bookbashuk Chapter 459 Death Valley
Chapter 459 Death Valley
Wu Xie followed Peng Ye, who had just reached adulthood, and watched him live a numb life, riding his horse around day after day.
Until one evening, the setting sun was as red as blood, dyeing the entire sky orange and red.
At the end of the horizon, a long trail of dust rose up, and accompanied by a low engine roar, a cool off-road vehicle slowly drove over.
It seemed like an uninvited guest in this vast wilderness, but it seemed destined to stop beside Peng Ye.
The car window slowly rolled down, and a bright and beautiful face appeared in front of everyone. She had long, carefully curled hair that fell softly on her shoulders like a waterfall. The sunlight shone through her hair, sparkling with a charming luster. She raised her hand and gently pushed the sunglasses on her nose, revealing a pair of smart and deep eyes.
"Hello, handsome! Is there a place here where we can rest and take a rest?" The woman's red lips parted, her voice clear and pleasant, like the sound of nature.
However, at this moment, Peng Ye was completely attracted by the beautiful woman in front of him. He was stunned and just stared at her blankly. For a moment, he even forgot to answer.
Seeing this, the woman couldn't help but call out again: "Hello? Handsome guy, are you still there?"
Hearing the woman's call, Peng Ye suddenly woke up from his dream and quickly responded: "Hello! Sorry, I was distracted just now." He scratched his head awkwardly.
After calming down for a while, Peng Ye continued, "There really aren't any decent hotels around here, but there is a simple guesthouse not far ahead."
Hearing this, the woman was as excited as a child, raising her hands high and cheering: "That's great! Could you please lead the way to the guesthouse for me?"
Peng Ye nodded without hesitation and replied, "Of course no problem!" After that, he turned over and jumped onto his nimble horse. He shook the reins and the horse galloped out like an arrow and ran in front of the off-road vehicle.
The woman sitting in the SUV looked out the window at Peng Ye's elegant back and his fluttering clothes, her eyes revealing undisguised admiration and love. "This is the guesthouse."
"Thank you!"
After the woman got off the SUV, she carried the luggage in the trunk and looked at the man who was about to leave. "I still don't know your name?"
"My name is Cheng Jia, and I'm a freelance photographer. I came to the northwest this time just to photograph the animals here."
"My name is Peng Ye, and I'm a herdsman here."
Cheng Jia walked into the guesthouse with a chuckle.
Cheng Jia sat at the dinner table and asked the service staff of the guesthouse about Peng Ye who brought her here today.
After Wu Xie possessed Peng Ye in his sleep, the moment he met Cheng Jia again, he discovered that he could actually walk freely.
Wu Xie followed Peng Ye during the day, watching the woman appear beside him, and watching Peng Ye gradually come out of the haze and begin to smile.
At night, Wu Xie wandered around every corner of the land in the northwest until he found a different place in the Death Valley that Peng Ye and the villagers here talked about.
There are traces of human beings in the Death Valley, and they have lived there for quite a long time, even dating back to the Tang Dynasty.
"Who are they?"
Relying on the fact that he hadn't been seen at all, Wu Xie boldly walked among the group of men in black, wanting to follow them into the valley, but seemed to be blocked at the upper periphery by something.
"What are they looking for?" Wu Xie looked at the group of mysterious people in black with confusion.
Every time they entered this place, they would carry tightly sealed oak boxes. These boxes looked extremely heavy, as if they contained unknown secrets and dangers.
Days passed one by one, and finally one day, something happened that shocked Wu Xie.
A pickup truck loaded with oak boxes was driving slowly by, and suddenly, for some reason, a box rolled off the truck.
Due to inertia, the box hit the ground heavily, and a tiny gap was created.
Wu Xie couldn't suppress his curiosity and cautiously moved closer to take a look.
When he looked into the box through the narrow gap, he was stunned - it was filled with a whole box of inky black water! Even more bizarre was that there seemed to be something swimming in the black water.
Although he couldn't see clearly, Wu Xie could feel that those unknown creatures were emitting a creepy aura.
