Chapter 35: The Statue of White Jade
Seeing this empty cave in the mountain, as well as the corpses in that place, I can basically determine that this is the White Tiger Secret Realm, Ma Yiao looked left and right, carefully guarded, and I asked the little monk: "Since you have this ability, why don't you take it out earlier?" ”
I admired the little monk's miraculous methods just now, and I yearned for things like mantras, charms, and divine fights more than the hard way of playing with guns and sticks.
After all, these are things that I don't have, and they are very difficult to understand.
In a sense, this is the ability of a true practitioner, the ultimate meaning of the expression of power.
Of course, this also involves an eternal philosophical question, that is, whether there is a god in this world.
The end of science is theology.
The little monk rubbed his head, and then said, "If I said these things, which I didn't understand before, and suddenly remembered them, will you think that I am not telling the truth and lying?" ”
Ma Yiao said calmly: "Everything in the world, everything is possible. ”
His attitude made the little monk very comfortable, and then explained to us: "I actually said just now, I really touched the scene, as if there was a switch, seeing this scene, my mind automatically appeared all kinds of means taught to me by my master, and before that, I didn't even have any ......memory at all."
Hearing his words, Ma Yiao and I couldn't help but glance at each other, and we both felt a little frightened.
If the little monk hadn't lied, then it would have been interesting.
It is very likely that he was hypnotized by his master, and there is no way to awaken such a method until a certain moment.
It's just that the little monk's master, how did he know that we were going to encounter such a situation?
If you think about it carefully, that old monk is really unfathomable.
I am now beginning to believe in the words of the little monk, the so-called "No. 1 master of Kunlun Mountain" may not be just Xuefeng Temple's closed-door self-congratulation.
It is highly likely that it is true.
The current situation is already a mess, and with the addition of an old monk of the Snow Peak Temple, things are getting more and more complicated, but we don't have time to explore deeply, because we have already walked into this cave and come to the pile of dead corpses.
There were more than a dozen dead bodies lying on the ground.
Judging from the scene, these people should not have been dead for long, the blood on the ground is still flowing, and I can even feel the residual warmth emanating from the corpses.
However, because of our previous experience, we did not approach it for the first time, but looked at the edge, cautiously, guarding against possible crises next to us, so as not to be ambushed again.
But after waiting for a while, I didn't see any movement.
During this time, I have taken a rough look at all these people, and found that a small half of the corpses on the ground were the men in black who had just chased us, and some other guys in sackcloth and animal skins had never been seen before.
As for the members of the expedition team, there was none.
Ma Yiao walked in the front, came to the edge, and picked the hat of one of them with his foot, and I recognized the man at once.
This man's name is Mammoth, and he is a nightkin in Echo Valley, that is, Ronan Village, and he was once captured by me and used to exchange prisoners with the enemy, so I am quite impressed with this guy.
And at this moment, he lay on the ground, with a bloody wound on his chest, as if it was the scratch of some kind of beast, and his expression was extremely painful.
His eyes hadn't closed yet, and I looked at his bulging eyeballs, knowing that he was in a state of extreme horror before he died.
What the hell happened?
Ma Yiao checked the wounds of the others again, pondered for a while, and then said: "These two groups should have been fighting at first, but then they suddenly broke into something, breaking the equilibrium situation at once, these people died here, and the rest of the party hurriedly evacuated......"
As he spoke, the little monk next to him let out a low snort.
I turned my head to see him rubbing the sole of his shoe against a certain spot of sticky slurry on the ground, and black smoke came out of the sole, eroding a small piece of his sole.
Ma Yiao walked over and asked, "Are you okay?" ”
The little monk shook his head and said that it was okay, but everyone be careful, there are very likely fierce and violent demon beasts here.
I raised my eyebrows, what do you say is called a demon beast?
Only then did the little monk remember my identity as a nightkin and hurriedly explained: "I'm not talking about a nightkkin, but ...... How to say it, this kind of thing is also called 'underworld beast', that is, it has been corroded by the evil qi of the earth for many years, but it has not died, this kind of creature has been seriously distorted and mutated whether it is the body or the mind, and has been dominated by the will of the demons, and has become a slave of the evil earth, almost a demon, but it does not have the huge power of the devil, so it is called a demon beast, a demon beast, or a heartless one. ”
Ma Yiao nodded and said I have heard of this, in the past, when my master was in the Northwest Frontier, he encountered a leopard mutation, a demon beast, and it swallowed up the entire village, which was very terrifying.
