Immortal Sand Sea Chapter 44: Funeral Beads
The group did not pass the rope bridge at the same time, because they didn't know whether the bearing capacity of the rope bridge could bear the weight of us standing on top of it, and the members of the expedition team passed first, and then Professor Yang and Xiaowan, and I broke off with Qiangzi.
"Huazi, did you hear a sound?" Halfway up the rope bridge, the hadron asked.
"Voice? What was that? "I don't understand.
"It's like a widow's crying and mourning, and it seems to come from the other end." As he spoke, he pointed his hand towards the other crossing at the front of the rope bridge, and I shone a flashlight into it, leaving only a black patch, and I didn't hear any sound.
"You're just too tired, wait until we get out of the forbidden cave and let you sleep for three days and three nights to make sure you're fine." I'm back.
I still remember the night when Liu Ertou in the next village drank and died suddenly, and his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who had not yet been in the cave also hanged themselves, I and Qiangzi went to catch up with the excitement but were scared half to death by the hanged widow who was dragged down with a long tongue in red clothes, and during that time Qiangzi also always said that he could hear the widow crying, I think at this moment eighty percent is too nervous to make his hearing a little problem, maybe the crying sound he refers to is the sound of the water flowing in the underground river.
Safely passing through the rope bridge, there is a winding dirt road that leads to the dark river several meters high, we taste the clear and sweet underground spring, accidentally pick up the burning wooden sticks and return to the rope bridge, ready to pass through the hidden hole in front of which I don't know whether it is natural or artificially dug.
After entering the cave entrance, the road ahead seems to be getting narrower and narrower, and there are some crystal particles on the walls of the cave that glisten in the light of the fire, which is extremely beautiful.
"Be careful, don't touch anything." There are many traps that have been opened by us along the way, and at this time I am vigilant, this shining substance is like a trap leading us into the crisis.
Walking along the narrow cave for more than ten meters, the front suddenly became spacious again, but I always felt that every place in this dark cave was full of weirdness.
Suddenly, Qiangzi turned around and whispered, "Huazi, there is a situation!" ”。
"What's the situation?"
"Look up!"
I looked up, and the hole had somehow become so deep that we seemed to be at the bottom of a cliff, and at the top there were blue eyes that moved from time to time.
I turned on the flashlight and swept it up, and it turned out to be a huge number of bats hanging upside down, because their black bodies were hidden in the dark cave, and I suddenly thought it was some ghostly blue gleaming eyes staring at us.
"Damn, it turned out to be a hanging rat, and it almost scared Lao Tzu." Hadron breathed a sigh of relief.
Bats are cold-blooded animals, like to live in dark and cold places, eat insects and other small creatures, never attack humans, but also have to be careful not to disturb them, all the creatures in this forbidden cave seem to have changed, become bloody and brutal, maybe they will send an air strike at us.
"Hurry up and get out of the dark hole." I remind you.
At this time, I don't know who stepped on an empty jar or something, and made the sound of porcelain cracking, and the bat overhead suddenly became irritable and flapped its wings to make a "chirping" sound, and it was at this time that I also heard the sobbing of the resentful woman in the mouth of the strong son.
The bats swarmed down as if commanded, and swooped straight at us, biting through the coat on my cuff chest with great speed.
Zhao Xudong waved a burning wooden stick and knocked the bats to the ground one after another, and these bats let out ghostly whimpering, and there were more and more of them. Gradually I felt a little overwhelmed, and the cry from the abyss was getting closer. Looks like I'm going to finish playing here tonight, and I regret that I was too impulsive to break into this hellish place with my friends.
"Ahh Li Gou left a scream, and several bats directly tore open the flesh in his arm, and blood flowed directly from his arm.
Cold-blooded animals are usually unusually sensitive to warm blood, and they become more ferocious when they smell blood.
The bats were still attacking us, and Chen Laogou suddenly stepped on the air and fell to the ground, and the flashlight in his hand was thrown out of the distance. At this moment, as if they had received some order, the bats turned to the bright light of the flashlight to attack. It dawned on me that these bats were equally sensitive to light.
I asked everyone to turn off the flashlight, and at the same time asked Zhao Xudong to throw the torch as far as he could backwards. As the torch swirled in an arc of fire in the air, the bat circled straight behind it, plunging itself into the fire like a moth to a flame.
