Chapter 8: Pharmacies
"Sacrifice is inevitable, that's the first thing you must be aware of." The first sentence Qi Guan said turned out to be this, which made the torture and others a little surprised.
Qi Guan said again: "So, next, no matter who sacrifices, we have to move on, on the one hand, we are to stop Qian Xiuye, on the other hand, we must also figure out what is inside the Qimen, if we don't understand this, we can't break the curse of the cast iron immortal to leave this world!" ”
Curse? Yes, Qimen is a curse at all. In my heart, I thought that for thousands of years, there have been countless people who have died because of Qimen, and everyone has fought for their lives for an unknown and uncontrollable thing, and in the process of finding Qimen, they continue to find excuses for themselves, so that they can do all kinds of things that are inferior to their conscience and beasts for the ultimate goal.
"Also, if I die, hear clearly." Qi Guan Zhengse said, "If I die, the team leader will be handed over to ......"
Qi Guan raised his hand and pointed to the moment of the torture, his finger moved, but he pointed to Ma Fei next to the torture: "Give it to Ma Fei!" ”
The torture technique and even the nine chess were very surprised, and Ma Fei couldn't understand it, so he pointed to himself and asked, "Uncle Qi, I'm ...... I'm not qualified to be a team leader, I'm not familiar with this environment, and I'm not as good as Mr. Lian and Torture in all other aspects. ”
Qi Guan sighed and said: "It must be you, before making peace with you, I also told Yan Gang about the three of them, and they all agreed, first, I have read your information and know that you have a certain leadership ability; Second, there is He Chenxue who is semi-hostile to us now, and from your point of view, you will definitely be wary of her, but the torture technique is not, he is too soft-hearted; Third, even if you don't recover your identity, you are still Interpol, and there are some things that you command and do, and after the whole thing is over, it will directly affect the outcome of the incident. ”
Ma Fei shook his head: "Uncle Qi, I don't understand what you mean by the third point. ”
Qi Guan said: "You don't need to know now, you will understand in the future, and you also know what to do, do you agree?" If you don't agree, we'll go our separate ways, the three of you will go your way, and I'll take Yan Gang and them to find another way. ”
Qi Guan opened his mouth, but he didn't agree with the torture technique and Lian Jiuqi, so the two had to nod their heads in agreement.
Qi nodded his head: "Okay, let's go down." ”
The four of them grabbed the rope and slid slowly down, although they were also skilled, but after all, they were not as sharp as Yan Gang and the others, and the speed was much slower in comparison.
After sliding down for about ten meters, the torture technique suddenly stopped, motioned for the others to stop as well, and after listening for a while, asked, "Did you hear any sound?" ”
The other three all pricked up their ears and listened, and sure enough, they heard something coming from above, as if there were many people shaking the cloth from above.
Suddenly, something fell from the top of the well, and the thing fell and disappeared into the darkness in an instant, and then countless black shadows of different sizes fell from above, and the four of them began to cling to the wall of the well to dodge.
Maffei looked up, trying to use her headlamp to see what was falling, but she couldn't see it because it was falling so fast.
The torture technique pulled out the mountaineering pickaxe, saw a black shadow on it, shot in advance, and directly hooked the thing with the mountaineering pickaxe, and when he hooked it and got the headlamp to look down, he found that it was actually a palm!
The four of them were startled, and the torture technique shook off the palm on the mountaineering pickaxe, and said at the same time: "Oh no! There must be something on it, look at the palm, it's not rotten, it should be the first explorer to come in. ”
"What could it be?" Maffei looked up and raised his pickaxe.
Qi Guan stared at it, his hand touched the belt, and suddenly pulled out a soft sword: "It's a toothed bat!" ”
The torture technique and even Jiuqi stared at the soft sword, and they were even more surprised, as far as they knew, there were very few people who could really make a soft sword today, and it could be said that it was almost non-existent, let alone create a real soft sword.
