All Chapters_Chapter 49: The Inner Sanctum
Mandrill!
This blue-faced, fanged, burly monkey turned out to be a mandrill!
I heard the words of these two monkey waiters, my heart was suddenly shocked, about the mandrill this kind of thing, I have also heard of it, it is said that this kind of thing is called the mountain ghost in some places, they like to eat people the most, day and night, often rob the farmhouse, eat children, in the folklore of Bashu and other places, there are often records of setting off firecrackers in the Spring Festival to expel the mandrill.
I glanced at the mandrill next to me, and sure enough, I found that he was similar to the mandrill recorded in the book, but it was more robust, after all, monkeys that are more than one person tall are still very rare.
"Well, who's here now?" The mandrill nodded to the two attendants, and he asked the attendants who were following him as he carried me inside.
A dark-haired monkey attendant looked at me cautiously, and then said to the mandrill: "The Minjiang Water Girl, the Corpse King, the Wandering Ghost, and the General Soldier Zhang of the General Ridge are all here, but the King seems to have had a bit of an unpleasant relationship with the General Soldier just now. ”
Shan Xiao listened to the waiter's words, grinned, and said disdainfully: "Hmph, General Zhang is just a group of remnants of the defeated army." By the way, the frog in Qinglong Pond didn't come? ”
The monkey waiter's face changed, and he glanced at the mandrill cautiously before saying, "No, it is said that the little monkey who went to deliver the message was eaten by it in one bite."
I felt the mandrill grasp my hand tighten, and he sneered and said, "Shameless face, sooner or later, I will peel that head." ”
The monkey waiter was submissive and cowardly.
The mandrill seemed to be a little impatient, he waved his hand at the waiter, and said, "All right, you go down, and I will go to the king myself." ”
The monkey waiter suddenly nodded at the mandrill, as if relieved, and retreated with a relaxed face.
The mandrill ignored me, and he carried me to the inside of the main hall.
I took the time to look around and saw that it was an extremely large hall, and there were hundreds of tables in it, some of which looked like tables in costume TV dramas, with several monkeys sitting opposite each other on either side of the table, either toasting each other with wine glasses, or tearing meat from the table and putting it in their mouths to chew.
I estimated that there were thousands of monkeys sitting in this hall alone, most of them were the most common Tibetan macaques, and there were also other such as big green monkeys, short-tailed monkeys, etc., they were completely different from the human society outside the mountain, and the same kind of people who begged for food on Qingcheng Mountain were completely two worlds.
It's a monkey kingdom, I never thought I'd one day stumble into a country made up entirely of monkeys, it's unimaginable, it's almost like a myth.
The mandrill strode inside, and where he passed, all the monkeys stood up tremblingly, bowed their hands to it, and bowed to it.
I muttered in my heart: "It seems that this mandrill has a very high status here, and so many monkeys seem to be quite afraid of him, worthy of the mountain ghost in folklore." ”
The mandrill led me through an inner door and into the inner sanctum of this temple, which was completely polarized from the inside and the outside of the inner door.
The inner sanctum was a small temple, but it was decorated with gold and splendor, and the ceiling of the main hall was inlaid with precious stones and agate of various colors, and all around it was carved out of pure gold.
This is probably the most extravagant scene I've ever seen in my life, and if the palace hall in the TV series is compared with the palace decoration in front of me, it can only be described by two words: shabby.
I saw several tables on each side of the main hall, and behind them sat monkeys in fine costumes, or other kinds of spirits, and in front of them were tables of the most exquisite food and rare fruits that shimmered with an alluring sheen, and looked much more upscale than the hundreds of tables in the outer hall.
As soon as they saw the mandrill carrying me in, they immediately put down the wine glass and food in their hands, and looked at me with a look of surprise, as if it was a very strange thing for me to appear here, and I was a little uncomfortable by them, and their eyes, as if they were watching rare animals, made me red-faced.
