Looking at the city below the hillside, I suddenly thought of a question, why did Luo Chengji call such an underground city "Immortal Tomb"?

Cities and cemeteries are two different concepts.

Wu Lin should have also thought of this question, so he heard him speak: "Immortal Tomb...... In this city? ”

This time I had a different idea from him, my idea was that the city under the mountain was the immortal tomb mentioned by Luo Chengji in the ghost text, and the whole city was.

I asked Wu Lin to continue walking down the mountain, and told Zhang Donghai to be careful in everything.

This dark mountain that towers under the ground is not high, but there is no wood and no soil on the mountain, only a large area of bald stones, and the humidity is a little heavy, the road under the feet is slippery at the beginning, and it is not easy to walk, but the further down you go, the drier the air becomes, and when you reach the foot of the mountain, the stones under your feet are basically dry.

The air in the castle was drier, so we deliberately wet two pieces of cloth on our chin before entering the city, and licked them when our mouths were dry.

Once I entered the city, I took out a compass so that I could determine the direction among the scattered stone houses.

The Stone Age city did not have the consciousness of building a transportation system, and the whole city only had a large road that ran through the north and south, and on both sides of the road were large areas of irregularly arranged houses, and countless small roads were formed in the gaps between the houses, and the extension direction of each road was very arbitrary.

I don't know how the Nuwa people were oriented back then.

At the end of the north-south road, there is a stone building more than five stories high, which may have been the residence of the clan leader in the past, and I am worried that the ninety-eight yin corpses guarded by Luo Chengji, as well as the thousand-year-old corpses raised by the corpse coffin, may be there.

If we take the main road, the things on the stone tower can see us at a glance, and for the sake of safety, I can only take Wu Lin and Zhang Donghai to walk through the large stone houses.

It was as if there had been a volcanic eruption, and I saw strange stones piled up in some places, which looked like liquid that had suddenly solidified in the flow, and at first I thought they were carved out by man, but then when I looked closely, I realized that they were piles of lava that had been condensed.

Once, when we passed between two large houses, we saw a golden stone carved into the eaves of one of the houses, a strange creature with the head of a beast and the body of a bird, and I had seen such a thing for the first time, and I could not tell what it was.

It didn't take long for me to walk like this, my head became cloudy, and most of the time, I could see either the black walls or the pale yellow firelight, and what I saw kept repeating and repeating, giving people a great sense of fatigue, and I could only glance at the compass from time to time, and I had to rely on the pointer on the compass to discern the direction, and I also wanted to use it to divert my attention.

Zhang Donghai was also extremely irritable now, he tugged at his collar indiscriminately, and muttered: "This is simply a maze array." ”

As soon as his voice landed, Xiao Hei climbed up along my trouser leg, saying that he was sleepy and wanted me to hug him, and Da Hei also grabbed the corner of my clothes, looking sleepy.

On the contrary, the hammer, which had always been sleepy, was particularly energetic, and now it stepped on my backpack with its hind feet, and its front feet rested on top of my head, stretching its neck to guard the surroundings.

The abnormal reaction of the big and small black and the hammer made me realize that something was wrong, and I glanced at Wu Lin, who first patted the back of his neck, as if trying to make himself more conscious, and then he said, "The situation is not right. ”

Zhang Donghai nodded: "It's really wrong, since I entered this city, I have a feeling of sluggishness, as if I can fall asleep while walking." ”

I said, "Maybe it's because the scenery around you is the same, and if you see too many people, you will get sleepy." ”

Wu Lin shook his head, raised his hand and struck the flashlight at the eaves of a stone house, and saw a golden statue of a beast head and a bird body illuminated by the light.

As soon as I saw it, it was as if something had suddenly exploded in my head, and it suddenly woke me up.

I immediately took a closer look at the stone house where the statue was standing, and then looked around again, whether it was the house, the gold and stone on the house, and the occasional lava quilt around it, it looked very familiar.

We were in this place half an hour ago!

I immediately took out the compass and checked the direction again, yes, we just kept walking in the direction of due south, why did we walk for a long time, but then went back to the same place?

Zhang Donghai also noticed that we had been spinning in place, and frowned and said, "This is not an ordinary ghost hitting the wall. ”

Nonsense, of course, this is not an ordinary ghost hitting the wall, it seems that this dungeon has been arranged into a large ecstasy array, but the trouble is, I can't see the doorway of this array.

I was about to reply, when I heard a very urgent wind not far away.

The wind was fast and short, mixed with the murmur of whirring and hunting, as if a flag was shaking rapidly in the wind.

Wu Lin stared at the direction of the sound source and pondered for a moment, and two words popped out of his mouth: "Someone." ”

I only reacted when he said this, the gust of wind just now was made by people running fast, and the sound of whirring and hunting was the movement made when the clothes were shaking. But we only heard the wind as people ran, but we didn't hear footsteps.

