Volume 2 Jade Void Lotus Chapter 23 The Phantom in the Cave
The thing was running so fast that before I could see what it was, it scurried into the depths of the cavern and disappeared.
I wiped the sweat beads on my head, it turned out that it was U Yingna who followed, and lit a fire at the moment of crisis, although the light was very weak, but I could vaguely recognize the surrounding environment, I never expected that this place was so big, and there were more than five or six zhang horizontally and vertically, like a large stone room, but there were many forks in the road further down, and the black shadow just now fled along one of the roads. Of course, maybe it was still watching me in the dark, thinking that it was extremely fast, I immediately raised my vigilance, it would not be good if it suddenly came out to make trouble, the surroundings were quiet, there was no movement at all, I quickly pulled U Yingna backwards and retreated.
When the bonfire was lit again, and Da Zhuang was sleeping deeply, I kicked him twice and said angrily, "Why did you fall asleep again during the vigil?" ”
Da Zhuang rubbed his sleepy eyes and yawned, "I don't know, I fell asleep in a daze, nothing big happened!" ”
"We almost didn't get eaten!" When Da Zhuang heard me say this, he immediately became energetic, I told him in detail what had just happened, Da Zhuang stood up and pulled out the keel knife, "Then, what are you waiting for, it's not over if you kill it." ”
I looked at Hua Bo and said, "No, Hua Bo is weak now, and he still needs to rest, if we leave, I'm afraid he will be in danger; Besides, there are no fingers in the cave, and the situation is not clear, so we can't rush in. ”
Da Zhuang said: "You said that you saw a pair of eyeballs walking towards you, and then ran away in an instant, it should be a leopard or a wolf again, but I am not afraid of these beasts." ”
"That's right." Da Zhuang and I set our sights on U Yingna.
"That's not a beast, it's not a beast." U Yingna muttered, her eyes a little straight, her voice muttering, small and almost inaudible, as if she thought of something but didn't say it.
I hurriedly asked, "It's not a beast, but what the hell is it...... What the hell is it? Do you know that? ”
Wu Ying Namu shook his head, and said after a while: "I didn't see what it was, but, but here...... There will be no beasts here, there shouldn't be anything alive here, yes, nothing will live! At the end, her voice was a little harsh.
"What do you mean? Is it rare that we are not alive either? I lowered my voice and shouted at her, feeling a little scary, and a cold wind was blowing down my spine.
Da Zhuang also craned his neck and looked back......
But Uyingna lowered her head and didn't squeak for a long time.
I couldn't help but provoke: "Miss Wu, what do you know?" Why don't you say it? The atmosphere at the moment was a little awkward, and no one even spoke for a long time, "Da Zhuang, aren't you usually very capable, speak!" ”
Da Zhuang looked at me, "This, this is the matter...... Uh, I think ......"
"I don't really know, it's just that I feel like this, I can't remember." Uyna said suddenly hoarsely, holding her head, trying to think about it, but I always felt that she was just trying to hide her abnormal behavior.
Da Zhuang hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed her wrist and said, "The pulse is very messy, don't think about it if you can't think about it, I believe in you, you can sleep peacefully for a while!" As he spoke, he patted Wu Yingna, turned to me and said, "Let's keep a night together tonight, if there is really anything unclean, it can't escape my keel knife." ”
I sighed, it was the only way, and after U Yingna fell asleep, I whispered to Da Zhuang why he believed in Wu Yingna, I always felt that there was a problem here.
Da Zhuang didn't come out of nowhere, but she saved us, and Hua Bo, I don't think it will be a bad person.
I said don't judge people by their appearance, looking at her eyes like your little flower is mixed with personal feelings. Da Zhuang assured that absolutely not.
But fortunately, we waited until dawn, nothing strange happened, and when Warber woke up, we asked him how he felt, and he said that he was fine, but it was caused by altitude sickness, poor breathing, and it was not a disease that came and went quickly. Seeing that Uyingna was still asleep, her mouth kept repeating an incomprehensible dream talk.
I told Warber about what had happened last night and Uyingna's unusual reaction.
After hearing this, Hua Bo walked up to Uyingna's side, cut her pulse, and said: "The poison of this man-eating poison flower has not been completely eliminated, her mind has been damaged somewhat, if she tries to think about certain things, it will make her illness worse, and she may even be delirious or insane." ”
When I heard Hua Bo say this, I was a little relieved, at least Uyingna was not pretending, and some things seemed to be really unrememberable.
At this moment, Hua Bo's eyes were staring at something, and he saw that he reached out and took off the bracelet from Uyingna's wrist, which was a bracelet made of teeth, broken bones and shells, which looked very primitive, and there was absolutely no girl in the Central Plains who would carry this.
