Daomu Biji

This red eye was full of beating bloodshot eyes, which looked weird and abnormal. As soon as I looked at it, I suddenly felt like my soul was being withdrawn. I felt strong nausea and dizziness, and I immediately turned my face away.

However, Master Liang seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit, staring straight at the bloody eye without moving. I called him twice, but there was no response.

Master Liang said that "Zhujiu Yin's" vagina can penetrate into hell. I knew something was wrong, so I quickly poured water on him and rushed towards him.

But maybe it was Zhu Jiuyin who suddenly reached forward or something else, but the water splashed on Master Liang's body instead of on Zhu Jiuyin's head.

I was startled by the water splashed by Zhu Jiuyin. As soon as I closed my eyes, the snake's head shrank back and wanted to launch an attack. I quickly got behind the copper tree and the snake's head hit the bronze tree, knocking all the branches. Bent. At this time, I thought about the backpack I took from Lao Itch. There might be some weapons in it, and I quickly turned the backpack to the front.

There must be no guns in his bag, but I remember a few detonators that they originally used to blow up the tomb walls. Now that I am unarmed, it would be nice to use something powerful to deter these things.

Zhu Jiuyin circled around one side of the bronze tree. While moving to prevent it from seeing me, I climbed up, grabbed my backpack, and dug inside.

The backpack was full of things. I took out all the food and threw it into the water. Finally I took out what I thought was the detonator. When I looked at it, I couldn't help but be stunned. I was so sloppy when I looked at it just now. That bundle of things , turned out to be a black candle.

At this time, the snake's head had already reached over, and when it saw me, it suddenly folded its neck and made an attack posture again.

The average attack speed of a snake is only a quarter of a second. Although this one is a bit bigger, it probably won't be much slower. When I saw that if I delayed for just one second, I would be finished, I picked up my backpack and jumped into the water.

But the speed of my fall was still too slow. Suddenly a black shadow flashed, and the snake head shot out and bit me in the air, and then the snake's body was rolled up. He just wanted to wrap me around his body.

My hands were rummaging around in my bag. At this moment, I suddenly touched the kind of flare gun they used. I was in a hurry and subconsciously pulled the trigger. A big hole was blown out of my backpack. In the confusion, I didn’t know what it was. It wasn't the flare that exploded in the snake's mouth, but the tiger's mouth felt hot, and then the world started spinning.

I fell into the water again with a "pop", surfaced, and looked back. The signal bomb in Zhu Jiuyin's mouth was emitting a blazing white light. The air was filled with the smell of candles, and for some reason, green smoke began to appear all over its body.

The oil in the snake's body itself is very easy to burn.

Otherwise, the ancients wouldn't have hunted it to make candles, but I didn't expect it to be able to burn like this. What exactly is flowing in its body?

Zhu Jiuyin was in extreme pain and could no longer control us. It kept twisting its body and slapped the rock with its huge tail. There was already a huge crack on that side. As it continued to slap, one crack spread into several small cracks, and the entire mountain surface kept cracking. , it seems that the entire cave may collapse.

I didn't know if Zhu Jiuyin would die so easily, so I continued to flip through the backpack. There was nothing useful anymore, so I threw my backpack into the water. At this moment, the water suddenly overflowed, and the water in the pool rushed towards the crack created by Zhu Jiuyin.

There are many cave systems in the mountain here. It seems that the mountain behind the crack has been penetrated. I don’t know where the water has gone. I finally looked at an ancient bronze tree and looked around for Master Liang. He had disappeared. As the momentum above began to be washed away by the gushing water, large chunks collapsed. Zhu Jiuyin danced like crazy, leaned back and was swept into the gap along with the current.

The gap was extremely deep, and it was pitch black inside. Because it was a collapsed passage, the stones inside were very irregular, and the water flow created many whirlpools. I was spinning around in it, and I could barely feel that I was drifting downstream. go.

I walked around for about ten minutes, and suddenly I felt Zi You falling, and then I fell into the water. I struggled out and found that the water had brought me to the underground river where I was waiting. The water here was much better than what we just saw. It's even more turbulent, probably because, as Master Liang said, there was a heavy rain outside.

Although the water flow here is very fast, there are not as many whirlpools as in the rock crevices, and the water is a little warm. I was able to control my limbs and began to think about the situation ahead.

This underground river goes from top to bottom. I don’t know where the passage goes. If it goes straight into the ground dozens of meters deep, I really have nothing to say. But according to the direction it came from, if it doesn’t change its direction midway, , I guess it should have rushed into the river we crossed when we arrived. Of course, the premise is that the journey goes smoothly. I looked ahead nervously, fearing that there would be some fork in the road. At this time, out of the corner of my eye, I saw something carved on the wall of the underground river.

Judging from the erosion of the rocks, the underground river here should be as old as the mountain. There was something on it that could not have been carved in modern times. I saw an opportunity and grabbed a piece of water hanging from the top. A stone pillar, I stopped and shined a flashlight on it, I was stunned.

