Chapter 182: The Cliff

With a jolt, Lü Yang fully woke up, feeling even colder all over.

He was completely naked… no wonder he felt cold!

Did Lin Yin have sleepwalking habits? Did she leave the Mountain Peak Hotel in the middle of the night and come all the way here?

Where were his clothes? At least underwear or panties should have been on! How could he be stripped bare?

What was this place?

Just as Lü Yang was about to get up from the pit, he saw a naked person who looked like a dried corpse walk past above the rectangular pit. He was so frightened that he quickly held his breath and stayed completely still at the bottom of the pit.

That dried corpse-like person still heard some noise and lowered its head, tilting its head to ‘listen’ around. Perhaps finding nothing unusual, it continued walking in its original direction.

Lü Yang waited a long time. Listening to the sounds, he guessed that the monster, which was neither human nor ghost, seemed to have gone far away. Only then did he sit up in the rectangular pit and carefully look around. He noticed a square, dark object standing in front of the pit.

After struggling to adjust to the darkness, Lü Yang climbed out of the pit, went around to the front of the square object, reached out to touch it, and then examined it closely…

Oh my god! It was actually a tombstone!

Lü Yang straightened up abruptly and scanned the surroundings again. In the pouring rain, a flash of lightning lit up, followed by a sudden clap of thunder that exploded across the sky, illuminating the area around Lü Yang as bright as day, finally allowing him to see clearly where he was.

Rows upon rows of tombstones, and behind each tombstone was a rectangular coffin pit! Lü Yang had just been lying in one of those coffin pits!

This was actually a cemetery!

Lü Yang felt a wave of terror. In the middle of the night, during such a heavy torrential rain, how did he end up in a cemetery? And lying naked in a coffin pit? Was this some kind of cruel joke?

Beside the coffin pit where Lü Yang was, there were several round-headed iron shovels. He remembered that during his first encounter in the Qingyuan Residential Area’s Mysterious Domain, he had used an iron shovel as a weapon to kill a porter. In the middle of the night, suddenly thrown here, having a weapon was necessary.

Lü Yang first chose the largest and heaviest iron shovel but found that after struggling to lift it, he couldn’t swing it at all… Lin Yin’s strength was too weak!

Reluctantly, Lü Yang chose the smallest one among them. Even so, this iron shovel was still a bit too heavy for Lin Yin.

Lü Yang tested the iron shovel on the ground and found it was practically brand new, very sharp, and could easily scoop up soil from the ground. If that was the case, it should be no problem to chop off a person’s head.

After selecting the iron shovel, Lü Yang carefully made his way toward the edge of the cemetery. A few minutes later, he finally reached near the cemetery’s boundary. Another flash of lightning lit up, followed immediately by a loud clap of thunder.

This flash of lightning allowed Lü Yang to see clearly that the edge of the cemetery was actually a cliff! If he took one more step forward, he would plunge straight down!

Damn!

Don’t panic, stay calm! Stay calm!

Standing at the edge of the cemetery, having slightly adapted to the darkness, Lü Yang took a long time to figure out where he actually was.

On the cliff hill behind Mountain Peak Village! The Mountain Peak Village cemetery that the tour guide mentioned during the day!

This was so ridiculous! How did he end up here? Even if Lin Yin was sleepwalking, she couldn’t have wandered this far, could she?

Lü Yang closed his eyes. The screen of the Eerie Computer was clearly visible in his vision.

The Eerie Cards could be used!

This wasn’t the Mysterious Domain!?

When Lü Yang opened his eyes, another flash of lightning lit up. The lightning illuminated the entire Mountain Peak Village below the cliff hill… Lü Yang happened to be looking right at the whole village… and he saw a very strange scene.

Under the lightning’s illumination, the entire Mountain Peak Village, from Lü Yang’s perspective, looked like a huge human face.

The nearly oval outer wall of Mountain Peak Village resembled the outline of the face. The several large buildings facing the entrance sketched out the eyebrows and two eyes of the face. The series of large buildings in the center of the village outlined the nose. The rows of houses near the Ancestral Hall formed a strange arc that tilted slightly upward, making it look from Lü Yang’s viewpoint as if the whole face was smiling!

Due to the interplay of light and shadow and the angle of observation, the face even appeared three-dimensional.

Thunderstorm, the middle of the night, the Mountaintop Demon’s smile… did it come from here?

It seemed that before him, someone else had come here in the middle of the night and seen the Mountaintop Demon’s smile, hence the legend.

Legends aside, being alone in a cemetery in the middle of the night with thunder and torrential rain, no matter how brave Lü Yang was, he felt deeply unsettled now.

He had to find a way down quickly.

