Chapter 21 On the Island - Blue Scorpion
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As soon as he thought about it, Chris immediately put it into action. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info she jumped off the vines one after another, and swept to the bottom of the deeper cliff, Hong Qili and Xiong Daiying immediately chased after her.
She leaned down on a vine and looked far away, and after a while, a group of scorpions of various sizes crawled out again. Chris's eyes widened and he watched intently.
She found that if a strong sea breeze blew, the scorpions swayed up and down with the wind, and they were not affected in the slightest. Chris knew that scorpions had no ears, and that it was only by the slight trembling of the ear hairs on their tentacles that they could spot the location of their prey or enemies. And when the vines crawl, the best thing is that they use chela, abdomen, and appendages to work together to be so flexible. If it weren't for the scorpion's demonstration of these movements, Chris thought he would never have imagined it, and she became eager to try it out.
Whoosh! She leaped over several vines and landed on one of them, and Chris suddenly imitated the scorpion's movements, taking a few steps forward, as fast as flying, and backwards, eyes in the back of his head. She suddenly felt the sound of the wind and the waves, and at this moment the fluctuations of the vines became clearer and clearer in her heart, and she silently thought about the mantra of "mayfly step" in her heart, and the most important thing was the feeling that the old man took herself to practice together.
After some thought, there was really an indescribable excitement in his heart, and Chris's body rhythmized again.
It is a rhythm that occurs when internal forces and footwork are perfectly combined.
She was like the rain of the sun on a hot summer day, reflecting the lustrous raindrops, dripping on the vines, and before they were wet, they became without a trace. Only a flash, the bullet fell on another vine, and another flash, like a star pill jumping, in the eyes of Zi Ling, Gao Liang'er and others, seeing him several times seemed to be about to roll down the bottom of the cliff, but he could turn the danger into a disaster, that light figure, leaping up and down on the several vines of the cliff, that posture is really wonderful, and that skill is even more mysterious.
The female Taoist priests couldn't help but be stunned, and saw Ouyang Feng speeding up and down, as if playing a game.
Qin Yujiu nodded slightly, thinking: This is his skill!
Seeing that she was getting better, Hong Qili and Xiong Daiying also showed joy on their faces, and the three of them acted together.
Hong Qili shook his palm to stun the scorpion, and the two of them caught it at a low place, seeing that they each harvested one in their bamboo baskets. When they did the same again, they caught a few scorpions that had gathered together. Hong Qili's palm knocked several flying, Xiong Daiying and Chris rushed to pick them up respectively, one rolled twice, and fell on a cliff rock.
Chris ran over and gently flicked the lid of the basket to send the scorpion, who was so dizzy that he couldn't find the north, into the basket.
She took a closer look around the rocks. There are many thorny dwarf trees, and I don't know what kind of plants they are, but these thorny trees bear a kind of fruit that has a good aroma and smell. Chris tried to pluck two of them, but heard a voice.
Just when she thought she was suspicious, the voice rang out again.
She approached the stone wall, pushed aside some of the bushes, and saw a recessed gap.
She poked her head in, only to notice something strange.
At the end of the broken wall, there appeared a flying scorpion that had never been seen before, twice as large as the one they caught, all blue, the ears on the clawps were white, long and pointed, and the two middle eyes on the back, like two blue agate, together with six side eyes, shining with blue light!
Just at a glance, Chris only felt that the blood in his whole body was almost coagulated.
She turned around and hurriedly shouted at Hong Qili and Xiong Daiying: "Come and see, I found ......"
Before they finished speaking, the two looked back and disappeared.
The two of them rushed over almost at the same time, and when they looked inside, there was a crack in the rock of the cliff, which was enough to be a man wide, and under the crack was a very steep slope.
Xiong Daiying was small, so he got into it first, and Hong Qili turned sideways and slid down the steep slope.
Chris fell into this narrow, deep crevin of the mountain, only to find that the passage inside was loose and not dark at all, because the sides of the passage glowed faintly blue. Chris looked closer, and countless blue crystals like shards of glass were embedded in the rock wall. In its illumination, the entire passage is shrouded in blue. But it seems that they are only found in the middle and lower parts of the rock face, but not in the higher places.
Walking around a corner, her path was blocked.
In the middle of the ground is a large circular puddle that mirrors the blue light on the rock face.
Chris crouched down and looked closely to see that the blue crystals on the rock walls on either side of the circular puddle seemed to be showing signs of melting, and some traces had flowed down, which caused a ring of white bands to form around the edges of the circular puddle.
