I used to regard him as a friend, but now it seems there's more to it than just friendship. The car journey continued, and the atmosphere inside the large truck's carriage grew even more awkward.
My upper body was already covered in red stripes. As time ticked by, there were even some ambiguous patterns drawn in the end.
I felt extremely uncomfortable. Even the fat guy beside me couldn't stand it anymore. He coughed and said, "Alright, that's about enough. We'll be at the base soon. I hope you'll behave yourselves then. As long as the sacrifice is successfully sent into the bridal chamber and the ceremony is over, we'll let you go. You can go wherever you want after that."
I was about to say something when the fat guy winked at me. I had no idea what this guy was up to.
"Don't you dare play any tricks on me."
The guy beside us spoke up, as if he had guessed what the fat guy was thinking.
He sneered slightly and said, "I've seen all your little tricks. Over the years, there've been no less than eight or nine hundred people who died here. Do you think you can escape? Don't even think about it."
This guy was really blunt. I sighed. What else could I say? I'd better shut up.
I looked at the big shot beside me and asked appropriately, "So what do you mean?"
"My meaning is simple. I hope you can seize this opportunity well. Otherwise, next time, there might not even be a single bone left of you. I won't give you another chance to curry favor. If it weren't for Yan Yan last time, how could you be alive again?"
Yan Yan said coldly beside me, "It's none of your business."
This sentence really left the guy speechless. The guy beside him didn't say anything else. He seemed to be a little in awe of Yan Yan.
The relationship between the leader and Yan Yan was rather complicated. Sometimes it felt like they were constraining each other, and sometimes it seemed like they had a superior - subordinate relationship.
But it was really hard to tell who was the superior and who was the subordinate.
"What's that?"
Suddenly, my eyes lit up as I looked at the mountain range in front. There, in the middle of the mountains, a gray earth - and - stone building appeared.
It could be said that this was a huge and magnificent underground fort. The girl named Hualian'er beside me was already beaming with excitement.
Officer Chen had remained silent all the time. It seemed that he had become extremely silent ever since this incident happened.
I looked at Hualian'er beside me without saying anything, with a hint of inquiry in my expression.
It seemed that Hualian'er's real purpose might not be the so - called Village of the Living Dead, but this place.
But I couldn't figure it out. All our previous clues clearly pointed to the Village of the Living Dead. Why did this thing that suddenly appeared on the way turn out to be like this?
Did I really run into such a difficult situation on the way? I hoped I wouldn't fall here and never be able to get out.
Suddenly, the guy beside me pulled me into his arms and said, "From now on, she's mine. No one can touch the sacrifice."
The words that came out of Yan Yan's ice - cold face were really nauseating.
When he was about to turn around and leave, Yan Yan's movements also froze. He looked at my palm with a complicated expression.
Only then did I notice that the red patterns just now were like a picture, converging into some strange patterns in the palm of my hand.
First, the pattern of a little bird appeared. Obviously, the red cinnabar hadn't touched my palm just now, but now it was clear that this thing had appeared in my palm on its own.
I noticed that the expression of the black - clothed leader improved significantly when he saw this.
My pupils shrank slightly. I quickly pulled my hand out of Yan Yan's and looked at him warily.
Yan Yan didn't say a word and silently lowered his eyes.
The expression on my face changed slightly. I felt a bit sad. There was always a feeling of bullying a child.
I must be wrong. How could it be? This guy was such a grown - up young man. It was more likely that he would bully others.
Now I was on his territory and I was lured here by him. What did he have to be aggrieved about?
Several of us got out of the car at the same time and found that the other vehicles had already left this place.
It was quite interesting. It seemed that this was a huge underground fort. The gate of the underground garage was wide open, like a bottomless pit opening its big mouth, waiting for the food about to be fed to enter.
The feeling of the unknown made people feel a bit uneasy. We glanced at each other without saying a word, with a sense of heaviness in our expressions.
"Let's enter the base."
The black - clothed leader also noticed our uneasiness but still didn't say anything. He had an air of having everything under control.
Since we had already entered the enemy's base camp, there was no need to hesitate. Yan Yan reached out and pulled me behind him. As if he didn't see the fat guy and the others, he directly dragged me to a small door beside.
I watched as he took out his fingertip and did some operations. A strange small door just opened out of thin air on the smooth mountain wall.
I turned to look at Yan Yan and asked, "What are you doing?"
Yan Yan didn't say a word and pulled me into his arms.
Wait a minute. Was I being forced into a hug?
I stood there stiffly, looking into Yan Yan's eyes, and found that his gaze wasn't on me.
His body was still cold, just like before when I had contact with him. But the previous few contacts had made me feel the warmth and temperature of this person.
"Let me go. There's no one else here. Don't be so cautious, okay?"
I struggled a bit dissatisfiedly, but found that he seemed to be holding me even tighter.
What kind of hobby was this?
When I turned around, there was full of helplessness in the eyes of the person behind me.
"Are you really that afraid of me? Don't worry. I won't do anything to you."
There was full of helplessness in his voice, as if I was the unreasonable one.
Suddenly, a nameless fire welled up in my heart. Without thinking, I directly pushed him to the ground.
Suddenly, the distance between the two of us was very close. Our eyes met, and our breaths intertwined. If we got a bit closer, we could even hear each other's heartbeats.
There was a thumping sound in my chest, and my arms suddenly felt like they were on fire.
I originally thought it was my infatuation acting up and that I was infatuated with the ice - cold - faced guy. But after my struggling movements were restricted, I suddenly realized something was wrong.
Although I liked men, the burning feeling in my chest didn't come from the deepest throbbing of my heart.
It was more like... a strange sense of being controlled.
Thinking of what they had said before about the sacrifice and the spouse, I suddenly understood something in my mind.
I pushed the guy away. Without looking at myself, I could imagine how ugly my expression was now.