Chapter 43: Hides and Monsters
I don't understand where my uneasiness comes from, and Ruxue also clearly said that after I went out, she told me the whole truth, but in my heart it was like a hidden thread pulling me, all the way to the huge black hole of uneasiness.
I'm afraid that I won't even be able to maintain the apparent calm, and I can't help but let Ruxue tell me what happened to her right now, but at this time, Old Ghost Wu floated back and said, "Little brother Chengyi, there is a lamp, go and light the lamp." ”
As soon as I was about to get up, Brother Chengxin stood up and said, "Chengyi, you stay with me for a while like snow, and I'll follow Lao Wu to light the lamp." ”
Listening to the sound of Ruxue's breathing, still so uneasy, I nodded, and only said, "You guys be careful." ”
So, Ruxue, and Lao Zhang, I, and I waited quietly in the dark, but in less than a minute, the first light came on with a warm yellow light, followed by the second light, and then the third
As the lights turned on, Ruxue's breathing slowly stabilized, which was a very wonderful experience, in the silent darkness, in the restless mood, in the slight irritability and loss, the feeling of watching the lights turn on, hoping to recover little by little
"Ruxue, no matter what happens, I'm here." I said to Ruxue in a firm tone, the light brings me peace and hope, and I want to bring this firm mood to Ruxue.
Ruxue didn't respond to me at the first time, and after a long time, she said: "Chengyi, nothing is hopeless, it's just a choice, you have to believe me, I will become very strong, very strong." ”
I don't understand the meaning of this, but I absolutely believe that she will be strong, I look at Ruxue, her eyes are no longer confused and uneasy at the moment, but flashing with an unusually resolute strength and determination, and then she gently left my arms, and suddenly changed back to that calm, indifferent like snow.
This kind of change makes me feel an indescribable weirdness, but it's always a good change, right? I tried to think about everything on the good side, but at this time, I heard Wu Lao Ghost shouting: "There is a big lamp on the top, let me do it, I'll come." ”
Then came Brother Chengxin's voice: "Are you okay?" ”
"Nonsense, I'm also an old ghost who has lived for hundreds of years, and it's absolutely no problem to touch a lighter, I'll do it." Old Ghost Wu said with a little bit of stinging.
It is common knowledge that a spirit cannot affect matter, but if a spirit body is cultivated and its spiritual power is particularly condensed, it can slightly affect matter, that is to say, it can 'lift' relatively slight objects.
This is not strange, this is like the special function of the human body, using mental power to move matter!
It's just that Wu Lao Ghost still has this ability, but it shocked me, generally speaking, the heavier the resentment, the more powerful the spirit body, but the spiritual power is condensed, this belongs to the road of ghost cultivation, could it be that Wu Lao Ghost has no talent before his death, and he still has the talent of ghost cultivation after death?
Just when I was thinking nonsense, Wu Lao Ghost had already floated up and began to light the headlights hanging on the top of this place, I saw the lighter light up again and again, and in the end, the headlight was completely lit.
With the cooperation of headlights and wall lamps, the whole space is finally completely bright, and even the substantial darkness has been dispelled, I had been uneasy before, after all, Ruxue said, this darkness is caused by the breath of the black worm, I am afraid that this space is a little bright, I will see many, many sleeping insects, but in fact no, this is just a huge gorgeous stone room, unusually clean, very little dust, not to mention any strange insects.
Brother Chengxin returned to me, and Old Ghost Wu also floated back and asked me, "Little Brother Chengyi, why do I think this place looks like a big bedroom?" You can't build a bedroom underground. ”
Wu Lao Ghost is right, this place is very large, I am afraid that there are two or three hundred square meters, in fact, it really looks like a bedroom, I clearly see a beautiful dressing table carved in stone, with a huge bronze mirror installed on it, there is also a beautiful stone bed, and there are curtains, but the curtain looks rotten and fragile, I am afraid that if I touch it, it will be broken, and there are some miscellaneous objects, everything shows that this is a bedroom, and it is also a woman's bedroom.
"As I guessed, we broke into a guy's lair, but it was a long time ago." I whispered.
