Ring of Seven [Publication Edition]
Chapter 24 Parting ways
Chen Hao sneered, "Are you the only one who knows?"
Ye Wei didn't continue to ask, and slowly moved towards the door according to Chen Hao's method.After everyone came out safely, the bells in the house returned to their original state, hanging quietly at the four corners of the house.As soon as the bells stopped, the stakes went up again.
Chen Hao said: "It's not just here, as long as any place where the copper bell appears, it represents an institution, but I don't want to know what kind of institution there are in other places. Be careful of the bell."
Zhou Jue rubbed his shoulders and said, "I still remember that in the book, Mr. Lin, you wrote about the mechanism of the straw man... Could it be that the so-called figure is also this kind of mechanism?"
Because Lin Xu was too old, such a series of actions made him a little overwhelmed.He sat on the ground gasping for breath, unable to continue to answer, just nodded slightly to show that Zhou Jue was right.
At this time, Zhou Jue found that Chen Hao looked at people with strange eyes, as if there was some kind of hidden meaning.For some reason, he kept hiding his left hand behind his back.The thin monkey wanted to ask Chen Hao's whereabouts, but Zhou Jue stopped him. He shook his head at him, saying that he should not say anything now.
Chen Hao glanced at Lin Xu who was squatting on the ground, and stretched out his hand to help him up: "Old Lin, do you want to go in with us? Maybe there is no chance to come out this time."
Lin Xu looked down at his hands and said, "I can't be sorry to Cui Niang..."
Chen Hao touched his arm subconsciously, and then asked, "Why did you weave Cuiniang's hair into the book?"
Lin Xu's eyes darkened, and he said, "Cui Niang said that if she dies, her hair will be used as a token. With this book, these people will not die in vain."
Zhou Jue interjected, "But looking at the scene in the book, Cui Niang has long been out of order. Didn't you say that if she is resurrected, she will be the owner of the Princess Tomb?"
Lin Xu lowered his head and said, "Yes, but that was also Cuiniang's idea. So many years have passed, we need an answer. Just tell us, are we alive, or..." Lin Xu didn't continue talking, holding tightly His hands were shaking badly.
Chen Hao looked around at everyone, finally fixed his eyes on Ye Wei, and said, "What about you?"
Ye Wei said without thinking, "I'm the same as you."
Chen Hao looked at him and said, "I hope everyone can get out alive."
Ye Wei was stunned for a moment, but still said expressionlessly: "Do you think it's possible?"
Chen Hao nodded and said, "We have come to this point, at least we are still alive. Aren't you still alive too?"
Ye Wei looked at Chen Hao for a long time, nodded, and finally said: "Hey, that's right, then I will be in charge of the Princess Tomb in the Yin-Yang Tomb. As long as you trust me, I will be in charge of that end."
At this time, the thin monkey said: "Then Brother Chen, will you go to Guo Pu's tomb?"
Chen Hao lowered his head, frowned slightly, and said with a smile: "Yes, I will take you there."
Zhou Jue suddenly noticed that when Chen Hao spoke, it seemed that there was an accent in his voice. A woman's voice came from behind him, but was covered by his voice. .Zhou Jue looked at Chen Hao's face and found that Chen Hao happened to be looking up at him too.Chen Hao continued: "We must find the copper wall in the tomb, and then complete the ceremony according to the pattern on the clay tablet at the same time, and must be synchronized. A second of stagger means failure. As long as there is a slight mistake, all of us will die. You ……is that clear?"
Ye Wei glanced at Chen Hao and said, "You still don't believe in my abilities. I said before that I will save your lives at critical moments."
Chen Hao also smiled, looked at Zhou Jue and said, "Now we should be right. Don't forget that yin and yang are the same way is the fundamental creed of the Li tribe."
Zhou Jue nodded, indicating that he agreed with this point of view, but he was still worried. He felt that there seemed to be something wrong with Chen Hao who appeared this time.Zhou Jue is very concerned about his left hand, what exactly is in his left hand?Why is he hiding?
Chen Hao found that Zhou Jue was looking at him, his eyes darkened, but he still stretched out his right hand towards Zhou Jue, and said, "Next, everyone gather all the clay tablets. Ye Wei, take the three pieces you need. I will be responsible for taking away the remaining four yuan."
Ye Wei smiled calmly: "As expected, you know, and I also understand the symbols on the stone wall."
Chen Hao said: "Don't waste time, just follow the last clue."
Ye Wei selected three of them and randomly stuffed them in the bottom of the backpack, while Chen Hao just packed up the others and put them in the backpack as well.Chen Hao glanced at everyone, and stretched out his hands around: "Okay, let's go on the road, as long as you believe in me."
Zhou Jue hesitated for a moment, but just as he was hesitating, Chen Hao put down his hand dejectedly.As if wanting to redeem something, Zhou Jue grabbed Chen Hao's hanging hand and said, "Brother Chen, I believe it."
Chen Hao just smiled lightly and said, "Very good."
When Zhou Jue and Chen Hao were talking, Fat San pulled Shouhou and whispered, "Shouhou, you must be careful, I think this time is not easy. You have to be careful of Ye Wei."
The thin monkey nodded earnestly, and Fat San said again: "Also, you have to be careful of Feng Laojiu, he still hides something from us, and we are not on the same page. They must have their own plans. When it is a last resort, you Just find a way to escape by yourself. I made a series of marks here, and left a piece of luggage at the door, and when you try to escape, the things here can let you climb up."
The thin monkey looked at Fat San, and Fat San patted him on the shoulder and said, "Brother, I know you too well. You admit death, but at critical moments, your own life matters. On the other hand, it's okay for me and Zhou Jue to be together." There is a caretaker, but I really can't worry about you."
The thin monkey said: "I will. You too, and Zhou Jue too, you can't hang up."
Fat San increased the strength of his hand, but he couldn't continue talking.Zhou Jue looked at them, and Fat San smiled awkwardly at him, but at this moment he was powerless and could only nod bitterly.The last eye contact of the three companions ended in such an atmosphere, and Zhou Jue felt unspeakable pain in his heart.
Feng Laojiu stretched out his hand to look at his watch and said, "The time is almost up, but there is no movement. Did we get it wrong?"
Chen Hao looked at Feng Laojiu and said, "No, there is nothing wrong."
Chen Hao looked up at the dark sky and said, "The time has come."
4:00 Yin and Yang Tao
Just when everyone was about to say their final goodbyes, the sky suddenly began to rain cats and dogs, and the icy cold rain hit everyone's bodies, piercingly cold.Chen Hao touched the rain on his face and said, "The wooden door is about to appear, everyone pay attention to the movement around you."
Everyone was still wondering where the rain came from. There was nothing in this dark space except for the coldness washed by ice water.
Everyone found that with the heavy rain, the water began to rise continuously. The place that was originally a small canal suddenly became wider, and the water droplets began to become very turbulent.Due to sightlines, everyone can only judge how big the water potential is by hearing.Everyone was forced to hide in a higher place, but with this kind of water potential, it is estimated that this place will be submerged in less than half an hour, and by then this place will become a vast ocean.
Fat San said: "This... is this the wooden door? Why is it full of water... is it going to drown us? Where does the rain come from?"
Chen Hao muttered something, as if he was comparing it with some formula.
The thin monkey nervously stopped Fat San from speaking, and said, "Listen, is someone crying?"
Just as the thin monkey finished speaking, Fat San, who was standing on the farthest side, heard a faint voice, which sounded like a woman's cry.
He quickly said: "It does seem that someone is crying, could it be the cat's fault?"
Feng Laojiu said: "Didn't that cat disappear? By the way, Brother Chen, I want to ask, where did you go before?"
