Chapter 231: The Snake Cave
The underground canyon is like a hell at the bottom of the abyss, full of huge bones of prehistoric creatures, and the stone pillars scattered and collapsed nearby are somewhat insignificant compared to those skeletons, and most of them are buried in the gray-white soil, so at first everyone did not notice that there were human buildings here, until Ah Xiang pointed out that there was a huge black statue behind us, and then we realized that there were so many stone pillars around.
There are some ox nostrils chiseled on the stone pillars, and some of them still have stone rings that are thick into the arms, and the most eye-catching is the eye totem on the stone pillar, these totems we have seen countless times, it can be said that it is not uncommon, I saw it here again, I didn't feel any surprise, the totem of the eyeball, except for the very peculiar at both ends of the altar, one end is the eye of closed eyes, one end is the eye of blood, the rest are all the same, and the stone pillar belongs to the more ordinary kind of pattern, I don't see any difference.
But after Shirley Yang saw the totems on these stone pillars, he seemed to notice some kind of abnormality, and he had to take a closer look at Ah Xiang's eyes, Shirley Yang probably wanted to avoid Ah Xiang's nervousness, so he used a consultative tone, and he was no different from talking usually.
Ah Xiang nodded in agreement, the expression on her face was timid, probably she also felt inexplicable, what does it mean to take a closer look at the eyes? So Shirley Yang held her breath and stood at a close distance, staring into Ah Xiang's eyes without turning her eyes, as if looking for something in her eyes.
I understand that although Shirley Yang said it lightly, there must be something wrong with us not expecting, Ah Xiang's behavior is really not right, so good and decent actually have a soul disorder, holding a sharp stone to stab his eyes, maybe it is really as Uncle Ming said. She has hit the evil spirit, maybe she is no longer the Ah Xiang we know, it is more likely that her eyes have some kind of connection with the evil Luo Haicheng, could she be a ghost mother and demon concubine around us?
I guessed wildly in my heart, turned a few thoughts, but it didn't seem to be like it, and I saw Shirley Yang staring at Ah Xiang's eyes, so I also leaned over with the fat man to take a look. I wanted to see what was in Ah Xiang's eyes, but I didn't see anything unusual after looking at it for a long time.
At this time, Shirley Yang seemed to have found the answer in Ah Xiang's eyes, she first told Ah Xiang not to worry, nothing would happen, and then let us look at the eyes on the stone pillar, although it looks very similar to the rest of the totems in the "Evil Luo Hai City", but there is a detail that is unique, the pattern in front of the eyes here, there is a circle of linear red bumps on the outside of the pupil, Shirley Yang said You look at Ah Xiang's eyes, there are similar things.
That's when I realized I hadn't noticed that subtle difference. If you look closely at Ah Xiang's pupils, you will find that there are really blood marks in it, such as a line around, the blood marks are like blood in the whites of the eyes, but they are extremely subtle, if you don't look carefully, you can't see clearly, if it weren't for Ah Xiang breaking into this cave, we may not find here, and her eyes are similar to the totem here. Did she bring us here on purpose? But in front of Ah Xiang, I didn't say this.
Shirley Yang knew that what happened just now was easy to make everyone wonder, and it was inevitable that they would suspect Ah Xiang, Shirley Yang didn't believe in the reincarnation of the eyes at all, so he explained that the bioelectricity emitted by the human body through the eyes is only about seven percent, which is very weak, but everyone's physique is different, and the ability to sense bioelectricity is also different, Ah Xiang's eyes can sense some things that ordinary people can't capture, although this is very special, but in today's world, there are many things like her. That's why she was subconsciously led here, and the totem on the stone pillar is the best evidence.
After hearing this, Uncle Ming hurriedly said, it's okay, let's hurry up and go north, leave this place early, and don't care about what the hell is here......
Uncle Ming's words were just halfway through, and Ah Xiang suddenly said: "Useless godfather, there is no way to go, there are many poisonous snakes chasing after me, we will all die, I ...... I'm afraid of snakes, I don't want to be bitten by snakes......" he burst into tears.
