Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Cave Fire Grass
In the dark and long cave, we saw that there seemed to be a bend in a distance of about tens of meters and nearly a hundred meters, but on the other side of the bend, there was a faint red light!
"What's it?!" The pig's head seemed to be frightened by the black python before, and his voice trembled a little when he looked at the red light.
"Perhaps, it's an exit." Liang Ruoyi was a little excited.
Everyone stood in place and was stunned for a while, and then they all took a step forward and walked towards the red light.
At this time, the hole in the ground was less than two zhang wide, and the path left for us was already very narrow except for the small stream that was almost half a zhang wide in the middle. The seven of us were divided on both sides of the creek and walked slowly forward.
Soon, we came to the front of the curve, and we could clearly see a faint red light flickering on the side of the curve, I don't know what it was, it could emit such a light.
"Could it be a big ruby?!" The toad's eyes were shining, and the abscesses on his face were shaking because of excitement, which was really unbearable to look at.
"That's good." The second uncle smiled: "But it seems that it won't be that kind of good thing." ”
"Maybe it's a big monster!" The pig's head continued: "The monster that has been cultivating in the cave for thousands of years has been woken up by us, and then it must transform into Ultraman...... Oops! ”
"Shut up!" Liang Ruoyi slapped it: "Why don't you remember!" Shut your crow's mouth! ”
Everyone was happy, walked along the bend of the stream, looked at it, and was stunned for a moment: the source of the red light was neither a ruby nor a big monster, but a palm-sized red grass growing on the stone wall, and several curved blades of grass emitted this red light, and there were about a hundred of them as far as the eye could see, which could emit such a powerful light, and they all reflected the bend.
"Cave Grass?!" The Seventh Master pondered for a while, and suddenly exclaimed softly: "It turned out to be the Cave Underworld Grass, and there really is such a plant?!" ”
"Cave Grass?" The toad looked a little disappointed when he saw that it was not a ruby before, and when he heard the seventh master say what kind of cave herb it was, he immediately came to his senses again, and asked, "Is it a rare Chinese medicinal material?!" ”
"That's not ......" The Seventh Master shook his head as he walked forward: "In addition to the luminescence of this grass, the greatest use of this grass is that it can illuminate evil things!" ”
"Evil things?" I walked behind the Seventh Master: "No, Seventh Master, could it be that there are still some evil things that we can't see?" ”
"Of course!" The second uncle was not happy when he heard this: "You kid is a Gu family, why do you still ask such a childish question!" Do you think that's all you see with your naked eyes? The ghost of the legend is another evil thing that cannot be seen, but it is rarely encountered. ”
I was stunned: "I don't understand." ”
"For example, you take care of your family to exorcise evil spirits for others." The Seventh Master took over the conversation and said: "Those things are actually evil things, but they seem to be very normal, your Gu family can immediately feel that they are evil things, but we ordinary people can't feel it at the first time." If there is this cave grass, as long as the light it emits shines on it, and the object turns black, it is undoubtedly evil. ”
"Oh!" I nodded: "I understand this way, it's the same as the money detector." ”
The second uncle snorted and didn't speak again.
We walked to the cave grass on that layer, and the seventh master picked one of them: "Alas, it's a pity, as long as this cave grass is picked, it can only survive for twenty days, and it is worthless, and this grass is difficult to feed, I didn't expect to see it here." ”
I saw that the seventh master was holding the cave grass and it was fine, so he also picked a plant, and looked closely, and saw that the roots of this cave grass were extremely short, only more than an inch long, and five finger-thick blades of grass grew directly from the roots, which were redder than orange, and the lines on the grass blades could be clearly seen, and the surface of the grass blades emitted a faint red light, which was very beautiful.
"Hey! It looks like an exit over there! Liang Ruoyi suddenly broke our silence.
We hurriedly turned our heads to look, and saw that dozens of meters away, there was a small white hole, which seemed to be the exit of this cave. Because of the red light of the cave grass, the hole in front of us is full of red, and if you don't look closely, you really can't see the exit over there.
"Let's go, this cave grass, just pick a few." The seventh master said that he picked a few plants and put them in his backpack, but the toad picked a lot of them, and estimated that he was going to cheat money after going out!
Everyone picked a few plants and put them away, and walked towards the exit, but as soon as they took two steps, there was a suffocating sensation in the air around them!
"Poisonous?!" I instinctively screamed, and tried to speak again, but as soon as I breathed, I felt a heat in my throat, and I couldn't make a sound at all. I hurriedly reached out and covered my throat, turned my head to look, and saw that the other people were in the same pain, and immediately felt a sense of despair.
"Hmm!" The cloth bag monk covered his mouth and snorted twice, staggering forward, twisting his body to signal us to run forward and get out of here.
