Chapter XXXVIII
But the moment the platform was plunged into darkness, I saw a dark figure flicker in a corner not far away and disappear. And when the platform was plunged into darkness, I noticed a glimmer of light coming from the corner. I immediately tucked the bronze armband into the backpack next to me and hung it around my neck, and then dragged the fat man with my left hand with all the strength of the milk, and crawled towards the corner of the wall step by step.
The rustling sound of crawling was getting closer and closer to me, and I kept changing my left and right hands, dragging the fat man's heavy body on the ground towards the corner of the lighted wall. Soon I noticed a hole the size of a dog's hole in the corner, and the hole in the wall was getting closer and closer to me, and the sound of crawling behind me was getting closer and closer. As I approached the entrance of the cave, I quickly sent the fat man out of the cave little by little, and at this time, in the darkness, I felt countless domain worms crawling up my legs.
The fat man was pushed out of the hole, and I immediately sent my backpack over, and then leaned in and climbed into the hole. The stone wall above my back was not very thick, and I quickly climbed out of the pitch-black platform. A beam of sunlight shook my eyes and I immediately turned my head and blocked my hand in front of me, when I saw that my legs were covered with dense domain insects, and I hurriedly sat up from the ground and smashed the domain insects on my legs with the backpack beside me. Leaving the darkness, the insects seemed to be very afraid of the sun's rays, and fled backwards, burrowing back into the hole in the wall.
I was relieved to see this, and I originally planned to block my backpack at the entrance of the hole to prevent the black domain insects from coming out, but now it seems that they are very afraid of strong sunlight, and they can't get out for a while, so they can't pose a threat.
For a long time, I basked in the sun and looked around, and I was surprised by the results.
As far as the eye can see, I am in a small valley surrounded by 10,000 feet of high peaks and rocks, the valley is full of dense exotic flowers and plants, and in the center of the wide stone valley grows two towering trees, surrounded by each other and snuggled together, the branches of the trees are scattered with small yellow-white flowers, and the fruits are full of black spherical berries. And at the place where the two trees cross, there is a coffin.
I exclaimed in my heart: It turned out that the old man of King Xiang was buried in this fairyland on earth. It's really his grandmother's way of finding a place. If it weren't for a mistake, who would have found this mausoleum without a sealed soil and a burial chamber.
I dragged the fat man to climb under the tree, supported the grass with both hands to sit up, and then took out a bundle of rope from the tattered backpack, and put the backpack under the fat man's head, and used it as a pillow for him, and then quickly tied a knot at one end of the rope to make a rope sleeve, and shook the rope sleeve with my right hand, and threw it towards the top of my head, and the rope sleeve hung on the branch, and then I pulled down vigorously, and a branch was torn off by me, and fell in front of me along with the fruit on it.
These two towering trees in the stone valley are not ordinary trees, but dioecious ghost oak trees, which bear fruit for a hundred years and are evergreen. This is the legendary sacred tree born in the heavenly realm and the fairy island, which should have existed in the sky, why is it in the human world?
I picked up the berries that fell on the ground, and said in my heart: The fat man is saved now, the fruit of this ghost oak tree is said to be the legendary ginseng fruit, which has the effect of invigorating the blood, detoxifying and rejuvenating the qi, and can live forever if you eat it. Pinch the fat man's mouth with one hand, squeeze the juice of the fruit with the other hand and drip it into the fat man's mouth.
After squeezing a few fruits, I sat down next to the fat man and observed his condition. After about a cup of tea, the fat man's face began to gradually improve, and after a meal, he was already breathing evenly, and I let go of the heart that had been hanging, and thought: The fat man has picked up a life.
I breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately felt the pain of wounds all over my body, large and small, and especially from my legs, which almost made me faint. He immediately picked up the fruit from the ground, swallowed the remaining fruits and ate all the remaining fruits, the taste of the black fruit was fragrant and sweet, fresh and tender, and the body immediately felt warm and comfortable, and the pain in the body was suddenly reduced a lot, and the stomach no longer felt hungry.
The fruit of the Quercus tree was indeed very useful, and when I had gained a lot of strength, I rested in the shade of the tree with my back against the tree, and pondered all the things that had happened in this journey.
This time out of the fight, the two of us must have asked someone to calculate, along the way I didn't even see a single hair of the master, I was also injured and may become disabled, the fat man only has half a life left, the vitality is greatly injured, it is estimated that it will be difficult for the body to recover as before.
