Everyone invariably felt that there was something unusual here, so they stopped temporarily in the middle of the white tunnel and took the opportunity to move their numb arms.
At this time, everyone was in danger and hesitant, not knowing whether to advance or retreat.
I began to suspect that the tunnel leading to the altar was simply a trap.
The things inside were constantly interfering with the five senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste.
The fatigue caused by always maintaining a fixed posture makes people's limbs numb and numb, and they lose their original keen sense.
The fishy smell like salted fish also makes people confused.
With my eyes covered with tape, I have no sense of direction at all.
Once I get too nervous and leave the tunnel wall a little, I will probably turn in the direction and lose the reference point for moving forward.
This is no child's play.
But they didn’t dare to pull off the tape easily to see what was in the tunnel, so they had to remind everyone walking in front that firstly, no matter what happens, they must lean against the wall on the left and do not leave; secondly, no one is allowed to pull it off without permission.
Take off the tape on your eyes, and don't scare yourself into confusion.
I heard the fat man at the front of the team say to me: "Old Hu, there is a snake in this hole.
Didn't you guys hear it?
It's going to kill someone if you don't take off the tape.
How about we just wait?"
I'm thick enough to be bitten, so it doesn't matter if I take the lead, but my commander, who is made of iron and can crush a few nails, can't withstand a bite from a poisonous snake."
Nowadays, five people are equal to five blind men.
If there are really venomous snakes in this tunnel, we are basically like meat on the chopping board, and we can only be bitten by them.
I put my index finger up to my lips and said to the fat man: "Shhh, don't say anything.
Listen carefully.
First, listen to see if there is really a snake."
Even Uncle Ming and others held their breath and listened quietly to what was going on around them.
Some people say that the deafness of a blind person is twice as strong as that of ordinary people.
Because the loss of one body function will double the use of another function, so it becomes more developed.
However, we are just covering our eyes now and are not really blind, so I don’t know whether it is because we are temporarily focusing all our body and mind on our ears, or whether there is a unique structure in this white tunnel that can produce a special sound-collecting effect.
In short, even some subtle sounds The sounds seemed to be invisibly amplified, and they were heard extremely clearly, making people feel even more uneasy.
If you listen carefully, there are constant rustling sounds in front and behind, as well as the "hissing, hissing" sound of venomous snakes spitting messages.
The number is unimaginable.
Maybe there aren't many of them, but the sound is amplified many times by this tunnel, giving people the illusion of being covered by a tide.
From the sound, we can tell that the snakes seem to be approaching us quickly.
I don’t know what happened to the people in front of me, but Shiry Yang who was closest to me was already trembling a little.
The powerful friction sound of the snake's scales and the unique metallic sharp sound of the snake's hesitation are different from any other kind of snake.
This sound is very familiar and can only be heard by the exquisite black snake.
We once saw a black snake in the desert with a short body and a strange, sarcoma-like eye on its head.
It was extremely aggressive and extremely venomous.
If it bites any part of a person, it will cause death in just a few seconds.
He died of poisoning.
Hao Aiguo, an archaeological team member who went to Xinjiang, died under the fangs of this rare venomous snake.
The cruel scene in the Zagrama Valley that day is still vivid in his mind, and he cannot forget it even if he wants to.
At that time, we didn’t know the name and type of this kind of snake.
It wasn’t until we went to the temple in Erluohai City that we learned that in the ancient demon kingdom, there once existed this kind of black snake called “Jingjian Agama”.
It was a ghost cave.
's guardian.
It would be reasonable to encounter a black snake in this white tunnel leading to the altar, but how could we have thought in advance that in this tunnel that requires closing eyes to safely pass, it would be reasonable.
There will be so many venomous snakes.
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I thought of what I had experienced in the desert, and I was slightly distracted.
In just a moment, the poisonous snake seemed to have reached my feet, and people's breathing became heavier.
You can imagine how nervous they were.
Everyone remembers the warning on the stone gate and must not open their eyes, otherwise something very terrible will happen.
That is the rule of the priest of Evil Luohai City, and it must be based on some unknown reason.
Now I can only risk believing it.
This ancient taboo must not be easily broken until the last moment.
It suddenly occurred to me that if someone couldn't hold back and pulled off the tape on his eyes, Uncle Ming would definitely be the first one.
Although Axiang was not very courageous, he was more obedient, so he held the shoulders of Shiry Yang and Axiang in front of him, touched Uncle Ming behind the fat man, and grabbed his arm with one hand, hoping that if something happened I can stop any inappropriate behavior in advance.
Shiry Yang reminded us from behind: "If it is really a black snake with naked eyes on its head, with their aggressiveness, they would have rushed to bite people, but judging from the sound, the snakes are not moving very fast.
