The cave was dark and damp, with the smell of rotting blades of grass wafting through it.

There are old black vines climbing on the walls on both sides of the cave, and the further you go inside, the more vines there are.

After walking forty or fifty meters, I still haven't seen the roots of the old vine, and I can't imagine how this black weird old vine grows so long.

A vine of this length can only be compared to the Purple Star Vine that grows on that big tree in the Heavenly Secret Realm, right?

In the end, the cave was surrounded by the shadows of old vines, bare and without branches and leaves, and at first glance, they looked like countless twisted and crawling black snakes.

After walking for dozens of meters, a cold wind suddenly blew from the depths, faintly carrying the fragrance of flowers, blowing away most of the smell of corruption.

I stood still and wondered, "Why is it windy here?" Is it a demon wind or a yin wind? ”

"No, it's a normal natural wind, with the fragrance of flowers in the wind, and the front of this cave is connected to the outside." Yan Xiaoying leaned on my shoulder and whispered.

"Exit?"

I was stunned when I heard this: "Didn't the second master say before that this is a mountain tomb?" Besides, the deep ditch we fell into before was obviously a burial pit, and now the shadow of the coffin of the tomb owner is not visible, how can we get to the exit? ”

"It may not be the exit, the second master said that this is the ancient tomb of the demon general, everything here cannot be explained by common sense, whether it is a blessing or a curse, you can find out, move on."

I turned my head and glanced at Yan Xiaoying, and said speechlessly: "You said it lightly, lying on my back safely, but I'm not so relaxed." Saying...... How do I feel like you're getting heavier and heavier? Isn't it time to lose weight? ”

"Lao Tianyan, can you speak? It's your blessing for the old lady to let you carry it, you still think I'm heavy? You let me down, I'll just go by myself, huh! Yan Xiaoying grinded her teeth and snorted.

"Don't! Just make a joke to liven up the atmosphere, don't take it seriously. I smiled bitterly and said, "Besides, your current physical condition, let you down, it is estimated that you will not be able to stand steadily, so don't be strong." ”

As soon as I finished speaking, I felt a pain in my shoulder, it turned out that I was pinched hard by Yan Xiaoying, only to hear the latter grit his teeth and hate: "You really can't speak!" ”

I was speechless, and in order to avoid another disaster, I had to keep silent and carry her on my back.

After walking for seven or eight minutes, as Yan Xiaoying said, she found that a bright light appeared not far in front of the cave entrance, and the smell of flowers was even stronger.

There is a cold wind pouring in from the entrance of the cave, and faintly, you can still hear the sound of water flowing outside the entrance of the cave.

I quickened my pace to the edge of the cave and felt a light in my eyes, my eyes unable to adjust to the sudden light because they had been in the dark space for too long.

After half a minute, after the eyes gradually got used to it, the whole person was dumbfounded when he saw the scene in front of him.

Not only me, but even Yan Xiaoying, who was carrying her back, couldn't help but sigh lightly, very surprised.

As Yan Xiaoying said before, the end of this cave is indeed the exit, and what is presented in front of us at this moment is a deep valley, and where we are is the mouth of a stone cave halfway up the cliff.

On the cliff where it is, there are dense vines, the leaves of the vines are like the shape of human palms, black old vines, and not far from the entrance of the cave hang a few plump fruits the size of a human head, dark green, the shape of which is somewhat similar to the watermelon you usually see, the only difference is that its surface has small white hairs like the skin of a peach.

The black vine we saw in the cave just now is this strange plant, I have seen watermelon vines, it is definitely not like this.

The probe looked down at the cliff and found that the entrance to the cave was about 20 meters above the ground, and there was a dark green stream flowing below, and the sound of water heard earlier was emitted by this river.

The sky was gloomy, the clouds were thick, the estimated time was almost evening, and before we knew it, more than ten hours had passed since we entered the mountain tomb, the day was gone, and the night was about to fall.

Looking into the distance, the deep valley is surrounded by high mountains, verdant trees, and lush grass, and it is a remote and uninhabited land.

"This place is a lofty mountain behind Centipede Ridge, and my grandmother and I have climbed to the top of Centipede Ridge many years ago and seen this kind of terrain, but we haven't gone deeper."

According to Yan Xiaoying, the cliff cave where we are located still belongs to the range where the Centipede Ridge is located, and beyond the entrance of the cave is the mountain range behind the Centipede Ridge, which belongs to the 100,000 mountains that extend from the Hengduan Mountains.

In fact, Heavenly Mountain and Centipede Ridge are like a barrier to the outside world on the edge of the 100,000 Great Mountain.

"Are we on the wrong track? Where are there any mountain tombs in such a place? Do you think the camel is still in Centipede Ridge? I put Yan Xiaoying on the edge of the cave and sat down, and spoke.

"Not necessarily ......"

"What doesn't have to be?"

"I mean that the mountain tomb mentioned by the second master may not necessarily be in Centipede Ridge, the tomb door and burial ditch I saw before may be just a pretense, or the ancient tomb in Centipede Ridge is just a suspicious tomb of the Demon General Tomb, that is, a suspicious tomb, the real Demon General Tomb is afraid that it is in the valley behind Centipede Ridge!"