Torture came back to his senses: "Toothed bat? Yes, it's a toothed bat! Previously, Qian Xiuye and they were not attacked, which means that the toothed bat was not in that nest. ”
Lian Jiuqi clenched the mountain opening knife: "These toothed bats came out of that tunnel and came to the top of the sacrificial well to survive. ”
Ma Fei listened to the sound of the cloth shaking closer and closer: "Why did you move the nest?" ”
"Because of the earthquake." Qi Guan frowned, clenching the soft sword, "Those are not important, the important thing is that we must avoid these things, now listen to my command and turn on all the light sources on our bodies." ”
The torturers and the others immediately turned on all the light sources that could be turned on their bodies, and also prepared the burning sticks.
"Glide down slowly, don't go too fast, keep an average speed, when I say stop, you stop, stick to the wall of the well, don't move!" Qi Guan raised his eyes and looked at the top, sliding slowly, "You guys don't care about the top, I'll just keep an eye on it!" ”
After the three of them slid down for more than ten meters, the group of toothed bats that flapped their wings and flew down from the top of the sacrificial well were only ten meters away from them, because of the light, those toothed bats only kept a certain distance from the torture and others, and did not dare to approach directly.
"If this works, we should be able to ......" Before Qi Guan could finish speaking, he saw a toothed bat suddenly swoop down, shuttle between the rays, like a fighter plane dodging the fire net, and then fly straight towards Qi Guan's face.
The white shadow in Qi Guan's hand flashed, and the toothed bat was immediately cut in two and fell.
"Don't panic!" Qi Guan shouted, "The toothed bats are smarter than they think, it seems that they are just afraid of the light source directly shining on their bodies, torture, you focus the flashlight, and then try to shine towards the group of toothed bats above." ”
Sure enough, the moment it hit the toothed bats, the toothed bats immediately fled in all directions, but many of them seized the gap and attacked directly from the cave wall, Ma Fei and Lian Jiuqi immediately brandished the mountain knife and the mountaineering pickaxe, slashing the toothed bats that tried to attack the face.
The first wave of attacks finally ended, and the torturers and others also learned to be smart, and in the process of sliding, they kept moving the flashlight, like a searchlight, so that those toothed bats could not catch the air raid and rush down.
"It's not the way to go." "My neck is sore." ”
In the process of watching the slide, he kept calling on the walkie-talkie, and finally Yan Gang's answer came from the walkie-talkie: "We just arrived!" The rope was not long enough, and in the last section, we relied entirely on climbing down, and the rope was not enough at all! ”
The torture arts and others were shocked when they heard this, because the length of their single rope was seventy-five meters, so the sacrificial well was at least a hundred meters deep?
Lian Jiuqi said on the side: "A hundred meters is nothing, it's nothing at all, I've been to a cave more than four hundred meters deep, but there are no monsters in that cave, only the adrenal glands that you keep secreting!" ”
Ma Fei gasped and said, "I think that the sacrificial well leads to the underworld. ”
The four of them maintained the status quo and slid down with difficulty, and when they finally reached the end of the rope, they looked down and could already see the burning rod that Yan Gang and the others were holding high and shaking at the bottom of the well.
Ma Fei frowned: "I have a question, why was Qian Xiuye not attacked when they went down?" ”
Lian Jiuqi glanced at her: "The equipment of the Cusco company should be the most advanced among all the treasure hunting companies in the world, and their speed is at least five times faster than us, for example, at this distance, they can throw the compressed inflatable cushion down first, and then climb to a position that is only ten meters away from the bottom, and then jump directly." ”
Ma Fei gritted his teeth: "We are still not fully prepared. ”
"We don't have the time to get that gear." After the torture technique was fixed, he grabbed the rock next to him and climbed down, "So, we are still led by Qian Xiuye." ”
Lian Jiuqi hadn't untied the rope yet, but took out the burning stick and said, "I have a stupid idea, but maybe it will work!" ”
Qi Guan understood what Lian Jiuqi meant: "You mean to stick the incendiary stick around and delay time so that we can climb down safely?" ”
"Yes, dig holes and stick incendiary rods, at least six." Lian Jiuqi raised his eyes and looked at it, "If you want to be safer, you will leave two strong flashlights to cross-irradiate, the duration of this burning stick is theoretically 20 minutes, in fact, we can only calculate it according to 15 minutes, you also said, they are afraid of strong light, so after 15 minutes, the burning stick is basically not very bright." ”
Qi nodded his head: "It's a way, try it, how many incendiary sticks there are." ”
"A lot, I brought a lot this time!" Lian Jiuqi smiled deliberately, pretending to be relaxed.
