Chapter 31: Pressing Forward
The current situation... It seems that there is no other choice but to follow the ethereal Sasha all the way forward, and from the moment she gets into the hole in the tree, there is no turning back.
Although he couldn't figure out the mystery here, Jiang Ming's sixth sense told him: If you don't want to be buried in the ground forever, you must break the situation and be reborn and move forward bravely, the tributary of the Heishui River that you just swam through is just an underground dark river.
Now the mountains behind them, the vast sky, is also an illusion, as they continue to move forward, gradually recovering their original appearance...... It turns back into a solid layer of subsoil. Jiang Ming didn't need to look back, he had already "guessed" everything.
People sometimes need a little faith, even if it is an "assumption" set for themselves, despair and escape are sometimes more terrible than death itself!
Compared with Jiang Ming, the four beams and eight pillars are actually much more down-to-earth, with Brother Ming here, everything will be turned into a disaster, as long as they are obedient and obedient.
In fact, the reality of the situation is just as Jiang Ming guessed, it is right not to let everyone look back, outside the scope of the "light" of the Hades fire, everything is as before, and there is no so-called blue sky and black mountain! It's just that the group of cats is illuminated by the Hades fire, and what they see is different from reality.
Following Sasha, over one mountain after another, the little white cat walked into an extremely narrow valley, with cliffs on both sides, looking at it like a ray of sky!
After entering the valley, the rock mass on both sides has almost become a 90-degree slope, suffocating and depressing, giving people a sense of suffocating oppression, Heihuaqiang asked a little timidly: "Brother, this... Something is so wrong in this place. ”
Jiang Ming didn't speak, and continued to walk forward, Heihuaqiang swallowed and spit, and then said: "Look at the mountain wall, there are still a lot of dead people embedded in it, and there are rotten coffins, like compressed biscuits, like growing in the soil, I played in the countryside when I was a child, and I saw a lot of cemeteries, but I have never seen this kind of burial." ”
Of course Jiang Ming knows what is going on, the emperor has a history of thousands of years, and there are more buried here, the years go by, the leylines change, and the things in the ground will settle little by little, and the dead will definitely become compressed biscuits when they are crushed by gravity, but this is ..... He couldn't explain it to Brother Qiang.
"Big brother, it's okay, don't scare yourself, it's important for us to hurry!" Jiang Ming said firmly.
"Enh!" Black Flower nodded vigorously.
"Eh, have you noticed, the tanuki ash seems to be gone," said a cat behind him.
The other cat sniffed vigorously: "yes, its smell is gone." ”
......
The cats began to mumble and talk to each other.
"Don't talk nonsense! Keep walking! No one is allowed to look back!" Jiang Ming shouted loudly.
The cats trembled in horror, one by one did not dare to speak, and there was a warning sound from Brother Qiang's teeth, although they no longer spoke, but they seemed to understand in their hearts... The disappearance of Tanuki Ash must have something to do with not listening to Brother Ming's words.
Seeing that the brothers were really scared, Jiang Ming sighed: "You go ahead, and Brother Qiang and I break off." ”
As soon as they heard this, the group of cats rushed to the front as if they had received amnesty, but they were always close to Jiang Ming and did not dare to stay away.
The valley became narrower and narrower, and in the end, the cliffs on both sides were actually attached, leaving only a narrow gap in the mountain, 4-5 meters high, Jiang Ming visually measured, barely allowing a person to enter sideways.
Sasha naturally got in, and when she looked up, the inside of the gap was dark like ink, and the visibility was less than a meter..... Jiang Ming thought to himself, almost... I guess it's almost the end.
He was just about to go inside, but Brother Qiang grabbed him, his body trembled and said: "Brother, at the beginning, our drilling the tree hole was a trap, I don't know where we were brought here, if we continue to move forward, will it be another pit." ”
Jiang Ming pretended to be calm and said with a smile: "Big brother, whether it's a pit or a trap, we're all here, it's better to completely uncover the mystery, anyway, there is no way back now." ”
Hei Huaqiang sighed a little sadly: "That's right, instead of starving to death in this underground world, you should also be a ghost, and dying in a nest is not the style of the old man." ”
As soon as the boss showed despair, the group of cats panicked all of a sudden, trembling one by one, although they didn't dare to look back, they didn't dare to go any further.
In order to encourage the morale of the army, Jiang Ming patted Hei Huaqiang's shoulder and laughed: "What is not dead, don't worry, with me, everyone is fine!"
With that, he strode into the crevice of the mountain, followed by the other cats, the space was so narrow that it could accommodate a person at first, and in the end, it was difficult for a cat to pass through, and if it wanted to go forward, it could only be lined up in a long line.
The cats were very embarrassed, neither dared to go to the front, nor dared to stay at the end, and the inexplicable disappearance of the raccoon ash caused a great psychological shadow for them.
In the end, Jiang Ming and Heihuaqiang discussed, Heihuaqiang took the front to open the way, and after Jiang Ming broke off, everyone lined up in a line and continued to move forward.
