Chapter 49: Petrification
Hahahaha, you're too interesting, give you a piece of advice, a woman's words can't be easily trusted. ”
Cao Xiaoyang was so angry that he stomped his feet, and when he raised his head, he accidentally hit the wall of the cave again, looking very embarrassed for a while, he gritted his teeth and swore not to say a word to this guy again.
The two walked along the narrow cave for about ten minutes, and a larger space appeared in front of them, which seemed to have traces of artificial excavation, and the whole cave was a very regular circle.
It is also connected to the underground river, where the water forms a circle, forming a moat-like moat, enclosing a circular area in the middle of the cavern.
There is more luminous mica on the roof of the cave, so although the space is large, it is also very bright, and you can see almost everything at a glance.
There is only a narrow stone bridge connecting the circular area in the middle, and the ground in the middle is very flat, and there are dozens of strange stone figures standing on it, and in the middle of it stands a huge stone pillar, which directly supports the top of the cave, and the stone pillars are surrounded by three huge stone coffins, and the coffins are wrapped with many rusted iron chains that are about to break.
Chi Xiaoyue frowned when she saw such a scene, but Cao Xiaoyang stepped directly on the stone bridge because of curiosity, and Chi Xiaoyue saw that the situation seemed to be a little wrong, so she hurriedly pulled him back.
"What's the situation?"
"Are you a nerd, you didn't notice something was wrong with this place. ”
Cao Xiaoyang stared at the stone pillar in the middle and the surrounding sarcophagus carefully, and said, "Aren't they just a few coffins, are you afraid of ghosts!"
Speaking of this, Cao Xiaoyang looked a little proud, because he had just inspected almost every corner of this place with his yin and yang eyes, and he didn't find anything abnormal, there were at most three soulless corpses in the coffin, and there was nothing to be afraid of.
At this time, I heard Chi Xiaoyue say: "If there is really a ghost, I really want to see it, but I'm afraid that it contains something more terrifying than a ghost." ”
Cao Xiaoyang was suddenly a little confused. "Something scarier than a ghost?"
"Look closely at the pattern on the coffin. ”
Cao Xiaoyang took a closer look and found that the sarcophagus was carved with a long snake circling its body, and a strange insect with twelve legs was wrapped in it.
"What is this?"
This is a kind of witch totem that was prevalent in Miao Jiang a hundred years ago, if I guess correctly, this coffin should be used to raise Gu.
At this time, Cao Xiaoyang suddenly heard a strange sound behind him, and when he looked back, he saw a spider the size of an adult's palm lying on the green vine on the cave wall next to him, and the spider had six bulging eyes on its back, and now they were all staring at him.
Cao Xiaoyang was startled by this thing, and accidentally made a sound, the spider directly pounced on him at once, and Cao Xiaoyang slapped it over and directly knocked the spider away.
The spider flew along the stone bridge across the underground river and fell to the platform where the sarcophagus was located, and was immediately shattered, Cao Xiaoyang didn't understand it for a while, thinking to himself Is this spider so brittle?
A closer look revealed that the spider seemed to turn into gray stone in an instant after flying to the platform, and then fell to the ground before being shattered.
In order to verify his conjecture, he immediately pulled a green vine from the cave wall and threw it towards the platform, and sure enough, the green vine instantly petrified after crossing the dark river, and then fell to the ground and was shattered.
At this time, cold sweat suddenly oozed from Cao Xiaoyang's forehead, thinking that if it wasn't for Chi Xiaoyue pulling himself just now, he might have turned into a stone by now.
Looking at the dozens of stone figures on the platform, it seems that all of them are living people who have accidentally stepped there.
Cao Xiaoyang whispered to Chi Xiaoyue: "This is too evil, as long as you get close, you will turn into stone." ”
Chi Xiaoyue said: "But if we don't go here, we will have to swim through the water." ”
Cao Xiaoyang looked down at the underground dark river below, the river was more than ten meters high from where they were, if the river was relatively deep, it would be fine, if it was too shallow, jumping down and hitting the stone would definitely be killed alive.
Cao Xiaoyang wanted to say that if we don't go back first, it would be better to face those blood ants than to turn into stones here, but at this moment, there was a strange sound in the hole behind them, and Chi Xiaoyue frowned.
