Chapter Forty-Six: The Destruction of the Thunder Gate
As soon as we retreated, there was a sudden gurgling sound in the cracks, as if the water was boiling.
At this time, Jiuli's gang couldn't sit still, and many people immediately gathered around to see the excitement.
The sound of cooing has not diminished in the slightest, but has a tendency to increase. I'd like to go over and take a look, but the patrol is already in the vicinity, and we don't dare to move at will.
"What's wrong?" Jiu Niang shouted and walked out of the tent and asked.
"Lord Yama is deflating." I don't know who in the crowd shouted.
"Fart!" Jiu Niang scolded: "What Lord Yama, be careful to cut off your head if you spread rumors again." ā
The crowd fell silent and looked at the cracks.
"Da Yin, what do you think?" Jiuniang asked Da**.
Da Yin shook his head: "I don't know, it seems that there is danger down there." Tomorrow the water will be much better when it recedes. ā
Jiuniang nodded, agreeing with Da Yin's opinion.
"Ah, Hades, it's Hades!" Suddenly, there was another shout from the crowd, followed by a scream, and I heard someone fall.
"Lord Hades, I have discovered Hades." Another voice rang out, and he fell with it.
"Hades is asking for his life."
"Everyone, run away, I see Hades."
More and more people shouted, and in a few moments I heard at least ten people fall down.
I'm cĒo. I was shocked in my heart, the three of them became tigers, and I felt that so many people shouted to see Hades, it was definitely not rumors, and there was nothing to do.
Seeing so many people falling, Dayin immediately panicked: "Stand back, give me back off." ā
In fact, there was no need to shout, and everyone retreated, not daring to continue to approach. Just kidding, there might be Hades down there.
"Hades is asking for your life, Jiu Niang, let's leave quickly."
"I'm not going to do it, to anger Lord Yama, we still have good fruit to eat?"
This sound is getting louder and louder in the crowd.
Jiuniang immediately reprimanded: "Shut up for me, less nonsense." Some people are just playing tricks. ā
I heard the voice of the corpse chaser: "Jiu Niang, can you explain to us what is going on?" To tell the truth, I don't want to get rich and become an official in my life, I just want to have an acre and three points of land, and live our life well. ā
Jiuniang looked at Da Yin: "Da Yin, what do you say?" ā
Da Yin asked the crowd to get out of the way, tied a rope around himself, and said, "I'll go ahead and see what the hell is going on." In case I'm going to fall, pull me back in time. I guess I already know what's going on. ā
Everyone immediately nodded and looked at Da Yin convincingly. Da Yin walked towards the crack little by little, lit a few charms in his hand, and said something in his mouth.
When the big yin got closer, he put his head on the crack and shouted hard, and the terrifying echo sounded over and over again, and in response to him, the roar of the river became more and more powerful.
Da Yin looked at the bottom of the river quietly, and after a while, Da Yin suddenly shouted: "Pull me back, pull me back." ā
My heart thumped, and it seemed that the bottom was really not peaceful, and there was danger.
After Da Yin came back, he gasped for a long time, his face was blue and white for a while, and he didn't say a word.
Jiu Niang let the crowd disperse and give the other party some space for more than ten minutes, before Dayin finally stood up, but it seemed that his face was still a little prostration: "Jiu Niang, let's withdraw from Erli for the time being." ā
Jiu Niang asked, "Why?" Do you also believe that this is Huangquan Road? ā
Da Yin said: "No, there is mercury vapor steaming up from below. Let's wait for the mercury vapor to clear up before coming back, otherwise our people will be poisoned, and it will be too late to save them. ā
Jiuniang hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, let's retreat two miles first." Lao Hu, you should go to the nearest town now and buy a gas mask. The more the merrier. ā
"Good!" A middle-aged man immediately ran out, drove a tractor, and left abruptly.
Jiuniang did not forget to reassure people at this time: "Everyone doesn't need to panic. The truth has been revealed. Mercury vapor evaporated from below. And mercury is known to be poisonous, and people who are close to the cracks are poisoned and hallucinate. ā
Jiu Niang's appeal was strong, so everyone immediately quieted down and began to evacuate.
