The stone stem Tianliang is transformed from an ancient fossil tree, which is more than 30 meters long and about 5 meters wide. One end of it is connected to the platform in front of the white tunnel, and the other end leads to the entrance of the cave in the belly of the Jade Mountain Altar Mountain. There are many ancient white stone figures standing on the beams, which are very similar to the heavenly figures in the tomb of King Xian.

Uncle Ming rode on the shoulder of a stone man, holding the hand of the "phoenix gall" raised and leaned out of the beam, the fat man and I did not dare to act rashly - even if no one touched him, Uncle Ming also had an old problem, as soon as he was nervous, his hands began to tremble, and he couldn't hold anything steadily-in case he fell into the mirror maze below, it was not something that could be retrieved in a moment or three, and we had little time left. This time, Uncle Ming is like holding an extremely unstable bomb, and once a situation occurs, the five of them will inevitably be burned.

Uncle Ming was wrapped in bandages on his head, his eyes were glaring, his teeth were gritted, and his emotions such as excitement, anger, and hatred made his whole person become hysterical. This is the most dangerous time, maybe add a little more pressure to him, and that fuse in his head will blow out, and he will be completely on the precipice of a mental breakdown.

He shouted hoarsely, threatening everyone to retreat, and whoever dared not listen would throw the "phoenix gall" far away. I was helpless, so I had to take a few steps back, and scolded Uncle Ming's ancestors in my heart. The old port farmer's scheming was deep enough - he slipped into the crystal layer below, and although his head was broken and he bled a lot, it was all skin wounds, and he fainted for a while, and he was as sober as before we were at least discussing the murder ritual - but when he heard that the situation was not right, he pretended to break his brain, and then took it by fraud after learning the importance of this "phoenix gall". At that time, we were in a very complicated mood and lacked precautions, so we actually fell into the way of Hong Kong farmers.

In any case, we have to stabilize him first. So he gestured to the fat man and Shirley Yang behind his back, telling them not to act rashly, and once they made a move, they must be successful, and they could not take any risk that might make "Phoenix Guts" miss; Then he said to Uncle Ming, who was riding on the stone man, "Why do you want to do this, old man!" We're all grasshoppers on a rope, we can't go anywhere, we can't fly you, I never intended to sacrifice anyone! What the fat man just said is only based on the premise that you have become a vegetative person when you are old; Since you are in good health, I advise you not to toss as soon as possible, hurry down, and let's discuss other methods. ”

Uncle Ming sneered, and the muscles on his face were twisted due to excessive excitement, and he scolded: "Ahh You decrepit boys pretend to be smart, and you still want to lie to you, uncle, and me! I think that my 'little Zhuge 'Lei Xianming' cut off the head of a chicken at the age of thirteen and burned yellow paper, at the age of fourteen he went to sea to the South Seas, and at the age of fifteen he slaughtered a living person with his own hands; I have seen a roadblock on the road, I have encountered a mermaid in the water, and I have been wandering in the rain of guns and swords, and in the wind and waves for half my life, how can I be deceived by you and kill my life! ”

I said to him, "You are saying the opposite, what do you mean to be wise?" If you hadn't been suspicious and refused to believe my advice, and said that you couldn't part ways even if you died, you wouldn't have ended up in the embarrassing situation you are in. How else to say that the word is contrary to the ear! It's a pity that Ah Xiang is also involved, who do you say she recruited to provoke whom? Now it's useless to argue about these things, we must be in this together, otherwise everyone will die without a place to bury! ”

The fat man was furious, and put on a posture of rolling up his arms and sleeves, staring at the living people: "Old Hu, what the are you talking to him!" Since he wants to blackmail us, it means that he is reluctant to give up this old life, I don't believe that the old girl dares to throw the beads down! Let's go over and give him a big unload of eight pieces now, the sacrifice that should be sacrificed, and the throw that should be thrown! ”

As soon as the fat man was so frightened, Uncle Ming was really scared, because these days, he already knew very well that the fat man was a person, and he belonged to the soft and hard way - this kind of person was the most difficult to deal with, and he would do anything if he had a temper; Take the fat man's own words, be happy, and dare to pinch the buttocks of the seven fairies in the sky. Uncle Ming's nervousness made his hands tremble a little, and he hurriedly said, "Don't...... Stay back! If you have something to discuss! Don't think I don't dare, if you dare to force me, I'll make one for you to see, it's not bad for everyone to die here! ”

I know that although Uncle Ming is afraid of fat people, dogs jump over the wall in a hurry, and people have no bottom line when they are in a hurry. Of course Uncle Ming doesn't want to die, even if he is destined to live no more than tomorrow, it would be good to live a little longer now, and he can't be blamed for being selfish and despicable; People don't kill the heavens and the earth for themselves, and even ants still steal their lives. Dare to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the majority, such people are heroes, but they are all flesh and blood mortals, ninety-nine percent of the people do not have such a high ideological consciousness - even in those one percent, there are many people who are heroes because they are forced to become heroes - no one is qualified to ask others to die for themselves, let alone that kind of cruel death.

