America 1881: Legend of the West

Chapter 198 Demons and Monsters
Although Chen Jianqiu guessed that Holmes's reaction might not be normal in this state.

But I still didn't expect that the usually powerless geologist would suddenly run away.

Chen Jianqiu rushed forward and grabbed his back with one hand.

Normally, even if Holmes was allowed to run a few steps, Chen Jianqiu would be able to catch him in one sprint.

He had done this more than once before.

However, when Chen Jianqiu's hand was about to touch the geologist's back collar, the man in front of him jumped forward as if there were eyes on the back of his head.

Chen Jianqiu actually made a mistake.

Holmes fell to the ground, but then put his hands on the ground, jumped up from the ground like a spring, and stumbled forward in a weird posture.

"Holmes!" Chen Jianqiu roared angrily, regardless of the resonance, and chased after him with three steps at a time.

However, the geologist in front ran towards the darkness at an incredible speed.

This is not the speed of a normal person.

He was getting closer and closer to the edge of the torch's glow.

At the moment when his back was about to disappear into the darkness, Holmes suddenly turned his head and grinned in the direction of Chen Jianqiu.

An evil smile appeared on the geologist's face.

Holmes is crazy!

Chen Jianqiu didn't have time to think too much, he picked up the torch in his hand and threw it towards the geologist.

However, the torch drew an arc and fell directly to the ground.

Nothing hit.

Chen Jianqiu ran over, picked up the torch from the ground, and raised it to illuminate the surrounding area.

There was nothing all around.

Holmes, disappeared.

In the empty cave, there was no sound of footsteps or echo, just like the world had evaporated.

This is so weird.

Chen Jianqiu has never encountered this kind of situation since he time traveled.

Chen Jianqiu focused his attention and tried to activate the shooter mode.

He has practiced these very proficiently and does not need any assistance. In this regard, he is more accomplished than his master Adam.

However, today, it seems different.

Chen Jianqiu felt as if his brain was being suppressed by something.

Whenever he wanted to increase his concentration, he couldn't get a response from his body.

After trying several times, Chen Jianqiu gave up.

Chen Jianqiu looked around.

The darkness around the torch light was like an iron curtain, covering him in it, making people feel an inexplicable suffocation.

He was chasing Holmes all the way just now without paying attention to the direction, so naturally he couldn't tell where his current position was.

Suddenly, he noticed that there was a faint trace of fire not far away.

It should be Sean and the others. He and Holmes came out to see the situation before and asked them to wait at the entrance.

Let's meet up with the main force first and discuss finding Holmes.

Chen Jianqiu held the torch and walked towards the direction of the fire.

He walked for a while and discovered a problem.

The fire that seemed not far away had not been reached until now.

Chen Jianqiu remembered that he and Holmes didn't go very far just now. They just walked some distance along the edge of the square.

No matter how big the cave is, its diameter cannot be so exaggerated.

What's even more outrageous is that after walking for so long, he found that the distance between himself and the fire didn't shorten at all.

In the dark, there may be some deviations in the judgment of distance and time, but it will never be from zero to positive infinity.

"Sean! Danny!" Chen Jianqiu shouted twice tentatively.

No one responded,
This place is indeed a bit evil.

Chen Jianqiu snorted.

He cannot be called a staunch atheist, but he has never been afraid of the unknown. On the contrary, he is happy to deal with these evil things.

Chen Jianqiu faced the direction of the fire.

He thought for a moment, then closed his eyes and took his own steps.

It was all dark anyway, so I didn’t even look at it and just walked in the direction I had determined.

No matter what you are, I will go all the way.

After counting eighty steps, Chen Jianqiu slowly opened his eyes.

Sure enough, the fire was already close at hand.

But when Chen Jianqiu approached the fire, he still frowned.

Because he discovered that the so-called fire in front of him was not the torches in Sean and Danny's hands, but a bonfire.

The two men were sitting on two stones beside the campfire with their backs to him.
If someone had told Chen Jianqiu half an hour ago that there were two people sitting by a campfire at the bottom of this dark cave, which is located in a closed valley, has an exit on a cliff, and is home to thousands of bats.

Chen Jianqiu would definitely think he was crazy. Moreover, when he was walking down the road just now, he didn't see any living people or bonfires!
Where did these two people come from?

If the flames weren't the torch of the peloton, where were the others besides Holmes?
He even had some doubts as to whether he was still at the bottom of the original cave!

However, Chen Jianqiu has always had his own rules for handling this kind of thing.

Since the mystery lies with these two people, let's start with these two people.

He walked towards the bonfire.

One of the two people seemed to hear the noise here and turned around.

This is an old Chinese man, wearing a mandarin jacket, with a goatee and white beard and hair.

