Seeing the flame of the candle burning faintly in the ground, Li Longyuan was overjoyed, and after more than ten minutes, the flame remained the same, indicating that the underground was safe.

Li Longyuan tied two thumb-thick ropes, one end fixed to a nearby tree trunk, and the other end hung into the ground. With the help of the rope, Li Longyuan climbed down the underground palace. The dungeon is small, the main burial chamber is only the size of a basketball court, and four narrow ear chambers are spread on both sides.

Seeing the scene in the dungeon, Li Longyuan shook his head. This place has long been ransacked, and there is a robbery hole at the dome of the underground palace, I don't know which dynasty dug it, and over the years, the top of the robbery hole has been filled with soil and vegetation.

Looking at the dungeon, it was a mess and covered with dust. Several strangely shaped stone statues collapsed to the ground, and a bronze coffin was pried open, containing a long-decomposed and weathered corpse, and four rusty candlesticks fell next to the coffin. There were several overturned wooden boxes in the ear chambers on either side, and there was nothing inside. The walls of the underground palace are all brick structures, there are no wall carvings and paintings, and the layout is very simple.

With the slight light emitted by the flashlight, Li Longyuan searched around, hoping to find valuable artifacts such as terracotta figurines, but unfortunately in vain. In one ear room, he found a black mass, and up close, it was a small cavern, the mouth of a palm. A small saffron-colored snake is slowly crawling out of the hole.

Seeing the living snake, Li Longyuan's eyes were full of light, and his eyes were full of snake meat. I was about to shovel it down, get rid of this little snake, and bring it back to feed my two sons. When the snake saw someone, it suddenly turned around and slipped back into the hole, and the duck in his hand flew like this, which made Li Longyuan not annoyed.

The ear chamber is only about one meter two high, fifty or sixty centimeters deep, and there is a wooden box upside down. Li Longyuan didn't think about it, pushed open the wooden box, and bowed into the ear chamber. He used a shovel to remove the bricks from the wall and dig a snake hole deep into the depths to find the snake.

Just as he was patiently digging the snake hole, suddenly a strange sound came from behind him. Like the sound of the door opening, and like the sound of the coffin lid rubbing against the coffin.

The sudden sound scared Li Longyuan so much that he trembled, and when he entered the underground palace, he already felt that the yin qi was approaching, and he shuddered, all supported by the obsession in his heart, and kept thinking about the survival of his two sons, and constantly emboldened himself. At this time, he buried his head in the snake hole, turned his back to the main burial chamber, heard an unusual noise, and did not dare to look back. In this tomb, there is no one else but himself, and it is closed underground, and there is no wind and grass, how can it make a noise for no reason.

The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, he didn't dare to think about it anymore, gritted his teeth, and finally glanced sideways in the low ear chamber, and the main burial chamber was still the same furnishings as before, and there were no other figures and changes.

Could it be an auditory hallucination?

There was another crisp sound of "stabbing", which seemed even more harsh in the empty and silent tomb. This time, Li Longyuan saw it clearly. On the iron-beaten candlestick next to the coffin, there was a snake coiled, and the snake's earthy gray color was similar to that of old iron, and it was not easy to distinguish. At this moment, the snake was dragging the candlestick for a short while.

Li Longyuan patted his chest and let out a long breath, if it is a haunted or corpse, this tomb of unknown age, with his Taoism, I am afraid it will be difficult to get out of the whole body. encountered snakes one after another in winter, and Li Longyuan was not too afraid in his heart. The snake coiled on the candlestick, which looked like food prepared for him, grabbed the shovel and stopped digging holes, and went out of the ear chamber and approached the snake directly.

Suddenly, there was another "stabbing" sound, Li Longyuan "chuckled" again in his heart, and in a blink of an eye, there was also a snake coiled on the other candlestick.

Good fellow, these two snakes are not small, they are as thick as the handle of a shovel, this is a good thing!

Li Longyuan couldn't help but turn his eyes to look at the other two fallen candlesticks, which were empty. It seems that these two snakes are the next trip, and the next trip to the tomb, I have to bring something back, looking at the sturdy bodies of the two snakes, I feel very happy in my heart.

It stands to reason that everything that can be eaten is eaten, and the snake should be hungry. But the two snakes didn't seem to be hungry, and when they saw Li Longyuan stepping forward with a shovel, they didn't even make an attack gesture.

Li Longyuan held a shovel, and as soon as he shoveled down, a snake slipped away and hit the crooked candlestick. He picked up his shovel and smashed it at another snake.

Li Longyuan's stomach was empty, and he was exhausted after digging a hole for half a day. It was the middle of the night in the cold winter, and he was hungry and cold in the underground palace. The shovel slapped five or six times, and one snake didn't slap, but the two snakes were already enraged and attacked Li Longyuan continuously, but fortunately, he dodged quickly and escaped one by one.

At this time, several snakes continued to scurry in the ear chambers on both sides. Li Longyuan was very excited, but when he saw another snake infested, he thought that he could solve the problem of famine for many days. As there were more and more snakes, there were already more than a dozen of them, and I couldn't help but panic a little in my heart.

When he slapped the two snakes just now, Li Longyuan was already powerless, a little dizzy, and he didn't dare to entangle anymore, for fear of being besieged by a group of snakes and buried in the tomb, and the two sons of the family had to be raised by themselves. But thinking that he couldn't go empty, he looked at the beautiful styles of several candlesticks on the ground, and since he couldn't hit the snake, he didn't hesitate to pick up the candlesticks and crawl back to the ground along the rope.

When he climbed up, it was already the end of the crossbow, and he almost fell down several times, but it was the two sons who appeared to calm him down, gritting his teeth and crawling back to the ground. After coming up, I gasped for breath for a while, and gradually recovered some strength. At this time, the east was already bright, although he almost lost his life, he still thought about this snake nest, if the snake nest was destroyed, maybe how many snakes there were, and the future food problem would be solved. It's just that today I am weak and powerless, and I don't dare to fight again.

So he went back with a little black snake and four candlesticks.