Standing on the edge of the cliff, there is a biting coldness that is constantly surging up from the bottom of the cliff with the whistling wind. It feels like the bottom of the cliff is like a huge freezer.
Fei Fan said: "With such a strong wind, we must pay attention when we go up the steps. These hundreds of steps are all suspended in the air. I don't know how they were built. Let's not talk about whether these steps can still bear the load after thousands of years.
The wind at the bottom of the cliff alone is enough to bear us. Everyone must be careful!"
At this time, Taoist Master Zengfan said: "It takes a while, but it's best to go up alone to feel the situation first, and then everyone goes up together. If the steps collapse or some other emergency occurs, it will be troublesome."
Fei Fan nodded and said, "Well, I'll sacrifice myself and go up to have a look first. If there's no problem, we can all go there together."
As he said that, he walked carefully to the first step and tentatively put his left foot up. After it felt OK, he put his right foot on the second step. After walking slowly five or six steps,
Fei Yifan felt that the problem was not big, so he muttered: "It's so damn cold, the wind is blowing." Then he let go and walked forward.
In less than two minutes, Fei Fan reached nearly half of the steps. At this time, he was completely suspended on the steps. Fei Fan himself was a little thin, and he was blown away by the strong wind at the bottom of the cliff.
It was a bit shaky, and we all looked at it with fear on the edge of the cliff, and our hearts were pounding.
Fortunately, at this time, Fei Yifan bent down and put his hands and feet on the ground as if crawling forward. Although the action looked a bit funny, in such a state, this should be the best choice.
We all stared with our eyes wide open, our hearts in our throats, and watched extremely nervously as Fei Fan slowly crawled forward step by step on the steps. Fortunately, he slowly and finally approached the door of the temple. When
When he climbed the last step, stood up and waved to us, our hearts finally fell back into our stomachs.
Seeing that nothing unusual happened while Fei Iban was crossing the steps, we all stepped on the steps one by one and climbed to the temple at the other end. With Fei Yihan’s experience, everyone basically used both hands and feet.
We moved forward. Although when we reached the middle section of the steps, the strong wind at the bottom of the cliff did pose a certain danger to us. Fortunately, everyone reached the temple smoothly without any danger.
When we all arrived at the temple door, Fei Fan, the first to arrive, squatted in front of the temple door and was thinking hard. When he saw us all standing behind him, he came to his senses and pointed at the two animal head sculptures in front of the temple door.
He told us: "It's strange that the sacred animal guarding this temple is actually a wolf. Judging from the architectural style of this ancient castle and the two wolf head sculptures in front of the temple, I think this temple is like an ancient
The temple of Mars, the Roman god of war, is the same as Ares. But, I’m curious, what is the connection between this dark city and ancient Rome and Ares?”
Everyone looked blankly at Fei Yifan, who was frowning and full of questions. I suddenly said with some difficulty: "This Nine Heavens City may not have been built by humans. Don't imagine that Li Qitong is the same as us."
Ordinary earthlings might be able to explain it by thinking of him as someone from another world."
Fei Fan was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said to me: "Yunlong, I find you are very interesting. Many things may really be explained by simply imagining them like you do. What you said is very interesting.
Yes, this Nine Heavens City is originally beyond human power."
Taoist Master Zengfan said at this time: "Don't discuss it anymore. In fact, these issues basically have no conflict with our mission. We are not here to study the Nine Heavens City. We entered the temple and found the passage to the Crystal City.
It’s the key to accomplishing the mission.”
Everyone nodded, and Fei Fan stood in front of the temple door first, and gently pressed the stone door of the temple with his hand. What surprised us all was that the stone door of the temple actually opened without any hindrance after Fei Fan pressed it.
Slowly slide inside.
Fei Fan was probably startled, and he quickly stepped back and stared at the opening door of the temple as if alert. After a few seconds, the stone door stopped sliding, and the temple became silent and dark.
After hesitating for a while, Fei Yifan slowly crossed the stone door with his ancient-colored dagger in hand and walked into the temple. We all followed behind and walked in.
The moment we entered the temple, there was suddenly a spinning vibration. We all hesitated and were unprepared. We were all shaken to the ground. For a moment, dust, vibrations, and loud noises made us all stunned.
I fell into panic, and the entire temple was like a wind-up alarm clock, constantly turning and swinging, making it impossible for any of us to even stand up.
I don’t know how long it took, probably more than ten minutes, but the surroundings finally gradually became quiet. When we stood up in embarrassment and panic, and patted the dust on our bodies, we discovered that although the entire temple had stopped shaking, it was still open by opening the door.
