Wu Xie promised to wait for the end of this fight, and when he returned to Hangzhou, he would give these guys double bonuses, and Nie Xiaoba and they were naturally happy.

After the fat man woke up, Wu Xie told him his speculation before going to bed last night.

The fat man hesitated a little and said: "Naive, if you want me to say, this won't be another moth made up by your third uncle who can't pay for your nephew's life." ”

Wu Xie glared at him, "Nonsense, my third uncle's surname is Wu and not Zhang, besides, five or six hundred years ago, at that time, our Wu family's ancestors didn't know where they were." ”

"It's also huh." The fat man sighed, "It is estimated that the predecessors of the Zhang family came out to pit their own descendants, and it was originally a wooden fish that pitted, but it turned out that the two of us collided." ”

Wu Xie's voice lowered, "Whether it's a pit or not, we have to take this step." ”

The atmosphere calmed down, and the fat man patted him on the shoulder and sighed.

No one noticed that behind them, near the corner, there was a very fine fiery red that flashed from behind the backpacks stacked in the corner.

After entering the staircase passage, everyone kept moving forward, at first the stone path was downward, but after walking for ten minutes, the stone path suddenly turned into a slope almost perpendicular to the ground, and down was an oval deep pit.

Everyone jumped into the pit and saw that there was a lot of dry mud on the ground, and there were many messy crawling marks on the walls, and there were traces of black ash that had been smoked by the fire, and there was a very strange smell inside, burnt, fishy, and smelly.

Wu Xie sniffed carefully, feeling that it seemed to be somewhat familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

He asked the fat man, and the fat man also said that it was very familiar, "No, no, no, we must have smelled this smell somewhere, but I just can't remember it." ”

Seeing this, several guys also shrugged their noses and sniffed everywhere, and a young man named Ah Zhai suddenly thought of something, "This seems to be the smell of burnt realgar." ”

After being reminded by Ah Zhai, Wu Xie suddenly remembered that when they were in the snake swamp, they had burned a large amount of realgar, and the smell that was already a little stinky was mixed with the humidity of the swamp and the scorching gas of the charcoal fire, and the final smell was such a smell.

"Someone here has burned realgar!" The fat man was a little surprised, "Look at this blackened area is so large, could it be that there were snakes here before?" They were all burned to death. ”

Wu Xie's first reaction was that there was also a pheasant neck here, but they had not seen snakes and snake molts all the way over, indicating that the person had completely eliminated the snakes here, and there were no snake species left.

There were no patterns on the stone walls, and no other useful clues were found, so they continued on their way.

The rest of the road was the same as before, a downhill section, followed by a deep pit, and after nearly two hours of walking, the previous section finally began to rise sharply.

There was a sporadic light ahead, and the stone path began to get moist and damp, and there were droplets of water on the walls, and there was a lot of water in the small pits in the cracks of the stone slabs on the ground.

When the stone path reached this point, the height of the original only about 1.5 meters rose sharply, and they were finally able to walk upright.

When they got closer, they found that the top of a stone wall in front of them was a square, prison-like fence, as thick as a bowl, and all small pillars made of stone.

After so many years of wind and rain, it still stood strongly, and the cracks in the stone fence had been blocked by the dry branches and dirt that the water had washed from outside, and the light penetrated through those little cracks.

The fat man looked at it, and suddenly said, "I understand, the place we are staying in now is actually the sewer that this Immortal Kingdom made out of the water back then." ”

Turning his head, he found Wu Xie looking at him with speechless eyes, and the fat man added: "Either this is the place specially set up by the Gu King to hold something, you look at this small stone pillar, how strong it is." ”

Nie Xiaoba volunteered to go up to take a look, Dafu was the strongest one among the guys, so he let Nie Xiaoba step on his back and stand up to see those stone pillars.

Wu Xie didn't speak, just slowly stroked the stone wall with one hand, and suddenly felt a stone brick under his hand loosen a little, and then motioned for everyone to step back, and then took the big white dog's leg and knocked down the stone brick.

After a dull thud, the originally heavy stone fence began to slowly shrink into the ground, and all the gravel and rotten branches that were blocking the outside poured in, smashing into the ground like a waterfall.

It was also mixed with some rotting animal bones and hair, and the stench that had been accumulated underneath was turned out.

The fat man shouted loudly about biological weapons, and everyone hurriedly put on gas masks and retreated further behind.

