Ganlan and I were focused on the ghost team in front of us, when a dark shadow suddenly appeared from the side to block our way.

The sudden appearance of the shadow startled us, and the conditional launch backed away, but behind it were steep stone steps.

As soon as I stepped into the air, Ganlan and I were about to roll down the stone steps.

At this time, the black shadow took two quick steps and quickly pulled us back, so as to avoid the tragedy of rolling down the stone steps.

I steadied myself and looked at the other party with a flashlight, and found that the person who suddenly appeared and stopped us was actually Lin Miao.

"Why are you hiding here?" I was surprised, looked at Lin Miao and asked, "What about Yan Xiaoying?" Where is she? ”

"She's one step ahead of me and up."

Lin Miao looked at Gan Lan beside me, and suddenly frowned and asked, "Who is she?" ”

"Tujia people, came here to hunt, unfortunately died here. The people who carried the ghost lanterns just now were also members of the Tujia hunting team, do you know what happened to them? ”

"Yin spirit possessed, controlled." Lin Miao replied.

I remembered that when I met Ganlan before, she was also possessed by the Yin Spirit, and asked, "Is it the former heroic spirit of the Gaoshan Clan who possessed them?" ”

Lin Miao nodded and shook his head, and said in a deep voice: "Their state is very strange, it is said that they are possessed by Yin Spirits, but in fact, it is the red lantern they hold in their hands that controls them. ”

"Those lanterns are made of human skin."

"Why are they here?" I asked, surprised.

"I don't know, maybe it has something to do with what is under the stone tower, but I've never been down, so I don't know what's down there."

"He's ......"

Just as I was talking to Lin Miao, Gan Lan suddenly interjected and looked at Lin Miao suspiciously.

"His name is Lin Miao, a remnant of the Gaoshan clan, I told you before, there are three of us here, except for me and Xiao Ying." I explained to Ganlan.

"The remnants of the Gaoshan clan, the people who live in that forest house? I'd heard the elders of the clan talk about the room before. Gan Lan was surprised.

"Yan Xiaoying, how is she now?"

"I don't know, I was separated from her before, and then I came here and found the mark she left behind, and I realized that she had gone up."

"What mark?"

Lin Miao pointed to the stone steps on the side and motioned for us to see for ourselves.

The stone steps were covered with moss, and I saw an arrow on it, pointing straight to the top of the stone steps, and I saw that the marks should have just been scratched up.

Yan Xiaoying is not a reckless person, and it is not surprising that after she went up, she left a mark on the stone steps.

Knowing that she had gone up, I naturally couldn't hold it back, and said to Lin Miao and Gan Lan: "It's not safe for her to go up there alone, let's go up too?" ”

Gan Lan nodded, while Lin Miao took out her scythe and walked ahead.

The stone steps were not long, and when we climbed up, we saw Yan Xiaoying standing on them waiting for us.

"You're too slow, those people have already entered the stone tower." As soon as they met, she said so.

Obviously, she had been waiting for us from above, and had not entered the stone tower, and beside it, Xiaobai shook her head and tail, and walked towards me.

"Are you alright?" Yan Xiaoying looked at me, then looked at Gan Lan, who was being supported by me, and asked.

"It's not a big deal, it's just that Gan Lan is injured."

Yan Xiaoying helped Gan Lan over, then untied her backpack, took out Chen Liming's small medicine box, and while treating Gan Lan's wounds, she said to us: "The reason why the stone tower glows is because it has a layer of glowing insects attached to its surface. ”

I looked towards the stone pagoda and found that as Yan Xiaoying said, the surface of the stone pagoda was covered with dense insects, and the bodies of the insects emitted colorful bright lights, which looked gorgeous and dazzling.

Far away, I felt waves of scorching air rushing towards my face, and the ground was full of dead insects, and the bottom was covered with a thick layer of white ash.

"So many fireflies?" I opened my mouth wide and was shocked.

"Not fireflies."

Lin Miao stood aside and explained: "They are called fireflies, and the fireflies emit cold light, and they don't have a scorching temperature. But these insects in front of you are different, they only emit light when they burn themselves. ”

"Yes, these bugs are very different from fireflies."

Yan Xiaoying nodded and said, "I caught a few insects just now, and after careful inspection, they are shaped like bees, and a liquid like sulfuric acid is stored on the tail, which has a strong corrosive effect. As soon as these fireflies are stimulated by external factors, their tails will crack, and the liquid stored inside will spontaneously combust when it encounters space. ”

"So you have to be careful, don't speak too loudly, it will irritate them, they will swarm, and then we will all become fire people."

"There are such amazing bugs in the world." I was amazed.

"This is the nest of fireflies, they only have one night of life, and the next day they will spontaneously ignite and turn into ashes, and they have been here for hundreds of years."

Lin Miao said lightly: "The speed of their metabolism is very fast, they lay eggs on the stone tower, and they will hatch into worms the next night, and then they will continue to lay eggs after hatching, and they will spontaneously combust and die at dawn, and the cycle will continue to grow, and these thick white ashes on the ground are the ashes piled up by hundreds of millions of fireworms spontaneously combustion." ”

"One night is a lifetime, what is the meaning of these fireflies in this world?" I wonder why there are creatures in the world whose lives are so short.

