Chapter 22: The Pit of Ten Thousand Beasts
This is a narrow passage, the widest part is only the width of two people, and the narrowest point can barely pass through the sideways, and the body will touch the wet wall, cool to the touch. As it meandered, the light grew brighter and brighter after a while. The hearts of the people are solemn, and they don't know what they will encounter on the road ahead.
"Slow down, light your steps, don't speak." Nian Xiaojiao looked back and whispered. The years she spent in the forest as a child had given her a natural sense of vigilance, and it was always better to be cautious in this strange place.
The group is all extraordinary, lifting and lightening, like a ghost-like shuttle. There was a faint sound of air currents ahead, and the light was even more intense at the moment. Everyone's speed slowed down even slower, and the atmosphere didn't dare to come out, and slowly moved forward step by step.
As we reached the end of the road, a strange voice was heard.
"Buzz! Airplanes! Airplanes! ”
"Ah~ This is?" Before Nian Xiaojiao finished her sentence, an army of bats poured into the passage and attacked the comers. No matter how cautious you are, you can't escape the alert bat.
Shang Hong and Nian Xiaojiao, who were the leaders, were in a hurry, and some of the bats were shot down and some escaped, and they finally regained their vision again and saw the front clearly. At the end of the passage, it sinks like a cliff, it is an underground river less than one meter wide, and there is a pit with a diameter of more than ten meters on the other side of the underground river. It's naked, densely stacked. These lives will eventually return to dust and turn into wind, and will not appear in this earth for thousands of years.
Here, it is the pit of ten thousand beasts.
Looking up at the top, the black pressed top is thought to be a natural stone dome if you don't look closely. The slightly fluttering were the wings of bats, and the number was staggering. One by two, three flew up more and more, until they covered the white bones of Sen Sen all over the world.
The crowd was scattered by bats, Nian Xiaojiao only felt that she was being coerced, and fell into the Ten Thousand Beast Pit, and Shang Hong's exclamation echoed in her ears when she fell. Nian Xiaojiao felt that the bats were biting herself, and the bones were scratching herself, and finally fell high, fell too hard, and the fishy sweet taste appeared in her mouth, and she lost consciousness after a while.
I don't know how long it has been so dark, Nian Xiaojiao woke up slightly, her head hurt, and her limbs and five bones also hurt. The head is too heavy and the eyes are too heavy, Nian Xiaojiao can only use her hands to probe around, what is this touch? Segments of bones?
Nian Xiaojiao's heart was shocked, her mind suddenly regained a trace of clarity, when she opened her eyes, as far as she could see, there were white bones, and a faint light shot down from the gaps, thinking back to before she fell into a coma, she fell into the pit of ten thousand beasts!
Fortunately, the white bones blocked the bat, and air came in through the gaps, so that they would not suffocate. Nian Xiaoqiang climbed up, she fell into the Ten Thousand Beasts Pit, and climbed nearly two meters high to climb to the top of the pit, and this short height actually took most of her strength. Looking down to probe, being bitten by a bat was slightly numb and painless, no wonder he was unconscious at such a high point. The bats in this pit of ten thousand beasts have paralyzing neurotoxins that make them faint, and if they don't fall to the bottom of the pit by coincidence, they are afraid that they have become food in their stomachs.
Looking up, the dark path is not good, this bat has the potential to attack again, and now it is weak, and the beast control technique is very laborious, so I have no choice but to bury myself in the white bones again.
But what is this black placket? When Nian Xiaojiao returned to the Ten Thousand Beasts Pit, she saw a piece of clothing, and thought about it, Shang Hong was also dressed in black today. The movements of his subordinates did not speed up, and the closed eyebrows and deep-locked eyebrows were not Shang Hong.
And not far from him, there was a golden egg, shining as big as a grapefruit, which was very beautiful. Nian Xiaojiao picked up the golden egg and couldn't put it down.
When Shang Hong woke up, he saw Nian Xiaojiao holding a golden egg in her hand, smiling like a flower.
"Ahem! Don't pick things up. Shang Hong said slowly: "The origin of this egg is unknown. ”
Nian Xiaojiao tilted her head and thought, when she was a child, she had no playmates in the dark forest of Jinliao, and she grew up with the leopard Xiaohua, and now in order to facilitate travel, she has left Xiaohua in the Panyue Palace, looking at this golden egg, she has an inexplicable sense of intimacy, she can feel that there is life inside.
"I like it." Nian Xiaojiao rubbed the giant egg with her face, holding it and not letting go.
Shang Hong saw that she liked it tightly, and thought that if it was really something bad, he would solve it with one knife and no longer entangle with her. Leaned out of the bone pile and looked around, it was still Hei Yangyang's bat group: "Bats are afraid of fire, can there be fire folds on their bodies?" ”
"Yes." Nian Xiaojiao took out a fire fold, which was several times larger than usual, and the burning power was more powerful and the support time was longer. It's always a good idea to pack a lot when you're away from home. She is used to going out every time she goes far away and robs Ye Lao. Shang Hong probably guessed where he came from, and a hint of a smile hung on his lips.
Nian Xiaojiao thought, in fact, there is no need to be so troublesome, she is almost repaired, and she can escape with the art of beast control. Seeing that he had never thought of using her in such a desperate situation, she was very happy in her heart and happy to cooperate.
Lighting the fire fold, the flying bats only dared to stop and hover at a distance of one meter from them.
"Come closer." Shang Hong looked at the bat that wanted to attack Nian Xiaojiao, grabbed Nian Xiaojiao's shoulder with one hand, and let it be under his protection, so Shang Hong took Nian Xiaojiao to fly up the hole where they fell, and returned to the fork along the way, and saw the tragic death of several of his subordinates along the way, and was very worried.
