Book 1: Snow Ridge Maze Chapter 29: The Lower Tomb (3) Deep Pool Water Monster
The third section of the Voldedragon ditch is a small valley and the exit of the dragon ditch.
When he was about to walk to the small valley, Uncle Zhang said to everyone, "It's almost there, get out of this ditch, and you'll be there." ”
So we quickened our pace, and after we got out of the ditch, Uncle Zhang began to scratch his ears and cheeks, apparently forgetting where the tomb was. Really! Uncle Zhang looked at this small valley like a bowl and plate with a blank expression, "Uncle Nine! It's up to you to go from that side to the entrance to the tomb we dug back then, but now it's collapsed, and we can't get through. Uncle Zhang pointed to a landslide in front of the valley and said.
Uncle Nine turned his head to look at the mouth of the dragon ditch that we had just come out of, and I also turned my head curiously to look, only to see the bright moon in the sky, the moon just hanging in the sky above the entrance of the dragon ditch, the shadow cast by the dragon ditch in the moonlight is like a black dragon lying on the ground, and the position of the dragon's head is exactly in the small valley.
"Earth Dragon Captures the Pearl!" Uncle Nine muttered to himself, listening to Uncle Nine say this, it was true, the shadow cast by the dragon ditch was just like a dragon lying on the ground, and the circle of the valley looked like a bead at first glance, and the dragon's head was exactly in the valley, like a black dragon lying on the ground to seize the bead.
Uncle Nine continued, "It also happened that we arrived at this point, the dragon's head was thrown right in the valley, and this tomb was directly below the dragon's head position. ”
Although he found the location of the tomb, he couldn't pass the path in front of him, so he could only find another entrance to enter the ancient tomb, Uncle Nine took out the compass, looked around, looked at the stars in the sky from time to time, and found other entrances to the tomb through Feng Shui.
When Uncle Nine was looking for the entrance to the tomb, I found a place with flowers and grass, dug a deep pit with a sapper shovel, buried the little girl's body in it, filled it with soil, lit three cigarettes, bowed three times and muttered to myself, "Little sister, there is only so much I can do, you go to reincarnation, don't harm people everywhere, I have nothing to burn for you, although these three cigarettes are this smoke and not the other, but you will just take it."
But then again, children are not allowed to smoke, so I'll mean it. "With that, I'll just kill two and keep one to smoke by myself.
After I was done, I went back to find Uncle Nine and them, and Uncle Nine looked at me from a distance, and the expression on his face was obviously wrong.
When I came to the crowd, the fat man said nervously, "Awang! There are ghosts behind you. I didn't think so, and said, "Come less, my brother is scared (Xiamen University)." ”
The fat man still said affirmatively, "I'm still at Peking University, really!" Don't look back. ”
I laughed dryly twice and didn't believe the fat man, when suddenly there was a voice behind me, "Uncle! Take me away! It was a little girl's voice, and I was furious all over my body, and I didn't dare to turn my head, but I just asked Uncle Nine for help with my eyes.
"Come out!" Uncle Nine screamed, and then the little girl behind me walked between me and Uncle Nine, no! It should be said that it floated among us.
It turned out to be the little girl I had just buried, and Uncle Nine looked at the little girl and said, "Little ghost!" Why don't you go and reincarnate and follow him? Uncle Nine pointed at me as he spoke.
"That's right! What are you doing with me? I also hurriedly asked curiously.
From the little girl's mouth, we learned that the little girl's name was Nini, who was kidnapped by human traffickers before her death, and the traffickers sold her to a family near the Yulong Snow Mountain in Lijiang, but she was abused by the family in every way, and then she ran out, got lost and unfortunately fell into the Fudi Dragon Ditch and died, and was later controlled by the spider spirit.
Because we were in a hurry, Uncle Nine temporarily put the little girl into the Qiankun tube, at first I was afraid that the little girl would be refined, but Uncle Nine explained that the Qiankun tube has many functions, not only for refining the soul, so I was relieved to let Uncle Nine accept the little girl.
After finishing the incident, Uncle Nine waved his hand and said to everyone, "Let's go, the entrance to the tomb has been found." "Following Uncle Nine we came to the side of the valley, after walking a short distance, there was a sound of rushing water in our ears, and then we saw a small river, we went down the river, walked less than a hundred meters, and saw that the front of the river was blocked by dense weeds and trees, I and the fat man quickly cut out a hole with a sapper shovel, and then everyone rushed in.
After getting into the weedy hole, the sound of flowing water falling from a high place hitting the rocks kept coming to my ears, and I looked around with the pillar of light cast by the wolf's eye flashlight, all of which were big trees with crooked necks that I didn't recognize, each tree was particularly stout, the branches crisscrossed and criss-crossed, all growing in the middle, and the technical stems converged from all directions to the middle, growing together, forming a pot lid like a buckle directly above us, and under our feet was a shallow pool of flowing water, which was very strange and all flowed to the middle. The middle of the waterhole is densely covered with a thick layer of aquatic plants.
