Chapter 230: North by Northwest

We just focus on looking over the dead fish on the ground, but we don’t know when A-Xiang disappeared, but she certainly didn’t make any noise of struggling for help, or else no one would have noticed, the guys were worried, they all felt that this time it’s really fateful, for fear of letting those things that come to suck the blood of the dead captive after the sacrifice.

But then took a look at the footprints, the blood was fresh, and there was only one person’s footprints, judging from the shape of the bloody footprints, it should be Ah Heung’s, about a dozen or so steps, to the place where the dried corpses were piled up, it was not obvious anymore.

If she was captured by something, the time is definitely not too long, now catch up, there may be a chance to save, we do not dare to delay for a moment, hurried along the direction of the footprints, over the pile of dry corpses, the pile of corpses under the bloody footprints, look at the direction of the altar into the back of the roundabout, we took three steps and rushed over, around the jade mountain, only to see the crystal layer of the mountain behind the room, there is a hole, I do not know what leads to the place, a frail figure flashed into the hole.

Although I only saw the figure flashing for a moment, but judging from the figure and clothes, in all likelihood, it was Ah Xiang, and there didn’t seem to be anything else around her, so what did she want to do when she was bleeding so much by herself? I was suspicious and slowed down a little, while Shirley Yang quickened her pace, hurriedly rushing past from behind to catch up with Ah Heung, and Uncle Ming was also greeting Ah Heung’s name loudly.

This altar cave, the beginning of the middle was separated by the clouds and mist, struck the thunder mountain movement, so that the stone smoke completely dissipated, but we have been exhausted, did not notice the altar behind, there is a hole, and this time and slowly in the crystal layer of rising gas light mist, stone smoke fay hazy, full of silence and misty atmosphere, so that everything around us seem to look not real, the edge of the cave in the mountain gap is more Deep and unfathomable, my intuition tells me that this cave is not a general place to go, the cave crystal veins less and less, fluorescent light dim, there is a hidden dangerous atmosphere, but I see Shirley Yang has run into the fast pace, so no longer think about it, a little hesitant, raised the “wolf eye” flashlight, followed her into the cave.

The people into the cave, did not chase out a few steps, has caught up with the previous figure, is A Xiang, but she seems to be suffering from sleepwalking in general, the eyes of the lost consciousness, staring straight ahead, her nose keeps dripping blood, but she is unaware of this, on our arrival also did not have any reaction, just step by step to the cave deep out walking.

I reached out to pull him back, Uncle Ming hurriedly blocked: “Do not startle her, Hu old brother, Ah Xiang seems to have a soul separation syndrome ah, soul separation syndrome must let her wake up on her own, a touch of her her soul can not come back, she did not have this kind of symptom, I am afraid that the evil?”

I did not dare to move, but Ah Xiang’s nose constantly dripping blood, due to excessive blood loss, the face is no longer half a human color, and then regardless of her words, it is bleeding can also be bleeding to death, Shirley Yang said: “Nitrous sulfur and other irritating smell of things can make the hypochondriacs to regain consciousness.” Shirley Yang said, “Nitrous oxide and other irritating odors can restore the hypochondriac’s consciousness.” She took out the “Northern Earth Xuanzhu” and was about to do it, when she realized that Ah Xiang’s hand had a piece of sharp crystal stone in it, which was slowly stabbing into her own eyes.

Shirley Yang hurriedly “North Earth Xuanzhu” in the end of the nose of Ah Xiang a wipe, Ah Xiang coughed violently, body soft, immediately fell to the ground, Shirley Yang and I hurriedly help her to sit down, tilted up her head, pressed the upper side of the ear bone to stop the bleeding, thanks to the discovery of a timely manner, but what exactly is wrong with her? Why did she walk into this cave? Why did she want to stab her own eyes? Could it be that there is something in the cave that made her lose her mind?

Shirley Yang said to me that Ah Heung must not be able to walk any further, it is best to let her rest here for a while. I nodded my head and agreed, first rest for half an hour, can not go, it does not matter, I and fat man is to lift also have to lift her back, A Xiang is still lucky, I find the fat man to ask for a few pieces of faded shell turtle shells, crushed with a stone, so that Shirley Yang to feed her to serve, this is worth a lot of the spirit of the tortoise shells, is a miraculous blood nourishing the spirit of the magic potion, fat man can not help but be a little heartbroken, there was not much in total, all cheap A Xiang, now there is a palm-sized piece of the shell, the shell is not much, the whole cheap A Xiang. Now there is a piece of the palm size left, think about it, this account is naturally to the head of Uncle Ming, let him write a note, go back to pay the money, not to renege on the debt, and then went out and dragged in the two dead strange fish, hungry red-eye on the hungry, think of the ritual of the murder of the deserted for how many years, this thing may not be like its ancestors really sucked the blood of people, scrape off the scales of the knife and messy fire grilled, enough to satisfy the hunger.

