Chapter Ninety-Seven: Escape from Hell
Following the Taoist priest's gaze, I suddenly saw the five grooves on the rock wall that were grabbed by the giant bone skeleton, not deep, but very wide, enough for two people to shrink up and stand in, and the cave wall is curved, that is, these grooves are not in the same plane, and there is a certain angle difference between them.
If there are five grooves on a flat rock wall, it is completely impossible to go from one groove to another, because the grooves are still perpendicular to the rock wall. However, the sinkhole is cylindrical, and the huge curvature of the pit wall makes the adjacent grooves visible, which makes it possible to jump from one groove to another.
Of course, because the sinkhole is too huge, the curvature of the rock wall in a short distance is too small, and the distance between the end of the plank road and the first groove is about three meters, and the first groove is only about five meters away from the second groove, which is too short to make the rock wall look like a plane. To get to the opposite side with the help of the groove, you can only jump into the third groove at the beginning, and then jump from the third groove to the other side of the boardwalk. In between, there is a distance of about ten meters from where we stand to the third groove, and the distance from the third groove to the opposite plank road is about fifteen meters.
After thinking about these things clearly, I immediately understood what the Taoist priest meant, frowned and asked, "Do you want the third child to go up?" No, absolutely not, although the third jumper is strong, but the second half is too far, it is absolutely impossible for the third to jump over with the two of us, and those paw prints are also arc-shaped, and the third can't get a foothold after jumping in! ”
Seeing that I didn't agree, the Taoist priest suddenly became anxious, "Damn, when did the Taoist master say that he wanted this dead dog camel and the two of us to go over?" As he spoke, he quickly took out a ball of hemp rope from his backpack, and the Taoist priest used this rope to hang me to get the womb, but he didn't expect him to take the rope back after that, and he has always taken it with him.
"We just need to let the dead dog bring one end of the rope over, and then we climb the rope over, as for the groove can not stand, Lao Tzu does not want it to nest in it to give birth to pups, its skills have been seen, after jumping over, it only takes a moment of borrowing strength to jump out again, that is not a big problem, what we need to pray now is that the rope is long enough, if the rope is not enough, then our brothers will really have to see the Immeasurable Tianzun today." The Taoist priest said while shaking the rope in his hand, while being wary of the black mouth of the third child.
The Taoist priest said this very positively, and seemed to be full of confidence, I also felt that this was indeed feasible, and then asked the third child if he was sure, and after getting the third child's affirmative answer, I decided to give it a go.
The waves of fire on the giant tree were blazing fiercely, and it looked as if it was going to burn everything, and it was cold, and suddenly I saw many human faces in the blue flames.
I was so frightened that I screamed and sat down on the ground, and the Taoist priest was arranging the rope, and was also startled by my sudden scream, looked at me, and asked me what was wrong. I pointed to the densely distorted faces in the flames, and I was so frightened that I couldn't even speak.
The Taoist priest frowned, slightly puzzled, and when he turned his head and saw those faces, he was also frightened enough. In the raging flames, the expressions on those people's faces were very hideous, as if they were enduring great pain, and their mouths were wide open as if they were shouting something, but there was no sound.
"Good Celestial Venerable, how many dead souls are trapped in this tree?" After being stunned for a moment, the Taoist priest came back to his senses, muttered to himself, and then said to me: "Those are the undead trapped in the Hell Tree, the Hell Tree not only uses their bodies as nourishment, but also seals their souls in the tree, and now the tree is burned by us, and the souls trapped in it are burned by the ghostly fire, alas, don't worry, it's important for our brothers to run away." ”
The faces of the people in the fire were twisted, crazy, and terrible, and although I had pity in my heart, I didn't dare to look at them again because of fear, even if these people were poor people.
The Taoist priest quickly straightened out the hemp rope, found a protruding remnant rock at the place where the plank road was broken, tied one end of the rope to it, and let the third child hold it with his mouth. Finally ready for the last fight, and the ghost fire has burned on the plank road, we were forced to stick to the rock wall, there is no time, the Taoist priest slapped the third child's buttocks, shouted: "Go you!" ”
The third child jumped violently, like a sharp arrow off the string, and swooped out, bringing a whirring wind.
