Chapter Eighty-Five: Escape
I thought for a moment and said, "Could it be that it represents some kind of special meaning, just like the painting says, thirty-six night pearls, and one of them will be destroyed if they fall to the ground." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
The fat man called out impatiently: "You really eat radish first and worry about it, and you don't have any daughters-in-law, so you start worrying about your daughter's marriage, are you thinking too far?" ā
I scolded: "You know a fart, this is called planning for a rainy day, you elm pimple will not understand." Forget it, let's find the Night Pearl first, otherwise he will really be right. ā
This time, the fat man and I were going to go to the upper level of the chess game to have a look, and there might be no hidden chess game in the tomb. The rest of the people were still searching in the tomb.
After the division of labor, we walked into the dark passage upward, and within two steps of the step, the fat man and I almost exclaimed at the same time. On the walls on both sides of the tunnel hung phoenix lampstands of similar size, and the phoenix's eyes glowed with a faint green light. The two men counted as they walked, and there were exactly eighteen birds, each with a pair of eyes, for a total of thirty-six.
The fat man excitedly stretched out his hand to buckle the phoenix eye, but I stopped him and said, "Don't act rashly, go and ask them to come over and have a look, and they are making plans." ā
The fat man trotted all the way into the dark passage with their excitement, and almost everyone counted the lampstands on it, exactly eighteen, and Gu Tong felt a voice and said, "It is really effortless to step on the iron shoes and find nowhere to find them." I didn't expect such an important thing to be placed in the dark passage. ā
Except for the third child and Tong Qin, who took care of him, they all began to dig out the phoenix eye, Gu Tong specially explained that we should be light-handed, the phoenix eye is the pearl of the night, it is very fragile in itself, and the portrayal also makes it clear that it cannot be landed, and you must be extra careful when you take it, and you can't bump into it.
With thirty-six night pearls, he carefully wrapped them in a turban, the thin turban shone with a faint green light, but it was enough to illuminate the range of two meters in front of him. With hope, the people returned to the sixteen passages of the tomb.
When he entered the passage, the fat man rummaged around in the coffin of the saint, and I asked him what he was going to do, and he said that he had wasted so much energy, he had to find something, and the body of the saint was covered under the glass, and it looked like a treasure.
I kept urging him to hurry up, but Gu Tong wanted to go up to stop him, but he succumbed to the fat man's obscenity and didn't dare to speak.
After some delay, Li Guohua picked up the third child, and we finally walked into this escape road.
The night pearl really had an effect, under the green light of the night pearl, we encountered a dead end, we can see a trace of small gaps, also glowing with green light, forming a thin green line, as long as we do not touch these green lines, we can be safe and sound.
While walking the fat man, he scolded: "This **** saintess, what kind of tomb is this, there are organs everywhere, and there is a whole ecstasy array." ā
Seeing that we walked out for half an hour, but there was still no end in sight, the dust was constantly falling from the top of our heads, accompanied by a slight tremor. I thought to myself, oh no, isn't the aftermath of the previous bombing of the secret passage still over?
The pace under my feet also unconsciously accelerated, and after more than ten minutes, the shaking became more intense, and the top kept falling rubble, and the sound of Kara was endless, I knew that this was the sound of the mountain cracking, or it would not be long before this place would be buried, and I was even more anxious.
Suddenly, an upward staircase appeared in front of us, and there were handrails on the side, and we rushed up without thinking, turning five bends upwards, and finally came to the end, and finally the remaining steps were repaired all the way to the top.
The more anxious I was, the more I was prone to make mistakes, Emma snatched the night pearl in my hand and lifted it up to see that there was a ring on the top, as if it could be pulled. I thought about it, and I didn't think about rushing up and pulling the ring.
After the ring was pulled, only a few clicks were heard, and then there was a loud bang, and the ceiling above the stairs collapsed into a large square hole, and the hole collapsed with a pile of yellow sand pouring down, which instantly submerged the stairs, and it was difficult to leak out of the yellow sand for a while.
