Wu Lin and I glanced at each other, Wu Lin frowned, and the corners of his mouth trembled slightly.

It's not that I'm too careful, since I entered the Immortal Cave, Wu Lin has become very weird.

At this time, I suddenly remembered that from beginning to end, I had never asked Wu Lin what the purpose of entering the Immortal Cave was, I had always thought that it was possible that the immortal tomb in the depths of the cave was also part of the quadruple space, but now it seems that this is not the case.

In the past, when Wu Lin took me to find the quadruple space, no matter how unstable his personality was, his goals were always very clear, and his style of action was also very firm, but this time, Wu Lin gave me the feeling of a little uncertain, and I didn't know what he was wandering around and hesitating.

But in front of so many people, it's hard for me to express the doubts in my heart.

Then I burned the dried corpse with karmic fire, and the dried flesh and blood on the corpse instantly turned to ashes, but the scales on the snake's tail were not afraid of the heat of the karmic fire at all, until the dried corpse was completely burned, and these scales could still maintain their original appearance.

I was curious, picked up a scale and looked at it, ordinary snake scales are the skin of the snake skin and the skin of the joint shape, can be understood as the snake body of some of the appearance of similar to fish scales, in fact, is not the real sense of the scales, can not be peeled off, but the palm of my hand snake scales, do not feel like skin, more like a smooth surface of the bone.

It's not tough, I can break it with a light hand, try to burn it with a lighter, and I can scorch it.

But this thing seems fragile, but it is not afraid of karmic fire.

I can't explain the principle of this, but I have a vague feeling that this so-called fairy cave, something that is already deep in the cave, is very likely to have some important connection with the Netherworld.

Just when I was staring at the scales in my hand, Wu Lin suddenly picked up the sniper rifle, and when I squinted my eyes and looked at Wu Lin, I skipped over Wu Lin and saw Huang Yuzhong standing in the distance, and Huang Yuzhong also quickly pulled out his long whip at that time, as if he was guarding against something.

I immediately looked in the direction the muzzle of the gun was pointing, but at this time Wu Lin put down the gun.

"What's wrong?" I asked Wu Lin.

Wu Lin turned around and asked Huang Yuzhong, "What did you see just now?" ”

Huang Yuzhong's tone was a little uncertain: "It seems to be a lantern, I didn't see it clearly." ”

Wu Lin turned his head and nodded at me.

He was trying to tell me that he saw the same sight.

I asked Huang Yuzhong, "What kind of lantern?" ”

Huang Yuzhong shook his head: "It seems to be a red paper lantern, floating in the air...... Its outline is particularly blurry, and to be honest, I can't see it very clearly. ”

How can there be red paper lanterns in such a place?

I took a deep breath and glanced into the depths of the tunnel again, Li Huaishan and Wu Lin hit the light at the same time, except for the two beams of light that swayed back and forth, all I could see was a large area of deep darkness.

Wu Lin said to me on the side, "Let's go on." ”

I nodded, waved my hand, and led everyone on.

After more than half an hour of walking in the dark, the smell of blood in the air became slightly clearer, but overall it was still very faint, and it was necessary to shrug your nose and sniff it vigorously to perceive its presence.

I was trying to inhale and try to figure out what the source of the smell was, when I heard Huang Yuzhong shout at the back of the line: "There are so many snake corpses! ”

I raised my hand and motioned for the people behind me to stop talking.

The next didn't go too far, the beam in the hands of Li Huaishan and Wu Lin illuminated the silhouette of the two shrinking in the corner of the tunnel, which were two snake corpses lying straight on the ground, the same as the snake corpse we saw before, there was only a thin layer of dry skin left on the chest, the skin collapsed into the gap between the sternum and the ribs, and the dry skin near the heart was rising and falling regularly, obviously there was something beating vigorously in the chest.

As long as the hairy coconut adsorbed to the heart is not cut, the insects inside should not come out, but this is just my speculation, whether it is accurate or not, it is difficult to say.

I asked everyone to slow down and pass by the snake corpses as carefully as possible, and I kept looking at their beating hearts, until Zhang Donghai, at the end of the line, also kept a constant distance from the snake corpses, and still did not appear anything abnormal.

But now is not the time to relax, although my memory is not particularly good, but I still remember that Huang Yuzhong just said "a lot of snake corpses", it is estimated that there are more similar corpses not far ahead.

It's just that I didn't expect that the number of snake corpses was far more than I imagined.

Ten minutes later, we reached the end of the tunnel, and then I saw clearly that outside the tunnel was a huge pool of corpses, countless snake corpses piled up on top of each other, and there was an extremely strong smell of decay in the air, which was similar to the strong musty smell of old wood infected by moisture.

