Chapter 20: The Valley of Enlightenment
At the end of the passage was a huge door made of gray stone, and the man in the black robe, who had changed into a woman's face at the moment, pushed the stone door hard, but the door did not move. He put his ear to the door again and knocked hard, but there was only a short, muffled sound, and the stone door should be extremely thick. He looked around and found two circular grooves on either side of the door, which were supposed to be some kind of items that could be used as mechanisms to open the door.
He pondered for a moment, and remembered that shortly after entering the cave, the passage had split in two, and there was only a stone gate here. These days of treasure hunting, he can be regarded as having some understanding of the owner of the tomb, this person is extremely tricky, eighty percent of the key to open the stone gate mechanism and the stone door are placed in different places in the cave. If only one person comes, he chooses to walk on the passage to the stone gate first, and he will inevitably return in vain, and then find the key from the other passage, and find that he has to go back to the previous passage, even if this distance is not too long for the warrior, but there will still be thoughts of scolding the mother. Thinking of this, the man pursed his lips, and it was no longer known if it was the first time he had scolded the owner of the tomb.
The man saw that the other team from the Valley of Enlightenment had not yet arrived, and it should have not yet obtained the mechanism to open the stone gate, and it seemed that he still had time to prepare here for a while. He walked back into the passageway, took off the clothes of the Awakened Valley disciple who had been scared to death by himself, and changed himself. He found a white robe from his mustard seed and changed it to the corpse, patted the corpse's stiff shoulder, and said, "Say hello to your brothers and sisters in a while." He arranged the five bodies and smeared blood on his own faces, making them unrecognizable. After all the arrangements were completed, he smiled evilly, and his tricks to trick others were gifted or subtly obtained the true inheritance of the tomb owner.
As the man expected, another team from the Valley of Enlightenment found two stone balls at the end of another passage in the tomb, which were polished round and smooth, like two gray jades. It's just that their luck doesn't seem to be too good, and although they didn't encounter any danger in the passage, the mechanism where the stone balls were stored allowed a few people to drink a pot. First stepped into the stone room at the end of the passage, the man surnamed Ye led by him was worthy of being a person "favored" by God, and only this first foot set off the mechanism, and hundreds of silver needles as thin as cow's hair shot out of the wall, no matter how quickly a few people reacted quickly and agilely, they would still be shot all over the body. Although the silver needle is not fatal, the middle needle is instantly red, swollen and itchy as if it had been stung by a bee, and several people applied the anthelmintic medicine they carried with them to no avail. But seeing that the treasure was close at hand, Senior Brother Ye forced everyone to move on. The other people landed where they didn't trigger any mechanism, but the disciple surnamed Ye landed again and changed his magic. The ceiling of the cave instantly tilted down the viscous liquid, and everyone couldn't avoid being drenched, and everyone thought it was some kind of poison that corroded the skin or sealed the throat with blood, and when they closed their eyes and waited for death, they found that what was poured on their bodies was only pine resin-like oil, but it was extremely fishy, and after sticking to people, it would instantly weathered and full of toughness, and everyone could not take it off their bodies even if they slashed and tore them. A few people are like six amber who can walk, their bodies are red, swollen, itchy and painful, but they are wrapped in grease and cannot scratch them, it can be said that life is worse than death. Fortunately, several people finally got the stone box on the stone platform in the center of the stone room, but when they opened it, there were only two smooth and round stone balls and a piece of leather paper, the ink on the leather paper was somewhat faded, but it was still recognizable as the map of the entire cave, and the so-called map only drew two roads, one end of the road was a stone box, and the other end of the road was a stone gate. Senior Brother Ye analyzed that the stone ball was the key to open the stone gate on the other side, and several junior disciples should have been waiting on the other side, so they decided to lead everyone to the stone gate.
In the long and narrow passage, six embarrassed figures with a fishy smell struggled forward. The reason why the march was so difficult was not only because the whole body was like ten thousand ants biting and burning hearts, but also because the fat that had dried up outside the bodies of several people almost completely restricted the movement of the joints of several people, and the six people no longer had the vigor to come here.
