Book 2: Chapter 15


    As Chuchu rubbed her waist and pushed the hair out of her face, she saw ck sses pull the statues head off. If she had been able to make a normal sound, she wouldve definitely screamed.


    But when she took a closer look, she found that ck sses had actually pulled off a mask. The statue turned out to be a very thin man who wasnt all that young. In addition to a lot of silver jewelry, he was wearing clothes and a mask that made him look like the statue. ck sses broke off the guns trigger, threw it aside, directly lifted the "statue" up, and dragged it all the way to the sorceress.


    Chuchu went over while continuing to rub her waist and asked in signnguage, "Why did you run into the minefield?"


    "The minefield here may be fake," ck sses said.


    "Why?"


    "If theres a minefield, then why do you still need a guard? This is to deceive outsiders. There may actually bendmines nearby, but the number isnt as exaggerated as they say." ck sses took out two lollipops from his pocket and stuffed them directly into the two people''s mouths.


    Chuchu couldn''t understand ck sses behavior at all. "Theres anesthetic in it, ck sses said. This teaches people not to eat things given by strangers. After that, he went into the temple and blew out all the candles as quickly as possible.


    The whole temple instantly became dark, leaving only the moonlight outside. Chuchu wanted to turn on her shlight, but ck sses said from inside the temple, "I don''t need any light." Chuchu didnt understand, but she already knew at this time that ck sses wasnt an ordinary person. After thinking for a while, she put down the shlight and waited at the door.


    Soon, ck sses shlight came on. She didn''t know what he had done inside, but when she took a look, she saw that the altar had been overturned. She ran in and came up beside him, noticing that there was a hidden entrance below the altar. There was a simple stone staircase, which led all the way down.


    "How did you find it?" She signed at him. His behavior just now didnt seem like he was looking for something.


    "Women''s thinking is really different from men''s," ck sses said. Chuchu was so stunned that it took her a long time to realize that ck sses had avoided answering her question. He continued, "If its a man, hell ask whats below."


    Then, he took out his cell phone, made sure he had a signal, pulled up the WeChat app, and quickly typed something.


    "What are you doing?"


    "When you enter an unknown area, you need to write a suicide note." ck sses quickly sent the text and then looked at Chuchu, "You wait for me here."


    His eyes were locked on the ck shadow behind Chuchu. At this time, the shadow became veryrge, almost like it was going to pounce.


    "I wont," Chuchu signed. "I want to go down and have a look. I didn''t expect to get the opportunity to enter the underground river."


    "I broke in illegally. Anything you film will be condemned by humanitarians, ck sses said. "You wont win a prize."


    "You and I are not in the same group. I was merely passing by. Chuchu went directly into the passage and turned on her shlight.


    ck sses shook his head, <em>there''s something wrong with this girls character</em>. He followed her in and saw her start signing in the shlights glow: "Hey, have I seen you before?"


    "Yes, I used to be an advertising model. You may have seen me at the movies," ck sses said. The passage was very narrow and made from worn stone bs. The stairs were very uneven and varied in size. Chuchu was still persistent: "No, I think Ive met you before."


    ck sses looked back at her and moved to put his hand on the back of her neck. But Chuchu was very vignt and pressed up against the passage wall, protecting the back of her neck. "Your movements are the same as Funny Uncles. He did that to me, too." After Chuchu finished signing, she quickly put her hand over her neck and red at ck sses.


    "Come on! Its just a quick squeeze and then youll wake up and everything will be settled. You can go home with your videos.


    ck sses beckoned to her, but Chuchu quickly signed back: "Are you Funny Uncles friend? Or his son?"


    ck sses looked at her and sighed.


    Funny Uncle how long had it been since he heard that name? At that time, he stayed in the same ward with the little girl for a long time in order to monitor her. The little girl didn''t say a word or cry out in pain or sadness. She just stubbornly held it all back. He didn''t know whether she was refusing to ept her fate or if it was something else.


    In order to get her to say something, ck sses went to all kinds of trouble and used every method he could think of. Later, because of his strange behavior, the little girl took a liking to him and gave him a nickname: Funny Uncle. Did children remember their childhood so well?


    ck sses looked at Chuchu and was just about to strong-arm her, when she suddenly ran down the stairs with her hand covering her neck. Then, he heard the sound of her falling. When ck sses walked down and shined his shlight around, he saw that she had bumped into a wall.


    He looked closer with his shlight and found that it wasn''t a wall, but a monument ced at the bottom of the stairs. At this time, he heard the sound of surging watering from behind it.


    Two words had been engraved on the stone monument: Extreme Sea.


    The monument looked very old, but because there was only water vapor here, there were no signs of weathering. The engraved words were still quite clear and there were smaller ones carved on the side. ck sses wasn''t interested in reading them, so he bypassed the monument directly and found a huge cliff in the space behind it. If the stone monument hadnt been here, Chuchu wouldve gone down directly.


    This underground cliff was a big crack about the width of three liberation trucks and was too deep for the shlights to illuminate clearly. The running water sound wasing from below, meaning that there really was an underground river underneath. ording to Wu Erbai''s data, the Extreme Sea was the longest underground river in China, and also the mother river of the South Seas Falling Cloud Country. It was said that there were more than three hundred tributaries, and all of the South Seas Falling Cloud Countrys borders were attached to these rivers.


    There were Extreme Sea monuments erected by the South Sea countrys people near every entrance and exit of these underground rivers. These monuments were all in secret ces, and most of them had pools of water nearby. That was why most people who found them thought that Extreme Sea was the name of these underground pools. They didnt realize that it actually referred to this connected underground water system. Unexpectedly, the Extreme Sea became so long that even Burma had an entrance. It wasnt surprising that the legend of the South Sea country ced the country in both the east and the west. This ancient underground countrywhich existed in the underground river basinhad a vast territory and could be isted from the world for a long time. This was also the only way to reach Thunder City, because there were too many forks in the underground river.


    Thunder City was in a certain section of this Extreme Sea.


    Chuchu asked him toe back, so ck sses went over to her. She told him to look at the small words engraved on the Extreme Sea monument. When he shined his shlight on it, the line of words appeared more clearly. They seemed very chaotic, as if the person who had carved them had been in a state of madness.


    The words read: Wu Sanxing entered Thunder City from this point to alleviate all regrets.