I glanced at the food on their table, and couldn't help but swallow my saliva, although I am still a prisoner of this monkey country at the moment, but the physiological reaction when I am hungry is uncontrollable, my stomach is already grumbling with hunger, looking at these tempting foods in front of me, the desire in my heart is simply tormenting and I want to go crazy.
The mandrill grabbed me and strode forward, and after a few steps, he threw me to the ground, and the moment I was thrown to the ground, I felt that all the bones in my body were broken, and the pain in my heart kept coming from all over my body.
"King, I caught a human cub and gave it to the king as blood food, hehe, I don't know how this little cub ran in through the ecstasy fog outside."
The mandrill arched his hand to the king, who was sitting in the middle of the main hall, and said in a rough voice, saying that I was like an animal slaughtered at will, and my heart was angry.
Holding back the pain in my body, I looked up and looked around, except for some monkeys who were also dressed in fine clothes or armor, I noticed four figures, sitting behind the high tables on either side, next to the king in the middle, looking very respectful.
To my right, behind two long tables, sat a pale, expressionless middle-aged man and a woman with a wet body and long hair falling down.
The middle-aged man's face was as white as frost and snow, a little whiter than the face of an ordinary woman, his long sword eyebrows and starry eyes, his handsome face, coupled with the white and translucent skin, if he went to the outside world, he didn't know how many girls would become the dream lover of many girls. However, there was a gray mist wafting around his body, and I used the qi observation method given to me by my master to look at it from a distance, and found that this person's body was filled with a strong corpse qi, which was a kind of aura unique to corpses, with a smell of decay.
And sitting behind the desk next to the middle-aged man was a drenched woman, who seemed to have endless droplets of water on her body, and her long hair that was scattered kept falling to the ground. The hair on her forehead fell down, covering half of her cheeks, and it looked hazy from a distance, I couldn't see her face clearly, but I vaguely felt that this should be a woman with a good face.
To my left, there were two same tables, but the food on the table was different from the others, and the food and wine glasses were bubbling with black gas, which looked a little eerie, as if they were specially prepared for ghostly things, and people were to stay away.
Sitting on the first table is a translucent ghost, this is the image of an old man, he looks kind and kind, gray hair, a white beard on the chin, and a shallow smile on the old face, this appearance should make people feel good at a glance, but the strange thing is that the old man's body is translucent, and there is a ghost on his side, which looks a little scary, this is not a living person, but a wandering ghost.
Sitting behind the table next to the old man was a man in armor, his whole body was wrapped in metal armor, and even he was wearing a helmet on his head, which seemed to be full of a soldier's unique killing atmosphere, but his body was also surrounded by a thick mist, and his face could not be seen clearly, this should be Zhang Zongbing, the chief general of the Yin soldier who saved me outside the palace gate.
The moment I saw the chief general of the Yin Soldier, my heart suddenly swelled with excitement, I always felt that he should save me, after all, the reaction he made outside the palace gate, it didn't seem to mean to harm me, and with his attitude of letting his subordinates kill the Tibetan macaques at that time, I think his status here should also be very high, at least he will not be afraid of the king of the monkey country, as long as he is willing to save me, maybe my life will be saved today.
I got up from the ground and walked in the direction of the Yin Soldier Commander, but the result was that the mandrill saw that I dared to be presumptuous in this hall or the like, his face changed, and the tail behind his back was directly pumped on my thigh, and I immediately fell to the ground and fell to eat. The surrounding mountain spirits and wild monsters instantly burst into laughter and pointed at me.
I blushed and looked up at where the Yin Soldier was sitting, he was still shrouded in a dark mist, and I couldn't see any of his expressions. He lifted a steaming glass of wine from the table and slowly passed it to his mouth, looking calm and leisurely, as if he didn't care at all about what was happening in front of him.
Just when I was desperate in my heart, a majestic voice came from the high platform in the middle of the main hall: "Living? ”
When I heard this, I raised my head and looked at the high platform, and I was instantly stunned......