Volume 1 Big Dipper Mystery Mountain Chapter 58 The Bronze Mask of the Seven Star Immortal Palace
Last time, it was said that Shen Yifan and others found Qi Chungang's mausoleum, which was actually built in the crater basin in the belly of a large magnetic mountain, and the four of them walked down the plank road of the volcanic ring mountain range, preparing to go to the palace complex in the basin.
The four of them walked all the way and walked in the circular plank road in a circle without encountering any danger, but the distance of the circular plank road was really long, and it took more than two hours to go down the three-story plank road. In layman's terms, the circular plank road is like our current winding mountain road, but the plank road built on this mountain is dug from the inner wall of the volcanic mountain range, and it is estimated that this plank road will use tens of thousands of manpower.
In the dark environment, there is no change of sun and moon, and the internal watch in Cishan cannot be used normally, so the four of them don't know what time it is, they can only guess the time, until the four of them walked hungry, exhausted, only to think that there has been no food for a while, everyone decided to find a cave to rest in it for a while, sleep and continue to set off, looking at the scale of this winding mountain plank road, everyone thinks that they will not be able to go down to the volcanic basin without walking for 24 hours.
The four of them found a cave and lit a small fire with some ointment in the ditch, this ointment is really easy to use, it ignites when it encounters fire, and there is no smoke and exudes bursts of fragrance, and there is also an unknown fragrance in it, Shen Yifan smells this fragrance and seems to be a little familiar but can't guess what it is, and then it was Murong Wan'er's bottle of Vaseline that inspired him.
In fact, this kind of ointment is the "oil" we often hear of, oil can be refined a spice is one of the indispensable raw materials in cosmetics, some oil fields in the oil content is too high will have a strange fragrance, this ointment is one of the main materials we use Vaseline, but how there is sperm whale ambergris is unknown.
The four of them took turns to rest, and when Shen Yifan was on duty, the three of them, including the ghost doctor, had already fallen asleep soundly, and the silence around made Shen Yifan a little creepy, it was not a good thing to be quiet in this kind of place, but often only in the tomb would there be a silent scene of everything.
In fact, people have a kind of fear when they are very quiet, especially in the tombs. Therefore, tomb robbers will conduct some special training in response to this fear. For example, by locking yourself in a dark and quiet room and spending three days to a week in it, you can overcome this fear. But Shen Yifan's creepiness and fear are a little different, he seems to have a sixth sense, and when this feeling appears, there will be danger.
At this time, Shen Yifan heard a rustling sound in the distance, but there was nothing when he looked around, and this rustling sound was different from the sound of the black canopy walking.
"Spiders?" Shen Yifan's voice seemed to be a little like the sound of a spider, and the whole person became alert, waking everyone up.
Jin Zhuyu and Murong Wan'er were still a little sleepy, rubbed their eyes and asked, "What happened?" β
Shen Yifan shook his head, but his eyes were already looking in all directions, looking for that. The source of the rustling sound, Shen Yifan thinks that it may be the basis of the spider, because since he first entered Beidou City and encountered the spider in the maze of the street, he has never seen the spider appear, it stands to reason that the spider and the black spider are a symbiotic relationship, but when the black spider was burned to death by a fire in the Tiankeng Basin of the blessed land Xianzhai, it is true that no one has seen the spider and has not seen the trace of the spider, according to the characteristics of the spider, they can go to a far place to forage for food, and it is not impossible to come here in groupsγ
Just when Shen Yifan was thinking about all the information about the spider in his heart, he heard the ghost doctor shout: "Where!" "Everyone looked in the direction of the ghost doctor's fingers, and they saw that there were some patterns on the inner wall of the magnetic mountain moving, because the light in the cave was so bad that even if they opened their eyes wide, they couldn't see what was on the opposite mountain wall.
Shen Yifan turned the light pillar of the flashlight to the brightest and looked wherever he looked, and saw a terrifying bronze face smiling at them, that kind of smile was very weird, looking like a smile, but there was a little bit of a cruel smile, which made people feel very uncomfortable. Suddenly, Shen Yifan blinked when he noticed a pair of glasses on that weird face, and Shen Yifan, who was frightened, also shrank back.
Everyone looked at Shen Yifan's movements and understood what they saw, and they all shone the light pillar of the flashlight, and saw that there were a lot of bronze masks moving on the opposite side of the position where they were standing.
No one knew what was on the opposite mountain wall, and they were now on the inner side of the volcanic crater, and when they saw the situation on the opposite side of the magnetic mountain wall, there was a long distance that could be seen in the dark and a vague outline. At this moment, I heard a rustling sound from outside on their side, and the sound was very clear.
Shen Yifan heard this and hurriedly ran out of the cave, looked under the railing, the basin was empty, and he heard a few rustling sounds overhead, and suddenly a bronze mask flew from the top of his head along the mountain wall, Shen Yifan reacted quickly, dodged sideways, and then pulled out a pistol from his waist and shot at the mask, the sound of the gun resounded through the cave and everyone buzzed in their ears, the bronze mask was torn apart, and a foul-smelling blue-green water flowed from the mask.