I was a little horrified, and said that there is one here, too?
The little monk nodded and said that judging from the current situation, there should be.
I looked left and right, and saw that there was nothing in this hall except corpses and a mess of stones, and that there was a passage on the left and right, and I asked, "What shall we do now, and where shall we go?" Left, or right. ”
Ma Yiao pointed to the left and said let's go here.
The little monk was a little puzzled, and said why, there are traces on both sides, it seems that they were very scattered at that time, why should we go to the left?
Ma Yiao smiled and said that it was just a habit, and my master had told me a sentence called the left side of the road is auspicious, and the right side of the road is dangerous.
Belch......
Well, since he said so, we don't think about it anymore and walk forward cautiously.
The passage was neither wide nor narrow, enough for three people to move forward, and it was surrounded by rocks, with traces of excavation, and a corpse lying in the middle, which we walked through only after we were sure that it was dead.
After walking more than 50 meters, the front suddenly opened up, but it was a spacious space, and this cave is very wide, almost the same area as two basketball courts, the height is also two or three zhang, the edge is shorter, the middle is the highest, the edge of the mountain wall, there is actually an oil lamp, the dark yellow flame is not big or small, beating uncertainly, showing that the air in it is circulating.
When we walked in, the first thing we saw when we looked up was a white jade statue almost two feet high.
The stone statue stands in the most important position, with a half-meter-high pedestal below, and the white jade statue is a beautiful woman in palace clothes, with the charm of a young woman and the purity of a girl, with bright eyes and bright teeth, and a towering bun, a bit like the Dunhuang Feitian I saw in a book when I was in school before, but the sculpture technique is more realistic, and it feels like a real person, standing in front of it.
Not only that, but I looked at the white jade statue and found that there was always an indescribable sense of familiarity between my eyebrows.
At this time, the little monk said: "This seems to be Teacher Zhang Jie when he was young." ”
Yes?
The words of the little monk were like a bolt of lightning, tearing the chaos in my mind at once, I looked at it again, and found that the eyebrows, the face, especially the demeanor in the eyes, were exactly the same as Teacher Zhang Jie.
Don't......
Ma Yiao looked at me and said in a deep voice: "I said why Zhang Jie is so familiar with this place, it turns out that this place is her home." ”
I couldn't help but ask, "In that case, why did she become Zhang Jie again?" ”
Ma Yiao shook his head and said that this is difficult to say, whether it is from Buddhism, Taoism, or witchcraft, there are too many ways to transfer consciousness, so no one knows what the situation is now.
As soon as the words fell, the little monk suddenly said, "Here." ”
He pointed in the direction of the white jade statue's finger and said, "I sensed it, they are here." ”
He took the lead and came to the edge of the mountain wall, where there was a hidden mountain crevice, very narrow, which could only allow one person to walk sideways, and walked a dozen steps, turned ahead, but found that he came to a hot space, the red light was shining, it was actually a pool of molten lava, and above the pool, there was a circular stone ball with a diameter of seven or eight meters suspended.
On both sides of the sphere are suspension bridges, connecting the mountain wall, and on top of it, there is actually a group of people.
I met Captain Peng, Tang Dao, and the others who had been separated from us.
"Team Peng!"
This place is tumbling with a scorching breath, which must be the secret of the White Tiger Secret Realm's warm spring, and there is no one else except us, so Ma Yiao shouted directly.
We were only about ten meters apart, but the people who were squatting or lying on the stone ball seemed to be far away, and they couldn't hear it at all.
The little monk was a little anxious, walked on the wooden suspension bridge, and was about to go over to pick up people, and at this time Tang Dao turned his head and looked at us, and then waved his hand while shouting anxiously and loudly: "Don't come, don't come over......"
He seemed to be roaring with all his might, and all I could hear was the buzzing of mosquitoes.
Obviously, there was some kind of soundproofing between us.
However, at this time, the little monk's feet had already stepped on the wooden plank of the suspension bridge connecting the stone ball, and before he could continue to move forward, the stone ball that was originally in balance suddenly shook, and the people on it shouted one after another, and Captain Peng, who was originally half-squatting, also subconsciously fell to the ground.
The stone ball drooped down, almost drowning in the tumbling magma.
And at the moment when it was about to touch the bottom, the suspension bridges on both sides jumped again, and a group of people also bounced up with the stone ball, and let out a burst of exclamations: "Ah......"
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