The shaking of our feet did not give us time to wait, and the shaking of the ground, coupled with the yellow sand all over the ground, made it a little difficult to gain a foothold on the ground. In a hurry, I saw that the speed of the yellow sand leakage had slowed down, so I asked the fat man to hurry up first, and the fat man rushed out with an arrow step, one foot deep and one foot shallow.
As the yellow sand leaked, a burst of white light spilled in from the square collapse, although it was faint, but I knew that it was sunshine, and I was more anxious to urge the fat man to speed up his pace. After the fat man went up, there was only one rope left. The third child is weak, and it is impossible to climb up, let alone keep him in this tomb.
Gu Tong and Tong Qin had more difficulty climbing up than the fat man, I dragged it below, and the fat man and Emma dragged it on top, and finally sent them all out. This was the shaking beneath me even more violently, and the ground cracked from time to time.
I took the rope thrown down by the fat man, tied it to the third child's body, and grabbed the rope myself and shouted for them to pull it up quickly.
The fat man shouted anxiously above: "Old Zou, you come up first, the rope can't bear the weight of two people." ā
I wanted to let go of my hand and climb up on my own, but when I looked back, there was still a way back, and the ground on which I was standing had collapsed into a large hole. I was startled, and I didn't dare to let go of my grip on the rope. At this time, the third child, who was originally delirious, spoke: "Mr. Zou, let me go, you go up, if it goes on like this, neither of us will be able to escape." ā
As soon as I heard this, I didn't know where the anger came from, and said angrily: "Shut up, it's impossible to say anything, my old Zou has never given up on his comrades and fled for his life." "That being said, people are hanging in mid-air, who can do anything, and I'm not a monkey.
At the last moment, the third child said to me: "Mr. Zou, the third child is an orphan, and it is a blessing for the third child to be so valued by you today..."
Seeing the third child and the night pearl fall into the abyss together, I was annoyed in my heart, and I didn't know whether it was for the third child or for the night pearl.
I pulled the rope with one hand, and climbed the half-section of the stairs covered with sand and gravel with the other hand to climb up, and suddenly heard a terrible cry behind me screaming hysterically, like an eagle with wings, mixed with the grievances of human voices. My ankles dangling in the air suddenly ached, as if something was grabbing me and dragging me down, trying to drag me down the hole.
Although I couldn't see the sun, I could feel it in the dimming light, and the hollow under my feet was like an open gate to hell, and countless demons were waving at me.
The fat man dragged the rope harder and harder, the harder I worked, the more my ankle hurt, I could only desperately hold on to the rope at hand to prevent myself from falling, in a panic I looked back at what was grabbing my ankle under my feet.
Three huge black coffins loomed under the hole, I couldn't help but gasp, I didn't see it when I came up, where did this coffin come from? I didn't have time to think about it for a while, so I desperately dragged the rope up and shouted for the fat man to pull quickly.
No matter how much I screamed, my position never seemed to change.
The fat man saw that I was groggy and not quite right, and tried to pull me up hard, but he couldn't do it, and shouted at me, but he didn't respond, and grabbed a handful of sand and threw it down on my head.
I was smashed by the spilled sand, the whole person instantly like a basin of cold water in the winter, a spirit, sobered up, the feeling of being grabbed under my feet disappeared, and the terrible bird cry in my ears was gone, and then I saw that I was clutching a protruding rock block with one hand, and quickly let go of my hand, and the force of the fat man's pull brought me up.
The place where we came up was a small room, and there was a section of upward stairs at the turn, and there were six windows open around it, half of which were buried under the yellow sand, and where we came up formed a large pit, and the sunset on the horizon had become a little blurred, and the windows still had a slight wind, bringing up the yellow sand on the ground, and everywhere there was an ominous shadow. I remember that the fat man said that this is a sign of the approaching black sandstorm in the desert, thirty-six night pearls have landed, and the catastrophe of destruction is coming.
The ground under his feet was still shaking, and the black hole that came up was like a funnel, and the yellow sand around him was leaking down. After staying, it was only a matter of time before it collapsed, and everyone hurriedly jumped out of the window.
