Chapter 223: Shackles of Darkness

The crowd all coincidentally sensed that there was some kind of unusual presence here, so they temporarily stopped in the middle of the white tunnel, taking the opportunity to move their numb arms, and due to the environment, everyone was a little hesitant to know whether to enter or retreat.

I began to suspect that this section of the tunnel leading to the altar, is simply a trap, inside the things are constantly interfering with the five senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste, etc., and always maintain a fixed posture and fatigue, will make people’s limbs numb, lose the original sharp senses, the salty fish-like fishy smell, but also make people disturbed in the mind.

And in the case of the tape on the eyes, there is absolutely any sense of direction to speak of, once too nervous, a little away from the side wall of the tunnel, it is very likely to turn the direction, losing the forward reference, but this is not a child’s play, do not dare to easily tear off the tape to see the things in the tunnel, had to remind the people walking in front of the crowd, firstly, no matter what happens, you must be leaning on the left side of the wall, don’t leave; secondly, no one is allowed to unauthorized to pull off the tape on the eyes, and do not scare yourself, that is tantamount to self-induced chaos.

I heard the fat man at the front of the group say to me, “Old Hu, there are snakes in this hole, do you hear me? There are a lot of them, if we don’t take off the tape, someone will die, are we just going to wait for the bites? I’m thick, and it doesn’t matter if I’m the first to die, but how many nails can I grind with all my iron? It’s simply not possible for a poisonous snake to take a bite.”

In normal circumstances encountered poisonous snakes, we have a way to deal with, but now five people is equivalent to five blind, if there is really a poisonous snake in the tunnel, we are basically like a meat on the table, only to be bitten by it.

I put my index finger on my lips, said to the fat man: “Hush …… don’t make a sound, listen carefully, first listen to whether there is really a snake.” Even Uncle Ming and the others held their breath and quietly listened to the movements around us, some people say that people with goze eyes have ear tones that are several times stronger than normal people, because the loss of one bodily function doubles the use of the other, so it becomes even more developed, however, we are only covering our eyes by ourselves now, and we are not really blind, so I don’t know if it’s because we’re temporarily focusing all of our minds and bodies on our ears, or if it’s just that this white tunnel, by a unique structure Produced a special sound effect, in short, even some of the smallest sound, seem to be invisible amplification, listen to extraordinarily clear, more and more make a person’s heart uneasy.

Listen carefully, before and after there are the sound of the Sihua constantly, and “sizzling sizzling sizzling” viper spitting sound, and the number of unimaginable, there is another possibility, perhaps they are not a small number, but the sound is this tunnel expanded many times, giving a person a kind of tidal wave like a cover to the illusion of listening to the sound of the snake seems to be rapidly approaching us, I don’t know the front, the snake seems to be very clear, more and more make people feel uneasy. I don’t know what the front few people feel, but I can feel that the closest to me Shirley Yang has been a little shivering, the snake scales powerful friction sound, as well as the snake letter gulping the unique metal sharp sound, are different from any other kinds of snakes, this sound is very familiar, only that kind of refined black snake only have.

We have been in the desert, we have seen a body short, the head grows a sarcoma like a strange eye of the black snake, very aggressive, and extremely poisonous, biting into any part of the body, will be in a few seconds within the poisonous death, to go to the Xinjiang archaeological team members of Hao Aiguo, died under the poisonous fangs of this rare poisonous snakes, the day of the brutal situation in the valley of the Zagrama, is still vivid in my mind, I want to forget can not be forgotten.

At that time, we did not know the name of the species, until in the shadow of the evil Luo sea city of the temple, only to know that in the ancient demonic country, there was once this kind of black snake called “pure see ahant”, is the guardian of the ghost cave.

In the white tunnel leading to the altar, it would be reasonable to encounter the black snake “Jokumei Ahan”, but we still lacked sufficient preparations, how could we have thought that there would be so many venomous snakes in this tunnel, which we needed to pass through safely with our eyes closed.

