Chapter 94: Hundreds of Years of Smoke and Fog
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I consciously slowed down, trying to walk around to see if there was one of those snake holes thick as iron pipes.
San'er and the old prostitute walked in front and didn't notice me slowing down, only the scar behind me realized and asked me softly what was wrong
I didn't explain much to him, because I wasn't sure if it was what I thought, so I just reminded him that if you see a snake, don't look at it.
As I was talking to Scar, I glanced at the old prostitute walking in front of me, and it seemed that he hadn't looked at the stone here. He walked in front and discussed something with San'er, but he couldn't hear what he was saying.
Although they were not far from me, they spoke in a very low voice, as if they deliberately did not want me to hear them.
I don't care about these details at the moment, because I know the old prostitute very well, and if there is anything that needs to be carried on my back, then I'm afraid it's for my good, probably because I don't want to put too much pressure on me.
Thinking about looking at the snake cave, my eyes began to look around the stone wall, and did not look ahead. After walking only a dozen steps away, there was a crispy sound in front of me, like the old prostitutes had stepped on something.
When I looked up, there was a thick layer of snakeskin on the floor of the passage in front of me, and the snakeskin was a bit staggering. The flashlight shines past, as far as the eye can see, and the passage dozens of meters away is full of this snakeskin.
I took a cursory look at it, so many snake skins, to say the least, there must be tens of thousands, and I saw that my scalp was tight. Although not a living snake, the snake skin is also a torture for me.
Maybe seeing the flashlight shining forward from me, the old prostitute and San'er glanced back at me and Scar.
The old prostitute knew that I was afraid of snakes, so she deliberately turned around and said, "Don't worry, this is not the skin of a snake, these are the corpses of snakes, I don't know how many years they have been dead, they have been weathered and dried up." After saying that, the old prostitute also kicked the snake skin on the ground with her foot, then bent down to pick one up, took it in her hand, and pinched it hard with a few fingers of her other hand, and the snake skin was immediately crushed, revealing very thin snake bones.
Although I was standing a little farther away, I could still see clearly that it was a snow-white snake bone.
San'er also chimed in: "Don't worry, there are no snakes here." ”
There is no snake, but we saw one in the spirit hall just now, and the snake caused the female corpse in the coffin to rise, why San'er now says that there is no snake here, how can he be so sure I drew a big question mark in my heart.
Seeing that I was a little hesitant, San'er said again: "I'll tell you how the snake here died, but we have to hurry up and talk as we go." After saying that, San'er beckoned to me and motioned for me to walk over.
The feeling of stepping on the snakeskin was really disgusting, and the crunchy sound in particular made me uncomfortable. I didn't even want to look at the road anymore, I just wanted to close my eyes and run quickly through this passage. I don't know how far I have to go to be free of snakeskin, which is a torment for me.
"Haven't you ever been to Temple Mountain in the Golden Triangle?" San'er asked as he looked at me.
"Of course I did. I nodded, and then said, "However, in fact, we didn't go to Temple Mountain, but only to King Snake Mountain. ”
"Do you really think there is any temple mountain there?"
I was stunned by San'er's words, and thought to myself, is there no temple mountain there, and what place is the little wolf taking us to
San'er saw my face full of puzzlement, so he explained: "Miaoshan is just a random name, but this name has been called for too long, and it has been called for hundreds of years, and it has become a real name." ”
"You mean Temple Hill doesn't exist at all"
San'er shook his head and said, "It can't be said that Temple Mountain exists, but for everyone, the meaning and location of existence are different. For you, Temple Mountain is just a big mountain in the depths of King Snake Mountain, but for me, King Snake Mountain is Temple Mountain. ”
"I'm still a little confused about what I mean. ”
"That's right, this question has plagued me for I don't know how many generations, except for the people who threw out the name in the early days, few people know the true meaning of the name. San'er smiled and said, "This seems to be a very simple trick, but it has become a very safe barrier. ”
"I kind of understand that Temple Mountain is nothing more than a smoke and fog bomb, which was thrown to protect the secrets under King Snake Mountain. San'er nodded, and I continued: "But this smoke and fog bomb has been put off for hundreds of years, and has even been instilled in the local aborigines, and after many generations of word of mouth, the name Temple Mountain has changed from smoke and fog bombs to a real landmark. ”
"Yes, that's it. ”
Hearing San'er's confirmation, everything suddenly became clear, it was really like this, then the person who threw this smoke and fog bomb was a member of the Murong family. I really want to say that this person is so awesome, maybe this person himself didn't expect that a very ordinary trick can be used for hundreds of years, and it is still used by the locals as a real name.
