Chapter 513 Dried Fish
Between Xia Qingqing and I talking, the corridor in front of me began to gradually open, looking like a constantly opening horn, gradually leading to a large cave, Xia Qingqing said behind me: "Wang Huan, look at the walls on both sides......"
"What I saw was that the wall had been blown open. "I have long been aware of the walls on both sides of the corridor, and there must have been a very fierce battle here, and it seems that some force has bombarded the corridor walls many times in a row before it causes this gradual opening up.
Xia Qingqing said softly: "I don't mean the wall, I mean the ...... over there."
As I looked in the direction of Natsu's light finger, my gaze stopped at a hole the size of a fist.
I walked to the wall in a few steps and struck twice with my dagger around the hole, and the loess immediately fell, and a sealed iron door gradually appeared behind the clods.
The iron gate embedded in the wall has long been sealed with loess outside, looking at the thickness of the loess, the people who sealed the door almost built a wall outside the door. If it weren't for someone who kept digging out of the half-foot square ventilation hole in the middle of the door and cutting a hole in the wall, we wouldn't have found another mystery behind the wall.
I took a flashlight from Xia Qingqing and shone it into the door, and there was only a narrow iron box like a coffin in the wall, which at first glance looked like a drawer that had been pushed into the wall.
In fact, it was a cell, and there was only one scattered skeleton in the entire cell.
The space in the cell, except for the ability to turn people from side to side, does not even leave a place to relieve their hands.
I don't know how a prisoner in a cell can live in such a small place. But it can be seen that the deceased should have struggled desperately for a long time before his death, and even planned to dig a passage for escape in the wall.
It's just that he was suffocated to death in his cell before he could find a life, otherwise his hand bones would not have been broken out of the body.
I just wanted to turn around and leave, but I changed my mind again, took out the Heavenly Treasure Knife, and cut the lock on the outside of the iron gate twice in a row, and opened the prison and pulled out a Qing Dynasty official robe embroidered with winged tigers from inside.
"Six-rank military attaché?" I couldn't help frowning, the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty was divided by the pattern on the complement, "Biao" represents the six-rank military attaché, and the six-rank civil official complement is embroidered with a heron.
I quickly shone my flashlight into the cell, and sure enough, there was still a codex there, but the codex, which was simply wrapped in oiled paper, was already unrecognizable. Most of the content has been blurred, and all that can be seen is a few lines of handwriting: Ben Guan...... Iron ...... Rush to the Sea of Stars......
My face changed suddenly: Tie Qing told me about his past life and this life, he always suspected that he died in this cave in his previous life, and it was only his reincarnation that went out, this Qing Dynasty military attache is also called Tie Qing?
I quickly reached out and pulled out the bones of the corpse: "Count his fingers for me......"
"Nine...... Ten...... Eleven" Xia said lightly: "The deceased has a hand with six fingers. ”
"Is it really Tieqing?" When I was in Jianchi, I asked the fox mother to help check the information of Tieqing. Tie Qing was born with six fingers, and later cut off a finger in the Ghostless Sect - people with six fingers can't enter the door, which will affect the flexibility of the fingers.
When I met Tie Qing in the Sea of Stars, I also looked at his right hand, and there was indeed a scar on the edge of his palm.
I haven't studied the legend of reincarnation carefully, but I've heard the elders say that people's appearance is determined by heaven, even if they are reincarnated, they are still exactly the same, and what they looked like in their previous lives and what they are in this life will definitely not change.
I held a pile of finger bones and was silent for a long time before I looked up and said, "Go back and find Tieqing's corpse." ”
Before I could finish speaking, there was a bang on the wall of the corridor.
A prison cell embedded in the wall was blasted open from the inside out, and the clods of earth on the wall roared and flew under the bombardment of the cell door.
As soon as I was in shape, cracks began to appear in the wall one after another, and countless clods of earth flew down like torrential rain.
When pieces of rubble fell into the water, the doors of the iron prisons were opened, and the blood inside the cells protruded, as if something could break out of the prison at any time with its eyes open.
I paused for only a second, then pulled Xia Qingqing and rushed towards the front of the road.
Now, we can't go back the way we came, the space of the cave where Iron Qing died is too small, and the result of us rushing back can only be to get stuck in the road and defend the danger. There are hundreds of open prison doors on the wall, how long can the two of us hold on?
I had no choice but to give up looking for the corpse of Tie Qing and choose to break through to the depths of the cave, where there might still be a glimmer of life.
After I pulled Xia Qingqing to run a distance of more than ten meters, I saw a pair of almost dry palms stretched out in a cell, and the other party grabbed both sides of the cell with five fingers, and suddenly pulled his body out of the prison door.
