Chapter 19: The Gargoyle
I thought I was hallucinating in a trance, but the further I went, the stronger the peeping feeling became. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
I was so hairy that I couldn't help but look back, only to find that there was nothing behind me. I squinted, trying to look as far as I could in the darkness, but still didn't see anything. In the dim and gloomy stone passage, there was a dead silence, and there was not even a human figure.
The person in front of me saw that I hadn't followed, so they turned back and asked me what was the matter?
I said something wasn't right, something seemed to be following us from behind.
"Someone is following us?"
Cassia held the torch and shone it behind him, and after looking at it for a long time, he found nothing.
"Are you dazzled? There was no one behind at all. ”
I turned my head to look behind me, and indeed the stone tunnel behind me was empty, and the suffocating sense of peeping was gone. I thought to myself, could it be that it was my hallucination? Cassia and Master thought I was overly nervous, so they told me not to think about it, and it was important to hurry. I had no choice but to pick myself up again and follow them to explore further.
It didn't take long to walk, and a cool breeze blew in the stone road, the wind was very small, but it could still be clearly felt in the dull stone road. The fourth camel breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and he asked us to speed up our pace, saying that the exit ahead was the exit, and we were about to arrive.
As soon as several people heard this, they immediately came to their senses. Cassia rubbed his face vigorously a few times, forcing himself to stay awake. I couldn't help but feel excited, and I couldn't help but speed up my pace.
But just as we were approaching the exit, the peeping sensation behind me returned. This time the sensation was very clear, and I was sure it was definitely not a hallucination.
And just like that, once again, I couldn't help but look back. I thought it would be the same as before, with nothing behind me. But this time it was different, and I found that there was indeed an upside-down black shadow in the stone path behind me.
People see things in the dark, and the eyes need a process of adaptation. At first I didn't recognize it, I thought it was a rock. But when my eyes got used to it, I was horrified to see that on the reinforced beam, about twenty paces away from me, there was indeed something upside down that didn't exist before!
I'm sure it's definitely not a hallucination.
Immediately I shouted, and a few of them were attracted to me. I pointed to the thing behind me and hurried to show them.
This time, all four people saw it. Cassia then straightened up and made an aggressive gesture. The fourth camel is also a reflex backhand, so he touched the knife on his waist.
"How? Where did this thing come from? Cassia asked in a low voice.
I shook my head and said you ask me, I ask who to go? The only thing I know for sure is that there was absolutely nothing hanging from that beam when we walked along.
Several people did not dare to act rashly, and the flickering light of the fire kept swinging in the dim stone passage. There was a moment of stalemate, and the thing hanging upside down on the beam still didn't move.
Cassia couldn't help it anymore, and he lowered his voice and said, "Something is wrong, even if it's a monster, it's not quite right to hang upside down like this." I think there's definitely something greasy in this, fourth.."
Cassia said and made a look at the fourth. The camel old man understood, and the two of them bent on their waists, lowered the torches, and slowly touched the beams one after the other.
As they got closer, what was near the beams looked clearer. Gradually, the silhouette of the dark shadow revealed.
From the position of Master and I, the thing hanging upside down on the beam looked like a baby with black hair, wrapped in a layer of flesh wings, with its head down, its eyes closed, and its hands clasped around its chest.
I was in a cold sweat when I saw it, and my heart said what kind of monster is this, since when did it start following us?
At this time, Cassia and Lao Si had quietly touched the bottom of the beam. Judging from their backs, the two were constantly exchanging gestures, as if they were communicating something.
Eventually, I saw the camel unload his burden, and then he took out a bundle of rope from his bag, and then quickly made a bundle of ropes, holding one end in his hand and handing the other end to Cassia. Looking at their movements, it seems that they are ready to strike first. This is very in line with the principle of doing things for the fourth child, no matter what kind of monster you are, tie it up first.
But I broke out in a cold sweat when I watched it from the back, and I always felt that they wouldn't succeed so easily. Sure enough, as soon as the two of them started their move, there was a commotion over there, and then I heard a series of extremely shrill screams, like the cry of a baby girl. Immediately after, I heard the fourth child shouting, "Tight!" Don't do it! ”
The sudden shocking change caught me off guard, and the shrill cry made me even more timid. Over there, the monsters in the rope were struggling frantically, and the camel Lao Si and Cassia were each pulling one end of the rope, looking very difficult.
