Wu Lin and I looked at each other.
Wu Lin frowned and the corners of his mouth trembled slightly.
It's not that I'm overly concerned, Wu Lin has become very weird since entering the Immortal Cave.
At this time, I suddenly remembered that from beginning to end, I had never asked Wu Lin what the purpose of entering the Immortal Cave was.
Before, I always thought that it was possible that the Immortal Tomb deep in the cave was also part of the fourth dimension, but now it seems That doesn't seem to be the case.
When Wu Lin took me to search for the fourth dimension in the past, no matter how unstable his character was, his goals were always very clear and his behavior was very firm.
But this time, Wu Lin gave me the feeling that he was obviously a little hesitant.
I don't know what he is wandering about or hesitating about.
But in front of so many people, it was hard for me to express the questions in my heart.
Then I burned the mummy with karma fire, and the dried flesh and blood on the corpse instantly turned to ashes, but the scales on the snake's tail were not afraid of the high temperature of karma fire at all.
Until the whole mummy was burned down, these scales could still maintain their original appearance.
I was curious, so I picked up a scale and looked at it.
Ordinary snake scales are shaped by the outer skin and dermis of the snake skin.
It can be understood as some lines on the snake that look similar to fish scales.
In fact, they are not Scales in the true sense cannot be peeled off, but the snake scales on my palm don't feel like skin, but more like smooth bone flakes.
It's not really tough, I can break it with just a light hand, and I tried to burn it with a lighter, but it also got scorched.
But this thing looks fragile, but it is not afraid of karma fire.
I can't explain the principle here, but I have a vague feeling that this so-called Immortal Cave, and the things deep in the cave, are most likely to have some important connection with the underworld.
Just when I was staring at the scales in my hand, Wu Lin suddenly picked up the sniper rifle.
When I looked sideways at Wu Lin, I passed Wu Lin with my peripheral vision and saw Huang Yuzhong standing in the distance. , Huang Yuzhong also quickly pulled out his long whip at that time, as if he was on guard for something.
I immediately looked in the direction where the gun was pointing, but at this time Wu Lin put down the gun.
"What's wrong?"
I asked Wu Lin.
Wu Lin turned around and asked Huang Yuzhong: "What did you see just now?"
Huang Yuzhong's tone was somewhat uncertain: "It seems to be a lantern, I didn't see it clearly."
Wu Lin turned around and nodded at me.
He wanted to tell me that he had seen the same thing.
I asked Huang Yuzhong: "What kind of lantern" Huang Yuzhong shook his head: "It seems to be a red paper lantern, floating in mid-air.
Its outline is very blurry.
To be honest, I can't see it clearly."
How come red paper lanterns appear in such a place?
I took a deep breath and glanced deeper into the tunnel.
Li Huaishan and Wu Lin shot the light through at the same time.
Apart from the two beams of light swinging back and forth, all I could see was a vast expanse of deep darkness.
Wu Lin said to me from the side: "Let's go on."
I nodded, waved my hand, and led everyone forward.
After marching in the dark for more than half an hour, the smell of blood in the air became slightly clearer, but overall it was still very light.
You need to keep sniffing with your nose up to feel its presence. .
At that time, I was trying to inhale and try to figure out the source of this smell, but I heard Huang Yuzhong shouting from behind the team: "There are so many snake corpses."
I raised my hand to signal the people behind me to stop talking.
Before walking too far, the light beams in the hands of Li Huaishan and Wu Lin illuminated two silhouettes huddled in the corner of the tunnel.
They were two snake corpses lying upright on the ground, and the snake we saw before Like a corpse, only a thin layer of dry skin is left on the chest, and the skin collapses into the gap between the sternum and the ribs.
The piece of dry skin near the heart is rising and falling regularly, and it is obvious that something is growing in the chest. beat.
As long as the hairy coconut attached to the heart is not cut, the bugs inside should not come out, but this is just my speculation.
It is difficult to say whether it is accurate or not.
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I asked everyone to walk softly and pass by the snake corpses as carefully as possible.
During this period, I kept looking at their beating hearts.
Until Zhang Donghai, who was at the end of the team, kept a constant distance from the snake corpses and still did not appear.
Any exception.
But now is not the time to relax.
Although my memory is not particularly good, I still remember that what Huang Yuzhong said just now was "a lot of snake corpses."
I guess there are more similar corpses not far ahead.
But I didn't expect that the number of snake corpses was far more than I imagined.
Ten minutes later, we arrived at the end of the tunnel.
Only then did I see clearly that there was a huge corpse pool outside the tunnel.
Countless snake corpses were piled up layer by layer.
There was an extremely dangerous smell in the air.
The strong smell of decay is similar to the strong musty smell emitted by old wood that has been infected by moisture.
It is estimated that each snake carcass contains a hairy coconut, and they are all beating at the same frequency.
