Mountains and seas can be flat

After Fang Zheng practiced the moves on the tortoise shell to enhance his martial arts, even smaller beasts would consciously avoid him.Not to mention the coercion of Zifeng's dragon and beast blood, as long as it is released, tigers and leopards will retreat.But crocodiles are amphibians, cold-blooded creatures, and their sensory abilities are different from those of animals. They are more similar to insects, in other words, they are slow.They narrowed their eyes and stared upward at Fang Zheng and Zifeng.Open the bloody mouth, expecting the food to fall by itself, and have a good meal.

Fang Zheng also stared at the crocodile with fascination, and Zifeng asked: "Brother Zheng, do you like to eat crocodile meat? Or do you want to make clothes from their skin? It's harder, and it's good as a battle armor." This pile looks fierce. In Zifeng's eyes, his guy is just a pile of meat and leather, as long as he can make Brother Zheng happy.

Fang Zheng laughed, it's not that crocodile leather bags can be sold for a lot of money after thousands of years, he pointed to the deep pools and silt beaches where they entrenched, "Do you think the number is a bit too much. Is it normal?" The natural ecological level, like a giant Crocodiles, top predators, consume enormous amounts of energy.No matter how they are herd animals, they will not get together in this small pool, unless there is a vast underground river area under the mountain wall.

In fact, when Fang Zheng saw the unusual mountain shape with half of the lotus petals and half of the radiating shape from a high altitude, he brought in the role of the abandoned king to think about it, and felt that it was very similar to a place he could choose.Fang Zheng murmured, "Qi Jun understands minerals and warned the people of Jiuli that they will be 'cursed'; his medicinal herb skills are unrivaled. His stronghold in Shoutong Mountain will definitely be strictly guarded with biotechnology. I suspect it's one of those things, he's kind of a guy with a paranoid aesthetic..."

Zifeng didn't understand, "Paranoia? Aesthetics?"

Fang Zheng said: "I just feel that people who are too ordinary are not good enough for me." This time Zifeng understood, and silently rolled his eyes at Qijun.Fang Zheng continued, "We just finished patrolling the entire river basin where Yiluo meets, and the terrain here is the most special. If I were him, I would definitely choose this place. The number of crocodiles is unusual, and the possibility of human interference has increased. I think Find it in this mountain."

Zifeng nodded, "Since we're going in, I'll deal with these crocodiles." He said it so lightly.Before Fang Zheng could answer, Zifeng had already waved his green wings and shot out a feather, which pierced into the eye of the largest crocodile in an instant like a bamboo.With these wings, he saves effort in daily archery.This green feather will grow new every day, as if it has hundreds of crossbows and arrows with it.

The pierced crocodile writhed in pain in the pool, Zifeng jumped down from the cliff, and single-handedly hit the other crocodiles on the head with a hundred renzhi sticks.Several strong and powerful crocodile tails were thrown towards Zifeng, and he avoided it deftly.With all his strength, he resisted back.After a while, the heads of the crocodiles bloomed, their tails were broken, and their tails were broken.Not even a few breaths.Back then, when Zifeng's blood was not awakened, he was able to fight against a group of pythons alone.Dealing with this group of crocodiles is child's play.

Zifeng was riding on the back of the one-eyed crocodile boss.It was the only one he spared his life. No matter how cold-blooded the crocodile is and ignorant of the coercion of dragon beasts, it can only succumb to this kind of majestic taming.Let Zifeng grab its sharp crocodile mouth and hook a leash under its rough neck.

"Brother Zheng, it's done." Zi Feng waved to Fang Zheng.

Fang Zheng groped for the rocks on the edge of the cliff, used martial arts balance skills to move down, and jumped onto the back of the crocodile.He stood in the deep pool, and there was indeed a dark river channel under the cliff, which merged into a half-person-high cave entrance on the cave wall.It is impossible to enter upright at that height, but to dive into the water.

Fang Zheng said: "The diameter of the mountain is no more than [-] meters wide, and the waterway will not be too long, but you still have to be careful."

