The underground waterway is rough, and it looks like it is getting narrower, I listened to the wheezing in front of me, and it was estimated that I wouldn't be able to go far You Murong couldn't carry himself on his back: "You still put me down." ”

Dripping in waist-deep water, it was difficult to walk, and You Murong didn't even listen: "Don't talk nonsense!" Can you still walk this sick seedling? I'll take you with me wherever I go. ”

"I mean, I take two steps on my own. You see, the underground waterways are not so high, and if you carry it on your back, you will hit your head. ”

You Murong was obviously not at ease: "Can you go by yourself?" "

I feel dizzy, and my body is like a fire, but I don't know if it's too burned, but I don't feel it, I feel stronger than just now, and it should be okay to walk: "It's okay, I think I can still walk." ”

You Murong put the person down, and he was still a little uneasy.

However, I walked a few steps on my own, and I felt that although my feet felt like stepping on a ball of cotton, I could still walk.

Moreover, the underground waterways here are rapidly narrowing, and if a person really carries one on his back, he will not be able to walk after a few tens of meters.

Everyone walked along the underground waterway, and the dragon qi corpse flew in front of it, and its body glowed with a faint fluorescence, as if it was pointing the way.

It's quiet in the underground waters, but you can hear some sizzling sounds inadvertently, but when you pay attention, you don't hear it anymore.

The underground waterway became narrower and narrower, and in the end, You Murong and I could only move forward with our heads down.

And it's getting darker and darker, and if there is no fluorescent guide on the dragon qi corpse's body, everyone will lose their direction.

More than ten meters forward, You Murong, who was walking in front, felt that something brittle had stepped on his feet.

He took a step behind, bent down and looked at the water on the ground, and found that it was the remains of some Kun insects, and he couldn't recognize what the specific Kun insects were, because they were all scattered, of course, it could be a mixture of many kinds of Kun insects. "What's that?" I asked, confused.

You Murong hesitated for a moment, but decided to tell the truth.

Having come to this place, it's not a good idea to hide the danger: "The remains of a lot of mutated animals, like ......"

"They've gobbled each other up here?"

"Yes." You Murong looked into the darkness, "The underground waterway is getting narrower and narrower, and it is estimated that it is impossible for a large number of mutated animals to enter together, so let's solve it here."

There may be ...... ahead"

"There will be dangerous mutant animals." I held a branch in my hand and supplemented what You Murong didn't say. "Yes." You Murong pulled himself over and brought him closer, "But no matter what is in front of you, let's all be together." I nodded.

At this time, it is useless to say Mu Tongtong's words, and if you go together, maybe the combat effectiveness will be a little stronger.

The feet are crunchy, and everyone walks very uncomfortable, so subconsciously avoid paying attention to the road under their feet.

This was a mistake, because by the time everyone suddenly noticed that there was a light ahead and the sewers were turning sharply, it was too late.

You Murong's feet slipped, and the underground waterway didn't know when it had changed from rough at the entrance to smooth, and here it was even more slippery like polished, and he couldn't stand on his feet and fell down.

I reached out behind and grabbed You Murong's belt, but I couldn't stand on my feet, everyone was huddled together, and I rushed down with a rolling belt.

There was a thick layer of stuff on the ground, and everyone didn't hurt at all, but they scratched a few places when they fell from the underground waterway.

However, as soon as I landed on this layer, I didn't feel quite right, because it felt a lot like I was thrown into that food gathering place in the lair.

There was already a bright light, and there were a few cracks in the mountain wall overhead, from which the light came down, and everyone could barely see what was underneath...... It was also a myriad of insects and snakes, accumulated over time, and had a thick layer, but it was very dry here, and there was no smell of decay.

You Murong got up and dragged me and said softly, "Did the sick seedlings fall?" I shook my head, "No."

What is this place? You Murong looked around and said with a smile, "It's strange, this looks like a ......" Everyone said in unison: "Well cellar? "It's like a well, but it's as big as a football field.

All around are those black magnets, slanting down, like a tea bowl, and everyone is now in the bottom of the bowl.

The top of the bowl was filled with countless small honeycomb-like holes, probably the other end of the hole cluster that everyone saw on the mountain wall outside, and the lower part was extremely smooth, and if you looked closely, there were countless small scratches, probably because of hundreds of insects and snakes rubbing their bodies to become so smooth. So, we're rounding back? "There's something up there...... "I feel a little better, and my eyes are less dazzling, and by the faint light, I can see something sticking out of the side of the bowl."

You Murong squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully for a while: "It's some rock paintings and stone carvings." "Indeed, they are rock paintings and stone carvings, and they are also carved with various mutated animals, but if you look closely, these mutated animals are different from those painted on the mountain wall outside.

If you want to describe it in one sentence, the outside is realistic, and the inside is impressionistic. It is like a cliff carving - the text is directly engraved on the cliff stone wall, which is called "cliff". Feng Yunpeng's "Golden Stone Suo" said: "Chisel it on its mountain, and say that it is a cliff." "Cliff carving is a kind of ancient Chinese stone carving art, which refers to calligraphy, statues or petroglyphs carved on the cliff stone wall. Cliff carvings originated from a way of remembering the ancient Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and prevailed in the Northern and Southern Dynasties until the Sui and Tang dynasties and the Song and Yuan dynasties. Especially the Qing people like it, Ye Changchi's "Language Stone" thinks: "Today's people see the title, or call it the cliff, but I don't know that the cliff is not all inscribed." That is, the mountains of Guilin, poems, fu, praise, and praise Gu no matter what, the monuments of the Tang and Song dynasties "Pingman" and Han Yunqing's "Shunmiao Monuments" are not majestic and huge? …… Jin, Henan, Qi, Lu Buddhist scriptures, statues, are often carved on the cliff...... Gaimo Cliff, Ju 'stele' also, is a common name, a vacant position, and also a compendium of carved stones, and its text is also an entry. Kang Youwei of the Qing Dynasty said in his "Guangyi Boat Shuangji Bang Book": "The stone carvings of Yunfeng Mountain are tall and elegant, dense and reasonable, such as the fairy howling tree, the seafarer pancha, which makes people imagine endlessly. If it can be used as a big character, its posture is elegant, when it is like eating parsnip porridge, and the mouth is fragrant for three days. "In fact, the history of rock art in the world is unusually long, the earliest paintings of human beings are rock paintings created by primitive ancestors about millions of years ago, and China's rock paintings can be pushed back to at least 30,000 to 20,000 years ago, as evidenced by the glacial scratches of the Damaidi rock paintings in Ningxia. Of course, there are words and drawings in human form, which are extremely difficult and logical, and the age is naturally much delayed. The Chinese swastika, for example, is known to have appeared as far back as 7600 BC to 6200 BC during the Jurisprudence of Pengtou Mountain. The swastika pattern also appeared in the law of Majiayao, which is about 4000 years old; Seven swastikas were found on the small riverside jurisprudence pottery unearthed from the Shipengshan cemetery in Aohanqi, Liaoning. The rock paintings of Burhantu Mountain in the Urad Houqi of Inner Mongolia and the artificial etching stone beads of the Han and Wei dynasties unearthed in Shaya, Xinjiang are also found on the swastika symbols.

