Chapter Seventy-Two: Coffin Cliff
Under the leadership of Huang Jianjun, we walked out of the forest, waded through a waist-deep river, and finally got out of the bushes, but what awaited us was a more turbulent river.
Huang Jianjun and I stood on the shallows on the shore, looking up at the cliff on the opposite bank, I glanced at the map on my mobile phone, and said to Huang Jianjun with some excitement: "Master, the cliff opposite is the coffin cliff, and we can already see the hanging coffin parked in the cave!" ”
Huang Jianjun frowned, stared at the endless river, and said to himself: "How can such a dangerous turbulence be?" ”
I scratched my hair, pointed to a bamboo grove on the right hand side behind me, and said, "We can make a simple bamboo raft and paddle to the shallows on the opposite bank." ”
Huang Jianjun nodded, he sat cross-legged on the shallows while watching the scenery while smoking comfortably, while he smoked, I ran to the bamboo forest and chopped a few strong bamboos with a paratrooper knife.
"Master, come here and help!"
When Huang Jianjun heard my words, he extinguished the cigarette butt and walked over slowly to help me set up the bamboo raft.
After the bamboo raft was successfully completed, the two of us stood on the bamboo raft, and I held a thick bamboo pole more than two meters long, paddling hard to the opposite bank.
Paddle forward on the turbulent river is really a technical job, I only paddled for a few minutes and my arm was sore and unbearable, Huang Jianjun asked me to hold on for a while and I will be on the other side immediately.
It was almost noon, and the valley was still covered with a hazy white fog, forming a natural white barrier to block the sun's rays.
Huang Jianjun told me: "In autumn and winter, even on sunny days, the sun does not shine into the river valley. ”
I asked, "Doesn't this canyon see sunlight all year round?" ”
Huang replied: "Only in the middle of summer, when the water vapor in the valley is at its lowest, can the sun shine into the canyon. ”
I saw that on both sides of the canyon were cliffs cut by axes and knives, and the mountains showed a strange black color, and the wind in the valley was fierce, and the humidity was heavy, and the howling valley wind sounded like the sorrow of evil spirits, which made people shudder.
In this gloomy and cloud-covered deep mountain canyon, Huang Jianjun and I felt inexplicably depressed, and we just wanted to reach the shallows on the opposite bank as soon as possible, and every second we stayed on the river would increase the danger.
"Did you hear anything?" Huang Jianjun suddenly asked me coldly.
I pricked up my ears and listened, and replied, "I only hear the wind whirring in the valley." ”
"If you look closely, the sound seems to be coming from under the bamboo raft."
When I heard what Huang Jianjun said, I couldn't help but get nervous, and listened carefully, and there was a sound of rustling in the river below the bamboo raft.
Huang Jianjun lay on the side of the bamboo raft and looked at the turbulent river, and shouted with a pale face: ", it's a sawtooth pomfret!" Little mourning, work harder, give me a deadly stroke! ”
Seeing Huang Jianjun's shocked look, I knew that I must have encountered some danger, so I hurriedly used all my strength to paddle desperately.
At this moment, the bamboo pole suddenly broke into two for no reason, I looked at the remaining half of the bamboo pole in my hand, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and asked in a trembling voice: "Master, master, what is the sawtooth pomfret?" ”
Huang Jianjun swallowed his saliva and said to me: "The sawtooth pomfret is a kind of piranha native to the Amazon jungle of South America. ”
"Is the sawtooth pomfret dangerous?" I asked.
"The pomfret is the most dangerous fish in the world known to be, and a few adult pomfret can easily gnaw a buffalo to the bone!"
After listening to Huang Jianjun's introduction, I couldn't help but shudder, but I still felt very confused in my heart, and I asked Huang Jianjun again: "We didn't provoke them, why did the sawtooth pomfret take the initiative to attack the bamboo raft?" ”
Huang Jianjun glanced at me, and said helplessly: "It's the smell of blood, the smell of blood emanating from your wounds has attracted this group of demons in the water!" ”
Out of the corner of my eye, I swept to the wound on my hand that was bandaged, it was the wound I left when I launched the "Blood Hell Red Lotus Sword" to destroy the white-haired zombies in Demon Ridge, and I never thought that this injury would actually push us into a desperate situation.
