Snake Tale

The three deliberated on how to open the door.Shen Yuzhu said: "The mechanism to open the door must be hidden in this image. The arrangement of these fluorites is very mysterious, but..."

Luo Yi shook his head: "The fluorite is just a trick to deceive people's minds, so we can't try again."

Everyone looked up at the stone wall.Ping Feiyu tried hard to recall: "I remember Master once said that it is inevitable to be fascinated by the situation when you are in the game, and you have to jump out of the game..." He stopped suddenly, and let out a white breath from his throat.

Shen Yuzhu was puzzled and said, "Fei Yu, are you cold?"

Fei Yu was stunned and said, "No, what's the matter?"

It was not the first time for Shen Yuzhu to hear him make such a weird breathing sound, just as he was about to say something, he suddenly heard Luo Yi whisper: "There are also inlaid jade stones there!"

It turns out that at the intersection of the rules and norms held in the hands of the two gods, a round jade stone was also embedded in each.Shen Yuzhu said "Give it a try", raised the crossbow and pointed it at the square in Fuxi's hand.Just as he was about to shoot, his heart suddenly moved, and he took another crossbow bolt and handed it to Luo Yi.

"This totem implies the meaning of 'twin life' and 'symmetry' everywhere. If you only hit one side, it may not be effective. Please hit the rule with me and the torque, and try it."

Luo Yi held the crossbow arrow, curled his lips and said, "Thanks to you, I am now powerless. Isn't it too difficult for me to hit a two-foot-high stone wall with my bare hands? Unless—" His eyes Turning around, he said with a smile, "If you are willing to give me your crossbow machine, maybe I can still do what I can, so give it a try."

Unexpectedly, Shen Yuzhu nodded and said, "That makes sense." Then he handed over the crossbow.

This time not only Ping Feiyu, but even Luo Yi was stunned.He raised the crossbow to Shen Yuzhu, and said with a smile: "If I use this thing against you, what will you do?"

Shen Yuzhu was neither sick nor slow, and replied: "It's just that I will be buried under the Yellow Spring with you."

Luo Yi had nothing to refute, felt bored, and looked at the stone wall through the mountain.The two exerted their respective strengths, and with a sound of "clang", they hit the rules and the rules at the same time.

There was only an inaudible "click" sound, followed by the jerky turning sound of the machine bracket.The three of them stepped forward and pushed lightly with their hands. The gigantic stone wall, at least thousands of stones, rumbled and rolled over the rotting fungus and weeds inch by inch, and slowly opened in front of them.

Looking at it with bated breath, inside the door is a straight and dark bluestone passage, with many sparkling fluorite inlaid on both sides, and an unknown darkness is ten steps away.

Ping Feiyu swallowed his saliva, and asked left and right: "Enter?" His teeth clicked, and suddenly he felt a gust of cold air hit him, he shivered greatly, his face turned blue faintly.

Shen Yuzhu's expression froze, and he stretched out his hand to catch the young man's pulse: "Fei Yu, have you eaten anything just now? Touched something?"

Ping Feiyu's voice was inexplicable, but his face was stiff and expressionless: "No, I..." He couldn't finish a sentence, his throat was numb, he couldn't make a sound, his eyelids gradually weighed more than a thousand catties, and his feet were as soft as clouds, He fell headlong into Shen Yuzhu's arms.

Shen Yuzhu rushed to rescue him, but the young man felt cold all over and was just unconscious.Luo Yi stepped forward and turned over his palm, only to see that the boy's palm had tiny wounds scratched by gravel, which had been dyed pitch black by the toxin.

Shen Yuzhu looked at the tail of the snake curled up in the dark, and thought, "It should be that Fei Yu had a wound on his hand and accidentally touched the tail of the snake, allowing the poison to enter the blood. However, the snake venom is always only hidden in the fangs. In the middle, that monster is covered with poison, so weird and powerful?" Shi

He opened his eyelids, saw that the boy's pupils had not yet faded, and he thought there was still a glimmer of life.After pondering for a moment, he put the boy on his back, tore off his outer robe, and bound his hands and feet tightly to his own.

