Chapter 226: Sign of Life and Death

The stone-stemmed sky beam is transformed from an ancient fossil tree, more than thirty meters long and about five meters wide, neat and sturdy, with the lower part of the beam not being in the white clouds; one end of the beam is connected to the platform in front of the “white tunnel”, and the other end is directly connected to the entrance of the cave in the belly of the altar of the Jade Mountain, and on the beam there are a lot of ancient white stone figures, which is very similar to the heavenly medium in the “Tomb of King Xian”. There were many ancient white stone figures standing on the ceiling beam, which were very similar to the heavenly mediums in the “Tomb of King Xian”.

Uncle Ming rode on the shoulders of a stone man, holding the “phoenix gall” hand up, out of the sky beam outside, fat man and I do not dare to act rashly, even if no one moves him, Uncle Ming also has an old problem, a nervous hand began to do索, what things also hold steady, in case of falling into the labyrinth of mirrors down below, it is not a moment or three moments can be found back, our time is running out. Back, we have no time left, this Uncle Ming is like pinching a very unstable bomb, and once the situation occurs, the five people will inevitably be burned.

Uncle Ming’s head wrapped in bandages, staring and gritting his teeth, excitement, anger, hatred and other emotions make his whole person become hysterical, this is the most dangerous time, maybe give him a little bit more pressure, the fuse in his mind will be burned out, completely at the edge of the precipice of mental collapse.

Uncle Ming shouted at the top of his voice, threatening the crowd to retreat, who dared not listen, the “phoenix gall bladder” thrown far below, I had no choice but to retreat a few steps, and cursed Uncle Ming’s ancestors in my heart, this old Hong Kong farmers are really deep enough, slipped into the crystal layer below, although his head cracked and bled a lot of blood, but are skin wounds. Although his head was cracked and bled a lot, it was a superficial wound and he only fainted for a while. At least when we were discussing the “killing ceremony”, he was already awake, but once he heard that the situation was not right, he even pretended to have a broken brain, and then, after he learned about the importance of this “phoenix gall bladder”, he swindled to seize it. We were in a very complicated mood, the lack of defense, unexpectedly fell into the path of Hong Kong farmers.

In any case, we must first stabilize Uncle Ming, so behind the back of the fat man and Shirley Yang made a gesture, so that they do not act rashly, once the shot, make sure to hit, and can not take any risk that may make the “phoenix gall blunder”, and then said to Uncle Ming riding on the stone man: “You! Then he said to Uncle Ming, who was riding on the stone man, “Why are you doing this, old man? We are a rope on the grasshopper, can not go I can not fly you, I never intended to sacrifice someone, fat just said that, but also only on the premise of your old man into a vegetable, you since the body is not in serious trouble, I advise you to stop before it is too late, hurry down to us and then discuss other ways.”

Uncle Ming burst into a sneer, the muscles on his face twisted due to his over-excitement, and cursed, “Ah shucks! You this class of bad boy smarty pants, now still want to cheat your uncle me, think I little Zhuge Lei Xianming, thirteen years old on the beheading of chicken burning yellow paper, fourteen years old on the sea to break into the South China Sea, fifteen years old personally slaughtered the living, the road has seen roadblocking tigers, the water encountered cannibalistic fish, the gun forest and sword in the wind and waves in the half-life, how can you be cheated down to the harm to the lives of the people.”

I said to Uncle Ming: “This is the opposite of what you said, what do you mean we are smart? If you hadn’t been so paranoid and refused to believe my advice that you couldn’t split up even after death, you wouldn’t have ended up in this predicament, or else you would have said that your advice was contrary to your ears, but it’s a pity that you also dragged Ah Heung into this. Now arguing about these things is useless, we must be in the same boat, otherwise everyone will die without a burial place.”

The fat man was furious, set out to roll up his arms and sleeves, staring at the living slaughter of the frame to: “Old Hu you waste with him what he said, since he wants to blackmail us, that he can not give up this old life, I do not believe that the old girl quite rush to throw the beads down, we now go over to give him a big dismantling of eight pieces, the sacrifices that sacrifice that thrown thrown.”

The fat man so scared, Uncle Ming really scared, because these days, Uncle Ming has been very clear about the fat man, belongs to the soft and hard to do that way, this person is the most bad to deal with, guilty of temper anything to do out, take the fat man’s own words, happy up the heavenly seven nymphs buttocks also dare to pinch on a hand, Uncle Ming, this is a tense hand a little dozoso, and hastened to say:” Don’t don’t …… don’t come over, there are words to discuss, and don’t think I don’t dare, fat boy if you dare to force me, I’ll do one to show you, we all die together here is also good.”

