CHAPTER 24 -- The River Lethe
The three of them walked down the bright light in the alleyway, getting wider and wider. Some small sand appeared on the inner wall of the roadway, and when you touched it with your hand, a layer of water vapor hung on it. Gradually, the small grains of sand grew larger and larger, and were wrapped in calcium carbonate dissolved in running water, forming a shiny surface that looked like pearls. At the end of the alleyway is a huge cavern, which is covered with stalactite curtains, silky like luxurious velvet curtains, decorating this majestic hall.
There is also a stone pillar standing on the top of the sky and the earth in the cave, sixty or seventy feet high, there is a slight sunlight sprinkled down on the top of the stone pillar, it looks as if the stone pillar has poked the sky into a big hole. This stone pillar is also wrapped in a layer of water vapor.
Different from the whole natural cave environment, in the faint light, there is a thick silk slurry drawn from the silkworm's body, like a hidden angler, waiting for a fish to take the bait. Not long after, the reckless Yu Ji took the bait.
Yu Ji touched the trap line, and heard the sound of squeaky gears coming from all directions. The cam brought out a four-handed puppet with a white face, like Bai Impermanence who came to collect people.
In an instant, the puppet's sword was struck. Four hands out of the sword at the same time, the sword light flashed, the white belt on the puppet's clothes also began to fly, the whole puppet seemed to turn into a piece of white lightning, shining in the dark so that people can't even open their eyes, where can you tell where the puppet is? The puppet's sword is also hard to see. If you can't even distinguish the figure of the puppet, how can you shoot at it?
Driven by the gears, this puppet is not only faster than a human, but also has a strange swordsmanship. Legend has it that the so-called "sword weapon" in ancient times did not refer to a sword, but was just a name for an ancient martial dance. This puppet turns this originally ornamental dance technique into a terrifying martial art that can stab and hurt people. The four swords flew in four directions, like a tornado, and once you were touched by them, there was no chance of survival.
However, the reason why people who practice martial arts are stronger than puppets who practice martial arts is that although the puppet's moves are strange and complicated, like mercury falling to the ground. It's pervasive, but there's a certain program after all.
In other words, the puppet's moves can be divided into a small unit, and the move transformation is the connection between one unit and another. Sometimes unit A repeats five times, and then unit B is connected twice. Sometimes, when Unit A encounters a wall collision, it terminates and becomes Unit B.
Just when Ji Ji was tired of dealing with these swordsmanship as fast as meteors, Lin He was squinting his eyes and observing the puppet's every move, trying to crack its program.
In order not to distract Yu Ji, Lin whispered a few words in Wu Zhiheng's ear. Wu Zhiheng was quite surprised by how Lin could see these famous halls in such a short period of time. Wu Zhiheng also doesn't know when she learned these mechanical arithmetic.
But Wu Zhiheng completely believed in her. After hearing the order, Wu Zhiheng immediately pulled out the knife from the sheath, and the person flew out, and in an instant, the person and the knife seemed to have become one.
I saw that the sword light was like a flying rainbow, and it stabbed straight towards the puppet in the air, without change, not even after it. There is no need to treat dolls with hypocrisy, and finding the right goal is the best change. With a quick fight, Wu Zhiheng's quick knife completely enveloped the puppet, and the white fabric on the puppet had been cut off dozens of pieces, and then the sound of the jingle bell object falling to the ground was heard, and then it became "Bang la la", a sound of quicksand.
Although this puppet is powerful, it destroys the trigger mechanism in it, and it is difficult to unleash no matter how powerful it is. The puppet is powered by sand, drives cams and ropes, and hundreds of balls are added to increase the speed of the puppet's moves. How Lin asked Wu Zhiheng to slash at the puppet's basic joint ball, it was like destroying several big points around the person, and the puppet couldn't move afterwards. Even Wu Zhiheng admired Lin He's eyesight and insight. "Did you know that women can't be too smart?"
"Where did the crooked reasoning come from?" Lin asked while looking around the puppet.
"Women are too smart to make men afraid."
"Women are too smart to make stupid men afraid." This puppet is exquisitely designed, and Lin He took a general look, and found more than thirty different subordinate functional units, and the combination of changes turned into multi-ended moves. How Lin laughed at himself, if I were to be considered smart, wouldn't that goddess be called a genius?
After being startled by the puppet, Yu Ji became cautious, he carefully probed the cave, and found no other dark room. Only then did I let go of my heart a little. The terrain here is slightly flat, with some tracks laid on the ground, and the visual inspection track is just the right width for transporting large barrels.
The three men walked along the track, and at the end of the track they found a row of naturally formed stone steps, which were not as neat as they had been excavated, but which did not prevent them from climbing up.
The stone steps are formed by the deposits of limestone, and the crevices in the limestone seep into the flowing water. Flowing water flowed into the cave just now. The stone stairs are very long, starting in a straight line and then zigzag after a while. At this time, the stone steps rise to a platform with a green pool and a small waterfall next to the pool, which rushes down the stalactites. The platform was not large, and the three of them quickly turned over the platform, and there was no other connecting road except the stone steps when they came.
In fact, strictly speaking, it is not that there is no other way, Lin looked up and found that there were no stone walls around the waterhole, and no water flowed into the waterhole. So where does the water in the waterhole come from?
The three of them walked to the waterhole together, and they didn't know how deep the water was. Yu Ji and Wu Zhiheng both had bitter faces, and birds and foxes naturally did not like to go into the water.
It didn't matter how Lin was, she looked back at the other two people and asked understandingly, "Why don't I go down and have a look first?" ”
"Forget it, I'll be with you." Wu Zhiheng lucked his luck and had the courage to prepare to go into the water with Lin He. After all, the underwater situation is unknown, and he is still worried.
After that, how did Lin and Wu Zhiheng take off their coats and shoes, and touched the water with their feet, it was so cold! This groundwater pulled out the cold, which made Wu Zhiheng think of some things in the past, and he said to Lin, "Do you remember when we went to meditate in the waterfall in the back mountain in winter?" ”
"Remember, it's not as cold as this water." Lin was so cold that she was almost speechless, and the moment she got into the water, she also remembered the past, but what she remembered was the water in the Lechuan River.
The Lethe River in the underworld was also so cold and biting, she would jump into the Lethe River when she had nothing to do, and the cold river numbed her mind. The water ghosts in the water were afraid of Lin He, and they didn't even dare to look at her. And she watched the people coming and going on the bridge alone, joy is not as good as sorrow, remembering is better than forgetting, life is more fetters than wrongs, and how many people can give up. Lin felt that he was thinking a little too much, and in a trance, he had a strong sense of burnout.