Chapter 160: Escape from Death
Until something happened, he completely collapsed, and then gave up the idea of continuing to live. Once, he repeated the same trick and used himself as bait to try to open the passage. Just as he had expected, he felt a tremor when he was still in a sand pile at night.
This time it was a bunch of ants, and he had seen these ants and knew what kind of ants they were, so he desperately climbed to the top as soon as possible. Then I watched as the scarlet ants crawled out in the thousands, and when they swept the place, only white bones were left.
And when Hu Lao Liu looked down in despair, he found that a huge hole had formed in the place where the group of marching ants had crawled out, and he almost subconsciously jumped into it—but the next moment, he saw a lot of skeletons in the passage.
The white skeletal frame brought him back to his senses, and when he looked closely, he realized that it was not a passage.
According to Hu Lao Liu's guess, under this sea of sand, there may be a very remarkable and huge monster living there. The monster was long and thick, and never threw its entire body out of the sand.
In this guy's body, there may still be some creatures, and Hu Lao Liu doesn't know what kind of biological chain structure it is, but just an idea is enough to make his spirit, which was already fragile and almost close to collapse at that time, completely collapse.
When I heard this, Panhu and I didn't make any sounds, and we listened intently. And Hu Laoliu lowered his eyes, there was a trace of loss in his eyes, and the tenacity of his youth could still be seen on his old face.
He took a deep breath of his cigarette and said that it was not just the promise of this journey that broke in his heart at the time.
"That feeling...... Tsk, what should I say, maybe I'm stupid, my brain is not smart, I have been good at since I was a child, I only have a tree climber, and I can climb faster than anyone else than I climb a tree.
And when I grew up, I started to climb mountains, and I was the fastest climber. In this way, I climbed and crawled farther and farther along the way, and finally embarked on the road of exploration.
For me, adventure is almost everything, I use everything I learn in the expedition to the next expedition, and I take every success back as my own medal.
When the people saw me return from a dangerous place...... You know, they don't just have happy faces, you see everything clearly when you're on it. Some people really worship you and are really happy that you can come back safe and sound, but some people may not be really happy. ”
Panhu and I didn't know how to answer, and I felt that what we could do for Hu Lao Liu was to listen quietly. He also seemed to want to stabilize his emotions as much as possible, and he smoked one puff after another, almost never broken, and the two fingers holding the cigarette were already yellowed.
"I knew that I was going to die, that all the ways to live had been sealed, and that the last glimmer of hope I saw was just a mirage of self-deception...... The feeling at the time was that the reality was only going to get more brutal from now on.
I failed, completely lost to Queen Myeong's realm, I shouldn't have challenged her authority, and in her eyes, I'm not a challenger, it's just ...... It is just one of the bones of countless corpses buried in this basin.
When this feeling is full of this kind of heart, you will feel that all the grandiose ambitions are so ridiculous. However, it was at this time that a miracle happened - perhaps, God really saved my life. ”
Hu Lao Liu put the cigarette in his hand on the butt of the cigarette before putting it down, sighed deeply, and looked very emotional. At that time, Hu Lao Liu was almost ready to lie in the cave and wait to be starved to death, unwilling and without the strength to struggle again.
However, at this time, there was a person who came to Hu Laoliu's side, and this person was the underground burial master who rescued Hu Laoliu from this basin.
Hu Lao Liu asked him why he was here, and the underground burial master told Hu Lao Liu that he was here to save him. It turned out that at that time, the underground burial master floated from the sea to the beach near Luofeng Town for some reason, and the kind residents of Luofeng Town rescued him.
And when he came up to save him, the underground burial master wanted to thank these residents, and then he found that many residents of Luofeng Town were worried about the safety of one person, and this person was Hu Lao Liu. At that time, Hu Lao Liu said that he would come back in half a month.
But, half a month has passed, a month has passed, two months have passed, three months have passed, three months have passed.
Hu Lao Liu didn't come back, and kept shouting, hoping that Hu Lao Liu could bring back a lot of Queen Mingjing's treasures in bags, and the villagers gradually regained their senses from their fanatical state.
And when they came back to their senses and looked at the problem again, they realized that something was wrong—they realized that the all-powerful adventure king Hu Lao Liu in their eyes might have died like other adventurers in the Mingjing Kingdom who challenged Queen Mingjing.
At that time, Hu Lao Liu was almost the pride of Luofeng Town, not only because he did something that shocked the whole country, but also because he was really a righteous person. After Hu Lao Liu made money, a lot of it was used to support the town and the helpless old people in the town.
So when people knew that Hu Laoliu might have been killed, most of them were depressed at the mention of this matter, and some poor old people who had received Hu Laoliu's help wept on the spot. So, after learning about this, the underground burial master came to this basin.
