Walking under the roots of the tree, we found that the tree was not black from a distance, but with a red talk of red, it grew between the mountains, the roots of the tree through this cave, straight into the deeper rock wall, raised the head, a small section of the tree pole above the cave was exposed, it was a few people to arm the branch with a faint red, there were circles of snakeskin on it, there were some tiny gaps in the middle of the lines, in the trees there was a trace of blood-like things seeping out, Slowly flowing. In the openings of the tunnels above, there were small stones that kept sliding down.

"It's not going to collapse." One person said.

"Probably not." I don't know how many years have passed since this tree was here, so I swept it back and forth with a flashlight on the tree pole above. "Do you know what kind of tree this is?"

Shaking their heads, they looked up one by one with blank faces, maybe they were really infected by such a scene, I don't know, what is the name of this tree. Just watching him grow in the mountains has a bad premonition, to know that it is impossible for a tree to survive in the space sealed by the rock and soil, unless there is a huge space for him to grow, if the Buddha shrine and tablet under my feet are placed on it by later generations, then because of the existence of this tree, I have to suspect the existence of an ancient site in this mountain.

I squatted down to look at the Buddha shrine, the Buddha altar is made of bluestone, in the shape of a cupboard, and set up a door, but due to the impact of the water is now very little, and the only bluestone is also covered with moss, I can't see what is painted on it, but I can vaguely feel the texture when I press my hand on it.

I turned sideways and looked at the stone tablet placed in the Buddha shrine, the material I am not very clear, but there is a feeling of warmth and jade in the hand, and there are eight big characters engraved on it with a small seal. "The small seal is a unified form of Chinese character writing created during the Qin Dynasty. It remained popular in China until the end of the Western Han Dynasty (c. 8 AD). In other words, this thing has been here for thousands of years.

I peeled off the roots of the trees around me, and sure enough, there were still some traces of bluestone on the edge of this place, so if you go in from here, it is already considered an artificial building, and I thought to myself, who would put such a stone tablet here? But I stood in the middle of the roots, and suddenly I saw that there were some cones the size of a skull, and the cones had scales like pangolin scales, and the scales were black-brown, and there were various stripes, horizontal but longitudinal stripes, and they were basically wide diamond-shaped.

And the moment I touched it with my hand, a life-like wave vibrated at the tips of my fingers. Then the fruit fell to the ground alive, and the ordinary sound startled all the people present, and they looked at the place together, and their breathing stopped, and for a moment there was only the sound of trickling water, and the air was as dull as death.

Suddenly, the fruit unbelievably cracked open on the ground, and a small figure sitting inside appeared in his eyeballs. The muscles and veins are five organs, and the limbs are complete.

The whole body of such a child is a blood-colored transparent shape, so the "organs" inside are seen clearly, I trembled slightly, involuntarily took a few steps back, for such a thing, completely overdrawn the correct concept of scientific biology in my mind, what tree can grow children? But the horror was not over, and then the roots of the trees swarmed around the "child" like headless flies that had seen carrion. Like a silkworm cocoon, there is a disgusting chewing sound inside.

Slowly, the roots of the trees in the cave all began to wriggle like plants, and gradually the bluestone wall bricks attached to the rock wall were also revealed, and the place above the cave, it was a piece of arc-shaped green bricks, this kind of green bricks were used as a building with a door-shaped structure at most, which first appeared in the Qin and Han dynasties, I looked up at the relatively well-preserved curved green bricks, but I thought in my heart why I knew such things?

As I thought, the swaying of the fruit faded away, and I breathed a sigh of relief and turned my gaze to the depths of the cave, where water was still flowing out, and if it was a man-made structure, it was too poorly waterproofed.

"You really don't have such plants in Guizhou?" I picked up a wriggling tree root and asked Yang Shizhong.

They also felt a little strange when they came, and secondly, they were a little frightened to see the scene of eating the fruit, so they were still silent for a while, and I wanted to take a break and wait for his brain to slowly adapt to everything in it and start to move forward. But the good times didn't last long, and a few sounds of "cooing", coupled with countless plant stems and roots, frantically filled this small cave. They were like earthy yellow pythons from all sides of the soil into the cave one after another.

It's like a vulture seeing a dead body.

"Spread out, spread out." I didn't know how to describe that scene for a while, and I didn't know what to do next, so I had to yell at Yang Shizhong and them.

