Time Travel: The Survival of Li Zhi

Chapter 148: Alarming the Snake

Li Zhi frowned, his eyes were solemn, and he kept thinking about various possibilities in his mind, but his thoughts were tangled like a tangled mess. Every assumption was accompanied by unpredictable risks, and every decision could lead to irreversible consequences.

This made him think for a long time, but he still couldn't come up with a comprehensive solution.

At this moment, he suddenly thought of Huangshi. As the saying goes, one person's plan is short, two people's plan is long.

Although Huang Shi is just a mortal, perhaps he can look at this problem from a different perspective and give Li Zhixin some inspiration and ideas.

So, without hesitation, he turned around and ran back, straight towards Huangshi's house.

When Li Zhi sent Huang Shi back just now, he did not lock the door for Huang Shi. Now it was convenient for him. He directly pushed open the door of Huang Shi's house and hurried into Huang Shi's house.

Looking at Huang Shi who was still sleeping soundly on the bed, Li Zhi attacked without any mercy. He grabbed Huang Shi's shoulders and shook him frantically.

The sudden shaking woke Huangshi up, and a confused and helpless expression appeared on his face.

He reached out and rubbed his eyes, looking at the anxious Li Zhi in front of him, confused for a moment.

Before he could come to his senses, he heard Li Zhi talking in a flurry of voices.

Li Zhi's words came out like a string of cannonballs, talking about what he had just encountered.

As Li Zhi spoke, Huang Shi's expression gradually changed from confusion to seriousness. He listened to Li Zhi attentively, with a thoughtful gleam in his eyes.

Although what Li Zhi described was extremely bizarre, with schools of fish crawling onto the shore to absorb evil spirits and clay men moving through the mountains and into caves, Huangshi listened with great seriousness, nodding from time to time.

After Li Zhi finished speaking, Huang Shi said, "So your problem now is to enter the cave without alarming the stone god, right?"

"That's right!" Li Zhi nodded in response.

Huangshi didn't say anything, but shook his head, stood up, and walked slowly to the table nearby.

He took out a copper coin from his pocket, then picked up the teacup on the table, covered the copper coin with it, and turned it upside down on the table.

Then he looked at Li Zhi and said, "How can you take out this copper coin without touching this teacup?"

Li Zhi frowned and said with some dissatisfaction: "I came here to solve your problem, not for you to cause me problems!"

Huang Shi smiled helplessly and said, "This is the same problem you raised. It is an unsolvable problem. Unless you know how to pass through walls, how can you enter the cave without disturbing the restrictions?"

Li Zhi showed a hint of disappointment in his eyes, and he murmured: "Is there really no other way?"

It was right in front of him, but he felt powerless, which made him feel discouraged.

But he heard Huangshi ask again: "Why do you have to go into that cave?"

"Of course I want to go in and take a look at the Stone God's situation..."

However, before Li Zhi could finish his words, he was interrupted by Huang Shi, who asked, "Then why can't we lure him out?"

Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, then said, "What if we alert the enemy?"

Huang Shi laughed instead, with a bright and confident smile. He said, "Beating the grass doesn't necessarily mean scaring off the snake, it can also mean...luring the snake out of its hole!"

 …

At noon the next day, the midday sun shone on Huaishan Mountain, illuminating the sky and the earth.

A thin man walked into Huaishan alone, and his figure gradually disappeared into the quiet forest.

The man looked like a charlatan, holding an old compass in his hand. The needle on the compass moved along with him, as if guiding him in the direction.

The man moved carefully through the Huaishan Mountains, stopping from time to time to look at the compass and then carefully observe the surrounding environment.

Just like that, as the man walked and stopped, he seemed to have accidentally arrived at the cave where the clay man had been before.

The man looked at the compass in his hand, then looked around and suddenly exclaimed in surprise.

"I didn't expect to find such a good place. It seems that the younger generation of the Li family is blessed!"

A look of surprise appeared on the man's face, and he walked towards the cave seemingly intentionally or unintentionally. His steps were steady, and although he walked left and right, he was getting closer and closer to the cave.

However, what he didn't know was that right under his feet, there was a pair of eyes sticking out from the ground, staring at him, as if monitoring him.

Those eyes were expressionless, cold and ruthless, like cold stones, and they seemed not to be the eyes of a living creature. That empty gaze was chilling.

But that person seemed not to notice at all, he just kept walking forward.

At this moment, the man who was about to walk to the entrance of the cave suddenly stopped. Then, he took out a red cloth from behind him and quickly tied it to a tree trunk beside him.

He pulled the red cloth and tied it tightly, then said to himself, "Okay, let's do it here. Let the Li family come here to start construction tomorrow."

After saying this, he dusted off his hands, turned around and left.

After he left, the pair of eyes that stretched out from the ground slowly shrank back into the ground.

As the pair of grim eyes disappeared, the atmosphere around them seemed to become lighter.

It seemed as if nothing had happened in the silent forest, except for the red strip of cloth gently fluttering in the wind, which became a touch of bright color in the silent forest.

 …

In the deep and dark cave, it was so quiet that even the air seemed to be frozen.

Suddenly, the pair of grim eyes that were staring at the charlatan outside the cave suddenly jumped out of the cave. The eyes flashed with strange light and blinked straight at a blurry figure sitting on the stage.

It seemed to be conveying some message to that person.

"hehe..."

The figure let out a low and hoarse laugh, which echoed in the empty cave.

"A mortal? Is it a coincidence, or... a test?" the figure muttered to himself.

He waved his hands, and the ground beside him made a crisp "crack, crack" sound, as if some huge force was surging underground.

I saw the originally flat ground suddenly bulge and crack, and the hideous cracks spread rapidly like a spider web.

Then, a clay figure emerged from the ground. Its movements were stiff and mechanical, but it seemed to contain enormous power. The solid ground seemed as fragile as tofu in his hands.

The clay man dug up the ground and came out. Then, covered in mud, he walked straight to the figure sitting on the stage and bowed his head respectfully.

Then I heard the figure on the stage say: "Go kill that man..."

The clay figure nodded stiffly and mechanically, and his movements seemed extremely dull.

Then, it walked out of the cave step by step with heavy steps.

Only the figure in the cave remained, continuing to be immersed in endless contemplation.