Chapter 134: The Altar
After walking a short distance, I walked out of the corridor, and a huge stone platform appeared in front of me. It is not accurate to say that it is a stone platform, but it should be said that it is an altar.
Because it is surrounded by inscriptions, the handwriting in many places may be a little blurred because of its age, but it does not affect its interpretation of its own origin in the slightest.
In the center of the altar, there is a skeleton sitting cross-legged, looking at his hands together, Miss Tang speculated that he was very likely to be a Buddhist monk during his lifetime.
But what makes people feel strange is that there are two thin chains at his collarbone, which stretch far away, and I don't know where they lead, so I guess that's why he sat here.
Tang Zixi couldn't bear it for a while, and silently began to recite the mantra in his heart.
However, she may have forgotten that if this skeleton is an enlightened monk, and he really has an obsession, how can she recite the mantra of the past few times to resolve it? Moreover, the deceased is like this, this skeleton does not know how many years it has been sitting here, either it has long dissipated into heaven and earth, or it has long been reincarnated.
The big man had already climbed up to the altar by this time, walked up to the skeleton and knelt down and kowtowed a few times, and then felt a box from his side and jumped down from the altar.
Tang Zixi looked at this white jade box, and always felt that there was an indescribable aura on it, and he hesitated to take it.
Seeing that she refused to take it, the big man turned to look at Xiaobai.
Xiao Bai was very simple, jumped directly on the big man's arm, stretched out his little paw and patted it on the jade box, and chirped twice in his mouth.
Tang Zixi hesitated and said, "Are you sure you want me to open it?"
One big and one small nodded.
Tang Zixi was helpless, so he first rushed to the skeleton on the altar with his hands together and recited a Buddha name, and then wiped his hands and took the jade box. As soon as I started it, I found that it was extremely light, far less heavy than I imagined.
She rummaged through the box for a long time, but she couldn't find a place to open the box, and the whole box seemed to be made naturally.
She was a little embarrassed and said, "I can't open it." After speaking, he handed the jade box to the big man.
The big man didn't answer and shook his head slightly. After thinking about it, he walked over and climbed up to the stone platform again, took a jet-black knife, and gestured at the jade box.
Tang Zixi was surprised and said, "You want me to split it?"
The big man shook his head, thought for a moment and nodded.
Tang Zixi was confused by him, hesitantly took the knife, and was about to draw down the jade box, but the tip of the knife stopped half an inch away from the box, and said with a wry smile: "Don't want it! This jade box must be the beloved thing of this monk, let's destroy it like this, isn't it good?" After speaking, he handed the box to the big man again, "Otherwise, you should return it, we are not greedy for other people's things." ”
A complicated look flashed in the big man's eyes, and finally he nodded and took the box, climbed onto the altar and was just about to put it down, when suddenly his body shook and the whole person rolled down, fortunately, he had thick skin and thick flesh, and then jumped up and rushed to Tang Zixi's side, looking around vigilantly.
Tang Zixi was also taken aback by this sudden change, felt the vibration from the ground, and shouted in panic: "What's wrong?" Before the words fell, Xiaobai had already shot out with a 'whoosh', and rushed straight to the dark place in the corner.
'Hiss-hiss-'
As the tremors wore off, an unpleasant sound rang out from all directions. Immediately afterwards, many green lights appeared in the dark place, and from a distance, they were actually dense, not to mention tens of thousands.
Xiaobai's screams sounded almost at the same time, and he didn't know what it was doing in the dark, but Tang Zixi felt a flustery for no reason, and hurriedly shouted: "Xiaobai, come back!"
However, although Xiaobai's cry at this moment is getting sharper and sharper, he just can't see it come back. Tang Zixi was anxious and wanted to walk over to take a look, but he was stopped by the big man when his body moved.
He shook his head at Tang Zixi, and then he strode towards the place where Xiao Bai was going.
Then a noisy sound sounded, in addition to Xiaobai's screams, there were more roars of big men, and one after another hisses.
It didn't take long for all the sounds to disappear.
Tang Zixi didn't know what they encountered, so he opened his mouth and called a few times but didn't hear a response, so he walked forward with his heart in one step.
She hadn't taken a few steps when she suddenly stepped on something slippery, and when she looked down, she almost fell to the ground on a pomp. What she stepped on was actually two entangled flat-headed snakes, and when she looked around, she was full of dense snakes, all of them had seen and had never seen them, all here.
Some of them were entangled with each other, some were tense and confronted each other, and some were looking up at Tang Zixi and spitting letters.
Tang Zixi hurriedly retreated, but fortunately, the snakes did not mean to chase her, and when they saw her leave their territory, they turned their heads and swam away.
While she felt lucky, she was also a little confused. Looking carefully at the ground under my feet, I found that there was a yellow line on the ground not far away, bounded by a line, and the snakes were all on that side.
At this moment, a fishy smell came in. Then the torches around the hall were lit up, and the entire hall suddenly shone brightly.
Only then did Tang Zixi realize that the place where he was was was actually a huge underground grotto, several times larger than what he had seen before under the sea of flowers in the Yin Yang Dao. A large stone forest is densely erected in front of you, and the top of the large or small stone pillars is full of large and small holes, which are all dark and do not know what is hidden, only occasionally flashing a pair of green eyes. Now, of course, she wouldn't think it was a light.
She inadvertently lowered her head, and suddenly she was so disgusted that she almost threw up. Except for the corner of the altar where she was located, the huge grotto was full of poisonous snakes, except for a few particularly thick ones wrapped around the stone pillars, and more on the ground, intertwined and wriggled on top of each other.
She suddenly thought of the big man and Xiaobai, so many poisonous snakes, wouldn't the two of them be more auspicious. A panic suddenly swelled up in her heart, and she mustered up the courage to shout, "Big man! Xiaobai!" The voice echoed in the huge grotto, and large and small echoes suddenly sounded in all directions.
The wriggling snakes suddenly raised their heads in unison and hissed, as if they were echoing her call. Some of the poisonous snakes were about to move at her, as if they wanted to swim over.
Tang Zixi was so frightened by this strange scene that he almost bit his tongue, and shouted with his hands: "Don't, don't come here!" Suddenly there was a sharp pain in the palm, and at the same time, the torch in his hand also fell to the ground with a clang, and when he looked down, he found that the palm of his hand was pulled with a long hole, and the blood was gushing out, and a lot of blood dripped on the ground, but it quickly disappeared.
However, Miss Tang did not notice this scene, but looked at the half of the wooden stick in her hand in a daze. I didn't expect the knife that the big man gave her so sharply, where is this knife, it's a treasure knife that sharpens iron like clay, but it's a pity that it's a little smaller, otherwise she can cut off a lot of poisonous snakes with a few random knives.
But this was not the time to dislike the size of a knife, and it was beyond her expectation that it could be so sharp.