Chapter 32: The Dark River Gray Mist Sees Evil Spirits
There is a thick fog growing under the stream, and you can't see the bottom at a glance, and if you fall at such a height, you will definitely die, not to mention that he is holding a girl in his arms, and it is extremely difficult to adjust the position of the landing.
Lin Shouxi's desire to survive is very strong.
He slipped down against the craggy stone wall, and quickly took the bow and crossbow into his hand, and the crossbow jumped in his hand, and the arrow shot out of the ground groove in one go, and slashed into the opposite cliff wall, half into the stone.
He kicked the wall behind him, crossed the foothold of the arrow on the opposite side, and then shot the arrow at the opposite stone wall, and after several horizontal jumps, he spent all the arrows in his sack, and finally landed smoothly at the bottom of the stream.
He didn't dare to shoot arrows upwards and climb up, because he knew that the dragon corpse was already very close to them, and sure enough, he hugged Xiao He to touch the ground, and above the dense fog, two big red lanterns were faintly hung.
Above the deep stream, the dragon corpse poked out its head and looked down curiously, and then, stretching out its slender and powerful neck, it poked into the deep stream, and the majestic white bone skull stretched out towards them.
Lin Shouxi didn't even have the time to catch his breath, he hugged Xiao He tightly and waded wildly in this deep stream.
"Cold ......," Xiao He hummed softly on his back.
Lin Shouxi was shocked, and he clearly felt that the girl's body was hot behind him.
The dragon's neck bone is like a knife, stretching out from above, the stone walls on both sides have broken and fallen into the stream, the collapse of the cliff chased Lin Shouxi's footsteps, he ran wildly, almost Lingbo, but the awe-inspiring killing intent behind him was still like a bone appendage, and he couldn't get rid of it no matter what.
Lin Shouxi hated this feeling extremely much.
Even if it was in the dead city, Mu Shijing chased after him, he also had the opportunity to resist the death and survive, but now what he was asking for his life was an enemy that he could not defeat for the time being, and Rin Feng was behind him, and he even had countless hallucinations in his mind that his spine was cut off and his body was cut open.
He can only run, keep running, run until he can't run, run until he can't run!
As soon as this thought came to him, fate seemed to play a joke on him.
The gorge wall in front of it narrowed sharply until it merged into one, becoming a dead end blocking the way, and it was pitch black, and no light could be seen.
His heart suddenly stopped, but he immediately realized that the water was flowing under his feet.
Undercurrent!
Lin Shouxi didn't have time to think about it, he turned Xiao He's back into his arms, plunged into the river at the end of the road, pinched a water spell, and dived violently.
The head of the dragon corpse also caught up at this moment and slammed into the water.
This smash brought a heavy force, Lin Shouxi's back was like being hit by a hammer, his whole body was in pain, he protected Xiao He in front of him, and blocked the full force of this impact with his extraordinary physique.
He swam through an underground cave and began to float.
Before he ran out of breath, Lin Shouxi barely floated to the surface of the water, and he looked around, surrounded by a huge and hollow natural stone chamber, but dozens of nails were nailed to the walls on all sides, and under each nail was a twisted skeleton.
Lin Shouxi didn't have time to look at these bones.
This should be a secret hole between the mountains, the dragon corpse didn't seem to be chasing, he hurriedly put Xiao He on a dark cyan flat rock, touched her forehead, and pointed out, hitting her several acupuncture points.
In a few snapping sounds, Xiao He's body straightened up, her throat moved, and she spit out a mouthful of blood, but her pale face recovered a little.
"You're going crazy?" Lin Shouxi said in confusion.
Going mad is a broad word, and Lin Shouxi couldn't find a more precise illness for a while.
"It's the Sword Sutra...... Xiao He opened his mouth weakly: "I should have made a mistake in sword cultivation......"
Sword Sutra?!
Snow Flowing Cloud Sword Sutra......
Lin Shouxi suddenly understood!
Xiao He learned the White Pupil and Black Phoenix Sword Sutra that he adapted, and he incorporated the Heartless Mantra into it and quietly planted the seeds, so that if Xiao He wanted to harm himself, he could kill him at any time.