Jiang Ming was left alone in the end, he didn't have so many scruples, turned his head and glanced back, although he had already prepared in his heart, he was still shocked into a cold sweat, but when he saw that the narrow mountain crack was really closed, it became a dense rammed earth.
"Everyone speed up!" Jiang Ming shouted from behind, the group of cats didn't dare to slack off, and quickly moved forward, but before he walked more than ten meters, Brother Qiang snorted violently, and all the frightened cats retreated!
"Big brother, what's wrong!" Jiang Ming asked in surprise.
"Ahead, dude... There are so many dead people up there!" Black Flower replied.
Jiang Mingyi frowned, and said in his heart, what is the black flower strong? You are a cat, what dead people are you afraid of? Are there still few dead people you have seen along the way?
"Don't be afraid, big brother, I'll go over and take a look!" With that, Jiang Ming stepped on the backs of other cats and rushed to the front, and when he saw the situation in front of him, his legs were also weak and trembling, and he almost didn't fall off the shoulders of the king of Nanyuan.
But at the end of the gap in the mountain, it suddenly opened up, and a vaulted stone hall of several hundred square meters appeared, and the center of the stone hall ..... There is a terrifying Jingguan Bone Tower!
The so-called Jingguan refers to the ancient war, the victorious side cut off the head of the enemy's dead body and piled it up into a tall wall or square tower to show off its strength and deter the enemy!
In ancient wars, hundreds of thousands of people were used as bricks, and the nature of Jingguan was also "tall and majestic", and later because it was easy to break out of the plague, it did not appear again in later dynasties.
And the Jingguan bone tower in front of him is completely beyond Jiang Ming's imagination of the bottom line of fear, not only because of the rows of skeletons themselves, but each skeleton has miscellaneous hair, although the skin and flesh are rotten, but the hair is still the same, weaving each other, making the entire Jingguan neat and "beautiful"!
What made him even more creepy was that the eye sockets of these skeletons were not black holes, there seemed to be eyeballs in them, which were still moving.
"Old... Dude, this... What the is this?" Black Flower couldn't even speak.
Jiang Ming swallowed hard and spat, although his heart was pounding wildly, he still tried to suppress his negative emotions and stay calm!
"Big brother, don't panic, this is not a ghost," he said, and jumped from the shoulders of the Nanyuan King into the stone hall.
Jiang Ming looked up, but when he saw this tower, it was really high! The arched stone hall was four or five meters long, and the skeleton tower was straight through the earth and stone embedded in the top floor, and what was exposed in the hall was only the tip of the iceberg.
The surrounding cave walls were uneven, not like they had been dug by hand, but on the convex surface of the roof of the hall, there were dozens of black holes of different sizes, like the nest passages of some animal.
These black holes, the small ones are only the size of a fist, and the big ones are ..... It can allow a person to get in, dense or sparse, there are no rules......
Jiang Ming didn't dare to approach the Skull Tower, still pondering, when suddenly, a cat's scream came from behind him, and the group of cats suddenly rioted.
"Boss, save me, save me!"
"Holy, what's going on?"
"The eighth child's feet are embedded in the stone!"
"Oh my God, the road behind is blocked, what a trap!"
"Run!"
"Eighth child, work hard!
......
The situation was chaotic, Jiang Ming hurriedly ran back to check, and when he saw the situation in front of him, a cold sweat came down all of a sudden.
But I saw that King Kong Laoba, who was hiding at the back, had a cat tail and a leg unknowingly, and it was embedded in a huge rock, as if it grew in it, and it couldn't be pulled out!
Jiang Ming's mind was buzzing, he reminded the brothers just now, it caused such serious consequences!
He ran to the eighth child, bit the back of his neck and dragged it out desperately, and the other cats also rushed to help, but it was useless, the eighth child's feet were firmly fixed, and he couldn't pull it out anymore!
Jiang Ming was scared, this... It seems to be a little different from what he imagined at the beginning, he always thought that he was Hades Fire, shining on the so-called illusion, and entered the underground world step by step, however, the reality was much more cruel than he thought, and the "Hades Fire" was swirling, unable to let the closed passage open again!
"You all hide in the hall!" Jiang Ming shouted, and the group of cats swished into the hall, leaving him and Brother Qiang in the gap.
"Brother, I can't pull it out, and now the only way to save Lao Ba is to bite off his leg!
"Brother Qiang, you save me, save me, I don't want to break my leg," King Kong Lao Ba cried miserably, tears and snot flowed down together.
Brother Qiang is a decisive cat, he can't help the eighth child continue to grind, and he is about to rush up and bite off the eighth child's cat leg, but Jiang Mingden found the crisis, bites Heihuaqiang's shoulder fiercely, and drags it back desperately!
Originally... The gap was further closed, and half of the eighth child's waist was already buried in the stone, if Heihuaqiang rushed over to bite his leg just now, the brain melon seeds would be embedded in it, and the consequences would be unimaginable!