Chapter 277: Snake Corpse
Such carving techniques were by no means mastered by the ancients of the Stone Age.
Master and I looked at each other, and neither of us spoke, but we both knew what the other was thinking.
In the vast tunnel we had passed through, the walls and vaults had been built of these carved stone bricks, but in that place there there were many Stone Age objects, the rough statues of coiled snakes, the living rooms of the corpses, and the rough stone tools in the living rooms, all of which were incompatible with the elaborate stone bricks.
The dungeon where we are located should have been built in the Stone Age at the earliest, but after the disappearance of the corpse tribe, another wave of people came here and rebuilt it with more advanced construction technology.
But what kind of person would go so deep into the ground and spend huge manpower and material resources to build such a huge project?
Master stood up on his knees and said, "This place is very unusual. We can't waste any more time, we have to get to him as soon as possible, Senior Brother Feng. ”
But the question is, how do we get back?
When I was thinking this, Master seemed to be pondering, and after a while, he suddenly asked me, "Youdao, have you ever thought about why there is such a heavy yin qi on the other side of the tunnel?" ”
I blinked: "Isn't it because the tunnel is located downstream of the river, and the river flows through the sarcophagus, washing the yin qi in the sarcophagus downstream." ”
The master nodded, and said to himself, "The yin energy on the sarcophagus, the yang energy on the corpse's body...... The yin qi of the sarcophagus should be stronger, such yin qi cannot be hoarded, once it is hoarded too much, there will be a big chaos. There is no leakage of yin qi here, and it is obvious that the grave builder has done something...... There is a way, do you remember, when the two of us entered the river, there was another road next to the river, and in that road, the yin qi was almost not perceived. ”
I looked at Master and reached out again and scratched my head, not understanding what He meant.
Master explained to me, "Those two paths are a pair of yin and yang roads, the river is the yin road, and the other road is the yang road. The yin road gives birth to yin, and the yang road breaks yin, so as to maintain the balance of yin and yang in the tomb. If I'm not mistaken, in the depths of the yang path, there should be a yang array used to dissolve yin qi. ”
He said this as if to me, and as if he were speaking to himself.
Speaking of this, the master paused for a moment, and after a moment continued: "If you want to use the Yang Array to break the Yin, you must first introduce the Yin Qi in the sarcophagus into the array, in other words, the Yang Array and the road we are walking must be connected, as long as we can find the Yang Array, we can return to the Yang Road, and after the Yang Road, we can find the righteous them." ”
I thought about it for a moment and said, "But you can't feel the yin qi in this place anymore, even if you want to channel the yin qi into the yang array, it is unlikely that the path connecting the yang array will be in the upper reaches of the river vein, right?" I think that the passage should be near the sarcophagus, and no matter how bad it is, it should be in the tunnel. ”
Hearing my words, Master was silent for a while, and then nodded: "You have a point, but we have no other way out now. Keep moving forward, and you might find a turnaround. ”
As he spoke, Master took another step forward and hurried to follow him.
As we walked, Master and I carefully watched our surroundings.
I don't know how long we walked, but there was a gust of wind from the left side of our face, the wind was very soft and weak, but I still heard it, and there seemed to be a flash of light in my originally groggy mind, and the whole person became refreshed. I looked back at Master, who also stood there in a daze, looking to the left. Obviously, Master also heard the wind.
If there is wind on the inclined side, it means that there are other access roads on the sheltered surface of the tunnel.
Master and I stood there and listened for a while, roughly determining the direction in which the wind was coming from, and then we felt towards the wind.
Because the sound of the wind was very weak, when we walked, we deliberately kept the footsteps very low, for fear that the footsteps would cover up the sound of the wind, but fortunately, as we got closer and closer to the tunnel avoidance, the wind became clearer.
By the light of the fox fire, I saw an area on the road wall not far away that was swaying with the sound of the wind, and the master took out the green steel sword and quietly approached it, and I followed closely behind him.
When I got to the wall, I realized that the swinging things were something similar to strips of rags. A circular hole was made in the wall, and the cloth-like things hung from the hole, swaying violently with the wind blowing from the hole.
Master took the fox lantern from my hand, shone the strips of cloth, frowned and said to me, "It's a snakeskin." ”
I took a closer look, and sure enough, it was a snakeskin that had been cut into strands of skin, and there was some slimy liquid hanging from the snakeskin, I don't know what it was.
Master pointed to the cave and handed me the green steel sword.
I took my sword and went into the hole.
In the middle of the cave is a long and narrow tunnel, the shape of the whole tunnel is the same as the opening, it is a regular circle, and at the top of the tunnel, there are also strands of snakeskin.
Master followed me into the hole, and the two of us moved forward slowly, except for the uncomfortable liquid attached to the snakeskin, nothing strange happened along the way.
It wasn't until we climbed out of the tunnel that an incomparably large stone chamber appeared in front of us. This stone chamber is really very large, in this area illuminated by the fox fire lantern, you can see the stone floor, the walls of the stone ramparts, and the ceiling, but a hundred meters away, the area where the fox fire cannot shine, there is only darkness.
