When I suddenly looked up at the mountain wall, there was only half an empty rope swaying in the wind, and Si Ruo had already disappeared.
"Si Ruo... Si Ruo..." At that time, I no longer cared that I was still in danger, nor did I care whether I would attract the demon servants in the building. I only knew that I was shouting Si Ruo's name like crazy.
"Stop shouting!" Ye Xun said in a deep voice behind me: "Si Ruo was probably just arrested."
I looked blankly at Ye Xun, who was also standing in the water. The latter raised his hand and pointed to the broken part of the rope: "See for yourself where there is a rope in the water. Si Ruo deliberately took the rope away to imply that she fell into the opponent's hands. "
We used a professional climbing rope, which is not only extremely strong but also has a certain weight. It will never be washed away by the stream at this speed. The lack of rope in the water can only prove that Si Ruo took away the broken rope.
I still felt uneasy, so I found a change in the water before turning around and boarding the other side.
I looked up at the pyramid-like buildings in the distance, took a deep breath and said, "Let's go!"
It's not that I don't want to sneak into the building in front of me quietly, but that I have no possibility of sneaking in. I have yelled and yelled, and there is no point in trying to cover up. It is better to walk in grandly, at least with the momentum of a rainbow. .
When Ye Xun and I strode to the stairs with our sword hilts on our waists, we saw five two-headed demon servants standing on the edge of the stairs. The leading demon servant opened its four bloody eyes at the two of us at the same time. With a gentle sweep, he bent down and made a gesture of invitation, but the other two demon servants simultaneously bowed their bodies and showed off two soft sedan chairs that looked like sliding poles.
After Ye Xun and I looked at each other, we stood up and sat on the sedan. The two demon servants lifted the sedan and walked step by step to the top of the building.
When I quietly observed the other party's footsteps, I found that the demon servant was not walking in a straight line, but changed its direction every time it passed a certain distance. The steps that could have gone straight up and down looked unusually winding under their feet.
Is there a mechanism on the steps? Otherwise, the demon servant would not move back and forth like this.
I couldn't help but move my body, wanting to see where the demon servant had settled, but before I could lower my head, I sat back down with a dumbfounded smile. If the owner of the building wanted to kill me, I would forget it. What if the escape route is blocked? Experts like the man in red have fallen silently into the hands of the other party, let alone me and Ye Xun.
After I calmly sat back in the sedan, I heard Ye Xun tap the armrest of the sedan a few times.
When I looked up, I saw multiple bronze statues with a human face and a fish body and nine heads on the steps.
Cang Si? That should be the water monster recorded in "Lun Heng": "Cang Si is a beast in the water, good at capsizing people's boats... When it appears, it has nine heads on its body, and people are afraid of it."
What really makes me feel chilly is not the lifelike statue, but the pale face. If it only has one head, isn't it the Ghost-faced Mackerel we encountered under the Gushan Secret Cave
When I looked at Ye Xun in shock, the latter also nodded slightly. He also doubted whether Cang Si was related to Ghost Faced Shark.
When I passed the statue of Cang Si, I tapped it twice with my hands. The demon servant who was carrying us suddenly let out a roar, loosened his hands and threw the soft sedan to the ground.
I was shocked and reached out to hold the handle of the knife, but there was a woman's roar from the top of the steps: "How presumptuous!"
The four demon servants knelt on the ground at the same time and kowtowed. It was not until they found that no one was talking that they carefully lifted the soft sedan and walked up the steps again.
I didn't feel relieved until I was sure that there was nothing strange about the four demon servants.
I have just judged from the echo of the statue that the craftsmanship of the statue is exactly the same as that of the bronze pillars in the Gushan Secret Cave, and it may even be written by the same person.
Although Sichuan and Yunnan are not thousands of miles apart, they belonged to two countries in the pre-Qin era. They were both under the rule of ethnic minorities at that time, and had completely different beliefs and customs. Who could continuously cast two bronze secret caves across thousands of miles?
Is it from the Yanshi lineage
There are also mechanisms in the Gushan Secret Cave. Although they are not as exquisite as the mechanisms in the Maze City, they are still breathtaking. Even the power of the engine is similar, except that one of them used a giant python and the other used a demon servant.
Just when I was thinking wildly, a shadow suddenly came over my head. When I looked up, a phoenix with nine human heads - Jiu Feng - appeared on the steps.
Another nine-headed statue
Just a moment later, one after another nine-headed statues appeared in front of me, Kaiming Beast, Xiangliu, Jiuying... These strange beasts recorded in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" were all shaped into bronze statues, one after another. The layers are placed on the steps.