"Qing Yu she~" Nian Xiaojiao didn't dare to think about it.
"It'll be fine, Zhong Yu is here." Shang Hong also had a dignified face, and most of the men he brought in had been baptized by carnivorous beasts, ten thousand beast pits, and bat nests. In such a dangerous place, it is difficult for evil beasts to avoid, and villains are even more difficult to avoid. The road ahead is not easy. Looking sideways at the people around you, no matter how difficult it is, you have to be protected.
The two men were silent, except for the sound of footsteps echoing through the passage. Nian Xiaojiao only felt that the hand holding her shoulder was a little hot, and even her little face was red. In order to relieve the embarrassment, Nian Xiaojiao asked, "Miss Aci, are you okay?" As soon as these words came out, Nian Xiaojiao regretted it, and Shang Hong's eyes became a little colder.
"Hmm." Shang Hong replied.
Nian Xiaojiao broke free from Shang Hong's protection, thinking that his family was like a beautiful flower, and she felt very aggrieved. Shang Hong intently observed the dense bats around him, and did not take into account Nian Xiaojiao's sudden change of mood, and was accidentally broken free by Nian Xiaojiao, and dozens of bats waiting for the opportunity took this opportunity to pounce on Nian Xiaojiao.
"Be careful!" Shang Hong protected the fire fold towards Nian Xiaojiao, and finally protected Nian Xiaojiao. But most of my body went into the dark. For a while, the bat swarm lost control and pounced towards Shang Hong. Shang Hong only felt that his entire arm in the dark was in pain, but he protected Nian Xiaojiao and never moved the fire fold. Nian Xiaojiao hurriedly pounced on Shang Hong, enveloping the two of them with the faint light released by the fire fold, which was able to repel the bat swarm. Under the candlelight, in just a moment, Shang Hong's entire arm was already blurred with flesh and blood.
Nian Xiaojiao's eyes were red, she couldn't stop apologizing, and hurriedly picked up the treasures scavenged from Ye Lao, including all kinds of first-aid medicines, all of which were made by Ye Lao. Finally found an ointment to stop bleeding and relieve pain, and hurriedly applied medicine for Shang Hong, when the ointment was attached, although Shang Hong was in pain, he never said a word, this kind of pain, for him, is nothing. On the contrary, it was Nian Xiaojiao, thinking of Shang Hong jumping off the pit of ten thousand beasts for himself, being besieged by bats for himself, and finally crying.
"How can you be so uncaring for yourself?" Nian Xiaojiao cried and choked at Shang Hongdao.
Shang Hong's footsteps froze slightly, wiped away her tears with his sleeve, and said lightly.
"Let's go."
"You, why are you so good to me?" Nian Xiaojiao asked, expecting an answer.
"Do you remember that I was recuperating from my injuries in the Senluo Hall for more than a month? General Lin let me go, on the condition that you will be well protected for the rest of your life. A gentleman promises a thousand gold. Shang Hong's eyes were lowered, and he couldn't see his emotions clearly. Thinking of the post-seal notice that Pan Yue announced to the world, he never said much.
Oh, I see, Nian Xiaojiao only felt heartache: "It's me who lost my words, forgive me." ”
The whole mood, the top priority, is to find Qing Yu, the two of them bumped and continued to move forward, speechless all the way. It's just that the more I walk, the more frightened I become, this forked road, the two of them were dozens of people when they came, and there were only two people left when they returned, and the flesh and blood were blurred along the road, and some of the whole heads were only skulls, and the two Hesse Sen eye holes seemed to tell the pain before death. Some of them had no flesh and skin, and their limbs and five bones were scattered all over the ground, and it was no longer possible to tell whose hand bones were pressing on whose body. The two endured the discomfort in their hearts and struggled forward, and they didn't know how many corpses they crossed, and finally reached the fork in the road, and the group of bats that followed closely saw that they couldn't start, and slowly retreated.
Looking at the retreating bat swarm, Nian Xiaojiao didn't feel relaxed. Years of experience with beasts have taught him that beasts pay attention to the boundaries of the earth. The weak eat the strong, the strong realm, crossing is a life-and-death struggle, the bat swarm no longer follows, it can only be explained that there are more powerful beasts ahead, at least more powerful than the bat swarm.
Nian Xiaojiao looked back at the remains of the corpse behind her, life was like grass mustard, clean and clean, clean and clean, in this world, there was not a trace of ripples. She prayed silently for them, to be an ordinary person in the next life, to live in peace, to hoard on the stove, and to enjoy the usual.
She firmly believes that those corpses that can't see clearly can not see the eyebrows, there is no Qing Gardenia, Qing Yu is the best killer in the Senluo Palace, and the best thing is assassination, and the other is escape. Such a small gutter, she won't capsize, Qing Gardenia, Qing Gardenia, but don't let me down, Nian Xiaojiao has words in her heart. Over the years, my parents have disappeared before I can remember, Granny Ge, who loves me the most, has also left early, and my father-in-law who raised me has passed away. One by one, they are all away from themselves, and there are very few people close to them, and it is false to say that they are not alone. finally met a Qing Yu who was like a sister, and Nian Xiaojiao valued her very much.
Some people either don't have a heart and hand it over, that is for a lifetime, just like thinking about Xiaojiao. If you are emotional, you will be easily emotionally hurt. Nian Xiaojiao looked at Shang Hong, such a hard-hearted person, would he be sad?
Shaking her head, Nian Xiaojiao buried those sad emotions in her heart. Yu Yu said:
"This time, you'll have to take the left passage."