Chapter 706: 706
Boom!
The stone wall collapsed with a boom, and a beam of light entered Xia Lei’s field of vision . Then, a breeze blew past his cheeks . There was a small cavern behind the stone wall, about 50 metres long . The light and wind were coming from the cavern’s entrance .
This cavern looked like a reinforced doghole .
Xia Lei smiled wryly and braced himself as he climbed in . Climbing into this doghole was bound to be better than turning back . He didn’t want to return to that maze ever again .
Xia Lei crawled for a full thirty minutes before he got to the mouth of the cavern .
An ancient church sat underneath the precipice at the mouth of the cavern . It was very similar to the church that Ning Jing had drawn . The only differences were that it seemed shabbier and more decayed from the vicissitudes of time . Other than that, it was exactly the same as the church that the old man had described .
Xia Lei realised that he had actually passed through the mountain through the maze, and gotten to the other side of the mountain . The church was right in the valley of the mountain, and there was a village further away, with seemingly no people in it .
Xia Lei looked away and glanced at the watch on his wrist, and realised he had actually been in the maze for three hours .
Ring, ring, ring . . .
His phone suddenly started ringing .
There hadn’t been any phone signal in the maze, but there was a signal now .
Xia Lei took his satellite phone out and answered it . “It’s me . Speak . ”
Yelena’s voice came from over the line . “Boss, where are you? I called you 20 times, but you only pick up now . ”
He had randomly disappeared for three hours, so of course the Zodiac team members were anxious, and did something about it .
“I’m fine,” said Xia Lei a little apologetically .
“As long as you’re fine, that’s good . We would have gotten ready to burn that place up if I didn’t get hold of you,” said Yelena .
‘That place’ clearly referred to the fake grave that Xia Lei had dug up .
“I’ve already left . Put the dirt back, and I’ll meet up with you guys immediately,” said Xia Lei .
“Mm . ” Yelena made a sound of agreement and hung up .
Xia Lei put his satellite phone away and climbed out of the small hole . He carefully grasped the gaps in the rock and moved down the precipice, little by little .
The precipice was about a hundred meters high, almost perpendicular to the ground . It was completely made out of pieces upon pieces of rock and completely bare, without a single tree or weed . A monkey wouldn’t even visit this place, not to mention a human .
Climbing on such a high and vertically positioned precipice was extremely dangerous, especially without taking any safety measures . However, although it was dangerous, Xia Lei quickly adapted to it . His left eye helped him to get over his fear of heights . His body was more coordinated and sturdy than the average person’s body, and he easily executed movements which ordinary people wouldn’t have been able to do . In addition, his experiences learning martial arts made him very strong, and even if he didn’t move, he could support his body weight just using his inner force and his muscles’ strength, and thus move around sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces easily .
With these advantages, Xia Lei only needed fifteen minutes to finish what a rock climbing professional athlete would finish in an hour . After fifteen minutes, he stood on the ground underneath the precipice . He looked up to see that the small cave mouth had already been covered by layers of rock, and even his X-ray vision couldn’t tell it existed .
This was probably also one of the reasons why no one had discovered the maze even though it had existed for a hundred years .
Xia Lei stopped using his X-ray vision and walked around the outside walls of the church, heading towards the entrance of the valley .
The church walls had collapsed in many areas . Even without X-ray vision, he could see into the inside of the church . He saw a patch of wasteland when he passed the first gap . That wasteland had probably been a place for growing plants in the past, but now it was full of weeds . The main part of the church also seemed very shabby, and most of the doors and windows were broken . Through the broken doors and windows, one could see the inside of the church . It didn’t feel divine at all — just ruined .
‘No one comes to this church anymore, clearly . I wonder why it was abandoned,’ thought Xia Lei .
Ding!
A muffled sound of a bell suddenly came from the direction of the church belltower .
Xia Lei suddenly thought of the elderly couple asking for directions . This church had been abandoned a long time ago, so the elderly couple were the only ones who could have been sounding the bell now . Sure enough, after walking a little further, he saw the clocktower and he immediately spotted the white-haired old man and old woman on top of the belltower .
The afternoon sunlight fell onto the ancient belltower and the two old people with graying hair . This scene made one have thoughts about life, and a certain feeling of heaviness .
But even faith wouldn’t stop people from dying of sickness or old age .
If a God really existed in this world, why was he just watching this world get uglier and uglier? Would he forgive those who started wars in his name and harm believers or other faiths?
Ding!
Another bell sound echoed .
A small smile appeared in the corners of Xia Lei’s lips . ‘Who would accompany me to temples to ring bells when I’m old? Long Bing? Ruyi? Or…?’
A light suddenly shot into Xia Lei’s left eye and his thoughts were halted .
His body suddenly fell forward, almost exactly at the same time as when his left eye saw the light . Right when his body hit the ground, a piece of rock behind him exploded with a shower of sparks!
A sniper!
He was a hundred metres away!
The shot had come from the east .
The sniper was hidden on the steeple of the church hall .
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