Chapter 24, Suspension Bridges
The man grabbed me with both hands, but the wind between the canyons was too strong and he didn't dare to lift me up, so I was grabbed by him and hung on the dark rock wall.
"Don't let go!" He opened his mouth to speak to me, but I couldn't hear anything, and the loud wind tore everything to shreds.
In this way, five minutes passed in a daze.
The wind lessened, and the guy pulled me up.
My heart was beating wildly, and I almost didn't die suddenly, and then the light of a flashlight hit my face, and my vision instantly blinded me and my eyes went blank.
waved his hand and pushed away the flashlight, "Anyway, a group of you are all sick, aren't you?" Do you like to shine a flashlight on other people's eyes so much? ”
"What's the matter with you?" Scarface's voice came.
"What's going on?" Pretending to be stupid is my usual talent.
"You two are sick, aren't you? I have to talk in this hellish place. "The woman pushed me behind me.
The soles of my feet slipped, and suddenly my heart jumped to my throat again, and I hurriedly grabbed the branch and shouted, "That's right, that's right, let's go over first." ”
Fortunately, there were no more troublemakers on top of our heads at this time, and we still made our way to the platform.
By the light of the flashlight, I looked around, here is a huge platform, behind the platform is a small suspension bridge, it is different from the giant suspension bridge across the abyss, its surface is only a few pieces of wood, and those pieces of wood have already been broken after the wind and rain, just look at it a little frightened, thinking that if you walk in through the main entrance, you are afraid of death on this broken bridge.
The drawbridge used to be an ancient wall made of irregular stones, and the walls were covered with vines with interlaced rhizomes, and behind the vines were huge serpentine totems, and countless strange statues of ancient people with ancient faces, carved into the stone walls, and a pair of eyes staring at us outsiders.
The entrance was not far away, but the huge trunk of the tree completely sealed off the place, and it was impossible to find it without climbing the tree.
The platform on which we are currently located seems to be an altar, and at the foot of the altar is a square of green bricks, and in the middle is a huge wooden pillar with barbs inserted into the pillars, and on the barbs are hung corpses, which have been ossified and cannot be seen in age and appearance.
The wooden pillars are surrounded by the remnants of torches and a few lamps, and I can imagine what it would be like for the ancestors here to gather to worship when night comes.
But now it no longer exists, because not only the entrance, but also the entire city wall and the altar have become one with the mountain, and the emerald green moss is covered with a layer of green bricks, and the original color of the green bricks can still be seen in the past.
In a few places were stone bowls and pots, as well as the tips and arrows of stone spears that had rotted their handles and fallen to the ground.
I walked back and forth, and there were no valuable references, all of them were broken patterns that I couldn't identify, and when I looked closely, they were all abstract paintings.
Retracting my thoughts, I looked at Scarface and the woman not far away, who were now worried about the abyss.
Speaking of these two guys, a new question arises again, who was the one who threw the stone down from it before? I thought it was Scarface's guys, but apparently I was wrong.
"Hey!" Scarface interrupted my thoughts, "Can you open this box?" ”
"Can't be opened." I could roughly guess why they would save me most likely because of the box, so I still had to hang them, "I don't have any tools here, where can I open this box for you?" ”
Scarface's eyes lit up, "You have a tool you can open?" ”
"Poof, you believe in this kid's evil." The woman smiled and took the box from Scarface's hand.
"Hey!" As soon as the woman said this, I got angry, how can this ancestral eating business not be useless, right? He raised his voice and said, "This is your layman, right?" Say I don't know how to pick the lock, then I'll come to you to break the pull, since ancient times, there are locksmiths, 36 lines of folk, one of which is the iron shop, there are 24 craftsmen in the iron shop, the coppersmith is one of the craftsmen, the raw coppersmith opens a shop to pour copper basins, copper mirrors and copper furnaces, and the cooked coppersmith carries the burden to repair the key, cigarette holder musical instrument. ”
After saying this, I squeezed a glance at her, "How is it?" The lock on this eight-treasure box is also called the eight-door machine lock, which has a spring and copper teeth, each of which is in charge of eight lock doors, if it is not with a specific key is extremely difficult to open, and this ghost box monster is blamed on the fact that there is a self-destructing thing inside it, I don't know what it is, anyway, if you forcibly open the box, it will destroy the things inside. ”
Woman: "......"