The smell of rancid fermentation lingered in the passage for a long time, and the fat man's voice was covered in the mask, muffled, "The fat man said that this special mother is a sewer, you still don't believe it, this time open your eyes." ”

Wu Xie looked at the dirt piled up at the entrance of the passage, and frowned, when those rotten things poured in, a thought suddenly popped into his mind, "Fatty, I suddenly feel that what you said is very right." ”

The fat man was a little surprised, "I'm talking nonsense, don't take it seriously." ”

Wu Xie said: "Coming all the way, do you think that this place doesn't look like a place to raise something." ”

Keeping things? The fat man remembered the smell of realgar he had smelled earlier, and his eyes widened suddenly, "Damn, could it be that all the people raised here before were snakes?" Pheasant neck! ”

Wu Xie nodded, "Judging from the clues we have so far, this is indeed the case, this fence with a mechanism is a feeding port, in order to facilitate the prey to be dropped to feed the contents inside. ”

As he spoke, he avoided the dirt on the ground, carefully scraped off a little yellowish scaly powder with the big white dog's leg, took a flashlight and looked at it carefully, took out a lighter and pointed it at the small ball of powder, and the flames burst out, and lit it with a poof.

"It's a mixture of pine oil and an animal fat, and when applied to the walls, it makes it very smooth, and at such a height, it is basically impossible for the snake to climb inside." Wu Xie Dao.

The fat man couldn't help smacking his tongue, "Good boy, no wonder there are so many dried silt in front of you, it seems that this place used to be a damp mud pit, specially made to raise snakes." ”

Another point similar to the Mother Kingdom of the West, the truth is getting closer and closer to them.

Nie Xiaoba led people to use a shovel to clean up the fallen sludge to the side, and then Stacked Arhats climbed out of the mouth, hung down the rope, and everyone climbed up one by one.

After a day and a night in the dark and damp underground, I finally saw the sun.

There were many ancient trees near the exit, obscuring the sky and the sun, and they had entered the deeper part of the primeval jungle.

Correcting the direction of the compass, everyone rested for a while, left a mark, and then moved on.

After walking for half an hour, there were a little traces of construction in the bushes and wild trees in front of me, the fallen leaves here were very thick, the small temple was buried to only a little corner of the roof tile, and a big elm tree of no small age pierced through the roof of the temple and grew directly from it.

Elm trees are very easy to propagate, and as soon as elm money falls like a dandelion and falls into a certain crevice, and there is enough rain, a small elm sapling will soon grow in that place.

Nine times out of ten, this big elm tree that grows through the top grows like this.

Nie Xiaoba said that the temple here was not the mountain temple he had seen before, and Wu Xie speculated that it might be covered on the surface of the ground to hide people's eyes, and the real Dizang Temple was hidden here.

The group cleared an area of the roof of the tile, removed the tiles near the trunk of the tree, and made a hole half a meter in diameter against the tree.

Although the temple is small, but the cover is very fine, with the feeling of the feet, the beams are still relatively stable, may be stone beams, this is a real tomb repair method.

The fat man said that Wu Xie was the head all the way, and this time he came to explore the way.

Wu Xie turned on the lamp and shone down, there was only the ticking sound of water droplets falling inside, and he didn't see the existence of the snake, but he still handed a peace buckle to the fat man and asked him to hang it around his neck.

"Be careful."

"Look at the fat man, what can be wrong with such a little little man, don't worry." The fat man answered and slid down the rope.

Hearing a loud sound of falling water, Wu Xie hurriedly looked down and asked, "Are you okay?" ”

The fat man scolded his mother at the bottom, "Dog's day, the whole special mother at the bottom is the roots and water, a string of strings that look like human hands, Bai Buzi scared Lao Tzu, and thought that the bottom of the special mother was a floating corpse." ”

Wu Xie was relieved and laughed at him, "Drowning your big fart squatting?" ”

When Nie Xiaoba heard this, he immediately became happy.

The fat man was furious, "Fat man, I am opening the way for you, lest you southern dolls be squeamish, and you dare to laugh at the fat man's hot buttocks." ”

Wu Xie scolded with a smile, "You are less poor, just say how deep it is below." ”

"It's not deep, it's only to the root of the fat man's thighs, oops, it's really cool, it's all rain, you can come down quickly." The fat man said.