Ah Xiang's words surprised everyone very much, how can you say that you came? Thinking of those black snakes in the white tunnel of Thunder Mountain, it is creepy, if you encounter a group of snakes in this underground canyon, there is not even a place to hide, running forward is not a way, how can two legs run past those black snakes that swim like the wind, the ancient walls on both sides are like knives, even apes are afraid that they can't climb up.
At this time, the cave in the east, and the sound of snakes swimming between the gaps in the rock crystal veins has faintly heard, Uncle Ming's face is like earth, and he grabbed my arm: "Brother Hu, this time I can count on you, fortunately I listened to you to go north, there is water in the north, and there is water to have a way to live, if I didn't listen to your way back just now, most of them have been buried in the belly of the snake now, let's run north quickly." As he spoke, he tried to pull me forward.
I hurriedly held Uncle Ming's hand down: "Don't panic, there is a flat river in front of you, you will definitely die if you escape, I think the only way to go to the black colossus is to seal the entrance of the cave to block the snake, and then find another way to get out." ”
The sound of the snakes swimming like a frenzied tide, before seeing its shape, it was already frightened by the sound, and there was no room for the slightest delay, I let the fat man carry Ah Xiang on his back, dragged Uncle Ming and strode away, and ran to the cave door at the bottom of the black colossus, the inside of the tall statue was hollowed out, the light was very dim, we used a flashlight to scan the surrounding situation slightly, there are wooden and stone buildings, there are many layers on it, it seems that it can be directly connected to the top of the colossus's head.
A large group of black snakes is approaching, it is too late to take a closer look at the internal situation, the fat man threw Ah Xiang on the ground, and moved two large stone slabs with me and Uncle Ming, after blocking the door, the nervous feeling did not slacken, and the legs were a little soft, I and the fat man used to catch snakes in the wild, but this kind of black snake is not only numerous, but also swims like electricity, and the poison can be said to be stained to death, and it will die when encountered.
Not only were we worried that there were other gaps in the colossus, but we discussed that it was better to go up there, relatively speaking, it was safer to go up, and in order to save the use of light sources, only turn on a headlamp and a flashlight. Walking up only to find that there is no insurance at all, the inside of the colossus is carved out of many stone chambers that are not adjacent, the overall shape is similar to the beehive-like "Evil Luohai City", but the structure is not so complicated, the cave-like cave is small and pitiful, I think this may not be a place for people to live, it is too narrow and depressing, if people live in it, it may not take long to suffocate to death.
It's dusty everywhere, the air is very poor, and if the five of us are in a small area for a little longer, we will feel deoxyc.
When I climbed to the fourth floor, I felt that a cool breeze was coming in, and in the dark aisle, I followed the cool air current, and I saw a one-meter square hole, which was a vent in the middle and lower part of the Colossus. Since the whole of the idol is black, it is not visible from underground, and it is not even easy to find the entrance at the bottom if it were not for the collapsed stone pillars.
I lay in front of the entrance of the cave, leaned out and looked down from a high place, and the fluorescent trance below could only see clusters of twisted and wriggling black snakes, all gathered in the area under the statue, the big one was the thickness of a human arm, the small one was shaped like a willow leaf, and the head had a black naked eye. Some of the snakes were lazily coiled, and some were fighting and biting each other, and the number of snakes was gathering more and more, and the wriggling things were too much, which made people feel disgusting.
Shirley Young looked at it and said to us, "These snakes are acting strangely, not like they are trying to crawl in and attack us, but like they are waiting for something to happen?"
The fat man put Ah Xiang down, took a breath himself, and then said, "I think it's waiting for us to go down and cook for them." He raised his arm and looked at the time on his watch, and said, "Isn't this just time to eat?" Ah Xiang was frightened by the fat man's words, sitting on the ground with his hands on his knees and trembling, Uncle Ming was also a little unpossessed when he saw this, and asked me what I should do now, there is nothing to eat, and there is not much water in the kettle, it is impossible to always hide in the colossus, and the stone house in the colossus makes people have goosebumps when they look at it, even Ah Xiang said that it gives her a headache here, we are in a desperate situation this time, and we can't fly out with wings.
