Chapter 224 – The Sacrificer

Uncle Ming legs and feet, “rub” a scurry to my back: “Hu old brother, you …… you see it? What the hell is that thing? It seems like it’s the one that’s been following us all along, and it must be up to no good.”

I waved my hand to Uncle Ming, signaling him to stop talking, followed by pulling out my gun, aimed at the black shadow at the back of the group, desperately shook my head, wanting to make my eyes as soon as possible to adapt from a white haze, not far away from the black shadow in my eyes is also gradually clearer, as if it is a black hand, bigger than the fat man’s head on the size of two, I feel that the hand holding the gun began to shiver, ever since the tunnel entered the Since entering the tunnel, I can not help but feel disoriented, I do not know why, the heart is always very weak.

At this time Shirley Yang and Fatty were also posted on the eyes of the tape, but with me there is a time difference, I followed Uncle Ming, finally the second to see what is behind the tunnel, the white tunnel does not need a light source, you can see things in the vicinity, but in this kind of dark fluorescent environment, the eyes of what we see, but also slightly hazy, only to see the distance from us more than ten paces away, it is a tunnel arc, slope Tilt is more obvious, the tunnel here like what force was twisted a hand, forming a “8” shape, in the “8” shape in the middle of the twisted closer to the top of the part, the white walls clearly showed a huge black hand.

However, the shape of the hand is not very clear, I did not dare to venture over, only stood in place to touch the “wolf eye” flashlight, with a strong light to shine, the beam of the flashlight fell on top of the black hand, it turned out that the hand is not inside the tunnel, but the post in the outside, and we are separated from a layer of the tunnel wall, the white tunnel is only a layer of very thin and crystalline, but very sturdy! The shell, at least the top is so, in the through wall white glossy wall, the shadow of the black hand looks more eye-catching, as far as the eye can see, all white, only the palm of the carious black mass, but that section of the tunnel twists and turns, can not see whether the rest of the back there is the rest of the things.

Could it be that the sound of footsteps in the tunnel, which came and went, fast and slow, was from that hand? But the hand could not have been as huge as it was, was it a hand or the paws of some beast? I remember from the tunnel all the way through the way, will from time to time feel the head of the cool wind pouring down, perhaps every section of the tunnel roof, there will be a gap, something above, can enter the tunnel at any time, and then associated with the underground mushroom forest in the group of “Earth Goddess of Mercy”, this altar near the existence of some kind of beasts, inch by inch, guarding the forbidden land! The people who are cursed by the “bottomless ghost hole” are not treated as human beings here, they are just a group of “snake bones” like cows, sheep, pigs and dogs. Sacrifices.

Uncle Ming lowered his voice in the back and asked me what to do. I said to him: “or do not look for uncomfortable, this thing is to follow us, may not run back it will not have any special behavior, I said only possible, do not believe that you old on the past to try to go over to practice a trip of eighteen sweeping leg, see if it has a reaction.”

At this time Shirley Yang removed the tape on the eyes, gradually regained their eyesight, saw the outside of the tunnel turn, sticking a motionless black hand, naturally feel surprised, I put the situation briefly to the group, fortunately, we judged the direction of the bottom of the high, otherwise, once we go back, I am afraid of having been dead in the tunnel, there is no other choice, do not care about what’s behind us, can only continue to go forward! Now there is no other choice, do not care what is behind us, we can only continue to go forward.

So all the people with apprehension, turn forward, the end of the stone wall has been in the near future, but just a step, just listen to the whole tunnel “bang” a loud bang, such as muffled thunder, I also shuddered in my heart, and hastily look back, only to see the back of the tunnel on top, and a big black hand, we stopped, it will no longer have movement, but the Obviously in the moment we just walked forward, it also followed a step, the tunnel is very close to the sound, the sound is particularly shocking, “strike thunder mountain” may be the name.

The reality of the existence of the hard to ignore, it is not so easy to do, now open your eyes, but feel more panic, eyes on the tape, at least can comfort themselves – that is the sound of the stone, but now know that the back of the real follow a thing, but also willfully ignore But now we know that something is following us, but we have to deliberately ignore it, which is really a bit difficult.

Fatty said, we are now a bit like a Yugoslavian movie, was escorted to the penal colony of the partisans, followed by the Nazi SS officers, is not this feeling?

