Thousand Lantern Night

Before I finished speaking, that hand pinched my thigh hard again.Now I was sure there was someone in the water, so I jumped ashore with a loud bang in fright.As a result, the soles of his feet slipped and he bumped his head against Poker Bottle.Poker bottle originally stretched out his hand to stop me, but after being hit by me, he was able to hold me with one hand, and the two of them rolled into the water together.

I hurriedly drank a gulp of warm water, and was scooped up by Poker Bottle and pushed to the shore.In a panic, the waterproof flashlight fell into the water, just as a beam of light shot across it, I seemed to catch a glimpse of a dense circle of fish around us underwater.Before I can see clearly, the person has been pushed ashore by Poker Bottle.

Poker-Face went down to retrieve the flashlight, and then climbed up. We both grabbed our outer shirts and wiped them indiscriminately, and then put clothes on our bodies in a mess.I put on half of my trousers, and was suddenly held down by Poker, "Don't move."

As he said that, Poker Bottle pulled something out of my ass.I yelled, feeling a piece of flesh was pulled off my buttocks, the pain was so painful that tears were about to flow down.Poker bottle smashed the thing on the ground a few times, took off his hand, pressed me, and bit my ass.

"You, you, what are you doing!" I was startled, my whole butt was numb, and my legs were throbbing with pain.He turned his head to look at Poker Bottle, but couldn't see his face.

Porky Oil Bottle sucked the blood for me and spit it out one mouthful at a time.After a while, the numbness in the buttocks eased a lot.I shyly pushed the oil bottle, "Little brother, it's okay, it's okay."

I felt very sorry, Poker-Face is like a god to me, let him gnaw on my buttocks - quite touching!

I put on my pants and shoes, and squatted over to look at the thing that attracted me just now.

How to describe it?That thing is like a dragon fruit.The size and appearance are very similar, but its surface is the hard shell of snails.The bottom is round and has a sucker, which shrinks in like a huge chrysanthemum.The top was originally a thin film wrapped like an alternate leaf, but now it was smashed to death by the oil bottle, and it spread out.Layers of thin film stretch out, much like a human palm.

I go!It was me who was molested by this thing just now!I don't know which end it gnawed on my ass, and I couldn't help shaking my body with goosebumps.

There was a gurgling sound in the hot spring, and a piece of water foamed on the surface of the water.

Poker-Face frowned: "Let's go."

I immediately packed up my things and followed Poker Bottle.

This thing is no accident, it is a kind of snail.The snails are usually group activities.There must be many brothers and sisters underwater.Although their attack power is not very strong, if there are too many of them, it will be a big trouble.

I followed Pokerfing all the way up, and the water area became wider and wider as I went up, and there was no shoal to settle down.We had to wade and walk.Continuing to walk up for a while, the underground river obviously showed a tendency to incline, and there were even small step-shaped waterfalls in some areas.It starts with a section with uneven storey heights, and then walks in, it becomes a relatively regular stone step.

Fortunately, we are heading in the right direction.

"Wu Xie, look."

After I had struggled to climb up a relatively high waterfall, Pok You Ping suddenly stopped and signaled me to look up the cave wall with a flashlight.

A mottled mural appeared on the cave wall.

Unlike the well-preserved murals I saw in Yunding Tiangong, most of the murals here have peeled off, leaving only some dark colors and lines carved on the rocks, and some content can be vaguely seen .

The disadvantage of the flashlight is that it can only illuminate a small piece of rock when it shines in a straight line.The first image that came into view was a little unpleasant, a scene of massacre.

In an open field, countless people in Hu suits bowed to the high platform in front of them.Near the high platform, there is a circle of witch-like men, all wearing ghost masks on their faces, and dancing with hands and feet is probably a big god.On the high platform, a strong man with a butcher knife stood in the middle, and was beheading a young man kneeling on the ground.Beside the strong man were two men who also wore fang masks, and they were dragging the slashed corpse to the side of the high platform.

Boyouping dragged me up slowly, and the flashlight moved forward little by little.

Next, the men who were hacked, like pigs, were hung on a wooden stick with their hands and feet bound, carried by two witches, and lined up in a long line, walking on the barren snow field.At the front of the line was a huge coffin in the shape of a square platform, carried by more than a dozen people on each side, walking down the snow-capped mountain.In the funeral procession, flags and flags were flying, and on the two colorful flags in the front, something was written like tadpoles.