We also followed the evacuation. They withdrew two miles, and we withdrew three.
However, I still cared about the treasure under the crack, so I asked Master Liang if he could make me a simple gas mask, and I couldn't wait to go over and take a look.
Master Liang hesitated for a moment, and said that this is easy to do, but I am worried that the filtration is not good, and after a long time, it will still be poisoned.
I said I couldn't do it that much, and even if I couldn't go down, at least I had to destroy their stuff first. We must not let them go down before we do.
Master Liang said that it should not be a problem for more than half an hour.
We followed Master Liang's instructions, retreated a few kilometers, beat a few pheasants, peeled off the skin of the pheasant completely, boiled the pheasant out of a layer of oil, completely wrapped the pheasant's feathers with the skin of the pheasant, poured a layer of pheasant oil, poked a few big holes in the pheasant skin, and the simple gas mask was completed.
Lei Lao Wu is a righteous young man, insisting on going with me, and we concocted the same method and made a gas mask for the tired old property.
The three of them waited in place, and Lei Lao Wu and I quietly bypassed Jiuli's people, and finally came to the crack.
It was already dark, and we had no lighting, so we could only use the moonlight to get up little by little.
This gas mask is really disgusting to say, not to mention the difficulty of breathing, and every breath is a pheasant stench, but now I can only endure it.
Lei Lao Wu regretted it several times and wanted to go back, but I was dragged hard and dragged to the crack.
The river below was still bubbling and boiling, and I could smell a faint smell of mercury through the thick gas mask, and I wondered if the gas mask didn't work.
We approached the shelves built by the Jiuli people, and the Jiuli people didn't notice it, which made us breathe a sigh of relief.
The Jiuli people tied a total of two steel cables to the shelf. But it seems that it is just tied up at random to prevent the steel cable from falling. We threw the tightrope down, and they shouldn't have doubted it.
Lei Lao Wu and I had a steel cable, and we quickly untied the steel cable, and then threw it down.
The steel rope made a buzzing sound as it fell, which immediately attracted the attention of the people next to it. Jiuniang stood up and roared angrily, which bastard tied the steel rope? Why is it so unsturdy? Give me a little dark room to reflect.
I breathed a sigh of relief, and it seemed that they didn't suspect that they were breaking the tightrope.
When we were done, we were about to turn back, but in the haze, I heard a voice from the bottom of the cliff.
"Wait." I grabbed Lei Lao Wu, who was about to turn back.
He said inexplicably: "What's the matter?" ā
"Someone is talking at the bottom of the cliff." I whispered.
Lei Lao Wu looked at me with a smile and a smile: "Just kidding, there is mercury vapor down there, and ghosts can't live underneath, let alone people." ā
I asked Lei Lao Wu to listen carefully, and Lei Lao Wu was also stunned: "I'm cĒo, it's still ...... There are really people. ā
"What should I do?" Lei Lao Wu looked at me.
"Don't talk nonsense yet, go back." I hurried back with Lei Lao Wu.
When I told Master Liang about this, Master Liang and the others obviously didn't believe it: "What are you kidding." I know that if you want to let the mercury evaporate, it can be hundreds of degrees, not to mention mercury poisoning, just this high temperature, people can go down and make barbecue. ā
I nodded thoughtfully, but the sound I heard just now didn't look like an illusion at all, otherwise Lei Lao Wu wouldn't have heard it.
Even if we were a little bit of mercury poisoning, we wouldn't have the same hallucinations.
Forget it, let's leave that alone. I said, I'll wait until tomorrow.
I have an ominous premonition in my heart, and I always feel that tomorrow the people sent by Jiuli will definitely have to die.
The next day, as soon as it was dawn, I heard movement in Jiuli's ranks. It turned out that the person who bought the gas mask returned.
Lao Hu handed over more than a dozen gas masks to Jiu Niang, and then said, "Jiu Niang, something happened to the gate." ā
Jiu Niang asked, "What's wrong?" ā
"The people of the fortress have been destroyed."
I clearly saw Lei Lao Wu's whole body tremble, and I was really worried that he would rush forward impulsively. However, he still maintained some sanity and listened quietly to the conversation of the Jiuli people.