Chapter 58 on the Secret Passage

The "click" of the balance mechanism on the west side was like a victory bell announcing our liberation, and after being trapped in this cramped burial chamber for more than 20 hours, we finally saw a glimmer of light. All four scales were in a locked and stationary state, and after about half a minute, suddenly the four scales were placed, and the stone slabs sank downward, and all four mechanisms sank to the ground, and I watched the scales sink to the soles of my feet, and then the four stone slabs reversed, and the four mechanisms were locked in the ground. We can no longer see the four scale-like devices on the ground, we can only hear by sound, all the night pearls in the scales have fallen out, and we don't know what is rolling deeper in the ground, maybe because there is a certain space under our feet, so when the night pearl rolls, it makes a loud noise.

Finally, the rolling sound of the night pearl was inaudible, and I don't know if it was because they had stopped, or if they had rolled deeper, and it was quiet for about three or four minutes, and we heard a faint crisp sound coming from the wall, which was the sound of the clip of the mechanism being opened, and the sound was getting closer and closer, and finally we saw that the painting on the wall suddenly rolled up, and behind the painting was a small open door, and the door was slightly bright.

"So we're here." Yun Ximing said with emotion.

Because the upper layer almost hit this poisonous ancient painting, my uncle and I took down the painting on the previous layer, to this layer no one dared to approach this painting, but I didn't expect that we want to find the secret door hidden behind the ancient painting, it seems that the person who designed this ancient tomb is not only at the peak of the manufacturing of machinery and machinery, but also very good at the psychology of people, even if someone is lucky not to be poisoned on the upper layer, he will have doubts about the ancient painting and will never be touched again.

Although we all rejoiced silently in our hearts when the secret door was opened, behind this small door, in the endless path that emitted a faint light, I didn't know what was waiting for us, and I couldn't help but worry in my heart. I looked around, I didn't see the shadow of Ji Ziyang, I had a good rest last night, I was sure that my yin and yang technique had been restored, I was sure that Ji Ziyang was indeed not around, I thought he must have gone to the secret passage first. Sure enough, as soon as I was thinking this, I saw Ji Ziyang come out of the secret passage, but his appearance was not good, and his body turned into a strange translucent color.

"There are a lot of soul steading talismans in this secret passage, which are worse than the unlucky flower juice, I am halfway there, there should be no problem, the rest of you have to explore by yourself, I will see if I can bypass it from below." Before I could react, Ji Ziyang flashed and shrank underground, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, sometimes it's actually good to be a ghost.

I told everyone what Ji Ziyang said, and Dazhe asked and was scared, "I said Yin Yin, is there any danger in the soul suppression talisman, will there be anything strange, how can we run......" Dazhe's chatter came up again.

"Fat man, can you have a little interest, don't worry, the soul suppression charm only suppresses ghosts and demons, not against fat people." Yun Ximing said.

Suddenly Uncle Lu raised his hand and made a quiet gesture, we quickly closed our mouths, listened quietly, all eyes were fixed on the secret door, only to hear the sound of "silk" coming from the secret passage inside the secret door, different from the sound of the snake spitting out the core, this sound is like the sound of something crawling on the ground and rubbing out.

The sound of "silk" is getting clearer and clearer, and it is getting closer and closer to us.

"Attention, everyone, it's coming." Yun Ximing whispered, indeed listening to the sound, the thing was behind the secret door in front of us, and the sound of "silk" continued, but the secret door in front of us was empty and there was nothing. But that sensational voice was clearly in front of me.

"Oh my god, it's on the wall." Dazhe suddenly took a step back and sat down on the ground.

We looked up, and sure enough, a black behemoth appeared on the wall above the small secret door, because we had taken down many night pearls on the wall, so the light became less bright, and we couldn't see what kind of monster it was, it was huge, black, crawling forward along the edge of the wall, and the black appearance looked a bit like a flattened snake, but the head and tail of the snake could not be seen. The thing crawled very fast, and seemed to ignore us, and saw that the head of the thing entered the same passage where we came, but there was no tail in sight on the side of the secret door.

"How long is this thing?" Dazhe asked me cautiously, and I shook my head, indicating that I didn't know either. Finally, after a minute or so, the tail of the thing was revealed, and soon the thing retracted into the corridor and went to the upper burial chamber.

Dazhe collapsed on the ground, "Yin Yin, we're completely finished, now there are tigers in front and tigers in the back, how many are there in this small black alley, you said such a big guy, if he bites it, it's over." ”

"Dazhe, if I say that you have been bitten by it, how about you?" I asked.

"Huh?! No way?! Where's the bite?! Why don't I feel it?! Dazhe jumped up and looked around his whole body.

"Yin Yin, do you know what that thing was just now?" Yun Ximing asked me.

"Have you ever heard that in the big rivers or on the sea, there are often fishermen who claim to see the shadow of a sea monster, but after the research of scientists and marine biologists, it was found that those are not the shadows of sea monsters, but the strange irregular shadows formed by many small fish when they act in groups in order to protect themselves, which is the situation we just encountered."

"Yin Yin, are you saying that it wasn't a big guy just now, but countless small guys gathered together?" Dazhe asked.

"That's right."

"Yin girl, do you see what those are?" Uncle Lu asked.

"Well, when we first came in just now, the eggs on your body that were laid by those one-eyed bats, and the things that hatched, but they were bigger than yours......" Before I finished speaking, Dazhe had already begun to wave his hand to tell me not to say any more, his face was blue, obviously not very comfortable.

"It seems that there will be that kind of thing in this secret passage, so we all have to be careful." Uncle Lu said.

"Hey, Lao Lu, what do you mean, don't you mean that we still have to go in?!" Dazhe's voice almost collapsed.

"That's right, or you can try to go back, anyway, those just now may still be there, and there is still a blood gate in the back." Uncle said sternly.

"Go back?! Then you might as well move on. Dazhe carried the backpack hanging on the ground back to his body, and his face looked like he was at home.

"Let's go." Yun Ximing took the lead, and the four of us formed a line and slowly touched the secret passage behind the small door.