"Looks like they're catching up. ”
"They, what's that?"
"The worms in the Worm Valley. ”
As he spoke, Cao Xiaoyang turned his head and looked into the cave, only to see a swarm of poisonous insects such as spiders, centipedes, millipedes, and other poisonous insects crawling over in groups, compared to the insects outside, the volume of these poisonous insects was many times larger.
Cao Xiaoyang thought to himself that a group of ants just now was so terrifying, and this group of poisonous insects must be even more terrifying.
In a panic, he even had the urge to run to the bridge, but at this time, Chi Xiaoyue seemed very calm, grabbed Cao Xiaoyang's waist and then jumped onto the cave wall next to him, and then jumped two times in a row, she directly grabbed a thick rattan hanging from the top of the cave.
Cao Xiaoyang was frightened for a while, and hugged Chi Xiaoyue's body tightly, for fear that he would fall, because the clothes that the two of them had baked by the waterhole before didn't have time to take away, and now the two of them were only wearing a thin piece of clothing, and their bodies were still wet, Cao Xiaoyang felt that he and Chi Xiaoyue were almost skin to skin.
Although he was a little embarrassed, Cao Xiaoyang still didn't dare to let go.
At this time, Chi Xiaoyue lowered her head and said to Cao Xiaoyang: "If you dare to eat my tofu again, believe it or not, I will throw you down now!"
Cao Xiaoyang noticed that he was burying his head in her chest, but when he looked up, he was face to face with her, and this embarrassing scene could not be broken.
"Hey, can you stop breathing at me?"
Cao Xiaoyang was gasping for breath at the moment because of the fright just now, and every breath was blowing on Chi Xiaoyue's face.
Cao Xiaoyang smiled awkwardly. "I'm sorry. ”
Since he couldn't let go of her now, Cao Xiaoyang had to turn his face sideways and put his head on Chi Xiaoyue's shoulder, which looked more intimate, but fortunately, the two didn't have to face to face, so it wasn't as embarrassing as just now.
Cao Xiaoyang lowered his head to look at the poisonous insects, and saw that they were constantly climbing towards the stone bridge, and they quickly petrified after going up to the platform, and then gradually formed a pile of small stones.
These insects seemed to be very stupid, and when they saw that the insects in front of them had turned into stones, the ones behind them continued to climb up far and wide to die, and gradually, the pile of small stones became bigger and bigger, and finally it basically filled the entire platform.
I don't know how many poisonous insects there are in the Worm Valley, but after about five minutes, Cao Xiaoyang found that there was still a steady stream of poisonous insects crawling out of the cave behind the stone bridge.
At this time, Chi Xiaoyue seemed to understand something, and said to herself: "I see, Witch King, I won't let you succeed." ”
Saying that, she began to shake her body so that the rattan swinged, Cao Xiaoyang didn't understand what she was doing, so she had to hug her tighter to avoid being thrown out.
Just as the rattan swung to the highest point, Chi Xiaoyue suddenly kicked on a huge piece of mica at the top of the cave, and the mica was kicked loose by her, and then the whole piece fell, just breaking the stone bridge below.
The poisonous insects then stopped, gathering in a small area at the entrance of the cave to form a black oppressive patch.
Cao Xiaoyang really didn't understand what Chi Xiaoyue was doing, and said to her: "Why do you smash the stone bridge and let them die?"
Chi Xiaoyue didn't speak, continued to swing the rattan, and then suddenly let go, and Cao Xiaoyang was thrown out with her.
Cao Xiaoyang thought that this little girl was crazy, but he didn't expect that he didn't fall, but followed her to another platform, which was also attached to the stone pillar, and there was a transparent crystal coffin in the middle.
Chi Xiaoyue pointed to the coffin and said, "If we let him come back to life, we won't want to leave here." ”
Cao Xiaoyang took a closer look at the coffin, and saw a white bone lying inside, but there were a lot of red hair-like things growing on this white bone, and these red hairs wrapped the white bones little by little, making his whole body full.
And at this very moment, those red hairs are still growing at a rate that is visible to the naked eye.