Ring of Seven [Online Version]

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 Chen Hao checked his luggage, he said: "That's right, in the myths and legends of the past, it was said that the use of wooden steps can lead to the heavens, and then the emperor of heaven ordered to cut off all the sacred trees, breaking the connection between mortals and heaven. But The passage to the underworld has not been cut off, and the corpse wood is the ladder to the underworld, so it is also called Huangquan wood. Generally, it will only grow in the subtropical humid monsoon climate, because it needs very sufficient water vapor and nutrient requirements It is very large and only grows in places where there are a lot of carrion. It is said that people in Xiangxi have seen this rare wood species."

Chen Hao looked at Zhou Jue and said, "Those sounds are when the wood begins to germinate, and it is hollow in the middle. This is the water gate of the wooden door."

Gradually, the rain became smaller and smaller, and amidst the terrifying cries, Huangquan wood gradually changed strangely. It began to expand, as if it was inflated, covering the whole place in gray-white patches. 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 swollen stones. The speed at which the vines climbed was simply amazing. As the vines grew wildly, the branches also sprouted. There are flower buds, all white on the left, and black flowers on the right.It is like a huge flower wall paved with black and white flowers.

Feng Laojiu said: "What does this mean?"

Lin Xu exclaimed: "This... the route that Cui Niang took us to go all the way is the location of the white flower. This... the guiding flower?"

Chen Hao said: "It's time, we have to climb up. When the flowers are in full bloom, pollen will float out, which is poisonous."

After speaking, he began to prepare tools. He threw a pair of climbing tools and ropes to everyone: "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. This made Chen Hao's hand stronger, and Chen Hao said: "At least the thin monkeys have the right to live."

Ye Wei looked back at the thin monkey who was timidly arranging the equipment. He took the tools, but did not make any promises to Chen Hao.Chen Hao shouted loudly: "Ye Wei!"

Ye Wei raised his head, he 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 death, and was just excited to be close to the truth.Zhou Jue's heart ached as if being stabbed by an awl.He knew that Lao Jiu was no longer normal, but he still hoped that they would meet again one day, and he hoped to wait until they returned to school and the dormitory.The four of them will still fight over who gets to fetch water and who gets to sign in.In order to watch the girls downstairs come back from washing clothes, they sarcasm each other.He wishes to go back to the past...

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 he shouted: "Old Nine, Skinny Monkey! You have to get out alive!"

The thin monkey lowered his head, and he 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 must 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 his disguises, and there was a trace 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 started to climb towards the left and right sides of the stone wall separately. Lin Xu and Fat San were the most difficult ones. As expected, the thin monkey's name was not for nothing. Lisuo, he even has the physical strength to give others a hand.Obviously their progress is much faster than Chen Hao.

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 and it was easier to climb up.

The two groups of people started to separate the left and right sides of the stone wall in a Y shape along the direction induced by the flowers on the Huangquan wood.

Zhou Jue was out of breath halfway through the climb, he suddenly thought of a very important question, he asked: "How can we keep pace with Shouhou and the others?"

Chen Hao looked at the colors of the surroundings and said: "Time. There is a time indication on the stone tablet in the ancestral hall. Both Ye Wei and I know what time it will be held."

Zhou Jue asked, "When?"

Chen Hao looked at his watch and said, "It's 7:[-], which belongs to Yin time, and we still have more than [-] hours. We must succeed at noon at [-] o'clock. Otherwise, everything will be in vain."

Zhou Jue gritted his teeth and looked at the stone wall covered with purple-green vines, he 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, he grabbed the rope in his hand tightly, the vines scratched his hand full of bloodstains, Zhou Jue clenched his fists and desperately climbed up, in his heart, there was always an indescribable fear , he felt that he himself might be dead.But as long as there is a glimmer of hope, he also wants to live.

Fat San who was climbing on top suddenly stopped, Zhou Jue almost bumped into him, he 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 about them."

Fat San's face twitched, and he said: "But I felt that the wood moved a little in front of me, no, it didn't mean swelling or something, but it just shook like that! I think there is a living thing underneath. climb."