As soon as Master came out of the tunnel, he frowned and glanced at me.
I handed the Qinggang sword to Master.
Ever since I stepped out of the tunnel, I could feel a faint corpse aura in the air, approaching us at an extremely slow pace.
It wasn't very strong, but it was very weird.
Generally speaking, along with the corpse qi, there will also be the corpse smell on the evil corpse, but the smell mixed with this corpse qi is a smell similar to the smell of mold mixed with Chinese herbs.
I placed the fox fire lantern on the ground, holding the soul sealing talisman in one hand and the Fantian seal in the other.
The source of the corpse qi slowly approached us, until it was about twenty meters away from us before stopping, I had been staring ahead, the area twenty meters away had been illuminated by fox fire, but I didn't see the shadow of the evil corpse.
Master patted me on the shoulder, and then pointed to the top of the stone chamber, and I followed Master's finger and saw a long shadow crawling on the zenith, the fox fire was not bright enough, I couldn't see what it was, I just thought it was a gecko with a narrow body.
I couldn't help frowning, at first glance when I saw this thing, I remembered the time when Luo Youfang borrowed the water of the Yin River to practice the living corpse, the living corpse he practiced at the beginning, the corpse is not a ghoul or a ghost, and it can also climb along the wall like a gecko.
Master came up to me and whispered to me, "Don't use Gangbu. ”
I nodded, but didn't speak.
There are mechanisms in the tomb, and if you rashly step out of Gangbu, the pressure brought by Gangbu may touch those mechanisms.
After that, we silently confronted the "gecko" on the zenith, and we stared at it, as if it was staring at us motionlessly.
I estimated the straight-line distance between it and me, measured my wrist strength, and finally shook my head, at a distance at which I couldn't throw the Soul Sealing Talisman.
After a long time, the shadow still didn't move, and my eyes were still fixed on it, and I said to Master, "This thing can't be a dead thing, right?" ”
I heard Master say behind me, "I don't know what it is, it's better to be careful." ”
I thought to myself, I don't know what it is, I can't just consume it. After a few more minutes, I got a little impatient, so I took a flashlight from my waist, turned on the light, and shone it on the dark shadow.
The white beam had just illuminated the area where the shadow was, and the shadow swooped out of the area illuminated by the beam, and as it flickered, I saw a white face, but it was too fast for me to see it really.
At the same moment, the master suddenly exclaimed, "Be careful! ”
Be careful of what?
Before I could react, there was a gust of wind in my ears, and I felt something approaching the back of my head at a very fast speed, and I didn't dare to hesitate at the moment, and immediately leaned down, and I felt a cold thing rubbing against my scalp.
In the afterglow, I also saw the master swing the green steel sword and slash at something, and then I heard the sound of "dang", and the green steel sword seemed to be slashed on a very hard piece of metal.
Something was wrong, so I quickly shrank up, rolled on the spot, and came to my master's side.
Master rubbed his sword-wielding wrist and looked at me with some reproach.
Now was not the time to speak, so I quickly avoided Master's gaze and looked towards the place where I had just stood.
An evil corpse covered in white hair and with a human head and a snake body was prostrate where I stood, lying on the ground like a gecko, and a long letter still spitting out of its half-rotten mouth.
It's like a real snake that examines us as if it were its own prey.
Seeing its appearance, Master and I frowned almost at the same time.
There is white hair on the body, which means that it is just a white hair stiff, but how can the speed of the white hair stiff be so fast, and with a tight eye-piercing effort, it will come behind me, and the skin on its body, the green steel sword will cut up, just like looking at the metal block, just this hardness, catch up with the armor corpse.
The master changed the green steel sword to the other hand, and said to me, "I'll lead it, and you can throw the soul sealing talisman when you see the opportunity." ”
Before I could respond, Master had already acted.
He first dodged, narrowing the distance between him and the evil corpse slightly, but the evil corpse did not move.
Seeing that the evil corpse did not move, the master simply raised the green steel sword, rushed to the evil corpse with an arrow step, and stabbed the evil corpse's mouth with a swing of the sword.
Seeing that the green steel sword was about to stab the tongue of the evil corpse, the evil corpse suddenly rolled up, and the snake tail that seemed to be thick benzene smashed towards the side of my master's face at a speed that could not be caught by the naked eye.
Fortunately, the master used the technique of the Tiangang sword against the evil corpse, to retreat as a closer, to defend instead of attacking, when the evil corpse rolled up the snake tail, the master just took half a step back, the snake tail rubbed against my master's nose and slid over, I immediately smelled a faint smell of blood.
I didn't dare to delay, and immediately threw out the soul sealing talisman, but at this moment, the evil corpse suddenly wriggled its snake tail, and like a gust of wind, it burrowed into the darkness that the fox fire could not reach, and the soul sealing talisman I threw out was in the air, and it swung twice in the air and fell to the ground.