Chapter 26: The Iron Cage
The more I looked, the weirder it became. The two Taoists floated up to the little girl's corpse, picked them up expressionlessly, and floated towards the outside of the stone forest without stopping.
I patted the fortune teller on the back to unravel his seal. The man jumped up with an "ah", but as soon as the key was unlocked, his body was sore, and he fell down with a thud.
"Don't scream!" I grabbed him by the neck, and with it, I swept down from the cave and chased in the direction where the two Taoists had left. The fortune teller shut up and said nothing.
After walking for a while, I saw the backs of the two people, one holding a little girl, floating without hurry. I slowed down and quietly stayed behind the two of them.
After walking for a while, he suddenly paused his body and hid in the rocks next to him. The fortune teller's mouth was about to speak, but I glared at him and swallowed it back immediately. After a while, I saw several more figures flashing out, also wearing black robes, with a bare head and bald eyebrows.
In their arms, they were also holding a girl, whose body was limp, and her head, hands and feet hung down, obviously dead. The fortune teller grabbed my arm and pinched my flesh a little painfully. Turning his head to look at him, he saw that this man was gritting his teeth and was very excited.
After hiding for a while, I saw these black-robed Taoists, all of them with snow-white faces, without the slightest emotional fluctuations, stiff bodies, walking extremely strangely, fluttering, each holding a young girl in their hands, a little far away, for a while I couldn't tell whether they were dead or alive.
I felt a chill in my heart, but I pressed the waves in my heart and watched in secret. Waiting for the backs of those black-robed Taoists to disappear, he waited for a while, and saw that there was no movement outside, so he picked up the fortune teller and swept forward. After chasing for a while, I saw that the group of Taoists in front of me were floating along the rift valley.
The Great Rift Valley is a long and narrow shape, and the further west you go, the narrower it becomes. Seeing that he was about to reach the end of the rift, he saw that the group of Daoists suddenly disappeared in front of him.
I didn't catch up immediately, but took the fortune teller and hid for a while, listening carefully. I saw the fortune teller's mouth turning, there were words in his mouth, his fingers quickly calculated, and he whispered: "Mixed blessings and misfortunes." ”
I didn't care if he was mixed or not, I calculated silently for a moment in my heart, and then swept forward with him. As far as the eye could see, we saw that we had reached the end of the Great Rift Valley, which was rocky and covered with a sparse layer of russet vegetation. After a closer look, I found an extremely hidden crevice in the mountain stream.
I listened for a moment outside, put the fortune teller down, and squeezed in first, and the fortune teller's eyes rolled, and he kept his mouth shut, and followed closely. The gap in the mountain was so narrow that it allowed a person to barely get in and out, and after walking about half a mile, it gradually became wider.
As I walked, I secretly paid attention to the terrain around me, but there was silence on the way, and I didn't meet the black-robed Taoist I had seen before. After walking for a while, I saw that the front suddenly opened up, and a huge space appeared. There are obvious traces of axe chisels on the mountain wall, which are obviously artificially excavated the day after tomorrow.
I pressed my head on the shoulder of the fortune teller, and hid in a pile of rubble beside me, and after a while, I saw two black shadows floating silently out of front of me, heading towards the southeast side. I glanced at it secretly, and saw that it was two black-robed Taoists, also with bare heads and bald eyebrows, and their walking posture was very different from ordinary people, which was extremely strange. If you look closely, you can see that the two of them are walking on tiptoe, so they are silent, and they look as if they are floating.
Seeing that the two of them were far away, I picked up the fortune teller and swept into the depths of the cave. After walking for a while, the more I felt that the space in this cave was extremely vast, and from time to time we could encounter a few black-robed Daoists floating out like ghosts, which were quietly avoided by us. Deeper down, a huge iron cage appeared in front of me. The iron cage was more than ten meters high, reaching to the top of the cave.