Looking up, a glass stupa appeared in front of our eyes, we were back in the dilapidated ancient city, the towering stupa had begun to tremble, the temple in the distance had completely collapsed, the glass wall behind the temple had been broken in half, and the entrance to the underground palace was permanently closed. Fortunately, it has not yet spread to the entire ancient city, and the road we came here is still there, as long as we speed up our pace and join up with Dachun's camel team before the black sandstorm comes, the rest will be easy to do.
Unexpectedly, as soon as everyone ran to the valley mouth, the pagoda behind them and the city wall were buried by the collapsed mountain, but there was no Dachun in front.
The fat man gasped and scolded as he ran: "Damn, **** Dachun, don't let Lao Tzu see him again." ā
The narrow valley mouth was running, and the sound of cracking, collapsing, and burying kept coming from behind him. The more I ran, the more frightened I became, the more anxious I became, the originally short road seemed extraordinarily long at this time. We're almost catching up with the camels now.
When everyone was about to be exhausted, they suddenly heard the sound of hooves in front of them, and Da Chun shouted in a panic and drove the camel team out.
As soon as the fat man saw the camel, he didn't know where the strength came from, so he overtook me at a speed of 100 meters and scolded: "Old man, **** uncle, it's all your treachery, the Buddha came down the mountain to press you, see where you run." ā
Da Chun didn't expect us to come out, so he hurriedly said: "Buddha bless, you guys run quickly, there are evil spirits in it, and the Buddha is punishing them." ā
We didn't care about the Buddha and monsters with him, so we quickened our pace, and each of us turned over and climbed on the camel, and Da Chun also asked why it was only a few of us, and the others.
Before I could speak, the fat man scolded: "It's not you who caused it, the Buddha pressed them all inside." ā
I gave the fat man a blank look and said, "Now is not the time to talk about this, Mr. Dachun, where can I hide from the wind and sand, take everyone with me." ā
As he spoke, the entire sky had completely fallen into darkness, and the Zero City behind him had completely collapsed, and the sand on the ground had fallen into a large whirlpool centered on the Zero City, and with the increasing wind, the camel's speed had become very slow, and the sand hung on his face in pain. No one expected this to happen, the wind and sand came back so quickly, except for the ruins of Zero City, where was there a place to hide in the vast desert. City Zero gradually formed a huge eye of the storm, blowing a whirlwind, and looking up, the huge whirlwind evolved into a tornado. Although the tornado is terrible, as long as it does not move, it will be much weaker than the terrible degree of wind and sand.
Da Chun let out a long whistle, waved the whip in his hand, rode a camel to lead the way, and fled in the southeast direction with the camel caravan.
At the beginning, the road closer to the eye of the wind was very difficult, the tornado continued to drag us backwards, the sound of the wind in our ears continued, like a ghost crying wolf, the strong wind wrapped in sand and dust was overwhelming, we almost took two steps back and took a step, at this time the faint sunset, has been completely covered by the wind and sand, we carry the windproof eyes, the face is also covered with a headscarf, still can not prevent the wind and sand to pour into the ears and nose.
I ran a long distance, and when I looked back, even the camel prints I had just stepped on were gone. The camels escaped from the pull of the eye of the storm, and gradually disobeyed the command, Dachun stopped the camel caravan, and no one could hear what he said at this time, he made a few gestures, and the whip in his hand waved a few times in the air, and the frightened camels gathered in a circle.
Judging by what he meant, he may mean that if he runs any longer, the camel team will have to run away, and once the team disperses, it is difficult for anyone to say whether it will survive or not. Now they have to build a sand wall on the spot, and the people hide among the camels, and the only thing left is to pray for the Buddha's blessing.
I glanced at the fat man, he nodded, and then asked Emma and Tong Qin, two female comrades, to wrap up in a stall and hide in the middle.
The fat man, Li Guohua, and Gu Tong and I desperately shoveled the sand out with shovels, and Dachun set up the camels and came over to help, building a simple anti-sand wall around the camels, and then blindfolded the camels with blankets to prevent the camels from running away in fright, and everyone also wrapped themselves in stalls and gathered together.
Fortunately, it is far away from the eye of the wind, and the wind and sand at the edge of the eye of the wind are fashionable and so powerful, if we are in the eye of the wind, I am afraid that we will be mixed with the sand at this time, and we will not recognize it at all. (To be continued.) )