There must be something wrong here.
Don’t take off the tape on your eyes yet.”
I said to Shiry Yang: "There are no venomous snakes in the world that don't bite people.
Maybe these guys have just eaten snacks and have no appetite for us for the time being."
Speaking of venomous snakes biting people, I suddenly thought of some of the things I saw in the ancient city of Jingjue.
The mural depicts the cruel scene of a poisonous snake biting a slave.
The slaves stared helplessly, right.
It seemed that all the slaves bitten by snakes stared with their eyes open and refused to close their eyes.
Dozens of murals are the same.
Is it just a coincidence?
Or does the mural have a special meaning?
My memory was wrong, and the scenes in the mural where the slaves' eyes were not all staring suddenly became blurry in my mind, but I still had a vague feeling that maybe it was because we didn't open our eyes that the poisonous snakes around us didn't stop.
Come and attack us.
Maybe the strange, tumor-like eyes on the top of the black snake's head can detect the target only by sensing the bioelectricity in the eyes of living people, so they must never open their eyes in the white tunnel.
This is the secret of Mahakala's Thunder Mountain.
This thought only flashed through my mind, but it made me even more determined not to open my eyes.
I clamped Uncle Ming's right arm and gave his other arm to the fat man, sandwiching him between me and the fat man.
Uncle Ming was shocked, thinking that Fatty and I were going to use him as a shield against poisonous snakes, so he hurriedly asked: "What are you doing?
Don't be kidding me.
Big or small, what are your plans?"
The fat man never misses any opportunity to find an advantage, even if it is just a verbal advantage.
He immediately replied smoothly: "I plan to be your grandfather, marry your grandmother, and have a son to be your father.
There is a snake crawling on my feet."
In the darkness There was the sound of the fat man kicking the snake away.
Uncle Ming in the middle suddenly felt heavy.
If Fatty and I hadn't held him back, he would have been so frightened that he would have collapsed to the ground.
I also felt the snake squirming around my feet.
This situation made me scared to the core.
Entering this white tunnel is like facing a test paper full of multiple-choice questions.
You need to make correct judgments continuously.
Sometimes you don’t even have room to think, and you can only get them all right.
If you choose wrongly, you will be judged instantly by life or death, which is irreversible.
What we have to make immediately is whether to take off the tape on our eyes under the siege of a group of snakes.
Can we take the risk of breaking the thousand-year taboo?
adhesive tape.
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At this time, I could only hear Uncle Ming's trembling voice: "Snake, the poisonous snake has crawled on my neck, help me, brother Hu."
I was also in a trance, and my arm holding Uncle Ming loosened slightly, and I felt that Uncle Ming suddenly He took out his right arm, probably trying to push away the poisonous snake crawling up his neck.
I didn't wait for Uncle Ming's arm to be completely withdrawn, so I grabbed his hand tightly again: "It doesn't matter, don't worry about it, it's all a fucking hallucination, it's not real.
A poisonous snake can't come out of thin air.
There are snakes in front and behind now."
"We didn't feel any snakes when we came all the way here."
Before I finished speaking, there was a snapping sound on my mountaineering helmet, and something cold and slippery fell from the top of my head.
With a "hiss" sound, it slid along the helmet to my back. shoulder.
That kind of cold fear immediately spread throughout the body.
This could not be an illusion caused by Mahakala's thunderous strike on the mountain.
It was 200% a real poisonous snake.
I didn't bother to hold Uncle Ming's arm anymore, and quickly used a mountaineering pick to remove the poisonous snake from my back.
Suddenly, I heard the fat man yelling: "Are you a Hong Kong farmer?
How dare you throw a snake at me, you old man?"
Your skin is wrinkled and you want to see if you can practice it.”
Maybe Uncle Ming also took the opportunity to take out his hand and shake off the poisonous snake on his body, but unexpectedly it landed on the fat man.
Shiryyang and Axiang kept pushing away the poisonous snakes around them.
We initially advanced in one column against the tunnel wall, but later changed to three in front and two in back, advancing in two horizontal columns.
At this time, we were disturbed by the poisonous snakes, and the formation was suddenly messed up.
I don’t know who bumped into me.
I stumbled a few steps to the side and stepped on something soft.
I knew it was a snake even without looking.
I quickly shrank my feet and turned around.
Only when I stood firm did I feel that I can't tell the difference between east, west, north and south.
At this time, I heard the fat man shouting nearby: "I can't stand it anymore.
I'm blind enough.
I want to open my eyes and see."
I quickly followed the voice, held down his arm, and shouted, "Don't pull it."
"Take off the tape.
