Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Yaksha Vine

"Why is this happening?!"

While everyone was panicking, an English phrase suddenly came out, it was the older white Northern Irish Farlando, who frantically tapped the rocks blocking the road with an ice axe, and shouted, "There must be a way here!" ”

John, a young white man, also threw up his arms and hammered the stone wall with an ice axe, and said to us, "Frando is right, there must be a passage here!" It can't be without! Dig up these rocks and you're sure to find an exit! ”

The two of them seemed to be crazy, and they used ice axes to dig frantically towards the pile of rubble in front of them, and for a moment sparks flew everywhere.

And the others who realized that they were already in a desperate situation also took out their ice axes, and those who did not have ice axes used their own hands to move away from the stones that stood in their way!

Only Tenzin Kava, me, Lao Dao and the other five people did not move, Tenzin Kava looked at me and said: "You have noticed that there is no rubble on the ground, basically all of them are the same shape, if the passage collapses, it can't be like this, there must be a secret door near here, everyone look for it!" ”

When we looked at it, as Tenzin Kawa said, all the rubble on the ground was in the form of a flat cylinder and the size was basically the same, which could not be the "rubble" that collapsed and fell at all, but a deliberate trick set up by the people who built the passage, perhaps behind the passage blocked by the stone pile was an important room that was enclosed, or it was simply a defensive trap.

The situation was urgent, and everyone didn't talk nonsense, groping directly on the nearby wall, looking for the switch of the secret door.

"Shhhh

At the turn of the passage about 50 meters behind us, a huge black snake head suddenly appeared, and after seeing our group, the giant snake opened its mouth and roared, looking extremely crazy, obviously looking like an enemy meeting and red-eyed.

Seeing that the serpent was already in sight, Lobu was the first to collapse, he actually stopped looking for the secret door, but knelt down in the direction of the serpent, and his mouth trembled and repeated a passage of Nepali, although I didn't understand, but probably asked God for help or begged for forgiveness from the serpent.

The body of the giant snake was almost filling the entire passage, and at this time, the huge snake body squirmed, and the mouth of the blood basin snake was wide open, and it was rushing towards us!

Out of the corner of my eye, I glanced at the rapidly approaching serpent, still trying my best to find the opening and closing of the secret door, and shouted, "Quick! Hurry! ”

At this time, Shen Tang shouted, pointed to a certain place on the wall and said, "Found it!" ”

We immediately gathered around, only to see Shen Tangzhi unload a stone brick from the stone wall, revealing a bronze cast of three snake heads, the snake head is large and the snake head is small, both of which are large open snake mouths, and the largest snake mouth is clearly a groove that can place a square-shaped object.

Tenzin Kava said to me urgently, "Use your piece of jade!" ”

I immediately touched the blood jade, and immediately stuffed it into the groove in the snake's mouth, and sure enough, it was tightly seamed!

As soon as the blood jade was put in, the six eyes of the bronze three-headed snake lit up with red light, and the old knife grabbed the three-headed snake, and with a hard push left and right, it actually twisted!

There was a sound of metal gears snapping and running inside the stone wall, followed by the sound of stones rubbing and dragging, and finally the sound of stones crashing.

I heard it clearly, and it was clear that the jack-like mechanism was automatically removed from the stone wall, and I hurriedly said, "Let's push it in together!" ”

Everyone suddenly exerted force, shouted in unison, only to see that the stone wall had been pushed inward, revealing a stone gate about one person high and one meter wide, seeing the vitality, everyone burst out with all their strength, and then suddenly forced, and finally pushed the heavy stone door weighing more than 1,000 catties completely open!

At this time, when the giant snake saw that we had found the secret door, it was furious, and its crawling speed increased again, and it was a few meters away in an instant, and the violent fishy smell in the snake's mouth came to the face, almost making people dizzy!

"The snake is coming! Quick, enter the secret door! ”

Tenzin Kawa was the first to rush into the secret door, and I immediately pushed Shen Tangzhi and Hyde into the secret door, followed by the two white men.

Tenzin Kava's two guards held the M4 and fired backwards, but the snake's skin was extremely tough, and it was as thick as armor, and the bullet only made blood holes on it, but it did not completely penetrate the snake's skin, and the giant snake was half a minute faster under the pain!

Seeing that the giant snake was about to bite, the two guards had no choice but to give up shooting and burrow into the secret door.

Originally, I was the next person to go in, but when I looked, this guy with the old knife was still squatting on the ground!

I pulled him: "Hurry up!" Are you waiting to be eaten?! ”

"Right now!"

When I saw it, the old knife was actually holding the blood jade that I stuffed into the snake's mouth, and the blood jade seemed to be stuck, and the old knife couldn't be buckled, and his face was full of sweat.