Chen Hao's reaction made people feel a little creepy. He stared coldly into the depths of the water and said, "I have been following you all the time."
Everyone was shocked by his words, Feng Laojiu said: "Brother Chen, this joke is not fun!"
Chen Hao turned his head and said blankly: "Why am I kidding, the notebook in Zhou Jue's bag didn't fall out of nowhere."
Zhou Jue remembered the notebook that reminded him, and said, "But we can't see you."
Chen Hao said, "Yes, you can't see me."
Fat San calmly pulled Zhou Jue back, and said, "This Chen Hao couldn't have been transformed by some ghost?"
Zhou Jue interrupted Fat San and said, "If he was a ghost, he wouldn't have saved us. Brother Chen, you said that you need that book to enter the wooden game. Why?"
Chen Hao looked at Zhou Jue and said, "There is Cuiniang's hair in the book, and that book is on me. It prevents you from seeing me, and I showed up when Linge appeared, all because of this book." effect, it's like having a ghost."
When everyone talked about that book again, there was an inexplicable sense of fear, and the hesitation that was driven by invisible pressure and unable to escape returned to them.Fat San said: "We even found the author. Didn't Mr. Lin say that the number of people is not the key... Isn't that book no threat to us?"
Chen Hao said: "There is indeed no threat, and the number of people is not the key. Mr. Lin said that the key is the clay tablet. Everyone, don't forget the ghosts and horrible blood attracted by the clay tablets on our bodies, but they are not the ghosts in the book."
Zhou Jue said: "Also, Elder Lin also said that he was not under his control when reading this book, the ghost in that book, Cuiniang's hair... Could it be?"
Lin Xu absentmindedly said for him: "That's right, actually this is Cui Niang's resentment."
Feng Laojiu said with trembling voice: "Cui Niang's hair? But that should be..."
Chen Hao said: "Ru Lan has always said that there are two ghosts in the book, two different ghosts, one ghost wants to prevent her from going into the book to describe the world, and the other is trying to make her pursue this matter."
Zhou Jue asked anxiously: "One of the ghosts is Cuiniang? Didn't Cuiniang die in the end?"
Chen Hao shook his head and said: "No, Cui Niang died the first time she entered the Princess Tomb, and she gradually became the owner of the tomb in that deserted village where yin and yang were exchanged, that is to say, at the beginning of the novel, she It’s just a ghost. Lin Xu knew that Cui Niang was actually the owner of the tomb, and she needed someone to help her enter Guo Pu’s tomb.”
After finishing speaking, he looked up at the crowd and said, "Cui Niang was a corpse possessed by the owner of the tomb from the beginning. She attracted everyone to the Yin-Yang Road, and finally she had to use her own way to enter Guo Pu's tomb. But she Surely not, the ceremony must be completed by entering both tombs at the same time. So she is doomed to fail."
Lin Xu clenched his fists and lowered his head, nodded without speaking, as if admitting that he had concealed this from everyone.Chen Hao continued: "So the number of people is really not the key, the key lies in all the clay tablets we have now, and the way to combine the clay tablets..."
Just when Chen Hao wanted to continue talking, he suddenly took a deep breath, and the words stopped abruptly just as he was about to speak.He clutched his neck in pain and tried to turn around, but he couldn't.At this time, Zhou Jue heard a faint gasp coming from behind Chen Hao, and Chen Hao rolled on the ground in pain.
Chen Hao clutched his neck in pain, and said with difficulty: "Take, take away the bag..."
Fat San didn't catch it, Zhou Jue was stunned for a moment, and then rushed over with another stride.When he wanted to take the schoolbag away from Chen Hao's back, he saw a lot of hair in the gap between the schoolbag and Chen Hao's back.At that moment, he felt like someone's eyes in the black hair, and those eyes were fixed on him.
He took the backpack away from Chen Hao's back at once, and the moment the backpack was detached from Chen Hao's back, his hair disappeared, as if everything was an illusion.
Chen Hao curled up on the ground and kept panting, while the backpack lay quietly on the ground.At this time, there was a burst of creepy crying from the other side of the waterfall.
The crying became louder and louder, like a shrill roar.
Chen Hao, who regained his composure a little, climbed up with difficulty, picked up the book that had fallen on the floor, and held it firmly in his hand.No one dared to approach him.
Chen Hao looked at the waterfall and said, "Old Lin, this is the real ghost burial."
Chen Hao glanced at Ye Wei, then at Zhou Jue, and said, "Do you still remember Chen Rulan once said that the biggest function of the ring of seven is to make all readers feel the fear of death? When we are more afraid Death, the safer we are. Conversely, if we feel things are settled, then danger is invading. We have made a mistake all along."
Chen Hao paused and said, "Why can the fear of death reduce the impact of books on our reality? Have you ever thought about the reason?"
Holding the book, he panted and said: "The first function of this book is to involve us. Then it is to give hints. The second function, which is also the most critical function, is to fight against those clay tablets It keeps reminding those who come into contact with the dangers they will encounter. The owner of the tomb has always reminded us, and we have always believed that it is the source of all horrors."
Chen Hao paused and then said: "That's why Mr. Lin said that the clay tablets are the key. Because the real threat to us is the ghosts of those clay tablets. They repeat those horrible rituals all the time. They will devour all The people and things related to the Clan tribe, but he overlooked one thing, that is because the folding book has provided us with all the protection until now, it kept telling us the code of the clay tablet through stories, and Rulan also Discovered this... so she kept giving hints, but just when she was about to succeed, she failed. Her offerings came to an abrupt end at that point."
Zhou Jue hurriedly asked: "Why, why did she fail?"
Chen Hao's eyes were very painful: "I don't know..."
At this moment, Fat San standing on the far side pointed to the river and said, "Look, what is that?"
Everyone looked in the direction Fat San pointed, and found that the original waterfall had disappeared, and the stone wall was covered with distorted corpses.Zhou Jue said: "I saw these corpses at the bottom of the river, they... how could they be like this?"
That terrifying cry came from the stone wall, Chen Hao looked at the stone wall covered with corpses and said, "We have to go on the road."
The thin monkey looked at the high wall and said, "Could we climb over those corpses? If we fall off, we'll die."
Ye Wei dismissively said: "It would be nice to have a handhold, Cui Niang and the others used to climb with bare hands."
Lin Xu said, "It's true that it's steep, but the rocks on it are very solid. If you really want to climb it, you can still climb it. It's just that after the flood, it's too wet here..."
Zhou Jue said, "Why is there crying in that stone wall?"
4:20 Yin and Yang Tao
Chen Hao squinted his eyes and looked at the criss-crossing corpses: "No, this is not a corpse, this is a tree."
Fat San built a pergola with his hands: "How is it possible? The tree looks like that?"
Ye Wei put down his hand and said, "Huangquanmu..."
After checking the luggage, Chen Hao said: "That's right, in the myths and legends of the past, it was said that wooden steps can be used to reach the heavenly steps, and the emperor ordered to cut off all the sacred trees, breaking the connection between mortals and heaven. The passage has not been cut off, and the corpse wood is the ladder leading to the underworld, so it is also called Huangquan wood. Generally, it can only grow in subtropical humid monsoon climate conditions, because it needs very sufficient water vapor. The nutrient demand is also very large , only grows in places where there are a lot of carrion. In western Hunan, it is said that some people have seen this rare tree species."
Chen Hao looked at Zhou Jue and said, "Those sounds are produced by the sprouting of this kind of tree. The tree is hollow. This is the water gate of the wooden door."
Gradually, the rain became less and less, and amidst the terrifying cries, Huang Quanmu had a strange change.It began to expand, as if it was inflated, and pieces of off-white objects covered the entire stone wall.
