At this time, Liu Shanang's nerves have become very sensitive, and any inappropriate words may provoke his nerves, which are about to burst. And Liang Houzai has also become a little abnormal in the last few days, he is still as smart as ever, but in the past he usually analyzed problems very pertinently, but now he likes to think about everything in the worst, and he also likes to sing mournful tunes.

Surrounded by darkness all the time, people can become extremely vulnerable, but I think that since those who fell into darkness for no reason back then can reproduce here, we can definitely survive just a few days in this place.

Maybe it's because of this thought that I've been able to keep my sanity all the time.

After that, we continued along the river, and during the walk, I had to constantly remind Liu Shangang to count his steps, because I found that his eyes often became wandering, and Liu Shangang did occasionally forget to count his steps.

Liang Houzai often sighed while walking, and his eyes were always irritable.

I need to constantly find ways to reassure the two of them, while also marking where we are on the map from time to time.

We have now entered the area where the Bagua map is located, as the terrain continues to rise, the firelight can already illuminate the top of this dark space, the water in the river veins is becoming clearer and clearer, but there are fewer and fewer fish in the water, and sometimes, we can walk a long way to see three or four fish.

When the food supply is abundant, we often stop to eat when we are tired and hungry, but now, whenever we find a school of fish, we stop to eat, and everyone knows very well that after a little walk, there will be no fish in the water at all. And the dried fish prepared by Liu Shangang may not be enough to support us to find the spring.

We walked on and on, and I occasionally told a few stories to ease the nerves of Liu Shangang and Liang Houzai, but most of the time, there was no communication between us at all. Walking in the dark, only the footsteps of the other party can be heard, and the occasional slight crackling sound of the torch burning.

Dorjee hadn't rested for a long time, and like me, he was taking care of my two breakdown companions, and in order to ensure their sleep, Dorjee had been acting as a night watchman for the recent period.

After a long journey and a few days of disappointment, Dorjee was finally overwhelmed and fell to the ground while walking.

I was marking our location on the map when I heard a muffled "bang" behind me, and when I turned my head to look, I saw Dorjee lying on the ground, his tongue drooping, his chest heaving violently, and at the same time looking at me with an unusually weak look.

Seeing Dorjee like this, I had an indescribable heartache, I knew that it was tired, so I quickly asked Liu Shangang to take some dried fish and feed Dorjee to eat, and after Dorjee was full, I asked everyone to stop and provide Dorjee with enough rest.

In this matter, Liu Shangang and Liang Houzai were very cooperative, without complaining or impatient eyes, everyone gathered around Dorjee, combing its hair or rubbing its neck, so that its somewhat stiff body gradually relaxed.

As soon as Dorjee fell asleep, Liu Shangang slowly approached me and whispered to me, "Brother Dao, there is movement up there." ”

As he spoke, he held out his finger and pointed above the river.

I followed the direction of his finger and listened intently, but I didn't hear anything, so I asked him, "What's the movement?" ”

Liu Shangang: "It's the kind of buzzing sound that only comes when the 'manta rays' appear, they are not far away from us, but the sound is not loud, I don't know what they want to do." Brother Dao, I guess it may have been the ground tremors caused by Dorjee's fall to the ground, which led them over. ”

In Liu Shangang's words, he repeatedly said "them", which means that there is more than one "manta ray" above the river.

At this time, Liang Houzai said: "Throw a torch over and see how many of them there are." ”

Liu Shangang didn't talk nonsense, and immediately took out a wet wooden stick and oilcloth from his backpack, made a torch and lit it, his movements were fast and light, and almost did not cause the slightest shock.

When the fire on the torch was blazing, Liu Shangang threw the newly made torch out.

The torch circled in the air for two large circles, and fell to the ground with a snap, and I first saw a thin figure quickly flash through the firelight and burrow into the darkness, and then I noticed that a large number of "manta rays" had gathered less than thirty meters away from us.

I'm not worried about these "manta rays", I can take a few steps to stop them, what I'm worried about is the skinny figure, if I guessed correctly, it should be the armored corpse in District 4.

The torch fell on one of the "manta rays", and it immediately shook its body and shook the torch off, and as its actions caused the ground to shake, I saw the black shadows on the ground stir quickly, but then regained their calm.

Liang Houzai whispered to me, "It seems that they can also recognize their own kind. ”

I nodded, and instead asked Liu Shangang, "Behind them...... Is that a wall? ”

Liu Shangang glared, looked at the end of the fire, and then nodded at me: "It's an earthen wall, and there is obvious rubble on the wall." The wall was directly above the river, leaving only a mouth as wide as the river, and we couldn't go any further. ”

I immediately asked Liu Shangang: "How high is the height of the water outlet?" ”

Liu Shangang: "About half a meter." ”

Hearing him say this, I couldn't suppress the excitement in my heart and couldn't help but smile. I glanced at Liang Houzai, and he also had an excited expression.

