Chapter 54: Into the Mountain (Part II)
Uncle Li lit a wind lantern and walked inside, Black Hook and Qi Ye followed with a few bags, and Lao Hai walked with us at the back with the rest of the equipment. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
After walking for a while, we came to a stone chamber, and the sour smell in the stone chamber seemed to be stronger than before.
The seventh master covered his nose and said sullenly: "Lao Li, you are pickling cabbage here!" Why does it stink so much? ”
Uncle Li smiled awkwardly, didn't make a sound, and continued to walk inside.
It wasn't long before we came to the stone chamber where I had been separated from the fawn, and the ground was still rubble, but there were a few more footprints.
Lao Hai poked inside, and then motioned for us to follow.
The tunnels are criss-crossed, uneven all around, and it is obvious that they were dug by hand, and some of the roads are not continued halfway through, so they become dead ends.
Lao Hai didn't seem to know the specific route, and ran rampant inside like a headless fly. I said, "You didn't know how to make a mark in it before!" Stupid! ”
The black hook suddenly glared at me and said, "Hou Shengzi, the original purpose of this tunnel is to prevent outsiders from escaping. ”
I saw that what the black hook said made some sense, and I didn't dare to speak again. Although his face gave people the impression that he was a heinous villain, I had a vague feeling from the tone of his voice that this person might not be as bad as he thought.
After going around for a long time, I started to feel a little dizzy, and now I feel nauseous at the mention of the maze because of my previous experience with the maze. Uncle Li asked me to sit down, and then motioned for everyone to take a break.
I drank a few sips of water before I felt relieved, and the black hook looked at me and said coldly, "You also want to go up the mountain?" If it were me, I'd throw you halfway through. ”
Hearing this, I felt very uncomfortable, Uncle Li glanced at the black hook, and he didn't speak again.
Suddenly, I felt something behind my buttocks, which made me very uncomfortable, I casually touched it, and found that the thing was round and hard, and when I grabbed it, it almost scared me to death! I saw that it was a human head, turned into white bones, and the eyes of the skeleton were staring straight at me.
I screamed and subconsciously shook it off, but I didn't expect the thing to fall into the arms of the seventh master. The Seventh Master was so frightened that he hurriedly threw the thing to me again, and this time, impartially, it smashed directly on the black hook's face.
I thought that the black hook was going to do it, but I saw that he didn't get up, but looked at us and ridiculed: "Are you afraid of scaring three-year-old children?" I've got a lot of them! As he spoke, he took out three more from behind his buttocks, and the Seventh Master turned around, not daring to look at him.
"How can there be so many skulls here?" Fawn asked.
"Didn't you come last time, don't you know?" I said.
The fawn shook his head and said that he didn't come in last time, but just stayed in the stone chamber to figure out a way. The ghost will believe him, with his natural wave energy, it's strange if he doesn't come in!
Uncle Li explained: "I dug it up with a group of friends more than 30 years ago, and then there was an accident, a few people died here, and the rest of the people also went their separate ways, and I was the only one who stayed here and guarded the courtyard." ”
This sounded a little sad, I asked what had happened, and Uncle Li just said that the next road was a bit dangerous, so let's not act rashly.
The seventh master was very taboo about the danger that Uncle Li said, and he kept standing behind with his back bent and cowering. I thought it was funny, so I secretly asked Lao Hai: "The seventh master is so timid, why did you come to him?" ”
Lao Hai dragged me away and whispered to me: "The seventh master is like this, he is not serious, but Uncle Li said that he has ancestral stunts, and ordinary people can't learn them, and we can't go up the mountain without him this time!" ”
I nodded suspiciously, glanced at the seventh master with my spare eyes, and saw that he was wiping his sweat with a handkerchief, I really don't understand that such a person is really as powerful as Lao Hai said?
After a while, we set off again, and the subsequent road was very smooth, and there were no further forks, and Lao Hai said that the front was the beginning of the challenge.
The group walked forward, and the seventh master kept complaining, saying how respected he was in the village before, and saying that the world has changed, and people's hearts are unpredictable. He said this just to show the black hook to hear, and complained that he would never invite him to see him. Uncle Li shook his head helplessly, and there was nothing he could do.
As he spoke, strange vines suddenly appeared in front of him, intertwined and entwined, as dense as a spider's web.
Uncle Li made a gesture for us to stop: "We have to get through here, but don't touch them, otherwise we will die ugly." ”
"Do they eat people?" I was puzzled.
"What is cannibalism, have you ever heard of five horses splitting corpses? These vines came out of nowhere, and my brothers were killed by them! He sighed, then took a few candles out of his bag and lit them and gave them to us.
"These vines are afraid of fire, but that doesn't mean fire can overcome them." He went on to explain.
I saw him carefully burrow into the vines with a candle, and when he encountered a very small space, he used a candle to drive it away. As soon as the plants got a little close to the flames, they immediately shrank to the side, and seemed to be particularly sensitive to temperature.
We drew scoops according to the gourd, followed his example, carefully walked through the vines, Uncle Li repeatedly told us not to touch those things, but we still have careless times, from time to time there will be scratches, but there is no terrible thing that Uncle Li said, and we gradually relaxed our vigilance.
This section of the road is much longer than expected, and the constant bending to avoid it is very physically demanding. Momo is petite, and his hands and feet are flexible, almost like walking on the ground, but Lao Hai is not so comfortable, every step he takes, he needs people in front and behind to help him look at the point, we are already too busy to take care of ourselves, and we still need to take care of him, so we move very slowly.
Uncle Li had already walked out of the vine area, and there was a boulder blocking the way in front of him, so he rested on the stone and beckoned us to be careful. Gradually, we all walked out, but Lao Hai was still struggling inside, and the Seventh Master was behind him, constantly cleaning the vines around him.
"You see how inconvenient it is for you to grow this flesh, I'll find someone to cut it off for you another day." The Seventh Master teased.
"Seventh Master, don't talk about the wind and cold, this time when we enter the mountain, it's hard to say whether we can come out alive, if I accidentally hang up, Uncle Li can only trouble you to help me take care of it!" Lao Hai smiled bitterly.
"Phew! Can you say this kind of frustration? Your father didn't teach you that misfortune comes from your mouth, and saying unlucky things will ruin good fortune! "The seventh master said.
Suddenly, the deer seemed to have discovered something, and hurriedly rushed forward and shouted, "Seventh Master, be careful! ”
Uncle Li's eyes were sharp, and he also noticed something unusual, and shouted: "Old Seven! Feet! ”
I quickly looked in that direction, but saw that the seventh master had been tripped by a hidden vine under his feet, and he quickly put his hand on Lao Hai's back to stabilize his balance. But Lao Hai was caught off guard by this sudden change, the candle fell to the ground, and the whole person was pushed down by the seventh master.
Uncle Li's face turned green, and he hurriedly pulled out a machete and stepped forward to rescue.
But it was too late, and the vines wriggled and sprouted rows of needle-like leaves from under their skins, and soon they were wrapped tightly.