At the same time, the calligraphy is good, some cliff stone carvings, rock paintings are called the mystery of the ages, let you interpret its story, what is it painting? The answer, you don't know, but you will guess, you will say that this may be the story of the sun god Shaohao, and you will say that this may be the story of the Zhou Dynasty, or it may be the story of the Warring States Period. You alone may still have so many conjectures, then the theories of the hundred and eighty sages are even more varied, a hundred flowers bloom, the petroglyphs are very simple, just so simple lines, the story capacity will not exceed a hundred words, but as soon as the sages quarrel, the meaning of this picture is too likely to be interpreted into all possible stories from the Yellow Emperor to the Spring and Autumn Period. Everyone will quote scriptures, and the sages will certainly not make unfounded assumptions, they will definitely look through historical books to find clues similar to the content of rock paintings. Once there is a certain similarity, then a new set of interpretation schemes will come out, and this is the interesting thing about interpreting rock paintings.

It's just that no cliff carving will be so clean, and the carved sculptures of those mutated animals floating on the edge of the bowl are no longer a single kind of insects, snakes, lizards, but the characteristics of many mutated animals are integrated.

For example, the one on the side has a front body like a centipede, but the back half of the body has a huge belly like an eight-legged monster, and the opposite one has the body of a snake but a pair of wasp wings.

Moreover, these monsters have only carved most of the front half of their bodies, and the back is not carved, at first glance, it looks as if these mutated animals have just come out of the mountain wall. I remembered what the Shiling people told me that the cliff carvings are also considered to be a kind of spell for suppressing feng shui, such as the "Ode to the Stone Gate" in the Han Monument, and the inscription poem and title of Yunfeng Mountain of Zheng Daozhao in the Wei Monument. "Xuanhe Book Spectrum Book 1": "Sui Liang Chu Sui Liang, like to make a book, its cliff tablet in Xiluo Longmen. ”

You Murong suddenly shouted: "There are words here!" Obviously, the handwriting is much newer, but it's probably two or three hundred years old! She read it aloud.

"It seems to be a traditional Chinese character...... The mountains and rivers are not empty, and the riverside is surplus. Tusu Liang Building, there is a stone with Peiyuan. The lungs of the earth are not like these, or they are comparable to the stones. The majestic white horse, the temple has been built for a long time. Ding is both a god and a traitor, and he is ugly. The statues in front of the door are strange. The earth is a sign of civet power, and the water is good at the right. Bi Fanghuo is false, and the wind is roaring...... What is it? “

Next, I read softly: "Zhongshan Candle Dragon Dive, Pingpu Ying Recruit." The bird monster has many feet, and 61 suffers from laughter. The mountain anointing is good and good, and the nails are freed. Three years out of elephant bones, ten days of burning ugly. The god drum thundered the belly, and the emperor sentenced the head of the heavens. There is a fight to live in poverty, and the nine mountains eat willows. Chi You abandoned the shackles, and the two were locked. All these foreign objects are difficult to detach. How can you speak with a different tongue, and you can be trampled with your knees.

The ship is either sitting and cutting, and the silk is according to Europe. Fish or caught at sea, snakes or ears. I don't know if it's a coincidence. If the godless is dead, how can the heart be immortal? Xia Geng has no head, so why should he be blamed. The female corpse turns into fairy grass, such as the elbow of the willow. The lady is wide and wide, not different from the other side. The verandah is stormy and green, and the empty room is swarthy. Sen Ran came to fight people, and he opened his bloody thumb. I didn't dare to go forward, I felt quite frightened, and I used to read "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", and I couldn't dissect it. It is the origin of the book, and the cloud is out of the hands of Boyi. Since it is better than "Yu Gong", it is also a hundred articles. Chongbo has a lineage, which is the queen of Luo Ming.

Yu Yuan turned into a yellow bear, and whether it was restored. It is not in line with the books. Shangjia Wei Wang Hai, and the situation is ruthless. It's ridiculous, and it can be covered with sauce. Every time I think of the nine plains, after the life of the quality. Long Wei's "Dunjia" book has been full of entanglements since then. Zu Long saw the god man, and the queen mother of the Han Wu banquet. are all indiscriminately here, and strange stories are inciting. Ande Kunlun ruins, open the sun for drying. If you don't believe in the auspicious amount, you will have a thousand years of life. The return is dazzling, and all kinds of strange people are stumbling. And the eastward cup, and the emperor syrup thinks it is wine. Zhang Yunxuan is absolutely ...... The second is probably the word "absolute pen". "What's in there, don't lie to me if I don't read much!" You Murong's voice trembled, obviously frightened, she was not afraid of the clear knife and gun, and the knife edge licked blood, and Miao Zhu could also be used as a super soldier or something, but the ancient monster was obviously beyond her scope to deal with.

Compared to her, I can call it a top student.

