In the deep pit, the red magma kept rolling and surging. From time to time, huge bubbles emerged from the bottom of the magma pool with a roar, and then exploded with a pop, and the sound echoed in the empty and silent pit.
The Five-leaf Flame Fruit, with its budding flower bones on its head, is not afraid of the scorching heat of the magma and takes root in the center of the magma pool, absorbing the nutrients and spiritual power contained in the magma and growing slowly.
The firebird's huge body was lying on the edge of the magma pool. It looked at the five-leaf flame fruit in the center of the magma pool, chirped, opened its mouth and spat out a small mouthful of blood.
This small mouthful of blood was bright red and shimmering, as if there was fresh life hidden in it.
This is the essence and blood of the fire bird, which contains vigorous vitality.
The essence and blood are poured onto the flower bones of the five-leaf flaming fruit without spilling a drop. The flower bones are like hungry travelers in the desert, absorbing all the essence and blood of the firebird. Then the whole fruit plant becomes translucent red and exudes vitality.
The Firebird looked at the vibrant Five-leaf Flame Fruit, nodded with satisfaction, then rolled its neck back, put its head on its back, and slowly closed its eyelids. It needed a nap and a good rest.
A small mouthful of blood essence is insignificant compared to its huge body, but blood essence is not ordinary blood, but the condensed essence of life force, so even if it is only a small mouthful, it is still a huge loss to the huge body.
It uses a small mouthful of essence and blood to water the five-leaf flaming fruit every day, hoping that it will bloom and mature quickly.
After the five-leaf flamingo blooms and matures, it will wither quickly. Regardless of it, after a period of time, the mature flamingo will replenish the roots, stems and leaves, helping it to regenerate from the fire. At that time, an extra leaf will grow on the stem, and the five-leaf flamingo will turn into a new leaf.
It is the six-leaf flaming fruit.
When the six-leaf flaming fruit matures, the firebird will pick it and eat it.
With the help of the power of the Six-leaf Spirit Fruit, its tail can produce a ninth colorful feather, reborn from the ashes, transform into a phoenix, and advance to the realm of the Demon King.
Watching the Five-leaf Flame Fruit getting closer and closer to maturity day by day, Firebird was in a particularly good mood every day. The only thing that displeased him was that the ugly black-haired beast had been coveting its Five-leaf Flame Fruit and would come here every now and then.
Make trouble for it.
It is not afraid of the black-haired beast. Every time this black guy comes to pick a fight, it will burn him to pieces and run away with his head covered. However, this black guy has a very strong self-healing ability. Within a few days, he will be full of life again, and then come back to pick fights again.
, very annoying.
What scares the Firebird is that the black-haired beast recently obtained a divine bow from nowhere. Not only does this divine bow require no arrows, but it can also track itself. It is also extremely powerful and terrifying. Fortunately, it is fast enough and can be thrown away.
He fired tracking arrows, allowing the black-haired beast to make several sneak attacks without success.
But it didn't dare to be careless, because it could feel that the black-haired beast had not exerted the true power of the divine bow. If the black-haired beast was stronger and exerted the greater power of the divine bow, it would probably break its wings and fall under the arrow.
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In the past few days, it has been thinking about how to introduce the black-haired beast into a pit for a fight, because in the pit it can use the power of magma, which can not only double the power of its flames, but also allow it to
With its strength reaching the extreme, it is not a problem to resist two or three arrows from the black-haired beast. It is confident that the black-haired beast will never come back.
However, the black-haired beast was cunning and ruthless. It tried many times to lure him and even took an arrow from the divine bow, but it still failed to lure him into the pit.
"When I eat the six-leaf flame fruit, transform into a phoenix, and be promoted to the demon king, I will roast the black-haired beast and eat it." Fire Bird said angrily in his heart.
In addition to the black-haired beast, there is another thing that bothers it from time to time.
In a dimly lit corner of the pit, there is a half-foot-tall stone statue.
The stone statue is completely black and looks more like a monkey than a monkey.
Its body is covered with scales, its head is hairless, its ears are wide, its eyeballs are protruding, its nostrils are everted, it has no lips, its teeth are long and thin, the corners of its mouth are slightly upturned, and it looks like a smile. It has long arms and short legs, sharp front claws, and sharp back claws.
The claws have five fingers and are shaped like human feet.
