Chapter Twenty-Three: The Shock of the Hidden Secret Passage
Standing in front of the mountain wall, I looked at the mountain wall, which was overgrown with weeds and vines, and seemed to be at a dead end, but I didn't think so, because I had seen it, and I knew that there might be unexpected changes, and I didn't feel much uneasiness in my heart.
At this time, I could vaguely hear the noise of human voices coming from above the valley over there, thinking that the pursuers were about to reach the top of the mountain, but they didn't bother to look back.
Xiao Ding took me and Master to stay here, smiled apologetically at me and Master, and then said, "When it comes to some secrets of my vein, I will trouble Grandpa Jiang and Sanwa to wait a while." ”
Speaking solemnly, but shouting my nickname, this feels quite novel, I smiled at Xiaoding indifferently to show that I didn't care, and the master was even more unlikely to care.
Xiao Ding got the understanding of Master and me, and said to us with a fist, and then walked to the mountain wall about ten meters in front of him alone, before that, he did not forget to signal us to stand still and not move, maybe this distance of about ten meters also involves some mechanisms.
If those trackers get here, they will definitely suffer, and I feel a secret chill when I think about it.
But I saw Xiao Ding standing still in front of the mountain wall, holding up his green shiny bamboo flute to his lips, the valley breeze, blowing Xiao Ding's long hair and old but clean long hair, so the back of the flute, let me have a feeling of traveling through time, as if I saw the ancient Pian Pian Jiagong.
But the difference is that the bamboo flute did not make any sound, just like when I saw Xiao Ding for the first time when I was a child, he was blushing and playing a short bamboo flute, but there was no sound, I was laughed at in my heart, pulling a leaf, making a bamboo whistle, it was also louder than him blowing.
The warm memories of my childhood had just put a smile on my face, but I was attracted by the abnormal shaking of the mountain wall, and in less than a few seconds, I saw a large snake similar to a silver krait crawling out of the weeds of the mountain wall.
The hideous appearance really startled me, because in my impression, the poisonous snake could not grow so big, but the pattern on the snake's body was indeed the same as the silver krait, a circle of silver and a circle of black staggered, a triangular head, the difference is that this snake has a circle of colorful colors at seven inches, and there is an arch bag at the back of the head, but it has not yet become a fleshy crown.
It's about 4 meters long, and it's thicker than my arm, in short, the cold momentum gives goosebumps on my body.
The snake swam down from the mountain wall, swam lazily around Xiao Ding, and then raised its neck humanely, and swam away closest to me and Master, I had a layer of goosebumps on my body, and I intuitively felt that this snake was venomous, highly venomous! Even if a cultivator can use various powers to suppress the poison, it can't compete with this poison, which makes people feel very dangerous.
But Xiao Ding didn't care, but walked to the front of the mountain wall, and after a while, there was a dull sound from the mountain wall, and it turned out to be a gap for two people to pass through.
"Alright." Xiao Ding walked towards me and Master, smiled gently, and then still pulled Master and I to follow in his footsteps and walk to the front of the mountain wall together.
Behind the mountain wall should be the secret road, I was full of curiosity, I raised my legs and wanted to go in, but I was pulled by Xiao Ding, and a trace of vines hung down at the entrance, but Xiao Ding was not annoyed, just reminded me softly: "Follow me in, you have to be careful." ”
What should I be careful of? But I saw Xiao Ding's finger pointing at those vines, through the moonlight, I first saw a pair of bright eyes, under a closer look, my cold sweat suddenly covered my forehead, I saw that among those vines, there were about five small snakes that were only thicker than chopsticks.
I don't know what kind of breed it is, but the little snake is gray-green, with a triangular head like an awl and a neck raised at the moment, looking at me vigilantly, as long as I take another step, I don't doubt that they will attack me without hesitation.
I don't recognize what kind of snakes they are, but these little snakes make me feel no safer than the big snake that resembled a krait just now, or even more dangerous, because they are so hidden.
But Xiao Ding didn't care too much, his hand was raised slightly, and he didn't know what he did, so the snakes swam away, and Xiao Ding pulled me and Master into the back of the mountain wall.
It was dark behind the mountain wall, and I couldn't see anything inside at all, I could only see the cold moonlight outside the mountain wall, and Xiao Ding still asked me and Master to stand still and not move, and I made some noise at the door, and the mountain wall was completely closed.
At this time, the moonlight was also invisible, and it was completely dark behind the mountain wall.
