Chapter 14: Valley of the Ghosts
Here is a description of why the edge of this disc tree does not grow in, and the snake does not dare to come in.
It's not that there are gods blessing, but there is a crack on the edge of the disc, and from the crack it keeps spewing hot air, and the roots of the tree will be scalded to death as soon as they arrive, and it will definitely not grow in this way.
The snake was also blocked by this wall of qi, so it couldn't smell the smell inside, and it was also afraid of this wave of qi, so it left.
Because everyone was nervous when their group came in, and the weather was relatively hot, most of them didn't notice it, only Xiao Liu and Ouyang noticed it.
The ejection of this hot gas is also regular, that is, the ejection at night will be stronger than during the day.
It's not that it's more sprayed because it's more dangerous at night, but the closer it is to the moon at night, the stronger the reaction is underground, and this dungeon is sending energy to the moon.
There are also clouds on this disc that do not disperse all year round, no matter what bad weather you encounter, there will be, but when the wind is strong, it will be thinner.
But this place is surrounded by mountains and there is no way to have any strong winds, so no one has been able to see it from the outside for thousands of years, which is the wisdom of ancient creatures.
At the same time, Captain Zhang and the others had already descended to the house on the cliff,
The depth of the subsidence of the entire cliff is about 30 meters, and there are square openings like windows at 10 meters of subsidence, and there are 5 rows.
At the bottom is a doorway with a large opening,
This cliff is not cut at a right angle, its upper edge is an oblique angle protruding outward, and people can't touch the cliff wall when they are suspended in the air, so everyone can only go down to the bottom and then climb up.
Soon they reached the bottom of this cliff house, because it was already dark, and it was at the bottom of the cliff, so it was even darker inside, so they turned on the lights on their helmets.
Everything in this is amazing, especially the huge stone monument standing in the center, the monument is black, like basalt material,
But where did the basalt come from in this place, even if it was moved, such a big stone, with the current technology, I am afraid it will be difficult to get it.
The most amazing thing is the dragon hovering around him, no, it should be a snake,
Because it does not have the horns of the dragon above, nor does it have the feet of the dragon below, it is basically judged to be a snake, and his snake head stands directly above the snake monument, with wide eyes and an open mouth of blood, revealing the two big fangs on it.
There seems to be something on the top of its head, but when you look from below, you can't see it very clearly,
Look at the hovering snake body, the scales on it are distinct, as if it has been polished by something and will reflect the light,
When they walked in, they realized that the snake body was also the staircase they had gone up to, just enough to walk a person.
The smooth scales on it are estimated that people climbed up and down to grind them, Zhang Yi walked to the stone tablet and touched the black stone body,
"Why is this stone still discolored?" Zhang Yi asked in his heart,
He took a headlamp and shone it on his hand, and found it dark and brown.
Because he couldn't smell it with his nose while wearing a breathing mask, he didn't dare to take off the mask easily, although there didn't seem to be a miasma here, but he didn't know if there were any other poisonous gases.
He looked at the stele carefully, as if he understood something,
In his heart, he said: "This should be blood, but I don't know if it's human blood or animal blood, if I'm not mistaken, this is probably the shrine of sacrifice." ”
The others were still in amazement, when they suddenly heard an exclamation not far away, "Ah!"
"What's wrong?" the other two hurriedly asked,
and walked over quickly, it turned out that Xiao Liu saw a huge skeleton,
At first, he didn't see what it was, so he was really startled, and when he settled down, he found that it was a huge skeleton.
"Look!" Team Xiao and Team Zhang picked up the lamp and shone it over,
"How can there be so many ivory?" Xiao Panzi also asked with a puzzled expression,
"Take a good look at it, is this ivory?" Xiao Liu said and turned on another high-brightness lighting flashlight,
I shone it through from the bottom of the skeleton, and there was a huge head in the last place,
"I'll go, what is this thing with such a big skeleton, this must be more than 20 meters, it can't be a dinosaur. Xiao Panzi said in surprise,
Zhang Yi said: "This is a snake, it is recorded in ancient books that it is a giant python, because their fat is an extremely flame-resistant fuel, so it is also called the candle dragon by the ancients, the fat of the candle dragon is particularly precious, the best skin care and beauty, it is good to be burned, and it will not leave a scar, it also has one of the most important functions, which is to make an ever-bright lamp, which is also the reason for its extinction, it was used for lighting in ancient times, and it was used to make the ever-bright lamp of these emperors' tombs in the later period, think about so many emperors, how can there be so many snakes." ”
"So that's the case, Brother Zhang is really powerful, he knows so many things!" Xiao Panzi said with secret admiration.
"How can there be this snake here? Is this candle dragon the snake we saw in our illusion?" Xiao Liu also asked suspiciously.
"That's right, that's it, I also wonder, how can there be a candle dragon here? Because this thing lives deep underground, it rarely climbs up to the ground, and even if it comes out, it will only move in a very dark place, the bottom of Hunan Python Mountain used to be the place where the ancients caught the candle dragon, it is rumored that the bottom of this python mountain is full of bottomless caves, and there is a huge underground river below, and there are many fish and people, so the candle dragon lives there, but it has not seen this species for almost 2000 years, and people think that it has long been extinct. ”
"Has this snake been dead for thousands of years?" Xiao Liu asked suspiciously.
"Don't ask so much, let's hurry up and check the environment here, the people above are still waiting for us, let's go into the room and check, there may be danger inside, let's go together." Zhang Yi said.
"Okay!" replied the other two in unison.
So the three of them cautiously walked into the room, the room inside is very large, and the function of the room inside is also very clear, there is a kitchen, an armory, an ancestral hall, a bedroom, and a grocery room or entertainment room, etc., anyway, it is very complete.