"Won't it?" I opened my mouth wide and said, "We have worked hard and escaped death, you say that the mountain tomb inside Centipede Ridge is fake?" ”

"Nothing is impossible, the tombs of the ancient big people, there are many clothed mounds or doubtful mounds, which is also a way to prevent tomb thieves. It is said that when Cao Cao died, he divided into 12 groups of funeral processions, carrying the coffin to 12 different places for burial, so that it would be even more difficult for tomb robbers to find the ancient tomb where he was really buried. ”

"But so many people died in the burial ditch before, is it all to hide people's eyes and ears and confuse the truth? That's cruel, isn't it? ”

"It may not be so, true and false, false and true, sometimes the false may be true, sometimes the real may not be true, I guess the tomb of the demon general must be nearby, otherwise why are there flying centipedes and demon rats gathered here?"

"You mean to say that the camel may have left Centipede Ridge and entered the valley below?" I asked.

"It's not impossible!" Yan Xiaoying said in a deep voice.

"What about the second master, his old man?"

"Maybe you're in the valley too, right?" Yan Xiaoying said with some uncertainty.

"So, aren't the two of us working in vain?" I cried and said, "And those bandits who died in the burial ditch, I guess they won't die blind after learning the truth, right?" ”

"Hey, no. The bandits who died in the burial ditch, I clearly saw some of them holding porcelain artifacts......"

"The Doubtful Grave can also be real, what's so strange about having a dark weapon? There are even coffins, but the people lying in the coffins are not real people. Yan Xiaoying said.

"Whatever, I don't want to go back anyway!"

I shook my head, picked a large melon hanging from the edge of the hole, and broke it with a bayonet.

Tossing for so long, I felt dry mouth, this melon looks plump, full, and solid, it looks really gluttonous, eat first to quench your thirst and hunger and then make plans.

He took a bayonet and split the large melon into two petals, and immediately a stream of bright red juice flowed out from its inside, followed by a strong smell of blood.

I frowned and looked inside the broken melon, only to see that it was hollow, only a puddle of liquid as red as blood, like coconut fruit.

At this time, the bright red juice flowed out, staining the black rhizomes on the ground red.

"This ...... What is a melon fruit? Why does it seem like blood? ”

I was curious, and I said, "Could this be real blood?" ”

Thinking of stretching out his finger and dipping it, he was about to put it in his mouth to taste it, but before he put his finger in his mouth, Yan Xiaoying frowned and stopped me in a deep voice: "Don't taste it, this melon juice can't be drunk!" ”

I stopped and asked strangely, "What?" Do you recognize this vine? Is the fruit it produces poisonous? ”

"I don't know if it's poisonous or not, but the fruit it bears is definitely not drinkable."

Yan Xiaoying said, glancing at the blood juice flowing on the ground, and explained in a deep voice: "I wasn't sure before, but when I saw the blood-like juice flowing out of your broken melon just now, I finally recognized it." ”

She paused, then continued, "This old black vine is called the corpse incense vine, and the fruit that bears it is called the devil's fruit. ”

"Devil's fruit?" My eyes widened and I said, "Why does this name sound familiar?" ”

"It's not a fairy fruit in a fairy tale, but a plant as weird as a ghost lantern, and I heard my grandma say that this corpse incense vine is a seed that fell in its body after eating a certain fruit by mistake. It is not until after its death that the seeds absorb the corpse qi before they take root and sprout, and grow with the blood that has not yet coagulated in the corpse as nourishment, and it can be said that the fruit it bears is actually the human blood that absorbs the corpse and reactivates it......"

"What? You're saying it's real human blood? ”

"Yes, otherwise why is there such a strong smell of blood? If you don't believe me, if you cut off a vine and look at it, the vine juice inside it will definitely be red. ”

When I heard this, I hurriedly cut a vine with a bayonet, and sure enough, I saw a stream of juice as red as blood flowing.

"Wouldn't it? How can there be such a strange plant in the world, its vine is human blood, and it is still active, according to this, in addition to its appearance and no internal organs, isn't it a kind of demon vine like humans? You know, the blood will still flow! ”

"It's also the first time I've seen something like this, and it's not wrong to say it's a demon vine. Grandma said that everything in the world can be cultivated, not only living creatures, but plants can actually be cultivated into demons. Have you heard of man-eating flowers? It is estimated that it is a kind of plant that cultivates into a demon......"

"This plant is as rare as the ghost lantern, I didn't expect it to grow so much here, and looking at the vintage, it has a strange fragrance in the flowers it bears, because it absorbs corpses to grow, so the fragrance emitted by its flowers is also called corpse incense."

"And the scent we just smelled ......"

"It should be the fragrance of the flowers that come out of this vine." Yan Xiaoying said.

When I heard this, I quickly looked at the surrounding rock walls, and sure enough, I saw several red and bewitching flowers growing on the vines nearby, so I quickly held my breath, retracted my head and said to Yan Xiaoying: "Oh no, will this flower fragrance be as poisonous as the flower fragrance of the ghost lantern?" Hallucinations or the like...... We just unknowingly inhaled a lot of this floral scent...... Will something happen......"

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