Thousand Lantern Night

Poker-Face straightened his arm just enough to reach the engraved dragon pattern, he pressed his thumb along the dirty ghost ring round and round, not knowing what he was doing.

Because I suddenly saw what I had been looking for so hard, I was inevitably a little nervous, so I tightly grasped the waist of the Poker bottle.He probably sensed my nervousness, he didn't stop pressing something, he just explained softly: "It's made to death, there is no live button. If you hold it hard, it will break."

Said that it would take some effort to get this thing down.

I nodded in a daze.It is dead, which means that a certain part of the ghost ring is carved with the stone of the dragon pattern itself.If we want to get it off, we need not only carving tools, but also a craftsman with jade carving skills.

This is hard to do.

No matter how versatile Poker Bottle is, he probably won't be able to do this job.The few people present probably couldn't do it.

Poker bottle withdrew his hand, said softly, "Let's go up and talk", and asked the fat man to pull us up.I was more curious about what kind of difficulty made Poker Bottle decide to give up first, so I stretched out my hand to check the situation.

The longan part is a recessed hole, and I can barely put my fingers in.I imitated Poker Ping to trace the outline of the ghost ring carefully with my fingers, and found that the bottom of the ring was carved out of the jade of the longan itself.That is to say, the ring and the dragon carving itself are one.

Indeed, as Poyouping said, if you insist on breaking it off, the ring will definitely break.I no longer take chances.

Just when my hand left the longan, Poker Face's foot on the carvings on the sarcophagus suddenly slipped. I used his foot as a tiptoe, and I sank as well.

The fat man above probably didn't expect that when he let go of his hand, the bronze chain slid down for a while.The fat man yelled and rushed forward and grabbed us. We had already slipped to the lower part of the sarcophagus.

Poker bottle covered my head with one hand, lest I hit the sarcophagus like a mallet again.By the time the downward trend stabilized, I was already in a cold sweat.

Fatty's flashlight followed quickly, and seeing that we were still hanging, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Brother is naive, come up and talk about it. This place is going to collapse every now and then, it's so fucking exciting! Fatty, my little heart can't take it anymore." Already!"

Pokerfing wrapped his left hand around the bronze chain twice, and said, "Go!"

The fat man groaned and pulled us up with all his strength.

Poker-Face looked down at me, and stated flatly: "You took it down." Seeing my unresponsive expression, he added: "Ghost Ring."

Only then did I remember that I was reaching out to fiddle with the longan, and I instinctively grabbed the bottom of the ghost ring just now.Later, I slid down with Poker Bottle, and I subconsciously grabbed his chest clothes.

Now I looked down and saw the ghost ring on my index finger, and turned my palm to see that there was no trace of damage at all.

God!

To have managed to get it off its carved base unscathed!

Excitedly, I shook my index finger in front of his eyes, and praised him for that swipe just now, it was so well slid!

Poker-Face was not as embarrassing as I was, but his expression became serious: "It wasn't slippery just now, but this sarcophagus moved a bit. Something is wrong, get out of here quickly."

Of course I didn't dare to doubt Pokerfing's deduction, and immediately settled down to cooperate with him.

Fatty's panting voice came faintly: "I said Master Hua, my strength is not the same as yours, you should just rest on the sidelines!"

Xiao Hua said coldly: "Shut up."

The fat man stopped whining.

The space is relatively quiet.

Under the bottomless feet, there was a faint sound of water being stirred, as well as the shallow breathing sound that I heard at the other end of the Thousand Buddha Cave before.

Poker bottle frowned slightly, but said nothing.But I knew very well that there must be some kind of living creature here.

The nervousness suddenly rose, and I scolded this fat man for his feet softening at a critical moment. How did it take so long for him to go up a little bit.

A slight prickling sound suddenly rang in my ears.It sounds like the hard material surface is cracking inch by inch.

