parentshiftbook Chapter 94 The Strange Well
Chapter 94 The Strange Well
Immediately afterwards, Zhao Hai asked one of Chen Zhifu's underlings to drive the car to Xu Wenzhu's place, while Zhao Hai and the other two continued to search for supplies deeper into the village.
As the group ventured deeper into the area, the supplies they collected became increasingly abundant.
It has to be said that the potatoes made by the old man are indeed very useful. Not only are they free movers, but they are also very efficient at moving things, which provides great convenience for Zhao Hai and his team!
"Hai Zi, look, there's a well over there. Let's talk to Captain Xu and ask him to send a few people over with some buckets! That should replenish our freshwater resources," Wang Hu said, seeing the well in front of him.
"Brother Tiger, don't rush! That water curtain just now clearly shows that the strange ability of that creature is related to water. Let's not rush and observe this well carefully!" Zhao Hai also said.
"OK!"
Following Zhao Hai's gaze, the two carefully examined the well. Stone platform, moss, rotten well pulley, well opening covered with a stone slab... on the surface, it was indeed an ordinary well.
The group found nothing unusual about the surface of the well, so they walked over. However, they remained vigilant.
The three looked down into the well and could only see dark moss spreading like veins on the slippery, dark stones of the well wall.
The water was dark and eerily calm, like a piece of black glass.
and many more!
Just beneath the surface of the water, something seemed to be reflecting light faintly. It wasn't water ripples, but a different kind of reflection—colder, more regular.
Su Wanyue was the first to notice the anomaly and immediately asked, "Did you guys see something reflecting light at the bottom of this well?"
"Reflective?"
Wang Hu immediately knelt down, took out a flashlight, and placed it horizontally on the edge of the well, sweeping the beam across the water's surface.
The dark well water seemed to be sliced open by a blade, and a silvery arc flashed to the well wall—at the end of the arc, a cold light the size of a fingernail suddenly refracted back, as if someone had blinked a metallic eye underwater.
Zhao Hai squinted and lowered his voice: "It's not a stone... its shape is too regular."
"Damn, there really is something!" Wang Hu exclaimed.
The well wasn't deep, but it wasn't shallow either; the three of them couldn't see what was at the bottom.
"Get out of the way!" Zhao Hai shouted.
Before Zhao Hai finished speaking, the three of them had already left the well.
Su Wanyue and Wang Hu naturally noticed the unusual activity at the well, without Zhao Hai needing to remind them.
In that very instant, the water in the well suddenly formed a huge whirlpool.
Seeing this, the three realized something was wrong and immediately retreated towards the outside of the well.
Immediately afterwards, water gushed out vertically from the well, forming a huge waterspout that swept towards Zhao Hai and his companions.
Upon seeing this, the poisonous mist around Zhao Hai instantly surged into a shield, blocking the three of them.
The poison mist shield had barely formed when the water tornado blasted in—
"Bang!!"
The dark green mist wall collided head-on with the pitch-black water column, producing a dull thud like a blunt object striking flesh. The poisonous mist was extremely corrosive, instantly corroding large holes into the outer edge of the water curtain. But the next second, even more well water gushed out from the holes, like endless proliferating limbs, stubbornly pushing against the poison shield and continuing to drill forward.
Even so, the well water still couldn't break through the shield in front of Zhao Hai.
Seeing that Zhao Hai's shield directly blocked the water tornado, Wang Hu and Su Wanyue did not make any further moves.
"Something's not right! Hai Zi, why is this strange attack so weak?" Wang Hu also looked puzzled.
"Hmm! This attack feels only slightly stronger than the water curtain attack before! This should be the strange main body! How can it be so weak?" Zhao Hai also looked puzzled.
"I don't know, but since this monster is so weak, let's just deal with it!" Su Wanyue said simply and clearly.
"Okay! Let's just take care of him then!" Zhao Hai nodded.
Immediately, Su Wanyue also slashed with her longsword, sending five sword energies toward the water tornado.
Five sword energies shot out in the shape of the Chinese character "正" (zhèng), as bright as a crescent moon.
Five sharp blades of energy slashed into the water tornado, producing a sound like tearing silk. The twisted water flow let out a sharp hiss and instantly dissipated into a shower of water droplets that fell gently down.
An eerie silence fell over the cold pool, broken only by the sound of dripping water.
"That's... all?" Wang Hu scratched his head, also feeling that it was a bit too simple.
However, as soon as Wang Hu finished speaking, three more water tornadoes emerged from the well and attacked the group.
"No, that well water isn't the monster at all! We were wrong from the start. The monster should be in this well. It should be like the human-faced rain salamander we encountered before, able to control water to attack us!" Zhao Hai said, expressing his guess as he saw the water tornado attacking again.
"I knew it! How could we kill this monster so easily? It seems it was in the well! But how can we kill it if it's in the well?" Wang Hu asked.
"Who said we were going to kill it? Let's just leave! This place is strange! Besides, this well is the place where the strange thing is. We don't need to put ourselves in danger for just two strange materials!" Although Zhao Hai was very interested in the strange materials, he was an extremely rational person and he would not do such a risky thing.
Although Wang Hu is now at Sequence 2, the area below the well is clearly the home ground of the Strange Ones. Moreover, it's possible that the Strange Ones' previous attacks were all to mislead them and feign weakness.
Moreover, Sequence 2 superhumans are not gods! Perhaps in the bizarre home turf, two level 1 bizarre beings could even turn the tables and kill a Sequence 2!
Therefore, Zhao Hai wisely chose not to take any risks. In any case, they had collected a lot of supplies from the village, so the trip wasn't in vain.
Upon hearing Zhao Hai's words, Wang Hu and Su Wanyue hesitated only for a moment before nodding in agreement:
"Okay! I'll do as you say!"
Without further hesitation, the three of them ran straight towards the village entrance.
The three reached a consensus, decided not to linger in the fight, and turned to rush towards the village entrance.
However, just as they rushed less than fifty meters, the well behind them suddenly emitted a bone-chilling cold.
All that could be seen was the gushing forth of well water. Not only that, the well opening, which was originally only a little over a meter in diameter, seemed to be torn apart and expanded by an invisible force. The bricks and stones cracked, and the soil surged, expanding several times in an instant! The pitch-black well opening was like a giant mouth that suddenly opened, bottomless, from which came the heart-palpitating sound of water being sucked in and a kind of viscous wriggling sound.