Chapter 42: The Sea of Fire Mutates
Soon we retreated to the narrow hole that came in, the pit went out first, and then Song Jin, I helped Lao Zhao, who couldn't move, out of the narrow passage, and after they all went out, I looked back at the burning corpse, only to see it rolling in the fire one by one, and the mouth let out a painful howl, but I could see that the strength of the struggle was getting smaller and smaller, and I saw that it was "live".
At this time, the ground under his feet was churning more and more intensely, as if something was about to come out. I didn't dare to delay, and in a flash I squeezed into the narrow passage. The two of them helped Lao Zhao to wait for me outside, and I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw that everyone was safe. At this time, the patio had completely become a sea of fire, and there was a huge shadow churning in the sea of fire, which at first glance was more than ten meters high. It couldn't be a corpse, I looked at the shadow in the fire curiously, and suddenly with a bang, a huge black head sturged at the entrance of the narrow passage, which knocked off a lot of stones on both sides of the passage, and the entrance of the passage became a little wider.
I didn't know what it was, so I quickly took two steps back. Lao Zhao, who was in a coma, raised his head slightly and muttered two words: "Flying python!" We were all very happy to see Lao Zhao wake up, but when we heard Lao Zhao say the word flying python, we all had a chill on our backs. This time we went to the tomb, we stabbed the snake's nest, python and basilisk have met, not to mention, and now we have met a flying python.
Not to mention the four of us, and with a wounded soldier, even if there are forty people, it is not necessarily its opponent. Now it seems that this flying python may have been living in this patio all along, or trapped in this patio, because it has been too long, so it has been buried in the ground by the dry vines for many years, if it were not for a fire that ignited all the dried plants underground, I am afraid this guy is still sleeping underground.
The python, which was anxious to be burned by the fire, crashed into the entrance of the passage again, and more stones were knocked down, and the python could already poke out half of its head. Knowing that it was not an opponent, we fled together the way we came, Lao Zhao was very weak because he had just woken up, and the movements under his feet were very slow, and the three of us took turns carrying Lao Zhao, and we didn't dare to stop under our feet. I looked behind me as I ran, and saw that the python at the entrance had already leaned out of half of its body, covered in flames, its face had been burned off a layer of skin, and black smoke was emitting, and a pair of wings behind me, perhaps because it was not feathers but meat wings, burned particularly spectacularly, and the soaring fire wrapped two meat wings. It's no wonder that this fire can burn vigorously, the flying python is so fat, presumably there must be tons of fat hoarded on the body, which have become accelerants.
When I ran more than 100 meters, I saw that the python behind me had completely broken through the entrance of the passage, and the whole thing came out, with a fire all over my body, I couldn't tell whether it was chasing or rolling, and followed behind us. Whether we were its target or not, we knew that an encounter with a flying python covered in fire would never be a good thing for us, so we hurried forward.
Because we came on this road, we are all familiar with the lack of hidden weapons to worry about, the only thing to worry about is at the end of the road, whether the Mohurakas on the other side of the mountain stream have rushed over, if they find a way to pass through the mountain stream, then we will be mortal if we are the enemy. When we finally reached the end of the road, the hanging heart was completely let go, the original worries were superfluous, and the Mohuraka on the other side of the mountain stream was long gone, and we didn't know what to do. And the big question before us is how we get there.
Before, when we crossed the bridge over the mountain stream, in order to prevent the opposite Mohuraka from catching up, Song Jin burned the pursuers, which eventually led to the collapse of the bridge, and now we are here, and we are also facing the dilemma of having no way out. The flying python behind us dragged a body of flames, getting closer and closer to us, and for a while we were helpless and didn't know where to go.
At this moment, Lao Zhao whispered: "Down." I put my ear close to his mouth to hear what he had to say, but all I heard was "Down, down." "There is no beginning or end to this, next, where is it going? was struggling, Lao Zhao raised his hand and pointed to the bottom of the mountain stream, meaning to let us go down.
Although we know that there is an underground river passing through here, the height is ten meters, and the river is so turbulent that it will be swept away by the river. I think Lao Zhao must be confused, how could he come up with such a bad idea. I don't want Lao Zhao to struggle to get down from the back of the pit, one hand held the pit, said thank you Brother Niu, limped to the side of the mountain stream, I also walked with it, Lao Zhao took the flashlight from my hand, and shone down the mountain stream, with the light of the strong flashlight, I saw a row of log-thick iron cables in the mountain stream, and the two ends of the iron chain were submerged into both sides of the mountain stream, and I couldn't see where it came from.