Standing at the exit of the tunnel, you can clearly hear the undulating sound of the hairy coconut.
Boom boom, boom boom The sound was particularly neat, and it sounded like a huge heart hanging above my head, beating constantly.
Seeing this scene in front of them, everyone present was stunned.
Even Wu Lin couldn't help but say: "It's just a mass grave."
I took a deep breath, trying to calm down my mind as much as possible, and then I scanned the corpse pool repeatedly.
This huge corpse pool should be the burial pit of the Nuwa tribe.
In the center of the pit stands a very tall stone pillar.
The height of this pillar is at least about 100 meters.
There seems to be something pressed on the top of the pillar.
It is very far away.
It's too far, and the line of sight is somewhat blocked, so I can't see clearly what that thing is.
Around the pillar, there are large areas of snake corpses.
Each corpse is lying straight and flat.
At first glance, it looks like The big pit is filled with handfuls of dry firewood In the distant Stone Age, the population of a large tribe was only a few thousand at most.
I did a rough visual inspection and found that there were at least several hundred corpses in the burial pits.
The number could have been thousands.
To bury so many people at one time, The owner of the Immortal Tomb is probably the leader of the Nuwa tribe.
Now that the burial pit has appeared in front of us, we should have entered the Immortal Tomb.
Thinking of this, I asked Li Huaishan: "Where are we now?"
Li Huaishan understood what I meant as soon as he heard this and responded: "It is estimated that it is directly above us, that is the big basin surrounded by mountains.
I can't determine the location now, but I estimate that we should be heading towards We walked southwest, but there was still a long way to go before the depression enclosed by the pebble wall.”
After hearing what Li Huaishan said, I immediately took out the palladium compass.
With the blue gold as the magnetic root, although the magnetic field in this area was extremely chaotic, the pointer on the compass could still point out the direction.
The direction we are facing now is indeed due southwest.
I put away the compass and asked Li Huaishan: "How do you know we are going southwest?"
Li Huaishan pointed to the stone pillar in the center of the burial pit and said, "I really can't tell the direction now, but I can feel that that pillar is very dangerous, so I know we must be on the right track."
His tone was very depressed, and I could feel that Li Huaishan was a little panicked now.
Wu Lin on the side asked: "How to go next?"
Li Huaishan still pointed at the stone pillar: "Climb up."
I didn't waste any time and immediately asked everyone to enter the burial pit.
The corpses in the pit have become extremely brittle.
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Every time I step on them, I can hear the sound of bones being crushed.
I have to look back from time to time, for fear that someone will accidentally step on the snake corpse and crack the bones in the chest.
Hairy coconut.
Once, when I turned around and looked behind me, I saw that Qing Yazi lost his footing and leaned forward, lying directly on a snake corpse.
His head happened to be pressed against the chest of the snake corpse.
Fortunately, Zhang Donghai had quick eyes and quick hands and hugged Qing Yazi's waist, preventing Qing Yazi from hitting his head.
Sun Luyuan also turned around to help.
He first moved the snake corpse under Qing Yazi, and then together with Zhang Donghai, carefully helped Qing Yazi up.
At that time, both Li Huaishan and Huang Yuzhong shone their flashlights on Qingyazi.
Then in the peripheral light of the flashlights, I saw that the snake corpse that Sun Luyuan had moved away seemed to have a thin tube attached to it.
Wu Lin also noticed the abnormality and immediately shined the light directly on the back of the snake corpse.
Only then did we see clearly that the tube connected to the snake corpse was actually made of iron.
It was hollow inside and had only a very thin layer on the outside.
Thin iron sheet has very good ductility.
But at the time when the Nuwa people lived, the technology of iron smelting had not yet appeared in the world.
Looking back at the iron tree roots we saw in the tunnel before, they couldn't have been made by the Nuwa clan, unless this clan entered the Iron Age earlier than humans.
Wu Lin put down the snake corpse in his hand and gave me a questioning look.
I thought for a moment, and then pointed at the large stone pillar that was less than fifty meters away from us.
Wu Lin was asking me just now where these hollow roots came from.
I said that they might be extending from the stone pillars.
This tacit understanding between Wu Lin and I doesn't need to be cultivated at all.
From the first time we met, we could always feel what the other person was thinking.
At first I thought that there might be holes in the stone pillars.
These iron pipes, which looked like roots, were extended from the holes in the stone pillars.
This was not just a random thought.
In the Book of Lu Ban, there was a record of something called The mechanism of "iron tree rooting" is to first drill holes in the iron pillars, and then insert iron pipes into each hole.
But when we arrived at the stone pillar, Wu Lin and I were surprised to realize that this thing was not a stone pillar at all, it was just a tree, a giant iron-tied tree hundreds of meters high.
The iron pipes pierced into the snake's body are the roots of this tree: