Monk Shi didn't seem to think so much, he pulled me forward, I dragged him a few times in a row, but I didn't see the other party have the intention of stopping, and when I looked up, I found that Monk Shi's face was a little purple.

Monk Shi can't hold his breath!

Ordinary people can hold their breath for two or three minutes at most under water, even if Monk Shi and I have kung fu, after all, we are not fish in the water, and holding it for five or six minutes is the limit. In addition, we have been struggling desperately just now, and the oxygen in our bodies is almost exhausted, and if we don't breathe, we don't need to be hunted by black snakes, and we will have no place to die.

I couldn't care about the black snake behind me anymore, so I turned around and grabbed Monk Shi and swam forward desperately.

According to my idea: there is a waterway in front of us, and it should be connected to an underground river or something, and as long as there is a gap in the dark river, we can find a place to ventilate. But after I swam five or six meters, I was blocked by an iron fence with a blade.

There was not enough light in the water, and I could only faintly see a pitch-black fence blocking the waterway, and nothing else could be seen clearly. But, I'm sure, there is no road ahead.

I was slightly stunned, and suddenly the water behind me burst out, and the strong water was like a pair of giant hands of ghosts and gods, pushing straight towards the two of us from back to front.

The words "the snake is coming" flashed in my mind, and I reached out and pushed Monk Shi, and I also dodged to the side.

The moment the two of us slid out of the same direction for a meter, we turned sideways and crashed into the gap between the blades of the fence, and after the blade was about half a meter long and slashed against the tip of my nose, the left half of my body also hit the fence. The black snake rushing from behind us suddenly stopped the momentum of rushing forward when it was close to the edge of the blade, and after the snake kiss stopped close to the blade, the sneer of the black concubine suddenly came from my ears, and when I looked sideways, the black snake had already twisted and shrunk back along the waterway.

Before I could figure out what was going on, I watched Monk Shi climb up the fence desperately. As soon as I wanted to stop the other party, I heard Monk Shi shouting, "Come up, you can pant from above." ”

After I followed Monk Shi up the fence, I saw a piece of artificially excavated space on the rock wall above. The cave wasn't huge, and there were only enough people for a dozen people to sit side by side in it, but fortunately, there was enough oxygen in it for the two of us to breathe.

Monk Shi gasped and said, "Old Wu, do you see if there is a dead person over there......

I left my backpack on the shore when I was diving, and now I don't even have a lighter on me, how can I light up in such a place? Following the direction of Monk Shi's finger, I could only see a vague figure.

I put down the rakshasa, held the dagger in one hand, and slowly moved in the direction of the figure with the other hand on the cave wall. Before I could move far, I felt a chill on the tips of my fingers touching the wall, as if they had reached into some sticky and slippery liquid.

I was slightly startled, and instantly clenched the dagger, and after waiting for a long time but didn't notice any movement, I gently raised my finger and sniffed: "Lamp oil?" ”

I sniffed my hand twice, then turned and slashed at the rock wall, and the sparks that popped out of the tip of the knife immediately ignited the oil on the stone trough. The cave instantly lit up with a fire that surrounded the four walls, and a pair of white bones also revealed a hideous appearance under the light of the fire—the figure that Monk Shi saw just now should be the white bones.

I looked around the cave and found that there were still a few fragments of bones scattered around the cave. I flipped open a random piece of human bone, only to see that it was either gnawed or scratched by a dagger, even a few shattered skulls.

There must have been more than one person in the cave, and the reason why only one skeleton was intact was that he had eaten all his companions. Although the man lived to the end, he did not escape the fate of death.

Monk Shi picked up a chisel from the bones: "These are tomb robbers?" ”

"No, they should be the craftsmen who built the mausoleum in the first place." I pointed to a few scattered tools on the ground, "They must have been trapped here after building the tomb of the Black Concubine." ”

As I spoke, I stumbled upon a few murals on the wall out of the corner of my eye.

The person who left the mural was obviously not a famous artist, and he didn't even know how to draw, and the carving technique was so rough that I could barely understand the general content.

In the first painting, there is a large snake lying on the ground, and many people have bypassed the big snake and carved something in the rock wall.

In the second painting, someone has several ropes hanging on the snake's body, and the other end of the rope has been driven into a cliff.

In the third painting, it seems that a large number of people have carried a corpse to the top of the serpent's head......

Monk Shi saw me staring at the mural, and couldn't help but come over: "Old Wu, what do you see?" ”

"I see!" I said in a deep voice, "This is not the tomb of the black concubine at all, but the lair of the Taizi River River God, or the lair of the previous river god. ”

In the Northeast, there is no fixed position for the river god and the mountain god, and no sect has ever designated a certain mountain and river as anyone's territory. Many mountain gods and land temples only have honorific positions on them, but the reason why they don't have names is here. The mountain god worshiped by the local people may be the great immortal in the mountain, or it may be the spirit of the climate in the mountain.

