Seeing Xuan Yang covering Li Huowang's mouth, the others holding the fireboxes quickly rushed up and surrounded Li Huowang with unfriendly eyes.
"You're not leaving? Then you'll die here today! We will never let you tip off that bald head!"
Li Huowang was not panicked at all about his current life and death situation. He rolled his eyes speechlessly, cursed the direction of the plot of this illusion in his heart, and closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
When he opened his eyes again, he found that he had been tied to the bed by a wide belt, and the brothers and sisters who surrounded him had disappeared.
"Auntie Wang, I'm awake, can you help me untie it?" Li Huowang shouted to the night nurse on the microphone at the head of the bed. He was eager to see if the jade pendant was in his clothes now.
However, there was no response after shouting for a long time. Li Huowang understood that Nurse Wang was secretly chasing Mary Sue TV station during the night shift again. She always likes to be lazy.
Li Huowang looked down at his chest wrapped in a blue and white hospital gown, twisting desperately, trying to feel whether there was a jade pendant on his chest by squeezing it.
But his body was now bound tightly, and he felt that there was and there was not. After trying several times, he gave up helplessly.
Li Huowang yawned and could only lie on the bed, praying that Nurse Wang would be merciful and check the camera after watching the drama.
In the late night environment, even the second floor where the critically ill patients were kept was very quiet, and Li Huowang fell into a deep sleep. When he woke up again, he found that he was lying on the cold cave floor.
He was still in that position, but none of the guys who tried to escape before had disappeared.
"Tsk, you NPCs want to deal with me?" Li Huowang took out the jade pendant from his arms, shook it gently in his palm, and put it back into his arms.
When he returned to the big bunk bed where he lived, he lay in the haystack and patiently waited for the arrival of the day. When he thought of the value of the jade pendant, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep at all.
Without a clock, Li Huowang didn't know how long it had been. When he saw his fellow apprentices on both sides waking up, he sat up.
"It's dawn here, so Aunt Wang should change shifts. How about I go back and take a look? Nurse Ai is much more dedicated than her."
Just when Li Huowang was hesitating, there was a burst of hurried footsteps at the door.
A Taoist boy wearing a black Taoist robe and with his hair tied on his head rushed in from outside in a panic.
"Hurry up! Master asked everyone to gather at Hui'an Temple!!"
This sudden news made everyone confused, but since it was the master who wanted to go, they had no reason to refuse.
Soon, in the so-called largest cave of Hui'an Temple, all the disciples were present, and the light of the torches illuminated the confusion on everyone's faces clearly.
Li Huowang keenly noticed that there were fewer people in the crowd. In addition to Xuanyang, there were also several disciples of Master Lai Zitou who were taught by him.
"Oh, are they running away together?" He thought, watching the excitement without minding the big things. The scene in front of him made him feel like he was following a TV series.
When a head poked out from the dark creeping tunnel, all the Taoist children except Li Huowang subconsciously lowered their heads.
That was their master, Dan Yangzi.
"Cough~!" A cough made everyone tense up.
"Last night at the second watch, someone wanted to escape, including two of my disciples. I am very sad!!"
He said he was sad, but the anger on his face was so strong that it almost condensed into substance.
"Were they discovered so soon? Xuan Yang and his fellows are really lame." Li Huowang curled his lips.
"As the saying goes, there is no order without rules. Mistakes must be punished. This is the rule of my Xishan Donghua School! Follow me."
All the disciples dared not breathe and silently followed Dan Yangzi forward.
After passing through caves of all sizes and a turbulent underground river, they soon arrived at a damp cave the size of a classroom.
Li Huowang saw that all the people who escaped last night were tied up and piled in the corner.
When they saw their master with a depressed expression, they immediately struggled excitedly, as if they wanted to tell something, but the rags in their mouths prevented them from saying anything.
Dan Yangzi seemed not to want to listen to their explanations, and he turned his hand inward and pointed forward. "Open!"
The smooth surface of the cave that was washed opened a big hole in an instant, and the escaped people fell into it instantly.
The next moment, hysterical shouts and screams accompanied by the sound of flesh tearing and bones breaking continued to sound from the cave.
Faced with this horrible scene, many Taoist children's legs began to tremble, and they wanted to close their eyes.
"Come closer! This is the end of their escape!" Dan Yangzi's words made everyone's face turn several degrees pale.
No one dared to disobey the master's order, and everyone pushed and shoved to the edge of the cave.
The cave was very dark, very dark, and pitch black.
The dark circular cave was like a whirlpool, as if it was going to trap everyone.
After careful identification, Li Huowang saw that there was a big black tripod in the cave, and some twisted talismans were built on the edge of the tripod.
Something seemed to be moving in the tripod, but Li Huowang could not see it clearly. The only information he received with his organs was the pungent and disgusting smell of blood.
No matter what was in it, it was definitely very dangerous.
"The things in the hallucination should not hurt me. That kind of thing has never happened before."
Although he said so, his heart was hanging, and he planned to retreat to the hospital at any time.
"Shua-!" A circle of wriggling black shadows instantly emerged from the cave, and a junior brother who was wrapped around Li Huowang suddenly shrank back.
Everyone was frightened by this scene and retreated to the smooth wall of the cave. If Dan Yangzi hadn't been watching them, they would have run away long ago.
Almost everyone's expression became very panic at this time, and they were trembling in their hearts to guess what that thing was.
But Li Huowang was not among those who guessed, because he was standing closest just now, so he saw it clearly.
It was a mass of black substance with fleshy texture, and a bunch of short, trembling black tentacles grew on the slippery and sticky skin!
Based on this alone, Li Huowang could be sure that what Dan Yangzi raised in this cave was definitely not a normal thing in the world.
As for what it was, Li Huowang couldn't guess and didn't want to go over and take a look again.
Although he knew that these things came out of his brain, Li Huowang really wanted to understand why his imaginary things would have such things?
Li Huowang looked at everything around him that was extremely real, and suddenly had a terrible guess in his heart. "Is this scary and weird world real?"
This conjecture instantly made Li Huowang's body tremble. He thought of the people who died before. If those people were real and not his hallucinations, then he would also die when he was grabbed by that thing just now?
Li Huowang was almost overwhelmed by this suffocating fear. He took a few deep breaths and immediately enlightened himself according to the way taught by Dr. Li.
"These are all hallucinations, no matter how real they are, they are all hallucinations. Li Huowang, you must not get lost in these hallucinations again. They are all created by you. What are you afraid of?"
"Yang Na is still waiting for me. I can't let her down. I can overcome all this! I can!"
After Li Huowang's self-enlightenment, his emotions gradually stabilized, enough to face everything in front of him calmly.