"It's all ancient monsters or something...... It is not surprising that the literati like to rely on the ancient monuments and carve the cliff stone sadly. The stone carvings are better understood that the ignorance of primitive people was the source of their happiness: they were able to explain for themselves the motives of all phenomena in a way that satisfied them. For them, the spirits—the spirits of nature and the gods of the earth, the spirits of the demons and the dead, the demons and the gods—constituted the individual motivates of life in the world. In this way, everything is clear to primitive people, and the secrets of nature are as clear to us as they are to scientific explanations, and they are not so secret. Therefore, the objects of primitive worship are very complex, which can be roughly divided into nature worship, ancestor worship, totem worship and sex worship. At that time, there was no written language, and compared with the three major religions of the world, the worship of primitive people had many different characteristics, which seemed coarse, naïve, blind, and untheoretical, but because of this, it also showed the simple emotions of early human beings. The rock art is a symbol of the expression of the ancient people, a reflection of their real life, thoughts and folk customs, showing the colorful life, rich imagination and artistic expression of the ancients. Those rock paintings depicting animals, people, hunting, grazing, war, sacrifice, dance, yellow and red harmony, reproduction, etc., which are both simple and clumsy, concise and expressive, are the image materials of the life history and development history of our distant ancestors, and have extremely high historical value and cultural and artistic value. In the land of China, the number of petroglyphs is very rich, according to the discoveries, up to 15 provinces and autonomous regions in the east, west, north and south, including more than 70 counties in Taiwan, hundreds of relics, the total number is not less than hundreds of thousands. Its more famous ones include Helan Mountain petroglyphs, Xinjiang Hutubi petroglyphs, Yinshan petroglyphs, Inner Mongolia Table Mountain petroglyphs, Guangxi Huashan petroglyphs and so on. Since worshipping gods is a major content in human life, it is also a major content of rock paintings. These petroglyphs, with simple, rough, vivid and vivid brushstrokes, depict the gods who bless the pregnancy of women, the growth of adults and children, and the gods who preside over the union of men and women, etc., all of which show that the primitive people attached great importance to the gods. especially

Among them, nature worship is the worship of those natural forces that are closely related to one's daily life, including celestial worship, mountain worship and stone worship, water worship and fire worship, land worship and so on. The empiricism of the sun, moon, stars, wind and clouds, thunder and lightning contained in the so-called gossip was mysterious and unpredictable to the primitive people; They are also mysterious to the abnormal shape of the mountains and stones, which contain many animals and plants, and the rocks that are used to make tools and weapons, all of which make them believe that there is a divine power in them; Water and fire are of great use to humans, but fire and water are ruthless. Floods and raging fires terrified primitive people, so they bowed to the fire and water; The earth breeds all things and nourishes human beings for thousands of generations, so they regard the earth as their gods, and even everything that grows on the earth is believed to have the power of gods. These cults have been around for a long time, and they are also discussed in ancient Chinese texts. For example, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, "Zuo Chuan Zhao Gong" said: "The god of mountains and rivers is the disaster of floods, droughts and plagues, so it is; The god of the sun, moon and stars, the snow, frost, wind and rain from time to time, so it is so. "Yin Qicui Compilation and Interpretation" records: "Yin people have sacrifices in and out of the sun...... Cover the day and night God worships it. There is a "Book of Rites and Sacrifices": "Burnt firewood in the altar of Tai, sacrifice to the sky." The scab was buried in Taizhen, and the sacrificial ground was also ...... Buried in Taizhao, sacrifice also. It is close to the altar and sacrifices to the cold and heat. The royal palace, the festival day also. The night is bright, and the moon is also sacrificed. Youzong, sacrificing stars also. Pheasant sect, sacrifice water and drought also. Four altars, sacrifice to the four directions. Mountains, forests, rivers, valleys and hills, can come out of the clouds, for the wind and rain, see monsters, all say gods, there are people in the world to sacrifice to the gods. ”

Among all these kinds of nature worship, the worship of the sun and moon is the most prominent. Successive dynasties regarded the sun as a symbol of supreme authority, and during the ten years of turmoil, the highest object of worship for the great leader was called the "red sun", which seems to be a legacy of this. Many primitive petroglyphs have this kind of expression. In both the slave society and the feudal society in China, the emperor had to hold a grand ceremony to worship the heavens; On the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, people generally worship the moon. There are a few old demon spirits who have not become Buddhas and ancestors for thousands of years, which is really deplorable. The most qualified ones are the sun and moon. It's a little strange to say, in ancient Greek mythology, the sun god Apollo is so famous that almost everyone knows it, and even Hera, the queen of heaven, is afraid of him. But in ancient China, although there were many myths about the sun and the moon, there was neither a sun god nor a moon god.

In the eyes of the ancients, the sun and moon seemed to be more like pure demons. As early as the Neolithic Empire, the sun and moon were in high esteem. There are many scenes of worshipping the sun and the moon in the carved symbols of petroglyphs and pottery, and the correspondence between the sun and the three-legged black, the moon and the toad has gradually evolved. This is very typical of the worship of the spirits. Since it's a demon spirit, everyone won't be too polite. In the story of Hou Yi shooting the sun, although the sun is the son of the Emperor of Heaven, after it was shot down by Hou Yi, it turned into a three-legged crow. When people deal with it, they kill it when they should kill it, and eat it when they should eat it. In Lu Xun's novel "Running to the Moon", Hou Yi often eats crow meat fried noodles, and solar and lunar eclipses are the embodiment of typical demon spirits. The ancients believed that a solar and lunar eclipse was a tengu devouring the sun and moon, and when they encountered a solar or lunar eclipse, they would beat gongs and drums to drive the tengu away and save the sun and moon. This method is not only popular among the people, but also in the government, and there are officials named "drum man" and "servant" in the "Zhou Li", who specially teach the king of Zhou how to beat the drum when saving the sun and the moon. Not only drums are beaten, but also arrows are symbolically shot at tengu, and sacrifices are held in temples, and sacrifices are made of silk and livestock. The government strictly stipulated the different tools used by people of different levels to rescue the sun and the moon, such as five drums for the Son of Heaven and three drums for the princes, and even the drums could not be used below. If it exceeds the standard, Confucius will scold something "is tolerable, which is unbearable". Saving the sun and the moon was very common in the Spring and Autumn Period, and there are many records in the "Zuo Chuan", which shows that the views at that time were relatively consistent and common. If the sun and the moon were all immortals, would they not be able to fight the tengu? Do you still need mortals to protect you? When have you ever seen Apollo, the sun god of ancient Greece, run around being chased by a straw dog?