I glanced at Poyouping, and found that he was turning his head to the side and looking solemnly at the extremely huge sky coffin next to us.I wondered if the shattering sound was coming from the sarcophagus, so I turned my head to look.

Turning around, a slender crack, like lightning crawling in the night sky, ran down from the dragon pattern we got the ghost ring just now, piercing and cracking a finger-wide vertical streak in front of me. .

Nima, I have seen gambling stones opened by people, but I have never seen gambling stones opened by myself.

I yelled twice, and told Poker Ping that the sarcophagus is probably going to be dead in nine out of ten!

According to the statistics of corpse fraud cases recorded in the tomb robbery notes handed down by my grandfather, the zongzi in such sky coffins must be of a higher level than expected, and now they suddenly want to cheat.

Poker Bottle obviously agrees with my concerns.He looked at the distance above, and suddenly tore off the chain that was wrapping around me, hugged me whole, and threw it on his shoulder like a sack.Then he used both his hands and feet, borrowing the friction of his feet on the surface of the sarcophagus and the tension of the chain to speed up his climb up.

I rushed down, lying on the back of Poker Bottle like a girl snatched by a bully, and moved with his movements.

Behind him, I saw the vertical lines on the surface of the sarcophagus cracking all the way, and countless tiny cracks bursting from the main trunk, like carving a tree on the surface of the coffin.

Poker bottle made a big movement, one arm grabbed the edge of the dragon pattern carving.He held my waist with the other hand, panting and said, "Wu Xie, step on my shoulders and climb up first. Be quick."

I've never been more cooperative than this time.

I supported Poker-Feng's shoulders with both hands, stepped on him, grabbed the bronze chain above, and quickly climbed up.Without me, Poker-finger was much more nimble and quickly followed me.

"Naive! Quick!" the fat man yelled.

Accompanied by this cry, suddenly there was a loud explosion from the sarcophagus below.I turned around in surprise, and saw the surface of the sarcophagus shattered into countless stones of different sizes, hitting and falling into the abyss.I didn't dare to have the curiosity to see clearly what was lying in the coffin, so I turned my head and climbed desperately.

The ghost ring was stuck on my finger, and it suddenly emitted a faint green light.But the green light was only on for a while and then disappeared.

After the light disappeared, I suddenly felt a strong wind blowing in front of me.I don't know where the wind came from, and it whirled around me.

"Chi Chi Chi!" Xiao Bai suddenly became agitated, lying next to the fat man and yelling at me.

Immediately, there was a sound like a snoring or a long sigh coming from that bottomless place, as well as the sound of the water being disturbed and splashing.

I climbed up slowly, grabbed Xiao Hua's hand, and finally landed smoothly.I lay on the edge of the stone bridge and reached out to pull the oil bottle.Poker Bottle stretched out his hand towards me and clasped my wrist.I was about to pull him up with all my strength, when suddenly something slammed onto his waist, quickly wrapped around him and pulled him down.

The accident happened too suddenly, I maintained the movement of reaching out, and watched Poker-Face's face change in a daze, and was swept into the sarcophagus in the next second.

"Brother!" the fat man yelled, and he was about to sweep down the side cock.He was stopped by Xiaohua: "Stop! What if you shoot Zhang Qiling!"

Before Xiaohua finished speaking, a white shadow suddenly flashed beside me, it was Xiaobai chasing Poyoufeng and slipping through the gap in the sarcophagus.I froze for a second, quickly loosened the things wrapped around my waist, grabbed a short sword from the side, and jumped down.

At that moment, I didn't think about anything, I only had a heroic burning anger in my heart: Nima's demons and ghosts dare to drag me to the oil bottle, I won't kill you!

I didn't expect this furious jump to be so accurate, I grabbed the edge of the gap in the coffin face and borrowed some strength, and I rolled in smoothly.

"Wu Xie! Excuse me!" Xiaohua's voice came from above, and at the same time a beam of flashlight chased over, allowing me to see the situation inside clearly.

