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Chapter 179 A Mysterious Tiankeng ([-]-character Chapter)

Early the next morning, Nie Zheng ordered Niu Meng and others to pack their things and prepare to go into the mountain.

Under the lead of Wu Sanren, a group of twenty or so riders quickly rushed into the mountain forest.

After entering the continuous mountainous terrain, the roads are obviously more rugged and narrower. Most of the time, the narrow roads in the mountains and forests can only accommodate a rider. Fortunately, it is now the spring season, and the weeds and thorns in the mountains Therefore, there are fewer obstacles on the road, which makes it much more convenient for everyone to ride.

In this vast jungle and mountain, the speed of advancement is definitely not as fast as that in the flat wilderness outside. Most of the time, people can't ride horses and gallop, but can only walk slowly through the mountains and forests.

In the first two days after entering the mountain, some mountain roads can still be seen outside, but the further you go into the mountain, the roads inside become rarer.

In the end, there was no decent road ahead at all, and everyone could only look for some beast roads.

Nie Zheng was riding on the horse, Niu Meng and others divided into two groups, guarding him firmly in the group, while the Wu Sanren rode at the front and led the way.

Today's weather is still a bit gloomy, with occasional drizzles. The entire mountain forest is surrounded by mist and heavy humidity.

Due to the fact that it has been raining for the past few days, the roads in the mountains are full of mud. The speed of everyone riding horses can only be slowed down again, because if the riding speed is too fast, the horseshoes will often slip. Mount, it will be very troublesome to enter the mountain.

In this way, the people traveled all the way through mountains and ridges, through countless canyons and secluded forests, and finally arrived at Panlong Ridge on the afternoon of the fourth day.

Panlong Ridge is located in the northwest area of ​​Cangliang Mountain. Its terrain is very unique. From a distance, it looks like a giant dragon coiled into a huge circle, crouching in the deep mountains.

Inside Panlong Ridge is a flat basin with a radius of tens of miles. The Gulong Pit mentioned by Wu Sanren is within that basin.

The continuous drizzle for several days finally ended before Nie Zheng and the others arrived at Panlong Ridge. In the afternoon, the gloomy sky gradually disappeared, and the sun showed its long-lost warm face.

Under the warm sunlight, the entire Panlong Ridge is golden and brilliant, and the wind blows the forest, which is quite a different scene.

Supported by Niu Meng and others, Nie Zheng slowly stopped at the foot of Panlong Ridge.

At this time, everyone looked up and saw a mountain with a height of hundreds of feet standing in front of them. Towering ancient trees grew everywhere on the top and bottom of the mountain. A few feet.

There are countless towering ancient trees with spreading branches and leaves, covering the sky and the sun. From a distance, the forest in Panlong Ridge is dark and damp, like some miscellaneous seedlings, which cannot grow at all, because the sunlight above, All are covered by these huge ancient trees.

Suddenly, several people exclaimed in surprise: "There are so many insects and ants on the ground!"

"Look, there are a lot of wild boars and rabbits running around..."

Hearing this, everyone's expressions changed, and they hurriedly looked towards the ground. Sure enough, they saw a large number of centipedes, reptiles, ants and other insects and ants in the entire Panlong Ridge, like black ribbons, in groups. Out of the woods.

At the same time, in this towering forest, groups of wild boars, wild deer, and hares can be seen from time to time, fleeing the forest screaming.

Occasionally, one or two black bears can be seen roaring and jumping out of the woods. However, when all the insects, ants and beasts saw Nie Zheng and others appearing at the foot of the mountain, they seemed to turn a blind eye, and directly bypassed their mounts, panicking. Confused and fled.

Seeing their panicked and hurried appearance, it seems that there is some danger in the Panlong Ridge, and all of them fled out crazily.

Seeing this scene, Nie Zheng frowned, secretly surprised.

At this moment, Wu Sanren suddenly got off his horse and came to Nie Zheng.

I saw him untie the bag on his back with a solemn expression, took out a dark green jade bottle from it, handed it to Nie Zheng, and said: "Commander, just turn over the Panlong Ridge in front of you, and there will be a dragon inside." The hiding place of the python, this bottle of insect repellent ointment, you apply it on your body to prevent the interference and bites of those poisonous insects."

