At this critical juncture, Li Monan flashed out of the side compartment, took out the gun in his hand and raised it, "whoosh" a bullet to shoot, the jade slave whip had already been swung, no matter how fast she moved, she didn't have time to block the whip back, but when she heard the bullet breaking the wind, as soon as she turned around, the shot was hitting her shoulder, knocking her down to the ground.

Although Jin Daya's knife technique is ruthless, the fat man and Yang Xuan can still deal with it, but this jade slave is so fast and ferocious that he can hardly let jackals, tigers and leopards, and it can be said that he is the most difficult character under Wang Dashao to deal with. Fortunately, Li Monan shot her down, which was equivalent to getting rid of a henchman, but when she looked at the jade slave who fell to the ground, she actually bit the bullet with her teeth, Yang Xuan was taken aback, and hurriedly told Li Monan to be careful!

This jade slave is more agile than a leopard, Yang Xuan asked Li Monan to "be careful" before she could say anything, she had already shook her head and spit out the neutron bullet, drew a circle with the long whip in her hand, and the tip of the whip was whipped towards Li Monan, and at the same time, her waist and abdomen stood up, and she jumped up from the ground. Li Monan used the table in front of him to block forward, and the long whip rolled the table in front of him together, and it was instantly torn to pieces, but Li Monan grabbed the braid with his side hand, but he didn't expect this girl to be so angry, she couldn't help herself, and was dragged by the jade slave whip and stumbled. Yang Xuan and the fat man shouted and cursed, and each sapper shoveled and rushed towards the jade slave. Li Monan was in danger, the long whip that was loosened in his hand was lifted, and he raised his hand to shoot again. Yunu was trapped among three people, with Li Monan's pistol on one side, and Yang Xuan and the fat man slapping at her sapper shovel in the other two directions, no matter how great her ability was, it was impossible to dodge the combined attack of these three people at the same time. Just when this room was not allowed to be released, I saw the long whip in her hand thrown towards the roof and wrapped up the red willow beam above. The figure lifted upward, and jumped onto the roof beam on a high place with the help of strength.

The fat man scolded angrily: "Lao Tzu, I can't see if you can still fly to the sky!" The sapper shovel in his hand flung upwards and threw it at the jade slave on the roof. The sound of the sapper breaking through the wind "whined" loudly, and it was going to fly to a person, enough to cut off half of his head.

The jade slave crouched on the roof beam, saw the fat sapper shovel fly up, dodged to the side, the sapper shovel knocked out a hole in the roof, and the sand fell one after another. All fell on the head of the jade slave, and she hurriedly raised her hand to cover her eyes. Yang Xuan greeted the fat man and Li Monan and shouted, "Take advantage of her blindness." Let's take her down first! ”

The roof beam was more than three zhang high from the ground, and Yang Xuan didn't have the two strokes of the jade slave, so he ran over directly, stepped on the shoulder of the big gold tooth and jumped up. Hold on to the drapery hanging from the roof. He borrowed his strength from the pillar to go up, reached out to the roof beam, and then climbed up.

Li Monan was worried that he had made a mistake, so he took out the flying tiger claw and hooked the girder, and was about to come up to respond, but the fat man over there was also anxious, and before Li Monan went up, he grabbed the rope of the flying tiger claw first. Climbed up with both hands and feet, and climbed for a long time without moving. Hanging in the air and dangling, the wooden beam "creaked" when it fell, and Li Monan exclaimed: "Come down quickly, the roof beam is going to break!" ”

The main beam of the big house is made of the whole red willow wood, which is extremely strong, but the big house is buried under the yellow sand for thousands of years, and the rafters of the roof have been decayed.

The sound of the rafters breaking resounded in his ears, and when Gu Lajie saw that the roof beam was about to collapse, he quickly jumped down. Li Monan also collected the Flying Tiger Claw, and retreated under the rammed earth wall with the big golden tooth to avoid being hit by the falling giant beam.

