Chapter 118: Exit
The vertical downward entrance of the hole is getting narrower and narrower, but it seems to be just right for my stature, so I shouldn't consider the embarrassing situation of getting stuck in the hole.
The cold wind swept upwards along the unknown darkness under his feet, and there seemed to be a very unpleasant stench.
I lifted up my sleeves and trouser hems and scurried down a little until the walls of the well narrowed a little.
I couldn't help but speculate that I must have gone beyond the level of the burial chamber at this moment, and was spreading deeper.
Until the eyes suddenly opened up, and the wall of the well under my feet also made a 180-degree turn as I imagined, but it was just a narrow space, and I couldn't raise my head at all.
The stench of black water mixed with the bones of the dead barely covered my upper body, and the wounds all over my body were irritated and began to itch.
Because of Xiaoyue behind me, I couldn't raise my head at all, so I could only walk desperately in the water.
"Exit...."
Until suddenly there was a small round point of light in front of me, which seemed to become an indelible hope in my heart.
At this moment, I ran forward as hard as I could, until the air reverberated with the fresh smell of the rain, and the scene in front of me suddenly became clear.
The green trees are overgrown with weeds, and the clouds overhead are so thick that it is impossible to tell whether it is day or night.
"Xiao Yue... Xiao Yue.... ”
I felt something strange behind me, and then carefully hugged the delicate Xiaoyue in my arms, looking at her breath and pale, I felt so frightened for the first time.
"Water...".
She suddenly furrowed her chapped lips and whispered something in my ear.
I knew in my heart that she would be hungry without water or food all the way, but at the moment I didn't have any food to satisfy my hunger, and it was not realistic to go hunting alone in the countryside.
In a hurry, I suddenly remembered that I still had half an old ginseng hidden in my arms.
It's just that I heard that ginseng can't be taken orally directly, and that kind of medicinal effect is too domineering and easy to cause adverse consequences.
I accidentally looked back at the tunnel behind me, and realized that I seemed to be standing in a pool.
The feet are covered with colorful pebbles, shimmering in the dim light.
I didn't dare to delay, so I immediately turned around and cut off a piece of bamboo in the verdant bamboo forest not far in front of me, because I was in a hurry to make this trip, I didn't bring any sharp weapons with me.
But with the gold medal in his arms, the edges and corners were sharp, barely able to cut something.
I first leaned the unconscious Xiaoyue against the tunnel, where the pool shimmered.
A few unknown golden fish were swimming happily under the water, and my eyes were about to glow.
"I haven't eaten meat for many days, and today I have to catch a few open meats even if I fight for my life."
When I said the word "open meat", I inadvertently found that Xiao Yue next to me was faintly swallowing saliva in a coma.
The delicate eyelashes are slightly curled with sweat, and they are particularly beautiful.
I couldn't help but reach out and probe her snort, only to feel that her breathing was slowly smoothing out, and the heart that had been hanging was finally relaxed.
In the end, I came up with the idea of using knotted bamboo as a container to stew fish, bamboo shoots and old ginseng together.
When I lifted the bamboo cover, the smell of fish and the medicinal fragrance of old ginseng surrounded the pond, and I could hardly help but swallow my saliva.
At that moment, I vaguely heard a rumbling of my stomach behind me.
"Xiao Yue...!"
I was so ecstatic that I didn't even bother to taste it, and I saw her haggard face and opened her eyes slightly, as if she would wake up at any moment, but she didn't dare to touch the fish soup.
It wasn't until the firewood under the bamboo was extinguished and the freshly boiled fish soup stopped boiling that she frowned slightly and woke up completely.
"Nerd... What happened to you... How to cry. ”
Xiao Yue's voice was soft and seemed to have a kind of magnetism, and at this moment, the haggard face had just recovered a trace of blood, and I couldn't help but ask when I looked at the tears on my face.
"There's... Is there a smoky..."
I subconsciously wiped my face full of stains, but there was an indescribable joy and sourness in my heart.
The joy is that the little guy in front of him has finally woken up, and the sour thing is that after such a long time of life and death tests, he seems to have been reborn again.
Xiao Yue looked at the smile on my face, and couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"Come... Drink the soup and be careful of scalding. ”
"It's so fresh..."
She playfully stuck out her tongue, the expression of joy on her face a little weak, and the two of us finally feasted on it.
Until the old ginseng was completely eaten, the pain all over the body seemed to become painless and itchy, and I don't know if it was the effect of its efficacy.
Overhead, a dense jungle shrouded in dark clouds that obscured out the remaining glimmers of light.
I carried the frail Xiaoyue on my back and walked in the jungle after the rain, and I didn't dare to determine the direction until I watched the sun rise little by little in the east.
Looking back at the location of the tunnel that I had just escaped, I felt an inexplicable feeling in my heart.
The passage was secretly dug by the craftsmen who built the tomb, and there is no doubt that they would be sealed and suffocated to death after the completion of the great work.
