I walked along the root of the wall in the thick fog for half an hour, and before I knew it, the fog dissipated, and the sky gradually brightened.

Without the fog, the surrounding scene is clear.

Only then did they realize that there were walls on both sides, and that they were walking in a narrow passage that had no end.

The fat man was stunned, "We're already in the city?" When did you come in? Why didn't I see the gates? ”

And it is very strange why this wall is not a castle tower structure like the ancient traditional city wall, but an earthen wall of almost the same height.

Nie Xiaoba, who led the way in front, also looked confused, and looked at the little monkey in his arms, "Little guy, where did you take this for us?" ”

The little monkey squeaked impatiently twice, waved his arm and pointed forward, signaling to follow it.

Wu Xie looked up at the gloomy sky, turned around and told the people behind, "Be careful not to fall behind." ”

Until noon, they were still walking in such a tall earthy yellow wall, and the surrounding scene did not change in the slightest, but Wu Xie knew that they had not encountered a ghost hitting the wall.

Because after realizing the problem, he immediately carved marks along the way, but on the next road, those marks did not appear.

That is, they have been moving forward and have not gone back.

The fat man picked up the hem of his clothes and wiped the sweat on his forehead, feeling that the water he had just drunk in his stomach had all evaporated, it was obviously noon, and the sun had not come out, why was it so hot?

"Innocent, are you hot?" He turned back and asked Wu Xie.

Wu Xie pursed his dry and peely lips, and his forehead was sweating, "A little, it may be that the space here is narrow, the air flow is blocked, and the heat on the surface is all floating up, and there is no wind blowing in, so it will feel hot." ”

Generally, in the small alleys that lead to the front and back, the space is relatively narrow, and the air flow is restricted, which will form a narrow channel effect, which will accelerate the flow rate of the air flow in the front and back, and form a phenomenon of increasing wind speed.

But right now they are walking in a space that has no front and rear similar closed pipes, and the front and rear airflow cannot circulate, and the only ones that can breathe are the high overheads that are far away from them, and the heat is all gathered together, and it is normal to feel stuffy.

But it can't go on like this, because they don't have much water with them, and they don't know where the road will end, and if they go for many days in a row, when the food is gone, they will die of thirst and become dry corpses here.

Wu Xie stepped forward to communicate with the little monkey in sign language, "How far are we to get to where your master wants us to go?" ”

The little monkey was also very thirsty, wilting and sticking out his tongue, gesturing for a distance.

The fat man was furious, "You can't be playing tricks on us, is it?" ”

Wu Xie was also a little skeptical that the little monkey was playing tricks on them.

If it takes such a long distance to walk from inside the city to outside the city, it is impossible to get out with the thin little body of the little monkey.

The little monkey heard the question in the fat man's tone, squeaked twice in dissatisfaction, suddenly broke free from Nie Xiaoba's arms, stepped on his head and jumped up, grabbed the earthen wall, and slammed the tips of his claws into the cracks in the wall, and climbed to a very high place after three strokes and five divisions.

Wu Xie took out the binoculars to look at it, and saw that the little monkey swished a few times and then jumped to the top of the high city wall, and then jumped from the left to the right, and then jumped back from the right.

Wu Xie suddenly had a black line, which was embarrassing, forgetting that the monkey could not only climb to a high place, but also jump.

The little monkey quickly jumped down, stepped on the top of Nie Xiaoba's head, flicked his tail, and looked at the fat man with disdain.

The corners of the fat man's mouth twitched, and Wu Xie smiled, "This is a good method, monkeys can jump, and so can people." ”

The little monkey tilted his head, looked at the claw hook handed over by Wu Xie, thought about it and took it.

Wu Xie used sign language to ask him to help bring the hook up and buckle it to the wall, and it was firmly nailed with stones, and they climbed up directly, and the interval between the walls on both sides was about one meter eight, and they could jump directly over it.

This is condescending and can save a lot of time.

The little monkey gestured to show that the job was not easy and that he had to be paid.

Wu Xie responded and watched the little monkey climb up again with a rope of hope.

After waiting for a while, Wu Xie and the others heard the little monkey squeak and beckoned them to hurry up.

Nie Xiaoba weighed the lightest, he was the first to go up to test the water, although the hook almost loosened halfway, but he still persevered to the end.

After the hook was re-fastened, the people below climbed up one by one.

At this time, they also completely saw the position they were in before, and as far as they could see, this was an incomparably huge spiral labyrinth!

