1-24 The terrible lake of fire
The wingless boat shook violently, and it would be thrown out of the hull at any time, Li Hong shouted: "Second brother, hurry up!" He squatted down, his fingers tightly gripping the boat, and the feeling of impending disaster welled up in his heart.
The scorching heat swept in his face, and the wingless ship swished at an alarming speed into a huge red hole.
The temperature suddenly rises, and there is a strong smell of rotten eggs in the air.
It's a wide, tunnel-like fire hole with steaming and twisting red everywhere. The wingless ship swooped headlong into the hole, its hull grazing against the fiery red rocks of the cave wall, and a large number of blazing sparks erupted from the place where the boat came into contact with the rocks.
The ship creaked, turned around and crashed into the opposite stone wall, and swirled back again. The whole ship was rubbing up and down the cave wall, left and right, and it was spinning around like a jumping bean, getting faster and faster, and it would disintegrate at any time.
Li Hong was dizzy, and his head was buzzing. Chu Xiong's voice seemed to be far away: "Big brother, where is this......"
His hands gradually became weak, and Li Hong felt that he could no longer hold on to the boat gang. At this moment, the wingless ship suddenly came to an eerie standstill - the collision disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Extremely moving to the extreme, Li Hong's internal organs seemed to turn out of his stomach, and he crashed headlong into the bottom of the boat, Venus flew in front of him, and blood gushed down from the breach in his forehead.
The sharp pain in his forehead made him sober up, and he struggled to get up, and hurriedly turned back to find Chu Xiong.
Chu Xiong was not in the wingless boat! Li Hong was so anxious that he shouted: "Second brother—"
Everywhere you can see, there is a fire everywhere, where is the figure of the second brother!
There was an ominous squeak from underfoot. When I looked down, I saw that the bottom of the incomparably hard wingless ship was melting. The bottom of the boat gradually softened, rippling like black oil, and the black steam visible to the naked eye was coming out of the feet, and the soles of the feet were burning with pain. When I looked up, I saw that the soles of my shoes were gone.
He jumped up the higher divider, looked around, and found himself above a huge red lake of fire.
It looked like a huge space in the belly of a mountain, and it was full of fiery red. In the distance, a fiery red rock wall looms, and there seem to be small honeycomb openings above it. At the center of this vast space is the lake of fire beneath your feet, where red, viscous lava bubbles like boiling water. The wingless ship is descending little by little towards the surface of this blazing lake of fire. The distance is not more than 10 zhang.
Li Hong was so shocked that his hands were trembling, and there were absolutely no bones left when he fell!
"Someone!" Li Hong shouted helplessly.
I don't know what kind of place it is, but there is no one. Only hoarse roars echoed.
"Damn it, his grandfather is coming!" Li Hong scolded angrily.
The bottom of the ship gradually turned red, and it sank another three feet in a desperate look.
We must not be burned to death like this! We must not let Chu Qiu's bastard's conspiracy succeed! Li Hong smelled the burning smell of his hair. He looked up overhead. The ceiling of the cave is extremely high, with many huge stalactite-like stone pillars hanging down. Looking for a way to fly up there?
The largest stone pillar appears to be thirty or forty zhang away. Li Hong desperately recalled how high he had flown up...... The idea was quickly rejected. Thirty feet! You will never be able to jump so high, and if you fall again, you will fall into the lake of fire if you have a slight deviation.
No, it doesn't work.
His eyes were on the edge of the lake of fire again, and he soon realized that he would never be able to jump that far. This huge lake of fire is deep in the ground, like the bottom of a large bowl, with a diameter of fifty or sixty zhang, and it is impossible to jump that far no matter which way you jump.
The bottom of the ship was getting redder and redder, and tiny flames were scurrying all over the bottom of the boat. Li Hong tugged at his hair in pain, but he didn't even dare to jump - the wingless ship hadn't disintegrated yet, and the bigger the movement, the faster it sank.
Wait a minute...... Why didn't the wingless ship fall directly into the lake of fire? A flash of light flashed in his mind, and he felt as if he had grasped something.
There must be something in the bow.
He adjusted his breath and jumped lightly onto the bow of the boat with the lightest movements. The soles of his feet hurt his heart, and the flesh was burned with a creaky sound. Holding back the severe pain, he carefully observed the bow of the ship for a moment, and found that the gap between the two pieces of the ship's plank was obviously relatively large, and he did not hesitate to stretch out his fingers and pull it in. The planks were loose.
The hull sank another five feet. It was only ten feet away from the surface of the Fire Lake, and the sound of boiling lava became louder and louder.
Trying not to think about his situation, he stretched out his finger again and pulled violently through the gap, and in the click, the plank was literally pulled up. The force was so great that blood was dripping from his fingers - the planks were pulled open to reveal the mechanism in the wingless ship.
There are two layers of planks in the bow of the ship, and there is a small space in the middle, and there is a crystal jade plate with a ruler in the space. There should be some kind of talisman engraved on this jade plate, and it is still glowing slightly, but the light is getting dimmer and dimmer - the high temperature makes the jade plate melt.
The jade plate is embedded in a fixed slot, Li Hong stared at the jade plate for a while, his scalp tightened - fight!
The wingless boat sank two feet in a short time, and now it was less than five feet above the surface of the fire lake, and the flames were getting bigger and bigger—the metal-like planks that were extremely resistant to high temperatures and strong were actually rare wood. They are burning.