Uncle Nine stood on the waterhole and looked around, and said to everyone, "There is a dragon hidden in the mountain, flowing water gathers, and it is close to the mountain and water, where the earth, wood and water are gathered, yes, the tomb is under this water." ”
After hearing this, the fat man was a little surprised and said, "No, we are not going to dig a grave hole from this pool, right?" ”
Out of curiosity, I thought why the water flows to the middle of the pool, so I walked to the middle of the water flow, and used a scimitar to cut off the rhizomes of aquatic plants from under the water.
I called everyone over and told them to carefully touch the edge of the pit to cut the weeds, for it was only after a while that I heard the sound of it colliding with the rocks when the scimitar fell, indicating that the pit was not shallow.
After we cut all the aquatic weeds, as I expected, this is indeed a sinkhole, and all the water in the waterhole flows into the sinkhole, forming a water curtain to cover the situation in the sinkhole, so it is impossible to see the sinkhole through the wolf's eyes, and it seems that people must go down.
The fat man and I found a relatively hard, crackless rock layer around the mouth of the sinkhole, drove the climbing pegs into it, fastened the wire locks, and fastened the climbing ropes.
Before going down the sinkhole, I asked the fat man to take a cold fireworks for lighting, which we bought before the fat man came to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, and I didn't use it before, but now it finally came in handy, I smashed the cold fireworks on the sapper shovel and immediately had dazzling fireworks from the cold smoke and flames, and then I threw the cold fireworks into the sinkhole, and the sinkhole was about forty or fifty meters deep, and it was not a standard sinkhole, and the depth of the standard sinkhole was generally about one hundred meters.
The surface layer of the sinkhole is a layer of soil, almost three or four meters, under the soil layer is a thick layer of rock, there are more than ten meters, the water flow flows from the mouth of the sinkhole, straight down dozens of meters, forming a water curtain, shining in the cold light of the cold fireworks, like a diamond wall, very dazzling.
When I and the fat man arrived at the bottom of the pit, I flashed three times with the wolf's eye at the mouth of the sinkhole, indicating a safe landing, and when I was waiting for the ninth uncle to come down, I used the wolf's eye to look at the surroundings, and saw a shining silver light, presumably the scimitar I had just dropped, and I walked over to see that it was.
When I was picking up the scimitar, I saw grass on the ground, I asked the fat man to come and see, at this time the ninth uncle and they had also gone down to the bottom of the sinkhole, and heard me call the fat man to run over together, and we four wolf eyes and shine together.
It was indeed a meadow, and in front of the meadow was a big tree that reached the top of the cave, and at this time, a green light the size of a small thumb flew out of the grass, stayed in the air for a while, and then slowly flew towards us, and under the pillar of light of the wolf's eye, it could be seen that it was a firefly, which was as big as an adult male's thumb.
The fireflies, perhaps frightened by the bright light of the wolf's eyes, flapped their wings and flew up to the top of the cave, followed by another, two and three...... Thousands of fireflies flew out of the grass and flew straight to the top of the cave, illuminating the sinkhole, and the scene in the sinkhole was seen by the green light of the fireflies.
It is really a water curtain cave sky, a hidden wonder, only to see the moss crawling all over the rocks in the sinkhole, the grass on the ground is ringed, the river water flowing down from the sinkhole, branches and leaves in the sinkhole and divides into several tributaries to run through the ground that surrounds the entire sinkhole, and there are a few big trees on the top of the cave, and the top of the cave is full of vines.
"Hello! ......" The fat man shouted excitedly, the sound echoed through the hole, and could not be dispersed for a long time, the sound woke up the birds sleeping in the trees, and the birds chirped in flocks through the water curtain and flew to the mouth of the sinkhole, and the feathers of the birds were colorful, looking like woodpeckers.
Uncle Zhang found something, pointed to the river in front of us, and shouted to all of us, "Look at it" I looked in the direction that Uncle Zhang pointed to, only to see schools of fish fry in the river swimming in the river, under the green light of fireflies, the surface of the river flashed with green light, sparkling, like flowing jade, dazzling and moving.
All this is incredible, there is a "paradise" hidden in the sinkhole, I am afraid that I will be caught in the psychedelic Gu again, so I approached Uncle Nine and asked excitedly, "Uncle Nine!" Tell me it's not my hallucination. ”
Uncle Nine took the compass and looked around and said, "It's not your hallucination, it's here, and the entrance to the tomb is here." Uncle Nine's tone was obviously excited, but he didn't know if he was shocked by the spectacle in front of him, or because he had found the tomb, or both.
