Chapter 996: Suspension Vine Bridge
Yue Guanchao shone the flashlight on the huge abyss in front of him, the light reflected the waterfall, and the endless streamer seemed to be dragged by a monster, and was quickly dragged into the abyss, and there was still darkness in front of him, as if something was watching them in the dark, startling his numb scalp.
With the help of torches and flashlights, they gradually saw the scene at the end of the cave, where they were located, equivalent to a narrow cliff at the end of the cave, and the underground river water from the distance was completely poured into it under the height difference, forming a drop river similar to a waterfall.
Looking upwards, you can see that the rift valley is constantly splitting and widening, forming a steep stone wall that grows straight up and down, because it grows in the shade, it is full of slippery moss, and there are withered dead grass, and there are small cracks gushing out of the groundwater, and the water droplets continue to drip downward.
On the shore where they were, there were many plank paths that had been carved into the stone walls, which seemed to have been created from the stone walls, and there were gaps at intervals, like lookouts in the corridors, spreading from the ground to the top, and arranging randomly on the stone walls of the rift.
"Although the corridor here is not wide, it is a shortcut, which allows people to go up and down the corridor, and at the end is the side peak of Tiantong Peak."
After that, Mrs. Kui walked in front and led everyone into the corridor.
After a short period of darkness, the flashlight gradually gathered, and the entire corridor was built in the stone wall, except for the corner where it was slightly wider, the width of the rest was very narrow, only allowing two people to pass side by side, and a little more people were already unable to walk, plus they all brought backpacks, so they could only walk alone, walking in a long line.
The whole mountain is about a kilometer high, and it takes a lot of time to climb the stairs, and it is already two hours later when you go up.
Out of the corridor, they were already standing on the side of Tiantong Peak, there was more dense vegetation on the mountain peak than the cliff, it can be seen that the mountains are already full of verdant wild forests, and there are only less than 100 meters left from Tiantong Peak.
Because these side peaks are shaped like knives and axes, they are at least 100 meters away from the main peak, and when they look down, they are completely bottomless cliffs, and when they jump from here, after hitting the bottom, they see a huge rift, and if they want to pass to the main peak, they can only take the suspension bridge between the side peaks and the main peak.
Yue Guanchao stood at the end of the corridor, and it could be seen that the other side mountains were in a similar position to them, separated from the main peak by a huge rift, and only the rope bridge connected each other, shaped like an umbilical cord connecting the child and the mother, unless it was flown over, it was difficult to pass.
Due to the continuous spread of the water vapor of the small waterfalls everywhere, a layer of thick mist lingers up and down the rope bridge, as if through the gauze curtain, you can never see the situation of other side mountains, and you can only vaguely see the outline, they can't see the top of the mountain clearly, probably it is these fog that make the mound completely hidden.
Yue Guanchao picked up the stone on the side and threw it on the rope bridge at random, only to hear a click, the stone smashed the wooden plank on the rope bridge and fell into the abyss, they couldn't even hear the sound of the stone falling to the ground.
The longer the stone hits the ground, the deeper the rift, if you can't hear the sound of the stone at all, it means that the depth of the abyss has exceeded their imagination, everyone realizes this, and unconsciously fears that if this foot is stepped on the air, who knows where it will be washed away.
"The question is, how do we get there? I see that the wooden planks of this rope bridge have rotted and have been corroded by water vapor, and it is difficult to maintain its strength, so it is difficult to fly over it? ”
Yue Guanchao walked to the nearest wooden plank, and stepped on it slightly, and the wooden board had already decayed and fallen.
Xu Xiake proposed: "Why don't you try it with a climbing rope?" We fastened the chains and walked along the chains underneath. ”
Song Siyuan shook her head: "No, isn't the chain rusty?" The water here is too vigorous, and the chains are afraid that they have also decayed, since the ghost people have come to the mound for thousands of years, the old lady Kui should have a way. ”
After that, Song Siyuan looked at the old lady Kui, and the old lady nodded at everyone: "Indeed, the wooden board has been rotten for thousands of years, and it has long been impossible to use anymore, we generally use rattan bridges!" ”
"Fujihashi?"
The crowd was full of curiosity.
Mrs. Kui knew that they didn't understand what it was, so she took out the gourd around her waist and dripped a lot of transparent liquid near the iron cable, which looked like rootless dew.
Then, the bushes around them began to squirm, and many vines began to emerge from the grass, and these vines invariably intertwined with the iron cable, and soon completely covered the iron cable, and continued to push forward, but in a moment, the iron cable was already completely covered by vines, forming a vine bridge with vines wriggling.
"That's fine!"
Yue Guanchao's eyes widened.
Mrs. Kui explained: "These rattans are kept nearby by the ghost people, and as long as they spill the rootless dew, they will smell the rootless dew and intertwine with each other to form a rattan bridge. ”
"Can this go?"
Yue Guanchao looked at the vine bridge, these vines were like wriggling snakes, constantly twisting and moving.
Mrs. Kui knew that they were not very relieved, so she took up the ticket: "You can rest assured, these rattan bridges are only in the shape of iron cables, in fact, they rely on vines to pull each other to bear weight, and the rhizomes of rattan are nearly ten meters deep into the rock formation, which is much stronger than iron cables, and ghost people and plants have coexisted for thousands of years, and this ability is still there." ”
After that, in order to get rid of suspicion, she took the lead on the rattan bridge, crossed the nearly 100-meter rattan bridge and stood in front of the main peak mountain road.
Seeing that she was safe and sound, everyone walked up the rattan bridge to the opposite side and walked along the winding mountain road to the main peak.
Standing at the top of the peak, this is already the highest place of Tiantong Peak, and the center of the peak is the Beifu Clothes Tomb that they have been looking for!
Song Siyuan picked up the ghost map, compared with the current Tiantong Peak, it can be seen that the Beifu soldiers have made a lot of changes to the peak, the previous Tiantong Peak, the mountain shape is similar to the word "mountain", the shape is like a three-petal lotus, and the highest peak is especially round.
Today's Tiantong main peak, by the Beifu soldiers in the ground dozens of meters above the ground to knock out the "L" shaped gap, as if digging out a piece of lotus petals, the remaining main peak of the mountain shape like a "concave" shape, clamping the gap created by the Beifu soldiers, the mound is built on this gap, just hanging in the air.
If you look closely, you can see that the shape of the mound is very similar to the cantilever hall, and it belongs to the palace used as a sacrifice, and it is much more spectacular and elaborate than the cantilever hall.
The whole building is divided into three parts, in the "concave" shaped stone wall, the most central hall is the main hall in the shape of a heavy eaves hall, and the mountain walls on the left and right sides are similar to the nine-story pagoda style, like a pair of huge wings, protecting the main hall of the center.
Between the halls, there are two towers hanging on both sides of the main hall, and another corridor passes through the towers, directly connected with the pagoda halls on both sides, and the square between the pagodas, constituting a complete building complex.
If you look closely, you can see that the building is completely built on an "L" shaped gap, relying on the mountain walls on both sides, firmly fixed to the halfway of the main peak, and the vegetation near the gap is vigorous, and even the supporting pillars are covered with grass and trees, which makes it even more obvious that it is suspended on the mountain wall. ”