This mysterious man who has set a trap to lure us has been sneaking behind us like a ghost. Now I have found the coffin of Xiangwang Lao'er, but he has not shown up, it should be afraid that there is a risk in opening the coffin, and I want to wait for us to open the coffin and take the Ming weapon before we do it, patiently waiting for the benefit of the left-handed fisherman, which shows that he is far-sighted, quietly forbearance, courage, and ingenuity are above me and the fat man, this person is by no means a good kind to deal with, if you don't get it, I and the fat man will die in the hands of this person.
I can now be sure that it was not this person who poisoned us, this person's purpose was to coerce us, first stealing the golden statue silently, and then using three hidden notes to arouse our curiosity and worry about the master, so that we became obedient fish, willing to bite the hook and embark on the journey to Yijiazhai in Yunnan; Immediately after his journey, he unknowingly handed over the deciphered sheepskin map to our hands, so that we began to fight according to his plan, and the result was that we found the tomb of King Xiang by mistake.
I've figured out the general meridians of things, but there are too many small branches in it that I can't figure out and be confused. First of all, the mysterious man used me and the fat man in front of him to thunder and use him as cannon fodder, and there is a problem that I can't figure out. First, the fat man and I are the fledgling craftsmen in the capital, but in fact, we are actually laymen, because we have never gone underground to rob tombs. Why would the mysterious man risk a possible failure and pick two half-hangers to accompany him on a trip. If it were me, for the sake of insurance, I would choose someone with a little experience, because the experienced person will detect the conspiracy prematurely, turn against the water, and fight back, but it will be a loss to the wife and the army; And an inexperienced person like Xiang and us, who died halfway through the tomb before he could find it, what was the reason for him to put his bet on us? And what is it that convinces him that we can find the real burial chamber? It's really unconscionable everywhere.
Second, the mysterious man is obviously highly skilled, and there should be no shortage of clever people around him, why do you have to find two of us who are little-known characters, and why is it so deliberately targeted? Do you have a grudge against Master? Or is there a plot against the stranger? I don't dare to have any purpose, anyway, I feel that it should have nothing to do with me and the fat man himself, because we are not big names in the world, and we have not done anything hurtful, so it is impossible for us to be targeted for no reason.
First of all, how the mysterious man escaped under the noses of the two of them, and when we fell into the abyss, could he also follow us, which is really beyond my imagination, this person is not a ghost, there must be something extraordinary to the people.
Monsters, evil creatures, ghosts and other ghosts are evil, none of which can withstand the evil intentions of human beings, and they are the most difficult things in the world to figure out and deal with.
After thinking about it, there were so many questions that puzzled me that I had a headache, so I moved my body, relaxed my muscles, straightened my upper body, stretched my arms upward, and couldn't help but raise my head. As a result, I saw the most terrifying thing I've ever seen in my life.
The coffin, which had been hanging quietly on the tree, had been lifted at some point, and a monster with a snake body arched out of it, with a smooth body without limbs hovering down the tree, its black eyes the size of grapes, and its red tongue was more than three feet long, with crystal saliva hanging on it, hanging vertically above my head, less than an inch away from my eyes. Seeing such a terrifying snake in the dark, my body seemed to be frozen by a spell, and cold sweat kept rolling down like beans, and the fear in my heart was indescribable. The forked tongue of the human-faced monster snake sizzled and trembled in front of my eyes, so frightened that I immediately closed my eyes reflexively, and then I felt the monster's tongue, licking and playing wantonly on my face, the tongue was warm and wet, but the smell was stinking, and a chill couldn't help but invade my internal organs from my heart and lungs instantly, and the sweat pores on my body were exuding bursts of cold.
The endless horror occupied all the nerves in my body, and a feeling of horror that made me want to vomit arose, I swallowed my saliva, steadied my feelings, and said in my heart: The tomb of King Xiang is really not as simple as it seems on the surface, even if it is an open-air tomb, it will not be completely free of anti-theft mechanisms. Because his lower body couldn't move, he didn't check the coffin on the tree in time, and now the evil ghost hidden in the coffin has appeared terrifyingly. This strange snake is actually hidden in the coffin of King Xiang, is it not really the coffin of King Xiang's old child, it is just a suspected coffin with a hidden mechanism; Or is it that King Xiang, who wanted to dominate one side after death, listened to the slander of the warlock and wanted to become a dragon, so he transformed his real body into a monster with the body of a human head snake after death, and has been hiding in the coffin to survive until now. No matter which of the above situations, it will definitely be too late to escape now, and you can only fight to the death.
Thinking of this, in order to drive away the horror in my heart, I couldn't help but open my mouth and roar, and then I held on to the big tree behind me, stood up from the ground, turned my head, and looked back and up.
I was fully prepared to get a closer look at the true face of the human-faced monster snake!