Seeing that the rope tied to the bamboo raft was about to be bitten off, I hurriedly shouted to Huang Jianjun: "Master, the bamboo raft is almost unbearable, let's, let's jump directly to the shallows!" ”
As soon as the words fell, I saw Huang Jianjun lift his heavy backpack and throw it into the shallows, jumping lightly under his feet, and jumping to a depression in the shallows like a dragonfly.
When I jumped onto the shallows, I looked back to see that the bamboo raft floating on the river had been bitten to pieces by the sawtooth pomfret.
"This place is not suitable for a long time, we must climb the cliff as soon as possible!" Huang Jianjun lifted his backpack and said with a serious expression.
I looked up at the towering cliff, suddenly felt dizzy, and said with a depressed face: "Master, this cliff is almost 90 degrees, and our climbing tools are almost exhausted. ”
"Don't talk nonsense, just come with me!"
I followed behind Huang Jianjun suspiciously, and I didn't know what this guy was thinking.
Soon, we climbed a wooden staircase, which was built along the mountain, spiraling to the top of the mountain, and Huang Jianjun explained while leading the way in front: "This is a bird path built by the ancients, and it has been verified that it has a history of more than 1,000 years. ”
"One, more than a thousand years? No wonder I feel like I'm shaking when I step on it! ”
Huang Jianjun said with a smile: "Just go up boldly, although the bird road has a long history, it is surprisingly strong, and there has never been an accident of fracture and collapse for thousands of years." ”
I nodded and continued to ask Huang Jianjun, "What is this bird path built along the cliff used for?" ”
"I ask you, what customs prevailed here in ancient times?"
Without thinking, I replied, "Hanging coffin!" ”
Huang Jianjun nodded with great satisfaction and said, "That's right, this bird road was built by the servants to carry the hanging coffin at that time. ”
It turns out that this is the case, Huang Jianjun's words finally dispelled the confusion that had been haunting my heart for a long time: how the hanging coffin of the servant was transported to a cave hundreds of meters above the ground. I didn't expect it to be the construction of a bird road, which shows the wisdom of the ancients.
After walking for more than an hour, Huang Jianjun and I finally climbed to the end of the bird path.
In front of me was a dark cave, a rotten hanging coffin lying quietly on the edge of the cave, Huang Jianjun pointed to the hanging coffin, and said to me in a solemn tone: "This hanging coffin has a history of more than a thousand years, we try not to touch it after entering the cave." ”
"Is Master worried about the corpse?"
"No, it's not. Think about it, this is a cultural relic, what a sin it is to destroy cultural relics? ”
Well, this guy's focus turned out to be artifacts. However, what he said does have a point, and this historical cultural relic is supposed to be handed over to the state.
Speaking of cultural relics, I think of Professor Sun, I wonder how he is now, and whether he can continue to participate in archaeological work in the future?
"Don't be in a daze, hurry up and go inside, we must leave right away when we find your little girlfriend!"
I very much agree with Huang Jianjun's words, the first feeling I have in this cave is only two words: evil door, just the hanging coffin that stopped at the edge of the cave revealed an evil spirit.
I saw the faint red light emanating from the Ring of Power, and secretly said to myself, "There is an evil spirit nearby!" ”
When I opened the yin and yang eyes, I didn't find anything abnormal, just when I was looking around, Huang Jianjun was holding the wolf's eye hand power station next to a narrow hole, stopping to look inside.
I turned on the flashlight and walked slowly towards Huang Jianjun, suddenly stepped on something under my feet, it seemed to be a hard object, moved my right foot, squatted down and took a closer look, it turned out to be a pink rice mobile phone.
I picked up my phone and only glanced at it, and the whole person was stunned as if I had been electrocuted, and muttered: "This, this is Tomorrow's mobile phone!" ”
On the back of the pink phone, there is a nested phone case with Asuna's favorite anime character - Asuna painted on the phone case!