They looked at most of the rooms and found nothing out of the ordinary, as there were no objects in them, and their purpose could only be judged by the structure of the room.
"It should be quite safe here, I looked at the dust in each room, there is a thin layer, there is no mark on it, indicating that there is no sign of biological activity, and there is almost no dust here, indicating that no one has lived in it for a long, long time, and there is a natural barrier here, which is an ideal place to spend the night, Yunshan, you go up and inform them, set up a rope to come down, and spend the night here tonight." Zhang Yi said.
"Okay, I'll go and tell them to come down. After Xiao Liu answered, he immediately ran downstairs quickly, shouted to the top, and asked them to come down.
The people above were all frightened, and everyone stared at the dense forest, for fear that the snake would come out and pull them away at any time.
I don't know how long it took, but I suddenly heard a voice from below: "Zhang Ying, you let everyone come down, it's safe down there." ”
Zhang Ying finally breathed a sigh of relief, otherwise everyone would have to freeze here all night, and they would be exhausted to death if they were not eaten by snakes, and thought to himself: Ancestor, I finally heard your voice.
So he said, "Okay, I'll set up a rope ladder now, and you can answer it below." ”
"No problem!" Xiao Liu said,
Zhang Ying walked in front of everyone and said: "It's safe below, everyone will go down in an orderly manner, don't worry, this cliff is very high, if you fall down, you won't have to live, and you will definitely listen to the arrangement." Of course, if someone goes down earlier, they can jump down and try it themselves!"
As soon as everyone heard that there was safety below, they all crowded to the edge of the cliff.
Zhang Ying continued: "Uncle Xiang, Xiaofu, you two keep an eye on the back, and I'll send them down first." ”
After saying that, he built a hanging ladder at the cliff position, because the cliff was too high, almost all the ropes were used up to build this ladder, and it didn't take long for the ladder to be ready.
But many of them have no experience in mountaineering, and this kind of hanging ladder does not dare to go down at all, so Zhang Ying let him go down first.
In the end, there was a girl left in Zilian, as well as an old professor and a boy with an injured arm.
Of course, Ouyang didn't go down, he was to accompany the old professor, and also to have manpower, and when he hung these people, he hung them down one by one.
Everyone else came down, and in the end, Xiaofu stayed on it to stand guard, guarding the ladder, and observing the periphery, and the rest of the Zhang family would come to change the guard with him.
Everyone came to the following and were shocked by everything in front of them, there has never been such a place in history, everything here seems so ancient, and the houses here also show the dazzling wisdom of the ancients,
Everyone was quickly taken to a place that looked like an ancestral hall, because it was the largest room, and there seemed to be stone statues or something.
Zhang Ying and Xiao Liu spread out 2 large moisture-proof mats, so that everyone could sit down and rest first.
After the previous mountain climbing and thrilling, as soon as everyone sat on this mat, it was like a deflated ball, and the whole person was loosened at once, and they all collapsed to the ground.
Everyone was really tired, so everyone lay down on it and rested.
Zhang Yi said to everyone: "Listen to me, it's safer here, we have checked it, the air has been measured, there is no poison, everyone can take off the mask, everyone can take a rest here, the signal flare has also been sent out, no accident tomorrow the rescuers will come, we can go home." ”
Everyone was very happy to hear it, took off their masks and breathed in the fresh air here.
"The air smells so good!" everyone breathed heavily.
Zhang Ying and Xiao Liu also wanted to lie down and rest for a while, but Zhang Yi spoke directly: "What are you two sleeping, hurry up to find a water source, and pick up some firewood to come back!"
They looked innocent and helpless, and could only say, "Okay!"
Propping up his heavy body and going out again, the two of them are indeed a little tired, who is not tired after a day of tossing like this, and they are not robots,
There is one person who is really not tired, he is Ouyang, because he didn't move much, with his physical fitness and recovery ability, this is equivalent to no exercise,
However, he also needed to conserve enough physical strength to deal with all the emergencies, and he also clearly felt that the energy of this Blood Coffin Dragon Ring was getting weaker and weaker.
Because it used to take only half an hour for a wound to heal, but now it takes almost half a day.
So he was also more careful, also in order to use as little as possible the power of the Dragon Ring.
"Team Zhang, I'm not tired, I'll go with them to find a water source. Ouyang said to Zhang Yi.
"Okay, be careful!" Zhang Yi agreed to Ouyang's request.
Ouyang took the initiative to ask to find a water source, because he wanted to take a good look at this place, because as soon as he came in, he had a sense of intimacy, just like the place he had been to in a dream.
In fact, finding a water source is easy for him, as long as he listens to the sound of dripping water, he can find it.
He didn't go to Xiao Liu and them, but looked around, and he was the first to go up to the snake man monument.
And he found that the mouth of the serpent's blood basin was empty, and it led to a very deep place, and there was gas coming out of it, as if there was a sound of water, but it was obviously far away.
The head of the snake is actually a snake man holding a gourd, but the head of the snake man seems to have been knocked off, leaving only the body holding the gourd.
He sniffed the surrounding breath again, and found that there was a strong smell of blood, and the black and red in the snake's mouth was the color of blood seeping into it over time.
So no matter how long it takes, its color and its smell of blood will not change.
In fact, this stele is white, the same kind of stone as the white slate on the rock wall, because it has been soaked in blood for many years.
I don't know how many souls this stone has absorbed, making it exude an eerie chill.
He was a little excited in his heart, he could feel the energy of this place, this should be the location of the Qinling Bagua Palace, there are too many stories of ancestors hidden here,
I can finally come by myself today. He didn't stop and continued to look elsewhere for clues that might have been left behind.