A few people turned a corner and saw that not far away, one of their classmates was standing quietly facing the wall, and the young man surnamed Ye shouted, "Senior Brother Hu, what are you doing here?" But the person who was called still stood there without any reaction, as if he had not heard his senior brother's question at all.
The young man surnamed Ye led by "No" seemed to sense that something was wrong, he took a few quick steps forward, and several people behind him hurriedly followed. Coming to the man standing facing the wall, the young man surnamed Ye raised his hand with difficulty, patted the shoulder of the person in front of him stiffly, and asked again, "Senior Brother Hu?" Who knew that the man in front of him was slapped like this, and his head turned to the side of several people, revealing a bloody and unrecognizable face. The rest of the people were all defenseless and instinctively retreated, but as soon as they raised their feet, before they could take a step, Senior Brother Hu in front of them exploded with a "bang", and the smoke and dust filled the sky. "It's not good, cover your mouth and nose, it's a corpse worm. There was a reminder from the young man surnamed Ye in the smoke and dust, but several people were wrapped in grease all over their bodies, and their movements were already slow, and they were close to the bursting body, and they had already inhaled a lot of dust in an unguarded situation.
The so-called corpse worm is a kind of Gu insect raised by a tribe in Nanliang that advocates witchcraft. This insect feeds on the corpse, but when it gnaws at the corpse, it can produce a lot of flatulence in the corpse, the corpse is like a balloon that is puffed up, there is nothing abnormal in the appearance, but as long as it encounters an external impact, the corpse will burst instantly like a balloon being punctured by a needle, and the corpse worm will also explode, the smoke and dust formed after the explosion of the insect and the corpse is highly poisonous, although it will not be fatal, but it can make the poisoned person weak and dizzy in a short period of time, and lose his combat power, so he was later raised and used by many murderous forces.
The smoke and dust gradually dissipated, and the six people stood in embarrassment, leaning against or leaning against the stone wall. "A few juniors are afraid that something has happened, everyone be careful not to touch their corpses. The young man surnamed Ye coughed twice.
"Senior Brother Ye, otherwise, let's quit first, and when these things on our bodies are lifted, we will call the people outside to come in again. A disciple of the Valley of Enlightenment suggested.
"Yes, Senior Brother Duck, if someone ambushes us in front, I'm afraid we won't be opponents with the state of the six of us. The other chimed in.
"Go back? Go back and let those few wastes outside who are greedy for life and afraid of death see us laughing? Do you still want to count on them to help us? Besides, Senior Brother Hu's death is not necessarily man-made, maybe it was an organ, there is no trace of a fight here, and the rest of the juniors don't know where they are, if Senior Brother Hu just fell into the trap and died, and there happened to be a corpse worm in this organ? Wouldn't we scare ourselves? What's more, if someone really does something to us, since the other party chooses to use such despicable means to plot against us, instead of fighting us openly, it means that the other party does not have enough strength to defeat us, what are you afraid of?" Seeing that Senior Brother Duck insisted on going his own way, and it seemed that he had a high status in the Meditation Valley, although the rest of the people were slandered, they no longer said much
The few people continued to walk, and near the end of the passage, everyone saw five disciples dressed in the costumes of the Immortal Valley standing facing the wall. The six of them gasped at the same time, and sure enough, something happened.
"Senior Brother Liu Wei, who did this?" asked in a trembling voice, I don't know if it was because of the sadness of the tragic death of his fellow disciples or the fear in his heart.
When they came to the gray stone gate, several people breathed a sigh of relief without experiencing any danger. The six of them looked at Shimen, and then at the senior brother surnamed Ye, who was the leader. The haze on Senior Brother Ye's face was swept away at this moment, and he was already fantasizing about the scene of the treasure in his mind. He was about to step forward to investigate the mechanism, when the man who had been patting his ass by the waterhole suddenly pointed to the top of the stone gate and shouted, "Yes, it's Senior Brother Zhang." ”
When several people heard this, they looked up and saw a man in a white robe hanging from the ceiling and the top of the stone door, revealing a familiar face from the wide white robe, looking at everyone in horror. The rest of the people saw that they all retreated again and again, and at this moment their backs were already soaked with cold sweat, although there was no trace of wind in the passage, they still felt cold on their backs.
