Volume 2 The Stone People of the Western Regions The Stone People of the Western Regions Chapter 87: The City of Sacrifice
Seeing the fat man like this, my heart sank. From what I know about the fat man, what can make him show fear should be a very terrifying sight.
I looked into the water in front of him from where the fat man was standing, and suddenly the white sweat on my back came out!
The scalp is a little fried! Not far in front of him, a large number of shadows appeared, floating on the surface of the water one by one, and there were countless worms! Each one was more than twice the size of the one we saw in the city!
Although I am not as afraid of this bug as I used to be, the experience in the Hugh has made me numb to it! But when I saw such a large size of worm again, my body still shook involuntarily!
From the ceiling, there is a steady stream of large worms falling to the water, making the sound of thin wooden planks falling into the water, which sounds very uncomfortable!
After seeing these horrible things, I kept crouching at the water's edge. From my body, a mixture of blood, donkey oil, lime foam, and an unknown liquid of pickled rats dripped from me.
These worms must have just appeared, and they seemed to be attracted by the dirty water beneath me! Started swimming towards me in large numbers!
It all happened between the lightning and the flint, and the fat man was not far from me, and in a few brisk steps rushed to my side and dragged me backwards!
I noticed that my legs had begun to disobey, and my body had just been dragged away from the water's edge by the fat man, and the group of big worms swam to my original position!
As I washed my dirt, I took off my shirt. All the grasshoppers gathered in my shirt, as if they were enjoying the food together!
"Xiaoqian, hurry up and put on your backpack! Yiyi, don't look at the river! Let's go! ”
The fat man carried a backpack on his body while directing us to clean up the scene!
The position of the underground river, much lower than the road outside the city walls where we stood, with dikes on both sides!
So Yiyi and Xiaoqian didn't see those worms! When I was dragged ashore by the fat man, Yiyi was examining Xiaoqian's wounds!
Xiao Qian's clothes were untied by Yiyi, revealing her plump chest, and when the fat man pulled me over, I happened to be looking at the ball!
Being dragged by the fat man like this, my legs also regained their self-consciousness! I thought to myself, Su Mo, Su Mo, you're so fucking useless! If you encounter something, you will be scared like this!
After getting up, I quickly pulled up Yiyi and Xiaoqian, who were still a little dazed! Follow the fat man and run towards the location away from the place where the worm appeared!
We've run some distance and we can still hear the rustling of crawling behind us! The wall on my right is about three meters over, and the four of us are running almost close to the root of the wall, so that we can stay away from the underground river, and we can be prepared for the meanders to emerge from the river!
The fat man was running and paying attention to the situation behind him, I was carrying Xiaoqian's medicine box and Yiyi's backpack, and it was difficult to turn my head! When we were about a hundred meters away, the fat man stopped!
I can't hear the rustle of the worms! I asked the fat man why he stopped, fat
Zi swept the surroundings with a flashlight, and after making sure it was safe, he shone the bright flashlight at the location behind us where the worms appeared, and then let us see.
When I looked back, I saw something incredible to me. I saw that those huge worms did not chase us, but lined up in two rows and crawled into the Hugh Gate!
I looked back at the fat man, and he shook his head. I think that now the tacit understanding between me and the fat man should be no less than Sister Ning's team, and when I look at him, he understands that I want to ask him what the situation is.
Yiyi never had a customer service afraid of this kind of heart, so she only glanced at it and turned her head away from it.
We waited a little longer, making sure the worms weren't chasing us, before we started to relax a bit.
I asked the fat man what we were going to do next, whether we would continue to look for the location of the "open door", or find a way to get in touch with the person they were picking up.
The fat man thought for a while and said, "Continue to break the formation!" In case Xiaodou and they are really controlled, with the four of us with these two brushes, it is estimated that we will have to take a break when we go. When the formation is broken, Sister Ning and the others will be rescued, and the personnel and equipment will not be bad at that time, and they can face any situation! ”
I thought that what the fat man said made sense, in fact, among the four of us, I was the one who dragged the oil bottle the most, not to mention Xiaoqian and the fat man, Yiyi's taekwondo public should be able to deal with a few people. And I, the whole fighting Xiaobai, can only fight with people with my height and brute strength!
After making a decision, the fat man once again took out the "Five Elements Bagua Plate" and began to look for the location of "opening the door".
In between his search for the door, I looked around, and the wall on the right surrounded the mystery inside, and the things inside could not get out, and the things outside could enter. On the left is an underground river system that flows downstream, and the source and end of the river are unknown. The water of the river is like a moat, parallel to the city walls. On the other side of the river, there was darkness, and you could faintly see the pitch-black walls merging with the darkness.
With this kind of complex terrain, no wonder the fat man said that if they don't have the ability to touch the points and determine the direction of Captain Jin, they will be given for nothing!
