This place has been very bright by the firelight, only to see that the top of this stone cave is a few wooden beams, hanging high and low with countless yellow cloth, each cloth is the size of a door panel, with vermilion lacquer written on it, or some charms, anyway, I can't understand it at all. However, I don't need to know what is written above, I have guessed that this should be a ancestral hall, the name and eulogy of the ancestors are on the cloth, the higher the hanging, the higher the seniority, the pre-Qin, from the ritual system, only the ancestral hall of the prince has such regulations, it can be seen that the status of the master here is very prominent......

Suddenly there was a shaking, the originally smooth ground suddenly cracked into countless small cracks, the flames have burned down these cracks to the soles of my and Junko's feet, I must not be able to run away, in a hurry, I threw out the eagle claw hundred chain rope, the eagle claw wrapped around a lower strip of cloth, Shunzi and I quickly climbed up, and climbed up a wooden beam in one breath.

Lying on the wooden beam, we gasped in horror, and then looked down, glad that we finally picked up two small lives, where is there still a cone on the ground, it is already a sea of fire! However, this fire burns in a regular way, only lying on the wooden beam and looking down at the ground can you see it clearly, the circular fire pool in the middle extends outward eight fire dragons, and there are cracks in the ground between the fire dragons, forming several layers of concentric circles slowly turning, like a huge flame compass.

I took out the compass and compared it, and it was indeed a secret gossip here, and at this time, a road appeared in the northeast Gen position, and all around it was engulfed by fire, only this road had no fire.

I picked up the straight and pointed to the road, "Let's get to that road, this may be our only chance to live." ”

Shunzi understood, followed me to jump on the central beam, and then walked to the northeast, at the end of the road there was a two or three zhang high stone statue, but this stone man is very ugly, green fangs, eyes burst out, but like a ghost, the top of the stone statue of the cloth is the highest and largest, should be very high, perhaps this stone statue represents the ancestors of Qiangtuo.

If you look closely, there is a blood-colored figure in the middle of the forehead of this stone statue, like a coiled snake, extending five or six layers outward in a circle, and there are a few short forks outward at the end, like the light of a red sun, and like the eyelashes on the eyes of a beauty. The mark seemed familiar, but I couldn't remember it.

Just as I was trying to take a closer look, suddenly the flame compass below turned, and in an instant the road disappeared again, and the ground turned into a sea of fire again.

I panicked in my heart, and the secret path was not good, it seems that this only way of life is fleeting, and it seems that it is indeed not so simple to escape.

"Ahh Junko also exclaimed.

The more this situation is, the more you can't panic, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, I waved my hand while observing the trend of the fire compass, pretending to be calm and comforting Shunzi said: "It's not a big deal, the compass is rotating all the time, don't be afraid, let's find another way out." ”

"No, no, Brother Yang Zi, I'm not talking about that ......"

Junko's voice was trembling, and with a crying tone, I didn't think it was right, I looked up suddenly, and saw that he was pointing at the stone statue in horror, and the blood-red mark in the middle of the stone statue's forehead suddenly turned, and the stone shells fell one after another, wrapped in a moving one, it would definitely not be a living person, and when the stone shells all fell, it was clearly a ghost on the painting! Blue-faced, fanged, eyes bulging out, and dressed in a robe so red that it drips blood, the thing lunged at us. It was covered in a thick black mist, and it had already reached its front.

I almost fell, I picked up the straight, and ran back along the beam, and the straight didn't care about the leg injury, and the stumbling was not slow, but soon I reached the end of the beam, although there was no sound behind me, but I felt a cold air behind me, and when I looked back, this thing was behind me.

"It's, it's, it's too fast!"

"Junko, it looks like we're going to have to fight with this thing." I screamed and drew my dagger and threw it with all my might, "Poof! With a thud, the white blade stabbed the strange man in the chest for several inches, but it had no effect at all, and it continued to move forward, like a short sword piercing into a wooden stake.

"Fuck you ugly ghost." , Shunzi also put an arrow at that thing, but this time the force was too strong, and the leg was still injured, so he naturally stood unsteadily, although the beam was thick, it was only a foot square, and he fell off the beam with a stumble.

I hurriedly reached out to pull the straight, but there was no preparation under my feet, and I fell down with him, and it was too late to get the hundred refining ropes, not to mention the height of the beam, but to say that the fire oil burning on the ground was definitely dead.

Here is only a few steps away from the entrance of the cave, but at this time people are in the air, can not borrow strength, can only resign themselves to fate, just at the moment of the landing, suddenly grabbed a stick in his hand, this stick is very strong, will me and Shunzi outward, the momentum of the fall has also decreased a lot, I also take advantage of the momentum to the outside, can be worthy of falling at the mouth of the cave, a wheel to get up, back and forth, I and Shunzi actually did not get a drop of oil, I breathed a sigh of relief, really alive in death.

