The fat man was amused, "Then what are you waiting for, we have to hurry." ”

As he spoke, he had already dived into the water and swam deeper into the cave.

The water in the pool is alive, and you can clearly feel the water washing over your skin when you swim in.

Wu Xie followed behind the fat man with half-squinted eyes, passing through the stone gate that opened a gap, and Nie Xiaoba and the others behind him also hurriedly followed.

The head of the board swimming in the last position was about to pass through the iron gate, and the rope hanging from the backpack suddenly unraveled somehow, and it happened to hang on a stone inside the door.

When the head of the board swam in, he felt the pulling force behind him, and turned his head to find that the rope was tethered, and he didn't think much about it, so he pulled it hard, but he didn't expect to pull the small stone out of position, and the big stone pillar that was originally on the stone door immediately loosened.

I only heard a series of chain pulls, and the stone door began to close slowly, and at this moment, the back half of the head of the board was still horizontal in the crack of the door.

Seeing that he was about to clamp it at the waist, the head of the board was anxious, his mouth kept spitting bubbles, and he turned around and pulled the rope harder, this pull, the big stone had no support at the bottom corner, and rolled directly to the side, pressing the rope underneath.

The breath he inhaled when he went into the water was no longer able to hold it, and he suffocated in the lung cavity, and somehow in a panic, one leg was still entangled.

At this critical juncture, Wu Xie in front noticed that the number of people was wrong and returned to check, seeing this situation, he immediately stepped forward and took out the big white dog's legs and cut the rope, and dragged the head out of the board a second before the stone door closed.

There was a muffled bang, and the heavy stone gate closed, stirring up a large area of silt at the bottom of the water.

Wu Xie grabbed his backpack and dragged the board head that was about to fall into a coma with his backhand and kept swimming forward, and finally after advancing more than ten meters, the bright light of a flashlight appeared on the water in front of him.

Wu Xie immediately surfaced, dragging the head of the board to the bank of the river, and the fat man hurriedly dragged the person up.

"Are you all right, naïve?" The fat man reached out and pulled him, "What just happened?" ”

Wu Xie grabbed the fat man's hand and climbed up with his strength, and took a breath, "It's okay, it's just that the rope is entangled." ”

Bantou quickly choked on water, coughed and woke up slowly, "Thank you, little third master." ”

Wu Xie waved his hand, signaling him to slow down first, and then got up to observe the cave here, which was still the same stone niche as before, and there were mummies wrapped in mud in it.

It's just that these are a little older than the previous ones.

Wu Xie climbed up to the alcove, carefully cut open a clay sculpture, and took off a bit of cloth for the shroud, the material was very rough Qing Dynasty cotton and linen summer cloth.

There was a crack half a meter wide on the stone wall of the cave, and Wu Xie turned on the light to look inside and found that there was a cave inside.

When you walk in, you can see that this is still a cave space that has been manually hewn.

On the ground in the center is a blackened oolong coffin, which is narrow and long, at least half longer than an ordinary coffin.

Oolong wood, also known as gloomy wood, is due to natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, mudslides and other natural disasters that make the ancient forest buried in the low-lying depths of the ancient riverbed or in the silt, in the environment of lack of oxygen, high pressure and the combined action of weak acid and microorganisms, it has changed its original physical properties, and has been formed by slow carbonization for thousands of years.

This wood material is delicate and smooth, dense and corrosion-resistant, and has a special fragrance, as the old saying goes, "even if there is a box full of gold, it is not as good as ebony".

Although gloomy wood is rare, it is still relatively abundant in Sichuan and Chongqing.

The owner of the coffin can use such precious wood to make a coffin for burial, and his identity must be unusual.

The fat man also squeezed in from the crack in the mountain, and when he saw the coffin, he began to exclaim, "Innocent, there is a coffin here, and this is a small coffin room." ”

"What's so surprising about this, have you ever seen fewer coffins?" Wu Xie flashed the flashlight to look at the carvings on the wooden coffin.

The eight legs of the scorpion are very long, as if the octopus spreads directly from the coffin lid to the side of the coffin, and even drills into the bottom of the coffin along the edge, as if a giant hand fell from the sky, and the whole coffin was grasped on the coffin.

