Chapter 111: Hope or Nothing
"I didn't bring it either." Yi Xingchen said.
"So, what can I do? We can't find an exit without lights, but what about the corpses on the ground? Will they bring a fire sickle? No, the corpses on the ground are all clothes, pants, and shoes that have been taken off and thrown down, and they are all naked. What can I do? Tang Xiaoqi said anxiously.
Yi Xingchen said: "The little Taoist priest who threw him down just now may have a fire sickle on him. ”
"Alright, let's find it. Where is his body? It should be nearby. ”
Tang Xiaoqi said, squatting down, only then did he remember that his body was still tied to Yi Xingchen, and hurriedly said, "Quickly untie me." ”
Yi Xingchen hurriedly untied the belt that tied her, and Tang Xiaoqi left Yi Xingchen's upper body, and couldn't help but gasp twice. Thinking of the moment she jumped down from the cave before, she was really desperate, thinking that she was really going to fall to death this time, but she didn't expect Yi Xingchen to be able to grab an iron cable in the air, she suddenly remembered what Yi Xingchen said earlier, "With me, everything is fine." And so it was.
She was in a good mood after escaping death, and she temporarily forgot about the piles of bones around her. I couldn't help but hug Yi Xingchen again and said, "Brother Gua'er, you really have the ability, how did you know that there would be an iron chain in the cave?" ”
Yi Xingchen himself couldn't help but be proud of his ability to calculate this. Of course, it is also very enjoyable to show off in front of the beauty, and it is said that this can relieve the tension of both parties, hehe smiled and said: "I calculated that a hexagram is a small hexagram of Lei Shan." The moving line is in the fifth line. There is a sentence in the fifth line of this hexagram, which is 'Gongyi, take the other in the hole'. That is, the prince used arrows tied to ropes to shoot birds. Prey was obtained from the cave. From this sentence, I thought that there might be a rope in the cave, and I was not sure at the time, so I could only take a chance bet, but I didn't expect to really bet right, it was our fate, hehe"
"It's not our fate, it's your fortune teller. I said that you are the most capable, and this can be calculated. It's amazing, it saved both of our lives, it's great. Tang Xiaoqi hugged him happily and smiled.
"Don't be happy yet, let's find the fire sickle quickly. If we find the exit, it stinks too much here, and we can't breathe, and if we continue like this, we will either starve to death or be smoked to death, so it's better to leave quickly. ”
Tang Xiaoqi agreed repeatedly, squatted down, and the two began to grope on the ground, and soon, Tang Xiaoqi touched a clothed corpse. Said happily: "I found it, this should be, the clothes I am wearing." ”
Yi Xingchen followed her voice and touched the ground. Sure enough, it was a corpse, judging from the shape of the little Taoist, but from such a high place, he had already fallen to the point that his internal organs were rotten, and his bones were shattered, but fortunately, his clothes would not break.
Yi Xingchen groped on his shattered corpse. Surprised, he cried out: "There is a fire sickle!" ”
Yi Xingchen has been in the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty for a while, and he is already familiar with this ancient ignition device. It's a small box in a cylinder. took it out and handed it to Tang Xiaoqi and said: "You take it, I'll get a torch first, you wait a while to light the fire, remember, there must be a mountain of hundreds of corpses under us, I can only use their bones to make torches, you can see it when the time comes, don't be scared to throw away the fire sickle, then we won't find it." ”
Yi Xingchen knew that Tang Xiaoqi was timid, and he had to say this to the front, if he really lost the fire sickle and couldn't find it, then he really wanted to cry without tears.
Tang Xiaoqi thought that there were corpses and bones all around, and her whole body trembled with fright. However, after he escaped death, he was a little more bold and said, "I know, I won't throw it away, don't worry." ”
Yi Xingchen squatted down, stripped off the clothes on the little Taoist, and then took off the fabric of his clothes wrapped around his hands, and touched a leg bone on the ground that had long been rotten to the point of only white bones.
Then, Yi Xingchen said to Tang Xiaoqi: "You can shoot flints, remind you again, after the lights are lit later, don't be afraid to see the bones." Don't get rid of the fire sickle. ”
Tang Xiaoqi hummed again, and dared to fumble to light the torch in his hand, he tried not to look around, in fact, this small light could not shine so far, and he couldn't see the corpse under his feet, but only near his palm. groped for the torch made of bones and clothes that Yi Xingchen was holding in his hand, and lit the clothes hanging on it.
Yi Xingchen carefully waited for the fire to grow before wrapping it around the bones, so as to ensure that it would not burn out quickly.
He held the bone torch in one hand and pulled Tang Xiaoqi in the other, and slowly walked down from the pile of bones. The corpses thrown from the top of the cave were extremely heavy near the mouth of the cave, and there was still a lot of space below, and when they got down the mountain of bones, they reached the bottom of the empty cave.