Da Zhuang leaned up and looked at it, and said, "What is this?" It doesn't look like anything valuable. ”
I was puzzled, too, but Warber didn't say anything, just carefully untied a large, dirty bead from the bracelet.
"Master, Master, other girls' objects, just look at it, if you demolish it, it's not appropriate......" Da Zhuang froze in the middle of his words, his eyes lit up, and the whole cave lit up a little, it turned out that Hua Bo wiped off the dust on the bead, and the bead immediately became shining.
"It's important to save people, I can't care so much!" After Hua Bo finished speaking, he picked up a stone and smashed the bead with a "bang".
Me: "Oops! I couldn't help but scream out, Da Zhuang's eyes almost didn't fall out, he couldn't stop swallowing his saliva, and said, "Master, what kind of treasure is this, why did you smash it before I got started?" Oops! ”
Hua Bo didn't say anything, just gave Wu Yingna the beads that had become broken pieces, and fed her a few sips of water, and later Hua Bo explained that this bead is a "mirror pearl", big and bright, produced in Tibet, people can turn poison after taking it, and there is a calming eye, and the soul is calm.
According to legend, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had one, but if it was the treasure of the palace, Hua Bo had actually only seen a record of it in the book, but he didn't expect to see it on such an inconspicuous bracelet.
After Wu Yingna took the mirror pearl, she woke up after a while, and she seemed to be really sober, seeing that we were all staring at her, she suddenly blushed, Hua Bo was worried that she would think too much, and hurriedly said: "Miss Wu Yingna, the flower poison in your body has not been removed, and you have been asleep, how do you feel at this time?" ”
Wu Yingna shook her head and said a little tiredly: "It's okay, my head doesn't hurt anymore, but I'm a little tired, it doesn't matter." ”
Hua Bo nodded and said: "You have been depleting your vitality to suppress the flower poison, you will be tired, just now in order to understand the poison on your body, I took the mirror pearl in your hand, I hope the girl doesn't mind." ”
U Yingna nodded, "It's okay, it's just a bead, thank you Mr. for coming to the rescue." ”
I was secretly surprised, I didn't expect this little girl to be young, but generous, I estimated that this baby on the market is worth a hundred taels, she actually understated that it was just a bead, and her eyes didn't blink! I couldn't help but ask: "Miss Wu, one of our companions has also been poisoned, I think this bead can cure all kinds of poisons, can you sell me one, the price is easy to say." ”
Wu Yingna said with a sad face: "I only have this one." ”
Da Zhuang saw that I didn't give up, and rushed to relieve the siege: "You're talking about Xia Ti, let's find someone first." ”
Hua Bo patted me on the shoulder, said: "Miss Wu is right, this thing is extremely rare, when I was at the peak of the dynasty, Tubo in order to show his submission to the Han Dynasty, specially paid tribute to Emperor Wu, it is rumored that after the death of Emperor Wu, this jewel is also missing, legend has it can bring people back to life, someone saw a coiled dragon flying in front of the palace, and it was this mirror pearl in his mouth, so the folk have Emperor Wu resurrected and ascended to heaven, and returned to heaven to be the generalissimoThese things are inherently accessible but not sought-after. ”
Da Zhuang couldn't close his mouth when he heard it, swallowed his saliva and said, "Sister Yingna, is it really gone?" Or you, you look for it again? ”
Uyingna shook her head with a smile, and the atmosphere became a little awkward.
Hua Bo pointed to the depths of the cave and said, "Let's go inside while it's dawn." ”
That's right, remembering what happened last night, Da Zhuang and I both nodded.
There must have been something strange in this cave, we walked in twenty or so steps, and we arrived at the place I came to last night, it was very dark, but I could vaguely see some, this cave was suddenly a lot more spacious, it was a natural large stone cave, the cave wall was wet, the hand was not as cold as imagined, but warm, and there were five forks in the road ahead, and it was pitch black inside, and nothing could be seen, and the eyes of last night escaped from one of the forks.
Da Zhuang asked angrily: "Yang Zi, what did you kid do here last night?" Look at the earth. He pointed to the ground.
I looked down and was taken aback, there was a thin layer of dust on the ground, similar to the color of the surrounding cave walls, gray-brown, very inconspicuous, but if I looked closely, it was still easy to identify the dense footprints on it, it was too weird, Wu Yingna and I did go here last night, but it was only a short stay, it was impossible to leave so many footprints, and if you look closely at these footprints, they are different, and hurriedly said: "What's the matter?" This...... It's not my footprints. ”