Unexpectedly, the roof had already broken two big holes, and the wind poured in, and the roof with broken rafters was lifted into the sky, and in a blink of an eye, it was torn into countless pieces by the strong wind, and it flew around in a whirlwind. The rainstorm and the knife-like whirlwind instantly engulfed a piece of the big house, but listening to the torrential rain and howling wind, the top section of the sand wall was yellow, the deeper the color became, the closer it was to the ground, it was almost black, the wind was rolling up with the fallen leaves, the stones and sand flew up, and the dense raindrops covered the sky, and the situation was like the sky had fallen. The jade slave and the red willow beam were swept out by the wind and sand, like a giant dragon flying into the air.

After all, the wooden beams were heavy, and they only turned twice in the wind before falling out of the house again. When everyone saw that the big house could not stay, and there was no place for the big golden tooth, only the dead stunned baby lay on the ground, and was soon buried by the wind and sand, so they picked up the explosives and sapper shovels thrown by the big gold tooth, and quickly climbed out of the rammed earth wall.

The torrential rain and strong wind were raging in the tomb, and everyone couldn't raise their heads, hunched and moved forward, at this time, even if Yang Xuan and Li Monan, one hundred and twenty were very worried about Lin Xiaofan, they could only take care of themselves first. And both of them believe that Lin Xiaofan will be fine. She's so smart, so cute, she's going to be fine.

The world is not good, everyone is more afraid of snakes in the water, and everyone is covered with mud. Head to the depths of this ancient tomb. And here because of the heavy rain, it is basically leaking, and several people are basically in the muddy water, walking for a long time, and the last five people

Desperate, he saw a place to escape the torrential rain, and immediately rushed in.

took out a signal torch, pulled down the pull ring, and with a "bang", the white fireworks illuminated the snow in front of him. Originally, under the arched door opening in front, there was a corridor that extended downward. A thought popped up at Gu Lajie: "This is an ancient tomb?" "But then I think about it, there will never be an ancient tomb built under the house of the people who live here...... Everyone walked a few steps forward, and saw that there were many reliefs with strong religious colors in the road, and it seemed that this was a temple.

Gu Lajie was worried that Wang Dashao's tomb robbers would catch up, so he took a step and looked back. I don't know what the place is ahead, but there are wolves in front and tigers in the back. Thinking of the horror of the pheasant's neck, Yijing, as well as the long whip like the ghost of the jade slave and the agile skill like the leopard, all felt frightened. The wind blew her into the air along with the wooden beams and fell again, and it didn't necessarily kill her.

Gu Lajie grabbed Yang Xuan and discussed: "Brother Yang, isn't this Wang Dashao here just for the treasures here?" He is like a mad dog for this thing, and we can't see anyone like him. In my opinion, if we just give him all the jewels here, then he can't be grateful to us? After all, they are all acquaintances, and harmony is the most important thing in everything. ”

Yang Xuan said: "Gulajie, you are really a coward, where has you not yet arrived, you have the heart to write a book and a smooth table?" Don't you see the big gold tooth, I'm afraid that the treasure here will be in hand. He's going to slaughter us all one by one! Having said that, we don't have anything of value in our hands. If there is, it is the map here, and this map is the only advantage we have at the moment. We have a relationship with them as friends and enemies, and we are bound to become fire and water, so you must give up hope of peace talks as soon as possible, and you must be determined to deal with them to the end. Besides, who are our brothers, they are all masters who are against the wind. If you don't share it with him, he really doesn't know who Lao Tzu is! ”

Gu Lajie said: "But everyone is armed to the teeth, and our brother can't make a few broken pistols for everyone." What are you going to do with other people's lives! People are full of foreign guns, foreign guns, machine guns, don't forget how the Boxers failed in the year of Gengzi! ”

Black Motian said: "None of us will forget the lessons of history, but as a commander, we must be good at judging and analyzing the situation anytime and anywhere. Listen to me give you an analysis. How can we turn disadvantages into advantages and reactive into proactive? This requires us to stretch our legs longer and run faster, and we must tell our comrades not to be afraid to run away, and to mobilize the masses while fleeing, so that the other side will fall into the vast sea of people's war! ”

The fat man said: "You are also, and it is not just a word - escape!" ”

