Chapter 11: The Lake of Fire
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is known as the third pole of the earth, with complex vegetation, thousands of meteorology, and extremely rich biological species. In particular, there are at least 650 species of birds, many of which are large and ferocious.
I don't know what kind of bird lives here and poops everywhere, I hope it won't be difficult to deal with. As I walked, I thought about what I kicked under my feet and almost tripped over it. When I looked back, I saw that on this path, there was a fist-thick chain horizontally!
It is very reluctant to say that it is a chain, I don't know what material this thing is made of, the shape is very irregular, basically a ring and a shape, with a primitive atmosphere similar to Neolithic.
Liu Shixi squatted down and stretched out his hand to touch it, and looked up in great surprise and said, "This is a stone!" ”
I also touched it, and it was cold to the touch, and the surface was rough, and it did feel like a stone. I have seen jade carved chains before, which are very delicate and beautiful, but this chain in front of me is a completely different style. Peeling out a chain from a whole piece of material is definitely a very difficult handiwork, and it is very contradictory to do it so crudely with such a high level of craftsmanship.
One end of the chain was directly on the stone wall, and the other end was sunk in the ghee lake, like something bolted underneath!
Where there is water all over the country, there will be legends of all kinds of things underwater, even if it is a well, there will be good people who throw a chain into it, claiming that there is a dragon tied underneath, and even bolted for thousands of years, without considering whether the shoddy iron lock can last for so long.
But the chain in front of me was not that kind of thing at all, and I didn't need to hear anything, and I looked at the stone chain that had not been filled with ghee, and my heart was a little hairy.
"Look what's down there!" Liu Shifu muttered, and reached out to move the chain.
I quickly stopped him, "You're going to die!" Who knows what's down there, you've alarmed it, where are we going to escape? ”
Liu Shixi smiled, "Brother An, don't be nervous, this is ghee, not water, what can stay under this?" Don't worry, as long as it's not a Transformer tied down to this underground, I promise it won't hurt you. ”
"What if there was any mechanism?" Wang Dake interjected.
I suddenly remembered the big fish with the chain, and nodded, "Yes, think about our ...... at the time"
"Impossible!" Liu Dongxi said categorically: "You don't look at what era this is, the Ming Dynasty began to run rampant, even then, there is nothing decent in Tibet, but there are some on the Bohai side later." Besides, what mechanism can this terrain have? ”
Wang Dake looked around and stopped talking, and it seemed that he also felt that what Liu Dongxi said was right.
"I said this person, you have to have a bit of an exploratory spirit, otherwise how can human beings progress?" Liu Dongxi announced loudly, leaned over and moved the chains.
The chain into the oil is tightly sealed, the oil surface is not damaged at all, it looks like it has not moved for thousands of years, and it really doesn't look like there is any danger.
As Liu pulled the thing, the heavy chain broke out of the oil, and a heavy smell spread, and the black oil layer on the chain felt a little like metal.
Liu Shiwu wore a pair of labor protection gloves, and he didn't care about being dirty, and he dragged the chain hard.
He has this dedication to discovery, but we all lack it. Looking at the chains stained with disgusting food that had expired for an unknown amount of time, no one had the courage to help.
Strange to say, this chain is very heavy, and it is definitely not something that Liu Shiwu can pull smoothly and properly, but it is just two random strokes, and something emerges by itself in the center of the ghee pit.
I saw that thing first, and quickly asked Liu to stop. It wasn't far from us, and several flashlights shone on it, so we could see it clearly.
This is supposed to be a chest, with a crust of ghee on top of its head, and countless mycelium wrapped around it, a white layer.
"What is this?" Liu took off his gloves and felt the rope on his body, "Get it and take a look!" ”
I didn't see the imaginary monsters and mechanisms, and the curiosity in my heart also prevailed, and I didn't stop Liu Shi.
He has been doing this kind of work all year round, and his kung fu is naturally not weak, and with a slight wave of the rope, a small claw anchor hangs on the box, and the box is dragged over.
The box was indeed connected to the chain, and when it was dragged ashore, it stinked, and the mycelium on it was like crawling with maggots, and it was disgusting to death.
Liu is not afraid of disgusting, and wiped the mycelium on it clean in a few handfuls, and a very exotic box appeared in front of us.
Although the workmanship of this box is not very good, the decoration is extremely gorgeous, a large number of excellent quality turquoise and garnet inlaid on it, and the box itself seems to be silver, there is a circle of unknown things sealing the opening, there seems to be a vague pattern on it.
Xiao Kan and Da Ke were naturally amazed, and they didn't care that the box was smelly, so they stepped forward to take a look. Liu Dongxi took out a short knife, drew a circle along the sealing skin, and got off the knife from one corner!
"Wait!"
Lu Yan suddenly opened his mouth to stop it, but it was too late, Liu Dongxi's knife quickly slashed along the cover, and the lid of the box bounced up with a soft sound.
