Chapter 63: The Source of the Poisonous Mist
We walked around the Valley of the Ghosts and headed towards the plains of which the shepherds spoke. Along the way, I couldn't believe my eyes, this is still a plain, years have passed, this place has long been bumpy, walking here is no different from walking on a mountain road.
"Your Majesty, what's ahead of you?" Zhao Meng pointed to the red one in front and said, I looked ahead, I have never seen this kind of phenomenon. "Could it be a blood-colored mist?" I said skeptically.
"Your Majesty, let's go and have a look." The two soldiers clenched their fists and said, and I nodded in agreement. The two soldiers immediately stepped forward, inspected it and came back and said, "Your Majesty, the surroundings are very safe. As soon as the words fell, suddenly the two of them clasped their necks with their hands, and their eyes were about to jump out, and they soon fell to the ground.
I waved for the others not to come closer. I put on a gas mask and gloves and examined the soldier's body, which was nothing unusual, except for blue lips, which was a sign of poisoning. "It's poisonous in this fog!" I said without thinking.
"Then what to do, you can't give up halfway." Zhao Meng said.
"I've taken this into account, it's a gas mask, and when you wear it, you can greatly reduce the amount of poison you breathe." I said. After a pause, he continued, "But I don't know if it works for this poison." ”
"What, aren't you even sure?" Zhao Meng asked.
"Yes, this poison is no less than the venom of a five-step snake, and the speed at which it kills is astonishing." I said.
"If it's the venom of the five-step snake, it's fine, just don't move." Zhao Meng said.
I shook my head and said, "If you don't move, you'll still die, five-step snake, five-step snake means that you will die of poison within walking five steps, whether it is really five steps is unknown, but it shows that the poison is strong." ”
"Then can't we get by?" Zhao Meng asked.
"Don't say more, let's be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, Zhao Meng, Bing Yan, bring it quickly." I handed the gas mask to Zhao Meng and Bing Yan. Then he said to the soldiers: "The three of us went in to find the source of the poisonous fog, there are not enough gas masks, you are waiting here now." ”
"This can't be done, Your Majesty, how can we let you take the risk?" A soldier said.
"Don't say more, this poisonous mist is very poisonous, not something ordinary people can bear, and you have also seen the death of those two soldiers just now. No doctor's best can save it. I said, and the soldiers agreed to stay first.
The three of us entered the range of the poisonous mist, followed the map, and finally walked out in the time of a stick of incense, I looked back at the endless poisonous mist, and thought to myself that without this map, I don't know how much circle I would have to go around.
I took off my gas mask and said to the two of them, "Now you can take your mask off." ”
Zhao Meng responded, took off the mask, and threw it out casually, I was immediately angry and shouted: "What are you doing, there will be more places to use in the future!" Pick it up. Zhao Meng let out an "oh" and went to pick up the mask.
"Hey, what is this?" Zhao Meng pulled out a stone statue, I lowered my head to look at the stone statue, the stone statue is no different from the stone statue common in ancient sacrifices, except that the back is engraved with words. I took a few looks, probably to introduce the life of King Yong, and there are some things I have learned from the shepherd. But the record is very incomplete, because it has been buried in the soil for a long time, and some of the handwriting has been blurred.
"Quick, let's see if there's anything else nearby?" I said, Zhao Meng and Bingyan hurriedly began to look for it.
"Look, there's another one here." Bing Yan pointed to a stone statue on the right and said, this stone statue also only has its head exposed, "Quick, pick it out." I said excitedly.
"No, it's dirty." Bingyan said coquettishly, I was speechless for a while, took off my gloves and handed them to her, sighed and said, "Let's do it." The ice goose reluctantly replied and pulled the stone statue out.
Zhao Meng and I hurriedly surrounded it, only to see that the stone statue was about half a person tall, and the back was engraved not with words but with patterns. Looking at the pattern, it seems to say that King Yong once had a conflict with the invading Yi people, and in the battle, King Yong was defeated and retreated, and then the Yi people disappeared in one day. When I saw the last pattern, I was stunned, the pattern was clearly a giant python, could it be that this poisonous fog and the demise of the Yiren clan were related to this giant python?