It was Zhijing who came in time, handed out the Liuhe long stick, and used sweeping, dialing, splitting, and picking...... The word "pick" rescued me and Junko, and when I looked up again, the half-human, half-ghost thing was staring at me on the wooden beam, and I didn't have time to say more, I just shouted: "Hurry up!" ”

Zhi Jing didn't ask much, pulled up the straight and carried it on his shoulder, followed me and ran down, during which I looked back many times, to make sure that the ghost-like strange man did not chase out of the big stone cave, in fact, in retrospect, what the evil ghost was, I really can't say, maybe he has been burned to death at this time, I have never believed that there are monsters to make trouble, but now seeing is believing.

After coming down, Hua Bo and Da Zhuang stepped forward to answer, and I first told Shunzi about being burned by fire oil.

Hua Bo looked at the wound of the straight and grinned, saying that this fire oil is really powerful, only a little can scorch a large piece of skin and flesh, but fortunately, I cut off the most terrible burnt meat, the rest of the burns on the leg of the straight are not too serious, just burned out some big bubbles, this kind of injury is not difficult to treat, but the recipe is more complicated, now can only use the soil method, according to local conditions, there are a lot of arborvitae growing in the cracks of the cliff when coming, Da Zhuang took a lot of leaves of the arborvitae, first wash the wound of the straight with water, Then apply the mashed arborvitae leaves to the affected area.

Hua Bo said that it would be better if he could add some rhubarb, but now it can only be like this, and it is estimated that it will be fine to change the medicine twice a day.

After that, I told everyone everything that Junko had experienced in detail, and no one could tell what the black marks in the cave were, but these marks were different, irregular, not like some kind of special mark, and what I saw and heard in the Huoyou Ancestral Hall was even more difficult to fathom, somehow, as soon as I closed my eyes, I remembered the sun mark on the top of the ghost's head.

Hua Bo said that he had been able to determine that this was the place where the people of Guqiang Tuo lived, and that the rest would be unraveled slowly.

Da Zhuang disagreed, and said, "How can people live in caves? That's too primitive, isn't it? ”

Zhijing explained: "Many small countries in the Western Regions are like this, hundreds of years ago, even some large tribes lived in caves, until General Huo Quzhi came, gradually taught people the technology of building houses and smelting iron, and many small tribes still retain their original appearance because they are relatively closed. ”

Seeing that there was nothing to discover, everyone continued to move forward, Da Zhuang picked up the straight, walked in the end, the straight can only walk barefoot, can not go too fast, even so, it is only half an hour of effort, the front suddenly seems to be no road, approaching only to find that this is an absolutely huge project.

In front of you is a stone staircase with two ends of the staircase that meets the two walls of the canyon. Looking upwards but there is no end in sight, this scale, even the Dragon Tower Treasure Hall of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty is not as good as what if!

Everyone walked up the stone steps, and after walking a full stick of incense, they looked up and felt that the top of the canyon was also above their heads, and all the caves on the cliff were already at their feet. At this time, there is a big hall in front of me, this hall is actually a huge natural cave excavated, there is a pattern of auspicious clouds on the outside, the carving is not fine but natural expressive, the top eaves is polished by a huge ruby that is as red as chicken blood.

It seems that this is the palace of King Qiangtuo, at the top of the valley, the terrain is extremely high, more than sixty or seventy zhang from the bottom of the valley, the top of the head is the blue sky, the sun shines on the palace gate above a few incomprehensible gold characters, the surrounding gold is bright, it is hard to believe, this is really the palace carved out of a mountain stone, the black and brown stone wall is integrated, ancient and magnificent.

The magnificence of this palace is not inferior to the legendary Afang Palace, I turned around and looked down at the valley, and at that moment, thousands of Qiangtuo people, men, women, and children, bowed down in the direction of the palace in the cave houses like beehives on the cliffs on both sides, and the king seemed to be standing beside me, looking at his people majestically, and the sun was shining, and he was the king of the world.

I have to admire the wisdom of the ancient Qiang people, maybe it took hundreds or thousands of years to build the city on the cliffs on both sides, leaving only one exit, it can be said that it is a man who can not be opened, as long as someone comes in, then it will naturally enter their encirclement, I suddenly saw ten thousand arrows on both sides, even if you are a fly, you don't want to fly out of this valley, but, such an ancient country, why was it destroyed overnight? What kind of tragic battle was that? I faintly heard the most miserable cries.

"Brother Yang, what do you want?"

I shuddered, my thoughts interrupted by Junko, and what I saw returned to normal. When I turned around, I saw that the others were entering the palace, and I suddenly felt that this place was very eerie.