Jin Jianyu looked at it and asked, "What is this?" β
Shen Yifan shook his head, at this time, he only heard more and more rustling sounds from the cave overhead, everyone hurriedly took a few steps back, and saw seven or eight bronze masks climbing down from the top of the plank road corridor, and then rushed towards Shen Yifan and the others, Shen Yifan and Jin Zhuyu each held a pistol, and shot at those bronze masks continuously, the bronze masks were beaten to shreds, and the disgusting blue-green water flowed all over the place.
At this time, everyone could hear the entire Magnetic Cave belly for a while, all of which were like this, and they converged into one. Shen Yifan hurriedly lit a flare, and gasped as he looked at it. I saw that the walls of the Cishan Cave were densely covered with bronze masks like just now, and I saw that all the lines on the cave wall were moving towards the position where Shen Yifan and the others were standing, and the number was so huge that I couldn't count them at all, and I saw those bronze masks quickly converging in their direction.
Everyone shuddered when they saw it, and Murong Wan'er was frightened and hid behind Shen Yifan and asked, "What is it?" β
Shen Yifan didn't know what this thing was, but it was certain that these things were definitely not good, he usually helped the pistol change ammunition and said, "Hurry up, go to the tomb!" β
Everyone had this plan for a long time, as soon as Shen Yifan's words fell, the four of them hurriedly ran down the plank road, the volcano they were in and the cave wall of Cishan were more than 100 meters away, although those strange bronze masks could jump, but there was no way to jump more than 100 meters away, they all climbed to the bottom of the cave and then went up towards the volcanic ring mountain range, and they saw that the countless bronze masks on the cave wall were like a tide all surging towards the ring mountain range, along the cliff of the ring mountain range towards Shen Yifan and others.
Shen Yifan and the others rushed forward all the way and shot all the way to knock the scattered bronze masks away, but the number was getting more and more, and in the end, they saw that all the bronze masks had poured into the plank road. At this moment, the roads in front of and behind the four of them were all blocked, and the four of them were all back to back, not knowing what to do?
Shen Yifan shouted, "It's too late." We went straight down with the Flying Tiger's claws. Saying that, he threw the last bundle of grenades taken from the airborne troops camp directly outside the fence around him, and saw the grenade thrown in the air, Shen Yifan shot at the grenade without thinking, and a huge explosion blew up the fence around them, and many bronze masks also fell with the shock wave of the explosion.
The four of them then all jumped down the cliff with their flying tiger claws, and quickly headed towards the bottom of the circular mountain range, and they didn't hear the pistols in their hands along the way, and they shot when they saw sporadic bronze masks, but the good times didn't last long and soon the bullets in the pistols ran out, and those bronze masks still rushed towards them one after another, and some bronze masks had already come towards them along their flying tiger claw steel cables.
The four of them couldn't go up or down, and they all sighed separately: "I'm going to die here today." β
The ghost doctor shouted, "There is no such thing on the plank road below, let's go into the plank road." As soon as the words fell, he had already swung the flying tiger claw in his hand towards the nearest plank road, and the other three also swung into the plank road again with the ghost doctor.
The four of them saved a lot of time by going down directly from the cliff on the inner side of the crater mountain range with the help of the flying tiger claws, but it was also very risky, when they returned to the plank road again, they had already gone down about seven or eight layers of plank road, and there were still four or five layers away from the crater basin, and this place had not been attacked by those bronze masks for the time being, but the sound of rustling overhead was getting closer and closer, and these strange bronze masks seemed to have life, like ghosts and ghosts chasing Shen Yifan and the other four people.
Shen Yifan wanted to see the surrounding environment clearly, and drew a signal stick to look around, at this moment, the sound of footsteps above his head seemed to be close to their scalps, Shen Yifan hurriedly threw the signal stick in his hand, and then pulled out the Yiwang knife in his hand and prepared to fight hard, but what he didn't expect was that all the bronze masks actually chased the signal stick, and the signal stick was quickly extinguished by the vast bronze mask, and suddenly the surroundings fell into darkness. And the thin rustling voices came towards the four of them again.
Shen Yifan seemed to understand something, and asked Jin Zhuyu, "How many flares do we have?" β
The gold inlaid jade replied, "There are ten more." β
Shen Yifan said: "Do you see a cave recessed in the wall of the Cishan cave next to you?" β
Jin Zhuyu nodded.
Shen Yifan said: "Where to hit one." β
Jin Zhuyu looked at Shen Yifan with some puzzlement, and asked while filling the flare into the flare gun, "What do you mean?" β
Shen Yifan was already very anxious, and said, "You fight first." β
As soon as Shen Yifan's words fell, the gold inlaid jade had already raised his hand in the direction pointed by Shen Yifan, and the flare went directly towards the cave recessed by the magnetic mountain opposite, and the dazzling white light flashed in the air and entered the cave, and he saw a more dazzling white light flashing in the cave, and he saw that those bronze masks were all heading towards the cave, and the sound of metal friction and rustling of thin feet crawling made the four of them have goosebumps.
