Chapter 236: Helpless
The Thousand Caves are also called the Thousand Corpses Cave.
For the Thousand Corpse Cave.
Jin An is no stranger.
This is his second thousand corpse caves.
Last time, it was a thousand corpse caves under the original spirit, and the surrounding environment did not have much impact on Jin'an.
But this time it's a thousand corpse caves under the flesh.
Everywhere you look, it's dark.
The torch in his hand could barely illuminate the water around the raft, and the water was dim, reflecting the dim light of the fire, and the walls of the cave on both sides and above the head were so dark that nothing could be seen.
It's like there's some kind of magnetic field in this cavern of a thousand corpses.
Makes the light illumination limited.
The cave of a thousand corpses is dark and deep, and not long after entering, I encountered a variety of complex terrain with curved branches, and when I looked back at the direction behind me, I couldn't see the light of the cave entrance for a long time.
Whoa, whoa, whoa—
In the silent cave waterways, only the sound of sparkling waves remains.
The water vapor in the cave is very humid.
I don't know if it's easy for people to have illusions in the dark, and they love to be nervous and fantasize about all kinds of pictures to scare themselves, and they always feel that there is a certain strange smell in this humid air.
I can't tell you what it smells like.
It was like the damp smell of green moss on both sides of the dark cave walls.
It's like the rotten smell of something.
Emanating from the dark walls of the cave and overhead that are not illuminated by torches.
Syllable!
There was an occasional strange sound from the cave walls on both sides of the torch illumination, like the crisp sound of water waves hitting the rock wall, and like some strange creature hidden in the darkness.
"Little brother, this is strange, as soon as we entered the cave, we couldn't find the gang of the river crossers......"
"It stands to reason that so many people are crammed into a boat, even if the lighting in the cave is not good, but there is always a human voice talking, let alone talking now, there is not even a panting sound, strange ......"
The old Taoist priest held a torch in his hand and tried to stretch out his arm, trying to illuminate what was in the darkness on both sides of the cave wall, but naturally he didn't see anything.
Instead, a wave of water came, and the old Taoist priest screamed in panic, and the person almost fell into the water, but fortunately, he sharpened his sword eye and was quick.
The old Taoist priest was so frightened that he squatted on the raft, and his legs were still a little weak for a while, but this time he sat down honestly and did not dare to stand on the edge of the raft anymore.
"Old Dao, you are weak, so let's stand honestly in the middle. ”
"Let the Sword Sharpener lead the way. ”
The old Taoist priest naturally had no opinion on Jin An's words.
Each of them had a torch, and after swapping positions, this time the sword was sharpened at the head of the raft, and the three of them stood in a line, with a line in the back, middle, and front.
"Sharpen the sword, can you find the river crosser and the feng shui man?"
Jin An held the penny and took the helm while asking to sharpen the sword.
According to the distance measured by Jin An with a penny, this black rumbling cave is about one and a half zhang, and the distance from the top of the head is about two people high.
There are three or four people in the depth, and the penny can't hold up to the end.
People looked at the bottom of the water through the water, and there was only pitch black, and the water was a little dark, and I was really a little worried that a dead corpse would suddenly float up, soaked white and rotten.
At this time, three forks appeared in front of the cave, and Jin An entered the leftmost fork according to his memory.
As a result, as soon as we entered the fork in the road, two other forks appeared.
It didn't take long for five forks in the road to emerge this time.
This is the powerful ecstasy array of the Thousand Corpses Cave, which is more complicated than the fork in the mine.
Hundreds of caves are interlocking.
It's an underwater labyrinth.
Fortunately, they have a partial map of the Thousand Corpses Cave, and this moisture-proof sheepskin map was still given to each of them by the Captain when he was in the Dragon King Temple.
Sharpening the sword: "Master, the apprentice didn't see anyone else. ”
The old Taoist priest almost fell into the water just now, and now he was still sitting in the middle of the raft with some weak legs, holding a torch in his hand and looking back at Jin An, who was in charge of holding the helm behind him: "Little brother, are you sure that last time you and the abbot of the White Dragon Temple, Yuan Shen went out of the body to explore the Thousand Corpses Cave, it was this cave that you entered?"
"Lao Dao, I thought that little brother, you followed up because you suspected the river crosser and Mr. Feng Shui, and suspected that they were all antique dealers. ”
Jin An looked at the darkness on both sides of the cave, and said in thought: "There is still a little difference between the Yin Yi River under the flesh and the Yin Yi River under the Yuan Shen, the dark environment in this Thousand Corpses Cave has a strange atmosphere, even I can't see too far, I don't know if I have taken the wrong path......
In a dark cavern.
The sound of the water.
The raft drifted with the current, swaying.
At this time, the old Taoist priest, who had stabilized his mind, continued to sit on the raft, and then took out his yin and yang compass and began to position, but the compass turned chaotically.
It has lost its effect since entering the Thousand Corpses Cave.
I can't tell the difference between southeast and northwest.
"No, there are magnets in this mountain that affect the compass. The old Taoist priest put away the compass with some discouragement.
The cave was silent and empty.
Where the torch can't be lit, I always feel gloomy.
Even though the old Taoist priest had deliberately lowered his voice, every time he spoke, he could produce an echo in the silent cave, as if several people were talking at the same time in the darkness that could not be illuminated by torches.
Not to mention how oppressive the atmosphere was.
The old Taoist priest didn't even dare to breathe too loudly.
I'm afraid that a bloody corpse will suddenly jump down from the top of my head, or there will be a corpse underwater, and the boat will capsize the raft or something.
