【Chapter 18】Ancient cliff cave
The big toads carried us faster and faster, the sound of wind in our ears became louder and louder, and the towering ancient trees became thicker and thicker. The surrounding scenery told us that we had now entered the uninhabited primeval forest... …
After walking for about two hours, when the sun was shining directly, the big toads stopped at the edge of a cliff, spread their limbs and lowered their bodies. When we saw this, we knew that the big toads had sent us here, so we slowly Slowly slid down.
After we came down, we discovered that this cliff was as steep as a knife, with branches and branches clinging to the cliff. There was no place to step down. Looking up, it was as smooth as a mirror, and it was about tens of feet high. It was difficult to get over. , unless you fly by with wings...
"Hey, big toad! What's going on? This is a dead end. Don't blame us. Come up and show me one!" Dasha started bluffing at those toads, and we were also watching. Look at me, I look at you, there is nothing you can do!
The leading toad seemed to have understood Dasha's words. He nodded to us, crawled forward to the edge of the cliff, picked up the vine attached to the wall with his mouth, and divided it by three times and five times. The vines were pulled down, and a hole appeared in front of us about a person's height from the ground!
When the cave entrance appeared, the big toad stopped, looked back at us, and motioned for us to enter.
"My mother, this can't be done! If there is a giant python monster inside, why don't you just put it into its mouth!" Dasha shouted and backed away.
"I won't go in! Helping them get rid of the monsters is enough fun! Do you think we won't give up until we die?" I was very dissatisfied with the extravagant efforts of those toads, and looked at them with contempt as I spoke. A few big toads carried us here.
"You are such an ungrateful, cold-blooded animal. You want to kill some of your brothers. Let's go, boss! Go back now!" Goudan also echoed, trying to turn Boss Liu around.
"Don't panic, they won't harm us! Let's take a look and then talk," Boss Liu said without any intention of leaving, "There shouldn't be any danger here!"
"There's no danger? Have you ever been in there? Do you know? Did the toad talk to you alone?" I attacked Boss Liu like a barrage of attacks!
"Hahaha... don't get excited, brother!" Mr. Liu said with a smile, "Look, the entrance of the cave is as high as a person from the ground. It is covered tightly with grass and rattan. If it weren't for the big toad, who would have broken it open? Will we find this hole? Besides, if there are poisonous insects and beasts inside, and they often come in and out, how can they not touch a leaf? Besides, these big toads will not harm us, maybe there are good things in there. !”
"Good things? What good things? Gold? Treasures? You're not lying to me, boss!" Dasha heard that there were good things inside, and immediately had no intention of leaving.
Xiao Li, who had been silent all this time, now stood by Boss Liu's side, "What Boss Liu said makes sense. Gentlemen, let's go in and see what we're afraid of. It's broad daylight!"
"Is it really okay here? Is there really anything good?" Dasha asked the leading toad in a ridiculous manner.
The strange thing is that the leading big toad actually nodded, which made Dasha and the others overjoyed and eager to try, ready to enter the hole!
Dasha took a running start, grabbed the edge of the hole with both hands, kicked left and right, and within a few moments he stood at the entrance of the hole, reaching down and shouting: "Come up, comrades, it's very big inside!"
"Xiao Li, you have a gun, hurry up!" Although Boss Liu said there was no danger inside, he was very cautious and asked Xiao Li to get up quickly!
In this way, a few of us climbed up to the entrance of the cave one after another and stood at the entrance of the cave and waved down. When the big toads saw that we had all entered, they reluctantly climbed back and looked back at us from time to time. , as if I was saying goodbye to a close friend who has been with me for many years, I also felt a sore nose. Alas! These cold-blooded animals are actually more humane than the little Japanese who are also humans!
After watching those big toads leave, we turned back and looked carefully at this cave in the deep mountains and old forests, carved on the cliff!
I saw that this cave was very spacious. There were ax marks on the stone cave walls, which were definitely not formed naturally! The ground was also very flat and dry. When I looked up, I saw that the roof of the cave was slightly arc-shaped, about ten feet high. Under the oblique sunlight, Sunshine, it seems more spacious inside!
The five of us, led by Boss Liu and Xiao Li, slowly walked into the cave!
After walking no more than ten feet, it was pitch dark inside and we couldn't see our fingers! We had to stop! "Fortunately, I brought a set of fire folding (folding) pieces!" Goudan said as he lit them. Huozhezi, after blowing out the open flame, a red bright spot looks very strange in the darkness.
With the help of the light from the fire, we found that the inside of the cave suddenly became larger, as if we had entered the palace hall, it was very spacious!
"Everyone, be careful, Xiao Li, load the bullets!" Boss Liu ordered!
"Okay!" Xiao Li pushed the bullet and loaded the gun with a clatter. "Boss, this is not a cave for poisonous insects and wild beasts. This is obviously a man-made one! It can't be some kind of underground palace tomb, right?"
"It's not like that! Now that we're in, let's just take a look!" Boss Liu is determined to explore the cave to the end!
There were no corpses of beasts, no coffins and coffins of ghosts! We walked peacefully into the depths of the cave where we didn’t know where it ended.
