Ye Xun seemed to have seen what I was thinking, and before I could speak, he spoke first: "Let's go to the center of the Nine Palaces Array first. There may be some clues there."
As soon as I nodded, I was pulled towards the formation by Ye Xun. Ye Xun quietly transmitted a message to me: "I know you are suspicious of Yu Feng. Please don't make any announcement. I always feel that the layout here does not look like Yu Feng's. Feng’s style. Don’t mess up your thoughts first.”
I pretended not to hear and turned my head in the direction of Douduo's coffin. I felt a little relieved when I saw that the coffin over there was still intact.
Ye Xun sighed lowly at this moment and quickened his pace. Before we even reached the edge of the middle Gu pit, we saw a lying body.
Li Binning rushed to the body in a few steps: "Old Wang?"
That was the detective who took the lead in trying to control me after Li Binning disappeared.
Although the man was lying on the ground, his head was forcibly pushed behind his back, his right hand that was pressed to his side was tightly grasped into the mud, and his left hand was twisted and pinned behind his back. If I'm not mistaken, he was attacked from behind.
The detective hand once fell into the Gu pit behind him. After landing, he broke out of the encirclement for some reason and fled to the compartment between the two Gu pits. As a result, someone caught up with him from behind and cut off one of his arms. One arm pushed the man to the ground and broke his neck from behind.
Li Binning opened the palm of the corpse that was pressing on the ground, and I saw a crushed test tube hidden in the palm of the man's hand.
Before he died, the man should have been running forward with the test tube in his hand. It was not until he was killed that he crushed the test tube in his hand under the severe pain.
Although I could smell the faint aroma coming from the test tube, I couldn't tell what it was.
When I looked at Li Binning, the latter also shook his head.
Ye Xun, who had been standing next to us, said at this moment: "My estimate is indeed correct. There is an underground secret door in every Gu pit."
I have long seen the secret door in the center of the Gu Pit. Along the way we walked, we could see an iron door built flat on the ground in every Gu pit. The stairs behind the door went all the way into the ground, but we didn't know where it led.
If I guessed correctly, the Gu insects that were raging in the Gu pit should have been introduced to the secret door in the Gu pit by some kind of signal.
Li Binning followed the traces on the ground to the edge of the secret door: "Old Wang ran out of the door. He should have followed someone down the secret door, and was chased after being discovered by the other party."
"Give me the telescope." I walked to the edge of the Nine Palaces Diagram, raised my telescope and looked in the direction of the Five Poison Sect General Altar.
The pavilions and pavilions of the Five Poison Sect are still hidden in the clouds and mist, and what can be seen is still only the tip of the iceberg of the Five Poison Palace.
Not far from where I was, there was a water grassland connected to the Five Poisons Hall. Someone used a knife to move the weeds on the ground and tried it twice: "There is a quagmire hidden under the grass. It is difficult to walk!"
The swamp covered by Asakusa is extremely dangerous. No one knows whether they will step into the mire and get stuck in the quagmire next. What's more, ahead is the Five Poison Sect's General Altar, which is famous for its poisons. The word "Five Poisons" alone determines that this swamp is a poisonous insect area that no strangers should enter.
While I was deep in thought, Li Binning, who connected two long knives together, gently pushed aside a patch of weeds in the distance, revealing a two-foot-square stone: "The stone here should be a place for people to stay. ?”
Although the stone was covered with moss, traces of manual polishing could still be seen. If there is a similar arrangement nearby, it means that the Five Poison Sect once piled stones in the swamp to create a passage for people to enter and exit.
"I'm going to take a look." A detective found a wooden stick nearby and tied it to the handle of the knife. He jumped on the stone with a long knife and tentatively pushed aside the nearby weeds. Two meters away from him, Sure enough, an identical stone was exposed in the place.
The man hit the stone with his knife several times before jumping over...
After the man jumped more than ten meters in the same way, he stopped again. However, the stone under his feet moved him a few feet to the left without any warning. The man was caught off guard and almost fell into the mud. inside. When he stabilized his body, round stone pillars, like poisonous insects intent on preying on prey, appeared one after another in the Asakusa where they were hiding, and surrounded him from all directions.
At the same time, the stone pier stepped on by the man also sank into the muddy water at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The man panicked for a moment, stepping on the rocks and moving back and forth, but he didn't know where to jump.
"Hold on!" Li Binning roared urgently, rushed to the water's edge in a few steps, and quickly calculated the direction of the rocks, "Go left, jump to the eleven o'clock direction, and jump to the back after a stone pier. go."
Li Binning meant that he should not touch the stone pier directly in front of him and fall farther away. This distance is about four meters, which is extremely difficult for ordinary people to achieve. However, for those who have practiced Qinggong, it is not difficult to cross the distance of four meters as long as there is a place to borrow strength.