"Help, don't let it run away, or it's going to be a big problem!"
The fourth camel shouted at me, and I woke up from the chaos and hurriedly ran over to help.
"Don't let it bite the rope and burn it! Fast! ”
The fourth child yelled at me, I picked up the torch on the ground, looked at the monster, but didn't dare to do it.
"Hurry up! I can't hold it anymore! ”
Cassia Ming's neck was bruised, and the fourth camel was already at the end of the crossbow. As soon as I gritted my teeth, I came up with the fierceness, and I picked up the torch and went to burn the monster. But at this point I made a fatal mistake, the correct thing to do is to pour flammable materials such as fire oil on it and burn it with a torch to ensure that nothing goes wrong. But the situation was urgent, and I didn't think about it so much, so I burned it, not only did I not burn it to death, but it completely angered it. As you can imagine, the monster bit off the rope that was already connected to it, and with a hiss, it suddenly struggled out of the rope.
"Oops! Come on! ”
Before the fourth camel could finish speaking, a black shadow flashed in front of me, and at the same time, a strong wind rushed straight towards my front door.
I didn't have time to react at all, so I subconsciously used the torch in my hand to block it. Fortunately, this monster doesn't see fire all year round, and it may be because I was scared of being burned just now, so I really had an effect this time. However, although I was not bitten by it, I was knocked to the ground by the sudden impact. All I felt was a fluffy mass hitting my chest, and I fell to the ground and the torch was thrown out.
Cassia hurriedly ran over to protect me, and the fourth frantically waved his torch to drive away the monster.
"You kid, damn it, if I die here, I'll be pissed off by you."
I said could I be blamed for this? You didn't remind me, and now you're blaming me.
Cassia smiled when he heard this: "You still dare to bite back, Lao Tzu was almost killed by you." ”
"Guys, now is not the time to quarrel." The fourth camel picked up his burden and said to us: "Take care of your master, this place can't stay, we have to leave quickly." ”
"Where did the hairy man go?"
The fourth camel pointed in the direction of the mouth and said, "You all be careful, let it run now, it will be a big trouble in a while." ”
Cassia asked him, "What's the troublesome method?" What kind of monster is this? ”
"Gargoyle, this guy doesn't know how long he's lived, he's already a sperm. Now that we're messing with it, will it make you feel better? ”
I was still a little frightened, so I asked the fourth child if there was any way to deal with this gargoyle?
"There's nothing you can do, as you saw just now, one or two people in this thing are not its opponents. From now on, no one should be alone, it will definitely be watching us in the dark, don't give it a chance. "The fourth child carried the burden and asked us all to follow.
"You all follow closely, raise the torches high, and soon you will reach the exit, and your eyes will be bright, don't let it get into trouble."
At this time, the wind blowing in the stone tunnel was getting colder and colder, and I couldn't help but shiver and wrapped my clothes tightly.
"It's all on track."
The fourth camel took the lead in front, and the group slowly moved forward. I was in a state of high tension and stared around for fear that something would happen again.
Finally, after less than half a pillar of incense, we came to the exit.
But what we didn't expect was that the exit of the labyrinth would be such a sight. A few of us stood at the end of the stone path, dumbfounded.
I could scarcely believe my eyes, and what appeared in front of us at this moment was a huge mountain cavern of incalculable size, and the light illuminated by the torches seemed extremely small and powerless in the endless darkness of the void in front of me, like water in the desert, swallowed up in an instant. It's as if we're in another empty space, where nothing exists except darkness.
Walking out of the stone crossing, there is a suspended rope bridge that can accommodate three people in parallel, and it is covered with wooden planks. I tried to estimate its length, but I couldn't see the end as far as my eye could see. The rope bridge stretched all the way forward, straight into the endless void world.
I only realized now that the mural in the burial chamber depicts the scene here. I began to regret why I hadn't looked at the painting closely. And Cassia didn't see the content of that painting before, so now he saw the huge mountain cave in front of him, and he was even more shocked.
"What is this place?" The sound of cassia is particularly ethereal in the cave.
I told him about the contents of the murals I had seen in the burial room, and speculated that this was the place where the owner of the tomb performed secret sacrifices during his lifetime. And the real underground palace may be at the end of the suspended rope bridge.