Among the eight people who stayed, there were six boys. Once they could no longer bear the psychological pressure and decided to sacrifice human beings to enter the gate, Dong Xiaowei and Zhang Shu were the most likely to become sacrifices.
Dong Xiaowei wanted to say something, but I smiled at her, turned around and walked down the stone steps.
We walked until the firelight on the platform was no longer visible, and then Ye Xun said, "Wang Huan, why do I think we are turning left?"
"Yes, we are going to the left." I said with certainty. "Not long after we came down, the stairs turned. If I am not mistaken, we should be walking under the sacrificial well. Didn't you bring a lighter? Well, please shine a bright light and put out the fire quickly if there is any trouble."
Ye Xun took out a lighter and looked around, and then I saw that the corridor we had just come down had turned into a circular staircase around the mountain wall.
To my right was the rock face of the Lonely Mountain, and to my left was the dark abyss. I tried to look down, but there was nothing there but endless darkness.
Ye Xun, who was holding a lighter, suddenly said, "There is a fire tank there, I'll light it."
I just wanted to stop Ye Xun, but I hesitated subconsciously.
I obviously felt that it would be safer not to light a fire in a place like this, but subconsciously I hoped to use the light of fire to dispel the fear in my heart.
I only hesitated for a moment before Ye Xun lit the fire tank. I couldn't help but gasp as the raging fire spiraled down around the cave.
The moment the fire started, the first thing I saw was a bronze pillar leading directly to the top of the cave. I didn't see clearly how high that pillar was. What I saw most clearly was the giant black-scaled python coiled at the bottom of the pillar.
The python, which is thick enough for a person, has survived in the cave for who knows how many years, and what it relies on to sustain its life. It is still living in the cave after being abandoned in the Mysterious Cave of Gushan for countless years.
The moment Ye Xun lit the light, the python moved its body and raised its head from the bottom of the pillar. I quickly pulled Ye Xun and hid under the fire tank.
If Ye Xun hadn't lit the fire, he might not have woken up the giant python, but the moment the fire started, it would have woken up from its sleep, and soon it would be ready to hunt.
I probably remember reading in some book that snakes have almost zero vision. They can detect and quickly capture prey dozens of meters away in the dark entirely by sensing the heat on the prey.
What really woke up the python was not the light of fire surrounding the cave, but the temperature brought about by the fire.
I don't know if the temperature of the fire tank can cover up the body temperature of Ye Xun and I, but it is much safer than running out randomly and being tracked and killed by pythons.
Ye Xun leaned next to me and quickly pulled out the long knife: "What should I do now?"
"I don't know." I said with a livid face, "Can our knife kill that snake?"
Ye Xun looked at me for a while before shaking his head. Just after a while, there was a sound of snake scales rubbing against the stairs below the cave - the python had climbed up the stairs. I watched the rocks pushed open by the snake's body rolling down the cave, but I didn't dare to move at all.
We can't outrun a snake in a place like this. Once it spots us, both of us will die.
I held the long knife tightly: "The snake will come up in a while, you go first, I will cut it off..."
"Fart!" After Ye Xun scolded me, he took out the wine bottle from his pocket and poured it into his mouth.
"Are you crazy?" I was immediately stunned by Ye Xun's actions. If he drinks alcohol now, isn't it equivalent to raising his body temperature? Does he want to use himself as bait
I was about to grab Ye Xun's wine bottle, but he said coldly: "Take your hand away. I really want to help, but when it comes to desperate times, just don't run away."
Ye Xun was right. There is no point in arguing about this at this time, and there is no need to even be moved by anything. When it comes to life and death, it is true that we can fight together.
I put down my hand, moved a little, held the long knife tightly and moved to the edge of the stairs. This position is just right for him to support each other.
Not long after I had squatted down, I suddenly heard Zhang Shu shouting from above the cave: "What are you doing? Wang Huan and the others will be back soon... Don't arrest me! Please don't arrest me... Zhang Hao, you don't like me." Really? Just let me go! I can do whatever you want... If you want it, I can give it to you right now... "
Oops!
What I was most worried about happened. My classmates really wanted to sacrifice people!
When I suddenly raised my head and looked up in the air, Zhang Shu had fallen from a round hole on the roof of the cave—that should be the bottom of the sacrificial well.
"Ah-" When Zhang Shu's scream was still echoing in the air, the python that had climbed up the stairs suddenly turned around, stood up half of its body from the stairs, and bit Zhang Shu in the air.
