Chapter 11: The Mysterious Skeleton
Yang Rui listened attentively, but he didn't see a sound for a long time, and thought that this cave was really deep. Raising the dagger glowing with the white fluorescence of fish scales, he couldn't see anything at all, but the growth of the giant tree roots around Zhilu Dao didn't seem to stop here, but extended vertically to the bottom of the ground, it seems that with the change of the years, the surface water surface has declined, and these behemoths that used to be on the ground have also extended their rhizomes to this underground water source, and continue to grow under the ground in order to survive.
Gu Yangrui guessed that the space he was in should have been a huge underground lake in ancient times, looking at the size of this rhizome, it must have been a vigorous plant at that time, and now with the changes of the years, it has been petrified and lost its original vitality, it seems that the water here has long been evaporated, but because it is deep underground, it still retains a trace of water attribute vitality. However, it seems that it is possible to reach the bottom of the cavern by climbing down the giant rhizome.
Yang Rui let out a long breath, glanced down cautiously, tied the glowing dagger to his wrist, and began to climb down.
The dark space was silent, and a little fluorescence danced up and down in the darkness, as if it might go out at any moment. Yang Rui crawled down with agility with his hands and feet, breathing steadily and at an even speed, so as to save the already small amount of physical strength, because he didn't know how long it would take to climb to the bottom. Sometimes when I am tired, I meditate and rest on the horizontal branches, and the further down I go, the stronger the vitality of the water attribute becomes, which also makes Yang Rui feel a little more comfortable.
has been crawling all day, coupled with the fight with the fire rat last night, Yang Rui is now exhausted, and even his eyelids are a little heavy when he meditates, and he finally fell down with a "click".
Originally, at that moment, Yang Rui felt that this time was the end of the game, but the next moment he found that he had fallen on a piece of fine sand similar to a riverbed, and it turned out that he had climbed very close to the bottom of the cave, and he struggled to stand up but fell down and fainted with a thud.
"Mom, Mom, Mom......" Yang Rui's consciousness seemed to return to one night six years ago.
That night, Yang Rui was meditating and cultivating in his room, when suddenly the door was slammed open, and it turned out to be Uncle Scar, who usually took him to the mercenary guild to play, rushed in, and rushed outside Yang's mansion without saying a word. "Xiaorui, don't talk and follow me!"
"Uncle Scar, what's going on!?" Yang Rui, who had a keen sense, found that Uncle Scar had now filled his body with vitality, his body was glowing with a cyan substance, a big axe was in his hand, and he was running at a very fast speed, and there seemed to be a sound of fighting on his roof at this time.
"Shhh Li Man's steps were not slow, and after a while, he ran out of the Yang family's mansion with Yang Rui, but he didn't mean to return to the Mercenary Guild, but flew in the direction of the north gate of Jiaocheng. There is a small forest on the side of the north gate, Li Man carried Yang Rui up a big tree, and at the top of the tree, there was actually a small wooden house made of wooden planks, which could not be seen from the outside at all due to the lush foliage.
"Stay here, if I don't come back to pick you up before dawn, it means safe, and go back to your grandfather directly after dawn......! You will know the Tao when you grow up. Li Man put down Yang Rui and explained a few words, turned around anxiously and ran towards Yang's mansion again.
Although Yang Rui is only six years old, he can also see that something is wrong, he has been messing with this Uncle Scar since he was a child, but it doesn't mean that he will stay obediently when he can't figure out the situation.
So Yang Rui looked at the twenty-zhang tall tree and climbed down carefully. When Yang Rui finally returned to the small building in the south courtyard of the Yang family, the sky was already white, and when he entered the east wing, he found his mother lying on the bed angrily, while his father was guarding the side with a sad and angry face. Seeing Yang Rui's father, he seemed to be taken aback, but then beckoned him to Yang Rui's mother's side.
"Mom, what's wrong with you?" Yang Rui shouted anxiously as he looked at his pale mother, tears already flowing down his cheeks unconsciously.
"Mom is fine, come over and let Mom see...... cough ......" Fang Rou reluctantly sat up with Yang Xiu's support, and gently stroked Yang Rui's fine black hair, "Well, it's okay, it's okay, my son is so good, my mother gave you a gift, come and take a look." As he spoke, he took out a pendant from his arms and brought it to Yang Rui, the pendant was fusiform, with two white crystals engraved with runes at both ends, and a dark black bead in the middle, which looked like an eye.
Fang Rou looked at Yang Rui lovingly, with tears in the corners of her eyes and said, "It's so good-looking...... Ruier, mom is useless, I've made you suffer for so many years......"
"No, Ruier is fine, Ruier only needs her mother. Yang Rui's eyes were red, and his hands were clutching Fang Rou's sleeves.
Fang Rou heard a burst of sadness, and tears flowed down her eyes, "Mom may be leaving...... Cough...... Rui'er, come here, mom has a few words to tell you......" Yang Rui hurriedly stepped forward and leaned over.