Whew-

The same wind appeared behind us, and Zhang Donghai and I immediately looked back, and vaguely saw a figure flashing quickly in the alley behind us.

Wu Lin asked me, "Can you see them?" ”

I could only shake my head: "I can't see them from the quicksand of the Qi Sea." ”

Before my voice landed, the wind rose again, Wu Lin immediately opened fire, and a spark erupted from the muzzle of the gun, and a stone wall in the distance was hit by an armor-piercing bullet, and the rubble was splashed, and a very heavy smell of blood rose in the air.

Before Wu Lin dropped the gun, another wind rushed behind us, Wu Lin turned around and shot, this time the armor-piercing bullet seemed to hit something like flesh and blood head-on, and I heard a movement like a watermelon pulp being shattered.

Zhang Donghai held a dagger in his hand, and quickly leaned over to check the situation, Wu Lin held a gun to help him guard the surrounding situation, and I was responsible for taking care of Wu Lin's back.

The light of the fire was reflected in the stone room, and the light in the alley was still bright, and after walking a few steps, the three of us could see a person lying on his stomach not far away.

Wu Lin hit him in the head with the shot just now, and now most of this guy's skull is blown open, and his death is really disgusting, he is carrying a huge backpack, and he is wearing the same style of jacket as us, he should have followed us all the way in.

At this time, I can't help but be a little worried about Li Huaishan and them, after all, Li Huaishan and they are still waiting for us at the corpse guarding tree, and if the people behind them want to keep up, they must first cross them, and if they can't get them, something has happened to them now.

It wasn't until I went in a little more that I saw the identity of the deceased, and my heart couldn't help but tremble, and Zhang Donghai also exclaimed: "! ”

The corpse lying on the ground was none other than Wu Lin!

Although he lost half of his head, this person's clothing, body shape, backpack appearance, and the sniper rifle on his back were exactly the same as Wu Lin's, and even when he died, the cigar box in his pocket fell out, and the patterns on the box, as well as the location of several scratches, were no different from the cigar boxes that Wu Lin often carried.

Zhang Donghai and I looked at Wu Lin who was walking in front of us at the moment almost at the same time, the corpse on the ground was obviously exactly the same as him, but from his face, I couldn't see the slightest panic.

Wu Lin approached the corpse, first looked carefully at the sniper rifle on his body, then opened the backpack on the corpse's back, and took out a box of armor-piercing bullets from it.

"How's the marksmanship?" Wu Lin withdrew the regular bullet from the sniper rifle and replaced it with an armor-piercing bullet, and asked Zhang Donghai: "Have you used a sniper?" ”

Zhang Donghai was completely stunned now, and it took a long time before he responded: "I used it." ”

Wu Lin didn't talk nonsense, and immediately stuffed the sniper rifle and the remaining half of the armor-piercing bullets to Zhang Donghai.

I pointed to the corpse on the ground and couldn't help but ask Wu Lin, "What's going on?" ”

"It seems that Yin Jade and Candle Dragon Blood should be similar in nature," Wu Lin's tone was a little uncertain: "But it's hard to say yet." ”

Wu Lin had also mentioned Yin jade to me before, but he didn't mention it much, I only knew that the Burial Sect had been collecting this special jade all these years, and I probably knew that this kind of jade seemed to have some connection with the Pisces jade pendant excavated from Lop Nur back then.

In this situation, even though I still have many questions about Yin Yu in my heart, I don't have the opportunity to ask too many questions.

As soon as Zhang Donghai loaded the sniper rifle, there was another whistling wind not far away, and Wu Lin fired another shot, and for a while, blood mist flew out.

The person who was hit this time was "me", Wu Lin was merciful and retained his face, the bullet hit him in the chest, and the connected backpack was also pierced through a big hole, and the two boxes of Dazhongjiu in the backpack slipped out along this hole.

I picked up a box of cigarettes, opened it and smelled it, the smell was the most authentic Dazhong Jiu tobacco leaves, and then I looked through the other things in the backpack, and it was exactly the same as what I was carrying, but the palladium compass in the backpack looked like a fake, and the magnetic root of the pointer was unstable, and it kept shaking.

At this time, I suddenly remembered the ghostly treasure imitated by Buzhou Mountain, and immediately rummaged through the pocket of the corpse, and sure enough, I found two and a half ancient coins inside, the craftsmanship, texture, and feel of the ancient money are almost exactly the same as the netherworld treasure, and around the square money hole, there are also engraved four yin hexagrams: Kun, Xun, Li, and Dui, but the fragrance emanating from the money is very light, and it smells like a product of five years ago.

(End of chapter)