Chapter 280: The Mystery of the Cave
The master was extremely anxious, but he also knew that the most important thing at the moment was how to get out of the pit. It's still a draft, and I'll revise it tomorrow.
The master looked up at the top of the pit and looked again, and the Liangyi Yin and Yang Sword, which was inserted into the stone crack by the monkey, was still inserted in the stone crevice. The master turned around and inserted the torch in his hand into the gravel next to him, then picked up the stone tied to the end of the rope from the ground, used the rope to round the stone, and after a few turns, he threw out the hilt of the Liangyi Yin-Yang Sword.
The master's accuracy was very good, and the stone carried the rope through the hilt of the sword, and swished around the hilt several times, and finally, the stone stumbled on the hilt. The master pulled the rope below and tried it, and it was okay, and the winding was quite strong, but I don't know if the Liangyi Yin and Yang Sword can withstand his weight.
In order to prevent the Liangyi Yin and Yang Sword from breaking because he couldn't bear his weight, the master pulled the rope with one hand and grabbed the bulge on the cave wall with the other, and climbed up little by little.
At first, it was okay, but when he climbed to a height of almost one zhang, he found that the Liangyi Yin and Yang Sword inserted into the stone wall began to loosen, after all, it was a sharp blade that sharpened iron like mud.
After the master climbed up three or four feet again, he really couldn't do it, and if he climbed up again, the short sword would fall out of the crack in the stone. In desperation, the master twisted his body, and just wanted to jump off it, he saw two small bright spots on the opposite stone wall, flickering and faintly green.
The master was stunned for a moment, and then the bright spot disappeared on the stone wall, what is it? At this moment, the Liangyi Yin and Yang Sword above fell out of the crack in the stone, and the rope also fell, and the master hurriedly jumped and jumped back to the bottom of the pit.
At this time, the master didn't care about anything else, picked up the torch, and shone towards the place where the bright spot appeared, but due to the limited light source of the torch, he couldn't see it very really, and he only felt that the place where the bright spot appeared was darker than other places.
Taiye immediately looked at the torch, okay, the torch was burning, the master picked up the torch and threw it up, the torch swirled in the air, illuminating the space above, the master saw clearly this time, there was a hole more than a zhang high above, there was a hole, which could have the size of a water tank mouth, and the previous bright spot appeared there.
The torch quickly fell from the air, and the master took it in his hand, and the master estimated that this hole was not an exit.
It is difficult for the master to go up to the pit that is more than three zhang high, but it is not difficult to go up to this hole that is more than one zhang high.
The master took the Liangyi Yin and Yang Sword back into his waist, looked at the position of the hole again, stacked the gravel under the hole, and finally, stacked the gravel to the height of his chest, the lord put away the rope and coiled it on his body, took the torch, and climbed on the gravel.
At this time, the master was less than a zhang away from the hole, and with the height of the master, he could almost reach the hole with his hand, and the master jumped on the gravel, grabbed the hole with one hand, and then forced, and the whole body was advanced.
With a "suddenly" sound, the master threw the torch in his other hand into the hole first, followed by his hands, grabbed the hole with both hands, lifted his body again, and half of his body was drilled into the hole.
Because the hole is only the size of the mouth of the water tank, the master can't stand up straight inside, but fortunately the torch has not been extinguished, climb in and get the torch, take a few breaths, and use the torch to shine the hole.
Under the light, the master was stunned, and saw that the walls of the holes were full of claw marks, one by one, and the holes seemed to be pulled out by some animal. Then look inside, the hole is quite deep, the master thinks, there is no way out of the hole at the moment, can only climb along the hole to try, can go out the best, if you can't go out and come back to think of other ways.
The master pulled out the Liangyi Yin and Yang Sword from his waist, with a torch in one hand and a short sword in the other, and carefully crawled towards the depths of the hole.
This hole is extremely deep, and it is crooked, and in some places because the curve is too steep, the master can only rub it sideways.
I don't know if I climbed for too long, a hole was divided into two, the master took a picture of the two holes, found one casually, and continued to climb up, after climbing for a while, the torch light was getting smaller and smaller, and finally, it flickered a few times and went out.
The master wondered, how could it be so good that the torch was extinguished? The master lay down on the ground, took out the fire fold from his body, blew it a few times, and after the fire fold was ignited, he didn't wait to light the torch, and soon extinguished it again.
Just when the master felt strange, he suddenly felt dizzy, difficult to breathe, and his chest was very suffocated, and he secretly screamed in his heart that it was not good, he couldn't enter here, and hurriedly grabbed the torch and retreated backwards, until he retreated to the two forks, the master felt a little more comfortable this time, took out the fire fold again, blew it a few times, the fire fold caught up, and then lit the torch with the fire fold, and the torch also burned, and waited for a while, and the torch was not extinguished again.