Fang Rou whispered in Yang Rui's ear: "This black bead is something that you brought to this world together when you were born, as long as you solve it, you can solve the mystery of your life experience, this matter is only known to our mother and son, please forgive my mother's selfishness...... Mom doesn't want your father to take risks...... Help your mother take care of your father......" After speaking, Fang Rou finally leaned back against Yang Xiu's chest and closed her eyes. Yang Xiu was already in tears at this time, and he couldn't say a word with his teeth clenched.
"Mommy, Mommy......"
Yang Rui stood up from a pile of fine sand violently, with a trace of tears in the corners of his eyes, and his soft eyes found that he was still at the bottom of this cave. Taking a deep breath, he stabilized his emotions, raised the fluorescent dagger in his hand and looked around, and at a glance saw the fire rat that had fallen from earlier lying not far from him.
For two days, before a drop of water entered, Yang Rui walked straight over, ignoring the smell of blood, and bit on the wound of the live mouse in one bite, frantically sucking the remaining essence blood in the body of this spirit beast. I thought that the vitality of this fire rat was really strong, and it was obvious that it was not dead when it fell, and the blood had not coagulated after a whole day. sucked up the blood of the fire rat fiercely, and Yang Rui actually had a feeling of pleasure, as if he had escaped death.
After resting for a while, Yang Rui got up and thoughtfully patted the corpse of the fire rat and said, "Brother Rat, Brother Rat, you can be regarded as saving me Yang Rui twice, and I am not an ungrateful person, and I will definitely put you in the ground later." ”
As he spoke, he dug a big pit in the ground with a dagger, and after thinking about it, he broke the head of the fire rat and took out a meat crystal that shimmered with a dark red shimmer, which is the essence of the spirit beast in the mouth of the mercenaries.
"These are the spoils of last night. As he spoke, he cut off a piece of fresh meat from the fire rat, wrapped it in a cloth, put it in his arms, and then pushed all the remaining flesh and bones into the pit and buried it. After doing this, Yang Rui clapped his hands and walked in one direction of the cave.
According to his observation, the water attribute vitality in this direction is much stronger than in other places, and it doesn't matter if you can find an outlet or not, it is very likely that you will find a water source.
After walking for a short time, he suddenly saw a huge skeleton in front of him, in Yang Rui's opinion, this skeleton was full of faint yellow vitality fluctuations, lying in this dark cave was very conspicuous, and the water attribute vitality seemed to be deliberately avoiding this skeleton flowing from both sides.
When I got closer, I was a little shocked, this was a snake-like skeleton that stretched hundreds of zhang long and dozens of zhang wide, with two pairs of wing-shaped skeletons growing on its body, a horn on the python-shaped skull, and empty eyes looking ahead.
Yang Rui stood in front of a rib-like skeleton at this time, stretched out his hand to touch this behemoth, the place where he touched was cold and smooth, there was no sign of weathering, and the bone marrow of the skeleton still flowed with very pure essence and blood energy.
In front of such a giant beast, human beings seemed so small, if it weren't for the skeleton lying here at the moment, Yang Rui would never have thought that he would be able to come into contact with such a creature so closely.
If there was still enough water for this huge underground lake, if this serpentine creature was still alive today, what kind of existence would it be? What kind of result would it be if he entered the territory of such an existence? Yang Rui had no fear at this time, but only a feeling of emotion for the changes of the ancient times, and even had a kind of affection for this strange beast that had once dominated the world.
Suddenly, there was a dizziness in front of him, and some images flashed in Yang Rui's mind.
A lush ancient forest, a huge azure lake as far as the eye can see, a giant python covered with pale yellow scales jumped hard from the waterway, did not splash the slightest wave, flapped the huge four wings and flew into the sky, the giant snake opened its mouth wide, a low "Panpan" sound came out, and the birds and beasts in the surrounding forest were suddenly frightened and fled in all directions.
A name flashed in Yang Rui's mind. After the sound of "Panpan", large and small blisters full of water floated around the forest, and the snake chirped again, gathered all the water together and threw it into the huge lake, and after two circles in the sky, it flew in one direction contentedly.
The image changed, Yang Rui saw the snake flying to the sky above a majestic building complex, at this time the human beings on the ground were looking at the sky in awe, and not long after a man flew out of a building, this person had silver hair and dark skin, looked like he was in his early thirties, dressed in a leather suit, and spread his hands as if he was talking to the snake about something.
Then, as if an agreement had been reached, the man turned around and returned to the city, only to see that everyone went home one after another and took out the containers full of clear water, and the snake roared, and the sound of "Panpan" sounded again, and the clear water in those containers rose like transparent water bladders.
The snake happily collected the clear water together, and a body of water hundreds of zhang wide formed in the air, and the water body was surrounded by a pale yellow film of vitality. After doing this, the snake urged the entire body of water to fly towards the huge lake of its lair!
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