Chapter 4: The Legend of the Cat Ghost (49) - The Underground House
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It wasn't even a door, it looked more like a hole in a stone wall had been carved out. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info debris dumped on the ground, forming a small slope.
This time, Jian Yan and Chu Yu climbed the slope first, and they stood at the gap and looked in, and it turned out to be a very large room.
The room was dark, the air was cloudy, visibility was low, and the thick beams and columns standing inside completely obscured the view from the front, making it impossible to see the whole room to the end.
The big house was paved with bluestone slabs, because of the chain of crossbows just now, the sword was afraid that there would be some traps under the floor, so he pulled out one of the two swords behind his back, and gently touched the floor with it, probing as he walked. Xiong Daiying saw that the sword body was extremely soft, and guessed in his heart that it was probably the "female" sword in the "male and female double swords" of the Marquis of Yan.
Chu Zhen kept a distance from Jian Yan and walked behind him.
Entering inside, Chu Jian was even more surprised, there was such a wide amount below. At the beginning, I also thought that maybe the skillful old man built an underground dark room, but people searched for a long time, but they couldn't find it.
Why did you miss the cellar above? This made Chu Hui a little puzzled.
However, one thing was clear to him, and that was that it was once full of mechanisms. Because later, when tracking down the whereabouts of the holy book, Chu Zhen caught the flying eagle and listened to him tell the story of the break-in that night. There are many good thieves who stormed the big house, they joined forces to attack, and finally caused death, death and injury, only the eagle and the other two groups of thieves succeeded, like the lightning eel and the water snake, although they picked up a life, but also returned empty-handed.
Chu Zhen thought to himself: After seventeen years, maybe the big house has become trendy and old, but not all the institutions here have failed.
At this moment, Chris and Chu Zhen's thoughts coincided.
In her opinion, there is not only the depth of the space, but also the structure is very tortuous, and it is very likely that it is the place where the skillful old man hid the holy book back then.
She thought to herself: If I were this skillful old man, I would definitely arrange mechanisms inside and outside the house, and those who could rush here must be well-known masters, and I would definitely prepare a "surprise" waiting for them. Thinking of this, she was just about to remind everyone, but there was a noise at the other end of the big house.
The sword was swift and had almost reached the center of the house. As soon as he heard the movement, he immediately dodged and hid behind the nearest pillar near him. He leaned his back against the pillar and looked at Chu Yi while handing out a signal with his eyes.
Chu Yi immediately understood, and following the path that Jian Yan had just explored with his sword, he also took a few vertical steps behind the pillar.
Then the sword shop extinguished the torch in his hand.
After a while, two figures walked out of the darkness of the big house.
There was actually someone down there! Several people hiding in the shadows were surprised in their hearts.
Chris listened intently, as if the two of them were muttering something, but unfortunately they were too far apart to hear clearly.
However, Chu Zhen and Jian Yan are much more advanced than her internal strength, and they heard it clearly. Jian Yan couldn't help frowning, and said to Chu Zhen: "It's not my Great Song people, which country do they speak?"
Because there was the Mingjiao serial crossbow upstairs, Chu Yi also guessed whether they were speaking ancient Persian, but it didn't sound like it
I don't know why, the two of them seemed to be arguing, but they still tried their best to keep their voices down and speak, which made Jian Yan feel strange, could it be that they found us?
Suddenly, they stopped talking, and one of them slowly walked towards the sword shop.
Sword in hand, ready to strike.
The man got closer and closer, and it was not too far from the pillar where Jian Shi and Chu Yi were. However, he stopped halfway through.
Jian Yan lightly touched Chu Yi with his shoulder, and they poked their heads out slightly from the left and right, peeking in the direction of the man.
The house was dark, and they came out without a lantern or a torch. And the person who walked to the center of the big house didn't know what he was doing in the dark, and the whole big house was shrouded in a very strange and indescribable atmosphere, making people feel like a mouthful of turbid air stuck in their throats, and they couldn't spit it out.
This person was not far away, and when Jian Yan was thinking about whether to take him down, he heard a loud sound of "Kerala", and he and Chu Yi looked up together.
The sound came from above them, like a monster crawling, spitting out incoherent, incomprehensible cries. With a high-pitched tone, the moonlight leaked through the cracks in the ceiling, and beams of light gradually cast down. The big house seemed to be transformed into a harp, and the dense light was like strings, and I was afraid that if I caressed it, it would play the music of death.
