Free Web NovelChapter 72: Chapter 72: Discovering the Magical Cave
Su Lin and Qi Shihan were greatly shocked at the scene and hurried forward to try to pull Wang Hao back, but were stopped by Su Zhenping.
"Brother Hao~"
Su Lin and Qi Shihan cried out in grief.
Su Zhenping had watched Wang Hao fall off the cliff and instantly felt overwhelmed with regret, blaming his ill-omened jinx for speaking out of turn.
Seeing that the stones were still falling from the cliff and that their own position was dangerous, Su Zhenping could not afford to heed the pleas of the two girls, grabbed one with each hand, and ran down the mountain.
After running for a while, Su Zhenping felt it was safe to let them go, and by this time, a large part of the cliff had already collapsed.
Even if Wang Hao hadn’t been killed by the fall, he would have been crushed by the rocks.
"It’s all my fault, all my fault, if I hadn’t disobeyed and run to the edge of the cliff, Brother Hao wouldn’t have fallen down!"
Qi Shihan was already crying her eyes out.
Su Lin was so frightened that she just sat down on the ground, with tears flowing uncontrollably.
The villagers of Chen Village heard a loud noise in the mountain, looked up, and saw that the cliff had collapsed and disappeared, only dust rising over the mountaintop.
"How did the cliff collapse without reason? Could the Mountain God be angry again? No one has been to that place in over twenty years. With the collapse, could there be many treasures exposed? Let’s go have a look later," said Wang Xiaoer’s father, who was setting up equipment, excitedly after seeing the cliff collapse.
The villagers working nearby also nodded in agreement after hearing this.
At Wang Hao’s home, Wang Dazhu and Huang Yufen were feeding the chickens. Hearing the noise, they hurried out to join the crowd.
"Yo, it seems like the back mountain cliff has collapsed, good, good," remarked Wang Dazhu with a smile as he stepped back inside.
"Did Haozi go up the mountain today? Just now, I felt a sudden pain in my chest. Could it be that Haozi he..."
"Don’t talk nonsense, Haozi went to pick herbs. There are no herbs near the cliff, and besides, he knows that place is dangerous and wouldn’t go there," Wang Dazhu quickly interrupted Huang Yufen’s speculation. Although he spoke bravely, he couldn’t help but worry, wanting to go to the cliff right away, but unfortunately, he couldn’t move.
By the time Su Zhenping ran down the mountain with the two girls it was dusk.
The villagers were preparing handicrafts and, seeing the trio looking panic-stricken, felt something was wrong and quickly came over to ask what was happening.
When they found out that Wang Hao had fallen off the cliff and was buried alive by rocks, Xia Xue almost fainted.
Soon the news spread throughout the village.
"Haozi, what am I to do without you, brother?" Zheng Cailian, upon hearing the news, collapsed at home, hugging her head and crying bitterly.
Ya Ya, hearing the news, also cried and asked Zheng Cailian,
"Did Uncle Hao really die?"
Zheng Cailian did not answer, just hugged Ya Ya and burst into loud sobs...
"What? He’s really dead?" Zhou Mazi was so happy upon hearing the news that he almost jumped for joy, thinking that with Wang Hao dead, no one in the village would dare to oppose him anymore, and he could do whatever he wanted. He immediately began planning again to dig fish ponds.
"Is it true?"
Although the village chief appeared calm, he was inwardly filled with joy.
As the twilight deepened, the entire forest grew very quiet until suddenly the pile of fallen rocks moved slightly, and a hand slowly clawed its way out.
"Damn it, what kind of bad luck is this!" Wang Hao cursed after crawling out. There wasn’t a soul to be seen in this wild mountain.
His leg was injured by a rock, causing agonizing pain, and was unlikely to recover anytime soon. Fearing a secondary collapse of the rocks, he crawled under a large tree to rest.
Recalling the moment of his fall, Wang Hao thought he was certainly a goner.
But fortune favors the bold, he had landed on a large tree.
When the rocks came tumbling down, he found a tree hollow to hide in, which allowed him to hold onto his life.
Nevertheless, one of his legs was crushed by a rock, probably fractured.
