Chapter 53: The Trench of Hongmeng in the Exploration of Ancient Tombs
Li Ji, who was in the back, heard Zhou Babao's scream, obviously fell to the bottom, fell and blossomed, and his heart couldn't help but tighten, and secretly said that it was not good: It's over, if you fall down so high, wouldn't you want to fall to pieces.
Li Ji looked down, and could see that the point of light was getting bigger and bigger, and the scene below was clearly visible, only to see that he had come to a completely strange world, there seemed to be no sky, no sun, no moon, no sand and stones, no sea, in the middle of this chaos, there was only an incomparably huge chasm that was deeply cracked.
The whole chasm was empty and empty, with no trees and no weeds.
On both sides of the chasm are thousands of high cliffs, heavy rocks are stacked, hidden from the sky, and there is an unusually powerful wind in the chasm, but when the descending body falls into the eye of the wind, a powerful wave suddenly comes from the surrounding area, so strong that it blows Li Ji's face out of shape, and this wind is very weird, almost vertically sprayed upward.
Under the action of this strong wind, the body that was originally descending quickly stagnated in the air for a while, suddenly slowed down a lot, and then fell into the chasm.
Although the descent slowed down a lot, there was still a certain momentum, and when Li Ji fell, there was a loud sound of "呃", which spread throughout the chasm.
"Oh my ass-......" a miserable cry rang out, echoing across the cliffs.
Li Ji fell on top of a pile of things as soft as cotton, and the scream definitely did not come from his mouth, but from under him.
He was taken aback, and when he looked at it, it turned out that Zhou Babao was under him, pressing him in pain, and his face was deformed, no wonder he screamed like a pig.
Li Ji smiled awkwardly and said, "It turned out to be you! I thought we had gone to report to the King of Yama." ”
Zhou Babao's face was distorted and he smiled bitterly: "Brother Ji, can you move away from me first." Ouch! my fart-thigh, my waist, it's going to break, you're not fat, I can't imagine it's so heavy......"
"Hey...... I'm sorry! I can't stop it when it's so high!" Li Ji smiled and quickly stood up from Zhou Babao, and stretched out his hand to pull him, "What kind of place is this?"
"I don't know, I didn't see her when I fell, could she ......" Zhou Babao frowned, and suddenly thought if she had fallen to pieces.
"Don't talk nonsense, or I'm not welcome to you. Li Ji knew what he wanted to say and quickly covered his mouth.
Seeing that Li Ji was so nervous, Zhou Babao pulled his hand away, with an ambiguous and playful expression on his face, and sneered: "You kid, you are so worried about Senior Sister Xinyan, are you two ...... Hey hey ......"
"What do you want? she's my senior sister......" Li Ji saw his ambiguous and playful demeanor and indecent behavior, he had already guessed what he was going to say, and couldn't help but curse secretly.
So he slapped it, just slapped on the back of Zhou Babao's head, and there was a dark green filth stuck to his hand, and he said disgustingly: "What the hell is on the back of your head? Stinks to death, is it a wandering corpse spitting out your saliva? Or was it bitten? I heard that after being bitten by a wandering corpse, it will also become a wandering corpse......
Zhou Babao scolded: "Get out, you just got bitten, take away your stinky hands!"
Li Ji also gave him a blank look: "Crow's mouth, I think you ran the last one, and you were chased by several wandering corpses......"
"Bah, I'm a crow's mouth, are you a broom star?" Zhou Babao scolded while rubbing half of his fart.
"Hehe, it's good that you haven't been bitten!" Li Ji decided not to be like him for the sake of making a human sandbag for him, so he turned his head to look around with a secret smile, and found that the two of them were standing at the bottom of the cliff at this time, the mountain wall was steep, the strange mountains were standing, and there were rocks on both sides,
After observing for a long time, the two finally understood that the place where they fell from the secret door of the coffin of the tomb was in a deeper underground world, and they didn't know anything about how deep it was and what kind of world it was!
