I smelled the stench behind me, and I took a flashlight to look back, and in a flash, I saw countless dead limbs pouring out of the door, all of which were connected by iron chains, and were wriggling out of it one by one.

"Squeak, squeak", the grinding sound made by the chains stirring together, the scalp of the listener was numb. These gray dead bodies were mixed with countless hair-like things, and the dried heads were covered with dirt and meat maggots.

I was secretly surprised, first I thought that a dead person was a corpse, but there was no light in my hand, so it could be seen that this thing was not a zombie, but it was difficult to judge what it was.

When I looked back again, I found that all the dead bodies had their feet cut off, and the lower half of their bodies had been wrapped in hair, which could be described as half-human and half-demon, full of branches and branches, some long and some short like tentacles, and each root had hard hair barbs. Not only that, but dozens of rotting and withered corpses were bound by iron chains, one end of which was connected to a huge copper tripod.

"Nine Dragons Ding?!" I suddenly remembered that Wu Honghong had told me that immortality could only be achieved in the Nine Dragons Ding.

"Is there kerosene!"

"Kerosene?"

"yes, hurry up and throw a bottle and light it to stop it......"

Kerosene is in Zhao Zhen's backpack, but Zhao Zhen is too young, where has he ever seen this kind of scene, the soles of his feet seem to be filled with lead, although he is anxious, he can't take a step under his feet.

However, the rotting corpses behind him were getting closer and closer, and the sound of dead tree bark rubbing against the cement of the wall was in the back of his head, and the fishy smell was almost choking people to faint.

"It's too late, go this way!" I saw that Zhao Zhen couldn't take out the kerosene for a while, so I panicked, and saw that there was an exit at the corner of the passage, so I hurriedly rushed in.

"Yina, Honghong, come in!"

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Zhen and Yelu Qinghui also rushed over, but when the door was closed, it was half a step late, and a tentacle had already poked into the door.

Yelu Qinghui and Zhao Zhen were stubbornly holding against the iron gate, and they couldn't free up their hands to relieve the siege, at this time, Zhao Zhen's arms and legs were all hugged by the rotting corpse, and he only had one arm left to move, and he swung the knife to cut off the whisker tentacles, and the foul stench juice that was as thick as splashing ink splashed his whole body.

As soon as the roots were broken, the carrion shrank sharply as if it knew the pain, and Yelu Qinghui and I pushed the door shut, but at the same time, the broken dragon stone also fell.

Outside, the sound of fingernails scratching was still incessant, and the iron door was slammed one after another.

We've retreated here, and we've finally found temporary safety.

Zhao Zhen hurriedly reached out and touched himself, and saw that the parts on his body were the same, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at the rotting corpse root whisker that was cut off by the long knife, nearly two meters long, the thickness of a sea bowl, and a lot of viscous foul-smelling juice flowed out of the knife, which was strange and abnormal, although half of the root whisker was broken, it rolled and trembled, like a gecko tail that had been cut off.

Several of us lost our strength and sat down against the door, and I forced my flashlight to shine where we were. At this time, Zhao Zhen asked, "What's that thing outside?" ”

"Yes, the air here is cold and bone-chilling, I'm afraid it's an ominous place." Yelu Qinghui echoed.

"That thing out there is the Nine Dragons." Wu Honghong said.

Hearing Wu Honghong's words, the green tendons on my head jumped up and down, although I had just guessed this layer, but I couldn't help but have an extremely strong rebellious emotion in my bones, and said: "If your father really came here for this Jiulong Ding, do you think he still has a life?" ”

Wu Honghong looked at me with teary eyes and said, "Of course I hope he doesn't come in here, but ......"

Chen Yina comforted: "Honghong, don't worry, your dad will be fine." ”

“

Well, as long as there is still breath left, don't give up lightly. I adjusted my breathing and said, "That thing outside is neither demon nor evil, it should be some unknown creature, maybe it is a divine beast that specializes in guarding the Nine Dragons." ”

"It's still called a divine beast?!" Yelu Qinghui listened to me and started to be ruthless, "It's almost the same as they call monsters." ”

I listened closely, and the movement outside was much smaller than it had just been, but the guy was still waiting, the guy was covered in mud and maggots, and there were many rotting corpses wrapped in the roots, and its size almost filled the passage outside, let alone find a way to get rid of it, we didn't even know what it was.

"What do we do next?" Chen Yina asked, "We can't be trapped here." ”

I had already thought of her question, I walked back and forth, racking my brains to think of a way to get out, walked back and forth a few times, and at a glance hit the root whiskers that were cut off by Zhao Zhen on the ground, there were several corpses with pale skin on the roots, and I used my foot to pluck one of the dead corpses, wanting to see what it was.

The white rotting corpse crawled with a thick layer of fat maggots, and there was a black thing under the maggots, and I saw that I found something, and hurriedly put the flashlight closer, and under a photo, it turned out that the corpse was wearing a black coat, and there was a red silk tied around the waist, and the legs were sucked into the thick roots, and they were integrated with it, and I couldn't tell what kind of clothing the lower body was.

"How did I not think of it!" I patted my head, and it dawned on me, "I forgot an important fact. ”

"What facts?"

