Chapter 19: The Mysterious Cave
However, at this time, everyone no longer had the heart to enjoy the scenery here, and they didn't bother to explore whether the water in the pool was clean or not, and they pounced on the small pool one after another like hungry wolves, and drank it when they fell down. Even those who were a little more reserved like Han Ling'er and Tong Xiangyu just took a few sips of water with a water bladder, and couldn't help but raise the water bladder to their mouths and drink it bitterly.
After a while, when everyone had drunk and looked up with a satisfied face, and looked at the sand camel beasts that were still drinking around them, they came back to their senses—everyone had been drinking with these sand camel beasts—however, they had been thirsty for so long, even though some people were disgusted, no one was willing to spit out the water they had drunk again.
"I'm talking about fortune tellers, and this is the last oasis you are talking about, right?" Qu Wuming looked around and asked.
"Yes, yes, yes, this is it! This is it! Wei Yixian stood up and walked around the pool a few times, as if he was silently calculating something in his heart, with an excited look on his face that could not be concealed.
"So what are we going to do next?" Hu Baye stretched out his legs, sat on the edge of the pool on all fours, and asked.
"Next, of course, we have to find that entrance." Before the words fell, Wei Yixian had already chosen a position and suddenly stood still, looked up at the position of the sun in the sky, then turned around and walked back for seven or eight steps, came to an inconspicuous-looking earthy yellow rock, raised his hand to brush off the yellow sand covered on the rock, and saw at a glance that he was looking for something.
"Mo Tong, you're coming!" Wei Yixian beckoned, and his disciple Mo Tong hurriedly got up from the edge of the pool and limped over.
Wei Yixian grabbed Mo Tong's shoulder with one hand, leaned into Mo Tong's ear and whispered a few words, Mo Tong nodded obediently, pulled out a dagger from his waist, held the blade in his hand, and then gritted his teeth and jerked it, his palm was suddenly cut, and blood flowed down instantly.
"This is it!" Wei Yixian stood beside him and pointed to a slender crescent-shaped gap about the size of a palm in the middle of the two rocks.
Mo Tong raised his hand above the gap and poured the blood from his hand into it, without frowning.
A moment later, the crescent-shaped crevice was almost filled with blood, like a small blood-colored crescent.
"Go on, don't stop!" Wei Yixian stared at the gap tightly and said a little nervously.
Mo Tong didn't dare to disobey and continued to pour blood into it.
However, it was strange that no matter how much ink boy's blood flowed, the blood in the crack never overflowed—it seemed as if the excess blood had penetrated the bottom of the crack and been swallowed by something.
Gradually, the blood in Mo Tong's palm flowed a little slowly, Wei Yixian frowned slightly, and urged on the side: "Open your hand!" Don't stop the blood! ”
Mo Tong obediently opened his palm, endured the pain and instantly opened the wound that had begun to coagulate, and the blood on his palm suddenly flowed again......
"Okay, okay, that's all!" Wei Yixian's gaze was a little hot.
After about ten breaths, Mo Tong began to become a little physically exhausted, his eyes were black, his head was lightheaded, his body shook, and he almost fell. The palm of the protruding hand shook, spilling blood onto the surrounding rocks, a scarlet color.
Wei Yixian hurriedly stepped forward and hugged Mo Tong's body, reached out a hand and firmly grasped Mo Tong's bleeding hand, continued to hold it above the stone crack, and said through gritted teeth: "Go on, don't stop!" ”
"Yes, master......" Mo Tong replied weakly, feeling that he was getting more and more dizzy, and the world in his eyes began to darken.
After some time, Mo Tong's eyes finally went dark and he passed out completely.
Rumble......
At this moment, everyone suddenly felt a muffled sound from the depths of the ground under their feet, and their whole bodies shook with this muffled sound.
Thundered......
Immediately after, the vibrations in the ground gradually became more frequent, and a clearer sound could be heard from under the rocks in front of Wei Yixian......
Rumble......
A burst of sand and dust surged out from the location of those rocks, and it seemed that something had suddenly collapsed, so frightened that Wei Yixian hurriedly dragged Mo Tong, who was still unconscious, backwards.
The sand and dust gradually dispersed in the tumbling, and behind the original rocks, a pitch-black hole suddenly appeared, and a damp and cold breath suddenly poured out of the cave and blew on the bodies of several people nearby, making people shiver a little.
"It's open, it's really open!! Hahaha...... "Wei Yixian was overjoyed when he saw this, let go of his hand, threw Mo Tong aside, and walked towards the entrance of the cave.
Seeing this, Tong Xiangyu, who was not far away, couldn't help frowning, hurried over with two steps, tore off a strip of cloth, bandaged the palm of the unconscious Mo Tong, and then dragged the Mo Tong to the edge of the pool, and then got up and looked towards the hole......
