Chapter 39: The Light of Sacrifice
"Get out of the way!" Lin Zhengfeng shouted, and Tang Qishan and a few people immediately stood away, a little frightened in the face of the unknown.
"There's movement, it's coming, it's coming!" Zhang Xiaoqiang shouted.
"Don't make noise! It's kind of like the sound of water. Tang Qishan tilted his head and listened.
"I'm wiping, it's water!" Zhang Xiaoqiang jumped away.
I saw that the coffin board suddenly floated, and water continued to gush out of the coffin, which caught several people off guard, and they didn't expect such a situation at all.
"Get out of the way!" Lin Zhengfeng drank, walked over and kicked over the coffin board.
A surging column of water rose from the coffin, and the old dragon spat water directly to the top of the tomb, the water flow was turbulent, the space was narrow, and it instantly flooded the thighs of several people.
"What's going on? Why is this so much water? Where did it come from?" said Erin.
And the torrent gushing out of the coffin was like a mountain torrent, with no intention of stopping, and the water pressure was extremely high, and it instantly did not reach the chest and abdomen of several people. The air here is already thin, and if it is flooded, it is really possible to suffocate in the tomb before it can swim out.
"Hurry up and find a way!" Zhang Xiaoqiang said urgently.
"What can be done? Now the current is too strong, and if you swim out, you will be swept away by the current, and you will not be able to crash on the stones. Everyone hugged in a group and grabbed the bronze tripod and waited for the water to pass. Tang Qishan looked around and was in a hurry.
Several people held hands in a string, and Lin Zhengfeng was closest to the coffin, and instantly grabbed the bronze tripod. As soon as the remaining few people moved, they instantly stood unsteadily, and were rushed outside the tomb by the water, and several people were holding each other to death, becoming grasshoppers on a rope, Lin Zhengfeng's pressure was the greatest, not only to fight against the turbulent water, but also to pull a few people behind him, almost tearing him in half. In less than two minutes, the entire tomb was submerged, and Tang Qishan took a big breath before the water was overhead, and dived underwater.
Tang Qishan's water nature is average, and after holding it for a few minutes, his face turned red, his green tendons were exposed, and he couldn't breathe, he felt that his eyes were gradually blurred, and his consciousness was gradually moving away. On the line between life and death, a warm lip pressed against his mouth.
There was oxygen in the crossing, Tang Qishan came back to his senses, and looked at the person holding him in front of him with wide eyes, it was Erin. Erin was holding Tang Qishan's waist with both hands, Tang Qishan was already confused, came back to his senses, and had let go of Zhang Xiaoqiang's hand in front of him, he and Erin were at the end, the two hugged each other and were washed away by the current, constantly flipping and floating with the waves in the tomb, and then seemed to hit something, and both of them fainted.
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Tick-tock!Tick! When Tang Qishan woke up, he didn't know when, he propped up his body and looked around, the surroundings were pitch black, and then he touched around, but he touched a soft and delicate thing, and it was very elastic. Tang Qishan's mind flashed, and his hand retracted like an electric shock, no need to guess, he was next to Erin, and he remembered hugging Erin before he fainted.
"Doesn't it feel good?" asked Erin in a low voice, sounding weak.
"Ahh......h
"You scourge! I want to ......" Seeing that Erin was about to get angry.
"I didn't mean to, I couldn't see it. Tang Qishan hurriedly explained.
"You stupid fork! There's a miniature flashlight on your watch. Erin burst into foul language, wishing she could kill him head-on.
When Tang Qishan turned on the flashlight, he saw Erin lying on the ground by the light, her face was pale, and her wet body showed a bumpy and delicate body, and Tang Qishan, who was strong in blood, couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
"Have you seen enough?" said Erin, limply.
"Uh......" Tang Qishan realized that something was wrong at this time, Erin's temper he figured out, it was impossible for him to be so unscrupulous, and after a closer look, he found that Erin had red blood stains on his waist.
"How are you, is it serious?" Tang Qishan asked with a frown.
"I can't walk, I hurt my spine. Erin said with her eyes closed, her lips trembling slightly. The dungeon is hidden deep underground, the temperature is very low, the water is cold, and now there is no way to keep warm, Erin lost blood, and her frozen lips are a little purple.
"The backpack is outside, there is no first aid kit, there is no fire, and you are dangerous to go on like this. Tang Qishan said.
"I need to tell you that following you will not end well. Erin sighed.
"I'm looking around for an exit, don't move. Tang Qishan got up and said.
Tang Qishan used a weak flashlight to probe around, this is an empty and confined space, completely different from the tomb hall they entered, there are no traces of excavation and repair around here, it seems to be a naturally formed cave, but Tang Qishan found that there is an altar in the center, which is exactly the same as the altar seen in the hall. It's just that this altar is very tall, and there is a totem pole with two people on the altar extending upwards, and the top of the dark cave is not visible.
Next to the totem pole is another bronze tripod, which is bigger than the outside I don't know how much, and it is already rusty. Looking down from the light, it was a burial pit, which was full of white bones, which frightened Tang Qishan, and the white bones here were no longer cattle, sheep and livestock, but human bones.
