Snake Tale

Luo Yi led Shen Yuzhu quickly across the long and narrow road, and came to a three-way intersection, without thinking carefully, he chose one of the roads, followed by a series of twists and turns.Shen Yuzhu followed closely behind, although there were many doubts in his heart, he remained silent.It's just that the further he walked, the more wet and muddy his feet became, and the colder the air became, the clothes were wet with water vapor and stuck tightly to his body, which was extremely uncomfortable.

But Luo Yi said softly: "Here we are." As soon as the rock wall opened, his eyes suddenly opened up.Looking forward, there are layers of earth ladders under the feet, extending like a top to a vast and endless pit.Dozens of thick bronze columns stand in the deep pit, and the bottom of the pit surrounded by a circle is gleaming, as if it is a dark lake. If you look closely, where is the lake?Densely packed, layer upon layer, silently wriggling, all are the strange snakes that have been seen before!Tens of thousands of long snakes were lying stiff and slow at the bottom of the pit. From time to time, a few of them wandered around, their skin necks swelled, revealing a pale or purple cold face, as if they were gazing at the cliff. uninvited guest.

Shen Yuzhu gestured downward, asking if it is necessary to wade through this "Snake Lake" in person?

Luo Yi knelt down on one knee, stretched out his hand to feel the temperature of the ground, and said, "Okay! It's very cold here, and most of the strange snakes are still under winter stings."

Shen Yuzhu said: "These snakes live in the dark. Although their eyesight has deteriorated severely, they should be extremely sensitive to sound and smell. We..."

"That's right," Luo Yi pointed to the column above, "Let's go from above."

The two took off their belts, tied them into long strips, and climbed to the top.The bronze column carved with lifelike serpent reliefs is not difficult to climb, but the curved girder on the top of the column is only four feet wide, standing on a dark height, you can only see five steps; Facing the hundred-foot abyss filled with thousands of snakes, it is indeed thrilling.The two of them walked slowly on the girder like walking on thin ice.Shen Yuzhu rejoiced secretly in his heart: "It's thanks to Fei Yu's fainting, otherwise, with a young man's impetuous mind, I really don't know how to go through the dangerous place without any danger?" With a sound.

He was condescending and took a closer look at the outline of the deep pit.The big pit is in the shape of an inverted triangle, the two corners extend out, the corners are very smooth, the shape is exactly the same as that of a female cell.In the center of the deep pit is a flat and protruding high platform. Several blue phosphorescent fires are lit in the lampstands on both sides, and a large bronze tripod in the center is impressively reflected.

Luo Yi paused when he heard footsteps behind him, and turned his head, only to see Shen Yuzhu leaning over the beam and looking down.

He frowned and said, "What's wrong with you?"

Shen Yuzhu raised his head, with sweat dripping from the corner of his forehead, his expression was terrified.Luo Yi had never seen him like this before, so he couldn't help but feel uneasy, but Shen Yuzhu said in a low voice: "I... have to go down."

Luo Yi was taken aback, and said angrily, "Are you crazy?"

Shen Yuzhu didn't belong to Shensi, and thought wildly in his mind: "I have seen this... shape! Back then... when I asked my master about my life experience, he drew such a shape with me on the ground with his own hands. I thought that It was in the shape of a woman's womb, and I laughed in my heart that Master was cunning, who in the world was not born in a woman's womb? But I didn't expect that there was such a place underground, which was exactly the same as the figure drawn by Master back then! I think, the old man taught me the art of geomantic occupancy, and I chose the Liumeikan as a shelter, which is also his secret guidance... I think...that...that was the last time I saw with my master one side……"

He took a deep breath and made up his mind. He reached out and untied Ping Feiyu from his back, placed it on the beam, and said, "I don't know what will happen next. Luo Yi, you Help me carry Feiyu out."

Luo Yi gritted his teeth and said, "Don't talk to yourself there! If you dare to throw this kid to me, I will immediately push him down to feed the snake!"

Shen Yuzhu took out the porcelain bottle from his bosom, poured out a elixir, handed it to his lips, and said in a low voice: "This elixir can temporarily remove the effect of my previous medicine. After you go out, you can ask Fei Yu about his master Where is it. Qin Wei's medical skills are ten times better than mine, and he will definitely be able to completely relieve the effects of the medicine you are suffering from."

Luo Yi suddenly moved.He never expected that Shen Yuzhu would be able to put aside three years of humiliation and think of a way out for himself.It can be seen that his face is serious, but it is definitely not a joke.In a trance and bewilderment, he stared at him blankly, opened his lips unconsciously, and swallowed the elixir on his lips.

