【Kuan Xin】Snake and Venom

In the early morning of the next day, when the warm sun was rising, everyone packed their bags and got ready to go.

The six members of Qizhai thought that opening the heavy stone gate would require a mechanism, and they were about to split up to find it, but Yuan Bofeng stopped him with a smile. But within a quarter of an hour, the stone gate was moved out of a gap, the gap was neither wide nor narrow, just enough for a person to pass sideways.

In order to prevent accidents, Yuan Boji still ordered eight cavalry soldiers to stay in the camp to guard.

When Yuan Bofin explained the matter, Yuan Zhongxin stood in front of the stone gate, looking around through the gap with curious eyes, but after a while, he withdrew his eyes—it was pitch black inside, he couldn’t see his fingers, he couldn’t see anything Qing, with the sunlight, only a few things that looked like huge rocks could be faintly seen.

Wei Yanei was even more curious than Yuan Zhongxin, but the dark gap looked like an eye cracked in the deep forest from a distance, staring at all of them lifelessly, exuding inexplicable eerie terror, It discouraged him, and he only dared to ask Yuan Zhongxin in a low voice: "How is it? What did you see?"

Yuan Zhongxin shook his head: "I didn't see anything."

The fear in Wei Ya's heart lingered for a long time. After pouring himself a big mouthful of cold water, he finally regained consciousness. He asked tremblingly, "Is there any ghost in here?"

Yuan Zhongxin glanced at him angrily: "Don't scare yourself, can you, where the hell is it?"

Wei Yanei was tangled and depressed, and wanted to drink water when he raised his head, but Xue Ying raised his hand to stop him: "Drink less, who knows if there is water in this dungeon, don't go halfway and your water bag will be clear."

Wei Ya'nei squeezed the bottle tightly aggrieved: "I'm terribly scared now, and I want to drink water when I'm scared."

Zhao Jian rolled his eyes: "Now you are courageous enough to live and go back, and you are not as courageous as Xiaojing."

Wei Yanei suddenly turned his head to look at Xiao Jing, and found that the other party was checking his medicine bag calmly, with a calm expression, without any worry at all, Wei Yanei asked in surprise, "Xiao Jing, aren't you afraid?"

Xiaojing blinked, and asked puzzledly, "What are you afraid of?"

Wei Yanei's eyes widened excitedly: "Dungeon, we don't know what's underground, aren't you afraid that there are ghosts and monsters inside?"

Xiao Jingtian tilted his head innocently, and said with some earnestness: "Ya Nei, how can there be so many ghosts, gods and monsters in this world, they are all created by people, have you forgotten the people in Qinghe Town who wore human skin last time?" ?”

Yuan Zhongxin crossed his arms and teased with great interest: "That's right, it's all caused by people. If you are afraid of ghosts, you might as well worry more about the sinister people in this world."

Wei Yanei was about to say something, but Yuan Boji and Fan Zaizhi had already walked over, the latter looked solemn and said in a low voice, "We can go."

Then, Fan Zaizhi and Yuan Zhongxin looked at each other, and took the lead with several cavalry soldiers holding firearms, and walked into the darkness. A few faint lights were faintly visible, driving away the darkness and gloom.

Yuan Zhongxin and Wang Kuan wanted to follow Fan Zaizhi to lead the way. Before entering, Yuan Zhongxin worriedly told Xue Ying: "Xue Ying, you have to watch the Yamen every step of the way, don't let him get into trouble. .”

Xue Ying nodded: "I will, you should also pay attention to safety."

Yuan Zhongxin responded with a smile, and then walked through the gap calmly with Wang Kuan. The figures of the two disappeared behind the stone gate. In less than a stick of incense, all 21 people successfully entered the stone gate.

In order to ensure safety, the eight knights who stayed outside picked up large pieces of leaves to cover the stone gate, and took turns guarding the stone gate to observe the situation at the entrance.

After being completely cut off from the outside world, walking in the narrow and cramped aisle, surrounded by colorless earthen walls, can accommodate three people side by side. The aisle is narrow but high, with straight hands There is still room for the torches.The road has been sloping downwards, and no one knows where they are exactly. They just feel that they are walking towards the ground, and they can't even breathe involuntarily. The oncoming darkness still made them unable to adapt and felt uneasy.

Yuan Zhongxin and the others walked ahead to open the way, walking side by side, their progress was extremely slow, carefully observing the surrounding environment every step they took, for fear that a wrong step would bring disaster.

Yuan Zhongxin held the torch in one hand, and shook hands with Wang Kuan in the other. Since entering the dungeon, their hands had never been separated, as if they were looking for comfort with this gesture.He stretched the torch forward a little and looked forward by the light of the fire, only to find that the aisle seemed to have no end at all. Yuan Zhongxin frowned slightly, feeling strange in his heart. He lowered his head and approached Wang Kuan, lowering his voice: "Wang Kuan , how long have we been walking?"

Wang Kuan thought for a while and replied, "I'm not quite sure, but it's definitely more than an hour."

an hour.

Yuan Zhongxin looked back at the people behind him. Although they walked slowly, but because their spirits had been tense and the environment was so dull and gloomy, now that they had walked for an hour, their faces gradually showed tiredness.He turned his head to look at Fan Zaizhi, and said in a low voice: "Master Fan, we have been walking for more than an hour, everyone's mental state is not very good, let's take a rest first."

