Chapter 173: Hell City (2)
The cave was pitch black, without any light source, Xiang Yuan waited here for more than ten seconds, Qi'er flew down, and his hands, feet and back could shoot out cyan flames to fly.
After that, more than a minute passed before the fat dog jumped down, with a bright light on his shoulder, and came up to him and asked, "Is there a mechanism here?" ”
Qi'er's eyes shot blue light, and after scanning the inside, he shook his head and said, "No, traps should not be prevalent in that era." ”
Xiang Yuan said: "In Chiyou's era, the most used is witchcraft and Taoism, you should be careful, don't touch the things here." ”
The three of them walked cautiously inside, this passage is not long, only about 100 meters to come to a huge cave, estimated to be the size of a large stadium, and there is an oval pool more than thirty meters wide next to it, in which there are some fish that emit various colors of shimmering.
The fat dog walked towards the waterhole, wanting to see what kind of fish these were, Xiang Yuan suddenly stopped him and said to the other side of the waterhole: "Someone." ”
The fat dog has no night vision, so he shines the light on the position that Xiang Yuan is pointing at, and sure enough, an old man in a gray cloth coat is fishing with a bamboo pole, and the strange thing is that the hook of this fishing rod is hanging at a height of 3 cm above the water.
The fat dog said strangely: "He won't learn how to fish with Jiang Taigong, so take the bait!" ”
Qi'er said again: "Have you read the book, in the era of Chiyou, Jiang Taigong has not yet appeared." ”
Xiang Yuan saw that the white-bearded old man didn't speak, holding the fishing rod and not moving, he waved to the two of them, signaled to leave, and left him alone.
As the three of them walked inside, the old fisherman suddenly said, "Young man, listen to my advice, it's still too late to leave, if you enter the back door, don't think about it again in this life." ”
The fat dog snorted and laughed, "We've seen quite a few people come out alive. ”
"Haha. Can you see with your own eyes that those who come out are alive? The old man asked rhetorically.
Xiang Yuan suddenly said: "Senior, no matter how difficult the road of life is, it is even a dead end. We must also go on, otherwise this life will not be in vain. ”
"Young people. There are thousands of human paths, why choose a dead end, go further into the abyss, take a step back and open the sky. The old man said.
"But there is another sentence called survival in a desperate place, maybe there is a willow and a bright flower under the abyss?" Xiang Yuan said.
"Since you insist on choosing, the old man won't say much, give you a warning, keep your heart, and you can advance and retreat freely. Do what you want. The old man did not speak again, but sat down like a stone statue.
Xiang Yuan thought for a moment and guessed from the old man's words what he might encounter later, after they walked through the cave for several hundred meters, they came to a 9-meter-high stone gate, which was engraved with the words "Hell City" in red, and there were some stone pillars of Tengtu and Wild Beasts next to it.
Xiang Yuan said: "There should be a formation that confuses the mind or something, and the way to pass it may be to keep your heart, don't be tempted by external objects, I will give each of you a grass ring, only the same grass ring can be entangled with each other and become one." ”
Xiang Yuan stretched out his left hand. The grass sticks out the grass vines, wraps them around their left hand, and forms a grass ring.
The fat dog raised his left hand and said in surprise: "This is so amazing?" ”
"You two bring your left hand closer and try it." Xiang Yuan said.
The fat dog's left hand is close to Qi'er's left hand. Cao Huan of the two stretched out the grass vines and intertwined with each other, slowly combining into one, and when the hands of the two separated, the grass vines also separated and retracted into their respective grass rings.
The fat dog was surprised: "This is amazing. ”
"In case we are separated, remember that even if you meet any of us without the grass ring, it may be an enemy pretending or a spell change." Xiang Yuan said.
After they nodded, Xiang Yuan walked over and pressed his hand on the stone door, with a little force. The stone door slowly opened, and it was still dark inside. Inside, however, there are no longer rock walls, but carved rectangular passages. The stone walls, ceilings, and floors are carved with some unknown runes.
Qi'er stared at the passage, her pupils turned blue, and she shot blue light to scan the passage, and then she shook her head and said, "There are no mechanisms." "Sure that there is no mechanism, Xiang Yuan is the first to take the lead and walk forward, or keep the formation just now to advance.
When he walked half the distance of this hundred-meter passage, the fat dog suddenly walked a little chaotic, and began to be in a trance as if he was drunk.
Qi'er felt that the fat dog was walking wrong, turned around and looked, and just saw the fat dog fainting, she immediately rushed up to hold the fat dog and shouted, "Uncle Shi, the fat brother has fainted." ”
Xiang Yuan ran over to check his breath, frowned, and said, "Not injured?" ”
Qi'er scanned the fat dog's body and said, "There is nothing abnormal in his body, it seems that he is asleep." ”
"There is a problem with these runes of the channel, it may be some kind of spell, leave this channel first." Xiang Yuan said as he lifted the fat dog and rushed over, followed by Qi'er.
Rushing out of the passage, what appeared in front of them was a labyrinth, and there were four words on the mouth of the labyrinth: "There is no return".