On both sides of the river wall, there are the same reliefs we saw in the coffin on the top of the bronze tree. They are continuous paintings. Some have collapsed, but most of them are still well preserved, with bright and smooth lines and elegant clothing patterns. , each side is different, vivid and dynamic.

At a glance, I knew that these reliefs depicted the process of ancient ethnic minorities paying homage to a bronze tree. The scenes were extremely vivid. In one relief, the huge bronze tree was covered with the corpses of slaves. The blood flows into the bronze tree and flows down along the ravine above. In one picture, they throw the corpse of the slave into the inside of the bronze tree.

A large part of the relief is submerged in water, and everything at the bottom has been leveled by the water. It seems that there was no water here when they carved it.

Judging from the reliefs here, this kind of memorial ceremony for the bronze book was of a large scale. I kept looking at it, but the more I looked at it, the more strange it became. There were some scenes depicted in the reliefs. It's different from the sacrifice, I can't understand it.

There is a relief sculpture that shows the ancient ancestors pouring some liquid into the bronze tree. Then in the next picture, a "Zhu Jiuyin" exactly like the one I saw just now came out of the bronze tree. Many ancestors dressed like warriors surrounded it with bows, arrows and spears, which was obviously a hunting scene.

According to what I just understood. This bronze tree should be a special symbol of divine power in ancient times. The "Zhu Jiu Yin" of the bronze tree species was a kind of dragon in ancient times. In some notebook novels, "Zhu Jiu Yin" was even elevated to the level of Pangu. It is so high that people should worship it as a mythical beast. How can people here hunt it?

I continued to look down, hoping to see the answer from the back. There were some ritual contents at the back. I could see that all the ancestors were wearing masks. The face is dull, but in every relief, there is always a person who is particularly burly. Looking at this man's clothing and demeanor, I can basically confirm that this man should be their leader, and he should be the original shape of the statue I saw on the cliff of Jiazigou.

The head of that statue was blown off by a bomb. I always felt something was wrong at that time, but I never saw his head all the way here, so this time I could take a closer look.

I pulled the bell pillar on the top close to the rock on the ground, wiped off the stains on it, and leaned over to take a look.

The image of the leader in the relief is almost twice the size of the others. Just like a giant, if according to my previous assumptions, the carvings here are based on formal proportions, then this leader may really be so tall.

But the strange thing is that in all these reliefs, the leader has a snake head on his neck, and it doesn't look like he is wearing a mask or anything.

Although I have a certain amount of archaeological knowledge, I still don’t have a clue about these things that require a lot of reading to accumulate. I only know that judging from the superficial meaning of these reliefs, I feel that Master Liang’s judgment at the time may have been somewhat biased. This tree The bronze tree may not have been used simply for worship. Instead, it was used to carry out some kind of hunting ritual. Those sacrificed slaves may have been the bait to print the "Zhujiu Yin" from the ground.

I don't know how deep the bronze tree goes into the ground. These "Zhujiuyin" should live extremely deep underground. How to live in such a place is not something I can consider. I am just curious. These ancestors made such a big deal. What is the purpose of hunting "Zhu Jiuyin"?

The relief didn't give me an answer. What I saw in the end was just some celebration scenes. What to do with "Zhu Jiuyin" after being hunted was not carved out.

I already knew the basic situation. I looked at the water level and saw that it was going to continue to rise, so I had to let go of my hands and continue to float downward with the current.

After so much time, the flashlight had become very dim, and finally it was so dim that it had no lighting effect at all. I simply turned it off and followed the flow in the darkness.

This period of time was very difficult. I rushed down some small waterfalls several times. Although it was not fatal, it was inevitable that I would be bruised and swollen. For several hours, I didn't know what was around me or where I was going.

I gradually felt desperate, and I didn’t know that I hadn’t turned a corner or entered a fork just now. If I had made a mistake in my judgment, I might be being led into the depths of an endless underground river, and I don’t know where this river channel goes. , will it rush to the stratum where "Zhu Jiuyin" lives?

What kind of place is that? Speaking of which, is there any emperor's tomb built deep in the underground river? This is a good idea.

Just when I was thinking wildly, I suddenly saw a ray of light in front of me, which made me shake all over. Then I heard the rumbling sound of water. I was so happy that I didn't see any natural light for more than ten hours until I reached the exit. , I threw away my flashlight and swam forward.

My speed was very fast, and within just a few minutes, my eyes suddenly flashed, and then there was a white light, and I couldn't see anything. It was due to the dull vision caused by not seeing light for too long. I screamed in my heart, but at that moment, A familiar feeling suddenly came from under me.

Zi you falls again! Another waterfall!

And judging from the force of the water rushing out and the sound coming from below, this waterfall must be quite big. I don’t know what is below. If the water is too shallow, then my death will be unjust.

There was a roar in my ears, and in the flash of lightning, before my eyesight could recover, I had already plunged into the water.

At that moment, I stretched my hand down and immediately touched a stone. Oops, it was too shallow! As soon as I realized this, my head hit something, my vision went dark, and I didn't know anything anymore.