If those snakes really meant to hurt us, we would have been dead for a long time.
If you don't look at them, they won't feel our presence and won't attack."
When the rest of the people heard the shouts of me and the fat man, they all followed the sound and came over.
Everyone gathered again.
Uncle Ming was shocked and gasped: "Brother Hu is really worthy of being the top master among the gold-touching captains.
When in danger, It’s not a mess, everyone knows what’s going on.
Don’t open your eyes.
From now on, we will do whatever you want.”
Shiry Yang whispered to me: "This tunnel is full of dangers, and people's self-control has its limits.
Our eyes have become a burden here.
If we stay for one more minute, there will be more danger.
We must move forward as soon as possible." ”
If you want to move forward, you must find the right direction, but now you have completely lost your sense of direction.
The only solution now is to find a wall as a support.
The sound of swarms of snakes slithering around filled my ears.
It was conservatively estimated that there were no fewer than a few hundred snakes.
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I led everyone to groping aside, and when I encountered a snake on the ground, I gently kicked it aside and touched the cold tunnel wall with its thorns.
Just as I stood still, I heard a series of footsteps coming from one end of the tunnel.
They were very far away.
I quickly reached out and touched the four people around me.
Shiryyang, Axiang, Uncle Ming, and Fatty were all there.
Who was following them?
Maybe we are coming from behind The footsteps came closer and closer.
Being in the white tunnel, it was even more thrilling to hear the sound.
The heavy steps with echoes became faster and denser, making people's hearts tremble with each step.
We couldn't run away at this time, and we couldn't see or see.
We were at our wits' end for a moment, and the five of us were stuck together.
I held the paratrooper's knife in my hand, sweating constantly.
The group of snakes in the tunnel were also alarmed by the footsteps, and swung away for a while, but they were completely missing.
I was busy groping on the wall, and I felt that there were some fist-sized caves very close to the ground.
They seemed to be very deep.
When I put my hand at the entrance of the cave, I could feel a faint cold breeze.
Most of the snakes got into it. , we want to escape but can't get in.
I said to Shiry Yang: "Is it really the movement that exists naturally in crystal stones?
It doesn't sound right to me."
Blindly believing in scientific principles and blindly believing in traditional superstitions are actually similar in nature.
Both will make people blindly follow and think.
Stuck in a rigid pattern.
It's not that I don't believe what Shiry Yang said, but if I put myself in her shoes, it is indeed far from what she speculated.
As he spoke, the voice had already reached me, and I could still hear the sound of the fat man gritting his teeth.
It can be imagined that everyone was extremely nervous.
But the loud sound of footsteps landing suddenly stopped.
Due to the special terrain of the white tunnel and its unexpectedness, we didn't even hear where the thing landed.
It seemed like something was standing in a nearby corner, staring at us, not knowing what it wanted to do.
It was suddenly eerily quiet at this moment, which was far scarier than if something were to pounce directly on me.
Our nerves were tense and we were on high alert.
After a while there was no movement.
We listened carefully, but there was no other sound except our heartbeat and breathing.
Everyone was a little relaxed now, thinking that Shirey Yang was probably right.
Stop worrying about ghosts.
The sudden sound of footsteps like a downpour at least scared off the poisonous snakes.
I fumbled and counted the number of people again.
Axiang cried and asked me if she could take off the tape.
Her tears were sealed inside and she felt so sad.
I categorically rejected her request.
If I wanted to cry, I would wait until I got out of the tunnel before crying.
Then I would study with Fatty and Shiry Yang which way to go.
Although the white tunnel is not wide, it is not straight.
The total area of the human hand is only large, and it is impossible to judge where there are turns by groping bit by bit.
Although there may not be a fork in the road here, and you can at least get back to the starting point by touching the wall on one side, we don't want to go back.
The fat man said that in my humble opinion, Commander, we have to think of a way to go higher, because when entering from the extinct volcano, the stone door opens to the west, which is equivalent to going from the bottom of the second underground lake to higher ground.
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Walking to the bottom of the first-level underground lake, the altar must be directly below the ruins of the ancient city.
The terrain is higher toward the west, and the higher side is the west.
I thought about it and suddenly had a suspicion, so I said to the fat man, "You know it's just my humble opinion, so there's no need to say it."
It's definitely right to go west, but don't forget that from Longding Glacier to this white tunnel, Eluohai City has one of the biggest features.
These people worship the abyss.
We are always going downwards, and the deeper we go, the deeper we go.
We are close to our goal, so I dare to guarantee with my head that although this tunnel leads to the first underground lake bottom in the west, it is sloping downward and should go downwards.
Shiry Yang said: "The premise of going down is certain, but we can't see it with our eyes, and even if the white tunnel extends downward, the slope is extremely small, and it is difficult to detect it by feeling.
