【Kuan Xin】Snake and Venom

When Yuan Zhongxin woke up again, he found himself in a brightly lit room, sleeping on a pile of gold and silver rare treasures, with his head resting on Wang Kuan's thigh, his eyes turning blankly. Turning around, he asked in a daze, "Where are we?"

Seeing that Yuan Zhongxin regained consciousness, Wang Kuan breathed a sigh of relief, the panic and fear in his heart disappeared in the blink of an eye, and stroking Yuan Zhongxin's eyebrows with trembling fingertips, he replied softly: "I woke up not long after you , I don't know where this is yet."

Yuan Zhongxin raised his hand and rubbed the center of his brows. The splitting headache just before he passed out still remained in his mind a little bit. With Wang Kuan's support, he slowly sat up and looked at the situation in a daze. This resplendent and resplendent room is full of gold, silver and jewels as far as the eye can see. It seems that all of them are priceless. Yuan Zhongxin picked up a jade bracelet and looked at it for a while, knowing that everything here has a certain history. precipitation.

At this time, except for Xiao Jing and Yao Zhuo, who were not familiar with martial arts, who were still in a coma, the rest of them regained their senses. Their eyes scanned this unusually bright and strange room with surprise and anxiety, and they were shocked to find that they were sitting in a pile of Among the rare treasures shaped like hills, no one dared to take any copper plate without permission.

Fan Zaizhi is quite old, and the sound of the magic sound had a great impact on him just now, and he still suffers from headaches. He kept pressing on his temples, and asked in a deep voice, "What's going on here?"

After a moment of silence, Wang Kuan said: "Before I fainted, I saw a black and red figure. I suspected that he was the owner of this dungeon. This guy was the one who triggered the mechanism along the way. He didn't want to Let's get out of the dungeon."

The man wearing half of the Yubai mask was named Yuban, and he asked half-believingly, "Is it possible that that figure is your hallucination?"

Yuan Zhongxin crossed his arms and said thoughtfully: "Probably not, because I have seen it twice before the vision appeared."

Zhao Jian looked at Yuan Zhongxin in surprise, "Why didn't you tell us when it happened?"

Yuan Zhongxin explained: "At that time, I wasn't sure whether what I saw was my hallucination. If I told you, I was worried that I would startle the snake."

Wei Yanei swallowed timidly, and suddenly realized a very serious matter: "Wait, you said that this person might be the owner of the dungeon, then... then how many years has he lived?"

Faced with Wei Yanei's question, everyone was silent. They knew that what Wei Yanei really wanted to know was not how long the person had lived, but whether the person was a human or a ghost.

Zhao Jian sighed: "Don't scare yourself, let's treat him as a human being for now, we can't stand still because of this problem."

Yuan Bofin frowned and speculated: "Could this person be the owner of the dungeon? Because we broke in without authorization and alarmed him, he was so angry that he wanted to use the dungeon's mechanism to trap us here forever?"

Tang Shun felt strange, and he couldn't figure it out: "Since we were angry because we came uninvited, why didn't it happen when we sent people in before? He is so powerful, there is no reason why he can't detect our movements .”

Wei Yanei scratched his hair, and guessed solemnly: "Could it be because the petty fights you made are not popular and can't get into his eyes?"

Tang Shun didn't know how to answer the words for a moment.

Zhao Jian: "But if he really didn't want us to go out, why didn't he just kill us, instead he went to great lengths to send us all to this house?"

Could it be that this person is so despicable and vicious, and he likes to watch people being tortured to death by various traps?

After discussing and discussing, they still failed to draw any conclusions, and they couldn't just sit and wait for death. After regaining their mood, they searched everything in the room, trying to find a way out.

Yuan Zhongxin stood up, walked around, stepped on countless treasures, and climbed to the top with great difficulty. He was dumbfounded by the scene in front of him, and his heart was startled. He immediately called out for others.

Behind the piles of gold, silver and jewels, there is an extremely wide flat ground. On the flat ground, there are seven vermilion wooden pavilions neatly arranged. Behind the wooden pavilion is a tall stone wall. In the two corners of the stone wall, there are two gold-faced bronze mirrors with a height of one foot and a width of five feet.

In such a scene, everyone can feel that apart from being weird, it is still weird.

Yuan Zhongxin turned his head and looked at Wang Kuan, asking if he wanted to go over to have a look. Wang pondered for a moment, nodded, jumped up, rolled over, and landed firmly on the flat ground. Li automatically and consciously picked up Xiaojing and Yaozhuo on his back, stepped carefully across the golden mountains, and arrived at the flat ground a few feet away from the seven wooden coffins, then he didn't dare to go forward rashly.

Who knows if this wrong step will cause any trouble?

Yuan Zhongxin turned around and picked up a pile of gold, and threw it forward vigorously. The gold fell to the ground with a bang, and some even hit the wooden pavilion. Everyone stared nervously at the wooden pavilion, waiting for a full incense Time, after confirming that there is no change around, dare to take a few steps forward.

