Seeing that Shang Buqi was in pain, Ning Cui was bold, and also stepped forward to stab the oil umbrella in his hand, and joined forces with Shang Buqi to attack these crawling monsters. With the swing of the iron ruler and the oil umbrella, it only took a meal to kill all the fifteen or sixteen crawling monsters on the spot, and Xie Yixiang was shocked, and for a while there was an illusion: it seemed that compared to these crawling monsters, Shang Buqi and Ning Cui's actions were more terrifying.

After the two of them finished destroying this group of crawling monsters, seeing that there was no other danger, Shang Buqi took the lead and went to the crypt to check. Since the entire crypt was filled with water, the trio had to cling to the plants and trees that grew on the shore of the lake and walked along the stone walls around the crypt. Along the way, I encountered several crawling monsters rushing out of the grass and trees, all of whom were killed one by one by Shang Buqi with an iron ruler, and then pushed aside the grass next to them, and suddenly revealed a bloody skeleton, looking at the length of the body, nine times out of ten it was the guide Sadik who came down alone before, and sure enough, he had become the food of these crawling monsters.

The three of them walked out of a large circle around the lake, and did not find that there were other ways out of the four walls of the crypt, let alone any hidden passages, so it can be seen that this is clearly a dead end. Coming to this conclusion, Shang Buqi pondered for a while, and said with some frustration: "I understand, these crawling monsters in the crypt are actually human ...... No, it should be said that 'once' was human. ”

Originally, according to Shang Buqi's speculation, these reptilian monsters were mutated from people, and their ancestors were trapped in this crypt hundreds or even thousands of years ago, because they didn't know that there was a mechanism leading to the tomb above in the corridor, and there was no other way out of this crypt, so they could only live next to this dark underground lake, feeding on grass and trees and fish and shrimp in the lake. It has been passed down from generation to generation, and in order to adapt to the living environment here, the bodies of future generations have gradually mutated, which is why the three of them have seen these crawling monsters today.

Although Xie Yixiang and Ning Cui were skeptical of Shang Buren's speculation, he said that there was no other way out here, but he was afraid that it was true. The four walls of the entire crypt are black rock walls, and the three of them beat them all along the way, they are all solid rocks, Xie Yixiang and Ning Cui even carried out light work, climbing all the way to the top of the crypt to check, but still found nothing. When the three of them returned to the vicinity of the walkway, they looked up and found that just above the entrance of the walkway, the rock wall of the crypt was clearly inlaid with stone beads the size of seven wine glasses, and they were arranged in the direction of the Big Dipper.

Shang Buqi hurriedly climbed up to check, carefully explored for half an hour, and finally just sighed, pulled off the stone beads one by one, and said angrily: "It turns out that it is just a decoration, it is not a mechanism at all!" Ning Cui next to him muttered: "From the tomb above to the aisle below, I haven't seen a decoration along the way, so it can be seen that these stone beads are inlaid here, there must be another mystery, but we haven't thought of it yet." ”

Xie Yixiang stared blankly at the pool of lake water in the crypt, and muttered: "No matter what the origin of these crawling monsters is, if they usually feed on the fish and shrimp in the lake, then the underground lake in front of them will never be a pool of stagnant water." I once heard a master say at the foot of Poyang Lake that heaven and earth are divided into yin and yang, and all things have positive and negative, in addition to the rivers, lakes and seas on the ground, there are actually underground water veins deep underground, which is the so-called 'undercurrent'. If my guess is correct, there must be a channel under the lake that connects to the undercurrent of the underground, and maybe it is the outlet here. ”

Shang Buqi groaned: "It's not that this is not impossible, it's just ......" He stretched out his hand and pointed to the corpses of those crawling monsters in the corridor, shook his head and said: "It's just that between the fingers and toes of these crawling monsters, there is a thick flesh membrane, obviously to facilitate climbing." You must know that people can also survive in the water, and since this cave is a large lake, they can inhabit the shallow water of the lake, so why bother to climb the stone walls around the cave? ”

Xie Yixiang frowned and said, "Instead of being trapped here, it's better to take a risk." Shang Buqi hurriedly shook his head desperately and said, "I don't understand water. Ning Cui also shook his head and said, "Don't look at me, I won't swim." Xie Yixiang glanced at the two of them, and there was no other way for a while, and she couldn't really be trapped here, so she had to take off the fur on her body, put on a single dress and step into the lake, and said, "I'll dive down and take a look." ”

It is said that although this place is deep in the ground of the northern vein of the Tianshan Mountains, the lake in front of you is not too cold, and there is even a faint warmth. Xie Yixiang bit the back of the knife with her mouth, and cautiously walked towards the deep water, and when the water surface was not above her neck, she took a deep breath and plunged into the water.

