Tan Xiao and Shi Ji are two people, but now they have a third pair of hands.

The fingers of these hands are short, but thick...... It was mainly made of stone, and the two of them happened to be making a fire in front of this stone statue at the moment to barbecue meat.

So it's already clear whose hand it is.

Shi Ji subconsciously stretched out his hand to the spear beside him, but before he could hold it, his hand was stopped by talking.

He let out an "um", a little confused.

Talk about the chief, this is not to let yourself do it?

But this living gargoyle is right in front of you, so don't let you do it?

Just when he was puzzled, he heard Tan Xiao and replied softly: "This day, it is indeed a little cold. ”

The gargoyle who was standing had already squatted down, and some stone chips had fallen off his body, "It's so cold, you guys are still traveling overnight, where are you going to go?" ”

Tan Xiao replied: "The brothers are going to go to the other side of the mountain to see if they can go to some goods and beg for food." ”

"Do you need to bring so many small treasures for the goods?" The gargoyle asked.

The iron tools used by Tufuzi to dig graves, such as chisels, hammers, and iron sticks, are collectively referred to as Xiaobao.

Tan Xiao replied: "This is not Xiaobao, I am a stonemason, so it is normal for a guy to carry some food with him." ”

"Oh? Are you a stonemason? ”

The gargoyle seemed to have some spirits, he stood up again, pointed to his feet, and said, "I am trapped on this stone, since you are a stonemason, can you free me?" I can't thank you enough. ”

It was the first time Shi Ji had seen such a ghost, and when he looked down, he saw that the gargoyle's feet were indeed buried in the ground.

But the stone he spoke of was not seen, and it was probably buried in the earth.

"Then I'll take a look at it for you."

Tan Xiao looked at Shi Ji and said, "Second brother, dig up this side first." ”

"Okay."

With the experience of the last time, Shi Ji brought a small shovel.

The gargoyle just stood still, watching them dig under their feet.

After digging it up, Tan Xiao also saw the situation under the gargoyle clearly.

Not a stone, but a huge pillar of stone, which the gargoyles were carved out and placed on top of the statue.

Seeing this, he looked up again, and he wanted to see what was going on in the middle of the air.

But when I looked up, the night was dark, and I couldn't see anything clearly.

He scolded his mother in his heart, but he also guessed a rough idea.

The formation of this line of heaven and earth is probably after the construction of this tomb.

"Hello, can you let me out?"

The gargoyle seems to be very polite.

After Tan Xiao reacted, he looked at his feet and said, "I need to understand the previous situation before I dare to do it." ”

"There are some lines under your feet, which seem to be a bit exquisite."

The gargoyle thought about it after hearing this, but still told the truth.

"Actually, I was put here to watch you Tufuzi, and now the people inside already know that you are coming."

"So I advise you to go."

When Shi Ji heard this, his eyes immediately widened, so we were still deceived by ghosts?!

It's normal for me to be deceived by ghosts.

Can the Taoist still be deceived by ghosts?

How is this possible.

Shi Ji turned his head in astonishment, but found that Tan Xiao was already laughing: "If you don't tell them, I may not be able to figure out which entrance to enter." ”

"But now...... Poor Dao can only say thank you. ”

After laughing and talking, the hammer smashed into the chisel, and in an instant, the chisel was nailed to the gargoyle's neck.

Shi Ji didn't see how hard he worked.

But the moment the chisel hit the gargoyle's neck, a crack appeared in the stone.

The gargoyle's head slipped.

His hands, which were still active in the fire, also instantly stiffened and completely turned into stone.

But this time, this gargoyle did not become a longevity treasure after his death.

"This ancient country is really interesting."

When he said this, he looked up at the canopy again, and he faintly guessed the origin of this ancient country.

This ancient country is not a false dream.

But like him, he comes from the middle ninth-rate world.

"Dao Chief, what's going on with this gargoyle, isn't it a ghost?"

"No, it's a puppet."

"Sorcererers?"

Shi Ji thought about it, and after making sure that he didn't understand, he didn't ask.

"Eat, hurry up and finish eating and we're on our way."

