Chapter 106: Yin Fire Lintoe Gold (I)
Tang Qianlin's speculation on the "Ten Thousand Beasts of Kyushu" made everyone, especially Ye Da, feel very reasonable.
If he claims to have never really explored the Northeast in the past, why do they have so many strange creatures in an atlas that dates back hundreds of years?
The only explanation is that the hunters have been here hundreds of years ago, but they have never found the Shaman's Spirit Palace.
And what about the lonely? What is the relationship between the lonely, sewing thousands of corpses, and hunting? It seems that there are lone people in every organization in the world, and what is the ultimate goal of this organization under the banner of doing the right thing for heaven?
Li Yunfan stared at the eight-eyed puppet spider and said, "Now is not the time to discuss this, move on." ”
Tang Qianlin got up and told everyone: "It's better to move forward in the previous formation, but to save bullets, ammunition is limited, and you can't strafe every time there is an emergency." ”
Everyone knew this, but if there was another giant spider coming at them, whoever would pull the trigger and dump all the bullets in the magazine, and besides, it was a maze, and they didn't even find a way to get out, and now they just scurried around like headless flies.
An Ran followed behind Tang Qianlin and asked, "What is this spider afraid of?" ”
Tang Qianlin said: "All creatures that move in the shadows, except for a few creatures that can produce light and heat themselves, most of the others are afraid of fire and light, at least my experience is like this, and the book "Kyushu Ten Thousand Beasts Map" is also recorded like this. ”
The team moving forward did not notice that several eight-eyed puppet spiders were crawling above their heads on top of the spider that had been killed earlier, slowly spitting out spider silk and sticking to the spider's corpse......
Li Yunfan, who was in charge of the break, basically had to turn around and take a look after walking a few steps, whether it was a person or an animal, he knew very well that a sudden attack from behind was the best way to succeed.
After walking for a while, Li Yunfan heard a faint voice behind him, he raised his hand and touched Ni Xiaowan in front of him, Ni Xiaowan understood, patted Ye Da in front of him on the shoulder, and the team then stopped.
Tang Qianlin turned his head and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Li Yunfan shone a flashlight behind him and said, "I heard a sound, like something crawling." ”
At this moment, everyone heard the sound like a fork crossing the plate again, everyone immediately covered their ears, Li Yunfan endured the discomfort, looked closely at the rear, and when the flashlight swept over the right side of the trench, he saw a spider pounce directly.
"Get out of the way!" Li Yunfan pushed Ni Xiaowan away, and while avoiding it himself, he pulled the trigger towards the eight-eyed puppet spider that pounced.
After the bullet hit the spider, the spider did not stop and continued to pounce on him.
"Run!" Tang Qianlin shouted in front, and then led everyone to rush forward.
Li Yunfan ran for a while, stopped for a while, and shot at the spider behind him with a gun, trying to kill the thing, but the spider was not like before, and fell to the ground and died after being hit by a bullet, but instead maintained a uniform speed to chase them.
After Tang Qianlin led the team to the fork in the road in front, he found that there was also an eight-eyed puppet spider parked at the fork on the left.
"Right!" Tang Qianlin led the team towards the ditch on the right, and ran until he reached the fork of the next ditch, and found that there was a spider waiting there on the right.
Tang Qianlin motioned to An Ran to put down the gun: "Don't waste bullets!" This way! ”
The strange thing was that the spider didn't seem to be trying to attack them at all, and every time it bumped into them head-on, it just turned around and left, hiding into the darkness, which made Tang Qianlin very puzzled.
When he reached another fork in the road, Tang Qianlin faced the spider on the right and raised the lower phoenix spear.
An Ran, who was sprinting, bumped into him and asked, "Why don't you leave?" ”
Tang Qianlin looked at the spider that had just disappeared into the darkness and said, "Something is wrong, these spiders don't seem to want to attack us. ”
Ye Da in the rear said at this time: "I found the mark you made before, and we went around again." ”
Li Yunfan looked around and found the mark he had made: "Yes, we did come back." ”
Yi Mochen looked around with a gun and said, "It seems that this group of spiders is taking us in circles." ”
Tang Qianlin said: "That's right, every time we want to take the right road, the spider will block there, in order to avoid the spider, I will subconsciously take another way, in this way, according to the plan of this group of monsters, constantly circle in the maze, these things are also afraid of bullets, so, they want us to run exhausted and then pounce on it, enjoy a big meal." ”
Li Yunfan stared at the spider behind him that was gradually approaching, but still kept a distance from him, and said, "I have been following one behind me, and I can't kill it no matter how I fight." ”
Tang Qianlin walked to the back of the team, stood with Li Yunfan, looked at the spider blocking the trench behind, observed for a while, and said, "I guess it should be the one we killed earlier." ”
Li Yunfan immediately understood, and looked up at the top of the cave: "In other words, the other eight-eyed puppet spiders controlled the dead spiders with spider silk and chased us in their dresses. ”
Tang Qianlin nodded: "Yes, you can still waste our ammunition, don't worry about that thing, follow me on." ”
Tang Qianlin turned around and walked towards the next fork, while observing, only moving towards the position where he had not left a mark, and after going around for another ten or so minutes, Tang Qianlin found that those spiders had changed their strategy and began to surround them in the wrong direction.
