Chapter 3 The remains of the bone dragon
As soon as everyone stepped into the gates of hell, a cold wind blew in their faces. "When there's wind, it's connected." The old thief said with some excitement. However, when they shone their flashlights forward, a large green spot of light reflected on the stone wall in front of them. "It's a bat, get down." The old thief recognized it at a glance, and apparently he had dealt with bats when he robbed the tomb.
Yang Jian lay motionless on the ground, listening to the sound of countless bats flapping their wings and flying over his head. It took a long time for the surroundings to fall silent.
"There are so many bats, and I don't know what they eat, this cave has so few creatures, and it can feed such a large group of bats." Wang Tian muttered. The old thief looked at him and said, "Less? That's because they're all hidden in places you can't see, let's go, I have a hunch that it's not easy here. ”
As we went deeper, the passage in the Gates of Hell widened, and with it, many branches appeared on both sides of the passage. No one knows where these branches will lead, but for some reason, it makes everyone feel a burst of heart palpitations, as if they can go in and never get out.
"Let's go against the wind, so that we can find the source of the wind, let's hope it's the exit, and it's better for us not to look at other places, because there are some things that can't be known." The old thief said as he walked, so that everyone felt no longer so depressed, and now, several people felt hungry, plus two people died, everyone's mood can be imagined.
Yang Jian took the flashlight and illuminated the surroundings, now the two flashlights are used in turn to save electricity, if there is no light in this kind of place, then you can really only wait for death.
"Wang Tian, old thief, look at the walls around here." Yang Jian found that there were some strange patterns on the cave wall, but because the cave wall was uneven, the patterns were not very regular, and the traces were very shallow, he never noticed it. The old thief looked around carefully, frowned and shook his head: "It's not like a pattern, maybe it's formed due to geological reasons, but it's not necessarily, Army, what do you think?" The old thief looked at the army, after all, he was a well-informed soldier.
But the army also shook his head: "I don't think it looks like a pattern, even if it is an abstract mural, it can have a rough figure, and these things can't find similar objects at all." Wang Tian interjected untimely: "Why not?" You see the biggest one, it's not like a man with a tail, oh, and a head that looks a little like a tiger, maybe there's a stone on his back, and it looks a little hunchbacked. ”
Speaking of this, Wang Tian listened, and Yang Jian was also stunned: "This...... Isn't this what the legendary Queen Mother of the West looks like? "Okay, don't talk about it, don't talk nonsense about things you shouldn't say." The old thief stopped them, there are some things, in this kind of place should be avoided, should not be seen, whether it is superstitious or not, anyway, the old thief tomb robbery has always adhered to this principle, so many years of peace and quiet also let the old thief firmly believe, you know, many peers are curious to explore some strange places, never seen again.
Yang Jian closed his mouth, but there were thousands of thoughts in his heart: the Queen Mother of the West recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" was like a human, with a leopard tail and tiger teeth and a good roar, and a hoopoe with fluffy hair. It means that the Queen Mother of the West looks like a human, with a leopard's tail and tiger teeth, roars and whistles in a voice like a wild beast, has unkempt hair, wears a headdress like victory, and is a god sent by Heaven to rule over plague, disease, death, and punishment. "The Book of the Middle Wilderness" clouds: "The mountain of Kunlun has a copper pillar, which is high to the sky, and the so-called heavenly pillar is also." Circumference of three thousand miles, the surrounding is like cutting. There is a stone room below, a hundred zhang squarely, and the immortals rule the nine mansions. There is a big bird on it, the name is Xi, southward, Zhang left wing covers the prince of the east, and the right wing covers the queen mother. There is no feather on the back, 19,000 miles. The queen mother ascended her wings at the age of the year, and the prince of the east was also". Taoism elevates the status of the Queen Mother of the West very highly, and is the ancestor of Taoism who leads all the goddesses and immortals in the Three Realms, and manages the male and female immortals separately with the Eastern Princes. From this point of view, this place may really be related to the Queen Mother of the West.
It's just that this place is called the Gate of Hell, which is obviously not a good place, and the Queen Mother of the West is a god, so it is naturally impossible to live in this place called "Hell".
The old thief stopped, and Yang Jian and the others also stopped. This is a cave entrance, and it is also the largest branch mouth that everyone has encountered so far, and as for whether there is a bigger cave ahead, everyone does not know and does not want to know. Because the bigger the hole, the stronger the feeling of palpitations, maybe at the back, everyone will not even have the courage to enter.