When the fingertips touched his soft lips, Shen Yuzhu's heart skipped a beat, and she stretched out her hand to caress Luo Yi's cheek, her expression becoming more and more perplexed.Over the years, with contempt and resentment in his heart, he has never looked at Luo Yi's face calmly and carefully.At this moment, the light and shadow were dim, and Luo Yi Fengrui's outline appeared gentle and gentle, his hostility disappeared, his forehead was broad, and his blue eyes seemed to turn black.The contours of the facial features were unfamiliar yet somewhat familiar.

—like a man who sees whenever he looks at the water.

Startled, Shen Yuzhu hurriedly turned away, passed by his side, and walked towards the beam in the middle of the pit.

Luo Yi remained motionless in the darkness, suddenly let out an angry "spit", picked up Feiyu's screen and walked quickly towards the exit.

The beams on the top of the pit are wider than the surrounding ones, and the columns connected in the center are also thicker, but these two columns seem to be rammed with earth and rocks, and the snake reliefs are also mottled and scattered, and the bronze columns on the outside are full of exquisite snake scales. Very different.Shen Yuzhu walked down the column to the altar.Standing at the four corners of the altar are long and slender snake-shaped lampstands, which also have the same body and two heads. The snake's mouth is wide open, and the fluttering blue and green fire letters are spit out. I don't know what kind of animal fat is used to burn it.

Shen Yuzhu looked around, focusing on the big bronze tripod in front of him.The tripod is about the size of two people hugging each other, and on the outside is engraved a totem of the god of thunder with a dragon body and a human face and bearded face.

Shen Yuzhu said in his heart: "Strange! There are snake-shaped totems everywhere here, but there is a dragon body engraved on the big tripod in the center." Before he could figure it out, his eyes were attracted by the inscription inside the tripod.Those strokes are straight and wrong, obviously they are from the ancient prose of the previous dynasty, Shen Yuzhu can only make out a few fragmentary characters, it would be too difficult to memorize them based on their appearance.

Shen Yuzhu raised his eyes and saw three large guis behind the tripod, containing various colored gravel powders, but upon closer inspection, they seemed to be saltpeter, charcoal and sulfur.Although he didn't know what these materials were used for, he couldn't help being overjoyed, took off his robe and spread it in the tripod, and rubbed out the inscriptions with charcoal.

When the rubbing reached the end of the inscription, he suddenly realized a strange thing.

It was very cold here before, and I was only wearing a single coat, why didn't I feel the cold at all?He put the Tuowen away, walked to the high platform and looked down, the already very damp Ten Thousand Snake Pit seemed to be different from before.He hesitated a few steps, his eyes fell on the roots of the two stone pillars.Just now the group of snakes only reached the bottom of the cylinder, but at this moment, hundreds of thousands of slowly swimming snakes have already reached the tail of the snake relief.

Could it be that the stone pillar is sinking silently?Shen Yuzhu looked up at the beam, then lowered his head to carefully identify it.

It wasn't the stone pillars that changed.

From nowhere at the bottom of the pit, warm water from the Yellow Spring slowly gushed out, silently supporting the dormant snakes.The group of snakes that were originally lying cold and lying were slowly warmed by the water flow, one after another, they gradually stretched their bodies and woke up.

Shen Yuzhu took a breath of cool air, not daring to linger, turned around and walked to the stone pillar, wanting to go back the same way.As soon as the palm touched the stone pillar, I felt a slight ups and downs under my hand.

He suddenly withdrew his hand, stared wide-eyed, and watched the dust and dirt on the "relief" of the snake peel off, like shedding skin, revealing the wrapped and shining huge snake scales one by one. .

——I am afraid that what is worshiped here is not the snakes of the abyss, but these two gigantic anacondas.

If you don't advance, you will retreat, and there is no way to retreat at this time.Shen Yuzhu rushed forward, touching the slow-moving giant snake, climbing up with hands and feet, hoping to reach the beam before the giant snake fully woke up.However, the giant snake has been awakened by the warm water flow, and it winds around the cylinder on the spot, turning faster and faster.The snake's body "sanded" under his feet and sank downwards. Although Shen Yuzhu used his hands and feet to move upwards, he was almost standing still, no matter how difficult it was to make an inch, he couldn't laugh or cry.But look at the huge snake head gradually rubbing away the dirt and gravel, slowly revealing a hideous and terrifying huge snake head, the gray eyes of a pair of lanterns faded, and turned green like phosphorous fire.It has realized that there is a foreign object attached to its back, its scales are tilted, and it is twisting around, trying to throw him off.