The area in the sinkhole is very spacious, almost the size of a standard football field, we found a large rock that is three meters long, and the four of us sat on the rock to rest for a while, ate some dry food, and discussed the plan to wait for the tomb.
Uncle Zhang caught a little woodpecker and said that he could measure the oxygen quality in the tomb later, I know this, I have seen it in "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" sung by Tianxia Ba before.
Then, under the guidance of Uncle Nine, I and the fat man and Uncle Nine began to dig in a soil layer at the edge of the sinkhole, because we are now dozens of meters underground, so as long as we dig straight and do not need to dig down.
Although I, the fat man, and Uncle Nine worked together with three sapper shovels, it took almost an hour to dig a robbery hole about ten meters long.
The fat man was tired and couldn't do it, panting and scolding, "I'll go to its uncle's, when will I dig it?" Uncle Nine, are you sure this is the location? ”
Uncle Nine was also tired of digging, and after stopping and resting, he responded, "Yes!" This is it, stop talking nonsense, hurry up and get to work. ”
Although the fat man was tired, he still couldn't resist the temptation of the treasure in the tomb, spit on the palm of his hand, rubbed his hands and scolded, "it, dig!" As he cursed, he plunged the sapper shovel into the soil, only to hear the crisp sound of the sapper shovel colliding with something hard, and the fat man and I were overjoyed to remove the soil from the surface and see a wall made of stone slabs.
This wall is not a thing in the soil, it is a man-made wall, it seems that the ancient tomb should be behind this wall, I knocked it with my knuckles, it is hollow, it seems that it can't be wrong, the ancient tomb is behind this wall.
The fat man couldn't wait to shovel with the sappers, but after shoveling for a long time, there was no change except for a few more traces of the sapper shovels on the wall.
"Fatty, are you in the water in your brain? Can this be dug up? Stopping will save you effort! I stopped the fat man and said. The fat man spat and scolded, "It's grandma's, I knew that I would have brought a few packs of explosives, what should I do now?" ”
As soon as the fat man said that the explosives had made me feel inspired, I ran back to Uncle Zhang to borrow the gunpowder of his old-fashioned musket*, because I found that there were many cracks in the wall, and I had no way of knowing what caused them.
When I got back to the hole, I looked for the more fragile cracks in the corner, cut a few holes with a scimitar, and then stuffed the cans filled with gunpowder into the holes and made a few fuses.
After everything was ready, I asked the fat man and Uncle Nine to hide outside the entrance of the thief cave, and after igniting the gunpowder, I rushed out of the cave at a speed of 100 meters.
As soon as I arrived outside the cave, I heard "Bah! There was a loud bang, a puff of white smoke poured out of the thief hole, and when the smoke was almost gone, we went in to see, the corner of the wall had been blown open a hole, if according to the "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", we had to wait for the air in the tomb to ventilate with the air outside before we could go in, so we went back first.
On the way, we cleaned the soil on our bodies in a pool of water, and the fat man washed it for a long time, this dead fat man is like this every time, and he loves to be clean, he used to be like this in college, if he usually did it, he would have done it now, and now he has done the "tomb robbery" this business, and I really can't stand it.
I lit a cigarette and teased the fat man, "Fat man, do you want to take another shower and rub your back or something?" The fat man heard that I was teasing him, so he deliberately slowly washed his pants and said to me, "Oops! Tell me about you, even if you don't love cleanliness, why do you stop me from talking about hygiene and loving cleanliness? ”
I shook the water from my hands, stood up and said, "You fucking are Zhu Bajie wearing glasses - pretending to be a civilized person." Saying that, I walked to Uncle Jiu's side, and I was going to discuss the details of the tomb with Uncle Jiu again, but before I got to Uncle Jiu's side, I heard a "plop" sound behind me, I turned my head and saw the fat man falling into the pool.
"Yo! The fat guy really took a bath! "I'm glad to see that.
The fat man shook the water on his head and said, "I'm grass!" This water is so fucking deep! Thanks to the fat man, I have good water quality. As soon as the fat man finished speaking, he suddenly sank, and two blisters came up again, and he shouted "help" with a frightened face...... Help~" and sank again.
I know the fat man's water nature very well, and it was a casual thing for him to hold his breath in the water for two minutes, and he must have lied to me and wanted me to go into the water too.
I stood on the shore and shouted, "Fatty, don't act, you want to trick me into the water, but there is no door." ”
But the fat man didn't come up to answer me, and the water kept coming from the blisters on the water, and I was a little anxious, shouting at the top of my voice, "Dead fat!" You're kidding again, I'm in a hurry with you. ”
The fat man still did not come up, and the blisters became smaller and smaller until they disappeared.
Seeing this, Uncle Nine ran over and said, "Is there really an accident?" Why are you still stunned, go down and take a look. ”
I immediately took off my coat, took the scimitar from my waist in my mouth, and plunged into the pool, which was as deep as the fat man said, and bottomless. I vaguely saw the fat man struggling desperately, as if he had been dragged down by something, I sped up and swam towards the fat man, this puddle was about ten meters deep.
