Chapter 42: Take off

The red eyes were covered with beating blood, which looked strange and strange. As soon as I looked at it, I suddenly felt a soul withdrawing. I felt strong nausea and dizziness, and immediately turned my face.

Master Liang seemed to be in a bad mood, staring at the bloody eye without moving. I called him twice, but there was no reaction.

Master Liang said that the "Zhu Jiuyin" had a penis that was radiant from hell. I knew it was definitely wrong, so I quickly scooped up a rippling of water and rushed towards him.

But I don’t know if Zhu Jiuyin suddenly looked forward or something, but the pluck of water did not spill on Master Liang, but on Zhu Jiuyin’s head.

The splash that Zhu Jiuyin blew me was startled. When he closed his eyes, the snake's head shrank back and wanted to attack. I quickly pressed behind the bronze tree. The snake's head hit the bronze tree, bent all the branches. At this time, I thought of the backpack I brought from Lao Yang, and what might be the weapon inside, so I hurriedly turned the backpack to the front.

There must be no guns in his bag, but I remember there were a few detonators they used to blow up tomb walls. Now I am unarmed and have some powerful things to deter these things.

The Zhujiuyin bronze tree coiled around, and while I moved, I couldn't let it see me, I rolled up and crawled up, grabbed my backpack, and pulled it in.

The backpack was stuffed with things, I took out all the food and threw it into the water, and finally found the detonator I thought was. When I saw it, I couldn't help but be stunned. It was so careless when I looked at it just now. The sleepy thing turned out to be a black candle.

At this time, the snake's head had already poked over and saw me suddenly folding the snake's neck and making an attacking limb again.

The average attack speed of the snake is only one quarter of a second. Although this one is a little bigger, it is probably not much slower. I saw that it was over after delaying for another second, so I pulled up my backpack and jumped into the water.

But my falling speed was still too slow. Suddenly, a black shadow flashed, and the snake's head shot out bit me in the air. Then, the snake body rolled up and wanted to wrap me into his body.

My hands were touching my bag, and at this time, I suddenly felt the signal gun they used. My hands were very busy and he subconsciously pulled the trigger and knocked a big hole in the backpack. I don’t know if the signal flare exploded in the snake’s mouth. I just felt that the tiger’s mouth became hot, and then it was spinning.

I fell into the water with a "pop" and floated to the surface. I looked back. The signal flare in Zhu Jiuyin's mouth was emitting a hot white light, and the air was filled with the smell of candles. For some reason, blue smoke began to emerge from its whole body.

The oil in the snake's body is very easy to burn, otherwise the ancients would not have hunted it to make candles. But they didn't expect it to burn like this. What exactly is it flowing into its body?

Zhu Jiuyin was in extreme pain and could no longer care about us. He kept twisting his body. The huge tail bar slapped the rock. A huge crack had already appeared on the other side. He continued to slap it. Several small cracks spread out from one crack, and the entire mountain surface kept cracking, as if the entire cave might collapse.

I don’t know if Zhu Jiuyin will die so easily. I continued to flip the backpack, and there was no use anymore, and threw the backpack into the water. At this time, a sudden rushing water rolled underwater, and the pool water actually rushed towards the crack that Zhu Jiuyin hit.

There are many caves in the mountain here. It seems that the mountain behind the crack has been crashed through. I don’t know where the water has flowed. I took a look at the bronze ancient tree and went around to find Master Liang, but there was no trace. I saw the stones on it began to rush the water from the gushing out and collapsed quickly. Zhu Jiuyin danced like crazy and hurriedly leaned back. He was rolled into the gap along the water flow.

The gap was extremely deep and it was pitch black inside. Because it was a collapsed passage, the stones inside were very irregular, and the water flowed out many vortexes. I was spinning and ramming around inside, barely feeling that I should be drifting downstream.

After about ten minutes of turning, I suddenly felt free fall. Then I fell into the water and struggled to see. I found that the water had been brought to the underground river when I came. The water flow here was much faster than what we saw just now. It should be like Master Liang said that there was a heavy rain outside.

Although the water flows here very fast, it does not have as many vortexes in the cracks of the rocks. Moreover, the water is a little warm, so I was able to control my limbs and began to calculate the situation ahead.

This underground river goes from top to bottom, and I don’t know where it leads to. If it rushes directly into the underground dozens of meters deep, I really have nothing to say, but according to the direction when it came, if it did not change the direction in the middle of the journey, I guess it would rush to the river I passed when it came.

Of course, the premise is that the road goes smoothly. I looked nervously in front of me, for fear of some fork. At this time, a flash of light appeared from the corner of my eyes. I saw something engraved on the wall of the underground river.

Judging from the erosion of the rocks here, the history should be as old as this mountain. What is on it should not be carved from modern times. I saw an opportunity and grabbed a stone pillar hanging from the top, stopped my body, and shone it with a flashlight, and I was shocked.