With that, the group began to dig holes, then pulled out the incendiary rods and inserted them, letting go and climbing down, keeping an eye on the group of toothed bats above.
"Go on! At a certain distance, our flashlight will come in handy and will be able to cover you! Yan Gang below shouted over the walkie-talkie.
Torture said as he crawled: "I hope that at that distance, we are still alive, if unfortunately it turns into a rain of blood above your heads, then please help me put the corpse together!" ”
Yan Gang smiled: "Don't be so pessimistic, so many winds and waves have come over before, and we have all experienced it that is more terrifying than this, what is there to be afraid of?" ”
Although Yan Gang said this, he was still very nervous, and the walkie-talkie was pinched by him, Bai Zhongzheng immediately grabbed Yan Gang's wrist and said in a low voice: "Relax, it's definitely fine." ”
As expected, the group of toothed bats was stopped by the burning rod and two strong flashlights, and the four torturers also hurried to climb downward, but because there were not many points for them to fix their bodies, after climbing down less than five meters, the light source of the burning rod began to weaken.
"Dig a hole again! Put the incendiary stick again! Lian Jiuqi shouted, but this time it was very difficult to dig the hole because there was no rope to hang in the air, and by the time they were almost done, the group of toothed bats had already rushed down again, but they were hovering left and right above them for fear of the light source on their bodies.
After putting it down this time, the four of them sped up the speed of climbing down, and finally when there were still five meters below the distance, the four of them simply let go and jumped down, who knew that at the same time as the four of them jumped, Yan Gang, Bai Zhongzheng and Chen Fang immediately pressed the four of them down directly.
Just when they didn't understand why Yan Gang and the three of them did this, they felt that countless things were crackling on their bodies, and several of them fell directly next to the feet of the torture technique.
The torture technique lowered his head and took a closer look through the light, and it was all toothed bats that had "crashed" for some unknown reason.
After a long time, after not hearing any movement, the torturer and the others slowly stood up, looked at the toothed bats that had fallen around, and looked up into the sacrificial well, where half of the toothed bats could not be seen.
"What's going on?" Ma Fei looked at it in surprise, "Why did it all fall off?" It's like...... It's like running out of power. ”
Bai Zhongzheng looked up and said: "When you jumped down before, the group of toothed bats rushed down, and as soon as they rushed to the position of the well, they suddenly fell directly, like rain, I don't know what's going on." ”
"Maybe it's because of this." Qi Guan squatted on the edge of the stone slab where everyone was standing, and pointed to the water around the stone slab, "You smell it, this water has a medicinal smell." ”
Qi Guan said this, they reacted, in the stone room below there is indeed a very strong smell of medicine, and then turned on the flashlight to look around them, and found that in the entire stone room, in addition to the stone slab under their feet, there are two other stone slabs, and in this positive direction of the stone room on the four walls, each has a sitting cave, and there is a group of statues in each of the sitting caves.
Ma Fei looked around and said, "Question, there are no other entrances and exits here, why can't you see Qian Xiuye and them?" ”
Yan Gang let out a sigh of relief: "I don't want to see them, in this environment, if they had been ambushed here before, we would all have to die." ”
Qi Guan still squatted there, lay down again, and sniffed the water: "Sure enough, it's a potion, I don't know what the ingredients are, but maybe for those toothed bats, these are deadly poisons, so once they get close to the wellhead below, these toothed bats all fall down." ”
Torture also squatted down: "These potions may also be harmful to the body, but we don't feel it for the time being." ”
Lian Jiuqi pointed to the two stone slabs opposite: "Have you ever been up to those two stone slabs?" ”
Bai Zhongzheng immediately said: "I've checked, there is no organ, it's fine." ”
Lian Jiuqi jumped to the stone slab on the upper right, and after standing still, he stepped on it, then looked around, and after finding that there was no response, he jumped to the last stone slab and investigated in the same way.