Talking and laughing, he stuffed the dry food into his mouth in a few sips, picked up the kettle next to him and poured several sips of water, and then forcibly swallowed it.

The same is true for Shiji.

After a few quick bites, the two of them each drew a pine wood from the fire and used it as a torch, packed their bags, and set off again.

Talking and laughing to lead the way, the two did not run up the mountain again this time, but directly started rock climbing.

Prepare to enter the tomb through that hole in the stone wall.

The stone wall is probably formed by the collapse of the cave, so it is not steep, and in many places it is similar to a gentle slope.

It took about half an hour, and the first conversation and laughter had already climbed to the entrance of the cave, Shi Ji grabbed Shi Yan with both hands, jumped suddenly, and climbed up.

The cave is deep, and there are wisps of wind blowing from here, and even the flames on the torches are beating.

Shi Ji subconsciously shuddered, "Dao Chief, this wind seems to be a little weird." ”

Talking and laughing, who had always looked relaxed, reached out to calculate it at this moment, and his face became a little ugly.

"Wait, we'll go in when it's dawn."

"Okay."

The wind at the mouth of the cave was too strong, and the two of them retreated again, and rested for the night on the gentle slope down the mouth of the cave.

Following.

The dawn is slow, the sky is covered by dark clouds, and the sky is always groggy and bright.

After getting up, the two of them finished resting and climbed up to the entrance of the cave again.

As soon as he came up, he stopped the stone table that was about to go forward.

He looked at the ground and said in a deep voice, "Last night when we were sleeping, something came out and watched us from the entrance of the cave. ”

"You didn't even notice it, Daoist?"

Shi Ji looked down, and he also saw a pair of tiny footprints on the ground.

The footprints are not big, about the size of a person's palm, four fingers, obviously not human.

"We took turns keeping vigil and didn't notice it...... This thing should be able to isolate detection, and the sound of footsteps is almost non-existent. ”

Talking and laughing, his nose moved slightly, sniffed, turned his head to look inside, and said, "There should be water inside, let's go in and have a look." ”

Near the entrance of the cave, the light was still shining in the ground, so the two of them did not light torches.

But as they went deeper and deeper, after walking about thirty or forty meters, it was completely dark, and the two of them were forced to light the torches.

I didn't go far, and in the sight of talking and laughing, the road became a river.

The road that had been straight forward was cut off by a horizontal road, and the road was completely flooded.

The water was dirty, like stagnant water, and it was black and smelled rancid.

The two of them were standing on the shore, and they could see a stain of water under their feet, apparently left by the thing that had come out of here last night.

"I guess I can only go into the water, and that thing comes up from the water."

Shi Ji held the torch in his left hand, and thrust the spear into the water with his right hand, but most of it was still on the water, and he pulled it out and tried it in a few nearby positions.

Finally, he put the spear back and drew on himself, "The water is not deep, probably only up to our waists." ”

"Either we'll go straight over, or we'll go back and get a boat and come back."

"There's no need, just go over there."

He was also very decisive in talking and laughing, and carried the bag behind him a little higher, and there were many things in it that could not be soaked in water, and then he also held a torch in one hand and a short sword in the other.

He led the way, so he went into the water first, and it was cold.

After soaking through his clothes, he couldn't help but shudder, "Go to the right, that thing is coming from this side." ”

Shi Ji also held a torch and followed closely behind him.

There was no trace of the bottom of the water under their feet, so both of them walked very slowly, carefully testing the situation with the soles of their feet.

After making sure that this foot is okay, I can move forward boldly with confidence.

After walking for about ten meters, the road turned around, and Tan Xiao finally saw a hole in front of him that could go ashore.

But at this moment, he suddenly raised the short sword in his hand.

Shi Ji, who was walking behind him, also immediately stopped.

"There's something coming down the water!" Talking and laughing is extremely keen, and he immediately senses the movement under his feet.

In addition to the ripples of the water caused by him and Shi Ji, there was also a wave under his feet.

Suggesting that something else is stirring the waters as well.

Holding a torch in his left hand, he brushed across the water, and soon he saw a dark shadow flash under the water.

