Chapter 244: Sea of Fire
I was still stunned, but Yan Bo had already reflected and slapped my arm violently.
"Lord, look! It's a brocade box! ”
In the pool of flame-swallowing water, the corridor stone had been split in half, and suddenly lost the support of the flames and rolled into the bottom of the water. The rectangular brocade box, which looked like it was born in an eggshell, was held high by the flame head, and its solitary appearance was immediately recognizable.
Rectangular, black bottom, embroidered with fine dragon patterns, vividly around the box, from different angles, the dragon's head happened to be in the direction of the opening of the brocade box, two fake dragon eyes staring at the ivory buckle in the middle as if angry, as if to warn others, not to open this box at will.
It's exactly what I saw in my dream, the box where the fan bones are stored!
I was thrilled, and my hard work and luck were not in vain, and the fan bone was finally in front of me. Yan Bo was overjoyed, he seemed to be a little out of breath, and coughed several times in a row, but he didn't care about his body at all, and wanted to get it while looking at the flames.
He climbed onto the stone platform, and as soon as he exerted his bone-like arms, he heard a "click", and the bones rubbed against each other, perhaps cracked. These days, I can clearly feel the three corpse poisons in Yan Bo's body expanding, first the arms, then the chest, infecting the lungs, and soon after, it should be the heart.
But at the moment, Yan Bo stopped the movements in his hands at all, no matter how laborious his body bones were, he had to walk into the flames. Seeing that he was at the edge of the pool, he stretched his feet out anyway because of a moment.
"Be careful!" I couldn't help but shout.
Fortunately, the foot did not fall into the water, but a flame head came over, forming a green barrier similar to a step on the sole of the shoe. The nervous expression on his face relaxed a little, and he followed the direction of these flame heads, thinking about the direction of the brocade box in the center, and approached step by step.
The route is the order of the Big Dipper, and each step is taken with extreme care. The tongue of fire **** Yan Bo's soles, although they didn't burn, I could still feel their almost rejection corrosion.
Finally came to the last step, Yan Bo was so excited that his hands began to tremble. The throat was even more nervous, swallowing saliva several times, and the cracked lips seemed to be unable to relieve no matter how much they licked.
I didn't dare to come out, for fear that this ritual-like act would be over in the blink of an eye. Originally, I thought that Uncle Yan was not in good health, in case there were three long and two short, I couldn't take care of it. wanted to volunteer to get it, but he never thought that Yan Bo would take a step forward. I don't know what he's anxious about, but I've come this far, and I don't have to wait a little longer.
The moment the brocade box was touched by his hand, the green flame held under it was extinguished. Immediately afterward, with this as the center, the flames within a radius of more than ten meters began to be extinguished little by little. Yan Bo was still stunned, but the flame heads that formed the steps under his feet were gradually disappearing.
"Uncle Yan! Come back! Go back! I shouted at him, waving my arms desperately to pull him back from his stupor.
At the moment when all the steps were about to disappear, Yan Bo ran back quickly on tiptoe, and as soon as he stepped on the steps, he "rubbed" behind him, and all the flames burned out.
Yan Bo in his arms gasped heavily. His hands clutched my cuffs tightly, and he looked at the pool as if he were afraid, and then he relented and climbed down from the high platform with my support.
"This brocade box...... Principal...... Open it......"
It's not that I didn't see it, Yan Bo tried to undo the ivory buckle in the middle before he came back, but several efforts didn't work, obviously, not as long as the surname Xu, you can move Xu Jingchuan's things, the brocade box in the seven dreams is about to be gone. I lost this self-defense mechanism.
I took the box from his hand and weighed it a few times, my eyebrows instantly furrowed. In terms of weight, this box is indeed heavier than the one in the dream. But the weight is not much. In my impression, the fan bone should be more than that.
Seeing that I was hesitantly staring at the brocade box in front of me, delaying the next step, Yan Bo seemed to be a little anxious, and urged me to open the box in front of me several times. I thought to myself, anyway, the fan bones are already in hand. It's not in a hurry, if there is any vision in the underground palace after opening, this must be something we can't control, so I want to go out and open it again.
Yan Bo should have seen my thoughts, and the wrinkles on his face were twisted together.
"I said the main thing, open it quickly, we don't know if it's a fan bone in it, if I don't hurry up, I'll be too late......"
Too late? I was about to ask him what he was too late for, but suddenly I heard a small sound behind Yan Bo.
"Beep". The sound was so small that I would not have been able to hear it if it had not been for the fact that all the flames had been extinguished and the dungeon had returned to its original quiet state.