Picking up a pebble from the ground next to her, she threw it towards the center of the puddle, but instead of falling into the water, it bounced twice on it and rolled to the side. Chris was bold and touched it with his fingers, and it dawned on him that it looked like a puddle, but it was actually a hard floor. She almost lay on it, tapping it with the back of her fingers, and it felt quite thick. She always felt that there was something else under this thing, and tried to look down, but it was hazy, but she couldn't see through it.
Shaking her head, she stood up and walked through the place unharmed, and Chris turned the next corner.
"Brother Feng?"
Chris heard Xiong Daiying calling out to him behind her, and she replied vaguely as she moved carefully and slowly.
After taking a few more steps, she noticed that there was suddenly no blue crystals on the rock wall, and the road ahead became dark, but by the faint light source behind her, she could vaguely see something strange.
No, it should be said to be something familiar, but it's a little strange that it appears here.
Chris turned his head and shouted, "Come and see!"
Xiong Daiying and Hong Qili came to the weird blue circular floor that Chris had just passed, and when they heard her call, the two of them strode over and hurriedly chased after her.
"Brother Feng, what are those blue things in front of you?" Xiong Daiying asked.
"Leave that alone!" Chris interrupted, "Look!"
Hong Qili asked, "What's the matter?"
Chris rubbed his hand against the granite on the wall and told them, "It's not natural. β
After listening to her words, the two of them realized.
It's just that in the dark passage, the light is not good. Hong Qili took out the fire fold from his arms, blew it twice, and by the light of the fire, there was an extremely regular diamond-shaped pattern spliced granite stone wall on the rock wall, which was put together extremely neatly one by one.
Xiong Daiying and Hong Qili were both surprised, it was unlikely that such a well-carved thing would look like it was naturally formed.
Chris pointed to the fire fold in Hong Qili's hand and said strangely: "Good thing, it's as convenient as a lighter." β
Xiong Dai Ying said in his heart: Haven't you seen the fire fold before? What is the lighter? Quickly took out his own fire fold from his arms and asked, "I also have it here, do you want it, Brother Feng?"
Chris took it in her hand and looked at the stick-like thing with great curiosity, and opened it in the middle, where she first smelled a pungent smell of sulfur, mixed with other smells. She blew on it like Hong Qili, and sure enough, she saw a little bit of sparks, and after blowing a few more times, she couldn't let the fire ignite.
"After blowing out of Mars, blow it short and strongly. Xiong Dai Ying said.
After trying a few times, it still couldn't be blown up, and the fire fold was returned to Xiong Daiying's hands, and sure enough, he blew it after two or three times.
Chris: It seems that blowing it is a technical job.
Hong Qili raised the fire fold to illuminate the range, and there was a pitch black area in front of him, and he didn't know what it was like in the distance.
He pointed inside, and said to the two, "Let's go and have a look." β
Hong Qili walked in front, Chris held the fire fold given by Xiong Daiying, and sometimes looked at the stone wall next to him to see if there was anything else to find.
Soon, what appeared before their eyes was something even more artificialβa granite stone staircase.
The three of them summed up and continued up the stairs.
After a long and gentle staircase, they came to the end. On the staircase is a square platform recessed into the wall, and in the center of the platform is a stone lampstand made of granite. The upper part of the lampstand is in the shape of a stone house, and the lower part sits on a round stone pillar.
There were some ashes in the room-like lampstand, as if something had been burned, Chris suddenly remembered the fire fold in his hand, trying to see it clearly, she stretched the fire fold over, and the ashes inside were ignited with a "whew", and the lampstand emitted a dazzling blue light.
The flames were so loud that they had already caught Chris's hands, but she didn't feel a hot sensation, but a mild heat.
While the three of them were amazed by the blue flames in front of them, Chris suddenly emptied, and Chris took a big step back alertly. The entire platform on which the stone lampstand was placed fell downward, and a stone wall slowly rose in front of you.
The three of them had a tacit understanding, and without saying a word, Hong Qili took the lead in opening the way, jumped over the falling platform, and jumped into the open stone gate in front of him. followed by Chris, and Xiong Daiying was the last to enter.
When they went inside, they saw that it was a very large space. The surrounding walls are embedded with diamond-shaped granite walls, and in the corners are a brazier stand that is half a person high.
Hong Qili walked over and lit one, and the brazier really lit up with a blue fire. Chris handed the fire fold to Xiong Daiying, and he lit a few braziers nearby.
The entire space suddenly lit up and turned blue by the firelight.
