Volume 1 Kurosawa Domain Chapter 107 Ghost Town
Everyone was frightened and disgusted by this scene, but before everyone had much time to experience this frightened and disgusting feeling, the human-faced monsters who found everyone had already rushed in front of everyone.
With Niu Gang's successful experience of electrocuting the face monster cub first, everyone removed their backpacks and shocked several human-faced monsters, making them afraid and afraid to walk through this hole for the time being.
Pick up a few pieces of masonry that fell on the ground on everyone's side, block the hole entrance, forgive those human-faced monsters for a while and a half will not dare to break through, these ugly, murderous monsters are the most cunning, IQ is quite not low, just now on the electric baton tasted bitterness, for the time being, should not dare to act rashly.
After blocking the Yongdao crossing, everyone had the opportunity to turn around and look at the world outside the Yongdaokou.
In the shaking of the flashlight beam, a black ghost town appeared not far in front of him.
The reason why it is called a "ghost town" is that the city is built on a "mountain", and the huge cave wall "mountain" in front of you is embedded in the rock like a relief.
The castle tower, city gate and city wall all protrude out of the outer part of the "mountain", and the rest is not known whether there is still a complete whole in the "mountain", or only this exposed part of the "eaves of the eaves", and the inside is completely natural.
And the towers, gates, and city walls are all black, and the style is heavy and depressing, revealing a ghostly and ghostly feeling.
The city gate is not ordinary, it is a city gate with carved floor engraved wall closed by the jack gate, there are cornices, corridors, and palace gatehouses, and the stone wall of the grotto is built.
Below it is the city gate that is more than three people high, but it is not the kind of double leaf opening, but the design of the jack gate.
Another thing that makes people feel like a "ghost town" is the various weird sculptures outside the city gate.
There is a moat in front of the city gate, which goes around the city wall, and on the river is a golden lock bridge, which means eternal wealth and tranquility.
In front of the Golden Lock Bridge is the straight Seonggi Avenue, and there are tall and burly, hideous and ferocious stone statues on both sides of the Seonggi Avenue guarded by the generals, these two stone generals look like angry King Kong, like the fighting ghost Zhong Kui, but they have never had that sense of justice and awe, and they are full of ferocious and vicious state.
Each person holds a spear with a tongue sticking out of the tongue, as if holding an evil snake with both hands, and the two spears are crossed on the road, making people instantly afraid of it after seeing it, and they dare not go over.
Starting from the stone carving general, it extends far away from the city gate, and there are stone horses, stone beasts, stone turtles and other shapes, including this stone general, these statues are not carved from the rock in the cave here.
No matter in terms of color and material, the jet-black oil shale used at first glance is the same as the stone material of the "torture balance" in the anonymous tomb of the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, and the stone plate of the firefly cave that is like the Milky Way hanging upside down.
These stone horses, stone beasts, stone turtles, etc., are all stocky, heavy, realistic images, delicate carving, but all have strange expressions, faintly revealing a sense of gloomy and evil spirit.
But the most bizarre thing is that between the stone carving general and the stone horse statue, there is also a figure that looks like a ghost woman in the underworld in folklore.
I saw that this ghost woman in the underworld was holding a sea bowl in one hand and a golden-scaled snake in the other hand, and stretched out the head of the snake towards the sea bowl, which looked very much like feeding the snake.
It's so bizarre and weird that I don't seem to have heard of it in any folklore or mythical ghost story.
Everyone couldn't help but wonder what the statue was trying to express, what was this ghost woman from the underworld trying to do? Is it to feed the snake water?
I saw that this ghost woman had teeth leaking from her mouth, greedily sticking out her crimson tongue, staring at a pair of evil and cunning goldfish eyes, staring at the big bowl.
This is even more bizarre, because all the statues are carved out of jet-black oil shale, but the ghost woman's tongue is red and ugly, and the more you look at it, the more out of place it becomes.
And around the bowl were carved people in various postures, and they were dripping with blood.
And this ghost woman is smiling uglyly and staring at the people on this bowl, as if she wants to eat human flesh and suck human blood?
Everyone didn't know why, but they just felt a cold wind coming from their backs, and they couldn't help but slow down their walking speed unconsciously.
But having reached this step in the field, how can you still be allowed to brave the cold wind? Even if it spews out an ice fountain, you have to grit your teeth.
Bai Yunfei beckoned everyone to hold their self-defense tools, always be alert to the movements around them, and then let the "experts" and "craftsmen" hurry up to "work". ”
After being named by Bai Yunfei, Su Laogui and Lu Wuyang, two "experts" and "craftsmen", were wrapped in the "protective circle" under the protection of everyone's vigilance, crossed the golden lock bridge with everyone, and slowly walked to the city gate.
As soon as he stepped on the Golden Lock Bridge, Su Lao Ghost pulled off the Luoyang shovel on his backpack, and installed all the knobs on several knots, still forming a "mine detector", walking forward slowly, while knocking on the bridge deck, as well as the carved dragons and phoenixes, engraved clouds and carved water on both sides of the carved bridge railings.
Everyone is also moving slowly, while constantly looking at the four directions, especially on the city gate and tower in front, once there is an abnormal situation, you must first use the backpack that has been removed from the body as a shield, forming an "iron bucket shield" that can resist attacks from all directions, to prevent everyone from suffering casualties in the abdomen and back of the enemy.
Although everyone was on high alert along the way, fortunately, there was no danger and finally arrived safely under the city gate.
But everyone didn't feel the slightest sense of relaxation, after all, after the throne mountain rose, the tunnel leading to the tomb of the Hades Palace was revealed, indicating that this place was not far from the tomb.