Li Monan said: "The biggest danger we face is not the heavily armed kings and young people, but the cockscomb snakes here. If we get out of here, we'll be buried in the mud right away. I'm afraid that after this rain, the weather will be warm, and when it comes to this snake, how many baby snakes will hatch out. If you don't go out, there will be snake cubs in the eight layers of muddy water. If you can't get out, it's a dead end. ”

Li Monan groaned slightly, and said to everyone: "Guess what I suddenly remembered? ”

The fat man said, "Your head grows on you, I know what you think?" ”

The Black Demon Heaven said: "Little Brother Li must have a high opinion, hurry up and say it!" ”

Li Monan said: "I thought of ...... Fish! ”

The fat man said, "What fish?" West Lake vinegar fish or braised flounder? ”

Li Monan: "When I mention it here, it must be the grilled fish in the prince's house, but what use do you want to do, you can't eat it just by thinking about it!" ”

Yang Xuan said: "If you talk about fish, you have to say that it is a flat fish, one flat, two net and three collapsed!" ”

The fat man said: "Don't say one flat, two clean and three collapsed, at this time, you will give me a fathead fish that grows up ****, I can call you my father!" ”

Li Monan found that he was with the fat man and Yang Xuan, and basically couldn't say a serious word: "Why did even the fathead fish come out, it looks like a fathead fish!" ”

The fat man said, "Isn't that the fish you mentioned first?" What exactly do you mean? ”

Li Monan said: "I mean, who eats fish? ”

The fat man said, "Have you let the wind blow your head, no one knows who eats fish, cats eat fish!" ”

Yang Xuan interjected and said: "Hey, I really let you say, our cat doesn't eat fish, if you want to say that our cat, it's really not an ordinary cat, our cat, it's a wolf and a tiger, it's not clay when jumping up the mountain and stream, and when it comes to Panjiayuan, someone gave five hundred and five, and I didn't want to sell it." ”

The fat man said, "Oh, how much does that cost?" ”

Li Monan said helplessly: "I can't talk to the two of you."

, After talking for a long time, there is no damn word useful, I really don't know what you think! Lin Xiaofan thought about it, don't talk nonsense with them, turned his head to ask the Black Demon Heaven, and before he could speak, the Black Demon Heaven said to him: "By the way, aren't there fish patterns on those clay pots and jade plates in the prince's mansion just now?" ”

Li Monan said: "Yes, the people in this place must often eat fish, but in this muddy water, where do the fish come from?" ”

The fat man said, "Yo, isn't it the same thing we are talking about?" How did you say this, and what did you think about? I said you two are stupid, of course there were fish in this river before, but there are so many snakes here, they have already eaten all of them. It's still a matter of thinking about it. ”

Li Monan ignored the fat man and continued to say to the Black Demon Heaven: "There were also many oases with abundant water and grass in the Mu Us Desert back then, maybe thousands of years ago, there were lakes and rivers here, if there was not enough water source, it would definitely not be able to support such a large city. ”

Black Demon Heaven said: "I look at the shape and structure of this Spirit Dragon City, there should be no rivers around, because once there is a war, the enemy army surrounds the city, and the people in the city can only sit and wait to die, without water, the soldiers and civilians of the city will have to die of thirst." Therefore, for an ancient city of this size, the main water source must be in the city. ”

Yang Xuan said: "Of course, the water source in the city comes from wells. ”

The fat man said, "Will there be such a big fish in the well?" ”

The Black Demon Sky said, "Maybe the well leads directly to the Dark River, which is one of the nine rivers we are looking for. As long as you enter the dark river from the well, you can avoid the cockscomb snake and the tomb robbers, and you can cross the dark river. Go straight to the Linglong Dungeon! ”

When everyone said this, their spirits were lifted, and finding the dark river not only meant that they could get rid of the pursuers, but more importantly, they could replenish their drinking water. But the ancient city has been hidden by swamps for so many years, and there is no map here, how to determine the location of the well?

Li Monan said: "This mound-like large earthen platform. Located in the middle of the imperial city, it is very important, and this road has been going down. If I'm right, there must be a direct river down here. ”

The group quickened their pace, opened the way with the light of the signal torch, and walked to the depths of the road. It seems to have entered a vaulted temple. At least the size of a football field. The white phosphorescent light of the torch, though bright and dazzling, could not illuminate the entire temple. The walls of the temple are coated with white plaster, and there are layers of water ripples on it, but in fact there is no water here, and the further down you go, the driest the ground beneath, and the ground has a thick layer of sand. It's not like water at all.

