Chapter 40: About Smiling
Chapter 40 is about laughter
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The red dots around them came up again, and it seemed that this time they were going to surround us in the middle, so they all stopped in place, and I looked at the necklace in my hand, it was not a vulgar thing, maybe these one-eyed bats who don't know their names were afraid of my necklace. I took off my necklace and took a step forward with it, and sure enough, the red dots shrank back to reveal a gap like the ebb tide of the sea, and I was overjoyed that there was a door.
But the situation is still not optimistic, as long as my hand holding the necklace is slightly retracted, there will be a large red dot around it, I looked at the condition of the three of them, Yun Ximing's arm has been swollen three times as thick as the original, it looks like a bear's paw, and the eggs waiting to hatch under the skin are about to move, waiting to break out of the shell. The other wounds on Yun Ximing's body also worsened Yan zhòng. Uncle Lu and Dazhe are both injured in their legs, so there is no way to walk now, and if they want to move, they can only rely on climbing. I can't bring all three of the wounded out by myself, but I know that as soon as I leave the encirclement, the three of them will be instantly overwhelmed by these red dots, turning into hatching ovaries, and it is estimated that they will soon be like those skeletons at the door. I looked at the blue necklace in my hand, the blue liquid inside glowing faintly blue, and suddenly a plan came to my mind.
There is still nearly a whole bottle of liquid in this chain, and if I drip this liquid on the ground, at the current distance, I don't know if it will be enough to pave a way for the three of them to escape?! I thought to myself, for the first time, I felt so close to death, and that death came from a decision I made, a decision to give up my life. It occurred to me that maybe my grandmother was right not to let me go to the tomb, and my first trip to the tomb was going to end with my self-sacrifice.
I hesitated with the necklace in my hand, and suddenly remembered the familiar cold voice in my ears.
"Don't be impulsive, don't do stupid things." Ji Ziyang's voice suddenly remembered, because the surrounding light was very dark, only Dazhe's watch still emitted a faint cold light, so Ji Ziyang definitely didn't see the tears in my eyes. I almost roared out that sentence.
"Damn old ghost! Where did you just die! Yun Ximing and the three of them were startled by my strange behavior at first, but they quickly reacted to what was happening, and they didn't say anything, waiting to listen to my instructions.
"I'm going to find your way." Ji Ziyang said that his current image is very wolf, almost the most wolf bèi I have ever seen, his upper body is exposed, the lower half of his body is hidden in the soil, he is climbing up from the ground, and he really looks like a ghost's style. The ancient tomb was littered with the juice of the flowers from the other side, and Ji Ziyang's figure became more blurred, and his death began to be revealed, and the places where the long steel needles had once pierced were now red spots, as if blood was oozing out.
"What did you find? How is it so wolf bèi. I saw that he was crawling hard, so I stepped forward and dragged him out, he stood up straight and looked at Uncle Lu and them.
"And say I'm a wolf, you guys are no better, come on, do me a favor, dig down." Ji Ziyang pointed to the rhizomes of the vines on the ground and made a digging motion at me.
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"I'm here to help, too, my hands are still usable." Uncle Lu said and took out a pair of folded sapper shovels from his backpack, but Ji Ziyang waved his hand.
"Sue him, don't use tools, use hands!"
I relayed Ji Ziyang's original words to my uncle, Uncle Lu nodded, and dug with my hands together, and while we dig, Ji Ziyang explained his findings to us.
According to Ji Ziyang's speculation, he discovered some laws of survival, a unique ecological law that only belongs to this ancient tomb. When we first discovered these red dots, Ji Ziyang saw what they looked like, but Ji Ziyang didn't know what they were, but he noticed a detail, these red dots always hung from top to bottom, and did not touch the ground, and now they are also around, and they are also hanging one by one from top to bottom. From this, Ji Ziyang judged that maybe there was something on the ground that made them very afraid. Ji Ziyang lay on the ground for a long time and didn't find it, so with his own advantages, he went into the ground, only to find the clues, the roots of these plants seem to be very mysterious, maybe those red dots are afraid of things. But on the other hand, they like to eat the leaves of these laughing grasses, and in order to avoid the rhizomes that they are afraid of, they use the mucus they secrete to stick these leaves and vines to the walls of the ancient tomb, and over time they have formed the present scene.
The slimy slime on these vines seems to be exactly the same as the slime on the one-eyed bats.
Strange to say, these laughing vines are not very strong, and the ground under the rhizomes has no green bricks or stone slabs, it is a solid dirt soil, very flat, and because of the moisture, the soil is loose, even if you dig with your bare hands. Yun Ximing was almost unconscious, and Dazhe and Uncle Lu both crawled over to help me dig the soil, but because they didn't have a life talisman necklace, a few one-eyed bats would still climb up on them from time to time, and the two of them had to pat the red dots that climbed up while helping me dig the soil. The soil is very clean, how clean is it, there are no grass roots, no debris, not even a small insect, just like the clean black soil used to grow plants in the real yàn room, but this black soil is turning as we turn it, and the smell of whirring that I smelled before is getting heavier and heavier. Dazhe kept complaining as he flipped through it, saying that we seemed to have fallen into the latrine of these one-eyed bats.
My progress was very fast, and in a short time, I dug three feet deep, and I dug out a large root of laughing grass, and then I understood why Ji Ziyang wouldn't let us use the tools.
This rhizome is a spherical rhizome, very similar to the root of Narcissus, but it is different from the rhizome like Narcissus garlic, this rhizome is the size of Elizabeth melon, it is white, but the whole is soft, I carefully took out the rhizome of a football star, it was filled with liquid, those bad smells, it was from here, Ji Ziyang looked at the thing in my hand and nodded.
"That's right, that's it, these laughing grasses were deliberately planted here with their hands and feet, and these rhizomes were filled with the water of the Lethe River."
"You said this is the water of the Lethe River, so that's what I have in my necklace?" I asked, surprised, and I couldn't help but feel sick to my stomach at the thought of having this kind of thing in my beautiful necklace.
"Your one has been treated, it's different, this is the pure water in the Lechuan River, throw it over and try it."
I nodded, aimed at the spot with the most red dots, and threw it out.