"I can hold my breath very well." Zifeng smiled proudly. "It's okay if it's more than a few hundred meters. Brother Zheng knows it." In the Cangwu Zhiyuan waterway, Zifeng kissed Fang Zhengdu back then, and his decisive posture was as rude as it was.Fang Zheng couldn't answer, and pretended to be very interested in the back of the crocodile.

As soon as Zifeng pulled the leash, the crocodile dived down the cave.He controlled the height, and the heads of the two were still above the water at the beginning.Gradually, he had to hold his breath and bury himself underwater.There is no such thing as planktonic fluorescent bioluminescence underwater.Fang Zheng carried the red crystal cold light source given by the tribesmen in the Hongshan Jade Mine before, and he could see the scene in the water.

They held their breath in the water and looked around with their eyes open. Fang Zheng gestured for Zifeng to look at the top of the cave wall. There were many white lumps of silkworm chrysalis dough sticking to it.In the vibration of the water waves as they dived, a few pieces fell into the water and melted. Fang Zheng caught a glimpse of the thing melting and released hundreds of small black balls, and they all swam away in an instant.He breathed a sigh of relief and thought, it turned out to be frog eggs.

After all, the back of a crocodile is not like a flat road. If you swim fast, you will always have the illusion that you will turn over.Fang Zheng held Zifeng's shoulder tightly to keep his balance.Zifeng was afraid that Fang Zheng would suffocate, so he turned Fang Zheng's head to give him a breath after a few seconds.In fact, it is far from that point, just find a reason to kiss brother Zheng.Fang Zheng always felt that the crocodile they stepped on was particularly sad and indignant, often wagging its tail and trying to float up, so that they could hit the cave wall.Every time Zifeng pulled the rope and suppressed him.

After swimming for about tens of meters, the crocodile lingered.I saw a few solid black straight poles standing in the water channel ahead.Like a fence and like a cage.The crocodile is too big to pass.This further strengthened Fang Zheng's speculation - the outer area is guarded by ferocious beasts, and of course there must be a partition when it comes to the range of people's activities.

The rod was made of obsidian.Unable to speak in the water, Zifeng gestured to hit him hard with Bairenzhi, but Fang Zheng stopped him.Obsidian is one of the strongest materials in the world.If the force is too large, it will easily lead to a collapse of the mountain if you are not careful.He groped up and down the cave wall, thinking about where he would set the mechanism if he were the abandoned king.Since this is an entrance and exit, in order to isolate the crocodiles, there must be measures for the other party's daily entry and exit.

Fang Zheng suddenly felt a depression on the cave wall, reached in and there was a stone ring inside.He stretched out his hand and pulled it, and with a "boom", all the vertical poles fell down.But at the same time, there was a "stab" sound, and a few sharp copper rods pierced out from the inside, with the front facing outward, piercing the crocodile's body in an instant.

Fang Zheng and Zifeng immediately leaned back. If they were slow to avoid, they would also be stabbed through each other.The horizontal tip then slowly retreated.Zifeng and Fang Zheng dived in the water and watched the changes.The crocodile body sank unconsciously.There was another "boom", and the vertical poles rose again, pierced through the crocodile corpse, and were nailed to the bottom of the water.Zifeng pouted and pointed down, Fang Zheng took a closer look, and there were countless crocodile bones piled up around the vertical pole.

Fang Zheng knew in his heart that this was the way Abandoned King used crocodiles to guard the entrance and effectively prevent them from entering.He pulled the stone ring again, the vertical rod landed, and the sharp horizontal rod pierced out again.This time they followed it along the track it had retreated, and entered a deeper area of ​​the mountain before the vertical pole closed.

The channel stopped abruptly, and they climbed out of the water.Before he had time to catch his breath, it seemed like a fierce tiger was rushing towards him. Zifeng stretched out his hand, but the ball of color shattered into fragments and disappeared in mid-air.Fang Zheng pointed to the front, there was a closed stone door at the end of a narrow road, and the door was decorated with many colorful stones.Fang Zheng reminded: "You still have to hold your breath, there is no guarantee that it is the effect of mineral volatilization just now." If the uninvited guest is not psychologically qualified, he will be shocked just now.

