Chapter 45 Xiong Qu, King of Chu

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"Nothing, nothing?" I replied with a slight stummer.

Gao Peng's eyes looked directly at me and Ryazan, and he didn't say a word, but his motionless posture seemed to be saying to us: "What the hell are you two doing, you dare to lie and lie to me." ”

Seeing Gao Peng staring at me intently like this, it was also my heart that was empty, and I didn't know what Lu Dao was for, so I didn't dare to look at him all of a sudden.

"What are you doing here?" Gao Peng asked after the last.

I glanced at Ryazan awkwardly, and found that he looked away with a dark and nervous color, and ignored me, I panicked all of a sudden, and said vigorously: "It's really nothing, don't think about it, you're tired of walking, just take a rest." ”

A hint of cunning flashed in Gao Peng's eyes, and he narrowed his eyes and said, "You have something to hide from me." ”

I had no choice but to keep explaining, after a long time, the three of us were back on the road, but, because of this episode, I no longer dared to approach Gao Peng's side, I always felt that he had become ghostly, but that Ryazan, really seemed to be a person who had nothing to do, and still talked and laughed with Gao Peng, but Gao Peng didn't pay much attention to him.

After more than ten minutes, a strange smell suddenly appeared in the air in the cave. I seem to have smelled this smell somewhere, and when I savored it, it was a fragrant aroma and it was very thick. After smelling it for a while, I suddenly realized that this was the smell on Bu Jin's body.

I remember when I first met Long Bujin in Miao Village in Yunnan, I was very impressed by the smell of her, but as Bu Jin lived with me for a long time, I gradually forgot about this smell. And now, in the air of this damp and rancid cave, the occasional faint fragrance wafts into the air, which is very noticeable.

My gut tells me that Bu Jin is nearby, or at least she's not far from us. I don't know what Lu Dao is for, as soon as I think of this, my heart beats fast, not because I will be very excited to meet Bu Jin, but because the mountain boys who walked with Bu Jin and the two old man Yuan The monsters in the mouth.

However, after the cave turned a corner in front of me, something happened to me very surprisingly - the trend of the cave began to turn uphill.

In general, the cave tends to go straight to the bottom, but I have never heard of a tunnel in the cave going up, of course, unless there is another situation - the mountain passage was originally dug by hand.

Sure enough, we didn't go far inside before the stone walls around us began to slip out.

Bu Jin's taste is getting stronger and stronger, the slope of the cave is getting steeper and steeper, Gao Peng is still walking in front of the three of us, walking, we suddenly heard a low roar, the roar is not loud, and it is also very low, but listening to the penetrating power and resonance of the voice, you can know that it will not be a sound that a small thing can make.

We walked further, and all three of us stopped before we knew it.

I saw that in front of the three of us suddenly appeared a square stone door, the style of the stone door is very simple, there is almost no decoration, from the appearance, far less than the bronze door in the Yunnan underground palace to the style, however, this stone door is more mysterious feeling, it seems to turn away us modern people with flashlights at once.

However, what really caught the attention of the three of us was the two-headed monster crouching on either side of the stone gate, the Python.

"Holy," I whispered, "these two monsters can't be janitors, right?" ”

"I guess so." Ryazan said.

"That means Bu Jin and those mountain boys are behind the stone gate." As I spoke, I guessed what would be behind the stone gate, or how big the space would be, and whether it would take a while for Bu Jin and the mountain boys to come out of the stone gate.

And the two monsters seemed to be napping at the moment, and the two of them were lying on the ground together, their noses purring, and occasionally their bodies moved, accompanied by the friction of sticky and slippery skin.

"What now?" I asked.

"What else can I do?" Ryazan said: "There is only one way, and your girlfriend must have entered it." ”

"Nonsense, I also know the way, the point is that there are those two monsters there watching the door, how do we get in? We don't have guns like Chen Bing and them, could it be that the knife is fighting with those monsters? "Speaking of which, I still have a moment of worry in my heart, saying that Chen Bing's group is okay, will it be dismantled by those cave demons at this moment.

Unexpectedly, when I was still thinking about it, I saw that Gao Peng walked to the stone gate on tiptoe and stood in the middle of the two monsters.

I was dumbfounded for a moment, and I forgot that something was wrong with him for a while, and shouted softly: "Hey, Gao Peng, what are you doing there, come back quickly, don't wake up those two monsters." ”

However, Gao Peng didn't pay attention to what I said, he stood there in a daze, and after a while, his shoulders suddenly began to shrug and shrug, and from behind, it seemed as if he was giggling silently. This scene is extremely weird, before I can react, Gao Peng suddenly called "wow", as soon as the monsters lying on both sides of the stone gate heard this shout, they immediately raised their heads, left and right "looked", their lips opened slightly, and a big tongue began to spit out, like a big lizard.

