Chapter 105: The Road to the Grave
What happened after that, Erhu recounted it very messily, because he was very emotional when he said it, but I still roughly heard what happened.
Uncle Yang also recognizes that he is one of the most experienced old hunters in the previous generation. When I was young, his house was very close to our family, and he liked me very much, and every time he came to my house, he would hug me, rub my face with a prickly beard, and said that he would give me and his girl a baby kiss, and he would be his son in the future. I didn't like him at the time, because his beard was so annoying, so I hated even his girls, and it wasn't until later that I began to understand that this childish idea gradually faded.
The girl in his family, that is, Alain, although I don't like him, but this does not affect the childish play between a group of children, so we were still very close at that time, and we can be regarded as childhood sweethearts. Later, when I left the village, I gradually had fewer opportunities to play around, and I cherished the time I spent with them every time I went back, so our relationship was still very good.
Of course, this relationship is limited to close friends, and it is Erhu who really likes her. Since childhood, Erhu has always had a crush on Alain, and several of our friends who have played well in private know about this, but Alain has been kept in the dark, and Erhu has not allowed us to say it, so his feelings have dragged on for more than ten years and still haven't been able to say it.
The reason why Erhu was so excited was because what happened afterwards affected Uncle Yang and Alain.
At dawn, it was dark, but the eastern sky had already lit up. The reason why the two of them appeared here without being in the village was because Uncle Yang took Alan into the mountains to hunt a week ago, and they lived in the mountains during the period, so they didn't know anything about what happened recently, so they escaped by coincidence.
However, the encounter with the two tigers pulls them into great danger.
The specific details of Erhu did not go into detail, we don't know, I only know that Uncle Yang opened the fog in order to buy time for Erhu and Alan to escape. It is also strange to say, the white mist in the mouth of the second tiger seems to have its own consciousness, it is not spreading around irregularly, but whenever a life comes close to it, it will pounce on it. Uncle Yang discovered this, so he sacrificed himself when the fog was about to catch up, and changed direction to lead away the fog.
Erhu watched Uncle Yang be swallowed by the white mist, and all this was not over, Uncle Yang didn't have much time to fight for them, they didn't escape for long, the fog forced up again, and at this time Erhu and the grief-stricken Alan had been forced into the mountains by the fog.
Until the sky was clear and the morning sun was rising, they still did not shake off the fog. Just when the situation was at its most critical, a snake-like thing suddenly stretched out from an extremely hidden falling hole next to the second tiger, sneaking up on him and rolling him into the falling hole, while Alan stayed on the ground, facing the terrible fog alone.
I was stunned, and then I felt the bones of my whole body be pulled away, and my heart suddenly cooled. Fog, fog again, if everything that Erhu experienced is a fact, the village, grandma, Uncle Yang, and Alan ...... All of them may be gone, and an unbearable panic and anxiety creep over from the bottom of my heart, and I suddenly feel a little out of breath.
The Taoist priest saw my panic and uneasiness, patted me, and comforted: "Don't panic first, Erhu just saw the people in the fog disappear, and didn't see those people die, maybe there was something in the fog, and it dragged people into the depths of the fog at a very fast speed, which gave Erhu the illusion that the fog swallowed people, and the people who were dragged into the fog did not necessarily die." ”
Although I know that there are many comforting ingredients in these words, what people are most afraid of is losing all hope, once there is no hope, it is despair, and there is no point in doing anything. The words of the Taoist priest undoubtedly gave me and Erhu a ray of hope, although it was small, but we finally had a goal to move forward and a reason to continue walking.
I also patted Erhu and said, "Erhu, the Taoist priest is right, Uncle Yang and Alan may be fine, but they were caught by something in the fog, we have to go out and save them." ”
Erhu was also shocked, his eyes were bright, and I asked him a lot of questions, such as how did he get to the bone cave, and did he encounter anything else during the period?
Erhu said that he was dragged in by those rhizomes, and it turned out that there were deep holes in those potholes in the rock wall of the bone cave, which extended to the surface. The Taoist priest and I looked at each other and immediately thought of a lot of things.
We had previously guessed that the fibrous roots of the Hell Tree and the individual rhizomes that existed in the Cave could lead to the ground, because we saw animals living in the surface of the mountain forest, both on the Hell Tree and in the Bone Cave. Take the leopard that almost ate the Taoist priest, the place where the Taoist priest met it was far away from Yeling, but in the end it was dragged to the bottom of the sinkhole by the Hell Tree, and became the nourishment for the Hell Tree.
