Snake Tale

"This is where we land."

Shen Yuzhu used crossbow arrows to draw a meandering river on the gravel of the river beach, and on the back of his outstretched hand, there were two bloody tooth marks.

He drew out the branch rivers one by one, and then rowed one by one: "This is the path that we have already proven and cannot pass."

Ping Feiyu held his face in his hands and thought for a while, pointing to the schematic diagram and said: "This water is alive, maybe it will lead to places where people live, can you pass a token along the water to attract people to rescue?"

Shen Yuzhu murmured: "That said, water can walk, but people may not be able to walk. And..."

Luo Yi said coldly at the side: "And I was waiting for others to come to rescue me, and I don't know that I will wait until the year of the monkey. I am afraid that only three starving corpses will be rescued." He paused, then smiled meaningfully at Ping Feiyu Laughing, "Maybe, there are less than three—these have already been swallowed into other people's stomachs."

Ping Feiyu shuddered silently, and took another ten steps back in the direction of the blue-eyed beast.

Shen Yuzhu looked at Luo Yi helplessly, but saw him stand up, look at the schematic diagram, and wipe it off with the sole of his boot.

"The river branching out of this cave is rugged and narrow, and twists and turns. How can we find out one by one? Even if there are thousands of roads, there is actually no way to go."

Shen Yuzhu was stunned, and said in his heart: "That's right. Walking around blindly is just wasting energy. The existence of the parchment and the mechanism shows that someone has explored this place before. Since there is human participation, there will definitely be clues left here."

"There must be something to find here." He turned to Luo Yi: "In the beginning, how did you find this place from the dark room?"

Luo Yi shrugged: "Me? After I dealt with those two guards, the effect of the medicine relapsed, and I rolled on the ground in pain. Rolling around, I didn't know what mechanism I touched, so I fell into the tunnel."

Such perfunctory made Ping Feiyu so angry that both cheeks puffed up.Luo Yi pointed at Shen Yuzhu, who looked tired and lazy with no worries about debts and no itch, and laughed, "Shen Yuzhu, this ghostly place is built under your mansion. Wouldn't it be nice if you asked me the way out?" Is it ridiculous?"

Shen Yuzhu shook his head and said: "As we all know, this place is the ruins of an unnamed altar in the previous dynasty. Back then, I chose this site to build the Liuming Hall according to the art of geomancy left over from a fragmented volume. Because of the rush of time, many places The original layout is still preserved..." He thought to himself, "I've lived here for less than a year, how could I have imagined that there is a mechanism in the dark room? After the mechanism, it is connected to such a grand underground Cave? Saying it at this time is just arousing suspicion in vain. But how did Luo Yi and Qin Wei know all this? Is this related to my trumped-up charge of 'killing a teacher'?"

When he thought of this episode, he couldn't help being dazed.In the depths of his heart, he never believed that the omnipotent mountain chief, gifted by heaven, would encounter unexpected events, but if this one-in-a-trillion possibility actually comes true... During the two days he was imprisoned in Luo Mansion Over the years, what happened to the outside world?

He raised his head, looked at the instigator sitting in front of him, and said slowly: "Luo Yi, have you ever heard of the head of Qingyan Mansion..."

He originally wanted to question Luo Yi about the information about the head of the mountain, but he suddenly stretched out his index finger and swipe between his lips.It was a silent gesture, Shen Yuzhu was slightly taken aback, but saw Luo Yi raised his hand, as if to brush the hair behind the ear, very casually, he pointed lightly on the pinna.

Shen Yuzhu understood, lowered his head, took a crossbow arrow and stroked it on the ground, and continued naturally: "... I once taught all the students a unique skill of stepping, stepping and fighting? Although it may not be as good as Master Luo The magical skill of rolling on the ground is also an extremely effective tracking and positioning technique." People

Bugang Taddou, also known as Yubu, is a geomancy technique popular among onmyojis.Luo Yi showed contempt on his face: "How would I know this kind of tricks of charlatanism? It's not as good as your Qingyan Mansion's three teachings and nine streams, and you can teach anything that is not well-known. Hey, I don't know if the mansion can teach it or not. Teach you where the cock crows, the dog steals, and the mallard plays with the mouse?"