Luo Yi looked at him coldly, and said, "I don't know what kind of dragon's pool and tiger's lair is ahead, so why don't you go on the road with this burden on your back?"

Shen Yuzhu was annoyed in his heart, and turned to look at him: "Luo Yi, if you were the one who was poisoned and unconscious, I would do the same thing."

Luo Yi said coldly: "Thank you! I dare not have such extravagant hopes. Besides, I will not let myself fall into such a situation." He turned around and was about to walk in the door, but was grabbed by Shen Yuzhu wrist.Turning away in astonishment, Shen Yuzhu said indifferently: "Before you go in, don't you want to say something?"

"What did you say?" Luo Yi looked at him inexplicably: "Could it be possible that he still wants to say hello to the inside: 'I'm here for the first time in your mansion, so I'm glad you don't take offense'?"

Shen Yuzhu stared into his eyes, and asked word by word: "Is that... just a snake?"

Luo Yi's heart skipped a beat, and he asked calmly, "Being a snake? Which one are you referring to?"

"All of them. The Fuxi and Nuwa with the same body, the fleeting green-faced snake tail, and," he whispered in his ear, "you...that weird thing."

Luo Yi took a step back, opened the distance between the two of them, and said with a smile, "What do you think? Are you better than me at these strange and chaotic ways?"

Seeing that he was still pretending to be deaf and dumb like this, Shen Yuzhu couldn't help but frowned tightly, and said angrily, "Luo Yi, if a secret is worth a jin of gold, you are really rich, aren't you? I... ...I really can't see what you're thinking, at a time like this—"

He inadvertently exerted force with his hand, pinching Luo Yi's wrist painfully.Luo Yi was also provoked, and sneered, "Shen Yuzhu, could it be that I have always been able to see what you are thinking? Are you not as good as me in terms of tactics and scheming? Now that I have become your defeat, you have nothing to do with me? Hmph, you might as well torture and interrogate me in every possible way, and see if I can tell you!"

Shen Yuzhu held back his anger, remained silent for a long while, and then said after a long time: "That's right, that's right, in the past three years, 'you come with a lie, and I will respond with a lie', between you and me, we have already done all this hypocrisy! At this moment of life and death, also...also..."

There is absolutely no trace of trust at all.

He flicked his wrist and walked through the door.Luo Yi was left standing on the spot, holding his wrist that was still in pain, with a gloomy expression.

The ** was deep and long, and in the empty darkness, only the hollow voices of the two echoed one after another.

Luo Yi walked behind silently, looked up at Shen Yuzhu's back, raised his hand, and threw the things in his hand over his head.

Shen Yuzhu heard a "hoo" from behind him, and when he caught it back, it was his own crossbow machine.

"Take it!" Luo Yi remained expressionless, "I think it's too heavy."

Shen Yuzhu weighed the crossbow and said, "Thank you."

Luo Yi said: "This is yours, what are you thanking?"

Shen Yuzhu walked side by side with him, and said with a smile, "Thank you for not throwing an arrow behind your back and killing me with one arrow." Then, he stuffed a dagger into his hand.

Luo Yi looked at his side face, hesitated to speak, and said in a low voice: "The parchment...is indeed lost, but it contains the key points that are common here, and it is only in the 'put it to death and then live' seven It's just one word. You can find out what it means!" He paused, and then said: "As for me...my body..." He seemed to be at a loss for words, and his sword-shaped eyebrows became tighter and tighter, thinking: " Am I really going to tell him everything in this kind of place? If I go back to the source, I can’t finish talking in three days and three nights! What’s more, in the eyes of ordinary people, each of these things can be called extremely unimaginable. Why should he believe me?" After thinking for a while, he said angrily, "Forget it, believe it or not!"

With just these two self-defenses, but Luo Yi's face is already condescending and self-deprecating.Shen Yuzhu smiled and said: "Well, I believe it." Looking at the road ahead, he said softly: "The rest, after we go out from here, you can tell me one by one."

"How can you be sure that I will tell you?"

