Chapter 72: Yuan Hong's Trick
There are crocodiles in the river!
I was so frightened that I let go of the current and let the current wash me away, or I would have been bitten by a crocodile in no time!
Seeing that I was in distress, the drunken maniac jumped into the water and raised his knife to slash at one of the crocodiles.
He also jumped into the water and stopped the two crocodiles behind me, but one crocodile pounced on me and gave chase. I'm just flesh and blood, how dare I fight with a crocodile in the water, the only way to survive is to escape, run as fast as I can downstream, hoping to get rid of the crocodile's pursuit.
Suddenly!
I saw several crocodiles swimming from underneath and getting stuck in the middle, and I was so scared that I didn't know what to do.
Seeing that I was about to be bitten to death by a crocodile, Bai Shuangshuang suddenly appeared on top of me, and with a lift of her wrist, a cloud sleeve shot out of her sleeve, tightly wrapped around my waist, and then pulled me up with a hard pull. As soon as my feet left the water, the crocodile appeared below me, jumped out of the water, opened its bloody jaws and bit at me!
Bai Shuangshuang snorted coldly, aimed at the crocodile with a palm, and the crocodile, which was more than two meters long, was slapped sideways and flew out, fell into the water and splashed a large amount of blood, and motionless let the water wash away. When I landed on the shore and looked at a few crocodiles in the water, I was still terrified, it was so dangerous that I almost lost my life.
"Master, you are so weak!"
Retracting his cloud sleeves, Bai Shuangshuang said to me with a smile: "The heroes I have seen, all of them can tear apart tigers and leopards and fight against brute bears, you have to work hard, otherwise how can you afford to raise me!"
Belch!
I'm a little depressed, but Bai Shuangshuang is right, my strength is indeed too weak.
In the past, Master taught me a lot of kung fu, but I didn't practice it carefully, and many of them were abandoned by me, and now I think about it, I really shouldn't be.
Although I am now a ghost keeper, ghost slaves are not omnipotent, just like the current situation, no matter how powerful the drunkard and the devil are, they can't save my life, and people still have to rely on themselves in the end. I swore in my heart that as long as the curse of the bone flower was solved, I would definitely pick up the wasted work again.
These are ordinary freshwater crocodiles, and the ghosts and drunken maniacs are all masters who are extremely good at hand-to-hand combat, and under their attacks, the crocodiles are dead and fleeing, and they dare not entangle anymore.
"Keep going!"
After calming down, I said to everyone!
This place is very weird, and I have a vague feeling that this is just a small episode, and there will be more and more terrifying things to encounter later.
Yuan Hong continued to lead the way in front.
After this stone bridge, there is a dark and damp underground crack, and in some places there are traces of artificial excavation.
Apparently, someone has taken advantage of this crack in the ground to carve out a walkable path.
"Be careful!"
Walking in the cracks, Yuan Hong whispered to me: "There are poisonous snakes everywhere here, all of them are highly poisonous, and you will die if you bite it!"
I'm the only one of us who is really afraid of poisonous snakes.
I tied my trousers well, and even if I accidentally stepped on a poisonous snake, it would be a little bit of protection. It's limited, but it's better than nothing.
Wei opened the way directly in front of him, releasing some of his breath, and more than a dozen poisonous snakes sprang out of the crack in the rock, fleeing towards the depths of the crack, not daring to get too close to Wei. Seeing so many venomous snakes, I suspect that someone deliberately stocked them here, like crocodiles in underground rivers, which belong to a double trap.
If a Taoist priest breaks in, he will definitely not be afraid of the resentful spirits in the underground river, but once he falls into the water and is attacked by a crocodile, he will probably be dead. It's the same here, if you accidentally let a poisonous snake bite you, without the right antidote, no matter how high your cultivation is, you will inevitably die.
There was a bad way to open the road ahead, and there was no danger on the way, and we made it to the end of the crack very smoothly.
At the end of the crack, I saw three more doors, one black and one red, inlaid in the stone wall. These three stone gates were exactly the same as the ones we encountered in the corridor, and I walked over to take a look and found that there were also words engraved on them.
On the first black stone door, three words were written: It is difficult to be a ghost.
On the second red stone door, three words are written: It is difficult to be a man.
On the third colorful stone door, there are also three words: it is difficult to become an immortal.
The stone door that read "It's hard to be a ghost" was pierced with a large hole, enough for two people to pass side by side.
Seeing the hole in the black stone door, Lu sighed softly and said to us, "This is what Tianyi people forcibly penetrated!"
I shone it with a flashlight, and the pierced stone door was two meters thick. I picked up a piece of a stone gate and checked it, it turned out to be made of hard granite, no wonder it could trap so many people. Probably only a peerless person like Tianyi can smash this door with one palm.