I remembered the encounter in the desert, a slight distraction, just so much effort, the poisonous snakes seem to have reached their feet, people’s breathing followed by all became heavy, nervousness can be imagined, all with the greatest determination, trying to restrain their panic, because everyone remembered the warning on the stone door, never open your eyes, or else a very terrible thing will happen, that is the tradition of the Evil Luo sea priests, I am afraid that must be also be based on some unknown reason, and now one could only take the risk of believing it to be correct, and never break this ancient taboo so easily until the last moment.

I suddenly thought that if someone is too calm to tear off the tape on the eyes, Uncle Ming will definitely bear the brunt, although Ah Xiang is not very bold, but good to be more obedient, so respectively holding Shirley Yang and Ah Xiang’s shoulders in front, touching the side of Uncle Ming behind the fat man, and grasping his arm with one hand, he wants in case of any untimely action, I can stop it as far as possible in advance.

Shirley Yang reminded us at the back, “If they were really black snakes with flesh eyes born on top of their heads, with their aggressiveness, they would have already pounced and bitten, but listening to the sound, the snakes are not moving fast, there must be a problem here, don’t take off the tape on the eyes yet.”

I said to Shirley Yang, “There is no poisonous snake in the world that doesn’t bite, maybe these guys have just eaten a snack, and temporarily have no appetite for us …… “Speaking of poisonous snakes biting people, I suddenly thought of some murals that I saw in the Jingjie Ancient City, and the murals depicted the cruel scene of poisonous snakes biting and devouring slaves, the slaves staring helplessly …… By the way, it seems that all the slaves bitten by snakes are staring at their eyes in death, dozens of murals are all the same, is it just a coincidence? Or does the message in the murals have a special meaning? Perhaps my memory is wrong, subjective imagination, the eyes of the slaves in the murals are not all staring, those scenes suddenly blurred in my mind again, but I still vaguely feel that maybe it is because we did not open our eyes, the surrounding poisonous snakes do not come to attack us, maybe the black snakes head of that carnelian strange eyes, feel the bioelectricity in the eyes of the living, to find the target, so in the white tunnel Never open your eyes in the white tunnel. Is this the secret of “Striking Thunder Mountain on a Dark Day”?

This idea only flashed in the brain, but increased a few points can not open the eyes of the confidence, I will be Uncle Ming’s right arm clamped, and his other arm stuffed to the fat man, and the fat man in the middle of the sandwich, Uncle Ming was shocked, thinking that the fat man and I want to use him as a shield against poisonous snakes, and busy asked: “Do what? Don’t don’t …… don’t joke, no big no small, what exactly do you guys plan to do?”

Fatty does not miss any opportunity to find a bargain, even if it is only a verbal bargain, and at that moment smoothly replied, “I intend to be your grandfather to marry your grandmother, and give birth to a son to be your father, yo …… have a snake crawling up to my feet …… “In the darkness came the sound of the fat man kicking the snake away, the middle of the Uncle Ming suddenly body sinking, if it is not me and the fat man frame him, he is now shocked to death, I am afraid that he will be paralyzed on the ground.

I also felt the writhing snake body at my feet, this situation, can not help people not from the bones of fear, into this white tunnel, as facing a full of multiple-choice question paper, need to continuously make the right judgment, and sometimes not even think about it, and can only get a full score, there is any a small choice error, will get the life and death of the instant judgment, can not be undone, we are! The choice we had to make immediately at this moment was – whether to remove the tape from our eyes under the siege of the snakes, could we risk breaking that thousand year old taboo? I was a bit impatient and raised my hand, but I didn’t remove the tape after all.

At this time, I only heard Uncle Ming s voice trembling, “Snake ah, poisonous snake …… snake climbed to my neck, help ah Hu old brother.” I am also in a trance, clamped Uncle Ming’s arm slightly loosened, felt Uncle Ming suddenly drew out his right arm, probably want to use his hand to dislodge the poisonous snake that climbed up his neck.