What makes me even more puzzling is, why don't they gather elsewhere to lay eggs, but they have been breeding on this stone tower for hundreds of years.

Could it be that there is something strange about this tower?

"I think the reason why these fireflies gather here must have something to do with the stone of this stone tower, right?" Yan Xiaoying looked at Lin Miao and said faintly: "This kind of stone is cold to the touch, even if there are fireflies attached to the surface, it can't feel the slightest warmth, like ice cubes, but it doesn't melt, I have never seen such a strange stone." ”

"You guessed right!"

"The stone used to build the tower was dug from under the ground by the Gaoshan people, and they have the property that they do not conduct heat and are as low as ice. Although the fireworms themselves are very hot, it is precisely because of their high temperature that they like cold things, and attaching to these special stones can relieve their pain. ”

"Although the Gaoshan people are no longer there, these insects are still multiplying, and at night, the whole stone pagoda shines like a guiding light in the dark night, guiding the return of those dead souls, so this stone pagoda is also called the Valhalla Tower. It is the most worshiped building in the hearts of all the Gaoshan people, and it is also the pride of the Gaoshan people. ”

At this time, Gan Lan, who was half-sitting on the ground, suddenly interjected and asked Lin Miao: "Brother Lin, you are also from the Gaoshan clan, but I see that your face doesn't seem to have any respect......

When Lin Miao heard this, his face suddenly showed coldness, and he looked a little hideous under the reflection of those glowing fireflies, only to hear him say coldly: "The Yingling Pagoda, which was once worshiped by the clansmen day and night and worshiped like a god, is also the birthplace of the curse that destroyed the Gaoshan Clan, and I only have deep hatred for this tower." ”

"The shoulder bone is dislocated, I'll help you take it back now, bear with it."

Yan Xiaoying changed the topic to Gan Lan, and then gave me a look.

I understood in my heart, put down the little white I was holding, walked over to support Ganlan's body, and then rolled up my sleeves and put my arm to her mouth.

"What ...... for"

"Click!"

Gan Lan opened her mouth to ask, but before she could finish speaking, Yan Xiaoying grabbed her arm with both hands and pushed it up, only to hear a click.

Ganlan opened her mouth in pain and was about to scream, but I was quick to plug her open mouth with my arm that I had prepared.

The severe pain made Ganlan's forehead sweat, her eyes were red, and tears oozed from the corners of her eyes.

"That's it!"

Yan Xiaoying's movements were fast, she took out the disinfectant water to treat Ganlan's wounds, and looked at Ganlan and me while bandaging it.

I took my arm away from Ganlan's mouth, and found that there was a row of deep tooth marks on it, and the blood stains were faintly oozing, and I couldn't help but grin, this little girl was really polite to her mouth.

When Yan Xiaoying helped Gan Lan bandage her wounds, I told the two of them how I met Gan Lan and how she appeared in this place.

Yan Xiaoying only nodded after hearing this, and then said, "I saw those people who walked into the stone tower with red lanterns before, and they already had some guesses. ”

"My Abba...... Can they still be saved? ”

Gan Lan endured the severe pain and asked Yan Xiaoying weakly, her face full of pity.

"I don't know, we don't know what happened to them now, and why they came here......"

Yan Xiaoying finished bandaging, stood up and said, "Since we are all here, let's go in." ”

I lifted Gan Lan up from the ground, and Yan Xiaoying supported her left and right, Lin Miao walked in front, and Xiaobai followed behind us.

Four people and a dog walked into the stone tower.

The space on the first floor of the stone tower is not big or small, dozens of sarcophagi are densely placed inside, and there is a thick copper pillar of five or six people in the central part, and there are relief carving marks on the surface of the copper pillar.

Not far away, a stone staircase led to the second level, and the people carrying the ghost lanterns were not inside.

The sarcophagus is all closed, and the temperature inside the tower is cold, which is completely different from the heat wave outside.

It seems that this stone pagoda is completely supported by the huge copper pillar in the center, and I am extremely amazed, and I don't know how the Gaoshan people built that copper pillar back then.

We were targeting the fifth floor, so we didn't linger too long on the first floor. I didn't even touch the sarcophagus, who knows what terrible things were in the sarcophagus.

Walking up the stone steps to the second floor, I still didn't see the people who walked in before.

There is no sarcophagus on the second floor, but there is a stone carved soldier with a spear, bow and arrow, and wearing rattan armor.

These stone carved soldiers are lifelike, as if they are real people, and there must be at least dozens of stone figures as far as the eye can see.

I sighed in my heart, the craftsmanship of this Gaoshan clan is also very extraordinary, the carved stone soldiers are so realistic, if you use the color, it will be like a real person.

We went up the stone stairs to the third level.

The whole stone tower is stacked on top of each other, and the space above the space becomes smaller, and the space on the third floor is about the same size as the space of an ordinary house.

There are no stone carvings on it, no sarcophagus, only two stone tables.

On the offering table were densely packed with wooden signs, and the signs were engraved with words, all covered with thick dust.

When I look at those characters, they don't look like ancient characters at all, and they don't look like oracle bone inscriptions from a long time ago, and I know that this is a script unique to the Gaoshan people.

I can't understand my own shallow knowledge, but judging from this situation, the wooden plaque should be engraved with the name of the deceased heroic spirit of the Gaoshan clan......