Everyone had been stunned by the sudden scorching sensation before, and only then did they come back to their senses and help each other towards the entrance of the cave.
That is, in a few seconds, I was dizzy by the hot head, staggered and walked two steps, suddenly felt that the world was spinning, instinctively reached out to help the stone wall around me, just touched, I felt that the palm of my hand was burned, like an electric shock pumped back, but also woke me up, sobered up a lot, hurriedly followed the second uncle to continue to run forward.
By this time, the water in the stream around me had begun to heat up as the temperature rose, and I had no doubt that if I fell into it now, I would immediately burn my hair......
In just four or five meters, we walked for a minute without passing through, and when we finally passed through the red light of the cave grass, the temperature around us rose extremely again, reflecting the pale red light of the cave grass, as if we were in the mythical samadhi fire, the skin all over the body felt a burning pain, the eyes could not be opened in pain, and the gas breathed through the nose was also like a fire......
I covered my nose with one hand and my throat with the other, and although I wasn't dead yet, this environment made me feel the meaning of the words "life is better than death" for the first time......
"Hmm! Not! The Budai monk turned his head and shouted at us twice, then quickly rushed out of the cave with his feet on his feet.
The Buddha beads in the hands of this old monk are not ordinary, I estimate that it should have the effect of driving away evil spirits and awakening the gods, otherwise, looking at the distorted expression of the seventh master, I know that even if he is a master, in this case without the assistance of foreign objects, it is very uncomfortable.
The second uncle's hand holding my wrist was already as tight as handcuffs, but in the past few seconds, we have only moved one step forward......
Just when we couldn't hold it anymore, the cloth bag monk who had rushed out and gasped for a few breaths turned back, twisted the Buddha beads with one palm, moved his lips slightly, recited a Buddha name, roared, and slapped towards the red light that wrapped us!
My eyes were slightly squinted by the burning pain, and I vaguely saw the Buddha beads in the hands of the Budai monk flashing with a golden light, just like the palm that hit the black python yesterday!
When the old monk's palm hit the red light, I only felt that the surrounding space was stagnant for a moment, and at this moment, the feeling of my whole body returned to normal, and before I could react, I was dragged out by the second uncle!
At the moment when I ran out of the red light, there was a "crackling" sound from the stone wall behind me, I hurriedly turned my head to look, and saw that in the red light, a big hole was broken in the stone wall, and with a "whew", a blazing red flame burst out from the hole, and my eyes flickered, and the second uncle pulled me to run desperately towards the hole: "Hurry up!" ”
Fortunately, the hole that Liang Ruoyi found was really the exit, and by the time we gasped and rushed out to look back, the flame had long since disappeared......
"I'll go ......," I sat down on the ground and glanced at the hair on my forehead in the weak sunlight, only to see that it had been scorched, and that the temperature of the flame had increased.
"Where did the flames come from?!" The pig's head collapsed to the ground, frightened: "The temperature rises in an instant, what kind of flame can do it?!" ”
I turned my head to look and saw that the pig's head was soaking wet, and the close-fitting clothes were clinging to my body, looking like a meat bun wrapped in plastic wrap, which was very funny.
"I don't know...... Seventh Master also gasped, shook his head, and turned his head to look at the cloth bag monk: "Master, do you know what kind of fire this is?" ”
The old monk saved our lives just now, but at this time, it seemed that it had taken a lot of effort, and when he heard the seventh master's inquiry, he only shook his head slightly: "I don't know." ”
Everyone looked at each other and smiled bitterly, stopped talking, and sat on the ground to regain their strength.
I glanced at the time, and it was already ten o'clock in the morning. Lying on the ground and looking up, I found that the place we are in now is white fog, the fog is not too thick, the visibility is about twenty or thirty meters, and all that can be seen around are all kinds of trees and gray stones.
However, this kind of environment is much more comfortable than in the mountain valley, and the breeze blows from time to time, and the sun shines in from outside, and it becomes much gentler.
"Forget it, let's have lunch before we go." The seventh master rested for more than ten minutes, and said with a wry smile: "The toss just now is even more uncomfortable than the injury, and I feel sore all over my body now." ”
There was no objection from the crowd, and after staying in that sharply rising temperature for a few minutes, it felt bad for the whole person. Because of the wound on my back, I could only lie on the ground after lying crooked for a while, and rested for more than half an hour before I felt that my body was normal.
Liang Ruoyi recovered the fastest, dragged the pig's head to explore the surroundings, I rested, and got up to prepare lunch with the second uncle and the toad, and by the way, check whether the equipment in the backpack was damaged by the previous temperature.
At half past eleven, Liang Ruoyi came back with the pig's head, and there was a trace of bitterness on their faces, and they didn't know what they had discovered.