"This leg is probably done for!"
Wang Hao found his right leg excruciatingly painful, the blood was continuously flowing out, and he couldn’t muster any strength in it, probably because the bone was broken.
"That damned old man Su, I wonder if he’s led people to search for me, to see if I’m alive or dead. Even if I had died, they should at least come to collect the body. Truly heartless."
Wang Hao complained.
But in fact, as soon as Su Zhenping returned to the village, he brought the villagers to search for him, but they didn’t find anyone until nightfall.
It got dark, and they couldn’t see anything on the mountain and feared the presence of poisonous creatures and wild beasts, so everyone decided to come back and look again after daybreak.
This couldn’t really be blamed on Su Zhenping, it was just Wang Hao’s bad luck: When the villagers first came looking for him, he was still unconscious, hiding in a tree hollow, and this hollow was perfectly concealed by a rock.
If he had woken up a bit earlier, perhaps the villagers would have found him.
Such is the irony of fate.
No sooner had Wang Hao sat down with his back against a tree trunk than he noticed a centipede crawling along a branch toward him, stopping above his head.
Although it didn’t attack him, he still felt utterly creeped out.
"Damn it, get lost already!"
Wang Hao’s leg hurt terribly, and he tried to stand up twice but couldn’t stay on his feet, so he picked up a stone and hurled it at the centipede.
To his surprise, the centipede, startled, bit at Wang Hao, catching his arm.
"F*ck!"
Wang Hao cursed loudly, grabbed the centipede’s head, and slammed it hard against the rock.
With this smash, he killed the centipede outright. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
To be bitten by a centipede on top of everything else—misfortunes never come singularly.
Just then, the green dragon tattoo on Wang Hao’s body began to stir. He could clearly see the dragon’s shadow follow his blood flow to the bite on his arm and slowly purified the blood around the wound from black to red.
What astonished Wang Hao even more was that the dragon’s shadow continued along his blood flow to his leg. Instantly, he felt warmth in his leg, the meridians felt smooth, and the pain reduced significantly.
The dragon’s shadow swirled around Wang Hao, and the insects and venomous creatures nearby were frightened away.
Suddenly, Wang Hao felt a wave of drowsiness hit him, his eyelids could hardly stay open, and he leaned against the large tree and fell into a deep sleep. freewebnøvel.com
Wang Hao slept until the bright daybreak. In the early morning, amidst the sounds of insects and birds singing, a beam of sunlight shone right on his face, prompting him to slowly open his eyes and find that the sun was already high up.
"Wow!"
Wang Hao stretched, feeling refreshed and invigorated, and couldn’t help but exclaim.
"What a comfortable sleep!"
Suddenly, Wang Hao remembered that yesterday his leg had been broken and he had also been bitten by a centipede, but now he felt no pain whatsoever.
He hurriedly lifted his clothes to inspect and found that his wounds had completely healed with not even a scar left behind.
Wang Hao knew it was definitely the dragon tattoo that had saved him again.
"This tattoo is really miraculous, I must study it carefully when I have the time."
Wang Hao muttered to himself inwardly.
This time, healing his wounds had consumed a lot of the tattoo’s energy. He would need to recover at home and wait for the Dragon Tattoo Energy to replenish before he could study it in detail.
Now that he was healed, he needed to hurry down the mountain.
Everyone probably thought he was dead, and his family must be worried sick.
Wang Hao stood up, turned and looked back at the collapsed mountaintop, and noticed that the landslide was almost entirely rocks.
Logically speaking, a landslide should involve soil along with rocks, it shouldn’t be just rocks. Could this have been caused by tectonic movement?
But that seemed impossible too. If it were tectonic movement, it would’ve caused an earthquake. And if it were an earthquake, there would’ve been more than just this one collapse.
As Wang Hao pondered in confusion, a water snake crawled out from the crevices of the rocks.
Wang Hao was quite surprised. Water snakes usually live near water, so on this barren mountain ridge without even a small stream, how could there be a water snake?
Curious, Wang Hao poked around in the crevice where the water snake had emerged and indeed, found a hole beneath the rock, a sizable cave...
