Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Black Iron Chains in the Tree

The rain of tricolor insects still keeps falling, and it doesn't seem to stop. After that, the Taoist priest said that he was tired enough in the past few days and had no rest, and now he had to sleep for a while, so that I could wake him up.

The Taoist priest found a raised block in the hollow of the tree, and soon began to snore, apparently really tired enough. Although I was sore all over, I had already slept and was in good spirits, and I sat at the entrance of the tree hole with the third child, and talked to it while beware of leeches crawling in.

Talking to a dog, this is a very silly thing to see, especially in such an environment, it is unspeakably weird, but the third child is not an ordinary dog, it is not only psychic, but also can understand human speech, although it can't talk to me, but some of the questions I ask it can still be answered simply by nodding and shaking his head.

I have some guesses about the insect rain outside, although the previous insect rain was also powerful, it will not kill us immediately, and we still have a chance to go out. But after a toss by the Taoist priest, the ordinary leech rain has become a highly poisonous three-color leech rain, and now our chances of going out have become very slim.

And before the Taoist priest went to move the worm mother, the third child stopped it twice, which seems to be no coincidence.

Sure enough, I asked the third child, this is indeed not a coincidence, the worm mother is indeed a Gu that someone put there, and the third child really wanted to stop the Taoist priest just now, but my appearance made the third child stunned for a moment, and then let the Taoist priest succeed, causing this catastrophe.

After understanding the reason, I greeted the whole Taoist family, but when I thought that this guy seemed to have only one master, I couldn't help but feel a little depressed.

I really want to ask the third child if he knows who is releasing Gu, but after all, he can't speak, and he can't answer this complicated question, so he just gives up. I hugged the third child, and while talking, I also fell asleep.

Maybe it's because of the Taoist priest's peace, or maybe it's because I found the third child, or maybe it's both, I feel that I slept very well and comfortably, and I didn't have nightmares, but had a good dream. In the dream, I and the third child and the Taoist priest escaped from Yeling smoothly, and my grandmother was greeting me at the entrance of the village, the only fly in the ointment was that Sister Bailing did not appear in the dream, which made me feel a little uneasy.

I was woken up by a warm and slippery thing, when I was dreaming that I was back at home, eating popsicles comfortably, licking and licking, suddenly I felt wrong, how something seemed to be licking on my face, I woke up suddenly, and found that it was the third child licking me.

This is the third child's habitual way of getting people up, I wiped the saliva on my face, thinking that the third child had just eaten a lot of tricolor leeches, this saliva should not be poisonous, right?

I subconsciously rubbed my face, at this time the boss bit my trouser leg and dragged me out of the tree hole, I looked up, only to find that the leech rain had stopped. I happily followed the third child out of the tree hole, as soon as I came out, I noticed that something was wrong, and was immediately stunned by the scene in front of me.

The Hell Tree is still the same Hell Tree, but the difference is that the bark of the Hell Tree is densely covered with tricolor leeches at this time, a thick layer, almost covering the entire tree.

I saw that my scalp was numb, and even if I didn't have a dense phobia, I felt a wave of fear when I looked at the leeches on the tree. The body of the tricolor leech is slightly transparent, and the blue light emitted by the hell can be emitted through them, but after the transformation of the tricolor leech, the dark blue fluorescence changes to three colors, and the four colors fill the entire interior of the sinkhole, making the place look even more dreamy.

After the shock, I couldn't help but swallow my saliva, looking at the leeches full of trees, I couldn't fall on my feet at all!

Woohoo!

The third child yelled at me a few times, shook off his paws to pull the leeches climbing on the tree, and soon cleared a path. I patted the third child on the head, and said in my heart that it was a loss, otherwise there would be no hope of going out at all!

Following the road opened up by the third child, I came to the main trunk, and found that the number of leeches covered by wax was more sparse, so I hurriedly beckoned the third child to clean up an area, and then used a knife to cut off a piece of wax the size of a basin, and when I was about to go back, I was dumbfounded.