I used the flashlight to look around to see the terrain, the cave is very narrow, not deep, we chased to the place of Ah Xiang, has almost reached the end, raise the “wolf eyes” can be seen in the beam of light to see the end of the situation, there is a wall made of boulders, under the wall there are three very short doorway, and the thick stone wall, carved with a blood-dripping eyeball totem, the eye is full of blood. Totem, with total evil in the eye.

The crowd saw that blood eye, all looked at each other, half a long time, even the Portuguese priest from the temple of reincarnation of the Bible map, there is no such a place, and all the legend records, “the evil Luo sea city” of the underground altar, are only the only one channel, and this wall is where? And what does the blood-dripping eye imply?

Shirley Yang said that this bleeding eyes, should be with the white tunnel before the closed eyes corresponding to the evil Luo sea city in many places, can see a variety of different eye totems, according to me, all the eye in the wall on the stone door, all play a division of the region or the role of warning, but the closed eye is easy to understand, but there are many possibilities of dripping blood, the possibility of greater is to play a role in the warning, indicating that the wall is a forbidden place, more than the wall is a warning, indicating that the wall is the only one passage. Behind this wall was forbidden ground, a secret sanctuary more important than the altar.

I went to the stone wall at the end of the cavern and looked at it, there was a fishy smell coming from the three low doorways down there, I wiped my hand and there was still sticky slippery liquid, there were some fish scale like wafers hanging from the stone, the things that went to suck the blood after the rituals crawled in from behind the wall then, so maybe there was water behind this wall, the texture on the stone wall wasn’t coordinated it looked like it had been broken at one point and then repaired back up, the Or maybe it wasn’t a wall at first but a stone door that was blocked for some reason.

After a while, Ah Xiang regained some sanity, her face was white and scary, and her body was very weak, her speech was a little hard, Shirley Yang asked her what happened just now. Shirley Yang asked her what happened just now, did she know what she was doing?

Ah Xiang first shook his head, and then said in the sky under the beam, suddenly feel very afraid, only one thought in his head, is to want to leave as soon as possible, and never look at those dry corpses again, dazed and confused on their own to walk to this place, and even their own don’t understand why they have to do so.

Uncle Ming said: “my goddaughter see Yin Qi heavy things, the nose will drip blood, this time again, she is after all too young, some things she is not understand the good and bad, but we are all the wind and waves have walked how many times, naturally know the stakes, it seems that this place is not suitable to stay for a long time, you listen to me is right, we go back to the original way is the most prudent. ”

I considered for a while, the original way back, at most turn back to the center of the lake’s volcanic island, where there are a few underground rivers, but basically is considered to be in a desperate situation, and the rapid flow of the underground river, with the injured is simply impossible to find the way, and this wall, although there may be a danger, but there is a certain chance to find the path, in addition to the A-Xiang trance to this place, indicating that the underground must be hidden in what secrets, letting go is always a hidden danger, and since it is the only way back, we should not stay here for long. It is always a hidden danger, since the cave behind the altar hides such a place, maybe it will be related to the ghost cave, to cut off the grass need to weed out the roots, not to have a complete end, I am afraid that after I go back, there will be no peace.

I looked at the compass on my watch, the stone wall is not aligned with the white tunnel from east to west, located in the northwest north, with this defense, I immediately made up my mind, but I still have to ask the rest of the members of the consent.

Shirley Yang said, the way was blocked by a number of falling crystals, want to go back is not easy, pull the fire detonator is still left two, bombing can not be blown up, there is another option, is to climb to the top of the cave, with a detonator to break the roof, so that the lake water above the water back down, filling the cave, then you can swim back to the underground lake, but a lot of us are hung up in the color, soak in the water for a long time, there is a The life is in danger.

Uncle Ming this time and hesitation, strongly advocate to go back from the underground lake, he is a superstitious people, of course, is not to go to the place of heavy Yin Qi, said to me: “There is no mistake ah, Hu old brother, your brother did not say that we encountered the water this time to get the middle way? I think this point is really too correct, but behind this wall there is no water we don’t know, how can we ignore the instructions of the master?”

