8. Encountering strange people "blindly coaxing"
This person walked down from above, and his steps were very steady.
On such a smooth inclined plane, the inclination angle is still so large, how did he do it?
What's even more terrifying is that when he walked to the edge of the "slide" step by step, he actually pulled out a bright knife from his body and made a gesture to cut the rope tied to Zhiyun's body.
"Don't!" Xiangyun was the first to exclaim.
"Don't!" The bugs also panicked, and their voices trembled.
"Wait!" This was shouted by the fat man, and he even stood up, "Friend, can you ask first before you cut it?" ”
"Oh, it's all alive!" The man suddenly put away the knife again and asked loudly, "Did you kill all those above?" ”
"Yes", "No".
The first sound was answered by the worm, and the second was from the clouds.
"Two answers, so who should I believe?" As he spoke, the man took out the knife again, "If you don't intend to tell the truth, I'll have to leave you here forever." ”
"Tell him the truth!" Fan Li suddenly interjected, and his tone was very resolute.
"We didn't lie to you. That's right", the worm swallowed, "We didn't kill the flower, but the seven people it ate and spit out were killed by us." So, no, I didn't lie to you. ”
"Oh, just the three of you, can you turn 7 flowers into souls and kill them all?" The person who came obviously didn't believe it, "I look at the traces left in front of me, there should be a lot of you people, where have they gone?" ”
"We're not together, you're talking about the group of people in the past," the bug pointed behind him.
"Passed?" The person who came stood up, looked around, and when he saw this rope, his tone suddenly became cold again: "Those nails and ropes on the wall are also left by you?" ”
"Do you think it's possible?" The bug pretended to sigh, "If we had opened a way in the wall, we would have followed that path a long time ago, how could we get stuck in this hellish place?" ”
There is some truth to that. Forget it, I'll give you a chance. Say it yourself, what kind of reasons should I use to convince me to let you go? ”
"Just tell me what you want us to do for you?" Fan Li replaced the insects, "If you cut off the rope, you won't be able to do any good." And if you help pull the rope through, we owe you a great favor, and maybe we can become friends and stick a knife in your ribs, don't you say? ”
"Haha, are you a funny person, one moment silly and cute, and the next moment shrewd and scary, as if you were a different person." The man squatted down again, but instead of taking out the knife again, he pulled the rope through little by little.
As I got closer, I realized that the person who suddenly appeared was about thirty years old, and there were no traces left by the vicissitudes of time on his face. It's just that he wears a grass-green military hat, a grass-green military uniform, a grass-green schoolbag on his shoulder, and a pair of grass-green galoshes of the Liberation brand on his feet, like a revolutionary soldier or progressive youth living in the early days of liberation.
Not only did I see him as unaccustomed to it, but he didn't seem to like us very well.
Because, when he saw me and the fat man, he actually said something like this: "It's just one Jiazi, why are there so many more demons?" I didn't see a whole person, could it be that outside, the sky had changed? ”
A nail seed!
I thought of the rules that Ji Yu said before, could it be that this guy was also sealed by someone and released once in sixty years? It is not surprising that he was 60 years ago.
Even ghosts are inevitably fashionable.
Just when I was thinking about it, the person who came shook his body slightly, and the outfit on his body changed suddenly, and it looked exactly like my outfit, and I really guessed it.
"My name is Xia Qihong!" He reached out to me, apparently a man who knew who the central figure was.
"Foolishness?" I was stunned, there are still parents who give their children this name?
"Xia Qihong! Summer summer, six game chess, magnificent macro! He was very serious and insisted on correcting my mispronunciation, but apparently he did not expect my misinterpretation not only in the pronunciation, but also in the meaning of the words.
Fortunately, this kind of small misunderstanding does not affect the normal communication between us. After Fan Li returned control to me, I told him the name Ding Fan, but deliberately did not introduce the other two, trying to force them, especially the fat man, to introduce them himself.