Another reason why the sun and moon did not become gods is that there is no concrete image. China's sects pay special attention to idols, from the highest superior Jade Emperor to the unqualified land lord, all have their own images, but who can take the sun and the moon as the jade photos of the gods? Basically, the three-legged black and toad represent the sun and the moon, but you can only say that they are the image spokespersons of the sun and the moon, but you cannot say that they are the sun god and the moon god themselves. The Dongjun Sun God in "Nine Songs of Chu Ci" should be said to be an exception. The poem has a detailed description of the image of Dongjun, such as driving a dragon chariot, wearing a green cloud robe, a white neon dress, holding a long arrow in his hand, and many retinues under him. But this image did not spread later, and it was generally recognized by everyone, and we can only say that in some places the sun has the image of a fairy. The strange thing is that although the sun and the moon are only the lord of one side, they enjoy the treatment of becoming a Buddha and an ancestor, and there is a national Shinto religion. Since the Shang Dynasty, the spring and autumn equinoxes have been sacrificed every year, and wine and chickens are set up to eat, in order to show the meaning of sending the sun to usher. In the Zhou Dynasty, the treatment was even better, and the sun and moon were sacrificed as many as eight times a year. After the Qin and Han dynasties, this tradition was still maintained, at least every year on the spring and autumn equinoxes, cattle and sheep were slaughtered, and two lecturers were beaten for tooth sacrifices. The contrast between the sun and the moon in terms of enthronement and treatment may have something to do with some of the laws of religious beliefs and the way of thinking of Chinese blood worship.

There are other gods who enjoy the fireworks in the world, such as when building a house, you must first sacrifice to the god of the earth before you can break the ground; At harvest time, the god of grains is to be sacrificed; Before going out to sea to fish, you should sacrifice to the god of the sea; From the record of "Ximen Leopard Zhiye" in the history books, it seems that in the Warring States Period, there was still a custom of sacrificing living people to the river god; The movie "Red Sorghum" shows that in the early 20th century, people made wine and sacrificed to the god of wine. The list goes on. From the perspective of modern ethnic minorities, this state of belief is even more prominent. From some rock paintings, myths and legends, and the customs and habits of ethnic minorities who are still in the stage of primitive society, although the development of some ethnic groups has long been separated from the primitive society, due to the natural environment and traditional habits and other reasons, there are still many primitive ways of belief and worship, which are the "living fossils" of modern people studying the ancient primitive society.

For example, the Tibetan tribes in southwest China, the Namuyi and Baimuyi people, believe that the gods are in charge of everything in the world, and at dawn on the first day of the first lunar month every year, each family should hold a ceremony to worship the gods with wine, meat and food under the eaves, and throw the sacrifices into the sky after the sacrifice. The Oroqen people believed that the moon was a deity that helped them hunt at night, and they bowed to the moon on the 15th and 15th of February every year. The Achang people enshrine the sun god and the moon god in the hole in the wall of the house wall, put a vase and a bamboo cup inside, and often burn incense and worship. Some Miao people in Guizhou found that the direction of the meteor falling in the sky was their village, so they thought that a fire would come, so the whole village pooled money to buy a dog, and the Miao wizard presided over the annealing ceremony, and then killed the dog for sacrifice. If the Miao people in the Taijiang area want to open up the wasteland, they must first go to the statue of the earth god to burn incense three times before they can break the ground. These ancient rock paintings, which have been handed down thousands of years ago, are the "real estate" of culture. It's not surprising that it behaves like this, probably left by the natives here from a long time ago, and it's not surprising...... "I have intentionally or unintentionally concealed a series of things about the Old Gods.

You Murong and I were looking in circles, and suddenly on the other side of the "tea bowl", the layer of insects and pigs slumped and gradually bulged.

You Murong and I took a step back at the same time, clenching the weapons in our hands, and the remains of the Kun insect parted to the sides, revealing a crumpled thing.

This thing was still gradually expanding, so You Murong and I seemed to see those petroglyphs and stone carvings growing alive from the ground...... It was a living monster......

The bulging thing was a swollen moult, yes, a molt, but a worm molt that no one had ever seen, and it was incomparably large.

But if it was just a bigger one, You Murong and I would have already looked numb, this dragon vein came to the end, how could there be a big thing? But the worm was not only large, but also strangely shaped and coloured, and it was cracking, and in the crack something was slowly arching out, like a monster carved out of the slope.

It looked like an eight-legged monster, but it had a slender belly and a slimy tail at the back, and its body was furry with a ring-shaped pattern, which at first glance looked like a centipede, but the most terrifying thing was the head of the thing...... It was a human head, and I knew that face, it was Mu Tongtong's face.

I hate myself for not destroying Mu Tongtong's body!

Only then did he really understand why Mu Tongtong didn't let himself eat living things, because in this dragon vein, all the living things you devour will eventually become a part of you, and this kind of mutation, no creature can refuse.

You Murong acted before the thing's tail was completely drilled out.

He directly pulled out a four-edged bayonet, brandished the blue bayonet that was obviously poisoned, and poked it at the head.

But the man's head suddenly opened its mouth...... His mouth was able to grin to the root of his ears, and two rows of fine, sharp teeth grew in his mouth, and he bit the top of the bayonet tightly, and at the same time, the first pair of sickle-like feet were raised, ready to give You Murong two blows.

I rushed up with the branch and stabbed it in the face.

After all, it's a human mouth, no matter how strange it looks, it can't grow two mouths, and the monster can only use the pair of feet that are ready to be used to deal with You Murong to resist me.

The thing hadn't fully emerged from the moult, only two pairs of feet sticking out of the membrane, one to support the body and the other to kill.

The branch in my hand was lightly blocked by him, and immediately left traces as if it had been sawn by, and the tiger's mouth was so shocked that I almost threw the branch.

However, as soon as he made such a contribution, his head was distracted, and he didn't bite the bayonet tightly, and You Murong pulled out his weapon and poked it in the monster's eyes again.

