Tracing the fourth chapter of Xiangxi: the danger of watchtowers
Finally, when it was almost dawn, I fell asleep, but it wasn't long before I was woken up by the Xuandao They.
Nam Shu looked at me and asked with some concern, "Are you okay?" I see your eyes are red and swollen, did you have insomnia last night? ”
I nodded at her. I thought: I didn't expect to be seen by you. Xin, I was witty enough to hide what I cried last night.
Xuandao looked at me with a smile and went to take care of himself.
After everyone had washed up, we set out on our journey again.
After walking for a while, we met an extremely obscene-looking old man. He looked at it and said, "How many of you are going to the mountains?" I can't go, I can't go, there's a monster in there, so you'd better go back! ”
I was a little puzzled when I heard the old man's words, and immediately asked what the reason was.
The old man told us that there is a local legend.
Thousands of years ago, there was a pair of lovers who fled to this mountain because of the war, the man was called Ning Que, and the woman was called Feiyu.
Soon after, they gave birth to a daughter who was captivating the country and the city, and as they grew older, their daughter was also discovered by the then prince, who sent troops to arrest her, so that their daughter entered the palace as a concubine.
The woman's father was naturally reluctant, so he knelt down and begged heaven every day. Finally, the heavens were moved by his sincerity, and after three thunderclaps, countless birdmen flew into the sky, and the first bird told him that they had come to help him regain his daughter.
Later, he not only took these birdmen to reclaim his daughter, but also conquered the four directions and became the king of the world. Ning Que, who became the queen, still hated the prince and his people, and he took the captured prince and his army here and shot them all.
Thousands of years later, the resentment of the people in this group of troops was so bad that none of the people who had entered the mountains the first few times did not return.
After listening to the old man's story, I became even more interested in the ancient tomb that Xuandao told me, and I continued to move forward when the old man arrived. The old man sighed when he saw that his persuasion had failed.
After walking for a short time, we saw a watchtower, and two lanterns hung in front of the door like the eyes of an unknown creature. A gust of wind blew, and I immediately felt a chill down my spine.
Then, I leaned into the watchtower, and in the corner of the wall I found five small words: grass mud horse treat. This is the third uncle's code word, and its meaning is only known to the two of us.
When the stuffy oil bottle and the others saw me standing there in a daze, they also followed. I pointed to the little print and said, "Look. ”
The fat man looked in the direction of my finger and said, "What the hell, isn't this swearing?" When did your third uncle develop this virtue? ”
I smiled, and then slowly said what the code word really meant: wealth.
After hearing this, the fat man smiled and walked straight towards the watchtower. The stuffy oil bottle stopped him, and the fat man and I understood the meaning of the stuffy oil bottle after so much time together, and he knew that there was danger.
I looked at the stuffy oil bottle and said eagerly: "Little brother, I will definitely go here, I have been looking for the third uncle for so long and now I have found clues, so I will not stop here." ”
The stuffy oil bottle slowly lowered the hand that stopped the fat man, and then looked at me, and I noticed that there was a trace of emotion in his eyes that was difficult to express in words.
When I went in, I smelled a musty smell caused by the long-term lack of ventilation. After walking for a while, I noticed that there were blood stains on the wooden walls, but the color must have been there for a long time.
I thought to myself: it seems that this is the reason why the stuffy oil bottle stopped the fat man just now.
The further back I went, the more I felt that something was wrong, the smell of blood that had been coming from time to time had become more and stronger, and it made my stomach churn when I smelled it.
After a while, the fat man told us that he was in a hurry to relieve his hand, but we had to stop and wait for him.
Suddenly, there was a vibration of the plank beneath our feet, and it opened downward. There was a very deep hole below, and I couldn't see the bottom at a glance, because everyone had just been defenseless, so they all fell.
"Ah~" The hole echoed with my screams. Xuandao reacted immediately, and he used a spell to make us land slowly, and after a few minutes we finally landed.
I looked at the top of my head and thought, "If it weren't for the Xuandao, I might have returned to the West by now."
Xuandao looked at my frightened face and said, "Wu Xie, did you feel the feeling of flying just now?" ”
I gave him a blank look and said, "I didn't feel it when I jumped, but I experienced it when I jumped off a building." ”
After saying this, I ignored him, I just felt cold under my feet, but not in the water.
So, I used a flashlight to shine a light on my surroundings, which scared me a lot.
I was surrounded by people, flesh and blood that resembled a sauce, and I could faintly see the human bones on the "sauce". It stenched so badly that I couldn't help but spit it out.
I took a few steps forward to get out of here quickly only to find myself trapped, and I knew that the more I struggled in this situation, the faster I would fall, but the instinct to survive forced me to start struggling.
I shouted to the stuffy oil bottle, "Little brother, save me." ”
Stuffy Oil Bottle heard my cry for help and immediately turned around, and then his feet broke away from people, meat, and sauce, and then he came to me in the form of a dragonfly and water, and he grabbed my clothes and returned to the previous position.
He said, "Don't move, except that here is empty under our feet." ”
I nodded.
Xuandao said: "I just used a spell to look around, and found that there is a clearing 150 meters away from us, let's go there!" ”
In the blink of an eye, we came to the open space that Xuandao said, as if the people, meat, and sauce before us did not exist.
But the blood and scraps of flesh on my clothes were a constant reminder that what had just happened was real and not unreal.
I found a hidden place, took out the spare clothes in my backpack, and changed the clothes that were stained with blood and shredded flesh.
The sound of horses' hooves rang in my ears, and I hurried back to the ranks.
Nam Sook took out an animal's horn and lit it, and as the white smoke rose, I saw many imps and skeletons on horseback appear all around.
Nan Shu shouted at Xuandao: "The number is a bit much, Xuandao, protect the patriarch and them." ”
After speaking, she took out a dagger and slashed it at her palm, and then said: "With blood as a medium and iron as evidence, the Nine Yin Soldiers listen to my orders and kill!" ”
Countless skeletons in armor and white bone horses appeared in front of us, and they rushed in all directions.
In an instant, I felt that there was nothing in sight.
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