Before Zhang Shu even hit the ground, a python bit his feet and dragged him to the stairs. Zhang Shu, who had not yet been swallowed by the python, dug his hands into the gap in the steps and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Wang Huan, save me, save me quickly—"
When I was about to get up, Ye Xun stretched out his hand to block me back: "You can't save her. Even if you snatch her from the snake's mouth, she can't be saved. Give her a ride!"
Ye Xun took out an arm crossbow from the guitar case and stuffed it into my hand: "You have good eyesight, come on."
When I gritted my teeth and pointed the arm crossbow at Zhang Shu, the latter also saw my action: "Wang Huan, fuck you! You are not human! If it weren't for the travel voucher you brought, would we be in this situation? These things You arranged everything, right? You just want to trick us into dying... "
Zhang Shu's words immediately made my head buzz, as if something suddenly flashed in my mind, but I couldn't find the key point. My hands holding the crossbow couldn't help but pause.
The python that swallowed Zhang Shu ignored the other party's screams and still swallowed her inch by inch. After Zhang Shu's hands dug into the cracks of the stone were stretched into a straight line by the python, his ten fingers were broken one after another... It wasn't until Zhang Shu was dragged away from the stairs by the snake that he held up a pair of bloody palms and screamed. Said: "Wang Huan, you are a beast, Dong Xiaowei is also a bitch, both of you will die badly! I am a ghost..."
I suddenly raised the crossbow arrow, pointed it at Zhang Shu, and pulled the spring. The arrow that shot through the air instantly penetrated Zhang Shu's eyebrows. After scarlet blood exploded from her face, Zhang Shu's body hung by the python's mouth with a dead look.
I watched Zhang Shu being completely swallowed by the python. The python with human-shaped scales on its body slowly retreated to the bottom of the copper pillar, coiled its body tightly around the pillar a few times, and began to slowly move towards the pillar. Tightened.
When bursts of crisp sounds of human bones being broken reached my ears through the snake skin, the copper pillar that reached the sky began to slowly rotate under the entanglement of the python, and soon there was a "click" from the top of the cave. "There was a crisp sound.
The door is open
I didn't react until then. It turns out that the sacrifice in the mural is to feed the python with living people. Once the python wraps around the copper pillar and squeezes its prey, the copper pillar will start to rotate, and the bronze door above will naturally open.
Since the bronze door requires a python to turn the stone pillar to open, what does the other mural mean? I don't believe that just a key can open a door that requires a huge twist to open.
When I looked up at the roof of the cave, the rotating bronze pillars suddenly stopped, and Zhang Hao's gloomy voice came from the direction of the well mouth: "The door is just open so far? No one of us can get in! Dong Dong Throw Xiao Wei down!"
"No! Don't come here..." When Dong Xiaowei screamed, I suddenly stood up from the ground: "Zhang Hao, how dare you touch Dong Xiaowei, I will go up and tear you alive!"
"Wang Huan, help!" Dong Xiaowei's scream seemed to be far away from the cave entrance.
The python had just swallowed a person and could not eat again immediately. I no longer worried that it would rush up to eat me, and immediately ran straight up the stairs with an arm crossbow. Ye Xun also rushed up the stairs closely behind me.
As I gradually moved closer to the cave platform, the firelight behind me began to get weaker and weaker. When Ye Xun and I rushed to the invisible staircase again, I quickly lowered my voice and said, "Ye Xun, please keep some distance from me and be careful."
After Ye Xun was stunned for a moment, he immediately stepped back quietly. I simply closed my eyes and ran up the stairs. After the sound of my footsteps was gathered by the cave, my hearing began to weaken rapidly. The faster I ran, the smaller the sounds I could hear. When the only sounds left in my ears were the footsteps of Ye Xun and I, I suddenly took out the fox bell from my body and held it in front of my eyes. I suddenly opened my eyes and glanced around with the cold light on the fox bell. go.
The entire corridor seemed empty, but the moment I opened my eyes, I still saw a drop of liquid falling from the roof.
I was holding the fox bell and slowly bowed to look at the ground. The arm crossbow in my hand suddenly turned around and fired two arrows directly above my head. Before the sound of the first arrow hitting the rock wall had subsided, the muffled sound of the second arrow piercing the body suddenly came.
As soon as the sound of the crossbow hitting the target reached my ears, I jumped forward in a bowed posture and rolled forward. Just as I stabilized my body, there was a muffled sound of a heavy object falling to the ground behind me.
I pulled out my long knife, turned around, and stabbed him behind me. The blade passed through the human-shaped black shadow behind me, and Ye Xun's Miao Dao also penetrated through the black shadow. After we pierced our opponent one after another, we stood up in unison and lifted the man in the air.
Only then did I see the other person's appearance clearly...