Cave Refuge-Chapter 259 - 255: The Reason for Death in the Previous Life_1

Chapter 259: Chapter 255: The Reason for Death in the Previous Life_1

The matter Ye Liuyun was talking about wouldn’t be a big deal in other times. After all, it’s only six or seven hours’ journey from Pengcheng to Yutai. Even if there were countless roadblocks, it would only delay them a couple of days at most.

But in a few days, it will be the day he died in his previous life. Dong Tianyu intended to visit the place where he died in his previous life to see if he could find out the cause of his past life’s death.

Although there was plenty of time to return if everything went smoothly, what if things didn’t go well? If he didn’t make it back in time, Dong Tianyu might agonize over it for the rest of his life.

"When did you arrange to pick up the car?"

Hearing Dong Tianyu’s question, Ye Liuyun thought Dong Tianyu had decided to help and happily said to him, "The sooner the better. If it’s convenient for you, we can leave tomorrow.

Besides me, there will be a team of special forces members on leave for safety purposes. They will all carry weapons, so there’s no need to worry about safety on the road."

"Can it be delayed for a few days?"

Hearing Dong Tianyu’s question, Ye Liuyun knew that Dong Tianyu had something to do recently and understood it was better to quickly finalize such transactions. The longer it dragged on, the more changes could occur.

So Ye Liuyun didn’t say much else. He just disappointedly said, "Probably not, it’s fine, I will ask others for help; if there’s really no other way, I will borrow a modified vehicle."

Perhaps Ye Liuyun was somewhat anxious at the moment. Upon receiving a definitive response from Dong Tianyu, he immediately stood up and excused himself.

Watching Ye Liuyun’s departing figure, Dong Tianyu also felt a bit sentimental.

In his storage space, there were actually a few cars left over from when he was choosing vehicles to transform into magic artifacts. These cars were still in good condition, the electronic devices inside just needed fixing; the repairs were relatively simple.

Ye Liuyun could borrow a modified vehicle elsewhere. The reason he didn’t trust a modified vehicle was that he planned to only bring one vehicle on this trip. If a problem arose with the modified car on the way back, that would be fine, but if a problem arose on the way there, causing the car to break down in the middle of nowhere, that would be a real dilemma.

So when he saw Ye Liuyun standing up to leave, Dong Tianyu did not retain him and tell him that there were vehicles here that just needed some repair to be usable again.

As the day draws nearer, Dong Tianyu’s heart was filled with increasing anxiety.

There was no doubt that his past-life death was not a suicide, and it was highly unlikely to be an accident.

Back then, he was just an ordinary person. Who would kill him for any reason?

With these doubts in mind, Dong Tianyu arrived a couple of days earlier at a building not far from the place of his past-life death. Even though there was some distance between this place and the place where he had died.

But from this location, Dong Tianyu’s Divine Sense could just cover all areas from the nearest exit of the Refuge Center to this location. If any problem arose, it definitely couldn’t escape his full-range Divine Sense monitoring. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Although the outside seemed unchanged, Dong Tianyu knew a new day had come. Today was the day he died in his previous life.

Because he was just an ordinary member in his last life, he didn’t know the time back then. He just heard the work bell ringing in the Refuge Center and went out with other members of the search team to look for valuable supplies.

In this life, because of Dong Tianyu’s presence, the survivors in Pengcheng moved out of the Refuge Center after the severe heat disaster had ended. Therefore, there were no survivors left in the Refuge Center closest to them.

The supply search team Dong Tianyu had once joined therefore had not been established.

So theoretically, no one should be idling around here today. Whoever comes here must have a direct or indirect relationship with Dong Tianyu’s death in his previous life.

Of course, there’s another high probability that because no one will come here again, the murderer who killed Dong Tianyu in his previous life won’t appear here either.

At this moment, Dong Tianyu couldn’t bear it and used his Divine Sense to directly cover this area. Though it was somewhat wasteful, for the doubts in his heart, he didn’t mind this waste.

In Dong Tianyu’s calm waiting, no one else has appeared in this area. As the outside was always shrouded in darkness, Dong Tianyu, who didn’t check the time, didn’t know how long he had been waiting here.

Just as Dong Tianyu was preparing to get up and not continue wasting time in this place, a small stone on the ground of the street moved suddenly.

It was this sudden roll of the stone that made Dong Tianyu sense the abnormality in this place.

Although Dong Tianyu couldn’t articulate why he felt there was something wrong with this place, it didn’t stop him from trusting his sixth sense.

Therefore, Dong Tianyu merely adjusted his posture and then once again fell into silence.

If the quality of the image in his Divine Sense was 480 previously, now when Dong Tianyu concentrated, the image reflected in his Divine Sense immediately rose to 1080. He could clearly see the trace left on the ground by the rolling stone in his mind.