He turned his face, with a pair of deep and dark eyes that could be called affectionate:

"I will torture and torture in every possible way, and I will always find a way to teach you to tell the truth obediently. We... will have a bright future."

"..." Luo Yi rolled his eyes, and just about to speak, he saw a white shadow in the corner of his eyes.The two looked forward, only to see a flat green and white face slowly rising from the ground in front of them.

The pale face hanging in the air swayed slowly as if drunk, and turned its face away from them——behind the head and face, there was another head and face!It's just that this face was as red as blood, with eyebrows and eyes, and lips that didn't move, but it was whistling, and was staring at them angrily.

Luo Yi snorted, "Pretending to be a ghost." He stepped forward.Shen Yuzhu's arrow had "swished" out of the box, and it was nailed in the middle of that weird human face.

The human face fell to the ground with a "slap".The two stepped forward to see that it was a giant snake as long as two people, with an arrow shot in the head, and it convulsed and writhed crazily on the ground.Luo Yi cut off the snake's head with a single knife, and the triangular snake's head jumped up, ready to eat.

Shen Yuzhu squatted down and observed the strange snake carefully.Its whole body is deep purple, gradually turning bright red at the head and neck, its abdomen is snow-white, and the skin folds on its neck are very huge. The weird human face is just a pattern formed when the skin folds swell.

Shen Yuzhu cut out the snake gall and fed it to Ping Feiyu. Seeing the young man's face fade away, he felt a little relieved, and thought to himself: "It seems that the 'commissioned snake' that Duke Huan of Qi met back then was this thing. The neck resembles a human face, and those who do good deeds attached it to Fuxi and Nuwa, who had a human head and a snake body, and worshiped it as a god, built this crypt, and made offerings to it.” But he still had something in his heart. Many doubts are difficult to explain, stood up, but saw Luo Yi looking at the dead snake on the ground, his expression fluctuating, and suddenly said:

"I remember where this is."

That year, Luo Yi was ordered by the Marquis of Jin to go to Qi State to discuss the alliance's dispatch of troops and crusade against Rong and Di, and happened to hear about an incident of prostitution in Qi State.

After more than 20 years of cannibalism by Duke Huan and his princes, the state of Qi gradually withered.Three years ago, the faint-hearted son of the Marquis of Qi, a businessman, blatantly snatched the beautiful wife of the doctor, Bing Su, and was murdered by her while hunting.The people of Qi welcomed Wu Kui, the son who had taken refuge in the state of Wei, back to Linzi and made him the new Marquis of Qi.The son Wu Kui worked hard to rule the country, especially after the talented Zhong Lichun became his wife, he built water conservancy, rectified the administration of officials, and encouraged business and industry. The situation in Qi State took on a new look.But the panic caused by long-term chaos cannot be easily eradicated overnight.In particular, there was a very ominous prophecy when Duke Huan of Qi died, saying that all six sons of Duke Huan of Qi would ascend to the throne and be matched with seven gilded jade crowns (becoming marquises).But now the Marquis of Qi is only the fifth son of Duke Huan, isn't there another son who will kill the king and seize the throne next?Rumors and gossip among the people are rampant, and they are all secretly worried that the current Qingping government is just a temporary spectacle, and will soon fall into a bloody storm again.The uneasy atmosphere gave birth to the ghost realm of people's hearts, and at some point a strange sacrifice arose among the people of Qi.The rulers of Qi State spent a lot of energy to destroy some prostitutes.Surprisingly, most of the shamans who presided over the sacrifice were remnants of the previous dynasty. They mostly held ceremonies in the swamp crypts. The process was very evil and cruel. It is said that what they worshiped was a snake with a human face. body gods.

"The so-called gods are probably just this kind of weird worm." Luo Yi said, "It is rumored that Heming Hill used to be the altar of the previous dynasty. Now that I think about it, this place should be the earliest place for worship of that kind of prostitution. "

Shen Yuzhu murmured: "If that's the case, not only will there not be any mechanism to take people's lives here, but there should also be passages for witches and believers to come and go."

Luo Yi said: "That's right. The structure of that altar is quite neat, I know how to get out."