I have no research on the costumes of ancient ethnic minorities, so I don't know what ethnic group they are.It seems that the funeral should be at least a person with the status of "Great Khan". As for which ethnic minority has such a large-scale custom of burial, I am not very clear.

Going further, the mural is disconnected.

What cuts off the mural is a huge gap, which is sunken towards the top, and the edges are relatively neat. It seems that there should have been a door here.The threshold part is more than three meters high, and the water level inside is higher, and the water flows over the threshold to form a waterfall.Poker Bottle stepped on the rock next to him and jumped up, reaching out to pull me down.

After we crossed the threshold, we found that the content of the murals inside could not be connected.

Once inside, the whole picture is that huge coffin, the lid is opened, and lying inside is a very young man, wearing layers of clothes, with long and exaggerated hem, he is dressed to the fullest like flowers.Strangely enough, the man's eyes were open.

I shivered in embarrassment, and said, "What kind of nation is this? If you open your eyes when you are buried, isn't that a death that you will not rest in peace with?"

Poker bottle looked at it for a while, then shook his head: "He's not dead."

I felt chills again: "Ah? Then why did you lie in the coffin if you didn't die? Besides, the meanings painted on the outside are funerals, right?"

Poker Bottle nodded: "In nature, birds like eagles will complete a rebirth process in middle age. They will break their beaks and wear off their claws, and wait until a new beak and claws are born, and then regenerate their feathers. Pull them all out and regenerate new feathers. In this way, the lifespan of the eagle can be almost as long as that of humans." He turned his wrist, and the halo walked around the person on the mural, "This person, with a similar method, waiting for rebirth."

I thought to myself, is this person going to cut off his limbs and pull out his hair?It's impossible to think about it.Can't help wondering: "Then why are you buried before you die? How do you want to be reborn?"

Poker bottle said: "Just now there was a painting that should have been engraved on the door, but now the door is gone, so I don't know where they chose to be buried. If I guess correctly, it should be Changbai Mountain. This person—— King Wannu."

I suddenly remembered that the tadpole script on the white banner in the previous picture was once shown to us by Monk Hua in Changbai Mountain.Monk Hua said it was written in Eastern Xia.At that time, I talked about the legend of the Wannu King, which said that the Wannu Kings of all generations would crawl back to the ground before they died, and then the new generation of Wannu Kings would crawl out of the ground again.

Therefore, it is very likely that the change of Wannu King in the past dynasties has always been the same person, who has been reborn in some way.The murals in front of me seem to prove such a guess.

I suddenly realized: "Then those who were killed were not for the sake of burial, but for the rebirth of the Wannu King?" I scratched the back of my head, "But why did these things appear here? The person who set up this mirror , are you trying to tell us something?"

"It's possible." Poker-Face nodded, not knowing whether he answered my previous question or the latter.Before I could respond, he suddenly turned around and threw something in the direction of the door, and then quickly followed him with the flashlight.

I turned around in astonishment.I was seeing a dark shadow flashing past the threshold.The Swiss Army Knife thrown by Poker Bottle fell over the upper edge of the threshold and plopped into the water.

Poker bottle didn't follow immediately, but reached out and grabbed me, pulling me towards him.

I immediately became alert in my heart.Subconsciously look up at the top of the head.Because I'm pretty sure that the black shadow didn't jump down.If it went down, it would surely hit the water and make a noise.

But it just flashed by and was gone.The only possibility is that it climbed to the top of the cave.

I think Pokerfing is a little different from before. When encountering such a situation where the enemy is in the dark, he will follow him without hesitation in order to pursue the clues he wants.But ever since I was made dumb by Qin Ai, Poker-Face always chose to stay by my side to take care of me in any possible crisis.

It's the same this time, Poker-Face didn't follow right away.

There are stalactites like thorn bushes hanging upside down on the top of the cave. The thing walks through the thorn bushes and climbs very fast.Fortunately, Pokerfing's night vision ability is not weak, and the flashlight occasionally hit it twice, and I only saw a gray mass, a big beach, like a huge ray.Its body can be squeezed and curled freely among the rocks, but the head and tail cannot be seen clearly.

The thing crawled so fast that it disappeared in a flash.Poker-Face shook the flashlight back and forth, but failed to illuminate it again.