Before I could swim to the fat man, the fat man suddenly disappeared in front of my eyes, and I was in a hurry! When I swam to the bottom of the pool, I found the fat man struggling not far away, and I immediately swam over, and then I saw several corpses lying at the bottom of the pool.
But the top priority is to save the fat man first, I swam to the fat man only to find that the fat man's legs were stuck in a hole, the hole is very small, at most only three or four years old children can get in, I stepped on the bottom of the pool and dragged the fat man out.
But there is a great force is competing with me, I really can't pull the fat man out, then the fat man inadvertently caught a few aquatic plants, and then I and the fat man at the same time, a blow to drag the fat man's legs out of the hole, then I saw a hand grabbing the fat man's feet, it was not a human hand, I saw that the hands were covered with green hair, there were sharp nails, the fingers were thin and long, almost twice as long as a normal person, and there were only four fingers, and there was skin between the fingers, like the skin on the duck's paws.
The strength of the hand is huge, I and the fat man are almost unable to twist it, I immediately used the scimitar on the mouth to cut the hand, although the resistance in the water is not small, but because the scimitar is extremely sharp, so still cut the hand out of a big bloody mouth, and the blood that flowed out is actually dark green, if it is not for a smell of blood, I can't believe that this is blood, the fat man immediately swam up to breathe after getting out.
I wondered what kind of creature it was, so I looked inside the cave and saw two red lights, somewhat like eyes, round and vanished in a flash.
It seems that this place should not stay for a long time, before leaving, I paid attention to these dead bodies at the bottom of the pool, judging from the dress of the corpses, not together, not even an age, some of the dead bodies have been dead for a long time, the white skin is rotten, some look like they have just died, and you can see the skin color, but the same is that each corpse has a hideous expression, should be drowned, the strange thing is that each corpse is dry and flat, like a dried corpse that has been sucked dry blood.
Look at these corpses basically have gas masks or gas masks, a special jewelry on the neck or waist, the material of the jewelry is the claws of beasts engraved with special runes, a bit like the so-called gold touch charm, look at the dress of these dead corpses is a bit like "touch the gold captain".
The earliest record of the school captain of the touch gold appeared in the Three Kingdoms era at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Cao Cao in order to make up for the lack of military sound, specially set up a detachment to steal the property of the tomb.
I took one of the new-looking gas masks away, and a very special waist bag was also taken away, after I went ashore, the fat man had eased up, sitting on the ground smoking and looting, Uncle Nine saw that I had just come back and was a little worried and asked, "Why did you come back?" ”
I told me about the dead body at the bottom of the pool, and then shook the things in my hand, and the fat man saw this and said, "Okay, Awang! Before you officially do the inverted fight, you will first take advantage of the dead. I replied, "That's necessary, internship first, internship is necessary." ”
Say it! We went back to the camp, close to the camp when the fragrance kept rushing to the nose, it turned out that Uncle Zhang didn't know where to get the bird's eggs and roasted them with a torch, but there was no Uncle Zhang's figure, and then we found a pair of shoes by the river, I was shocked, I thought it was broken! Uncle Zhang couldn't have been captured by the monster just now, right?
At this time, Uncle Zhang climbed down from a tree and took a few bird eggs in his hand, and we breathed a sigh of relief. When I saw that Uncle Zhang's shoes were worn on his feet, the shoes by the river were not Uncle Zhang's, and Uncle Zhang told us that someone should have been here before, because he found a trace of someone piling up wood and catching fire.
I guess it should be the dead bodies under the waterhole who did it before they died, I told Uncle Zhang what happened just now, out of safety considerations, I asked Uncle Zhang to wait and go to the tomb with us, I am afraid that there will be uninvited guests in this sinkhole, although the tomb is also full of dangers, but at least there are many people who can take care of it.
When we got back to the camp, I took out the fanny pack I had just picked up at the bottom of the pool and checked it out of a particularly old-fashioned flashlight, matchbox, candles, and so on.
These are all useless for us, I gave them all into the river, because the river is flowing in the direction of the pool, and it should be returned to the original owner, the only leather map I left, see this map has a history, it should be a long time, but I don't know what the map is, anyway, let's stay first, we will pack up our equipment and prepare to go to the grave after we are "full of wine and food".
I picked up the gas mask from the bottom of the pool to Uncle Zhang, when I arrived at the entrance of the tomb, I tied the woodpecker caught by Uncle Zhang in front of me with a rope, put it into the tomb, and then pulled it out after half a moment, the woodpecker was still alive, it seems that the air in the tomb has been changed almost, we put on the gas mask, led by Uncle Nine, after I broke off, one after another.