Chapter 15: Encounters
"Flying Snake!"
I shouted and fell backwards, a reflexive retreat that almost made me fall out of the hole. The snake reached out and grabbed me by the shoulder, pulled me in, and dragged me back.
"What 'Flying Snake'?" A woman was talking, and I heard the voice a little familiar, but it was pitch black all around, and I couldn't see clearly. "Xiao Yangzi, have you eaten too many brain fragments?"
Hearing this, a stir in my head understood, "How...... How are you? "In this city right now, I'm afraid the only woman who can talk to me like this is that girl." Aren't you dead? How did it come back to life? I asked.
Looking through the light of the camp lamp, I saw the girl kneeling in the hole, staring at me with big eyes. "You're dead!" The girl snorted dissatisfiedly and asked, "Where did you come from?" How did you end up here? ”
At this point, I immediately realized that this was not a good time to catch up, so I hurriedly turned around, leaned out half of my body, and dragged Xiao Rong up.
"It's a long story," I said, gasping for breath, "I'll explain to you later, let's get out of here first, this stone corridor is very evil, and it will change direction by itself." ”
The girl ignored me, but stared at Xiao Rong who was dragged up by me, and I felt that there was obvious distrust and suspicion in her eyes. I didn't explain too much, and after a few moments, the girl said, "Don't worry, follow me." So he turned and crawled into the cave.
We followed the girl and crawled into the hole. This hole is very low, surrounded by smooth stone slabs, although you can bow forward and walk forward, but it is too tiring to do so, so it is more convenient to crawl forward on all fours.
After climbing for a while, the girl said, "I was outside just now, and I heard someone shouting here, so I climbed in to take a look, I really didn't expect to see you again." Xiao Yoko, didn't you say that you were waiting for us outside the city? ”
I said, don't mention it, it's because I'm waiting outside the city, and I almost hung up several times. I asked her if she had found the gold pit.
She replied that she followed the map, and indeed found it, but they were deceived by Jing Lianhong, and it was not a golden pit at all, but a nest of golden poisonous frogs. The poisonous frog looked like gold from a distance, making a deafening "quack" sound, and they thought it was some kind of tricky spring, but when they got closer, they were dumbfounded. The mucus on the surface of the skin of the poisonous frog is very deadly and will die if you touch it! And when they arrived, it happened that the poisonous frogs were laying eggs, and as soon as they saw people, the poisonous frogs immediately swarmed over, and they fled in a hurry, and all the people with slow legs and feet died.
Later, they accidentally fell into the trap again, and at once they broke a lot of people. In the institution, they almost died for life, and it was not easy to get out, and now the survivors are hiding somewhere to rest.
Listening to the girl's words, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. I always thought I was miserable enough, but now I seem to be happier than them, at least I'm alive now.
I don't know where the stone corridor that the girl took us will lead to. We climbed a downward slope, and suddenly felt a cool wind blowing in our faces, and when we looked up, we saw that the end of the stone corridor was a little emerald green, and the green was white. Maybe it's because you've been in the dark for a long time, and the color makes your eyes hurt.
The girl quickened herself, and in a few moments we finally came to the end of the stone corridor. Lying on the ground of the exit, I greedily inhaled a large breath of air, and Chaos's head seemed to sober up a lot in an instant. When I looked out, I was taken aback.
What is this place? Looking around, the first thing I felt was that it looked like the ruins of a large hall.
I saw that the whole hall was about the same size as a basketball court. The huge circular dome had collapsed, and the stone of the ceiling was lying crookedly across the ground, covered with a thick layer of fallen leaves.
In the center of the main hall, the rough floor tiles are lifted by the thick roots of the trees, and a crack is opened, and the thick plants are intertwined, and the luxuriant branches extend to the sky, covering the dilapidated ceiling from the wind.
I guess it's in a low-lying location, because there's a lot of groundwater pooling and flowing down the cracks in the walls, forming large and small waterfalls, which is a strange sight from a distance.
There are many grottoes on the stone walls around the main hall, and the carvings in each cave are the images of human-faced snake gods, and many of the carvings have been eroded by the water and become blurred.
Looking down the stone wall opposite, I saw a few people lying on the stone steps somewhere, and when I looked at it, I recognized the leper man.
The girl jumped and landed neatly on the ground. Xiao Rong jumped down with him, and his movements were also very chic. I looked at my feet, about three meters high, hesitated, jumped down, and fortunately landed steadily, not making a fool of myself.
When I came to the leper man, he almost cried when he saw me.
"Little Master...... Little ......"
I asked if he was okay, and with tears in his eyes, he choked up, and pointed to his calf with a pale face, and when I saw it, it was already broken. The leg bones were fixed with several planks, and the top of the foot was swollen and high.
