Mountains and seas can be flat

The big copper tooth led them to the end towards the platform and the mountain wall. Fang Zheng vaguely remembered that it was this direction when they were tied up, and they passed through the cave and river along the way.There is a passage on this side of the mountain wall.The other three sides are tall walls, and under the walls are cliffs and rivers, and it is impossible to climb the cliffs and leave.

At the same time, Fang Zheng also felt that the living environment is so dangerous, and there are still so many human and animal heads stuck on the wall. Sure enough, many forces want to get the idea of ​​Emperor Yao Yu's grave. This tribe has suffered from wars, and it is not easy.

A personal high hole was chiseled on the wall of the cave, and there was a huge stone blocking the front.On both sides are guarded by soldiers with bone teeth and wooden teeth strung in front of their chests. Together, they push away the huge stones, revealing the long and narrow hole behind, and only one person can pass through at a time.

Fang Zheng remembered that when he came, he was carried through the long and narrow tunnel by people one after the other, and he could only see clearly at this moment.This should be chiseled out by the Jiuli people themselves, and the hole is full of traces of stone tool grinding.Fang Zheng raised his respect in his heart: It was really not easy to cut out a passage on a mountain wall for people to walk in. In ancient times when productivity was scarce, it must have taken several years of work.

Big Tongya walked in front, Fang Zheng followed him, and Lian Feng followed.It is easy to hit your head when walking in the passage. This long and narrow passage can be said to be guarded by one man. Fang Zheng couldn't help but wondered, "You have such a strong defensive advantage, why are there so many forces that can attack you?"

Big Tongya is the most qualified warrior in the tribe. He snorted coldly and said, "Defensive advantage? Those things can fly, crawl, and drill holes."

Fang Zheng noticed that he said "those things" instead of "those people", and couldn't help feeling tense: Are animals domesticated for war again?Flying in the sky, those who are good at rock climbing, those who drill holes and penetrate mountains... The powerful "beast warfare" may not be inferior to the capabilities of certain military branches of the "sea, land and air" of later generations.

Fang Zheng originally thought that the volcano he was in closed the valley and had a strong defensive advantage... Now it seems that he was lucky, basically no one knew that there were people in that area, so he didn't use any detection methods for them, otherwise... Fang Zheng shivered.

"According to what you said," Fang Zheng couldn't help asking again, "No place can be considered safe."

"There are tribes that live in the deep underground, even the most ferocious beasts that drill the mountain can't get in." Big Tongya said, "There is also a tribe in the north, far away and cold, full of snow, except for them There are no other tribes. At that temperature, other people and beasts cannot survive. There are also tribes on extremely high mountains. It is said that they will never reach the top after climbing that mountain for a lifetime, so those who come down from the mountain will never return I went. You can jump or slide down the mountain. But other tribes have no choice if they want to go up the mountain. Those places are relatively safe."

Fang Zhengchang saw it, and he was very shocked when he heard it, thinking to himself, although it is safe, the price is really...

Sure enough, in this era, survival itself is a luxury.Of those big countries that occupy areas with rich natural resources, who are not armed to the teeth, powerful fighters, ferocious beasts, crazy medical skills, and highly centralized political and religious unity...

Fang Zheng hadn't figured out a problem before. How could the ancient population not be as large as modern times, and the natural resources seemed to be sufficient. Although there were ferocious beasts, people could tame them. Why were they so keen on creating wars and conflicts?Is material really not enough?

He felt that he had caught some kind of thread, and it was connected with a long cold thread.But the suddenly blocked wall in front of him left him no time to think about it, and there was no way ahead.

I saw that the big copper tooth patted a certain place on the stone wall with its hand a few times, and then pushed towards a certain place, pushing the wall away. It turned out to be a large flat stone.Behind is a long and narrow passage. After the big copper teeth walked up, the other party said: "Stay where you are and don't move."

