Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 576 Deep Sea Anglerfish (4000)

Looking back at Zhang Liang, Zuo Ci and others.

In fact, Zhang Liang and Zuo Ci were a little better, but those soldiers were still in shock.

Even just now when Yan Lu suddenly reported that, some people trembled in fright, as if something terrible happened just now.

"coming."

Zhang Liang nodded at Yan Lu, then looked at Wu Liang, and said with a smile, "Zuo Ci said that the ways of the world are actually different from one another. Since you have inherited some alchemy techniques that are not known to the world, you should treat other witchcraft. I also understand more or less, and some things here are suspected to be related to alchemy, so asking you to come here and brainstorming together may be able to get twice the result with half the effort. Are you resting now?"

Some things are suspected to be related to alchemy?

Yes.

Zhang Liang forcibly detained him in the Zhang Mansion not only because of the "Returning Soul Fragrance", but more importantly because he smelled alchemy techniques from the "Returning Soul Fragrance".

Zhang Liang also said before that he needed Wu Liang to refine a kind of elixir for him.

However, the prescription of the elixir has not been obtained yet, and Wu Liang still needs to wait in Zhang's residence for a while.

Therefore, Wu Liang has reason to speculate that Zhang Liang must have found some clues related to the pill in his mouth in the previously emptied underground palaces, and he may even have learned the function of the pill, and this function regularly made her It's why they are so persistent.

Of course, another possibility cannot be ruled out.

That is, the so-called Dan Fang was actually Zuo Ci's game. He came here for his own purpose. He got close to Zhang Liang for the sake of doing things cheaply, and designed and fabricated the matter of Dan Fang to deceive Zhang Liang, so as to use Zhang Liang power to achieve their goals.

If so, the price Zuo Ci paid for this situation is really not small.

Leaving aside other things, that eye alone is already a price that ordinary people cannot bear.

Anyway, in Wu Liang's view, his original body is more important than anything else. No matter how precious and rare other things are, they are just things outside of him. He would never exchange his eyes for those things outside of him. It is a loss.

"Whatever Zhang Gong said, being able to be used by Zhang Gong is the blessing of the villain. It's too late for the villain to be happy. If it is of no use to Zhang Gong, the villain should panic in his heart."

Wu Liang bowed his head and saluted.

"Hahaha, you are indeed a perceptive person. Based on what you said just now, many people may not understand it in their entire lives, so that they will only lament the injustice of God to the end of their mediocrity."

Zhang Liang laughed immediately, and looked at Wu Liang with a hint of appreciation.

"Mr. Zhang is absurd."

Wu Liang said with a low eyebrow and a pleasing smile.

"Come here, since you have participated in this matter, I should teach you to understand the current situation first, otherwise, even if you have the ability to reach the sky, you don't know where to use it."

Zhang Liang waved to Wu Liang with a smile again, and then said to Zuo Ci beside him, "Immortal Master Zuo, please tell him about the current situation, and also tell him if there is any need for his assistance." , let’s see if he has any different opinions.”

"promise."

Zuo Ci is also much more honest now, he seems to have forgotten about the gouging out of his eyes, and replied obediently.

When Wu Liang and Dian Wei came to Zuo Ci's side.

Zuo Ci looked up at Dian Wei first, then looked at Wu Liang, and then said solemnly: "I won't tell you about the previous situation, it's useless if you know it, just say that at this moment, this You have seen the dark river, and now we seem to have nowhere to go, but according to my judgment, this is probably not the end of this underground secret realm, even though we have arrived here, we may not have entered the real secret realm .”

"..."

Speaking of this, Zuo Ci paused for a moment, but Wu Liang did not answer easily, because he could tell that Zuo Ci hadn't talked about the most crucial point yet.

"I suspect that those places in front are just the vestibule of the underground palace, and this river is the moat of the underground palace. Only after crossing the moat can one truly enter the underground palace and see the real secret treasure."

