Staring at Inside Abyss Chapter 5

The snow was so heavy that it was almost impossible to walk on the narrow mountain road.

Tristan Lin was worried that Elara Ruan's body wouldn't be able to bear it, so he protected her all the way. Marley Xiao said nonchalantly from the side that your relationship is really good.

"Girls." Tristan Lin said, "It is always necessary to take more care of her."

Elara Ruan leaned against Tristan Lin weakly and glanced at Marley Xiao with a pitiful expression.

Marley Xiao looked away expressionlessly, looking very unfavorable to her.

Finally arriving at the place where the trees were cut down, everyone took action again. This time we chose two less thick trees and planned to cut them down in one go today. Although the weather was very cold, his body felt a little warm after cutting down trees for a while. Tristan Lin reached out to unbutton his coat and stood to rest for a while.

Elara Ruan leaned against the tree next to her, looking at Tristan Lin thoughtfully.

Tristan Lin glanced at her: "What are you looking at?"

Elara Ruan: "My B*tt is very perky..."

Tristan Lin was almost dodged by the ax in his hand. He turned his head and stared at Elara Ruan: "What did you say?"

Elara Ruan: "I didn't say anything. You heard me wrong."

Tristan Lin was full of suspicion.

Elara Ruan: "How about you repeat what I just said?"

Tristan Lin: ... This guy is just right. He's embarrassed, right?

The two of them chatted while cutting down trees, occasionally taking turns taking breaks with other men in the team. Before it was completely dark, they cut down two trees.

It was fine when cutting down the tree, but moving it became everyone's inner demon.

The two teammates who were crushed to death by the tree yesterday had been buried under the thick snow, but even if the bodies could not be seen, their miserable appearance was still vivid in my mind.

"I won't carry it anymore." Knox Xiong said, "Tie a rope around it and drag it away."

"Then who will drag it?" Zhang Zishuang asked.

Knox Xiong said: "The men were divided into two groups and dragged."

This method is very fair. Everyone is doing the same thing. If you die, it is simply your own bad luck and you can't blame others.

Tristan Lin didn't say much. He reached out and took the rope from Knox Xiong's hand. Following another teammate who didn't say much, he began to work hard to drag the heavy wood. Dragging wood on a narrow mountain road is more difficult than using a pole, but it is safe and will not cause the same accident as before.

Having learned from the past, everyone was very vigilant along the way. It was not until they left the mountain road and reached the door of the carpenter's house that everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Old man," Knox Xiong called, "we have sent the wood."

The sound of crunching wood inside the door stopped. After a moment, an old wrinkled face emerged from the crack in the door. The carpenter slowly pushed the door open and signaled them to send the wood in.

"Old man." Knox Xiong reached out and wiped the white snow foam on his face, "We have delivered the wood and will go to the temple to worship. Do you need to bring anything?"

The old man took a drag on the long cigarette stick in his hand, exhaled thick white smoke, and said vaguely: "Just take someone with you."

Knox Xiong frowned when he heard this.

"You have to go at night." The old man said. "After dark, enter the temple one by one and come out after praying."

Elara Ruan's expression changed slightly when she heard this request. Tristan Lin thought she would say something, but in the end she said nothing and just smiled subtly.

"Must we go in one by one?" Knox Xiong seemed to find this request a bit strange, "Can't we go in together?"

"Go in together?" The old man sneered, "You can try."

"Thank you." Knox Xiong didn't ask any more questions, turned around and greeted everyone to leave the carpenter's house.

Tristan Lin always felt that this man was strange. He asked, "Wouldn't anyone in the village lie to us?"

"Some do." Knox Xiong said, "But key figures generally don't lie. If the key clues they give us are wrong, then what else can we do?"

Just wait for death.

Tristan Lin said oh.

After everyone sent the wood to the carpenter, they returned to their residence, started a fire to keep warm, and discussed what to do next.

Elara Ruan said she wanted to go to the toilet and went out, but she didn't come back for a long time.

Tristan Lin waited for a while, and was really worried about her, so he ran out after her, but saw no one in the toilet. After looking around the house, he saw Elara Ruan sitting alone at the mouth of the well.

She seemed to have been sitting at the edge of the well for a while, and there was a layer of white snow on her body and head. Tristan Lin tentatively called her name, but Elara Ruan didn't seem to hear her and didn't even look back.

"Elara Ruan?" Tristan Lin walked towards her direction, "What are you doing? It's so cold outside."

"Don't move." Elara Ruan suddenly said.

Tristan Lin paused at his feet.

Elara Ruan said: "Don't come close to me." Her tone was extremely cold, without her usual gentleness, "Stay away from me."

Tristan Lin said, "What happened?" He was keenly aware that Elara Ruan's sudden change in attitude had a lot to do with the well next to her.

Elara Ruan shook her head and did not answer.

Tristan Lin boldly took two more steps towards Elara Ruan, reaching a distance where he could see the wellhead more clearly. It was okay not to look at it. After looking at it, Tristan Lin had goosebumps all over his body. He saw that the well mouth was covered with a layer of black things. At first, Tristan Lin thought it was water, but later he found that those things were slowly squirming. Only then did he confirm that he had seen it correctly - there was a pile of black hair inside the well mouth.

Elara Ruan's feet seemed to be entangled in the hair, and her body could not move at all.

"Don't come over, Tristan Lin." Elara Ruan said, "You will be dragged down together."

"It's okay." Tristan Lin's voice was soft. He was afraid that if he was too loud, he would disturb those black hair, "It's okay, don't be afraid, I'm here to help you."

