Chapter 14: The Dead Man's Vine
I was very embarrassed to take the flashlight and follow the seventh master to a corner, and I saw that the seventh master had his back against the inner wall, his feet drew a circle on the ground, and then began to find the direction according to the angle of the corner behind him.
"Whoa......
At this moment, I heard the sound of water flowing outside the corridor, and it seemed that the underground channel was already full of water and began to rush towards the corridor. I am not good at water, and it is a matter of life and death, so I became nervous in an instant, and looked at the seventh master with a frown: "Seventh master, the water is coming!" ”
"Wow!"
As soon as I finished speaking, I heard a "poof", and the underground river outside quickly broke through the outer wall of the tunnel and poured into the corridor, drowning my feet in an instant.
God, as Liang Ruoyi said, the two thousand years of Yongdao can't resist the impact of the underground river at all.
The seventh master glared at me, seemed to have found the right direction, and took two steps forward.
I saw the Seventh Master's body sinking slightly, and then I heard a "boom" sound from the darkness not far away, and the old clam shouted: "Seventh Master, the door is open, on your right!" ”
"Let's go!" The seventh master turned around and waded into the water, and as soon as I took a step, I saw a small hole in the inner wall where the seventh master was leaning just now, and inside was a stone carved dragon head, which was opening its mouth, and before I could take a closer look, it had been flooded......
I hurriedly followed the Seventh Master, and the walls of the entire corridor began to make a "Kara Kala" sound, and many places had cracked.
The water in the corridor instantly came to my knees, I had some difficulty to keep up with the seventh master, and when I saw the seventh master's body flashing, it flashed into the wall, I hurriedly waded through the water, and I saw a stone door open on the wall.
"Come on in!" The old clam reached out and pulled me in, and then pushed the stone door to death.
All five of them were panting, and all four flashlights were shining on the ground, listening to the sound of running water that could still be heard outside the door.
Monk Budai suddenly walked up to me and looked at me: "Do you know kung fu?" ”
I was stunned, I didn't know why the Budai monk suddenly asked this, and shook my head: "No." ”
The cloth bag monk seemed to be a little disbelieving, and turned his head to look at Liang Ruoyi. Liang Ruoyi shook his head: "Gu Rui doesn't know kung fu, but his second master is a master." ”
The old monk nodded and said no more.
The old clam took out a few breads from his bag and handed them to us: "Let's eat something first, it's lunch, otherwise, we won't have the strength to work later." ”
I ate a bowl of somen noodles in the morning, and after a morning of walking on the mountain road, my stomach was already hungry, so I opened the bread and ate it in a big gulp, and by the way, I took out a few bottles of water from my bag and gave them - this was my last food and grass, and my backpack was empty at this time, and there was no food left.
The seventh master was eating bread while holding a flashlight to shine around. Soon, we understood the terrain we were in: after we entered through the stone gate, there was a staircase on the left and right that led to the bottom, and there was darkness in front of us, and the bright flashlight could not reach the end here, and we could not penetrate the darkness at all.
However, in terms of height, we can reach the bottom by walking down the stairs for about five meters.
"Is the area down here as big as the one up there?" The old clam was talking to himself, and he took out a small square box from his bag, then opened it, and actually took out a clam from the ice cube inside and ate it.
Oh my God, this guy really deserves to be called "Old Clam"!
"What sound?!" Liang Ruoyi kept leaning against the stone door and screamed coldly.
We immediately quieted down, and my little heart, which had just calmed down, came up again: "Then the river won't rush in, will it?!" ”
"No!" The Seventh Master said: "Generally speaking, this kind of structure can only submerge the Yongdao, and the water will automatically flow back after reaching a certain depth, which is a very simple mechanism that will not be submerged in the mausoleum." ”
"Crackle, crackle, crackle......"
As soon as the seventh master finished speaking, we heard a "crackling" sound on the wall, like the sound of burning firewood.
"Water ......" Budai Monk suddenly muttered: "Water, aquatic foreign body!" ”
The seventh master's face turned pale, and he was just about to speak, when something suddenly rushed out of the ground under our feet, and the old clam was unexpected, and he was directly knocked down the stairs!
"What a thing!" I screamed and instinctively ran towards the Budai monk, after all, this old monk had saved me, and I trusted him the most at this time.
"It's the Dead Man's Vine!" The Seventh Master grabbed a swarthy vine with a thin arm and said, "This thing eats people, don't let it catch it!" ”
After the seventh master finished speaking, a popping sound sounded again under our feet, and two dead vines instantly entangled the seventh master's feet and dragged him down the stairs.
"Master!" At this time, I was not embarrassed, and grabbed the placket of the cloth bag monk.
"Go down!" Liang Ruoyi held a short blade in his hand, and had already cut several dead vines, and turned his head to shout at me and the Budai monk as he rushed downward.
I answered in the dark, turned around to pull the old monk down, but suddenly felt a tightness in my ankles, and I was also entangled in two dead vines, and before I could react, I was dragged to the ground, and the flashlight in my hand flew out......
"Save me, master!"
The old monk was also calm, I had been dragged up the stairs, "popping" and falling my ass and being dragged by the dead man's vine. In the darkness I felt a flash of light, and then I felt a blazing sensation around me, and after the dead vine felt this heat wave, it was like a mouse seeing a cat, and instantly let go of me and returned to the wall.
I was thrown half to death, and my ass was almost four-petaled, and I stood up with my ass in my hands, and found that I had reached the bottom level. The cloth bag monk walked down from it slowly: "Are you okay?" ”
I nodded, and shook my head again: my ass is about to fall and I don't feel it, how can I be okay!
"By the way, what about the Seventh Master?!" I took out another flashlight from my backpack and shone it around, but I didn't see the other three, and I couldn't even hear the sound.
There was a silent darkness all around me, and I even felt like I was in outer space, and the infinite darkness enveloped me, and I couldn't see the edge at all, like a dream. It's just that this dream appears in a mausoleum where the dead are buried.
"Master, will the dead vine appear again?" I asked with a sigh of relief.
"Yes." The old monk said: "The dead vine likes yin and water, is afraid of dryness and fire, reproduces quickly in a dark environment, and has a strong vitality. However, the most recent record of this thing is more than 200 years ago. I didn't expect to meet here. ”
I smiled: "Master, aren't you quite able to say it, why ......?"
Before the words fell, a black shadow suddenly flashed from his side, and the cloth bag monk snorted coldly, his body shook, and he chased after him in an instant: "What person?!" ”