While Xia Qingqing and I were talking, the corridor in front began to gradually open up. It looked like a continuously opening trumpet, gradually leading to a large cave. Xia Qingqing said behind me: "Wang Huan, look on both sides. The wall…”
"What I saw was that the wall was blown open by someone." I had already noticed the walls on both sides of the corridor. There should have been extremely fierce battles here. The walls of the corridor seemed to have been bombarded many times by some force, which caused the result. This is now a gradually liberalizing situation.
Xia Qingqing said softly: "I'm not talking about the wall, I'm talking about over there..."
When I looked in the direction of Xia Qingqing's finger, my eyes stopped on a fist-sized hole.
I walked to the wall in a few steps and knocked twice around the hole with my dagger. The lumps of loess immediately fell down, and a sealed iron door was gradually revealed behind the lumps of earth.
The iron door embedded in the wall had long been sealed on the outside with loess. Judging from the thickness of the loess, it seemed that the people who sealed the door had almost built a wall outside the door. If someone hadn't dug out the half-foot-square ventilation hole in the middle of the door leaf and dug a hole in the wall, we would never have discovered that there was another mystery behind the wall.
I took the flashlight from Xia Qingqing and shined it into the door. There was only a long and narrow iron box like a coffin in the wall. At first glance, it looked like a drawer that had been pushed into the wall.
In fact, it was a cell, and there was only one scattered white skeleton in the whole cell.
The space in the cell, apart from allowing people to turn around, didn't even leave a place to relieve themselves.
I don't know how a prisoner in a cell can live in such a small place. But it can be seen that the deceased must have struggled desperately for a long time before his death, and even planned to dig an escape passage in the wall.
However, he was suffocated to death in the cell before he could find a chance to survive. Otherwise, his hand bones would not have been broken outside the body.
I was just about to turn around and leave, but then I changed my mind. I pulled out the Mietian sword and slashed the open lock on the outside of the iron door twice. I opened the prison and pulled out a Qing Dynasty official robe embroidered with a winged tiger.
"Sixth-grade military attache?" I couldn't help but frown. In the Qing Dynasty, official uniforms were distinguished by patterns on the patchwork. "Biao" represented the sixth-grade military attaché, and the embroidery on the patchwork of the sixth-grade civilian officer was an egret.
I quickly shined my flashlight into the cell, and sure enough there was still a note there, but the note, which was simply wrapped in oil paper, was already beyond recognition. Most of the content has been blurred, and all that can be seen is a few lines of handwriting: My official... Iron love... rush to the Xingxiu Sea...
My expression suddenly changed: Tie Qing told me about his past and present lives. He always suspected that he died in this cave in his previous life, and what came out was just his reincarnation. This Qing Dynasty military attache was also called Tie Qing
I quickly reached out and pulled out the bones of the corpse: "Count his fingers for me..."
"Nine...ten...eleven" Xia Qingqing said: "The deceased had a hand with six fingers."
"Is it really iron love?" When I was in Jianchi, I asked Mother Fox to help me check the information about iron love. Tieqing was born with six fingers. Later, in the Wugui Sect, people with one finger and six fingers were cut off and could not enter the thief's house, which would affect the flexibility of the fingers.
When I met Tie Qing in Xingxiu Sea, I took a special look at his right hand. There was indeed a scar on the edge of his palm.
I have not studied the legend of reincarnation carefully, but I have heard from older people that a person's appearance is determined by fate. Even if he is reincarnated, he will still be exactly the same. What he looked like in his previous life will remain the same in this life, and it will definitely not change.
I held a pile of finger bones and was silent for a long time before raising my head and saying, "Go back and find Tie Qing's body."
Before I finished speaking, there was an explosion on the wall of the corridor.
A prison cell embedded in the wall was blasted from the inside out. The clods of earth on the wall flew flying under the bombardment of the cell door. It can be seen how powerful it was to burst out of the wall
My body just paused, and cracks appeared one after another on the wall, and countless clods of soil flew down like a heavy rain.
When the pieces of rubble fell into the water, the doors of the iron cells suddenly opened, and the blood inside the cells protruded, as if something could break out of the prison at any time with its eyes wide open.
I only paused for a second, then picked up Xia Qingqing and ran towards the front of the corridor.
Now, we can no longer return along the original path. The cave where Tieqing died is too small. The result of our rushing back is to get stuck in the tunnel and defend it. There are hundreds of open cell doors on the wall. How long can the two of us hold on
I could only give up looking for Tie Qing's body and choose to break out deep into the cave. Maybe there was a glimmer of hope there.
After I pulled Xia Qingqing and ran a distance of more than ten meters, I saw a pair of almost dry hands stretched out from a cell. The other person used his five fingers to grab the sides of the cell and suddenly exerted force, pulling his figure towards Outside the prison door.