I was also very uneasy in my heart, I definitely couldn't get out outside, and the building in the belly of this black god statue didn't seem to be for people to live in, God knows what would be here, but now we had to stabilize everyone's emotions, so I found some excuses to stabilize the morale of the army, and said to everyone: "In fact, not only the north belongs to water, but the black in the five elements also represents water, and this huge statue is all black, and naturally it is also water, so I think we will hide here, and there will be no danger to our lives."
I suddenly thought of some solutions, so I said to everyone: "Just now at the bottom of the canyon, we all saw that there is a layer of volcanic cocoons on the fossils of stone pillars and skeletons, and there are many bulging bags on the ground, which should be volcanic bombs that have erupted before, and the temperature is much higher than other places, these signs indicate that there is a volcanic belt here, although we found an extinct volcano in the lake, but that does not mean that the entire volcanic belt is dead, the snakes like to be cold, they all come from the cave in the east, Don't dare to get too close to the north, the farther north you go, the stronger the sulfur smell will be, as long as we find a way to get rid of the group of snakes and escape a mile or two forward, we can get out of trouble safely, I think we can use the materials here to make some torches to retreat snakes. ”
Uncle Ming heard that there was a big flaw in my words, so he said: "No, the snakes here are all black, it seems that they should also belong to water, although I don't know how to count, but I know that water can overcome fire, so although the snakes like to be cold, but they also dare to come here, in addition, we have to live in water, how dare we light torches?" Isn't this a taboo of opposing each other?"
I said in my heart that this old Hong Kong peasant is really hateful, and he dares to talk to me about the principle of the five elements, the truth of the five elements is like the truth of the wheel, no matter how you say it, it can be rounded, Hu Ye, I can make three points of reason even if I am unreasonable, can I make you lie down? So he said to Uncle Ming: "Heaven is born of water, earth is born of fire, heaven is born of wood, earth is born of gold, heaven is born of earth, and the five shapes are all in five, so the odd number of yang in the river diagram is the peony, the even number of yin is the concubine, and the yin and yang translocation in the large number, so it is said that the concubine is made of five." Modern people only know that water overcomes fire, but they don't know that water is the oyster of fire, fire is the concubine of water, and today's people only know that water is prosperous in the north, and fire starts in the south, but they don't know that the prosperity and decline of the five elements are related to the stars, Uncle Ming, you only know that water overcomes fire, but you don't know that if the fire is prosperous and the water is declining, the fire can still deceive the water, which shows that you don't understand the ancient law, we are prosperous water, and those snakes are decaying water, so we can use fire to reduce the decay of water. But the fire can't override our water, or we're in danger. ”
Uncle Ming's eyes straightened when he heard this, and it took a long time before he said, "It's too ...... is clever, so I often tell Ah Xiang that if I marry someone in the future, I will marry Captain Jin...... Otherwise, it won't work. ”
Shirley Yang suddenly waved his hand lightly, signaling everyone to stop talking, there was movement outside, and we were immediately alert. Lightly leaned into the entrance of the cave to spy on the movement below, but Shirley Yang did not let us look at the group of snakes below, it pointed to the cliff high above, and at some point there was a long string of small white lights lit up, dangling in the high place, there were quite a few.
But the distance is too far away, and the veins on the mountain wall have become scarce, fluorescent and gray, what is that? I rubbed my eyes vigorously, but I couldn't see clearly, and it didn't look like a lamp, as if there were countless little people in white standing there. Suddenly, there was a slight rocky slope on the cliff, and several large white flowers rolled down from the top and fell to the bottom of the canyon.
On the ground, the snakes swam towards the white objects that had fallen, and we were only a dozen meters above the ground. Looking at the things below, it was relatively clear, only to see those large clumps of things, all of which were some slimy balls, the size of grape beads, and the black snakes scrambled to squeeze over, and stopped around them. Those white objects suddenly appeared a lot of bright red things, as if out of thin air blooming a red flower, but in an instant disappeared, red and dark, the more people looked at the more strange, and then stared at it, only then did they see that in a fossil skeleton embedded in the rock, there was a black snake that was several times larger than the same kind, and I don't know which rock crevice slipped out, swallowing blood-red snake letters, only to see that the snake's whole body scales were black and bright, the light was strange, the mouth was salivating, and the saliva dripping from the mouth fell to the ground, A small piece of bright red toadstool immediately grew in the stone, and it withered in a blink of an eye, and it was extinguished with life, the poison of this snake was so fierce that it was beyond human imagination, the big snake came down from the bone, and the snake walked to the middle of those white objects, and swallowed the empty space one by one, and the rest of the black snakes were quietly waiting beside them, not daring to move a little, and it seemed that they would wait for their boss to eat the leftovers.
