Chapter 31: "Rise to the Coffin and Make a Fortune"
The moment Li Hang saw the white shadow in the corner of his eye, he was pounced on by it, and he didn't have time to react at all.
Horrified, he desperately tried to dodge, but he was still hit by the shadow.
His body shuddered, and a cold aura appeared on Li Hang's body, quickly spreading to his mind.
"Hiss ......"
Just when the cold aura on his body just touched the edge of his mind, a mirror in his mind flashed with golden light, and he heard a terrible scream in his heart, and then there was no movement, and the cold aura also dissipated with the scream.
Li Hang moved his slightly stiff body, twisted his neck and flicked his tail, feeling that he was fine, so he was a little relieved.
Although he didn't know what the ghost was just now, the fear that was so powerful that he couldn't resist it made him feel palpitations for a while.
If it weren't for the mirror in his mind that he used to exchange the bloodline of the exercises, the encounter just now might have been his last consciousness.
Although he has always known that this evolutionary task system called "reincarnation" is very powerful, the kind of powerful existence that is almost impossible to appear in reality is powerless in front of a mirror that is only used as an exchange platform, and this intuitive impression has given him a new understanding of the power of "reincarnation".
When the stiffness of his body was completely dissipated, Li Hang realized that he was not out of danger yet, and if he couldn't find a way out, then he could only starve to death here with the little clouded leopard.
Li Hang didn't believe that "Samsara" would kindly send him water and food during the normal progress of the mission.
Worried about the cat Xiaomi at the "center point", he carefully probed the vicinity of the cave entrance.
In addition to the huge corpse, there were only a few fluorite ores and stalactites hanging down.
He remembered the plots that had appeared in those novels, and wanted to find out if there were any treasures such as the legendary 10,000-year-old stone stalactites and thousand-year-old stone stalactites among these stalagmites.
But the reality gave him a slap in the face, not to mention that it had been thousands of years, and he hadn't even found a drop of water.
Sure enough, the novels are all deceptive, how can there be so many adventures!
After he tried to enter the cave and still be able to return to the previous cave, Li Hang cautiously walked towards the darkness behind the fluorite.
After walking for a while, he suddenly felt that the originally dry air seemed to become a little damp.
He hurriedly ran a few steps and heard the sound of "murmuring" water not far away.
Li Hang has not entered a drop of water for several hours since he entered the gap in the mountain wall, and has experienced many terrifying encounters during this time, and he has already been thirsty.
He hurried in the direction of the sound of the water, and it didn't take long to find a bottomless underground river.
He endured the thirst in his mouth, carefully looked at the river in front of him, stared at it for a while, only to find that there was a small fish swimming in the river, if it weren't for the fact that he already had the night vision ability of a feline and the five senses that became more acute after cultivating the exercises, he might not have discovered the existence of that small fish.
Just because there are fish in the river doesn't mean that the water is drinkable, just like there are some creatures in the crater, and who would dare to drink the magma directly.
But thinking about it again, I have never heard of any poisonous pools near Zhongnan Mountain in the Qinling Mountains, besides, anyway, this is just this river, if you can't find a way out in a short time, you still have to drink water sooner or later, what is the difference between a little earlier and a little later.
Even if there are any weird ghosts or something like that in the river, isn't there still "reincarnation"!
Li Hang comforted himself with luck, touched the water with the tip of his fingernail, and after finding that there was nothing corrosive in the water, he couldn't wait to lower his head and take a small sip.
The taste of the underground river water seems to be no different from the water you usually drink, except for a slightly salty taste.
He squatted by the river and waited for a while, feeling that his body did not feel any discomfort, and then he relaxed and drank to his heart's content.
The cave had been blocked by an underground river from here, and the downstream of the river did not extend far before it entered a stone wall and disappeared into the dense tiny cracks in the stone wall.
Upstream, it seems that you can walk along the river for a long time.
Li Hang had no choice and walked upstream, finding nothing but some slippery moss.
After walking for a while and not seeing the end, Li Hang even wanted to go back to see the little clouded leopard first, and he didn't know how it was now, if he wasn't worried that there might be other ghosts at the entrance of the cave, he wanted to bring the cat and Xiaomi over, leaving it unconscious there, and he was indeed a little uneasy.
Just as he was thinking, he accidentally glanced at it, and suddenly saw a bulge on the stone wall not far away, which was obviously an artifact.
He walked over and double-checked.
This protrusion is like a coffin about a meter above the ground on the stone wall.
Except for the one that clings to the stone wall, the remaining five sides are carved with rough reliefs.
The relief was blurry, barely making out a Taoist priest with a halberd and a few jackals with drooping tails.