He didn’t know how long had passed again, the outside environment was still lonely as always, as if no matter how long Dong Tianyu waited, there wouldn’t be any changes here.

After an unknown amount of time had passed, the outside environment was still the same as before. Dong Tianyu, who was somewhat unwilling to give up, took out a live chicken from the Cave and threw it onto the street.

The rooster, suddenly hurled into the air, was somewhat panicked. As it flapped its wings in an attempt to alight, it incurred some injuries, and in its terror, it eventually let out a startled cry.

In the stifling silence of the surroundings, the cry traveled far and wide.

Not long after, the rooster eventually managed to land on the ground, steadying itself amidst frantic flaps of its wings.

The encompassing darkness made the rooster incredibly fearful, its two claws anxiously scratching at the ground.

However, the ground was cemented and after a prolonged attempt, the rooster claw couldn’t dig a pit.

Maybe due to the persistence of darkness, the normally active rooster gradually quieted down and then slowly sat on the ground as if preparing to hibernate.

Just as Dong Tianyu was about to stir the rooster with something for the purpose of keeping it active, he suddenly found that the rooster lying on the ground lost its life. Under the watchful gaze of his Divine Sense, it had unwittingly died.

This creepy situation made Dong Tianyu somewhat afraid. Why would the rooster die? Was it a ghost or something else?

While Dong Tianyu was still guessing about the cause of the rooster’s death, he suddenly noticed that the feathers on the surface of the rooster were quickly falling out, and the chicken meat was also disappearing little by little. And when Dong Tianyu assumed that only the feathers and the skeleton would remain in the end.

Even those feathers and skeleton were slowly being decomposed and eventually disappeared completely.

Seeing this eerie scene, Tianyu was a mix of fear and joy.

Of course, fear needs no explanation, as this was the way he, himself, inexplicably died in his past life. Even now, he still doesn’t know precisely how the rooster had died just a moment ago.

The joy was that he had discovered a clue to his own death in the past life. Although the reason is still unclear, at least a direction has been found. With a few more experiments, he would eventually find the true cause of death in his previous life.

Reluctant to give up, Dong Tianyu fetched another live chicken from the cave, but this time Dong Tianyu learned his lesson. He found a bottle of invisible liquid and poured it into the chicken’s stomach.

Putting on gloves, he then massaged the live chicken with the invisible liquid.

The invisibility liquid is not the kind used in films or television that grants invisibility upon application.

It is actually a sort of cheating tool used in gambling. The liquid is colorless and appears just like clear water under the normal human eye.

But if you put on specific glasses, even in the dark of night, you could clearly see the things smeared with such liquid.

Under normal circumstances, cheating gamblers would write on the back of poker or mahjong tiles with this liquid. After wearing the glasses during the game, they could instantly see the cards held by others.

This time, feeding the live chicken with the invisibility liquid was intended to understand why the chicken’s body disappeared after death.

Dong Tianyu again threw the chicken onto the street, but this time he didn’t rely on Divine Sense. Instead, he stood by the window of the room, wearing special glasses, observing every move of the chicken on the street.

From Dong Tianyu’s perspective, the surroundings were still pitch black, but there was a bright light group on the distant street.

Perhaps due to the experience of the last time, the survival time of this chicken had significantly reduced, and it eventually fell to the ground.

Just as Dong Tianyu was wondering why the light mass representing the chicken was not moving.

Suddenly, specks of light appeared around the chicken. It seemed to form several lines, twisting and turning in one direction, and eventually disappearing from sight.

The disappearance of fluorescence from the vision could only mean one thing; it was being obscured by something. According to his Divine Sense, the position of the vanished fluorescence was a manhole cover.

At this point, Dong Tianyu had a suspicion about what he was seeing. After multiple observations with his Divine Sense, he finally confirmed his suspicion as being correct.

Perhaps many people have seen ants moving house on television or in reality. When Dong Tianyu concentrated and forcefully upgraded the image feedback from his Divine Sense from 1080 to blu-ray high definition.

Only then, Dong Tianyu discovered the true culprit behind the deaths of the two chickens.

At this moment, a heap of bugs, similar in size to ants, were crowding over the deceased chicken’s body, rapidly feasting and decomposing it. As each piece of meat was torn off, the bug would leave the chicken’s body, following those before it, transporting the torn piece of meat back.

These little creatures were so tiny that Dong Tianyu had to use his Divine Sense like a high-powered telescope. In a normal mode, it was easy to see distant pedestrians.

But if he wanted to see bugs on the ground, normal mode wasn’t enough. He had to use the precision mode.

However, when this mode is switched on, even though the telescope could see finer things, the field of vision would drastically reduce at the same time.