Lao Zhao pointed to the iron chain and said: "Everyone, I am afraid that our current road is only the one in front of us, we have to go down to the iron chain, and then go down to the underground river through the iron chain, maybe we can find a way out." "Although Lao Zhao's words sound mysterious, I mean that this should really be the only way out. It's just that we are five meters away from the height of the first layer of iron chains, and we can't guarantee that we will definitely land firmly on the iron cables if we jump, although the iron cables with thick logs are not thin, but let me aim and jump up at a height of several meters, and stand firm, which is absolutely impossible. If you can't stabilize the first layer of iron cables, then you will fall directly, if you fall on the second layer of iron cables, you will have to bear a huge impact force, and if you don't even grasp the second layer, then you will fall directly into the underground river under the mountain stream.
This method made me hesitate and didn't know what to do. Just as I was at both ends of the mouse, Song Jin walked over, patted me on the shoulder and said Brother Ling, let me try it. I didn't react for a while, Song Jin had already walked towards the mountain stream. I reacted and reached out to pull him, but as soon as my hand was stretched out, I shouted a "hey" in my mouth, and Song Jin had already jumped down the mountain stream.
I rushed to take a look down, only to see Song Jin hanging on two iron cables, and his body was hanging in the air. I was wondering how this kid could fly, and when I looked closely, he had a shiny steel pipe in his hand, and it turned out that he held the probe in his hand horizontally and jumped down, so that because the length of the probe was much larger than the distance between the iron cables, it was hung on the two iron cables. Seeing this scene, I couldn't help but admire Song Jin's wit and courage, and gave a thumbs up to Song Jin under the mountain stream, and he also raised his head and smiled back at me.
Now that Song Jin has already opened the way for us, we have nothing to worry about. I let the pit go down first, and tied Lao Zhao to his back with the strap of his backpack. Lao Zhao insisted on refusing, but I couldn't let Lao Zhao jump by himself, with his current physical condition, jumping alone would only lead to death. Undoubtedly, tying Lao Zhao to my body can prevent Lao Zhao from jumping directly by himself, but for me, it adds a lot of pressure, I have to bear the impact of two people falling at the same time, and if I don't get it, I will directly tear off my arm and dislocate it, just like the pit just now, and I have to lift it to recover. Of course, if I had dislocated my arm in this mountain stream, I would have fallen straight down.
Carrying Lao Zhao on my back, I walked to the edge of the mountain stream step by step, looked back at the flying python that was still chasing with fire behind me, gritted my teeth, raised the probe rod, and jumped down. The impact of the two people was really not a joke, the probe stick was stuck between the two iron cables, and it pulled me back from the fall. The rope didn't have a cushioning effect, my arm was stretched hard, I gritted my teeth to hold on, and once I let go, it was two lives.
Stuck on the iron cable, I found that the iron cable was still moving to both ends little by little, although the speed was not very fast, but I could still feel and observe, I wondered what these iron cables were for, to be cast so thick.
Now there is not much time for me to think, with this question, we began to move towards the second layer of iron cables, looking at this row of huge iron cables, I actually have a feeling of flying to seize the Luding Bridge, the enemy is on the opposite side of the bridge, either rush over, or surrender. Our situation is still slightly different now, the enemy is not opposite us, or has been chasing us behind us, and we can't surrender to a snake, the snake will not accept our surrender but will only take our lives, besides, surrender to the snake, if it spreads, how bad it is, how will I mix in the road in the future, let the buddies on the road see me. So, nonsense aside, we just risk our lives, and we can't retreat.
Successfully conquering the first layer of iron cables, the second layer is relatively simple, after all, with the experience of the last time. The pit and Song Jin looked like they both jumped down very easily, watching them go down, I swallowed and spit, although the distance this time was shorter than the last time, but I still had palpitations.
After a little rubbing, I twisted the probe so that it was angled away from the two parallel cables, so that I fell directly from it, and with a thud, landed on the second layer of iron cables. The huge impact was still hard for me to accept, so I gritted my teeth, took a long breath, and didn't say anything.
When I landed on the second layer of iron cables, I realized that this layer of iron cables was also in motion, and according to my feelings, the speed of this layer of iron cables was obviously faster than that of the previous layer. An idea arose in my mind, these iron cables are probably built by the owner of the tomb to set up the mechanism in the tomb, no one would have thought that the location of the mechanism would be hidden here, these iron cables are the most important transmission device of the ancient tomb mechanism, if I am not mistaken, this is the key to the entire ancient tomb can maintain for nearly a thousand years and still operate as usual.