Shen Yuzhu clasped the scales and swayed left and right with the snake's body, and his ears were filled with the horrifying sound of snakes "hissing" and spitting out letters. He really didn't have the leisurely feeling of riding a snake in the fog. On top of the stone pillar, he ran two quick steps on the back of the snake, took advantage of his strength to kick, and jumped towards the pillar, and fired several arrows in succession, using the arrow handle as a climbing ladder, he climbed up.The giant snake had a huge body and was somewhat inflexible, unable to turn around and attack.But the tail on the opposite stone pillar has already leaned forward with a stern eye, and "huh" swelled out a cloud of human face and neck lines, and rushed towards him with its bloody mouth open!

The mouth was as black as ink, the fangs were extremely sharp, and the stinging wind made his eyes sting, Shen Yuzhu only saw a bright red snake letter shoot out, and it was about to lick his face.He spun around to dodge, and Du Xin passed by by chance, but his foot missed the ground, and he was about to fall in mid-air, and he was about to fall into the teeth and throat of another giant snake.

At this juncture, he felt a tightness in his waist, and jumped up into the air like flying through the clouds, and was brought to the high beam in the blink of an eye.Someone beside him scoffed coldly: "Did you have fun?"

Turning his head, he saw that it was Luo Yi who had gone and returned with a displeasure on his face.Shen Yuzhu wasn't surprised at all, but smiled at him, his eyes were shining brightly, and his face was full of joy, when he was about to speak, he pulled his waist hard and almost tripped.

Luo Yi dragged him across the beam and sprinted over. The giant snake poked its head up, coiled itself around the column, swam quickly, and rushed to the road ahead of the two of them in an instant.Luo Yi didn't retreat but advanced, he rushed to the place near the mouth of the snake, quickly lowered his body and rushed under the jaws of the giant snake, and passed the dagger diagonally.The giant snake wanted to bite, but couldn't hold back. Its lower jaw rushed dozens of feet on the blade before it felt severe pain. It raised its head high, the scales under its jaw turned up, and its flesh exploded, splashing down in an uproar. A monstrous rain of blood came.

Shen Yuzhu said in amazement: "That blood—" Before he finished speaking, Luo Yi flipped back in the air, jumped to avoid the blood, and landed beside him to stand still.He also didn't expect the short dagger in his hand to have the power to cut the wind and break the exposure, but before he could be surprised, another giant snake swam up and rushed towards the place where the two of them stood.Shen Yuzhu picked up the crossbow and fired several arrows in succession, hitting the left eye of the giant snake.The giant snake slammed into the beam in pain, trying to squeeze out the foreign object in its eye.However, each of the arrows made by Shen Yuzhu is cast with barbed blood grooves. When hit by it, pus and blood gushes out together with the eyeballs. Boom" hit the huge cylinder in the middle.

The two of them felt a shock under their feet and almost staggered and fell.Although the two giant snakes were both wounded, their anger grew stronger and they ruthlessly threw their heads at the beams and pillars, trying to knock them off.The two of them could not stand firmly on the beam, so they simply bent down and lay down.Seeing the giant snake hit the beams with a "bang bang" without thinking, it smashed his sores to pieces. The blood flowed profusely from the giant snake with a split jaw, and it was the first to be unable to hold on, "bang" He fell to the ground and fell into the Pit of Ten Thousand Snakes.

At this time, Huangquan had already overflowed the bottom of the pit, and the snakes recovered one after another.Suddenly being hit by such a behemoth that was several times his body size, those who were unlucky were smashed into minced meat, and those who were not smashed couldn't help being stunned, and they all opened their necks and "hissed" intimidatingly.Looking from a height, it seems that there are thousands of pale human faces standing among them, and the scene is very spectacular.Unexpectedly, however, the group of snakes swarmed up like a tide after realizing that the wounded "predecessor" had no resistance, and opened their mouths to bite its body.

Shen Yuzhu looked carefully, and the group of snakes was indeed eating the giant snake that was still alive.Some are greedy enough, and even twist their bodies and sneak in between the scales and wounds of the giant snake, feasting on them.The giant snake struggled and writhed in pain in the "snake pool", its body was riddled with holes from the bite, its twitching movements became slower and slower, obviously it was dead.But the group of snakes was full of energy, like crazy, they all swelled their necks, revealing dead white and gloomy human faces and neck lines.All of a sudden, the group of snakes in the huge pit was churning, like huge black waves, turbulent and ups and downs; on top of the turbulent waves, there were tens of thousands of pale heads dancing wildly in the air, pitching and turning, it was really a blood-curdling gluttonous poison feast!

Shen Yuzhu had never seen such a horrific scene of cannibalism before, and couldn't help but change his face slightly.Luo Yi beside him seemed to understand the snake's nature very well. Although his face was pale, his expression was still calm: "Brothers cannibalize each other, mothers can kill each other, this is their nature," he whispered, "It doesn't eat each other. , the other party will come to eat it! Otherwise, how do you think those two giant snakes grow so big?"

