Chapter 18: Skeletons
Is this old man persecuted paranoia?
Yang Ning said angrily: "Don't talk nonsense, you old thief injured me, and now you want to kill me, how can we calculate this account?" "Always beware of the sudden attack of the old man. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Mu Lao's eyes stared at the scroll in Yang Ning's hand, he was silent for a moment, and finally said: "You hand over the scroll, the old man will heal your injuries for you, and let you go, the old man will talk and will never lie to you." ā
Believe in you to have ghosts.
"Mu Lao, I'm afraid that this picture scroll has already remembered in your heart, what else do you want it to do?" Yang Ning said: "Haven't you understood this picture scroll yet?" ā
"What do you mean?" Mu Lao's voice was cold.
Yang Ning sneered: "If I guessed correctly, you suddenly went crazy in the cave, it must have something to do with this picture scroll." His eyes rolled, "Could it be that you are going mad because of your cultivation of the Liuhe Divine Skill, and you want to find a way to crack it from this picture scroll?" ā
He just said it casually, but Mu Lao's expression changed greatly, and he lost his voice: "You..... How do you know? As soon as he spoke, he knew that he was speechless, and immediately sneered: "How can the old man go mad, what nonsense are you talking about." ā
Yang Ning had already confirmed that he had guessed correctly, so it seemed that this picture scroll was really extremely important to Mu Lao, and he felt a little more confident in his heart, touched his chin and said: "Am I talking nonsense, you know it very well in your heart." By the way, you couldn't move around before, probably not because of poisoning, but also because of madness, right? ā
Mu Lao took a deep breath before he said, "Little White Rabbit, do you know who the old man is?" ā
"I don't know."
Mu Lao sneered: "Have you ever heard of the Nine Heavens Tower? ā
"Nine Heavenly Towers?" Yang Ning frowned and said, "What is that?" ā
Mu Lao was a little annoyed, but he still endured it and said, "You haven't heard of it, so it's not strange." The old man told you that the Nine Heavens Tower is the first floor of the Northern Han Dynasty, under the direct control of His Majesty the Emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty, recruiting talents, masters like clouds, and the old man is one of the Five Elements Divine Monarch of the Nine Heavens Tower! ā
"Wood God-kun?" Yang Ning smiled: "This name is much more majestic than the title of Mu Lao. That's right, wood..... Mu Shenjun, you are from the Northern Han Dynasty, what are you doing on the ground in Southern Chu? ā
Mu Lao didn't answer, and said gloomily: "As long as you hand over the scroll, the old man can not only let you go, but also take you as an apprentice and let you join the Nine Heavens Tower." The people of Jiutianlou eat all the official food, not only can they have no worries about food and clothing, but they can also be added to the official rank and knighted in the future, and the ancestors will be glorified. Hehe smiled, "Little White Rabbit, the old man gave you this opportunity, are you willing to follow the old man?" ā
Yang Ning knew that Mu Lao was tempting, and secretly thought that this old monster really regarded himself as a child, and at this time, he only hoped to exchange this picture scroll for the other party to heal himself, and then escape from this guy's clutches alive. ā
Yang Ning immediately took a small step back and said, "If you want to paint the scroll, you can do it, but it's ......!" Before he finished speaking, he felt that his feet were loosened, and the stone he stepped on was unexpectedly loose, and the whole person had sunk down, Yang Ning was taken aback, and saw that Mu Lao had already rushed over, and his feet wanted to kick out hard, but it was okay not to use force, as soon as he used force, the stone on the side of the rock poured down, and the whole person also fell down with the pouring stone.
Yang Ningwan didn't expect the stone under his feet to be so unstable, his body was in mid-air, falling rapidly, at this time, he only hoped to catch something to live, but he still grabbed the picture scroll with his right hand, and grabbed an object with his left hand, which seemed to be a vine, this was a life-saving straw, Yang Ning naturally didn't dare to let go.
The body was still falling, the wind was whistling in my ears, and the palm of my hand was stinging against the vines.
The cliff is steep, but not vertically up and down, but slightly steep, relying on the terrain, it is difficult to slow down, Yang Ning used the strength of milk to grasp his right hand, and his body finally hung in mid-air.
He gasped heavily, kicked under his feet, and finally stepped on the steep rock of the cliff, only then he breathed a sigh of relief, the night wind blew, and his whole body was cold, and his whole body was already drenched in cold sweat.
Faintly heard the cry of Mu Shenjun from above, as if there was nothing, Yang Ning looked up, only to see the night sky starlight, for a while he couldn't see the top of the cliff, looked down, it was also dim below, knowing that he was in a place where he couldn't go up or down, but the vines on the cliff were all over the place, hanging down one by one, and thanks to these vines, otherwise he would definitely die.
He stuffed the scroll in his hand into his arms first, held the vine with both hands, slightly forced, felt a sharp pain in the palm of his right hand, and after a look, he found that his right hand was already skin and flesh, blood was blurred, and the whole body was also spicy and painful at this time, but his body was cut through countless small cuts.
Yang Ning smiled bitterly and shook his head, thinking that crossing Niutouling was a shortcut, but now he realized that not only was it not a shortcut, but it almost became his own dead end.