The tail of the scorpion turned into the wrist of the giant hand, raised high.

The whole pattern makes people feel that in the minds of the people of this immortal country, the scorpion is the god of faith in their country.

So what is the moral of their portrayal of such a scene? A scorpion god who fell from the sky? Or is the owner of this coffin a sacrifice to the gods?

Wu Xie looked around, but he didn't see anything similar to the sacrificial plate in his image, the cave was empty, only this gloomy wooden coffin.

The fat man leaned over eagerly, lowered his voice and asked him, "Do you want to open the coffin?" Such a long coffin, the fat man met it for the first time in his life. ”

"That big guy is not outside at this time, let's move faster, let Nie Xiaoba and them watch the wind outside, nothing will happen."

Wu Xie glanced at the fat man, and under his expectant gaze, he nodded slowly, "Then open it, but there should be no valuable funeral goods in it, unless you carry this coffin out entirely." ”

The fat man said, "The fat man opened the coffin not to collect money", rubbed his hands, and went to push the coffin lid after he steadied his horse.

The coffin had no nails, as if ready to open it at any moment, and the fat man easily pushed the lid aside.

As soon as the contents saw the light of day, Wu Xie and the others were shocked and gasped.

"Mermaid!" The fat man screamed, and immediately changed his words, "No, it should be called the beautiful bird snake." ”

There was a strange corpse lying in the coffin, this time it was no longer the same as the monkey snake corpse, the head of the corpse directly became the head of a human-faced bird, and the body was wearing a very intricate black and red sacrificial dress, the torso could clearly be seen to be a human, but it had four arms, and the lower body was in the shape of a python.

It's a combined corpse of three kinds of creatures, so it's no wonder the coffin needs to look like this.

But why did you make the corpse of the immortal kingdom look like this?

Didn't the Queen Mother of the West fail the original splicing experiment to refine the corpse worm pill, didn't the people of the Immortal Kingdom know how to learn the lessons of their ancestors at all?

The fat man wanted to see if the head of the human-faced bird was connected to the neck, but when he accidentally made it bigger, the hairy head was directly pulled off by him.

The black eyes of the human-faced bird and the fat man looked at each other, which was embarrassing.

The fat man coughed, and while Wu Xie's attention was on the pattern of the clothes worn on the corpse, he hurriedly put the human head back together.

"Hey naïve, what do you say those immortal monkeys are trying to do with this, he splices this thing, why do you want to replace a good human head with a bird's head?"

"Could it be that those immortal countrymen have been stimulated by the accumulation of failures and have exploded their mentality and become perverted?" The fat man gestured to the strangely shaped corpse.

Wu Xie shook his head, "I don't know, but I always feel that this should be some kind of special sacrificial ritual." ”

Piecing different creatures together is sure to have what they want to say.

Wu Xie thought of the guide figurines they had seen in the snake cave tower layer earlier in a welcoming posture, could it be that they were greeted by this scorpion deification totem on the coffin lid?

The fat man looked at it and realized that something was wrong, "Naive, look at the corpse in the middle, this shape, the four arms on it seem to have grown on it originally, not put together later." ”

"Really?" Wu Xie looked at it, then took out two pairs of rubber gloves from his backpack and handed them a pair to the fat man, "Come and help untie its clothes and take a closer look at what is going on." ”

The two of them were very quick under their hands, carefully uncovering the cloth that had been soaked in corpse fluid, and the skin of the corpse inside was also covered with strange pattern tattoos, and like dissected sutures, these patterns were raised, as if a long blue-black centipede was lying on it, and countless tentacles spread around, making it creepy to watch.

"Turn it over." Wu Xie lifted his stiff arm and put it on his abdomen for the fat man to grab, and went to lift the corpse's shoulders and hip bones himself.

The two of them worked together to turn the body into a sideways position, and found that under the shoulder blades of the corpse, an arm had actually grown, like angel wings, and in terms of length and thickness, it was almost exactly the same as the arm that normally connected the shoulder joint.

The two glanced at each other, and they both saw the incredulity in each other's eyes.

"What's going on? This thing angel descends to earth, God and Nuwa are reconciled? The fat man was shocked, "This is also scary." ”

Wu Xie didn't speak, he put his fingers under the shoulder blades of the corpse to grope, and found that a bone joint raised from the subscapular corner there was very similar to the original shoulder joint, and the humeral head on the extra arm grew from it.