I know that although Uncle Ming is afraid of the fat man, but the dog is anxious to jump over the wall, people are anxious to do things without a bottom line, of course, Uncle Ming does not want to die, even if it is doomed to live tomorrow, now live a moment more that is also good, which can not be blamed for his selfishness and despicable, people do not look after themselves, even the mole crickets are also still alive, and dared to sacrifice themselves for the majority of the population, so that the people are heroes, but they are all flesh and blood flesh and blood, 99 percent of the people are not so high-minded, and the people are not so high-minded. Ninety-nine percent of the people do not have such a high ideological awareness, even that one percent, there are many people are forced to be a hero, who are not qualified to ask others to die for themselves, let alone that kind of cruel death.

There is another point, the human psyche is very subtle, some of these changes can not even be explained, for example, a person knows that he has a terminal illness, there is no cure, time is running out, that his heart side of the pain, it can be imagined, but if at this point in time he suddenly learned that the world’s people, are suffering from the same symptoms as him, then he will be more points of psychological comfort, loneliness, helplessness and a sense of loss will not be so strong! This is called the sky collapsing together with a group of people.

Only to hear Uncle Ming then said: “We are all in the ghost spell, but I know there is still a way to live, just must be killed a person to do, I see …… you …… you kill Ah Xiang well, I worked hard to raise her so many years, it’s time for her to repay the favor. It is time for her to repay her kindness.”

At this time I have figured out the bottom line of Uncle Ming, Uncle Ming heart than anyone is clear, here a total of five people, if kill me and Fatty, Shirley Yang any one of the three people, he would not want to live to leave, want to go back from this bottom of the earth space back to the Lalamir, with his own is completely can not be done, and the Uncle Ming he is definitely not willing to die in this, in this case, only to sacrifice his god-daughter, Ah Heung, to the bottom of the earth space back to the Lalamir, by himself. If we don’t agree to this condition, then Uncle Ming will pull all the people on his back if he wants to die.

Since the altar out, have not gone back to see that time crystal sand, but the material to that time has not much left, I guessed the bottom line of Uncle Ming, there is a way to know that the old Hong Kong farmers do not want to do things to the end, in this case, there is room for manoeuvre, although there is no chance to snatch back the “dust beads”, but you can gamble on the luck of the draw! So he said to Uncle Ming: “Tiger venom does not eat the child, if you kill Ah Heung and live, and animals and what difference, although you are willing to, we will not do this kind of worse than dogs and pigs, how about this, you, I and Fatty, three men, draw a life and death sign, and listen to God’s will.”

Uncle Ming saw that this is already the only chance to live, but this one-third of the probability of death is still really too big, gritted his teeth and said, “I have never had bad luck, most of all life, I can fight with you guys, but to draw the life and death sign on the five people to draw all of them, no one wants to sit on the fence, otherwise we all die together.”

Uncle Ming did not wait for us to agree, then already followed the conditions, each person must make a poisonous oath, life and death have their own destiny, who drew the death sign that is his fate is not good, can not be reversed, but also we give him a pistol, so as not to be at that time someone reversed to kill him.

I glanced at Shirley Yang, she nodded to me, I thought to myself that this pistol can be given to him, because he does not dare to shoot casually, or else the consequences he knows very well, so will Shirley Yang’s M1911 only left a round of ammunition, intends to go over to give him, and would like to take the opportunity to pull him down from the stone man, but Uncle Ming does not allow me to get close to the half-step, so that I will give the pistol to Ah Heung, forwarded over to him.

As soon as Uncle Ming received the gun, he held up the “phoenix gall bladder” in one hand and urged us to take the poisonous oath quickly, for time was running out in case someone drew the “dead stick” and was too late to perform the ceremony, then everything would be in vain.

I thought to myself, not just make a vow, this vow spell has “live set”, “dead set” said, “live set” said what heaven struck by lightning, or eight lifetimes can not catch up with the death of a time, or play a little Mouth color, said although impassioned swearing, but in fact the content of ambiguity, meaning is not clear, are some plain water words, said the same as did not say; “dead set” is a real poisonous oath, and even involving the whole family, even if you do not believe in swearing and swearing these things, people do not dare to casually say out.

I don’t care, but I’ve never worshiped, and I’ve never sworn any oaths, so I don’t know much about those words, so I raised a hand and said, “Get ready, always be ready. ……

Uncle Ming called out, “No no no, you are blindfolded, I say first, you all according to my words to say it yourself.” Then brought hair a “dead set” of poisonous spell, we have no choice but to also follow the vaguely said once.