Everyone startled Lu Yan, and the lid of the box flicked back a step back. But the box in front of me was not unusual, just an open slit that seemed to be able to swallow the light, and the black was terrible.
"What's wrong, Lu Yan?" I asked.
"That's a human scalp...... I'm afraid of some kind of evil magic! ”
Although Lu Yan's voice was soft, I could hear that I was in a cold sweat, although I had never seen real evil arts, but I had heard a lot, that kind of thing was simply a curse, and it would be no good thing to get on it.
"If you want to talk about evil arts, I really have research!" Liu Dongxi saw that no one dared to look at the box, and he seemed to be a little scared, and began to engage in popular science again.
"The so-called evil art is not so evil at all, it is nothing more than the use of poison and the use of things, but the means are ingenious, which makes people feel like they have the power of ghosts and gods, and to put it bluntly, it is worthless!"
"That's right, I've been in contact with a few head lowerers, all of them are good at using poison, and they also have special research on the mutual restraint of animals, but I heard that most of the methods have been lost, and now they use means to control insects to achieve their goals."
Wang Dake was also interested, and added on the side.
"That's right!" Liu Dongxi unabashedly glanced at Da Ke with a very appreciative look, "According to legend, a long time ago, there was a kind of evil magic master who could even control all kinds of spirit beasts, but it was only recorded in the records. ”
"Most of the toxins used in the evil magic are biological toxins, and they don't last very long, and those animals can't live that long, so even if this box has evil magic, we don't need to be afraid." Wang Dake was a little happy and said a lot.
I shook my head, always feeling that something was wrong.
When Liu Dongxi saw that Da Ke echoed him, he was so happy that he didn't know what his surname was, so he reached out and opened the box, "Let's see what treasures are in here!" ”
The box was not small, about the size of two quilts, and it was full of black things, and judging from a few fragments and approximate shapes, it seemed to be some textile fabric. And in the middle of this thing, there is a small clay jar, which I don't know what to seal the mouth with, and it is attached to a layer of skin with black hair!
"See, this is the real scalp, if the outer circle is a scalp, it is also a bald man!" Liu Shifu behaved very frivolously, and without saying hello, he reached out and smashed the clay pot with a knife!
I don't know how long the clay pot has been in this environment, it has long been soaked by the tide, and it was poked by Liu Dongxi without making any sound, and it became a pile, revealing a small thing inside.
Everyone was amazed, and what appeared in front of us was a strange-looking villain.
I saw that this little man was more than an inch tall, and his whole body was a very pale pink, somewhat similar to the texture of coral, and there were six arms in a circle behind his back, and his face was smooth, and his facial features were in the palms of his hands. The lower body has four legs, which are somewhat similar to some kind of beast, but they are like bird legs, and they kneel back on the bottom, looking extremely weird!
"What is this?" I asked, but I didn't hear an answer, and everyone seemed to be frightened by this thing, and their eyes were glazed!
I don't have a good heart, this thing looks like it's a real thing, they must be controlled!
Lu Yan reacted quickly, and he didn't know what he had gotten and quickly wiped it on the noses of everyone, which woke them up.
"This is Dej!" Uncle Mi let out a voice as if he had just woken up from a dream, "This is Dejie's Dharma God!" ”
I was about to ask what the Dharma God was, when I suddenly heard a few balloons popping from the butter lake.
In the blink of an eye, I was dumbfounded!
At some point, the surface of the lake has been covered with white cocoons, a few of which have been opened, divided into several petals and spread out on the surface of the lake, and some white dots are rushing towards us frantically!
"Run!" I didn't have time to think about what it was, my first thought was to walk quickly.
None of us cared about the so-called Fa God anymore, and ran frantically one by one, but fortunately, those insects were not crawling very fast, as long as they passed through the Ghee Lake quickly, it would be okay for the time being.
I scolded Liu Dongshi in my heart as I ran, and I was muttering in my heart when they explained the evil art just now. The use of toxins and insects is so familiar to me. This time I figured out, don't the lynx and green bees outside fit the setting of this evil magic?
Since all of these things still work, there's no reason for them to fail. Now there is nothing to do, only these two legs can save us. As long as we run outside as soon as possible, we believe that these bugs will not pose a threat to us.
Ghee Lake was only a few hundred meters wide, and we soon ran to the other end. At this time, the cocoons in the lake were basically all open, and snow-white insects crawled all over the lake.
Liu Dongxi ran out of breath, gritted his teeth and took out a fireworks stick and threw it in, the flames quickly spread on the surface of the lake, and soon became one, those insects fell into the fire one after another, and the air was filled with an indescribable strange smell.
And those insects that were not affected by the flames for the time being flew up one after another, and I looked at the white mist rushing towards us, and my heart was cold.
Isn't this the green bee?