And the further you go inside, the drier the ground becomes. I couldn't see the rain at all. The ground slowly turned from dirt to sand, and I looked at the sand that was dry without a drop of water. Everyone felt like they were in a dream.

Even if there is quicksand, then there will be no snakes here, after all, snakes don't like such dry places.

But they don't walk in muddy water, they feel a lot more comfortable.

The group did not dare to be careless, holding a single gun and a sapper shovel, walked in step by step, holding high the signal torch, and irradiated the surroundings. See that there is a large stone platform at each of the four corners, and the surrounding area is painted with a human-faced fish pattern, the style is bizarre, and it has never been seen before.

On each stone platform are two boat-shaped coffins, in which are dried corpses wrapped in fish skin, a man and a woman, with their heads roughly facing east, both leaning on their backs and straight. The fish skin that wraps the dead corpse shows a curly moire mechanism as a whole, and the corners are spliced with fine scale fish skin, and the fish line is stitched between them, which retains the dorsal fin of the fish skin, and the corpse tightly wrapped by the fish skin only exposes the head, the face is distorted, and it still maintains the appearance of struggle and despair before life.

In the middle of the main hall is a rectangular hole, about two meters long, about one meter wide, the hole is made of boulders, the wind is gusting below, there is a foul smell, look down, the bottom is not visible, and the sound of water can not be heard.

The fat man said, "This is the well you are talking about?" ”

"** is not far from ten, at least the entrance to the dark river".

Right here, originally, the groggy thunder, but it seemed to be a lot better all of a sudden, and finally, he opened his half-open eyes, and he hadn't spoken for a long time. It opened up suddenly

In the past, the mouth of the well was round, but the rectangular shaft was very rare, and through the narrow shaft, there seemed to be a very large cave underneath.

Put the signal torch into the wellhead, only to see the dazzling light cluster slowly falling, visually from the wellhead to the bottom of the cave not less than forty or fifty meters, the ropes in everyone's backpack together should be able to reach this distance, and it is certain that there is no water below, and the dark river is no longer there. The fat man sat down, stuck out his tongue and licked his chapped lips, and said, "One person only has such a small half pot of water, and if he can't find the dark river, he will really die of thirst." Since it's a dead end, then I'll have to drink it first. As he spoke, he unscrewed the lid of the marching kettle, and demanded to drink the half pot of water as if he were ruthless. He was so excited that the kettle fell to the ground, he quickly got up, licked the sand with his tongue, I grabbed the back collar of his clothes, pulled him up from the ground, and pushed him aside: "Isn't it thirstier if you eat a mouthful of sand?" ”

The fat man came over and said, "Boss Hei, there is no turning back when we come to this point, let's not hesitate, I'll close my eyes first, and you will follow." He put away the guy in his hand, and picked up the wolf-eye flashlight, which was about to put the rope down. At this time, I suddenly heard Li Heinan say: "You guys take a look at this first." The fat man turned his head and saw that he was shining a wolf-eye flashlight on the stone platform where the dried fish-skinned corpses were placed. Black Demon Tian and the fat man Yang Xuan and Lei Ming walked over, not knowing what to see on the stone platform where the dried corpses of fish skins were placed. Li Monan said: "Those dried corpses should have been wrapped in fish skin and placed in this big temple before they died, and the heavy rain and sediment buried the ancient city, and the soldiers and civilians in the city were buried alive, so no one paid attention to them anymore, and they were dried alive into salted fish, and the taste of waiting for death here was not very comfortable." ”

Gullager said: "These men and women do not know what wrongs they have committed to be punished by death. ”

Lei Ming said: "If you want me to say that this is a broken shoe, look at this pair of pairs, isn't it exactly four pairs, just let people catch rape!" ”

The fat man said, "How do you think that a play is a play, why do you say that people break their shoes?" I'm not afraid that the ghost here will not go away, and the ghost will bite you. ”