Due to the lack of me this time, the third child jumped out of a long distance, as if he was flying, and reached the transit point we planned in an instant. This is the most critical step, because the third child has no place to stand, if he does not step on the moment he falls into the groove, he will immediately slip and fall, and my and the Taoist priest's hearts are in our throats, and we are looking at it with our eyes, and we don't even dare to breathe for a while.
Fortunately, the agility of the third child far exceeded our expectations, the moment it fell into the groove, its two front legs first landed cushion, and the front legs of the hind legs just touched the stone groove and immediately kicked it, and at the same time, the back legs cooperated with force, and almost completed the transition from landing to jumping in a few tenths of a second.
It may be that God thinks that we have suffered enough sins recently, and can't bear to play us again, this last fight went smoothly beyond imagination, and the third child fell smoothly on the opposite plank road, although the moment of landing the third child was a little lacking in stamina, and the two hind legs stepped on the empty, but it quickly adjusted, and slid on the plank road by virtue of the swooping of the landing, and the problem of insufficient rope length that we were most worried about did not happen.
Looking at the third child who was wagging his tail at us on the other side, the Taoist priest and I glanced at each other, and the Taoist priest said that you should go first, you are not physically strong, and if something happens, no one will answer. I glanced at the old hemp rope that supported the road we wanted, and the fire that rushed into the sky under the hemp rope, and couldn't help swallowing my saliva, right to the Taoist priest, you should go first, with my body to climb this soft and thin thing, maybe something will happen, you are good, it won't be long in the past, and when you pass, I will untie the rope and wrap it around my body, and you can just drag me over.
As soon as the Taoist priest heard my words, he felt that it made sense, so he patted me: "That's okay, Dao Ye will go over first, you hold on for a while, and Dao Ye will pull you over immediately!" With that, he climbed the rope without hesitation.
This broken hemp rope is not much thick, and it is suspended, stepping on it and swaying, it seems that it may fall down at any time, and the other end of the rope is in the mouth of the third child, it can not be knotted, can only find a broken rock block with the same horns to wrap the stone up, in order to prevent accidents, the third child also bit the end of the rope.
The Taoist priest has practiced kung fu, it seems that there will be a little light skill, when he first returned to the village through the chain bridge, he saw him show his hand, but the iron rope is not as good as the hemp rope that was temporarily pulled, although the Taoist priest is good, but he did not dare to be careless, gave up the way of walking the tightrope, and instead used his hands to hang his body forward
The flames were getting deeper and deeper, and gradually they were already threatening the little living space I had left, so I tried to squeeze into the plank road as much as I could, and at the same time asked the Taoist priest to hurry up.
"Alright, untie the rope!" Just when I shrunk to avoid the ghostly fire, and my heart was extremely anxious, the voice of the Taoist priest came, and the originally obscene voice sounded like heaven at this time.
I turned my head to look and saw that the Taoist priest had indeed arrived on the opposite plank road, and at this time, he was holding the other end of the hemp rope in his hand, waving and shouting at me.
I hurriedly untied the rope, wrapped it around my waist, deliberately tied a dead knot, and shouted at him, "Okay, you must tighten it." ”
"Oh, don't worry, hurry, there's no time!" The Taoist priest shouted impatiently, seeing that the flames were about to burn on my body, I looked down, gritted my teeth, fought hard, and jumped down.
The rapid fall made me feel as if I was falling into hell, but soon the rope grabbed me and carried me to the bottom of the plank path where the Taoist priest was. In this brief process, I could feel the flames of the Hell Tree seem to be wrapped around me, and I was already burned by the flames, and I was about to leave this world, burned to the point of being a shell, until I felt myself being pulled upwards little by little, and this illusion disappeared.
I wiped the cold sweat on my head and looked at the flames burning around me, and a feeling of rebirth rose in my heart. It is said that blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, and after a long time, blessings will come quietly, and the smoothness we just felt seems to exhaust our blessings, and the next blessings come as scheduled, which is a disaster.