The young man surnamed Ye also frowned, but he didn't show the fear of the other people, he turned his head and scolded the few people behind him: "Some people are so afraid, when you came over just now, didn't you already see a few junior disciples killed?"
At this point, he seemed to finally realize something. He quickly turned to look at the five corpses standing against the wall along the way, and counted them twice, indeed five people. And just now, when they first came here, it was clear that Senior Brother Hu's corpse had been blown apart by the corpse worm. And the corpse of Senior Brother Zhang is hanging here, and the group of twelve people who entered the cave is divided into two ways, and each team should be six people, but at this time, there are actually six corpses here. He looked at the other five, and the others seemed to think of the same thing, and they all looked at him with trembling lips.
He thought about it again and again, but he still suppressed the urge to open the door immediately to get the treasure. He planned to take out hidden weapons or other items from his body to test these corpses, but his body was wrapped in thick grease, so he had to open the box containing the two stone balls, take out the stone balls and hand them to the junior brother who was good at patting his ass, and ordered a few people to retreat to the stone gate. Several people retreated towards the stone gate, but they couldn't help but feel creepy when they thought that there were still junior disciples staring at them above their heads, and no one dared to really lean against the stone gate.
The man surnamed Ye threw the stone box in his hand at one of the standing figures. With a "snap", the stone box hit the back of his head, and the corpse stood upside down, but the imaginary explosion did not happen. Standing next to this corpse, a figure dressed in the costume of the Awakening Valley was grinning at the wall at the moment, he cursed in his mind, and felt extremely lucky, if the person surnamed Ye just threw the stone box towards him, then wouldn't he have to suffer a loss. Although his expression and mental activity were wonderful, he remained motionless on the surface, pretending to be a dead corpse.
Several people in the Meditation Valley also looked at their Senior Brother Ye with some astonishment, just now Senior Brother Ye solemnly reminded a few people to step back, they all thought that the former was going to perform some earth-shattering stunt, but they didn't want to just throw a stone box over and knock down a corpse.
As if sensing the eyes of several people, Senior Brother Ye turned his head and pointed at one of them: "You, go and pick up the box." ”
"Ahh He didn't dare to get too close to the stone box and the corpse, so he squatted down with difficulty, stretched out his hand to reach the stone box that had fallen to the ground, but before his hand touched the stone box, a black shadow suddenly burst out of the chest of the fallen corpse, and swept over his throat in his defenseless situation. Before the man could make any sound, he fell to the ground on his back. All this was obscured by his own body, so that everyone saw him fall to the ground when he touched the stone box, blood gushing from his throat. A few people in front of the stone gate didn't know why, and they were all stunned. Coincidentally, the rope hanging from the white-robed Senior Brother Zhang broke at this time, and the corpse fell from the air, hitting the back of the sycophant disciple holding the two stone balls, directly knocking the disciple to the ground, and the two stone balls rolled out. The man was pressed under the stiff corpse, and his heart was already terrified, and he was trying to quickly crawl out from under the corpse, but his body moved, and the head of the passive corpse also drooped down, just facing his face, his cold and pale face, and he looked extremely hideous with the fear of death. The man cried out with a "wow", and his crotch was already wet.
"Giggles", the man surnamed Ye was just about to step forward and angrily scold this person for not showing up, but he heard a burst of laughter not far away. It made several people's hairs stand on end.
"Who is it?" The man surnamed Ye looked at the passage alertly, but there was no response.
"Senior Brother Ye, it seems that the laughter came from the corpse. A disciple reminded tremblingly.
"Nonsense, how can the corpse laugh? What the hell?" The young man surnamed Ye scolded casually, but it was okay not to have the second half of the sentence, a few people who had already been silent and were also afraid that it was a ghost, and when they heard this sentence, their faces were even more bloodless, and two of them also sat directly on the ground, unable to give up.
