dragon hunter

Chapter 77
Time is precious, the old boatman and I each held two mechanisms and twisted them at the same time, the sound of the mechanism was heard, and the stone wall was slowly closed.

Before leaving, I accidentally picked up the flashlight and shone it on the gradually closing secret room. My heart tightened, and the faceless man lying on the ground disappeared.

A chill rose from my back. Before I walked out of the secret room, I looked back. At that time, the faceless man was still lying in the secret room. It took only a few minutes before and after, how could he disappear?
There was a muffled sound, and the stone wall outside the secret room was closed. I could only temporarily suppress my doubts in my heart.

"The road ahead is not easy, everyone be careful." The old monkey stared at the sheepskin map, frowning slightly.

"We must hurry up, we can't stay in the underground palace overnight, right?" the old boatman urged in a deep voice.

We continued to walk to the depths of the underground palace. The passage ahead was very narrow and could only accommodate one person. The old monkey led the way ahead, and Fatty Wang and I were behind.

Not far away, there was a hissing sound from the front of the passage, as if there were many things wriggling, and it sounded particularly ominous.

"Everyone pay attention to your feet, don't step into the air, there is a pit of ten thousand snakes below." The old monkey's voice was a little nervous.

With the light of the flashlight, I saw a row of stone piers in front of me, and there was a hissing sound from below. It was pitch black, and I couldn't see how deep it was.

The old monkey stood on a stone pier and shone a light on it with a flashlight. His face turned pale, and he walked forward cautiously.

I followed behind, and when I stepped on the first stone pier, I felt a little guilty. I took a photo with a flashlight just now, and the bottom was densely packed with poisonous snakes entangled together, which made people feel a little weak in their calves.

"Oh my god, it's too scary." Fatty Wang grabbed my clothes tightly with one hand, his arm was shaking constantly.

"Your sister, don't tease me, the stone pier is so small, what will you do if you tear me off?" I didn't dare to turn around, and growled in a low voice.

"My legs are a little weak." Fatty Wang let go of my clothes and said in a trembling voice.

"Don't look down, the more you look, the more afraid you become." I bowed slightly and walked forward cautiously.

"Wait for me, don't go so fast." Fatty Wang wailed and followed me tremblingly.

"Don't keep that flashlight dangling back and forth, it dazzles me." I scolded the fat ancestor in my heart. This guy's arms were shaking all the time, causing the flashlight to keep flickering. I almost stepped on the ground just now.

"I don't want to either, but I can't control it." Fatty Wang cried.

I feel that Fatty's state is a little dangerous. If he loses his mind and falls into the snake pit below, it will be too worthless.

"Fatty, just stand still and take a few deep breaths." I turned around, trying to calm down the fatty.

Fatty Wang closed his eyes, took a few deep breaths, held the amulet in both hands, turned his mouth up and down, and couldn't hear what he was chanting.

When I saw the fat man's body, I gradually stopped trembling, and I felt relieved. I was about to turn around and move on. When I raised my eyelids, I saw a blurry figure behind the fat man, which scared me a lot.

I bit my lip hard, tried not to let out a cry, rubbed my eyes hard, looked over again, and the figure disappeared.

"Dizziness, it must be blurry from time to time." I comforted myself in my heart, everything in the underground palace was weird, and I was thinking too much, which was to increase the burden on myself.

"There are several corpses in the snake pit below." The voice of the old monkey came from the front.

I turned around slowly and saw a few old monkeys in front of me. They all squatted down and shone the flashlight on the snake pit below.

"Fatty, hurry up and follow me." I carefully moved towards the stone pier in front.

A group of snakes wriggled in the snake pit below, and several white bones lay down in awkward postures, covered with poisonous snakes, looking very disgusting.

"The white bone on the left seems to be holding an iron box in its hand." The old boatman had good eyes and pointed out the object's location to us with the light beam of the flashlight.

"Wait, I'll take it out and see what's in the box." The old monkey took out a chain with iron claws, flicked his wrist, the chain was flexible like a snake, and grabbed the iron box below.

"Unique skill!" Fatty Wang sighed from behind, and seemed to have calmed down a lot.

With a soft sound, the iron claws at the top of the chain closed automatically, locking the iron box tightly. When the old monkey raised his arm, the chain quickly retracted.

"Got it, this is not a place to look at things, let's leave first." The old monkey took the iron box and walked to the other side of the passage.

Without any danger, we walked out of the row of stone piers smoothly, and the hissing sound in the snake pit behind us made people feel lingering fear.

"Open the box and see what's in it." The dwarf was quick-tempered.

We formed a circle, squatted down in the passage, and stared at the iron box in the hands of the old monkey. The box was exquisitely crafted and looked old without any rust.

"This box is exquisite, and there is a labyrinth lock on it." The old monkey looked at the iron box, smashed his mouth, and took out a thin wire.

We held our breaths one by one, staring at the movements of the old monkey's hands. At the same time, we were very curious about the things in the iron box. If it was an ordinary item, who would use such a delicate iron box to store it?

