Chapter 57 Topographic Map
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As soon as the torch was lit, my vision suddenly widened, but this underground palace was so terrible that I still couldn't see the front and back, and at this time, I turned my eyes to the top of my head to see what had scared me just now, but when I looked up, my legs were suddenly weak.
On the top wall above the head, it is still painted in a crimson color, and the lines depicted on it are more complicated, and at the top of this, there are countless dried corpses hanging upside down, exactly the same as the one I saw in the Kunlun Bucket, but these hanging corpses are even more terrifying, because at this moment, they are all facing down, and their dry faces are actually facing me, and my whole person is in the middle position, no matter which direction I look, I can see the hanging corpses staring straight at me.
I swallowed my saliva, I almost burst into tears, why are you staring at me, is this going to be a collective corpse? There is only one black donkey hoof, which one should I deal with?
Just when my legs were weak and I forgot to flee for my life, the flesh on my face suddenly moved, and then the corners of my mouth turned up, revealing an extremely evil smile.
I shuddered, this situation was really a corpse.
As far as the eye can see, there are dense hanging corpses above my head, and there is almost no end in sight, and I can't escape even if I am possessed by a stuffy oil bottle this time.
At this time, I suddenly heard the creaking sound of grinding my teeth again, and soon after, the hanging corpses around me smiled at me one by one, and the long and black hair hung upside down, fluttering in the air, and my scalp was numb, and I couldn't help but take a step back, and my back was against the stone pillar behind me, and a bone-penetrating cold came along the stone pillar, and I almost jumped up in shock.
At this moment, I only heard a click, and on the ground in front of me, a gray thing suddenly appeared, and there were two big crows in front of me.
There are so many corpses here, and it's not uncommon to have corpses, but the volume of this corpse has caught up with the hairy crabs in Panyang Lake, if there are a few more, I won't be bitten to death? I just finished thinking about it, and a few corpses fell from it, waving big hoops one by one, and after a few laps on the ground, they quickly crawled towards me.
As soon as I looked, it turned out that the hanging corpses above their heads did not raise corpses, and in their wide open mouths, there were countless corpses crawling in and out, making the corners of their mouths stretch out, but as if they were laughing, I quickly held the torch and retreated, more and more corpses fell, God knows if there is a corpse king here, even if there is not, each of these ghosts bites me, it is enough for me to bear.
At this moment, if you don't run or wait for death, I turned around with a torch and fled, the corpse behind me didn't catch up at first, and finally chased me in groups, I didn't dare to look back, listening to the dense turn, even the scalp was numb, the equipment on my body was all to deal with the zongzi, to deal with the corpse, I didn't even have a dagger.
Even if I ran for my life, the things quickly caught up, and then, with a pain in my shoulder, I turned my head to see that an egg-sized corpse had jumped on my shoulder, and two short claws had pierced into my flesh.
His grandmother's, so young and dare to shout, this play has a lot of opinions, I was almost numb, casually pinched its back, pulled it out and fell to the ground in front, and then stepped on it and ran forward, just ran two steps, suddenly there was a sharp pain on the back, I touched it backhanded, and suddenly touched a cold thing, it was actually a corpse bigger than my palm, because I couldn't see the whole picture, I didn't know how big it was, I could only pull it down with my backhand, suddenly, I felt a hot pain in my back, The hot liquid slid down his bare back.
I pulled, before I could use my strength, the corpse fell by itself, and after running a few steps, I suddenly felt that something was wrong, and the sound behind me seemed to stop, and I looked back, and the corpse behind me did not catch up, but began to retreat.
In the air, there was an extremely strong smell of blood, and I was happy in my heart, could it be that my No. 2 blood had appeared? Hurriedly touched it behind his back, and then looked at his hand, the blood on it was black.
I was stunned, I couldn't tell what I felt, how could my blood be black? When I lowered my head and smelled it, the smell was more fishy than ordinary human blood, faintly with a ** smell, I immediately remembered the heart, and with a shake of my hand, I went to touch the back, but I didn't touch anything except the black blood on my hand and a hot wound.
At this time, the torch in my hand was almost extinguished in the process of running, flashing blue light, I quickly blew it carefully, the flame gradually returned to normal, I don't know where I ran at the moment, the surrounding environment still hasn't changed, on both sides is a huge stone pillar that stretches forward, at this time I can't help but begin to wonder, whether I encountered a ghost hitting the wall or encountered some powerful mechanism?
It's possible that the ghost hits the wall, because behind me are countless zongzi, and if I can't keep it, there will be a bunch of soft zongzi dangling in the palace.
If it's a mechanism, then it's almost impossible for me to find a way to crack the mechanism, if the range is a little smaller, I might be able to figure it out, but with such a large range, I'm not a stuffy oil bottle, and I have a special level certification for the mechanism, even if I touch every brick on the ground, I'm afraid it's in vain.
I don't have the heart to care about my black blood, this pull has already grown in, and now even if I want to break my head, there is no way, it is better to think about how to get out of the current predicament.