The monster made a crunch sound like rubbing metal, stabbing people's eardrums uncomfortably, the worm's slimy tail suddenly cracked, and a gray-white tail stretched out, the tip was not a hook thorn, but a pair of large jaws, bent down in mid-air and tightly clamped You Murong's weapon, and threw it with all his might, throwing You Murong up too, almost hitting the slope.

However, You Murong crossed his legs around the tail in mid-air, clinging tightly, until he slid to the monster's back, and stomped on the person's head with one foot.

Maybe it was because it had just metamorphosed from the worm, the monster's own body had not yet hardened, and the head was stomped by You Murong, and it was suddenly stamped out of shape, letting out a cry of pain, and bending the first pair of feet up and slashing indiscriminately.

You Murong stomped on his feet and knew that he was going to shift his position immediately, and before the pair of feet could cut over, he got into the worm moult from the crack.

The monster was a little overwhelmed.

It is important to know that the new skin of mutant animals that have not yet drilled out of the old skin is soft and wrinkled, so that it can stretch and grow after the old skin is drilled, and then slowly harden.

At present, the part of the mutant animal has not been completely hardened, not to mention the part inside the worm, which basically has no ability to protect itself.

If You Murong had a folding knife or something in his hand, he could calmly dissect it inside.

I watched You Murong disappear into the worm mot, and the monster began to want to drill out more frantically, the whole worm molt trembled, as if it was about to swell, and immediately took the opportunity to drill under the monster's body and stabbed the monster's chest and foot with the tip of the branch.

The monster struggled violently, and all of a sudden, the hard worm exploded throughout, and I encountered a piece of straight bone that exploded seven or eight paces away, and then I saw that the monster suddenly split into several parts! One monster, suddenly turned into three monsters.

The head and the first two pairs of feet are part parts, the chest belt is part of the two pairs of feet, and the belly drags the tail as the third part, and that part is alive.

I was so shocked I couldn't believe my eyes.

But that part was really moving, the first part rushed towards itself, the second part spread two pairs of wings behind its back, turned around to block You Murong who jumped out of the worm moult, and the third part raised the pair of big jaws at the end of the tail and pinned down at You Murong.

Instinctively, I lifted the fragment of the molt to block it, and the first pair of feet with my head slashed at the molt of the worm, cutting the molt into four pieces, and I had already taken the opportunity to get under him, rolled behind him, and stabbed him with a branch from behind before he could turn around.

I used all the strength to feed, and the part that had just been separated was still tender, and the tip of the stick was pierced into it, like a water bladder. "Be careful!" You Murong's voice came from behind, and before he could turn back, he was hit by something on his back, and the whole person was on the branch.

The pointed end of the branch was struck by this tremendous force, and was completely inserted into the first part of the worm, but the other end was also pressed against my own heart, and my throat was sweet, and a fishy hot thing rushed up from my throat and spat on my chest.

The insect that had been almost pierced by the branch screamed and turned, clutching at the branch and dragging itself behind him.

After turning around, I saw that it was the body of the worm in the middle that hit me just now, the hard breastplate was like an iron plate, and the force of rushing over was like a car.

And You Murong is dragging behind this insect body, but no matter how much he drags it, he can't pull this thing.

The one with the long head hissed in pain and rage, and the high tail followed the sound and stretched its jaw down to clamp me.

Fortunately, this section doesn't have long eyes, and I dragged behind the section with a long head, so I didn't hit it in a few strokes.

But I felt a terrible pain in my chest, and I couldn't support it anymore.

Suddenly, the firelight flashed, and it was You Murong who took off the clothes on his body and lit them, waving a section of the head and rushing over.

No matter how long you have a human face, after all, you are also a mutant animal now, and you still have to be afraid when you see fire.

The insect body kept retreating, screaming and commanding the tail to clamp Murong.

You Murong was waiting for this time, holding the torch until the big jaw had reached the back, and then he suddenly bent down and drilled towards the first section of his body.

I saw what You Murong meant, and desperately pushed the wooden stick to prevent the first section of the body from retreating, but the big jaw that did not have long eyes was clamped too hard due to the fear of the head, and it couldn't stop the car, and it just clamped the first section of the body.

I only heard a clear click, and the left half of the first section of the body was crushed, and he suddenly lost his balance and fell to the ground, almost flattening You Murong.

You Murong crawled out from under the insect body and hugged me: "How are you?" "I let go of the stick weakly, and now I felt like I had collapsed, and my chest ached so badly that I could barely breathe.

I really feel that I am probably going to die here, but fortunately, in this way, You Murong can go out? The fallen insect let out a dying scream, and the middle part of the insect spun blindly around him, as if trying to pick it up again, but he couldn't get up because of a branch.

So he retreated and joined the tail, and You Murong watched the two worm bodies lean together, and the contact site wriggled, like a large nest of mutated animals, and finally when they leaned together, the wriggling place gradually became one, connecting the two worm bodies.

I forgot to be scared for a moment: "This is ...... How can this ......" The chest hurt so much that I wanted to cough after saying a few words, so I had to stop.

You Murong helped himself to the edge and sat down, I breathed a sigh of relief, and wanted to finish my words: "This is not a mutant animal, this is a ...... Fat legacy. ”

“…… I don't understand......" You Murong said three words, and I explained, "The mountain of Taihua is cut into four directions, its height is five thousand thousand miles (2), its width is ten miles, and birds and beasts live in nothing. There is a snake, the name is fat, six legs and four wings, and there is a great drought in the world. Finally I couldn't help coughing violently until I coughed up blood. So that I didn't finish speaking, the fat relics in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" appeared many times, once it was a bird, Yingshan, there are birds, its shape is like a quail, yellow body and red beak, its name is called fat relics, it has been eaten and can kill insects. This kind of bird, shaped like a quail bird, has a yellow body and a red beak, and its name is fat, and people can eat its meat to cure leprosy and kill parasites in the body. Another kind of fat relics with the same name but (insect relics), this time it is a snake, see the drought in its country. Some say that it is a two-headed snake with two bodies, and it is said that the fat remains are six-legged and four-winged.