The two beetles quickly locked Gao Peng's position with their scent, and the two of them let out a roar together, revealing a row of sharp teeth, to my surprise, Gao Peng stood there and was not afraid to laugh, it didn't sound like his laughter, but an unusually heroic smile, only to hear Gao Peng laugh loudly, while saying: "Two beasts, dare to be my uncle to go to the road?" ”

After that, I saw that Gao Peng was about to start a battle with the two dragons as soon as he pulled out the sword on his waist.

At the same time, Ryazan thumped his chest and seemed to understand something at once.

I said, "Gao Peng is crazy? ”

"Crazy fart," Ryazan clenched his fists and said, "Now I finally understand what happened to Gao Peng, he was really upheld." ”

"Ghost upper body?" I chuckled in my heart, because all the stories I heard about ghosts since I was a child were basically female ghosts, and the people of the Venerable were either powerful ghosts or unjust ghosts, all in all, a great omen.

"It's true that it's a ghost, but fortunately, it's not a ghost."

"Then how did he get ghosted?" I asked.

Ryazan explained: "I guess it has something to do with the leather armor he was wearing. ”

As soon as Ryazan finished speaking, he saw that Gao Peng had already pulled out the saber he was wearing on his leather armor and began to fight with the two monsters.

At this time, even if Ryazan hadn't told me that something was wrong with Gao Peng before, I could see the problem. At this moment, Gao Peng's body is extremely vigorous, I saw him dodging left and right, although the monster moved very slowly, but its head moved very quickly under the traction of the muscles in the neck, the head was like a poisonous snake, lightning bit Gao Peng, and Gao Peng dodged freely, unscathed, at the same time, the sword in his hand kept counterattacking accordingly, if it weren't for the fact that the sword in his hand was rusty for a long time, it is estimated that the two beetles would have been dismantled.

At this time, Ryazan suddenly shouted: "Yang Bo! ”

When Gao Peng heard this, his body was stunned, and he was almost bitten directly on the thigh by the cockroach, and he quickly stepped aside. When I was still wondering why Ryazan was calling him, Ryazan waved his hand and threw my long knife over, shouting, "Use this knife." ”

As soon as Gao Peng took the long knife, a trace of surprise flashed across his face, and he immediately arched his hand and said loudly: "Thank you, brother." ”

Immediately, he turned around and shouted at the two beetles: "Beasts, wait for my uncle to kill you, and find a way to live forever for my lord Xiongqu, the king of Chu." ”

As soon as I heard this, I couldn't believe my ears, and I said in my heart that what kind of person was this raised uncle attached to Gao Peng, who actually said that he was looking for a way to live for his master, Xiong Qu, the king of Chu.

If it was me in the past, I might not know who Chu Xiongqu was, but this time it was different, I had made a lot of preparations for the historical materials of Gu Yongguo before I came to Wuhan, and this time naturally came in handy.

I don't know who Yang Bo is, but what Gao Peng said about Xiong Qu, the king of Chu, is like thunder to me.

Although the history of Chu is not as long as that of Yongguo, it still has a history of nearly 800 years, after several generations of kings, in history, I am afraid that many people only remember the heroic and strategic, drinking the Yellow River to win the Central Plains of Chu Zhuang King, but if there is no foreshadowing before the Chu King Xiongqu, the Central Plains may not be so simple.

Who is Chu Xiongqu? It was this person who led the soldiers of the Chu State to defeat the Gu Yong State, which was known as the head of the Eight Barbarians at that time, and at the same time attacked Yang Yue in the east, laying an excellent foundation for the grand hegemony of his descendants, King Chu Zhuang. Although the land of employment was later hired to fight in the twilight of Qin and Chu for many years, no one can deny the martial arts of Xiong Qu, the king of Chu.

Chu Xiongqu reigned for only ten years, but it opened up an extremely vast territory for the state of Chu, and no historian can explain the reasons for this. However, there is one thing that cannot be left unmentioned, that is, in the later period, due to King Zhou Li's strict attitude towards the princes and kings, Chu Xiongqu openly declared that he was a barbarian and did not have to submit to the title and nickname of the Zhou Dynasty. To put it bluntly, the state of Chu had already begun to fight for independence at that time. However, at that time, the state of Chu was still a weak country for a long time, and although it developed rapidly, it was able to destroy several countries in such a short period of time, and there were still many unsolved mysteries. Many historical mysteries may move closer to metaphysics, of course, this is only a speculation.

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