The men in black standing nearby looked extremely frightened. They looked at the box that had fallen to the ground from a distance, hesitated to move forward, and showed deep fear on their faces.
Obviously, they were full of fear for these boxes and the black water inside. To be more precise, they were afraid of the mysterious things hidden in the black water.
Wu Xie wanted to move closer to take a closer look, but at this moment, he suddenly felt dizzy and the scene in front of him became blurry. Then, he felt his consciousness gradually sinking into darkness...
When Wu Xie opened his eyes again, he found himself back in the real world.
At this moment, he was sweating profusely, with beads of sweat sliding down his forehead and soaking his clothes. His good friend Fatty Wang was squatting beside the bed, staring at him with a worried look on his face.
"Wu Xie! What's wrong with you? You're sweating all over! And you're yelling in the middle of the night. It's a good thing we're not in the city, otherwise people would accuse you of disturbing the public!"
Wu Xie walked barefoot on the floor, picked up the cup on the table, and drank the cold water in it.
"I just dreamed about Peng Ye."
Fatty Wang said "oh" a few times, and suddenly shouted, "Did you dream about Peng Ye?"
"No! Wu Xie, why did you dream about Peng Ye?"
"What did you dream about him?"
Wu Xie finally recovered, "I dreamed of his father's death, then his mother's, and finally the appearance of his lover."
"You dreamed about his first half of life!" Fatty Wang opened his mouth in surprise.
“Not only that, after I was able to move freely in his dream, I discovered traces of human activities in the Death Valley they mentioned.
However, based on their activity tracks and the existence of the valley, they should have been active at least during the Tang Dynasty.
Also, I found out that they had been transporting boxes into the valley, but I couldn't get into the valley.
A collision between the small boxes worth a few yuan caused one of the boxes to fall to the ground. It was filled with sticky black water, and there were things swimming in the black water, but I couldn't see clearly.
However, what is certain is that the group of people in black are afraid of the black water, or rather, the things in the black water."
After listening to Wu Xie's description, Fatty Wang looked a little embarrassed and asked uncomfortably: "Wu Xie, did you see clearly what was in the black water?"
Wu Xie shook his head. "No, you woke me up when I wanted to get closer to see it more clearly."
Fatty Wang leaned forward and said, "Do you know where the Death Valley is? How about we go take a look tomorrow morning?"
Wu Xie nodded and agreed to Fatty Wang's proposal.
After Wu Xie lay down on the bed again, he tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. He wanted to fall asleep as quickly as possible, perhaps he could enter a dream again.
Fatty Wang lazily lay on the bed, replaying in his mind what Wu Xie had just told him. Every detail flashed before his eyes like a movie scene, making it difficult for him to calm down for a long time.
He knew very well in his heart that what Wu Xie said was not false. He actually knew all the secrets hidden in the mysterious and terrifying Death Valley in the northwest.
However, what he faced at the moment was a difficult choice: Should he tell Wu Xie the truth? Or should he tell Xie Yuchen all this?
Time passed minute by minute, and Fatty Wang waited quietly until he was sure that Wu Xie had fallen asleep again.
He climbed out of bed quietly, walked carefully to the bedside, and then stared at the sleeping Wu Xie.
Under the dim moonlight, Wu Xie's face looked exceptionally peaceful, but Fatty Wang's heart was in turmoil.
Countless times, the words came to his lips but he swallowed them back because he really lacked the courage to face Wu Xie's possible reaction.
After a fierce ideological struggle, Fatty Wang finally made a decision - he would tell Xie Yuchen exactly what happened tonight.
After all, in this world, Xie Yuchen can be regarded as one of Wu Xie's few distant relatives.
Perhaps, only through Xie Yuchen can we find a way to properly handle this matter... When Xie Yuchen woke up early the next morning, he found a long paragraph of nonsense from Fatty Wang on his mobile phone and clicked on the subject at the end.
Xie Yuchen looked at the last few important sentences of the article, and his eyes suddenly became cold.
"Go check out what happened in the Death Valley in the northwest."
The ground beneath Xie Yuchen's feet suddenly surged, and then returned to its usual tranquility.