Chapter 72: The Bone Forest (II)
The cavern ahead was curved, like a long underground river, and it was full of glittering pyrite from the top, bottom, left and right, and the light reflected from the pyrite was almost impossible to open your eyes under the illumination of torches and flashlights.
After about ten minutes of advancement, an altar appeared in front of everyone.
In the center of the altar, there is a statue of a leopard-headed human body, and below the statue there is a coffin made of pyrite inlaid upright, and in four directions around it, four coffins emitting dark red light.
At this time, Tang Qianlin, Li Yunfan and Ni Xiaowan were still worried about Yi Mochen, how could a big living person suddenly disappear for no reason?
Ma Yanqing didn't rush forward, but looked around and asked, "What about Boss Yi?" ”
Tang Qianlin was silent and did not answer, deliberately letting Ma Yanqing guess.
Ma Yanqing looked at Tang Qianlin and said, "You shouldn't let Yi Mochen's tricky waste come to ambush us, right?" ”
Tang Qianlin said truthfully: "Before, he was obviously in front of us, but he suddenly disappeared, I don't know where he went, maybe he was taken away by the leopard slave." ”
Of course Ma Yanqing would not believe Tang Qianlin's words, which was also expected by Tang Qianlin, even if he told the truth, Ma Yanqing, who was skeptical of everything at this time, would certainly not believe it.
"Look at the coffin." Ma Yanqing ordered his subordinates, "Be careful, don't destroy things." ”
Ma Yanqing's men were divided into four groups, and in groups of two, they went to inspect the four coffins around them.
Li Yunfan looked at the coffin and asked, "What do these coffins mean?" ”
Tang Qianlin explained: "According to the position of the five evil stars, the north arm city, the south through the corner, the west out of the heart, the east sun change, the middle is the ghost willow, but this arrangement is transposition. ”
Ni Xiaowan wondered: "What is transposition?" ”
Tang Qianlin said: "The original orientation can't be so concentrated, it's just for some purpose, it is combined here in the form of transposition in the astrology, in fact, the main orientation of this position should be the diurnal transposition in the east." ”
Ni Xiaowan asked, "Uncle Shi, then this is the place to open the Xingmen acupuncture point?" ”
Tang Qianlin shook his head and looked at the deeper position of the cave: "It's not here, this should just be the way to sew a thousand corpses and combine with the evil sa to cultivate leopard slaves, the place used to refine the corpse, the place where the Xingmen acupuncture point is opened should still be inside, I also speculate, after all, I haven't seen it before." ”
"Lord Wang, there's nothing in the coffin." The people from the Xuan Department stepped forward and reported, "It seems that there is no mechanism either. ”
After the man finished speaking, he subconsciously glanced back at Tang Qianlin.
Ma Yanqing walked up to Tang Qianlin, hugged his fists and said, "Mr. Tang, what about your opinion?" ”
Tang Qianlin said: "Then move on." ”
Ma Yanqing raised his hand and said, "Please ask Mr. Tang to lead the way." ”
After Ma Yanqing finished speaking, the people from the Xuan Department pointed their guns at several people and motioned for Tang Qianlin and the others to go first.
Ma Yanqing probably realized the danger in the darkness and decided to let Tang Qianlin and the others open the way ahead.
Tang Qianlin and the three of them had to take the lead in walking towards the depths, and when they walked less than thirty meters through the altar, the situation of the cave changed, and there were countless bones sitting cross-legged on both sides of the cave wall, and the skeletons were all wearing shamanic clothes and holding various magic weapons in their hands.
On the floor paved with bones in the middle, the bones of Qing soldiers and sacrificial soldiers are scattered, and they still maintain the posture of fighting before death, as if they experienced a fierce battle here a hundred years ago.
"It's almost there." Tang Qianlin said in a low voice, and at the same time turned his head to look at Ma Yanqing and the others in the back.
The people of the Xuan Department kept a distance from Tang Qianlin and the others with weapons in hand, Ma Yanqing walked in the protective circle under his hands, and Feng Zhenyuan slowly walked at the end as before.