Another point is that the human psyche is very subtle, and some of the changes cannot even be explained. For example, if a person knows that he has a terminal illness, there is no cure, and his time is short, then the unbearable pain in his heart can be imagined; However, if he suddenly learned that people all over the world were suffering from the same symptoms as him, then he would definitely have more psychological comfort, and the sense of loneliness and helplessness would not be so strong. This is called the sky falling, and everyone is on top of it.

I only heard Uncle Ming continue: "We have all fallen under the ghost curse, but I know that there is still a way to live, but I have to kill one person to do it, I think ...... You guys...... You've killed Ah Xiang! I've worked so hard to raise her for so many years, and it's time for her to repay the favor. ”

At this time, I had figured out Uncle Ming's bottom line-he knew better than anyone else that there were only five people here, and if he killed any of me, Fat Man, and Shirley Yang, he wouldn't want to leave alive; He couldn't have walked back to Karamir from this subterranean space on his own. Moreover, Uncle Ming is never willing to die here, in this case, he can only sacrifice his goddaughter Ah Xiang. Take a step back, if we don't agree to this condition, then if Uncle Ming wants to die, he will pull everyone on his back.

I hadn't been back to see the chrono crystal sand since I came out of the altar, but I didn't think there was much left of that time. Since I have guessed Uncle Ming's bottom line, I have a way, and I know that the old port farmer still doesn't want to do things, since this is the case, there is room for flexibility. Although there was no chance to snatch back the dust beads, he could gamble on his luck, so he said to Uncle Ming: "Tiger poison does not eat children, if you kill Ah Xiang and live, what is the difference between you and the beast!" Although you are willing, we will not do this kind of thing that is inferior to pigs and dogs. It's better to be like this, you, me, and the fat man, the three men drew a life and death lot. It's good to leave it to fate. ”

Seeing that this was already the only chance to live, but only a one-third chance of death was too great, Uncle Ming gritted his teeth and said, "My luck has never been bad. The most fateful is big, I can fight with you, but if you want to draw the lot of life and death, all five people will be drawn, and no one will want to sit back and enjoy the success, otherwise everyone will die together. ”

Uncle Ming didn't wait for us to agree, and he had already made conditions. Everyone must swear a poisonous oath, life and death are fateful, whoever draws the death lot is his fate is not good, and he must not repent, and we must give him a pistol, so that no one will regret and kill him at that time.

I glanced at Shirley Young, and she nodded at me, and I thought to myself that I could give him this pistol, because he didn't dare shoot casually. Otherwise, he also knew the consequences, so he left Shirley Yang's M1911 with only one bullet, intending to go over to him, and wanted to take the opportunity to pull him off the stone, but Uncle Ming wouldn't let me take half a step and asked me to hand over the pistol to Ah Xiang. Forward it to him.

As soon as Uncle Ming received the gun, he held the "phoenix gall" in one hand, urging us to swear quickly, time is running out, in case someone draws the "death lot", it is too late to hold the ceremony, and everything will be empty.

I thought to myself, don't you just swear an oath, this oath has a "looper", "dead set" said, "looper" is to say that the sky thunders, or eight lifetimes can not catch up with the way to die, or play some lip color, although the impassioned swear, but in fact, the content is vague, the meaning is unknown, it is all boiled water, said and not said; "Dead set" is a real poisonous oath, even involving the whole family, even if you don't believe in the people who swear and curse these things, they don't dare to say it casually.

I didn't care, but I hadn't bowed to the handle, I hadn't sworn any alliances, and I didn't know much about those words, so I raised a hand and said, "Ready, always ready......

Uncle Ming shouted: "No, no, you are fooling through, I'll say it first, you all say it yourself according to my words." Then he took the lead in issuing a "dead" poisonous curse, and we had no choice but to follow it vaguely.

