Chapter Ninety-Three: Blood Sacrifice
Ning Hao shook his head, pulled him up directly from the ground, and said loudly,
"Zhou Huawen, don't look at me with your outlook on life and worldview. Everyone pursues different things, and I don't know what your master told you back then, but I would never do that. ”
Zhou Huawen was stunned, and said weakly, "You came here with all the difficulty, is it really just to wake up Lin Xuechu." ”
"That's how headstrong I am. Ning Hao turned to look at the end of the overpass and said slowly, "I know how attractive this place is to men. It may only happen once in a few hundred years to have such a chance to be famous, but this is not what I am after. ”
Zhou Huawen checked the rope that tied Lin Xuechu, "Master Hao, you even know about my change of life and death, I believe you." Now let's get there. ”
Ning Hao nodded and said, "This overpass is too narrow, if you go ahead, I can support you with all my strength." ”
Beneath the stone bridge is an abyss with no bottom in sight, and the width can only accommodate two feet side by side, and the result of losing the balance of the body is broken bones.
If this width is not high above the ground, it is not difficult for people to walk on it, and there is no problem in walking a few kilometers.
But at this height, the huge pressure that can fall to death at any time makes people's nerves highly tense, and the possibility of falling is quite high.
Zhou Huawen walked in front with Lin Xuechu on his back, and Ning Hao followed cautiously behind, always paying attention to them.
A few hundred meters away, the stone bridge was already in the clouds. There is no end in sight in front and no place to start in the back. The fog also became thicker, and the stone bridge began to grow moss.
Ning Hao, who was almost soaked in mist, looked at the bridge deck in front of Zhou Huawen, and the moss had been shoveled away. Looking at the traces should not take more than an hour.
Obviously, Zhang Luoguan and Xu Xiaonan were prepared and completely prepared for all the dangers on the road.
To be recruited by Li Xianming to explore this cave, these two people must also be members of this organization. But as for whether they told Li Xianming the truth or not, and whether they represented the highest interests of the country, only God knows.
Xu Xiaonan and Ning Hao have been in contact with it a few times, and the arrogance of the nostrils has always made him very unhappy. Looking at his attitude towards those soldiers, he should be a narrow-minded person. Zhang Luoguan didn't know much about him, but he also did something to kill all the special forces soldiers.
If these two people entered that place and got that incredible ability, the consequences would be unimaginable.
The two groped and walked for a while, and there was a faint sound of water flowing in front of them, and it should be that the big waterfall was coming.
Ning Hao gently pulled Zhou Huawen and said, "How did your master describe this place in the first place?"
Zhou Huawen stopped and said,
"This place can only enter one person at a time, and another person needs to use his body to hold something up. The emperor said that he would help him hold the man, and he accidentally fell to his death. I just thought about it, if it's holding something, how can it fall to death? It should be a very special mechanism, and I want another person to use his life to help him complete the action. ”
"So you're worried that I'll take you on my back?" Ning Hao smiled.
"Master Hao, if you really want to wake up Lin Xuechu, let's hurry up. According to the emperor, this place is only open once in a Jiazi. Let's not let those two boys get in first. After Zhou Huawen finished speaking, he quickened his pace.
The two of them continued to walk forward, and the sound of the water gradually became louder, and finally it became a loud roar.
The mist is getting thicker and thicker, and a large waterfall appears in front of it, bringing the mist to roll constantly. The sunlight is projected high in the sky, shining on the water mist, and several colorful neon lights hang in the middle of the sky, as if you have arrived in a fairyland.
After walking a few more steps, the scenery on the opposite bank finally appeared in front of me. Another towering mountain wall, along which a large river rushes mightily, forming a waterfall on the cliff. The banks of the river are lined with dwarf trees and golden flowers.
Ning Hao bit his lip and frowned.
I remember the map I saw in the big cave hall in the underground fortifications. A vast field, full of golden camellias, and in the middle of which are small houses made of stone. And that waterfall is on the edge of a land full of golden camellias. The most important thing is that the proportions of the stone house and the waterfall are not at all like this.
There is only one waterfall in the land of golden camellias. At this time, although he suspected that the person who carved the stone wall was a little rough, he vaguely felt that it was unlikely.
That map was a miniature plan, and even something as small as a fluorescent figure was depicted vividly, how could it be possible to draw such a large waterfall so small.
Zhou Huawen suddenly stopped, pointed to the mouth of the waterfall and whispered, "Let's be lighter, there are two people over there." ”
Ning Hao looked in the direction of his finger, and the two people on the edge of the waterfall were standing opposite each other, and they didn't know what they were doing. The mist was too big and hazy, and it was unclear whether it was Xu Xiaonan and Zhang Luoguan.