Ni Xiaowan looked around: "Uncle Shi, there's no light here at all." ”
The cavern was pitch black, and the darkness seemed to have come out of the underworld, greedily devouring all the light that was left here.
At this moment, Tang Qianlin stopped because he saw a white barrier in front of him.
He raised the torch and stepped forward, Li Yunfan and Ni Xiaowan also hurriedly took the flashlight and shone it forward, and finally, the three of them saw clearly that the white barrier was actually a birch forest growing in the cave.
Li Yunfan was surprised: "How can there be a birch forest in the cave?" ”
"Uncle Shi!" Ni Xiaowan shone a flashlight on the ground of the birch forest, "Look at the roots of the birch tree!" ”
Tang Qianlin walked up to him with a torch and found that there was a coffin under every three birch trees, like flower pots, as if these birch trees grew out of the coffin.
Ma Yanqing stepped forward excitedly at this time and looked: "The legend of the Money Leopard God is true!" It's true! ”
Tang Qianlin asked, "How can you see it?" ”
Ma Yanqing said: "In the legend of our clan, the mother of the Golden Leopard God was wrapped in birch bark after death and hung on the birch tree. ”
Tang Qianlin shook his head and said, "This doesn't mean it's true. ”
Ma Yanqing also smiled: "I believe that seeing is believing, otherwise how can all this be explained." ”
When Tang Qianlin stepped forward to check those birch trees, he was stunned, he reached out and touched them: "This is not a birch tree, it is a bone forest!" ”
Ma Yanqing was taken aback: "Bone forest? ”
When everyone stepped forward to take a closer look, they found that the so-called birch trees were all made of white bones, and the branches on them were all bones, but they couldn't tell whether they were human bones or animals.
At the same time that everyone was surprised and puzzled, a sharp arrow shot out of the bone forest, and the sharp arrow directly penetrated the throat of one of the Xuanbu spies, and the person fell directly to the ground with the arrow, and the rest of the people stepped forward to protect Ma Yanqing and retreated, while watching closely into the woods.
"Get down!" After Tang Qianlin finished speaking, he dragged Ni Xiaowan to lie down.
Li Yunfan also hurriedly lay on the ground, and the jelly beans got into Tang Qianlin's bag.
At this moment, another sharp arrow shot out, directly hitting the forehead of one of Ma Yanqing's subordinates, and then continued to shoot sharp arrows from the bone forest, almost every three or five seconds.
Ma Yanqing's subordinates didn't wait for an order, they held guns and started shooting, but they opened fire and directly exposed their position in the dark, and soon there were less than five of the twenty men brought by Ma Yanqing.
"Ceasefire! Don't shoot! After Ma Yanqing gave the order, he looked at the bone forest and said, "We are not enemies!" We are a people! We're just here to ask for the help of the Money Leopard God! ”
As soon as Ma Yanqing finished speaking, a sharp arrow flew out and hit another of his subordinates.
Ma Yanqing looked at the four subordinates beside him who were already showing fear, and then looked at Feng Zhenyuan, who was standing aside, not lying down, not dodging.
Tang Qianlin and the three of them, who were lying in front of the bone forest, saw a young man with snow-white skin and a very terrifying look appeared in the bone forest, and the young man squatted there, beckoning to them, as if beckoning them to enter.
Tang Qianlin glanced at Ni Xiaowan and Li Yunfan, leaned over and rushed towards the bone forest.
Because Ma Yanqing and the others were worried that their location would be exposed, they had already extinguished the torches and flashlights, so they couldn't see anything except for hearing a rush of footsteps.
However, Ma Yanqing reacted very quickly, and hurriedly shouted: "Tang Qianlin! ”
After saying that, Ma Yanqing rolled to the side, avoiding the sharp arrows that came again, but there was no response in the dark.
"Lord Wang, what should I do?" Ma Yanqing's subordinate asked in a low voice.
Ma Yanqing frowned: "Let's wait and see, we can only wait." ”
Besides, Tang Qianlin and the three of them, who ran into the bone forest, ran with the young man in front of them for a while, and finally ran out of the bone forest, as soon as they came out of the bone forest, the three of them stopped their steps, and looked at everything in front of them dumbfounded,—— in front of them stood more than a dozen men and women, of different ages, the oldest looked like more than sixty, and the youngest was only seven or eight years old.