I suddenly realized that this was not the stronghold of the descendants of Yanshi, but the base of the evil sect’s warlocks, or rather a temple.
The man in red was right. This group of warlocks believed that immortality and even the power to fly into the sky and escape from the earth came from human heads. The more heads they brought, the greater their power, so they worshiped all the legendary nine heads. Creatures, whether gods or monsters.
The information obtained by the man in red must have paid an extremely heavy price. The corpses in the stream were probably the detectives who sneaked into this temple. They brought back the information, but they stayed in the stream outside the temple forever.
I had just touched the god that the demon servant worshiped, and the demon servant would naturally be furious. If not for the suppression of that woman, they would have pounced on me and tore me into pieces.
Just as my thoughts were racing, four demon servants had already led me to the door of the top hall. The demon servant put down the soft sedan and crawled to the ground, slowly moving on his knees and retreating to the bottom of the steps. And I also saw the statue of the Emperor standing in the middle of the hall.
The Nine-Headed Human Emperor sitting in the heart of the hall is the ultimate object of worship for the warlock. However, the majestic statue of the Human Emperor has only eight heads like the Nine Infants, and the middle head has been replaced by a bronze coffin.
I stood up and raised my hands to the coffin and said, "Wang Huan, the magic hand, has met the senior."
"You can call me Qin Siyue." The female voice came from the coffin. Although it was not loud, it was so loud that it made me feel like the other party was standing next to me talking.
Is she Qin Siyue? But I don't know what to say for a while
Qin Siyue said as if talking to old friends: "Does everything in front of you feel strange?"
"Yes!" I simply stood there and looked up at the coffin unscrupulously: "If you don't mind, senior, please help me clear up my doubts."
"Let me think about where to start with this matter." Qin Siyue only said one sentence and then stopped.
Although I couldn't see Qin Siyue's expression, I instinctively felt that Qin Siyue seemed to be looking outside the hall, passing her thoughts through countless years.
After a while, Qin Siyue said: "You have the word sect now, right?"
"Yes!" I nodded: "According to the dictionary's explanation, sect is the collective name of martial arts types and sects."
Qin Siyue said: "In the era I lived in, there were no sects of warlocks, or even decent organizations. I don't know what to call the warlocks here. Let's call them the Nine Heads Sect!"
Qin Siyue continued: "In the past countless years, I have been looking for the secret of immortality. Wherever there is such news, I will investigate it, whether it is true or false. Even if there is a trace of clues, I I also want to take a look and give it a try, even the secret realm of Kunlun where the legendary Queen Mother of the West lives is no exception."
Qin Siyue's words revealed to me that she was not from the Qin Dynasty, and she might have lived longer than that.
If what she said is true, she may be the earliest Exploring Hand. Even before the name Exploring Hand appeared, she had already begun to explore the mythical restricted areas.
Although I was shocked in my heart, I listened calmly on the surface.
Qin Siyue continued: "When Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng was looking for the elixir of immortality, I broke into the Qin Palace, but I couldn't find what I wanted."
"It wasn't until Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty wanted to seek immortality again that I heard that there was another person in the world who was pursuing immortality with nine heads. That person also came to Liu Che to offer him the method of immortality, but Liu Che thought it was The evil magic almost killed the other party. After the man left in frustration in the palace of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he stayed in Chang'an for a while, and I followed the clues he left in Chang'an to find this place."
"Wait a minute!" I suddenly interrupted Qin Siyue: "Senior, since you have already passed the era of Emperor Qin and Emperor Wu of Han, aren't you already immortal? Do you still need to seek the way to immortality?"
Qin Siyue smiled and said: "Someone has asked me about this matter. I can only tell you that I am not seeking the art of immortality for myself. Moreover, even I can't explain why I am immortal. Immortal. Can you understand?"
Although Qin Siyue's words were full of contradictions, I could generally understand what she meant.
It's just that I didn't completely believe it.
Her words themselves are a contradiction. How could a person who can live forever not know the reason for his immortality? Doesn't she even know what she has experienced
Qin Siyue meant that she was looking for the elixir of immortality for others. If that person had not taken the elixir of immortality, he would have turned into a pile of withered bones. Qin Siyue should be looking for the elixir of life. If that person has not died for hundreds of years, what is the point of Qin Siyue looking for the elixir of immortality for a person who has achieved immortality
However, it would be meaningless for Qin Siyue to lie to me about this matter. She already has an absolute advantage, so why bother