Chapter 50: Five Forks in the Road
After Wang Roar finished speaking, he led to the passage of the other part of the cave. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
As I progressed, I realized that the huge stone table, which looked like a meal, took up only a small part of the cave. And the further in, the larger the cave space, the more primitive the landform, the traces of artificial leveling gradually disappeared, replaced by huge stalactites and strange-shaped boulders, when we reached the five forks in the road that Wang Roar said, there was no trace of artificial carving.
Between the strange stone walls, the five strange-shaped holes are exposed in front of us, and the stalactites that hang upside down are like canine fangs, and each one exudes a penetrating cold light under the light of the flashlight.
The five openings, like five strange mouths devouring human life, exposed their fangs that reached the sky and the ground, demonstrated at us.
Wang Roar raised his flashlight, shook it around the five holes, and told me that Hyun Hongye said, "I have checked, except for the road when I came and these five holes, there is no other way." But we can only choose one or the other. ”
Another implication of the roar is that we cannot act separately, not from the perspective of time and safety. But it is also a very difficult choice to choose one of the five ways in such a short period of time.
I know that if you go the wrong way, in addition to losing time, you are likely to encounter deadly traps that can lead to even more unknowable problems.
Rather than wandering around and incurring unnecessary tribulation, it's really better to choose the right path at the beginning.
But I was a little overwhelmed by what to do.
With Wang Roar's flashlight, I carefully observed the "five tunnels" lined with stalactites, and first found that the iron chains that were used as guides before were no longer available, and although the five tunnels looked very different, they were essentially no different.
In addition to this, I saw the stumps of many, many small animals between the tunnel entrances and the cliff faces, including dogs, rats, snakes, and most of all, bats.
In particular, the bone fragments of those bats are even more shocking.
As far as the eye can see, I can only see that the bones are from old to new, layer upon layer, some are only white bones, some have air-dried muscle tissue, and many have been wrapped in growing stalactites, leaving only a faint outline.
I looked at the similar bones and the dense stalactites, and I couldn't think of any way to find the so-called correct pathway.
We fell into a puzzle again, and after a little thought, I raised my head and said to Wang Roar and Xian Hongye: "In addition to us, there are also Xian Yundu, Qiao Enxun and Zhao Gong and his wife have come in, you say, when they encounter this situation, what will they choose?" ”
This is a hypothetical question, and I hope to find the ultimate answer through this question, so as to find the truth of one of the five.
Seeing that I had this question, Xian Hongye replied: "My grandfather is missing inside, Qiao Enxun is crazy, only Zhao Gong and his wife from your Five Organs Temple have successfully escaped, and if you enter the bottom of this pit from the entrance of the blood well, you will inevitably pass through these five tunnels." ”
After Hyun Hongye's reminder, I immediately patted my head and said, "I remembered!" Medicine King Codex! ~”
As I spoke, I took out the Codex of the Medicine King Zhao Gong from my underwear.
The Medicine King Codex in my hand is written very clearly, Zhao Gong's Gu wife, Rui Mingliu, once boasted in front of her husband that she had a way to enter the underground palace of Heilan Bo City and retreat.
She did it, and brought a "kitchen knife" with her.
Thinking about it, at the end of the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago, in such a dark underground palace, her lighting and communication equipment must have been far inferior to ours, and I think she should have some more "magical" way to choose the right path.
Xian Hongye looked at the medicine king's record and sighed slightly: "It would be nice if we could copy or learn her method." ”
Xian Hongye's words suddenly gave me an idea.
"You're right!" I clapped my hands and said, "Think about it, what kind of special means can a Gu woman have to explore the way?" ”
"Gu?" Wang roared and asked.
"Gu! ~" I nodded, pointed to the medicine king's hand, and said: "The three major dark industries of Miao Jiang, Gu Po, Snake Girl and Corpse Chaser!" Here, no one knows more about the things of gods and ghosts. ”
And according to the records, Rui Mingliu is very special, because it is very clear in the notes of Zhao Gong, the king of medicine, that she is a Gu woman, but she can resist snakes, and she also takes medicine as a business, as if she is a combination of a snake girl and a Gu woman.
I looked up and asked Hyun Momiji, "How would such a person find his way through a dark underground cave?" ”
Hyun Hongye and Wang Roar replied to me in unison, "Snake? ”
I nodded, and said confidently, "Look near the mouth of the cave, if there are snake bones, we should be able to find useful clues." ”
As they spoke, they searched around the entrances of the caves, and after some searching, they found the bones of snakes near the entrances of the four caves.
The snake is very different from other creatures, so the remains of the skeleton are very easy to identify, and the four snakes died very strangely, all of them are "coiled" on the stalactite, the remains of the swimming snake after hundreds of years, have been integrated with the cave, as if the coiled dragon on the Huabiao, judging from the twisted appearance of the snake, they seem to be very painful before death.
After seeing the location of these four bones, I said in unison with Hyun Hongye: "I see, just take the road without snakes!" ”
As I spoke, I also knew the method of Gu Po Rui Mingliu going deep into Heilan Bo City back then.
Two or three hundred years ago, when Zhao Huo and Rui Mingliu went deep into Heilan Bo City to look for the so-called "artifact", the technical conditions were far inferior to ours, they had no flashlights, no infrared detection equipment, and no explosives.
Under such circumstances, Zhao Gong and Rui Mingliu were very clever and chose the snake as their "eyeliner", and then explored the five caves one by one.
Rui Mingliu's Gu snake should be no different from other snake types, and the snake itself has its own thermal infrared sensor system, and can drill holes, with a little training, it is a good helper for pathfinding. Rui Mingliu is good at this again, and she has also used this Gu to deal with her husband Zhao Gong, so she will not fail to think of this.
If it is inferred in this way, the four snakes that died on the stalactites are likely to be the victims of Rui Mingliu's expedition to explore the way.
Xiao Hongye further analyzed us: "In such a primitive and damp cave, it is difficult to have any artificial copper and iron mechanism preserved, if the Black Lambers really want outsiders to die inside, they can only use the 'blind well' method to make the most primitive and deadly traps." ”
"Blind well?" Wang Roar and I were puzzled at the same time: "What is a blind well?" ”