We walked less than half the way around the building when we heard Lao Li's painful screams. Xiangyu covered her ears and did not dare to listen. Although Andrew and Zhang Jisheng looked back, they did not stop walking.
Come down.
But I turned around and stood there blankly.
At this moment, Lao Li's body was already covered with iron worms. These worms were burrowing into his abdominal cavity through his seven orifices. Those who entered first were probably already biting his internal organs. That kind of
The shape is unspeakably miserable.
When I saw Lao Li, who was almost mummified by iron worms, I couldn't wait to walk to the safe area on the opposite side and then enter the bronze tripod of Jing Gua. I ignored Xiangyu and held my hand, and stepped down with a big step.
He climbed the steps and ran towards the bronze tripod of Jing Gua.
Regardless of whether there was a paper face waiting for me inside, I held the bronze cauldron wall with both hands, turned over, and sank into the water again.
The water inside is much cooler than when I first entered, almost bone-chillingly cold.
However, I was only thinking about rescuing Lao Li, so I didn't care about that much. I held my breath and sank down.
The water under this bronze tripod was really quite deep. I sank about ten meters and still couldn't see the ground. Just when the fear in my heart was getting stronger every moment, I suddenly hit something heavy under my feet.
I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, it was finally over.
It's very dark underwater. I was in a hurry when I came in and forgot to bring a hernia lamp, so now I can only search for any of those so-called mechanisms in the dark in the water.
The hexagram of Jing Gua is that there is water on the wood. If this mechanism is really set up according to this connotation, then there should be something like a wood under the water.
But I searched for a long time and found nothing.
Did Lao Li and I make a mistake in our analysis? Then the price we paid for this mistake must be too high, it is a living life.
I was unwilling to give in and continued to fumble in the water. I felt that my fingertips had been scratched by the patterns on the inner wall of the bronze.
Impossible, absolutely impossible, all the analyzes are correct, the ancients would not lie to us.
The twisted face of Lao Li, who was mummified by iron worms, appeared in front of my eyes over and over again, but there was nothing in the water. I felt like I was going crazy, bumping against the bronze wall.
At this moment, a piece of white silk brushed over my head.
Has this mermaid monster come to join in the fun?
Maybe it was because I was under too much psychological pressure that my fear actually disappeared. I felt a sudden surge in my heart and felt that I was just about to die. I was no longer afraid. I kicked my feet and floated upwards, reaching a position where I could look down at the mermaid monster.
Probably because the fear in my heart disappeared, I became extremely calm. I found that the mermaid monster in front of me seemed a little different from the one I just saw. Her eyebrows felt much more three-dimensional.
Like the one just now, it looks like it was cut out of paper.
The special fragrance in the water seems to come from the body of this mermaid monster. This smell is somewhat similar to that of agarwood.
Could it be that the mermaid monster here is actually carved from agarwood?
I stretched out my trembling hand and felt the wood.
"Finally found it." I almost cried with joy.
At the same time, the breath in my chest was almost at its end. I had to look for any mechanism on this agarwood sculpture as soon as possible.
I brought the human face sculpture closer to me, and then took off the clothes on the sculpture.
There is actually a copper bell hanging on the chest of this agarwood human sculpture.
It turns out that the sound of the copper bell we heard was caused by the agarwood sculpture floating in the water.
The copper bell was inserted into the agarwood. I didn’t know what the purpose was. I hesitated for a moment, then stretched out my hand and pulled the bell out of the agarwood’s chest.
The moment the copper bell was pulled out, a string of gas shot out from the agarwood's chest. Then, the agarwood seemed to melt and disappeared before my eyes.
At the moment when the agarwood melted, I seemed to see the woman carved from wood grinning at me. That feeling made me feel dazed for a moment, as if I had seen the fish-faced woman in red clothes on the altar.
people.
"Zhou Cang, Zhou Cang, how are you?" At this moment, Xiang Yu's voice came from above.
The breath in my chest was about to run out. Time didn't allow me to think too much. I stared at my feet and floated up, along with the copper bell in my hand.
"Zhou Cang, you're finally here. I'm almost worried to death."
As soon as my head came out of the water, I saw Xiangyu's anxious face.
Andrew and Zhang Jisheng helped me out of the water. Before I could take a breath, I saw a large mass of milky-white wireworms squirming towards us.
"Zhou Cang, hurry up, a door over there has opened by itself, let's go in first to avoid it," Zhang Jisheng said.
"Where's Lao Li?" I looked around the whole yard, but I didn't see Lao Li, not even his body.
"Lao Li is gone. Come on, let's go into the house first. This wireworm is too fast." Andrew said.
I was half dragged, half pushed into the room that opened automatically.
As soon as he entered the house, Zhang Jisheng immediately closed the door, shutting out the iron worms as well. There seemed to be something taboo for iron worms on this carved wooden door. They only dared to wander around the door, but did not dare to
Climb up to the door.
In the end, we subdued the wireworm, but Lao Li stayed on the other side of the door forever.
I sat paralyzed on the ground, like a movie playing in front of my eyes, constantly replaying the scenes between us since I met Lao Li.
At this moment, I really regretted it. If I could have insisted on letting Lao Li return to the shore first when I was in Tao Xun, he would still be alive and kicking instead of being eaten away by wireworms.
"Zhou Cang," Xiangyu squatted down, took my hand and said softly: "Lao Li left us the opportunity to live. Even if it is for him, we should cherish our lives more and never give up on ourselves.
This road is still long, and it is far from the time when you can feel sad for him."
I raised my head and saw Xiangyu, who was as weak and tough as cattail grass. I nodded towards her and stood up.
Probably from this moment on, I became stronger and determined to reach the end of this road. No matter whether the black hand hidden behind my back is a human or a ghost, I must pull it out and expose it to the sun again.
Down.
Just as I stood up, Andrew suddenly walked up to me and said to me mysteriously: "Zhou, did you hear any noise?"