At this point, I have concluded that there is something wrong with this palace, because it is so huge that it cannot exist. Unless, like Kunlun Dou, this place has hollowed out the entire mountain range, there is no possibility of existence under the desert.
I thought of the moving stone chamber mechanism on the upper floor, could it be the same here? Perhaps it was also a mechanism that constantly changed its position, causing me to circle around it, thus creating the illusion of infinity.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang invented the Eight Array Diagram, used stones to lay down Qimen Dunjia, and repelled 80,000 strong soldiers, so these stone pillars in front of me will also be something similar to the Eight Array Diagram?
It's not a way to stay here, and it's useless to dream, I immediately looked at a stone pillar, left a mark on it, and then began to walk forward, counting the stone pillars as I walked, if it was really a Qimen Dunjia set up with a stone pillar, then in the end, I would definitely see the mark left before.
In the end, I counted a hundred and one stone pillars, but I still didn't see the one I marked on, and there was no distance between the stone pillars, about ten meters, that is, I walked a thousand meters!
Thinking of this result, I can't help but be shocked, could it be that the boundlessness of this palace is not an illusion, but a real existence? Otherwise, I should have seen the stone pillar where I had left my mark a long time ago.
But can such a huge building really exist under the desert?
Anyone who has studied the landform of the ancient Western Regions knows that there are not many mountains and rivers in the ancient Western Regions, but there are not many real large mountain ranges, after thousands of years of desert weathering, all the mountains and rocks have become sand, due to the frequent underground movement, countless ancient cities have been destroyed, the Peacock River and the Tarim River have changed their course several times, and the desert landform has undergone earth-shaking changes.
In this change, this huge palace is a completely impossible existence.
Then there is only one reason, I am trapped by zongzi again.
I still have a black donkey's hoof on hand, do you want to try the black donkey's hooves again, and pour the boy's blood? There are so many zongzi here, and the fat man's statement is not reliable, he has always liked to blow blindly, I want to burn this black donkey's hooves, in case it is useless, isn't it a waste of a life-saving thing? In a moment of hesitation, I slowly paced forward with a torch, since this place could not be walked, it was useless for me to run, it was better to stop and conserve some strength, who knew that I had not walked a few steps forward, but I saw a figure sitting with his back to me.
I was here alone, and I was feeling scared, when suddenly a person, whoever it was, immediately ran up, and the man sat cross-legged on the ground with his back to me, his head bowed, as if he was napping, and as if he was looking at something.
When I got closer, I felt that something was wrong, I was moving so much, this person should have found out a long time ago, and he still hasn't moved for a while, could it be that this is a dead man? I was startled, and quickly walked around to the front of the man, and found that this was really a corpse, the body had been dried, the loose clothes were loosely covered on the body, and the clothes were stained with corpse oil, which looked slippery and greasy.
The stinky socks and torches in my hands have been almost burned, this thing is just for me to use as fuel, I took a look, I think this rice dumpling is very quiet, so I directly started to pick up his outer clothes, some of the inner layers of clothes have been stuck with the meat, I didn't dare to move, wrapped the outer clothes on the torch, and the flames grew bigger.
Only then did I take a closer look at the corpse, his head was down, and there were some messy things in front of him, such as scattered paper, burnt fire folds, and small items that could be carried around such as pens, but there was no equipment bag or anything like that, and the clothes he was wearing were very similar to the western cowboy in American movies, with a broken hat crooked on his little head.
This man died strangely.
I have seen a few corpses, like this cross-legged quiet, like a monk sitting, it is really rare, I put the paper in front of him, found that there are a lot of crooked lines drawn on it, take a closer look, a bit like a topographic map, the middle of the vertical bar, but a little like the pillars in the palace, my heart moved, my heart said: This is not the layout of the palace?
If you look closely, under the pen of this corpse, the palace is no longer endless, but an inverted L-shaped design, like a scythe of death, and at the corner of the L, there is a mark with a black dot, maybe it marks his current position, maybe it has other meanings, but I can't be happy when I see this, obviously, this man has more information than me, but he is now dead here.
Does that mean I can't get out there?
Since this person can detect the terrain of the palace, there should be a clue to get out, but why did he die here?
Looking at the way he died, it seemed to be like resigned to fate, sitting quietly and waiting for death, I couldn't help but look at other papers, the remaining two topographic maps are much more neat, it seems to be a bird's-eye view of the city, and the prototype of this bird's-eye view map actually resembles a unicorn, in the position of the unicorn's head, there is a five-pointed star marked with a red pen, obviously these pieces of paper are not from the same person's handwriting.
Could this be a map of the city of Jabda? I hurried to the third one, which was sloppy but profound, because it was a bird's-eye view of the temple, the layout of which resembled the Forbidden City of China, symmetrical to each other, from the jaw of the unicorn to the top of the head.
The first half is the main hall, but the back two-thirds of the place is all drawn with dotted lines, just looking at the outline of the first half, I can almost conclude that this picture is the temple above my head, but at that time, I and Li Boss and the three of us, we didn't see the second half of the temple, do these dotted lines mean that the second half of the temple is in a place that cannot be seen by the naked eye?