Zuo Ci continued, "However, it is not easy to cross this moat. Just now, Mr. Zhang ordered people to explore it. Although this river does not look wide, it is unfathomable. In addition, the moat must be There are some corresponding defense methods, and the defense method of this moat is the unknown beast hidden in the river. Just now, one of us was confused by the beast, and took the initiative to walk to the river to be swallowed by the beast , there is not even a bone left, so it may take some effort to cross this river."

"Alien beast?"

At this moment, Wu Liang finally understood what the water marks he saw on the river bank were all about.

It should be the splash made by the strange beast that Zuo Ci was talking about jumping out of the water and dragging people down, but the strange thing is that this incident should have happened not long ago, but just now he followed Yan Lu all the way, but he didn't Hear nothing.

This is not common sense.

Normally speaking, seeing their comrades swallowed by strange beasts, these soldiers must step forward to rescue them. The scene at that time must have been very chaotic, and it was impossible that there was no movement. It must have been heard far away in the palace that had been completely emptied, so he shouldn't have heard nothing.

Wu Liang suddenly missed the days when Bai Jingjing was with him. If Bai Jingjing was here, he would be more sure whether there was any movement here.

"It's a strange beast that I don't know how to describe."

Zuo Ci nodded, and then described as clearly as possible, "It just swims in this dark river, and the time interval between appearances is irregular. Sometimes it doesn't show up for two hours, and sometimes it takes only a cup of tea. Then it came again, but when it was about to appear, there were obvious omens, and this dark river would be illuminated at that time."

"At first we didn't know what it was, but we just kept away from the river bank and observed carefully."

"Soon, there will be such a large light ball floating in various colors in the river, and there is an arm-thick tail attached to the bottom of the light ball. It looks like this tail is supporting the light ball out of the water. About three feet high, it floats back and forth like a big eye and looks at us."

"In a blink of an eye, we didn't know anything. When we came back to our senses again, we had walked to the bank of the river without knowing it, and the big ball of light had disappeared, leaving only the non-stop The swaying water and the fading light below the river."

"At first we thought nothing happened, but when everyone woke up and counted the number of people, we suddenly discovered that one person had disappeared, neither alive nor dead."

"It was only at this time that we realized that nothing had happened. A person had already been dragged into the river by that big ball of light... This was the most frightening thing. At that time, all of us panicked. God knows, anyone may die without knowing why, it's just luck that they weren't selected."

"However, after contacting this strange beast a few times and inexplicably killing a few people, we finally found a way to deal with this strange beast."

"Whenever this strange beast comes, as long as you turn your back and don't look at the ball of light, you won't be inexplicably dazed, and you won't walk towards the river unknowingly, so you can avoid being dragged into the river."

"Taking this chance, I turned around when the beast was dragging people, and finally saw the true face of this beast for a very short time...it was covered with creepy toad-like skin. It has a big mouth that is bigger than a millstone, and it is full of uneven layers of sharp teeth, each tooth is as long as a rib bone of an adult, and it is not even enough for a living person to swallow it in one gulp."

"And the big ball of light is also integrated with it, hanging above its head like a fishing rod with bait..."

"No matter how much there is, I haven't had time to see it clearly, so I lose my mind again in the radiance that emerges and flows from the ball of light."

"When I came back to my senses, the strange beast had already disappeared under the water, and I could still only see a ball of light fading away under the water, but it didn't seem to be greedy. We all came to the river in a daze, and it only picked one person, without exception."

"Just before you and Guanshi Yan came, the strange beast just came."

"Even though we have taken precautions, there is still a person who was accidentally fascinated by the strange beast, walked to the river in a daze and was swallowed. Come and see, this water mark is just left by the strange beast .”

Having said this, Zuo Ci finally paused, but quietly looked away, and glanced at Dian Wei.

"Uh……"

Through Zuo Ci's very detailed description, Wu Liang thought of a rather rare deep-sea strange fish - lantern fish.

"Lantern fish" is just its common name, and the official Chinese name should be called deep-sea anglerfish.

There is a tentacle-shaped meat column on the top of this fish head, and the end of the meat column is a spherical light-emitting organ. In the biological world, this light-emitting organ is called "luminous bait body".