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Guozhen's "Reciting Sketches" volume 31 recorded that in the fourteenth year of Wanli, the people of Jianchang Township were in the mountains, meeting a giant snake, with a corner at the head, six legs like a chicken distance, and they were not shocked when they saw people. The people did not dare to hurt because of the call of the crowd; Slowly go into the deep forest. "Huashan Ji" cloud: "The snake six-legged person, the name is fat, and when you see it, there is a great drought within thousands of miles!" "This big snake with six legs is very likely to be the legendary fat relic. Wuzi, the disaster of self-ugliness, the natural and man-made disasters at the end of the Ming Dynasty have been foreseen.

"Jingshan County Chronicles" Volume 1 records that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, in the sixth year of Chongzhen, this kind of "six-legged like a chicken" strange snake was also found in the ditch of Pengyangjia in Beijingshan County, Hubei. Seeing the snake come out, six feet long, a circumference of a few feet, a red-green body, six legs like a chicken, not devouring people. Hao Chuwang said: "Fat relics, the Lord is dry." "Fruitful.

You Murong looked at himself silently.

I saw that the insect body collided, and now I know very well in my heart that it was poisoned first, and then it was a secret injury, and if everyone can't get out soon, they will definitely die here.

Is that all you have to live? He suddenly let go and turned to deal with the two pieces of insect body that were combined.

Other than this, there is no other way to vent the feeling of chest blockage.

I sat against the slope and watched as You Murong lit the insects on the ground and threw them at the two insect bodies.

Chitin is relatively easy to burn, almost as soon as it gets on fire.

The fat relic's head was still planted on the ground and could not struggle, and the two headless bodies could only run blindly and dodge, waving their arthropods and bayonets at the same time, slashing and slashing indiscriminately.

However, none of this could stop You Murong, and he stabbed the insect body in the abdomen with a five-three-style four-edged bayonet, and the venom smeared on it was injected into the insect body, and the two sections began to cramp in pain, trying to divide into two more sections.

But You Murong gathered all the insects and pigs in the gathering place, almost buried those two sections, and then set them on fire.

Black smoke was rising, the smell of burning protein filled the entire well cellar, and the firelight illuminated You Murong's murderous face.

The fire burned, and the worm body quickly turned to ashes.

You Murong walked back to the insect head that was still lying face down with the five-three four-edged bayonet in his hand, and pierced the bayonet without hesitation.

Mu Tongtong's head let out a hoarse cry, but You Murong kept piercing his hand, the bayonet broke, and he continued with a branch until he pierced the insect body, and flew up and kicked his head into the fire.

The last scream was drowned out by the beep of the flames, and You Murong watched in silence for a while, then threw away the branch and walked back to me.

I covered my nose with my clothes: "This smells terrible...... Fortunately, there are a few cracks in the mountain overhead, otherwise it would have choked people."

You Murong hugged himself and whispered, "I forgot, just thinking about burning it cleanest, otherwise I'm afraid that these things will be relieved." "I feel uncomfortable sitting on the ground.

At the beginning, there were insects and pigs, but now the insects and pigs were collected and burned by You Murong, and he suddenly felt that there was a lot of sloppiness under his buttocks, so he reached out and touched it, and found that there was a very long crack: "There is a crack here." You Murong looked down and found that there was more than one gap on the ground, but a yin-yang fish circle in the center and the radial cracks around it formed a bagua-like image, and the circle in the center of this gossip was not the same texture as the slope next to it, but rather some kind of metal, which looked like a patch under the "tea bowl". "Could this be the exit from the cellar?" You Murong suddenly came to his senses, lay on the ground and began to study.

It's just that no matter how much you press and pry, that thing just doesn't move.

You Murong stood up again and studied on the slope, but the slope was extremely smooth, and it was completely integrated, without any mechanism.

I went to study those petroglyph stone carvings again, and even tried to pull them with spider silk ropes, but it turned out that they were just petroglyph stone carvings, and they were not mechanisms.

I watched You Murong tossing around by himself, and finally couldn't help but say, "Don't get it, you can't get out." You Murong was not discouraged: "There must be a way, otherwise how could anyone know about the existence of the well cellar?" I hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "Actually, this mechanism can be opened." ”

"Do you know how to open it?" I nodded slowly.

You Murong was surprised: "You know? Is that still watching me toss? Say it! How do I open it? I smiled bitterly: "This well cellar is actually the place where the dragon is transformed, you know, "Yu Li" said that the dragon is transformed: "The dragon wants to turn into a dragon, five hundred years into a kui, a thousand years into a dragon, a thousand years into a dragon, a thousand years into a dragon, a dragon for another five hundred years, a thousand years into a dragon, a thousand years for the dragon." I was still strange before, but now I understand that Hualong is to put a lot of mutated animals into a dead place to absorb dragon veins and dragon energy, and it is not successful until the last Jackie Chan dies, so ...... "Don't say more yourself, You Murong has already understood: "Who did you listen to?" ”

"That Mu Tongtong said."

"Nonsense!" You Murong said succinctly, "Did he come in?" ”

"Do you still use Him to come in? Look at these mutated animals along the way......" I smiled bitterly, "you don't have to deny it. This well cellar hides secrets that the people can't understand, and the mutated animals that rush to squeeze in actually save themselves in some way.

You think you're gone if you're devoured? No, it was only the body membranes that were devoured, and the essence remained in the body of the same kind that devoured him, and then it was devoured by other kinds, and passed on forever until it came to this well.

It's not that you have to devour your own kind to evolve, it's more important to absorb those dragon essences.

He told me at that time that there can only be one life on this road. You Murong frowned: "Nonsense! The dragon is not man-made, but there were people here? And there are also Yue Zhende and Long Sihai...... Who knows how many kinds of life are present in this agglomeration? Don't listen to His nonsense, He himself has not come in, it is only hearsay, not to be believed. I watched You Murong continue to work by himself, and I didn't know what it was like.

This will make me feel chills start to run on my body, and it is obvious that it is burning again.

Although You Murong still didn't give up, he and himself already felt that they couldn't support it.