Chris looked at the scene in front of him, and a strange feeling welled up in his heart. This is underground, how to draw the moonlight directly?
Now without a torch, the sword shop can see clearly, and the two people who appeared in the room are exactly the same as the group of dead soldiers above.
Chu Jian became more and more incomprehensible to the situation in front of him, he originally thought that he had something to do with the Ming Sect, but how could he have something to do with those people who were being chased by the sword?
The light illuminated the ground, and there were twenty or thirty mats on the floor of the big house, probably the same number as the group of dead men just now, and it seemed that this place was temporarily used as a dormitory by them.
Jian Yan pondered: Since they are sleeping here, there will naturally be no mechanism on the ground, what am I afraid of?
Even Chu Xuan didn't expect that the sword rushed out from behind the pillar in one fell swoop, and the speed was already indescribable in words.
However, Chris suddenly remembered something. In the lowest layer of the underground organ city of Great Black Mountain Island, Hong Qili and her experienced the terrifying moment, the light emitted by the golden secret stone was enough to kill people in an instant. She said anxiously: You also said that you don't let me act recklessly, why did you rush out rashly!
She and Xiong Daiying rushed to the pillar where Chu Yu was, and hurriedly said, "I'm afraid there is something wrong with that light!"
Chris didn't have time to stop the sword, so he had to chase his back and look. Fortunately, the sword was smart enough that he didn't touch the light, but traveled between the gaps between the two rows of beams.
The two black-clothed dead men did not expect someone to suddenly rush out of the shadows, and the speed was as fast as a thunderbolt, and the man standing in the middle of the room immediately turned around and fled.
The sword was only holding a single sword, and the sword in his hand was dragged down to the ground, chasing the black-clothed dead man.
Chris recognized the posture of the sword shop at a glance, this is to use the sword move he used to cut down Cailou that day, and she shouted in her heart: Yan Pounce!
This trick of "wanton marquis", even the ordinary people in the capital can call out, not to mention the bandits on the road, but also talk about the "Yan" color change, and smell it trembling, even if this trick is known to everyone, who can easily dodge it?
The sword swooped down on a swift and launched a stabbing attack. The female sword's sword is extremely sharp and the sword body is extremely soft, which can exert this move to the maximum.
Under the light of the moon, the sword in the sword in the hand of the sword man emitted a dazzling silver light, and it hit with one blow!
It's just that this time the sword didn't want to take the other party's life, but picked the hamstring of his right foot, and the tip of the sword was stained with blood, drawing an arc-shaped dark red mark on the floor. With a second strike, the man's left tendon was broken, and blood splattered out.
The black-clad dead man fell forward and fell to the ground, his wounds but not a single groan of pain.
The man standing at the end panicked at first, but when he saw his companion fall, he seemed to come to his senses, and he rushed to the wall and pressed some switch on the wall.
Then, the beam of light dropped from the ceiling began to change direction, slowly rising from a vertical downward angle. One of the rows was about to shine on the sword. Of course, he felt that this light was unusual, and he was ready to dodge.
Who knew that the dead man who had broken his hamstring suddenly rushed towards the sword at this moment, hugging his legs tightly. Jian Yan hurriedly swung his sword to create a new wound on the back of his hand, trying to force him to let go. But the man looked like he had died together, and clung to him.
Chu Yi saw that his friend was in danger, and he didn't care that these rays would cause harm to him, so he rushed out.
However, he was a step too late.
The beams continued to move up to a certain angle, then began to rotate again, scattering in different directions. For a moment, the underground house seemed to be transformed into a discotheque, and silver beams of light shone everywhere.
There are countless beams of light here, not to mention that the sword shop has been illuminated, and even Chu Yu has won the bid.
Chris just yelled in his heart that it was not good, but he found that no one was injured by the light.
The dead man was still desperately trying to hold on to the sword. It turned out that he was delaying time for his companions, and saw that another dead man had turned and rushed into the dark passage, and a stone wall behind him fell with a "thud".
It seems that because he has completed his mission, the dead soldier who grabbed the sword shop pants no longer endures the pain and is silent, but laughs wildly, as if he has been stimulated by something, and looks really weird.
The beams stopped for a moment, and Chris wanted to see where they stopped. The light was so harsh that she had to cover it with her fingers, and when she looked through her fingers, she saw that the light had reached a high place, a few feet from the ceiling of the big house, where there was a ring of iron with small circular holes.