The master didn't dare to drill the previous hole again, and drilled into another hole, this time, after drilling for a long time, the torch was not extinguished again, and there was no difficulty breathing or chest suffocation.
After continuing to climb forward for a long time, the master vaguely heard someone talking, but he couldn't hear what was said, let alone who was talking, but it can be seen that this hole should be almost at the end.
The master sped up his speed, and climbed forward not far away, and the torch was extinguished again, this time, it was extinguished normally, this special torch burned for more than half an hour at most, that is, more than an hour, and the torch was extinguished this time because the life span was burned to the end, and it was different from the inexplicable extinguishing just now.
The master had no choice but to throw away the torch and continue to crawl forward, at this time, the voice in front of him appeared and disappeared, and it sounded like a lot of space, with the sound of an urn in his voice.
I crawled in the dark for a while, and suddenly, the master's subordinates pressed into the air, so that he could hang down and fall down, so he hurriedly retracted his body and stretched out his hands to touch the front.
The hole in front is gone, the whole thing is empty, it should be the end, because you can't see the five fingers, the master can't see anything, but you can vaguely smell a rotten smell.
The master took out the fire fold from his body again, blowing the fire fold and taking a photo, this time he saw it clearly, the hole did come to an end, outside the hole, it seemed to be a big hall, the master took the fire fold under the hole, the hole was only two feet high from the ground of the hall.
The master suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, if the end of this hole leads to the cliff, he will have to retreat.
As soon as the master turned over and got out of the hole, however, the fire fold could not burn for a long time, and with the light of the fire fold, he took a cursory look around, and the master extinguished the fire fold.
It turned dark in front of him, and the master groped in the hall along the wall of the hall according to his memory.
Fortunately, the ground of the main hall is very flat, and there are no obstacles, and soon, the master touched the stone door of the main hall, and one of the stone doors was opened.
Touching the stone door, stepping over the high threshold, the grandfather came to the outside, the outside is like a passage, the grandfather touched the passage, it is still stone, and there are many traces of excavation, the grandfather immediately understood, the hall just now, should be an underground palace, that is, the tomb, right now here, it should be the tomb road leading to the underground palace, if you continue to walk along the tomb road, you should be able to go out.
At this time, the grandfather's eyes were really black, and he didn't know how far he had walked in the passage, and a glimmer of light appeared in front of him, as if it was an exit, and the grandfather suddenly lifted his spirits.
The light is getting bigger and bigger, it is really out of the mouth, the master blocks the light with his hand, so that his eyes can adapt as soon as possible, and in an instant, the eyes suddenly open up, and the master comes out of it.
Squinting his eyes and looking around, he was actually standing halfway up the mountain, and at the bottom of the mountain, there was a small flowing river, with green mountains and green waters, but the master felt that he had not been here.
Looking at the foot again, there was a series of trampled marks in the weed, and from the direction of the weed, it seemed that someone had just come out of the passage.
The master turned around and looked at the passage behind him, which was dug out by hand, and there was a sealed soil before, as if it had been opened by someone just now, and it was smashed open from the inside.
The master immediately thought of Xiao Lao Dao and them, and he couldn't protect the three of Xiao Lao Dao's masters and apprentices, and after falling into the hole, he also climbed into the hole. If this is speculated, the stone door of the main hall should have been opened by them, and the sealing soil at the entrance of the passage should have been opened by them.
The master looked at the traces that had been stepped on in the weeds again, and since they had come out of it, where were they going?
The master followed the traces, and after walking for a while, he found that the traces did not go down the mountain, but went up the mountain.
Soon, the master climbed to the top of the mountain along the traces, stood on the top of the mountain and took a look, and immediately understood.
I saw in front of the master, it was a mountain col, it was the col I went down before, and it turned out that I had passed through the whole mountain through the hole and climbed to the other side of the mountain.
The master looked at it again, the traces in the wild meadow, the traces went down the hillside, leading straight to the col, and the master immediately understood, this must be Xiao Laodao's master and apprentice, after coming out of the other side of the mountain, he wanted to return to the col and join the three of them.
Taiye continued to walk along the traces, and soon, back to the previous inclined passage, the traces on the weeds disappeared here, which made Taiye even more sure, it was the three masters and apprentices of Xiao Laodao, but I don't know how long they have been back.
The master didn't rest, and went directly into the passage again, and the passage was also pitch black, and the master had no torches, so he could only rely on his memory to continue to move forward in the dark.
When he came to the fork in the road formed by the two caves, the master chose to take the cave on the left, because several of his people were separated on the left before, and after Xiao Laodao master and apprentice came in, he would definitely have to find a few of them in the same place.
After walking a short distance along the cave, the master returned to the previous hall, although he couldn't see it, but the master was sure that it was the previous hall, but at this time, there was no sound in the hall at all, as if there was no one.
The master shouted in a low voice: "Brother Xiao, are you inside?" ”
There was no response to the whole silence.