After walking along the base of the wall in the thick fog for half an hour, before I knew it, the heavy fog dissipated and the sky gradually became brighter.
Without the cover of fog, the surrounding scenery became clear.
Only then did they suddenly realize that there were walls on both sides and they were walking in an endless narrow passage.
The fat man was shocked, "Have we already entered the city? When did we come in? Why didn't I see the city gate?"
And what is very strange is why this city wall is not a tower structure like the ancient traditional city wall, but instead is an earthen wall of almost the same height.
Nie Xiaoba, who was leading the way, also looked confused and looked at the little monkey in his arms, "Little guy, where did you take us?"
The little monkey squeaked impatiently twice, waved his arm and pointed forward, indicating that he should just follow it.
Wu Xie raised his head to look at the gloomy sky, then turned around and told the people behind him, "Be careful not to fall behind."
Until noon, they were still walking inside this tall khaki wall. The scene around them had not changed at all, but Wu Xie knew that they had not encountered a ghost beating the wall.
Because after realizing the problem, he immediately carved marks along the way, but those marks did not appear on the rest of the way.
In other words, they have been moving forward and have not turned back.
The fat man picked up the hem of his clothes and wiped the sweat from his forehead. He felt that all the water he had just drank had evaporated. It was obviously noon and the sun had not come out. Why was it so hot?
"Tianzhen, are you hot?" He turned around and asked Wu Xie.
Wu Xie pursed his dry and flaky lips, sweating on his forehead, "A bit, maybe it's because the space here is narrow and the airflow is blocked. All the hot air from the surface floats upwards, and there is no wind blowing in, so it feels hot.
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Generally, in small alleys that are open from the front to the back, the space is relatively narrow and the air flow is restricted, which will form a narrow channel effect, which will speed up the airflow from the front and back, causing an increase in wind speed.
But now they are walking in a space that is similar to a closed pipe without front or back. The air flow cannot flow from front to back. The only thing that can breathe is the high top of the head that is far away from them. The heat is all gathered together, and it is normal to feel stuffy.
But this can't go on like this, because they don't have much water left with them, and they don't know where this road will end. If they walk for many days in a row and wait for the food to be eaten up, they will die of thirst and become mummies here.
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Wu Xie stepped forward and communicated with the little monkey in sign language, "How far is it to get to where your master wants us to go?"
The little monkey was also very thirsty. He stuck out his tongue and gestured that he didn't know how far he was.
The fat man was furious, "You kid, are you just trying to trick us?"
Wu Xie also doubted whether the little monkey was playing tricks on them.
If it takes such a long distance to walk from the inside of the city to the outside of the city, it would be impossible for the little monkey to walk out just with his thin body.
The little monkey heard the question in the fat man's tone, and squeaked dissatisfiedly. He suddenly broke away from Nie Xiaoba's arms, stepped on his head, jumped up, grabbed the earth wall, and dug the tips of his claws into the cracks in the wall.
Here, three times, five times and two times five times, we climbed to a very high place.
Wu Xie took out his telescope and looked, and saw the little monkey swooping to the top of the high city wall, then jumping from the left to the right, and then jumping back from the right.
Wu Xie suddenly felt embarrassed. He forgot that monkeys can not only climb to high places, but also jump.
The little monkey quickly jumped down, stepped on Nie Xiaoba's head, flicked his tail, and looked at the fat man with disdain.
The fat man's mouth twitched in anger, Wu Xie smiled, "This is a good method. If a monkey can jump, so can a human."
The little monkey tilted his head, looked at the claw hook that Wu Xie handed over, thought for a while and took it.
Wu Xie asked him in sign language to help him bring the grappling hook up and fasten it to the wall, and nailed it firmly with stones. They climbed up directly. The distance between the walls on both sides was about 1.8 meters, so they could jump over it directly.
This condescension can save a lot of time.
The little monkey gestured, indicating that the work was not easy and that he would need to be paid more.
Wu Xie agreed and watched the little monkey climb up again with the rope of hope.
After waiting for a while, Wu Xie and the others heard the little monkey squeaking and calling them to come up quickly.
Nie Xiaoba, who was the lightest, was the first to go up and test the water. Although the hook almost came loose halfway, he still persisted to the finish line.
After re-fixing the claw hook firmly, the people below climbed up one by one.
At this time, they also completely saw where they were before. Looking around, they saw that this place turned out to be an extremely huge spiral maze!
