Chapter 64: The Jade Corridor
Not to mention what is inside, this grimace bronze coffin alone makes people frightened when they look at it on the surface, especially the grimace on the coffin wall, which is hideous and terrifying, and it makes people gasp when they look at it.
I actually wanted to pry open this coffin just now, but fortunately Yan Xiaoying stopped it in time, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
"Although it was thrilling, we finally found the ghost lantern, and it was also confirmed that the flower core in the ghost lantern can cure the flower poison after taking it, I can't imagine that the poison is it, and the antidote is also it......"
"Lao Fei is saved this time!"
I nodded, picked up the whip from the ground, and put it back on my back.
At this time, I glanced at it, and suddenly saw that Yan Xiaoying's whole body was wet, on her back, and her clothes were scorched, and the skin inside was scorched.
"You're ......"
Taken aback, I moved behind her and looked at the shocking wound on her back, and my heart ached.
"It's no big deal, I took the black bead in the ghost lantern just now, and I didn't pay attention to the fireworm inside, and I was injured by it."
Yan Xiaoying said it simply, but I witnessed the power of the fireworm with my own eyes, she must have been in the heart of me just now, so ......
Thinking of this, I felt guilty and grateful in my heart, and finally I was a little choked up.
"You...... Sit here and rest, and I'll go and bring up the medicine box in my backpack to treat your wounds. I looked into the sea of flowers and found that the backpack that Yan Xiaoying was carrying before was lying quietly among the flowers.
"Good!"
Yan Xiaoying sat on the jade altar, but she was not pretentious, and nodded in response.
I walked down the altar quickly, crossed the water to the place where Yan Xiaoying untied her backpack before, took the backpack, looked at the glowing ghost lanterns around me, and suddenly an idea rose in my heart.
I learned from Yan Xiaoying before, used a dagger to cut off the three ghost lanterns, and then took them to the lake, sank the three glowing ghost lanterns into the water, and peeled off the flowers with the dagger.
As I expected, as soon as I peeled off the lantern, the fireflies inside immediately came out and burned all over.
The ghost lantern was soaked in water by me, and the fireflies just spontaneously combusted, and then they were doused by the water, making a strange "zila" sound.
I did the same, soaked the fireflies in the other two ghost lanterns and died, then took out three black beads the size of pigeon's eggs, and ran up to the altar in high spirits.
Seeing me come up with the black beads, Yan Xiaoying's pale face pulled a smile with difficulty, and said, "You really have a way, I didn't think of taking the flower core inside like this before." ”
I hid the black beads, and said with a wry smile: "The strength is weak, the carving insect skill, you praise me like this, I will blush!" ”
"I don't think you blush......" Yan Xiaoying chuckled.
"Why?"
"Because I think you're thick-skinned."
“……”
I laughed, and it was a rare feeling to laugh out loud in a tense atmosphere, which was not bad.
Taking out the medicine box from the backpack, Yan Xiaoying consciously lay on the jade platform, turned her back to me, and said softly: "Simple treatment, disinfection is good, the antidote to wake up the old fat has been found, this place is not suitable for a long time, we have to leave quickly." ”
I took out the disinfectant potion from the medicine box, and when I heard this, I was stunned and hesitated: "But...... We promised Lin Miao, but now that Sanshengcao has not been found, how can we explain to him when we go out like this? ”
"We tried our best, and now I'm injured, I'm afraid I won't be able to last long!"
I looked at the shocking burns on Yan Xiaoying's back, nodded and said, "That's right, you can't lose your life just to find Sansheng Grass, in fact...... I think Lin Miao's guy is also to blame for the poor ......"
"That person is a mystery, although we promised to find Sansheng Grass before, he doesn't seem to be in a hurry."
Yan Xiaoying said: "The people of the Gaoshan Clan have been cursed, and almost all of them are dead, and they don't know about him...... How did you survive? I didn't believe what he said before. ”
"But...... None of these things have anything to do with us. ”
After I treated Yan Xiaoying's wounds, I took off my clothes and put them on for her.
The backpack was heavy, and one of us was injured at this time, and the other was too weak to carry, so we had to take out some necessary things from it, put it in the medicine box, and discard other heavy things, including food.
Carrying the medicine box and helping Yan Xiaoying up, the latter waved his hand at me, signaling that he didn't need to be supported, and said in a deep voice: "It's impossible to return the same way, the golden python in the water prison has woken up." With it there, it's impossible for us to dive out of the hole under the dungeon again. ”
I nodded: "Even if we can dive out of the water hole, the wall of the deep pool is steep and slippery, more than ten meters high, we can't climb up, it seems that we have to find another way." ”
"There's enough oxygen here, and the air is moving, which proves that there are other outlets."