Looking at the constantly moving cliff outside the temple gate, we had a premonition that the entire temple was slowly descending, which surprised us all.
What surprised us even more was that the lights suddenly lit up on both sides of the entire temple. Only then did everyone see that there were more than a dozen bronze wolf-head-shaped lamps placed on both sides of the temple, and the walls on both sides were carved.
There are gray-black reliefs, and the patterns on them are somewhat blurred due to the passage of time. On the front of the temple is a stone altar, with only a human-shaped statue with a wolf head on it.
Fei Fan collected himself, walked to the altar, and carefully observed this strange statue. Suddenly he turned back and said to us: "This sculpture is indeed the ancient Roman god of war, Ares."
I frowned and then said, "Could it be that Ares is also from another world?"
Taoist Master Zengfan interrupted abruptly: "Then what is his relationship with Li Qitong?"
I shook my head, and suddenly I felt a sudden confusion in my mind. It seemed that there were a lot of things turning over and over in my mind, and I seemed to want to remember them, but then they disappeared again.
At this moment, there was a sudden loud noise, and then the whole temple shook and shook for a while, and then seemed to stand still.
Fei Fan said: "It seems that this temple has dropped to the bottom of the cliff. Maybe when we go out we will see another magical city - the Crystal City."
Taoist Master Zengfan snorted coldly, shook his head and said: "If this Dark City is just a passage leading to the Crystal City without any danger, then it is not one of the Nine Heavens Cities. Everyone thinks
I want to see, as we walk along the way, assuming that the Golden City is the entrance, there are human-skinned wooden figures, and the Thousand Coffins Array; there are water monsters and plesiosaurs in the volcanic lake, and drought demons, and map traps in Heavy Water City; how can this dark city have no obstacles?
Let us pass?"
Fei Fan argued: "Didn't we also encounter insect pots and wolves in the stone forest? It's just because I understand the Gu Nanzhao technique and broke the "cup corpse" to lure the wolves, and I know the wolf language.
It’s just a narrow escape.”
Just as Fei Fan finished his words, a shrill howl of a wolf suddenly came from outside the temple, followed by the howling of a pack of wolves in response.
I smiled bitterly and said to Fei Yifan: "Senior Fei, it seems you are right. Those wolves are the guardians of the Dark City, but they are unwilling to let us go."
At this time, Taoist Master Zengfan said to Fei Yifan with a hint of sarcasm: "Fei Yifan, please go out of the palace and use your proficient wolf language to communicate with the wolf king. We are all waiting for you.
information."
Fei Fan lowered his head and shook his head in despair. Just as he was about to say something, Zhang Li suddenly screamed: "A wolf has come in!"
Everyone hurriedly looked at the entrance of the temple. Sure enough, a giant gray wolf was standing at the entrance of the temple with its blood-red eyes staring at it. Behind it, there seemed to be several wolves preparing to squeeze into the temple.
Meng Xingliang had quick eyesight and quick hands, and the gun in his hand rang out. The giant wolf screamed and fell to the ground. Fei Fan then shouted: "Don't shoot, close the door quickly!"
But it was already too late, as a gray shadow at the door rushed towards Pang Xiaotai who was holding a submachine gun like lightning, and several other gray shadows also appeared in the hall.
Before Meng Xingliang had time to turn his gun back, the giant wolf that pounced on him had already exposed its sharp white teeth in its mouth and headed straight for his throat in the air.
At this moment, Jiao Yiming next to him roared, and the long stick in his hand drew a bright light at lightning speed and hit the wolf's head. He heard a low howl, and the wolf
The wolf rolled in the air and fell to the ground of the temple.
At this time, everyone had reacted. Those with guns in their hands opened fire on the giant wolves that had entered the temple. The "chugging" tongues of fire immediately killed all the giant wolves that had just entered the temple.
They also sealed the entire palace gate, and several wolves that had just appeared outside the palace gate were killed on the spot.
It is said that wolves are cunning animals, and this is true at all. Once a few wolves in the temple and at the entrance of the temple died, other wolves no longer dared to approach the temple gate. A few of us swarmed up and quickly closed the stone door of the temple.
The howl of wolves could be heard faintly outside the temple. Looking at the giant wolves lying on the ground, the frightening scene just now made us all feel frightened. The wolves may not be scary. We can deal with them with the modern weapons in our hands.
It's more than enough, but once a pack of hundreds of wolves surrounds us and fight hand to hand, we won't be able to withstand it at all.