"It's fucking disgusting, it's like a big piece of psoriasis," said the thin monkey.
Feng Laojiu said: "It's impossible to climb up like this, we will definitely fall to our death."
Ye Wei looked at the corpses and said excitedly, "It's started."
As soon as he finished speaking, many purple-green vines slowly protruded from the swelled stones, and the speed at which the vines climbed was simply breathtaking.While the vines were growing wildly, flower buds bloomed on the branches, all of which were white on the left and black on the right, like a huge flower wall made of black and white flowers.
Feng Laojiu said: "What does this mean?"
Lin Xu exclaimed, "This... a guide flower?"
Chen Hao said: "It's time, we must climb up, and when the flower bucket blooms, pollen will float out, which is poisonous."
After speaking, he began to prepare tools.He threw everyone a set of climbing tools and ropes: "Ye Wei, remember the time."
The latter smiled: "Don't hold back."
But Chen Hao didn't joke, he held the equipment and didn't let go: "Promise me, I will bring them out alive."
Ye Wei took the tool, and there was a trace of hesitation in his eyes, which made Chen Hao strengthen his hand.Chen Hao said: "At least Thin Monkeys have the right to live."
Ye Wei looked back at the thin monkey who was timidly arranging the equipment, took the tools, and did not make any promises to Chen Hao.Chen Hao shouted loudly: "Ye Wei?"
Ye Wei raised his head and just said silently: "I know."
Holding the rope, Zhou Jue took one last look at Feng Laojiu and Shouhou.Feng Laojiu's eyes were full of excitement, as if he didn't care about his own life or death, and was just excited to be close to the truth.Zhou Jue's heart hurts like being pierced by an awl. He knows that Lao Jiu is not normal anymore, but he still hopes that they will meet again one day.
Fat San patted Zhou Jue: "Let's go, if you don't go, you won't have time."
Zhou Jue held back the expectation in his heart, and shouted: "Old Nine! Skinny Monkey! You have to get out alive!"
The thin monkey lowered his head and nodded heavily.Zhou Jue found that he was actually crying, this thin monkey who always had a determined face, as if he was not afraid of anything, was crying.The thin monkey quickly wiped his face with the back of his hand, sniffled and said, "Second brother, fat third, you have to come back alive!"
After speaking, he turned around and left without looking back.
When everyone was moving towards different positions, Feng Laojiu finally let go of all disguises, with a kind of calm and sadness in his eyes, he just said lightly: "Friends, farewell..."
The flowers bloom very slowly, but the yellow spring wood in the depth of the flowers is very scary, as if there is a real corpse under these flowers, these weird flowers seem to bloom on the corpse.The two groups split up and climbed towards the left and right sides of the stone wall. Lin Xu and Fat San were the hardest ones.The thin monkey's name was not for nothing, he found the feeling after a few rubs, he climbed more neatly than the monkey, and he even had the physical strength to give others a hand.Their progress was obviously much faster than Chen Hao's.
During this process, no one said a word, and gradually, the distance between the two groups of people became farther and farther.When they climbed to the middle, they found that the rain had stopped.Getting up is easier.
The two teams of men and horses separated from the left and right sides of the stone wall in a Y shape along the flowers on the Huangquan wood.
Zhou Jue was out of breath halfway through the climb, he suddenly thought of a very important question, and asked, "How can we keep pace with Shouhou and the others?"
Chen Hao looked at the colors of the surroundings and said, "Time. The stone tablet in the ancestral hall has a time mark. Both Ye Wei and I know when it will take place."
Zhou Jue asked, "When?"
Chen Hao looked at his watch and said, "It's [-]:[-], which belongs to Yin time. We still have more than seven hours. We must succeed at [-]:[-] noon, otherwise everything will be in vain."
Zhou Jue gritted his teeth, looked at the stone wall covered with purple-green vines, and asked, "What will happen if you fail?"
Chen Hao lowered his head, looked at his arm and said, "I don't know either."
Zhou Jue didn't continue to ask, but grabbed the clues in his hand, those vines scratched his hand full of bloodstains.Zhou Jue clenched his fists and desperately climbed up. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, he must live.
Fat San who was climbing on top suddenly stopped, Zhou Jue almost bumped into him, and asked, "What's wrong with you, keep climbing."
Fat San asked, "Brother Chen, it's really wood underneath, isn't it a corpse?"
Chen Hao said: "Yes, these are the photos of plants that Ru Lan gave in the materials, and I have heard of them."
Fat San's face twitched, and he said, "But I felt that the wood seemed to move a little bit before. No, it didn't mean it swelled, but it just shook like that! I think there is a living thing crawling underneath."
Chen Hao looked back, those strange flowers were getting denser and denser, and they looked as pale as a funeral on the gray corpse wood, and it seemed that they would all bloom in a short time.
Chen Hao said: "It doesn't matter, just climb up. We will be in trouble when the flowers bloom! Pollen will make people hallucinate!"
Zhou Jue looked back at Lin Xu who was at the back of the line, and shouted, "Uncle Lin, can you do it? We are running out of time!"
Lin Xu didn't answer, but put all his energy into climbing.He suddenly let out a strange cry, and his whole body was hanging upside down on the stone wall. He could only hold on to the rope desperately, and said to everyone: "Something is grabbing me!" May fall.
Chen Hao turned his head and found that there were actually two hands in the vines.Chen Hao yanked Lin Xu's arm, and that hand retracted into the vine.Lin Xu gasped and said, "That hand! There is something under it!"
Chen Hao looked at the more and more dense red flowers and said, "Don't worry about so many, just climb quickly."
Chen Hao pushed Lin Xu up, and urged everyone to keep climbing and not look back.When he looked towards the vine again, his hands suddenly stretched out from the vine again.Chen Hao looked at it, and said secretly in his heart: "It's not yet time, it's not here yet...it can't be..."
That hand seemed to have sensed it, and silently retracted into the messy vines.The intricate vines made a rustling sound, and Chen Hao suddenly felt a sharp pain in his hand. He clutched his arm, trying not to let others see it.
Just as everyone continued to climb up, a thick blood-red mist began to fill the ruins of the scorpion tribe.In the blood-red smoke, the ancient village of the Li tribe began to collapse, and there were distressing creaking sounds from the ground.Suddenly, the original village suddenly sank into the ground, and the whole village became a huge pit. Then, like a fountain, a large number of gnats dripped from the ground.The bugs merged with the red mist and spread towards the stone wall.That strange bell sounded like a death knell and kept ringing.
Ye Wei turned his head and looked down, his pale face showed anxiety, and his eyes were very disturbed.The thin monkey asked what was wrong, but he just looked at the stone wall and said, "Go on, we must climb up, we have no way out."
Feng Laojiu clutched his chest and said, "Those things... are coming... They will kill us..."
Compared with Chen Hao, their team seemed to be much faster, and they quickly climbed to two-thirds of the position.But here, the stone is very dry, the flowers are also very messy, and the off-white Huangquan wood is almost invisible.But dry stones are much easier to climb than slippery vines.
Just when the three were about to climb to the top, they found a huge stone rolling from the right side of the rock wall.Ye Wei moved his body away quickly, and the stone rolled all the way down the stone wall.Ye Wei looked around and said: "The material of the stone is not like the one on this stone wall, it should be white marble."
After speaking, he slowly approached to the right, Ye Wei tore open the vines, and found that there was actually a stone door.He looked at the edge of the tunnel and said, "That's right, this is the real passage to Princess Tomb. Back then, Cuiniang and the others escaped only through the robbery cave."