Nie Zheng looked at him coldly, and said expressionlessly: "What's the matter with these insects, ants and beasts? Why did they escape from Panlong Ridge in groups?"

Wu Sanren shook his head and sighed, and said: "The commander-in-chief does not know that the dragon python is an ancient fierce beast and the king of all beasts in the world. Every time before the dragon python is born, the beasts, insects, rats and ants entrenched nearby will feel the fierceness. The coercive atmosphere of the underground beasts came from, so they moved away from their homes one after another to avoid the birth of fierce beasts."

Hearing this, Nie Zheng was secretly startled. He never imagined that the coercion of this dragon and python would be so terrifying. Although it is hidden deep underground and has not yet been born, the insects and ants living in the nearby area can actually move forward in advance. Feeling the terrifying breath of the dragon python, they fled here one after another.

It can be seen from this that the dragon python, who is an ancient fierce beast, is indeed somewhat mysterious and strange.

Thinking of this, Nie Zheng looked down at the dark green jade bottle in Wu Sanren's hand, and did not rush to take it, but continued to ask, "When is the total solar eclipse?"

Wu Sanren lowered his head and thought for a while, then said, "It will be noon tomorrow."

Nie Zheng's heart moved, and he said: "That is to say, Dragon Mang will be born at noon tomorrow?"

Wu Sanren nodded and said: "That's right, as long as the sun is completely swallowed by the dog, the dragon python hidden deep in the ground will emerge from the ground. Besides, we can no longer see any living things. But if we want to turn over the Panlong Ridge in front of us, we must apply insect repellent ointment on our bodies, otherwise, there will be a large number of poisonous insects and ants blocking the way. It would be very inconvenient.”

Nie Zheng stared at him with flickering eyes, and was silent for a long time. Finally, he took the dark green jade bottle from Wu Sanren.

Seeing that Nie Zheng was always wary of him, Wu Sanren shook his head and smiled wryly, "Don't worry, Commander, this bottle of insect repellent ointment is not harmful to you."

Nie Zheng nodded expressionlessly. Just as he was about to lift the bottle cap to see what was inside, suddenly, at this moment, Niu Meng hurriedly got off his horse in order to prevent any abnormalities in the bottle. Nie Zheng stepped forward and took the dark green jade bottle in his hand.

"Marshal, let the subordinates and others apply it first."

After saying that, Niu Meng quickly opened the bottle cap, looked down, and found that it was filled with a group of green ointment, and when he went to the bottle mouth to sniff, there was a foul smell coming out of it.

Immediately, Niu Meng frowned, and said displeasedly: "What kind of bullshit ointment is this, why does it make people sick?"

After listening to Niu Meng's complaint, Wu Sanren who stood by the side smiled awkwardly and said: "The insect repellent cream itself is made of some smelly things, and the smell is normal, otherwise, how to drive away the insects and ants blocking the way?" .”

Seeing that everyone refused to apply it first, in desperation, Wu Sanren had no choice but to take the jade bottle from Niu Meng, took a small ball of ointment out of it, rubbed it in his hands, and then applied it on the trousers and shoes of his legs surface.

After smearing, Wu Sanren smiled at everyone: "Just apply this insect repellent ointment on the uppers of trousers and shoes, and then you can only walk over Panlong Ridge on foot, because after reaching the top of the mountain, the terrain below is relatively steep It’s hard to walk, and it’s impossible to walk with a mount.”

After everyone heard about it, they didn't say much, so they took the insect repellent ointment from Wu Sanren's hands, and carefully applied it on the uppers of the trousers.

A moment later, after everyone had applied the insect repellent ointment, Wu Sanren quickly got on his horse and led Nie Zheng and others carefully into the damp and dark woods.

As expected, what Wu Sanren said was correct. After everyone applied the insect repellent ointment, they were surprised to find that all the insects and ants in front of the road, after seeing Nie Zheng and others appeared, they bypassed the two sides like a tide. At a distance of more than ten meters, they began to retreat.

Seeing this scene, Nie Zheng, who was sitting on the horse, was amazed in his heart. He thought to himself, the insect repellent ointment Wu Sanren applied to everyone was really effective. After the poisonous insects and ants asked about the smell, they really didn't dare to approach their team.