Li Hang looked around the coffin and was surprised to find that there was a not-so-obvious gap at the junction between the sarcophagus and the coffin lid, which seemed to be open.
Curiously, he jumped onto the sarcophagus, lowered his head and stretched out his fingernails to cut into the gap in the coffin lid and buckle it, and found that it seemed to have a thin layer of moss growing inside because of its proximity to the underground river.
He jumped down with the attitude of trying, and then jumped and slammed into the coffin lid, but he didn't expect the seemingly heavy sarcophagus lid to slide backwards with his impact.
When Li Hang saw this scene, he hurriedly continued to bump it a few times, and finally knocked the sarcophagus lid open a gap that could accommodate him to get into.
He forgot where he had seen it, saying that when the coffin was first opened, the fresh air outside should be allowed to emit the exhaust gas inside.
Li Hang didn't know if there was any poisonous gas in the sarcophagus, out of caution, he waited on the coffin for a few minutes, and estimated that even the poisonous gas was almost dispersed, so he cautiously got in.
As soon as he jumped in, he found that his four paws were drowning in the sewage deposited at the bottom of the coffin.
Only then did he realize that he could push the sarcophagus lid so easily, and it was conceivable how the moisture in the air would not seep in.
Over time, this has accumulated this puddle of sewage under your feet.
He cursed himself for his stupidity of waiting outside for a few minutes, searching the coffin to see if there would be any treasure inside.
As a result, the treasure was not found, but found that the space in the sarcophagus was surprisingly large, and the side that I thought was embedded in the stone wall actually had a passage in the middle, leading directly into the mountain wall.
Li Hang didn't bother to rummage through the sewage to find the treasures that only existed in his imagination, and hurriedly got into the passage.
If there is a dead end in the upper reaches of the underground river, then this passage is likely to be an escape route to the outside world, otherwise how could anyone build a sarcophagus here?
Even if there is a dead end in the passage, then pushing it back, the upper reaches of the underground river will definitely allow him to find a way out.
We hadn't gone far before the passage came to an end.
At the end, there is still a space inside a coffin.
The coffin here seemed to have been specially treated and very dry, and there was a humanoid skeleton lying inside.
His clothes had already turned into a layer of dust, and there was a dark black pure metal halberd next to him, thinking of the relief outside the sarcophagus, the identity of the owner in this coffin should be the Taoist man wielding the halberd on the relief.
Li Hang pushed the halberd with his claws, but he couldn't get it to move with all his might.
self-deprecating comforted himself, as a cat, what is the use of the halberd.
With his previous experience, Li Hang smoothly pushed the coffin lid above his head a little, and as he pushed, a thick cloud of dust fell outside.
Running back into the aisle and waiting for the dust to cease flying, he jumped out of the coffin and carefully looked at the scene outside the coffin.
The layout outside is a stone chamber, a stone chamber dedicated to storing coffins.
The sarcophagus where Li Hang is located should be the earliest one in it, because several wooden coffins near the sarcophagus have begun to rot and crack, and the other scattered sarcophagi are distributed on both sides of the stone chamber, and they are relatively small.
Li Hang jumped off the coffin, not interested in rummaging through other coffins, and walked out directly, wanting to see what was going on outside this underground morgue.
Walking out of the stone chamber, there is a passage paved with stone slabs, and at intervals at the top of the passage there is a glimmering night pearl inlay.
But judging by the dust on the ground, no one has been here for a long time.
Li Hang explored along the winding passage, and after turning a few corners, he came across another stone chamber.
I saw that after a distance from the morgue, independent stone chambers appeared on both sides of the passage.
These stone chambers may have had rattan curtains as doors before, but now they are all rotted like those wooden coffins, and the furnishings in each stone chamber are all visible to Li Hang.
Li Hang rummaged through the cabinets and searched a few stone rooms, but found no big gains, but found a few well-sealed cans of honey and a few jars of volatile fruit wine.
The moment he found the honey, Li Hang was so happy that he hurriedly opened the jar and put his head in it to eat.
I don't know which species of honey bee produces this bee, which is not only sweet but not greasy, but also has a faint flow of heat circulating with the blood after eating.
Li Hang tried to run the exercises, and found that the true qi that had reached the first level of perfection had become a small circle along with the energy emitted by these honeys.
Although it was only a small growth than a hair, it was already precious to Li Hang, who had been stagnant for a long time.
He drank four cans of honey in a row, leaving only two cans for the cat Xiaomi, and then he lay down on a table with peace of mind and began to absorb the energy inside.
It's not that he is selfish and unwilling to leave more for the little clouded leopard, but after he drank two cans, he realized that if he didn't have the true qi to absorb the energy of these honeys, these energies would probably burst his veins.