The gate of the passage is carved from a whole block of white marble with many intricate textures and patterns.Ye Wei wiped the dust off the door with his sleeve, and while stroking the door, he said: "The name of the tomb owner and her title are clearly written here, and the phoenix totem on the side also symbolizes her royal status. She is indeed a princess."
The thin monkey said, "Who is she?"
Ye Wei touched the engraved name and said: "Princess Shengwu Jingde, but this posthumous title was granted after her death. She was Princess Jingde when she was alive. Judging from the name, she should be the suzerain of the Li tribe. corpse."
Ye Wei tried to push the stone door, but the stone door didn't budge.
The thin monkey pushed him away and said, "I'll do it!"
No matter how hard the skinny monkey tried to suck, the door didn't move at all.The thin monkey couldn't hold back his face, so he stuck to the door, pushing and pulling with all his strength, but it didn't help at all.
The thin monkey suddenly jumped away and said, "No, there is movement inside the door!"
Feng Laojiu also leaned against the door and listened, and there was indeed the sound of hissing breathing from inside.He said: "Impossible, except for the group of people five years ago, no one should have gone in again."
The thin monkey said: "Even if you have gone in, if you say that you don't eat or drink now, can you still call people?"
Feng Laojiu shook his head and said: "But you have forgotten that there is indeed one book in the book that is left in Gongzhufen."
Ye Wei paused and said, "The first doctor to die?"
The thin monkey leaned against the door and said, "It seems that there is no sound... Could it be that it has gone far?"
He tried to push it a few more times, and the thin monkey finally said angrily, "Ye Wei, how do you open this door?"
Ye Wei folded his hands on his chest, looked at the thin monkey, shook his head in a contemptuous way, looked at the outlines around him and said, "Did you see that groove? This kind of mechanism is very common in tomb passages."
The thin monkey nodded, and Ye Wei continued: "Find four sticks and insert them into these four grooves at the same time, and then the door should be able to open."
The thin monkey glanced at him with a blushing face, took out a climbing stick from his backpack, cut it into four pieces, and handed it to Ye Wei.Ye Wei looked at the stick, and the corners of his eyes twitched.Feng Laojiu said from the side: "At the beginning when he beat you, he was definitely merciful, otherwise you are no different from this stick now."
Ye Wei's forehead was sweating a little, and he turned to the two people and said, "First of all, I have to remind you all to follow my command from now on. If you make a wrong step, you will end up together. Do you understand?"
The thin monkey snorted disdainfully, and Ye Wei said immediately: "Since you have no objection, then we will continue walking. But I want to tell you that we must finish putting together the clay board at noon. After this time, the five elements will If we move, we will fail. It will be too late to escape."
Feng Laojiu said: "But we can't enter the deepest part of the Princess Tomb, and we will probably be rushed out before we go."
Ye Wei sneered, "That's because you don't understand."
Feng Laojiu clutched his chest, looking at Ye Wei with hatred in his eyes.Ye Wei smiled and said, "If you knew the mechanism of the tomb, would you still go the wrong way?"
Feng Laojiu looked at him vigilantly and said, "Do you know?"
Ye Wei twisted his mouth and said: "I think Chen Hao actually knows it too. It can be said that he actually knows everything, but he refuses to say it. I still can't see through what this person is up to."
Feng Lao asked: "Then, why did you enter the Princess Tomb? You can choose Guo Pu's Tomb."
Ye Wei looked at the thin monkey next to him and said, "I want to correct my mistakes."
After finishing speaking, he stuffed the stick into the four grooves, and then told Shouhou and Feng Laojiu: "Hold it down, don't let go, let go before the door is pushed open, the door will bounce back , when the time comes, the three of us will be smashed to death by the door."
Ye Wei pushed the stone door slowly, and the stone door made a piercing sound, and the two thin monkeys felt that the groove was getting deeper and deeper.
Ye Wei pushed the door cautiously, and suddenly heard a click, and the whole stone door bounced to the side.It was pitch black inside the door, and gusts of wind came from the passage, and there seemed to be other strange sounds in the wind, but Shouhou and the others couldn't distinguish them.
Ye Wei breathed out and said, "Okay, Lighting, we're going in."
5:25 Yin and Yang Tao
Just when Ye Wei and the others were about to enter the Princess Grave, Chen Hao and the others were in big trouble, because Lin Xu was too old, and his speed was not as fast as that of young people. They were gradually surrounded by flowers on Huangquan wood. It began to emit a smell similar to blood.The surrounding air is getting colder and drier because of the water vapor, and snowflakes start to float in the sky.
Chen Hao pulled the rope and said, "Everyone, be careful and wear masks. The pollen will make you weak."
Zhou Jue looked up and said, "Everyone hold on..."
Everyone nodded guiltyly, taking care of each other and putting on simple gas masks for each other.Chen Hao said, "Go ahead."
Zhou Jue nodded, gritted his teeth and continued to climb up desperately, while Chen Hao stayed at the bottom.After all, they are not professional rock climbers. Such a high distance has already exhausted their physical strength, and the snow gets bigger and bigger as they climb up. Blocks of snow are buried on everyone's faces, which makes people unable to open their eyes. .They didn't find the entrance, and all they could see was the large expanse of white, and they couldn't tell whether it was flowers or snow.
Fat San panted, hung on the climbing rope, panted and said, "I can't... I have no strength."
Zhou Jue looked at the crowd and said, "Everyone, hold on."
Chen Hao fixed the rope, looked up at it and said, "We have no retreat, we can only go up. This is just a road."
Fat San looked at the top and said: "Huashan... Huashan has a road, but I really don't have the strength to climb it."
Lin Xu rolled his eyes and hung on the rope, breathing like a bellows.Zhou Jue felt that this old guy would really hang up here after a few more twists and turns.
Chen Hao said: "Have you noticed that it is very dry here?"
Zhou Jue pinched Xue Mozi next to him and said, "This...isn't Xue?"
Chen Hao said: "No, Huangquan wood can only grow in very humid conditions. How can there be flowers in such a dry place now? We were wrong."
Zhou Jue squeezed the rope and said, "The problem is that it's all snow now, we can't tell the difference."
Fat San nodded, and said: "Really, if I climb down again, I will definitely have a nervous breakdown and jump down. This is simply worse than death."
Chen Hao tightened the safety rope and said, "We will find it."
Lin Xu turned over, his hair and eyebrows were covered with snow, he squinted his eyes and looked around and shouted: "The snow is too heavy, I can't see the direction. But I remember that we didn't climb to the end, Cui Niang was in the middle Leading us into a cave-like direction, Cui Niang said that it implied that climbing the fairy cave is a passage for Guo Pu's soul to emerge."
Zhou Jue said, "With such heavy snow, how do you know where there is a passage?"
Lin Xu suddenly trembled, his rope broke for some unknown reason, and he was about to fall, and Zhou Jue, who was closest to him, was almost pulled down by him.Zhou Jue pulled the rope, but Lin Xu really didn't have the strength. He fell down until he was caught by the safety rope on Zhou Jue's body, and his whole body was suspended in the air.
Zhou Jue yelled a few times, but Lin Xu had lost consciousness.Chen Hao quickly fixed the last safety bolt, and moved slowly downward.Fat San said with a pale face: "No, this rope is for professional mountaineering, and even a knife may not be able to cut it. How can it be broken if it is broken?"
Zhou Jue took the opportunity to look up the stone wall, the half of the rope on the stone wall was obviously torn off, but how much strength would it take to tear off the professional climbing rope?
Zhou Jue said to Fat San: "The safety plugs are all inserted."