This sarcophagus is not only very long, but also very deep, with several layers, the middle one is a solid piece of ancient jade.

Now the jade coffin was broken from the bottom at an oblique angle, revealing the coffin owner buried in the middle, who was actually a giant green python.

We have seen the largest snake mother in Snake Marsh Ghost Town, the scales on her body are about the size of a palm.But in comparison, the one in front of me is about ten times larger than that one.This week the circumference has caught up with the fat man's waist!

The upper part of the giant python was still buried, and the exposed lower part was swollen and coiled, as if it was strangling Poker Bottle from the dead.

Xiaobai aimed at the protruding part, took a bite, raised his front claws to reveal the hidden horny blade, and pierced into the snake's belly.The giant python probably suffered from pain, and suddenly tightened its grip a bit.With that kind of strength, I'm afraid that the skeleton of Poker Bottle will be crushed!

I quickly jumped up, drew my sword and stabbed, whatever could be broken was counted.I didn't know how many times I stabbed it, and suddenly felt someone pulling my foot. I looked down and saw that Poker Bottle was crawling out from under the snake's curled up body.I breathed a sigh of relief, bent down and stretched out my hand to pull him, who knew that the snake's tail suddenly swung over at this moment, and hit me—yes, my face.

My eyes went dark, and I immediately slid down from the jade coffin.The snake's tail curled up when it saw people, swayed around me, and bumped me against the coffin wall.

Because the tail was too fierce, the jade coffin that buried the upper body of the python also began to burst.

Poker-Face had already escaped at this time, seeing that I was entangled, he rushed over again, grabbed my short sword and slashed fiercely in the same way.

At this time, the part of the snake's head suddenly emerged from the shattered jade coffin.Unexpectedly, that thing was not a snake head, but a person!The zongzi here is actually a monster with a snake tail!

I yelled to remind Poker Bottle to pay attention to the back.Poker-Face was much sharper than me, and immediately turned around to meet the pounced monster, and stabbed the thing's face with the sword in his right hand.

The instant burst of power from Poker Bottle was so amazing that the human-headed monster was stabbed in the face with a sword before he even had time to dodge.Then Poker-Face raised his knife and chopped off that human head!

The snake's tail loosened suddenly, and I escaped immediately.Unexpectedly, the upper body whose head had been cut off suddenly turned over, stretched out two arms and clamped me fiercely, and the headless neck smashed towards me.In the confusion, I saw that there was a snake mouth behind the broken neck, and the two fangs on the upper jaw were extremely sharp, protruding from the throat.

Poker bottle jumped down from the top, kicked the monster aside with a side kick, grabbed me and jumped out of the jade coffin.

The fat man had already thrown the bronze chain down, shouting: "Grab it!" I instinctively hugged the chain, and was pulled up by the fat man along with the oil bottle.

Xiaobai nimbly climbed up along the surface of the jade coffin, faster than Poker Ping and me.The monster inside actually climbed with both hands, chasing Xiaobai and jumping up quickly.

As soon as we landed, the fat man pointed his gun at the monster and swept it indiscriminately.The monster finally twisted and writhed and fell.

I collapsed on the ground exhausted, and only then did I feel the burning pain on my face.That tail just now was strong enough.

Xiaohua came up and pulled me up, "Then there might be something down there, hurry up, go up first and then talk about it."

It wasn't until we got back to where we came down that I remembered that my backpack was still there.But I was secretly surprised when I followed, and the body of Que Dan was gone.

I gestured to tell them what happened before, and the fat man slapped his thigh and cursed: "Let me run into those bastards again, I can't beat them to death!"

Xiao Hua said: "Don't get excited. Wu Xie, let me have a look at the ring."

At this moment, I remembered that the ghost ring was already in my hand, and I wanted to take it off for Xiaohua, but I pulled it out, but it didn't work.It's the same as being born on my index finger.