There were three other men beside the man, who were with them, and two of them were clearly dying, lying motionless on the ground. There was also a man, sitting on one side, and it was the short man.
"Are there only a few of you left?" I asked the girl.
"There's one more person." The girl pointed to the huge tree in the center of the main hall, and saw that there seemed to be a person behind the trunk, a little far away, and he had his back to me, so I couldn't see who it was.
"I said Xiaoyangzi," the girl looked at me with a smile, "I didn't see it in the cave just now, tsk, you're really embarrassed!" What are you doing? Performance art? ”
Hearing her say this, I looked myself up and down, and found that the present virtue was indeed terrible - not to mention that the shoes were gone, the whole body was wounded, and the clothes hung on my body like rags, and they were covered with the slime of snake eggs.
Seeing that I did not answer, the girl snorted, shook her head, and stepped forward to take off the hiking boots from the feet of one of the dead men and threw them to me. I looked at it, thinking to myself that at this time, I should not care about the relics of the dead and the undead. So I washed the mud off my feet with water, put on my boots and tried it, and it was just the right size. The girl also got me some equipment and clothes.
After washing my face, treating my wounds, and changing my body to a decent outfit, I feel that I have finally evolved from a wild man in the mountains and forests to a civilized person.
I asked the girl where this place was, and I asked her what she was going to do next.
She said that they had escaped all the way to this place by following the trap, and it was not clear where it was, but since the legendary Golden Pit did not exist, the most important thing now was, of course, to get out of here as soon as possible.
It was the same thing I thought, and I nodded in agreement. Then I looked at Xiao Rong again, and I don't know if his "business" can be done yet, but when I heard us say this, he didn't raise any objections, so I think he should also agree.
"Is there a way out?" I asked.
"We're coming down from above," the girl said, pointing to the collapsed ceiling of the hall, "and there's a lot of traps outside, so it's impossible to go up from above." During the break, I searched around and found several stone corridors like the one you just walked. But that stone corridor changes, and maybe there are more mechanisms in it. We have a lot of wounded, and we can't just choose to go to that kind of place. Other than these, there is no other way out for the time being. ”
I said it's impossible, this is a building, and if it's a building, there must be a gate! Unless the building is built, it is deliberately not allowed to enter...... Wait, is it a burial chamber? No, I thought about it again, even if it's a tomb, there should usually be a tomb door, and there is no coffin in it.
I looked around with my chin propped up, and I had the impression that there was another kind of building that didn't particularly need a gate, which was the "dungeon".
No, no, I took a deep breath, and said in my heart that it wasn't a game, it couldn't be so mysterious. Besides, can there be such a gorgeous dungeon? There are also a series of painstaking mechanisms designed around, what will be the shut-up? Alien?
"Look at the water," I said, pointing to the water seeping from the walls around me, "and it has been flowing, and it has not become a pool on the ground, but must have flowed down some underground waterway." Let's find out, and if such a waterway does exist here, we may be able to find a way out of it. ”
The girl said it was a good idea, so we began to examine it in the direction of the current.
The water was very clear, and at first it flowed in a low direction, and then it accumulated into a small pool in a depression in the corner of the main hall, and then continued in another direction.
I bent down to observe, following the water all the way, only to see the water slowly moving towards a wall, which was obscured by countless gravel and shrubs, and I couldn't see what was behind it, and the water gathered at the base of the wall to form a small pool. When I saw it, my heart said there was a door! Pounce on it and pluck the rubble and bushes with your bare hands.
The stones looked like some kind of natural concrete, I guess they were made of volcanic ash, and they were all shattered by hand because they had been washed away by water for many years. The shrubs are also rotten, and the roots can easily detach from the ground with a gentle tug.
I cleared out a space half a meter square, looked up, and was happy.
I saw that behind the gravel and shrubs was actually an arch, but this doorway seemed to have been filled with stones, and the stones were scattered, and only some large and small gaps were exposed at the bottom. The stagnant water in the main hall is carried out through these cracks.
Compared to the imposing hall, this arch seems to be disproportionately small, and I always feel that something is wrong, not to mention that now that the door is blocked by stones, we can't melt ourselves like ice cream and flow out of the cracks in the stones.
Thinking of this, the excitement just now suddenly turned into frustration.
I looked down and suddenly saw that there seemed to be something deposited in the small ankle-deep pool, many of which were gravel and silt, but a few of them were strange, milky white and shiny in the water.
I was half-crouching, and my hand reached into the water to pick it up to see what it was, but before my hand could touch it, a long knife was placed around my neck.
A voice came from behind him, "Don't touch it!" ”