I said fat man you this analogy is very inappropriate, you are not a curse we have no return? To say that we are on the Jiangzhou court of Song Jiang, Dai Zong is more or less, can count on the mob associates, such as what the white stripe of the stream to rob the court.

At this time the mood of all the people are very depressed, although I and Fatty mouth pretend to care less, but I understand in my heart, this road is afraid that there is really no return, things come to a head, but instead of calm down, look at the front of the just touched half a day of the stone wall, the tunnel has indeed reached the end of the tunnel, around the wall are a symbol of the eyes, all the crystalline stone here, are twisted at an incredible angle, although the formation of natural creation can be said to be the end of the tunnel. The formation of the natural creation could be described as ghostly and a thousand different shapes, but the terrain here was still too special.

A large piece of twist shaped white rock, from the ground out of the more than one meter high section, can not describe what shape it is, like a square like a circle, some places are like some complex geometric shapes, the stone body is completely twisted, and not to a direction, some parts clockwise, some parts and counterclockwise, so touch to the twist, outside some black and broken rotting wood shavings, probably in the past there was a wooden structure around this strange rock that could be stomped and climbed to the top.

I climbed on the top to look in, this turned out to be a slanting well of the wellhead, the depths of a white mango piece, no end, the wellhead inside the steps, but are almost worn into a slope, I do not know how many slaves captured before, was used as a sacrifice from here to drive down.

The group discussed, let’s go, inside is the eighteen layers of hell also have to go down, this robbery in any case can not be mixed, so the fat man tightened the climbing helmet and the remaining equipment on the body, and again by him to play the lead, I see him climbing up the posture of twisted, but did not wait to remind him, the fat man has already the big head down, diagonally rooted down.

Then Uncle Ming and Shirley Yang and Ah Xiang, they followed one after another down, I was left alone in the white tunnel, my heart immediately felt empty and lonely, I don’t like this feeling too much, and hurriedly climbed up the shaft again, and before going down, I looked up at the black handprints in the depths of the tunnel, and suddenly realized that, at an unknown time, a shadow of a face appeared between the two hands, and the nose and mouth of the outlines were visible, but the face had only the lower part, except for the eyes and forehead.

The black face became clearer and clearer in the crystallized stone, as if it was not outside at all, but in the stone in the tunnel, and the upper part of the face was gradually emerging, and just when I was about to see its eyes clearly, I was too nervous and the rocky canyon under my feet was too slippery, and I didn’t stand firmly at once, and slid into the bottom by lying on my back on the slope.

This passage under the well is very spacious, inverted trumpet, narrow mouth bottom large, like a very thick underground natural crystal hole, the whole is arc-shaped, slope of about forty-five degrees, the beginning of the place there are some slightly protruding steps, the lower slope there are countless man-made cut simple stone groove, used to go down to the people stomping on, shallow and slippery, coupled with the over-wear is too strong, most of the fast flat, once you slide down it’s the same as sitting on a Slide, not to the end, it will be difficult to stop, I head and feet on the ground down the trend of the slide, the crystal stone in the cave than the mirror surface is also light, in all directions are all my own shadow, coupled with the speed of the downward slide is very fast, the eyes are about to spend.

I worry that if there is a more prominent stone steps below, will be chest ribs broken, quickly turned over, will be half empty backpack pad under the bottom, encountered too smooth place, will use the mountaineering pick to slow down, sliding down also don’t know how deep, the crystal slopes finally leveled off, I just slid out of the cave, I found that only Ah Heung and Shirley Yang stood in the mouth of the cave, the fat man and Uncle Ming disappeared.

Shirley Yang heard the sound of the back, hurriedly turned to pull my arm, will be my downward inertia eliminated, I saw a few meters in front of me, the terrain turns into a downward right angle, the heart sank, Fatty and Uncle Ming don’t fall to the bottom of the cliff to go? I do not care about the body hit the sore, just up, will first look at Shirley Yang’s face, hope to be able to get from her eyes, the two people safe and sound news, but Shirley Yang face worried, shook his head at me, she came down after the fat man and Uncle Ming, due to the effect of coherence, but also nearly fell to the bottom, thanks to the quick hands and quick eyes, with a climbing picks hanging on to a piece of large mica nearby, only did not fall straight down, and then stopped the mountain climbing picks, and then stopped the mountain climbing picks. Directly fell down, and then stopped the follow down Ah Xiang, only one minute before me.