Fang Zheng stepped on his foot and it was still solid, so he stood still.The big copper tooth took a few steps forward and turned around, and pried down with a copper knife between him and Fang Zheng for a while, Fang Zheng found a stone surface with patterns carved on the ground after the soil was pushed aside.

"Entrance?" Fang Zheng asked.

"It's still early." Da Tongya struggled to remove the stone surface with both hands, and a very steep dirt road appeared below.

Fang Zheng saw that there was still a road behind the big copper tooth, so he asked, "Where does the one above lead to?"

"On the edge of the cliff." Big Copper Fang said gloomyly.

Fang Zheng understood as soon as he heard it, this was an arrangement of pretending to be suspicious.Ordinary people managed to open this stone door, so they naturally wanted to walk along the road, but in fact, there was a dead end there, and there were probably some traps ambush, and the real road was buried under the soil.

Fang Zheng followed the big copper tooth down the steep dirt road, which was lower and narrower than before, exuding a long-lasting musty, dusty, and bloody smell.Even if Fang Zheng tried his best to lower his head to avoid it, his head would hit the top from time to time, and the further he went in, the narrower it became, and finally he had to change into a crawling posture.And this must be a fairly peripheral area of ​​the tomb. Da Tongya and several Xiangyou witches had told him that when they reached the real entrance of the tomb, they let Fang Zheng go in alone.Judging from the description, the inside is not a few meters deep, similar to the place where the coffins of later generations are placed... but it is called: Abyss.Cangwu Abyss.

The Jiuli people were banned and never entered the Abyss of Cangwu, so they couldn't tell Fang Zheng what was inside, but according to the information Fang Zheng obtained from the "Shan Hai Jing", the Abyss of Cangwu is quite large, such a large area How could it be completely hidden underground?He couldn't figure it out, but fortunately, he would see him later.

The further they climbed, the colder it became. Fang Zheng guessed that they had reached a very deep place, and the soil could not absorb the sun's temperature.The big copper tooth finally stood upright, and Fang Zheng also stretched his body and came out of the hole, pulling Lianfeng behind him.

They are still underground, a crypt full of stalagmites and stalactites, a smooth mirror-like lake lies quietly in front, and a thick column stands in the center of the lake, about the width of a person.

"I won't go with you. The entrance is at the cylinder. After you pass by, pull the ring on the top, and the cylinder will open, and you can go in. Behind it is the Abyss of Cangwu." Big Copper Tooth said.

Fang Zheng glanced at the big copper teeth: "You didn't say you wanted to dive."

The big copper tooth said: "You don't know water, you still want to go to the Abyss of Cangwu?"

Fortunately, Fang Zheng is a brainy person. Before he set off, he asked Xiang Youwu for two sets of special "fish skin clothes" of this tribe, and silently took them out of his deerskin pocket.Not really "fish skin", but a water-repellent close-fitting leather garment like rhino or snake.Covers from head to toe and swims in the water with less resistance.It is also very convenient to carry when folded.When Fang Zheng asked for it, Xiangyou Wu was still a little unwilling to agree, which made Fang Zheng more and more convinced that this was a good thing, and finally the stalker was coming.

Just as Fang Zheng was about to put it on, he was stopped by the big copper teeth, "You can put it on after you get inside."

"Why?" Fang Zheng asked.

Da Tongya didn't answer, Fang Zheng and Lian Feng exchanged glances, Fang Zheng suddenly found an interesting thing, he didn't know if there was a tacit understanding or the same direction of thinking, he could see the general understanding of Lian Feng's eyes, and believed that it was the other way around Same.Eyes communicate silently in the air, as if an exchange of tacit information.

——"Fish skin clothes" are precious and cannot be worn now.

- Can't wear it, there's something in this lake that will break it.

——There is something, why didn't he say it?

— No, because he wants to test us.

- Test us, this is just the beginning.

——just the beginning, how do we do it?

--How to do?Of course, show him that we have the ability to go in.