When the two of them stepped on the solid rocky ground, they breathed a sigh of relief, and walked a few more steps, only to hit the mountain wall.
Yi Xingchen and the two of them walked around the mountain wall without finding any other exits, and there were hard cliffs everywhere. I can't help but feel my heart sink to the bottom.
Yi Xingchen decided to calm down first, he pulled Tang Xiaoqi to sit down on the ground, and stepped on the flame on the remaining half of the clothes, there were relatively many velvets in the fire sickle just now, and it should be able to ignite several times, so don't worry about the ignition, you must also keep the fabric.
They sat against the mountain wall, and Tang Xiaoqi said in despair: "Brother Gua'er, there is no exit, what should we do?" Will you starve to death here or be smoked here? ”
Yi Xingchen laughed a few times and said, "Don't worry, didn't I say it?" With your brother Gua'er, everything is fine. ”
His tone is very relaxed, in fact, he is also very nervous, but he does not want to transmit this emotion to the other party, and in a tense situation it will affect his thinking, he must let himself relax as much as possible in order to find a way out of the situation.
After the two of them turned around just now, he still looked more carefully, and there was indeed no exit, what should he do?
Previously, it was possible to speculate from the hexagram that there would be an iron chain in the cave, so as to escape with his life, which was the inspiration from the proverb, and now to get out of the predicament, I am afraid that he can only find an opportunity from the proverb.
So, he tried his best to calm himself down, rethinking the words and scriptures about the Lei Shan small hexagram, and after searching in his mind, he suddenly remembered a sentence in the scriptures of the Lei Mountain small hexagram: "The sound of the bird's legacy, it is not suitable to go up, it is appropriate to go down, and it is auspicious." ”
Here it is said that it is advisable to go down, Daji, is it the passage on the ground of this cave?
Just now, the two of them just walked around the mountain wall, looking on the mountain wall, and indeed did not find any passage, will the passage be on the ground?
Since it is said in the rhetoric that it is advisable to go down, you must find yourself.
Yi Xingchen excitedly said to Tang Xiaoqi: "Light the torch!" ”
Tang Xiaoqi was in despair, hearing Yi Xingchen's words with excitement, thinking that he had found the passage, he agreed excitedly, and quickly took out the flint to light the fire, and after lighting the white bone torch in Yi Xingchen's hand, Yi Xingchen pulled her with one hand, bent over and began to search slowly on the ground. Tang Xiaoqi was behind him, not knowing what he was looking for.
This cave? The ground was also relatively flat, and the bones were concentrated only in the middle of the three buildings, surrounded by mountain walls, not covered by bones, and they searched along the places that were not covered by bones.
However, the clothes in his hands were already burned, and he turned the ground several times, looking for every inch of land, and there was no sign of any mechanism or passage. He picked up another rib and poked it on the ground, hoping to hear the hollow in the sound and discover the hidden passage, but it also failed, all the sounds were similar, and he couldn't hear any of the hollow echoes that suggested that there was a hidden passage below.
By this time, all the clothes in his hands had been burned.
Yi Xingchen desperately threw away the last blackened leg bone in his hand and pulled Tang Xiaoqi to sit on the ground.
Tang Xiaoqi heard Yi Xingchen silent, you know that he didn't find anything, and he didn't have any way out of the predicament, his heart was desperate to the extreme, he hugged his hands on his knees, buried his head in the crook of his arm and cried, he couldn't think of the previous escape, and he thought that he had escaped and been saved, but he didn't expect that it was just to delay his death a little, and there was still no way out, and he would still starve and die of thirst in this cave.
Yi Xingchen reached over and hugged her little waist, Tang Xiaoqi turned around and threw herself into his arms, hugging his neck tightly: "Are the two of us going to die?" Aren't you very accurate in divination? Do the math, shall we? ”
Yi Xingchen hugged her and stretched out his hand to pat her on the back gently, and said softly: "One thing is true, we have already calculated this matter, and it is Lei Shan's fault." You can only find the answer from this hexagram, and you can't start another hexagram, and if you start another hexagram, it won't work. ”
Tang Xiaoqing whimpered and said, "Then hurry up and think about whether there is any other way from this hexagram?" I don't want to die yet, I still have a lot of good food to eat. ”
Yi Xingchen couldn't help but laugh, he was still thinking about eating at this moment, he really deserved to be a snack. He reached out and wiped away the tears on her face, and said, "Don't worry, didn't I say it?" With me, everything is fine. Give me some time to think about it. ”
Tang Xiaoqi nodded and let go of Yi Xingchen. Holding his arm and sticking it to his shoulder, I felt that this was the only way to feel at ease.
Earlier, when the two of them jumped down the cave, he held Yi Xingchen and lay on his back. From that moment on, the barrier between them had been broken, so his action was still natural. (To be continued)