But judging from getting along these days, Xiao He has no ill will towards him, on the contrary, their relationship is getting better and better.
But the Heartless Curse almost became the bane of life......
What made his heart even more tingling was that even if Xiao He had a problem with the Sword Sutra, he didn't doubt himself, but wondered if he had practiced and cultivated......
"Don't be angry, trust me, I can cure you." Lin Shouxi said seriously.
"Hmm." Xiao He made a sound between his noses.
He took a deep breath, quickly calmed himself down, pointed at Xiao He's eyebrows, and began to search for the root of the disease.
All the medical skills he had learned in the past in the Demon Gate poured into his mind, he let Xiao He lie flat on the ground, pointed out like electricity, and once again accurately pointed at Xiao He's body, Xiao He's petite body kept trembling slightly, and hummed in a low voice, like a snake that was constantly touching sensitive scales.
After a while, Xiao He's body trembled, turned his face sideways, and vomited blood again, but his face was better.
"Do you know how to heal?" Xiao He wiped the blood from the corner of his lips and asked tiredly.
"I used to teach in the sect." Lin Shouxi replied.
"What is the origin of our sect, how can we teach everything?" Xiao He asked.
"I joined more sects, but those sect masters thought I was not talented, so they were expelled again, and there were more encounters, and there were more people who would know." Lin Shouxi saw that her face was too bad and tried to make her happy.
"Is that why you joined the Hehuan Sect?"
Xiao He smiled lightly, she stood up, sat cross-legged, and straightened out the disordered true qi a little bit.
"I've never had problems with my practice before, and my aunt also said that I'm in good health, so how can I ...... today?"
Xiao He frowned, "It's still at such a critical moment." ”
They nearly lost their lives as a result.
"I'll take you out." Lin Shouxi answered the question, and his heart was a little weak.
"Hmm."
Xiao He nodded, she wanted to say some words of gratitude, but she was too ashamed to speak, so she only lowered her head with a cold face.
After a moment of pranayama, she looked around and asked, "Where is this?" Is there an exit? ”
"It seems that only this underground river can go out." Lin Shouxi pointed to the pool in front of him and said.
Xiao He looked at the pool water glowing with cold light, and said softly: "If that evil dragon is chasing after us at this moment, won't we all die here?" ”
Lin Shouxi was also scared, he stared at the pool, and there was always the illusion that a giant head with red pupils would emerge from the pool.
He settled down, gently rubbed Xiao He's hair, and said, "Don't be afraid. ”
Xiao He didn't resist, and hummed softly.
"It's coming after me." Xiao He said suddenly.
"What?"
"This dragon corpse is here to chase me." Xiao He said seriously: "I've dragged you down." ”
Lin Shouxi also smiled, "Your tone is to give up your life and let me leave you and run away alone?" ”
"Will you?" Xiao He stared at him.
"No, it won't."
"Why?"
"Because doing good deeds and accumulating virtue is the ancestral motto engraved at the door of our sect."
"I'm not kidding you!" Xiao He said again: "That dragon is chasing me, as long as you leave me, you can live!" ”
"I didn't joke with you either, besides......" Lin Shouxi's expression became more serious, "I think it's coming to chase me." ”
"You...... Hmph, chasing you? Who do you think you are? It's really arrogant...... Xiao He turned his head sideways, "I don't believe it." ”
Lin Shouxi was telling the truth, the moment he saw the dragon, the black scales he wore when he was a child appeared in his mind, and the throbbing in his heart of the black scale tractor, he knew that this was very likely to be related to the dragon corpse and even the ancient dragon clan.
He didn't explain any more and asked, "Are you still able to walk?" ”
"Of course ......"
Xiao He tried to get up, but her knees were weak and she fell to the ground again, she hated this feeling of weakness, clenched her fists, and closed her lips.
"This red rope?" Lin Shouxi stretched out his wrist and asked.
"Don't untie it!" Xiao He immediately said, "I'm too weak to control this ...... Well, power. ”
Lin Shouxi nodded, didn't ask, he held her hand and said, "It's okay, I'll continue to carry you, I'll take you out." ”
"You ......"