But the closer you get to the place where the owner of the tomb stored his body, the stricter and more advanced the precautions and traps will be, and the degree of danger will only be higher, and there is no room for any sloppiness.
And as the two of them study the door-opening operation, everyone must be on high alert to prevent the two "professionals" who are focused on opening the door from being accidentally harmed.
Su Lao Ghost and Lu Wuyang used their backpack as a shield, extended the strap, and carried the backpack on their chest, so that the side of the hidden aluminum alloy plate on the back faced the direction of the city gate, so as to prevent the trigger of the mechanism in the process of opening the door, and they could immediately use this backpack to take precautions.
The crowd had their backs to them, fanning out, each facing in one direction, holding flashlights and preoccupied with guarding the city gates.
Only Cao Longxuan was still the same as when he opened the door in the underground cave after finding the entrance to the Devil's City, watching them work behind them, and from time to time he swept the city tower above with a flashlight.
The cooperation of a team is sometimes like this, and after a long time, a tacit understanding has been formed, and it does not necessarily have to be a detailed division of labor.
The two "professionals" examined the structure of the gate in detail, but said that it was impossible to open it directly, because the gate was a suspended "gate" rather than a "split type", so it was impossible for the door leaf to open horizontally without a door shaft.
The only way, and the idea of the original design, is to open and close by suspension.
But after searching for more than an hour, there was no mechanism to open the bare city walls and gates.
So with the help of everyone, they climbed up to the tower again, and tossed on the tower for more than an hour, but they still found nothing.
There are no traps or traps that are ready to hurt people, and this huge city gate is enough to weigh thousands of pounds, if you can't find the mechanism, don't even think about pulling it if you find a hundred more people.
Seeing that the tower and the gate had not gained anything, the two of them walked back and forth along the moat, repeatedly shining a flashlight.
Even the bottom of the golden lock bridge was hung with a mountaineering rope to climb and look at it again, and then used Su Lao Gui's Luoyang shovel handle and iron drill to repeatedly explore in the moat, and a long time has passed, but there is still no trace.
Looking at this immovable city gate, everyone couldn't help but be disappointed.
Cao Longxuan asked Old Ghost Su to judge from his experience where the mechanism that opened the city gate should be. Old Ghost Su watched for a long time on the city tower, city wall, city gate, and even the moat, and shook his head.
Just as the two of them were looking at the "ghost town" in front of them, Lu Wuyang, who was worthy of being a "craftsman", had already begun to beat around the stone statues on both sides of Chenggi Avenue.
After a while, I heard Lu Wuyang call everyone to come to him, and when everyone saw that there was a play, they gathered around.
Lu Wuyang said that he found that all the statues were solid, but this grimace demon woman was hollow inside, and he felt that there must be something strange and worth checking.
Then Lu Wuyang climbed onto the tall stone statue of the horse next to him, stood on it and watched, and found that there was actually a hole in this Meng Po's bowl, and there was a hole in the bottom of the bowl.
However, no exposed hole was found underneath, indicating that the hole was connected to the arm and body, so the hollow sound was heard when tapping.
The statue is hollow and its purpose is unknown.
But there is a reason for this design, and there must be some secret in it.
Li Yulan said, seeing that this Meng Po is holding a golden-scaled snake in her other hand, which is exactly the same as the snakes she saw in the snake cave just now, is this overall shape that she is feeding the snake to drink?
Why don't you pour some water into it and see how you react?
So everyone used the plastic bags provided by Su Lao Ghost from the moat to bring salt water, Han Debang was dexterous and good at climbing, and after climbing to the ghost woman, he took the salt water and poured it in, pouring more than 20 bags but no response.
Wang Ziming said no, this statue embodies the legend of the snake woman serving the snake, since it is the bloodthirsty golden phosphorus snake, then it should be poured blood inside.
The ghost woman's blood-red tongue should be a hint, as if to say that the ghost woman was greedy when she saw the blood feeding the snake. But how can there be so much blood?
Niu Gang said that this is not easy, just go back to the big snake nest in the burial cave and take those snake blood.
Everyone thought that they could only try it at present, so they went back to pull away the bricks and stones blocked at the Yongdao crossing.
Before it could be opened, the smell of smoke came out of the cracks, and when I looked into the cave, there was already some smoke inside, and it seemed that although the fire in the "Kun Palace" did not burn here, the smoke could not stop and permeated this snake's nest.
The crowd tried to collect the snake's blood, but found that the snake's blood had been sucked by the living snakes, and the rest had seeped into the bones, and there was only dried blood on the road, so there was no blood to be taken.
Disappointed, they decided to take the risk of slashing the snake for blood. But Bai Yunfei thought to himself, this snake is a cold-blooded animal, how much blood can a snake release?
But there is no other good way in front of him, you can't give up one of these eight people and sacrifice the blood of one of the living people to the ghost woman, right?
That's absolutely impossible, you must know that this tall jet-black stone statue has to meet the needs, even if it simply drains a person's blood, it may not be enough.
Everyone could only cautiously drill into the hole at the mouth of the Yongdao, preparing to fight with the snake and snatch the snake's blood.
But the gloomy burial cave has been occupied by human-faced monsters, and there are hundreds of human-faced monsters frantically preying on the golden nitrate.
When they saw the crowd, they bared their teeth and roared, and the hideous faces were full of greed.
Seeing that everyone turned on the electric baton that flashed electric sparks, and after a few "crackling" sounds, they did not dare to rush over and attack everyone, but bent down and began to eat the corpses of those nitrate snakes.
I saw that they ate with relish, and the snake's yellow skin, red blood, and blue intestines and internal organs chewed into a puddle of sticky and evil things in their mouths, and Li Yulan, who was hiding behind everyone, squatted on the side with a "wow" and began to vomit.