It's just that there are still many questions in the tomb that remain unsolved, such as the identity of the owner of the tomb in the Yuan Dynasty, the meaning on the frescoes, and the huge sarcophagus.
It haunts me like a lingering haze in my head, but one thing is for sure.
The interior of the tomb seems to be much more than that, we have just stumbled around the complex and deadly mechanism, which is nothing more than a drop in the bucket compared to the real complex dungeon.
But it's a pity that after seeing the coffin, I didn't have the opportunity to touch a few artifacts to come out, but when I thought that I was just trying to escape.
It's not true, as the Japanese dean said, "an out-and-out tomb robber", and then dispelled such a stupid idea.
"Ahh Ahh
Overhead, there was a familiar burst of strange birds, their black feathers and shiny black eyes lingering over the two of us.
"TM, that's bad luck."
I just wanted to lean over and pick up a stone from the ground to drive those strange birds away, but I never wanted to wake up Xiao Yue, who was sleeping soundly behind me.
When she looked at the strange birds in the sky, the expression on her face became frightened little by little, and even faintly covered with cold sweat.
I suddenly realized that she must know something, and asked softly.
But she never thought that in the next second, her answer was inconsistent, and it seemed that she couldn't justify herself at all.
It wasn't until a short time later that she cautiously spit out the truth, but the hoarse voice and bloodless little face were strangely strange.
"During the time I was in a centipede poison coma, it was like I had a long sleep... And the dreams are full of these strange birds with black feathers, and their eyes turn red when they get angry..."
"Chase me... Running. ”
Her tone trembled faintly, and she still seemed to have palpitations.
I didn't answer, I pondered in my heart for a long time, and finally looked at her blank and frightened eyes, and I really couldn't see any clue in my heart.
"Maybe she's telling the truth, there is something strange everywhere in this ghost forest, especially the strange birds hovering overhead, whose cries are almost worse than crows."
"Whew..."
I couldn't help but take a deep breath, stomped on the soft dirt under my feet, and desperately identified a direction and walked briskly.
Time passed very long, and it wasn't until Xiaoyue behind me seemed to have regained some strength that I dared to carefully hold her to the ground.
Even though her weight is light, it is not a big burden to carry on my back all the time.
The two of them walked through the dim and dull wild forest above their heads, and there were many poisonous insects and poisons under their feet, and if they were not careful, they would kill people.
But fortunately, the knowledgeable Xiao Yue found an herb with a strong insect repellent effect in the grass, and its juice was almost invulnerable to the skin when applied to the epidermis.
Any poison smelling this smell will run desperately and frantically, and seeing the two of us is like seeing some terrible natural enemy, and we have long forgotten to defend our territory.
"Nerd..., what do you mean when you say that I looked at that mural and unconsciously fell into the path of the ancient tomb?"
She suddenly stopped in front of her, her eyes flickering with doubt, as if this question had been bothering her for a long time since she woke up.
“… I was ghosted. ”
I didn't shy away from answering her doubts, but as soon as the words came out, I remembered that she was so timid, don't be scared half to death because of such a sentence.
Then the afterglow in her eyes secretly looked at her, but found that she also seemed to be stunned by my words.
But in the next second, his brows couldn't help frowning, and he whispered.
“… Ghost upper body..., is there really a ghost in this world? ”
This time, it was my turn to froze suddenly.
"Yes, this is indeed a thought-provoking question, and the bad air in the tomb does not rule out mental hallucinations caused by a lack of oxygen to the brain."
I thought that the pinch mark on my neck would be the strongest evidence, but when I looked down the next second, I suddenly found that my neck was empty.
There are no traces of being pinched with the palm of his hand.
"TM's... Is this real or an illusion? ”
I couldn't help but ask myself, and suddenly a scream in front of me woke me up from reality.
In the dim light, a vague figure in front of us was impartially blocking the way of the two of us in the distance.
The shadowy woods overhead were dim, blocking out the last rays of sunlight.
"Who!"
I looked at Xiao Yue, who was frightened in front of me, and then pulled her back behind me, with a burst of vigilance in my eyes.
"How can there be people in this wilderness, could it be a monster that has been transformed into a huge poison absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon."
The next second, I couldn't help but be taken aback by my own thoughts, and I couldn't help but burst out laughing.
As I approached slowly, I realized that the guy in front of me was hiding behind the deep woods, motionless.
The feet below the knees were firmly rooted in the dirt, and it was clear that it was a huge humanoid stone statue, which was now covered with green moss.
Even the faces have become blurry, and it seems that it is no longer possible to distinguish where the mouth is and where the eyes are.
"Who is this from TM? So there is no public morality".
I couldn't help but curse a few times, thinking that this was the case during the day, and if I let the others meet me at night, I would definitely scare half my life.
However, the stone statue is carved to life, he holds a scimitar in his hand, wears a wolfskin hat, and even rides a fierce giant wolf under his crotch.
The direct view of the whole stone statue gives people a strong wild atmosphere, or more precisely, it should be a taste of the grassland.