Like the shell of a parasitic snail, it was winding and winding. The passages inside were well-proportioned and intricate, with nine twists and turns. Without the little monkey to lead the way, they would have been lost in this deserted city.
The position they were in was now half the diameter of the maze. In order to reinforce the wall, the width of the wall under their feet was one meter wide, enough for them to step on.
After taking a short break to replenish their energy, they immediately followed the monkey and started jumping on the wall.
The distance of 1.8 meters is not difficult for adult men. After trying to jump a few times, it became smoother and smoother, and their traveling speed increased greatly.
Even though it's just a maze that serves as a trap, it's still full of dangers.
When Wu Xie and the others were jumping on the high wall, more than once they saw numerous pheasant necks coiled below, and some snakes even climbed onto the high wall.
After noticing the prey in the sky, the snakes spontaneously began to move closer to them.
Only one of the passages below was free of snakes. The little monkey led them to skillfully avoid places with many snakes and reach the end of the spiral maze as quickly as possible.
There is a large stone mountain lined with rows of rocks, as if an ancient behemoth wearing armor was petrified in that place after being defeated. Plants such as ivy and other plants took root and sprouted on the bones of the behemoth, feeding on the beast's blood.
In the green all over the mountain, there are many honeycomb-shaped caves, large and small, with ivy hanging down from the entrance. There seems to be something squatting inside, but it can't be seen clearly.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As they got closer, Wu Xie opened the vines at the entrance of a cave, and then they saw clearly that there was a statue with a monkey head and a snake body placed in the cave.
Wu Xie looked at a few more and found that they were all the same. The stone statues inside were all in strange shapes and stared at everyone with ferocious faces, which made people feel heartbroken.
The little monkey didn't hesitate at all. After climbing up the stone mountain, he led them to climb halfway up the mountain. There was a large dark cave with vines hanging from the entrance like a mountain of flowers and fruits. There was a slope inside that led directly to the ground.
It was cool inside the cave, and Wu Xie and the others could clearly hear the sound of gurgling water inside.
The fat man slumped down on the cold stone slab, pursed his lips and stuck out his tongue to catch the small stream of water dripping from the cracks in the stone. He felt so comfortable that he let out a sigh, "Cool!"
The others were also very tired. They sat slumped on the ground with their backs against the rocks. The continuous jumping was really tiring. They could reach here only by persevering with their thoughts.
The little monkey squeaked a few times deep into the rock crevice, and soon heard the big monkey's whining response from deep inside the cave.
The little monkey jumped three feet high, grabbed the backpack containing the cans, and rushed into the rock crevice, disappearing in a flash.
"This little devil's IQ is a bit too high," the fat man couldn't help but complain.
Wu Xie deeply agreed with his words.
At this time, the sound of footsteps came from below the rock crevice, and Wu Xie and others immediately became alert.
After waiting for a while, he saw that walking out was Tie Tuo, who had been missing for a long time, and Dafu Azhai, the three boys.
Look at these red faces, it looks like they are living a good life.
"Little Third Master! Fat Master, Eighth Brother!" Tie Tuo let out a cry, and flew towards Nie Xiaoba with three steps at a time. He hugged Nie Xiaoba and cried as if his tears were free of charge. "You are finally here."
Nie Xiaoba was so stunned that he rolled his eyes and cursed, "Damn it, you came here early to enjoy the blessing."
Seeing the three people standing in front of him with beards and tails, Wu Xie smiled happily and said, "It's good that everything is fine."
Dafu's face was still a little pale, and A'zhai was not much better than him. They were both victims of snake disasters. In the end, the easiest one was actually Tie Tuo, who almost got off the line to get his lunch box at the beginning.
Everyone gathered together and chatted for a while.
Tietuo said that the night he was caught by the mandrill, he almost thought he was going to die, but unexpectedly he survived by some strange combination of circumstances.
Wu Xie asked him, "Who brought you here?"
Tie Tuo scratched the back of his head and said, "I don't know, maybe it's a monkey. Those monkeys also get me some wild fruits to eat every day."
Dafu and A Zhai also said that after they saw a monster standing under a tree with snakes crawling all over its body, their vision suddenly went dark. When they opened their eyes again, they were already here, completely unaware of the process of entering.
"Didn't you see Luo Wenbing?" Wu Xie asked.
The three of them shook their heads in unison, and Wu Xie could only give up when he saw this.
He felt that the Zhang family might not want to reveal their identity so directly, although he didn't know what the purpose of his stay here was.
