Chapter 373: The Icy Cave
Looking at the mysterious appearance of the seventh master, Huzi and I couldn't help but ask, who is that person.
After the Seventh Master was silent for a while, he spoke, "Do you remember Monkey Li?" ”
Huzi's eyes widened and he said, "Of course I remember, isn't it the one who has always been a loner?" ”
The Seventh Master nodded and said, "But a long time ago, he was not alone, but there was a short man with him, and it is said that Li Monkey's gecko swimming kung fu was learned from that person." ”
"Seventh Master, what do you mean?" Wang Chuyi hurriedly asked.
The seventh master nodded, and then said, "It should be him, this person's name is Wang Ying, because he has the same name as the character in Liangshan, so he is nicknamed Bantam Tiger, although this person is not a dwarf, but his height is only about one meter five, I heard Li Monkey mention it once before, saying that this person has a strange skeleton, is very light, has slender arms, and can climb a 100-meter cliff with his bare hands, but he is insidious and cunning, and his hands are extremely black, so the two parted ways. ”
After speaking, the Seventh Master leaned over, looked at the bottom of the cliff, and then said, "I think they should go down, they can't be wrong!" With that, he beckoned Huzi and I to take out the steel nails and start fixing the climbing rope.
When everything was ready, the seventh master grabbed the climbing rope and slid down, raised his head and shouted, "I'll go down first, you wait a while and then go down." As soon as the words fell, the seventh master quickly slid down, and in the blink of an eye, the light of the flashlight could no longer shine on his figure, and it seemed that the cliff was very deep.
After about five minutes of effort, we suddenly found that the climbing rope was swinging violently, as if someone was holding the climbing rope below and shaking it vigorously, knowing that it should be the seventh master who had reached the destination, which was sending us a signal to let us go down.
I didn't say a word, grabbed the climbing rope and began to slide down, I grabbed the climbing rope with both hands, bit the flashlight in my mouth, and slid down a little bit, during which I found that there were dots of green spots on the rock wall under the cliff, and when I looked at it, it turned out to be a thin layer of moss, which was covered under the ice, and even the little ladybugs on the moss could see clearly, it seemed that the entire rock wall was frozen in an instant, and I couldn't help but guess what happened here before, Why is there such a large-scale extreme cold weather?
While thinking, while sliding down, I soon saw a raised platform under the rock wall, this platform is about five meters square, the place is not big, but it is very smooth, it is obvious that someone has repaired it, the seventh master stood on the platform near the rock wall and beckoned to me, signaling me to hurry down.
The moment I stepped on the platform, the Seventh Master pulled me over, and then immediately made a silent gesture, and then pointed to a circular stone pillar on the left.
I turned my head to look, I couldn't help but gasp, only to see a big snake coiled on the stone pillar, at this time with my eyes closed as if sleeping, this time scared me not to speak, I didn't dare to pant hard, the foot movement was also very light, the hand that grabbed the climbing rope shook vigorously, let the tiger and Wang Chu above.
The serpent is only two meters away from me at most, and if we attack, I'm afraid we'll all die here.
After Wang Chuyi and Huzi came down, they saw the giant snake on the stone pillar, and their faces turned pale with fright, and the seventh master hurriedly pointed to a circular stone cave not far in front of us, signaling us to hurry in.
With the instructions of the Seventh Master, which of us still wants to stay on this platform for one more second? Almost without hesitation, he walked towards the cave.
The inside of this stone cave is uneven, although it is covered by a layer of ice crystals all around, but it can be seen that there are many green plants under this ice crystal, lifelike, the whole cave does not have the slightest trace of artificial excavation, it should be a natural cave.
Walking in the cave, I only felt the gust of wind, goosebumps all over my body, the more I walked, the more I felt chills all over my body, a chill down my spine, and I always felt that something was staring at me, but whenever I turned back, there was nothing.
Huzi noticed my abnormality, so he asked, "Lao Bai, why did you turn around three times in one go?" Why is there a beautiful woman in the back? As he spoke, Huzi glanced back.
I just wanted to answer, but I found that Huzi's whole body froze, I went over and patted him on the shoulder and said, "What's wrong with you?" Daze? ”
At this time, Huzi slowly turned his head, stared at the boss, looked at me for a long time, and said, "Back, there is a ...... in the back Someone! ”
After Huzi stammered, I quickly looked back, and didn't find anything suspicious as before, so I looked at Huzi in wonder, with his guts, let alone someone, even if there was a ghost, it wouldn't be scared like this, so I hurriedly asked him what he saw.