My heart is more worried, busy to the stratum of the section of the view, only to see where we are, is a big amazing crystal mine, high dome of dozens of meters, from time to time seeping down the droplets of water, the underground lake hanging overhead, crystal veins crisscrossing, overhead is all a clump of downward halberd sheet of crystals, people in the bottom of the move, there are countless shadows on the top followed by the jumble, like into the upside-down mirror labyrinth, we were standing in the entrance of a platform, under the feet of a large mica. Entrance of a platform, under the feet of all the white clouds, these like white fog, and like water vapor clouds, is the mountain building movement led to the crystallization of the alienation of the stone smoke, than the density of the crystal dust to be low, no smell, no taste, condensation, and not dispersed, and all maintain a constant height, will be the cave from the middle of the two, cut in two, the lower part of the white clouds as a lake, as the case of the invisible below, was the smoke of the stone a cover, it made the cavern appear flat and wide, but it did not feel very oppressive.

In this sea of clouds floated a topaz-like mountain, the entrance platform, and the top of the jade mountain, there is a stone stem connected in the air, that is a half-fossil half-plant-like thick vines, was repaired into a section of the passage of the heavenly beams, I stepped on the foot is still very solid, enough to receive the weight of the human body, standing on the top and looking down, the clouds born feet, can not see the terrain below, is it an abyss, is it a pool of water? Or also as the top of the head, are dense crystals? Fatty and Uncle Ming, these two people, certainly did not stop, fell to the bottom, I asked Ah Xiang can see the bottom, but see Ah Xiang’s eyes due to the tape posting, tears have swollen eyes, see people are blurred, let alone see other things, now nothing can count on her.

Shirley Yang and I shouted down a few times, there is no response, can not help but be more worried, I am looking for where to go down to look for people, but suddenly heard the fat man’s shouts from the bottom of the clouds: “Hu Commander, quickly put the rope down to pick me up, the ass fell into a fucking eight petals.”

I heard the fat man said so, immediately put down the heart, from the sound can be judged, the following is not much deep, we stand in the sky beam, not far from the fat man’s head, I said to the fat man: “Where do I find you a rope to go? I said to Fatty, “Where can I find a rope for you? It’s not too late to find a tree bark to rub one together, can you find a place to climb up by yourself? By the way, how is Uncle Ming? Did he fall down too?”

Only heard the fat man shouted under the heavy stone smoke: “Hong Kong farmer’s mountaineering helmet fell off, a head hit the crystal below, who knows whether he is dead or alive, this place has a layer of clouds in the middle of the air, the ghost of this place below are all mirror-like stones, I move my bladder, followed by the shaking in all directions, I can’t even find the north now, when I move, I will crash into the wall, not to mention can find a place to climb out, I said you guys hurry to find a rope, I said you guys hurry to find a rope. I say you hurry up to find the rope, Uncle Ming fell down are fast to smash this place collapsed, maybe a moment we will have to sink into the lake to feed the king.”

As soon as I heard that Uncle Ming hit his head on a rock, and there is still the danger of collapse below, I know that the situation is not good, but the mountaineering rope are lost on the way, where there is a rope available.

Shirley Yang suddenly thought that you can use the body to carry the equipment of the “load-bearing belt” and “armed belt”, everyone has, can be detached to connect together, and strong enough, so hurry to do it, the load-bearing belt down after the first let the fat man put him and Uncle Ming’s all the ropes and straps. and Uncle Ming’s all the rope belt, anyway, is strong all make on, with our belt together, first the fat man’s backpack and rifle hanging up, then Uncle Ming tied hanging up.

Uncle Ming’s face was full of blood, I reached out and touched it not too much like blood, I couldn’t help but immediately cry out in pain: “Oh no, Uncle Ming is in the right place, his brains are flowing out.” When Ah Xiang heard that her godfather’s brains had flowed out, she cried again with a sour nose.

Shirley Yang said, “Don’t talk nonsense, this is blood, hemoglobin is starting to produce changes, he still has a heartbeat, he probably just knocked out, it’s better to bandage him up first.”

I advised Ah Xiang while bandaging Uncle Ming, “Don t cry, shedding this blood can not die, at most fall a concussion …… mild concussion.”

The fat man at the bottom of the waiting impatient: “I say you still care about me? To howl to Uncle Ming mourning also first get me up ah, we cry together how good?”