"Don't hold it hard, be careful to break it." Xiaohua said, directly pulled my hand over, looked close to the light, and said, "It's nothing special. It seems to be a bit different from the color of the ghost seal. Wu Xie, the ghost seal is here. where?"

When Xiaohua asked such a question, I felt a little guilty.In fact, before I set off, I considered that it would be troublesome if I lost the ghost seal with me, so I simply left it in Beijing.But at that time, there was no other place to be sure of safety, so I found a very secret place in Xiaohua's courtyard room and kept the ghost seal.Most people would never expect to go to that place, and besides, the safety factor is definitely higher than any other place on Xiaohua's territory.

I had no choice but to gesture in a daze, telling Xiaohua Guixi that I was hiding, and I will talk about it when I go out.

Poker Bottle has been standing by the side without moving, his head lowered as if he was thinking about something.The fat man bluffed, "What are you thinking, little brother?"

Only then did Poker Ping speak: "I'm thinking about how to get out."

Fatty seems to have just remembered: "That's right. The passages in this place are all designed for one-way. If you want to go the other way, there are probably a lot of self-destruct mechanisms. Besides, when we came in, many passages have been destroyed because of the extraordinary performance of the innocent classmate. I can’t go back. Little brother, think about it carefully, what will happen when you come down.”

I asked Xiao Hua, and Fengying and the others, what should they do.

Xiaohua took a fixed look at me and said, "It's up to fate. If they can't get out, it can only be said that they are not suitable for this job."

These words are very cold.Although I have experienced these things, I have seen a lot, but it is impossible to say that there is no entanglement.

Xiaohua didn't say anything, just patted my shoulder lightly.

Poker-face seemed to have thought of something, and scratched and wrote on the stone with his dagger. "The thing in the jade coffin just now, if I guess correctly, is Fuxi himself, or at least a descendant of Fuxi's lineage."

The fat man was surprised: "Brother, according to what you say, this tomb is several thousand years old. How did you deduce this, because of the piano array of the Fuxiqin?"

Poker-Face shook his head: "The array is one. Fuxiqin is a legendary fetish. If it really existed, then only people from Fuxi's lineage know how to use it to set up an array and make it sound automatically without wind. Yes, this so-called tomb is a huge mass burial site, and it seems that it should be a place where a certain group of people are buried together."

Xiaohua nodded in agreement: "Besides, there is also a living jade mountain in this place. Those high-level corpses are buried in the jade, which seems to be a special ritual system. Combined with the mysterious power that Quedan said, That should be these high-status corpses, waiting to be reborn. For example, the one with a human body and a snake tail just now, is it the image of the legendary Fuxi and Nuwa clan?"

I opened my mouth wide in surprise, is this okay?I looked at the fat man, and the fat man spread his hands: "I'm sure we're not filming a mythological TV series."

Poker-Face continued: "Another thing, this place has no written records, not even images. People in ancient times used images to record their lives at the earliest. If it goes so long that there are no records at all, it must be in ancient times."

I pulled Lamen Youping's arm hard and interrupted him: Does that mean there really is a mysterious power here?If the monster just now was an ancient person, it was resurrected by the power here?

Poker-Face nodded solemnly, not joking at all.

I looked at the ghost ring on my index finger, and remembered that the green light flashed before, and then the jade coffin burst. Could it be that this thing has the power to summon corpses?

A chill ran down his spine.

The fat man was as terrified as I was, and waved his hand: "Don't be naughty, anyway, after you get the ghost ring, it's serious to think about it first. The thief seems to be very familiar with this place, he must have been here, so There must be a way out!"

Poker-Face stood up first: "Walk around the piano array and go forward. Try."

We quickly packed up our things and followed, went down from the entrance of the cave to the piano array, and walked to the other end of the stone bridge.

Suddenly there was a strong cold wind under the feet, and then, there was a very loud cow cry from the bottom of the cave.

That's right, it's a bull.Moo—

Accompanied by the sound of splashing water, it seemed that something was swimming in that abyss and breaking through the water.