I thought that this trip to explore the ancient castle was just to accompany Sheng Shiyao to inspect the terrain, but I didn't expect to see the giant mural of the black-winged bat here, which was really unexpected. It is enough to prove that we made a mistake in this trip to the desert.

This time I have to re-examine this ancient castle, there is no such coincidence in the world, my grandmother's private Jinpa, the tattoo on Wong Tai Sin's arm, and then the mural on the whole wall here, all of which are black-winged bats, and it is impossible to say that there is no connection between the three.

Assuming that the previous inference was correct, the people surnamed Huang would have this black-winged bat pattern tattooed on their bodies, then now this pattern also appears in this ancient castle, which means that this ancient castle is related to the Huang family, and it is very likely to be the home of a certain patriarch of the Huang family. But according to the records of those murals in the hall just now, the history of this ancient castle should be very long, and it has even experienced wars, and there is a wizard with huge power, could it be that the Huang family has been passed down for hundreds or even thousands of years?

It's staggering!

"No, those eyes seem to be moving!" Sheng Shiyao suddenly reminded me, I was shocked, and I looked up to take a closer look, and sure enough, I saw that the red eyes on the bat mural were flashing and moving. What's going on? How can an artificially carved mural be eye-rolling?

Sheng Shiyao grabbed me and retreated sharply, "It's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, let's go out immediately." As soon as the words fell, there was a crisp sound of "pop" in the air, and I immediately saw that something rolled down from the eyes of the original black-winged bat, and then something seemed to be drilled out of it. Blood red! It turned out that the red eyes of the bat we saw just now were because they were covered with a layer of transparent crystal, and the red snake burrowed into them and dyed the lens red.

"Don't look, let's go!" There was a lot of tension in Sheng Shiyao's voice, because I could hear it too, and there was a rustle all around us. When the two of them ran out of the stone gate, they were both shocked, and under the dust of the hall outside, something was surging, and sometimes it would arch up and crawl for a while, and then arch again, and not only in one place, but in many dense places. What is under the sand, we have all guessed, poisonous snakes in the desert, is the most common animal, they usually burrow under the sand and do not move, only when they are foraging for food.

Apparently, they smelled the food and came out to feed.

Looking at the surging sand, how dare I get off my feet, I looked back and exclaimed, "Oh no, the red snake is coming." And there were not only two, but it seemed that from the eyes of the bat, they were constantly crawling out, and from the bright red color, it was clear that they must be poisonous snakes. When we came in before, we didn't find snakes, it seemed that they were all hiding in the middle of the stone wall, but now they are all alarmed and come out of the nest.

How is it good that the road ahead is not feasible, and there are pursuers behind?

Sheng Shiyao ordered in a deep voice: "Find a rope and tie the trousers tightly!" But he dodged somewhere, and kicked over an object, making a lot of noise, and I looked at it with a strip of cloth to tie my trousers, and found that it seemed to be a cabinet, or wood, and when he kicked it like this, it all fell apart. He bent down to get it, and suddenly a multicolored snake came out of the sand and flew straight towards his arm, and I shouted, "Be careful! But seeing that his face was calm, he pinched the seven inches of the snake with his backhand, and the next second the snake was thrown by him on the sand, motionless, and was dead.

A few planks were already in his hands, and he quickly returned to me, "Follow me." As he spoke, he threw a plank on the sand, grabbed my hand and jumped on it, and then another one was thrown. I fully understood the meaning of his move, and I just grabbed his hand tightly, and when he threw it, I jumped on the board in sync with him, and I could feel the snake arching under the board, and even the snake's head was desperately burrowing out around the board, just a few inches away from our feet.

The planks are limited, and after skipping a while, Sheng Shiyao's hands are already empty, and we are at least seven or eight meters away from the gate of the ancient castle, and the snakes are no longer only staying under the sand, they have all drilled out of the surface, relatively speaking, there are fewer snakes on the way to the exit. Sheng Shiyao leaned over and whispered: "Don't look down, don't care about anything, run out in one go, and use the shadow moon if necessary." ”

As soon as I was about to nod, I felt that my waist was pushed hard, and the person rushed forward, and as soon as my foot stepped into the sand, I felt strange, I didn't dare to look down, listened to Sheng Shiyao's words, and ran forward desperately, five meters, four meters, three meters, two meters...... After crossing the greenery, I ran out for more than ten meters before I stopped, and realized that something seemed to be wrong with my left foot, and when I looked down, I saw that there was a thin snake with a flower skin wrapped around it. The snake's head was spitting out letters, and it kept making an attack posture, and I didn't even think about pulling out the shadow moon and bent down to cut it off, and the snake's head was cut off, rolled to the ground, and its feet shook it several times before the snake body wrapped around its pants fell to the ground.

