Chapter 1

After saying that, Li Bai stuffed the blueprints into Lu Zhangyuan's hands and instructed him to keep them safe. If she didn't return, he should give the blueprints to Yao Shun Yu, who would know what to do.

Looking at the blueprints in his hand, Lu Zhangyuan's eyes were complex, but Li Bai didn't seem to notice. She fastened the rope around her waist, lifted the wooden board, and carefully walked toward the bridge pier where Wu Qiang had disappeared.

Most of the bridge surface near the pier had collapsed, leaving only a small edge that had to be crossed with great care.

Just as she stepped onto the pier, before Li Bai could breathe a sigh of relief, Lu Zhangyuan's voice rang out behind her, "Li Bai!"

Lu Zhangyuan's voice was urgent, as if to warn her of danger, but Li Bai didn't move, didn't answer, and didn't turn back.

"Just as I thought..."

This sudden change made Li Bai even more convinced of her judgment. This last pier really had a big problem. A human pillar had been set inside, and Wu Qiang was trapped by those things.

Li Bai believed that if she had turned her head abruptly just now, she would have disappeared on the bridge like Wu Qiang.

Perhaps that's not accurate. Wu Qiang hadn't disappeared; he was still on the bridge, but he had been hidden by those vengeful souls.

But if no one guided him, he would be trapped to death.

Never lower your head on the road of human sacrifice, and never look back on the Dasheng Bridge (bridge where the human sacrifice pillar was built). Li Bai had heard these words a long time ago, referring to not easily lowering your head to look at the road on the road where people were sacrificed, as it's easy to be bewitched by the things buried underneath. You shouldn't easily call out someone's name on a bridge where a human pillar has been set up. Likewise, you shouldn't immediately turn your head when you hear someone calling your name, otherwise you might end up like Wu Qiang.

If she had known in advance that a human pillar was buried under this last pier, this tragedy could have been completely avoided. To pass through this pier safely, you just need to walk over it and then walk back completely in reverse.

However, Li Bai thought that it would be very difficult to walk back in reverse on the narrow and steep bridge surface.

Now only the last method remained. Li Bai decided to take a risk and try it.

"Lu Zhangyuan, can you hear me?" Li Bai asked loudly.

"Yes."

"Tell me the last position Wu Qiang was in before he disappeared. I need to stand in his position at that time," Li Bai emphasized.

"Right, a little more to the right, and then forward."

Lu Zhangyuan's voice was mixed with the sound of the wind, sometimes near and sometimes far, giving a very unreal feeling.

But it was this unreality that made Li Bai feel at ease. The voice that had just called her name was as clear as if it were right behind her.

"Okay, a little further forward and it's almost there."

As Li Bai took the last step forward, a gust of yin wind suddenly blew past Lu Zhangyuan, who was watching her not far away. Lu Zhangyuan closed his eyes subconsciously. When he opened his eyes again, the bridge was empty. There was no sign of Li Bai. She had also disappeared.

But strangely, a rope made of shredded cloth strips extended from the void, as if affected by some strange force, presenting a bent and twisted shape. This scene was simply bizarre and incredible.

As Lu Zhangyuan slowly lowered his head, the other end of the rope was firmly held in his hand.

At this moment, Li Bai's vision also changed. Suddenly, a thick fog surged around her, covering the entire bridge in the blink of an eye. The fog was churning, as if something was hidden inside.

The surrounding temperature also changed. Li Bai suddenly felt very cold, or rather, a chill, an icy cold that penetrated to the bone, as if she had been thrown into an ice cave.

What also changed was the sound. Li Bai heard the sound of water, not the gentle murmuring of flowing water, but the sound of splashing water, as if... as if countless dying fish were thrashing on the surface of the water.

For some reason, this was the image that came to Li Bai's mind, one fish tail after another desperately thrashing and struggling near the surface of the water, a sense of despair rushing towards her.

Slowly, as Li Bai's vision gradually adapted to the fog, she gradually saw the things hidden behind the fog.

They were people, or rather, withered, mummy-like people, but they were not dead, with shriveled eyes, still aimlessly wandering in the fog.

Li Bai understood that these people were all trapped on the bridge.

But what pained her was that, judging from the clothes of these people, many of them were outsiders like herself, and some were even wearing professional equipment, carrying the same backpacks as those dug out from the bodies of the soldiers.

A series of discoveries indicated that these soldiers had successfully carried out an explosion on the bridge, but for various reasons, the explosion was not ideal, and these soldiers were wiped out in various crises.

Suddenly, Li Bai found a familiar face among the withered figures.

The terrified Wu Qiang also saw Li Bai. There was light in his dim eyes in an instant. "Li... Miss Li! It's you!"

"You've come to save me! That's great!" Wu Qiang's lips trembled with excitement, and he ran towards Li Bai quickly.

But soon, the excited Wu Qiang looked puzzled, because he found that Li Bai was not excited at all. On the contrary, she was very unsympathetic, just staring at him coldly, without saying a word.

"Miss Li, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me!" Wu Qiang couldn't help but take a step back, the excitement on his face gradually fading, replaced by a layer of panic, transitioning quite naturally.

But the fake is fake after all. Li Bai understood very well. She didn't find any flaws in "Wu Qiang"'s performance, but she knew that this was the control area of those vengeful souls, and she would never find Wu Qiang so smoothly.

Li Bai ignored the "Wu Qiang" in front of her. She looked at the withered figures nearby, suspecting that the real Wu Qiang was hidden among them.

Her eyes swept over these mummies one by one. Soon, Li Bai noticed a strange mummy. There was nothing special about the mummy's face. What was really special was the mummy's movements. It didn't have that sluggish feeling when it walked, and its joints were much more flexible than the other mummies.

Li Bai walked up to the mummy, staring at the corpse's shriveled eyes, but the other party didn't react at all.

After thinking for a moment, Li Bai boldly touched the mummy's arm. The next second, the mummy seemed to be extremely frightened, suddenly taking a step back, and its withered face became even more distorted and terrifying.

"Wu Qiang?" Li Bai asked tentatively, "Is that you?"

At the same time as she asked this question, Li Bai had already prepared to escape. In her plan, if she failed, she would immediately jump off the bridge, and there would be a glimmer of hope if she fell into the water.

But the next second, she actually saw the mummy open its eyes wide, the eyelids crumbling inch by inch, the corners of its mouth tearing open to reveal the dry white flesh inside, and spitting out three extremely hoarse words, "Miss... Miss Li?"