It wasn't until the other party leaned half out of the cell that I could see clearly what it was. It was clearly a dried mermaid.
The opponent looked like a mummified monkey from the top of his head to his shoulders. Although he could still see the figure, he looked ferocious and terrifying. The two fangs exposed outside his lips and the head of yellow and fluffy hair made him look like an evil spirit coming out of his cage. Extremely cold.
Those mummies had fish shapes from the chest down, with dried yellow croaker scales as big as half a palm, starting from the chest and extending behind the opponent.
In just a moment, the screeching sound of fish scales rubbing against the cell was heard one after another in the air, and dried fish fell into the water one after another.
"Swim! Hurry up!" I pushed Xia Qingqing hard and pushed her into the water.
Although the water in the cell was only waist deep, it was enough to reduce our speed to a minimum. If we swam in the water, we might be faster.
Xia Qingqing was like a mermaid when she entered the water. She rushed out a few meters with the current, but I turned my head and looked in the direction where the dried fish fell into the water.
After those dried fish fell into the water, they did not jump out immediately, but all dived into the water. The only thing I could see was the bubbles rising on the water.
Are those dried fish absorbing water
After this idea came out of my head, even I was shocked.
I can't believe that those dried fish that have been banned for who knows how long can absorb water and regenerate, but the facts are exactly as I guessed.
After I swam two distances in the water, I saw a figure that looked like an ape with bloody eyes and fangs standing upright from the water. Palm-sized fish scales covered the opponent's body like heavy armor. The layers of scales were illuminated by the flashlight. There were bursts of cold light coming from below.
"Let's go!" After I caught up with Xia Qingqing, I forced her into a rock crack that was only large enough for one person to enter and exit.
The crack was still five or six meters away from the normal exit of the cave, and I couldn't tell whether it was a stone crack split due to geological changes or a passage deliberately dug by someone. But I know that the crack in the wall is our only chance of survival.
The opening of the cave passage is too wide. Although it is enough for us to use our fists and kicks, it is also easy to be surrounded by strange fish. In the water, we can never be the opponent of the fish. The only way is to stay safe.
After Xia Qingqing quickly rushed into the stone crevice, I also started to retreat step by step, blocking Xia Qingqing behind me, and retreated into the stone crevice. But as soon as I took two steps, I felt cold in my heart. It was indeed just a crack, less than five meters deep. We were now blocked in the wall.
Before the chill in my heart dissipated, more than a dozen herringbone-shaped water waves streaked toward the edge of the stone crevice. As the dark blue fins broke through the water like steel knives, I clearly saw a black figure lurking under the water and stretching out its arms toward me. arm.
"Back up!" I shouted to Xia Qingqing to step back. I pulled out the Magnum and pointed it at the bottom of the water and pulled the trigger. The roaring bullet directly exploded the back of the strange fish's head. When the deep red blood rolled up, from Waves of water came from all directions, but in an instant they rushed towards the corpse that had risen to the surface.
In just a few seconds, I saw the dead fish being torn into pieces by its companions, with its broken limbs and broken arms flying wildly in the sky. More and more strange fish came following the blood, and the fish scales were stained with blood. When the pieces floated to the water, the fins of the fish swaying with the waves were also connected into pieces, and they were densely packed in front of the stone crevices.
As I stepped backwards, I held the handle of the gun tightly with both hands and pointed it at the water. Before I could fully stand on my feet, a big fish squeezed in along the crack in the wall.
Only then did I realize that the strange fish was much wider than the crack in the wall. Xia Qingqing and I could still turn around in the crack, but the strange fish could only squeeze its body and burrow in.
I watched the opponent rush inward and pulled the trigger without any hesitation. After my shot penetrated the opponent's head, the bloody corpse had not stopped shaking before it was forcibly pulled out by my companions. The school of fish struggled to grab the dead body. Before the sound stopped, another mermaid rushed in forcefully.
I was just about to shoot when Xia Qingqing, who was standing behind me, suddenly said, "Don't shoot yet. Drag him up. I..."
Before Xia Qingqing finished speaking, the strange fish swam very fast and was already less than one meter away from me. It was too late for Xia Qingqing to tell me what she was thinking, but I could understand what she meant: she wanted to try to see if she could control the strange fish with the fox clan's secret technique.
I quickly put away the magnum and freed my hands. When I looked into the water, the strange fish lurking under the water had already reached out to grab my legs. The opponent's speed was as fast as the wind, and my hands were also violent. Like lightning, before the opponent's fingers even touched my legs, he intercepted the opponent's palm halfway.
As soon as our palms touched each other, we clasped together tightly. We exerted force almost indiscriminately. The muscles on the four arms tightened at the same time, and each of us dragged him in his own direction.
In just a short moment, the two of us were deadlocked.