The moment I closed my eyes, the whole world finally went dark. The original anxiety in my heart was swept away, in exchange for a sense of security that I had never had: darkness, I was surrounded by darkness, darkness wrapped me, as long as there was darkness, there was safety, there was life.

In this state, the nerves in my whole body suddenly relaxed, and my body flew lightly.

"Hey! Gu Rui?! ”

A scream from Liang Ruoyi instantly pulled me back from this hallucination, and as soon as I opened my eyes, I felt that my feet were already in the air, and when I looked closely, I saw that I was already suspended in mid-air, but fortunately, one of the ropes around my waist allowed me to string it on a stone step above the side in advance, and pulled me all in.

"Are you alright?" The seventh master happened to walk directly above me and Liang Ruoyi, and when he heard Liang Ruoyi's scream, he stopped and asked.

I was so frightened that I took a deep breath, grabbed the rope tightly with both hands, and cautiously returned to the stone steps, only then did I let out a sigh and wiped the cold sweat on my forehead: "It's okay, Seventh Master!" ”

"Well, if you're feeling like you're in a trance, you can slow it down a bit." The seventh master also wiped the sweat on his forehead as he spoke, and looked at the time by the way: "We have been walking for half an hour in a row, step by step is already very slow, it is estimated that it is almost a hundred meters now, let's rest for a while!" ”

I answered, cautiously half-turned, leaned my back against the pillar, and swallowed. And Liang Ruoyi was extremely bold, and seemed to have no effect, turned around and sat on a stone step above.

"Beauty......" I speak now with my own trill: "Why are you so bold?" What's the secret ingredient? ”

"Humph!" Liang Ruoyi snorted coldly: "Let me tell you, if it weren't for you, I would have used both my hands and feet and jumped up to climb up!" ”

"Shh But this is also invisible, if you can see the surrounding situation, three hundred meters high, I guess you don't dare to jump up! ”

"Huh!" Liang Ruoyi sneered, and didn't fall for me: "Whether I dare or not, you don't dare anyway!" ”

Yes, I have nothing more to say. It was almost eleven o'clock in the afternoon, and we rested for about five minutes before walking up again.

After walking for a while this time, the Budai monk, who had the sharpest sense of hearing, suddenly waved his hand to tell everyone to stop, listened attentively, and said softly: "We have less time!" ”

"Less? What do you mean?! I opened my mouth and asked, if you want to increase your speed, you might as well just throw me down!

"Yes!" The seventh master patted his head: "I forgot when I was down there before, didn't I say that Xiao Gu and Miss Liang touched a mechanism in a secret passage?" In fact, that mechanism does not only control the contents of the tomb, but as long as you touch the mechanism in order to get the contents of the tomb, it means that someone will find it, so the water level in the pool where you came up starts to rise! ”

I frowned, not understanding what it meant.

"The pool of water gushing out?" Liang Ruoyi's face showed a puzzled look: "That means that the water in the lake outside has poured in?" ”

"That's right!" The Seventh Master smiled bitterly: "Because of the touch of that mechanism, the water outside will pour into here through a channel, and relatively speaking, the water level of the lake outside is rapidly declining at the moment!" ”

It's amazing! A picture appeared in my mind, the lake outside rushed into it with a dark passage underground, one side of the water fell, the other side of the water rose, strange!

"And what if we enter the lake outside from the cliff?" The old clam's pair of bull's eyes turned: "No, if the water outside comes in, then the lake will be gone, if we jump down, won't we be poked to death directly?!" Then they can only get out of the dark passage of the waterhole where they entered? ”

"Well, there's probably something in there." The seventh master waved his hand: "The best way for us now is to jump in and walk outside before the lake outside is completely dry!" ”

"Good! Then speed it up! The old clam greeted and walked up.

This is the first time I have admired old clams. This guy's kung fu is not high, he is not handsome, he doesn't seem to have any ability except to dig holes and open coffins, he is a big old man, but now he is at the front, he has no fear on his face, his expression is normal, this courage, I can't practice it in my life.

"Let's go." Liang Ruoyi saw that I didn't move, and urged: "I heard the sound of water." ”

I was stunned, and hurriedly pricked up my ears to listen, and sure enough, I could hear a slight sound of running water under me, which should be the sound that the Budai monk heard before.

With a sigh in his heart, he began to walk upwards.

After walking for a long time, our speed slowed down again, not because of the problem of courage, but because such a spiral upward movement is really a limit test of psychology.

"Whew...... Hey? What is this? The old clam at the top suddenly stopped and said in surprise.

I looked in the direction of the old clam's flashlight light, and saw a white liquid on a stone step above the old clam, I looked at it and felt familiar, and instantly remembered: "That's a stone!" Before, the toad was snatched by something else! ”

"Stones?" The seventh master asked: "Old clam, you pick it up and take a look." ”

The old clam replied, stretched out his hand and picked up the stone: "What a light stone, like a piece of jade, cold." This is...... Yes! ”

The old clam screamed, and the palm-sized stone in his hand actually moved, and when he flipped in his hand, the smooth surface parted and became a pair of wings, and the egg-sized head also arched out from the curled chest, revealing a pair of sharp fangs more than an inch long, and bit down on the old clam's palm!

From the insect turning over to biting on the palm of the old clam, it was only two seconds, and the old clam stood on the stone steps and had no time to dodge, nor did he expect the insect to lower its mouth so quickly, and the palm of the hand was bitten out of a bloody mouth, and blood gushed out.

"White corpse turtle?!" The seventh master was shocked when he saw this kind of insect, and the rope in his hand threw it directly at the insect, because the distance was very close, and the seventh master's kung fu was high, this blow hit it directly, and the insect fluttered and fell straight down!

"This is a corpse?!" The old clam covered his wound and asked, "Why is it white?!" ”

The seventh master didn't speak, but shone the flashlight in his hand upward, and I was instantly so frightened that my little heart was about to jump out: on the stone steps above, there were countless palm-sized white stones, all of which were white insects, which looked like they were hibernating!

"!" The seventh master couldn't help but burst out with a foul mouth, in this case, we were in a dilemma: "This thing lives by swallowing the soil in the tomb, can swim, can fly, can live for about a month, but the reproductive ability is extremely strong, everyone pay attention, don't let it bite, it hurts!" ”

The old clam had already hastily bandaged his wound on it, and turned his head to look at the seventh master: "Seventh master, continue?" ”

"Hmmm! Go on! The seventh master nodded and said.

The old clam seemed to hesitate, but quickly gritted his teeth, took out a short dagger from his bag, and walked towards it.

Damn, isn't this looking for death?! I shook my head helplessly, pulled out my dagger and held it in my hand, and walked towards it. Now every step I take is like the last step in my life, and my hairs stand on end, for fear that I will fall down accidentally!

When there were still more than a dozen stone steps in front of the group of corpse turtles, they suddenly seemed to sense something, and they turned over in unison, revealing their wings and heads, and flew into the air with a "buzz", and swooped down on us without saying a word!

In the dark, these white insects were unusually dazzling, roughly counting almost dozens of them, I hurriedly hung the rope in my hand on the nearest stone step, the dagger in my hand was horizontal in front of my chest, as if facing a great enemy!

The insects rushed at me as if they had seen a delicious lunch, and I saw the first one stabbed at the front, hitting one of its wings, and it looked like a beetle losing its balance and falling.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of "whooshing" water from below.