Although it is under the cliff in the chasm, the surrounding light is not very gray, and there is a faint silver-gray light shining down from the top of the cliff, like a glimmer of dawn, but it is so cold that it makes people palpitate.
There was a long chasm in the chasm, like the earth cracking a crack, and they were at the lowest point of the chasm.
The uneven stone walls are different in width and narrow, some are sheep intestine paths, only enough for one person to move sideways, and some are chicken intestine paths are only enough for one person to turn sideways, tiptoeing and squeezing through. Looking up from the cracks in the rocks, it is like a ribbon of gray and blue changing in the rain and mist, and the cliff hanging in the air seems to be smiling at them.
"Brother Ji, look! That knife-like cliff rises from the ground, above the clouds, the dangerous peaks stand upright, it is daunting, it seems that we are in a desperate situation!"
"Yes, from afar, the cliff was so high and so steep that it looked as if it had been cut with a great axe. Getting closer, like a sharp sword, towering between the chasm, looking for it along the stone wall, there is no road at all, only a large piece of smooth black stone, very uneven, and you may fall to pieces at any time if you climb up!" Li Ji carefully touched the strange black stone, and said with a frown.
Suddenly, he thought of the strange wind again, and couldn't help but smile and said: "When we came down, we encountered that strange wind that floated us to the bottom of the cliff.
Zhou Babao scratched the back of his head, nodded and said, "What you said is not impossible." ”
Then the two shouted at the cliff: "Senior sister, are you on top?"
Maybe this cliff is too high and too far away, and the two of them tore their throats and shouted a few times, but they didn't get any response at all except for hearing their own echo.
Li Ji paced a few steps with his hands in his hand, and said with a calm face: "The mountain is high and the road is steep, and the top of the cliff probably can't hear our voice, so we still have to find a way to climb up." ”
The two of them found a stone wall, looked up, and saw that the wall was standing thousands of miles, and the black stone wall was like a whole, and there was no place.
Zhou Babao tried to climb a few steps up, but the surface of the black stone was smooth, and there was almost no place to stay, and he slipped down again in an instant.
"Brother Ji, no, why are there so many scattered and crooked bones on this ground?" Zhou Babao covered his mouth and pointed ahead in horror.
There are cliffs on all sides, there is no other exit, and there are bones of different shapes and sizes on the ground, I don't know if they are human or animal, and there is an extremely strange aura in the gloom.
Looking up along these bones, the bare cliff is full of tiny but dense scratches, which shows how many people or monsters have died here, and touching these traces of buried desperate souls, as if you can see the strange light in the wide-open pupils......
Li Ji had the courage to take a closer look, pondered for a moment, and seemed to understand: "These bones are estimated to be trapped here like us, and they want to climb up in despair, but they either roll down and break their bones, or starve to death in them, and there is also a possibility that they were torn apart alive before they died......
"Brother Ji, don't say it, it's terrifying to think about. This cliff is so steep that it is impossible to climb up, and staying below is also a dead end, it is really a dilemma, both horizontal and vertical!" Zhou Babao sometimes looked up at the cliff, and sometimes looked down at the weathered, broken and rotten bones, and couldn't help but feel sad and desperate.
"The chasm here is a desperate situation, and here you will surely die. I seemed to see a spot of light when I was falling down just now, and I think the way to survive must be on it, and we have to find a way to get up anyway. Li Ji suddenly thought of something, patted his head and said, "Since there is no road, let's open a road to get out of the chasm and break through the desperate situation." ”
"Open the way?
"You see, we all have divine weapons that sharpen iron like clay, and from here we start to dig into the wall, and maybe there is a glimmer of life. ”
Zhou Babao's eyes widened, he had heard the story of Yugong moving mountains, but he had never heard the precedent of escaping by digging a wall, and said with a face full of disbelief: "Does it work?"
"How do you know if you can't do it if you don't try?"