Shen Yifan said: "The heat source they follow. It is a heat source that is hotter than the cave. With a good anti-theft method, few tomb robbers can get out alive with these bronze masks alone. β
Shen Yifan didn't know what the hell those strange bronze masks were, but he thought that the perception of these bronze masks was by finding a heat source, some like the snakes we know; Cold-blooded animals like lizards. Although the temperature of the belly of the magnetic cave they were in had reached thirty degrees, those bronze masks could still sense a slight temperature change, and the temperature of the cave was actually a constant temperature of thirty degrees, and after Shen Yifan and the others entered, the human body temperature destroyed the constant temperature in the cave, so these bronze masks sensed the change in temperature, so they all came towards them. The temperature of the flares was higher than the temperature of the human body, so the bronze masks chased after the flares.
After Shen Yifan confirmed this, he said: "Quickly scrape out all the ointment in those lighting canals." β
Everyone already understood Shen Yifan's intentions, and they all used various tools to scrape out the grease and ointment in a section of the lighting canal around them, and piled it into a small half-meter pile of ointment, Shen Yifan plugged in a signal rod and directly marked it and said: "We want to enter Qi Chungang's tomb before this pile of ointment is burned." Saying that the new trumpet stick had been marked, Shen Yifan shouted again: "Run!" "The four of them once spread their feet.
Taking advantage of the time when the signal flare was in the cave on the wall of the Cishan cave to attract those bronze masks, Shen Yifan and the others went down another layer, and saw that the pile of ointment had already burned with a raging fire, probably because of the strange ingredients of the ointment, the flame burned extraordinarily, and those bronze masks went towards the fire again. At this time, Shen Yifan and the others were invisible in the eyes of these bronze masks, as long as the four of them were safe before this fire was extinguished.
The four of them used their strength to eat milk and walked towards the crater basin, Shen Yifan also found a very strange problem, that is, those bronze masks would bypass the city palace no matter where they went, and no matter how many roads they had to detour, they would not dare to cross the thunder pool by half a step, Shen Yifan guessed that it should be a broken insect path or other problems, causing those bronze masks not to dare to enter.
We can all experience a kind of hardship when we exercise, that is, the hardship of long-distance running, I remember that what I hated most in physical education class when I was a child was long-distance running for 3,000 meters, which can almost empty out the soul of my whole body, not to mention the running of Shen Yifan and other four people who are almost not fast or slow in the whole sprint, when they are half an hour later, the four of them, including the ghost doctor, are all out of breath, Jin Zhuyu and Murong Wan'er have already turned white, and Shen Yifan's legs are like being filled with lead, and he has no strength to take a step.
The ghost doctor took a sip of water and said, "We can't stop for too long, and when the fire above is extinguished, those bronze masks will swarm like locusts." β
As soon as he said this, Shen Yifan looked up at the fire above, at this time, the place was already surrounded by those bronze masks, and he couldn't see the fire at all, but the bronze masks were still surrounding the fire, which meant that the fire had not been extinguished.
Shen Yifan said that we are making a fire, so that we can delay a little time, and said that he moved the Yiwang knife towards the lighting canal, and at this time, there was a scream from Murong Wan'er behind him.
Shen Yifan was afraid that Murong Wan'er would be in any danger, so he hurriedly looked back and saw a ragged man walking towards Murong Wan'er, who was still wearing a bronze mask on his face. Shen Yifan also trembled when he saw it, and hurriedly cut off the Yiwang knife, but what he didn't expect was that the masked man was silent, just towards Murong Wan'er's temper, Shen Yifan slashed at the ragged masked man, and the masked man didn't dodge or let Shen Yifan's knife cut, but as a result, the whole arm was cut off by Shen Yifan, and a foul-smelling green water flowed out of the arm, but the masked man still rushed towards Murong Wan'er, and Shen Yifan handed the tip of the knife and pierced directly into the masked man's chest, But the masked man didn't seem to feel anything, and he still walked forward, and a strange force actually pushed Shen Yifan away.
Seeing this, the ghost doctor hurriedly stepped forward and pushed Shen Yifan's back, and when he heard a "poof", the entire Yiwang knife was directly pierced into the mask man's body, and he was very cold, but the mask man actually went towards Murong Wan'er, and with a wave of his hand, Shen Yifan and the ghost doctor were both knocked several feet away, and they all hit the stone wall.
Murong Wan'er's face was already frightened at this time, her hands holding the two lancets kept trembling, her steps kept retreating, and she fell to the ground with a stumble, and the masked man suddenly pounced on her.
What exactly did they encounter? What the hell are those bronze masks? Can Murong Wan'er turn the danger into a disaster at this critical moment?