The fat man said strangely: "What is that?" Egg? "Although I can't see very clearly, but the large mass of white objects, it should be the eggs of something, very much like large termites or something, and there are many insects and dead bodies of animals in it, I looked at the row of white people in the high place, and I have guessed that eight or nine are not far from ten, and said to everyone: "Those Guanyin above, no wonder these black snakes endure the hot environment here, if it is really what the fat man said, they are here to eat, they will disperse when they are full, let's wait patiently for the opportunity, Small beasts like Guanyin are cruel and cunning by nature, and they are also very greedy, they like to store food, and even if they don't eat it, they will hide things in the depths, and they can't think of cheap snakes. ”
When everyone heard me say this, they put down their hanging hearts, after all, those snakes are not coming at us, and they should not have found that we are hiding here, and it will not be long before we can get out of danger, but Ah Xiang suddenly said: "No, they have already seen me...... I can feel it. After speaking, he lowered his head and was silent, looking very helpless.
I listened to Ah Xiang said very solemnly, she didn't dare to joke about this kind of thing, thinking of the bright red poisonous saliva from the poisonous snake, I couldn't help but start to sweat on my forehead, and peeked out of the cave again, only to see the giant snake coiled on the fossil of the dragon king whale, spitting out letters at the entrance of the cave where we were.
I hurriedly retracted, yes, I could feel it. The snakes at the bottom must know about our existence, but I don't know if they plan to eat the ant eggs and attack again, and because this god statue is forbidden and dare not enter, I let the fat man stay at the entrance of the cave to monitor the movement of the snakes, I and Shinley Yang, Uncle Ming and the three of us have to hurry up to make some torches, I got into a stone house next to the entrance of the cave, holding a flashlight to illuminate, trying to find out if there is any oil storage utensils, although the time has been for a long time, but the yak fat or pine juice in ancient Tibet can be retained for a long time, maybe it can also cause fire, When we came up just now, we already saw that there seemed to be no lights here, and it was very unusual that there would be no light here.
With a bit of luck, I took a flashlight to shine it, the four walls of the stone house were empty, but in the corner, there was an ancient jade mask without eye holes, Shinley Yang also found the same thing in another stone house, I asked Shinley Yang if this would be the mask of the Demon Mother of the Demon Country, can those people show people with masks, is it possible that the building in this colossus is for the ghost mother to live?
Shinley Yang said: "No, the status of the Demon Mother is very high, she must live in the temple of Evil Luohai City, which has been completely destroyed, you see that the environment here is very poor, it may not be too much to say that it is a prison, and the mark of the eyeball is very special, similar to Ah Xiang's eyes, such eyes should not be ghost eyes, and only a few generations of ghost mothers can produce a person who can really see the ghost hole, I wonder if this will be used to ...... Used to imprison candidates whose eyes do not meet the requirements? The stone pillars below had ox nostrils and stone rings, apparently used to carry out cruel punishments, and those who were eliminated may have been locked in the canyon to feed the snakes. ”
I nodded, "In this way, this place does look like a prison, but I still have one of the biggest doubts about this...... "As soon as he said this, the fat man hurriedly crawled back from the mouth of the cave and asked me, "How are the torches prepared?" I see that the snakes have started to burrow into us, and we need to hurry up to light the fire. The fat man didn't feel much when I replied, so he suddenly lowered his voice and said to Shinley Yang and me, "What do you see that little girl tossing there?" I looked at Ah Xiang behind me, she was in a dark corner, her back was facing us, and she herself was facing the black wall, gently caressing the stone wall with her hand, her whole body trembled, and suddenly turned to face us, with two lines of black blood on her cheeks, she slowly raised her arm, stretched out her index finger and pointed at the wall and said, "There is a woman here." ”