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. Suddenly, Lin Xu 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. He said to everyone : "Something is grabbing me!" He was precariously holding on to the rope with one hand, almost about to fall at any moment.

Chen Hao turned his head, and he found that there were actually two hands in the vine. Chen Hao pulled Lin Xu's arm violently, and the 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: "Don't worry about so many, climb quickly."

Chen Hao pushed Lin Xu up, and he urged everyone to continue climbing not to look back, and the moment he looked into the vine, he suddenly stretched out his hands from the vine.Chen Hao looked at it: "It's not the time yet, it's not there yet...it can't be..."

The hand seemed to have a sense, and it silently retracted into the group of messy vines. There was a rustling sound from the intricate vines. Chen Hao suddenly felt a sharp pain in his hand. He clutched his arm, Try not to show it.

And while everyone continued to climb up, a thick blood-red mist began to fill the formerly abandoned city of the Li tribe. In the blood-red mist, the ancient village of the Li tribe began to collapse, and rumors spread from the ground. There was an itchy creaking sound, and suddenly the original village suddenly sank into the ground, and the whole village became a huge pit, and then like a fountain, a large number of gnats gushed out from the ground. The mist merged together and spread towards the stone wall non-stop, and the weird bell sounded like a death knell, ringing back and forth non-stop.

Ye Wei turned his head and looked down, his pale face showed anxiety.His eyes were very disturbed, and the thin monkey asked what was wrong, but he just looked at the fast 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's group, their team seemed to be much faster.It quickly climbed to the two-thirds position.But here, the stones are very dry, the flowers are very scattered, and the off-white Huangquan wood is almost invisible.But dry stones are much easier to climb than slippery vines.

Just when the three of them were about to climb to the top, they found a huge stone rolled over on the right side of the rock wall. Ye Wei quickly moved his body away, and the rock rolled all the way down the rock wall.Ye Wei looked around and said: "The material of the stone is not from 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 the Princess Tomb, when Cui Niang and the others fled It's just a robbery hole."

The passage was not as huge as they imagined, but slightly larger than the ordinary door. There were signs of being pried open on the side of the door. Ye Wei touched the edge and said, "This door was originally sealed with animal skins. It seems Chen Rulan really chose to join here."

The gate of the passage is carved from a whole block of white marble, with many intricate textures and patterns on it.Ye Wei wiped the dust off the door with his sleeve, and while stroking the door, he said: "The name of the owner of the tomb and her title are clearly written here, and the totem of the phoenix on the side also symbolizes her royal status." , she is indeed a princess."

The thin monkey said, "Who is she?"

Ye Wei touched the name and said: "Princess Shengwu Jingdeling, but this posthumous title was conferred after her death. She was Princess Jingde when she was alive, and judging from her name, she should be the great suzerain of the Li clan. A resurrected 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!"

But no matter how hard the thin monkey tried to suck, the door didn't move a bit.The thin monkey couldn't hold back his face. He stuck to the door and tried his best to push and pull, but it was of no use at all.

Suddenly the thin monkey 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 been inside, can you still call people if you don't eat or drink?"

Feng Laojiu shook his head and said: "But you have forgotten that there is indeed a person in the book who stayed 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 crossed his arms, looked at the thin monkey and shook his head in a contemptuous way, then looked at the outlines around him and said, "Did you see that groove? This 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."

Thin Monkey glared at him with a red face, took out a climbing stick from his backpack, broke it into four sections 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 would definitely be merciful, otherwise you are no different from the stick now."

Ye Wei's forehead was sweating a little. He turned his head and said to the two people: "First of all, I have to remind you that you must all obey 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 objections, then we will continue walking. But I want to tell you that we must finish putting together the clay tablet at noon. After this time, the five elements There will be movement, and 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 be rushed out before we reach it."

Ye Wei sneered, "That's because you don't understand."

Feng Laojiu clutched his chest, and looked at Ye Wei with hatred in his eyes. Ye Wei smiled and said, "If you knew the mechanism in 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 can be said that he actually knows all the content, but he refuses to say, what exactly this person is paying attention to I still can't see through it. "

Feng Laojiu 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 mistake."

