Chapter 8: The Thousand-Legged Demon
The four of us stood like wood in front of the tunnel entrance, our eyes full of hesitation. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The reason for this is a stone staircase.
In the past in the plot of TV movies, it was generally found that most of the stairs in the tunnel entrance were just "pure" stairs, and when you went down the stairs, there would be a mechanism such as yellow sand extinguishing the top or ten thousand arrows piercing the heart.
And the stone ladder leading to the ground in front of me is quite strange, the tunnel mouth is cracked about four or five meters wide, but the strange thing is that the area of the staircase only occupies the middle of the tunnel, the width is about half a meter, there is no handrail, and there are bottomless black ditches on both sides of the side, I can't figure out what the meaning of such a design is.
Qian Cai and Ziche each beat the fire fold and threw it into the black ditch on both sides. The first time I saw the fire excerpts, it was not the same as I had imagined before, and it felt quite fresh, and the fire excerpts often appeared in martial arts novels. Now that I see the true face of the mountain, it has brought up a lot of my imagination one after another, and I feel that some of the plot of the novel has become more vivid in my mind.
I watched the fire fold fall silently, and my excitement faded into the darkness with the light of the spark.
There was a gust of wind at the mouth of the tunnel, and I couldn't help but shrink a little, and the black groove on both sides was deep and I broke out in a cold sweat, which meant that if I accidentally slipped my foot and stepped on the air, it would fall straight into the center of the ground like the fire fold...... Or rather, a straight fall into hell.
"Let's go." Feng Xin took the lead in the front, and Qian Cai and Ziche put me in the middle, the width of the steps is very narrow, the slope is about fifty degrees, it is a bit steep, not very easy to walk.
The stone staircase was at most shoulder-width and could only accommodate one person to advance, and the two sides were bottomless, so my feet fell after a few steps, "Do you think this ancient man is sick? Why don't you build a good road, but build such a difficult road?" I have had a fear of heights since I was a child, and I love to think cranky, and in the face of this boundless darkness, imagination evokes too much fear in me.
When the ancients built this stone ladder, they fully brought the fear of human beings to the extreme, although it was simple but very effective.
He put his head on my shoulder from behind and said, "This is a very primitive form of defense. In ancient times, there were not many people who could go down to this building without changing their faces. This is a sacrificial mausoleum, not too much."
I said to myself, are you sure there aren't many people? At the moment, three out of four people can not change their faces, and the probability is not too low. But looking back and thinking about their skills, wouldn't it be funny if they had a difficult face to walk?
I understood that she was just trying to send me a message that there should be no mechanism here, so that I wouldn't be so nervous, but it was a shame to have a girl to give me a sense of security.
After walking for a short while, I found that the stone staircase was steep and steep, but the workmanship was just as fine. Not to mention the equal width of the steps, they are also slightly inclined inward, and each step edge is paved with a faint layer of washed stones, even in modern times, this is a standard anti-slip project.
This is completely different from the sacrificial mausoleum I expected, I thought that after opening the secret door through the tunnel, I would be greeted by a very impassioned sacrificial hall or gorgeous jewelry decorations, etc., in the look at this staircase, simple can be. It seems that there is still a considerable gap between the thinking of the ancients and modern people.
Feng Xin walked very steadily in front of him, and he couldn't see any hesitation. After all, I was just an ordinary man, my feet trembled terribly, and the speed of my progress was quite slow, and he stopped a few steps below to wait for me, and reached out to take me.
"Don't let fear get the better of you. Except for yourself." He spoke very quietly and quietly, and there were almost no waves of emotion in his voice.
I remember how I used to do somersaults when I danced, I was actually very timid, and when I practiced somersaults for the first time, I was very afraid that I wouldn't do a good somersault, and I was very worried that I would hurt my neck and twist my neck, so I didn't dare to take the first step. Even the girls finished turning over one round, and my two feet were still in place, and finally I barely finished it under the teacher's half-pressure and half-threat. After turning over, I found that it was okay, and that's it, after taking the first step, I jumped up, and I turned over with both feet, and then the more I practiced, the more I got started, and I could look at the mirror while turning to see if my posture was good.
Feng Xin's words I took into my heart, sorted out my emotions, and straightened my chest.
This stone staircase is much longer than expected, and it feels like a long walk, as if there is no end. No one spoke along the way, only the sound of the wind blowing up from underfoot.
"Wait, there's a voice." Ziche suddenly lowered his voice, and the two people in front and behind immediately changed to an alert look.