After a moment of silence, Instructor Shui raised his face and asked, "Uncle Master, Senior Fei, what should we do now?"
We all looked at Taoist Master Zengfan and Fei Yifan. At this time, I saw Fei Yifan looking at several giant wolf bodies lying on the ground, seemingly in a trance.
Seeing that Fei Yifan was silent, Taoist Master Zengfan smiled and said to us: "These wolves are actually not scary. Just now our modern weapons can kill them easily, which shows that these wolves are not much different from our common wolves."
The big difference is that the body is slightly larger.”
At this time, I heard Fei Fan suddenly interrupting Taoist Zengfan's words: "You are all too naive! These giant wolves indeed only lived in North America and parts of Europe 10,000 years ago.
An extinct wolf-like animal called dire wolf. You can see that they are larger than modern wolves, with thinner and shorter limbs, longer fur, and more like hyenas. But their jaw structure
They are very large, so they have the ability to crush bones. These dire wolves are actually not expert hunters, they are scavengers."
Speaking of this, Fei Fan nervously glanced at the wolf corpses on the ground again, and continued: "Do you still remember that I used a gun to smash the stones in the stone forest, and some humanoid objects fell out from them? In fact,
Those things are the corpses of ancient Nanzhao people thousands of years ago. The stone-like things wrapped outside are not actually stones, but some materials similar to modern gypsum. The ancient Nanzhao barbarians have a witchcraft called "shrouding corpses".
"Technique" is generally used to preserve corpses so that they will not rot for thousands of years. However, it is also used to prevent tomb robberies, which is the kind we saw in the Stone Forest. In fact, it is not a stone forest, but a "corpse forest", and every huge stone in it is
They are all wet corpses. The method of making them is to wrap the corpse with a substance similar to today's plaster after death, and then when it is almost dry, many holes are made on the outside and the poison is put inside.
A certain kind of cup worm that is dormant due to witchcraft. This shrouding technique not only prevents the body of the deceased from decaying, but the cup worm will also resurrect under certain circumstances and attack corpse and tomb robbers."
After saying this, Fei Fan once again looked at the corpses of the wolves on the ground with a strange expression, and said worriedly: "I don't know what kind of medium these cupworms are resurrected and spread. I hope it's not through these wolves."
I have a bad feeling that these wolves were killed so easily by us, as if they were a trap."
The little clerk asked with some confusion: "Senior Fei, we don't understand how what you are talking about has anything to do with our current situation? What kind of worm, what kind of trap."
Fei Fan smiled bitterly and said: "There are many ethnic minorities in Yunnan. Among them, there are Yi, Miao, Bai, Hani, Dai, Lisu, Lahu, Wa, Naxi, Jingpo, Brown, Pumi, Achang, Nu, Jinuo and De'ang.
There are as many as 17 such as Dulong and Dulong, and there are even more other small groups. The ancient Nanzhao barbarians are the collective name of these ethnic groups. As a traditional witchcraft of ethnic minorities, there are many kinds of tricks, including the light insect cup technique.
There are thousands of species. Various ways of getting into the cup, and the media (methods) that cause the occurrence of cupworms all have their own characteristics. We don’t know what media caused the cupworms we encountered in the stone forest. I hope they are not parasitic.
Law. In other words, I hope it is not inhabiting those Nanzhao wet corpses and then being eaten by these giant wolves and triggering resurrection."
Instructor Shui looked at Fei Yifan with some surprise and said: "Senior Fei, what do you mean, this giant wolf may become the vector of gourd worms? Will it trigger the resurrection of these gourd worms?"
Fei Fan nodded gloomily. We all looked at the wolf corpses on the ground that were still quiet and had no changes. We all felt a little creepy. If it is true as he said, those worms are inside the bodies of these giant wolves.
If it is triggered and resurrected, no one can imagine what the consequences will be.
Everyone's eyes began to fixate on the corpses of several giant wolves on the ground of the temple. Suddenly, all the lamps on both sides of the temple flickered as if they had run out of oil, and the light in the temple suddenly dimmed a lot.
.
Just when all of our eyes were dazzled by the flickering of the lamp, the wolf corpses on the ground suddenly changed. For some reason, the long gray hairs on their bodies seemed to stand on end.
It started to shake, and there was some slight shaking.
Fei Yifan's expression changed and he shouted: "No!" We all felt a little bit in our hearts. Could it be that the Gu worm really used the wolf corpse as a medium to be triggered?