Sure enough, I think, that's probably why Europa tempted us to work together. I don't know what plans this mysterious company is planning behind it.
"There it is!"
As I surveyed my surroundings, the fat man muttered.
We leaned in and saw that the position on the fat man's compass was right in front of us!
In about twenty minutes or so, the four of us arrived at the location designated by the compass!
The height of the gate of the "open door" is higher and wider than the "living gate" we have entered and the "closed gate" that we have broken out!
Standing outside the door, I shone the flashlight into the door, and the ancient wooden building in my impression did not appear, and there were some large halls on both sides of the street!
And the street, even carved out of the steps layer by layer, gradually formed an upward slope inward, as if this "open door" led to a certain mountaintop!
The fat man had been through a lot, so I asked him if he could see what the buildings on these two sides were for.
He shone a flashlight from side to side near the city gate
Zhao, said: "This building is a bit like a place of sacrifice!" ”
The previous experience made the four of us cautious, and we did not enter the city directly after finding the "open door".
The stepped structure that stretches upwards inside the castle makes me a little uneasy. The fat man looked at me and said to me, "Xiao Su, if you're worried, pinch a handful of glutinous rice!" We've all seen the rat essence and the worm essence, maybe there will be some little chicken essence or big bird essence in this "open door". When the time comes, if they attack you, you can bribe them with sticky rice! ”
I told him to shut up, and when he was so agitated, my male hormones rose a little, and I took the lead and walked into the city!
Fat Man, Yiyi and Xiaoqian also followed me into the city almost at the same time.
I turned around and used my flashlight to look at the lintel of the city gate, and the two vigorous and powerful official letters "opened the door" were above my head.
The fat man is right, the palace-like buildings on both sides should be places of sacrifice. Because I saw that at the entrance of each palace, there were incense sticks.
Burning incense is a unique way of worship for the Han people. But this mode of worship appears in the ruins of the ancient country of the Western Regions, which is a bit incomprehensible! Could it be that this "geocentric country" is not the legendary natives of the Western Regions, but migrated from the Central Plains?
I think it is probably the reason why there are not so many mysterious ancient buildings in this city, and the halls as far as the eye can see are open without doors, a bit like a clan ancestral hall without a door.
Yiyi and Xiaoqian followed behind me, looking at the main hall from a distance.
On the whole, the city is very empty, with only two rows of palaces wrapped in the walls on both sides, and the rest of the city is empty!
The whole city seems to have been built halfway up a mountain, with stone steps extending to the top of the mountain.
I wanted to ask the fat man for his opinion on how we should go, but when I looked back, I found that the fat man was not next to me. Instead, I approached the hall on the other side, and I said in my heart, this dead fat man is probably an occupational disease again, and he wants to touch some treasures.
Just as I was about to call him, the beam of his flashlight came over and told us to pass.
Yiyi and I glanced at each other, and then walked together towards his place.
The place where there is a large hall on both sides is about a hundred meters away from the city gate, I asked the fat man what he found, and he flashed his flashlight into the main hall!
I saw a long table in the center of the main hall, on which were neatly placed some white bones, which by shape were the skulls of animals.
The fat man opened his mouth and said: "Xiao Su, junior sister, within this "open door", I am afraid that there is a whole sacrificial city!" ”
After speaking, he moved the flashlight to the main hall next door, and in that hall, a long table was also placed in the center, and the animal skulls with white flowers were very dazzling and weird!
Yiyi, who hadn't expressed his opinion for a long time, asked the fat man after the fat man said that this was a sacrificial city: "Senior brother, you and my father go to the tomb a lot, you should know his habits." What city do you think he will be in at this moment? ”
The fat man took back the flashlight and replied, "Teacher."
Sister, the "Shengmen", "Dumen" and "Xiumen" we have walked through, Master and his old man should not have been there. Because of those four cities, I am afraid that we are the first people to set foot in these thousands of years. The "Door of Death", "Door of Shock", and "Gate of Injury", which we have not set foot on, are also known as the Three Murder Gates, and from what I know of Master, he will definitely not set foot in those three gates. In this way, this "open door" in front of us is very likely to find Master! ”
The fat man's words made me sound a little excited. I don't believe that a legendary figure like Master Liu would have any accidents because of the length of time he has been trapped. Our experience in the past few days has made me vaguely feel that Europa's statement that Master Liu disappeared out of thin air is hiding some truth. The reason why Master Liu really disappeared should be that he entered this gossip city and lost contact!
And the purpose of Yiyi and the fat man's trip to Xinjiang is to complete the second uncle's plan, and to find the whereabouts of Master Liu. Although the people of the Headless Nation Organization have appeared here just like us, this underground city does not seem to have much to do with the matter that the Suzhang Alliance wants to investigate. The leaderless organization emerged with the same purpose as Europa.
Now, for the three of us, the most important purpose is to find Master Liu's whereabouts!
(End of chapter)