A few black-robed Taoists stood next to the cage and threw the little girls they were holding into it. I looked at it carefully for a while, and did not go out immediately, but felt that my arm was tightened, and I was caught by the fortune teller, and then he sketched his fingers and wrote a few words on my hand, asking me what I saw.
I saw him staring straight ahead with his eyes wide open, presumably unable to see in the darkness. As soon as he thought about it, he wrote two words in his palm: "cage". I felt that the man's body trembled slightly.
I looked at him for a long time. This place is strange and strange, and it happens to be hidden in Wuling Mountain, and the eight achievements are related to the origin of Shui Sheng. It's just that who is this fortune teller, who led me around to this place, is it a coincidence or a calculation?
After a few more moments, I saw those black-robed Taoists floating away. I immediately swept up with the fortune teller, and when I got closer, I saw that the large iron cage was made of iron, and its whole body was dark, and each fence was the thickness of an arm's arm. There were a few little girls lying in the cage, lying there on their backs, their chests slightly undulating, but they were still breathing.
After counting carefully, I found that there were only six people in this cage, and I didn't see the two little girls who suddenly died in the screaming and running before. The fortune teller stretched out his hands and touched them in the dark, and when he touched the iron fence, he immediately grabbed them tightly, his eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth.
I saw that although the little girl's breath was weak, but her breathing was even, and she should not worry about her life for a while, I immediately patted the fortune teller behind the back and took him away. The fortune teller was very obedient, silent, and let me do it.
After sneaking along the passage on the right side for a while, I saw three black-robed Taoists appear in front of me, floating towards the front unhurriedly in that strange posture. Looking at their appearance, it seems that no one has one in their hands.
I quietly embellished it. After following for a while, I saw the three of them turn a corner and enter a stone cave next to them. There was a faint glow at the entrance of the cave.
I hid myself and listened for a while, when I heard something strange from inside, as if it was the sound of water gurgling and tumbling, and a hazy vapor wafting out of the hole. Turning his head to look at the fortune teller, he saw that his eyes were rolling around, and he glanced at him.
The man immediately nodded and made a silent gesture, presumably understanding what I meant. I immediately staggered my steps and quietly hid myself in the cave, and I saw a ray of fire swaying in the cave, and there were several people standing in shadows. When I looked closely, I saw that the light of the fire came from a huge iron stove, and a flame was burning on it.
There was a large cauldron on the iron stove, and the water was already boiling, churning, and steaming. Next to the stove was a pool of water several meters in circumference, and three black-robed people stood aside, two of them carrying a little girl, whose clothes had been stripped clean, and was sinking into the pool. The other took a brush and scrubbed it heavily on the thin body of the little girl, washing away the blood from her body.
I can see it. The little girl was about twelve or thirteen years old, petite and thin, and she was one of the people we had met in the stone forest before, and she had been out of breath for some time, and her eyes were now closed, and her lips were already a little dark.
After a moment of scrubbing, the three men took the little girl out of the pool and lifted it high, and saw that the posture was about to be thrown into the boiling cauldron beside her. I was so creepy that I didn't know how to be careful, and my figure flashed and swept up. The three Daoists obviously sensed something, and the three snow-white faces turned around suddenly, their eyes were empty, without a trace of expression, and they were especially gloomy in the firelight.
I didn't stop, my body swayed, and I pointed out, I had already restrained all three of them. Seeing that the three of them described strangely, they were a little uneasy, and in addition to sealing their secrets, they also sealed a corpse secret. Just by taking a closer look, I found that although these three people were weird, they were not Yin corpses, but real living people.
At this time, I only heard the sound of footsteps behind me. When I looked back, I saw that it was the fortune teller, who heard movement outside, and couldn't help but run in. When he saw this scene, he was stunned for a moment, and then his pupils shrank, and his face jumped into a blush.
I turned around, took the little girl's body out of the man's hand, carried it to the ground, took her clothes, and put them on again. I only heard the fortune teller's breathing heavily, and his teeth rattled.