When the man suddenly exerted his strength, he jumped up with a wooden stick in his hand. He raised the stick in mid-air and pointed it at the stone pier in front.
For a master, this strength is enough for him to use the wind to move forward again.
The man pointed the wooden stick at the stone pier, and Li Binning breathed a sigh of relief. But no one expected that the moment the end of the wooden stick came into contact with the stone pier, it was like a rubber band that was stretched to the extreme and then suddenly let go. It was drawn towards the person with a sound of wind, and wrapped around the other person's arm. It took two laps before it stopped.
At the same time, the head of the stick in the man's hand suddenly turned around, revealing two fangs shaped like hook blades, and bit the opponent's wrist fiercely.
The Detective Hand who was still in the air screamed and fell into the muddy water. He held the "wooden stick" wrapped around his body with both hands and struggled for a few times before being swallowed up by the rolling mud.
Just a moment later, I saw a black snake nearly two meters in diameter with the same thickness from front to back swimming out of the water, lying on the shore and slowly stretching its body. After stretching itself into a straight line, it gradually lay stiffly on the ground - Is this the wooden stick that the detective hand picked up just now to explore the way
I tentatively grabbed the "wooden stick" and waved it twice. From the feel of the hand, the appearance was no different from a broken branch. If I hadn't seen this "stick" turn into a snake and hurt people, , would also think it was a broken branch.
I simply threw the "wooden root" on the ground and chopped it down with a knife. Only when the blood spurted out did the severed black snake reveal its ferocity again, raised its head and screamed "Sisi".
The detective hands around me suddenly cut the black snake into several sections with knives, and there was a rustling sound in the nearby grass. When I looked back, more than a dozen "wooden sticks" had already twisted and swam into the muddy water. Among them, it mixed with the mud of the swamp and disappeared.
While I was frowning, I suddenly heard someone shouting: "Look over there, Lao Li... Lao Li's bones..."
I turned my head and looked in the direction where the Detective Hand sank into the mud. A white skeleton wearing the costume of the Detective Hand had already surfaced, sitting upright on the stone pier that he failed to jump over.
In addition to all the flesh and blood all over the body of the white bones, even the clothes were not damaged at all. The backpack was still on the body. For some reason, there were no scattered bones. He put his hands in front of him and sat cross-legged, looking straight ahead, as if he was waiting. The arrival of another companion.
"White bones lead the way!" Li Binning took a breath and said, "Brother Wang, have you heard of the white bones leading the way? That is a legend in Miao territory. In the eyes of the Miao people, not everyone can become a ghost. , people who die normally will return to the land of their ancestors, and only those who die evil will become evil ghosts."
"Legend has it that evil ghosts turned into bones often appear in the depths of mountains, rivers and swamps. People who see the bones leading the way will often follow the direction pointed by the bones until they enter the ghost gate, or..."
Li Binning stopped here, and I couldn't help but ask: "Or what?"
Li Binning said seriously: "Maybe he was guided by the bones to the gathering place of ghosts and gods, and thus received gifts from ghosts and gods."
I couldn't help but frown: "According to your statement, doesn't it mean that bones leading the way may not necessarily be a bad thing?"
Li Binning nodded and said: "Yes! Legend has it that only a wise and courageous person can find the land of ghosts and gods under the guidance of the bones, and come out alive to become a hero of the world."
While Li Binning was speaking, the stone pillar holding the human bones suddenly began to slowly rotate in a clockwise direction. It did not stop until the face of the bones was pointed at the two o'clock direction. The bones on the seat then stretched out their palms to point. far away.
The weeds there actually spread to the left and right under the pointing of the human bones. A stone pier slowly moved out from under the grass blades, and stopped in the water facing the human bones' white fingers.
At the same time, the human bones pointing the way suddenly collapsed in an instant, and pieces were scattered in the water. Only a backpack was left standing on the stone pier.
Li Binning said solemnly: "That's the bone making way for us. It means that we should step on the stone pier where he is and jump forward, and land where he guides us."
I looked at the two stone piers standing in the water and said: "The bones lead the way only once, or do they need to be done again every certain distance?"
"I don't know." Li Binning shook his head and said, "I also heard the legend told by a Miao Gu Master after he drank too much. Even he himself has never encountered the situation of bones guiding the way."
I pointed to the swamp in front of me and said: "This swamp is still five or six hundred meters away even if we go straight forward. Take it as five hundred meters. There are stone piers every two meters. How many lives do we have to pay to step through it all the way?" ?”
Li Binning shook his head and said: "It's really impossible to get through here. Then we can only take the secret passage in the Gu pit."
The secret passage under the Gu pit may not be safe either. All the Gu insects have retreated into the secret passage. If we go down, we will step into a nest of insects. How many of us can come out of it alive