The so-called ghost cave is nothing more than the entrance to the Fire Eye. When Ying Zheng was in Lishan, he entered it countless times.
But when he stood at the door of the ghost cave in front of him, Ying Zheng felt really different.
Because this ghost cave is a place carefully built by the ghost cave people to create dense stones, and it is also a place where the ghost hands in front of them are proud.
At this time, the eight ghost hands guarding the entrance of the ghost cave took two steps forward at the same time, leaned over and said, "See the clan leader."
Wu Chan nodded lightly and said, "No need to be polite, everyone. The person next to my clan leader is the King of Qin I mentioned yesterday. This time, he is here to ask for our help."
The eight ghost hands turned around at the same time, bowed their heads and said, "I have met King Qin."
"Ying Zheng has met all of you, seniors." Ying Zheng quickly returned the greeting with his hands in hand, his expression and tone of voice seemed quite respectful.
Wu Chan took a few steps closer and said to the leading ghost hand: "Uncle Thumb, are you ready?"
thumb? ?
The name is quite interesting.
"Everything is ready to go," said the ghost hand, known as the thumb.
"Yes." Wu Chan nodded, turned to Ying Zheng and said, "This ghost hand is the leader here, nicknamed Thumb, and is fully responsible for the safety of King Qin this time."
Ying Zheng nodded slightly, then looked at Thumb, cupped his hands again and said, "Ying Zheng has met Senior Thumb."
"Haha, King Qin is too polite, just call me Thumb." Thumb said with a very easy-going smile.
It seems that what Jingjue calls himself is not very important.
"Then since there are no outsiders, you can also call me widowers. Oh, just call me Ying Zheng." Ying Zheng said.
"Me?" Wu Chan looked at Ying Zheng and didn't seem to understand.
"Haha, now in Da Qin, I call myself myself, and I have replaced my name with it." Ying Zheng explained.
"Oh." Wu Chan chuckled, "Jingjue people learn Chinese language to facilitate communication with you. Because there are too many people of all races in the city, it is sometimes used as a code language. Now that Great Qin has changed the rules, Jingjue people Jue naturally followed, and we will all call ourselves myself from now on."
"Yes, patriarch." Zhehuai and the eight ghost hands responded in unison.
"Okay, now that everything is ready, let's set off immediately." After Wu Chan gave the order, he turned to Ying Zheng and said, "Brother Ying, just follow Uncle Thumb and walk at the end. This road is also Let him explain it to you."
Brother Ying?
Ying Zheng is so old, this is the first time someone calls him that.
However, it felt very comfortable and it also brought the two people closer.
"Okay, where are you walking?" Ying Zheng asked.
"I..." Wu Chan seemed to be trying to use this title, "Of course I'm with you."
"Haha, okay." Ying Zheng responded with a smile.
"Put on the ice silk clothes first." Wu Chan said as he took his package off his shoulders and opened it.
Ying Zheng also opened his package, and the ice silk garment in front of him was indeed as its name suggests, as white as snow and as cold as ice.
There is a slight chill in the extremely silky smoothness behind the tentacles.
Clothes, pants, shoes, gloves, headgear, all available.
The most interesting thing is the hood, which seems to have two oil stains on the eyes, which should be used to see the way.
Ying Zheng put the hood on his head and tried it. He looked at the scenery outside through the two oil stains. It was quite blurry, but not completely invisible. It seemed that the oil stain had been specially prepared.
"Haha." Wu Chan covered his mouth and laughed, "I've never seen anyone who didn't put on clothes and a headgear first."
Ying Zheng quickly took off his hood and murmured, "I'm just trying to see if I can see."
"Okay, okay, put it on quickly." Wu Chan urged while putting on the ice silk clothes.
Ying Zheng responded, and then put on the ice silk suit
Wear them one by one on your own
On the body.
"These clothes are mainly used to keep out the heat, right?" Ying Zheng asked.
"Of course, but it's usually only used when the ghost hands are operating lava. This time we may be very close, so it's best to be fully armed." Wu Chan said.
After a while, everyone finished dressing, everyone lit a torch, and began to enter the ghost cave one after another.
It's said to be a ghost cave, but it's actually just a name. It's not that scary. Ying Zheng doesn't have the slightest worry in his heart. After all, sitting in Zhu Jiuyou's belly and swimming around in the red stream, he can still be afraid of what's in front of him. This bit of heat?
However, it is best to be obedient and do whatever Wu Chan says.
By the light of the fire, Ying Zheng observed the ghost cave carefully.
I saw that this ghost cave is quite weird. There seems to be a dividing line at waist level, which divides the cave into upper and lower layers. The upper rock layer is lighter in color, the color of normal rock, and has been polished manually. trace.
The rock formations below are dark in color, and there are layers of stripes on the ground that resemble waves, as if they have been washed by water.
Ying Zheng opened his mouth and was about to ask something, but held back.
"Most ghost caves are washed out by magma, so their structure may be different from ordinary caves." The thumb on the side seemed to notice Ying Zheng's doubts and explained to him.
"No wonder this cave is quite weird." Ying Zheng said.
"Well, letting the magma flow from the eye of the fire to the designated location is the most difficult step in the whole process." Thumb said.