On both sides of the river wall are all reliefs like the ones we saw in the coffin on the top of the bronze tree, and they are continuously painted. Some have collapsed, but most of them are still well preserved, with bright and smooth lines, flowing clothes, and each side is different, with vivid images and very dynamic.

At first glance, I knew that the plot was the process of ancient democratic tribute to the bronze tree. The scene was extremely vivid. On one of the reliefs was the huge bronze tree, full of slave corpses. The slave's blood flowed into the bronze tree and flowed down the gully above. There was a picture of them throwing the slave's corpses into the inside of the bronze tree.

A large part of the relief was submerged in the water, and everything at the bottom had been leveled with the water. It seemed that there was no water here when they were carving it.

Judging from the reliefs here, the scale of this kind of sacrificial bronze tree is very large. I kept looking at it, but the more I looked, the more strange it became. There are some scenes depicted by reliefs. It is different from the sacrifice, and I can't understand it.

There is a relief sculpture that shows the situation where the ancestors poured some liquid into the bronze tree in ancient times. Then the next one, there is a "Zhu Jiuyin" that is exactly the same as what I saw just now. Many ancestors wearing warriors surrounded it with bows and arrows and spears, which is obviously a hunting scene.

According to what I just understood, this bronze tree should be a special symbol of divine power in ancient times. The "Zhu Jiuyin" in the bronze tree was a kind of dragon in ancient times. In some notes and novels, "Zhu Jiuyin" was even raised to the same height as Pangu, and it should be worshipped by people as a divine beast. How could people here hunt it?

I continued to look down, hoping to see the answer from behind, and there were some ritual contents behind. I could see that all the ancestors were wearing masks. Their faces were dull, but in each relief, there was always a man carving a very burly carving, looking at the costumes and expressions of the man. I can basically be sure that this man should be their leader, and it should be the original form of the statue I saw on the cliff of Jiazigou.

The bomb was blown away by the bomb at that statue. At that time, I always felt that something was wrong. But I never saw his head along the way. This time I could just look at it carefully.

I pulled the stalactite column on the top, stuck it into the rocks on the side, wiped off the stains on it, and looked over.

The image of the leader in the relief is almost twice as big as the others, just like a giant. If the carvings here are based on formal proportions, then the leader may really be so tall.

But what is bizarre is that on all these reliefs, the leader has a snake head on his neck, which doesn't look like he is wearing a mask or something.

Although I have some archaeological knowledge, I still have no idea about these things that require a lot of reading to accumulate. I only know from the surface meaning of these reliefs. I feel that Master Shangliang’s judgment at that time may be somewhat deviated. This bronze tree may not be used for sacrifices. It is used for some hunting ceremony, the sacrificial slaves. It may be the bait that leads "Zhu Jiuyin" from the ground.

I don’t know how deep the bronze tree goes deep into the ground. These “Zhu Jiuyin” should be living in extremely deep underground. Why is it not something I can think about living in that place for so long? I am just curious about why these ancestors set up such a large formation to hunt “Zhu Jiuyin”?

The relief did not give me the answer. I saw that in the end it was just some celebration scenes. How to deal with the "Zhu Jiuyin" being hunted up? It was not carved.

I already know the basic situation. After seeing the water level, I have a tendency to rise. I have to let go of my hands and continue to drift downwards with the water flow.

After so much time, the flashlight has become very dim, and finally it is so light that it has no effect of lighting. I simply turn it off and move with the flow in the darkness.

This period was very difficult. I washed down some small waterfalls several times. Although they were not fatal, they inevitably made me feel bruised and swollen. It took me several hours. I didn’t know what was around me or where I was going.

I gradually felt despair, and I didn’t know if I had turned or entered the fork just now. If I made a mistake in my judgment, I might be bringing it into the depths of the endless underground river now, and I don’t know where this river leads to. Will it rush to the strata of "Zhu Jiuyin" living?

What is that place? Let’s talk about it, will there be any emperor’s tombs built deep in the underground river? This is a good idea.

Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly saw a ray of light in front of me, which made me shake my whole body. Then I heard the rumbling sound of water. I was overjoyed and knew that it must have been an exit in front of me. I hadn't seen natural light for more than ten hours. I threw away my flashlight and swam forward.

My speed was very fast. In just a few minutes, a flash of eyes suddenly flashed before my eyes, and then a white light could not be seen. It was because of the dull visual sense that I had not seen the light for too long. I screamed in my heart, but when I killed that, a familiar feeling suddenly came from under me.

It's free fall again! It's another waterfall!

Moreover, judging from the force of the water rushing out and the sound coming from below, the waterfall must be quite large. I don’t know what is below. If the water is too shallow, then I will die in a bad way.

There was a whistling in my ears, and in the midst of lightning, before my vision could recover, I had already fallen into the water.
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