"Whether it's dead or alive depends on the trip." The old thief turned his head and looked at Yang Jian and the others. "No problem, if you want to enter, it's the only way out anyway." The Army was the first to take a stand. followed by Yang Jian: "I don't have a problem, I'm also curious anyway, what's in it?" ”
Wang Tian hesitated for a long time before he slowly spoke: "Anyway, sooner or later, it will be a death, it is better to try your luck, in the planting place, it is tiring to live for an extra second." "If it weren't for that strange palpitation, everyone might have been happy to get in, after all, this might be the exit. But this fear from the depths of their hearts reminds them that this is a dangerous place, a huge mouth of the devil.
"Let's go!" The old thief's voice was a little tragic, like going to a mortal banquet.
As soon as you enter the cave, this palpitation increases exponentially, and at the same time, there is a faint coercion. Everyone had never felt the coercion, but the moment they felt it, they understood what it was.
The old thief touched the wall of the cave, which was engraved with the words of an unknown dynasty: "I know a little about the writing of various dynasties, even if I don't know it, at least I can tell which period it is, but I have never seen this kind of writing." Yang Jian looked at the light of the flashlight and found that the cave wall was engraved with words, extending to the end of the line of sight, and it seemed that there was a certain arrangement rule.
"How do I think it's more like a legendary rune?" Yang Jian touched his head and said, although this sounds a little unbelievable, but is there less unbelievable things that he has experienced now?
After a nearly 90-degree turn, everyone's eyes suddenly opened up, of course, the cheerfulness here refers to the appearance of a huge cave that even a flashlight can't illuminate the border.
Walking here, the wind that everyone had been tracking all the way was gone. "The air here is humid, there should be a water source in front of it, and ...... That kind of coercion also came from the front. The army looked at the darkness ahead and said, his eyes were deep, as if he could see through the endless darkness, and the pistol was already loaded and held in his hand.
"Go ahead!" Now the army will take the lead and prevent any emergencies.
"It can't be a waterhole ahead, right?" Wang Tian shook it in the distance with a flashlight, but there was no light reflected back on the ground. "Wait a minute, you move the light to the right." Yang Jian seemed to see something in a trance, and hurriedly said.
"That's ......" A skeleton several meters long lay across the waterhole, and the most peculiar thing was that there were two antlers on the skull, or rather, dragon horns?
Yang Jian felt as if he had discovered the source of the coercion - the bones of a suspected dragon!
"I said, shall we go over and have a look?" Wang Tian swallowed his saliva, as if he had discovered a rare treasure, "That can't really be a dragon bone, right?" ”
"I don't know if it's dangerous." The Army shook its head and said, apparently not wanting to go over. "I don't think it's better." The old thief was naturally in favor of the Army's point of view.
"What are you afraid of? Even if it's a dragon, it's just a dead dragon now. Can you still eat it? Let's go, Yang Jian, let's go and have a look, there is no exit here, even if you die here, it is not too much of a loss to be able to take a look at the legendary dragon. Wang Tian said, pulling Yang Jian and walking towards the keel. Obviously, this product is also very scared, otherwise he would not have pulled Yang Jian along.
As Wang Tian's bodyguard, the army naturally had to follow Wang Tian, and when the old thief saw that the three of them had passed, he could only follow.
The crowd cautiously approached the keel, but nothing happened, so they were relieved. When I walked in to observe, I found that the skeleton was nine meters long, which was larger than expected. In order to be able to fully irradiate the keel, Yang Jian turned on the other flashlight.
"How come this dragon only has three legs?" The observant army spotted the anomaly and asked Wang Tian about it. He also knew that Wang Tian had studied this aspect the most.
"Oh, then this could be a Jiao, or a dragon with impure blood." Wang Tiantou said without looking back, staring intently at the position of the dragon's head, "You see, there is a sword stuck in the dragon's head, and this dragon may have been killed by this sword." ”
Yang Jian looked at it in response. The sword was not very long, and part of it was inserted into the dragon's head. Yang Jian estimated that the hilt was less than a meter, but the hilt was as white as jade, but the blade was bright red as blood, as if it had absorbed dragon blood, and there were faint golden lines on it, which looked extremely mysterious. The whole sword is carved out of crystal, crystal clear. With just one glance, Yang Jian judged that this sword was extraordinary. It's just that why did the dragon slayer leave the sword on the dragon after killing the dragon?