Chen Jianqiu has met him.

He had seen this man in his own vision while driving alone on the Thornton Trail near Papa James's ranch in Lincolnshire.

The old man also called himself "Chang Luo", just as recorded in his previous memory fragments.

Ignoring hallucinations or not, if I remember correctly, isn't this old man dead? Still shot to death.

When the old man saw Chen Jianqiu, he seemed to be seeing an sworn enemy.

He stood there as proudly as a green pine, pointed at Chen Jianqiu and shouted angrily:

"Evil disciple! I have expelled you from my master's school, how dare you come now!"

Chen Jianqiu was confused.

Where is this from? Uncle, no matter you are a human or a ghost, are we familiar with each other?
But before he could respond, another person by the campfire stood up and turned his face this way.

If the old man he saw just now made Chen Jianqiu a little confused, the face that turned around completely stunned him.

The light of the bonfire reflected on his face, his features were sharp and angular, his eyebrows were as sharp as a sword, but his eyes were a bit unfamiliar.

Isn't this who you are?
"Master, you are injured. Let me meet him." The young man said, and then rushed towards him like an arrow.

Chen Jianqiu subconsciously reached for the gun at his waist, but found that the gun was nowhere to be found.

The young man opposite him moved with extremely fierce steps. He approached him in two or three steps and chopped him on the neck with his palm.

Chen Jianqiu saw that the moves were familiar, he took a step forward, stepped with his outer foot, after dodging this move, stretched his body, bent and stepped, turned his palms into double swords, and attacked the waist of the boy opposite.

The young man who looked exactly like him was also not at all vague. He countered his moves, and with his waist like an axis and his hands like wheels, he fought with him.

The two people's steps and moves are almost identical.

One walks like a horse wading through mud, like a chicken stepping on snow, with chicken legs and a dragon body, and the steps of a crane and a monkey. The other one has hands like moving clouds, steps like flowing water, a graceful body and agile steps, like a dragon flying in the sky.

The two men stood there for dozens of rounds, but were still entangled in the fight, with no clear winner.

However, the more Chen Jianqiu fought, the clearer his mind became. He had a general idea of ​​what the current situation was.

I am either in a dream or in my own hallucination, or else I am crazy.

But even if he knew it in his heart, he didn't know how to wake himself up, and he couldn't free his hands.

They were all taught by a master, so they can't break the moves.

The offensive of the boy on the opposite side became more and more fierce, and Chen Jianqiu countered his moves at will.

As the two men fought, they came to the edge of the field.

Chen Jianqiu glanced at the bottomless lake at the edge of the venue and immediately made up his mind.

He dodged the palm knife attack from the boy opposite him by leaning sideways, performed a Mongolian wrestling move, and grabbed the boy's shoulders with both hands.

He exerted force, and the two men's bodies tilted and fell into the lake at the same time.

Who cares about all those ghosts and monsters? Just come with me and take a dip in the water.

The lake water was icy cold. The boy whose shoulders were held down by him did not struggle. Chen Jianqiu could not see his face, but he could feel his hands clasping his shoulders tightly at the same time.

Both of them were sinking, and the water was still pitch black, and nothing could be seen.

Chen Jianqiu thought to himself, this can't be true? Is he going to be drowned in this lake by "himself"?
Just when he was about to reach his limit, he suddenly felt that the "self" that he was holding with his hands disappeared.

Chen Jianqiu knew that he might be back. He looked up at the water and found a faint glow of fire above the water.

He swam hard towards the surface of the lake.

When he was close to the lake, he suddenly exerted force upwards, jumped out of the water, and took a deep breath of the air in the cave.

"Hurry! Hurry! Don't breathe the gas in this lake, come ashore!" Chen Jianqiu heard Holmes' voice.

He turned around and found the geologist standing on the shore of the lake with a torch in his hand, extending a hand to him.

Chen Jianqiu swam to the shore, took his hand and climbed back onto the shore.

"What happened to me just now?" Chen Jianqiu shook off the water droplets on his head and asked.

"Well, you were squatting and looking at the lake. I asked you but you didn't respond. I thought you had something to do, so I went to look somewhere else. When I came back, I saw you boxing in the open space, and then suddenly you jumped into the lake with a bang." Holmes said.

"I later did some research and found that there must be cracks at the bottom of the lake. The gas rising up might cause hallucinations." The geologist pointed to the bubbles that kept rising to the surface of the lake. "Plus, in a closed cave like this, it is easy for people to have hallucinations."

"Okay." Chen Jianqiu nodded calmly, as if nothing had happened just now. "What did you gain?"

When Holmes heard about his job, he perked up.

"Hey, don't tell me, I actually found some useful things, come with me and take a look."

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