Chapter Forty-Nine: The Thing Under the City
Li Xiao walked along the passage, the passage was cold, the walls and top of the passage were covered with smooth stone slabs, and it was old, the ground was a little damp, and many fresh footprints could be seen clearly through the light of the torches, Li Xiao looked down at these footprints, sure that they were left by the spirit army, and he walked quickly towards the end of the passage.
Li Xiao walked for about five miles and there was no end in sight, but the sound heard next to the old tree on the ground was getting louder and louder, Li Xiao stopped, listened carefully, the sound came from the depths of the passage, Li Xiao rubbed his ears, listened carefully, it sounded like snoring, Li Xiao was a little timid, but still walked forward.
After walking for about seven or eight miles, the sound became louder and louder, yes, it was the sound of snoring, the torch in Li Xiao's hand was about to be extinguished, and he found through the faint light of the fire that a big hole appeared in the wall in front of him, the hole was one zhang high and two zhang wide, and there was some new soil at the entrance of the hole, which looked like it was newly dug.
At this time, a breeze blew gently, and Li Xiao felt that the wind was blowing, and he knew that he was not far from the entrance of the cave, but at the same time as the wind, there was a pungent stench, and the stench also carried the salty smell of human blood, which made Li Xiao nauseous.
He held the torch that was about to be extinguished, came to the front of the cave entrance, and found that the cave entrance was full of stumps of the spirit army, half a hand, half a body, half a buttocks, half a leg, and these stumps seemed to have been bitten by something and fell off, Li Xiao gasped and looked into the depths of the passage.
"Poof", the torch in Li Xiao's hand was extinguished, Li Xiao listened to the piercing snoring in the depths of the passage, and couldn't help but be a little scared, he adapted to the darkness, and walked into the newly dug hole, walked almost a mile, and saw a few points of light in front of him, and the wind blew from time to time.
Li Xiao covered his eyes with one hand, and with one hand he used his sword to remove the weeds that covered the entrance of the cave, the sunlight shone directly into the hole, although he covered his eyes with water, he could still feel the sunlight at the entrance of the cave, Li Xiao adapted to the entrance of the cave, took his hand away, and walked out of the big hole.
Li Xiao stood outside the cave and found himself in a deep ditch five miles east of Tianyang City, there were countless big footprints of the spirit army in the ditch, and the footprints were walking in the direction of Zi Xuanguan, Li Xiao already knew that the spirit army had withdrawn, but he didn't know why he had withdrawn his troops, he was curious, and said to himself: "I don't know how someone who rode a brush actually let these spirit soldiers retreat, strange, strange." ”
Li Xiao Xiang looked for some dry wood to make torches around, but there was nothing to ignite the fire, he sharpened the stone several times with a sword, there was no spark, the stones here have been weathered, and the spirit army can successfully make a hole, Li Xiao touched his body, touched the myopia tube, he picked it up and looked into the hole, and found that the myopia tube could see objects clearly in places without light.
Li Xiao praised: "Guo Rengui, genius also"
After speaking, he walked into the cave again with a myopia tube, Li Xiao was curious, wanted to see what was snoring in the passage, he came to the passage again, and felt much more down-to-earth with the myopia tube in his hand, not only could he see the road, but also see far.
Li Xiao stood at the stump of the spirit army, endured the stench, listened to the violent snoring, looked into the depths of the passage with a myopia tube, and saw that there was a large hall connected to the passage, more than ten zhang high, there was a door at one end of the hall, the door panel was full of bloodstains, the door was tightly closed, the other end of the hall, like a huge nest, but there was nothing sleeping on it, not far from the nest, there was a stall of fresh and large feces, and there were several djinn heads in the feces that were not completely digested, and it could be seen through the feces that the thing that pulled it was very huge。
Li Xiao leaned on a pillar and looked at everything in front of him, thinking: "There is nothing in here, but the snoring is coming from there, is it possible that this thing will be invisible, what is behind this door" Thinking of this, I don't know what fell on his head.
Li Xiao stretched out his hand and touched it, it was slimy, so he looked up, this look, almost scared Li Xiao to faint, there was a terrifying monster head on the top of his head, baring his teeth, dripping saliva, and his mouth kept snoring, Li Xiao was completely confused, turned around to run, went to the pillar that was leaning on, and kicked him hard.
Li Xiao leaned on a pillar, but a leg of the monster, Li Xiao rolled, and then fell into the hole dug by the spirit army, and retreated, and the monster drilled into the hole violently, but the head was too big to get in, so he used his front paws to dig in, and made a strange scream while digging.
Li Xiao kept dodging the monster backwards, the snoring was gone, and an indescribable strange cry was made, Li Xiao saw that it couldn't reach himself, so he looked at the monster with a myopic tube.
I saw that the monster looked like a fox, but it had three sharp horns on its head, two eyes the size of a wooden basin with blue light, its nose sunken into its face, revealing six fangs, its body was half-curled, still on the top of the passage, its body was like a tiger and leopard, but its whole body was covered with scales, its legs were as thick as pillars, and there was a pair of sharp claws on its chest.
Li Xiao looked at the monster standing in front of him with a myopia tube, but the snoring came from the hall, Li Xiao said in his heart: "This guy thinks I can't see it, and wants to lead me over, what kind of monster is this, so smart, I definitely can't fight it, I'll still get out of the hole,"
Li Xiao thought for a while, quietly retreated, the monster saw that Li Xiao was going to run, the snoring suddenly stopped, Li Xiao still looked at it, only to see that there was a red light surging towards its mouth at its neck, Li Xiao saw this, and secretly shouted: "It's not good, this monster will breathe fire" After speaking, Li Xiao ran towards the entrance of the cave quickly.
A burst of flames spewed towards Li Xiao, Li Xiao sped up and walked out of the hole, the flames came out along the hole, Li Xiao lay on the ground, breathed a long sigh of relief, and was going to rest for a while, but suddenly thought that he had been down for a long time, if the rest of the people came down to find him, wouldn't he give his life in vain, thinking of this, Li Xiao quickly got up and ran to Tianyang City.
Li Xiao came to the old tree in Tianyang City, and saw that the rest of the people were waiting at the entrance of the cave, and everyone was curious about why Li Xiao came back from outside.
Li Xiao didn't tell these people about the things in the cave, but said that the spirit army dug a tunnel and escaped, asked people to close the mechanism of the old tree, and led people to block the hole dug by the spirit army, and afterwards, he took all the troops into Tianyang.
Li Xiao ordered Nan Fengguo to leave a group of men and horses to guard Tianyang, and the rest of the people returned to Chen You, bringing Ruixin, Guo Rengui, Runfeng, Ke Laoda, Wanfang and others back to Shujun.
Ye Xiang saw Li Xiao and the others, and said happily: "Congratulations to the generals of all families, the victory is complete, the celebration banquet has been arranged, and the generals are invited to eat and drink." ”
After Ye Xiang finished speaking, seeing that everyone's mood was not high, he asked Li Xiao, "General, are you victorious?"
Li Xiao said: "Victory, crash a city, burn a city, run a city." ”
Ye Xiang laughed and said: "Generals, don't worry, as long as Tianyang City is there, the rest of the cities are destroyed and under construction." ”
When Li Xiao heard Tianyang, he was excited and said, "Why is Tianyang here?"
Ye Xiang said: "The old city of Tianyang has been around for five thousand years, and the generals already know the secrets of this city. ”