However, usually, mountains and rivers that reach a certain range will be guarded by a god.

I said in a deep voice: "According to the legend, after Nurhachi killed Zhu Ying and renamed the Daizi River outside Liaoyang City, Zhu Ying had the blessing of the dynasty's luck and naturally became the river god of the Taizi River, otherwise, there would be no saying that Zhu Ying caused the river to soar. ”

"However, a big river like the Taizi River could not have been without a river god in the first place. I guess the original river god was the black snake we just saw. After it was defeated by Zhu Ying, it cowered in its lair and did not dare to come out. ”

Monk Shi still didn't react: "What does that have to do with the black concubine?" ”

I went on to explain: "You have forgotten Huang Taiji, who belongs to the Emperor of the Horse like Nurhachi, or the great man of the world. But all emperors have a kind of heart, perseverance, and vow not to bow their heads. Will Huang Taiji bow his head to the dead Zhuying and admit defeat? What Liaoyang outside the city to pay tribute to Zhuying is just a disguise, what he wants to do is to completely suppress Zhuying and never suffer in the future. ”

"I estimate that when Huang Taiji was looking for the imperial concubine in the Ningguta generation, it was also to hide people's eyes. What he is really looking for should be a girl with a special bloodline or destiny. ”

He took the black concubine into the palace and canonized her as a concubine, just to give the black concubine a reasonable identity and let her accept the imperial luck, and then put the black concubine into the river god cave when she was not dead, and forcibly fixed her on the black snake's body. After the two were combined, the black concubine would have enough strength to suppress Zhu Ying. ”

Monk Shi pointed to the iron fence below and said, "According to what you said, the black concubine should be killed!" How did she end up imprisoned here? ”

I muttered, "I guess there are only two possibilities. One is that the black concubine really suppressed Zhu Ying, but Huang Taiji was afraid that the resentful black concubine would become the second disaster, so he used other methods to force the black concubine back to her lair and imprisoned her in the cave. Just like the third painting. ”

"The second possibility is that the black concubine has never been out of the cave since she was tied up with the black snake, and Huang Taiji just regarded her as an existence that threatened Zhuying. Zhu Ying did not move, and the black concubine did not come out, and the two remained in a stalemate until the fall of the Qing Dynasty. ”

I paused at this point: "But, one thing is for sure. After being imprisoned for hundreds of years, the black concubine's cultivation was about to be exhausted, and now she was nothing more than a giant python. ”

"Even then, we can't get her in the water!" Monk Shi said, "According to what you said, there should be a Taizi River behind the fence, right?" Let's go down and see if we can swim out? ”

"Can't get out!" I shook my head and said, "The fence outside should be connected to the main stream of the Taizi River, with the water nature of the two of us, can we survive the rapids of the river?" To swim out from there is to seek death. ”

Monk Shi was anxious: "Let's go back, isn't it the same as death?" The puddle is so big, we can't swim out! ”

I thought for a while and said, "There are still Lao Du and Xie Wanhua outside, let's only bet on whether the two of them can attract the black snake now." ”

"Them?" Monk Shi's eyes almost didn't pop out, "Lao Du has righteousness, but he is not a warlock." Xie Wanhua is a warlock, but she doesn't care about our life or death, what can she do? ”

I explained, "We were in the water with the black snake just now, and Lao Du should be able to see it." It depends on how Lao Du convinces Xie Wanhua. ”

I looked at Monk Shi: "Have you noticed, Xie Wanhua kept saying that she liked Lao Du, but when she looked at Lao Du, there was no tenderness and sweetness at all, but it seemed to be observing Lao Du's reaction." Do you think this is the look that lovers should have? ”

I've never been in a relationship, but I've seen that kind of look, that's how my grandfather used to see things when he taught me spells. My father took ghosts as prey, but Xie Wanhua took Lao Du as prey.

Monk Shi was stunned by what I said: "Is this possible?" ”

"Possibly." I affirmed, "Do you remember when Tom fell into the water and shouted 'Xie Wanqiao' twice in a row?" He didn't call the wrong person, but deliberately reminded us that Xie Wanqiao was Xie Wanhua's weakness. Xie Wanhua is also supposed to be a patient with mental illness. I guess she either regarded her biological sister as an object of imitation, or regarded her as an opponent to surpass, or an enemy to be defeated. ”

"Tom is Xie Wanhua's teacher, but why does Xie Wanhua hate him and even kill him? I guess Tom must have studied, or treated, Xie Wanhua. Xie Wanhua's competitive personality does not allow anyone to know her secrets, so she will definitely find a way to kill Tom. ”

I looked at Monk Shi: "Xie Wanhua is our last ray of life." ”