As for the props to draw the life and death sign, only to adapt to the local conditions, find a small sealed bag, in the take just from the M1911 unloaded five bullets, one of the bullet head with a red marker pen scratched a mark on behalf of the “dead sign”, take turns to reach out into the sealed bag to touch, who touched out the “dead sign! Whoever touches the “dead tag” will die here instead of the rest of the four, and must not complain.

Uncle Ming still think it’s not right, and asked everyone must use the gloved hand to touch, I cursed the old Hong Kong farmers slippery, and then also put forward a request, must let Ah Heung and Shirley Yang first draw, which will never be compromised, there are only five sign, the more the first to draw, the more unlikely to be drawn to the “dead”, but this is also related to luck, every time you draw the “dead”, the more likely to be drawn to the “dead”. But this is also related to luck, each draw a bullet without a mark, the probability of death will be added to the remaining bullets, which is somewhat like the use of sub-loading ammunition revolver, only loaded with a bullet to take turns to shoot at the head of the Russian roulette wheel, the difference is that the number of people involved in the different only.

Uncle Ming gritted his teeth, agreed to this request, after all, it is possible to first draw lots of people, in advance, hit the muzzle of the gun, the time one minute and one second keeps passing, can not be delayed, this life-and-death situation, there is no way to do to hide, I have to be tough with Uncle Ming to carry out a death of the bet to see whether it is a “touch of gold schoolmasters,” the life of hard, or his “back to the world,” the life of a “gold schoolmaster” is hard, or his “back to the world. Shirley Yang let Ah Xiang draw lots first, since she heard Uncle Ming say he could kill her, Ah Xiang has always been in a trance, with the help of Shirley Yang, mechanically probe his hand into the sealing tape, touched a bullet, and threw it on the ground without looking at it, which was a bullet that had not been fired. the ground, it was an unmarked bullet.

Uncle Ming also saw it clearly on the stone man, and swallowed dry saliva hard, the chance of death increased to one quarter, in the almost frozen atmosphere, Shirley Yang calmly touched out a second bullet from the sealed bag, she seemed to have been mentally prepared for a long time ago, life and death were put at risk, she slowly opened her hand holding the bullet, and her glove held an unmarked bullet, Shirley Yang sighed lightly, but there was no marking. Shirley Yang sighed lightly, but did not feel the slightest sense of relief.

I took the sealed bag, and the fat man looked at each other, there are only three people left, can be sacrificed, will come from among us, if Uncle Ming drew a dead sign, that can not be said, to kill him also belongs to the name, if I and the fat man drew, I’ll be the first to the phoenix bile trick to say again, and then act when the opportunity arises, thought of this I asked Uncle Ming do you want to draw first? Uncle Ming weighed half a day, asked himself not to have the courage to touch this third, but not to draw, if the next person can not draw “dead”, the possibility of death increased to 50%, after half a day before shaking his head at us, let me and Fatty first draw.

The fat man cursed, probed into the hand to take out a bullet, he was pinched out, a look at the slugs froze: “Fuck, go out and did not look at the calendar, the temple forgot to burn incense, how to let the fat master me to catch up.”

Uncle Ming saw that Fatty drew the dead sign, and did not get carried away, suddenly showed his face to kill, raised his gun to Fatty and cursed, “Dead fat boy, you are even more detestable than Hu Ba Yi, you go to hell.” Pulled the trigger.

Fatty did not hold a gun in hand, just drew a death sign, thought really want to die, can not help but panic, the sky beam on the narrow terrain, and did not think that Uncle Ming will suddenly shoot, because to die people also have to wait until the altar in order to die, in this death and what role, but the mental state of Uncle Ming is very unstable, and even regardless of the hands of the man in this to do it, the fat man had to scurry to the back of the stone man in a flurry of hands and feet, and this is only to find that the hands of Uncle Ming The gun did not ring.

Uncle Ming saw the pistol can not be fired, immediately froze, and then cursed Hu Bayi you a short-lived bad boy and make a trick, even the bullet primer stealing unloaded, throw ah, the group together with the death of forget. Raising his hand, he threw the “phoenix gall bladder” and plunged it straight into the cloudy lake under the heavenly beam.

Although I did in advance, but completely did not expect Uncle Ming will shoot at this time, now see lost the first opportunity, would like to rush over to stop him, but after all, from the distance of six or seven paces, I pulled Uncle Ming from the stone man down when it was already too late.

Above the sky beam in a mess, in the confusion I saw Shirley Yang rushed to the edge of the sky beam, ready to follow the jump to find the “phoenix gall bladder”, but suddenly stopped in his tracks: “not good, there is no time.” At the same time, the light of the crystal vein suddenly dimmed rapidly, and darkness began to cover the surrounding area.