I cursed in my heart that the old Hong Kong farmer was dragging his feet again, but what could I do with him? To comply with the I’ll leave him alone, but Shirley Yang kind of believe in God’s people certainly will not agree to do so, if you take Uncle Ming, although his mental state now recovered a few points, but there is no guarantee that his suspicion of the heart when he committed again, and then again so, we can not eat and go, my mind moved, I thought that the Ming uncle such a person has a weak point, is overly superstitious, why do not I take advantage of this point of his Why don’t I take advantage of his superstition and convince him that this is the way to live?

I thought of this I said to Uncle Ming, water and get in the way, of course, is right, we came all the way over, did not meet the desperate situation, not looking for water to solve the problem, but the I Ching five elements of the gossip in the water, does not necessarily refer to the flow of water in the lake in the river, which also alludes to the direction of the five elements of the north on behalf of the water, the water born into the number of one, into the number of six, the north is the water.

But this obviously can not convince Uncle Ming, because he simply do not understand, in fact, I do not understand, but I study the secret art of feng shui, naturally inseparable from the five elements of the gossip and other easy arts, although not as Zhang Winchuan as well as the study of the number of machines, but some of the five elements of the principle of life and death, I still know, and of course some of them are that time to meet the Zhang Winchuan when he listened to him speak, and so to the Uncle Ming Kan a:” Eight trigrams and five elements of the number, are from the river map, what is the river map? When Fuxi’s king of the world, that is, when Fuxi when the leadership, he worried ah, every day, you think about it, the old cadres at that time, which has corruption so that one said, are characterized by a sense of responsibility, all day to worry about the country and the people, and one day he sat in an apple tree by the river to think about the country’s major events. …… ”

Fatty is lighting a fire grilled fish, listen to me here, could not help but interject: “Old Hu you say this thing I also know ah, is not falling down an apple, just smashed his head, smashed straight in front of the eyes of Venus, on the comprehension of the gossip and Tai Chi diagram.”

I said to the fat man you do not know can not blindly involved? Let the apple smashed the head of that is Newton, Fu Xi in the river under an apple tree worried, thinking about the fate of their subjects, that primitive flood era, many disasters, the people are living in dire straits, and the human race at that time, for the understanding of the natural universe is very limited, Fu Xi prayed to the river, hoping to get some instructions on how to let the people to avoid disaster, live in peace and work in contentment.

At this time the river jumped out of a dragon horse, carrying a map on his back, so Fuxi to its pattern of painting gossip, some people say that the dragon horse is burdened with, is a huge piece of tortoise shell, or perhaps the dragon horse itself is an old tortoise, armor above the naturally occurring wonderful texture, no matter how the legend is, in any case, this is the river map, Fuxi in accordance with the figure of the shape of the eight trigrams, this is the earliest human knowledge of the universe to the world, heavenly ways As far as possible, according to records, the texture pattern of the Dragon Horse Negative Figure, there is a white spot, six black spots in the back near the end, seven black spots, two white spots in the back near the head of the …… have their own differences, there are a total of fifty-five black and white spots in the river map, the white is twenty-five, called the number of the sky, the black thirty, as a number of the earth, the white represents the yang, all singular numbers, one, three, Five, seven, nine, black spots for the double, two, four, six, eight, ten, representing the yin, known as the number of the earth, at the same time, the river map is also one, two, three, four, five is considered as the number of births, six, seven, eight, nine, ten is called the number of the success of this relationship between the phases, each of the five directions of the one odd and one even, are two groups of symbolic number with each other, used to indicate that all things in the world are made by the yin and yang, there are Taiji is a poor link between heaven and earth, and if it is not born into the earth, it is born from the earth into the sky.

That’s why I say that the north is the place where Yang Qi is born, and the number of births is one, and the number of successes is six, which is called Tian Sheng Sheng Shui, and the number of successes is six, and the laws of nature are all in this, so I say that if you go to the north, you will surely meet the water in the middle of the road.

Shirley Yang listen to can’t help but marvel: “I can’t imagine that you know so many messy things, before I thought that in addition to look at the feng shui, you will only count the money.”