Xiang Yuan lay the fat dog flat on the ground and used some first aid methods, but the fat dog was like a sleeping beauty, no matter how he got it, he couldn't wake up.
Qi'er asked puzzledly: "Why did the fat brother faint, we are fine?" ”
Xiang Yuan said: "These runes in the channel are a kind of ancient magic spell, you are naturally not afraid, my spiritual power is relatively high, this kind of magic spell can't help me, the fat dog's spiritual power is weak, so I will fall into this spell." But that's just my guess, I can't wake him up for a while, so you can watch over him here, and I'll go in and explore the labyrinth. ”
"Okay, Uncle Shi, be careful yourself." Qi'er said.
Xiang Yuan smiled and walked into the maze, the stone walls in this maze were also engraved with weird runes, this time Xiang Yuan basically concluded that this kind of rune would have a dizzy effect when seen for a long time, and it also had a curse effect, otherwise the fat dog would not be unable to wake up.
Sure that there will be no mechanism here, in order not to look at the runes here for a long time, Xiang Yuan accelerated and jumped, and when he saw the fork, he chose to run to the far left, and immediately turned around when he encountered a dead end, as long as the route he ran through could form a map in his brain.
When I passed through the third fork, I saw a skeleton here, wearing a military uniform from the Kuomintang era, it seemed that his military rank was not low, he should be a spy, he had a submachine gun and pistol, a bullet, and some water bottles and other things by his side.
There was also a letter in his pocket, which was sent by Director Yang, because someone found this entrance, so he sent five agents to check it, because the legend is that there is a treasure inside, in order to raise military funds, this kind of thing is actually sent by many dynasties to do it.
Xiang Yuan definitely didn't look down on these equipment, and then continued to run inside, encountered several corpses, and only found the corpses of the Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately they were basically corrupted, only some highly corrupted clothes and some accessories with him, judging that they were people from the Ming Dynasty.
You can find a lot of corpses of people decades or even seven or eight hundred years ago here, and some of the utensils you carry are many royal items, and these are priceless treasures before you put them in the model.
After encountering a dead end more than twenty times, he walked through 47% of the maze and was determined by him to locate the exit.
No one has walked here for many years, and the ground and walls are dusty, so it is completely impossible to discern the correct path from the traces, so Xiang Yuan can only use this simplest and most effective method.
Now, he was completely sure that these runes did have a hypnotic effect, and if it weren't for the amazing mental power he was now having, he would probably be unconscious in the labyrinth.
Walking out of the labyrinth, there is a large hall in front of you, and there are a group of ghost statues standing on both sides of the main hall, these statues are very similar to the demons and monsters described in the Book of Mountains and Seas, and there are all kinds of appearances.
In the middle of the main hall, there is a stone slab on which the words "Ghost Road" are written in oracle bone inscription. Behind the main hall is a ten-meter-high stone gate, and on the left side there is a small 1.5-meter-high door.
When Xiang Yuan was looking at this hall, the door that came in behind him slammed shut, and then a spell appeared on the surrounding stone statues, emitting a red light.
At the same time, a strange voice came from the main hall: "If you want to enter Hell City, you need to accept the test of strength, and the weak are not qualified to enter Hell City, haha." ”
Xiang Yuan snorted, and the person spun around in place, and the Star Soul Dragon Slash swept in his right hand in an instant, and the blade turned into a whip blade after it was thrown out, and the whip blade slashed through these stone statues in the blink of an eye.
These stone statues were all cut open by the whip blade, but after the stone statues fell, cyan balls of light flew out of them, and after floating around Xiang Yuan, they turned into blue-faced, fanged, graceful, and terrifying ghosts, all of which took shape, and almost all the ghosts of Chinese legends appeared here.
The Star Soul Dragon in Xiang Yuan's right hand turned into black gas and disappeared, turning into a yin-yang mirror, only to see the mirror fly, the red yang mirror emitted red light, and the body of the ghost that was illuminated immediately emitted black gas, and he let out a miserable scream and fled in a hurry.
When Xiang Yuan changed his handprint, a magic seal was printed in the center of the yang mirror, and then the red light shot out was with a little golden light, and this time after the ghost who was illuminated by the light screamed, his body instantly turned into ashes and disappeared.
The other ghosts all chose to flee when they saw it, and at this time, the yin-yang mirror rotated, and the blue yin side emitted blue light, sending out a powerful suction, and the escaped ghosts were immediately slowly sucked back, and after a stalemate, all of them were sucked into the yin and yang territory, refining into a demon yuan force and flowing into Xiang Yuan's body.
These ghosts have turned all the people who broke into here into white bones all over the ground for thousands of years, and now they have been solved by Xiang Yuan in less than a minute, which is enough to prove the power of the Yin-Yang Mirror, as well as the strength of Xiang Yuan's current spiritual power.
These ghosts all died, and the small door behind the main hall clicked open, and Xiang Yuan walked to the door and saw that the words on both sides of the door were written "Those who pass the customs can bend down to enter".
He looked at the huge stone gate ten meters high next to him, and the door weighed 109,800 catties. (To be continued)