Humiliated to the teacher's door, Shen Yuzhu couldn't help retorting: "Not only? Even the location of the latrine in our Qingyan Mansion is hidden with plum blossoms, five elements and eight trigrams. Like Mr. Luo, his eyes are full of superficial things that are only sticking to the world. Humans have no choice but to suffocate to death."

Luo Yi sneered and said, "How can a living person be suffocated by urine? Who is holding it?" He suddenly stood up, and sneered loudly: "It's just like you who are so rotten and crooked, who spend all their time obsessing over miscellaneous learning and teaching and receiving privately. , to promote hypocrisy, to confuse the laws of the world, and to frustrate the minds of the masters, so that so many messy monsters come out! In my opinion, this ghost place is played by a fellow teacher who is mad at you. A place where ghosts and magic are performed!"

Shen Yuzhu also stood up, threw the crossbow arrows to the ground, and said in a cold voice: "What a thief shouting "Catch the thief, I've seen it!" If you hadn't snatched the parchment by force and lost it, how could we have ended up in such a state of incompetence? Unsuitable situation!" With a flick of his sleeves, he turned around and left: "Differences in ways do not conspire with each other. Fei Yu, let's go!"

Ping Feiyu was dumbfounded, and watched the two angrily parted ways and walked with their backs. He looked around in astonishment, and had no choice but to lift his feet and run towards Shen Yuzhu.

"Master," Ping Feiyu trotted to keep up, and asked, "What should we do now?"

Shen Yuzhu said "hmm", picked an open space with his back against the rock wall, Shi Shiran sat down, dismantled the mechanism bracket of the crossbow machine, and loaded them one by one. After a long time, he smiled and said: "We... Get some sleep."

"what?"

Shen Yuzhu said: "I calculated it with my fingers, and it is Zishi. Zishi is the time when yin and yang are connected. When you fall asleep at this moment, your soul, dream, and the gods of heaven and earth will communicate with each other. There will be virtuous ghosts and heroic spirits to guide you. Come, Go to sleep! When you wake up, you will figure out a way."

Ping Feiyu rubbed his head, really confused.But Shen Yuzhu turned over and lay down on his own, but after a while, there was a sound of even and long breathing.

In the dark cave, everything is silent, only the sound of gurgling water and dripping water can be heard.Luo Yi was lying alone beside the rock wall, with his eyes closed and his arms pillowed, as if he was extremely tired and asleep, his breathing was light and thin, and he never even moved his eyelashes.

I don't know how long it took, and the strange rustling sound was vaguely mixed with the gurgling water around.Luo Yi didn't seem to realize it, and remained motionless.The voice was getting closer and closer, and he could almost smell a strange foul smell coming from "him".

At this moment, a crossbow arrow flew over and nailed to his side with a "ding"!

He heard a "hiss" gasp, and jumped up like a tiger or leopard.The night attacking figure had clearly been shot, but he managed to break free, turning around like an arrow leaving the string, and hurriedly fled to the side.

Luo Yi raised his foot and chased after him.Behind him, Shen Yuzhu raised his voice and told Ping Feiyu to wait in place, and soon rushed to his side:

"Where did you run to?"

"northeast!"

In the darkness where they couldn't see their fingers, the two stepped on the gravel of the river beach and ran vigorously. Only the water was shining, and occasionally a little light was sent.Luo Yi closely followed the blue shadow, and hurriedly asked, "Have you seen what it is?"

"No! Why, can't your eyes see clearly?"

"I'm not a raccoon!"

The two exchanged their mouths, but their steps were correct.Fortunately, there were no side branches on this road, and within a moment of sprinting, he saw a glint of light in front of him, and it was a flat stone wall.

The two of them slowed down their pace a bit, focused their attention on vigilance, and guarded against the sudden attack of the opponent who had nowhere to escape.However, the figure paused in front of the stone wall, and suddenly turned back——

His face was as pale as paper, covered with flat and bluish features.

*Bugang stepping on the bucket: According to legend, when Dayu was controlling the water, he saw a snake-eating stork on the shore of the South China Sea. Whenever he encountered a huge rock, he knew that there was a snake under it. It shows the place where the spring hides the snake under it.Dayu imitated this step and used it in the alchemy of water control, which is called the technique of stepping on the bucket.Because of the effectiveness of this technique, Dayu imitated and created it, and later generations called it Yubu.