Suddenly, I felt a cool wetness from my ankles, and I felt an ominous premonition in my mind, and before I had time to think too much, I was dragged down the dark black groove by a fierce force. Ziche and Feng Xin grabbed my hands for a moment, and Qian Cai grabbed my collar desperately, it happened so suddenly that everyone didn't have time to react, and my whole person was already hanging on the edge of the cliff.
More rustling sounds came from below him, accompanied by slight vibrations, as if a group of things were climbing up step by step.
There was a clattering and tearing sound from my collar, and the force that was holding my feet was so great that my feet felt like they were going to be torn off.
Seeing that the three of them seemed to be overwhelmed. My heart sank, that's it! I don't go to hell, who goes to hell. If this continues, none of the four of us will sing!
"Be careful!" I yelled and took the initiative to break free of Feng Xin and Ziche's hands.
At the moment when I was dragged down, I took out the short dagger on my waist and stabbed it at the rock wall, and a red-eyed fire burst out in front of me, and I scraped a big hole in the wall, and my heart said that even if I want to get rid of Lao Tzu and go to hell, it will not be so early. The flashlight had long since disappeared, and in the darkness, I had no idea what I was being dragged by, or what I was fighting against. The hands were also cut by the strong pull force, blood continued to spill out of the knuckles, and the handle of the knife was stained with blood, and it was even more difficult to hold it.
As soon as I thought about it, I pulled my backhand, pulled the dagger from the rock wall, and stabbed it at the ankle.
The thing that dragged me was stabbed by me, and I threw my whole person to the other end with a force, which slammed my back into the rock wall, although I had a backpack as a cushion, but under the strong rebound, I accidentally bit my tongue, and even the wound of falling in the stalactite cave was also cracked. All of a sudden, I tasted a mouthful of salt.
At this moment, a few flames suddenly appeared beside him, and it turned out that Qian Yan was biting the fire in their mouths, and the fold of fire also slid down. The sub-cart grabbed the strap of my backpack, and he carried me in the air. Knowing that I was out of the fate of falling to my death, my whole heart palpitated.
I saw Feng Xin jumping off the wall, holding the rock wall with one hand and hanging beside us, not knowing what to hold in the other, and throwing it down after igniting it. Then the small fire point in front of him showed off a big red light, and in an instant, the fire tree was silver.
It's flares, so they have this stuff with them.
With the power of the flares, I could see the creatures that were attacking me, and I could faintly see the ground.
It was longer than a human being, and had a pair of extremely thick antennae, which I guess were the ones that had just wrapped around me. The epidermis resembles a crustacean, the long strips of segments resemble earthworms, and the feet of the abdominal part resemble centipedes. The feet were a bit too dense, and there was a pair of large jaws attached to the end of the upper abdominal cavity, which I had never seen such a large insect.
Feng Xin jumped, and he turned over and landed in front of the big worm. Not to be outdone, the worm stretched out and wrapped Feng Xin squarely, intending to strangle him to death.
"It's a Millifoot." Qian Yu shouted in a panic and jumped down as well.
Qian Yan held an ice axe and slammed it on the head of the insect, the thousand-legged demon arched up to relax the clamp on Feng Xin, but raised his big jaw to attack Qian Cai, Feng Xin took the opportunity to jerk his body, and after a somersault clamped the head of the thousand-legged demon, the whole body spun hard, and the thousand-legged demon was thrown over, and its abdomen actually appeared with a pattern similar to the face of Peking Opera, so it was not strange.
Qian Yu jumped down and attacked the face, only to see that she seemed to have shoved the fire fold from her mouth into the strange face and immediately jumped away. Then the Millifoot exploded from its abdomen, shattering into several pieces in an instant.
I used to feel disgusted when I saw the strange fish being cut in half, but now I see this centipede being blown into meat puree, but my psychology is unexpectedly calm.
I was secretly amazed at Feng Xin's skill, from the time he jumped down to the time he solved the giant worm, it only happened in the snap of his fingers.
I asked, "There's no such thing anymore, is it?"
"This worm is probably alone, don't worry." The car smiled at me and put me back on the ground by the way.
It was incredible to step on the ground again, and I had fallen with the determination to die. But at that moment, I realized that I didn't want to die at all, and I didn't expect that the moment my toes touched the ground, I was so moved that I wanted to cry.
It turns out that it is not easy to breathe freely and step on the ground safely.