I reacted, not waiting for Uncle Ming’s arm completely withdrawn, then again this tightly grasp his hand: “It’s okay, do not care about it, this fucking is an illusion, not real, the poisonous snakes can not be drilled out of thin air, now before and after the snakes, we all the way over the time we do not feel there are snakes…… “The words did not fall, I feel the mountaineering helmet snapped on a sound, from the top of the head fell a thing, cold and slippery, “sizzling” sound, along the helmet slid to my back shoulder, the cold fear, immediately spread to the whole body, this can not be “big black sky hit the thunder mountain This can’t be the illusion created by the “Big Black Sky Strikes Thunder Mountain”, it’s a real snake, two hundred percent of the time.

I put the previous estimate, that is, do not open their eyes will not be attacked by the black snake idea thrown to the back of the mind, do not care to hold Uncle Ming’s arm, and hurriedly use the mountaineering pickaxe to pluck off the back of the snake, suddenly heard the fat man cursed: “Hong Kong farmers are not you? Maybe Uncle Ming also took the opportunity to draw out his hand and shake off the poisonous snake on his body, but unexpectedly threw it onto Fatty.

Shirley Yang and A-Xiang were continuously paving away the poisonous snakes beside them, we were initially advancing in a column against the tunnel wall, and then in order to monitor Uncle Ming’s behavior, we changed our formation to three in the front and two at the back, and advanced in two columns horizontally, and now we were interfered by the poisonous snakes, and the formation was immediately messed up.

My eyes are covered, I can not see anything, I do not know who hit me, staggered a few steps to the side, the foot stepped on a soft thing, do not need to look at know is a snake, I have a bit of a head of two big, these snakes are from where to come out? Hurriedly shrinking feet turn around, wait to stand firmly before feeling, already can not distinguish between east and west, north and south.

At this time I heard the fat man in the neighborhood shouted: “can’t stand it, old man when enough blind, I want to open my eyes to see!” I hurriedly followed the sound and touched over, pressed his arm and shouted, “Never tear off the tape, if those snakes really intend to hurt people, I’m afraid we would have been dead for a long time, if you don’t look at them, they won’t feel our existence and won’t attack.”

The rest of the people heard me and the fat man’s shout, also looking for the sound of the touch over, the crowd regrouped, Uncle Ming shocked, gasping for breath, said: “Hu is really worthy of being the top masters in the Golden Guardian, the crisis is not chaotic, ah, anticipate things like God, everyone must not open their eyes, from now on, how do you do it, we’re going to follow how to do it.”

Shirley Yang whispered to me, “There is this possibility, but I think it seems to be more than that, this tunnel is full of crises, and human self-control has its limit, our eyes here instead of becoming a liability, stay for one more minute, there will be one more point of danger, we must move forward as soon as possible.”

To move forward again, we must find the right direction, but now completely lost the sense of direction, the only plan today, only to find a wall as a support, and then pay attention to, around the group of snakes roaming sound resounded in the ears, conservative estimate is not less than a few hundred, I pulled the crowd to one side of the groping, encountered on the ground there are snakes, the side of the light kicked aside, diagonally touching the cold tunnel wall.

Just stood, will hear a series of footsteps coming from one end of the tunnel, the distance is very far, I hurriedly reached out and touched the four people around me, Shirley Yang, Ah Xiang, Uncle Ming, Fatty are all in, so what is the person who is following us? Or are they coming head on? Remembering the earlier situation of peeking through the stone door and peering into the tunnel, could that thing be coming again?

Footsteps from far and near, to be in the white tunnel, listen to the sound is even more alarming, with the echo of the heavy pace of faster and faster, more and more dense, every time a person’s heart to follow a tremor, we run at this time do not run away, see can not be seen, a moment there is no way to do anything, the five people close to each other, I will be parachute knife in the hands of the cold sweat stained constantly.

Tunnel in the group of snakes, also was that footsteps landing sound alarmed, Sydney a swim, but all unknown, I was busy groping in the wall, feel in a position very close to the ground, there are a number of fist-sized caves, which is very deep, the hand placed in the mouth of the hole, can feel a trace of a faint cold wind, these snakes eighty percent have drilled into the inside to go, we want to avoid but also can not drill into it.