Seeing the hole in the door, I suddenly felt a little glad in my heart, fortunately I chose such a path, otherwise such a stone gate would be enough to trap us inside.
Passing through the stone gate, it is another tunnel more than ten meters long.
On the other side of the tunnel, a large cave appeared, and there were very obvious traces of artificial excavation in the cave, shaped like a small circular square.
In the middle of the small square, there is a three-meter-high sacrificial platform, on which is placed a three-legged and two-eared bronze tripod, which faintly exudes a smell of blood.
"This is the place of sacrifice!"
Seeing this big ding, Yuan Hong hurriedly said to us: "Let's go, the exit is not far away!"
Sacrifice?
This is obviously a prison, why is there a place of sacrifice?
Seeing this bronze tripod, Bai Shuangshuang's face suddenly became ugly. She strode towards the altar, jumped up, kicked the bronze tripod over, and from the mouth of the tripod flowed a lot of bright red liquid, and a disgusting smell of blood came to her face, worse than the spoiled pork liver.
In addition to the blood, there was some flesh and bones in it.
Holding back the nausea in my heart, I walked over to inspect it and found that there was still a complete palm inside the rotten flesh. The human hand is well preserved, the wrist seems to have been bitten off by something, and the broken place reveals bright red flesh, I think this person has not been dead for a long time, no more than two days at most, otherwise the flesh will rot quickly after soaking in such bloody water.
The tripod is a sacred ritual vessel, a bronze tripod, how can it contain such a disgusting thing?
Wrong!
This thing is a lunch box for food!
The tripod is now a cultural relic, and in a slightly more distant ancient period it was a ritual vessel used for sacrifice, but in a more distant era, the tripod was a vessel used to cook food, just a kind of kitchen utensils.
"Who is the sacrifice?"
Seeing this fresh human hand, Bai Shuangshuang walked up to Yuan Hong and questioned very coldly!
"I don't know!"
Yuan Hong was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he shouted pitifully: "I'm just a little person, I don't know anything!"
"You'd better not lie to me!"
Bai Shuangshuang stared at Yuan Hong's eyes and said coldly: "Otherwise, you will definitely regret it!"
Can't!
Can't!
Yuan Hong cowered and dodged, and was extremely scared of Bai Shuangshuang, running desperately in front of her, trying to distance himself from her.
"Stop!"
At this moment, Lu Ye glared at Yuan Hong, walked to the bronze tripod, pulled out the palm with his claws, and examined it very carefully.
After checking the palm, Wei's face also became extremely ugly, it suddenly rushed towards Yuan Hong, threw it to the ground, put its mouth on Yuan Hong's head, and roared angrily: "You'd better tell the truth, otherwise I'll swallow you in one bite!"
What's the situation?
I'm a little strange, why did Wei and Bai Shuangshuang target Yuan Hong at the same time, is this guy lying to us?
"I... I really don't know anything!"
Being pressed under him, Yuan Hong shouted pitifully: "I'm just a little minions, I... ”
"Minions?"
Yu's voice suddenly became very cold, and he said angrily: "In other words, you still have the boss?"
This...
When I said this, I immediately realized that the situation was very bad, and it was very likely that Yuan Hong had lied and deceived us and led us into a terrible trap!
"I... I dare not say!"
Yuan Hong trembled with fright, but his mouth was still stiff and unwilling to speak!
"I'll count three!"
Lu stared at Yuan Hong's face and said calmly: "If you don't say it, then you will die!"
Three!
Two!
The voice of the man was extremely cold, and there was a terrible killing intent on his body, it was by no means a joke, but a real fire!
"I say!
When he counted to two, Yuan Hong was so frightened that he hurriedly said, "My boss is a ghost tiger!"
Ghost Tiger?
I'm not a stranger to this thing, last time in Hutou Mountain, we were ambushed by the masters of the corpse raising faction, and several ghost tigers appeared, killing the masters of the mountain hall and retreating. Each ghost tiger has a terrifying power comparable to that of a green ghost, and it is very difficult!
Yuan Hong didn't dare to hide it anymore, saying that every time he caught a living person, he would only leave a little bit of flesh and blood for himself, and all the rest would be filial piety to the ghost tiger as food. If it is a master that he can't deal with, he will find a way to trick him into this small square, and the ghost tiger will kill him personally, and then share a little blood to eat.
Bastard!
Hearing Yuan Hong say this, I was so angry that my nose smoked, and I pulled out the Buddha bone dagger and prepared to kill him!
"A person who cultivates Buddhism, how can he be so short-tempered!"
At this moment, a deep voice came from the stone gate!
I looked back and saw a blood-red ghost tiger walking out of the black stone door, its huge body directly blocking the way out. The ghost tiger's gaze fell on us, and he said with a smile: "Yuan Hong, the food you brought today looks delicious, and this king likes it very much!"