Chapter 38: Searching for the Dead
Xia Beifeng grabbed the thin vine in his hand, and under the constant urging of the sparrow, he rushed towards the unknown direction in the dark. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
All kinds of murals, wall pillars, and sculptures flashed on his side, with a bit of simple and magnificent momentum, silently telling him about the former glory of this underground building.
Yes, underground construction. After turning around so much, he could already confirm that this place was definitely not a simple ancient tomb.
In other words, it is strange why this place was finally regarded as an ancient tomb.
He ran for a while, then suddenly slowed down.
More than ten meters in front of him, a deep black pit appeared on the stone-paved pathway.
"There's no road ahead." He looked up at the white bird above his head: "What should I do?" ”
"Jump over jump over ......" The sparrow repeater repeated a dozen times before adding: "No problem, I'll pull you." ”
Xia Beifeng took a deep look at her, turned his gaze back to the road under his feet, and quickened his pace at the same time.
The deep pit can be more than ten meters long, and the black hole underneath is not a good place at first glance.
Don't lie to me!
Xia Beifeng secretly said to the sparrow in his heart, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and jumped as he ran to the edge of the black hole.
The whistling wind echoed in his ears, and the wind blowing from the black hole under his feet rolled up the corners of his clothes, carrying a chill to the bone, making him shiver.
The sparrow fluttered a few times above his head, spread its wings with a "hula", turned into a huge white eagle, and swooped down on him.
The wind slightly stopped him from falling, and he jumped almost five or six meters away, almost halfway through the black hole when he landed in the black hole.
He looked up at the birds overhead.
The sparrow streaked right in front of him.
Xia Beifeng stretched out his hand and grabbed the claws of the birds in the sky reaching out to him.
His body moved away from the darkness below little by little, and after re-elevating, he subconsciously lowered his head.
"Don't look." The sparrow's serious voice sounded above his head.
It's a pity that she said it a little late.
Xia Beifeng raised his head in shock, looked at the pure white bird above his head, and opened his mouth.
Then he drank a mouthful of wind and almost choked to death.
The sound of the wind blowing through the feathers of the sparrows, and the sound of hunting.
She glided with him for some distance in midair, and not far from the end of the pit, shook his body and threw him hard to the other side.
Xia Beifeng made a loud noise when he landed, and he stood on the hard ground, his legs weakened, and he knelt on the ground.
The sparrow circled twice above his head and slowly landed on his shoulder.
He fell to his knees, gasping for air, and reached out to touch the top of the sparrow's head.
The soft and delicate touch of bird feathers passed from his palm to his brain, sobering him up a little bit, and finally finding some realism.
The sparrow tilted his head, rubbing his head twice in his palm, as if silently comforting him.
"What was that?" Xia Beifeng breathed a few sighs of relief and asked in disbelief, "I seem to see a ...... below." It wouldn't be the place I thought it would be. ”
The sparrow was silent for a long time.
"Yes." She whispered, "This place is directly connected to 'over there'. ”
The answer was not surprising, and he had already thought of it when he had just inadvertently glanced down at it.
And even earlier. When he was warned by Shen Qingge that he couldn't casually make water in the village; When he had just stepped into this mountain, a strange mania rose in his heart, and he already had this premonition.
It's just that now he still feels a little shocked when he hears someone admit it in person.
"Huh......" Xia Beifeng let out a sigh of relief, stood up slowly against the wall beside him, and chuckled: "I can't imagine that in my lifetime, I can still see the appearance of 'over there' with my own eyes, which is worth it." ”
He wanted to make himself look less nervous, so he forced a laugh, but he didn't expect the sound of laughter to sound very awkward, with a little trembling, but it sounded like a whimpering cry.
It's better not to laugh.
He glanced sideways at the sparrow with its neck shrunk and regretted it in his heart.
At this point, he still felt that his legs were a little weak, and he stood on the ground as if he was stepping on cotton. I touched my back with my hand, my clothes were soaked with sweat, and I was clinging to my body, and the wind blew and took away the temperature. It made him feel a chill.
In fact, the scene below is not terrifying, and even calms a little too much.
He looked down and saw a long river that was winding, the water was clear and transparent, without a trace of impurities.
The bottom of the river is filled with white stones of various sizes, which glow with small fluorescent dots and illuminate the surroundings.
The banks of the river were crowded with people, and I don't know how many of them were densely packed. Men, women, and children, tall and short, fat and thin, occupy almost every corner.
No one spoke, no one looked around, everyone just kept their heads down and walked slowly. They seem to be ignorant of their surroundings, unaware of the people around them, and even the bodies of the two people overlapping each other without being noticed.