I just remembered that the fat man is not more than Uncle Ming’s body, want to hang him up is not so easy, so hanging down the load-bearing belt: “I can not pull you, can only play the role of cooperation, you have to play a little initiative.”

Fatty tugged on the rope at the bottom and called out, “Although my whole body is that what subjective initiative, but I’m not a jet airplane, it’s impossible to just pop up.”

I pull the load-bearing belt to the stone wall on the side of the stone stem sky beam, the fat man has the direction of the guide, suddenly high and bottom of the bottom of the crawl, from the crystal labyrinth turned out, grasping the stone wall on the location of the depression protruding, coupled with me and Shirley Yang in the upper side of the force to tug him, finally climbed up, just now that fall is not light, although it is with knee pads elbow pads, the tailbone is also painful, half a day and can not be slowed down.

Uncle Ming that side of the blood also stopped, I felt his pulse is still stable, but not as soon as possible to the altar to lift the curse on the body, I’m afraid he will be the first to return to the place, the so-called same life, I can not leave him alone, so the people a little breath, by the fat man on the back of Uncle Ming, stepped on the sky beam hanging in the clouds up the yellowish stone peak, here the terrain is a very neat semicircle, the top of the line of flagging clouds fluctuating The terrain here is a very workable semicircle, with a line of flagging clouds fluctuating on top, giving a mysterious feeling of a mountain in the middle of nothingness, and in the crystal veins overhead, there are ghostly flames of bright light flickering from time to time, suddenly born and then extinguished, up to several hundred, which are as brilliant as the stars when looking at them.

Yellowish bead-shaped mountain, the color is slightly deeper, vaguely seems to be a pair of old five view, but it is not possible to be man-made repair, in close proximity can not see what geological structure of the peaks, like jade and fossilized, and occasionally can hear the depths of the flow of water flowing in the clear sound, looking for the Dragon Tips, described as the top of the Zulong under the “Dragon Dan,” said that it seems to be not a falsehood, the strange underground peaks may be a ghostly fire like bright light flashes from time to time, as many as hundreds of suddenly born and died. This underground peak may be the “Dragon Dan” that the feng shui masters see as the cohesion of life.

I look back from time to time to see the situation behind me, the white tunnel in the thing, apparently stopped at the end, did not follow in, but the way is completely cut off, but now do not care to think about how to deal with it when you go back, and finally in the tunnel in the scene, I did not say to the crowd, lest further increase the pressure on them.

The end of the heavenly beam straight to the belly of the mountain, the interior space is not large, there are two pools on the ground, the walls are carved with hideous evil ghosts, on both sides, divided into dozens of pale and ancient white stone human statues, slightly taller than the normal human figure, each holding a large sea bowl like stone ounce, I remembered that the human skin mural depicts the ceremony, gouge out the human eyeballs, in such a utensil, and so looked into the stone ounce, but there was nothing.

Seeing that he had arrived at the place, the fat man put Uncle Ming on the ground to rest, and Uncle Ming woke up at this time, but seemed to be a little delirious and confused, and would shake his head without saying anything when asked, and did not even recognize his own goddaughter.

The altar there are several slightly smaller caves, religious mystery is extremely strong, I will offer the king’s head, that is, the “phoenix gall bladder” pulled out, asked Shirley Yang has not found how to use the way? The night is long and dreamy, it is best to end this matter of life and death as soon as possible.

Shirley Yang is staring at a place, where all around are strange and bizarre carvings, there is a human-shaped groove on the ground, is the appearance of open limbs, seems to be a place of execution, too many killings over the years, was drenched in blood, stone grooves have been changed from yellowish to dark red, look at it all feel cruel.

I even asked twice Shirley Yang back to God, her face is very bad, took several deep breaths and did not say anything, pointing to those stone slabs, signaling let me see for myself.

Although I am not too familiar with these ancient mystical rituals, but the wall carvings here are very intuitive, even I can see a eight or nine, only looked at a few eyes, but also feel that breathing began to become difficult, I pointed to the black and red human-shaped stone groove and asked Shirley Yang: “want to hold a ceremony, at least need to kill a living person as a sacrifice, without this victim, we are whoever Without this victim, none of us can leave alive, but who can be sacrificed casually? Do we have to draw the life and death sign?”