As for the props of drawing life and death, the only way to take measures is to find a small sealed bag, and then take the five bullets that were just unloaded from M1911, and mark the warhead of one of them with a red marker, representing the "dead sign", and take turns to reach into the sealed bag and touch it, whoever touches out the "dead sign" will die here instead of the remaining four people, and there can be no complaints.

Uncle Ming still felt that it was inappropriate, and asked everyone to touch it with the hand wearing gloves, I secretly scolded the old port farmer in my heart, and then also made a request, must let Ah Xiang and Shirley Yang draw lots first, this is never compromised, there are only five lots, the more you make it first, the less likely it is to draw a "dead lot", but this is also related to luck, every time you draw an unmarked bullet, the probability of death will be added to the remaining bullets respectively, which is somewhat like a revolver using robust ammunition, The difference between the Russian roulette wheel, which is loaded with only one bullet and takes turns to shoot at the head, is only the number of people involved.

Uncle Ming gritted his teeth and agreed to this request, after all, it is possible that the person who drew lots first hit the muzzle of the gun in advance, and the time kept passing minute by minute, and there could be no longer any delay, in this life-and-death situation, there was no way to cheat, so I had to make a big gamble with Uncle Ming to see if it was the life of "Captain Jin", or his "corpse and turnover", so Shirley Yang asked Ah Xiang to draw lots first, Ah Xiang since he heard Uncle Ming say that he could kill her, He was always in a state of trance, and with the help of Shirley Young, he mechanically reached into the sealed bag, felt for a bullet, and threw it on the ground without looking, which was an unmarked bullet.

Uncle Ming also saw clearly on the stone figure, swallowed hard, the probability of death increased to one in four, in an atmosphere that was almost about to freeze, Shirley Yang calmly felt the second bullet from the sealed bag, she seemed to have been mentally prepared, life and death aside, she slowly opened the hand holding the bullet, holding an unmarked bullet on her glove, Shirley Yang sighed lightly, but did not feel the slightest sense of relief.

I pressed the sealed bag, and the fat man glanced at each other, there are only three people left, people who can be sacrificed, will be born from among us, if Uncle Ming draws the death lot, it is unbelievable, killing him is justified, if I and the fat man draw, I will first trick the phoenix gall to the mobile phone to visit Uncle Ming, do you want to smoke first? Uncle Ming weighed it for a long time, and asked himself if he had the courage to touch the third, but if he didn't smoke, if the next person couldn't draw the "death lot", the probability of death would increase to fifty percent, and it took half a day before he shook his head at us and let me and the fat man smoke first.

The fat man scolded, reached in and took out a bullet, he pinched it out, and was stunned when he saw the warhead: "***, I didn't look at the yellow calendar when I went out, and I forgot to burn high incense when I visited the temple, why did I let the fat man catch up." ”

Uncle Ming saw that the fat man had drawn a death lot, but he didn't get carried away, and suddenly showed murderous intentions, raised his gun at the fat man and scolded: "Dead fat boy, you are even more hateful than Hu Bayi, you go and die." "Pulled the trigger.

The fat man didn't hold a gun in his hand, he just drew a death lot, thinking that he was really going to die, he couldn't help but panic in his heart, the terrain on the beam was narrow, and he didn't expect Uncle Ming to shoot suddenly, because if you want to die, you have to wait until you are in the altar to die, what is the use of dying here, but Uncle Ming's mental state is very unstable, and he has to do it regardless of this, so the fat man had to rush to the back of the stone man, only to find that the gun in Uncle Ming's hand did not sound.

Uncle Ming saw that the pistol could not be fired, so he immediately shook it, and then scolded Hu Bayi, you are a short-lived decrepit boy and a treacherous plan, and you actually unloaded the primer of the bullet secretly, lose it, everyone died together. Raise your hand to throw out the "phoenix gall" and fall straight into the cloud lake under the sky beam.

Although I did something in advance, I didn't expect Uncle Ming to shoot at this time, and when I saw that I had lost the automata, I wanted to rush over to stop him, but after all, I was six or seven steps away, and it was too late for me to pull Uncle Ming off the stone man.

There was a mess on the beam, and in the confusion, I saw Shirley Yang rushing to the edge of the beam, ready to jump down to find the "phoenix gall", but suddenly stopped: "Oh no, time is gone." As he spoke, the light of the crystal veins above his head suddenly and quickly dimmed, and darkness began to envelop all around.