I said to Shirley Yang: “Is it really the movement that …… naturally exists in the crystallized stone? I don t sound right.” Blind superstition of scientific principles, and blind superstition of traditional superstition, the essence is actually almost the same, will make people blindly follow, thinking into a fixed pattern, I do not not believe that Shirley Yang said, but put yourself in the shoes of the view, indeed, with her presumption of the possibility of a far cry.

Speaking, the sound has reached the body, I can hear the sound of fat man gritting his teeth, you can imagine, all the people are tense to the extreme, but the booming and loud sound of footsteps on the ground, but suddenly stopped, due to the special terrain of the white tunnel, coupled with the unexpected, we actually did not hear that thing landed where, before and after the left and right are possible, as if something, in the vicinity of a corner of the station, staring at the We were watching, not knowing exactly what it wanted to do, and the moment was violently and surprisingly quiet, far more terrifying than if something had just pounced on us.

Our nerves are taut, in a high state of alert, after a while there is no movement, side and listen, in addition to our heartbeat breathing, nothing else ringing, the guys only a little bit of relaxation, thinking probably Shirley Yang is right, do not be suspicious of dark ghosts, this burst of sudden, such as the pouring rain of footsteps, at least to scare off those vipers.

I fumbled and counted the number of people again, Ah Heung cried and asked me if I could take off the tape, tears were sealed inside, feeling so sad.

I categorically refused her request, if you want to cry, wait until you’re out of the tunnel, so I studied with Fatty and Shirley Yang which way to go, and since we couldn’t figure out which side of the tunnel wall we were on at all now, we had to figure out how to confirm the direction first.

Although the white tunnel is not wide, but it is not straight, manpower is only a total of how much area, a little bit of groping, it is not possible to judge which places have curved turns, although there may not be a fork in the road here, touching one side of the wall to go, the least you can go back to the starting point, but the evil Luo Hai City under the ground of these mysterious places that hold ancient rituals, into the altar’s tunnels, in the case of doing nothing to turn around and go back again, will there be What dangers will befall us? None of us know, nor do we dare to guarantee, but this potential danger is not to be disregarded, in the case of possible, the best way to go back.

Fatty said in this commander’s humble opinion, we have to think of a way to go higher, because from the dead volcano inside in, the stone door is open to the west, which is the same as from the bottom of the second layer of the underground lake, to the bottom of the first layer of the first layer of the underground lake in the highlands, the altar is definitely in the ancient city ruins directly below, the more the terrain to the west the higher the higher the higher the side is the west.

I thought about it, suddenly had a calculation, then said to the fat man you know it is a foolish opinion do not need to say, to the west is certainly right, but you do not forget, from the top of the dragon glacier to this white tunnel, the evil Luo Hai City has one of the biggest characteristics of these people worship the abyss, we are always in the constant downward, the deeper to the depths of the more close to our goal, so I dare to use my head to guarantee that this tunnel, although the tunnel leads to the west of the first layer of the Underground lake bottom, but is inclined downward, should go down.

Shirley Yang said: “Down this precondition is certain, but we can not use our eyes to see, and even if the white tunnel extends downward, the slope is also very small, by feeling is difficult to detect, and how can we judge which side is high and which side is low?”

I said this is also good to do, or the old way “encounter water and get in the road”, said took out the kettle, will be inside the water slowly poured to the ground, feel the water to which side of the flow, we know which side is low.

In a few moments to solve the problem of direction, so the people re-formed, and the same as before, groping to continue to walk in, here want to fast can not get up fast, can only step by step a dawdle to move forward, the mysterious string of footsteps in the tunnel from time to time, seems to be following us closely, I cursed in my heart, but it can not do anything about it, God knows what the hell that is, at this time have to carry forward the spirit of optimism, the spirit of optimism, the spirit of optimism. Think on the bright side, maybe it is the “sound moving stone” in the natural sound in the strange.