Chris finally couldn't help but sigh, "What the hell is this place?"
She had other questions in her mind that she didn't ask. She remembered that Scorpion Island was the farthest island of the Salmon Islands, why was there such a building in such a remote place? It was so large, who built it? Could it be Dugu Liangyi?
Hong Qili patted her lightly on the shoulder.
Chris just thought of it, and he slapped it back to his senses.
Hong Qili looked solemn and said, "You wait here first, I'll go up and tell them, as for what kind of place this is, I still ask the lord or the old man on the island, maybe they know." β
Chris nodded in agreement.
Hong Qili left the two of them where they were and returned to the passage by himself.
The people on the cliff found that a few people were missing, and they became anxious. Yin Chen listened to the call of several female Taoist priests, and found the cliff, when he found the stone crack, Hong Qili was coming out of it, he flew up the cliff, and then explained the situation to the deputy lord and Wang Xu. Everyone was surprised when they heard this, and Chang Yutong felt even more strange, just because this scorpion island was not a critical place, there was no reason to build any defenses on the island, and if it wasn't for Zhang Changbei to catch the scorpion, he would almost not be able to think of it.
He was also surprised to call the old man on the island, who had been wandering around the island for more than ten years, and had never seen any artificially repaired buildings.
When the soldiers of the escort lowered the rope ladder from the cliff, Tuwa shook her head vigorously.
Seeing that his face was full of horror, the old man pulled him over and asked a few questions.
"Woo la, woo por woo wow ......" He didn't even understand the old man in the first half of the sentence, and he didn't understand it clearly until the last few words.
Wang Shu asked, "What did this baby say?"
"He said there were black monsters there!" the old man said with a slight distraction, "He said that at night the monsters gathered on the other side of the cliff, flying up and down like birds. β
"Youkai?" Zi Ling was extremely nervous.
Tuwa suddenly made a "silence" gesture towards Zi Ling.
Zi Ling hurriedly covered his mouth.
Wang Shu laughed and said, "Now, I want to see what kind of monster it is?"
At this point, curiosity overpowered the fear of heights in his heart, and he led the escort to the other side of the cliff.
One by one, the group descended from the rope ladder to the crevices in the rocks at the bottom of the cliff, and they were at first alarmed by the blue objects in the passage, and then curious when they saw the stone walls and steps that had been built.
Zi Ling was most afraid of ghosts, and Huang Jingjing whispered in her ear: "The black monster that the dwarf child said, I'm just afraid that someone is dressed up, don't scare yourself!"
Despite thinking so, Zi Ling felt that this place still made her creepy, and she subconsciously grabbed Huang Jingjing's hand tightly.
By the time Chris saw them, she and Xiong Daiying had already explored the big room.
As soon as they entered, some went to look at the brazier that emitted blue flames, while others looked around the room.
Facing several principals, Chris pointed in two directions and said, "There are two exits on the left and right sides of this room, but unfortunately they are all blocked!"
Wang Shu asked, "What's the matter?"
"This used to be a place to store things, and there were lots of wood and stones piled up in the corner, and no one touched them for a long time. It may be that an earthquake on the seabed caused the stone to tilt and hit the stone wall above the exit, and the boulder fell, and the stone collapsed, sealing the exit. β
At this time, Teng Chuliang walked over, holding a fragment of pottery in his hand.
"What did Brother Teng find?"
Teng Chuliang said: "This place was originally supposed to be a naturally formed cave, and the people who built it made clever use of these structures. However, this is by no means a relic of antiquity, but was built in recent years. He raised the fragment in his hand again and said, "The pottery in the room is all ready-made goods sold in the market. β
Chris asked, "Since it was something that was only repaired in recent years, did the old man say that he had seen any suspicious people?"
He said he hadn't seen it. Wang Xuan glanced at the dwarf child who was playing with the blue flame in front of the brazier, and said, "That little baby said that he had seen a group of black monsters. β
Chris thought to himself: Looks like I'm right. She turned her head and asked Chang Yutong: "My lord, Lord Li once mentioned that he asked the master who built the Jade Palace to help build the fortress defense on the island, but they built it here?"
Chang Yutong shook his head and said: "The master also said, that master has a strange temper, even he has to look at his face to act, I have to stand aside, I don't know what he looks like, because I haven't even seen anyone once." Besides, I've only heard from the Lord that he was responsible for the construction of the Black Stone Tower, the Black Stone Fort, and the most important thing on the Great Black Mountain Island. If the Lord will let him cultivate anything on other islands, I don't know at all. β