Chapter XXXIX

After resting for a while, in order to save time, Zhang Hefang asked us to enter the grotto behind us first, and listen to the old python tell us about the experience of their group and some abnormal behaviors of Bao Ye as we walked.

The grotto here is not the road we used to come all the way, this is a natural stalactite cave, so it is not convenient to move, I carefully dodged the surrounding rocks while listening to the old python's narration.

As I listened, I realized that I really underestimated this old python at first. Although he looked fat and incompetent, and a pair of eyes were always squinting at Xiao Xia and Bu Jin's legs, it was his small eyes that gave insight into something that others were not aware of.

It turned out that when we were at the stone statue, when we decided to divert and march, Bao Ye, as their leader, entered the corridor behind the more introverted stone statue. At that time, according to the old python's recollections, after Bao Ye took them into the corridor, he muttered something like "It's a pity". However, Bao Ye, this person, has always been the master who does not speak well and does not keep his mouth open, so the old python did not pay much attention to it. However, when they entered the relief section of the road, the sensitive nerves of the old python gradually discovered some problems. Although Bao Ye still used the walkie-talkie to contact us, the old python still felt that there was something wrong with Bao Ye.

The old python felt uncomfortable, and used the light of the flashlight to shine on Bao Ye's back, and found that his shoulders shrugged, and he was laughing silently while walking.

At that time, in such a deep and narrow space, any wind and grass was enough to make people tremble, let alone a once familiar person doing such a strange act.

The old python hurriedly asked Brother Liao and Lao Yu to come over and watch. The old python is timid and very sensitive, but the old man and Brother Liao are both masters of mixed rice on the blade, especially Brother Liao, who asked Bao Ye directly: "Bao Ye, what are you laughing at?" ”

As soon as the words fell, Bao Ye, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped, this time the sudden braking was too abrupt, and the old python hurriedly stopped, staring intently at Bao Ye's back.

At this time, Bao Ye slowly turned his head, and under the light of the flashlight, his face looked extremely white, but what was really surprising was his expression like a playing card, which didn't look like he had just laughed at all.

Bao Ye turned his head, looked at the old python behind him, with a rigid expression, and asked rhetorically, "Did I laugh just now?" ”

When the old python heard this, he chuckled in his heart, and suddenly felt that this treasure master was gloomy.

Their first reaction was that Bao Ye had hit an evil spirit, and he was caught by something unclean. However, when you think about it, this is not very likely. Although our group had encountered the pile of corpses in front of the two stone statues at the beginning, the corpses had already decomposed into clean bones, and theoretically there was no danger in making them. Moreover, the few of them, all of them are members of the Southern Witch Group, although they specialize in art, but they still know a little bit about some of the most basic witchcraft and ghost ways, and Bao Ye is the best among them, so there is no reason why he will not be aware of these things.

After that, Brother Liao looked behind Bao Ye again, and found that Bao Ye was still on the ground with his heels when he walked, and he should not have been caught by something. As a result, everyone gradually relaxed their vigilance, and only the old python was still worried, always feeling that there was something wrong with Bao Ye.

Afterwards, they also entered a stone chamber, but the stone chamber they were in was not the same as ours. The stone chamber we entered at that time was full of hexagonal coffins, but there were no coffins in the stone chamber they entered, but life-size terracotta figurines piled up everywhere, and these terracotta figurines, without exception, were similar to the stone statues at the entrance of the corridor they entered, with big eyes, thick lips, no chins, and combed hair buns.

These figurines are carved to resemble living people, as if their eyes were moving. In the words of the old python, being stared at by these terracotta figurines feels like being thrown naked into the square dancing aunt, which makes people feel an inexplicable sense of shame.

At this time, Zhang Hefang also asked Bao Ye about the situation over there, and Bao Ye only said that he had encountered a dead end, but did not say the specific situation over there.

They searched around but didn't find the specific location of the mechanism, and the old python found more and more that Bao Ye began to become impatient, which was not Bao Ye's character. After turning around, everyone did it, thinking about what to do, and when they really couldn't go back the same way, Bao Ye suddenly stood up like a madman, and then took out his pistol and shot at the terracotta figurines in the stone room. When the bullets ran out, he picked up a stone from the ground and smashed it in the face of the figurines.