——Have the ability, but don't make him afraid, there are the most traps at the entrance.

This feeling is really strange. It is the first time that Fang Zheng has such a tacit understanding with others, and it is also the first time he discovered that eyes can convey such complicated meanings, but the feeling is fleeting, and it seems that the two of them must think very close. Pass and understand.

Fang Zheng then raised his voice and asked Lian Feng: "In such a deep underground, can you invite some friends to accompany us?"

Lian Feng also asked and answered with him, telling Da Tongya: "Let me try, I don't know if it's so deep, I can recruit it."

Lian Feng curled his index finger and thumb around his mouth and blew, the complexion of the big copper teeth changed slightly, and he said vigilantly and anxiously: "... Cuo Ye Chui? You, you are the Star Festival of the West, why are you so embarrassed-you, you What are you going to do?"

"Don't be nervous." Fang Zheng saw that the big copper teeth were pressed against a certain stone wall next to the entrance of the cave. There were indeed many traps at the entrance of the tomb. Otherwise, no one will remind you of being bitten into a sieve, don't you think?"

Big Copper Fang's complexion changed slightly, and he paused, "You...according to your ability...you shouldn't be hurt." His hand was still on the stone wall, and he didn't dare to take it lightly.

At this moment, Fang Zheng heard a slight rustling sound, and a few small things with long tails came out from the crack in the corner of the crypt. They were a few long-tailed mice with shiny fur, and they were slightly bigger than a human palm.The big copper teeth laughed dumbfounded, and relaxed a lot.

Fang Zheng knocked on Lian Feng's head on purpose, and exaggerated: "I told you to recruit a small partner, isn't this too young?"

Lian Feng also cooperated with him in acting, pretending to be wronged and pursed the corners of his mouth: "Brother Zheng, I am so weak, and the ground here is so deep, I can only find them."

"Forget it, it's because they can swim." Fang Zheng turned his head again, and said to Da Tongya meaningfully, "The lake is the entrance, you can't go down?"

Da Tongya didn't know why Fang Zheng asked this, so he nodded hesitantly.

"So, what happens in this lake, according to the rules of your ancestors, is none of your business, you can't control it, you can't interfere, right?" Fang Zheng looked at him with a pair of sharp eyes, and his big copper teeth froze. Teeth trembling a little, "You, you guessed it?"

Fang Zheng gave him a meaningful look, but didn't speak. Those few mice were wandering by the lake, and they seemed very unwilling to go down.Lianfeng threw one of them in by the tail. The mouse fell to the surface of the water, screaming, and swam back to the shore, but before it swam a few steps, a black shadow suddenly spread under the lake. It disappeared in an instant, and the shadow sank.

As expected, Fang Zheng sneered, seeing that the big copper tooth did not speak, took out the long straw rope in the backpack, and threw it into the sky, and the rope was tied to the stalagmite in midair.Fang Zheng tied a slipknot.He first lifted a mouse upside down and tied it to the end of the rope, and then pulled the slipknot. The grass rope gradually shortened, and the mouse was transported by its tail to the center of the lake, about one meter above the lake.It twitched its stubby limbs uneasily and let out a faint scream.

Fang Zheng handed the end of the rope to Lian Feng's hands, walked to the lake and drew out his bronze sword, staring at the center of the lake with all his attention.A shadow floated towards the surface of the lake, and the waves on the lake surface spread out in circles of ripples and bubbling bubbles.

Suddenly, a head emerged from the shadow in the water. It was a crocodile-like thing, but it was twice the size of the later crocodiles. The head was not flat, but more fusiform. Like an open blood-red book page, the biting part is lined with a ring of sharp teeth, and the part sticking out of the water is just its head, which is close to the mouse in the sky, ready to bite the prey whole.