Just when we were rejoicing that we were safe and smooth, there was a huge eye staring at us right in front of us. Yes, it was one eye rather than a pair of eyes staring at us. That eye gave off a faint light green light!
My hair suddenly stood up. A guy with such big eyes must have a huge body! Xiao Li immediately took aim with his gun, waiting for the giant-eyed monster to enter the effective shooting range!
After waiting for a while, the monster didn't move forward at all, and didn't even blink! We faced each other like this, and no one dared to move forward rashly!
After waiting for a while, we really couldn't bear it anymore, because the unknown waiting for the horror is the most energy-consuming and courageous thing!
"What should we do, boss?" I wiped the cold sweat from my forehead and asked Boss Liu for instructions in a low voice.
"Maybe it's okay! What kind of thing has such a big eye? Not to mention it only has one eye! Xiao Li, let's go first!" After Liu Boss finished speaking, he and Xiao Li walked forward slowly.
"It's okay, come here!" Boss Liu and Xiao Li walked forward less than ten feet, then smiled and waved the three of us over.
I quickly ran to them, "Oh... I'm scared to death, what is this!" I looked at the "eye" and breathed a sigh of relief, because it was hanging several feet in front, and more importantly, it was hanging in front of them. The top of the cave is not a monster's eye, but a bright bead-like thing like a lamp.
"It's probably something like a luminous pearl! Let's go! Go up and have a look!" Mr. Liu is indeed a man of extraordinary experience, courage and knowledge. After that, he strode forward, and we followed closely.
When I came to the "eye" and looked carefully, I saw that the bead was shining brightly, and the faint green light illuminated the nearby area of several feet around like daylight!
Looking around, the cave is like a palace filled with light, jade tables, chairs, and fringed curtains, making it magnificent! There is a statue on the middle back wall holding a sword hilt, lifelike! It is life-size and gives me a sense of splendor.
It felt like déjà vu! When I took a closer look, “Ah, this is not it, this is not it”, I couldn’t help but scream!
"What's going on, what's going on!" My comrades who were looking left and right curiously heard my cry and ran over quickly, ready to fight at any time!
"I've seen this man somewhere! I just can't remember it for a moment, but he does look familiar!" I felt a lot more relaxed when I saw my comrades all around me, especially Xiao Li standing with a gun.
"No, it's the first time we've been here. When have you seen him?" Goudan pointed at the statue and laughed at me, "It couldn't be in a dream!"
I followed Goudan's hand and looked at the statue carefully. I saw that the statue was wearing a war robe, cloud boots, a sword on its waist, a hand on the hilt of the sword, and a war scarf on its head...
“Oh————, I remembered, I have indeed seen this person before. Although I couldn’t see his face clearly at the time, his clothes and appearance do look alike!”
"Who is it? Where have you seen it?" Xiao Li had no choice but to ask.
"The man I saw the night we killed the python was him!"
My words shocked everyone. Oh my God, no wonder we couldn't find anyone no matter how hard we searched. It turns out, it turns out, it's this great god!
A few of us were busy in front of the statue, bowing respectfully a few times, and Goudan even murmured something: "Master Immortal, Great General, we little soldiers came unexpectedly, don't be surprised, don't be surprised..."
After worshiping, a few of us walked around the statue. Behind the statue, there was a stone wall, which was polished very smooth. There were several lines of poetry carved on it, and the letter said:
Clouds follow the dragon, wind follows the tiger, fame and fortune follow the dust and earth.
Looking at China, the people are suffering and the fertile land for thousands of miles is barren.
Look at the world, there are only barbarians, and what is missing in the way of heaven can only be repaired by a single man.
A good man, regardless of his parents, only cares for the common people and not for the Lord.
Holding a steel knife of ninety-nine, he did not stop until he killed all Hu'er.
Why am I, a man of honor, acting like a horse or an ox to the Tartars?
A strong man drinks all the wine in his bowl and never looks back on a journey of thousands of miles.
The golden drums are beating together and the crowd is roaring, and the yellow dragon will not stop until it is broken.
After reading it several times, Xiao Li said to himself: "Oh! This is the general of the Red Turban Army in the late Yuan Dynasty."
"Red Scarf Army!" I continued, "You said this is the Red Scarf Army?"
Although we were in troubled times at that time and did not read much, there were many old artists during the slack season. We called them "storytellers" there. They talked and sang many historical allusions, such as "Water Margin",
"Three Kingdoms", "The Legend of the Thieves", "Journey to the West", "Eight Immortals", "Apotheosis of the Gods", etc., made people fascinated. They chased the storytellers every night and ran through many villages to listen to the stories of those heroes.
Stories, weird legends, stories about the Red Turban Army, in the mouths of those storytellers, are even more magnificent and soul-stirring...
Immersed in the story of the generous elegies of the red scarf heroes, we couldn't help but stand in awe of the statue in front of us! We couldn't help but bend down to find a few weeds in the cracks of the rocks, use grass instead of incense, and insert them into the red scarf soldier.
In the incense burner in front of the general!
Just after I put the incense in place, I found that the stone incense burner was a little skewed. When I straightened it with my hands, the stone wall behind the statue of the Red Scarf Army general slowly rotated, revealing a portal. It turned out that the door in front of the statue was
Chapter completed!