You Murong tossed for a long time and still didn't find a way to open the mechanism, and when he looked back, he was already curled up on the ground, and was startled: "What's wrong with you?" My body was hot, but I felt cold for a while, and whispered: "Don't be busy, I can't support it for long, when I die, the dragon qi will be emanated, and the mechanism will naturally open......" You Murong interrupted himself: "Don't talk nonsense!" "But this is a bit unconfident, whether the mechanism of the well cellar can be opened or not, but I really can't support it for a long time...... The light dimmed, and there was a faint thunder outside the cellar, and rain was dripping from cracks above, and it was raining outside the black swamp.

Lightning and thunder, rain and dragon, is this a harbinger of the birth of the dragon species?

However, You Murong had no intention of paying attention to these, because my body temperature rose rapidly, and I trembled for a while.

Everyone's clothes are almost gone, You Murong hugged himself and used his body temperature to warm himself, but when he hugged him tightly, he coughed badly, and obviously his lungs were also injured.

For the first time, You Murong felt powerless and desperate.

This kind of feeling was only experienced by himself when You Laosan died in the previous era, and now, this feeling has come again.

I lay groggily in You Murong's arms.

You Murong's clothes have been burned, and his own clothes are torn like nothing, anyway, everyone is a girl, the skin is close, and everyone is passing on their body temperature.

I felt as if I had been divided into two, one suffering from the cold on the outside and the heat on the inside, and the other enjoying the feeling of having people who had the same fate to support each other.

He said in a daze: "When the mechanism is opened, you remember to take me out too, this place is too annoying, I don't want to be with some mutant animals...... You Murong didn't speak immediately, until I fell asleep, and then I said slowly: "You can't get out, and you won't go out, no matter what, I'm with you." "The night is deeper.

You Murong huddled in my arms and curled up in a place where the water dripped above me, and closed his eyes.

Because of the barrier of the mountain wall, everyone does not know what it looks like outside: the torrential rain pours over the bowl, and the lightning constantly streaks through the sky, and the impact on the tree causes a raging flame, and the hit on the mountain wall will melt that small piece of the mountain wall to form a black crystal.

I was in a high fever, and You Murong was also exhausted, and no one saw it, and two small bright spots flew out of my body and circled in the well cellar.

Lightning kept hitting the mountain wall, and the magnetic field in this large magnet was changing subtly.

People can't feel it, but they like it very much.

However, there are still shortcomings.

Two bright spots lowered, there were two hot objects, and there was a special smell, this smell, they were familiar before, it was the smell of blood, dragon blood.

You Murong and I were close together.

In the fierce battle, his wound was torn open again, and now no one cares, and he is still bleeding slightly.

His face was pressed against You Murong's chest, and he coughed from time to time while he was in a coma, and blood flowed down from the corners of his lips, mixing with You Murong's blood.

The two bright spots fell on the blood stain, and it stood still.

Lightning.

You Murong and I are still asleep.

I vaguely felt the itching sensation under my skin worsen, and my head hurt a little, but I was so tired that I didn't wake up.

But even if I woke up, everyone didn't know that under the bombardment of thunder and lightning, the magnetic field in the well cellar was gradually changing, and there was a pricking sound under the well cellar, and I later realized that it was a man-made object thousands of years ago and slowly changing direction with the change of magnetic field.

Two bright spots flew up again, hovering in the well cellar.

Later, I figured out that Yue Wenbin was sure that the Dragon Balls were right on me, but the reason why the Dragon Balls became Dragon Balls was because they were combined with the human body, and there were no people, so naturally there would be no dragons, so none of these mutated animals that broke into the well cellar could become dragons, because they lacked one main condition...... Self-awareness of people. Mu Tongtong, only one step away. And Yue Wenbin, who became a lizardman, was attracted to me by his Dragon Ball.

And now, all the conditions are in order, and this drastically changed magnetic field is the most suitable place, as well as the blood of everyone below.

In the thunderstorm, the two bright spots panicked and rushed into the two sleeping bodies below like meteors, and at the same time, the mechanism finally collapsed into place, the creak of the mechanism rubbing sounded, and the thing in the middle of the gossip figure slowly opened...... You Murong and I walked over with each other's arms...... There's a hole outside.

In front of me is a boulder, behind which is an entrance, the boulder is jade white, which looks like a huge white marble, but the lower part of the stone is a first-class stone step leading to the ground, and the edge of the top stone step has been weathered to the point that there is a gap, which shows that it is very old. But the length is exactly the same, and even the scissors can't cut it so neatly.

This secret passage leads to a valley, which is full of green trees and green grass, I glanced at You Murong, and saw this guy with a big grin on his mouth slightly bowing his head and pondering, and couldn't help but touch it lightly: "What do you think?" "

You Murong gently raised his chin to the boulder at the entrance: "Look at that stone, there is nothing to visit here." ”

I thought for a while: "You said Mu Tongtong...... The Mu family hasn't been here? ”

"Yes. I just said that Mu Tongtong didn't know anything about it, but she didn't say anything about it. “

Indeed, when Mu Tongtong told everyone about this, he never mentioned the gossip stone. ”

"Could it be that the gossip stone appeared because of himself?" I shared with You Murong what Yue Wenbin said. You Murong believes that Dragon Ball is the key.

"Yes, I guess the ancestor of the Yue family must have come back after escaping from the stone cave, but the dragon ball may not be able to open the mechanism, until I got the dragon ball by mistake from the fifth brother, so Yue Wenbin deliberately wanted to bring everyone here. To conceal the risk, it must be afraid that the people who come to it will not go in if they see these mutated animals. You Murong raised his head and looked around, and whispered, "This may really be a dragon vein." ”

You Murong took a deep breath and suppressed the excitement in his heart: "Seeing that no one has been here for so many years, the dragon vein should still be underneath." ”

I took a few steps closer and looked at the stone steps: "This, this stone steps...... It's not like it's a ......."

You Murong muttered, "How much work does it take to dig out these stone steps directly from the mountain?" "

A voice laughed, "Of course not, it's born." As soon as the voice said this, You Murong and I couldn't help but come up to take a look, and sure enough, the stone steps seemed to have been dug directly from this mountain, and we couldn't find half of the gaps, and they were definitely not built up with ordinary stones. It was only then that we realized that the person who spoke was a third person other than us...... The old driver who played soy sauce all the way, but at the moment he had clear eyes and no manic appearance of skating.

