A Visitor to the Mountains Chapter 25 Treading Fire
"It's a thief!" I screamed, and I almost cried with joy!
"I'm a god!" When the monster saw that there was a way out, he held the jade box and held the eagle in one hand and rushed ahead of us.
I picked up the half-unconscious mortal on my back and ran towards the cave in the falling stone rain.
The underground palace was crumbling, and the entrance to the thief cave in front of me was already torn apart, and I was about to get in, when I saw Tang Zhengcao hesitating behind me.
"What's wrong with you! Keep up! I said anxiously.
He followed, but he kept looking at the tomb floor with a complicated expression, the corpse of the tomb robber in the Republic of China.
Seeing that the thief hole was squeezed and deformed, I really didn't care about Tang Zhengcao, and went into the hole. The space inside is cramped and stuffy. This road was extremely devastating, it was like a nightmare, and I bent over and kept my upper body as low as possible, so that I could barely pass with the mortal child on my back. In this claustrophobic space, every minute and every second is like torment.
The tremor of the palace intensified, and small rubble continued to leak from the roof. The joy of discovering the cave was gone, and a feeling of suffocation near death approached me, and it was overwhelming.
In desperation, the only thought in my mind was to move forward, this path must not collapse, even if it is to keep going, it is better than blocking here!
I moved my body like an old scalper. The temperature around me was getting higher and higher, and the heat wave was covering me wave after wave, and my consciousness began to blur and I almost fainted. The staggering step did not last a few steps before he fell to his knees.
My brain was not oxygenated and my eyes were black. At the moment when I knelt on my legs, a voice in my head told me: I can't get out.
We can't get out.
I couldn't bear the physical and mental stress anymore and was planted on the ground.
My head hit a soft pillar and it took me a moment to react before I felt it was a leg.
It's a youkai.
"Got to the hole? Isn't it...... When I got to the entrance of the cave...... "I struggled to get up, and finally, I didn't have to die in the cave."
The youkai stood in front of me and ignored me.
"What's wrong? Why don't you go? I panted and struggled to lift my head.
A burnt smell irritated my nose.
"What is this......" I asked unconsciously.
"It's Earthfire."
The eagle replied, his voice trembling, the kind of trembling of fear.
"What earthfire?" I asked.
I took a few steps towards the entrance of the cave, and the temperature outside was frighteningly high, and the water inside was smoky, and the water inside was almost dried up, and water vapor was everywhere.
In this dim refining furnace, the magnificent terracotta warriors and horses reappear in front of us in rows and rows. In the cascading heat waves, the dead who had been sleeping for thousands of years were reborn in a hellish sea of fire.
With their heads held high, they pulled mighty chariots, rode hideous horses, twisted, moved, and rubbed their hands, standing in the torn underground, in the company of tongues of fire, eager to try.
They found us! An outlier in the dungeon! Intruder!! Grave Robbers!!
I staggered back a few steps, and I was shocked by the terracotta warriors and horses that saw the light of day, and I didn't dare to make a sound, or even blink, as if those dead soldiers would rush up and break me into pieces in the next second!
"It's underground coal."
Tang Zhengcao finally escaped, leaned against the entrance of the cave, and said to us, "There should be extremely rich coal resources under this palace. The earth fire, the earth fire must have been burning for a long time. Now, because of the shock, it leaked out, turned into open flames, and soon engulfed the whole palace—"
While Tang Zhengcao was talking, the monster made a move that shocked everyone, and he jumped into the sea of fire and stepped on the head of the stone figurine.
"Keep up with those who don't want to die!" The youkai looked back and said solemnly.
Everyone was stunned for a moment, the eagle was the first to react, he held on to the outer wall of the hole, and used all his strength to run and jump forward, because of serious injuries, he lost his balance in the air, fortunately he landed on the head of the stone figurine closest to him, but unfortunately he did not stand firm, just when he was about to fall, the monster grabbed him!
This is indeed a very good way, the distance between each stone figurine is not far, there is no difficulty in walking on their heads, the difficulty of the whole escape route is to jump into the pit and jump out of the pit, because the pit and the stone figurines have a distance of nearly three meters, and a drop of nearly two meters, the slightest carelessness will fall into the pit.
In the blink of an eye, the monster had walked several meters with the eagle in his arms, and Tang Zhengcao also successfully jumped onto a stone figurine.
"Ye Feng, you hurry up and keep ......up," Tang Zhengcao said to me, and looked at Ning Fanzi, who was still unconscious on my back.
"Silly boy, you are crazy, do you want to live, you are innocent of death with this person on your back, you can still get out alone, you only have one way to die with him on your back!" Not far away, youkai shouted at me.
I don't know what to do at the moment, and to be honest, my heart is indeed a little shaken.
If I don't let go of mortals, it is almost impossible for me to walk to the opposite side if I am injured and carry another person.
Let go of the mortal, the person on my back is a small hair that has grown up with me since I was a child, although I haven't seen him for more than ten years, but I still feel like a brother, if I let him here, it will definitely die!