So, the two of them each took out their weapons, silently used a mouthful of spiritual power, and tried their best to chop towards the rock on the side, and with a "click", a large piece of the hard rock was indeed cut off.
Zhou Babao was overjoyed and said: "What Brother Ji said is very true, it is really a good weapon, I was not willing to use it before, I didn't know that this halberd is so magical, the weapon of tens of thousands of years can be preserved without rust to this day, and it is so sharp, it is really a rare treasure, thank you Brother Ji a lot!"
"You're welcome, good things to share with the brothers!" Li Ji smiled, wondering in his heart, this water halberd looked like a harpoon left and right, and he didn't expect it to be so magical at the time, otherwise it wouldn't be cheaper and fat.
He suddenly asked again, "By the way, have you ever climbed a tree or a rock before?"
Zhou Babao was stunned: "The tree has climbed, and rock climbing is the first time today." ”
"Rock climbing is similar to tree climbing, but there are some differences, we chisel the foothold in a zigzag pattern, and when climbing, we hang on to the rock with our toes or heels to maintain our balance and move our body, just ......like this," says Li Ji and demonstrates a movement.
"Wow, Brother Ji, how do you know so much?"
"When I was a child, there was a cliff called Baizhang Rock in the mountain behind my hometown, and my eldest brother was a master of rock climbing, and he would often pull me to accompany him to practice. ”
Hearing this, Zhou Babao was overjoyed, clenched his hands and said, "Brother Ji, you will explore the road in front later, I will follow behind, you have to cover me!"
Li Ji smiled and nodded: "No problem, be careful in everything, for the sake of safety, I will pass on some of the essentials of rock climbing to you now, you can remember it, you can save your life at a critical moment." ”
"Okay, listen up. ”
"In front, I will dig out the foothold in a zigzag shape, and zigzag upwards to avoid too much drop and exhaust physical strength. Rock climbing needs to pay attention to six basic essentials, one grab, two pull, three push, four push, five hang, six steps, these six movements, I will show you one by one, you must master the ......"
After Li Ji finished speaking, he demonstrated the six basic movements on the nearby stone wall, and Zhou Babao studied carefully on the side, it was a matter of life and death, and there was no room for sloppiness. Therefore, he is lazy by nature, but this time he is extraordinarily serious and serious.
After practicing for about half a day, Zhou Babao has a good understanding and has basically mastered the essentials.
Li Ji remembered that he practiced with his eldest brother for three months before mastering the basic essentials, it seems that this talent is really very different, no wonder the Qifa Daoist will scold him for being born a waste material!
Zhou Babao said with a smug smile on his face: "Brother Ji, I have preliminarily mastered these six essentials, and I can set off at any time......
Li Ji gave a thumbs up and praised: "Not bad! But in addition to the six basic points, you should also pay special attention to three skills: first, close to the rock wall, safe and labor-saving; second, the thighs are far more powerful than the arms; third, look at the route well, think about where you will go next, and then move your hands and feet to the corresponding point." ”
Zhou Babao nodded: "Don't worry, Brother Ji, I have written down the three skills and six essentials." ”
So, Li Ji began to dig the foothold in front of him according to the zigzag shape, and Zhou Babao followed behind, widening the foothold with the water halberd in order to climb up better.
Time flew by second by second, and I didn't know how high I climbed, Zhou Babao was already too tired to do it, and said breathlessly: "Brother Ji, I can't do it anymore, take a break and climb up again!"
Li Ji wiped his sweat and did not forget to remind: "When you rest during the climb, you should also stick to the rock wall, which is safer." ”
"Okay!" Zhou Babao found a good foothold, clinging to the stone wall, and when he looked up at Li Ji, he suddenly pointed at him and exclaimed, "Brother Ji, there is something hanging above your head." ”
Hearing this, Li Ji looked up, and sure enough, he found that there was a row of green and faint crystal coffins embedded between the cliffs three zhang away, and there were nine coffins carefully.