Chapter 42: Escape

This red sè's eyes were full of throbbing bloodshots, and it looked weird and abnormal, and as soon as I looked at it, I suddenly felt a sense of soul withdrawal, and I only felt strong nausea and dizziness, and immediately turned my face away.

Master Liang seemed to have fallen into an evil spirit, his eyes were staring at the bloody eye, and he didn't move, I called at him twice, but there was no response.

Master Liang said that the yīn eyes of "Candle Nine yīn" were through hell, and I knew that it was definitely wrong, so I hurriedly picked up a splash of water and pounced on him.

I don't know if it was Candle Nine Yīn who suddenly leaned forward or what, the splash of water didn't splash on Master Liang's body, but on Candle Nine Yīn's head.

Candle Jiu yīn was startled by the splash that he threw at me, and as soon as his eyes closed, the snake's head shrank back, and I wanted to attack, but I quickly stuck to the back of the bronze tree, and the snake's head hit the bronze tree, bending all those branches. At this time, I thought of the backpack I had taken from Lao Itch, and what weapon might be in it, and hurriedly flipped the backpack to the front.

He definitely didn't have a gun in his bag, but I remember a couple of detonators they used to blow up the tomb walls, and now I'm unarmed, and I might as well deter them with something very powerful.

The side of the bronze tree of the candle nine yīn circled over, and while I moved to prevent it from seeing me, I climbed up with a rolling belt, grabbed my backpack, and pulled it in.

The backpack was stuffed with stuff, I took out all the food and threw it into the water, and finally I felt what I thought was the detonator, and when I looked at it, I couldn't help but be stunned, it was so sloppy when I saw it just now, and that bundle of things turned out to be black candles.

At this time, the head of the snake had already poked over, and saw that I suddenly folded the snake's neck again, and made an attack posture again.

The average attack speed of the snake is only a quarter of a second, and although this one is a little bigger, it is estimated that it is not much slower. I saw that it was over after a second of delay, so I grabbed my backpack and jumped into the water.

But the speed at which I fell was still too slow, and suddenly a black shadow flashed, and the head of the snake suddenly bit me in the air, and then the snake body rolled up. He just wanted to wrap me around his body.

My hand was groping in the bag, at this time, I suddenly touched the kind of signal gun they used, and I was in a hurry, and subconsciously pulled the trigger, and the backpack blasted out a big hole, and I didn't know if the signal flare exploded in the snake's mouth.

I fell into the water again with a "snap", surfaced, and looked back. The flare in Candle Jiu's mouth was emitting a blazing white light, and the air was filled with the smell of candles, and for some reason, green smoke began to come out of its whole body.

The oil in the snake's body is very easy to burn. Otherwise, the ancients wouldn't have hunted it to make candles, but they didn't expect it to be able to burn like this, what is it flowing in its body?

Candle Jiu yīn was in extreme pain and could no longer control us. Constantly writhing his body, the huge tail slapped against the rock, there was already a huge crack on that side, and it continued to slap, a crack spread out several small cracks, and the whole mountain kept cracking, as if the entire cave might collapse.

I don't know if Candle Nine yīn will die so easily, keep flipping through that backpack. There was nothing useful anymore, so he threw his backpack into the water, and at this time, suddenly the underwater torrent overflowed, and the pool of water actually rushed towards the crack that Candle Jiu yīn had knocked out.

There are many holes in the mountain here, it seems that the mountain behind the crack has been crashed through, and the water doesn't know where it is gushing, I finally saw an ancient bronze tree, and went around to find Master Liang, but it was gone, and seeing that the momentum above began to rush the gushing water and collapse in large chunks, Candle Jiu yīn was even more crazy like a madman, and hurriedly leaned back, and was swept into the gap along the water.

The gap was very deep, and it was pitch black, because it was a collapsed passage, and the stones in it were very irregular, and the water had hit a lot of whirlpools, and I swirled around in it, and I could barely feel that I should be drifting downstream.

After about ten minutes, I suddenly felt zìyóu falling, and then I plunged into the water, and hurriedly struggled out to look, and found that the water had been brought to the underground river where we had waited, and the water here was much more turbulent than what we had just seen, it should be the same as Master Liang said, there was a heavy rain outside.

The water was very fast, but there weren't as many whirlpools in the crevices, and the water was a little warm, so I was able to control my limbs and begin to think about what was ahead.

This underground river goes from top to bottom, I don't know where the passage goes, if it rushes straight into the ground dozens of meters deep, I really have nothing to say, but according to the direction of the waiter, if it does not change the general direction halfway, I estimate that it should rush into the river that crosses when it comes. Of course, the premise is that the road is smooth, I nervously looked ahead, lest there be some forks, at this time the corner of my eye flashed, and I saw something carved on the wall of the underground river.

The underground river here, looking at the erosion of the rocks, the history should be as old as this mountain, and there is something on it, it should not be carved in modern times, I saw an opportunity, pulled a stone pillar hanging from the top, stopped, and shone a flashlight, I was stunned.