Xiao Ding didn't know where to take out a flashlight, after it was lit, I began to feel uncomfortable illuminating the inside of the mountain wall, and subconsciously covered my eyes, so did the master, but at this time, Xiao Ding, who was Leng Buding, came over, stuffed a flashlight into his hand.
I squinted and pressed the flashlight, adjusted for a few seconds, opened my eyes, and I saw a surprise, a magical world.
I didn't expect that this so-called secret passage was actually in a stalactite cave, under the reflection of the flashlight, these white stalactites and the water droplets on the stalactites refracted a psychedelic light, so beautiful that people sighed, between these strange stalactites, a neat paved stone path is in it.
And the surprise is not only stalactites, there is an underground dark river in this cave, the river surface is not wide, the water flow is not large, flowing gently, no wonder I didn't hear any sound just now.
"Beautiful, isn't it?" Xiao Ding's voice was gentle, but there was still a hint of pride, after all, this was a place he had to protect all his life, and it was normal to be proud of it.
"Hmm!" I nodded busily, and found that there may be surprises in life at any time, maybe the last second you feel that you have reached a desperate situation, but you persevered, did not choose to give up on yourself, and the next second you will see a different scenery.
I didn't expect that in such a continuous mountain range, wilderness and dense forest, there would be such a hidden scenery.
"Let's go, but follow me. After all, there is a formation guarding it, and there are many ancestors in it! Xiao Ding said with a chuckle.
I found that although this little Ding smiled shyly, he really liked to laugh, and suddenly found that he liked this person a little, because of the loneliness of staying alone in the wilderness, people who can often show a smile are always optimistic and warm, who doesn't like such people?
Thinking like this, my impression of Xiao Ding is a little better, because of his direct temperament, I have a little less scruples when asking, and said, "Who is the ancestor?" "It's not that the people of Snake Gate are thin, Xiao Ding has become the only mountain guard, how can there be an ancestor?
Faced with my question, Xiao Ding smiled but did not answer, suddenly blinked at me mysteriously, and said to me, "Do you want to see the ancestor?" ”
Look at the ancestors? I was inexplicable, but the old god was there to pick up his dry tobacco again, this time he was smoking a real dry tobacco, and he was not new at all, obviously he had seen the so-called old ancestor.
Before I could ask anything, Xiao Ding had already pulled me to the side of the underground dark river, and motioned for me to put away the flashlight, but he gently shone the flashlight into the dark river, I looked at the light of the flashlight, and almost exclaimed.
For I saw a huge snake lying in the underground river, with most of its body in the water, and its head and small body lazily resting on the other side of the bank, and its head alone was bigger than the heads of the giant snakes I had just seen fighting.
If you have to describe it, it is half the size of the big water tank commonly used in the countryside, and it does not have a meat crown on its head, but has a small bag bulging in the middle (compared to the big head, it is small), and unlike the bulge of the 'silver krait' outside, which feels dangerous, this old ancestor's bulge is extremely hard.
It was white, but not a dazzling white, but a dull grayish white, about the same color as stalactites, and no wonder I didn't see it at first glance.
Xiao Ding withdrew the flashlight, and I continued to walk on the trail, I was shocked, I was just numbly following Xiao Ding's walking, but I thought in my heart that the Chinese people knew that there was still this kind of existence hidden in this piece of no man's land?
Xiao Ding said in my ear: "This is the most temperamental of the ancestors in this cave?" You see that it didn't have the look in its eyes just now, it was so warm and gentle. ”
Where do I dare to look at the eyes of this big snake, just looking at the size, I have been shocked 'scared', I asked myself to see a lot of big snakes, and there is more than one snake spirit, but not as shocked as Xiao Ding let me see these snakes to give me.
"Isn't it the snakes at the strange doorway?" When Xiao Ding talks about snakes, he always talks endlessly.
"Well, I've never seen it before." I'm curious, of course.
"Oh, the snake who can come to guard the secret road, the snake who guards the door for the ancestors, how can it be a mortal, a mutant snake, and he is free to practice in the mountains, of course it is extraordinary. You must know that the mutant alien snake is born with spirits, and its cultivation is much stronger than those mortal snakes. Xiao Ding said and laughed again.
Then he looked at the master, but asked, "Grandpa Jiang, how did you come up with this to get out of trouble?" ”
Yes, how did Master calculate that these people would come to this mountain range? That's a problem!