"Corpses!"

"Corpses?"

"Yes, it's the corpse, where does the corpse come from? These people can't have grown out of the ground! ”

After hearing what I said, everyone suddenly realized, "You mean that someone has been here before?" ”

"Yes, when we entered the tomb of Ying Zheng, we always thought that apart from us, only Wu Guoliang had entered. But the fact that we also found corpses on the Golden Tree shows that there have been people here for a long time. ”

"Does that explain that?" Wu Honghong asked.

"There are not many people who died in the tomb of Ying Zheng, only one or two corpses, but the number of corpses that died here is amazing, what does it mean? This is an organized and planned operation, and their goal is not to go for the treasure, but for the Kowloon Ding. ”

Zhao Zhen and Yelu Qinghui nodded and said, "That makes sense. ”

"What does that mean?"

"This shows that the reason why Zhao Ji designed the ancient tomb like this is to use this place to store the Nine Dragon Ding, and the best weapon to protect the Nine Dragon Ding is this monster."

"Well, I see, do you want to say that this monster is actually the aborigines here, that's why Zhao Ji chose to design it this way." Chen Yina continued my words.

I nodded and said, "Yes, that's right." ”

Yelu Qinghui stretched out his hand and groped in the dead man's clothes, trying to search for anything useful, but found a pair of black donkey hooves and a few ropes, as well as some secluded cinnabar.

"You see, can these things confirm the identity of the deceased?"

"Black donkey hooves! 100% peers! Zhao Zhen said with a smile.

Looking at the dry corpse again, the limbs and bones are as stiff as rotten wood, and the hair and nails are still growing, all like zombies, it is hard to imagine how it became like this.

"This is not a tomb robber." I shook my head, "They're the Shadow people. ”

"'Shadow'?" The crowd looked at me.

"What is 'Shadow'?"

"That's what I just said, the person who never dies, it's been around for I don't know how many years, you can call it an organization, you can think of it as a consciousness

Form, no one can define it, it can't be seen or touched, but it exists in reality. ”

Hearing my explanation, the big guy was even more confused.

"Well, you don't have to know too much about it." I shook my head and decided to make a long story short, "My judgment is this, 'Shadow' has been looking for the elixir of life and the Nine Dragons Ding in the tomb of Ying Zheng, and for thousands of years, they have lost many people here, but they have never given up. This time, if Wu Guoliang hadn't fallen here, we wouldn't have been able to meet them, or how to say it's fate, sometimes life must have it, no matter what they want to do, our well water doesn't interfere with river water, just save people! ”

"Zhao Zhen, you and Lao Ye go to the front to see, is there a place where we can go out?" I said to Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen nodded, got up from the ground with Yelu Qinghui, and went to the front to find the way.

The whole space is spacious, and although there is no passage in our field of vision, there may be an exit in the distance. They walked forward a few dozen meters and suddenly noticed that there were steps ahead. Zhao Zhen turned his head and shouted loudly to the back: "I found a step, you guys come and take a look." ”

"Great!" When I heard the news, I hurriedly rushed over with Wu Honghong and Chen Yina, "It's still Zhao Zhen's eyes, hehe." ”

After waiting for a while, Yelu Qinghui also ran over, glanced at the steps, and his face suddenly became solemn.

Looking at Yelu Qinghui, who suddenly changed his face, I asked, "What's the matter, have you found anything?" ”

Yelu Qinghui pointed to the steps and said, "There is also duct tape on it. ”

I took a closer look and saw that there was tape as well, "If I'm not mistaken, this step is the trigger for those things." ”

Zhao Zhen smiled and said: "Don't be funny, we are ten meters high from the top, if these steps are the trigger mechanism of those things, it will exhaust those ancient technicians to death." ”

"I didn't say that these steps are all triggers, as long as we jump right, I don't think they will trigger those things." I thought for a moment and said.

"Jumping the grid?" Zhao Zhen asked suspiciously.

"At least we have to try, or we can't stay in this place forever." Yelu Qinghui said.

I nodded in agreement with Yelu Qinghui's statement, then turned my head to Wu Honghong and Chen Yina and said, "You two take a look at how we should dance." ”

Wu Honghong frowned, shook her head and said, "I don't know how to jump, but we can't step on them one by one." ”

"I'll come first, and if you jump right, you'll follow. Otherwise, we run with all our might. With that, I walked to the side of the stairs, and jumped over three steps to the fourth.

As I jumped up the fourth step, I heard my heart thump. Then everyone stopped talking and waited quietly.

However, after a few minutes there was no reaction from the above things, and I said to the others, "Okay, jump every three steps as I just jumped." With that, I jumped to the eighth step.

Zhao Zhen and Yelu Qinghui glanced at each other, and then jumped up towards the fourth step, and Yelu Qinghui jumped up behind Zhao Zhen. Now it's like we're all monkeys, jumping up and down towards it.

Looking at the last few steps in front of me, which were not far away, I felt a little excited. I jumped towards my legs, but there was another sound in my ears that came out of the "thump" of my feet on the ground.

I thought to myself bad, and then looked down where I had just jumped over, and damn it was one step less. The others seemed to hear the voice and looked at me together.

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