Scarface: "......"
After saying that, the scene instantly calmed down, and the expressions on their faces began to be cloudy.
I know they're measuring what I'm saying, but can they tell the truth from the false? To put it bluntly, of course, the remarks just now are false, but it also has a prototype, which was instilled in me by my grandfather since I was a child, and the reason why the two of them need me is definitely because they have already figured out some principles of this box, so as long as I firmly grasp the point of "the box will self-destruct if no one opens it", they will never catch any language leaks in me.
Sure enough, after a while, the result of their discussion came out, and it was still the same as before, Scarface gave me a red face, and the woman gave me a white face.
"How sure are you that you'll be able to open this box when you get out?"
"Ten percent." Almost without thinking, he said: "Ten percent sure, what are you kidding, you must know that my skill in repairing the key has also worshiped the ancestor, and it is not a New Year's holiday, and the ceremony of receiving apprentices and passing on the art cannot be held." ”
Deceiving people must not hesitate, this is the simplest common sense, in the face of this kind of interlaced such as the scene of the mountains, can be fooled to the big inside, a sentence must be decided, first deceive yourself, and then do not leave room for the other side.
Silence, silence again for those two guys.
In the end, it was the woman who spoke first, she looked at me and said, "Then let's not talk about this box for the time being, let's talk about the situation on the other side......"
Then she pouted at me and looked at the huge drawbridge.
Rub, my heart sank, and I knew that these two dog things really wanted me to be a guinea pig again.
That place is a suspension bridge with a length of hundreds of meters, and on both sides of the entrance of the suspension bridge stand two thick copper pillars that are hugged by three people, and the pillars are carved with strange ghost heads, those faces are different in shape, and the expressions are different, among which two ghost faces are particularly terrifying, their long horns are exposed, their fangs are turned down, and a large mouth of blood basin is opened to the corner of the mouth, and the chain of the suspension bridge is wearing the huge mouth of the ghost face, and then along the copper pillar into the ground.
The middle of the suspension bridge is covered with copper plates, and the distance between the copper plates is not much different, so the wind will make a roaring sound when the whole suspension bridge is blown over.
"Is this place for people?" He took two steps forward and poked his head out into the abyss.
The crack was like a moat, like a demon's mouth, growing in the earth's crust, and I felt cold when I looked at it, as if there were a pair of eyes staring at me below.
"Nonsense, it's not people who go, so what are we?" The woman glared at me viciously, then lifted her foot.
"Don't, don't." I was in a hurry, and hurriedly walked to the suspension bridge, "Sister, this place is not a joke, you go down, the mice are gone." ”
"Who's the eldest sister?" The woman snorted.
I shrunk my head, a little humble, "Then you are Miss?" ”
"Get out." The woman raised her foot and kicked at me.
I dodged sideways, not daring to talk to her more, so I walked over to the drawbridge.
At this time, the wind was not very strong, I walked on the copper plate with both hands and grabbed the iron cables on both sides, whenever the breeze blew, the bridge shook from side to side, and a heart instantly stiffened.
"Let's go, let's go!" Tell yourself you can't stay here for long.
But even so, when I got to the middle, I couldn't walk, and the road was blocked......
It was a person, a person who was standing in the middle of the drawbridge at this time.
I held the flashlight that the woman gave me, squinted at it, and my whole scalp went numb when I took this light.
Originally, I didn't care much about just one person, after all, I was harmed by the "figure" here once before, and I almost didn't die on that cliff, but this "person" is a little weird.
Because in the darkness that guy was bending over and making a comedy at me.