Yan Xiaoying and I talked as we walked down the jade altar.
To be on the safe side, we didn't set foot in the area where the ghost lantern grows, but stayed far away in the water.
Leaving the jade altar and skirting the area where the ghost lantern was located, we followed the flow of water downstream.
The underground space was so large that we walked for about half an hour before we saw the end, which was a steep rock wall.
There is a huge undercurrent vortex in the water, the diameter of the vortex is about ten meters, and all the water that flows here is sucked down by the vortex.
There was a monstrous sound under the whirlpool, like a galloping horse, and the momentum was extremely huge.
Scanning the surroundings with a flashlight, we soon found that there were many tunnels on the rock wall in front of us, and there were no less than a dozen or so passages by sight.
I don't know how these tunnels were formed, but the closest one to us is just over two meters high.
There are long black vines climbing on the rock face, and we can easily get into one of the tunnels with the help of the long vines.
The inside of the corridor is extremely damp, and it is dark and deep inside.
After walking more than forty meters inside, another cave appeared in front of us.
In front of me, the ground was littered with piles of rubble, and water was flowing underneath. Those stones are strangely shaped, like human shapes, animal shapes, stone flowers, stone benches, etc., which are strange and dizzying.
I even saw several huge columns of water pouring down from the roof of the cave, making a rumbling sound of water, and the sight was so spectacular that it was shocking.
"It's really strange that there are so many caves under the island."
"The water running down there is hot, even a little piping/scalding!"
Yan Xiaoying stepped into the water and whispered.
We carefully waded into the depths of the cave, and the water under the ground was deep and shallow, and there were many places where the water was very deep, and we had to be careful.
Soon after, we noticed that the stone pile in front of us was actually glowing, and the light was like the light emitted by the stone tower on the ground.
"It's a firefly!"
I was surprised again when I saw the color of the rubble, and the glowing bugs attached to its surface.
The water is warm, but it's unreasonable for these cold rocks to be here.
Soon after, we found more cold stones, and apparently the stones used to build the tower were quarried from this place. Because on the surface of those stones, we saw the traces of mining.
The cave was not as big as we thought, and after walking about 30 meters again, we came to the end of the cave.
At the end of the cave was a stone cliff, on which I saw a different color of stone.
It's like a piece of jade, and it's crystal clear inside, as if there is water stored in it. It is embedded in the interior of the stone cliff, revealing only a small part.
On this strange jade, there is an oval-shaped deep hole, and when the flashlight shines inside, the whole piece of jade emits a strange blue light, which is gorgeous and dazzling.
"Is this jade?"
I was amazed that such a large piece of jade, if it were mined, would shock the world.
Just as we were staring at the jade in front of us in a daze, there was a sudden sound of water behind us.
Without a sound, a group of people with red lanterns appeared behind us.
"It's them...... The hunting party that came in here with lanterns before. ”
I never imagined that I would meet them here.
"That's not right! The number of people is wrong! ”
Yan Xiaoying looked at the ghost team who came by treading water, and suddenly frowned and said, "There are only five people, besides, you can see what they are carrying in their hands." ”
I looked closely, and found that although the five men were carrying red lanterns, the lanterns were different from the ones I had seen the hunting party carrying in Stone House Village before.
The five people in front of them, the lanterns they were carrying in their hands, were exactly the same as the ghost lanterns we saw growing next to the jade altar.
Lin Miao had said before that the hunting team was carrying a human skin lantern, but now these five people were holding a ghost lantern that had grown.
On top of that, as they approached, I could see their faces clearly, and they were not at all the same as the people I had seen before, and the clothes were not the same.
The five men were not wearing Tujia clothes, but they were wearing more ancient clothes, like workers' and peasants' military uniforms.
Moreover, under the red light, I could see that their faces were rotten and unhuman, and as they walked, pieces of rotten flesh even fell from their bodies.
They looked like decomposing corpses, and in some places you could already see the white bones of Sensen.
It stands to reason that their bodies are rotting like this, and they are already dead and can't die anymore, but they can still move, and they are still carrying ghost lanterns in their hands, and they are still walking towards us step by step.
Weird, unspeakably weird.
A dozen meters away, we could smell the disgusting rancid stench emanating from them.
The smell is so bad that if I hadn't vomited before, I'm afraid I'd have to vomit again.
A group of five people, like the walking dead.
"Tianyan! Do you remember that Lin Miao said before, he said that if we are lucky, we may be able to meet the people who came here before below? ”
"What do you mean...... These are the five people who came here with my grandfather and your grandmother and were killed? ”
I woke up and was shocked: "How is it possible, these five people have been here for decades, and they haven't died yet!?" ”