Chapter 53: The Strange Tree
I thought that when I arrived at the entrance, the first thing I saw would be the stump and severed arm of the "thing", but what was surprising was that in addition to a broken pit caused by grenade bombing, there was only a broken tail of a snake man and broken stones on the ground. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
As our gaze lengthened, we also saw a circular stone cave with a diameter of at least three meters on a stone wall next to the snake's tail, and there was a long bloodstained drag mark on the ground at the entrance of the cave.
Seeing such a scene, Biaozi said with a smile: "Could it be that our opponent has always been just a snake man?" ”
I nodded smugly: "It looks like this." ”
The mark laughed self-deprecatingly: "I'll go!" After doing it for a long time, we were actually tricked by a snake man, who is this damn good woman to reason with? ”
Qin Kunlun solemnly reminded: "Even if the other party is really just a snake man, it is not an ordinary snake man, we must not be careless." ”
Tan Jia nodded and said: "The teacher is right, judging from the previous performances of this snake man, his wisdom is not only very high, but also has a huge charm ability, which is not comparable to ordinary snake people, it is not good, she is the legendary Queen Mother of the West." ”
Queen Mother of the West?
My heart trembled slightly, and I suddenly reacted, since the tomb of the Queen Mother of the West is located in the back, then the snake man with super charm ability just now may really be the Queen Mother of the West.
"What is the Queen Mother of the West and the Queen Mother of the East, to put it mildly, it's not just a big snake demon." Biaozi's face was a little disapproving, and he urged: "Okay, let's not think about it, let's go!" ”
Inside the snake statue, following the bloody trail marks, we came to the side of the huge hole.
Looking inside, this stone cave is not deep, only about twenty meters long, and at the end is a huge space, for some reason, there is a red light emitted inside, which looks extremely strange.
I said with some skepticism: "Wouldn't this red light also be a means of confusing people?" ”
"Not really." Qin Kunlun frowned very much, thought for a moment, and said: "This red light looks similar to the light emitted by volcanic magma, and it is not good to say that it is also an alchemy room inside." ”
When he said this, I thought it was quite similar, and I don't know if it was an illusion, but I felt that there was a hot breath rushing out of the cave, although it was not very obvious.
Biaozi's always guarded look suddenly relaxed, and he snorted coldly: "As long as it's not that deceptive green light, everything else is easy to say." As for the Queen Mother of Nasi, huh! Fat man, I am going to leave all the thunder on my body to her. ”
What he said made a lot of sense, since the grenade can blow off the tail of the Queen Mother of the West, it can also blow her up, in that case, what else do we have to worry about?
Having made up our minds, we followed the blood-colored trail and continued on our way.
When I got to the entrance, I found that there was a pile of gravel on the ground, and on the stone walls on the left and right, there were two hollows of the same width.
Stepping over the pile of rubble, we came to the huge space that glowed red, and at a glance, we found that it was much larger than we had imagined, and it revealed a strange atmosphere.
The cave in front of us is completely different from the ones we have encountered before, it is not a pure stone structure, it is more of a soil layer, that is, this cave is a combination of earth and stone.
It was the first time we had seen a black layer of soil since entering the cave, which was a bit strange but not enough to shock people, and the real reason for our shock was a huge strange tree in the middle of the cave.
This strange tree is more than 20 meters high, the highest point is almost to the top of the cave, and the whole body is gray, and it looks like it should have died a long time ago; The trunk of the strange tree is extremely thick, and it takes at least seven or eight people to stretch their arms at the same time to hold it, and I don't know how many years it has grown deep in the ground to grow like this.
The straight trunks of the strange trees were covered with thigh-thick branches, but strangely they hung down from them like wicker, and remained on the ground for a long time.
From a distance, the overall image of the strange tree resembles a dead man's head, giving people an indescribable sense of weirdness and gloom.
As for the place where the red light came from, it was a square underground entrance, and it was in the rightmost corner of the tree, at least forty square meters, because it was so far away that we could not see how deep it was underneath.
Looking at this strange tree that was more than 20 meters high, the big mouth of the mark was opened, and it took a while to close, and after a pause, he said in surprise: "What kind of tree is this good girl, how can it still grow in such a place?" ”
No one can say why the tree survived, because it is beyond our comprehension, but then again, everything in the palace of the Queen Mother of the West, what can be used to deal with common sense?