Li Monan said: "Don't guess, this is a temple, and the dried corpses in the coffin are used to worship the cave god...... The fruit of the living! ”

The fat man said, "Brother Li, we are all dying of thirst here, can you stop mentioning any more fruits." ”

Li Monan said: "The fruit of the living person is a living person who is used to sacrifice to the cave god!" ”

The fat man said, "Then I will know, take the living as the fruit of the offering, it turns out that this is called the fruit of the living!" ”

Yang Xuan asked Li Monan: "What is the cave god?" Can you still eat people? ”

Li Monan said: "This is a temple in the ancient city, judging from the relief carvings on the stone platform, for thousands of years, the soldiers and civilians in the ancient city of Yuansha have fed on the fish in this holy well. In their opinion, the fish should have been eaten by the cave god, so they had to wrap the living people in fish skin and throw them into the holy well year after year to appease the wrath of the cave god. ”

Lei Ming said: "The ancients were superstitious, where there is a cave god, but since there are fish in this holy well, there must be a dark river, which shows that the route we chose is correct." ”

Li Heinan said: "The eight dead bodies wrapped in fish skin on the stone platform are ready to be thrown down the holy well for the cave god to eat. But there are no temples in this world, and those who throw them down fall into the dark river, and most of them are eaten by fish. People eat fish, and fish eat people, which is probably the most simple and intuitive understanding of nature by the ancients. ”

"Perhaps, there is no fish at the bottom, wouldn't it be to sacrifice this live to the cockscomb snake" The Black Demon Heaven couldn't help but remind the earth

"Even if there's a cockscomb snake down there, we don't have a choice, do we?" Li Monan said

Today, there is neither a dark river nor a school of fish under the holy well. Everyone has to risk their lives to cross this dark river and go to the Linglong Palace, maybe Xiao Fan is there, without further ado, he should set off immediately. As soon as Yang Xuan turned around, he saw the dense water ripples on the temple wall, and his heart moved: "Is it really water ripples?" ”

At that time, he didn't think much about it, and he was worried that Wang Dashao would chase him with his group of dog people, and the five people immediately connected the long rope, the fat man bore the brunt, and the other three went down to the bottom of the cave one by one along the long rope. The fat man pulled out the signal torch in his hand to illuminate it, but saw that there were fine quicksand under his feet, stepping on and sinking, and the rock wall dozens of meters above his head was shaped like a dome, and the layers of giant rock folds were enough to prove that there had been at least hundreds of millions of years here. The massive cavern stretched forward, and the wolf's eye flashlight was far away.

This huge and unfathomable cavern, although open, is unusually hot, and there is a pungent fishy smell floating in the cave.

The Black Demon Heaven said: "Thunder, you have a good nose, what do you smell this?" ”

Lei Ming sniffed vigorously with his nose, choking his mouth to vomit, and said, "Black boss, here is the smell of dead fish!" ”

Yang Xuan frowned and said, "The cave is full of quicksand, and there is not a drop of water, where did the dead fish come from?" Is it full of snakes down there?"

Li Heinan said: "Maybe thousands of years ago, when there was a dark river, the smell of those dead fish in the cave had not dissipated. "Everyone is full of unknowns below, and they can't help but feel a little panicked.

The Black Devil took out the compass and checked the directions. The cave is in an east-west trend, if it is expected, as long as you go west, you can reach the Linglong Kingdom Palace, he said: "This is a big sand cave, go ahead and beware of the quicksand." ”

Everyone did not dare to take it lightly, and each put a long rope into his belt, and the five of them were connected in a string, each equipped with a carrying lamp tube, and moved forward cautiously.

The fat man who opened the road in front of him said to himself: "There is no water, and there are no fish, what is this called a dark river?" Judging from this situation, let alone a thousand years ago, there would have been no fish 10,000 years ago, it was obviously a huge quicksand cave! By the way, is this the quicksand river, I don't know if there will be a sand monk" He just spoke, stepped on the quicksand and fell on a big horse. He was afraid of falling into the quicksand and hurriedly struggled, but he felt that there was something under the sand, and when he took it out and looked at it, he was dumbfounded.

(To be continued.) )