The crowd was like a giant snake with a bloated body, black and pressed, slowly squirming in the direction of the river's flow.
Silent, slow, pathetic moving forward, with no source in sight and no end in sight.
If it was just a calm and weird scene, it wouldn't make Xia Beifeng feel frightened, what really scared him was that the moment he lowered his head, the people below seemed to have sensed it, raised their heads in unison, and looked at him with blank eyes.
There is no expression on their faces, and some of them even have blurred facial features, and their eyes are empty like soulless dolls. But he looked at him with a brush, which made him feel a burst of despair.
"I probably understand, what Xiao Tian said before...... That feeling. He walked against the wall for a while, and at last he came to his senses, turned to the sparrow, and said, "Let me watch these things every day, and I'll go crazy." ”
"yes, it's very uncomfortable to watch." The sparrow laughed gloatingly, flapped his wings twice, slowed down his tone, and comforted him softly: "You can see so clearly just now because this place is very close, and if you are far away, you will see that it is pitch black." It seems that most of the time you can only see the river. Occasionally, you can see people by the river, but it's not as exaggerated as you think. ”
Seeing that he still looked like he couldn't let go, Sparrow sighed and jumped off his shoulder.
The girl in white fell to the ground, squinted her eyes and smiled softly at him, and raised her hand to touch the top of his head.
"Yo, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, come and touch your head, don't cry......" She hummed a soft tone softly, coaxed a child to whisper in his ear for a while, before withdrawing her hand, and said, "Think about it carefully, Xiaotian was still a child at that time." If you saw this every day, you would have gone crazy a long time ago, and you can still live alive today? ”
"I'll admit that sounds like a bit of a point." Xia Beifeng waved his hand and knocked off the hand on his head: "But I've been an adult for a long time, can you not always treat me like a child." ”
"I forgot!" The sparrow said with a smile, jumping up and down behind him: "You and Xiaotian are both coaxed by me, what can you do if you touch your head!" ”
Xia Beifeng: "......"
He seemed to recall something painful, showed a tangled expression, and forcibly changed the subject.
"How far is it?" He turned sideways to the sparrow behind him and asked, "Is Ye Baiyu still alive with his old man?" ”
"If he dies, this thing will die with him, and I'll be in trouble." Sparrow pointed to the vines wrapped around his wrists, "But I feel like it's going to be fast, you wait for me to go ahead and take a look." ”
With that, she closed her eyes, spread her wings, and flew forward.
A few minutes later, she spun back and landed on his shoulder.
"It's coming soon, and if you run quickly, you'll see the flowers in five minutes."
"Flowers?" Xia Beifeng ran again, and at the same time asked her suspiciously: "What flower?" ”
"It's Huabei, it's not clear, you can see it."
As the sparrow had said, within five minutes he saw the small white flowers at his feet.
Slender vines snaked across the surrounding walls, as well as the vaults overhead, forcibly turning the surroundings into a dazzling green. Countless small white flowers bloom among the branches and leaves, exuding a faint fragrance.
Xia Beifeng was relieved. He slowed his pace, carefully avoiding the layers of fragile plants beneath his feet, and walked slowly forward.
The deeper he went, the denser the vines became, and when he found the thing he was looking for, he finally couldn't help but complain in the bottom of his heart.
"Engage in so many flowers and leaves, do you think you are a little princess!" He sneered and said to the mass in front of him, "Does this thing change color with your mood, it will bloom when you are happy, and the leaves will wither when you are sad!" ”
In front of him was a huge, white cocoon made of vines.
Thin white flowers dotted the layers of green vines, and a few straight green vines hung from mid-air and hung on the oval-shaped cocoon, hanging it in mid-air.
The cocoon was some distance from the ground, swaying rhythmically in mid-air, like a baby's cradle.
I saw such a thing that only appears in shoujo manga.,It's full of dream.,Appear in this underground ancient building that doesn't match its painting style at all.。 Xia Beifeng only felt a mouthful of old blood gushing up from his throat, and he was almost angry to death.
What hatched out of such a thing is not a butterfly princess flower fairy or something, but an old and immortal man!
"Good." He smiled, took out the knife, twisted his wrist a few times, and made a series of crisp sounds: "In this case, I can only do it directly, don't blame me for stabbing you." ”
After saying this, he thrust the knife into the green cocoon, and all he thought about was the bloody and violent thought of "just stab him to death".
Unexpectedly, although the vine was extremely thin, it was very tough, stacked layer by layer, and even a sharp knife could not cut through it.