The passage is narrow, and it is difficult to avoid it if there is a hidden weapon.Fang Zheng threw a stone in the past first, but there was no response, so he and Zifeng stepped over slowly.But the further he walked, the more suffocated Fang Zheng felt.Zifeng also pressed his head, his expression twisted angrily and said, "No, there is a problem with this channel."

But they have all come up, and now they return to the water, will they retreat?Fang Zheng took out two refreshing green herb pills and gave them to Zifeng. They chewed and swallowed them, and they felt a little better.Go all the way to the door full of ore.Fang Zheng didn't dare to touch it with his hands. He took a piece of drape from the neckline and used it as a cushion. Just as he was about to push the stone door, the drape made of wild cotton was hot as if it was on fire, and immediately melted, as if it had come into contact with corrosive concentrated acid.The ashes give off an unpleasant smell.If Fang Zheng had touched it directly with his hand just now, his hand would probably be burned by now.

The mineral material on this door shows what a sinister intention.They looked at each other.Zifeng pushed against the ore door with a hundred renzhi sticks, and felt that it was getting heavier.Fang Zheng quickly stopped him from continuing to use brute force.Every time the abandoned king comes back by himself, he must rely on the mechanism to open the door.All Fang Zheng did was thinking about how the other party would act.They checked up, down, left, and right for a while, and suddenly found something like a chain hanging from a high place.

Fang Zheng signaled Zifeng to throw the rope up and pull down the black chain, but Zifeng suddenly felt that something was wrong just halfway through the pull.What I thought was a black copper chain was actually soft, and a huge furry insect leg with barbs hooked off—it was only one leg, which had shriveled a long time ago, and there were many hair follicles densely packed on it.I don't know if it's from a spider or a centipede, but the hair follicles are extremely poisonous and emit an unpleasant smell.

Fang Zheng frowned and asked Zifeng to throw the thing into the water. As soon as it sank, most of the suffocating feeling in the passage disappeared.It must have been tampered with by the abandoned monarch on the hairy legs, scattered in the air, and became the source of volatile poison.If a person is bewitched by this smell, there is a high probability of being dizzy and nauseated, and if he bumps into the ore door regardless, he will melt to death on it.

"Old lunatic." Zi Feng scolded.

"Every step he takes is preventing outsiders from entering, and every step can kill people." Fang Zheng thought of another question, "This is the depths of the first copper mountain. What is he afraid of? Does it mean that this place was also broken into at the beginning?" Have entered. Zhihao and Taikang? He strengthened the mechanism again."

Fang Zheng thought to himself, did those two people have this ore door when they came here?How are they opened?Fang Zheng suddenly caught a glimpse of some signs of damage on the cave wall above the stone gate, and said to Zifeng, "Try to see if the top can be dug open, and don't touch this gate."

Zifeng jumped up and knocked, "Brother Zheng, it's looser here." He quickly dug a small passage with a hundred sticks.Just as he was about to call Fang Zheng to climb up, a soft fleshy red thing popped out of it, and it was about to wrap around Zifeng.Green feathers shot out from his body, causing streams of red pus to emerge from the thing.Zifeng dug it up in disbelief, the wall of the cave was indeed not thick, revealing a huge toad corpse.

Zifeng was so disgusted that he pushed the soft toad away.Fang Zheng thought of the countless frog eggs in the waterway just now, and it seems that the offspring of the toad and the crocodile outside formed a very "friendly" mutual aid ecological chain layer.

Zifeng dug for about an hour. Judging from his physical fitness and strength, considering how solid the rock formation was, he finally dug a gap leading to the inside.While digging, he said to Zheng Zheng, "Crocodiles, spider legs, toads—those chosen by Abandoned King have cold blood. Master was able to train tigers, leopards, and bears, and even build relationships. The ones he picked were all beasts. But Abandoned Your choices—"

Badian's snakes are also cold-blooded animals, using chains and plant scents.In Zifeng's view, none of them are smart enough.Not "companion", but "slave".Harmony cannot be achieved.For Zifeng, who was influenced by Yijun's ideals since he was a child, the idea of ​​Qijun, a cold-blooded biological defense agency, made him scoff.