Along the way, with the help of insect repellent ointment, Nie Zheng and the others saved a lot of trouble. Otherwise, if there was no insect repellent ointment, if they were bitten by those poisonous insects and ants who were fleeing and relocating on the road, it would probably add a lot of unnecessary trouble. Trouble.

In this way, everyone followed Wu Sanren, winding their way up, and finally arrived at the top of Panlong Ridge two hours later.

As soon as they reached the top of the mountain, everyone was shocked by the sight in front of them.

On the other side of Panlong Ridge, the terrain suddenly started to become steeper. The road down the mountain is basically smooth and rugged rocks. In some places, at most, it can only be enough for people to stand firm. If you want to go down with your horse, Obviously impossible.

Although the road down the mountain is rugged and steep, the scene at the bottom of the mountain is indeed the opposite.

Everyone looked around and saw that the bottom of the mountain surrounded by Panlong Ridge was like a huge basin. The entire terrain of Panlong Ridge was like a huge washbasin. But it is very wide and flat.

In desperation, everyone had no choice but to put their mounts on the top of the mountain, and then slowly climb down the mountain on foot.

From the top of the mountain to the bottom of the valley, there is at least a distance of hundreds of feet. Originally, with the martial arts strength of Niu Meng and others, this rugged mountain road could not be difficult for them at all.However, due to Nie Zheng's lack of martial arts cultivation and his inability to lighten his body at all, under his drag, everyone's speed of going down the mountain slowed down a lot.

Basically, on the way down to the bottom of the valley, everyone stopped every few steps and waited to meet Nie Zheng, while Niu Meng and several elite dragon and tiger elites with the highest skills guarded behind him and were responsible for Nie Zheng's Security work.

From the top of the mountain to the bottom of the basin valley, with Niu Meng and his team's strength, they can reach it in at most a cup of tea, but with Marshal Nie as a drag, the journey in a cup of tea is a blunt effort It took nearly two hours to finish.

By the time everyone arrived at the bottom of the valley without incident, the sun had already set.

At this time, Nie Zheng was sitting on a rock resting profusely in sweat. This afternoon, he was so tired that he was out of breath and weak from all the climbing and crawling up and down the mountain.

Marshal Nie wanted to rest, so everyone had to stop and wait. Anyway, they had already reached their destination, and Wu Sanren was not as anxious as before.

Nie Zheng took advantage of his breathing to carefully observe the terrain at the bottom of the Panlong Valley, and the more he looked at him, the deeper his frown became.

The terrain within Panlong Ridge is really weird.

The bottom of the entire valley is wide and flat, and at a glance, it is a plain with a radius of tens of miles.

On this plain, there are dry loess gravels, basically no grass grows, the closer to the bottom area of ​​the basin valley, the soil on the ground actually presents a strange blood red color.

Looking around, the end of the valley looks like a big puddle of blood spilled on the ground, which is shocking and has great visual impact.

After resting for more than ten minutes, Nie Zheng also recovered some strength, and he stood up immediately, "Sanren, now we have turned over Panlong Ridge, where is the ancient dragon pit with the dragon python hidden in this valley?" ?”

After hearing Nie Zheng's question, Wu Sanren pointed to the end of Pangu and said, "The Gulong Pit is right there. It's less than ten miles away. You can get there before dark."

Nie Zheng nodded, waved his hand and said, "Let's go, let's hurry up and take a look..."

In this way, under the leadership of Wu Sanren, everyone continued on the road and walked towards the front of Bungu.

Fortunately, the terrain in the valley is relatively flat, and walking is not too difficult. It didn't take half an hour for everyone to cross the plain full of blood-colored soil and arrive at the end of the valley.

From a distance, everyone was surprised to find that at the end of the valley, on the wide ground, there was a huge tiankeng.

"What a big sinkhole!"

After seeing the tiankeng, Nie Zheng couldn't help being refreshed, hurriedly accelerated his pace, and rushed towards the sky with all his strength.

After a while, everyone came to the vicinity of the Tiankeng.