I saw that the road that the third child had cleared just now had been closed at some point, and at the same time, I saw countless three-color leeches around me wriggling towards me, and the speed was not slow at all.

"Daoist, get up!" I yelled as the third man rushed forward to open the way.

The Taoist priest yawned and came to the edge of the tree hole, and just wanted to ask, he immediately discovered the situation in front of him, and couldn't help but open his mouth wide! I immediately yelled and said don't be surprised, hurry up and help out.

Only then did he react, and I threw the wax block out of my hand, and this thing was so heavy that I couldn't run fast with it. The Taoist priest on one side caught the wax block and put it down, and then came out to pull me, and at this time, the leech that I followed behind my ass had already stuck to my heels, and I saw several Taoist priests hurriedly come to me, grabbed me and jumped back into the tree hole.

"Damn, light work, awesome!" I exclaimed, more than five meters away, the Taoist priest jumped over with me so easily.

The Taoist priest was very proud, and wanted to sigh for a while, but immediately saw the leeches surging outside like a tide, and his face suddenly changed, and he asked me what the situation was.

I didn't bother to pay attention to him, so I beckoned the third child to stay at the entrance of the tree to keep the leeches out, and then cut off a small piece of wax and began to experiment.

I didn't have the tools to light the fire, and asked the priest if he had it, he waved his hand and said no, and saw this guy take out a yellow talisman, hold his breath and scold, the rune paper burned in response, and the fire rose, but I was dumbfounded.

"What are you doing, hurry up!"

I came to my senses and hurriedly tore a small piece of rag from my tattered clothes, ignited it, and placed the piece on top of the wax block.

A strange scene appeared, the yellow flame ignited by the cloth strip instantly turned into a dark blue after touching the wax block, like a ghost fire, the brilliance jumped, and the blue fireworks were motionless, as if silent.

Ten minutes later, the blue flame was still there, and the wax block had only softened when it was close to the core. There is no doubt that this blue wax does burn and is incredibly durable.

In the following time, we cut five or six stems from the wall of the tree hole, cut them long, wrapped the tips with pieces of cloth to make torches, and then roasted wax blocks with fire, and dripped the melted wax oil on the torches, so that we made six torches, each of which burned for at least an hour at the rate of wax.

In this way, the problem of the light source was solved, we no longer stayed, the Taoist priest lit a torch first, and the blue light flame instantly filled the entire tree hole, although it looked weird, but the brightness was enough, and the Taoist priest walked forward first.

The hole became more and more spacious as we walked from the branches to the trunk, so the space became larger and larger, and when we reached the end of the hole, the blue fire suddenly illuminated a huge dark space.

I was stunned, and although I had long guessed that the inside of the trunk was hollow, I didn't expect it to be such a scene.

The place where the tree hole connects to the main trunk is completely empty, and the next foot will step on the air, under the feet is the bottomless abyss, and in front of you is a deep darkness, under the firelight, you can see that there is a thing in the center of the hollow trunk, extending from the bottomless underground, it looks like a tree core, but this trunk is obviously empty, how can there be a tree core?

There are many dendritic things extending from the root that looks like the core of the tree, making the central core look more like a tree within a tree. There was one of those branches at the edge of the tree, and I asked the Taoist priest to stretch out the torch, and when we shone on it, we were all shocked, it was not a branch, but a dark black iron chain.

The Taoist priest and I looked at each other, wondering why there were these chains in the trunk of the Hell Tree, but it was, the black chains, each ring the size of my palm, and glowing with a metallic sheen in the blue glow. After such a long time, there is not even the slightest trace of rust in the iron chains in these trunks.

We got closer, and when I looked at the chains up close, I was even more shocked, the workmanship of these chains was quite fine, and the shape of each ring was almost identical, round and smooth, without half abrupt edges and corners, and the most awesome thing was that each ring was carved with patterns.