Some of these people are dark-skinned, some are pale-skinned, some have only one arm, and some have their heads tilted to the left shoulder, and they are a bunch of freaks.
At this moment, a man wearing a black mask, with an eagle's head engraved on the mask, and a sacrificial soldier's skin armor, walked out of the bone forest, carrying a quiver, a short-handled straight knife at his waist, and a longbow in his hand.
There is no doubt that this is the archer who once attacked Tang Qianlin and the others.
At this time, a person walked through the group of freaks and walked to Tang Qianlin.
Through the faint light, Li Yunfan saw clearly that it was Zhang Liankai, and stepped forward and said, "Liankai? ”
Zhang Liankai looked at him expressionlessly: "Did you see it?" This is the truth you want. ”
The archer stepped forward and said, "For the time being, you can keep Ma Yanqing and them out, there are not many people left of them, and they shouldn't dare to come in easily." ”
Li Yunfan asked: "Lian Kai, what's going on?" ”
Zhang Liankai walked inside: "Come with me." ”
When Zhang Liankai walked inside, the group of weirdos dodged both sides and let Tang Qianlin and the others pass by.
After walking towards the depths of the cave for a while, Tang Qianlin saw a huge deep well, and there were several coffins scattered around the deep well, and human skeletons were scattered around the coffins.
At the back of the well, there was a blood-stained altar with several blood-red candles lit on the altar.
Tang Qianlin looked around: "What the hell is going on?" ”
"This is the burial ground, and this well leads to hell." Zhang Liankai stood in front of the well and said, "I was born here. ”
Everyone was still very puzzled, and Li Yunfan stepped forward: "Lian Kai, you make it clear, what happened?" ”
Zhang Liankai was silent, and at this time, a voice came from the darkness: "We can't start from the beginning." ”
Everyone looked at the source of the sound, and saw Zhou Yu slowly walking out of there with a lantern.
Tang Qianlin frowned and said, "Wednesday Yu? Sure enough, you have something to do with it all. ”
"You're not the first people to come here in search of the truth." Wednesday Yu placed the lantern on the altar, "According to the rules, I ask you, do you want to hear the truth now?" Or do you want to hear a story? ”
Li Yunfan looked at Zhang Liankai who was silent next to him: "Liankai? ”
Ni Xiaowan stepped forward and said, "Of course you have to listen to the truth, the story can be made up." ”
Tang Qianlin said: "I choose to listen to the story. ”
Wednesday Yu raised his eyes and looked at Tang Qianlin: "Why?" ”
Tang Qianlin said: "I have already seen the truth. ”
Wednesday Yu smiled: "Yes, the truth may also be fictional, but the story is not necessarily false......"
After Wednesday Yu finished speaking, he stood there and laughed dryly.
The moment the laughter of Zhou Yu came out of the bone forest, the subordinates next to Ma Yanqing aimed their guns at him and put the muzzle of the gun against the back of his head.
Ma Yanqing said angrily: "What are you doing? ”
As soon as the words fell, the firelight lit up, and Ma Yanqing looked at Feng Zhenyuan, who lit the torch, and walked to him.
At the same time, the other three remaining subordinates also aimed at Ma Yanqing with guns.
"Feng Zhenyuan! Do you want to rebel? After saying that, Ma Yanqing realized something again, "You ......"
When the gun rang out, Ma Yanqing was shocked, and found that he had not been shot, and when he turned his head to look, he found that it was his four subordinates who shot at each other and fell to the ground and died.
Ma Yanqing knew that Feng Zhenyuan used the heart control technique, but why did he do it? Who the hell is he?
Thinking of this, Ma Yanqing raised his hand and attacked Feng Zhenyuan, deciding to restrain this blind man first.
Who knew that Feng Zhenyuan easily dodged his blow, and a bamboo stick popped out of his sleeve, holding it in his hand and aiming it at Ma Yanqing's throat.
"Lord Wang." Feng Zhenyuan finally spoke, "Don't you want to know the secret of the leopard slave?" Let's go, I'll take you. ”