Almost instantly, it was at his feet, directly wrapped around his thigh, and tightened violently.

And he was strangled down.

It's a snake, a big snake!

Although he was attacked, he did not panic, and threw the torch to the opposite shore with his left hand, and stabbed down with a short sword in his right hand.

Not only him, but Shi Ji also reacted extremely quickly, and the moment the big snake came out of the water, he stabbed out his spear.

The spear pierced the serpent's neck, and the short sword of laughter also dug out a large piece of flesh from the serpent.

The giant snake was in pain, and directly let go of the talk, struggling, and knocked down the stone table again.

It swayed and vanished to the other side of the water, only to muddy the spot and leave a large trail of scarlet blood in its wake.

The two of them gasped and got up from the water, "Let's go, go ashore first, hurry ashore." ”

Tan Xiao swallowed his saliva.

He is not afraid of any weird and evil things, and he is not afraid of ghosts.

But this kind of real, hard-to-resist thing can really kill him!

Fortunately, after the big snake passed, there was nothing else under the water for the time being, and the two of them quickly crossed the waterway of more than ten meters, and finally came back to the stone road.

The stagnant water was stirred and muddy, and at the same time it emitted a strong stench.

Filled with this narrow corridor, it makes people almost sick.

"Let's go, get out of here first."

Tan Xiao vaguely felt that this waterway should not be so simple, and immediately regardless of the water stains and cold on their bodies, the two of them each held torches and went deep into the stone road.

Fortunately, not long ago, they saw a pile of dead wood on the side, and there were some traces of charcoal and ignition next to it.

"Left by the seniors?" Shi Ji was surprised.

"Probably so."

Because not far from this life, there is also a pair of white bone skeletons.

"Sir, let's dry our clothes before leaving, don't hurry."

At this time, if the wind and cold are contracted in this tomb, it is a matter of human life.

Not only that, just now in the waterway, talking and laughing, lying down, wet the bag he was carrying.

There are a lot of things in it, and they have to be dried at the moment.

Shi Ji also knew this, and began to make a fire in response.

Tan Xiao held a torch and leaned over to the white skeleton to look at the senior.

He just watched for a while, and Shi Ji had already set up a fire, supported his torch to light the fire, and he came over.

"This man's leg bones are broken, and the vertebrae in his lower back are black, obviously poisoned."

"That snake ...... just now"

Shi Ji instantly understood, when the big snake attacked Tan Xiao, he also used this trick, if it wasn't for Tan Dao Chang's quick reaction, he felt it in advance.

Maybe he's going to lie here right now......

"Hmm."

Tan Xiao bowed slightly, "There should be a tomb keeper in this tomb." ”

"Grave keeper?"

"Shouldn't all grave keepers live outside? The grave keeper here lives in the tomb?! Shi Ji's expression was a little surprised.

Tan Xiao turned around and put the torch into the fire, and at the same time took off his jacket and set it up and began to bake, "Only those who live in the tomb are considered tomb keepers, and how can there be tomb keepers who live outside." ”

"The big snake just now was raised by the grave keeper."

After saying that, he took out the contents of the bag and checked them to see which ones could be used after drying.

But what the two of them didn't know was that it was in the waterway they had just waded in.

At this moment, the water surface is more than a foot higher than before.

And at the bottom of this water, a huge black shadow is slowly swimming forward.

Its body was almost as large as the stone tunnel, and as it passed through some of the narrower places, the scales on its body would rub against the stone walls, making a "hissing" sound.

It wasn't until the two of them went into the water that the black shadow slowly poked its head out.

A hideous snake head the size of a millstone, with bright red scales and armor, and a ball of flesh faintly appeared on its head, like a single horn.

The copper-sized eye turned, and it swallowed a scarlet snake letter, and after a moment it retreated, hiding its head, and disappearing into the waterway.

"Talker, do you feel that this fishy smell seems to be a lot heavier?"

Shi Ji frowned, smelling a little uncomfortable.

Tan Xiao has already sprinkled realgar all around, and he is not very panicked, "It may be that there is a tunnel wind blowing, normal, it will be fine in a while." ”

He looked at the few rune papers that he had drawn before, but at this moment, they were soaked in water, and the pen and ink on them were scattered, obviously useless.