Wei Yixian stood next to the entrance of the cave and looked inside, but saw that it was dark inside, and he didn't know where to lead. Now that they can't use mana, even Qu Wuming, Ding Xian and the others who came over from the side can't see too far.
Everyone watched cautiously for a while, but they didn't see anything unusual in the cave, and they all looked at Wei Yixian.
Qu Wuming was the first to ask, "The task given to us by the black jade order before is to listen to your guidance and find the secret hidden in the desert. Since entering the Land of Lawlessness, the Black Jade Order has also lost its effect, and now that this crypt has been opened, will you go down by yourself or what? ”
Wei Yixian seemed to be in a good mood, and when he heard this, he smiled slightly, stroked his beard and said: "This cave is just a road to the secret store, if you want to complete the task, you naturally have to go down together and find the real secret treasure." Besides......" As he spoke, Wei Yixian looked at Hu Baye, the three brothers of the Chen family and other tomb robbers, "Besides, now that the crypt is open, I don't know much about what the secret treasure inside looks like and what treasures it has." Now that we're just a kick away, we can't go to Baoshan and go back empty-handed, right? ”
Hu Baye and Chen Yulou glanced at each other, swallowed and said, "That's nature." As we said before, when our group of people got together, I am afraid that there are no tombs in the Eastern Continent, and we can't enter the secret realm. Now that you know the location, you can break through, and it's not in vain the hard work along the way! ”
"In that case," Wei Yixian's state at this time was faintly different from the one along the way, and he turned around and smiled, "Then there is Lao Tong's shopkeeper and the two chefs who will cook a delicious meal for everyone first, and after everyone has a full meal, they will go down to find out what is in this secret store!" ”
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After they were full of wine and food, Tong Xiangyu, the two chefs, and the still very weak ink boy were left to set up camp on it, and the rest of the people lit torches, took out the night pearl and other lighting objects, and carefully stepped into the crypt.
At first, the entrance to the cave was no more than half a man's height and three feet wide, like a crack in the rock, and it was so cramped that it sometimes had to crawl to get through.
As I walked, the cave became slightly wider. However, the passage is still very winding, and it will not take long before it suddenly turns.
In this way, everyone walked for about two sticks of incense in the winding passage, and finally they could walk completely upright.
Judging by the senses, the path seems to be gradually descending at a gentle angle. The air in the cave was so humid that it didn't look like it was under a desert at all.
As the cave became wider and wider, there was a faint sound of running water.
When everyone finally came out of the passage, they found that there was an underground cave several feet high in front of them, and on the other side of the cave, there was an underground river more than three feet wide and two feet long flowing slowly, and the sound of water that was faintly heard at the beginning came from this underground river.
"There's no road ahead!" Hu Baye held a night pearl, raised his hand to hold the light, and looked around, "Could it be that this is the secret hiding place that the black jade order is looking for?" ”
"Let's look and see if there are any organs, signs, or anything like that!" Chen Yulou said, and walked cautiously to the side with the two brothers.
When they heard this, they scattered with torches, night pearls, and other illuminated things, and in a short time they explored the cave - there was no other exit from the cave except for the entrance when they had entered before, and there was nothing obvious about it - except for the underground river, there were only pitted stone walls, and it didn't seem like there was any place to hide at all.
Chen Yulou frowned and looked up at the top of his head and said, "Judging from my experience, there will probably not be no tombs here. ”
Hou Jinhai groped for the stone wall on the side and said, "Well, who will bother to build the tomb here?" There is no trace of man-made here, and in my opinion, it is just a naturally formed stone cave. ”
Hu Baye held a silver iron pickaxe in his hand, kept tapping lightly on the stone wall, and said: "I also agree with Hou Ye's opinion, these rocks are all natural things, but they seem to be extremely dense, like ...... It looks like a quenched metal ore. Could it be that the owner of the black jade order asked us to transport some of this kind of stone back? Master Qu, tell me, is this stone useful to you cultivators? ”
"I don't look like it." Qu Wuming bent down and picked up a piece of gravel, looked at it carefully by the light of the fire, shook his head and said, "Although the mana is not there, I still don't think this stone can be much different from the ordinary stones outside. ”
"How so? It shouldn't be......" Wei Yixian frowned, he had already turned around the cave several times at this time, silently calculating in his heart, but he always felt that his fortune calculation should be no problem.
Hu Baye walked to the side of the underground river and said with a hint of inquiry: "Is it possible, if you want to find the real secret, you have to pass through this river?" As he spoke, he bent down and put his hand into the river, and then suddenly stood up, "This water is so cold!" ”
Hou Jinbo came over when he heard this, squatted by the river and stretched out his hand into the water: "It's true, it's so cold!" It's amazing that it's so cold and hasn't frozen. As he spoke, he looked back at Hou Jinhai and said, "Big brother, why don't I go down and have a look?" ”