The passage was dug, and Zifeng pulled Fang Zheng up to pass through the gap. Behind the ore gate was a huge cave area.When I first entered, the illusion came under the sun.

Immediately, Fang Zheng took a closer look, and saw that the entire cave wall was inlaid with countless glowing white stones.It is exactly the same as the sky-replenishing stone that Fang Zheng saw in front of the tomb of Emperor Chonghua in Cangwu Zhiyuan.The white jade exudes a gentle luster.At that time, Fang Zheng used the Chonghua sword to try to cut it, but it didn't work.I don't know how Qijun made these stones smaller.The largest does not exceed the ellipse of the palm, and the smallest does not exceed the fingernail.They are embedded at the top, like a starry sky map.Fang Zheng even almost recognized the most conspicuous places such as the Big Dipper and the Great Bear constellation.He couldn't help thinking: Is this the place where Qi Jun specializes in studying the secrets of astrology?

He only looked up, until Zifeng pulled him several times, and then turned his gaze down.I almost lost my legs.

Beneath the beautiful and eye-catching stars, the ground is not beautiful at all.There are countless bones of various types piled up in the corner, mixed together and unrecognizable.You can see some big animal heads or tusks.There were hundreds of clay pots piled against one wall, filled with countless strangely shaped dark things, such as raised black hairy legs or tooth skeletons.

These are nothing.The weirdest thing is the center of the cave. At first, Fang Zheng thought it was a huge sculpture, carved with huge purple-black animals like cows or horses.About as high as an elephant, the animal is on its back with its hooves facing upwards, with long radiating stone pillars pierced on its body, pointing directly at the white stone above to form a map of the stars.

Zifeng opened his eyes wide, and unexpectedly grabbed Fang Zheng's wrist.Fang Zheng rarely saw Zifeng shocked like this.

Zifeng jumped down with Fang Zheng in his arms, and circled to the front of the central animal sculpture.Its head is sculpted extra lifelike.There are also coiled horns carved out of the head, like giant tumors, as if growing out of the soil.The dark eyes are also very realistic.If it weren't for the purple-black stone shell, it would have looked like a living thing.

In terms of skills, Fang Zheng has to praise Qi Jun as an excellent sculptor, but the aesthetic shape is not too flattering.Not only is this huge mountainous animal lying on its back, it has countless radiating stone mantles on its body, and its body is also covered with spikes.Even the sculpture made Fang Zheng feel great pain.It's this animal, no matter how you look at it, it looks familiar...

"Brother Zheng..." Zifeng gasped, "...it's alive! But why is its whole body covered in a stone shell?"

Fang Zheng's mind almost exploded, only to hear Zifeng continue to say in surprise, "Did you recognize it? This is Yu Yi's missing Xiezhi!" Fang Zheng thought about the neck of the old Xiezhi by the Sun Moon Spring That piece of jade.Mu Xie's neck was seriously injured, and was slashed by Taikang.It arched itself with wet eyes, and sent Xiao Xiezhi to follow him, thinking to ask himself to find the whereabouts of the other male Xiezhi——

But at this moment, this "stone sculpture" Xie Yao was lying on his back, with all four hooves facing the sky, and countless radial-shaped sharp stone vertebrae on his body, densely packed in the air, echoing the map of stars all over the sky.But its eyes didn't move, and its mouth didn't move.Fang Zheng stretched out his hand to touch it, and everything he touched was stone.

"Alive?" Fang Zheng didn't even feel his breath, and asked Zifeng in doubt, "How do I vent my anger?" It must be very painful.

Zifeng said: "When I was wrapped in Lu Wu's bones, that shell could replace a little weak breath with the outside. My own facial features were exposed. Even so, I was forced to become very breathless. I don't know what that outer shell is. But it's inside, alive."