Seeing this, Wu Xie no longer hesitated, jumped down the rope, fell into the water, stepped on the slippery tree roots, and almost fell, and the splash hit the fat man in the face.

The fat man quickly grabbed him and laughed unceremoniously.

Wu Xie stood up straight, found that the water was on his waist, and immediately looked at the fat man angrily.

The fat man swished and said, "Oh, I thought you had long legs." ”

Wu Xie just wanted to scold him for deceiving people, but the fat man suddenly shone his flashlight to the side, shook it slightly at a place protruding from the water, and lowered his voice, "Shh, naïve, look, there's a good thing there." ”

Wu Xie looked over and found that the place where the water had not yet flooded was a high stone platform, on which was enshrined a stone statue of a strange species composed of scorpions and snakes lying on the stone platform.

Like the eight-petaled plum blossom, the tail ends of the nine snakes are attached to something resembling a turntable, and the scorpions on the upper body are also in anthropomorphic form, and the pincers raised are all pointing upwards.

Obviously, the gesture of these scorpions is the same as the guide figurines they saw earlier, as if they were expecting something to fall from the sky.

The two of them were silent for a while, but suddenly they heard a faint exhalation sound in addition to the sound of water droplets and their breathing.

Wu Xie looked at the fat man, and the two looked at each other to confirm that there were no auditory hallucinations on either side.

Wu Xie was afraid that this was the pheasant's neck imitating human breathing, so he immediately lit a light on it and signaled Nie Xiaoba not to come down for the time being.

Wu Xie pulled out the big white dog's leg inserted in the scabbard of the knife at his waist, the fat man held the gun, and the two of them quietly moved carefully in the water at a very slow speed, towards the place where the sound of shallow breathing came.

When they got closer, they found that six or seven cocoons entangled in trees and vines hung in the air on the beam boat behind the strange stone statue, black and oppressed, oval, and covered with white cobwebs.

Wu Xie's eyes focused on one of the vine leaves' newest cocoon, and the sound of breathing came from here, which was obviously a living thing.

The fat man silently gestured to swim forward on the palm of his hand, meaning to ask him if this was a snake cocoon, which was full of small snake cubs.

Wu Xie held his breath and sniffed closer, but he didn't smell the sticky smell that belonged to the snake, so he also gestured back to him, not sure, probably not.

"Then get out of the way, it's a mule or a horse, pull it out and you'll know." After the fat man finished speaking, he held the flashlight to Wu Xie, and climbed the stone statue close to the cocoon, ready to use the blade to cut the vine little by little.

The vines are so tightly wrapped that you can't see what's inside through the cracks.

The fat man was about to make a move, but Wu Xie suddenly stopped him, "Fat man, don't move yet!" ”

"What's wrong?" The fat man doesn't know why.

Wu Xie reminded him, "Don't act rashly, put on a gas mask, this vine is a stone vine, the juice in it is poisonous, if you accidentally splash it in your mouth, it will cause dizziness and diarrhea, and it will also affect the heart." ”

The fat man hurriedly retracted his hand, took the mask and rubber gloves handed by Wu Xie and put them on, and then carefully cut them.

Luo Shi Vine is very tough, the fat man cut for a long time to make a hole, just tilted his head to see what was inside, a white thing suddenly fell out of it, to the fat man almost scared enough.

"Damn, do a surprise attack."

The thing fell straight into the water, Wu Xie carefully went over to check, and found that the slippery thing turned out to be a person!

And also a person who has had his joints removed and twisted his limbs behind his back to twist them into a reptilian shape.

Wu Xie used the tip of his knife to pick open the man's hair that covered his face, and when he saw the man's face clearly, he exclaimed, "Tie Tuo! ”

"What?" The fat man was also shocked, there was nothing else in the cocoon, and he hurriedly jumped down from the stone statue.

When Nie Xiaoba heard this, they also jumped in one after another, and said anxiously: "Why is Tietuo here?" Wasn't he taken away by mandrills? ”

Seeing Tie Tuo's miserable appearance, Dafu was grief-stricken, and asked carefully, "Little Third Master, Tie Tuo, Tie Tuo, is Tie Tuo still alive?" ”

Wu Xie's face was slightly gloomy, "He is still alive, but if he can't be sent to the hospital immediately, his arm will be completely useless." ”

Both of Tietuo's shoulders were torn open by sharp claws, the ligaments and muscles inside were messed up, and most importantly, the two shoulder blades inside were missing.

(End of chapter)