"Click!"
"Who?" Tang Qishan heard the sound coming from the darkness, turned around suddenly, and the flashlight shone on the place where the sound came from, but there was nothing.
"Erin!" Tang Qishan shouted.
"I'm here. Erin also heard the sound and responded to Tang Qishan.
"Brother Lin, is it you?" Tang Qishan spoke again, only his voice echoed in the space, and there was silence.
"Click!" the voice came from behind him again.
Tang Qishan was slightly nervous, and turned to look at the altar. This photo frightened him to a moment, and the light hit a dead man's face.
In the burial pit, a ragged corpse with rotten flesh stared at Tang Qishan. Some places on the corpse were already white bones, and there was not much flesh left on a face, revealing bare teeth and eye sockets, looking at Tang Qishan motionlessly.
"Cluck," the monster made a strange noise, the sound of him stepping on dry bones.
"Click!Click!" The monster moved, stepping on dry bones and walking towards Tang Qishan.
"Hurry up, there's something wrong with this corpse. Erin shouted to Tang Qishan after seeing the monster.
"Let's go, where am I going, what are you going to do if I'm gone?" Tang Qishan swallowed his saliva and looked at the approaching carrion corpse and said.
"Thunder Fu!" Erin reminded.
Tang Qishan was so nervous that he forgot the spell Xiuyuan gave him. suddenly remembered, when he touched his trouser pocket, what he took out was a lump of drenched yellow paper, which scratched his ears and cheeks in a hurry.
"It's over, it's all soaking wet. Tang Qishan said desperately.
"Roar......" the rotting corpse roared and rushed over.
Erin struggled to prop up her upper body, grabbed a stone and threw it at the carrion, and smashed it right on the head of the carrion. The rotting corpse stopped, looked sideways in Erin's direction, sniffed half of his nose, smelled the blood on Erin's body, and gave up Tang Qishan.
The situation was critical, Tang Qishan couldn't care about much, spread out the crumpled talisman in his hand on the ground, took out two pieces from the middle that were still intact, the cinnabar on them had not been blurred by the water, and he got up directly to recite the mantra, his fingers bit in his mouth, and the essence blood was smeared on the spell.
"Heaven and earth are infinite, Qiankun borrows the law, Tiangang thunder method, wind and thunder are ordered, edict!" The spell shook off and stuck it on the back of the rotting corpse.
In the darkness, a dazzling electric light came down with thunder and struck the rotting corpse with a bang. The space echoed with thunder, and Tang Qishan's eardrums hurt.
The rotting corpse was struck by lightning, and one of its heads was instantly split off, leaving only some sticky material on its shoulders. The carrion paused, then lunged at Erin. Erin couldn't move, she was about to die in the mouth of the corpse, and she could already smell the stench emanating from the corpse, and Tang Qishan's second spell finally fell.
"Heaven and earth are infinite, Qiankun borrows the law, Tiangang thunder method, wind and thunder are ordered, edict!" Tang Qishan can only use one spell, even if the other spells are given to him, he can't use them, and his spiritual power can only support him to use three thunder talismans. At this time, Tang Qishan used two thunder talismans in succession, and his strength was drained, and he sat on the ground with his butt and gasped.
The carrion corpse suffered a second lightning strike, and its body was chopped into a mess, leaving only half of its body still intact, and it fell in front of Erin, the rotting flesh and sticky things on the ground, and the smell of the corpse, made Erin constantly gag.
After a short rest, the two of them have calmed down after the crisis, how can there be corpses of corpses here? Didn't Zhang Xiaoqiang say that there would be no possibility of corpses here? Tang Qishan frowned and thought.
"I have a fire fold on me. "Erin was weak and had no strength.
"Where are you still carrying this thing?" Tang Qishan crawled over.
"Didn't you touch it just now?" said Erin, angrily.
"Just now?" Tang Qishan thought of the sensation that made the blood swell.
"Can you have something useful in your head? in my chest pocket. Erin's face turned pale with anger.
Tang Qishan lit the torch on the altar with a fire fold, not so much a torch, but a mess of cloth soaked in an oil cup, I don't know how much time it was, it was an unexpected good thing that it could still be lit.
With the firelight, the whole space is illuminated. It is an irregular circular space, the ground is sloping, and next to the burial pit there is a ditch-like groove, which runs down to a large black hole.
"This is supposed to be the real altar, and it's connected to the underground river, otherwise the water has nowhere to go, and we would have been drowned. Tang Qishan said.
"See if there's a way out. Erin said.
In addition to the altar, there is a stone platform twenty meters away, on which there is a coffin, next to which there is a circular stone pier. And there is a hole directly above the coffin, rectangular, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, exactly like the coffin below.
"Could it be that this is the main burial chamber above, and the water is spurting out from here?" Tang Qishan said. He lifted Erin up and let her lie down on the stone platform to rest.
"I guess so, so how did we get here?" said Erin, too, seeing the entrance to the cave.
"It fell from the altar above. Tang Qishan pointed to a hole above the totem pole and said.
"And how do we get up?" asked Erin.