Thinking about it, it is not easy to build dams and canals for rivers, let alone the burning magma.
After passing through a straight section, the direction of the cave began to go down and twist.
Not long after, everyone came to a cave with a larger space.
And this place turned out to be a very busy scene, with some ghost hands working here.
In the middle, there was a large box. The outside seemed to be wrapped in cotton, and the material inside could not be seen.
In the open space next to it, some people seemed to be spinning silk, and some seemed to be feeding ice Gu.
"This place is a temporary space for feeding ice Gu." Wu Chan said.
"Can I see what ice Gu looks like?" Ying Zheng's tone was full of curiosity.
"You can look at them, but you can't touch them." Wu Chan warned.
"Well, okay." Ying Zheng nodded and said.
Wu Chan and Thumb took Ying Zheng to the ghost hand who was feeding ice Gu.
In front of this ghost hand is a rather simple wooden box, which is still covered with a thick layer of cotton. On top of the cotton, there are several snow-white things lying lazily. They look similar to silkworms, but they are It's a bit bigger than a silkworm.
"Is this the Ice Gu?" It was difficult to see clearly through the hood, so Ying Zheng simply took off the hood and leaned down to observe it carefully.
"Yes, this is the Ice Gu." Thumb said, "In the whole world, there is probably only Jing Jue's Ice Gu."
Wu Chan probably wanted to take some air, so he also took off his hood and said, "Don't talk about ice poison, even ordinary poisons are becoming less and less common in the world. This ice poison has a cold body and can survive in magma. And if the juice it spits out is applied to ordinary rocks, it will not be afraid of the high temperature of the magma."
Of course, Ying Zheng can understand this easily. Ji Fa said that the abilities of Ice Gu and Zhu Jiuyou are very similar.
"So, we have been using this method to contain the magma and make pipelines to transport the magma." He also took off the hood with his thumb and added.
Ying Zheng said thoughtfully: "It sounds easy, but the process must be complicated, right?"
"Well, it's a bit complicated, but once you get used to it, it won't be a big deal." Thumb said.
I am not in a hurry about this, because
Because Ying Zheng would see it soon, he looked at the leaves placed next to the ice Gu and asked: "This ice Gu
What do you eat? Just eat the leaves? "
"Haha, this ice Gu will eat anything as long as it's green. It's almost the same as cattle and sheep." Thumb said.
"Then they will also spin silk into cocoons?" Ying Zheng asked.
"It can spin silk, but it can't form cocoons, and it can't change its body." Thumb said.
"Oh." Ying Zheng's eyes were still fixed on the ice Gu, "That's still different from silkworms."
"Of course, a voodoo is a voodoo, and a silkworm is a silkworm." Wu Chan curled his lips and said, "Wolves and dogs also look similar, but they are not the same thing after all."
What he said made Ying Zheng unable to refute.
"For this exquisite and unique thing, you must be very, very good, don't ask, don't ask."
Wu Chan chuckled and said, "Actually, even if I tell you, it's useless, you won't be able to support me."
Ying Zheng shrugged his shoulders and said: "Of course I know this, so from the beginning, I borrowed the ghost hand from you, not this ice Gu."
Thumb's brows furrowed and he looked at Wu Chan with doubt on his face, but he didn't say anything.
Wu Chan also looked at Thumb and said, "It depends on Uncle Thumb whether he wants to go or not."
"Going to China?" Thumb asked.
"Well, King Qin needs a few ghost hands to go with him to China, where the secret stones can be made nearby in the Fire Eye." Wu Chan said, "Uncle Thumb, do you want to go by yourself, or send other ghost hands to go?"
Thumb thought for a while and said: "This matter needs to be discussed with the brothers before making a decision."
"Okay, let's keep moving forward." Wu Chan put the hood on his head again.
"Yes." Thumb turned to the other ghost hands and said, "Keep moving forward."
Ying Zheng looked at the hood in his hand, but did not put it on immediately, and followed Wu Chan into a cave at the other end.
"Why don't you put it on?" Wu Chan asked with some concern.
"Well, I want to take a closer look at the environment here." Ying Zheng couldn't say it was because it was a bit uncomfortable to carry him around.
"There is a real ghost cave ahead. If you can't bear the heat, put it on quickly." Wu Chan said.
"Yeah, remember."
The group of people continued walking in the direction of the Fire Eye, and the passage here was much straighter than when they came just now.
Not long after, everyone came to a rectangular open area.
In the middle, there are two rock pools made of rocks, and wisps of hot air can be seen rising above them.
On the side, several ghost hands are working together to turn a wheel axle, which is connected to a mechanism behind the rock pool.
Under each rock pool, there are four tiny gaps. The red and hot magma is slowly flowing out from these gaps and flowing into the specially made pipes below.
At the end of the pipe are square and hollow stones, and the flowing magma flows into the stones.
It can be seen that this stone should act as a mold, and after the magma inside cools, it will solidify into dense stone.
Ying Zheng had imagined the process of making secret stones more than once, and the scene before him was basically not much different from his guess.
"Are they making secret stones?" Ying Zheng asked.
"Yes." Thumb said, "This is the place where secret stones are forged. If King Qin has any opinions, please give me some advice."