The whole body of the stone statue was kneeling on the ground, with its head raised slightly, looking in the direction of the magma pool. It seemed that it was staring at the Five-leaf Flame Fruit in the magma pool.
This made the firebird very unhappy, as it felt that the stone statue was coveting its treasure.
The strange thing is that the stone statue cannot be moved or burned to pieces. In order to keep it out of sight and out of mind, the firebird covered it with earth and rocks.
Suddenly, the earth and rocks loosened, and the stone statues jumped out.
"ah"
In the pitch black darkness, Zhang Xiaopou woke up with a scream. He had a nightmare, in which he saw a terrifying stone statue rushing towards him.
When he opened his eyes and woke up, he found that it was a nightmare. Zhang Xiaopou couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. However, the unknown environment in front of him, which was pitch black and invisible, made him slightly nervous and scared. Fortunately, when he tightened his right hand, he felt that the bone knife was still in his hand.
I immediately gained some confidence.
Zhang Xiaozu crawled forward two steps, moved half of his body out of the water, and then turned over and sat up. He only felt that his shoulders were heavy, his whole body was sore and weak, and his head was dizzy and painful, as if he had been hit by a heavy object.
"How could it be a monster? It's too scary!"
Recalling what happened to Hantan, Zhang Xiaozhu felt lingering fear and couldn't help but shudder. He thought it was a God-given opportunity, but he almost died. It was terrible.
"I don't know what kind of monster it is? It shouldn't be a monster, but a ghost, an evil spirit that sucks human essence and eats human marrow."
Zhang Xiaozu touched the raised wound between his eyebrows. Perhaps it was due to being soaked in water. The wound had just scabbed over. Thinking of the evil spirit that had broken open his eyebrows and wanted to suck out his bone marrow, all the bones in his body felt like they were being bitten by leeches.
The pain was so heartbreaking that he couldn't help but shiver as his hair stood on end.
"Black Ape saved my life again." Zhang Xiaozu said happily.
After sitting on the ground and resting for a while, Zhang Xiaozu stood up after his body regained some strength. He groped around and found that he must be in a cave. No wonder it was so dark that he couldn't see his fingers.
Then he thought that he was washed away at the bottom of the cold pool, and when he woke up, half of his body was soaked in the water, so he guessed that he should have been washed into the underground river by the water, and was lucky enough not to drown, and floated all the way here and was stranded.
By the water.
"This should be an underground cave. I don't know if there is an exit?" Zhang Xiaozu said worriedly, listening to the sound of running water in his ears.
Then Zhang Xiaozu used the bone knife as a pathfinding stick and groped forward in the dark cave.
After walking about three hundred steps forward, the river and the cave bifurcated, and the water flowed in another direction. Zhang Xiaozu carefully checked the groundwater and found that the river water flowed into another cave.
There is no walkable land on both sides of this cave, and the distance between the cave roof and the water is only fifty or sixty centimeters. In addition, the situation ahead is unclear, so Zhang Xiaozu did not dare to enter rashly, so he chose to continue walking along the dry cave.
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He planned in his mind that if the way forward was blocked, he would turn back and take the water route.
However, this walk is like walking into an infinitely long tunnel that will never end.
At first, Zhang Xiaozu was not in a hurry. He used his bone knife to explore the path and walked forward neither quickly nor slowly. When he was tired, he stopped to rest for a while. When he was sleepy, he leaned against the stone wall to sleep. But after repeating this cycle seven or eight times, he
I started to get panicky and anxious slowly.
Because a dark and silent environment can make people feel lonely and depressed, anxious and panicked, and put them under great mental pressure. It would be great for most people to be able to persist in this environment for a day or two, but Zhang Xiaozhu has already slept for five days.
Six sleeps, each time he fell asleep when he was extremely sleepy, which meant that he had been walking in the dark cave for at least five or six days.
jingle
Zhang Xiaozu used the back of his bone knife to hit the stone walls on both sides, causing clusters of sparks to fly.
This is his only means of relieving boredom and stress.
I don't know how many days passed, but Zhang Xiaozhu's mood became more and more irritable and panicked, and he was getting close to losing control.
Every time he took a step forward, he would hit the stone wall hard with the back of his bone knife, causing large swaths of sparks to fly off. Every time the sparks shot out, he would suddenly look back into the darkness behind him, always feeling
There was a pair of eyes hidden in the darkness, staring at him.