"Yes, there are four...... Four with us... Exactly the same person, just... It's ...... Just stand there! Huzi stretched out his hand and pointed to a raised stone not far away, I could feel that his fingers were trembling, it should not be deliberately deceiving people.
At this time, the seventh master also came over, and after understanding the situation, he also looked in the direction of Huzi's finger.
"Seventh Master, can you see it?" Wang Chuyi asked in a low voice.
The seventh master shook his head, turned around and looked at Huzi again, then patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, this is a normal phenomenon, not everyone can see it, it is in an extremely cold environment, the picture reflected by the cold air rising from the ground, the longest can stay for two or three minutes, don't worry." ”
Hearing the Seventh Master's explanation, we all breathed a sigh of relief, this is the first time I have heard of this strange natural phenomenon, and I can't help but admire the Seventh Master's knowledge.
After a while, Huzi also breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's really true, it's gone!" What the Seventh Master said was right. ”
So we were ready to continue walking, about ten meters away, and suddenly a fork in the cave appeared, almost symmetrical on the left and right, about seven or eight meters high up and down, and even the edges were covered with green vines, but these plants were now covered with a thick layer of ice crystals.
The seventh master squatted down and observed carefully, couldn't help frowning, and said, "No, there are footprints on both sides of this fork in the road!" So where did Wang Ying go? ”
At this time, Wang Chuyi squatted down, carefully measured the footprints on the ground with his hands, and after about five or six minutes, I saw her stand up, frowned and shook her head, and said, "The footprints are all about the same size, and they can't be distinguished." ”
The seventh master nodded, and said, "Generally, people with short stature have not too big feet, but this bantam tiger Wang Ying is different, his feet are not small at all, he is very good at climbing, and the nickname of bantam tiger is well deserved." ”
After thinking about it for a while, Huzi suddenly took out a coin and said, "Damn, what's the reason for hesitation, let's toss a coin, the front side is on the left, and the back side is on the right side, okay?" ”
As soon as this idea was proposed, the three of us agreed, and it would be a waste of time to hesitate now, and in this extremely cold environment, it would be fine if we had been exercising, but once we stopped, the whole person seemed to be about to freeze.
In the end, we decided to go to the cave on the left, the seventh master drew his saber, and walked ahead first, I followed closely behind the seventh master, we just walked two steps, and found a human skeleton, and immediately stopped.
"Seventh Master, look at this skeleton, it seems that something is wrong!" Wang Chuyi squatted in front of the skeleton and looked at it carefully.
Hearing Wang Chuyi's words, I also hurriedly walked over, only to find that the bones of this person were broken in many places, and they were seriously damaged, if it wasn't for a gold wire connection, I'm afraid it would have fallen apart long ago.
"Seventh Master, what's going on? Could it be that someone deliberately connected the bones? Who would have this kind of idle time? ”
I wondered in my heart, this skeleton had obviously been moved, and it would take a lot of time to connect all the bones with gold threads, and that when ordinary tomb robbers came in, time was actually about the same as life, and they would never waste time and effort to do such a thing.
Huzi opened his mouth and said, "Is it the graveworker?" After a tragic death, being strung together? ”
The Seventh Master waved his hand and said, "It shouldn't be, under this low temperature environment, the human body decays very slowly, and even hundreds of years will not decay and show bones, this corpse is definitely not here before, it should be in the tomb, I don't know why it was moved here." ”
As soon as the seventh master said this, I reacted in my heart, yes, it's almost minus 60 degrees here, it's like a huge freezer, not to mention rotting, it's good if the corpse doesn't freeze into ice, how can the corpse appear inexplicably?
Wang Chuyi frowned and said, "It should be the bones that already existed when the ancient tomb was built, it seems that we are on the right track, if my guess is correct, it should be the entrance of the ancient tomb not far ahead." ”
As soon as the words fell, Wang Chu stood up and was about to walk forward, but was pulled by the seventh master and said, "Slow down, be careful, there should be a mechanism." After speaking, the seventh master took the first step ahead.
From the location where the corpse was found just now, we walked very slowly, and the seventh master took a small step forward, and almost every part of the soles of his feet was close to the ground, as if he was sliding.
I don't know how long this cave will take, and the Seventh Master's actions make us all very anxious, so he asked, "Seventh Master, be so careful, what kind of mechanism will there be?" ”
The seventh master hurriedly raised his hand and made a silent gesture to me, and did not pay attention to my words, but continued to walk forward so carefully.
Seeing that the seventh master was so cautious, we had to shut up and walk forward after him, after walking for about ten minutes, the seventh master suddenly stopped, squatted on the ground, showed a sneer on his face, and said to himself, "Hmph, it turned out to be here!" ”