It is estimated that there is a hairy coconut in each snake carcass, and they are all beating at the same frequency, and standing at the exit of the tunnel, you can clearly hear the sound of the hairy coconut undulating.

Boom, boom......

The voice was so neat that it sounded like a huge heart hanging over my head, beating constantly.

Seeing this scene in front of them, everyone present was stunned.

Even Wu Lin couldn't help but say: "It's just a mass grave!" ”

I took a deep breath to calm my mind as much as I could, and then swept the pool of corpses over and over again.

This huge corpse pond should be the burial pit of the Nuwa tribe, there is a very high stone pillar in the center of the pit, the height of this pillar is at least about 100 meters, the top of the column seems to be pressed something, too far away, plus the line of sight has been somewhat blocked, it is impossible to see what the thing is, around the pillar, there are large pieces of snake corpses, each corpse is lying straight and flat, at first glance it looks like a pit is covered with a handful of dry firewood

In the distant Stone Age, the population of a large tribe was at most a few thousand, I made a rough visual inspection, there were at least hundreds of corpses in the burial pit, and the number was already thousands, so many people were buried at one time, and the owner of the immortal tomb was likely to be the big leader of the Nuwa tribe.

Since the burial pit has appeared in front of us, we should have entered the immortal tomb.

Thinking of this, I asked Li Huaishan: "Where are we now?" ”

As soon as Li Huaishan heard this, he understood what I meant, and responded: "It is estimated that directly above us, it is the large basin surrounded by mountains, and I can't determine the direction now, but I estimate that we should be walking in the southwest direction, but there is still a long way to go from the depression enclosed by the pebble wall." ”

Hearing Li Huaishan say this, I immediately took out the palladium compass, with blue gold as the magnetic root, although the magnetic field in this area is extremely chaotic, but the pointer on the compass can still point the direction.

Now we are facing in the direction of due southwest.

I put away the compass and asked Li Huaishan, "How do you know that we are heading southwest?" ”

Li Huaishan pointed to the stone pillar in the center of the burial pit and said, "I really can't identify the direction now, but I can feel that the pillar is very dangerous, so I know that we must be on the right track." ”

His tone was very depressed, and I could feel that Li Huaishan was a little panicked now.

Wu Lin on the side opened his mouth and asked, "Then how to go?" ”

Li Huaishan still pointed to the stone pillar: "Climb up." ”

I didn't talk nonsense, and immediately beckoned everyone to the burial pit.

The corpses in the pit had become so brittle that I could hear the sound of bones being crushed with every foot I stepped on, and I had to look back from time to time for fear that someone would accidentally step on the coconut in the chest cavity of the snake corpse.

Once, when I looked back at the back, I saw that Qing Yazi didn't step on his feet, leaned over, and lay directly on a snake corpse, his head just pressed against the snake corpse's chest.

Fortunately, Zhangdonghai's eyes were quick, and he hugged Qing Yazi's waist, so that Qing Yazi's head didn't hit hard.

Sun Luyuan also turned around to help, he first moved the snake corpse under Qingyazi's body, and then together with Zhang Donghai, he carefully helped Qingyazi up.

At that time, Li Huaishan and Huang Yuzhong both hit the flashlight on Qingyazi, and then the afterglow of the flashlight, I saw that the snake corpse that was removed by Sun Luyuan seemed to have a thin tube connected to it.

Wu Lin also discovered the anomaly, and immediately hit the light straight behind the snake corpse, and then we saw clearly that the pipe attached to the snake corpse was actually made of iron, hollow inside, and only a very thin layer of iron sheet on the outside, which was very malleable.

But at the time when the Nuwa people lived, there was no iron smelting technology in the world.

Recall that the iron tree roots we saw in the tunnels before could not have been made by the Nuwa clan, unless this group entered the Iron Age before humans.

Wu Lin put down the snake corpse in his hand and gave me an inquiring look.

I pondered for a moment, then pointed to the large stone pillar, which was now less than fifty meters away from us.

Wu Lin was asking me just now where these hollow roots came from, and I said that they might have stretched out from the stone pillars.

This tacit understanding between me and Wu Lin doesn't need to be cultivated at all, from the first time we met, we could often feel each other's thoughts.

At first, I thought that there might be holes in the stone pillars, and these iron pipes that look like roots and whiskers are continued from the holes in the stone pillars.

But it wasn't until we got to the stone pillar that Wu Lin and I were amazed, this thing was not a stone pillar at all, it was just a tree, a giant iron tire tree with a height of 100 meters!

The iron pipe that was stuck in the snake's carcass was the root of this tree!

(End of chapter)