Who knows, Xia Qihong doesn't seem to be interested in them at all, and seeing that I didn't introduce them, he didn't even bother to ask.
Probably, he thinks I don't even bother to introduce it, and I definitely don't have any status in my mind, just two subordinates who can't be taken seriously. Since I don't value it, he is an outsider, so I don't want to pay more attention to it, so I don't ask at all.
I backfired.
Fortunately, both the clouds and the fat man have good tempers, and there is no unhappiness caused by this.
Fan Li guessed very accurately, this person has something to ask us.
Xia Qihong pulled me alone to the top of the "slide" and whispered his request: go to the root of the cannibal flower, take out the bones buried there, and send them back to my hometown to be buried in the earth.
I'm a little embarrassed, we just discussed internally before, not to touch the monster on it! For such a promise that is not a kind of kindness at all, it is not cost-effective to risk his life and do him such a big favor!
I'm not a person who can pull down my face and reject others face to face, so I wonder how to find a suitable excuse to reject this matter.
Xia Qihong saw my thoughts, hesitated, and made a new condition: as long as I help him with this, he is willing to be my slave for the rest of his life and will never abandon him.
Xia Qihong told me that as long as the bones above leave the cursed land, he will be freed from his shackles and can follow me anywhere. And his ability is to hide his tracks and arrange illusions, which is most suitable for spying on intelligence and avoiding tracking.
When he said this, I was really moved.
Because, this skill is useful, and it is right now. If you can really take him under your command and send him to save your uncle and grandfather, wouldn't it be appropriate?
However, I also know very well who is the absolute main force to complete the task he said, and that person will not be me.
I asked him to bring me back to Xiangyun and the fat man and ask for their opinions.
With what I know about the two of them. Even if Xia Qihong deliberately avoided communicating with me privately, the content of the conversation between the two of us must have been transmitted to the ears of the two of them word for word.
But it is not feasible, they already have a conclusion in their minds.
Neither of them, there was no objection.
However, the fat man made an additional request. He hopes that this time, the four of us will go up together, cooperate with each other, and use our best strength to try to ensure a success.
The fat man even divided the work directly. As an outsider, he didn't see anything outside.
Because it was a place where he was imprisoned, Xia Qihong couldn't make a move here, but he was familiar with the situation and could be specifically responsible for providing intelligence and giving necessary reminders when he might encounter danger. And I can provide suitable weapon support for the two main attackers when needed; Moreover, if it turns out in the end that the bones that Xia Qihong said can only be stolen and not robbed, the role of the thief must be me.
Xiangyun laughed while listening, and finally raised his hands in approval.
Fan Li, Worm and Xi Shi also stood on their side and expressed their approval with silence. Moreover, the bugs insisted on letting me go on my own and refused to do it for me. His reasons are also very good, if it is done, I will have one more slave, and if I don't contribute myself, how can I justify it.
I'm a little sad. Have they forgotten that I am a wounded man who has just been shot and should have been recuperating quietly, seriously wounded!
When I went back to the first half of the "Sky Corridor", I realized that it was not the same place as when we first left. Neither the man-eating flower nor the seven "transformed" people whose mutilated bodies were gone.
"This, the ability to heal itself is really strong!" The fat man muttered beside me.
What the hell?
Thinking of the man-eating flower, I hurriedly picked up the flashlight that had just been turned out from Fan Li's and shone it on the top of the cave.
I saw five big balls, or five spherical clouds, big red clouds. The things that make up these troupes are spinning at high speed, sometimes shrinking, sometimes expanding, and it looks like human lungs breathing.
Xia Qihong's face also changed, and he muttered to himself: "This time, why did you recover so quickly?" ”
"Don't be emotional, while it hasn't recovered, let's go side by side!" After speaking, he pulled out his katana and held it in his right hand; Then he stretched out his left hand and pulled over a vine branch hanging from the top of the wall, and the first one climbed up.