Elara Ruan turned to look at Tristan Lin. Her eyes were no longer as tender as water before, and now turned into a bottomless lake. It was so dark that people were inexplicably scared. She said: "Why bother."

Tristan Lin said: "Wait for me for a while, hold on." He remembered something and ran towards the house.

Knox Xiong, who was sitting in the living room, saw Tristan Lin running wildly and asked him suspiciously what happened, but Tristan Lin ignored him and went straight to the kitchen.

When he got to the kitchen, he picked up a few pieces of firewood, quickly lit them with flints, then turned around and ran outside the house.

In just a few minutes, it seemed like centuries had passed. Tristan Lin's hands couldn't help but tremble when he lit the fire. He was afraid that when he returned to the edge of the well, there would be only an empty well left there.

Fortunately, when he came back with the torch, Elara Ruan was still sitting there.

"I'm back." Tristan Lin panted, "I'll come over later and throw the fire into the well. You grab my hand... don't let go."

Elara Ruan: "Aren't you afraid?"

Tristan Lin was stunned: "What are you afraid of?"

Elara Ruan said: "Of course I'm afraid of death."

Tristan Lin smiled: "Who is not afraid of death? But there is always something more terrifying than death." Although he still had some doubts about the world, he could still feel that Elara Ruan had saved him several times. If it weren't for Elara Ruan, he might have been one of the bloody corpses on the first night.

"Okay, I'm coming over." Tristan Lin was afraid that Elara Ruan would be exhausted if he delayed for a long time, so he moved his steps slowly and walked towards Elara Ruan.

When he was close enough, he grabbed Elara Ruan's hand, and then threw the torch in his hand into the tumbling hair.

"Ah------" A shrill scream, a woman's voice came from the mouth of the well. The hair was ignited by the fire and began to squirm violently. In a daze, Tristan Lin actually saw a picture in the well. Pale face. Although it was only for a moment, Tristan Lin still recognized this face that he had seen in the house before. It was the appearance of the female ghost who disguised herself as Elara Ruan's voice that night.

"Run!!" As soon as the hair on Elara Ruan's feet broke, Tristan Lin pulled her and started running.

Elara Ruan didn't resist. Following Tristan Lin's actions, the two of them rushed into the room, panting frantically.

"What's wrong?" Everyone in the room was surprised.

"There is something in the well..." Tristan Lin gasped, "Everyone, stay away from the well. Bai Jie was almost pulled down just now." After he finished speaking, he turned to look at Bai Jie and asked her if she was there. Injuried.

"No." Elara Ruan said, "I'm fine."

Hearing this, Tristan Lin cast his gaze at her feet, but saw a circle of blood-red traces wrapped around Elara Ruan's ankle, and blood was slowly dripping down. He said, "Is this okay? You sit down quickly. Come on, let me bandage it for you."

Elara Ruan seemed to realize that she was injured belatedly. She tilted her head, and finally listened to Tristan Lin's words and sat on the chair obediently.

Tristan Lin found the wound medicine in the house, half-knelt in front of Elara Ruan, let her feet rest on his knees, and began to slowly treat the wound. His movements were very gentle and serious, as if he was worried about hurting Elara Ruan.

"Are you so cautious around girls?" Elara Ruan suddenly asked.

"What does this have to do with girls?" Tristan Lin replied casually, "Even if you are a man, could I be rough with you?"

Elara Ruan: "Well..."

Lin Qiu Shi said casually: "You can't really be a man, you are so tall and your chest is so flat." However, Elara Ruan is indeed beautiful, at least Lin Qiu Shi does not believe that there is a man like this in the world.

"Yes." Elara Ruan sighed, "My breasts are not as big as yours."

Tristan Lin: ...

Elara Ruan added: "You don't have a raised B*tt either."

Tristan Lin: "...Why do you talk so much?"

Elara Ruan chuckled.

Tristan Lin helped Elara Ruan take care of the wound, and then told Knox Xiong and the others what had just happened. The others' reactions were okay, but Knox Xiong and Marley Xiao's expressions were not so good. Apparently they remembered what the old man told them about the last step of making a coffin - filling the well.

What is the relationship between coffins and wells? Is it a custom unique to this village or a trap set by the carpenter for them.

Elara Ruan seemed to know what Knox Xiong was thinking, and said with a smile: "Don't think so much, what to do, how to do it, things like fate are all determined."

Knox Xiong sighed slightly: "We plan to go to the temple tonight. Do you want to come with us?"

"Me?" Elara Ruan said, "My foot is injured and I can't walk. Qiu Shi, please carry me."

Tristan Lin nodded.

Marley Xiao said from the side: "Why can't you walk with just such a slight injury?"

Elara Ruan wasn't angry when she heard this, she just smiled sweetly and said, "Miss, please be more tolerant. I'm a spoiled child at home, so naturally I'm a bit more spoiled when I get out."

Marley Xiao said: "You just keep tossing about Tristan Lin's good temper. No one in this world knows who he is, so why should he spoil you?"

"Oh, I thought you and Knox Xiong knew each other." Elara Ruan said calmly.

Who knew that as soon as these words came out, the expressions of Marley Xiao and Knox Xiong changed, and their eyes became even more wary.

Tristan Lin instantly felt the change in the atmosphere.

"What do you mean?" Marley Xiao asked.

"It's not interesting." Elara Ruan said, "I just think you two have a good relationship...do you really know each other?"

"How is that possible?" Marley Xiao looked very uncomfortable.

Elara Ruan smiled but did not continue the topic.

Of course, Marley Xiao didn't hold on to Elara Ruan. She didn't stop Elara Ruan from letting Tristan Lin carry her to the temple, and turned around and left with a serious expression.