And out of three or four hundred steps, still did not arrive at the end, but at least that we are moving in the right direction, otherwise more than a hundred steps will be back to the exit, this white tunnel is very long, walk for a long time, still can not be accustomed to the environment, if long time to be plagued by this kind of darkness, to anyone’s mental capacity is a test, not to mention that there is a ghostly like a ghostly thing nearby.

Walking, I suddenly thought of an important thing, think of these whole body even a little shivering, busy to the front of the Shirley Yang said: “From the beginning of the tunnel into the tunnel, I have overlooked a detail, the stone door on the taboo of this tunnel, you must close your eyes in order to enter, but I and Uncle Ming … . long before we came in together, we had already poked our heads in from behind the stone door to see the tunnel, that must have already crossed the boundary of the doorway, that is, at the very beginning, we had already broken the rules of this place, it must be right, of course, this is all because of Uncle Ming taking the lead.”

Shirley Yang was slightly stunned when she heard this, so what we thought was off course, if there really was some evil spirit, or other invasive substance in the white tunnel, it would have been released a long time ago? Why haven’t we been attacked?

Shirley Yang’s mind moved very quickly, just finished the question in his mind, has already given his own answer: “We are …… sacrifices, those black snakes do not come to attack, of course, may be related to our eyes closed, more likely because we are nailed on the mark of the sacrifices. ”

I sighed, as a devil’s sacrifice, walking towards the altar of the evil god on my own, what kind of mood would be in my heart? It’s so damn unpalatable.

I was secretly grumbling in my heart, when the fat man in front of me stopped, only to hear him ask, “Commander Hu, is that whatever altar square or round? I’ve come to the head here, come over and touch it, these stones are strange.”

I went over to touch the fat man, and then followed the trend to touch the stone wall in front of me, that shape like twisted together twist, with two hands can not recognize the terrain, I want to take off the tape to see, anyway, it is already a sacrifice, and already poked his head in to see, to die early death in the tunnel mouth, but suddenly a thought, hit the idea of Uncle Ming.

I think when I met the snake just now, I was worried that Uncle Ming could not control it, tearing off the tape on his eyes, so I clamped his arm with Fatty, but now I suddenly feel that the move just now is a little redundant, to my understanding of Uncle Ming, he is a suspicious, a few tactics, and the city of businessmen, of course, in the dangerous place, he is not enough to expose the side of the realm, it seems to be very doom and gloom, but he definitely knows the The stakes are high, if five people, the first one can not withstand the pressure to tear off the tape, then that person, definitely not Uncle Ming, but the second one must be him, this time not to tease him, Hu someone is not surnamed Hu.

I quietly took out the unused tape, secretly pulled off a section, gently post on the brain, and then just said to Shirley Yang’s words, explained in detail to the crowd, and now take off the tape, there is no meaning, at least I and Uncle Ming has destroyed the taboo in the tunnel, in any case, this place has come to an end, I’ll take the lead, open your eyes to see if there is any danger, said I moved closer to Uncle Ming and tore off the tape on my head with force, it hurt so much that I only grinned, this was on purpose so that Uncle Ming could hear it clearly.

Uncle Ming heard me tear off the tape, but nothing dangerous happened, so he followed suit, I heard the sound of him pulling off the tape and rubbing his eyes, and after a while, probably his eyes have recovered from the darkness and adapted to the surrounding environment, only to hear him say to me in surprise: “There’s no such thing as a mistake ah, haven’t you already taken off the tape? Hu BaYi ah Hu BaYi, you bad boy pitched the old and abducted the young ah, this bad trick even the vixen can’t come up with.”

I heart secretly happy, also followed the removal of the tape, a time eyes to see the surrounding things are still a little hazy, but listen to Uncle Ming suddenly no longer complained to me, turned shocked and said: “No ah, Ms. Yang is not to say that the sound of the footsteps is what the sound of the stone crystals issued by the sound of the movement? That that …… what is behind us?”

My eyes are still not too clear, only feel surrounded by a faint white fluorescence, make efforts to open eyes to our back to see, a few meters away, seems to be vaguely to have a black caries shadow.