The visible range of this lake is not wide, but there is such a big "crocodile". Fang Zheng guessed that another part is a "dark lake", which is under the cave.So it's hard to say whether this species is one or a group. Fang Zheng didn't touch the lake water, but with the help of his superb jumping ability, he bounced into the air and clung to the thick stalactite that hung the mouse.

The moment the giant crocodile bit the mouse, Fang Zheng hung the stalactites between his legs and hung upside down in the posture of "golden hook hanging upside down", with his arms extended just enough to touch the hanging position of the mouse.Fang Zheng urged the "little poison tablet" on his thumb to come out a little bit, and then, like a dragonfly, scratched the front snout of the giant crocodile that had just wrapped the mouse in its mouth, bit it to the highest point, and closed its jaw. Take a sip.

If the picture is still, it is a thrilling and uncanny composition of close contact between man and beast. The man hangs upside down like a pendulum, and the giant crocodile jumps straight out of the lake. At the moment when the speed is zero at the highest point, it is the same as the moment when it falls to the lowest point. The pendulum touches for a brief moment, but it is also a moment that decides life and death.

In the next moment, Fang Zheng bounced up again and hugged the stalactite with the strength of the swing. His body was very flexible, and he jumped back to the lake with no effort.On the surface of the lake, the toxin spreading from the upper end of the crocodile's lips, which was falling inertially, was eroding its head at a speed visible to the naked eye before it entered the water, as if it had been eroded by a group of soldier ants attacking the city.

Amid the dull sound of falling into the water, the shadow of the giant crocodile sank slowly, spinning lifelessly.It was obvious that he had died from the poison.

The big copper teeth seemed to remember Fang Zheng's methods during the conversation that day, and trembled: "Will your poison spread and pollute... like..."

Like their curse.Fang Zheng helped him finish the sentence, "It's nothing compared to the amount of infecting you." After it works on animals and plants, the toxicity will volatilize rather than remain, and it will not stay in the ground, just like the low-profile version Otherwise, Fang Zheng would not dare to use this trick to chop wood to make furniture, and it would have little impact on them entering the lake.After all, this pool of water is alive.

Fang Zheng asked Da Tongya, "Does this count as 'should not be injured'? Are you satisfied?"

The big copper tooth was silent for a moment, "You are stronger than I imagined."

Fang Zheng stared at him sharply: "No matter how strong a person is, he will be defeated by lack of information, just like a blind man."

The big copper tooth took out the clam vessel in his arms, "This is for you."

Fang Zheng took it and looked at it. It looked like a clam shell, and inside was a string of bells made of clam shells and bones. "How to use it? Just shake it?"

"Close the two shells and shake." Da Tongya said, "It can take the time of one cong."

The things used by this tribe to record time are tubes of various shapes, such as handle-shaped tubes, bracelet-shaped tubes, cong-shaped tubes, patterned tubes, hemispherical tubes, drum-shaped tubes...these things are placed in the deepest part of the Chief Secretary’s room On the side, there is a row of jade wares with complete specifications. It is said that they are the spoils given to the masked army by Emperor Yao Yu. They can hold water or fine sand, and they are gradually used by them to record time.Thereafter, each "family" in the tribe built a set, but it was made of wood or copper.One cong tube is equivalent to 10 minutes of the time of later generations.

Fang Zheng said: "What else is behind the lake?"

"We have never entered the Abyss of Cangwu. No one else has entered it for so many years. We don't know what is inside. Our ancestors have not explained other things."

"The fish just now, is it one or a group?"

Big Copper Fang was taken aback, his face gradually paled, and it was the first time he thought of this question, "I, I don't know... only this clam pot and its effect time..."

Fang Zheng listened to the sound of breathing and knew that he was telling the truth, besides, lying now is meaningless.

Although there was no dust inside the clam vessel, it smelled of corruption and hadn't been opened for many years.It's something from 60 years ago. In 60 years, the offspring and grandchildren of the giant monster crocodile in the lake do not know how many generations they have been born, and how much deterrent power this clam still has has become unknown.