On one side is my life, and on the other side is my brother's life. If we make the wrong choice, we'll both have to die here!
With the aftershocks, the frenzied fire had reached the mouth of the cave, and the billowing smoke spread everywhere and began to pour into the hole, and soon we would suffocate from lack of oxygen. The nearest stone figurine stood at my feet, not too close or far, looking at me coldly with its empty eyes.
I looked at it, and at that moment, I made a decision!
"Fanzi, we're going out soon, you must hold on to me! Don't let go! “
I grabbed his knees, ran two steps, exerted my belly, tensed my body and jumped into the fire pit—
In an instant, the hot air crashed against me, wrapping me tightly. This feeling is like putting chicken nuggets with flour in a pan of oil. I even felt like my skin was already burnt and making a "sizzle" sound!
But, but!
Anyway, it's already a mess, how miserable can it be! My heart calmed down at this moment.
No matter how fierce it is, I have only one goal, and that is the stone figurine! As long as you stand your ground, you're half the battle!
I looked down at the figurines, and the figurines looked up at me, and we were getting closer and closer!
In the next second, my foot stepped on its face—
We successfully "landed".
I didn't think much about the rest of the matter, just took a step and rushed forward with a person's head! The fire in the middle of the pit was noticeably bigger than the surrounding area, and many of the flames had risen to the shoulders and necks of the stone figurines, and they were still rising.
Because of the high temperature, my shoe glue softened and decomposed, and I stepped on the stone and began to slip!
For this I had to slow down my walking. But something worse happened, the stone figurines were calcined by the heat for too long to bear the weight of two people, and every time I stepped on a stone head, the stone head would break and fall, and the head would be in a different place.
For this reason I had to walk faster, like stepping on the peel of a watermelon, sliding all the way over, in the race against time, the opposite shore was getting closer and closer to us, and in the light of the fire, I saw someone on the shore waving at me, as if I was about to succeed!
"If you can't get up like this, you have to jump on the carriage!" Fanzi, who was lying on my shoulder at this moment, suddenly reminded me in a low voice.
"You're awake!" I said subconsciously.
"Don't get distracted! Ten meters further, Changge, who held the stone figurine on his left, jumped on the roof of the carriage with the help of his strength, and could fight and roll to the ground. Fanzi said calmly.
I obeyed his command, but just as I was about to jump into the carriage with Chang Ge, the whole tomb seemed to be impacted, and a new round of violent vibration began, and the stones above continued to fall, and it was at this time that Chang Ge broke off in response, and I instantly lost my balance and fell on two stone horses with Fanzi!
"Why are you so stubborn! If you don't let go of Ning Fanzi, you will be burned alive! "On the ground, youkai yelled at me loudly.
The chaos of smoke and fire, rocks, shouting, etc., made my mind a mess. At this time, several large stones fell and smashed on the carriage, and the stone reins of the war horse and the carriage were shaken out of joint! I hurriedly got up from the burned horses, and dragged Ning Fanzi to jump into the carriage by the shoulder of the stone groom, the roof of which was already torn apart and about to collapse.
"Ye Feng, hurry up and jump here! Hurry up! "Tang Zhengcao shouted on the ground about three meters away from me.
At this time, the ground is in front of me, as long as I can jump over, there is hope that mortals and I will survive!
I'm standing on the roof of the carriage, the ground is no more than two meters away from me, and it's not a problem for me to run a few steps and pick up the opposite edge, but now I still have a person on my back, so whether I can jump over it or not is hanging.
The tremor grew stronger and stronger, and it almost destroyed the mausoleum.
I looked at the falling stones, the fire, the stone people, and then at the three people on the ground, and I felt that something was getting farther and farther away from me.
At this moment, a sense of sadness of being abandoned by the world spontaneously arose in my heart.
"Concentrate and jump over the rocks now!" Fan Zi said weakly but firmly behind me.
I looked at the big boulder that fell on the back of the roof and swallowed, can this jump over?!
If you stumble......
"Don't hesitate! Fast! Fanzi continued.
I took a deep breath and stepped forward with the courage I had jumped into the pit, stomping the falling rock and bouncing it towards the ground.
The moment I jumped in the air, the flames in the ground soared several meters high, and those vigorous flames grew into red-hot claws, dragging my feet wildly, and I felt that my body was pulled down before reaching the highest point, and fell at a rapid speed!
It's over, I know it's all over!
Me and mortals—
About to be burned to ashes.
However, the thought of all thoughts was only fleeting, and then, a sudden pain came to the face-
I slammed into the edge of the ground—
A big strong hand grabbed my arm!
"What a stubborn uncle!"
The monster scolded and scolded, and joined forces with Tang Zhengcao to pull me and Fanzi up!
Before I could catch my breath, the tremor in the mausoleum intensified again, and the hand-dug valley was about to be crumpled like a ball of paper!
Just when we were panicked and the mountains shook and there was nowhere to hide, Ning Fanzi shouted:
"Ear chamber! Go to the ear chamber! ”