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 really 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 stone door bounced to the side.It was pitch black inside the door, and gusts of wind came from this passage.The sound of the wind seemed to be mixed with other strange sounds, but Shouhou and the others couldn't tell the difference.

Ye Wei breathed out and said, "Okay, set up a light, 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 ran into big trouble, because Lin Xu was too old, so his speed couldn't keep up with the young people, and gradually they were surrounded by flowers on Huangquan wood , Those flowers began to emit a smell similar to blood.And 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 and gritted his teeth to continue climbing desperately, while Chen Hao stayed at the bottom.After all, they are not professional rock climbers. Such a high distance has overdrawn their physical strength, making them unable to stand firm, making everyone's hearts more and more fragile, and their spirits have been collapsed to the limit.And the snow gets bigger the more you climb up, and the lumps of snow hit everyone's faces, making it hard for people to open their eyes, but they couldn't find the entrance, and all they could see was the big piece of snow. white.I can't tell whether it's flowers or snow.

Fat San gasped for breath. He hung on the climbing rope and said, "I can't... I don't have any strength."

Zhou Jue looked at the crowd and said, "Everyone...you have to hold on."

Chen Hao fixed the rope, looked up at it and said, "We have no retreat, we can only go up. There is only one way here."

Fat San looked at the top and said: "Huashan... Huashan has a road, but I don't have the strength to climb it because I don't have the head."

Lin Xu rolled his eyes and hung on the rope, breathing like a bellows.Zhou Jue felt that the old guy would probably explain it here after a few more troubles.

Chen Hao said: "Have you noticed that it is very dry here?"

Zhou Jue pinched Xue Mozi beside him and said, "This...isn't it 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 missed it."

Zhou Jue squeezed the rope and said, "The problem is that we can't tell if it's all snow now."

Fat San nodded, and he 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 pulled the safety rope closer, and he 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 It took us into a cave-like place in the middle, and Cui Niang said that it was a passage to climb the fairy cave and let Guo Pu's soul emerge."

Zhou Jue said, "With such a heavy snow, how do you know the passage!"

Suddenly Lin Xu trembled, his rope broke for some unknown reason, and he was about to fall down, 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, so 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 he moved slowly down. Fat San blushed, and said, "No, this rope I’m a professional mountain climber, and I can’t even cut it with a knife, so how can I just say it’s 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: "Fix the safety bolts."

Fat San shook his chin, and he kept whimpering.Zhou Jue glanced at him helplessly, and he also slowly moved down.At this time, Chen Hao had already reinstalled Lin Xu on the rope, but it seemed that during the fall, the old man was knocked down in the chest, and he would arch his body in pain before he took a breath.Chen Hao took out a board of pills from his pocket and fed Lin Xu a few pills.He said, "Painkillers, let him rest first."

Zhou Jue looked at the white-capped area, and said fearfully, "Brother Chen, there is still someone here, there must be. That rope is impossible to break."

Chen Hao grabbed Zhou Jue, he shook his shoulders, and said, "Calm down, don't panic now, we have to find that Dengxian Cave."

Zhou Jue grabbed the rope, he looked at Lin Xu, Lin Xu's face was no different from that of a dead person, Zhou Jue asked: "Can we find it? Can we find it? We will die here..."

Chen Hao shouted: "Trust me! I won't let you die,"

Zhou Jue looked into Chen Hao's eyes, he nodded dully, Chen Hao wiped off the snow on his face, he looked around and said: "There is still a chance, if not, it should be in this attachment, yes, it can't be wrong of."

Just after he finished speaking, as if mocking him, Fat San let out a heart-piercing scream, and then he also rolled down from above. Chen Hao quickly pulled the rope, and after pulling for a while, he found that the rope was pulled not moving.He said: "It seems that the person is there, and it didn't fall. But..."

Zhou Jue was so frightened that his forehead was covered with cold sweat, his voice changed, and he asked, "Fat San, is Fat San okay?"

Chen Hao said: "You wait here, I will look down."