"It's a deformed person." Wu Xie said, "He should have looked like this since he was born in his mother's womb." ”

"That's what you said before, what kind of conjoined tire?" The fat man asked.

Wu Xie nodded, and the fat man said again, "Isn't the legend of the Gu King that Cai Laojiu said real?" ”

Wu Xie turned the body back and sorted it out, "Let's make an assumption, if this so-called immortal kingdom built by the Gu King is real, and not the Zhang family made it to play tricks on people, then the two-headed and four-armed snake man that appeared in the story is real." ”

"And the reason why he has two heads and four arms is because of some reason that he was born as a deformed person with twin conjoined children, such an existence is not an exception, I probably know why the wild lama in the corpse cocoon we found in the ancient temple was torn off his shoulder blades."

The two of them restored the coffin to its original state, went out of the gap in the mountain, and continued along the river.

There are many similar small coffin chambers in the stone walls on both sides, and there are also long gloomy wooden coffins inside.

An hour later, they walked out of the cave and came outside, confronted by an incomparably large ancient banyan tree, the canopy of which spread out to the surrounding area, making it a miniature version of the forest.

It does not have a single trunk, and its body is made up of countless long-growing aerial roots, which are thicker than ordinary large trees, so the space between them is very narrow, and when they are closed, it looks like a single tree.

The thick roots bulged from the ground and were covered with pale green moss and vines, like a Hulk's house.

The water that flows out of the river flows directly into the hollow under the banyan tree, forming one after another swampy ponds overgrown with aquatic weeds, on which many mosquitoes are flying, and the size is terrifying.

Wu Xie and the others stood on the stone, listening to the sound of those insects flying around, as if they had heard the sound of their blood being sucked out in the next second.

Ah Zhai's legs and stomach trembled, and his voice was soft and inaudible, "Little Third Master, what should we do?" This, this, this...... There are too many bugs, and before we can crawl over, we're going to have to be sucked dry. ”

Wu Xie took a deep breath, turned his head and ordered: "The five of you are waiting at the entrance of the cave, if something is wrong, run back immediately, and I will go over with the fat man." ”

"Little third master, how can I do this, how can I have chopsticks to make a way for my guy." Nie Xiaoba and the others immediately objected.

Wu Xiewei raised his hand to stop their words, "It's not that I don't want you to go over, but it's unnecessary, this fight is different from the fight you fought in the past, it is estimated that there are no treasures in it, this kind of fatal situation, if you have to go in and die, I won't stop you." ”

Speaking of which, Nie Xiaoba had no choice but to grit his teeth and nodded: "Okay, let's listen to the third master." ”

After that, he divided the food in the backpack into two parts, and the extra one was fully packed into the backpack and handed it to Wu Xie, "Little Third Master, you and the fat master must come back safely." ”

The fat man grabbed the backpack and threw it on his back, stepped on an air root with one foot, and tilted his head towards the big banyan tree, "Innocent, walking." ”

Waving goodbye, Wu Xie and the two put on protective clothing, wrapped their whole bodies, put on headlamps, and climbed to the root of the tree.

Less than ten meters inside, it was already pitch black under the cover of foliage, and the dense foliage made it impossible for light and shadow to penetrate for half a minute, as if they were crawling into the abyssal maw of a huge green monster.

The two of them walked cautiously through the tree trunks, surrounded by the smell of the swamp and the hum of mosquitoes, which made people's hearts very uncomfortable, as if the noisy sound was engraved directly in their minds through the eardrum.

Soon they crawled into the darkness completely, and all the light around them was swallowed up.

The two of them carefully grasped every place they could climb, the moss was smooth and would sink into the swamp below if they were not careful.

Because of their preoccupation, they had no idea that their bodies had been densely covered with countless black and pressed insects since then, and every time they took a step forward, the insects would fly up because of the vibration, and from a distance, they looked like two small black tornadoes clinging to the ground.

Wu Xie climbed to the front, and got into it through a gap in the intersecting air roots, and when he raised his eyes, he found that the trunk of the banyan tree here was full of holes, which had been dug out by some animal with its claws, and there were many green bones piled up inside.