It took me a long time to remember that half a month ago, when I went down to the ground with Lao Wen and them, I had seen a giant lizard near an underground dam.

The stone kiln where the lizard lives looks very similar to the stone mound in front of him, except that half of the stone kiln has been blown open, but the stone mound in front of him is intact.

I hadn't thought much about it before, but since the stone kiln next to the dam appeared in my mind, I began to unconsciously associate the strange phenomena I saw in the Jin family's old mansion with the experience in Taoyuan Township.

In this place, the most evil thing is not the mechanism arranged by the old Jin family, but the strange shadows that appear again and again, and the strange Gu in Taoyuan Township also looks like a black shadow projected on the ground.

If this place has nothing to do with Taoyuan Township, I don't think it makes sense.

Coming to the stone mound, Lin'er immediately grabbed a white-green thing from his pocket, at first I thought it was a jade egg, but after a closer look, I found that it was a white and fat insect, when I looked at it, it also turned a pair of small eyes like black beans to look at me.

"This is my natal Gu." Lin'er said a short sentence and threw the worm into the doorway.

"The insect you raised is not ordinarily violent."

Lin'er was a little excited: "Can you feel the toxicity on it?" ”

"I certainly don't feel the toxicity, but I can feel a little bit of power in it," I said, "and I'm afraid there aren't many poisons that can make me feel stress these days." Granny Gu's natal Gu is not as powerful as you. ”

Lin'er didn't know why, but sighed: "Although Xiaobai is my natal Gu, I don't deserve it now." Mother-in-law always said that Xiaobai is the Gu King of Ghost Yin Mountain, unless the toxicity on my body is stronger than it, otherwise I can't control it, and maybe one day I will be eaten by it. ”

Xiaobai? It's like a dog's name.

Just as I was talking to Lin'er, Xiaobai had already run outside the area where the light could illuminate, and Lin'er was not in a hurry to call her, so she stuck her body against the door hole and waited quietly.

After a short while, Lin'er first told me that Xiaobai had found an abnormality inside, and then shouted into the door: "Xiaobai, call!" ”

When she said this, a very strange picture came to my mind, a fat insect raised in the air, and burst into a melodious howl at the sky, the same howl that a hutchister makes when he quarrels with people.

Fortunately, as soon as Lin'er's voice fell, there was a crisp sound of "creaking" from the doorway, which sounded a bit like grinding teeth, and this movement seemed to me to be much stronger than a dog's howl.

As Xiaobai's sound became more and more urgent, the depth of the tunnel slowly emitted a bright light, I squinted my eyes and looked hard, as if it was the light emitted when the stone wall in the tunnel was ignited, Xiaobai's size was too small, I couldn't see it, I could only vaguely see something hanging in the tunnel in the distance, like vine branches.

When the light in the tunnel dimmed a little, Lin'er tapped me on the shoulder and motioned for me to enter.

I grabbed my flashlight and led her into the doorway. The ground in the tunnel has been specially treated with anti-slip treatment, and stepping on it is like stepping on sandpaper, and it feels very jerky to the touch. For the time being, I can't figure out why the old Jin family made such an arrangement.

The deeper I walked, the clearer Xiaobai's figure became, and I finally saw clearly, there was indeed a bright light on a stone wall next to it, but now the light was very dim, and I swept the beam of the flashlight to the "vine branches" there, only to see that it was a row of chain hooks hanging down from the top of the tunnel.

Lin'er took two quick steps and picked up Xiaobai, the whole body turned over when the insect was picked up, belly up, head down, I thought it had burping, Lin'er stroked its head with her hand, it woke up in a daze, but it looked weak.

"What's wrong with it?" I asked Lin'er.

Lin'er carefully put Xiaobai in her pocket: "It ignited this wall just now, and it was tired." ”

I glanced at the stone wall behind Lin'er, there was still a slight light on it, and she said, the insect had ignited the wall, but there was no smell of sulfurization or burnt on the wall, indicating that there was no open flame on it, but I couldn't figure out why this wall was glowing.

Miao Jiang's Gu technique has always been mysterious and impermanent, and there are some things that I can't see, and it's not unusual. It's just that I have a faint feeling that Lin'er took Xiaobai out, as if she wanted to show something in front of me.

But I didn't ask much, I swept deeper, and I didn't feel that there was much of a problem, so I continued to walk forward with Lin'er.

There were sharp hooks all over our heads, and the two of us could only walk as low as we could, touching the ground with our hands. These hooks should not be made by the Jin family, their production age is at least at the end of the Tang Dynasty, at that time the old Jin family should not have established a family, the length of each chain hook is the same, the size of the hook, the outline is no different, I can't see what material these things are made of, they are not gold, silver, nor stone, but they can avoid corrosion for such a long time, and the surface of the hook does not even have moisture.