"Yes, they are supposed to be underground, and the route of cultivation is different." Brother Chengxin also said that cultivators need to practice a mouthful of internal breath, which only supports all the foundations, but what humans need is aura, and what monsters need to cultivate is Yuehua, which is yin, because they can withstand it, a long time ago, there were pure yin qi concentration places underground, not as difficult to find as it is now, and it is not a strange thing to have an old nest underground.
I had a conversation with Brother Chengxin, and Lao Zhang asked very nervously: "What is the nest underground?" ”
I patted Lao Zhang on the shoulder, didn't speak, and went down this route, if we want to see the truth after all, I can't keep comforting Lao Zhang, telling him that this is not true, and he will collapse after seeing it.
I was silent, Lao Zhang licked his lips nervously, and Wu Lao Ghost followed Brother Chengxin and began to rummage around, trying to find something valuable, after all, this is a monster from a long time ago, and it is normal to enter its nest and find something valuable.
But in fact, it is clear at a glance here, Brother Chengxin didn't find anything, but the curtain hanging on the huge stone bed, as I expected, shattered at the first touch, revealing the inside of the stone bed.
The stone bed is not like a human bed, and it is covered with sheets, pillows, quilts or something, it is a simple and smooth bed, but looking at the bed, Brother Chengxin said 'Huh', and then picked up something.
It was a rolled-up thing, a thick stack that looked like an animal's skin, and Brother Chengxin motioned for us to come over, and then opened the roll in front of all of us.
This animal skin is bigger than I imagined, and when it is spread out, it occupies almost half of the stone bed, about two meters long and more than one meter wide, but I don't know what kind of animal skin is tanned, in short, it is a very thin but tough layer.
It was densely covered with things, and we took a flashlight to shine it and began to think it was text, but when we looked closely, these twists and turns were not at all words that we were familiar with.
Since I was a child, my master has handed me a lot of ancient characters, and even some of the ancient characters that are very obscure I recognize, but I don't recognize any of the dense 'characters' on this animal skin, and at first glance, it is completely unfamiliar.
How can we be willing? Since entering this underground, I have always felt mysterious and dangerous, and I still dare not say that my life is safe, and I finally got a huge clue, which may be related to our lives, how can we give up so easily?
Therefore, Brother Chengxin and I watched and discussed, and he was no worse than me in terms of knowledge in this area, so we can only study it slowly by the two of us, and this time there is enough time for the operation, so we don't care about this bit of time.
Ruxue quietly watched me discuss with Brother Chengxin, Lao Zhang didn't understand, so he simply stepped aside, took out a pack of compressed biscuits, and ate slowly, Wu Lao Ghost was bored for a long time, and floated to Lao Zhang and talked nonsense to Lao Zhang.
About 10 minutes later, Brother Chengxin suddenly shouted: "Chengyi, I can see a little bit of the doorway, we are in the wrong direction." ”
"How?" Looking at Brother Chengxin's surprised appearance, I knew that there was a score in this matter.
"Silly, we have always studied these symbols as words, and naturally we can't study anything, how can there be words written in a bunch of piles, this is simply a stick figure, a stick figure ah!" Brother Chengxin said loudly and excitedly.
As soon as he said it, I hurriedly looked at it carefully, and then I found that this was really as Brother Chengxin said, it was a stick figure, a picture and a picture were connected like this, and a picture expressed a content, which was not at all what we thought before, a bunch of strange symbols crowded together, and then a bunch of strange symbols crowded together.
Since I recognized it as a stick figure, it was much easier to interpret, but the meaning of this stick figure was plausible, and it was not so easy to interpret it all accurately.
At least, a few more minutes passed, and Brother Chengxin and I decoded the first picture, and the meaning expressed in the picture made Brother Chengxin and I cry and laugh, and translated into language, that is, a long time ago, in this forest, a little fox was born.
What is this? Tell the beginning of a fairy tale?
But before Brother Chengxin and I could say anything, suddenly there was a 'buzzing' sound in this stone room, low, which made people feel depressed and uncomfortable, the sound was very close, but it seemed to be separated by something.
Brother Chengxin and I glanced at each other, and we heard this voice when Ruxue knocked down the first pair of charm stones--heard it!