The body was attached to the mountain wall, and there was no worry about his life for a while, and the voice of the old man above came from time to time, and Yang Ning naturally would not agree.
Of course, the old ghost didn't worry about his life and death, he was just worried about the Liuhe Divine Skill Scroll.
However, Mu Lao's mood at this time must be extremely desperate, and the picture scroll followed him into the cliff, and the old guy was afraid that he even had the heart to die.
After a long time, Mu Lao's voice did not come down again, Yang Ning pulled a vine to make sure it was firm and strong, and then endured the pain in his palm and climbed up.
Rock climbing is also one of the training subjects in the past, and Yang Ning is no stranger to it.
He didn't want to climb to the top of the cliff immediately at this time, just tried to see if he could climb up, although Mu Shenjun had no sound, but Yang Ning never believed that he would leave so easily, and it was likely that he was still waiting at the top of the cliff.
After climbing for a while, the palm was painful, so I could only stop, and suddenly, I found that the vine seemed to be a little strange, and I picked up the vine branches with my hand, but found that there was a crack behind the vine, which was a natural crack in the mountain wall, hidden behind the vine, if I didn't look closely, it was really difficult to find.
The crack wasn't wide, but it was big enough for a person to easily get into.
Hanging on the mountain wall at all times, it is naturally very dangerous, Yang Ning did not hesitate, grabbed the vine and swung over, approached the edge of the crack, immediately grabbed the rock on the edge of the crack, and then jumped in.
He thought it was just an ordinary crack between the mountain walls, but after jumping in, he found that the crack was extremely deep, deep into the mountain, and it was pitch black in front of him, and he didn't know how long it was.
He stooped down and picked up a stone on the ground and held it in his hand, and then he walked lightly into it, and after ten or so steps, it was pitch black in all directions, and he could not see anything, holding the stone in one hand, and reaching out in front of him to grope for the way, gradually deepening, and the crack became narrower and narrower.
Yang Ning thought that it would be over soon, but after walking for a long time, this crack seemed to have no end, just curved and surrounded, and the road kept sloping downward.
After walking for half an hour, the path that was like a sheep's intestine suddenly widened, and then I faintly heard the sound of water flowing in front of me.
Yang Ning quickened his pace, and it didn't take long for a glimmer of light to suddenly appear in front of him, Yang Ning was in a big mood, and trotted over, and soon, a bigger hole appeared in front of him, Yang Ning walked in quickly, although it was also quite dim inside, but it was no longer as dark as before.
It is a very empty stone cave, surrounded by walls on three sides, and one of them is open, and a curtain of water pours down outside, blocking the view from the outside.
Only then did Yang Ning realize that the sound of the water he had just heard was the waterfall pouring down in front of him.
This waterfall was much weaker than the opposite waterfall that Yang Ning had seen at the top of the cliff, but it completely sealed the open side.
The light was cast through the curtain of the waterfall, and at this time, you could also see that it was already dark outside.
Yang Ning breathed a long sigh of relief, but he didn't expect that there was such a place here, he was already exhausted at this time, walked to the edge of the waterfall, reached out to wash the blood stains on his hands, took a few sips of water, and took a few sips of water, the entrance was luscious, a natural mountain spring, and then sat down and ripped off a piece of his clothes, covering his injured right hand, and then he lay back and closed his eyes.
The night was thrilling, and he almost died in the mountains, and at this time he was extremely tired from both physical strength and energy, and felt that his whole body was sore, and he lay on the ground, and soon fell into a deep sleep.
This sleep is very sound, the sound of the waterfall can not affect him at all, wait to wake up, sit up, but see a burst of sunshine in front of him, colorful, it turns out that the waterfall at the water vapor reflects the sun, forming a faint rainbow, beautiful, the light shines in, but it is also very bright.
Yang Ning's energy recovered a lot, and when he looked down, he saw the waterfall pouring down, but more than ten meters away, it was a waterhole, and the waterfall smashed into it, stirring up the waves, which was very spectacular.
"It's kind of an escape." Yang Ning muttered, stood up and stretched, then turned around, last night was dim, coupled with exhaustion, only to take a look, only to find out that this is a very wide stone room, there is a large oval stone in the center of the stone room, the table is quite smooth, but it is covered with thick dust, like a table, next to the big stone, there is a straw mat, but it has rotted, and on the table, there is a flat box.
Other than that, there was nothing else in the stone chamber.
His eyes swept, his body shook suddenly, and his face changed suddenly, only to see a skeleton in a corner of the stone room.
Yang Ning clenched his fists reflexively, slowly approached the past, and looked carefully, only to see that the skeleton was obviously sitting cross-legged on the ground before his death, and there was also a straw mat under the skeleton, but just like the straw mat on the stone table, it was also rotten, and the skeleton still had clothes hanging on it, but most of it was weathered and dilapidated.
"It turns out that this stone chamber has already had an owner." Yang Ning thought secretly: "I just don't know how he died here?" The corpse has now turned into a white skeleton, and it seems that this man has been dead for a long time. ā