Chapter 12: Escape
The poisonous frog pounced on us like crazy. My heart was pounding, and my calves were spinning in fright, and I felt that I was probably going to be finished, and if it weren't for the torches in Dadong's hands, the marching bag would definitely not be able to stop the two of us.
At this time, Dadong suddenly reached to the side of my backpack and quickly took out a bottle of mosquito repellent. Before I could figure out what he was going to do, he opened the cap of the bottle, poured mosquito repellent water on the tarp I gave him, and threw the tarp in front of us, using a torch a little.
In an instant, I saw the flames erupt everywhere, and the pungent smoke immediately spread. When the poisonous frogs jumped over saw the fire, they immediately stopped and fled.
Taking advantage of this gap, Dadong hurriedly made a "run" gesture to me. I looked down at my backpack, and fortunately there were no poison frogs on it, but this bag was definitely unusable, but I was reluctant to leave the equipment here, so I felt out the black bear, cut a hole in the back of the backpack, and took out the important things inside and put them on my body.
Looking up at Dadong, it turned out that he had already touched a long way out, and I pressed my body to keep up. During this time, several poisonous frogs pounced on me, but they were all blocked by me with my broken marching bag.
At this time, I saw Dadong wave his hand at me and point to his front. I knew he must have found something, so I hurried behind him to look, and when the flashlight shone, I was glad that there was a dog hole at the base of the wall!
Of course, this is certainly not for dogs to climb.
I saw that this hole was very narrow, about twenty or thirty centimeters square, and I didn't know where it led, and it was dark inside. I thought to myself that there was no choice now, and even if it was a sword and a sword shadow after entering, it would be better than staying here and being eaten by frogs.
Dadong whistled, and the Xuanyuan people withdrew the two-headed white birds, and while defending with torches, they rushed towards this side.
The dog hole was so narrow that Dadong chiseled the edge of the hole with a Miao knife a few times, chiseled off a few sharp stones, and then pushed me.
"Don't delay, hurry!"
I nodded, threw away my marching bag, crouched down, and drilled into the hole with all my might.
The taste of climbing the dog hole is really uncomfortable, the shoulders have passed, but I don't know if the butt is big or what, the hips just can't pass, I kicked hard with my feet, pulled with my hands, and the sides of the crotch were almost worn out, so it was easy to get into the hole.
As soon as I entered the cave and saw that there was no danger, I immediately beckoned the others to act. With my help, the two Xuanyuan people threw the big bag in first, and then quickly climbed in. Dadong is the fourth. This nine-headed man is unusually tall, I was worried that he would get stuck, but I didn't expect Dadong to climb in no hurry, but used a Miao knife to chisel a few centimeters on the edge of the hole, and then drilled in.
I lifted Dadong up, and in the end he was a stronger man. I saw that the man was crawling on his back towards the hole, it was very difficult, his two arms had just broken out, I only heard him shout, I saw that he was stuck, and hurriedly wanted to reach out to pull it, at this moment, Dadong stopped me.
I glanced at Dadong in amazement, and suddenly, I heard the man howl like crazy, the facial features on his face were almost twisted together, and his expression became more and more terrifying, and he kept pulling on the ground with his hands, and several of his companions were also stunned.
Slowly, I saw his skin blister red like boiling water, his flesh began to melt little by little, and a pair of white bones slowly emerged from under the bloody water......
I shuddered, and I didn't dare to look at it again. I knew what had happened to him, and I felt inexplicable fear at the thought of the countless moments I had just now, and I might have become like him.
This is just an entrance to the main hall, and before I even entered the real millet garden, people continue to die tragically in front of my eyes. I began to wonder, can I still have the courage to go down this road? Do I really have the life to leave? Where will my life end? How does it end?
My heart began to tremble, and it was an inexplicable fear......
Dadong didn't seem to care about my mood, he glanced at me without even a word of comfort.
"Take care of this place with a flashlight." Dadong said lightly.
The dialogue was too realistic, pulling me straight out of my melancholy mood, and I shook my spirits, turned around, and raised my flashlight.
Sometimes I can't help but think, maybe this is the power of Dadong, he will never discuss with you those who have it and don't have it, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't care. All he can do is to use a strong method to make you forget those inner wavering and hesitation. But sometimes, it's more effective than a myriad of false words of comfort. Dadong is like a cold officer, you may think he is cold-blooded, but he will definitely make you understand what is the most important thing at the moment!
The light of the flashlight wandered away, and at this moment we were in an inner room close to the main hall, about more than 100 square meters square. As soon as the light shone like this, I saw countless thick chains crossing the room, all of them rusty, some hanging high, some hanging very low, and even dragging to the ground.
Arm-thick chains run through the walls, and I don't know where they connect, but I suspect that this inner chamber is probably the control area of the main hall's organs. The flashlight continued to wander away, and at this time, we saw a stone door opposite our position. The stone door was open, and the slabs fell to the ground, broken into several pieces. Opposite the stone gate was a deep corridor that looked much narrower than the one we had walked before.