In the dark environment of the deep sea, this "luminescent bait body" can confuse other marine life, and after being tricked, it is swallowed by the "lantern fish".

But the problem is.

The Chinese name of "lantern fish" has already explained its living environment. It usually lives in the deep sea above 1000 meters, and its size is usually not too big. It is absolutely impossible to grow to the extent that it can swallow an adult in one bite.

At least the "lantern fish" of later generations are not too big, and usually feed on some relatively small fish.

So whether this strange beast is a "lantern fish" is still unknown.

It's just that the way they prey is similar.

"Forgive me, I'm afraid I can't do anything about it. I've never seen this kind of beast, or I've never heard of it. I really don't know how to deal with it."

After pondering for a moment, Wu Liang wrinkled his face and said helplessly.

"You misunderstood. I suggested to Mr. Zhang that you two should be recruited not to deal with this strange beast. Now that we have understood its characteristics, whenever it comes over, it will turn its back or close its eyes. It is easy to be deceived by it, but it is not so easy to follow its way."

But Zuo Ci shook his head and said, "I called you here to prepare for the next move."

The words end here.

Zhang Liang finally came forward, looked at Zuo Ci and Wu Liang at the same time and said: "Next, we plan to cross this dark river and continue to explore upstream or downstream. Earlier, some ancient witchcraft and magic arts were found in this underground palace. As for the clues of the formation, if according to Immortal Master Zuo's speculation, this dark river will be considered to have reached the real underground palace, then the ancient witchcraft and formations there may only be more powerful, and Immortal Zuo alone may not be able to deal with it , so I summoned you to help the leader.”

"But there is no way to go here, and there is such a strange beast in the river. If there is no tool to cross the river, it may not be easy, and the villain can't swim, so he probably won't be able to float up..."

Wu Liang said with a bitter face.

In fact, his water skills are pretty good. It's not a big problem to swim tens of meters or hundreds of meters, and it's not a problem to dive occasionally. He just doesn't want to go into the water and have close contact with that strange beast that can swallow a person in one mouthful. Whether there are other things in the black water river whose underwater conditions are unclear is still unknown.

"Hahaha……"

As soon as the words fell, Zhang Liang, Yan Lu, Zuo Ci and the soldiers beside them laughed.

Just when Wu Liang was in doubt.

Another group of soldiers came out from the passage behind them, each of them carrying a few bamboo poles, and the fish came to the bank of the river one after another, and they piled up a lot after a while.

The soldiers behind brought a lot of ropes.

After the preparations were almost complete, the other soldiers retreated to the side one after another. Several skilled soldiers stepped forward and began to use ropes to tie the bamboo poles together. Anyone with a discerning eye could tell at a glance that they were making bamboo rafts for crossing the river.

"It turns out that Mr. Zhang had already prepared for it, but the villain is too lazy to think about it."

Wu Liang said slightly embarrassed.

"Later, you wait here first. I will order some soldiers to divide into two teams and go to the upper and lower reaches of this dark river on rafts to investigate. When they find out a direction, I will go together."

Zhang Liang gave Wu Liang a funny look again, and continued.

These words sounded like they were protecting Wu Liang, Zuo Ci and Dian Wei, but they were actually guarding against them, lest they do some small tricks without permission.

"Mr. Zhang is thoughtful, and the villain admires him."

Wu Liang habitually offered a flattery.

"After the soldiers have pointed out the direction, you two and I will take the lead on the same raft, and a few more soldiers will protect us on the raft, which should be able to deal with some emergencies. The other raft followed closely, so that if we make any mistakes, Mr. Zhang can respond in time."

Zuo Ci also said following the trend.

While talking, he glanced imperceptibly at Dian Wei from the corner of his eye.

"..."

This is already the third time Zuo Ci has sneaked a glance at Dian Wei.

And when he was speaking just now, Wu Liang could also notice that Zuo Ci's body had been leaning slightly towards Dian Wei's direction, as if he was not talking to Wu Liang at all, but Dian Wei.

(End of this chapter)