I finally understood why the Blood-Eyed Corpse Boys were afraid to approach the altar, where their king was imprisoned, and this was a forbidden place for them. However, for wizards who are good at refining and controlling corpses, it is a unique holy place.

What my dad denied in the remarks of the "Vientiane Sutra" actually existed. The warlock who refined the blood-eyed corpse boy at the beginning got the mother's blood from the corpse king in the prison cell. But who would have thought that the real corpse king would hide in the depths of Miao Jiang, which is known for its Gu poison?

When I looked at the iron door again, I realized that the iron door was obviously beyond the height of ordinary people, and I could directly see the situation in the cell when I stood by the door, and Li Bingning had to stand on tiptoe instead, which was obviously designed to facilitate the guards outside the door to avoid the gaze of the corpse king.

The three trap handles on the wall can definitely restrain the corpse king.

I reached out and pointed to the handle of the mechanism, meaning to ask Li Bingning if he understood the mechanism.

Li Bingning said in a low voice: "Give me half a minute." ”

I made a careful gesture to the other person, and slowly moved towards another secret room. This time, I was unusually careful not to even make the slightest noise in my steps.

Before I could reach the door, a red glow shot out of the bar. I took a half-step backwards in shock, and the red glow came to rest less than two inches from the tip of my nose—it was clearly a letter spit out by a giant serpent.

When I followed the slightly trembling snake letter and looked into the prison door, the one-foot-square window of the cell door had been completely blocked by the snake's head with black stripes on a yellow background.

Although the snake hyacinth, which was more than half a meter long, did not touch my skin, I felt the air flow brought by the vibrating snake letter collide on my face several times.

The serpent, which had almost blocked the entire door, seemed to have lost interest in me, and turned its head sideways and sank into the cell.

I shuddered as the serpent's snowflake-streaked eyes swept past my eyes.

It's not the first time I've seen a huge serpent, or the seemingly cold, unsightly eyes of the serpent, but what terrifies me really is the tail with the poisonous hook behind it.

Is that a hooked snake?

The legendary hooked snake was born in the era of the flood and famine, but the myth of later generations no longer exists, but its ferocity is not under the snake that can devour elephants. The legendary hooked snake is not only extremely poisonous, but also has a giant hook on its tail, which lurks underwater all year round, and uses its tail hook to hook the cattle and horses on the shore into the water and devour it.

It has been recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Notes on the Book of Water", and "Continuation of the Chronicles of the Museum". But after the "Continuation of the Naturalist", whether it is myth or legend, there is no shadow of the hooked snake, it seems to have disappeared out of thin air.

I never thought I would see a hooked snake in Miaojiang.

Li Bingning said in a trembling voice: "Brother Wang, is that a hooked snake?"

"If we're all right, it's probably ......" I quickly recovered from the shock, "You say, why did the people who built this secret room put the Corpse King and the Hooked Snake together?"

"Checks and balances?" Li Bingning's face turned pale after he finished speaking.

But I whispered, "Corpse King, I don't think it's a corpse king, it's some kind of alien ape." I don't know what it is, so let's call it the Corpse King!"

"The Corpse King and the Hooked Snake should be evenly matched, put them together, and no one dares to move, otherwise it is likely to be a lose-lose situation, so they have always checked and balanced each other, and also maintained the balance of this poisonous ze. ”

"If I'm not mistaken, this poison is the world of snakes and blood-eyed corpses. The kings on both sides were imprisoned under the altar, so that they could be safe, and they would not cross the line and run to the Gu pit or the main altar of the Five Poisons Sect to stir up the wind and rain. ”

As I said this, I suddenly changed my words and said, "However, if we want to pass the poison, we have to make a choice. ”

At this point, I stopped talking about it. My meaning couldn't be clearer - we should compromise with one of the two poisons and kill the other. It's just that I don't want the Corpse King to hear those words.

Because I suspect that it is not the blood-eyed corpse boy outside who can understand human speech, but the corpse king inside the prison.

Of course, Li Bingning understood what I meant, she first pointed to the prison cell where the hooked snake was located, then pointed to her head and ears, and then shook her head.

Li Bingning meant that he should unite with the Corpse King to kill the hooked snake. In her opinion, we can't bet that the hooked snake has the IQ to understand us. Although there is also a legend of the spirit snake in this world to repay the favor, who can guarantee that the hooked snake on the opposite side will know what it means to repay the favor?

I hesitated, then pointed back at the mechanism on the wall.

I'm asking Li Bingning: What is the use of the organ?

Li Bingning pointed to the first hand gate, compared a "kill" gesture, and pointed to the second hand gate, compared a "put" gesture.

When Li Bingning and I communicated with each other, we kept our backs to the cell. When she pointed to the third hand gate, out of the corner of my eye, I saw the corpse king in the door.