"You ......"

"Actually, we've met once before, but I've been pretending to be crazy and stupid along the way, so you won't recognize me!" The old driver laughed heartily, "My name has long been forgotten, but they call me ......" The old driver took a deep breath, "Fighting Wooden Hedgehog"!

I was struck by lightning, "Didn't you die in the Yellow Temple?" ”

The old driver, no, Doumu Jiqi laughed: "Nandou is alive, Beidou is dead, not to mention ......" He said meaningfully, "There is no brains to water flowers, funeral banquets to roast corpses, corpses to raise pigs, bones to scatter ashes, bone marrow to cook soup, ashes bibimbap, how can you be sure that a person is really dead?" ”

I looked at the group of people behind her: "You are also from the Jieling Gate, together with Hu Qinglan, the master of the White Tiger Altar?" Your altar master is now uncertain about his life and death! ”

Doumu Ji smiled, "Don't fan the flames, that woman Hu Qinglan is an airborne soldier and belongs to another system...... Zodiac Signs. The original White Tiger Qisu of the White Tiger Altar, Kui Wood Wolf Guo Yongchang, Lou Jin Dog A Liyi, Stomach Pheasant Gao Biao, Pleiades Chicken Shun Shou Gao, Bi Yue Wuguo Yongtai, Mihuo Chang Right Pan Yi, and Shen Shui Chang Right Zhou Leopard, all of them were not convinced by this woman's family, so she had to bring a group of unfamiliar Southeast Asian mercenaries over.

Behind me is my good brother Nandou Six Stars, the omen of the heavens, and the morning glory Nandou. They are collectively known as the six stars of the Southern Dipper, which are the shadow star, the good star, the lucky star, the seal star, and the general star. There is also a brother who died in that battle for me! However, as long as you are willing to cooperate obediently, I will not care about this hatred, and everyone will soar together, and it will be fast! “

You Murong sneered: "You have already entered the dragon vein, and you are not doing whatever you want, why do you want to keep us?" ”

Doumu Ji shook his head: "Girl, don't be too strong, if you don't have the dragon ball that escaped during the thunderstorm in your body, today next year will be your sacrifice day, since you are so not afraid of death, you will come to explore the road later...... You think it's calm?

Didn't I just say that this stone step is innate, and it is neither built nor dug up.

This place was chosen by the masters back then, with the help of the divine power leaked here by Ganquan Palace to bury the dragon veins as a means of banning, under the power of the ancient gods, the ground is cracked, and a stone cave is naturally generated, so that they can export the dragon veins buried in the underground and form a cave blessed land. The dragon ball is left for those who are destined to conceive dragons here, and continue to start the mission of sealing the ancient gods from Xia Yu! Fighting with the sky, the fun is endless; Fighting with the ground, the fun is endless; Fighting with people is endlessly fun. Since ancient times, there have been emperors who have pursued to become immortals, and there are also monks who can drive away ghosts and gods and hold the art of heaven and earth, but Xia Yu is one who can fight and win with the ancient gods. Outside is the monument of King Yu, and here is a naturally generated stone step, which is likely to be the place of trial of Xia Yu's lineage...... Everyone should be careful, because of the radiation influence of the ancient gods, the difficulties and dangers in this place are more than a few ancient monsters of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas"! ”

You Murong glanced at Dou Mu Ji with suspicion, and agreed indiscriminately: "Grandma is not afraid of death, so go in." "Anyway, we mercenaries are people who seek wealth, and we don't believe in any dragon veins and dragon balls, and if there are antiques and other treasures in them, I'm welcome. Even if you really dig up the Dragon Ball, you will only sell it as an antique, and you will never believe that there is any chance of immortality or immortality! ”

We were escorted by the Southern Dipper to the front. Doumu Hedgehog is right, this stone step is naturally generated, not carved and chiseled by external forces, which is definitely not something that can be done by manpower.

I gently shook You Murong's hand and quickly wrote, "Be careful, as soon as you cross this stone step, Doumu Hedgehog may have to do something to us." ”

"Why?" Does this conclusion have nothing to do with the previous statement? "Xia Yu has already become a man-made god when he sealed the ancient gods, do you know what you need to do to get things from the gods?"

"Three Livestock Gifts...... Or did you say before, like Yue Wenbin wanted to take everyone as a sacrifice? ”

"Do you see that they bring other sacrifices of their own? Doumu Hedgehog himself would never kill the Southern Dipper. "Of course, the only one who can kill the blood sacrifice ancient gods is the two of you.

You Murong gently wrote: "It's not that easy." ”

"Everyone keep up with ......" was a bit unexpected by everyone, Doumu Hedgehog took the lead and walked down the stone steps first, Yin Xing rushed forward, Shanxing, Fuxing, Yinxing, followed the stars behind him in turn, and finally greeted You Murong and me. It seems to be very reassuring to us, am I being a villain in vain?

This is tantamount to putting the two of you in the last most advantageous position.

You Murong frowned slightly, and pulled me behind him: "Follow me." The stone steps are very long, and after walking more than a dozen steps, the light will dim, and the shadow star at the front turns on the strong flashlight and shines down: ", this is quite deep......" Doumu Jiqi immediately scolded: "Don't talk nonsense, this is not the place for you to swear!" Yin Xing turned his head stupidly, muttering something, although his voice was very soft and it was a village dialect, but everyone knew that he must still be swearing.

Doumu was so angry that he couldn't open his mouth when he wanted to reprimand his brothers again.

After all, they sacrificed their lives to follow themselves, and strictly speaking, they were not their own subordinates, and if they really provoked themselves and tore their faces regardless of it, everyone would be ugly.

He suppressed his anger and was about to speak again to admonish, when a black shadow suddenly flashed at the corner in front of the stone steps, and Yin Xing shouted, and the whole person fell down, rolling down the stone steps.

I saw that the black shadow was a big snake, although it was far less thick than the giant snake I saw at the entrance of the black swamp, but it was also the thickness of a bowl, and its body length was at least four meters long.

"Shadow Star"!