Among the eight people who stayed, there were six boys, once they couldn't bear the psychological pressure and decided to use a living sacrifice to enter the gate, then Dong Xiaowei and Zhang Shu were the people who were most likely to become sacrifices.

Dong Xiaowei wanted to say something, but I smiled at her, turned around and walked under the stone steps.

We didn't see the fire on the platform until Ye Xun spoke, "Wang Huan, why do I think we're turning left?"

"Yes, we're just going left. "Soon after we came down," I affirmed, "the stairs turned, and if I am not mistaken, we should be going down to the sacrificial well." Don't you bring a lighter, you take a look at it, and if there is any trouble, put out the fire quickly. ”

Ye Xun took out the lighter and shone it around, and I saw that the road we came down just now had turned into a circular staircase around the mountain wall at this distance.

On my right hand side is the rock wall of the lonely mountain, and on my left hand side is the dark abyss. I tried to look down, and there was nothing to be found but endless darkness.

Ye Xun, who was holding the lighter, suddenly said: "There is a fire trough in that place, I'll go and light the fire." ”

I just wanted to stop Ye Xun, but I subconsciously hesitated.

I thought it would be safer not to light a fire in a place like this, but subconsciously I wanted to use the light of fire to dispel the fear in my heart.

I only hesitated for a moment, and Ye Xun lit the fire trough. I couldn't help but gasp as the fire swirled around the cave.

The moment the fire lit up, the first thing I saw was a bronze pillar that led up to the top of the cave. I didn't see exactly how tall the pillar was, but the one I could see most clearly was the black-scaled python coiled around the bottom of the column.

The python, which is enough for the thickness of a person, does not know how many years it has survived in the cave, and what it relies on to sustain its life, but it is still alive in the cave after being abandoned for countless years in the Lonely Mountain Mystery Cave.

From the moment Ye Xun lit the lamp, the python moved its body and raised its head from the bottom of the column. I hurriedly pulled Ye Xun and hid under the fire trough.

If Ye Xun didn't light the fire, maybe he wouldn't wake up the giant python, but the moment the fire burned, it had already woken up from its sleep, and soon it would be ready to hunt.

I probably remember reading in a book that snakes have almost zero vision, and they can detect and quickly catch prey tens of meters away in the dark night, all by sensing the heat on the prey.

What really woke up the python was not the light of the fire surrounding the cave, but the temperature of the fire.

I don't know if the temperature of the fire trough can hide the temperature of Ye Xun and me, but it's much safer than running out and being tracked and killed by pythons.

Ye Xun leaned against me and quickly pulled out his long knife: "What now?"

"I don't know. I said grimacingly, "Can our knife kill that snake?"

Ye Xun looked at me for a while before shaking his head. In just a few moments, there was a sound of snake scales rubbing against the stairs from the bottom of the cave—the python had already climbed up the stairs. I watched as the rocks crushed by the snake's body rolled down the cave, but I didn't dare to move at all.

In such a place, we cannot outrun a snake, and if it finds out, the two of us will surely die.

I held the long knife tightly: "The snake will come up in a while, you go first, and I will break it later......"

"Fart!" Ye Xun scolded me, then took out a wine jug from his pocket and poured it into his mouth.

"Are you crazy?" I was immediately stunned by Ye Xun's actions. Isn't he drinking now raising his body temperature? He wants to use himself as bait?

I was about to grab Ye Xun's wine jug, but he said coldly, "Take your hand away." I really want to help, but when it's time to fight hard, you just don't run. ”

Ye Xun's words are correct. At this time, there is no point in arguing about these, and you don't even need to be moved by anything, it is true that you can work hard together at the moment of life and death.

I lowered my hand, shifted slightly, and gripped my long knife to the edge of the stairs. This position is just right for him.

Not long after I was squatting, I suddenly heard Zhang Shu's shout coming from above the cave: "What are you doing? Wang Huan, they will be back soon...... Don't arrest me! Please don't arrest me...... Zhang Hao, don't you like me? You can let me go! You can do whatever I want...... You want, I can give you ...... right now"

Oops!

What I feared the most happened anyway, my classmates really wanted to sacrifice people!

When I jerked my head up and looked into the air, Zhang Shu had fallen through a round hole in the roof of the cave - it was supposed to be the bottom of the sacrificial well.

"Ahh

Before Zhang Shu landed, he was bitten by a python and dragged to the stairs. Zhang Shu, who had not been devoured by the python for a while, grabbed the gap in the stairs with his hand, and shouted hoarsely: "Wang Huan, save me, save me——"

When I just wanted to get up, Ye Xun stretched out his hand to block me back: "You can't save her, even if you snatch her from the snake's mouth, people can't save her." Give her a ride!"

