367. Waterboarding
Seeing that everyone was about to fall into the acid mist with half of the bridge, Fan Tong and Chen Feiyang in front of them could not say that even if the bridge body sagged, the position where these two people hung was still above the acid mist. But the others were about to fall into the fog.
Han Daring flew up and kicked towards Ye Ling's feet, Ye Ling comprehended, and immediately jumped up with his strength, his body rose sharply, and he jumped in front of Fan Tong.
When Han Daring kicked out, he shouted at Li Huan behind him at the same time:
"Go up! Pick people up! ”
At the same time, he turned around and grabbed Li Huan, called out a breath of mixed energy, and threw it hard at the bridge. Before Li Huan knew what he meant, he had been thrown three feet away from the bridge by Han Daring. He reached out and grabbed the rope and leaped upward.
Ye Ling also turned over on the bridge at the same time, and at the same time, Li Huan had already jumped onto the bridge.
At this time, the broken bridge was about to be submerged in the acid mist, Han Daring lifted Mei Ruohong next to him, and jumped up with his feet on the iron cable, but just now he made a series of movements in an instant, which consumed a lot of physical strength, and the strength of the jump was still insufficient at this time, only picking up more than three feet high, and his body immediately fell.
Everyone couldn't help but exclaim when they saw Han Daring holding Mei Ruohong in her arms, and her body quickly fell into the acid mist below.
But seeing that the two of them had just submerged in the fog, with a "whew", a black shadow flew out of the fog, and the acid mist that had just closed next to it was brought up by a force again, but this black shadow was Mei Ruohong.
It turned out that Han Daring and the two of them fell into the fog, Han Daring took a sharp breath and threw Mei Ruohong upwards with all his might.
Mei Ruohong had Han Daring's name in her mouth, her body flew out of the mist, and she fell again not far from the bridge.
Seeing this, Ye Ling jumped off the bridge and reached out to grab Mei Ruohong. Li Huan also reacted very quickly at this time, hung the iron rope with his foot hook, and leaned forward to grab Ye Ling's ankle.
Ye Ling's hands were spread in the air and he hugged Mei Ruohong tightly. But the two of them fell too quickly, Li Huan only felt that his body involuntarily fell with the two, and his feet seemed to be hooked. At this time, Chen Feiyang and Fan Tong had also climbed onto the bridge, and Wang Weihan and the three of them pulled Li Huan's legs together and pulled Li Huan and Ye Ling and Mei Ruohong together!
Everyone looked at the acid mist below, hoping that Han Dada'er would break through the fog at this time, but at this time, the gale had stopped, and the thick sour mist closed again, and the smoke was vast, and Han Da'er was no longer seen.
Mei Ruohong and Ye Ling were lying on the bridge, crying and shouting in the fog below, Mei Ruohong was about to jump down, but fortunately was stopped by Chen Feiyang. At this time, Ye Ling found a rope and tied it to the stone pillar, and the other end was wrapped around his waist.
Fan Tong saw that she was going to jump down to find Han Da'er and hurriedly stopped her, Ye Ling had tears in her eyes, her eyebrows were twisted, she took out the hidden weapon and held it in her hand, and suddenly she looked like she was as cute as usual, and shouted:
"Get out of the way! Big brother won't die! I'm going down to save him! ”
Mei Ruohong also broke free from Chen Feiyang's pull, and said in a firm voice:
"I'll go with you!" Then he tied it around his waist with a rope.
At this moment, there was a crisp sound of "banging", and the sound of chains sounded. I saw a silver white line, rising from the acid mist below. The white mist was churning, the silver light was shining, it was actually a pure steel chain, like a dragon outside the sky, breaking through the fog, but it was Han Da'er's steel chain flying tiger claw.
The flying claws rose, the momentum was exhausted, and they hurried towards the bridgehead where everyone was, and the sound of "Zheng" hung on the broken bridge chain of the stone pillar at the bridgehead.
As soon as everyone saw this iron cable, they knew that it was Han Da'er, and hurriedly reached out and grabbed the chain and pulled it upward. A figure jumped up with the chains, broke through the white mist, flew straight up, jumped on the wall of the stone building at the head of the bridge, and his body was rising again, and he had already reached the bridgehead in two clicks, but it was not who Han Da'er was!
As soon as Han Daring got on the bridge, everyone was ecstatic, and Mei Ruohong and Ye Ling even pounced on him and hugged him. He coughed lightly, and suddenly spat out half a mouthful of blood......
Han Daring tried his best, and sent Li Huan, Ye Ling, and Mei Ruohong to the bridge with three consecutive blows, but his strength was not sustainable, but he fell from a high place and fell into the acid mist.
His body fell into the acid mist, but his mind was clear, everyone fell off the bridge, it was already the scope of the stone building, if you throw the flying claw at this time, although you can hook the uneven wall of the stone building, but the length of the flying claw steel chain is limited, and the body is suspended in the air, and it is inevitable that it will fall into the acid mist.