Now, the spring is right in front of you!

A river like this must be a tunnel near its source. This kind of tunnel was washed by floods over millions of years, and it is not just a small hole like a spring, but the tunnel near the source of the river should be slightly wider than the river, and according to the experience of the tomb in the past few years, the height of the tunnel like this is usually greater than the width.

But Liu Shangang said that the height of the outlet was only about half a meter, and an earthen wall appeared on it, and there was obvious gravel on the earthen wall. This only shows that this wall was artificially built, that is, it blocked the only light source in this dark space.

I sank my breath, tried to suppress the excitement in my heart, and said to Liu Shangang and Liang Houzai: "I want to go to Gang, you will protect the Dharma for me." ”

When the two of them nodded, I had already stood up, and carefully recalled Chonggang's footwork, this kind of Gangbu was recorded in the secret book that Master gave me, I used it once when I was in Dianzi Village, and its characteristic is that the star power caused is not as strong as the orthodox Gangbu, but it covers a wide range, and when walking, the difficulty is much greater than that of the orthodox Gangbu.

After being in the dark for so many days, my mental condition determined that I could not refine my mental power as strong as usual, and the effect of thinking for nine days was not comparable to usual, but although the star power I attracted this time was not as good as before, it should be enough to deal with these black monsters.

In order to stabilize my mind, I closed my eyes when I stepped out of the heavy gang and stepped on the first star as fast as I could.

It only took a few seconds for Chonggang to finish, but it only took a moment for those "manta rays" to rush in front of me.

As soon as I stepped out, a huge sense of exhaustion invaded my whole body, and after that, I could only grit my teeth, almost driven by some kind of inertia, to step on the whole set of heavy gangs.

The star power arrived as scheduled, and I immediately opened my eyes, and I saw Liang Houzai and Liu Shangang both lying on the ground, and there was a "devil fish" suppressed by the star power next to them, and there was a short blood mark on Liu Shangang's chin.

In these few seconds, the "Manta Ray" still launched an offensive, and Liang Houzai and Liu Shangang must have rushed up to protect me at the first time, so they were injured.

Fortunately, my calculations were not bad, just relying on the meager star power attracted by Chonggang was enough to suppress the yin qi on the "devil ray", I let out a sigh of relief and asked the two of them, "Are you okay?" ”

Liu Shangang sighed: "It's good that you move fast, otherwise, the two of us will definitely be useless, alas, don't talk about it, I have to rest for a while." ”

With that, he lay on his back on the ground and closed his eyes with a collapsed face.

I looked at Liang Houzai again, and his current condition is similar to Liu Shangang.

Although they didn't say it, I knew in my heart that they must have been hit by the "manta ray" just now, and although they were not seriously injured, it was enough to be rubbed by that kind of monster.

When the star power dissipated, I walked up to the two of them, intending to help them up, but just as I leaned down to take their hands, there was a sudden muffled sound under my feet.

The layer of soil at my feet burst into bloom, and I subconsciously raised my hand to block the dirt that was splashing at me. At this moment, the thin figure of the armored corpse broke through the ground, and it crawled onto my back in a puff of smoke, and I quickly took out a soul sealing talisman from my pocket and pasted it behind my back. It seemed to sense the danger, and instantly jumped off my back, and then I felt a tightness on my waist, and looked down at the belt, and the Fantian seal was snatched away by it.

And at the moment when I bowed my head, the armor corpse had already drilled into the darkness with the Fantian Seal.

Liu Shangang immediately got up from the ground and wanted to catch up, but I reached out and pulled him in: "Don't go over!" ”

Liu Shangang pointed to my empty belt very anxiously, and then pointed to the direction where the nail corpse fled: "That's Fantianyin!" ”

I smiled at him: "Don't worry, Fantian Seal and Qinggang Sword, these two things are numerically related to the lineage of Shouzheng, and they can't be lost." However, it is a bit unusual that this armored corpse can get close to Fantian Seal. ”

Liu Shangang looked at the darkness beyond the firelight and asked me again: "Don't you chase?" ”

I took out the sapper shovel from my backpack and said to him, "Don't chase, dig the wall." ”

After saying that, I picked up Dorjee and walked towards the earthen wall.

Since I have talked about the numerological connection between Fantian Seal, Qinggang Sword and our upright lineage, I have to mention a few more words here, because I haven't said this before, but I just said that these two things are very important for us to keep the right line.

It is true that the importance of these two things as the treasures of our integrity is beyond question. But my master said that the Fantian Seal and the Qinggang Sword have been kept by the people of the Shouzheng line for 2,000 years, and now they have formed a relationship with the Shouzheng lineage that is almost related to blood. Master said that with this level of relationship, as long as the vein of integrity is still there, Fantianyin and Qinggang Sword will not fall into the hands of others.