"Fuck this is too hanging," Hadron cursed as he ran, and we hurried forward, the hordes of bats still swooping down on the flames behind us to launch rounds of "suicide attacks" until they were scorched.
People always feel tired and painful when they are relaxed, and after escaping from the dark hole, Li Gouyu began to moan and scream incessantly, and the pain distorted his face slightly, and his face turned pale.
Li Bei, who has been the head nurse for a few years, tore open Li Gou's remaining sleeve to check the wound, there were two blood marks on it, and pus pockets had bulged around the tooth marks.
Li Bei said that he had to do anti-inflammatory treatment immediately, otherwise it was likely to cause serious infection, but in terms of the current situation, he could only be bandaged simply and try to withdraw from the forbidden cave as soon as possible.
"Look!" Professor Yang shouted, and then my eyes shifted from Li Gouyu's wound to the direction Professor Yang was facing, and the ground in front of him was filled with all kinds of clay pots, the size of a person, and behind these clay pots was a hidden stone door.
I approached the large clay pots, each marked with a different symbol, and when I tapped it with the back of my hand, there was a dull sound, as if something was inside.
"Professor Yang, what do you say is here?" I asked.
"It should be a human, this is probably the place where the god Pyra refines the elixir of immortality."
Startled by Professor Yang's words, I hurriedly left the clay pot, and the strange appearance of a dead body soaked in the experimental liquid popped up in my mind, and I almost vomited.
At this time, Xiaowan called me, but I didn't hear clearly, and I couldn't hear it clearly when I called her louder, but she said with a puzzled look on her face that she didn't talk to me at all.
"What age is it, and you still use this way to set porcelain." Zhao Xudong sneered.
But I heard her call me just now, could it be that I have the same nervous tension as the strong son and caused a problem with my ears?
When I was about to continue the discussion with Professor Yang, I saw that he walked forward alone without saying a word.
"This Professor Yang is also a bit of a god, don't listen to his nonsense, this jar really contains people who don't smell like they are turning the sky." Hadron approached me and said.
Since Professor Yang had taken the lead in entering, we had to hurriedly follow, and Qiangzi helped Li Gouyu up, it seems that he wants to be a good person to the end, and vow to take a pennant to serve the people.
We then entered the stone door, which was also a boxy burial chamber, but it was much smaller than the previous one, and the walls of the tomb were lined with clay pots next to each other.
Professor Yang stood in the middle of the tomb, staring at the mural on the tomb wall.
"Professor Yang, what did you find?" Lao Tong asked there, but Professor Yang didn't pay attention to it, and just took out a piece of parchment from his backpack.
"Found it, found it!" He exclaimed excitedly, and we hurried closer, and from his notes, we did see exactly the same painting as the one on the tomb wall.
"You cultural people like to go around the bend, what's wrong?" Hadron asked.
Professor Yang gave a simple explanation, which means that the mural in this tomb is very similar to the pattern drawn in the parchment, and the parchment came by chance from a foreign friend of his, and there are three words on the parchment: Wuxian Mountain, which shows that the Jinpila civilization and the land of Wushan have a close connection, and the most important connection is the refining of immortal medicine.
I immediately remembered the scene when I first met Lao Tong, who told me about the alternative civilization in the village of Busol in Inner Mongolia, and even mentioned the legend of Wushan and the elixir of immortality.
"Lao Tong, is this Wuxian Mountain the Wushan you said?" I opened my mouth to Lao Tong.
He touched his chin and nodded: "Eight or nine is not far from ten, this is just the right way to connect the ancient immortal medicine on Wushan and the legend of the god Piluo." ”
Looking at the murals in front of me, it looks like a schematic diagram of the process, from left to right, depicting people lying on their horizons, beads fed to their mouths, corpses immersed in clay pots, and disc-shaped objects flying out of the Hump Mountain.
I subconsciously reached out and took out the red bead in my pocket, and finally knew that what Lao Tong said about this bead was to unlock the clue to the disappearance of the Piluo civilization, and the one in my hand was probably one of the immortal elixirs developed by Piluo.
"Professor Yang." I handed the beads to Yang Yaozhong, he took the beads with trembling hands, his face was very shocked, and suddenly he grabbed me by the collar and yelled like crazy: "Why you? Why you? ”