It wasn't until the other man leaned out of his cell that I could see what it was—it was clearly a mermaid that had been dried.
From the top of his head to his shoulders, the other party looked like a monkey that had been sunburned into a dried corpse, although he could still see the human figure, it looked hideous and terrifying, and the two fangs exposed outside the lips were matched with the yellow fluffy hair, like a demon coming out of the cage and cold and abnormal.
Those dried corpses had already taken on the shape of a fish from their chests down, with dried yellow fish scales the size of half a palm, starting from their chests and extending behind each other.
In just a moment, the screeching sound of fish scales rubbing against the cell was heard one after another, and one after another dried fish fell into the water.
"Swim! hurry!" I pressed her into the water with a hard suffrage.
The water in the cell was waist-deep, but it was enough to keep our speed to a minimum, and maybe even faster if we were swimming in the water.
Xia Qingqing entered the water like a mermaid, rushing out a few meters down the water, but I turned my head to look in the direction of the dried fish falling into the water.
The dried fish didn't jump out of the water immediately after they fell into the water, but all of them dived into the water, and the only thing I could see was the bubbles rising on the surface.
What dried fish are sucking water?
When the thought popped into my head, even I was startled.
I can't believe that those dried fish that have been banned for an unknown amount of time can absorb water and regenerate, but the truth is exactly what I guessed.
After I swam two distances in the water in a row, I saw a figure shaped like an ape, with bloody eyes and fangs standing upright from the water, palm-sized fish scales covering the opponent's body like heavy armor, and the layers of scale armor actually emitted bursts of cold light under the illumination of the flashlight.
"Let's go!" I caught up with Xia Qingqing and forcibly pushed her into a crack in the rock that was only big enough for one person to get in and out.
The crack was still five or six meters away from the normal exit of the cave, and I couldn't tell whether it was a crack in the stone due to geological changes, or a passage that someone had deliberately dug out. But I know that the crack in the wall is our only life.
The cave passage is too wide for us to use our fists and kicks, but it is also easy to be surrounded by strange fish, and in the water, we can never be the match for fish. The only way to do this is to stay on the cards.
After Xia Qingqing rushed into the stone crack quickly, I also began to retreat backwards step by step, blocking Xia Qingqing behind me and retreating into the stone crevice. But as soon as I took two steps, my heart was cold, it was really just a crack, the depth was not more than five meters, and we were now blocked in the wall.
The coolness in my heart was not dissipated, and more than a dozen herringbone water waves rushed towards the edge of the stone crack, and between the dark blue fins like steel knives breaking through the water, I clearly saw a black figure stretching out its arms under the water.
"Stand back!" I beckoned Xia Qing to retreat, and when I stepped back, I pulled out Magnum and aimed it at the bottom of the water and pulled the trigger, and the roaring bullet exploded directly into the back of the strange fish's head, and when the red blood water rolled up, the water waves from all directions pounced on the corpse that had risen to the surface of the water in an instant.
In just a few seconds, I saw that the dead fish was torn to pieces by his companions, and the stumps and severed arms danced all over the sky, but there were more and more strange fish that followed the bloody convergence, and when the blood-stained scales floated up to the surface of the water one by one, the fins that surged with the waves were also intertwined, densely blocked in front of the stone cracks.
I stepped back and back, holding the handle of my gun with both hands and aiming it at the water, and before I could fully stand on my feet, a large fish squeezed in through the crack in the wall.
It was only then that I realized that the strange fish's body was much wider than the crack in the wall, and Xia Qingqing and I could still turn around in the stone crevice, and the strange fish could only squeeze its body and drill into it.
I watched the other party rush inward, without any hesitation to pull the trigger, after the other party was shot through the head by me, the bloody corpse did not stop trembling, was forcibly dragged out by the companion, the sound of the fish fighting for the dead body did not stop, and another mermaid had forcibly rushed forward.
I just wanted to shoot, but Xia Qingqing, who was standing behind me, suddenly said: "Don't shoot yet, you drag him up, I ......"
Before Xia Qingqing's words were finished, the swiftly swimming strange fish had already approached less than a meter away from me. Xia Qingqing didn't have time to tell me what she thought, but I could understand what she meant: she wanted to see if she could use the fox clan's secret technique to control the strange fish.
I quickly put away Magnum's free hands, and when I looked into the water, the potentially underwater strange fish had reached out and grabbed my legs, and the other party's speed was as fast as the wind, and my hands were also like lightning, and the opponent's fingers had not touched the surface of my legs, and they intercepted the opponent's palm halfway.
As soon as our palms touched each other, they clasped together, almost in no particular order, and the muscles of each of our four arms tensed at the same time, each dragging it in its own direction.
In a matter of moments, the two of us were at a standstill.