How can we judge where it is?
Which side is higher and which side is lower?”
I said this was easy to do, and it was the old way of "getting the middle way when you meet the water."
I took out the kettle, slowly poured the water in it to the ground, and felt which way the water flowed, and I knew which side was lower.
The direction problem was solved in a moment, so everyone regrouped and continued walking inward as before.
Even if I want to go faster here, I can only move forward step by step.
The mysterious footsteps in the tunnel come and go, as if they are following us closely.
I cursed secretly in my heart, but it was Nothing can be done.
God knows what the hell it was, so I had to be optimistic and think on the bright side, maybe it was the natural sounds in the "Sound Rock" that were causing the trouble.
After walking another three to four hundred steps, we still haven't reached the end, but at least it means that we are heading in the right direction, otherwise we will be back to the exit after more than a hundred steps.
This white tunnel is very long.
After walking for a long time, I still can't get used to the environment inside.
Being oppressed by darkness for a long time is a test of anyone's psychological endurance, not to mention that there is something ghostly and shadowy nearby.
As I walked, I suddenly thought of an important thing and hurriedly said to Shiry Yang in front of me: "From the moment I entered the tunnel, I overlooked a detail.
There is a taboo on this tunnel on the stone door.
You must close your eyes to enter." , but Uncle Ming and I had already poked our heads in behind the stone door to look at the tunnel before we came in together.
That must have crossed the limit of the door, that is, the rules here have been broken from the beginning. .
It’s definitely true, of course it’s Uncle Ming who took the lead.”
Shiry Yang was slightly startled when he heard this, so what we were thinking was off track.
If there really was any evil spirit or other evil things in the white tunnel, it would have been released a long time ago.
Why weren't we really attacked?
Shiry Yang's thoughts moved very quickly.
As soon as he finished speaking about the questions in his heart, he already gave the answer himself: "We are sacrifices.
Those black snakes don't attack.
Of course, it may be because we have closed our eyes, but it is more likely because we have closed our eyes."
All were marked as sacrifices.”
I sighed.
As a sacrifice to the devil, I walked towards the altar of the evil god on my own.
How would I feel in my heart?
I was moaning secretly in my heart when the fat man in front stopped and asked, "Commander Hu, is that altar square or round?
I've come to the end.
Come and touch it.
These stones are very strange."
I went over to touch the fat man, and then took advantage of the situation to touch the stone wall in front of me.
It was shaped like a twisted twist, and it was impossible to identify the terrain with two hands.
I wanted to take off the tape and take a look.
It was already a sacrifice anyway, and I had already poked my head in to take a look.
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I would have died at the entrance of the tunnel, but suddenly a thought came to my mind and I came up with Uncle Ming's idea.
From what I know about Uncle Ming, he is a suspicious, somewhat strategic, and sophisticated businessman.
Of course, in a dangerous place, his lack of realm is exposed, which seems very artificial, but he definitely knows the stakes.
Relational.
If one of the five people can't bear the pressure and pulls off the tape first, it will definitely not be Uncle Ming, but the second one will definitely be him.
If he doesn't play tricks on him this time, Mr.
Hu will not have a surname.
What a fool.
I quietly took out the unused tape, secretly tore off a section, and gently pasted it on my forehead, and then explained to everyone in detail what I just said to Shirey Yang.
Now it doesn't matter whether or not to take off the tape.
At least Uncle Ming and I have broken the taboo in the tunnel.
Anyway, we have reached the end here.
I will take the lead first, open my eyes to see if there is any danger, and approach.
Uncle Ming, forcefully tore off the tape on his forehead.
The pain made me grin.
Of course, this was done deliberately so that Uncle Ming could hear clearly.
Uncle Ming heard me pull off the tape, but there was no danger, so he followed suit.
I heard the sound of him pulling off the tape and rubbing his eyes.
After a while, his eyes probably recovered from the darkness, and I heard his surprise.
He said to me: "Are you mistaken?
Have you already taken off the tape?
Hu Bayi, Hu Bayi, you are a bastard, you are tricking the old and the young.
Even a vixen can't think of such a trick."
I was secretly happy in my heart and took off the tape.
For a while, my eyes were still a little hazy when looking at the things around me.
However, I heard Uncle Ming suddenly stop complaining about me and instead said in shock: "That's not right.
Didn't Miss Yang talk about that footsteps?"
What sound is coming from the rock?
Then, then, what is that behind us?"
My eyes couldn't see clearly yet.
I only felt a faint white fluorescence around me.
I opened my eyes hard and looked behind us.
I could vaguely see a dark shadow a few meters away
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