Tang Qianlin stopped and said, "This group of spiders has wisdom, it's not that simple. ”
An Ran asked, "What do you say?" ”
Tang Qianlin said: "Previously, spiders would block the right road, making us move in the wrong direction, causing us to keep going in circles. When we found out about this, the eight-eyed puppet spiders changed their tactics and began to surround us in the wrong direction, and if I hadn't found the good marks beforehand, I am afraid that they would have really thought that it was the right direction, rushed forward, and went back in circles. ”
An Ran looked around, and got goosebumps again: "These things seem to be smarter than people." ”
Tang Qianlin said: "It seems that you can only use a stupid way, follow me, as long as you find a place to make a mark, you will immediately turn around." ”
Tang Qianlin's method really worked, and the tired people followed him and groped in the maze for about an hour and a half, and finally came to the exit of the maze.
The crowd looked at the brazier about fifty meters away from the exit, but it was empty.
The light of the brazier illuminated only a few square meters of its own position, and it was pitch black in the distance.
"Flares." Tang Qianlin took the flare from Li Yunfan's hand and fired a shot at the upper end of the exit.
The flares flew to the top, shining and then falling slowly, but the light of the flares scattered but did not illuminate anything, as if there was nothing but the brazier outside the exit of the labyrinth.
"What the is this place?" Yi Mochen cautiously walked out of the trench, glanced out, and shone a flashlight on the ground outside, and found that it was all sand.
Li Yunfan stepped forward and stepped lightly with his foot, while Ye Da reached out and grabbed a handful of sand.
Li Yunfan looked at the sand leaking out of Ye Da's fingers: "It's all sand, like a desert." ”
An Ran frowned: "Underground desert? And it's pitch black. ”
Tang Qianlin said: "You stand here and don't move, I'll go over and take a look." ”
Li Yunfan stopped him: "No, it's too dangerous for you to be alone, I'll go with you." ”
Tang Qianlin nodded: "I'm in charge of the left front, you are in charge of the right front, and the rest of the people are resting in place, Ye Da, you help us keep an eye on the back." ”
After Tang Qianlin finished speaking, Yi Mochen sat on the ground: "I'm tired, I have long wanted to rest." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, Yi Mochen saw Ni Xiaowan and An Ran looking at him with contempt.
Yi Mochen said: "Why are you looking at me like this?" I also listened to Old Don, and he said let's rest. ”
An Ran said: "Are you also a man?" ”
Yi Mochen stood up: "Then what do you want me to do?" In order to act like a man in front of you, I have to grit my teeth and persevere? What a fallacy. ”
An Ran was just about to get angry, but Tang Qianlin stopped her and said, "Okay, these are all nothing, stay here with peace of mind, Yunfan and I will explore the way." ”
Tang Qianlin held the Xia Feng gun, the submachine gun on his waist and crotch, and walked towards the depths of the sand with Li Yunfan.
"Let's go to the brazier and see what's going on." Tang Qianlin led the way in front and found that it was indeed like a desert outside, all sand, but it was very flat, not like a real desert with hills.
When the two of them walked smoothly to the brazier, they found that it was a bronze brazier, and it looked very new, and there were dragon and tiger patterns around it, and the brazier was burned with a kind of cyan wood.
Li Yunfan approached the brazier, but he couldn't feel any temperature, and just when his hand was tentatively trying to get close to the flame, he was grabbed by Tang Qianlin.
Tang Qianlin said: "Don't touch it, this is a yin fire." ”
Li Yunfan frowned: "Yin fire? What is it? ”
"As the name suggests, it is the fire of the underworld, sometimes called cold fire, this kind of flame is only produced after the ice wood is burned, although the temperature cannot be felt, but in addition to copper objects, other things are close, especially living things, can instantly disappear." Tang Qianlin said as he cut off a piece of cloth with a knife and handed it to Li Yunfan, "You throw it in and try it." ”
Li Yunfan threw the cloth into the brazier, and watched the cloth disappear the moment it touched the flames.
Li Yunfan subconsciously took a step back: "What the hell is this?" ”
Tang Qianlin looked at the brazier and said, "It's the first time I've seen it, I've heard the master talk about it before, but he hasn't seen it with his own eyes." If it weren't for the lack of temperature in this fire, I wouldn't have found it. ”
Li Yunfan stared at the wood in the brazier: "Why is this wood cyan?" ”
Tang Qianlin explained: "This kind of green wood is called Bingmu, which is said to grow in extremely cold places, and there is a more mysterious saying that this kind of tree originally grew in the underworld, and some people say that it grows in a century-old cemetery, and the legend is that it can continue to burn for thousands of years. ”
Li Yunfan said: "Are those ever-bright lamps in the mausoleum also used this kind of ice wood?" ”
Tang Qianlin shook his head: "No, this kind of thing is too rare, it was originally the same as things like dragons and phoenixes, they are all legendary things." ”
As soon as he said this, Tang Qianlin noticed that something was shining golden light in the sand not far behind the brazier, and after he stepped forward and took out the thing, he exclaimed, "There is even a lintoe gold here." ”