"Let's see. Tang Qishan came to the coffin, this is an empty coffin, the coffin lid does not know where it went, there is nothing inside, and the corpse is likely to be the rotting corpse that he saw just now. It should be that the coffin was washed away by the water, and the whole tomb entered the air again, and they were washed into here again by the water, and the rotting corpse smelled yang energy, causing the corpse to change.
"This should be the owner of this tomb, but his identity cannot be determined, the burial goods in the coffin have been washed away, and the coffin is fixed on the stone platform, so it is intact. Tang Qishan said.
"What is this stone mound for?" asked Erin, recovering a little and bracing herself up.
Tang Qishan carefully inspected the stone pier, and the stone pier was depicted as if it was the gluttony on the bronze tripod of the main tomb outside, and then looked at the altar totem pole, which was also a gluttonous totem, which was creepy. Gluttony is the embodiment of greed and a symbol of disaster.
The top of the stone pier is flat, polished like a mirror, with a groove in the center, and on all sides there are grooves that have been hewn out to connect the grooves in the center.
"What is this for?" Tang Qishan didn't know why.
"It should be the one that draws blood during the sacrifice. Erin said.
The groove on the stone pier does have a layer of black dirt, which should be human blood, but this groove doesn't look like it is specially used to hold human blood, it is too small.
"You try this!" Erin pulled a jade pendant from her neck.
"Isn't this the jade piece that the old gentleman got from the first floor, how can it be on you?" Tang Qishan said in surprise.
"My grandfather told me to carry it with him, and he said that he couldn't guarantee that it would be safe in the hospital, so he asked me to follow you out to avoid people's eyes. Erin said.
"I see, I thought..."Tang Qishan suddenly realized.
"What do you think, what do you think?" Erin glared at Tang Qishan, making Tang Qishan look embarrassed, Tang Qishan originally wanted to say that Erin's grandfather had taken a fancy to him and wanted to recruit him.
Tang Qishan took Guiyu and compared the shape, which was exactly the same as the groove on the stone pier, so he put Guiyu into the groove. The mutation protruded, the wind in the cave was fierce, and the Guiyu on the stone pier rose up with a bloody light and rose to the sky, and the groove on the stone pier seemed to be outlined by a blood-stained brush, and slowly drew a blood-colored red light along the traces of the ditch, all over the stone pier, like an extremely complex and mysterious pattern, and it seemed that an amazing formation was resurrected.
The surrounding wind was miserable, as if the gate of hell was opened, and the Yin soldiers were arrayed, and the totem on the altar lit up with the pattern on the stone pier, and there were also blood-red lines spreading upward, instantly spreading all over the entire totem pole, flashing bright and dark. The space inside the cave gradually rippled with a layer of enchanting red light, like a layer of red mist. Suddenly, the entire space began to shake violently, and Tang Qishan immediately stood unsteadily and sat down on the stone platform.
"What are you doing, take it down, or it will collapse!" Erin saw that this series of changes was caused by Na Guiyu, and immediately asked Tang Qishan to take it down.
Tang Qishan was shocked by the sight in front of him, as if he was demented, his eyes were blurred, he slowly straightened up, and opened his hands. Seeing that Tang Qishan was indifferent, Erin got up and grabbed the Guiyu on the stone pier with her hand, but the Guiyu seemed to grow in the groove, and she couldn't pick it off. Erin was in a hurry, reached out and grabbed Tang Qishan's right hand, and bit it, Tang Qishan suddenly came back to his senses, saw Erin's appearance, understood what she wanted to do, and didn't have time to think about it, so he reached out to Guiyu and took it.
A miracle appeared, after Tang Qishan's hand was placed on Guiyu, the space instantly calmed down, and his right hand bit his finger when he used the charm before, and attracted the thunder talisman with essence blood. Due to the panic, the lower mouth died a little, and now there is blood coming out of his fingers, that Guiyu was stained with Tang Qishan's blood, and the red light instantly dimmed, and Guiyu actually diluted the blood of Tang Qishan's fingers. As the red light dimmed, the blood-colored lines on the totem also disappeared, and the blood-colored grooves on the stone pier also calmed down. Tang Qishan's fingers lightly buckled, and Na Guiyu took out the groove.
Erin looked at Tang Qishan with a frightened expression, and Tang Qishan looked at Guiyu with a frightened expression. Then the two looked at each other, speechless, and both looked horrified.
"You were a little scary just now. Erin said.
She grabbed Tang Qishan just now, and at the moment when Tang Qishan looked back at her, her face was hideous, and there was a piercing red light in the center of her eyebrows, which seemed to be able to capture people's souls, her eyes were cold, and her face was full of blood-colored lines, which were exactly the same as the lines on the totem pole, like a hell rakshasa and ghostly.
"I didn't feel it just now, but I saw that dream again, that dream that hadn't appeared for a long time, and this time I felt it more deeply. Tang Qishan was covered in cold sweat and sat weakly beside Erin.
"What now, everything is weird here, can we still get out?" said Erin calmly.
"I don't know how Brother Lin is doing. "Tang Qishan also has no way.
"Brother Qishan, are you down there?" Lin Zhengfeng's voice came from the hole in the totem pole.