I glanced around the cave and said with some confusion: "I can't see the snake man with the broken tail everywhere, could it be that he is hiding in that magma cave?" ”
Tan Jia nodded and said, "It should be like this, including that weird bronze ball tomb, I'm afraid it's also down there." ”
Biaozi had long wanted to see the legendary strange tomb, and now he knew that it was in that underground entrance, which made him how he could still endure his temperament, so he said excitedly: "Go, go, go, let's go over and see!" ”
We are no exception to our curiosity about the Bronze Ball Tomb, but when we passed, we were still extra cautious, after all, the strange snake man was hiding underneath.
When we arrived at the fiery red underground entrance, we looked down and suddenly a hot air rushed to our faces, and at the same time, our faces began to look a little unsightly.
As we expected, there was indeed a volcanic magma underneath the entrance, but it was a little scary, and I estimated that it was at least a hundred meters deep. Most importantly, the entrance is surrounded on all sides by steep cliffs, and there are no roads or stone stairs or other passageways leading to the bottom, except for a thick bronze chain hanging in between.
I've never seen such a thick bronze chain, and if you look at it as a whole, it's at least as thick as a bucket, and it's the body of every brass ring on it, and it's the size of a human arm.
One end of the large bronze chain was wound around a boulder next to the entrance, at least a dozen times, while the other end extended to the underground entrance and then hung deep into the bottom of the cave.
Speaking of the boulder wrapped around the bronze chain, it is also a miraculous existence, it is more than ten meters high, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, I estimate, its weight is at least more than 100,000 catties, giving people the feeling, like a small stone mountain.
The strangest thing is that the bottom of this boulder is glued to the ground, giving people the feeling that this huge bamboo shoot-shaped black stone seems to grow from the ground, which looks very incredible.
In the face of such a strange scene, the faces of the four people showed unbelievable looks, and it took a long time to recover from the shock, but the expressions on their faces were still extremely solemn.
The first to speak was Qin Kunlun, only to hear him sigh: "The world is so big, it is really strange, and I don't know what kind of height the smelting technology of the Western Queen Mother Country reached back then, and it is unbelievable that such a thick bronze chain can be made." ”
Biaozi also exclaimed: "Yes, yes." There is also that stone mountain, which looks like a huge stalactite pillar, and I don't know how long ago it was formed, which is really only seen in my life! ”
I looked at the environment of the entire cave, and there didn't seem to be such a thing as stalactites in other places, and no matter how I looked at it, such an underground environment could not meet the conditions for the formation of stalactites, so I didn't think that the boulder in front of me was a stalactite.
I said: "This should not be a stalactite pillar, it looks more like a natural boulder buried in the ground, I don't know how it was formed, and I don't know how long it is buried in the soil layer under my feet, in short, it is really a big stone." ”
Everyone nodded yes one after another, if it weren't for the conditions, maybe they would have gathered around to study it.
Retracting her curiosity, Tan Jia glanced at the bronze chain and said to us suspiciously: "This copper chain seems to be the only tool to go down to the lava cave, but the lava is rolling down there, the temperature is extremely high, and the snake people are also flesh and blood, how do they survive in such an extreme environment?" It doesn't seem to make sense. ”
The label said: "There are more places that don't make sense, and it's not bad for this one, anyway, let's go down and take a look, if the temperature is too high, then there is no way, we have to do it." ”
I was staring at the magma cave below in a daze, but at this moment, Tan Jia behind me suddenly let out a scream, as if I had encountered something very dangerous, and the first thing I thought of was the strange snake man.
Frightened, I looked back sharply and saw seven or eight gray tentacles walking on the ground, one of which wrapped around Tan Jia's waist and dragged her to the back, the speed was actually fast.
It was precisely because Tan Jia was dragged far away that my gaze was extended, and I suddenly found that those gray tentacles were the branches of the strange tree hanging on the ground behind, but for some reason, they actually came to life.
At the same time, several other branches, like cobras, suddenly bounced off the ground, and the ends flew like bullets towards the three of us.