Only then did I understand that the reason why Sheng Shiyao asked me to tie the trousers tightly just now was to prevent the snake from getting into the trouser tube, and there was a layer of pants outside, even if I was bitten by a snake, I could block it a little.

Wait, what about Sheng Shiyao? I turned around and saw that there was no one behind me, and he hadn't run out with me! Rushed to the gate of the castle, the green plants attacked me, and I was frightened by the shadow moon in my hand, so I retreated, at this time the sky was dark, standing at the door to see the situation clearly, I listened to it, except for the whirring wind around, I couldn't hear any movement, I shouted: "Sheng Shiyao!" ”

No one responded, and his heart began to sink, could it be that he ran out first to protect me, was bitten by a poisonous snake inside, and then ......

Before the sadness could come to me, I took a deep breath and tried to rush back again, with only one thought: he must not be left alone. Just as I was about to step into the door, I suddenly heard a call from above me: "Tiny! "I looked up, and in the darkness, I seemed to see a figure on the top of the ancient castle, slowly sliding down, and when I got closer, I saw clearly, it was Sheng Shiyao!

I excitedly shouted to him, "Are you alright?" Instead of answering me, he slipped to the edge of the top of the fort and frowned condescendingly and asked, "Why are you running in when you run out?" Looking for death? Although the words were not good, I didn't mind, and I wanted to open my mouth to explain, but he interrupted me again: "Think I'm in there? Worried about me? ”

I would like to say not only worry, but also fear and trepidation. He didn't wait for me to answer, just whispered, "Get out of the way, I'm going to jump." I hurriedly took a few steps back, out of the front of the castle, and used Shadow Moon to force the greenery back a few meters so that he wouldn't be scratched by them when he jumped.

At a distance of more than two meters, he jumped down easily, and I intuitively looked at his feet, found that there seemed to be a hole in the trouser tube, and asked, "You were bitten by a snake?" He winked, "Let's get out of here first." ”

I saw that his face was the same, not like he had been poisoned, but as soon as he helped me out of the castle, I immediately thought of a way to climb to the top of the castle. In a flash, it was already dark, and we looked at the murals in the castle, but we didn't know how fast time passed, but an afternoon had passed. As soon as it gets dark, the wind is stronger, and the weather becomes colder, and when you look back after being dozens of meters away from the castle, you only feel that this castle is gloomy and terrifying.

Thinking of something, I couldn't help but feel strange, and asked Sheng Shiyao next to me: "The door of the ancient castle is not closed, why didn't those poisonous snakes chase out?" "Thinking back to the thrilling scene just now, it seems that when I ran out of the gate, no snake came after me, except for the one that was wrapped around my feet. I only heard Sheng Shiyao say: "It's because those vine-like green creatures, they are the nemesis of the red flower snake, and the castle is surrounded by this kind of vine, just to prevent poisonous snakes from swimming out and harming people." ”

"You mean...... Are the green creatures artificially planted? ”

Sheng Shiyao narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Not only them, but the group of snakes in the ancient castle are also raised by people, in order to protect that ruins. There should be a lot of weird and terrifying legends of this ancient castle in the ancient town, otherwise it is so close, how can no one come to visit it, and let it be covered by sand and dust. ”

Immediately realized that some people didn't want the castle to be explored, so they raised the group of poisonous snakes in it, and then they were afraid that the poisonous snakes would swim out and harm people, so they raised the kind of vines that would attack people around the castle to prevent the poisonous snakes from breaking. I believe that after the average person finds that the plant will also attack people, they feel that this castle is too weird, and they dare not enter rashly, if there are brave people, and then encounter the poisonous snake inside, they will not die and be injured, which is equivalent to the ancient castle set up double protection, and the people who will do this, except for the people in the ancient town, who else can there be?

It seems that the Huang family is really hidden among the residents of the ancient town, and I don't know how Zhou Tong heard about it.

My eyes suddenly flashed, as if I saw a light on Sheng Shiyao's chest, and I pointed to his chest and asked, "Why are you shining there?" When he heard this, he reached into his arms and touched a transparent bead that looked like a pearl of the night, and I asked in surprise, "Where did this come from?" ”

"It was found on the top of the castle, and it was embedded in a closed layer at the top, just to get this bead out of time."

"Is it the Pearl of the Night?"

He shook his head, "No, it's just a special material bead with a fluorescent substance in it, so it will shine when you look at it." It can also be said that this is an imitation of the pearl of the night. ”

I secretly felt strange, why was there an imitation night pearl on the top of the ancient castle? Used for lighting? The green light was too dim. It was late, Sheng Shiyao took the beads back into his arms and rushed to the ancient town with me, there were almost no people on the streets of the ancient town at night, and the lights were not on, and when we returned to the hotel, Zhou Tong and Liu Yue were already anxiously visiting.