"Mother, people love to think crankily in the dark!" the old Taoist priest muttered in his heart, and the expression on his face became even more nervous.
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"Little brother, why don't you see the color of this water?"
"It's blood!"
The old Taoist priest shouted in a panic.
Mother, this is a thousand corpse caves.
Blood appeared in the Thousand Corpse Cave.
Aren't they the exorcists who advanced to the cave?
"Master, there's something floating in the water......
Standing at the forefront, the sharpening sword first noticed that there was an abnormality in the water, and the three of them saw a lot of snake python corpses floating in the river.
The corpses of those snake pythons were each as thick as human arms, and the snake scales were colorful, and they were extremely poisonous at first glance.
"Mother, where did so many snake pythons come from in this Thousand Corpse Cave, and I don't know how much dead human flesh I ate in this Thousand Corpse Cave to grow such a big head. ”
The old Taoist priest exclaimed in surprise.
"Little brother, when you and the abbot of the White Dragon Temple first came, did you see so many snakes?"
Jin An's brows furrowed.
"We were out of the body and went directly into the Thousand Corpses Cave from the water, and the paper-cutting people had no body temperature, so it is estimated that they did not wake up these poisonous snakes, so the first time I went down to the Thousand Corpses Cave, I was very calm all the way, and I didn't encounter anything abnormal. ”
"I estimate that these snake pythons have been breeding in the dark Thousand Corpse Cave all year round, swimming to the depths of the cave when the flow is broken, and swimming out again after the water level rises back. ”
The old Taoist priest listened to Jin An's words, and said worriedly: "When the Yinyi River was cut off for the first time, someone saw the dead floating corpses in the Thousand Corpses Cave. ”
"But we haven't seen the floating corpse yet, and we haven't entered the cave yet, when we first encountered so many snake pythons, snakes like yin, so how heavy should the yin qi in the depths of this thousand corpse cave be?"
With Jin An propping penny.
The raft continued in the dark.
There are more and more snake pythons encountered along the way, all of them are poisonous snake pythons that grew up eating dead human flesh, these snake python corpses are floating on the water, turning over their white bellies, roughly estimated, there are not thousands, but hundreds.
There are so many of them that it makes your scalp tingle.
The smell of blood lingered in the closed cavern for a long time.
"With so much blood, I'm worried that I'm worried about whether I'll lure out some big guy in the depths of the Thousand Corpse Cave? Snake blood belongs to yin, and it is the favorite thing of yin and evil things. This is what the old Taoist priest is really worried about.
"I don't know which exorcist is so murderous, this is to slaughter all the people up and down, even a newborn snake. ”
"It seems that my crow's mouth during the day today is going to come true, and this time this moth is going to come out!"
The old Taoist's worries were exactly what Jin An was worried about.
"This man is either stupid or stupid, he has killed so many snake pythons, and the smell of blood will really attract something big when the time comes, and even he can't run away. Smelling blood all the way, Jin An's brows became tighter and tighter.
He kept looking at the darkness around him.
Alert.
However, the only good news is that they can explore the cave much faster by water.
"What's wrong with the little brother, why did you stop suddenly?"
When he came to a fork in the road again, the old Taoist priest felt that the raft under him suddenly stopped, and turned his head to look at Jin An who was holding the penny.
As a result, Jin An slashed his sword Nunu's mouth.
It turned out that the sharpening sword that had been leading the way with the map in front of him had put away the parchment map at this time.
"Master, the map is useless here. ”
Jin An: "Sharpen the sword, do you see anything, which fork in the road should we take?"
Sharpening the sword thought for a while: "Master, you go to the leftmost fork and try it." ”
When Jin An reached the fork in the road, he sharpened his sword to stop him, then sharpened his sword and squatted down, dipped a few drops of water in the water, and put it in his mouth to taste it.
Then let Jin An stop at each fork in the road, dip a few drops of water in turn and put it in his mouth to taste.
Finally, sharpen the sword and count the third fork to the left: "Master, only the water here is living water." ”
The old Taoist priest gave the sharpening sword a thumbs up.
Cowhide.
Jin An immediately propped himself up and entered this fork in the road.
"Sharpen the sword, why are you so sure that you are going this way?"
"I don't know, but I subconsciously feel that it's right to go here. ”
"Good apprentice. "Jin An is not the one who breaks the casserole and asks to the end, as long as there is a way.
Next, Jin An and the old Taoist priest trusted the sword to lead the way throughout the whole process, and walked through one fork in the road after another, which is also strange to say.
I didn't even run into a single person along the way.
The cave was always dead and empty, and it was only them on the raft, and I don't know if the others were lost and couldn't find the right way, or if they were progressing faster than them.
Suddenly.
There was a dead silence, and in the dead darkness, there was a pop, like the sound of falling water, which interrupted Jin An's contemplation.
"What sound?"
"Looks like it's coming from overhead?"
The old Taoist priest immediately tensed his nerves, holding a torch in his hand and looking nervously above his head.
Xunsheng advanced more than a little way, but a green-faced fanged thing appeared on the top of the cave, and the old Taoist priest was so frightened that his scalp exploded!
Mother!
Fortunately, the old Taoist priest was bold, and he didn't scream out loud, and when he saw that the thing was motionless, he took a torch and took a closer look, and the green-faced fanged thing was not an evil corpse, a dead person, but a tomb beast statue.
Tomb Beast?
Sure enough, there is a big tomb in this Yinyi River!
The old Taoist priest said in surprise.