I heard even Shirley Yang also said I have learning, heart naturally pleased, mouth are fast no door, but still modestly said, in fact, I know a lot of things, only you usually always do not give me the opportunity to say, now so that everyone can rest assured it, all the theories in the world, are based on the objective existing facts, so I dare say that the north side must be a door of life because there is also a Very important reason, the gold inspector has an old rule of thumb, into the ancient mound of gold, must be the first in the southeast corner of the lamp, because the southeast is the direction of the disaster and things, disaster is a disaster, things is to do things to do work, the lamp is extinguished, must be born of disaster, the northwest corner of the road to life, Northwest, Northeast and the North, is to open, Hugh, the birth of the three doors, eight doors, only these three are auspicious, this is even the Division of Qian have spoken, he said ” Those who do things are mostly in the southeast, and those who collect work are often in the northwest.” Similarly, in the eyes of people proficient in yin and yang feng shui, all the things in the world, including the political situation, historically is the south weak north strong, has always been born in the south, the work is collected in the north, from the strategic orientation of the north, northwest, northeast occupies an absolute strategic advantage, the north of the main living water, is a good form of living situation.

A word of Uncle Ming said convinced, recognized the north is certainly right, to live out, this road is feasible, so the group rested a little, from the end of the short hole drilled in, before leaving, I stared at the stone wall that dripping blood on the eyeballs look, this totem will not be associated with the Aixiang stinging move? There are a few apprehensions in my heart, in fact, those words of the northern main water are used to perfume Uncle Ming, I myself do not have much confidence, but taking other roads are no longer feasible, hopefully, this is a way of life.

Once out of the low doorway, the eyes opened up, a magnificent underground Grand Canyon appeared in front of the two sides of the crags such as chipping heavy dead air, near the ore can also be borrowed to see a rough outline of the shimmering light, and far away from the black forget not the head, walked forward dozens of meters, found that the canyon crisscrossed, all the fossilized skeletons of giant creatures, the nearest a triangular skull, the size of a private room than also small! Near the edge of the canyon, countless fossilized skeletons had grown into one with the rocks, and only those long spines surfaced that those rocks were once alive.

Fatty said to us as he carried the groggy Ah Xiang, “Didn’t we say that the people of the Magic Kingdom were willing to offer snakes? There are so many big snake corpses here, I think we have to be more careful, maybe there are still living ones.”

Shirley Yang said, “The skeletons in this underground Grand Canyon are not like snakes, but like whales and so on, which have been dead for millions and millions of years. I also agree with Shirley Yang, that’s right, how can a snake have such a big rib cage, it’s almost as big as a ship’s bar bone, all the bones are fossilized, there are no recent skeletons, so we don’t have to worry about anything, but we still don’t know what the Evil Luo Hai people have done here, which is something we still need to be on guard against.

We are trying to go forward to explore the road, at this time, Ah Xiang suddenly said to me, there are some things behind the side, let her feel a headache, we hurriedly turned back to look at, a look only under, we can not help but “ah” a sound, and surprised and strange, who did not expect, in the place where we came out, there is a like Leshan Buddha, embedded in the mountain, a black giant statue, the mountain zero on the mountain, and the Buddha is a big Buddha. Black giant statue, the mountain sporadic fluorescence, set off its tall dark silhouette, like a hideous shadow, the sky stands on the back of us, and the most peculiar is that dozens of meters high huge statue of God, the body tilted forward, the face and the two arms are sunk into the interior of the mountain, the posture like leaning down to the mountain to peep, and its craftsmanship is not as exquisite and complex as the statue of the Buddha, only has a silhouette, without any It is not as beautifully crafted as the Buddha, but only has a silhouette without any decoration or texture.

All of us have a question, is this the real image of “Daheitian Striking Thunder Mountain”? What is this place? We then found that both sides of the giant statue has a face, the body is the same before and after, there is no front and back respectively, and only two arms, but no feet, the giant statue connected to the ground position, there is a ten feet high doorway, which seems to have some space, there are a few collapsed stone crutches in front of the door.

Fatty said it is not easy to have a well-preserved building, why not go in to explore, find something valuable to go back, or we really lose money this trip.

I also want to go in to see, lifting my head to look at the giant statue, nearly tripped over a thing under the feet, it turned out that those similar stone pillars in the canyon there are many, under our feet there is a collapsed, more than half of the section did not enter the soil, Shirley Yang looked at the foot of the stone pillars, suddenly said that I know what this is the place, but did not say it directly, but said to the Aroma: “Can you let me take a closer look at your eyes?”