On both sides of the river wall, all of them are the same reliefs that we see in the coffin on the top of the bronze tree, continuous paintings, some have collapsed, but most of them are still well preserved, the lines are bright and smooth, the clothes are elegant, each side is different, the image is vivid, and it is very dynamic.

When I looked at these reliefs, I knew that they depicted the process of worshipping the bronze tree by the ancient ethnic minorities, and the scene was extremely vivid, one of the reliefs was a huge bronze tree, full of slaves' corpses, and the blood of the slaves flowed into the bronze tree, flowing down the ravine above, and there was a picture of them throwing the bodies of slaves into the inside of the bronze tree.

A large part of the relief was submerged in water, and everything at the bottom had been washed out by the water, and it seems that there was no water here when they carved it.

Judging from the reliefs here, the scale of this sacrifice to the bronze book is very large, and I have been looking at it, but the more I look at it, the more strange it becomes, and there are some scenes depicted in relief. It's not the same as a sacrifice, I can't understand it.

There is a relief carving of the ancestors in ancient times pouring some liquid into the bronze tree. Then in the next picture, there is a "candle nine yīn" that is exactly the same as the one you just saw coming out of the bronze tree. Many warrior-like ancestors surrounded it with bows, arrows and spears, apparently as a hunting scene.

As I just understood. This bronze tree should be a special symbol of divine power in ancient times, the bronze tree species of "Candle Nine Yīn" was a kind of dragon in ancient times, and even in some notebook novels, "Candle Nine Yīn" was even lifted to the same height as Pangu, which should be worshiped as a divine beast, how could people hunt it?

I continued to look down, hoping to see the answer from the back, and there was some ritual content behind it, and I could see that all the ancestors were wearing masks. The face is sluggish, but in each relief, there is always a person carved particularly burly. Looking at this man's costume and demeanor, I am basically certain that this man should be their leader, and it should be the original form of the statue I saw on the cliff of Jiazigou.

The head of that statue was blown up by a bomb. I always felt that something was not right, but I never saw his head all the way, so this time I could take a closer look.

I pulled the bell pillar on the top, pressed it close to the rock on the ground, wiped the stains off it, and leaned over to look.

The image of the leader in the relief is almost twice as large as the others. Like a giant, if the carvings here were to be of formal proportions, as I had previously envisioned, the leader might have been so tall.

But the strange thing is that on all these reliefs, the leader has a snake head on his neck, and it doesn't look like he is wearing a mask or something.

Although I have a certain amount of archaeological knowledge, I still don't have a clue about these things that need a lot of reading to accumulate, but I only know that judging from the surface meaning of these reliefs, I feel that Master Shangliang's judgment at that time may have some deviations, and this bronze tree may not be simply used for sacrifice. Rather, it was used for some kind of hunting ritual, and the sacrificed slaves may have been the bait for the "candle nine yīn" to be printed out of the ground.

I don't know how deep the bronze tree is deep underground, these "candle nine yīn" should live in an extremely deep underground, how to live in that kind of place is not something I can consider, I am just curious, what are these ancestors doing such a big battle to hunt "candle nine yīn" for?

The relief did not give me an answer, and I saw that in the end it was just some celebratory scenes, and what to do with the "Candle Nine yīn" when it was hunted, and it was not carved.

I already knew the basic situation, I looked at the water level, there was a tendency to continue to rise, so I had to let go of my hands and continue to drift down with the current.

After so much time, the flashlight has become very dim, and finally faded to the point that there is no lighting at all, so I turned it off and moved with the flow in the dark.

This period of time was very difficult, and I washed down some small waterfalls several times, although it was not fatal, but it was inevitable that I would hit my nose and face swollen. For hours, I didn't know what was around me, I didn't know where I was going.

I gradually felt hopeless, and I didn't know that I hadn't turned or entered a fork in the road just now, and if I had misjudged, I might be being taken into the depths of an endless underground river now, and I didn't know where this river would go, would it rush to the stratum where the "Candle Nine yīn" lives?

What the hell is that place, and then again, whether there will be some emperor's tomb built in the depths of the underground river, which is a good idea.

Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly saw a light in front of me, and I was shaken, and then I heard the rumbling sound of water, and my heart was overjoyed, until there must have been an exit in front of me, and I had not seen natural light for more than ten hours, so I threw away my flashlight and swam forward.

My speed was very fast, only a few minutes of work, and suddenly there was a flash in front of my eyes, and then there was a white light, and I couldn't see anything, it was a visual dullness that I hadn't seen the light for too long, and I screamed in my heart, but at that moment, a familiar feeling suddenly came from under me.

It's zìyóu falling again! Another waterfall!

And judging from the strength of the water rushing out and the sound coming from below, this waterfall must not be small, I don't know what is underneath, if the water is too shallow, then I am really wronged.

There was a whistling in my ears, and before my sight could be restored, I was already drowning headlong into the water.

At that moment, I reached down and immediately touched a stone, too bad, too shallow! As soon as I realized this, my head had hit something, and when it was dark in front of me, I didn't know anything.