Be careful!
As soon as she shouted, she was overshadowed by a terrible chirp.
"Whoosh!" shot an arrow from the hole.
The screaming sound was very similar to the four-eyed arrow in the hands of the Kaifeng Mansion. But because the big house is a relatively confined space, the sound of the arrow seems to be amplified several times, which is particularly harsh.
"Whoosh!" another rattling arrow shot out of the small hole, "Whoosh!
Dozens of arrows with piercing screams rang out in unison, shooting at the sword shop and the place where the dead man was.
The dead man was still laughing madly, the sword shop no longer dragged out, pulled out another sword behind his back, and unloaded the opponent's arm with two "swishs", who knew that the man still refused to give up, and even bit the sword shop with his mouth open, as if he must drag him to hell with him.
At this time, Chu Yi arrived, and struck out with a palm, and the sound of shouting was like thunder shaking the sky, and the person's heart was broken when the palm was immediately broken, and "poof" fell down with his head half-kneeling.
The sword took the opportunity to roll backwards to avoid the rain of arrows.
Arrows whistled and pierced the man's body, and in an instant, he was literally shot into a hedgehog.
Because of too many arrows, the man's body was propped up and kept in a kneeling position. The head is drooping downward, and the chin is pressed against the collarbone. Because of the slanted posture, blood came out of the wound little by little, and slowly flowed down the shaft of the arrow that supported the corpse. The blood stained the arrow's feathers red, and then flowed through the whistle at the end of the arrow, dripping from the whistle hole to the ground. Coupled with the man's crazy laughter before he died, the distorted smile froze on his face, and the death made people feel creepy.
Who knew that at this moment, Chu Yu suddenly spurted out a mouthful of blood, and his body was shaky, almost unstable.
"Brother Chu?" Jian Yan was shocked.
There was another scream, and then an arrow hit the ground, and the "pop" shot at Chu Yan's feet.
"Brother Chu!" Chris was about to rush forward, but was stopped by Xiong Daiying.
"No," Xiong Daiying would never let her get into danger again, and held on firmly. In front of Chris, Xiong Daiying has never behaved so strongly as he does now. Without waiting for her to say anything, she hurriedly said, "The Marquis and that left envoy are both masters in the world, you don't want to make trouble for them!"
Chris was speechless.
With a piercing sound, a new wave of arrows swarmed in.
Where can the sword shop care about anything else, he dragged Chu Zhen and hid against the nearby pillar. A few arrows grazed his body, and the sword turned violently, and the two arrows pierced the hem of his clothes, drawing two bloody streaks on the skin of his thighs. At the critical moment, Chu Yi seemed to rely on his strong instinct to exert his strength in an unconscious state. With such a force under his feet, he gave Jian Shi a boost, and Jian Shi rolled in the air with him, and the two flew to the pillar together, and finally fell heavily to the ground, but they also dodged the falling arrow rain.
A burst of crackling arrows filled the side of the post.
"Dai Ying......" Chris looked pitifully at the pillar over there.
Hearing Xiong Daiying sigh, Chris knew that he acquiesced, and the two of them took advantage of the new wave of arrow rain to not fall, and a few dodged to the pillar where they were located.
As soon as they arrived on their front feet, there was a roar of arrows on their back feet.
Unlike the previous two times, this time the arrow rain was more intensive, and the entire floor of the house trembled violently under the fierce shooting of arrows, and the sound was deafening, Chris only felt that the ear drums were also shaken, and he hurriedly covered his ears with his hands.
Damn, it's endless!" Jian Yan scolded inwardly.
After a long time, the sound stopped.
The arrows that had just fallen kicked up the dust all over the house. The dust was now floating, choking Chris and coughing, and the sword fan with his hand. Everyone went to see Chu Zhen at this time, there were still blood marks on the corners of his mouth, and his breathing was disordered.
"Brother Chu!" Seeing the blood on Chu Xuan's chest, Chris asked Jian Yan, "What's wrong with him?"
Jian Yan didn't answer, and as soon as he grabbed Chu Zhen's wrist, his brows immediately wrinkled together, and he said in his heart: How could he be so badly injured?
Without saying a word, Jian Yan hurriedly sat down cross-legged, pushed his palms and exercises, and injected true qi into Chu Xuan to heal his injuries.