Zhou Jue grabbed the rope and hung in the air like this. The feeling that his feet couldn't stand still made people want to collapse. He just wanted to jump down. He grabbed the rope and looked up in fear, as if at any time The upper rope would snap, and he nodded nervously.

Chen Hao glanced at him worriedly, wiped the snow off his face, and said softly, "It will be fine."

After speaking, he undid the safety catch and slid down.At the moment when Chen Hao went down, Zhou Jue could no longer control his emotions, he began to sob and shrank his body.

Suddenly, Lin Xu next to him grabbed Zhou Jue's arm and said, "You... you can follow along and have a look. Leave me alone."

Zhou Jue looked at Lin Xu's pale face, wiped his face, and said tremblingly: "No, I can't leave you, we are here to find you."

Lin Xu grabbed Zhou Jue's hand, and he swallowed his saliva and said, "Go, you must go. I saw that there was no corpse in the vine. She is Cui Niang... Didn't you say that her body is gone? Is it?"

Zhou Jue froze for a moment, he looked at Lin Xu, Lin Xu's eyes were very cloudy, he took a breath, tried to stay awake and said: "When I crawled out of this ancient tomb with Cuiniang's body on my back, I felt that I The one who recited it is no longer Cuiniang. I don’t know what she is? Anyway, she can control others. It’s like writing that book, yes, Chen Hao is right. My own control, but I can't say it, who will believe it? I must come here because Liu Fei... Liu Fei is still inside."

Zhou Jue was stunned for a moment, he looked at Lin Xu, Lin Xu grabbed his wrist, and said, "I may...may not be able to get in, but you must be careful, be careful of Cui Niang! She is not the original Cui Niang .Also, there is that child Chen Hao, he... he is not right. You have to be careful of him, remember when you saw me when the little fat man asked me, would the seventh person appear and kill you all? .My answer is that the number of people is not the problem."

Zhou Jue nodded, and he said, "That's right, you said at that time that the key is the clay tablet."

Lin Xu laughed out in pain. He nodded and said, "That's right, that's right, the clay tablet...the seven ghosts in the clay tablet are very powerful, but the seven-person ring itself is a curse..."

Zhou Jue's head was dizzy, he rubbed his forehead and said, "No, what exactly are you trying to say, didn't you say that the number of people doesn't matter, we..."

He stopped suddenly, and he said dryly: "Counting you, we are exactly seven people."

Lin Xu clutched his chest, and said: "Because the curse of the ring of seven is not about the number of people, but about one of the people who participate in every time will be a ghost. Cui Niang asked me to write that book, and this Cui Niang Niang is actually the owner of the tomb of Princess Grave, there are two souls in this book, one is the owner of the tomb, and the other is Cui Niang herself."

Zhou Jue looked at Lin Xu, Lin Xu's eyes suddenly widened, and he said: "Let's go! Go! You must follow." Lin Xu pushed Zhou Jue violently, and Zhou Jue slid down, and In an instant, the safety rope worked and he was dropped on the stone wall. The inertia caused him to slam towards the stone wall. He quickly used his elbow to protect himself, but even so, he gasped in pain.

However, because of the severe pain, he felt a little more awake, and his brain no longer had the horrible and numb feeling before. He grabbed the stone with all his strength, even though the stone scratched his palm, he still didn't let go until his body Grasp the center and stick tightly to the wall.He looked up, but he didn't have any motives other than Xue. He didn't know what would happen to Lin Xu, but he didn't have time to think now.He could only move down slowly.

When he kept going down, suddenly a hand stretched out, and he wrapped his arms around Zhou Jue's waist, and Zhou Jue was pulled over, and Zhou Jue was pulled into those vines, and inside was unexpectedly It is a very deep cave.

Chen Hao said: "By mistake, this is the entrance to Guo Pu's tomb, Dengxian Cave."

As soon as Chen Hao finished speaking, Zhou Jue felt something suddenly fall behind him, he turned his head abruptly, but he was already out of sight.Only the broken climbing rope kept shaking back and forth.

Zhou Jue stared wide-eyed, Chen Hao looked at the rope and didn't speak, the two of them glanced at each other, and both saw a hint of doubt and shadow in each other's eyes.