Among the Sherpa guides, Poche had also entered the secret door, and Yali was dragging Lob to the side, and Lobu was still kneeling on the ground, not knowing whether he refused to get up, or was paralyzed by fright.

"Old knife, you go in first, I'll come!"

I jerked the old knife's arm and pushed him through the secret door, shouting at Yale-in, "Drag Lob in, it's too late!" ”

Yale-in's voice was filled with a cry: "I can't drag it, he's scared by the serpent!" ”

I took two steps forward, grabbed one of Lobu's arms, and dragged Lobu off the ground with Yale, the guy was really paralyzed with fright, and he was still muttering a barrage of Nepali.

The giant snake has approached, a snake mouth is less than half a meter behind my hungry back, spit out a few drops of snake saliva on my back, suddenly there are a few "zizi" sounds, I used to push Yali and Lobu into the secret door, but I was too late, only to hear a huge force from behind, the next second, there was a sense of weightlessness all over the body, and my feet were already suspended from the ground!

I immediately understood - I was bitten by a giant serpent!

"Backpackβ€”"

The two anxious faces of the old knife and Shen Tangzhi at the dark door came into my eyes, and their reminder also made me wake up in an instant - the giant snake just bit the hiking bag on my back!

I curled up and pulled out the dagger tied to my leg, flicked it behind my back, and cut the shoulder strap of my backpack with all my might!

But at this time, the giant snake also threw up the backpack and me, and the bloody mouth opened again, and it swallowed me!

"Smack!"

When I finally cut the shoulder strap, I twisted around and put one foot on the snake's kiss to change the direction of my fall!

The mouth of the snake bit hard, swallowing my backpack, and I hit the wall, after sliding down, I saw the blood jade in the mouth of the three snake heads on the secret door in front of me, I directly inserted the dagger in my hand into the mouth of the bronze snake, and pried hard, the blood jade "collapsed" and flew up, and I used my other hand to volley in the palm of my hand.

But my whole body also lost my balance, and my feet slipped and I fell to the ground, and when I saw the mouth of the giant snake bite me again, at the last moment, two pairs of arms stretched out from the secret door, grabbed me by the collar, and dragged me in!

"Boom!"

The serpent missed, and the snake's head slammed into the stone wall!

I escaped death and lay on the ground laughing: "Come on, I want to eat your grandfather, you think it's so easy?!" ”

"Shhhh

As if it understood my words, the giant snake raised its head and screamed, and a pair of snake eyes overflowed with resentment, and the pupils were suddenly red like blood, and they slammed into the wall of the dark door again!

"Boom!"

At this moment, the stone wall was actually hit with a shock, and several stone bricks the size of a grinding disc fell!

I got up from the ground with a bone, and a cold sweat broke out on my back: "Damn, this guy is crazy, he wants to die!" ”

The old knife picked me up: "I think it's you who don't want to die - I don't have a problem with you going to save people, damn the rhythm that you just want to put yourself in!" ”

I smiled apologetically, but said, "I have to go and talk to them, and I'll explain the reason to you later." ”

"Explain Nima, Explain! You're going to Hades and explain it to me? ”

Shen Tangzhi pulled the two of us apart: "When is it, and there is still time to quarrel?" ”

I patted the old knife on the shoulder: "Okay, I owe you a time, let's go." The passage here is much smaller than the outside, but it is said that snakes have the ability to shrink their bones, so it is impossible to pass through here. ”

The old knife snorted: "I have thought about it before I am a hero next time." ”

The sound of the giant snake hitting the wall behind him was still heard, but the stone wall was very strong, except for a few bricks and stones that fell at the beginning, it didn't really collapse, but the giant snake was obviously not very willing, and still kept slamming.

Everyone was frightened, walked out of dozens of meters along the passage, and there was a hall with four stone walls, hundreds of square meters, and the hall was empty and empty.

But as soon as Jiajie and Si Ke, who took the lead, stepped on the floor of the hall, they suddenly changed!

Under the pillar of light of the bright flashlight, countless long objects sprang up on the floor of the hall where Si Ke and Jia Jie's feet were standing in the blink of an eye!

Lobu cried out in panic: "Snake! Snake! ”

Jia Jie and Si Ke hurriedly exited the hall, and both fell to the ground.

Shen Tangzhi looked at it carefully and said, "It's not a snake, it's some plants, like some kind of vine." ”

I saw that in the cracks under the stone bricks, more than a dozen emerald green wattles were drilled, and then they spread to all sides, and soon formed a green patch in front of our eyes.

After seeing it clearly, the old knife smiled and said: "The people of this ancient country of Somol are very trendy, and they have also laid a lawn at home. As he spoke, he stepped on it.