Fat San shook his jaw and whimpered non-stop.Zhou Jue glanced at him helplessly, and slowly moved down.At this time, Chen Hao had reinstalled the rope for Lin Xu.Looks like it's in the process of falling
Ye Wei didn't continue to ask, and slowly moved towards the door according to Chen Hao's method.After everyone came out safely, the bells in the house returned to their original state, hanging quietly at the four corners of the house.As soon as the bells stopped, the stakes went up again.
Chen Hao said: "It's not just here, as long as any place where the copper bell appears, it represents an institution, but I don't want to know what kind of institution there are in other places. Be careful of the bell."
Zhou Jue rubbed his shoulders and said, "I still remember that in the book, Mr. Lin, you wrote about the mechanism of the straw man... Could it be that the so-called figure is also this kind of mechanism?"
Because Lin Xu was too old, such a series of actions made him a little overwhelmed.He sat on the ground gasping for breath, unable to continue to answer, just nodded slightly to show that Zhou Jue was right.
At this time, Zhou Jue found that Chen Hao looked at people with strange eyes, as if there was some kind of hidden meaning.For some reason, he kept hiding his left hand behind his back.The thin monkey wanted to ask Chen Hao's whereabouts, but Zhou Jue stopped him. He shook his head at him, saying that he should not say anything now.
Chen Hao glanced at Lin Xu who was squatting on the ground, and stretched out his hand to help him up: "Old Lin, do you want to go in with us? Maybe there is no chance to come out this time."
Lin Xu looked down at his hands and said, "I can't be sorry to Cui Niang..."
Chen Hao touched his arm subconsciously, and then asked, "Why did you weave Cuiniang's hair into the book?"
Lin Xu's eyes darkened, and he said, "Cui Niang said that if she dies, her hair will be used as a token. With this book, these people will not die in vain."
Zhou Jue interjected, "But looking at the scene in the book, Cui Niang has long been out of order. Didn't you say that if she is resurrected, she will be the owner of the Princess Tomb?"
Lin Xu lowered his head and said, "Yes, but that was also Cuiniang's idea. So many years have passed, we need an answer. Just tell us, are we alive, or..." Lin Xu didn't continue talking, holding tightly His hands were shaking badly.
Chen Hao looked around at everyone, finally fixed his eyes on Ye Wei, and said, "What about you?"
Ye Wei said without thinking, "I'm the same as you."
Chen Hao looked at him and said, "I hope everyone can get out alive."
Ye Wei was stunned for a moment, but still said expressionlessly: "Do you think it's possible?"
Chen Hao nodded and said, "We have come to this point, at least we are still alive. Aren't you still alive too?"
Ye Wei looked at Chen Hao for a long time, nodded, and finally said: "Hey, that's right, then I will be in charge of the Princess Tomb in the Yin-Yang Tomb. As long as you trust me, I will be in charge of that end."
At this time, the thin monkey said: "Then Brother Chen, will you go to Guo Pu's tomb?"
Chen Hao lowered his head, frowned slightly, and said with a smile: "Yes, I will take you there."
Zhou Jue suddenly noticed that when Chen Hao spoke, it seemed that there was an accent in his voice. A woman's voice came from behind him, but was covered by his voice. .Zhou Jue looked at Chen Hao's face and found that Chen Hao happened to be looking up at him too.Chen Hao continued: "We must find the copper wall in the tomb, and then complete the ceremony according to the pattern on the clay tablet at the same time, and must be synchronized. A second of stagger means failure. As long as there is a slight mistake, all of us will die. You ……is that clear?"
Ye Wei glanced at Chen Hao and said, "You still don't believe in my abilities. I said before that I will save your lives at critical moments."
Chen Hao also smiled, looked at Zhou Jue and said, "Now we should be right. Don't forget that yin and yang are the same way is the fundamental creed of the Li tribe."
Zhou Jue nodded, indicating that he agreed with this point of view, but he was still worried. He felt that there seemed to be something wrong with Chen Hao who appeared this time.Zhou Jue is very concerned about his left hand, what exactly is in his left hand?Why is he hiding?
Chen Hao found that Zhou Jue was looking at him, his eyes darkened, but he still stretched out his right hand towards Zhou Jue, and said, "Next, everyone gather all the clay tablets. Ye Wei, take the three pieces you need. I will be responsible for taking away the remaining four yuan."
Ye Wei smiled calmly: "As expected, you know, and I also understand the symbols on the stone wall."
Chen Hao said: "Don't waste time, just follow the last clue."
Ye Wei selected three of them and randomly stuffed them in the bottom of the backpack, while Chen Hao just packed up the others and put them in the backpack as well.Chen Hao glanced at everyone, and stretched out his hands around: "Okay, let's go on the road, as long as you believe in me."
Zhou Jue hesitated for a moment, but just as he was hesitating, Chen Hao put down his hand dejectedly.As if wanting to redeem something, Zhou Jue grabbed Chen Hao's hanging hand and said, "Brother Chen, I believe it."
Chen Hao just smiled lightly and said, "Very good."
When Zhou Jue and Chen Hao were talking, Fat San pulled Shouhou and whispered, "Shouhou, you must be careful, I think this time is not easy. You have to be careful of Ye Wei."
The thin monkey nodded earnestly, and Fat San said again: "Also, you have to be careful of Feng Laojiu, he still hides something from us, and we are not on the same page. They must have their own plans. When it is a last resort, you Just find a way to escape by yourself. I made a series of marks here, and left a piece of luggage at the door, and when you try to escape, the things here can let you climb up."
The thin monkey looked at Fat San, and Fat San patted him on the shoulder and said, "Brother, I know you too well. You admit death, but at critical moments, your own life matters. On the other hand, it's okay for me and Zhou Jue to be together." There is a caretaker, but I really can't worry about you."
The thin monkey said: "I will. You too, and Zhou Jue too, you can't hang up."
Fat San increased the strength of his hand, but he couldn't continue talking.Zhou Jue looked at them, and Fat San smiled awkwardly at him, but at this moment he was powerless and could only nod bitterly.The last eye contact of the three companions ended in such an atmosphere, and Zhou Jue felt unspeakable pain in his heart.
Feng Laojiu stretched out his hand to look at his watch and said, "The time is almost up, but there is no movement. Did we get it wrong?"
Chen Hao looked at Feng Laojiu and said, "No, there is nothing wrong."
Chen Hao looked up at the dark sky and said, "The time has come."
4:00 Yin and Yang Tao
Just when everyone was about to say their final goodbyes, the sky suddenly began to rain cats and dogs, and the icy cold rain hit everyone's bodies, piercingly cold.Chen Hao touched the rain on his face and said, "The wooden door is about to appear, everyone pay attention to the movement around you."
Everyone was still wondering where the rain came from. There was nothing in this dark space except for the coldness washed by ice water.
Everyone found that with the heavy rain, the water began to rise continuously. The place that was originally a small canal suddenly became wider, and the water droplets began to become very turbulent.Due to sightlines, everyone can only judge how big the water potential is by hearing.Everyone was forced to hide in a higher place, but with this kind of water potential, it is estimated that this place will be submerged in less than half an hour, and by then this place will become a vast ocean.
Fat San said: "This... is this the wooden door? Why is it full of water... is it going to drown us? Where does the rain come from?"
Chen Hao muttered something, as if he was comparing it with some formula.
The thin monkey nervously stopped Fat San from speaking, and said, "Listen, is someone crying?"
Just as the thin monkey finished speaking, Fat San, who was standing on the farthest side, heard a faint voice, which sounded like a woman's cry.
He quickly said: "It does seem that someone is crying, could it be the cat's fault?"
Feng Laojiu said: "Didn't that cat disappear? By the way, Brother Chen, I want to ask, where did you go before?"
