Chapter 42: Getting Drunk
"Slow down, this staircase is slippery, and it's covered in moss. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Lin Tao walked in front and almost slipped on the moss on the bluestone stairs, and quickly reminded Xiangxin and the fat man.
After walking for a while, the stairs gradually turned into a straight passage, and at the same time, the air inside began to become humid and hot, Lin Tao touched the wall, and suddenly felt that it was full of lines, and took a flashlight to shine it.
"It's it, it's it." Xiangxin saw Lin Tao shining on the wall under the light, a big mouse with a hideous face standing, drooping his head, and a pair of blood-red eyes staring at the three people who were looking at it.
In addition to Xiangxin, the fat man and Lin Tao were all shuddered by the lifelike big mouse depicted on the wall.
Seeing that Lin Tao and the fat man were frightened, their faces turned pale, but Xiangxin stepped forward and kindly touched the lines engraved on the wall and said: "This is the ghost mouse, one of the five poisonous creatures in the legend, it is said that this is a Gu worm that has been enlightened for countless years, and wherever it goes, it can gather rats to fight for it, and at the same time, he is also extremely poisonous, as long as the skin is broken by his claws and fangs, it is really not saved." ”
Lin Tao looked at the eagerness on Xiangxin's face and what he said just now, and realized that Xiangxin is also a woman who longs to be strong, so that she will not be bullied by others.
At this moment, a high-pitched chirping sound came from the end of the passage, which echoed throughout the passage.
"It's a ghost rat." Xiangxin looked excitedly at the end of the passage and took a step, but retreated again, blushing and looking at Lin Tao with a slightly embarrassed look for help.
"Fat man, just now you also heard the ghost rat that Xiangxin said, the poison is very strong, if we meet at that time, I don't care about anything else, once we can't hold it, no one cares, you run hard." Lin Tao whispered in the fat man's ear and walked to Xiangxin's side, patted her on the shoulder, and walked towards the end of the passage with a flashlight.
"Hey, you guy wait for me, we're good partners." The fat man also understood what Lin Tao meant, ran two steps and walked forward with his arms around Lin Tao's shoulders.
At the end of the passage was a huge hall, surrounded by various utensils, which looked like an ancient laboratory, with a huge low-legged copper tripod in the middle, and Lin Tao could see that it was covered with dry weeds as soon as he bent down in front of him.
"It seems that this is the nest of ghost rats, and now it is estimated that they have gone out to forage, and the Gu worms that have lost their owners are really pitiful." Xiangxin said with a sigh.
The fat man looked at it, and just wanted to reach into the copper tripod to get a small copper-footed cup he saw, but he was slapped on the back of his hand by Xiangxin: "The ghost mouse doesn't like the breath of strangers the most, don't mess with the things here, lest it get angry when it comes back, we can't do it." Xiangxin said, and began to sprinkle some powder nearby, and also sprinkled it on Lin Tao and the fat man.
"I also made it myself, to cover up the smell on my body and prevent people from tracking me by the scent. Also here can hide the breath on us. After Xiang Xin finished sprinkling, she took out a black folding iron box that looked heavy from her backpack, propped it up and put it aside, and took out another jade box, and the moment she opened it, the fragrance filled the entire hall.
"What is this? So fragrant. As soon as the fat man smelled the fragrance, he immediately ran to him, sniffed hard, but when he looked into the box, a large number of earthworms with white slime were moving around in it, and he covered his mouth so tightly that he almost vomited.
"This is not a good thing, this earthworm is called to attract ghosts and drunkenness, it is a poisonous insect cultivated by our hundred poison sects, but it is not poisonous, the only useful thing is that the mucus secreted by its body can make an elephant sleep for three or four days, and it has no effect on the body, we generally dry it, grind it into powder, and take a small amount for intoxication. But if you just sucked so much, you'll fall asleep in a while. Xiangxin smiled and continued: "You now have a hole in your ear and squeeze the blood out until you can't squeeze it out, otherwise you will fall asleep for a while, and we won't have the time to take care of you. ”
The fat man's face turned pale when he heard this, and he hurriedly took out a dagger and made a big hole in his ear, and the blood flowed down, and the fat man shouted in pain while squeezing desperately, and he bleed a lot of clothes, and dyed his clothes red.
"Shhhh Xiangxin, who had been busy at the door of the three passages for a long time, seemed to hear something, and hurriedly beckoned Lin Tao and the fat man to hide beside her, and sprinkled some powder around again, turned off the flashlight, and instantly the hall returned to darkness.
In the darkness, the sound of a sore came from a passage across from the three of them, followed by the sound of a large number of rats slapping on the ground on their little feet and rushing into the hall.
In the dark hall, a large number of green eyes were running back and forth, and finally gathered around Xiangxin's place to attract ghosts, as if they were intoxicated by its aroma, and squatted there motionless.
At this time, the three of them saw a different pair of blood-red eyes shining red in the passage and slowly walked in, and the rats in the four places also quieted down at this time, as if waiting for their king.
It seemed that those red eyes were ghost rats, Lin Tao thought about the carving on the wall, and guessed.
But this ghost rat is a little too big, but looking at the eyes at least the size of a domestic cat, I was really scared.
After the ghost rat entered the hall, it seemed to smell something in the air, the red eyes turned back and forth, squatted in place for a while, and then slowly walked towards the side of the ghost drunk placed by Xiangxin.
The ghost rat walked to the side of the ghost drunk and smelled it for a long time before chirping, and at the same time, the surrounding rats also made a noise and then quieted down again.
The ghost mouse closed its eyes as if it plunged into the box where the ghost was intoxicated, as if eating, the sound of chirping, but opened his eyes again, looked at the earthworm in his mouth very strangely, looked around, and finally lowered his head and ate again.
A box of ghosts was eaten up by the ghost rats after a while, and after a full meal, a strange sound sounded, like a full burp, and he swayed his body to the low-legged copper tripod, and fell asleep on his stomach.
The three of them continued to squat for a long time, and only then did they quietly stand up when they saw the rats around them gradually disappear into all corners.
Xiangxin whispered in the ears of the two: "The ghost mouse went to sleep, it is estimated that it is the effect of attracting ghosts to get drunk, so many original ghosts are drunk, I don't believe it still doesn't fall." Xiangxin smiled confidently, took the black folding iron box, and slowly approached the ghost mouse.