I asked Dadong what to do. Dadong replied, what else can be done, now that he has deviated from the original route, he can only take one step at a time!
I thought to myself, too, that the current situation forced us to have no choice, so after a little rectification, the group regained their strength and walked towards the stone corridor opposite.
I didn't know where the stone corridor would lead, but it didn't take long to find that the road under my feet had become a slow staircase.
After what had just happened, I was worried about encountering the mechanism again, so I used the handle of Daito's knife to hit the ground, and every step was very careful. Dadong said that it is useless for me to do this, and whether the mechanism will be triggered or not cannot be judged by just knocking and knocking. I ignored him. Actually, I knew it was in vain, but I just wanted to comfort myself......
Fortunately, the road was quite smooth, and it didn't take long to see the exit of the stone corridor in the distance, there seemed to be a bright light at the exit, I couldn't see it very clearly, and at the moment I climbed this stone step, and I was tired to the point of weakness. Dadong saw that I was panting so badly that I had to hold on to the wall even when I walked, so he handed me the kettle.
"Have you ever wondered how you can make your mother believe that your old man is her son after finding it?" Dadong said with a faint smile.
I was surprised and asked, "Ouch, so you know that time passes at a different speed in this door than it does outside the door?" ”
Dadong glanced at me and nodded: "I've heard it before, but I didn't take it seriously, and I've only been convinced since I saw you again." But it doesn't matter, inside or outside, I don't have anything too attached to the two worlds, where I was born and where I died, it's pretty much the same for me. ”
I gasped and snorted disdainfully, "No, you're really that chic?" So what are you looking for now? ”
Dadong was silent for a long time before he said, "This matter is an exception. I was looking for him, just to ask him something......"
After saying this, Dadong stopped talking. Now I can finally be sure that what Dadong has been looking for for 15 years is indeed a "person"!
"Who are you talking about?" I cautiously asked Dadong, only to see Dadong suddenly raise his hand and make a soft gesture, and then I noticed that the group had come to the end of the stone corridor.
My attention was immediately attracted, standing at the exit of the stone corridor and looking, I thought I would see another stone room, or a view like the inner courtyard of the imperial palace in the Forbidden City, but I didn't expect that when the lights flashed, what appeared in front of me was a different picture that was enough to make me jaw-dropping......
Selling cakes, what the hell is this place?!
Outside the exit was a hollow barrel-shaped building, much like a huge chimney, and we were inside the chimney at the moment.
In front of us was a pitch-black wooden ladder, and below the ladder was an abyss. The top of the "chimney" is open, like a hole that reaches straight into the sky. Looking up, you can still see a corner of blue sky, white clouds and sparse sunshine. I don't know what it is, but I have a feeling that it looks like a giant tower.
There are many levels in this tower, leading to the darkest part of the earth. The eaves of each tower have a wooden plank road, and the walls of the plank road are full of large and small holes and grottoes, which look like termite nests from a distance.
There are many more ladders like this under our feet in this tower, much like the fire ladder of a fire truck, there are all on each floor, and each of them is crisscrossed with four walls. Walking out of the stone corridor, standing on the ladder and looking up, there is an identical ladder directly above the head, about ten meters away, at different angles along with the other two holes.
What's even more strange is that the bottom of the ladder is inlaid with a lot of metal loops, and countless calf-thick straw ropes are tied to the buckles, and the straw ropes are hung with dense metal objects, hanging straight to the ground.
I wanted to know what this metal object was, so I got closer and looked closely at it with a flashlight, only to see that these were actually bronze wind chimes of the same size. The edge of this wind chime is in the shape of a fan leaf, and the surface is carved with fish, birds, wild animals, etc. The texture of the bronze looks very thin, with a trapezoidal jade piece inside, and some of the wind chimes themselves have decayed, but the jade piece is very intact, and the whole body is translucent, and it feels very valuable.
Looking at it, I suddenly moved my heart, and I wanted to pick up a bell to take it away, but I stretched out my arm and found that I couldn't reach it at all. However, at this moment, a voice suddenly came, and I was stunned in place.
The voice flickered and flickered, diffused like an echo, sounding as ethereal and ethereal as a ghost's whisper. I was startled, and for a moment I thought I was hallucinating.
"Who? Who's talking? I yelled.
At this moment, the voice came again, and I couldn't see anyone at all, and I couldn't hear a word, and I couldn't help but panic. I looked at Dadong and was about to ask him if he knew what was going on, when a bright light suddenly hit me in the face.
The light was so light that I couldn't open my eyes, and the pillar of light shook in the tower, and after a long time, following the pillar of light, I saw two figures poking out on a ladder thirty or forty meters above us.
I hurriedly flashed the flashlight back, and I was happy when I saw it - it was the girl and Xiao Rong!