Li Hong closed his eyes, and his internal breath flowed all over his body in the blink of an eye. He opened his eyes and calmed down, and resolutely pulled the jade plate out of the trough. The wingless ship slammed down.
In the flash of light, Li Hong had already thrown out the jade plate in his hand, his toes were a little on the burning bow of the ship, and his whole body was pulled up, flying straight to the jade plate thrown out first like a meteor catching the moon.
Just as his internal breath was about to end, his body fell down, Li Hong shouted loudly, stretched out his left leg with all his might, and his toes were just on the jade board.
Sure enough, as he expected, the jade plate not only did not sink, but had a floating upward buoyancy, which could hold up the body. With this power, he flew forward again.
One foot, five feet, three feet, one foot! Seeing the edge of the lake of fire clearly, Li Hong let out a loud shout, leaning out, and his fingers just reached the hard solid rock. Pick hard and plant it on the spot.
His left shoulder hit the ground first, and there was a sharp pain in his heart that almost made him bite his tongue, but he was overjoyed - there was a hard rock beneath him, and he finally left the damn lake of fire!
Looking back, the wingless boat just sank to the surface of the lake of fire, and after shaking for a few moments, it immediately disintegrated, and the burning fragments merged into the lake of fire. Not far away, is the life-saving jade plate. It still slowly floated towards the lake of fire, and soon landed on the surface of the lake of fire, and the faint light on the jade plate flashed twice, and soon melted into the same fiery red magma.
The left arm was limp and hung down at his side, and the pain was so painful that he couldn't touch it, so it was obviously a fracture. Li Hong sat down on the ground.
Finally escaped, he tried his best to recall in his mind when he finally heard the voice of his second brother...... The second brother must not have anything to do! The bottom of his heart was extremely sour, and a sharp pain that went straight to his heart was suddenly breathless. In comparison, the pain of the flesh and skin all over the body is nothing.
The lake of fire was still bubbling hot, and there was another warning sign in his heart, and he didn't want to tiptoe any longer. The whole person quickly retreated.
The lake of fire gurgled loudly, and the center of the lake actually got higher and higher, and a thick magma fountain rose from the center of the lake of fire, getting higher and higher. The entire mountainside space became more and more hot.
Retreating and retreating, it didn't take much time for his back to touch the scorching rock, and Li Hong realized that he had retreated to the bottom of the cave. In the steaming fiery heat, he saw what appeared to be a hole high up in the side. He grabbed his left shoulder and swept over it.
Sure enough, it was a hole. It is ten zhang wide, and you can vaguely see the light outside, which is obviously the entrance of the cave when you enter. He was in a low place, about twenty or thirty zhang from the entrance of the cave.
His feet were straight on the cave wall one after another, and his body rose from the ground, and when he landed at the entrance of the cave, he turned around and looked down, and couldn't help but gasp. The lava fountain in the lake of fire was almost as high as the entrance of the cave where it stood, and the magma was constantly splashing outward, sizzling loudly, like a huge fire tree silver flower.
Where the hell is Chu Xiong? Could it be that he fell from the wingless ship when he flew in? He tried not to think about other terrible possibilities, and ran out along the cave wall with a puff of smoke, shouting loudly as he ran: "Second brother, where are you?"
Seeing the bare rocks outside and not seeing Chu Xiong, Li Hong was so anxious that he went crazy, turned around and ran towards the cave without stopping, shouting indiscriminately, and unconsciously crying.
"Second brother...... You must not be ......"
I clearly remember that the second brother has always been by my side, and he was still there when he passed through the entrance of the cave, did he really fall into the lake of fire? No...... Absolutely not! He resolutely did not think about this possibility. A possibility slowly popped up in my mind - it landed behind the cave entrance and in the middle of the lake of fire. He jumped out of the hole, not looking at the rising lake of lava and fire, his gaze searching every inch of the ground.
It wasn't long before he saw a dark shadow lying motionless on the ground next to the splashing lava lake.
"Second brother!"
Chu Xiong fell to the ground with many burnt wounds all over his body. Li Hong trembled and stretched out a finger to his nose, fortunately, there was still breath. The second brother is still alive.
The snorting sound became louder and louder, and many small lava particles fell on the heads of the two of them, burning Li Hong straight into the air. He used his uninjured right arm to put Chu Xiong on his shoulder and ran towards the entrance of the cave.
This cliff that goes straight up and down twenty or thirty zhang high has become the biggest obstacle in front of me. The top was the entrance to the cave where he could go out, but he found that he couldn't fly up with Chu Xiong on his back. The left arm was broken, and there was no need for strength at all, Chu Xiong was big, and his uninjured right arm could only barely support his body and prevent him from falling off his back.
The lava fountain is getting higher and higher, and the lake of fire is stretching a foot by foot towards it—this damn lake of fire still erupts and rises regularly. No wonder there are many strange troughs on the ground next to the lake of fire.
I tried and tried, I don't know how many times I slipped down from the stone wall, the burnt wounds on my hands and feet were worn out one after another, at first it was blood, and gradually the blood couldn't flow out, only seeping yellow water out, and I didn't feel the pain anymore.
Li Hong found out in despair - unless he threw his second brother down, he couldn't go up without carrying him anyway.
"No, I will never leave my second brother behind!" Li Hong roared.
The lake of fire is spreading foot by foot towards your feet. Li Hong was exhausted. He sat cross-legged in front of his second brother and stretched out his right hand to hold his hand. It's very warm under my hands, this is my only relative now.
Li Hong closed his eyes calmly.