"Let's go, what are you doing standing? It's no wonder they can hear us approaching with such a loud sound of water. Ning Hao stabbed him in the back and said.
Hearing this, Zhou Huawen simply quickened his pace, and the two almost ran across the stone bridge. As they ran closer and closer, the faces of the two men were clearly revealed.
But to their surprise, there was no Xu Xiaonan among these two people. In addition to Zhang Luoguan, there is actually another cloud city that has not been seen since entering the cave.
The two of them were on the ground, and their hearts were a lot more stable, and Ning Hao rubbed the mist on his face, "Your eyes are spent, right? Where is Xu Xiaonan?"
Zhou Huawen gently put Lin Xuechu down, looked directly at Ning Hao and said, "Master Hao, I am absolutely not mistaken. It was the stone bridge that Xu Xiaonan and Zhang Luoguan went on together. ”
After speaking, he scratched his head and said, "Could it be that Yuncheng crossed the stone bridge first, but where did Xu Xiaonan go?"
The two people standing at the mouth of the waterfall looked at each other nervously, both holding weapons in their hands, completely ignoring Ning Hao and their side.
Ning Hao made a booing gesture and pulled Zhou Huawen to his waist and approached them.
The roar of the water drowned out their voices, and the lush camellia trees hid their bodies. Until they approached Yun Cheng and Zhang Luoguan more than ten meters away, these two people didn't notice them at all.
Ning Hao leaned down and looked carefully, Yun Cheng was holding a copper sword in his right hand, and a huge laceration wound on his shoulder was gushing bright red blood.
The wound was like it had been bitten by some beast. And Zhang Luoguan, who was holding an ancient knife in his hand, stared at Yun Cheng coldly, except that his clothes were wet with fog, and there was no injury on his body at all.
It seemed that the two of them had just engaged in a life-and-death struggle for a place to enter that place. But Ning Hao thought about it again, it was not right, no matter how powerful Zhang Luoguan's ancient knife was, it was impossible to cut out that kind of wound.
Suddenly, his arm was pulled by Zhou Huawen, and when he turned around, he pointed to the open space on the other side.
Ning Hao glanced at it and immediately understood how the injury on Yun Cheng's shoulder came about.
Xu Xiaonan's two hands were cut off and fell to the side, and his chest was covered with blood. Looking through the torn clothes, a two-finger-wide hole of blood had clotted blood.
There were more than a dozen pieces of broken wood scattered in the open space around him, and the tiger head and tiger claws made of wood were tattered, and they should have been violently broken.
"It should be that Yuncheng and Zhang Luoguan worked together to kill Xu Xiaonan, Yuncheng is now seriously injured, and Zhang Luoguan is going to win. Zhou Huawen said softly in Ning Hao's ear.
Ning Hao looked back at the mouth of the waterfall again. There seemed to be a stone gate next to the two facing each other, with a few lines of blood-red handwriting written on it. But the handwriting was all ancient seals, and Ning Hao couldn't understand it at all, so he could only turn around and ask Zhou Hua what was written on it.
Zhou Huawen stared at it for a long time, and slowly read it out, "This valley is opened, the blood of the living is sacrificed, and there is one person in the valley." ”
The stone gate was built like a huge tiger's head, and a hole seemed to be waiting for the blood sacrifice to be put up by the living. Next to the tiger's head was a large, thick stone slab with a thigh-thick black metal chain attached to it.
It is speculated that the structural principle of this stone gate should be to fall the tiger's head and then open the stone slab. In the end, the one who is alive will be able to enter the place that everyone dreams of.
"Can't these people blow up the stone door, why do they have to use living people for blood sacrifice?" Ning Hao was a little puzzled.
Zhou Huawen took a deep breath and said, "The people in that place definitely have unimaginable power, if you don't do that, it is estimated that no one will be able to enter." ”
The proverbs on this gate are absolutely sacred to those who want to enter. But for those who can or may not enter, it is a completely different matter.
Ning Hao now felt that it might be possible to blow up the floodgate. But thinking about Lin Xuechu, who might be unconscious forever, he suddenly felt that the proverb had become a holy decree.
To enter that place, one person must be sacrificed by blood, and only one person can enter a Jiazi.
"Master Hao, now the two of us rush out, kill one and catch the other, and I won't need to be sacrificed alive. Zhou Huawen's face was wet, and he didn't know if it was fog or sweat, and there was a kind of joy in his voice.
Ning Hao gritted his teeth and said, "I don't want to kill people, let's take a look first." ”