The two of them had been here for an hour, and after drying all their clothes, they had eaten something before continuing their way into the depths.

The original pine wood was almost burned, and the two of them sharpened the tail and nailed it into it with a fir stick.

It has become a veritable torch.

After walking more than ten or twenty meters forward, big cracks have begun to appear in the ground, and the original corridor has collapsed a lot.

After the two of them drilled through a narrow crack in the stone, the corridor disappeared completely, leaving only stones mixed with barely able to pass through the stone crack.

"Looks like there was a big hole here before."

"Well, the stone statue at the beginning, and the waterway just now, were all formed because of the hole in the ground."

After talking and explaining, he drilled up a boulder again, and found that there was no road ahead.

"The front is completely blocked."

Shi Ji also reached out and pushed the boulder, but he didn't move.

Tan Xiao looked at the ground with a torch, and sure enough, in a sunken hole in front of the right, he found a pitch-black shaft.

No way?

How could there be no way?

There is the breath left by the magic puppet messenger here, and there is definitely a way.

"Untie the rope, and we'll go down here."

"Okay."

As he spoke, Shi Ji took off the hemp rope he was straddling diagonally, and when he talked and laughed, he carried a stone down and listened to the echo of the stone falling to the ground.

"It's not deep, about thirty or forty meters, and the rope is enough."

Shi Ji tied one end of the rope to a boulder, pulled it, and only looked at Tan Xiao after making sure it was safe.

"Dao Elder First or Me First?"

"I'll go down and have a look."

After talking and laughing, he wrapped the rope around his waist, grabbed it with one hand, and prepared to go down with the torch in the other.

"If there is a situation later, remember to pull me up."

"Don't worry, Dao Chief."

He waved the torch, and the stone walls he saw along the way were covered with moss, and in some places there were unknown white flowers, and the fire shone in the past, and those small flowers were closed, as if he was afraid of being burned.

There were no horizontal stones in the shaft, all straight down, and he made his way to the bottom of the shaft with great ease, and with a torch, he soon found a new passage in front of him.

The tomb has reappeared.

"It's okay, come down."

After laughing and shouting, he waved his torch and prepared to walk forward into the tomb.

But after only two steps, he suddenly stopped.

Because...... Shi Ji didn't reply.

Normally, Shi Ji without the addition of an undead ghost is still very easy to speak, not to mention that the two of them have already spoken.

Therefore, if Tan Xiao called him, he would definitely reply.

But now, he's silent.

Tan Xiao hesitated for a moment, retreated to his place, looked at the rope hanging from the ground, and looked up again.

The fire at the mouth of the shaft is still there, indicating that the torches are still there.

But only the torches existed, and the stone tables were not there...... That's it.

"It's time to come down."

The conversation and laughter were louder, but there was still no response.

He had to grab the rope with one hand and pull it gently, but there was no reaction, he pulled it harder, and now there was a reaction.

The whole rope fell off.

And with it falling at his feet, there was one more thing.

He swept away the torch, and what was tied to the other end of the rope and thrown down was a hand, a grown man's right hand, and Shi Ji's right hand.

Tan Xiao recognized it, because there were still traces on this arm that were scratched by charcoal when the stone table was just roasted.

The arm was cut off with the shoulder attached, and the knife was very smooth.

There is not the slightest extra wound.

Only one cut.

Even the belt is still bleeding, indicating that the hand has just been cut off.

Tan Xiao looked up again, the torch above had been extinguished, only pitch black remained, and in a trance he seemed to see a grimace and laughing.

But in the blink of an eye, there was no more.

It's an illusion.

He took a deep breath, his eyes became calmer, and he muttered something interesting on his lips, but he was thinking about it in his heart.

If Brother Dao Xuan is here, I'm afraid things will be easier.

……

"This is the wanderer."

On the top of a cliff, Mr. Qi pointed to his feet and said.

Li Daoxuan poked his head out to look at it when he heard this, and said, "That cave should be halfway up the mountain." ”

"Drop the rope, let's go down."

(End of chapter)