If this wasn’t a dream or the Mysterious Domain, then he needed to figure out how he got here and hurry back to the hotel.

Just as Lü Yang was looking for a way down, he suddenly sensed movement behind him and quickly turned around.

A figure seemed to be running deeper into the cemetery. The rain was too heavy, and the light was too dim to see clearly, so he couldn’t tell if it was even human.

Groping his way, Lü Yang finally found a path down after more than ten minutes. Although it was called a path, the slope was quite steep—gentler parts were at 40-50 degrees, while steeper sections were 60-70 degrees! Combined with the rain, the slope was very slippery and didn’t look easy to navigate.

Lü Yang threw the iron shovel down first, then used his hands and feet to crawl backward down the slope.

Although Lü Yang was very careful, after covering more than half the distance, he lost control. His foot got caught on something, and he tumbled directly down the slope.

Fortunately, the cliff wasn’t very high, only a few dozen meters. The place where Lü Yang fell was about 16-17 meters above the ground, and since he rolled down a smooth slope, he ended up in a one-meter-deep water pond. Although his naked body suffered over a dozen cuts and scrapes, which were very painful, he managed to stand up from the water pond, indicating that no bones were broken.

His chest hurt badly… Lü Yang found that the breasts on his chest were badly scraped.

Damn! Having two extra lumps of flesh compared to a man really brought no good!

Yinyin, if any scars are left here… I… I really didn’t mean it!

Looking at these breasts, Lü Yang felt that something wasn’t quite right… but he couldn’t put his finger on it for now.

Feeling around the bottom of the water pond, he retrieved the iron shovel. Barefoot, Lü Yang straightened up and carefully stepped out of the water pond, climbing onto a high rock nearby to observe the surroundings again.

Oh no! Not far away, there was a narrow stone staircase that probably led directly up the hill. But because his view had been blocked earlier while on the hill, he hadn’t seen it and ended up choosing to roll down the slope instead.

Not far ahead at the foot of the hill was the back gate of Mountain Peak Village. Mountain Peak Village was built with its back against the cliff hill where the cemetery was located. To return to the Mountain Peak Hotel, he had to pass through Mountain Peak Village.

Although Mountain Peak Village didn’t seem very large during the day—only about a thousand meters in diameter—now, in the middle of the night, with torrential rain, barefoot, completely naked, and stuck in a weak girl’s body, crossing this overgrown village seemed quite…

His only reliance was using the Eerie Cards if he encountered danger.

The stone wall near the back gate of Mountain Peak Village had collapsed in one section, so entering the village wasn’t a big problem for Lü Yang; he didn’t necessarily have to use the back gate. But just as he was crossing a patch of wild grass and preparing to step over the broken wall into the village, several terrifying, piercing screams suddenly came from inside the village—as if someone had seen or was experiencing something extremely horrifying.

It wasn’t just one person screaming; it seemed like several people were screaming! Men, women…

Lü Yang couldn’t help but stop and grip the iron shovel tightly. Originally, he had been sleeping peacefully in the hotel in the middle of the night, only to wake up and find himself lying naked in a cemetery coffin pit—that was already very strange. And now, as he tried to cross Mountain Peak Village to return to the hotel, he heard these screams, making him feel even more apprehensive.

What was more frustrating was that he wasn’t in his own body. Lin Yin’s weak body couldn’t even fight a ghost, let alone a normal ordinary man.

Being naked, if someone tried to rape him, that would be utterly humiliating!

The screams lasted only a short while before stopping, and then no more sounds were heard, though the rain never let up. Lü Yang thought to himself that staying here definitely wasn’t an option; he had to cross Mountain Peak Village and return to the Mountain Peak Hotel. If nothing else, there wasn’t even a place to shelter from the rain here.

Lü Yang stepped over the broken wall at the back of Mountain Peak Village. While observing his surroundings, he leaned on the iron shovel, taking careful, slow steps through the uneven ground. The torrential rain drenched him all over, and combined with the mountain wind, he felt extremely cold. His skin had turned icy cold all over. If he couldn’t get back to the Mountain Peak Hotel soon, he might freeze to death here.

But walking barefoot was really slow, and his feet were already covered in injuries.

Not to mention the pain in his chest from the breasts, they also added extra weight. This body already had little strength, and now it had to carry several extra pounds of flesh. Damn, damn, damn! What a mess…

Following the old stone path, Lü Yang struggled ahead for about half an hour. Although he kept observing left and right, the journey was very quiet, and he encountered nothing.

A little further ahead was the location of the Ancestral Hall in Mountain Peak Village. Just then, Lü Yang suddenly felt like he had stepped on something soft. He quickly crouched down to look at the ground.

Damn, damn, damn! It was actually a corpse