Xiao He raised her head, on her porcelain-white face, her misty eyes gradually became clear, she stared at Lin Shouxi, and asked in a ghostly manner: "Do you like me?" ”
She regretted it after asking, but the words were spilled and could not be taken back.
In the dark stone room, the soft part of the girl's heart seemed to be stabbed, and it seemed that as long as he took a step forward, he could lift the veil between the two and truly embrace this beautiful girl in his arms.
Lin Shouxi wanted to speak, but the heartless mantra was like a thorn, stuck his words in his throat.
"I ...... Of course I like my sister. Lin Shouxi said in a low voice.
"Senior sister...... Xiao He snorted coldly and said, "You are very smart and know that I am not asking about this." ”
She couldn't wait for an answer, she lowered her head and complained slightly: "I'm just reminding you, don't give birth to wrong emotions, if you have, break your thoughts as soon as possible." ”
"Yes......" Lin Shouxi's voice was very soft: "I understand." ”
"What do you understand?" Xiao He bit his lip lightly.
"I see what you mean." Lin Shouxi said.
"I don't think you understand!"
The girl said word by word, and looked away with annoyance.
Lin Shouxi didn't say anything.
He knew that Xiao He always kept things in his heart, but at this moment she was seriously injured and her life was in danger, and the emotion she gave birth to briefly broke through her heart defense, and the deeply buried softness floated up, depicting a pitiful rhyme on her eyebrows and temples.
He also knew that there were still many misunderstandings between them, but now was not the time to make a rash decision, and they needed to get out quickly.
Lin Shouxi asked her to sit there and not move, and he went to the front to investigate.
This is a natural stone chamber, with stalactites hanging from above, and stalagmites piercing from below, it is close to the dark river, so it also carries a heavy corpse gas, and the corpse gas precipitates the meaning of decay.
He looked at the corpses on the walls, and realized that they were all human corpses.
Eighteen of them, all headless, with twisted torsos that had been brutally killed and nailed to the wall, and the nails that held them did not seem to be made of iron, but some kind of living organ.
It's like there's some kind of ritual going on.
Lin Shouxi couldn't help but think of the adventure stories told by his brothers when they were children, saying that if they don't die, there will be blessings, but this idea was extinguished by him before it was born, he knew that when he came to a strange place, he must look at everything with danger, rather than thinking about whether he could meet any opportunities here.
After all, there are a few people who fall off the cliff and get the peerless exercises, and most of them have no bones.
The stone chamber was empty, but it was not big, and Lin Shouxi found that there was a man-carved groove on the wall at the end of one side, and a tall sculpture stood in the groove.
The sculpture is oddly shaped, its head looks like a dead jellyfish, its body is covered with dense blood vessels, its entire body is like a tree that has been struck by lightning, dry and scorched, but when touched, you can feel the elasticity of skin, there are many slender straws behind it, attached to the stone wall, and under its feet are octopus-like tentacles, which seem to be accompanied by the water of the dark river.
It reminded him of the old gods on a stormy night.
Lin Shouxi cautiously approached it.
This thing looked like a shriveled corpse or a sleeping living thing, and the line engraved next to it attracted Lin Shouxi's attention:
"Shen Zhi's sleep, in the deep ocean, the corpse is twenty, calling my old master."
His gaze was pinned to the 'Twenty Corpses'.
Twenty......
He immediately remembered the eighteen headless white bones on the wall, and his heart was terrified.
Hundreds of years of demon slaying in the evil pool, there should be more than a dozen disciples who have strayed here, they thought that they had discovered the secret room of the cave and wanted to ask for some chance treasure, but they were brutally killed, and the bones were nailed to the wall, turning into a medium for summoning rituals, and now, ......
There were still two people left for the ceremony.
No!
No one is bad......
He jerked his head back.
There was a gray mist rising behind Xiao He, and a bloated headless demon quietly emerged, with eighteen skulls embedded in its body, and the hand full of tumors waved a giant knife made of bones, and slashed towards Xiao He's neck, Xiao He was still healing his injuries, and he didn't notice it at all.
At this moment, he was too far away from Xiao He, and the crossbow arrows had already been shot empty, and he couldn't be rescued at all.