Like the shell of a parasitic snail, the passages inside are well-proportioned and intricate, with nine twists and loops, and if there were no monkeys to lead the way, they would have been lost in this barren city.

They were now half the diameter of the labyrinth, and in order to reinforce the wall, the wall under their feet was a meter wide enough for them to step on.

After resting for a moment to replenish their strength, they immediately followed the monkey and began to jump on the wall.

The distance of 1.8 meters is not difficult for adult males, and after a few tentative jumps, the back is getting smoother and smoother, and the speed at which they travel is greatly increased.

Even if it's just a labyrinth, it's still full of dangers.

When Wu Xie and the others were jumping on the high wall, they saw a large number of pheasants coiled around the necks of the lower ones more than once, and even some snakes climbed up to the high wall.

Sensing the prey above, the snakes spontaneously began to move in their direction.

There was only one of the passages below where there were no snakes left, and the monkeys led them skillfully to avoid the snake-ridden places and reach the end of the spiral maze as fast as they could.

There was a large mountain of rocks, as if an ancient beast in armor had been petrified after being defeated, and plants such as creepers had taken root and sprouted on the bones of the giant beasts, feeding on the blood of beasts.

In the green mountains all over the mountain, there are many honeycomb-shaped caves of all sizes, and there are creepers hanging down from the entrance of the caves, and there seems to be something squatting inside, and it is impossible to see really.

When they got closer, Wu Xie opened the vines at the entrance of a cave, and they saw that there was a statue of a monkey head and a snake body in the cave.

Wu Xie looked at a few more and found that they were all the same, the stone statues inside were all strangely shaped, staring at everyone with hideous faces, and people were shocked to see it.

The little monkey did not hesitate, and after climbing the stone mountain, he led them to climb halfway up the mountain, where there was a big black cave, and the mouth of the cave hung with vines like a flower and fruit mountain, and there was a slope leading to the underground.

The cave was cool, and Wu Xie and the others could clearly hear the sound of gurgling water inside.

The fat man slumped directly on the cold stone slab, pouting his mouth and sticking out his tongue to catch the small stream of water dripping from the crack in the stone, and sighed comfortably, "Cool! ”

Everyone else was also very tired, sitting on the ground with their backs against the rocks, and it was really tiring to jump continuously and non-stop, and it was all up to their minds to get here.

The little monkey squeaked a few times deep into the crevice, and soon heard the big monkey's whining echo from the depths of the cave.

The little monkey jumped three feet high, dragged the backpack containing the canned food and rushed into the rock crevice, and disappeared with a cloud of smoke.

"This little ghost, his IQ is a little higher." The fat man couldn't help but complain.

Wu Xie deeply agreed with his words.

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps under the rock crevice, and Wu Xie and the others immediately became vigilant.

After waiting for a while, I saw that what came out of it turned out to be the long-missing iron lump, and the three guys of Dafu House.

Look at these red faces, it looks like they are living a good life.

"Little Third Master! Fat man, starling! Tie Tuo cried, took three steps and did two steps to fly over, hugging Nie Xiaoba is crying, tears don't need money, "You guys are finally here." ”

Nie Xiaoba rolled his eyes by him, and scolded: "Damn, you kid came here in advance to enjoy the blessings." ”

Seeing the three of them standing in front of him with all beards and tails, Wu Xie smiled with relief, "It's okay." ”

Dafu's face is still a little pale, Ah Zhai is not much better than him, both of them have suffered from snake plagues, and in the end, the easiest thing is actually the iron lump who almost went offline to receive a box lunch at the beginning.

Everyone gathered together and exchanged pleasantries for a while.

Tietuo said that the night he was caught by the mandrill, he almost thought he was going to die, but he didn't expect to survive by mistake.

Wu Xie asked him, "Who brought you here?" ”

Tie Tuo scratched the back of his head, "I don't know, Kuaneng is a monkey, those monkeys will get me a little wild fruit to eat every day." ”

Daifuku and Azhai also said that they saw a monster standing under a tree, crawling with snakes all over their bodies, and suddenly their eyes went dark, and when they opened their eyes, they were already here, and they didn't know anything about the process of coming in.

"Didn't you see Luo Wenbing?" Wu Xie asked.

The three of them shook their heads together, and Wu Xie could only give up when he saw this.

He felt that the Zhang family might not want to reveal their identities so directly, although they didn't know what the purpose of his stay here was.