The young man surnamed Ye looked at the two fellow men who were paralyzed on the ground and fainted by the corpse, and wanted to scold them, but they also knew that it would be useless, and the courage of several people was afraid that they had been frightened. He looked at the only young man who was still standing with him and said, "You, come and see." The young man nodded, but he was not afraid, but he was also frightened by the six gods, and he just subconsciously obeyed the orders of the young man surnamed Ye. The young man surnamed Ye did not rush to pick up the two stone balls that fell to the ground, but came to the four corpses. He took a deep breath and pushed the standing corpse hard, and the corpse fell to the ground, waiting for a moment for nothing to happen. He frowned, pushed the second corpse, and it was still fine, he came to the third, and just raised his hand, his wrist was grabbed by something. He looked down and saw that it was the corpse's hand that was gripping his hand tightly, making it unable to move. He jerked his head up, and in front of him was a bloody woman's face, baring her white teeth at him.
"You, who are you?" The last courage of the young man surnamed Ye was finally completely swallowed up by fear.
"You don't know me, I'm from the Yuwen family, you just killed me not long ago, so you don't know me?" The woman's voice was hoarse and full of coldness, as if she was from the Nine Hells.
When the man heard this, the remaining blood on his face was replaced by fear and paleness, and he shouted hysterically, "No, it's not me who wants to kill you, it's him, it's his idea." As he spoke, he stiffly pointed with his other hand at the young man who was being pressed by the white-robed corpse.
The man smiled coldly and asked, "What kind of power is your Awakening Valley, where is it, why have you never heard of it?" It seemed that some information in the words stimulated the young man surnamed Ye, he actually regained some senses, he stared at the woman and roared: "You, you are not a ghost, you are not from the Yuwen family, you are a human, what kind of person are you?"
The woman frowned when she heard this, he didn't expect the people of the Immortal Valley to be so sensitive to their identity and power. A dagger flashed in his hand, brushing the man's throat without hesitation. If it weren't for the fact that the other party was covered in grease and had difficulty moving, he might not have been able to kill the other party so smoothly.
Seeing the female king coming, the disciple of the Immortal Valley who came with the young man surnamed Ye retreated, and said with a trembling voice: "I, I haven't done anything. ”
"Tell me, about your Valley of Enlightenment, I let you go. ”
The young man's eyes flickered, and he said, "Okay, it's a word." Our Meditation Valley is the force of Southern Liang, and in Southern Liang, our style of acting is extremely low-key, so there are not many people in the rivers and lakes who know about us, let alone in your Great Xia. ”
The person holding the dagger was stunned, he nodded and asked, "Then how did you get into Great Xia, so many of you entered the customs, it is impossible for the people at the border to be unaware?"
"Since last year, we have divided into several teams to enter the Tiger Leaping Pass, and every time we will mix in the caravan of Nanliang, we will only arrange one or two disciples for a caravan, all of whom will enter Daxia as charioteers or coolies, and some people will enter Daxia from the mountains. ”
"What is the purpose of so many of you entering Great Xia? You are the force cultivated by the Southern Liang royal family?"
"I don't know this, my identity doesn't deserve to know so much, I only know that after entering the Great Xia, someone will come to contact us and arrange tasks for us, my first task is to follow Senior Brother Ye here to hunt for treasures. ”
"Where are you going to gather after entering Great Xia?"
"Everyone's destination is different, and I was arranged to meet up with the others in Los Angeles. ”
"Luoshi City, that's where the state capital is located, you are really bold enough, where are you in the city, and what is the joint code?"
"In Yixiuxuan, there is no joint code, and each of us has a portrait of a joint person. That's all I know, you can keep your word and don't kill me, right?"
"I can not kill you, but it doesn't mean that you can live. A black lightning bolt burst out of the man's sleeve, and the Immortal Valley disciple fell to the ground. After a cup of tea, the black-robed man holding two stone balls stood in front of the stone gate, and he was a little looking forward to what he would gain this time.