Wang Tian stepped forward and drew his sword, but it was too late for Yang Jian to stop it. At this time, everyone realized that the original sword body inserted into the dragon head was only a very short part, because this sword did not have a sword tip, and instead had a jagged segment.
"I thought it was a good thing, but I didn't expect it to be a defective product, I gave it to you, Yang Jian." Wang Tian said, throwing the sword to Yang Jian. How could Yang Jian not know that this was a brother taking care of himself. This sword is very likely to be something left behind by the dragon slayer. Even defective products must be unusual. The old thief was also very fond of this sword, after all, the tomb robbery was to find these treasures that could be sold for a good price.
Everyone's eyes fell on Du Jian's body, and no one noticed that Gu Long's front paws actually moved.
Suddenly, there was the sound of gravel rolling down behind them, and everyone looked back and was shocked to find that the bone dragon had stood up at some point. "Hurry back!" The reaction of everyone was not unpleasant, but the ancient dragon seemed to violate the laws of physics, and its huge body rushed in front of the old thief in an instant, and slapped the old thief away with one claw. The army only had time to fire a single shot, and the bullet hit the bone dragon, and only a small spark came out. I don't know if the bone dragon felt it, but as if he felt the pain of a bullet hitting his body, he turned his head and roared at the army, but no sound came out.
The old thief was slapped seven or eight meters away by the bone dragon, and fell to the ground motionless, and he didn't know if he was dead? The bone dragon has now switched its target to the army, and seems to be very angry at this "ant" provocation.
The bone dragon rushed towards the army, and the speed was extremely fast, and Yang Jian's reaction could not keep up with its speed, so the light of the flashlight could not hit its body. Faced with a threat in the dark, the sense of crisis that the Army had generated over the years of carrying out its mission saved his life, and with a roll, the Army dodged the impact of the bone dragon.
"Boom ......" The bone dragon crashed into the stone wall, and the seemingly loose skeleton turned out to be unusually strong, not only did it not do anything at all, but knocked the stone wall out of a big hole. Yang Jian felt the entire cave tremble, and gravel kept falling from the roof of the cave.
The Army has no doubt that if it is hit this time, it will definitely be smashed into a mess of flesh.
Wang Tian looked for the entrance when he came, and wanted to go back. But for some reason, the hole was like it had never existed, and there was no trace of its existence.
"What should I do, is it just waiting for death here?" Wang Tian felt that his heart was about to jump out, and the rapidly rising blood pressure made his brain completely unable to calm down and think. And over there, the army is also trampled under its feet like a toy that is tired of being played with by a bone dragon.
The bone dragon's hollow eyes looked at Yang Jian and the others, like a kitten playing with mice, but this "cat" looked so hideous and terrifying.
"Quick, let's jump into the water." Yang Jian pulled Wang Tian and ran towards the pool. "There won't be tank platypus in the water, will you?" Wang Tian was obviously impressed by Zhang Yu's death. "Whatever! At most, it's just a death, so it's better to try your luck. ”
Yang Jian and Wang Tian ran towards the waterhole, and the bone dragon also moved; As soon as the two of them jumped into the pool, the bone dragon followed.
The water in the waterhole was bitterly cold, and Yang Jian couldn't open his eyes because of this. But for some reason, Yang Jian could clearly feel that the bone dragon opened its bloody mouth and bit towards him. Yang Jian could only subconsciously block the broken sword in front of his chest, hoping to block the ancient dragon with this. But the disparity in power between the two is too great. The bone dragon slammed into Yang Jian's chest with the broken sword.
A large mouthful of blood spurted out of Yang Jian's mouth. Yang Jian clearly heard the sound of bones cracking in his chest. Under the effect of the powerful impact, Yang Jian shot towards the bottom of the water like an arrow from the string.
Yang Jian didn't know that the blood he spit out had not yet spread in the water, but it was absorbed by the broken sword on his chest, and the sword body looked more and more blood-red. At this time, a huge whirlpool suddenly formed in the originally relatively calm cold pool, and in just a few seconds, the water of the entire cold pool was stirred. The bone dragon swam towards Yang Jian, and just as he was about to touch it, he was torn out by the huge tearing force of the whirlpool.
Feeling the pain in his chest and the familiar feeling of suffocation, as well as the feeling of dizziness, the last thought in Yang Jian's mind was: "If I can still live, then the thing I hate the most in the future will definitely be water."