Chapter 9: The Man and the Monkey
What's going on? Is the ceiling too high?
It was pitch black overhead, and there seemed to be a thick black fog floating across the ceiling. The fog undulated like a wave of water, and did not sink, but always floated on the zenith. The beam of light shines in as if it has been sucked away, but nothing comes out. Looking at this strange scene, I felt very uncomfortable, and I couldn't help but have a bad premonition.
At this time, I saw Dadong beckoning to me. I walked over, and the two of them crouched on the side of the stone brick road in front of the "square". He took my flashlight, shone it on the ground, and asked me if I saw anything.
I wondered, glanced at the place Dadong said, then shook my head and said, I didn't see anything, isn't it the same stone brick road as before?
"Look at it again."
I thought to myself that Dadong would say this, and there must be something in this that I didn't notice. So I took the flashlight in Dadong's hand, shone it on the floor, and looked at it carefully.
When I looked at it, I immediately noticed something unusual......
"It's different?!" I was amazed and said, "What's going on?" ”
“…… Listen to me explain to you, you need to listen carefully! Dadong stared at me with a grim expression, "That's right, every floor tile here is different!" Although they look like black bricks from a distance, some bricks faintly reflect the white light of metal when the light passes, while others do not. You have to remember! Don't step on those reflective floor tiles, that's meteoric iron, and if you step on it, something will happen! In the past, when Xiao Jiu (girl) led that team of people to find the gold pit, she entered a trap of 'only entering but not leaving', and there were exactly the same floor tiles in the trap as here. The floor tiles in there, step on the wrong one, and immediately fire ten thousand arrows! There is no chance of survival! Do you want to become a hedgehog? ”
I said of course I don't want to!
"Okay, cheer up and follow me, dare to make a mistake, the master slashed you first, do you believe it or not?"
I said faith, faith, and it's all here, and I will listen to you for everything.
Dadong was very satisfied with my obedient attitude, took my flashlight, and took the lead and walked in the front. I followed Dadong, followed by those Xuanyuan people.
The floor tiles under the feet are square, with the edges and mouths at the same ends, and they are all the same size, each of which is about 40 centimeters. We walked on it as if we were stepping on a plum blossom pile.
I followed Dadong closely, and I didn't dare to slack off at a step, every step was Dadong's foot, and I immediately stepped on it. Although the road is not easy to walk, it is quite interesting to jump around like this.
When I walked to the third of the way, I asked Dadong, "Do you think these ancient people of the Xuanyuan clan are looking for a draw?" It's okay to set up such a big trap in your own palace, which palace maid and eunuch accidentally took a wrong step one day, wouldn't she die very unjustly? ”
Dadong scoffed at me and replied, "You don't want to think about it, who would set a trap in their own house?" Of course, this trap is used to ward off the enemy! ”
"Defend against the enemy?"
"At that time, the Xuanyuan tribe chose to abandon the water and soil here for some reason, and the whole country migrated to other places. Before setting out in a big way, they moved everything in the palace to a safe place, and then set traps around that place. In order to prevent an enemy from sneaking into the palace after they leave, and plundering the treasures they have left behind. ”
"It's too picky!" I muttered, "If you don't want what you don't want, you just don't give it to others, and you set a trap where whoever takes it will kill you!" What is it? This is selfishness that harms others and does not benefit oneself! ”
Dadong told me to talk less and pay attention to my step. After walking for so long, I have become familiar with the road, even if I jump back and forth between the stone bricks, I am still walking on the ground.
We continued on, and walked for about five minutes, until we came to the very center of the "square". At this moment, Dadong, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, but I didn't have time to brake, and a head pounced on his back, and the two of them stepped on the same floor tiles, and I almost fell out, and it took me several times to stand still.
"Are you crazy?" I yelled at Daito.
I saw Dadong make a silent movement, and then stood motionless. I saw that he didn't look right, so I didn't say anything, and my feet straddled two bricks far away, and my body remained in an extremely comical posture like a split.
After waiting for a while, Dadong still didn't respond, I couldn't help it and asked him what was wrong.
"Did you hear that?" Dadong said nervously, "Is there a bird flying?" ”
Bird? …… What bird?
I didn't understand, and I was about to ask a question, when a very strange voice sounded in my ears. The sound was regular, "poof, poof", very much like a big bird flapping its wings.
I thought to myself, what's going on? Reaching out and taking the flashlight in Dadong's hand, he shone it around. The aperture of the flashlight travels like a monster through this wide space. Except for the eerie fog overhead, everything around was still. At this moment, Dadong suddenly grabbed my hand and forced the light in his hand to shine behind us.
Under the pale light, I saw a familiar face appear less than two meters above our heads-the long-tailed human monkey we saw in the archway at the door!
I was startled to see the thing hanging in mid-air, with huge flesh wings more than two meters wide flapping and making a "poof" sound. I really didn't expect this thing to fly? I took a closer look and realized that it had been carrying its own wings on its back.
Looking at this thing, Dadong also looked like he didn't know why. At this moment, I saw that it seemed to be holding something in its hand, and its thin body kept falling down, and when I looked at it, it was a big rock.
I muttered to myself, "What do you want to do with a stone?" Smash walnuts? Smashing the cylinder? No, it was Sima Guang who smashed the cylinder......
His mind was pondering, and at this moment, the long-tailed human monkey Fei suddenly let go of his hands. The big stone "banged" on the floor tiles, and I looked at it and saw that it was a meteorite floor tile that was hit!
For a moment, there was a coaxing in my ears. I stood motionless, feeling a cold sweat running down my spine......