The fat man followed, but still empty-handed. Looks like he's really waiting for me to provide him with weapons.
Xia Qihong was even more desperate, he saw that I didn't move, he stepped forward and grabbed my coat, and then threw it upward, and went straight to the largest and thickest fog.
Seeing that the situation was critical, the insect didn't know what to scold, and snatched control of my body again, and before rushing into the fog, he pulled out a packaging bag from Fan Liku's library and buckled it on his nose.
If there is time and Fan Li's library is complete, I think he would prefer to change into a gas mask.
Xia Qihong, others don't know if there is poison in this red mist, and they originally had to protect their nose and eyes. But now time is pressing, and I can only report the respiratory tract first.
After rushing through, we realized that we were overly worried.
The fog is mainly composed of human blood and the juice of man-eating flowers, which can be a little uncomfortable when it touches the eyes, but it is not fatal to cause fatal damage.
The fog is hollow, and it seems that the main purpose of forming it should be to protect the secrets inside.
As I saw at the time, there were at least two secrets that needed to be protected.
One is the re-growing man-eating flower. Its "rebirth" method is very special: the center of this "blood mist ball" is the "corpse fragment" that disappeared before, and it seems that there are roots, stems, and leaves. They were already stirring together, and they were also spinning rapidly, shooting out "blood lines" at the same time, converging on the outer surface of the "blood mist ball". However, after reaching a certain amount of rotation, the things that make up the "Blood Mist Ball" will take root and gather towards the piranha flowers on the rock wall, and then gradually take shape, turning into various stages of piranha flowers, and I can clearly see that they are getting bigger and bigger.
The second is that there is a long, narrow and deep rock crack behind this, and what Xia Qihong said should be in this rock crevice. It was covered by a huge man-eating flower before, so I didn't see it.
"Hey, is it poisonous in there!" The fat man roared outside.
"Nope!" With that, the bug rolled over on its side and entered the rock crevice.
When I got back up, I felt a good breath and I was back!
Because there are no enemies to attack or dodge, and there is no need for bugs to be agile. So, as soon as I landed, he gave me back control of my body, including the decision to breathe here.
But he forgot to remind me, so I didn't have a choice at all. The moment I took over, I was unprepared, and the hand holding the bag with the meager air naturally let go.
For me, the air here is not toxic and I can breathe, which is my luck.
As far as the bug is concerned, if I lose consciousness, it may still be able to fight and throw my body out, so this replacement is the least risky and best for him.
Of course, when he was replaced, he was very unkind to inform the fat man that the air here was not poisonous, and he did not know if it was poisonous.
Luckily, it was right.
The man-eating flowers that have not yet taken shape are bad, uprooted by the clouds and the fat man, and the blood mist dissipates.
After solving all five of them, Xiangyun and the fat man returned to the rock crevice where I was, and Xia Qihong also came over, looking excited.
What he said, deep in the crevices.
For the sake of safety, I left Xiangyun outside to be on guard, and took the fat man and Xia Qihong to go inside, turning on the flashlight.
I always thought that the bones that Xia Qihong was talking about were either the original ones in the coffin, or they were like Nie Xiaoqian in A Chinese Ghost Story, turned into ashes and put them in a broken jar.
Unexpectedly, his name is interesting, and the bones are quite unusual.
Deep in the crevice, I saw a huge Rubik's Cube.
That's right, the Rubik's Cube, the third-order Rubik's Cube, but the size is a little larger and the material is different.
It's even made up of six monochrome squares, even the ones that have been scrambled.
This "Rubik's Cube" containing corpse bones is not placed on the ground, but is suspended in the air, and it will change from time to time, just like a stealth giant playing the Rubik's Cube here.
"The bones you said are in this?" I asked Xia Qihong, "Can you tell me?" Is it your bones that were directly divided into 27 parts? Or has it turned to ashes and is in one of them...... In the box? ”