Waiting for Wu Xie and them to slowly climb down, Zhang Haixing was already waiting for them in front of the bronze chain.

"You're too slow."

Zhang Haixing leaned against the stone wall with her arms crossed, her tone obviously dissatisfied.

"What's the hurry?"

Wu Xie sat on the stone platform by the chain and panted slowly, looking at the familiar bronze chains in front of him, which were like spider webs, and his expression was in a trance for a moment.

At this moment, he seemed to have a lot of thoughts in his mind, but he didn't seem to think about anything.

Soon coming back to his senses, he continued: "Anyway, it's been thousands of years, and things have always been there, and they can't run away. ”

Zhang Haixing pursed her lips when she heard this, and she didn't bother to say anything more.

After the fat man and Feng came down, everyone rested for an hour, ate to replenish their strength, and then grabbed the chain and continued to climb down.

Wu Xie and his entourage walked between the mountain crevices for a total of five days, and after changing their gas masks three times, they finally saw the bottom of the huge gap within the maximum distance that the fog lights could shine.

After crawling down for nearly half an hour, he stepped on the ground of sincerity.

Wu Xie looked around, the distance between the two sides of the mountain here was at least as wide as a bridge, and at the bottom were countless falling rocks, large and small, uneven, they should all be broken stones from above when this gap was formed.

Looking up through the cracks in the chains, you can see that there are many grottoes of different sizes on the mountain walls on both sides, and although you can't see it clearly, you can clearly feel that something is hidden in the shadows inside.

Wu Xie's heart tightened, and he immediately changed his position under his feet, and after softly reminding everyone to pay attention to vigilance and safety, he carefully turned on the light to illuminate the things in the grotto.

The fat man's eyes were brighter than his, and after looking at it carefully, he said: "Don't worry, it's not that kind of ghost bird, but there is indeed something in it, and it's not small." ”

"It's a dead thing, it's supposed to be a statue or something."

Zhang Haixing, who was on the side, took out a telescope and saw the true face of those things in the grotto, and couldn't help but wonder: "The appearance is strange, they are all carved directly in the cave, and the pattern seems to be ...... Bird...... But it's strange, why do these birds have two heads? ”

"I'll see."

Wu Xie took the binoculars from her hand, looked carefully, and found that the black shadows in those grottoes were indeed carved out of all kinds of birds, with strange postures, including flying parrots, sparrows fluttering their wings, and owls standing on stones with their necks crooked.

It's just that compared to the live birds seen in daily life, these statues are exaggerated and magnified many times in the overall shape, and the carved lines are quite rough.

Looking at it, Wu Xie suddenly found that these bird statues had a common feature.

Although the postures are different and the types are also different, they are indeed as Zhang Haixing said, with two heads on the left and the right on the left, as if they have been mutated by nuclear contamination.

And the extra head has a common posture, whether it is on the left or right side of the mountain wall, they all turn their heads in unison to look in the direction of the rocky beach.

It was pitch black, and the area beyond the light was like a dark beast with its mouth open.

The fat man also deliberately ran to the side of the mountain wall, grabbed the mountain wall and climbed to it, and the grotto came closer to see, and suddenly exclaimed, "? Innocent, come and see, the two eyeballs on this upright head are blind, as if someone picked them out later. ”

"It's not going to be a gem here." As soon as the fat man thought about it, he immediately scolded, "Which king and eight lambs rushed ahead of the fat man and took away the treasure here?" ”

Hearing him say this, Wu Xie also hurriedly trotted over, climbed up to one of the grottoes closest to the ground, and went to shine a flashlight on the statue's head, and at a glance, he found that the eye sockets of the bird's head facing him were indeed empty.

However, he could see that the eyeballs in them were not picked out later, but when these statues were first made, the craftsman did not carve the sclera and pupil into the eye sockets, and directly poked two rough holes in the eye sockets to act as eye sockets.

It's also so strange, why make their eyes look like this, why make these birds blind?

The reason why they don't get their eyes is because they are afraid that these statues will see something?