These two sentences seemed to mean something else, Shen Yuzhu turned his head to look at him in astonishment, his expression froze suddenly, he raised his hand and shot an arrow at him with a "sigh".

Luo Yi didn't have time to react, he just felt the arrow passing by his cheek, and there was a "hiss" behind his ear, a long snake was hit in the head by the arrow, turned over and fell.The two stood up, only to see more and more long snakes had already climbed onto the beam, rushing toward them like a thunderstorm.

It is true that the king of hell is easy to fight, but the imp is hard to deal with.The two stood up to meet each other, cutting a bloody path forward.However, although the dagger in Luo Yi's hand is sharp and dexterous, it cannot be swung freely like a long sword, and it is unavoidably restrained; Shen Yuzhu's arrows are not in vain, but the arrows are seriously consumed, and he is determined not to be able to withstand the endless stream of snakes for a long time.More and more snakes were densely coiled on the beams, crackling the beams and columns that had already been cracked by the giant snakes, and they were in danger of breaking in an instant.

If things go on like this, the two of them will only end up being eaten by a group of snakes!Shen Yuzhu was anxious in his heart, his eyes glanced at the big cauldron on the altar, and he suddenly realized: "That is... Thunder God!" A flash of lightning flashed in his mind, and he blurted out: "I have to go down!"

Luo Yi swung his knife to force away the snake kisses, staggered on the sticky snake blood, barely stood still, turned his face and said angrily: "What kind of sorcery do you want to play at this time!?"

"If these things are really 'snakes', then there is only one death spot for them!"

Luo Yi and Qu Ran were taken aback, and asked, "You mean—the sound of thunder?"

Legend has it that the mythical animal appointed the snake as the son of the god of thunder, and was extremely afraid of thunder all his life, and would stand with his head in a daze when he heard the sound of thunder.However, this statement is after all a false rumor, how can it be counted?What's more, under the deep earth veins, where can attract thunder?Luo Yi didn't know why, but when he saw Shen Yuzhu turning around and rushing towards the altar, he couldn't help but follow behind, forcing back the group of snakes blocking his way.

When Shen Yuzhu saw the three big guis behind the tripod, he couldn't think carefully, and poured all the crushed stone powder into the tripod, and said in a chaotic way: "This is the recipe I randomly prepared seven years ago, and I don't know it now. Will it work? If these raw materials fail for a long time, it will be a waste of time!” Grabbing the lampstand, he was about to throw it into the cauldron, when he suddenly realized that he broke out in a cold sweat, so he used his belt as a fuse and threw it at one end. Put it into the tripod, ignite it at one end, and throw it far away to one side.

While Shen Yuzhu was in a hurry to "cast spells", Luo Yi was struggling to defend against the group of snakes by himself.Shen Yuzhu grabbed his hand and said anxiously: "Let's go!" But seeing Luo Yi's expression changed, he pushed himself away with his chest.

Shen Yuzhu sat down on the ground, only felt a gust of wind sweeping in, the one-eyed giant snake passed by, and suddenly clamped Luo Yi in its mouth!

It turned out that the giant snake was injured and fell into a coma. It slowly woke up, lay dormant aside, and took the opportunity to bite the two of them.Luo Yi felt a sudden pain in his leg, as if he had been bitten through by fangs.Cold sweat rolled down, he quickly turned his wrist, and tried his best to insert the dagger obliquely into the snake's snout along the wheel-like giant scales, and then pulled down hard, almost splitting the snake's snout in half.The giant snake felt the pain, threw Luo Yiheng out, and fell into the Pit of Ten Thousand Snakes in the air.

Shen Yuzhu's heart tightened, he didn't think about the thousands of snakes tumbling under him, and jumped into the snake lake.Almost at the same time, the fuse outside the cauldron burned out, and the fire blazed wildly. There was only a loud bang, and the thousand-jin cauldron was lifted by the surging air waves, breaking a beam with a "boom", and then fell down with a roar Just hitting the giant snake's body, pus and blood flew across the body, and the flesh splashed randomly, smashing the giant snake into two pieces.The giant snake convulsed on the verge of death, its intestines twisted, and it raised its head and vomited out a black and blue object, which fell into the deep pit.

After that loud thunderous noise, the group of snakes really seemed to be frozen, their bodies were stiff, unable to move half an inch, and fell from the beam like hailstones one after another.Shen Yuzhu was also hit hard by the loud noise of the air wave, stars popped up in his head, his chest felt so tight that he almost vomited blood.He didn't dare to rest for a while, using his hands and feet together, he stumbled to Luo Yi's side.Seeing Luo Yi also struggled to get up.The two supported each other, one foot deep and the other shallow, stepping on the group of snakes that were knotted like tree roots, and ran wildly towards the road ahead.