And the corpses in the burial grotto also remind me of the theft of the grave that happened a long time ago, the whole tomb is intact, except for the coffin floor is destroyed, and there is a bottomless hole at the bottom of the coffin, and the corpse is gone.
Most of the corpses I saw in the bone cave were pierced through the spine and died, Erhu is really a man, originally his fate will be the same as those corpses, but at the moment when the rhizome pierced his skin, he endured the severe pain and struggled violently, it was because of his desperate struggle that the rhizome fell off several times, and finally only pierced his abdomen, and accidentally avoided the viscera, which saved his life.
Looking at Erhu's honest appearance, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart that this kid is really fateful.
After more than half an hour, we continued to move on, and we came across more and more roots along the way, and the roots became very thick, and I knew that we were about to leave this pesky hole, and my heart suddenly became excited. However, at this moment, a rumbling sound came from the hole in the ground behind us.
My heart tightened, and I turned my head to shine under the pitch-black pothole, and I couldn't see anything, but it was clear that something was coming towards us, and the dirt on the four walls of the hole was shaken off a lot, and it was a big guy.
The Taoist priest's face became solemn, and he shouted to us anxiously: "Quick, take off your clothes, take out everything you can burn, that thing is coming up." ”
I remembered that the Taoist priest did not hesitate to detonate the talisman to blow up the things that blocked the tunnel, so I asked him, "Is it the thing that caught up later?" ”
While speaking, I didn't stop in my hands, and ripped off all the clothes that had rotted into strips of cloth on my upper body, and the lower half of the Taoist priest's lower body was originally only a small fig leaf, and at this time, as soon as the clothes on my upper body were taken off, there were only clothes around my waist left all over my body. He handed me all the clothes in one go, "Quick, plug the back, when the talisman was exploded before, Dao Ye found that the thing was afraid of fire, so he lit the clothes, hoping to block it temporarily." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the Taoist priest's face suddenly changed, he slapped his head, and exclaimed: "Oops, it's too bad, it's gone, and it can't be ignited." ”
At this time, the rumbling voice was already very close to us, and the Taoist priest was so anxious that I was confused, and I was confused, and my heart said where to find fire at this time?
"Do you want fire?" Erhu suddenly took out a lighter from his trouser pocket, I was overjoyed, and hurriedly took it, to my surprise, in addition to the lighter, Erhu handed over a small bottle of liquor.
I know that Erhu is good at tobacco and alcohol, but I didn't expect this guy to take it with him when he went into the mountains, but at this time, I don't have time to ask more, it's better to have wine. I spilled a bottle of wine on my clothes, and at this time, at the bottom of the pit where the flashlight could shine, a behemoth full of rivet-like tentacles appeared in the light, I was taken aback, and the Taoist priest also urged me to light the fire quickly at this time, I didn't think about it, lit the fire and ignited the clothes stained with spirits, and the flames burned up at once, blocking this section of the pit.
I patted the third child and yelled to run, the Taoist priest had already crawled without a shadow with the second tiger on his back, and I lay on the back of the third child, and climbed up quickly as well.
Rumble!
We had just climbed out not far when an unexpected scene happened, in the pit below the slope, the pile we lit I don't know what had happened, and it jumped up, and the smoke and flames chased after us, burning straight to our butts.
The third child wailed and climbed faster. The smoke quickly choked on me, but luckily, the Taoist priest in front of me seemed to have reached the end of the tunnel.
"Oops, oh no, misjudgment, this is a fucking dead end!" The wail of the Taoist priest came from the end of the tunnel, and I was so frightened that I quickly chased after him.
At the end of the tunnel is a hole that is not big or small, through that hole, I climbed into a closed square space, at a glance, my heart is cold, the Taoist priest did not lie to me, this is really a dead end!
In the thick smoke, the Taoist priest has been choking and coughing, Erhu's situation is even worse, the newly awakened consciousness began to chaos again, my situation is not much better, covering my mouth and groping around, trying to find if there is any other way out, but I didn't expect to find out after some groping.
"Huh? Something is wrong, it seems to be a wooden plank. ”
"Ahem...... Plank, immeasurable your uncle's, you don't care what planks it is or not, the fire will burn immediately, we are going to be finished, you still have the heart to think about this...... Well? Wait a minute, you said the wooden plank," the Taoist priest choked on the smoke and scolded for a while, but he seemed to think of something, and for a while, he also reached out and touched it, and suddenly exclaimed: "Damn, coffin, this is a fucking coffin, Erhu your uncle, what kind of way out are you referring to, the way out to the grave?" ”