I held my breath, and in the dark and silent space, I could only hear the sound of water dripping on the upside-down rocks, one sound at intervals, quite regular.In addition to this only movement, one can still hear the sound of breathing one after another, which is very light, and it was absolutely inaudible when we were swimming like we were just now.

I was a little nervous, and I cursed in my heart how could there be so many nonsense in these sinister places.But I seem to have forgotten that we were the first to provoke these things.If we hadn't been sloppy digging up other people's graves, we wouldn't have been ruined by these wicked things.Logically speaking, I scold them for no reason.

But now is not the time to be reasonable.

The layer upon layer of breathing above the head became more and more dense, and the originally very small sounds gradually resonated and connected into a large area.It shows that the number of such things is increasing.

Subconsciously, I took out two in my bag with my backhand, and once again expressed my great disappointment with the equipment for this dive. I only took out an iron grappling hook for mountain climbing.I held it in my hand and weighed it, feeling like crying without tears.

Poker Ping still only had the dagger on him.It was still pulled back from Zhang Yinzhen's face.He turned off the light and stuffed it into my hand, while pushing me back very lightly. "Go. Find the exit."

I just received the flashlight when I suddenly felt a huge slap in the face.Something slapped my face like a giant pancake, it was greasy and full of mucus.I was about to turn around and run, but I was caught by such a blow and fell into the water with a splash.

At this time, my consciousness is still very clear, that is, although the iron grappling hook is weak, it is a life-saving weapon, and I must not lose it.

When I entered the water, I used the iron grappling hook to push down, and I managed to hold on without being shot into the water like the whole bastard. I staggered a few times, took a few steps forward with my short body, and turned back to face the attacker.

At the same time, there was movement from Poker-Face. I clearly heard the sound of the sword in Poker-Face's hand cutting through flesh, and then the thing plunged into the water with a loud noise.

The water splashed immediately.

The Poker Bottle didn't stop. I kept hearing the sound of swords cutting through the air. It seemed that there were a lot of them.

I jumped over and wanted to drag the oil bottle to go with me, but just after taking two steps, my feet were wrapped in a slippery blanket, and I rushed forward in inertia.This time I was not so lucky to hold on, I fell into the water, and soon the blanket wrapped around my thighs to my chest, covering me completely.

I couldn't stand up, so I smashed it with my iron grappling hook.During the beating process, the mucus on the body was very slippery, and there were many big bumps on the skin, which felt similar to pimples.

The stuff was getting tighter and tighter, and its strength was amazing.I had to swing my legs at the same time, scrape like a mermaid into the shallow water, and pound the outside of it like crazy.Finally, the iron grappling hook pierced its flesh at the right angle, and I pulled the handle and pulled it hard!

With a bang, the whole back of that thing was torn apart by me!

The force that wrapped around my chest disappeared suddenly, and the thing curled up and rolled around in the water, splashing waves of water hitting my face, with a stench.

I hurriedly got up and ran to Poker Bottle, followed the same pattern and tore off the thing wrapped around his arm, then pulled him quickly to the rock wall, and climbed on the protruding rock to a dry place.

I felt that I was a little afraid of the water. After climbing higher, I couldn't help wiping my face with my hands, and I was a little relieved.I pointed to the rock wall, and some rocks always protrude, so I said to Poyoufeng: "Brother, we can pass here. We can't walk in the water anymore."

Poker-Face said calmly, "Take a photo on the top."

"what?"

I didn't know why I turned on the flashlight to shine on the top, and suddenly I was horrified to find that there were stalactites on the top of the dense rock thorns hanging upside down.

Those rough rock-like surfaces turned out to be the monsters that attacked us in the water just now!

They are like huge gnats sucking their abdomens to the top of the cave, while their backs are pitted and bulging with many stalactite-like lumps.Those lumps rose and fell one after another as they breathed, like water bubbles deflated and bulged again.When they are asleep, the meat lumps will remain still, and it looks like a static layer of stalactites!

Just looking at the size of one, it is about the same as a children's blanket.

I was so nauseous that my stomach was acidic, and I couldn't help belching.

Then, I saw a very disgusting scene.

One of those gnats as big as a child's blanket slowly swelled up and turned towards me.

It turned out to be faces!

But it cannot be called a human face.Because the face was full of large and small sarcoma, like a large mass of white meat covered with white meat balls of different sizes.

I suddenly remembered such a sentence: If God wants to destroy people, he must first make people crazy.

I feel like I'm only a millimeter away from being crazy right now.