Chen Hao's reaction made people feel a little creepy. He stared coldly into the depths of the water and said, "I have been following you all the time."
Everyone was shocked by his words, Feng Laojiu said: "Brother Chen, this joke is not fun!"
Chen Hao turned his head and said blankly: "Why am I kidding, the notebook in Zhou Jue's bag didn't fall out of nowhere."
Zhou Jue remembered the notebook that reminded him, and said, "But we can't see you."
Chen Hao said, "Yes, you can't see me."
Fat San calmly pulled Zhou Jue back, and said, "This Chen Hao couldn't have been transformed by some ghost?"
Zhou Jue interrupted Fat San and said, "If he was a ghost, he wouldn't have saved us. Brother Chen, you said that you need that book to enter the wooden game. Why?"
Chen Hao looked at Zhou Jue and said, "There is Cuiniang's hair in the book, and that book is on me. It prevents you from seeing me, and I showed up when Linge appeared, all because of this book." effect, it's like having a ghost."
When everyone talked about that book again, there was an inexplicable sense of fear, and the hesitation that was driven by invisible pressure and unable to escape returned to them.Fat San said: "We even found the author. Didn't Mr. Lin say that the number of people is not the key... Isn't that book no threat to us?"
Chen Hao said: "There is indeed no threat, and the number of people is not the key. Mr. Lin said that the key is the clay tablet. Everyone, don't forget the ghosts and horrible blood attracted by the clay tablets on our bodies, but they are not the ghosts in the book."
Zhou Jue said: "Also, Elder Lin also said that he was not under his control when reading this book, the ghost in that book, Cuiniang's hair... Could it be?"
Lin Xu absentmindedly said for him: "That's right, actually this is Cui Niang's resentment."
Feng Laojiu said with trembling voice: "Cui Niang's hair? But that should be..."
Chen Hao said: "Ru Lan has always said that there are two ghosts in the book, two different ghosts, one ghost wants to prevent her from going into the book to describe the world, and the other is trying to make her pursue this matter."
Zhou Jue asked anxiously: "One of the ghosts is Cuiniang? Didn't Cuiniang die in the end?"
Chen Hao shook his head and said: "No, Cui Niang died the first time she entered the Princess Tomb, and she gradually became the owner of the tomb in that deserted village where yin and yang were exchanged, that is to say, at the beginning of the novel, she It’s just a ghost. Lin Xu knew that Cui Niang was actually the owner of the tomb, and she needed someone to help her enter Guo Pu’s tomb.”
After finishing speaking, he looked up at the crowd and said, "Cui Niang was a corpse possessed by the owner of the tomb from the beginning. She attracted everyone to the Yin-Yang Road, and finally she had to use her own way to enter Guo Pu's tomb. But she Surely not, the ceremony must be completed by entering both tombs at the same time. So she is doomed to fail."
Lin Xu clenched his fists and lowered his head, nodded without speaking, as if admitting that he had concealed this from everyone.Chen Hao continued: "So the number of people is really not the key, the key lies in all the clay tablets we have now, and the way to combine the clay tablets..."
Just when Chen Hao wanted to continue talking, he suddenly took a deep breath, and the words stopped abruptly just as he was about to speak.He clutched his neck in pain and tried to turn around, but he couldn't.At this time, Zhou Jue heard a faint gasp coming from behind Chen Hao, and Chen Hao rolled on the ground in pain.
Chen Hao clutched his neck in pain, and said with difficulty: "Take, take away the bag..."
Fat San didn't catch it, Zhou Jue was stunned for a moment, and then rushed over with another stride.When he wanted to take the schoolbag away from Chen Hao's back, he saw a lot of hair in the gap between the schoolbag and Chen Hao's back.At that moment, he felt like someone's eyes in the black hair, and those eyes were fixed on him.
He took the backpack away from Chen Hao's back at once, and the moment the backpack was detached from Chen Hao's back, his hair disappeared, as if everything was an illusion.
Chen Hao curled up on the ground and kept panting, while the backpack lay quietly on the ground.At this time, there was a burst of creepy crying from the other side of the waterfall.
The crying became louder and louder, like a shrill roar.
Chen Hao, who regained his composure a little, climbed up with difficulty, picked up the book that had fallen on the floor, and held it firmly in his hand.No one dared to approach him.
Chen Hao looked at the waterfall and said, "Old Lin, this is the real ghost burial."
Chen Hao glanced at Ye Wei, then at Zhou Jue, and said, "Do you still remember Chen Rulan once said that the biggest function of the ring of seven is to make all readers feel the fear of death? When we are more afraid Death, the safer we are. Conversely, if we feel things are settled, then danger is invading. We have made a mistake all along."
Chen Hao paused and said, "Why can the fear of death reduce the impact of books on our reality? Have you ever thought about the reason?"
Holding the book, he panted and said: "The first function of this book is to involve us. Then it is to give hints. The second function, which is also the most critical function, is to fight against those clay tablets It keeps reminding those who come into contact with the dangers they will encounter. The owner of the tomb has always reminded us, and we have always believed that it is the source of all horrors."
Chen Hao paused and then said: "That's why Mr. Lin said that the clay tablets are the key. Because the real threat to us is the ghosts of those clay tablets. They repeat those horrible rituals all the time. They will devour all The people and things related to the Clan tribe, but he overlooked one thing, that is because the folding book has provided us with all the protection until now, it kept telling us the code of the clay tablet through stories, and Rulan also Discovered this... so she kept giving hints, but just when she was about to succeed, she failed. Her offerings came to an abrupt end at that point."
Zhou Jue hurriedly asked: "Why, why did she fail?"
Chen Hao's eyes were very painful: "I don't know..."
At this moment, Fat San standing on the far side pointed to the river and said, "Look, what is that?"
Everyone looked in the direction Fat San pointed, and found that the original waterfall had disappeared, and the stone wall was covered with distorted corpses.Zhou Jue said: "I saw these corpses at the bottom of the river, they... how could they be like this?"
That terrifying cry came from the stone wall, Chen Hao looked at the stone wall covered with corpses and said, "We have to go on the road."
The thin monkey looked at the high wall and said, "Could we climb over those corpses? If we fall off, we'll die."
Ye Wei dismissively said: "It would be nice to have a handhold, Cui Niang and the others used to climb with bare hands."
Lin Xu said, "It's true that it's steep, but the rocks on it are very solid. If you really want to climb it, you can still climb it. It's just that after the flood, it's too wet here..."
Zhou Jue said, "Why is there crying in that stone wall?"
4:20 Yin and Yang Tao
Chen Hao squinted his eyes and looked at the criss-crossing corpses: "No, this is not a corpse, this is a tree."
Fat San built a pergola with his hands: "How is it possible? The tree looks like that?"
Ye Wei put down his hand and said, "Huangquanmu..."
After checking the luggage, Chen Hao said: "That's right, in the myths and legends of the past, it was said that wooden steps can be used to reach the heavenly steps, and the emperor ordered to cut off all the sacred trees, breaking the connection between mortals and heaven. The passage has not been cut off, and the corpse wood is the ladder leading to the underworld, so it is also called Huangquan wood. Generally, it can only grow in subtropical humid monsoon climate conditions, because it needs very sufficient water vapor. The nutrient demand is also very large , only grows in places where there are a lot of carrion. In western Hunan, it is said that some people have seen this rare tree species."
Chen Hao looked at Zhou Jue and said, "Those sounds are produced by the sprouting of this kind of tree. The tree is hollow. This is the water gate of the wooden door."
Gradually, the rain became less and less, and amidst the terrifying cries, Huang Quanmu had a strange change.It began to expand, as if it was inflated, and pieces of off-white objects covered the entire stone wall.