Torture squatted down, took out a piece of jerky, and slowly put it into the water, tentatively.
The others also stared at the jerky in his hand, and after a long time, the torture technique lifted the jerky and found that the jerky had not changed at all: "It doesn't seem to be corrosive, but let's not take risks, try to stand on the three stone slabs." ”
At this time, Bai Zhongzheng said: "Maybe it's a moving stone room." ”
Qi Guan raised his eyes and looked at Bai Zhongzheng: "What do you say?" ”
"When I was in Shaanxi before, I encountered a similar mechanism stone chamber, that is, there is one real and false tomb, at first glance, there is only one, but to enter the real stone chamber, you need to find the right mechanism." Bai Zhongzheng recalled seriously, "I think it may be similar here, after all, I have also seen in the materials that there are similar stone chambers in the ancient Western Regions, which is relatively common. ”
Ma Fei thought for a while and said, "You mean, Qian Xiuye and they came down first, and the first stone room they entered, but they found the mechanism and left first, and then He Chenxue and them?" Wait a minute! That, what about Xu You and Uncle Chen? How many stone chambers are there? ”
"It should be three or four." Qi Guan pointed to the three stone slabs on the ground, "There are three stone slabs on the ground, and the setting of the general mechanism will have a similar so-called hint." After speaking, he pointed to the four groups of statues next to him, "There are also four groups of statues, so it is either three or four, in addition, Xu has this kind of person, it is impossible to act alone, he should be attached to Qian Xiuye or He Chenxue, so he can't be another group of people, as for Taidong, it should be with He Chenxue and them." ”
Lian Jiuqi asked, "Uncle Qi, why are you sure that Uncle Chen and He Chenxue are together?" ”
Xingshu got up and said: "Uncle Qi should be presumed that there are three stone chambers, the reason is that Qian Xiuye goes first, in that team, Qian Xiuye and Yuan Zhenba are experts among experts, and it is estimated that it is not a big problem to deal with such an institution, but in He Chenxue's team, He Chenxue is inexperienced, and Fan Junyi can only be regarded as average, so it is unlikely that they can find the mechanism to open on their own, unless there is the help of Uncle Chen, and the reason why Uncle Chen wants to help them is probably forced to be helpless, after all, when he came down, It is estimated that He Chenxue is still trapped in the stone chamber. ”
Ma Fei was a little worried: "Will Uncle Chen be in danger?" ”
"I'm not worried about this for the time being." Qi Guan frowned, "The brains of He Chenxue, Fan Junyi, and Mu Tianjian combined, they can't be considered Taidong, I'm worried, if Xu You is on He Chenxue's side, plus his teacher Yang Zhengxia, it is estimated that it will be a little troublesome." ”
Xingshu looked around, and said a little absent-mindedly: "Although I'm a little worried, but Xu has this kind of person, in fact, it is not difficult to deal with it." ”
Bai Zhongzheng disagreed: "When I went to Jiacuo Palace, you also saw that Xu has that kind of person, there is no bottom line and rules to talk about at all, and he can do whatever he wants." ”
Xingshu jumped to Lian Jiuqi's side, and looked at the group of statues sitting in the cave on the east side: "For people who don't talk about the rules, you can't follow the rules, he is nonsense, you are also nonsense, don't let him find out what you are thinking, just do it, this point, Uncle Chen should not be difficult to do." ”
Speaking of this, the torture technique suddenly discovered something, and after focusing the flashlight to the center point, he looked at the group of statues sitting in the cave and asked, "Do you think that group of statues is transparent?" ”
Qi Guan, Ma Fei, and Bai Zhongzheng jumped onto the stone slab, looked at the group of statues with Xingshu and Lian Jiuqi, and found that the light source of the torch in the hand of Xingshu really seemed to be able to penetrate the group of statues directly.
There were three statues, two men and one woman, the woman sitting on a rock, looking shyly at the side, and two men, one of whom looked directly at the woman and the other at the man, while clutching the dagger at her waist.