Wu Xie unconsciously felt a chill rise in his heart, and just at this moment, the circle of light of the flashlight suddenly flickered a few times, and then slowly dimmed, as if something had suddenly sucked away the light source.

Wu Xie pinched the switch and pressed it a few times, the light bulb was still flickering, it seemed that it was about to run out of power, and he would have to charge it with a small hand-cranked generator when he went down later.

This faint brightness couldn't even be seen clearly by his fingers, Wu Xie simply turned off the flashlight, took out the lighter from his pocket and lit it, and then held the lighter and turned his head to look at the other head next to him.

The flame can illuminate a limited area, and the light and shadow reflected will shake with the air current.

Wu Xie squinted his eyes to take a closer look at the extra head, and he found that the carving of this head was the most delicate part of the whole statue, and the lines in other places only roughly outlined the outline of the object.

The feathers in this part can almost be called distinct and lifelike, like a crown of flowers, one by one, very regular, but the shape of the feathers looks a little strange, not a pointed and slender oval fan, but like a thorn like a leaf.

The ones near the neck can be said to have short feathers, but the ones that go up closer to the top of the skull actually look more like scales.

Wait, scales?!

In the flash of light, Wu Xie suddenly understood something.

It turned out that the extra head was actually a snake head twisted and widened by the bird's head, and the intricate overlapping flake carvings were not feathers at all, but real snake scales.

The eyes on both sides of the snake's head are gray-white balls bulging outward, which looks very similar to the Angong Niuhuang Pill wrapped in wax clothes outside, but it is larger than that kind of ball.

Wu Xie always felt that this thing had appeared in his memory, but he couldn't remember the details for a while.

"Innocent!" The fat man called him on the side, "Isn't this place also a snake nest, it looks a bit like the West Queen Mother Country back then." ”

"What are these rotten things looking at?"

The fat man muttered, glanced at the gravel beach, and found nothing unusual, so he tried to poke the white eyes on the snake's head with his fingers.

With this poke, the white ball under his hand suddenly swayed and almost fell out of his eye socket.

"These two eyeballs can still be picked off, hey, the eyes are rolling, and they look very infiltrating."

The fat man said "Huh", and he was going to take one down and take a closer look.

Wu Xie hurriedly reminded him not to move, "These eyes give me a very wrong feeling, it's better not to touch them randomly." ”

Although these bird statues were dead, they gave people a very bad feeling, and they were as permeating as the kind of human-faced birds he had seen in Changbai Mountain.

After listening to Wu Xie's reminder, the fat man had no choice but to dispel the idea of picking out a few eyeballs in his arms, and climbed down from the grotto, and there was nothing to see on the top, so he beckoned Wu Xie to come down as well.

Along the rocky beach, Wu Xie had been paying attention to these statues along the way, and he found that the further he went, the larger the statues in the grotto became, and the birds represented by the carved patterns gradually changed from small birds to birds of prey such as eagles and eagles.

The fat man looked at these statues and smacked his lips, "Although the occasion may be a little wrong, the fat man feels that the scene here can be described in a very appropriate word." ”

"What word?" Wu Xie asked.

"A hundred birds and a phoenix, oh no, it should be a thousand birds and a phoenix." The fat man changed the word to describe it.

There are too many grottoes on the mountain walls on both sides to count.

Wu Xie turned his head to stare at him violently, and Zhang Haixing, who had been walking in front, also stopped and turned his head to look over.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him with surprised eyes, the fat man stretched out his hand and pulled around, and said, "There must be hundreds of species of birds we have seen along the way, and there are still repeats in them." ”

"The bottom of the whole crack here is like an incomparably large nest of ten thousand birds, and there must be quite a few grotto holes that extend to the other end of the crack."

"And the most critical and strange thing is that their heads are in the same direction, like elementary school students listening to lectures."

The fat man narrowed his eyes, and his tone was a little erratic, "Maybe, there's a super big phoenix waiting for us in that direction." (End of chapter)