"It's fucking disgusting, it's like a big piece of psoriasis," said the thin monkey.
Feng Laojiu said: "It's impossible to climb up like this, we will definitely fall to our death."
Ye Wei looked at the corpses and said excitedly, "It's started."
As soon as he finished speaking, many purple-green vines slowly protruded from the swelled stones, and the speed at which the vines climbed was simply breathtaking.While the vines were growing wildly, flower buds bloomed on the branches, all of which were white on the left and black on the right, like a huge flower wall made of black and white flowers.
Feng Laojiu said: "What does this mean?"
Lin Xu exclaimed, "This... a guide flower?"
Chen Hao said: "It's time, we must climb up, and when the flower bucket blooms, pollen will float out, which is poisonous."
After speaking, he began to prepare tools.He threw everyone a set of climbing tools and ropes: "Ye Wei, remember the time."
The latter smiled: "Don't hold back."
But Chen Hao didn't joke, he held the equipment and didn't let go: "Promise me, I will bring them out alive."
Ye Wei took the tool, and there was a trace of hesitation in his eyes, which made Chen Hao strengthen his hand.Chen Hao said: "At least Thin Monkeys have the right to live."
Ye Wei looked back at the thin monkey who was timidly arranging the equipment, took the tools, and did not make any promises to Chen Hao.Chen Hao shouted loudly: "Ye Wei?"
Ye Wei raised his head and just said silently: "I know."
Holding the rope, Zhou Jue took one last look at Feng Laojiu and Shouhou.Feng Laojiu's eyes were full of excitement, as if he didn't care about his own life or death, and was just excited to be close to the truth.Zhou Jue's heart hurts like being pierced by an awl. He knows that Lao Jiu is not normal anymore, but he still hopes that they will meet again one day.
Fat San patted Zhou Jue: "Let's go, if you don't go, you won't have time."
Zhou Jue held back the expectation in his heart, and shouted: "Old Nine! Skinny Monkey! You have to get out alive!"
The thin monkey lowered his head and nodded heavily.Zhou Jue found that he was actually crying, this thin monkey who always had a determined face, as if he was not afraid of anything, was crying.The thin monkey quickly wiped his face with the back of his hand, sniffled and said, "Second brother, fat third, you have to come back alive!"
After speaking, he turned around and left without looking back.
When everyone was moving towards different positions, Feng Laojiu finally let go of all disguises, with a kind of calm and sadness in his eyes, he just said lightly: "Friends, farewell..."
The flowers bloom very slowly, but the yellow spring wood in the depth of the flowers is very scary, as if there is a real corpse under these flowers, these weird flowers seem to bloom on the corpse.The two groups split up and climbed towards the left and right sides of the stone wall. Lin Xu and Fat San were the hardest ones.The thin monkey's name was not for nothing, he found the feeling after a few rubs, he climbed more neatly than the monkey, and he even had the physical strength to give others a hand.Their progress was obviously much faster than Chen Hao's.
During this process, no one said a word, and gradually, the distance between the two groups of people became farther and farther.When they climbed to the middle, they found that the rain had stopped.Getting up is easier.
The two teams of men and horses separated from the left and right sides of the stone wall in a Y shape along the flowers on the Huangquan wood.
Zhou Jue was out of breath halfway through the climb, he suddenly thought of a very important question, and asked, "How can we keep pace with Shouhou and the others?"
Chen Hao looked at the colors of the surroundings and said, "Time. The stone tablet in the ancestral hall has a time mark. Both Ye Wei and I know when it will take place."
Zhou Jue asked, "When?"
Chen Hao looked at his watch and said, "It's [-]:[-], which belongs to Yin time. We still have more than seven hours. We must succeed at [-]:[-] noon, otherwise everything will be in vain."
Zhou Jue gritted his teeth, looked at the stone wall covered with purple-green vines, and asked, "What will happen if you fail?"
Chen Hao lowered his head, looked at his arm and said, "I don't know either."
Zhou Jue didn't continue to ask, but grabbed the clues in his hand, those vines scratched his hand full of bloodstains.Zhou Jue clenched his fists and desperately climbed up. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, he must live.
Fat San who was climbing on top suddenly stopped, Zhou Jue almost bumped into him, and asked, "What's wrong with you, keep climbing."
Fat San asked, "Brother Chen, it's really wood underneath, isn't it a corpse?"
Chen Hao said: "Yes, these are the photos of plants that Ru Lan gave in the materials, and I have heard of them."
Fat San's face twitched, and he said, "But I felt that the wood seemed to move a little bit before. No, it didn't mean it swelled, but it just shook like that! I think there is a living thing crawling underneath."
Chen Hao looked back, those strange flowers were getting denser and denser, and they looked as pale as a funeral on the gray corpse wood, and it seemed that they would all bloom in a short time.
Chen Hao said: "It doesn't matter, just climb up. We will be in trouble when the flowers bloom! Pollen will make people hallucinate!"
Zhou Jue looked back at Lin Xu who was at the back of the line, and shouted, "Uncle Lin, can you do it? We are running out of time!"
Lin Xu didn't answer, but put all his energy into climbing.He suddenly let out a strange cry, and his whole body was hanging upside down on the stone wall. He could only hold on to the rope desperately, and said to everyone: "Something is grabbing me!" May fall.
Chen Hao turned his head and found that there were actually two hands in the vines.Chen Hao yanked Lin Xu's arm, and that hand retracted into the vine.Lin Xu gasped and said, "That hand! There is something under it!"
Chen Hao looked at the more and more dense red flowers and said, "Don't worry about so many, just climb quickly."
Chen Hao pushed Lin Xu up, and urged everyone to keep climbing and not look back.When he looked towards the vine again, his hands suddenly stretched out from the vine again.Chen Hao looked at it, and said secretly in his heart: "It's not yet time, it's not here yet...it can't be..."
That hand seemed to have sensed it, and silently retracted into the messy vines.The intricate vines made a rustling sound, and Chen Hao suddenly felt a sharp pain in his hand. He clutched his arm, trying not to let others see it.
Just as everyone continued to climb up, a thick blood-red mist began to fill the ruins of the scorpion tribe.In the blood-red smoke, the ancient village of the Li tribe began to collapse, and there were distressing creaking sounds from the ground.Suddenly, the original village suddenly sank into the ground, and the whole village became a huge pit. Then, like a fountain, a large number of gnats dripped from the ground.The bugs merged with the red mist and spread towards the stone wall.That strange bell sounded like a death knell and kept ringing.
Ye Wei turned his head and looked down, his pale face showed anxiety, and his eyes were very disturbed.The thin monkey asked what was wrong, but he just looked at the stone wall and said, "Go on, we must climb up, we have no way out."
Feng Laojiu clutched his chest and said, "Those things... are coming... They will kill us..."
Compared with Chen Hao, their team seemed to be much faster, and they quickly climbed to two-thirds of the position.But here, the stone is very dry, the flowers are also very messy, and the off-white Huangquan wood is almost invisible.But dry stones are much easier to climb than slippery vines.
Just when the three were about to climb to the top, they found a huge stone rolling from the right side of the rock wall.Ye Wei moved his body away quickly, and the stone rolled all the way down the stone wall.Ye Wei looked around and said: "The material of the stone is not like the one on this stone wall, it should be white marble."
After speaking, he slowly approached to the right, Ye Wei tore open the vines, and found that there was actually a stone door.He looked at the edge of the tunnel and said, "That's right, this is the real passage to Princess Tomb. Back then, Cuiniang and the others escaped only through the robbery cave."