No, maybe I'm oversimplifying, this smoke bomb looks simple, but it must not be easy to implement. Along with the name Temple Mountain, there must be some kind of fabricated story or legend, and this story must be very exciting, or it must have the charm to attract the attention of the public, otherwise such an ordinary name as Temple Mountain will not be circulated for so long.
However, there is one thing that I still don't know, that is, to whom this smoke and fog bomb was thrown, to the Murong family who opposed the test, or to outsiders
Of course, I don't need to know this at this moment, after all, this is a matter of the Murong family, and it was a matter of hundreds of years ago, maybe the person who threw this smoke and fog bomb to guard against is long gone, so this smoke and fog bomb is no longer important, otherwise San'er would not be able to tell me this.
Before we knew it, we had walked out of the passage with snakeskin, and there was no snakeskin under our feet, and there was no crispy sound.
San'er looked at me and smiled, and I realized that he was telling me this to distract me, and it seemed that I was afraid of snakes. I don't know if the old prostitute told him, or if my performance was exposed just now, anyway, he must know that I'm afraid of snakes at this moment.
It's not a good thing to let others know about your weaknesses.
"You haven't told me yet, how did the snake die here," I asked San'er as I walked.
"I don't know exactly how these snakes died, but I do know when they started dying. San'er explained: "More than 40 years ago, the snakes here began to have a death crisis. At that time, there were a lot of snakes here, dozens of times more than the snake skin you see, but I don't know what the reason is, there are many snakes that began to die gradually, and the number of deaths is increasing day by day, just a few years, the snakes here are all dead. ”
Hearing San'er say that he didn't know how the snake died, I had a feeling of being fooled. Even though I knew that San'er was kind and just wanted to use this topic to attract me through that snakeskin passage, I still scolded him in my heart: "***, lie to me." ”
"You said there were a lot of snakes here at that time, dozens of times more than we see now, where are all those snakes?" I asked, puzzled.
"Those snakes are dead, they have long been cleaned up. None of the snakeskins you just saw were from that time. Speaking of this, San'er paused, as if thinking about how to describe it, as if it was difficult to say, and after a few seconds, he continued: "The snakes you saw just now originally belonged here, but then they were moved to another place, and then multiplied in another place for many generations, and were brought back here. ”
Although San'er said a bit of a mouthful, I understood it at once, and I guessed one or two of them.
If these snakes were brought back here from outside, then there is only one possibility, and they were brought from Temple Mountain. Because there are the same snakes there, and there are also instruments for the snakes, iron pipes.
"These snakes must have been caught by the little wolf from Temple Mountain when he was young," I asked curiously.
San'er shook his head, pointed upwards with his hand, and said, "No, the snake he caught is on it." ”
I couldn't help but follow his finger and glance upward, although it was a black stone, I immediately thought of everything that the old prostitute had told me. The old prostitute said that he and Xiaoyu encountered snakes. There should be another layer above the mountain, and in terms of height, it is indeed above us, but I don't know where it is.
"The snake here wasn't caught by the little wolf from Temple Mountain, where did it come from, could it be that your Murong family has other test sites?"
After asking this question, I thought it was a stupid question. Even if the Murong family had other experimental sites, how could San'er tell me easily.
"I caught it from Temple Mountain, but I caught it. ”
San'er's answer surprised me. I thought he wouldn't answer the question, but I didn't expect him to answer and also say that he caught these snakes from Temple Mountain.