Wu Xie asked Tietuo a few people, "What's in the depths of the stone cave?" Have you ever seen it? ”

"There are a lot of clay sculptures." Tie Tuo said, "Little Third Master, this seems to be the ancestral tomb of monkeys, there are many clay monkey statues in it, I am afraid that the monkeys will have opinions, and we will not dare to enter in the future." ”

The monkeys live in the crevices of the rocks above the cave, and the gaps are large and small, and when they speak, there are monkeys poking their heads out of it, and they are watching the crowd brightly.

Staring at the fat man's heart, it was on fire, but there was no way to take them, after all, this is the territory of the monkeys, it would be good to let them stay for a while, not to mention that the monkeys also sent them all kinds of wild fruits at night.

Eating monkeys with short mouths and soft hands with monkeys, fat people are embarrassed to get angry.

Early in the morning of the second day, everyone who had completely rested stepped into the cave under the leadership of Wu Xie.

Facing is a long and narrow cave, and at the bottom is a clear pool, the water is so clear that you can see the chains fixed to the stones underneath.

There are many niches on the stone walls of the cave, which are placed in the clay monkey statues that Tie Tuo said they said.

The surface carving of the clay sculptures is very rough, but Wu Xie can see that these clay sculptures have been around for a long time, and the inside of these clay sculptures, if you guess correctly, should be wrapped in the remains of monkeys.

Or rather, the corpse of a humanoid monkey.

Wu Xie saw that there were broken and fallen clay limbs, revealing the corpses wrapped in linen, judging from the size of the clay statue and the material of the fabric, these things were not placed here for a long time.

The fat man suddenly gasped, and desperately blew at Wu Xie's eyes, "Innocent, innocent, look back." ”

The hairs on Wu Xie's back stand on end, which is the instinctive reaction of the mammal's body when it encounters a dangerous animal that is difficult to match.

He subconsciously looked behind him with his peripheral vision, and saw an incomparably large black shadow, standing quietly behind him, its huge body completely crushing him.

He immediately reacted that it was the one-armed mandrill, and it had appeared here at some point.

Wu Xie didn't want to have a conflict with it, and silently retreated to the side, intending to get out of the way.

The mandrill ignored him either, looked at the clay sculptures quietly for a while, and then turned and walked directly into the waterhole.

The water in the pool was much deeper than they had imagined, and with the height and majesty of a mandrill, the water had already submerged to its chest after a dozen steps.

Before it was about to sink into the water, the mandrill glanced back at Wu Xie and happened to meet Wu Xie who was looking at it.

There was obviously no emotion at this glance, but Wu Xie had a spirit all over his body, as if he had been under a spell, and the ghost sent the god to follow.

The fat man was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly went to pull him, "Innocent, what are you doing?" ”

Wu Xie had already walked straight to the shallow bottom of the waterhole, and the biting chill woke him up from the maze, only to find that the water had reached his knees.

The fat man thought that Wu Xie had been staring at the corpse in the clay sculpture for a long time, and he babbled and roared, and pounced on Wu Xie and pressed the whole person into the ice water, and then pinched his neck and shook it desperately, "Innocent, wake up, wake up!" ”

The water waves were rolling, the water was splashing, Nie Xiaoba and the others were simply stunned, and when they came back to their senses, they quickly threw themselves into the water and drove the two away.

"Little third master, fat master, what's wrong with you two, why are your own people fighting?"

Wu Xie hung him to death, choked several mouthfuls of water in a row, was angry and angry, kicked him away with a kick on the fat man's stomach, and took advantage of Nie Xiaoba's people to hold him, and hurriedly paddled the water into the distance.

"Dead fatty, are you sick?" Wu Xie scolded him, "Lao Tzu didn't let the zongzi in the tomb die, but let you die first." ”

The fat man shook off Nie Xiaoba and touched the water on his face, "You are sick, you are not sick, what are you going to the water decently, Lao Tzu still thinks that you let the dirty things get rid of the nightmare and want to die, which does not make you sober and sober." ”

Wu Xie choked, "Go into the water, of course, because the road is under the water." ”

"How do you know?" The fat man swam over to him.

Nie Xiaoba, they hurriedly followed with their equipment.

Wu Xie plunged into the water and floated up after two minutes, "There is a stone gate under the water, and the mandrill has already entered." ”

Good afternoon

(End of chapter)