At this time, under the protection of Niu Meng and others, Nie Zheng came to the edge of the tiankeng cautiously, bent down to look down, and suddenly, everyone was shocked and gasped.

I saw that this tiankeng was extremely huge. According to Nie Zheng's visual inspection, it had an area of ​​at least several miles.

But what surprised Nie Zheng the most was not the size of this giant tiankeng, but its depth.

The tiankeng in front of me is very deep, at least hundreds of meters deep from top to bottom.The surroundings of the tiankeng are as if cut by a knife and an axe, steep and smooth, straight down, looking from a distance, it seems that a giant iron rod has fallen from the sky, and a huge hole is fiercely inserted in the ground.

Nie Zheng was a little afraid of heights in his previous life, but now standing on the edge of the tiankeng, looking at the bottom of the pit like a vast abyss, his scalp couldn't help but tingle, and his legs were trembling and weak.

But driven by strong curiosity, he still bit the bullet and continued to look towards the bottom of the pit.

Suddenly, he discovered that at the bottom of the giant sinkhole, there was actually a hole similar to a crater.

The entrance of the cave is several feet in diameter, and it is dark and bottomless. Everyone standing on the top of the tiankeng can faintly hear the icy cold and fierce wind constantly blowing out of the dark cave entrance. At the same time, accompanied by the cold and gust of wind, there were bursts of creepy screams and strange noises.

It is not known whether the whistling sound was caused by the airflow rubbing against the cave wall, or by other unknown things. In short, this tiankeng is very strange, and the huge black hole at the bottom of the pit is even more strange.

Seeing that Nie Zheng and the others were so shocked by the tiankeng that appeared in front of them, Wu Sanren immediately walked slowly to Nie Zheng's side, pointed to the dark hole at the bottom of the pit, and said, "This is the ancient dragon pit, and the pit The bottomless black hole at the bottom is the dragon cave leading to the ground."

Hearing this, Nie Zheng took a deep breath, and asked curiously: "Could it be that every time the dragon python is born, it always comes out of that dark dragon cave?"

Wu Sanren nodded, and said with lingering fear: "The scene of Dragon Mang's birth is simply earth-shattering, enough to make anyone in the world tremble with fear."

As soon as these words came out, the mood of everyone suddenly became a little apprehensive, a little excited, and a little curious, but more, they were looking forward to it.

Nie Zheng carefully observed the surroundings of the Tiankeng, and couldn't help frowning: "The Gulong Pit is several miles wide, and I don't have wings. How can I put those overwhelming firearms in the central area of ​​the Gulong Pit?"

Hearing this, Wu Sanren smiled and said, "Don't worry, Marshal, the poor are well prepared."

After saying that, he took off the bag on his back, and suddenly took out a roll of yellow cloth with strange runes painted on it.

Wu Sanren slowly spread out the roll of yellow cloth in front of everyone, and Nie Zheng was surprised to find that the roll of yellow cloth turned out to be in the shape of a giant sail.

"Kite?"

Nie Zheng frowned, and asked in puzzlement, "Could it be that Sanren wants to use the power of kites to throw those overwhelming firearms into the deep pit?"

Wu Sanren nodded, and said with a smile: "The marshal's guess is correct, that's exactly what Pindao meant."

Nie Zheng looked down at the kite he brought, and asked with some doubts: "Are you sure it can hold things weighing hundreds of catties?"

Wu Sanren laughed loudly and said, "Don't underestimate this thing, Commander. This thing is the treasure of the pindao's sect 'Fengyun Banner', as long as the pindao uses the secret technique of the sect, it can hang thousands of catties on it." Heavy objects, however, Pindao's strength is limited, he can only cast spells to make it fly for a quarter of an hour at most, so we must watch the timing."

Nie Zheng lowered his head and pondered for a moment, secretly calculating the weight of the fifty depth charges in his heart.

A depth charge weighs about four to five hundred catties, ten four to five thousand catties, and fifty weigh more than 2 catties.

If it is true what Wu Sanren said, his nonsense "Fengyun Banner" can lift thousands of catties at a time, then the fifty depth charges must be divided into at least seven or eight trips before they can be thrown into the sinkhole within.

A mere quarter of an hour, I don't know if it will be enough.

(End of this chapter)