The old python was completely confused by Bao Ye's sudden move, his posture was simply hysterical, and the old man hurriedly went up to dissuade him and told him not to be too impulsive.

Who would have thought that Bao Ye would punch the old man when he returned his hand, and shouted that several of them would die here sooner or later, and said something like not trying to trap him.

Although everyone didn't understand Bao Ye's sudden frenzy, Bao Ye really did the right thing about smashing the terracotta figurines. As the terracotta figurines were continuously destroyed by Bao Ye, they found that there was actually some liquid in the terracotta figurines that began to flow out continuously. The liquid looked very viscous, slow-moving, and had a silvery-white appearance, and on closer inspection, it was mercury.

The mercury flowed to the ground, and soon flowed down the cracks in the bricks into the ground, followed by a few "clicks" of the machine. Unlike our trap passages, which appear underfoot, theirs lead straight ahead.

The old python told us that the structure of the priest's burial pit here was much more complicated than we thought. The secret passage they entered was deep and bottomless, full of forks and turns, like an anthill intricate. Moreover, in these secret passages, there are even shrines and statues.

Among the four people, Bao Ye has the best skills, but in terms of the richness of knowledge, the old python is definitely the first to be the best. However, even he had to admit that he had never seen these idols at all. At first, he thought that these might not be gods, because he also had a certain understanding of some famous god systems in the world, and he had never seen such gods at all.

It's not a god statue, it may be some legendary mythological figures, but the old python looked at countless god statues, and still couldn't see what they were. Also, the appearance of those gods is very strange, no, maybe it is a little wrong to use the adjective weird. In the words of the old python, those statues look very awkward, but they can't be said where they are awkward. It was not an exaggeration of the shape, but a sense of expressiveness, and the old python could not describe it in words, because he could not find anything to compare it to.

However, even when they entered here, Bao Ye still showed a crazy look, and after he rushed into the secret passage, he still picked up the stones and smashed the idols, and kept yelling: "You can't trap me, you can't trap me!" ”

Everyone was dumbfounded, 10 million percent of such behavior was bumped into by something. So, the three of them worked together to hold down Bao Ye, and with some witchcraft they had learned, they began to use the simplest and most practical method to exorcise evil spirits for Bao Ye.

Because of the limited conditions, the ritual of exorcising evil spirits was not very particular, but in general, it still had some effect, and Bao Ye began to calm down. Everyone also breathed a sigh of relief, and the old python hurriedly took out the walkie-talkie in Bao Ye's hand and began to transmit information to Zhang Hefang, but probably because of the complex structure in the mountain and the chaotic magnetic field, the walkie-talkie could not hear Zhang Hefang's reply.

However, no one thought that Bao Ye was acting at all, and seeing that everyone had relaxed their vigilance, Bao Ye suddenly pulled out the waist knife in his hand and stabbed it into Brother Liao's chest at once. Bao Ye was fatal in Nanwu, and it was not fun to stab him with a knife, and he cut ten centimeters of Brother Liao's chest before stopping, and then went straight to the old python.

The old python was slashed by Bao Ye, and hurriedly asked the old man for help, and the two of them resisted Bao Ye for a while, and regardless of what equipment was not equipped, they picked up Brother Liao's micro charge, pulled out their legs and started running, because both of them knew that if it was about skill, the two of them were by no means Bao Ye's opponents.

At that time, the walkie-talkie was also left there, so the old python couldn't keep in touch with us anymore.

The old python and the old man stumbled into the secret passage, and as soon as they entered, they found that the fortifications here were too grand, and they had not gone far before they got lost. Moreover, under those dark secret passages, they can often smell some pungent smells, which make people dizzy after smelling for a long time, and the old python gradually faints due to excessive blood loss.

Fortunately, the old man is familiar with water and has an unusual sensitivity to water. In a grotto, he vaguely heard the sound of rushing water, so he leaned over the ground, dragging the old python forward while following the sound of the water, but he did not expect to really walk out of the secret passage, into the underground river, and then saw the giant priest, once again joined us.