You must know that Xie Yixiang grew up in Suzhou Water Town since she was a child, and her home is near Taihu Lake in the west of the city. At this time, with the help of the torches of Shang Shang and Ning Cui on the lakeside, Xie Yixiang under the water can vaguely see the shape in the clear water by virtue of the magic power of "poor thousands of miles". I saw that the water of this pool of lake is not deep, the deepest part is only four or five zhang deep, the bottom of the lake is densely covered with black aquatic plants, and there are many strange-looking fish shuttling between them. She circled around the bottom of the water, but found nothing unusual, so she surfaced and breathed, swam in the direction of the center of the lake, and dived into the water again from the center of the lake.

In this way, she was far away from the firelight on the shore of the lake, and this time she dived into the depths of the lake, and it was pitch black all around, and it was hazy and difficult to see. Fortunately, it didn't take long for her to notice a few small bubbles rising from the bottom of the lake, and following the bubbles to the bottom of the lake, she peeled away the covered aquatic weeds, revealing a few deep holes the size of wine glasses in the rocks at the bottom of the lake, where those bubbles came from.

Xie Yixiang was about to investigate carefully, when he suddenly felt that the water around him was tight, and his eyes were dark, and it seemed that some behemoth had swam from the water. She knew that something was wrong, and she didn't care about anything else at the moment, so she hurriedly held Chaoli in her hand and struggled to swim towards the lake. She turned around in the water to look, and suddenly saw the body of a big fish appear in front of her, which was the thickness of a grinding disc and covered with dark black scales. Xie Yixiang suddenly came to her senses: What kind of big fish is this, it is clearly a giant snake covered with scales!

To say that such a stout giant snake, in the depths of the Han Tomb on the shore of Poyang Lake that day, Xie Yixiang had also seen one with his own eyes, even several times thicker than the one in front of him, and it was said that it was still some ancient divine beast "fat relic". It's just that I didn't expect that there was such a big snake hidden in the lake at the bottom of the Tianshan Mountain, which was unexpected. Frightened, she hurriedly swam towards the water, and then with a "poof", she finally got out of the water.

Xie Yixiang didn't dare to stop for the slightest, and used all her strength to swim towards the fire in the hands of the lakeside merchant and Ning Cui, and shouted in her mouth: "Snake! There is a snake!" Who knew that she had just swam a few feet away, and suddenly heard a loud noise from the water behind her, stirring up a large splash of water in all directions, as if some behemoth broke out of the water. Where did Xie Yixiang dare to look back? Just swim forward desperately, and at the same time shout at Shang Buqi and Ning Cui on the lakeside: "Help me!

Who knew that Shang Bu on the stone wall by the lake just looked blankly behind Xie Yixiang, his whole face began to twitch, and then he screamed, dropped the torch in his hand and ran out. Ning Cui also had a pale face, trembling all over, but she still stayed in place, seeing that Xie Yixiang was still three or four zhang away from the lakeside, she was in a hurry, chopped off the branch of a metasequoia tree by the lake, and threw it into the lake, just in front of Xie Yixiang.

Xie Yixiang stretched out her hand and pressed on the branch, and the whole person had already escaped from the water with her strength, and then raised her foot and stepped on the branch fiercely, and the branch sank to the bottom of the lake, and she jumped up with her strength and flew towards Ning Cui from mid-air. When Xie Yixiang came closer, Ning Cui saw that she was still a few feet away from the lakeside, so she hurriedly handed over the oil umbrella in her hand, let Xie Yixiang in mid-air grab the tip of the umbrella, and pulled her back to the lakeside stone wall in one fell swoop.

Unexpectedly, at this life-and-death juncture, Shang Bu gave up and only cared about his own life, and it was actually the "face-tearing demon" Ning Cui who saved his life. Xie Yixiang was shocked, and hurriedly turned his head to look at the behemoth that came out of the water, and sure enough, it was a big snake the thickness of a grinding disc, cruising around on the surface of the lake, and then raised its body obliquely from the water; the part of its body that poked out of the water alone was four or five zhang long, and it was almost about to touch the rock wall on the top of the crypt.

With the light of the torch in Ning Cui's hand, Xie Yixiang could see clearly. I saw that the body of this big snake was three feet from top to bottom, and there was clearly a pair of claws, hanging obliquely on both sides of the body, about the size of a horse's legs, but its appearance was like an eagle's claws; For a while, Xie Yixiang couldn't help but blurt out and scolded: "Green shoulder salted duck eggs! What kind of snake is this, this ...... Is this clearly a dragon?"

(End of case)