Just as I watched the plank road above get closer and closer, and the hope of life seemed to be within reach, the raging sea of fire under my feet suddenly changed. I saw a huge skull wrapped in a raging fire sticking out from under the sinkhole, the red demon fire in its eyes had dimmed, almost burned by the blue flames, but at this moment it still had a trace of fierce intent, perhaps it was this fierce intent that supported it to send the final blow to me as it was on the verge of collapse.
Sen Ran's huge skeletal mouth opened widely, and inside was a blazing flame, fierce and monstrous, and it bit at me.
Finished!
This harmful thing hasn't dissipated yet, do you want to take me with you when you die?
The thought flashed through my mind, but I had no choice, seeing that the giant mouth of the skeleton had reached my feet, and I was about to bite up, when there was a sudden roar on the plank road, it was the voice of the Taoist priest, at the same time, I felt that my body was light, and a huge force came from the top of the rope, throwing me upward.
The drastic spatial changes made my eyes flash, I couldn't see anything clearly, the huge sound of the skull bite came from under me, but it didn't bite me, I was still flying up quickly, a few seconds later, this upward trend suddenly turned into a fall, I suddenly had a feeling of weightlessness, but this feeling did not last for two seconds, I hit something hard, and then rolled down, nose hit the ground, and suddenly fell bloody.
I screamed in pain, but the pain also made the fainting feeling in my brain disappear, I got up and looked at it, I couldn't help but be overjoyed, only to see that I had reached the plank road, the Taoist priest and the third child sat down beside me, wailing, I knew that the thing I had just smashed was them.
I picked him up apologetically, and the Taoist priest scolded and scolded, and every good word in his mouth, I didn't even compensate for it. At this moment, the ghost fire was approaching, and the situation was critical, and I didn't bother to ask him what was going on just now, so I hurriedly shouted and ran.
Although the Taoist priest had an opinion about me, this did not affect his speed in the slightest, and the dead corpse on the back of my foot drew a big bloody wound, and I couldn't run fast, so the third child hunched me up and rushed forward like a burning butt. Finally out of a desperate situation, excitement filled our hearts, we were crazy, we couldn't care about anything anymore, fucking the seal, fucking the hell tree, Lao Tzu didn't care.
At this almost frantic speed, we quickly rushed out of the canopy, and it was only here that we realized how crazy and terrible that fire was! We had escaped from the enveloping range of the Hell Tree, but the flames above were as high as under the canopy, and the height of the flames was simply astonishing, and we continued to run up for more than thirty meters, and there was still a ghost fire in the center of the sinkhole, and the flames had burned to such heights.
The faces of the Taoist priest and I are not good-looking, at this time the remorse and fear on the Taoist priest's face are overflowing, even I want to kick him a few times, this dog day is really too impulsive, fortunately the hell tree burned the ghost fire has no real temperature, otherwise such a raging flame, even if it does not burn the plank road on both sides, the high temperature radiated by the flame alone is enough to bake us into charcoal.
I scolded him, and he didn't dare to argue with it, so we both sighed and continued to go up.
In addition to burning the giant bones and corpses that threatened us, this fire of the Taoist priest also provided us with extremely valuable lighting, and we even saved flashlights and torches. After climbing up a long distance, we began to encounter the bone cave, and thanks to the Taoist priest who had seen the horror of the Hell Tree in advance, and now when we looked at the bone cave, the impact was not so great, but he was still surprised, and shouted to go in and have a look.
It's all here, I really don't want to make extraneous branches, so I don't agree, after so many changes, the Taoist priest is also a little afraid, plus I don't agree, he will give up.
There are a lot of bone caves along the way, different sizes, I have seen roughly all of them when I came down, so I am not surprised, but the Taoist priest is different, he passed by several bone caves in a row, he wanted to go in, but I was dissuaded, and when I got to the bone cave where I buried the body, due to the broken plank road, we had to borrow the bone cave, and the Taoist priest did not do it.
Before, he wanted to go in and was dissuaded by me for various reasons, but now we have all come in, and the Taoist priest said that this is God's will, and he has come in, so what can he do if he takes a look?
I couldn't persuade him, and he didn't listen to me at all, so he had to go. And because of the dream I had before, this bone cave seems a little special to me, and I suspect that the situation in the dream may be true, since the Taoist priest wants to stay, I just have the opportunity to verify it.