I hurriedly grabbed him: "I was taught to be careful just now, but now I have recklessly bumped into it?" ”

As soon as the old knife opened his mouth to me, he suddenly said "Huh": "What the hell is this?" ”

The vine-like plants in between, as soon as they were visible to the naked eye, grew thicker, and the green shoots at the top kept pulling out, dancing in mid-air, and finally grew two palm-sized leaves, and the light brown lines on the leaves actually formed two "eyes".

Tenzin Kava looked at those vines, suddenly remembered something, his face changed drastically, and he shouted, "It's not good, this is the Yaksha vine!" ”

As soon as the words fell, those vines suddenly rose a few inches higher, and the two leaves with "eyes" on the top of the vines suddenly all turned to the direction of Tenzin Kava, and then, the vines arched in the air, like snakes preparing to attack, and in the next second, they catapulted towards Tenzin Kava!

These changes were completed between breaths, although a few of us retreated a few steps back, but the passage here was much narrower than before, only three people could pass side by side, we retreated, but were squeezed by the last person walking, and Jia Jie and Si Ke, who were standing at the front, had nowhere to dodge, and their legs were already caught in the vines!

The old knife and I reached out and grabbed Jiajie, and the Sike on the other side was a little farther away from us, but Tenzin Kava reached out a beat slower.

"Sir, help meβ€”"

The pulling force of the vines was unexpectedly large, and the old knife and I worked together, but we almost didn't hold Jiajie, and the Si Ke on the other side had been wrapped in the vine's legs and dragged into the hall, and in the blink of an eye, he was wrapped in a ball by the vines, like a mummyβ€”but the mummy was wrapped with strips of cloth, and Si Ke was tightly wrapped around the green vines.

Tenzin Kava pulled out his waist knife and slashed the vines that wrapped around Gyalje's legs.

On the other side, Siko's screams quickly subsided, and his hands were still stretched out towards Tenzin Kava, and they were soon wrapped around the green vines......

There was a creepy "creaking" sound in our ears, it was the sound of the Yaksha vine suddenly tightening, and the sound of Siko's body suddenly deforming, and this sound quickly became the "click" sound of bones rubbing and breaking, and the Yaksha vine wrapped tightly around Siko's body, and streams of blood soon flowed out from the gap between the vines, flowing down the branches.

Tenzin Kava's eyes straightened, and he muttered, "Siko is dead......"

His face was so gloomy, it was the first time I'd seen him look so sad since I had known him.

With such a miserable scene, the rest of the people also saw the cold hair standing on end, and they all showed unbearable expressions.

Especially Jiajie, who was as bold as him, remembered that he had almost become the flesh and blood bait of this yaksha vine just now, and he was also terrified and trembled.

There was no way back before us, and the old knife felt for a flare and tried to burn the vines, but was stopped by Tenzin Kava, who said, "When the Yaksha vines have sucked enough blood, we will be able to pass." ”

Tenzin Kawa said that after marrying Princess Korit of Nepal, he visited the palace garden one day and found a forbidden courtyard, and when asked, he said that an extremely dangerous man-eating plant was planted in the yard, called the Yaksha vine.

Yaksha is a transliteration of the Sanskrit word "Yak?a", or "Bitter Living", which describes the pain that this ghost has experienced - a living creature entangled in a Yaksha vine, and the fate is even more tragic.

Princess Collit told Tenzin Kava that it was a plant that was almost extinct, and that there was once an archduke who liked to throw slaves into this courtyard to admire the tragic situation of them being fed by the Yaksha vine, and after the death of the Grand Duke, the courtyard was cordoned off, and no one ever saw the Yaksha vine appear since.

As soon as Tenzin Kava finished speaking, the Yaksha vine in front of us was full of flesh, and the dark green of the vine faintly revealed a faint red, and then suddenly dispersed, and retracted its branches and buds under the floor.

There were only Siko's clothes on the ground, and all that was left was Sensen's bones and some blood foam.

Everyone was shocked, especially Lobu, who said that he did not dare to approach the hall.

Tenzin Kava was the first to go to the front: "The root system of the Yaksha vine is extremely deep, and if there is a Yaksha vine in one place, then there is no possibility that a second Yaksha vine will exist within a radius of a kilometer. ”

We heard him say this, and saw that he had indeed made it through that section, and that nothing had happened, so we passed after him, and Lobu, with the help of Yale-in-China and Poche, was the last to follow them with trepidation.

After that, we did not encounter any danger in the passage, and the passage continued to stretch horizontally, and it took more than half an hour before there was another light in front of us, but as soon as we came out of the cave, we were all dumbfounded.

What appeared in front of us was a huge ice cube, and when we looked up from below, we saw that the sky was cut by ice, leaving only a thin line, and in front of us were countless bottomless ice abysses......

We're under a glacier!