The gate of the passage is carved from a whole block of white marble with many intricate textures and patterns.Ye Wei wiped the dust off the door with his sleeve, and while stroking the door, he said: "The name of the tomb owner and her title are clearly written here, and the phoenix totem on the side also symbolizes her royal status. She is indeed a princess."
The thin monkey said, "Who is she?"
Ye Wei touched the engraved name and said: "Princess Shengwu Jingde, but this posthumous title was granted after her death. She was Princess Jingde when she was alive. Judging from the name, she should be the suzerain of the Li tribe. corpse."
Ye Wei tried to push the stone door, but the stone door didn't budge.
The thin monkey pushed him away and said, "I'll do it!"
No matter how hard the skinny monkey tried to suck, the door didn't move at all.The thin monkey couldn't hold back his face, so he stuck to the door, pushing and pulling with all his strength, but it didn't help at all.
The thin monkey suddenly jumped away and said, "No, there is movement inside the door!"
Feng Laojiu also leaned against the door and listened, and there was indeed the sound of hissing breathing from inside.He said: "Impossible, except for the group of people five years ago, no one should have gone in again."
The thin monkey said: "Even if you have gone in, if you say that you don't eat or drink now, can you still call people?"
Feng Laojiu shook his head and said: "But you have forgotten that there is indeed one book in the book that is left in Gongzhufen."
Ye Wei paused and said, "The first doctor to die?"
The thin monkey leaned against the door and said, "It seems that there is no sound... Could it be that it has gone far?"
He tried to push it a few more times, and the thin monkey finally said angrily, "Ye Wei, how do you open this door?"
Ye Wei folded his hands on his chest, looked at the thin monkey, shook his head in a contemptuous way, looked at the outlines around him and said, "Did you see that groove? This kind of mechanism is very common in tomb passages."
The thin monkey nodded, and Ye Wei continued: "Find four sticks and insert them into these four grooves at the same time, and then the door should be able to open."
The thin monkey glanced at him with a blushing face, took out a climbing stick from his backpack, cut it into four pieces, and handed it to Ye Wei.Ye Wei looked at the stick, and the corners of his eyes twitched.Feng Laojiu said from the side: "At the beginning when he beat you, he was definitely merciful, otherwise you are no different from this stick now."
Ye Wei's forehead was sweating a little, and he turned to the two people and said, "First of all, I have to remind you all to follow my command from now on. If you make a wrong step, you will end up together. Do you understand?"
The thin monkey snorted disdainfully, and Ye Wei said immediately: "Since you have no objection, then we will continue walking. But I want to tell you that we must finish putting together the clay board at noon. After this time, the five elements will If we move, we will fail. It will be too late to escape."
Feng Laojiu said: "But we can't enter the deepest part of the Princess Tomb, and we will probably be rushed out before we go."
Ye Wei sneered, "That's because you don't understand."
Feng Laojiu clutched his chest, looking at Ye Wei with hatred in his eyes.Ye Wei smiled and said, "If you knew the mechanism of the tomb, would you still go the wrong way?"
Feng Laojiu looked at him vigilantly and said, "Do you know?"
Ye Wei twisted his mouth and said: "I think Chen Hao actually knows it too. It can be said that he actually knows everything, but he refuses to say it. I still can't see through what this person is up to."
Feng Lao asked: "Then, why did you enter the Princess Tomb? You can choose Guo Pu's Tomb."
Ye Wei looked at the thin monkey next to him and said, "I want to correct my mistakes."
After finishing speaking, he stuffed the stick into the four grooves, and then told Shouhou and Feng Laojiu: "Hold it down, don't let go, let go before the door is pushed open, the door will bounce back , when the time comes, the three of us will be smashed to death by the door."
Ye Wei pushed the stone door slowly, and the stone door made a piercing sound, and the two thin monkeys felt that the groove was getting deeper and deeper.
Ye Wei pushed the door cautiously, and suddenly heard a click, and the whole stone door bounced to the side.It was pitch black inside the door, and gusts of wind came from the passage, and there seemed to be other strange sounds in the wind, but Shouhou and the others couldn't distinguish them.
Ye Wei breathed out and said, "Okay, Lighting, we're going in."
5:25 Yin and Yang Tao
Just when Ye Wei and the others were about to enter the Princess Grave, Chen Hao and the others were in big trouble, because Lin Xu was too old, and his speed was not as fast as that of young people. They were gradually surrounded by flowers on Huangquan wood. It began to emit a smell similar to blood.The surrounding air is getting colder and drier because of the water vapor, and snowflakes start to float in the sky.
Chen Hao pulled the rope and said, "Everyone, be careful and wear masks. The pollen will make you weak."
Zhou Jue looked up and said, "Everyone hold on..."
Everyone nodded guiltyly, taking care of each other and putting on simple gas masks for each other.Chen Hao said, "Go ahead."
Zhou Jue nodded, gritted his teeth and continued to climb up desperately, while Chen Hao stayed at the bottom.After all, they are not professional rock climbers. Such a high distance has already exhausted their physical strength, and the snow gets bigger and bigger as they climb up. Blocks of snow are buried on everyone's faces, which makes people unable to open their eyes. .They didn't find the entrance, and all they could see was the large expanse of white, and they couldn't tell whether it was flowers or snow.
Fat San panted, hung on the climbing rope, panted and said, "I can't... I have no strength."
Zhou Jue looked at the crowd and said, "Everyone, hold on."
Chen Hao fixed the rope, looked up at it and said, "We have no retreat, we can only go up. This is just a road."
Fat San looked at the top and said: "Huashan... Huashan has a road, but I really don't have the strength to climb it."
Lin Xu rolled his eyes and hung on the rope, breathing like a bellows.Zhou Jue felt that this old guy would really hang up here after a few more twists and turns.
Chen Hao said: "Have you noticed that it is very dry here?"
Zhou Jue pinched Xue Mozi next to him and said, "This...isn't Xue?"
Chen Hao said: "No, Huangquan wood can only grow in very humid conditions. How can there be flowers in such a dry place now? We were wrong."
Zhou Jue squeezed the rope and said, "The problem is that it's all snow now, we can't tell the difference."
Fat San nodded, and said: "Really, if I climb down again, I will definitely have a nervous breakdown and jump down. This is simply worse than death."
Chen Hao tightened the safety rope and said, "We will find it."
Lin Xu turned over, his hair and eyebrows were covered with snow, he squinted his eyes and looked around and shouted: "The snow is too heavy, I can't see the direction. But I remember that we didn't climb to the end, Cui Niang was in the middle Leading us into a cave-like direction, Cui Niang said that it implied that climbing the fairy cave is a passage for Guo Pu's soul to emerge."
Zhou Jue said, "With such heavy snow, how do you know where there is a passage?"
Lin Xu suddenly trembled, his rope broke for some unknown reason, and he was about to fall, and Zhou Jue, who was closest to him, was almost pulled down by him.Zhou Jue pulled the rope, but Lin Xu really didn't have the strength. He fell down until he was caught by the safety rope on Zhou Jue's body, and his whole body was suspended in the air.
Zhou Jue yelled a few times, but Lin Xu had lost consciousness.Chen Hao quickly fixed the last safety bolt, and moved slowly downward.Fat San said with a pale face: "No, this rope is for professional mountaineering, and even a knife may not be able to cut it. How can it be broken if it is broken?"
Zhou Jue took the opportunity to look up the stone wall, the half of the rope on the stone wall was obviously torn off, but how much strength would it take to tear off the professional climbing rope?
Zhou Jue said to Fat San: "The safety plugs are all inserted."
Fat San shook his jaw and whimpered non-stop.Zhou Jue glanced at him helplessly, and slowly moved down.At this time, Chen Hao had reinstalled the rope for Lin Xu.Looks like it's in the process of falling
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