Chapter 40: Ding
We didn't rush forward, and the ghost knew if there was some 10,000-year-old demon guarding there.
Liu lowered his torch and pulled me to crouch behind a huge skull. The black shadow was about three meters tall, and it probably didn't show much among the bones, but it stood out in the small empty square in front of it. From a distance, it looks almost as thick as the top and bottom, and the lines are relatively soft. Although it wasn't the way we were going to go, we decided to take a look. Because it's really hard to know for sure where the exit of this hole is hidden, any clues are worth a careful search.
We both observed for a long time, and both felt that this was not a living thing. There is no definite reason for this, and in such a dead environment, the feeling of living creatures is easy to distinguish.
didn't hesitate for too long, Liu Dongxi threw a small bone hard, and with the sound of metal impacting, our hearts also returned to our stomachs, metal is definitely not alive, robots and the like are still too unconventional in this kind of place.
Quickly through the small square, a tall tripod appeared in the halo of torches!
I've never seen such a huge bronze! I saw that this tripod has more than two meters wide, more than three meters high, four Yonghe squatting on the ground, both hands raised high to hold up the tripod body, four slender tails converge at the bottom of the tripod and scatter sagging, the whole tripod shape is beautiful and sparse under the firelight, the tripod body texture is complex and exquisite, wonderful.
I have seen a lot of bronzes before, most of them are dignified and solemn, I have never seen this style, so I asked Liu Dongxi: "Why does this tripod look like this?" When was it? ”
"I can't see it! I've never seen this style of ding! Liu Shiwu seemed to be very depressed.
I saw that this omniscient Liu thing was eating here and there, and I was very happy, and I just wanted to scratch him a few words, but suddenly realized a problem. After arriving here, you can see Yonghe's shape everywhere, what's going on? Could it be that the tribe that once lived here was a totem with Yonghe as a totem?
"But if you follow the law of the development of bronzes, this tripod may be from the early Xia! However, the Great Xia Dynasty did not leave any relics, so I am also a rough guess! Liu Dongxi was still immersed in the topic just now, and I interrupted him: "Don't worry about that, you know Yonghe, is there a nation that uses it as a totem in history?" ”
"Haven't seen it! But it should also be possible, after all, it is also a divine beast! ”
I suddenly remembered that in the so-called picture on the wall before, there was a human figure with a pointed face, and it seemed that it was a Yonghe who was alive in comparison! Liu Dongxi said that the word means god or totem. Doesn't this mean that Yonghe is worshiped as a god by these people?
I told Liu Shiwu my thoughts, and Liu Shiwu was noncommittal. But I think it's very possible, Yonghe's deterrent ability is indeed amazing, and it is easy to be worshiped as a god by the ancients who don't understand science!
But these things don't have much meaning, and now there are two most important points: is there any clue to this tripod to go out? Will there be a Yonghe here all of a sudden?
Liu Shiwu is already carefully inspecting that Ding, he is not simple at this point, he just does what he says, and rarely looks forward and backward.
I walked over slowly, Liu Dongxi was squatting on the ground to see something under the roof, I leaned over to take a look, it turned out that there was a stone box underneath, exactly the same as what I saw on the shelf in the thatched hut, and the four Yonghe tails converged into a strand and hung down on the stone box. I reached out and touched it, this tail is hollow, it is estimated that it goes straight to the inside of the tripod, and plays the role of exporting the things in the tripod.
This just verifies the previous speculation, this place is really to provide raw materials for the alchemy over there, seeing that this raw material has taken so much pains to obtain, if you can't get this pill, it can really make people live forever.
I reached out and moved the stone box out, it was empty, there was nothing in it, and when I tried to put it back in, I found two huge footprints on the ground. Before the stone box was placed there, I couldn't see anything, I just felt that the mountain stone was uneven. At this moment, the stone box was picked up, and the footprints were revealed.
I put the stone box aside, lay on the ground and looked at the two footprints carefully, only to see that the two footprints were more than a centimeter deep into the ground, fat and strong, and the arch of the foot was very high. But this is certainly not a human footprint, although the shape is no different from a human footprint, but how can there be such a big foot? I usually wear size 44 shoes, which are about the same as a baby compared to these footprints.
I wanted to ask Liu to come over and have a look, but when I looked up, I was gone. My heart twitched, and I quickly stood up, and the surroundings were empty, except for the shadow of Ding swaying with the torch in my hand. I was shocked, I felt that the sweat all over my body came out all of a sudden, and the first thought was that Liu Dongwu found the exit and ran away secretly!
The idea is quite logical, if he goes out with me, I will arrest him and turn himself in. Although I may not be able to help him after a fight, but he is the most affectionate, and I have saved him in this area, I am afraid that he is also embarrassed to fight with me, but he is reluctant to turn himself in, and sneaking away is the best choice.
It is said that Liu Dongxi is not bad, and he is also a person who values faith and righteousness, although some things are hidden from me, but he is not bad in other aspects. It seems that the professional character is still at work, and I am always wary of him.
I looked around close to Ding, but I didn't find any trace, Liu Shiwu seemed to suddenly dissolve into the air, and disappeared silently. I felt dry in my mouth, I didn't know how to deal with this situation, I was alone, I was defenseless at the moment.
At this time, I heard a sudden sound from the ding behind me, such a soft sound was like thunder in my nervous ears, and another thought popped out in my heart, could it be that Liu was taken away by some monster?
I reached out and pulled out the fixed light sword, looked in the direction where the sound came, only to see the fire on the ding, jumping down a person, I was about to cut it with a sword, but I heard the man shouting: "Brother An, stop, it's me!" ”
When I saw it, it was not Liu Shi, thinking about how scared I was just now, I couldn't help blushing a little, and turned my head: "What are you doing up there?" ”
Liu Dongxi smiled: "I'll go to this immortal tripod to see what it's for." ”
It turned out that Liu Dongxi didn't know the origin of this tripod, and he felt a little embarrassed to climb up to the tripod to find out, not wanting to slip into the tripod all of a sudden. Dingli is divided into countless small grids, the structure is extremely complex, and many of the grids still have sticky gelatinous substances, and I don't know how to spend such a long time.
He wanted to call me to go up and have a look, but I found that the sound sounded like it was in a confined space, and I couldn't get out at all. When I looked up, I found that the top of my head had turned into black bronze at some point, and I actually closed myself in the ding. Liu Dongxi was shocked, and dropped the torch by mistake, igniting the sticky glue in the ding. This viscose is extremely flammable, and it burned in a blink of an eye, seeing that it was going to be called a flower chicken, Liu Dongxi had no other way, so he took out a dagger and stabbed at the bronze stab on the top of his head, but suddenly even his arm stretched out, and then he found that this Dingkou and the tetrahedron we entered here are the same truth. At this time, the flames had already risen, and Liu Dongxi ran out of the ground with a roll.