The seven wooden coffins were lined up in a row. Looking from a distance, everyone felt a sudden chill, but now that they were getting closer, the thought of the seven corpses inside made everyone tremble with fear, and even lost most of their strength to walk. .

Wang Kuan raised his eyes to look at the stone wall, and was surprised to find that there were densely packed symbols engraved on the stone wall, with a certain distance between each symbol. He squinted his eyes to recognize it for a while and said, "There seems to be a word on the stone wall." .”

After confirming again and again that there were no traps, everyone passed the seven wooden coffins and came to the stone wall. They thought it would be easy to read, but the result was beyond everyone's expectations. The words on the stone wall were not the same as what they used to come across. , Those words look like a small painting, with smooth and powerful strokes and elegant fonts.

Among all the people, Fan Zaizhi should be the most knowledgeable one. He looked at each word carefully, and he hesitated to say after a long time: "This seems to be the font of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. I rarely touch it on weekdays. Not many are recognizable."

Yuan Zhongxin asked: "Master Fan, can you read the general meaning of the content on this stone wall?"

Fan Zaizhi stared at the stone wall and pondered for a moment: "The general idea should be ok, but it will take some time." He knew that time in the dungeon is like a weapon that can save lives or kill people. After thinking for a while, he said: " The fastest speed, I also need about a stick of incense time."

Everyone didn't dare to speak casually, for fear that if they opened their mouths, they would disturb Fan Zaizhi's thoughts, and they were all silent, not even daring to make any big noises.

Yuan Zhongxin crossed his arms and stared at the seven red wooden coffins, his eyes full of thoughts. After a while, he moved his eyes to the writing on the stone wall, feeling strange in his heart.

Fonts from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period?

Spring and Autumn and Warring States...?

Yuan Zhongxin suddenly shuddered.

This dungeon has existed since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Does that mean that the owner of the dungeon has been alive since then?

Or is it that after his death, he was reluctant to stay here and turned into a ghost to guard the dungeon?

Thinking about it this way, the bone pit under the chain bridge that day seems to make sense.

Yuan Zhongxin sighed helplessly, and slandered in his heart: This dungeon is really evil.

Just as Yuan Zhong was thinking hard about how to get out, Tang Shun suddenly came to him and whispered in a deep voice: "Yuan Zhongxin, have you ever calculated that you spent four hours walking across the chain bridge when you walked through the aisle?" It took another three hours?"

Yuan Zhongxin didn't know why, so he nodded in response: "Yes, what's the matter?"

Tang Shun took a deep breath with a dignified expression. His reaction attracted Wang Kuan, who was not far from Yuan Zhongxin. There are reminders, in the corridor, there are four walls up, down, left, and right, so you are given four hours, and there are three-headed Buddhas on the chain bridge, so you are given three hours."

Hearing this, the five of Yuan Zhongxin woke up like a dream, looked at each other in surprise, and waited for Tang Shun's next words.

Tang Shun continued to speculate and said: "The dungeon uses the most conspicuous thing to remind you of the time. Once it exceeds, it will trigger the mechanism. In this case, the most conspicuous thing here is the seven wooden coffins. I suspect this is another mechanism. The time limit It's seven hours, if we can't leave this room within seven hours, something more dangerous will happen again."

Yuan Zhongxin answered: "So, the key to leaving this room lies in the stone wall with characters engraved on it."

Now, all his mind is focused on the issue of how to leave. As for whether the figure hiding in the dark is a human or a ghost, he has no energy to care about it.

The time for a stick of incense seemed very long in this place full of unknown dangers. Yuan Zhongxin and the others felt that they had waited for almost a day, and Fan Zaizhi finally deciphered the general meaning of the stone wall.

The underground city was originally a shelter dug out by a prince during the Spring and Autumn War period to avoid the war. After the completion of the underground city, he brought his parents, two wives and concubines and a pair of children to live in it. After entering the dungeon, he never cared about world affairs and lived a very happy life, but the good times didn’t last long. Except for the princes, everyone else fell ill one by one. In five years, only the princes remained in the huge dungeon, and he was overly sad. , completely sealed off the entrance and exit of the dungeon.

So far, because the handwriting is quite blurry and strange, Fan Zaizhi can no longer read any more information.

Yuan Bofin looked at the seven wooden coffins and said: "These are the princes and his family lying in the seven wooden coffins?"

Yuan Zhongxin shook his head: "I can't be sure. After all, Master Fan read that the prince's family members were all sick and died, but it's hard to say whether that prince died or not."

Wei Yanei shuddered, wanting to cry but not crying: "Yuan Zhongxin, you don't mean to say that the prince has lived from the Spring and Autumn Period to the present?"

Yuan Zhongxin shrugged, noncommittal.

The family members of the princes all died of illness. If he can live for hundreds of years without the slightest illness, it is no longer a matter of human beings or ghosts. This guy is simply a monster!