Wu Xie asked Tie Tuo and the others, "What's in the depths of the cave? Have you gone to see it?"
"There are many clay sculptures." Tie Tuo said, "Little Third Master, this seems to be the monkey's ancestral tomb. There are many clay sculptures of monkeys inside. We are afraid that the monkeys will have objections, so we don't dare to go in later."
The monkeys live in the crevices in the rocks above the cave. The crevices may be large or small. As soon as we talk, monkeys will poke their heads out from inside and watch everyone in the open.
The fat man was so angry that he was staring at them, but there was nothing he could do about them. After all, this was the monkey's territory, so it would be nice to let them stay for a while. What's more, the monkeys also brought them various wild fruits at night.
The eating monkey has a short mouth and the handling monkey has soft hands, and the fat man is too embarrassed to get angry.
Early on the next morning, everyone who had had a complete rest stepped into the cave under the leadership of Wu Xie.
Facing you is a long and narrow cave, with a clear and sparkling pool of water at the bottom. The water is so clear that you can see the chains fixed to the rocks underneath.
There are many sunken niches on the stone walls of the cave, and inside they are what Tie Tuo and the others call clay monkey statues.
The carvings on the surface of the clay sculptures were very rough, but Wu Xie could tell that these clay sculptures were very old, and if his guess was correct, the interior of these clay sculptures should be the corpses of monkeys.
In other words, it is the corpse of a humanoid monkey.
Wu Xie saw the broken and fallen limbs of the clay sculpture, revealing the corpse wrapped in linen inside. Judging from the size of the clay statue and the material of the cloth, it seemed that these things had not been placed here very long ago.
The fat man suddenly took a breath of cold air, winked at Wu Xie and blew air, "Innocent, innocent, look back quickly."
The hair on Wu Xie's back stood on end. This was the instinctive reaction of a mammal's body when encountering an insurmountable and dangerous animal.
He subconsciously looked behind him with his peripheral vision, and saw an extremely huge black figure standing quietly behind him, its huge body completely crushing him.
He immediately realized that it was the one-armed mandrill that had appeared here out of nowhere.
Wu Xie didn't want to conflict with it, so he quietly retreated to one side, intending to get out of the way.
The mandrill ignored him and looked at the clay sculptures quietly for a while, then turned around and walked directly into the pool.
The water in the pool was much deeper than they imagined. With the mandrill as tall and majestic, the water had already submerged up to its chest after walking more than ten steps.
Before it was about to submerge into the water, the mandrill turned back and glanced at Wu Xie, just in time to catch Wu Xie's eyes as he was looking at it.
There was clearly no emotion at this glance, but Wu Xie's whole body was trembling, as if he was under a spell, and he followed him by some strange combination of circumstances.
The fat man was stunned for a moment and hurriedly pulled him away, "Tianzhen, what are you doing?"
Wu Xie had already walked straight to the shallow bottom of the pool. The biting chill woke him up from his nightmare. When he came back to his senses, he realized that the water had reached his knees.
The fat man thought that Wu Xie had become possessed by staring at the corpse in the clay sculpture for too long. He let out a strange cry, rushed forward and pressed Wu Xie's whole body into the ice water, then grabbed his neck and shook him desperately, "Innocent"
, wake up quickly, wake up quickly!”
The waves rolled and the water splashed. Nie Xiaoba and the others were stunned with shock. When they came to their senses, they quickly jumped into the water and drove the two of them away.
"Little Third Master, Fat Master, what are you two doing? Why are you fighting with each other?"
Wu Xie managed to avoid being shaken to death by him, so he choked several times in a row. Feeling angry and angry, he kicked the fat man on the stomach and kicked him away. While Nie Xiaoba and the others grabbed him, he hurriedly paddled into the water.
Run far away.
"Damn fat man, are you sick?" Wu Xie scolded him, "I didn't let the rice dumplings in the tomb kill me, but I let you die first."
The fat man shook off Nie Xiaoba and others and touched the water on his face, "You are the only one who is sick. If you are not sick, why would you just walk into the water calmly? I thought you were trapped by dirty things and wanted to die. Isn't that right?"
Let you sober up."
Wu Xie choked and said, "Go into the water, of course because the road is under the water."
"How do you know?" The fat man swam towards him.
Nie Xiaoba and the others quickly followed with their equipment.
Wu Xie dived into the water with a swoop, and came up two minutes later. "There is a stone door under the water, and the mandrill has already entered."