Jiajing Spiritual Records

The ground is paved with bluestone slabs, and there is a strong stench in the dark passage, which becomes heavier as you go deeper.When the steps came to the end, Su Xian stopped, and the torch lit the candlestick on the wall, illuminating the entire secret room.A deep pit was dug out in the center of the boxy secret room, but unfortunately, the lights were dim and the situation inside could not be seen clearly.

Su Xian took a few steps closer, but Ning Huan beside him grabbed his sleeve. "What?" Su Xian looked at Ning Huan suspiciously.

"Look at this." Ning Huan pointed to the top of his head, and saw a huge iron hook hanging on it, weighing about a hundred thousand catties, with an iron chain as thick as a thigh attached to the end, extending to the other end of the secret room . "There's blood on it, be careful."

Su Xian nodded: "You stay where you are."

Su Xian stopped three steps away from the deep pit, and when he saw the whole picture of the bottom of the pit, his right hand holding the knife clenched tightly.

"What's wrong?" Ning Huan asked.

"You can come here." Suxian didn't turn his head, staring at the scene in the deep pit for a while, thinking about something.Ning Huan couldn't see the expression on his face, but felt that the surrounding atmosphere became more strange.Ning Huan took a few steps forward and walked to Su Xian's side.

This is a gigantic pit more than ten feet deep. The pit is full of human remains and fragments. A giant black-scaled python several feet long is lying upright in the center, and its abdomen has been torn open. The big mouth almost split the snake in half. The conical snake head was biting another centipede with the same size. The centipede's claws pierced through the hard scales and penetrated deeply into the giant snake's head. middle.The golden giant toad fell on the other side of the deep pit. Half of the scorpion tail was exposed in the frog's mouth. Except for the head and back covered with poisonous bubbles, the body had been eaten away, leaving only a blank skeleton...

Standing in front of the pit, Ning Huan forgot to breathe for a moment: "This...what is this?"

"The five poisons enter the urn, after years of opening, there must be one insect that eats all the insects, and it is the king of Gu." Su Xian replied expressionlessly.

"Gu... King Gu? What does Uncle Yan practice Gu for?" Ning Huan's hand tightly pinched the corner of his sleeve.

Su Xian's brows and eyes were a little gloomy, and he said coldly: "Then I have to ask Zhennan Wang what he wants to do."

Ning Huan was in a bad mood, if Uncle Yan really colluded with King Zhennan, it would be a crime of rebellion.And he showed up at the Yan Mansion with a letter at this time, and Suxian would suspect him if he didn't keep it in order...

"Whether Yan Ziyan colluded with King Zhennan is hard to say, but you and your father probably don't know about it." Su Xian saw through Ning Huan's thoughts, "Otherwise, I wouldn't have sent you to Yan's house to die at this time. .”

"There are only poisonous insects and gnats missing in the Five Poison Pond. It seems that the Gu King has already mastered it. If he leaves, it is useless to stay here."

Seeing that Su Xian didn't intend to pursue him, Ning Huan also heaved a sigh of relief.The two returned along the original path of the stairs, this time Ning Huan went to the rear of Suxian Hall.When he was almost at the exit, Su Xian stopped suddenly.Ning Huan's nose happened to bump into Su Xian's straight back: "Hiss, why... huh?"

Su Xian covered Ning Huan's mouth, and moved half of his body away. Under the firelight, he saw a huge scorpion lying in front of the door, with half of its head poking into the room.The whole body is smooth, and the earthworm-like body is covered with a thick layer of scales. There are no eyes, which makes the whole head look like a giant mouthpart.Fortunately, the snake seemed to be asleep, and didn't respond much to the firelight and human voices, but its huge body firmly blocked their way.

Su Xian pointed to the back, and Ning Huan understood that this meant going back the same way.

The air in the secret room was extremely turbid, and the stench of rotting corpses and blood mixed together rose from the bottom of the pit.Ning Huan covered his nose and asked, "Are we going to stay here until the big bug is gone?"

"You can leave in another way." Su Xian replied.

"Is there another exit from this secret room?" Ning Huan asked in surprise.

Su Xian said "hmm": "This Gu king is huge, it doesn't seem like he can get out of the secret path, and he can pass through the Yan Mansion unimpeded, which means that there should be a passage leading to the outside. But..." Su Xian Xian's voice paused, and he looked at Ning Huan.

"See what I'm doing?" Ning Huan suddenly thought of something, his eyes widened slightly, "You said that the other way out wouldn't be over there!" Su Xian nodded.

Ning Huan stood in front of the deep pit and hesitated for a moment, his face full of confusion: "Are you sure we really want to go down?"

Su Xian was thinking about the mechanism on the wall. At the bottom of the pit, there was a cave entrance that was as high as a person. He planned to use the iron hook in the center to go down.Hearing this, he raised his head expressionlessly, and it was rare that he didn't turn against Ning Huan: "If possible, I would also like to go out through the main entrance."

With a sound of "clang", the huge iron hook slowly approached Su Xian along the thick and thin iron chain at the mouth of the bowl.Suxian moved the mechanism on the iron chain, stepped forward, stabilized the iron hook and stepped on its groove: "Hurry up, come here."

Ning Huan twisted his face and reluctantly walked over.The surface of the groove of the iron hook was covered with a layer of greasy brown film, and Su Xian rubbed it lightly with his fingertips. Just as Ning Huan guessed, this was the trace left by the dried blood.But whether it was human blood or animal blood, Ning Huan didn't dare to think about it.

"Stand up." Ning Huan stood up cautiously. There were bloodstains all around, and there were almost no handrails. Ning Huan thought for a while, and simply hugged Su Xian's waist tightly, with a rascally look on his face: "Okay, hurry up let's go."

Su Xian was taken aback, "tsk", and pushed his elbow back: "Let go, go to the side." Ning Huan shook his head firmly, and the hand around Su Xian's waist tightened even more.

Su Xian wanted to kick Ning Huan down, but when Ning Huan was eager to look over, he gritted his molars for a long time and could only choke out a sentence: "Don't touch, do you hear me!"

Ning Huan couldn't wait, and nodded repeatedly in response: "Yeah, don't fumble, don't fumble."

Su Xian took out a pocket dagger from his arms, threw it towards the wall, and the mechanism was instantly activated.Su Xian held the handle of the hook tightly with his right hand, Ning Huan's arms were tightly wrapped around his waist, and the iron hook led the two of them down slowly.And just below, is the corpse of the giant snake.

The stench around it became more and more intense, and the iron hook stopped.Ning Huan raised his head and looked around.The scene in the pit is more spectacular than the one seen from above.Whether it was entangled giant snakes and centipedes, or poisonous toads and scorpions that had already turned into dry bones, each of them stood before their eyes like a hill.

"Hey." Ning Huan tripped over something under his feet, staggered and almost fell on the giant snake in front of him.Black Snake's body had already rotted, and a strong stench emanated from his whole body. Layers of white maggots were all over the wound on his abdomen, which was indescribably disgusting.

Su Xian grabs Ning Huan and pulls him behind her.

Ning Huan turned his head, only to realize what was holding him back just now.Not far away, there was half a rotten and swollen human limb lying on the ground, with an expensive emerald ring on the middle finger.There are such broken limbs everywhere here, and the wounds are cut neatly, as if they were dismembered and thrown into the bottom of the pit. There are hands, feet, and torsos, except for the head.

"This... this can't be..." Ning Huan thought of the corpses that were everywhere in Yan's mansion, and here...

"Shh, don't look around."