Lin'er said that since she saw these hooks, her heart was like a stone, suffocating, and a little out of breath.

I didn't say much about this, just told her to stabilize her internal breath and not be nervous.

There is a special shape of iron hook in the ancient torture room, called pipa hook, which is specially used to pierce people's collarbones, and now these hooks are all pipa hooks, and I don't know how many corpses have been hung on these hooks, so that it has accumulated a very strong resentment, not to mention Lin'er, even I, who was made unhappy by this evil spirit.

It didn't take long to meet the corner, I took the first step to turn over, Lin'er followed me not far away, but just when she wanted to go around the corner, her body suddenly froze, and then as if she was pulled by something, she quickly retreated backwards.

At that time, my eyes were still in front of me, but with the help of the quicksand of the Qi Sea, I could "see" Lin'er's various actions very clearly.

I immediately leaned over, reached out and pulled Lin'er back, and in the process of pulling her, I did feel a drag behind her.

Lin'er seemed to be frightened, and she couldn't come back to her senses for a while, I rolled her with one hand, and picked up the flashlight with the other hand, and shot a light behind her.

In the light there appeared a slender shadow, it was a woman, with long hair hanging down her shoulders, and her shoulders and waist were thin and thin, and she was standing there, and I took the light and swept it in her face, and she did not dodge.

But on her face, there seemed to be a gray mist, and as soon as the light reached her face, it became very weak, and it was impossible to see her specific appearance at all.

To be honest, I don't know if this woman is a human or a ghost, I can't see her silhouette in the quicksand of the Qi Sea, and I can't feel the evil aura in the air.

It's just that as soon as the light illuminates her body, my heart trembles a few times, and I feel an indescribable nervousness.

Jingle, jingle, jingle......

There was an inexplicable wind in the tunnel, and all the lute hooks overhead shook, and a large number of hooks collided together, making a sharp sound that was sometimes sporadic and sometimes dense.

As soon as the voice appeared, the woman illuminated by the flashlight vanished, out of thin air, without warning or leaving a trace.

The lute hook on the top of his head is still shaking, and it is so annoying that it is shaking.

When Lin'er came back to her senses a little, I asked her to walk in front, and I followed behind, and asked her to release the Gu Xun.

After that, I kept hitting Lin'er with a flashlight, for fear that something would happen to her again.

The wind in the tunnel is blowing, and the sound of the impact of the pipa hook continues, the sound seems to be frightening, I must always condense my mental power to ensure that my mind is not lost, Lin'er planted six or seven Gu on her body, and barely stabilized her emotions.

We climbed down the tunnel for a long time, and the scene around us didn't seem to change at all, with countless lute hooks above our heads, sandpaper-rough ground under our knees and palms, and black rock walls on both sides of our bodies.

In such an environment, there is no reference at all, even if you keep spinning in place, you will not notice it in the slightest, and now I even think that this is a circular corridor, no matter how you climb, there is no end.

After climbing for too long, I saw that Lin'er was a little physically exhausted, so I asked her to stop and rest, and by the way, I asked her if Xun Gu had any feedback.

Lin'er said that the Xun Gu she released did not come back, and it was estimated that she died halfway through.

Combined with Lin'er's words, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that there must be something strange in this place that I couldn't see through, so I took out the palladium compass, as if trying my luck, to see if the magnetic needle on it could still point in the right direction.

Lin'er could probably guess what I was going to do, and said to me very firmly: "Brother Fei, don't deliberately find the way, as long as we keep climbing forward, we will definitely find the right way." ”

I saw that she was very confident when she spoke, and I couldn't help but ask, "How do you know?" ”

"Xiaobai told me." "It never missed. ”

Believing the word of a bug so much? Is it reliable?

I didn't say anything, but I took out the compass and looked at it, but the magnetic needle rotated like an electric fan, and I couldn't locate it at all. I had no choice but to move on.

After Lin'er's strength was almost recovered, we continued on the road, and after more than two hours of trekking, we finally passed through the area covered by the pipa hook, but the sound of the hook still echoing behind us, and an extremely rich yin qi was also filled with the air.

It is also strange to say, it is said that in places where yin qi is stagnant, it is generally unlikely to be angry, but above our heads, it seems to be a scene full of vitality, and the vitality is very strong.

I quickly reacted, now directly above us, it should be the dying depression, before finding Niukou Mountain, we also set up an ambush there, due to the relationship between the Yin Qi and the constant, this depression will become a dead land in a few years, and now the vegetation there has shown signs of withering.

Qi and Yin Qi are mixed together, forming a kind of half-dead and decaying Qi field, and a Qi field like this can just be used as a formation for the Blood Brake Array.

(End of chapter)