Fan Zaizhi pondered for a while, and immediately agreed to Yuan Zhongxin's proposal. He nodded, stopped, turned around and said to Qihou Jun, "Send the message, stop and rest for a while."

Yuan Zhongxin rubbed his chest, frowned slightly, suddenly felt shortness of breath, chest tightness, and suddenly coughed a few times.

Wang Kuan supported him nervously, and asked worriedly: "Yuan Zhongxin, what's wrong with you?"

Yuan Zhongxin shook his head: "I'm fine, but my throat is a little dry." While speaking, he picked up the water bag he was carrying, raised his head and drank several sips, the water accidentally splashed into his hand, and he shook his hand casually , and knocked his hand straight on the dirt wall of the aisle, Yuan Zhongxin turned his head to look at the dirt wall on his left in surprise, his heart was strangely deepened, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell.

Everyone rested for about a quarter of an hour before continuing to move forward.

Yuan Zhongxin walked while paying attention to the distance between the earth wall and himself, until Wang Kuan reminded him that it was time for a stick of incense, he still couldn't find anything strange, Yuan Zhongxin frowned slightly, could it be that he was suspicious up?

However, after another incense stick of time, when the distance between the earthen wall and him was only a few feet away, Yuan Zhongxin was convinced that he was not suspicious.

The aisle was getting narrower and narrower, and it was quite difficult for two people to walk side by side in the aisle that could originally accommodate three people walking side by side.

Even Yuan Zhongxin could feel it, and Wang Kuan, whose senses are particularly sensitive, naturally also noticed the abnormality. His voice was not loud, but he could ensure that the rest of the people heard clearly: "Attention everyone, the aisle has narrowed."

Yuan Zhongxin raised his hand and tapped the earthen wall with his fingers, and muttered in a low voice: "It's narrowed, but why do I feel weird?"

At this moment, Xue Ying, who was walking in the middle of the team, said loudly: "Quiet!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone's breathing immediately became suffocated, and they didn't dare to move. They stared blankly at Xue Ying, who frowned tightly and held his breath.

After a while, Wei Yanei asked cautiously, "Xue Ying, what's wrong with you?"

Xue Ying said in a deep voice, "I heard some voices."

Zhao Jian still questioned: "What voice?"

Xue Ying bit the tip of her tongue, diverted all her mind to every corner of the aisle, held her breath, and struggled to perceive everything here, muttering in her mouth: "It's not the sound of breathing, it's not the sound of talking, and it's not the sound of the wind. …”

He had just heard a faint sound, distant and misty, faintly present, if he hadn't been sensitive to sound, he would never have felt that fleeting sound.

Xue Ying lowered her head and closed her eyes, clenched her fists, regained her mind and concentrated her attention.

Just one more time...

Ring again.

Ring again!

Boom—long.

Xue Ying raised her head suddenly, and murmured in a daze, "It's the sound of boulders moving..."

Wei Yanei was shocked and said incoherently, "What, what?"

Xue Ying squeezed through the layers of cavalry soldiers, and quickly came to Yuan Zhongxin and Wang Kuan, and said anxiously: "I heard it! "Boom"! It is the sound of boulders moving, and it may also be the collision of mountains and rocks. Anyway, something like that..."

Yuan Zhongxin recalled the strangeness of the journey just now, finally understood, and murmured: "It may also be the sound of the earth wall moving."

The atmosphere froze for a moment, and there was a layer of dead silence floating in the air.

The earth wall keeps squeezing, and the aisle is getting narrower and narrower. According to their current walking progress and the speed of the earth wall, it may not pass two hours. The aisle here is even a problem for one person to walk. If there is no way out, they are likely to be caught alive between two thick earthen walls.

Xiaojing said hesitantly, "How about we go back the same way?"

At this time, Yuan Bo's voice came from behind them: "It's too late, the aisle was even more crowded when we came, and even one person couldn't walk through."

Yuan Zhongxin and the others looked behind in amazement. With the help of the dim light of the fire, they found that the road they had just walked was already so narrow that the road closest to them was already so narrow, let alone the initial passage. At that time, I was afraid that the two earthen walls had been glued together tightly.

Just now, all of them focused their attention on the road ahead, and when they turned around, they saw this scene.

Wei Yanei cursed in surprise and fear: "That monster made such things! It wants to kill people!"

Yuan Zhongxin said calmly: "In this case, we have no retreat, we can only move forward, and the speed must be accelerated."

Everyone suppressed their fear and uneasiness, quickly adjusted back to the previous formation, followed Yuan Zhongxin and others, and walked forward quickly.

But the extrusion speed of the earth wall was much faster than Yuan Zhongxin imagined, but after a stick of incense, the aisle where two people could have walked side by side was narrowed to only one person. In desperation, they had no choice but to grit their teeth , ran forward desperately.

However, a loud bang suddenly came from above the head!

The movement of the people running stopped instantly, not even daring to let go of their breathing, they slowly raised their heads to look up, suddenly feeling terrified, as if they were facing an enemy.

At some point, the earthen wall above their heads was also pressing towards them. There was still a certain distance to touch the top of the wall when the torch was held high, but now the torch couldn't even be straightened!

In this situation, I can't slow down, I can't run.

Yuan Zhongxin cursed secretly: "Damn it!"