The white beetle in the acid mist is so sharp, once it falls into the fog and stops for a while, it will inevitably be devoured by the beetle. If you wait for your body to fall, quickly pass through the acid mist, and hook the stone building wall with your flying claws, then even if you hover in mid-air, your body is still under the fog, and you don't have to worry about those white beetles attacking!
But this stone building is next to the white city wall on one side, through the acid mist, it will soon fall straight to the head of the city, the reaction is a little momentary hesitation, before the flying tiger claws grasp the stone building, the body has already hit the stone at the head of the city, and the brain will burst and die.
Han Da'er's mind was racing, these thoughts were just an instant, he was in the fog and was about to come out of the fog, and the sound of the wind in his ears passed by, which was mixed with the fluttering of beetles' wings.
At this time, it was too late to think about it, he shot like lightning, and the flying claws had already flown out of his hands...... Zheng" sounded and hung on the outer wall of the stone building.
His eyes lit up, and he had already come out of the fog. The back is only twenty or thirty meters high from the white city wall below, and the original city wall on this side is dozens of meters higher than the city wall where everyone is resting.
Although the steel chain grabbed the stone building, it was still not fully deployed, and Han Da'er's body was still falling rapidly. If the length of the steel chain is longer than the distance between himself and the city, it will be no different from falling from the city.
Fortunately, there were still eight or nine meters away from the city wall, and the steel chain was completely straightened with a "bang", but this impact, the pure steel chain was also difficult to bear, and it was directly stretched from the middle. Han Daring then took the steel chain to break the buffer, jumped up with the force, and then jumped down from the top, dissipating the force of the fall. is still like this, falling from a height of eight or nine meters, and he was also thrown to pieces.
The force of the steel chain breaking caused the claws of the flying claws to fall off the wall on the tenth floor. "Dangchang" fell at his feet.
Han Daring stood on this side of the wall to inspect the stone building, and found that the lower the stone building, the wider the area. Half of the bottom pedestal was above ground, but the other half was already submerged, next to the wide underground river.
At this time, he could have turned over the city, climbed down directly, came to the foot of the stone tower, directly entered the stone tower, and went up to find everyone. But the tenth floor under the clouds did not have any doors or windows, and it was more like a huge chimney that led straight into the clouds.
If you want to find your way in, I don't know how long it will take. He suddenly fell into an acid mist, and everyone did not know whether he was alive or dead. He knew very well that Mei Ruohong and Ye Ling would definitely take the risk to come down to the rescue, and maybe it would put the two in danger, so he didn't dare to delay for a moment, so he directly climbed the outer wall of the stone building and came to a place three feet below the clouds.
The flying tiger claw in his hand had been broken into two, and with only half of the remaining chains, he might not be able to leap through the acid mist with his strength at one time. But at this moment, he couldn't take care of much, so he could only throw the flying claws hard, hook the outer wall of the stone building, and jump up with his body to the place where the flying claws were grabbed in the acid mist.
As soon as his body entered the acid mist, he was about to throw his claws again, but he heard the sound of wings flapping around him, and a large number of white beetles rushed towards him like a tide.
The beetles were all faster than he expected, and it seemed that the prey had escaped from its mouth just now, which had provoked the beetle's madness. At this time, the speed of the swarm attack was so fast that it was in front of you in the blink of an eye.
With so many beetles, I was afraid that they would devour Han Daring in an instant. Frightened, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he bit his tongue ruthlessly, and squirted out a mouth full of hot blood with a stream of dantian qi from his mouth.
He was in an excited mood, and as soon as the blood in his mouth spurted out, it instantly turned into a blood mist, and the countless beetles that had originally pounced on him immediately turned to pounce on the blood mist.
Seeing the opportunity, he immediately threw the flying tiger claw upward, and the flying claw broke through the fog and hooked on the iron cable of the stone pillar at the bridgehead.
Seeing him spit out a mouthful of blood, Mei Ruohong thought he was seriously injured, and hurriedly asked:
"Are you hurt? Where's the injury? ”
Han Daring said:
"It's okay, it's just biting my tongue!"
This is the experience of the moment I have just told you. He also informed everyone of the situation of the stone tower he saw outside the city under the acid mist.
Fan Channel:
"If there is no exit from this stone building, then we will be trapped in it when we go down, and we will be in the same race as falling into the well!"
Wang Weihan said:
"Nope! Ahem...... Since the rope bridge leads here, there must be a way out...... cough cough cough ......"
He had ventured into the fog before, inhaling a lot of acid mist, so he couldn't stop coughing when he said a few words.
Mei Ruohong Road:
"The top of this stone building is above the acid mist, if you don't go down from the inside of the stone building, you have to climb down from the outside, we can't stand those white beetles!
Besides, in ancient times, how could the soldiers who escorted prisoners or sacrifices return, they couldn't be executed with a sacrifice! ”
Everyone stood at the head of the bridge, turned around and looked at the entrance of the black hole in the stone building, and could only bite the bullet, turn on the flashlight, and walk towards the stone building.