The knife in Xia Beifeng's hand only reached a few centimeters, and it was stuck in the plant.
He increased the strength of his hand, and heard a tooth-aching sound of the blade grinding against something as it slashed through something.
The sound didn't sound like a plant at all, but more like the sound of steel and iron sheets rubbing against each other.
"What the fuck is this, so sturdy!" He gasped twice, looked up at the sparrow and asked, "Tell me, how the hell am I supposed to get him out?" ”
The sparrow landed on the cocoon, flapped its wings a few times, looked down at the green leaves at its feet and began to be in a daze.
It seems that she doesn't know either.
Xia Beifeng angrily raised his leg and kicked the cocoon in front of him.
"Wake me up, or I'll burn you with a fire!"
Who knew that the calloon was still lazy just now, and he kicked it, and it suddenly became active.
The knife inserted into the cocoon was quickly entangled by vines, and in a few clicks, it wrapped around the hilt, spreading along the handle to Xia Bei's arm.
Xia Beifeng subconsciously let go of his hand and took half a step back.
The knife he had left in place was quickly covered in green, sinking little by little, and disappearing.
The sparrow was also so startled by this change that it flew again. She flew around Xia Beifeng's head a few times like a fried hair, before she calmed down and landed on Xia Beifeng's outstretched arm.
"It just ate my knife."
"It almost dragged me in...... Luckily, I was fast. ”
They both uttered this sentence almost at the same time.
The man and the bird looked at each other in surprise, and at the same time turned their gaze to the huge cocoon in front of them, their eyes full of naked contempt and anger.
"Ye Baiyu, you still have no end, can you come out honestly!"
The cocoon in mid-air seemed to hear them speak, and trembled violently twice.
Xia Beifeng simply practiced a roundhouse kick at it.
Who knew that the thing was like an old lady who touched porcelain professionally, and was kicked directly by him and fell down.
After a few marbles on the ground, it rolled along the stone-paved corridor in another direction.
Xia Beifeng had no choice but to pull out his legs to chase after him.
The thing rolled happily out of the way, shrinking in size as it rolled. Along the way, a large area of green vines and fallen flowers were left all over the ground, constantly stumbling on the footsteps of those who followed behind.
"Every time I encounter this kind of thing, I envy you very much." Xia Beifeng lowered his head and said to the sparrow on his arm: "It's so happy to be a bird like you." ”
"Of course, I have wings!"
"It's not. I mean, you're a bird, and you're so happy that I want to run with you. ”
The sparrow flew up angrily, reaching out its claws to scratch at the clothes on his shoulders, and in a few strokes the fabric on his shoulders was completely wiped out in the face.
"You tap, you've got the meat."
"Well deserved! It's about hurting a little bit and making you remember it for a long time. ”
"You're wrong again, I'm not afraid of pain, I'm afraid that I will be seen by a beautiful woman and explained it badly."
"In this place, you still think about beautiful women, I think you don't want to die."
"I was wrong, please put your claws away, it really hurts."
The two of them chatted and chased the cocoon for a while, and finally saw it slam into the wall.
"I don't know why, but my mood suddenly improved." Xia Beifeng tilted his head to look at the sparrow that was still tossing his shoulder, and smiled gloatingly.
The sparrow nodded sympathetically and flew towards the cocoon.
"I don't know why, but my mood has changed all of a sudden."
"Ah Yu, don't sleep, wake up!" As she flew, she shouted crisply: "Xiaobei is here to help, you hurry up!" ”
The thing didn't move, it was like dead.
After a while, she landed on the cocoon, and began to flutter her wings again, chirping: "Get up quickly, get up, the light song is coming, if you don't get up again, she will beat you!" ”
These words were like some kind of incantation, and the cocoon, which had been moving silently just now, moved quickly after hearing the word "light song".
Layers of vines quickly peeled off from the cocoon, gradually revealing the human form inside.
"Having said so much, it's still the ancestors who are good!" Xia Beifeng stared at the long black hair faintly under the green vines, and was shocked: "You were deceived like this?" ”
"I didn't lie to him." The sparrow slowly raised his head and looked behind Xia Beifeng: "Qingge is really here." ”
Xia Beifeng stiffened for a moment, laughed dryly, but didn't dare to look back.
"Huh...... You're lying to me, aren't you? ”
The sparrow began to bow its head and comb its fur, stepping on the chest of Ye Baiyu.
"She didn't lie to you." Shen Qingge's voice came slowly from behind.
At the same time, the cold, sharp tip of the spear also poked at the back of his neck, shaking maliciously.
"I heard that you are secretly speaking ill of me here?" (To be continued.) )