A City in the Forest (2)
Setting out in the middle of the night, we had already walked for three hours in the jungle, which was extremely inconvenient to walk, and I couldn't help but say, "If the road is wrong, I won't ask, what do you mean by 'nearby'?
Gulan wore a cloak and changed into a deerskin suit that made it easy to move. She shook her wand for lighting, looked at the compass in her other hand, and replied, "I mean 'nearby' on the map." ā
"You're kidding me! It's getting dark, and we're not there yet, so why do you want to leave at night!"
"Didn't you say it all...... Afraid of being discovered by residents. ā
"Is there any mistake! The inhabitants are birds, don't they all come and send a flock away? What are you afraid of, now walking in the forest in the middle of the night, I have felt the simple and wild gaze of the carnivores several times, okay?"
Ye Ming said: "Calm down, Brother Zhou......"
"Call me Mao Huang! Don't call me by my human name anymore! I'll be sad. ā
"Calm down, Brother Zhou. ā
Gulan stopped and said, "Don't make trouble, we're here." ā
Gulen held his wand aloft, and the full view of a stone building appeared before us, a stone door half-hidden in the earth, which was open and seemed to lead to an underground structure. The doorway emitted a mysterious and disturbing black fog, rejecting all light sources, and the emptiness and nothingness were all the more eerie.
"Hey, hey, is there a building that looks more like a hell's gate, you can tell at a glance that there is no return," I shuddered, "it can't be going in, is it?"
"Don't worry, I've been in on my own a few years later, and I'm alone. ā
"Respect you as a man......"
"Don't ......be like this," Gu Lan said, illuminating a tablet next to the stone gate, "mainly because this gate can only allow people to enter and exit one by one, and there are only a limited number of people." ā
Ye Ming said: "What happens if several people go in at the same time?"
"I don't know. I was about to ask why I hadn't tried it, but Gulan replied, "Of course I tried it with someone, but when they went in, their whereabouts were unknown, and there were no bodies, so I went in myself." ā
"Why are you so good?"
"What?"
"Oh no, I mean how are you so brave?"
"Look here," she said, pointing to the two-foot-tall stone tablet by the door, "the text on it is an ancient script, and it is elegant, and the race used is also legendary: vampires. ā
"Oh......"
Ye Ming was still out of the situation: "What is a vampire?
"It's a little more advanced than that thing, a little harder to deal with, and a little more romantic. ā
"I'm not sure about romance," Gulan continued, "but this race is very contract-oriented, so it always counts when it comes to talking. The text on the stele roughly means that only single people are allowed to enter and exit, and the route is marked with a map, and there is no harm to life. ā
The so-called map should be the rectangular lattice pattern engraved on the stone stele, but the stone stele and the stone gate have been weathered for a long time, and the engraving is very blurry.
"What's in there?"
"Well, I'd like to know what's in this door. ā
"There is a ruby in the innermost part, which seems to be a treasure left by a high-ranking vampire. However, this treasure is only beneficial to vampires, and ordinary people will get into trouble if they hold it. ā
"For example?"
"Well...... "I was exposed to it for three or five minutes, and then I was unlucky for a week, during which I experienced ten unforgettable life-and-death crises...... The last time I remember clearly drinking ginger soup in bed, splendid velvet pillows, gold-edged quilts, and jasper tea bowls, but I just happened to be angry, and I choked on a mouthful of ginger tea and coughed up blood directly, and asked someone to treat it for several months before it was relieved, but the poor servant who served the tea was suspected of being an assassin and hanged himself. Well, that's it in general. ā
Ye Ming and I were silent for a while, and then said after a long time: "Why are we here to get this thing?
"Of course not," said Gulan, pointing at me, "you are a lucky dog, you can't beat people, it's not easy to drive away evil spirits?" This ruby is of great benefit, and it would be a pity to put it here to sleep, and to take it out for my benefit is to make the most of it." ā
I think it's all because you've suffered a loss on it that you have this obsession, right? Don't be funny, I've heard that bad luck is the same as stupid X, it's contagious, don't die.
"I haven't been a Taoist priest, and I don't have the ability to hunt ghosts and fortune-telling and see feng shui, so don't expect me to exorcise evil spirits. ā
"Okay, don't be poor. I just saw that her storage prop was an old ring now, and she took out a piece of cloth and a box of red paint with a wave of her hand, "Ye Ming help me get it, I'll take the lamp." She kept her wand bright in her right hand, and it was difficult for her to pull out the map with one hand.
"Good. Ye Ming first applied the paint to the map of the stone tablet, and then printed it with a cloth rubbing, which could barely be seen clearly.
Gu Lan took the map: "Then I'll go in, you wait." ā
"Wait. "I stopped this girl who was not afraid of life and death.
"What's the matter?
"yes," I paused, "why don't you leave us the compass and the map first, and we'll go back on our own in case you burp." ā
"You...... Hmph!"
Gu Lan was so angry that she strode away, but she didn't pay attention to the moss under her feet, and the soles of her shoes slipped and fell backwards, facing the back of her head was the stone tablet.
"Not good!" Ye Ming reacted quickly, and rushed up to grab Gu Lan's hand with an arrow - only the map was caught. So he stepped forward and hugged Gu Lan around his waist, and threw it to the side with a little force, Gu Lan landed gently and skillfully, but Ye Ming himself was about to fall.
Of course, it is impossible to fall Ye Ming, who has practiced light skills for so long, has at least ten different postures to resolve this fall.
Then we saw such a scene: Ye Ming pressed the stele with his right hand, turned his back hand, lightly touched his toes on the stele, and the 360° turn backflip landed easily - inside the door.
"Knock!" the stone door slammed and shut.
"What the hell!"
"Hey!"
The two of us hurriedly shouted through the door, "Ye Ming!, how's it going?"
After a while, a voice came from inside: "I'm fine, but it's dark and I can't see!" and after a while, "Wow! ā
"It's very spacious inside, but be sure to follow the map you have outlined, don't make a mistake!" Gu Lan kept instructing, "Let's move to the exit first, remember to wait for us when you come out!"
"Okay, I see, don't worry. ā
"You must wait for us!" and then Guran said to me, "Let's go to the exit to pick him up, hurry up, it's too late." ā
"An, Ye Ming is not an idiot, even if it is a maze inside, what is he afraid of if he has a map in hand. I calmed down when I heard his voice, "Besides, it's just dawn, so don't be in a hurry, right?"
"Don't worry, you dog-headed!" Gu Lan looked very anxious, "I don't have time, if it's late, the residents here may find him first......! It's broken. ā
"Don't worry, Ye Ming's skills are conservatively estimated to be able to handle one or twenty crops. ā
Guran replied, "I don't mean ordinary people. ā
"Could it be!" I suddenly thought of the two people I had met yesterday, "Savages?"
"Savages," a male voice said behind us, "it doesn't mean us, does it?"
We both looked back at the same time, and there were about twenty slender young men with bows and arrows and leather armor standing scattered among the branches of the trees behind us, both men and women, all of them with the same color of blonde hair and blue eyes.
"I mean," Quran whispered, "it'sā"
I was shocked: "Elf ......"