When I walked into the stone building, I found that the top of the stone building was open to the sky, but there was actually no roof. And the stone building is not layered, there is no floor of the partition, just around the inner wall of the stone building, there is a circle of downward stone steps, the middle is from the top straight down, the top of the stone building has a diameter of more than ten meters wide, the more down the stone building space will be, the diameter of the stone floor stratum is forty or fifty meters, the whole looks like a huge chimney that is big and small.
The stone steps next to the wall are wide enough to accommodate three or four people walking side by side. The stone building exposed above the acid mist does have several layers of windows, but when I shine down with a flashlight, I see that there are no doors and windows under the entire stone building, but the bottom of the stone building is not dim.
Everyone walked down the stone steps only to find that there were many luminous crystals embedded in the inner wall of the stone building, which were like the white luminous crystals on the top of the cave in the underground world, but the walls of the stone building were uneven, looking like sepiolite, full of small holes.
Unlike the towers in the labyrinth, the walls are not inlaid with gold and precious stones, and there are no stone murals.
Walking all the way down the stone steps, everyone felt very smooth, since they came to this underground world, they were full of dangers and dangers, as if they had never been so stable and comfortable, and after a while, everyone had come to the bottom of the stone building.
This stone building is octagonal as a whole, and the inner wall also has eight sides, among which there are two huge circular concaves on the opposite two sides, and the concave circle is also engraved with the three-in-one emblem pattern of the Sanyang Sect, and there is no other carving ornament.
The bottom floor of this stone building, except for a circle of aisles at the edge, is a huge circular empty pool in the middle, with a diameter of about 40 meters, similar to a swimming pool, but there is no water in the pool, only some light white traces, as if it has been vacant for a long time.
The empty pond was four or five meters deep, and the bottom of the pool was not flat, but was lined up with round stone eggs of the same size. Shaped like eggs, one next to the other, all of them are placed upright, and each size requires two people to hug each other.
Mei Ruohong used a flashlight to shine at the stone egg, and found that the stone egg was covered with large and small holes. She climbed down from the edge of the pool to the stone pebbles below.
She stepped on the stone pebble and leaned over and used her flashlight to shine a light at the hole in the stone pebble. Some of the holes were the size of a thumb, and she took out a handkerchief and pinched a peanut shell-like thing at the edge of the hole.
Mei Ruohong knocked on the stone egg with a pickaxe, and found that the stone egg was hollow, so he knocked it a little harder, but the stone egg cracked in response. The stone eggs cracked open to reveal the inside, but it was a dry film with holes in it, which looked like a beehive.
She shone her flashlight and pinched out a tiny membranous wing from between the cracks in the stone eggs. There is also a small white carapace on the mmenaceous wings. She pondered for a moment, then stood up and shone a flashlight on the inner wall of the stone building, carefully observing the surrounding environment, and then thought quietly for a while, and then said after a long time:
"I thought, I know what this place is!"
Everyone was puzzled, and they all looked at Mei Ruohong, only to hear Mei Ruohong say:
"This empty pool is supposed to be the waterboarding on the mural of the tower!
Presumably, there was a large amount of acid in this pool, and it was the stone eggs below that produced this acid! ”
Han Daring said:
"These stones produce acid?"
Mei Ruohong shook his head and said:
"It's not! These stones are supposed to be the nests of bugs. The white beetles we saw in the acid mist may have been among these stone eggs.
The liquid secreted by these insects is mixed with water and becomes an acid pool for execution! And these bugs must also be in acid to survive.
Later, as the years go by, the acid here will become acid mist, and I don't know what is special about the terrain here, so the acid mist has been hovering in the sky for a long time. And the beetles that originally lived in these stone eggs also flew into the acid mist high in the sky with the volatile acid.
The reason why the walls in the stone building are uneven and full of small holes is because of long-term acid volatilization! The ancients who built this place should have estimated that the acid pool was too corrosive, and if the wall was carved and inlaid with gold murals, it would soon be eroded, so it was not bare on the inner wall of the stone building.
After the white beetles rose into the air, they gradually adapted to the environment of the acid mist. Since then, it has been living in the acid mist, and constantly secreting acid substances and mixing with air volatilization, making the area of those acid mists larger and larger.
If the beetles need enough nutrients, I think in a few hundred or thousands of years, the entire underground world will be completely engulfed by acid mist and beetles, and no one will be able to enter this underground world again! ”
Wang Weihan said:
"What if...... Ahem, what you speculate is true, did the ancients who built these ruins want to destroy this place? ”
Han Da'er said:
"I think this is probably something that the ancients did not expect! They probably didn't expect that the acid pool used for execution would cause such a big disaster, otherwise they wouldn't have allowed the acid mist to erode and destroy the ropeway bridge......"
Before Han Daring finished speaking, the ground suddenly shook under his feet, and then, a huge explosion was heard in the distance......