But Hu Lao Liu was already hungry and dying at that time, and in the past three months, he has been completely worn out of all his mental power by this fatal danger, and his mind is only full of negative emotions, and the marquee of life is constantly playing back in front of his eyes.
However, the next burial master made a move that Hu Lao Liu did not expect - he cut off one of his arms, and then gave it to Hu Lao Liu to eat. Moreover, the longer Hu Lao Liu stayed with this underground burial master, the more he could discover his peculiarities.
This man is able to discern the celestial phenomena and can discern the way out through various miraculous methods. Unlike himself, who can only run blindly, this underground burial master has been calculating until finally, he has made a plan.
He said that as long as he followed this plan, he would definitely be able to leave the basin smoothly. Hu Laoliu was already 100% trusting of this underground burial master at that time, and his self-confidence also rebounded little by little. With a direction to work towards, everything is no longer so empty.
In the end, after a full four months, Hu Laoliu, who was thin and thin, helped the underground burial master who had lost one arm and returned alive from the core area of Baiqun Mountain. But this time, people didn't cheer, they just looked at Hu Lao Liu quietly, with sadness and sadness on their faces.
Hu Lao Liu pulled the corners of his mouth, saying that when he came back from Baiqun Mountain, it should be the most embarrassing time in his life. After listening to Hu Laoliu's memories of Queen Mingjing of Baiqun Mountain, I was also very emotional, thinking that Hu Laoliu was a real person.
This life is a lot of turmoil, although after that, Hu Lao Liu said that he gave up the expedition and has been working in Luofeng Town to support his family. But no matter what, I think this thrilling life is still very meaningful.
On the other hand, after listening to Hu Laoliu's words, I also have a deeper understanding of the core area of the White Mountains. I didn't expect there to be a basin desert there, which is very difficult. First of all, man is very powerless in the desert.
In addition, this time I didn't set out on my own, but with a group of people. There is great power in numbers, indeed, but the premise is that everyone has to work hard in one place, and it is better to do their own thing.
It seems that after going back, it is still necessary to have a good ideological education with Ling Xiao Hongyue and them. The desert is not a place to play around, if you can't get it right, like Hu Lao Liu, it will become a situation where there is no return, I feel a headache when I think about it.
In fact, how good my idea was at the beginning, I just took this group of rich young masters and young ladies around casually, but who knew that the eldest young master of this rich family had actually become my apprentice, and it was impossible to fool others, and Hongyue's temper was stubborn.
To persuade her to leave the team halfway, I feel that it is basically unreliable, as far as her aunt's character, if she really doesn't want to do it, I guess she would have already screamed and left by herself, she almost died a few days ago and she didn't want to leave, I guess she wants to do it all the time.
After thinking about it for a while, I also put forward my own idea with Hu Laoliu, but I said that we were not looking for Queen Mingjing's Mingjing Kingdom, but to find an ancient tomb. Hu Lao Liu raised his eyebrows, saying that he also knew something about the ancient tombs, and he had heard it when he traveled around the country.
That is to say...... Are you going to form a group to become tomb robbers? Hu Lao Liu looked at me, then at Panhu, and then said.
I smiled awkwardly, and said that was roughly what it meant, but it was not only me and Panhu who set off, but also a few companions. Hu Lao Liu nodded, thought thoughtfully for a moment, and then looked at me and said, And then according to you, this ancient tomb is in the White Mountains?
I said yes, at least the entrance should be in the heart of the White Mountains. The reason why I also told Hu Laoliu about the hidden mountain veins again. This hidden mountain leyline must be entered from the beginning, and according to the results I measured, it shows that the source of this leyline is in the core area of the White Mountains.
Hu Lao Liu nodded frequently when he listened, and then said that he understood, what I mean is that I hope he can take us into the White Mountains, and then bypass those detours that are not necessary, right?
I smiled lightly and said that's it, I don't know if the old-timers are willing to help with this. Hu Lao Liu said that there was nothing to help, but now he didn't know if there was one thing he should tell us.
I was stunned, and immediately said that the old-timers, you just have to say something, don't worry. Hu Lao Liu slowly swept Pan Hu and me from left to right, and said, "I remember that the underground burial master I met a few decades ago told me that there is an imperial mausoleum in the core area of Baiqun Mountain, that is, where Queen Mingjing's Mingjing Kingdom is located. ”
“……”
I don't know what to do, Hu Lao Liu's next sentence, I can already guess it, gradually my back became stiff, and cold sweat oozed from the palms of my hands.
"And this imperial mausoleum needs to follow this dragon vein called the hidden mountain vein to enter, and this ancient tomb ...... It belongs to a man called Marshal Iwatsu. ”