With a soft "click", the iron box popped open automatically, and the contents inside were presented in front of our eyes.

A piece of rusty bronze and a notebook with a black cover lay quietly in the iron box.

"Just these two things? It doesn't look like anything." Fatty Wang looked disappointed.

The old monkey picked up the broken piece of bronze, looked it over and over again, and handed it to the old boatman without seeing anything.

I went to the old boatman and looked at the bronze fragment with him. This bronze fragment is about the size of a palm, with some lines on it, but most of it is covered by rust, so I can't see it clearly. The seal characters.

"This notepad is written in Japanese. Which of you knows Japanese?" The old monkey flipped through the black notepad.

"Show it to me, I know a little Japanese." The dwarf reached for the notepad and flipped through it from the first page.

"This is the log of the Japanese expedition team back then. They seem to have a secret mission." The dwarf squinted at the notepad and said slowly.

"Look quickly, what conspiracy did they have back then?" The old boatman handed me the bronze fragment and moved closer.

"They seem to be searching for something. This is just an expedition team. They sent many expedition teams to China back then." The dwarf continued to flip through the notepad.

"You little devil, did they find it?" the old boatman asked in a deep voice.

"There are some technical terms on it, I can't understand them, what do they mean by returning to the dragon, entraining qi, and breaking the mountain?" The dwarf looked confused.

My heart tightened, I am too familiar with these terms, they are all terms in terms of finding dragon acupuncture points, those little Japanese back then were looking for dragon veins!

The rise and fall of dragon veins is related to the luck of the country. The Japanese expedition team back then secretly planned the dragon veins.

"There was an interruption at the back of the log, and a sentence was written in Chinese at the end: The Nine Dragons Gather, and the Secret of Heaven will repeat itself!" The dwarf's face was full of confusion, obviously not understanding the meaning of the last sentence.

"Nine Dragons Gather, Heaven's Secret Repeats..." I slowly read this sentence, and suddenly remembered a record about the dragon's veins in the Broken Physiognomy.

"The air of the earth is invisible, the ancestral dragons come out of Kunlun and disperse in Shenzhou, Xia Yu casts a tripod, and paints the dragon spirit of Kyushu..."

The later records have been lost because of the incompleteness of the scriptures. Holding the bronze fragment, my mind was full of thoughts. Could it be that this is a fragment of the bronze tripod, and the lines on it are the Kyushu dragon vein map?

"Hey, what are you thinking? They've already left, hurry up and follow." Fatty Wang patted my shoulder, interrupting my contemplation.

I raised my head in astonishment, and seeing Old Monkey and the others had already walked to the front, I hurriedly stood up and followed.

The matter of the dragon veins was too important, I quietly put away the bronze fragments without making a sound.

"The mechanism in front is a bit special. We need a fat man with enough weight to step on the key stone bricks." The old monkey stopped and shone a flashlight on Fatty Wang.

"People who step on stone bricks will not be in danger, right?" I asked for Fatty Wang.

"No, we can close the mechanism from the opposite side after we walk over." The old monkey shook his head.

"Which stone brick do you need to step on?" Fatty Wang gritted his teeth and walked over.

"The one in front of you on the left, stand on it and don't move, wait for us to go over and close the mechanism, then come back." The old monkey pointed.

"Fatty, be careful." I ordered.

Fatty Wang stepped on the stone brick in front of the left carefully, like a thief, turned his head and looked around, and he was slightly relieved when he saw that there was no movement.

"Let's go there quickly, this mechanism has a time limit." The old monkey ran forward quickly before finishing his sentence.

I was half a beat slow in reacting, but I quickly came back to my senses, followed closely behind them, and quickly ran to the other end of the passage.

"See the four embossed floor tiles in front? Each person chooses one to stand on." The old monkey jumped lightly and stood on one of the floor tiles flexibly.

I was at the end, with no choice but to stand on the tile on the left, staring at the old monkey, waiting to be told what to do next.

"A crossbow arrow will shoot out in a while. No matter how we hide, we must not leave our feet off the floor tiles. If we avoid this wave, we will be safe." The old monkey reminded in a deep voice.

"Didn't the fat man step on the mechanism? Why are there still arrows?" The dwarf looked a little nervous.

"Unavoidable, this is already good, otherwise it will be a thousand arrows piercing the heart." The old monkey glanced around nervously.

I pursed my lips, looked around vigilantly, and my whole body was on alert, ready to avoid the shot of the crossbow at any time.

"Ding!" A faint sound sounded, and a crossbow bolt flew out of the stone wall and shot at me.

I was always on guard, but I was still a little flustered by the lightning-fast crossbow arrows. I subconsciously wanted to dodge to the side. Remembering the old monkey's warning, I could only quickly squat down and try to lower my head.

My scalp was slightly cold, and the crossbow arrow flew past my head, scaring me into a cold sweat.

At the same time, there were several crisp sounds, and more arrows shot out of the stone wall and flew towards us.

(End of this chapter)