Yan Bo saw that my expression was wrong, so he stopped talking, and the two of them held their breath at the same time, quietly looking for the source of the voice.
Almost at the same time, Yan Boqi and I looked at the pool that had been as quiet as ashes just now, and in the middle of the pool, that is, the place where the brocade box had been taken just now, something was stirring under the water, and the surface of the pool like stagnant water rippled in a circle, as if someone was under the unfathomable black pool, rubbing two stones constantly, making a small but creepy sound.
Beep.
In an instant, I suddenly felt like I had stepped on thunder under my feet, and my whole body trembled, and the cold sweat on my body came down. If I am not mistaken, the sound must have been emitted by the rotation of the gears under the candlestick, but instead of functioning in a certain order, the gears were constantly rubbing against each other in a mass of flammable liquid, and the consequences of this can be imagined.
I have a faint feeling that the flames that come out this time will not be as simple as the cold flames before.
After thinking about it, he immediately bypassed Yan Bo, who was pale with fright in front of him, and ran to the end of the door that came in earlier, groping up and down, trying to be lucky to touch one of the switches and then open the door.
It's a pity that the two huge stones seem to be the tightest locks in the world, and I can't move the door no matter how much I pull it. When I tried to use the power of the tapir intently, I felt powerless, and the darkness in front of me was one after another, and I couldn't concentrate at all.
The exit was sealed.
Uncle Yan, who rushed over, also began to grope for the stone up and down, and he didn't seem to have a clue, so I still asked with the mentality of giving it a try: "Uncle Yan, apart from this door, are there any other exits?" ”
Unexpectedly, Yan Bo shook his head.
I didn't give up, and kept groping along the walls, while still encouraging Yan Bo to continue thinking, maybe all the ancient books he had read would have a hint to let us escape from this underground secret room.
Yan Bo was a little weak, and after he couldn't find the mechanism, he leaned on the stone platform and rested, while closing his eyes, trying to find clues in the ocean of his memory. I took a rock and knocked around and stopped, half trying my luck and half thinking about how to get out.
After a minute or two, the frequency of the beep began to increase, and one couldn't help but stop all the movements in his hand and stare straight into the middle of the pool, as if something was about to run out of it.
The ripples faded away, and the largest circle swept open the water to the edge of the pool, and disappeared in a flash. Almost at the same time, a warm yellow light suddenly appeared in the center, and a faint spark first poked its head, and then spread wildly to the surroundings with a spark that can ignite the prairie fire, and at the moment of "whew", Yan Bo, who was leaning on the edge of the pool, was overturned by the heat wave, and rolled to my side like a ball.
This time, the flames were not at all the same as before, they were beyond my expectations, and the heat wave hit my face firmly, and I could almost feel the stinging sensation of my skin and flesh being steamed by the high temperature. The stone chamber is not big, and if such a flame burns, let alone be burned to death, even if it can hold on, it will eventually die of lack of oxygen.
A few strands of thinning hair on Yan Bo's head had curled slightly, and the temperature was obvious.
"Well, did you think of any exit?"
"Even if there is, it is not written down in the book, and it is estimated that this time, we will have to die with the fan bones......"
I looked left and right anxiously, the whole person became irritable as soon as the temperature was high, and Yan Bo's words seemed to add fuel to the fire, making me completely lose my normal thoughts, and I was forced to force myself to calm down, there is still hope, after all, there is no endless road......
Sky...... Sky! Topmost!
Didn't you think that the soil quality above the traces of the Big Dipper was a little different, maybe there was an exit above!
I asked Yan Bo to stand in the corner, away from the pool, no, the fire pool, while I tried to find a way to get to the top.
I haven't learned much kung fu before, and the only thing I can say is the tai chi I practiced with my grandparents before, and I didn't teach the eaves to walk the wall.
As soon as the fire lit up, the entire stone chamber was illuminated very clearly, and even the murals on the walls that had never been noticed before began to appear. The place above was no longer in the middle of the fire pool, and was slightly off, and I made a quick run to the first door, and moved the stones that had tumbled off the ground to my feet, one by one.
As soon as the stone comes into contact with the flame, the temperature gradually begins to rise. Fortunately, the shoes are insulated and don't feel anything. The stones are not square, and it is inevitable that they will be a little shaky when stepping on them, but they can still stabilize the center of gravity by holding on to the wall. I grabbed the stone from the other door with one hand, and smashed the stone in the other hand upwards.
Upward force and downward force are completely different situations, and no matter how hard you try, the force cannot completely penetrate the soil. However, the previous judgment was indeed not wrong, and the soil here is indeed much looser than the one next to it. (To be continued.) )