Ye Xun took out an arm crossbow from the guitar case and stuffed it into my hand: "Your eyesight is good, you come." ”

When I gritted my teeth and raised my crossbow and pointed at Zhang Shu, the latter also saw my movements: "Wang Huan, fuck you! You're not human! If it weren't for the travel voucher you brought, would we have ended up like this? You arranged all these things, right? You just want to trick us into sending us to death......

Zhang Shu's words suddenly made my head "buzz", as if something suddenly flashed in my mind, but I didn't find the point. I couldn't help but pause with my hands holding my crossbow.

The python that devoured Zhang Shu didn't pay any attention to the other party's screams, and was still swallowing her inch by inch. After Zhang Shu's hands in the stone crevices were stretched into a straight line by the python, ten fingers were also broken one after another...... It wasn't until Zhang Shu was dragged away from the stairs by the snake that he raised a pair of bloody palms and screamed: "Wang Huan, you are a brute, Dong Xiaowei is also a slut, you two must not die well......!"

I jerked the crossbow arrow and aimed it at Zhang Shu and pulled the machine spring. The arrows that broke through the air instantly penetrated Zhang Shu's eyebrows, and after the scarlet blood burst from her face, Zhang Shu's corpse hung down on the python's mouth.

After I saw Zhang Shu completely swallowed by the python, the python with a humanoid scale arched on its body slowly retreated to the bottom of the copper pillar, coiled its body tightly around the pillar a few times, and began to slowly tighten towards the pillar.

When the crunch sound of human bones being broken came to my ears through the snakeskin, the copper pillar that penetrated the sky began to slowly rotate under the entanglement of the python, and a crisp sound of "click" was soon heard above the roof of the cave.

The door opens?

I didn't react until then. It turns out that the sacrifice in the mural is to feed the python with a living person, and once the python wraps itself around the copper pillar and squeezes its prey, the copper pillar will begin to rotate, and the bronze door above will naturally open.

If the bronze gate requires a python to turn the stone pillar to open, what does the other mural mean? I don't believe that a single key can open a gate that requires a great rotation to open.

When I looked up at the top of the cave, the rotating bronze pillar suddenly stopped, and Zhang Hao's gloomy voice followed from the direction of the wellhead: "The door is open so much? None of us can enter! Throw Dong Xiaowei down!"

"Don't, don't come here......" When Dong Xiaowei screamed, I suddenly stood up from the ground: "Zhang Hao, how dare you touch Dong Xiaowei, Lao Tzu will go up and tear you alive!"

"Wang Huan, help!" Dong Xiaowei's scream seemed to be much farther away from the entrance of the cave.

The python had just devoured a person, and it was impossible to eat again at once, so I was no longer worried that it would rush up and eat me, and immediately ran straight up the stairs with my crossbow in my arm. Ye Xun also rushed up the stairs after me.

As I moved closer to the cave platform, the light behind me began to fade. When Ye Xun and I rushed to the lightless stairs again, I quickly lowered my voice and said, "Ye Xun, you keep a distance from me, be careful." ”

Ye Xun was slightly stunned, and immediately stepped back silently, I simply closed my eyes and ran up the stairs. As my footsteps were gathered by the cavern, my hearing began to diminish rapidly, and the faster I ran, the quieter I could hear. Until there was only the footsteps of me and Ye Xun in my ears, I suddenly took out the fox bell from my body and held it in front of my eyes, opened my eyes suddenly, and glanced around through the cold light on the fox bell.

The whole corridor seemed empty, but the moment I opened my eyes, I saw a drop of liquid falling from the roof of the shed.

When I slowly bowed down to look at the ground with the fox bell in my hand, the crossbow in my hand suddenly turned around and released two arrows above my head. The sound of the first arrow hitting the rock wall had not yet fallen, and the muffled sound of the second arrow piercing through the body had been heard suddenly.

As soon as the sound of the bolt hitting the target was heard, I swooped forward in a bowed position and rolled forward. I had just stabilized my body when there was a muffled sound of a heavy object falling to the ground behind me.

I pulled out my long knife and turned around and stabbed it straight behind me. The blade passed through the humanoid black shadow behind me, and Ye Xun's Miao knife also penetrated through the black shadow. After stabbing our opponents one after the other, we both stood up and lifted the man into the air.

It was only then that I could see each other's faces......