"Why do you still move?" Their voices reveal their fears without missing a beat.

"It looks like the roots are alive." I slowly took a step back, thinking something bad in my heart. Sure enough, the roots of the trees began to spread massively into the cave after eating the humanoid fruit, and they swarmed into the cave from the broken bluestone wall, curling around the wall like a coiled snake, extending into the cave at a speed that could be seen by the naked eye.

Slowly stepping back, I began to nervous because I had seen the attacks of these roots before, and the only thing I could pray for now was that they wouldn't block the road. But the progress at this time backfired, and the roots of the trees lay dead on the wall like spiders, and at the same time they continued to stretch towards the center of the cave from time to time as they rapidly advanced, and gradually, the cave behind us was formed into a deep forest of roots with the roots of the trees.

"Run, run." Yang Shizhong was the first to react, he waved his hand, jumped over the shrine and ran to the inside of the cave, only there was not surrounded by tree roots, I gritted my teeth, picked up the stone plaque in the Buddhist shrine and stepped on the water that was not deep or shallow, and ran wildly with the roots.

The light of the flashlight suddenly reflected the shadows of some reckless snakes swimming on the wall, I hurriedly turned my head to look, only to see that the roots of the trees had approached rapidly, and for a while the whole cave was full of the wriggling sound of the clattering rope, the friction between the bark of the trees, or Yang Shizhong and they had never thought of it, heard it, and felt so harsh for the first time in horror.

The temperature inside the cave is very low, not only because of the flow of water, but also because of the cold air emitted by the rocks that are not exposed to the sun all year round, and if the area is a little higher, there may be icicles that freeze the mountain spring.

But I ran here without a little sign of cold, the long-term uninterrupted high-energy exercise made my back already wet, but I didn't dare to stop, the roots of the trees on the rock walls on both sides of the cave were like vines, I lowered my head and passed through a stone beam, and suddenly found that we had reached the end of the mountain spring, not far away, a water lotus flashed under the light of the flashlight.

I sneered through the curtain of water, and the cold air carried the mountain spring and almost covered my body with a thin layer of ice.

I snorted and waved my hand to knock away the water that was in dire need of falling, and ran out of the mountain spring with a jump. There is no water flow under the feet, surrounded by abandoned wall bricks composed of Yongdao, artificial traces are becoming more and more obvious, but there is no trace of decoration, Yongdao turns seven or eight times in the mountain, and there is no end in sight for us do not know whether it is good or bad.

I exhaled, the speed gradually slowed down, Yang Shizhong for my safety has been following me, I glanced at him, his eyes were full of exhaustion, this is not good, the mountain has an end after all, if it goes on like this, sooner or later we will be swallowed up by the roots like that.

"It seems to have slowed down." Yang Shizhong actually had time to look around, he looked at the roots of the trees and said to me.

Slowed down? That's right. The current environment is only said to have less water and more artificial traces than before, if I look at it, I would like to believe that there is less water, so that means that the premise of the root explosion of this plant is that there is enough water? Since it was water, a method of burning it with fire immediately entered my mind.

Finally, my body slowly slowed down due to physical exhaustion, Yang Shizhong saw my situation and wanted to carry me without saying a word, I hurriedly knocked off his hand, and hurriedly said, "No, it's not a way to go on like this, I want to see how much water is inside these roots." If the guess is correct, this should be a kind of ancient plant, which is a close relative of the giant scale wood. ”

"Scalewood?"

"Whew, whew." I gasped rapidly, although the roots behind me spread very slowly due to the lack of water potential, but after all, it was not like our physical strength, and finally followed, I pushed Yang Shizhong away, and shouted frantically, "Whoever has a fire source throws one over." ”

The sound propagated through the mask and finally "squeezed" out of the mask's opening, and the whole sound became so low that I didn't even have time to feel the scene, a box of matches had already been thrown in my hand, I stopped abruptly, and watched the roots of the trees cut a match, and the fire suddenly gasped, making a snorting sound.

It's like a dull sound of a blade cutting through ** rapidly.

I took a handful of matches in one hand and probed directly into the skin of the roots of the tree with the other, and yes, it was dry without a trace of moisture, and it only took a little force to crush him.

But the moment the two objects touched, the root of the tree instantly wrapped around my left hand like a giant python hunting, and before the passage of time began to take something, it had already twitched its arm and entangled me.

