Chapter 3: The Dracaena Tree
Listening to the accents, you can know that several people are from Jiangzhou.
Even if it is not local, it has settled in Jiangzhou for a long time.
Aside from this common denominator, there are no other valuable clues.
"Hmph, pretending to be a ghost!"
The tattooed man took out a cold steel curved dagger from his arms, and walked towards a dark corner with a gloomy look in his eyes.
About two minutes later, he came back from a stone pillar in the opposite direction.
"It's funny, this hellish place is still a labyrinth. ”
At this time, Lin Zifeng also regained his composure.
He took out a Bulgari scarf from his bosom, calmly wiped his glasses, and began to carefully examine everything in front of him.
While a few people were talking, the last unconscious man awoke.
It was a middle-aged man in his thirties and forties, wearing a pair of old Peking cloth shoes on his feet, and his hair was very long, and he had not cut it for at least three years.
There was no flesh on his pale face, no expression at all, like an infected walking corpse.
After a long time, he raised his head, and his empty eyes were gradually filled with an unknown fear.
"There is nowhere for righteousness, righteousness returns to itself, not subject to evil, evil spirit goes away, the so-called inaction, the Tao naturally helps. ”
He looked like he was crazy, and began to chant words in his mouth: "If you are not good at the shrine, the ghosts and gods avoid it, you don't work with the gods, you are ordered indefinitely, you have no advance or retreat, who is ...... with it"
This passage is from the Taoist classic "Lao Jun Xisheng Sutra", looking at the appearance of the other party, it seems that he is a cultivator.
"Shut up!"
The tattooed man was a little impatient when he heard this, ran up and slapped him heavily on the long-haired man's face.
The long-haired man's tooth was knocked out, and a stream of red blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
After being taught a lesson, the long-haired man's face turned red, and he obediently closed his mouth, but there was a deep resentment in his eyes.
It seems that he was frightened by the tattooed man, and no one dared to make a sound again.
"Okay, now that everyone is awake, let's discuss what kind of place this is. ”
After observing for a while, Lin Zifeng walked to the center and took the lead in breaking the silence.
The other party has the temperament of a superior person, to put it bluntly, like the leader of a large company.
"Self-priced, the contemptible surname is Lin, it is the ...... of Jiangzhou Tianxin Group"
"You're old, how can you talk here!"
Lin Zifeng's words were not finished, but he was immediately interrupted by the tattooed man.
The other party seemed to be particularly unaccustomed to Lin Zifeng's pretentious appearance, and a trace of contempt flashed in his eyes.
"You ......"
Lin Zifeng's cultivation is good, but despite this, he was still very angry, and his delicate face instantly turned the color of pig liver.
The other party has a strong physique, and just now a slap almost stunned the long-haired man, Lin Zifeng is not so self-conscious.
His eyelids jumped, and he sneered: "A stove of cigarettes is going up, and the three old and four young people are sitting in the hall, dare to ask this brother's surname?"
This sentence is a black language of the Green Gang, as long as you are a person in the underworld, you can basically understand it.
Surprisingly, the tattooed man ignored him, turned on his phone flashlight, turned around and walked forward.
Everyone figured out one thing, only by following the road under their feet can they continue to move forward.
Otherwise, no matter which direction you go, you will get lost in this black space.
Instead of wasting your tongue here, let's go ahead and find out.
The group had walked about a few hundred paces when a bright light suddenly appeared in front of them.
The sudden light startled Chu Ming.
Because it doesn't make logical sense, if there was light here, they wouldn't have been able to see it.
However, at this time, Chu Ming would not care about such details.
Everything that happened tonight was beyond his cognition.
His worldview, from the moment he fell unconscious, had collapsed.
The light banished the darkness, revealing a large stone chamber before everyone's eyes.
In the center of the stone chamber, a tall and straight ancient tree pierced straight into the sky.
Its branches and foliage are upturned, densely forming an inverted umbrella-shaped canopy, like the crown of ancient Cleopatra.
Lin Zifeng raised his head, smacked his lips and said, "It's such a big tree, it's twenty or thirty meters away from this trunk." ”
The stone chamber is about fifty or sixty square meters, of which this tree occupies two-thirds of the space.