He roared like crazy, but there was only an empty echo in response.
In order to force himself to stay calm, he even used a bone knife to cut his arm again and again to stimulate his brain in this extreme way.
He was hungry and thirsty, but the sand in the cave turned into stones.
He was tired and tired, but he dared not close his eyes to sleep more and more, because as soon as he closed his eyes, he would have nightmares again and again.
He dreamed that countless evil spirits were following him.
I dreamed that I was eaten by a monster.
Dreamed that his parents abandoned him.
I dreamed that the relatives in Liujia Village starved to death one by one.
dream
He cried bitterly and called each of his relatives by name.
He ran wildly, and soon his head was bruised and bloody.
He fell to the ground weakly and was so sleepy that his upper and lower eyelids were stuck together. However, he would either cut himself with a bone knife or bite his fingers or the tip of his tongue to stimulate himself and dare not sleep.
He was very glad that he had penetrated the force gate. Although he was suffering from hunger and thirst, his strength had been slowly recovering, otherwise he would have fainted and died. However, as his body gradually weakened, the function of the force gate gradually weakened.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"
He was so angry that he kept beating himself, regretting not walking along the river. He felt that if he had walked along the river, he would have walked out, and he would have had water to drink. But now his weak body was no longer strong enough to support him to turn back.
I can bite the bullet and keep moving forward.
"Cough cough cough"
He was hungry, so he grabbed a handful of soil and stuffed it into his mouth, but he choked and coughed violently.
The soil was too dry and clogged in the throat, making it impossible to swallow.
"I'm afraid I'm going to die in this cave."
Zhang Xiaozhu lay on the ground like a dead fish, feeling deep despair. He had no strength left and could not move forward even an inch.
His cloudy eyes looked forward, hoping to see a glimmer of light, but unfortunately there was only endless darkness in front of him.
He closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
He didn't know how long he had slept before he was woken up by a nightmare.
He once again dreamed of the terrifying-looking stone statue in the pit, and dreamed that the green-faced and fanged monster came to life and jumped on his shoulders to bite his neck off.
During this period of time, Zhang Xiaozu has been controlling himself not to think about the strange dream about the firebird, because he was too afraid to think about it. However, what he was afraid of did not disappear because he didn't want to think about it. On the contrary, the more he thought about it, the worse it became in the nightmare.
will come out.
In the dream about the Firebird, the terrifying-looking stone statue could not be moved or burned to pieces, so the Firebird had no choice but to bury it with earth and rocks in order to keep it out of sight and out of mind.
But Zhang Xiaozhu clearly remembered that he was afraid that there were other treasures hidden in the pit, so he searched every inch of the pit, but he did not see the mound that should be there in the dim corner where the Firebird buried the stone statue.
He only saw a pile of separated earth and rocks with a funnel-shaped concave shape in the middle. He was afraid that there was treasure buried under the earth and rocks, so he kicked the earth and rocks away with his feet, but he did not see anything strange.
In other words, the fire bird cannot move and the stone statue that cannot be burned disappears.
Judging from the funnel shape of the earth-moving stone, the stone statue seems to have really come to life and emerged from the earth-rock pile.
When did it disappear?
Was it before or after he and the Black Giant Ape descended into the pit?
Where did it go?
None of it is known.
Zhang Xiaopou felt goosebumps all over his body when he thought that he had slept leisurely for several times in the pothole, and that there was probably a pair of terrifying eyes staring at him and the black giant ape in the dark corner.
"The firebird must have found a way to move the stone statue out, but it just didn't show up in the dream."
Zhang Xiaozu was busy comforting himself, because the more he thought about terrible things, the more he felt that there were ghosts watching him in the darkness.
After his body regained some strength, Zhang Xiaozu stood up and refused to give up.
He raised his head, and a vague light suddenly jumped into his field of vision. He rubbed his eyes hurriedly, thinking that he was hallucinating again, but the light was still there after rubbing his eyes.
"Hahaha"
After confirming again and again that he was not hallucinating, there was indeed a glimmer of light in the darkness ahead. Although it was vague and faint, it really existed. Zhang Xiaopou couldn't help but be ecstatic and laughed with a hoarse voice.