Immediately after that, a large number of tree roots caught up, and the wind bypassed me like a flood and continued to spread forward, like a flood that was wanton and irresistible.

The roots of the tree were staggered in mid-air, crawling on the walls, the net-like roots were weaved, the dark yellow old bark at the roots, full of disgusting smell of rot, and the folds of those ugly rhizomes and old bark filled my eyes at this moment, and I could only watch the roots spread wildly, but I was like an antelope subdued by a pack of leopards, quietly watching his slaughterer, quietly waiting for the end.

The match on my right hand is still burning, less than 2 seconds have passed, my body is still completely dead, but now there is only one way, from the beginning to the present there is only one way out of the way, waiting for the roots to wrap around me and wrap this fire.

It was pitch black all around, but suddenly the light penetrated in little by little, and the roots of the tree began to melt away from the fire, I coughed a few times, took off my clothes, picked up the flashlight on the ground, and after a few struggles, I had already cleaned up most of the roots on my body, I raised my head and turned around, and the tunnel was full of tree rhizomes at this time. At first glance, it looks like a deep yellow forest, winding and intertwined.

I didn't think much about anything else, I hurriedly took off the sweater on my body, due to the relationship between the waterfall, some of them may have begun to get wet, but this pure wool sweater, as long as you pull out a thread, it is still very good to burn, I took out all the matches in the matchbox in one go, and lit the sweater little by little, boom with a fluttering sound, a flame burned in my hand.

"First of all, we must cut off all the paths of the roots." I closed my eyes and thought about everything, blank or blank, no strength, no physical strength, as if I knew a little about antiquities, and I also knew a little about ancient tombs.

"An archaeology student?" I opened my eyes and smiled, destroying the roots of the tree little by little, and walked forward step by step, and soon after I slowly saw Yang Shizhong and them falling to the ground, they looked at me and walked over and smiled bitterly, "Did you really burn it?" ”

"Hmm." I nodded.

"I'm curious what kind of person you are." Yang Shizhong came over and knocked on my mask, "You know so many things. ”

"I want to know, but I want to know who made me like this."

"You."

"But I also have time not to know, I know there must be a lot of things waiting for me, but I don't want to do what they want, I don't want to be a chess piece, and I don't even know what the chess piece is? Where is the chess path? Why take the risk? I tried to laugh and said, "I wonder if you can contain me?" ”

"Yes!" Before Yang Shizhong could answer, a person beside him shouted, his voice was not loud, and he said in half-baked Mandarin, "You're welcome, just go to his house." ”

I shook my head and signaled that this wasn't a long-term solution, and that if I was going to survive here, I should get a decent job. Without further ado, the place was much more empty than before, but a tunnel continued to stretch forward. "We can't go any further, let's go back! This place is an ancient tomb, not within our reach. There was no fire, no food, no communication equipment. ”

"Then give up?" One person asked.

"It's my fault, I don't know that this is an ancient tomb, the mechanism in the ancient tomb, the hidden barriers, the void road, the strange things, there are not many of them, if you rush into it, it is definitely a dead end, so if you go to the county and have a chance, contact the Cultural Relics Bureau, and they will solve this matter."

"Cultural Relics Bureau?" A person held his chin and thought, "I remember that a group of investigation teams from other provinces went to a place in Guizhou before and dug up an ancient tomb of Yelang Kingdom, and there may be experts there." ”

"No need, if it weren't for some scientific research, the ancient tomb with a relatively large surname would not have attracted attention." I said, shaking off my clothes, "There aren't many flames, we have to hurry back." ”

At the same moment as I finished speaking, a black thing slammed down on my head, and his movements were so fast that I don't know where he came from, and the passage of the ancient tomb was very dark, and the light and shadow were intertwined, and for a moment the scene became chaotic, and shouts were everywhere.

"Who is it?" I was covered with my eyes by that black thing, and I couldn't see anything. I can only shout indiscriminately.

"It's a person." Yang Shizhong's voice was very loud, but he slowly trembled, "I can't see him, I can't see him." ”

"It's a black man." Suddenly, a voice sounded, and with that terrifying tone, the whole person seemed to be in a state of madness.

And the "man" above me suddenly thought that my mask could not be handled, and immediately jumped off my head. After shaking off the "man" with both hands, I saw a black man running quickly towards the depths of the corridor.

I slowly moved the flashlight over, and gradually realized that the person seemed to be in the darkness forever, or that he was a shadow.

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