On the walls on the left and right, there is a copper lamp with a peculiar shape, and the wick is made of hemp straw, which looks quite ancient.
Yi Han saw that everyone had arrived, and explained: "Just now I stepped on the mechanism, and the two copper lamps were automatically ignited. ”
Everyone was surprised, only the tattooed man glanced at Yi Han with deep meaning.
Just after the passage, he walked first.
It was just time for a cup of tea, and Yi Han actually took the first step to find this stone room.
This kind of skill is definitely not an ordinary person.
"Borrow your nail clippers and use them. ”
Chu Ming didn't dare to borrow a knife from a tattooed man, so he could only borrow a nail clipper from Zhao Mengya.
Zhao Mengya glanced at Chu Ming, feeling a little familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen it.
A bear hangs from the nail clippers, holding it in the hand and giving off a fresh scent.
This is the latest fragrance of the year from Miumiu, a girl's favorite.
The nail clippers were not particularly easy to use, and Chu Ming took a lot of effort to draw a mark on the ancient tree's body.
The bark of the tree was torn open, and a crimson plasma-like mucus flowed out.
Chu Ming said to everyone: "This is a dragon's blood tree, which usually grows in arid semi-desert areas, and is a plant unique to the island of Socotra in Yemen. ”
"Since it's a foreign thing, how can it appear in our Jiangzhou?" Lin Zifeng's eyes narrowed and questioned.
It's not that Lin Zifeng doesn't believe Chu Ming's words, but it's that this ancient tree appears here, which is really a bit strange.
"I remember that the dragon's blood tree is only ten meters tall, and the height of this tree far exceeds this number, which is indeed very strange. ”
Chu Ming was unsure in his heart, so he borrowed a nail clipper from Zhao Mengya just now, and judged it by the sap flowing from the stem.
The tree grows very slowly, taking hundreds of years to grow into a single tree, and only blooms once in a few decades.
The age of the tree can be as long as 10,000 years, and it is known as the "living fossil of plants", and there are only more than 100 of them in the world, which is very rare.
"Will we not be in Jiangzhou?"
Zhao Mengya stood behind Chu Ming and muttered in a low voice, her voice almost inaudible.
"Impossible, it's ten forty now, which means that we have been in a coma for ten minutes at most, and we can't get out of Jiangzhou at all at this time. ”
Yi Han shook his head, although the mobile phone had no signal, the clock function of the mobile phone was not out of order.
When everyone came here, it was only a few dozen minutes, and even if they took a helicopter, they couldn't go that far.
"By the way, will tonight's incident have something to do with the Nine Stars?"
Chu Ming didn't believe in these things originally, but now there are some things that he can't help but believe.
Several people present, even if they didn't care about this matter, had all seen the relevant news.
After hearing this, everyone's eyes instantly became strange.
"Haha, nine stars are aligned, there must be a vision......"
At this time, the long-haired man climbed onto the ancient tree at some point, and his hair was scattered, as if he was crazy.
As he climbed up, he kept repeating the words in his mouth.
His movements were quick, not at all like a man in his thirties and forties, as if there was something at the top of the tree that attracted him!
"Look for death!"
The tattooed man scolded angrily and wanted to step forward to catch up, but at this moment, his feet suddenly trembled, and the ground was split in half!
Then a bottomless crack began to lengthen like a spider's web.
The ground was separated, and Chu Ming and Zhao Mengya stood in the center of the stone room, too frightened to move.
With a violent sound, a strange stone tablet that was two people tall slowly rose from the depths of the ground.
The whole stele is carved and hewn from a complete boulder, which is dignified and thick, and is integrated.
The stele has three sides, the front side faces east, and it is turquoise blue.
The left side faces southwest and is dark yellow.
The right side faces northwest and is crimson in color.
Three-sided, three-colored, extremely eccentric.
"Haha, it's going to change!"
The long-haired man sat on the tree, clapping his palms vigorously, and his laughter was extremely terrifying.
As soon as the words fell, there were gusts of wind in all directions, which sounded like ghosts crying wolf.
The flames on the stone wall jumped up, Zhao Mengya's face was as white as paper, and in fear, she grabbed Chu Ming's arm.