's strength is immense. It bites into Little Bi's shoulder.
"Help me, oh my god!"
Little Bi cries out, no longer caring about being exposed.
A large chunk of flesh is torn from his shoulder.
Brother Shan, still dangling by the rope, is in an even worse state. The dog attacking him seems to know exactly where to bite, sinking its teeth into Brother Shan's backside and tearing at it.
"You son of a bitch, save me quickly!"
Brother Shan wishes he were dead right now.
"I can't spare you!"
But Little Bi can't help him.
At this critical moment, Young Master Leng leaps in from the entrance. He is stunned the moment he lands. The scene is too bizarre. Isn't this supposed to be the Xiao family's ancestral hall? Is this a place for worshipping dogs?
A large black dog is tearing at Brother Shan's backside. This scene seems somewhat reasonable.
But the other scene is bizarre.
A similar large black dog is gnawing on Little Bi's shoulder, and to Young Master Leng's astonishment, Little Bi is currently biting the black dog's neck with a ferocity rarely seen!
"I'll bite you to death!"
Little Bi shouts whenever he has a chance.
It seems Little Bi is in a race against the black dog to see who can kill the other first, and he appears to have the upper hand, as the dog is biting his shoulder while he is biting the dog's neck.
"This bastard is ruthless!"
Young Master Leng mutters, frozen in place.
"Young Master Leng, I'll curse your ancestors!"
Brother Shan, whose backside is about to be ripped off, roars.
"Huh? My apologies!"
Young Master Leng finally reacts. The situation is dire, and he must help, but he dares not fire his gun. He can only draw a short knife and repeatedly stab the dog's head on Brother Shan's backside.
The Cane Corso is truly fierce.
Even with its head impaled, it refuses to let go.
Just then, Old Wei also climbs in. This guy is relatively normal. Without any nonsense, he draws the cleaver from his back and hacks at the dog's neck.
*Squelch!*
The dog's head is severed, but it still hangs from Brother Shan's backside.
"Pull the rope quickly, I'm losing strength!"
Brother Shan's eyes roll back, on the verge of passing out.
Fortunately, the now composed Young Master Leng, along with the sturdy Old Wei, work together to relieve Brother Shan. With no place to secure the rope, they have to hold onto it with their own strength.
"Oh, my dear mother!"
Brother Shan, having been rescued, collapses.
Not far away, the other black dog is on its last legs. A bloody hole has been torn in its neck, and dog blood is gushing out. Beside it, Little Bi looks like a ghost.
"My teeth have been good since birth!"
Little Bi says, spitting out a mouthful of torn flesh.
Perhaps this Cane Corso would never have dreamed that it would be bitten to death by a human. If its canine companions saw this, it would be impossible for it to maintain its status in the dog world.
Fortunately.
There were only these two dogs here.
With Little Bi biting the second dog to death, the tense atmosphere eases. As more people ascend, pulling the rope is no longer as strenuous, and everything proceeds in an orderly fashion.
"Little Bi!"
Brother Shan calls out, crawling.
The dog's head is still attached to his backside.
"What the hell do you want?"
Little Bi, lying on the ground, is also filled with lingering fear.
"You're truly a dog!"
"Go to hell!"
"You're even more of a dog than a dog!"
"Hahahaha..."
Little Bi actually laughs at himself.
If he had any strength to fight back,
He wouldn't have resorted to biting!