San'er saw that I was skeptical, so he said, "That was all when I was a child, and the snakes here were already dead at that time. At first, many people thought that these snakes died of some kind of infectious disease, so they sent people to clean up the place, and disinfected the place many times, until they thought that there would be no virus to survive, and then began to transport snakes from Temple Mountain to here. When the snake was transported here, it was quite adaptable, and there was no collective death. Seeing that the snake could survive here proved that the method of transporting snakes was feasible, so a large number of snakes were transported. But the good times didn't last long, and in less than a year, the snakes began to die en masse, and soon all the snakes transported here died. ”
"It's all dead, so didn't you go to someone who knew snakes to check the cause of the snake's death?" I asked.
"Of course I checked, but no one could say why. San'er paused, and then said, "You know how powerful this snake is, and you also know the importance of its existence. This kind of snake can't be put on the table, otherwise it will be very troublesome, so the people who were looking for it back then were all people who couldn't get on the table, and those people could find out what the reason was. ”
If I hadn't seen it in Temple Mountain, I really didn't know that there was such a powerful snake in the world.
Of course, the value of this snake is not only that it is rare, but that it can cause people to hallucinate, which is more valuable for some scientific research organizations or some secret organizations. Once this kind of snake is exposed, it will inevitably attract the attention of a large number of people, which is not a good thing for the Murong family, in that case, the secret of this place and Temple Mountain may not be kept.
Despite the considerable secrecy that has been done on Temple Hill and here, there is a saying that cannot be underestimated, there are no impermeable walls in the world. Of course, for these valuable snakes, there is a saying that cannot be underestimated, that is: if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves. So I think that even though so many snakes died at that time, the Murong family could only be in a hurry, rather than looking for the cause of the snake's death with great fanfare.
However, I think the Murong family should be very lucky, glad that they still have so many snakes in Temple Mountain. Of course, the snakes there should have been brought from here hundreds of years ago, and now the peaks and loops have turned, and the snakes here are dead, and it has become the best habitat for this kind of snake.
"No, there should be a living snake here, don't we see one in the spirit hall? I said.
"That snake doesn't belong here, it didn't enter through this passage. San'er replied affirmatively.
I don't know where San'er's confidence came from, so sure that he knew every snake here.
"My day, have you ever thought that the snakes here are all dead, so why don't the snakes on it die?"
Although the old prostitute suddenly interjected such a mouth, his question was very reasonable, why the snake above did not die, and the snake here died, there must be something strange in this.
"It doesn't matter what the reason for his death, the important thing is whether Xiao Qi can come out alive. San'er changed the smiling face just now and became strict.
I know what this guy is thinking, but his words make me feel very uncomfortable. Why do you have to say whether I can come out alive, I feel that this sentence is too targeted, as if to say that I must not be able to get out, making it look like I am inferior, very weak and can't help it.
I didn't speak, and I didn't ask San'er anything, although I also wanted to know how the snake here died, but I thought that San'er might not be able to answer this question for the rest of his life.
After walking along the passage for some distance, the flashlight in front of the old prostitute shone into a passageway.
After seeing the passage on the stone wall, my wife and I were so excited that we wanted to rush in immediately. But we still resisted the impulse in our hearts, and did not take a step into the passage.
This passage is completely different from what I imagined in my heart, I thought it would be the same as the passage we walked through, even if it was different, it should be a deadly passage like San'er said. But when I saw it with my own eyes, I realized that it was very different and looked weird.
The passage is not built on a natural stone wall, but is made of pure stone, and even the floor is paved with stones, and each stone is of a different size, looking very irregular, as if it was put together at random. And the colors of the stones are also different, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, almost all colors, but there is no black or white.
The most bizarre thing is that the size of each stone is different, and the colors are not sorted, but it doesn't look dazzling, and it gives people a feeling that it is very gentle, and there is a ** that wants to walk in and feel it.
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