It didn't know when it reached the edge of the cell door, grabbed the iron bar on the door with both hands, and looked at the backs of me and Li Bingning without blinking.

I turned around suddenly, and the Corpse King was slightly stunned, and immediately showed a flattering smile at me.

Did it understand what Li Bingning and I meant?

I walked a few steps to the hand gate and grabbed the first handle, and the corpse king in the door suddenly roared, and his hands grabbed the iron door and shook again and again. At the same time, there was a loud bang in the cell of the hooked snake, and the huge snake head blocked the window again, and the snake letter leaned out of the window.

The Corpse King stopped at this moment, stretched out his hand and pointed at the hooked snake with a hint of a smile. It's not trying to get out of prison, it's just trying to tell me the facts that the hooked snake is a fool and you can't cooperate with it.

I looked at the Corpse King and suddenly burst out with a sentence, "Can I trust you?"

The Corpse King nodded subconsciously before revealing a look of chagrin. It probably thinks that the smarter it is, the less I will believe it.

I looked at the Corpse King and said, "I like to talk to smart people, only smart people know how to make trade-offs, and it is easier to cooperate." Are you right?"

The Corpse King immediately smiled and nodded.

I pointed in the direction of the hooked snake and said, "How do you get it out?

The Corpse King first pointed at himself, and then slapped his belly twice, probably meaning that as long as it came out, it would be able to lure the hooked snake out. The weakness of the hooked snake is in the stomach, as long as it can attack the opponent's belly, it is enough to kill the hooked snake.

Seeing that I nodded, the corpse king immediately patted his chest, and stretched out two fingers to make a gesture of moving forward. He probably said that the matter of getting out of the poison is wrapped up in it, and as long as I can kill the hooked snake, he promises to get me out of the poison.

I smiled and said, "I only have two people now, but you have a large group of people, I'm afraid!"

The Corpse King clearly understood what I meant, but he showed a blank look. The message it wants to convey to me is nothing more than that it can only understand simple words, and when I say complex words, it will not understand.

I sneered, "You know what I'm talking about, I'm just playing dumb." If I can help you, I can help it. If you want to be killed, I don't mind having a good talk with the Hooked Snake. ”

The Corpse King was still at a loss, as if he couldn't understand what I was saying. Actually, it understands everything, but it doesn't believe I can communicate with the hooked snake.

I sneered at the Corpse King, and turned to look at Li Bingning: "Go, talk to the hooked snake." ”

When Li Bingning looked at me in surprise, I quietly slapped my jacket pocket.

I knew that Li Bingning had a steel whistle in his pocket, which was a tool for the probes to communicate with each other in the forbidden area.

The mythical forbidden area is either in the deep mountains and old forests or deep underground, and when you enter the forbidden area, except for military radios, any kind of communication equipment cannot be used. It is not that there are no radio stations that have been eliminated by the military, but they are only used in large-scale operations, and ordinary detectives use special steel whistles to keep in touch in restricted areas.

The sound of that whistle is extremely sharp and penetrating, and you can hear each other even through several walls. The Detective Hand itself also has a set of whistle contact codes, which can express simple meanings.

Before I could learn how to communicate with the whistle, I was kicked out by the detectives, but that didn't stop me from understanding the role of the steel whistle.

Li Bingning instantly understood what I meant, picked up the steel whistle and walked to the position where I had just stopped, and the hooked snake behind the door stood up again and spit out the snake letter to Li Bingning.

The hooked snake seemed to be only interested in the corpse king, and after discovering that Li Bingning's smell was wrong, he immediately returned to his original position. Li Bingning blew the steel whistle at this time.

Li Bingning's whistle sounded, and two whistles, one long and one short, immediately came from outside the secret room, and it should have been the detective hand above who thought that Li Bingning was in danger and was using the whistle to contact her.

Li Bingning immediately moved his body left and right, blowing the steel whistle continuously. I knew she was using a whistle to tell the detective "I'm not in danger", and she was shaking her body back and forth to attract the attention of the hooked snake.

Li Bingning's current approach is similar to the technique of the Indian snake charmer, which is nothing more than to attract the attention of the hooked snake and make the hooked snake take an attacking posture. In this way, the hooked snake looks like it is "dancing" with Li Bingning's swaying body, as for whether it can cause pressure on the corpse king, it depends on how to operate it later.

After a few seconds, the hooked snake's head shook behind the cell door.

Although I was facing the Corpse King, I was frequently observing the Corpse King's expression from the corner of my eye.

When the corpse king saw the hooked snake shaking, he was slightly stunned at first, but immediately calmed down, grabbed the iron bar on the prison door with both hands, and put his face against the door to look at the hooked snake.

Is it scared?

No, I could clearly see a smile in the Corpse King's eyes. Is it deliberately lying to me?