As expected, the fat man was also struck by the trick, hanging motionless on the grotto with his eyes closed tightly.
Wu Xie quickly climbed up, turned on the light and looked carefully, and found that the two gray-white eyeballs on the snake's head were still intact. He breathed a sigh of relief, then pinched the soft flesh on the fat man's arm and twisted it hard.
"Ouch--" The fat man trembled all over and screamed in pain, his eyelids trembling crazily.
Wu Xie used a method of chopping his wrists to scare himself out of the illusion, but he could not use this trick on the fat man.
Scare and intimidation can only have a counterproductive effect on a person with Fatty's personality. Only the method that can best stimulate him to produce intense emotions can be used to wake him up, such as anger caused by pain.
So Wu Xie once again pinched the soft flesh on the inner thigh of the fat man mercilessly. There was the most flesh here, so he used more force than before and twisted it hard.
The fat man suddenly opened his eyes and stared as big as a bell. He grabbed Wu Xie's hand and cursed, "You stupid little beast, how dare you bite you, fat man? I won't pluck you out." A mouth full of dog teeth!”
Wu Xie's hand was tightly clamped by him. He shook it twice and found that he couldn't break free, so he hurriedly called him, "Fat man."
The fat man grabbed the vicious dog that bit him, opened its mouth and was about to pull out the teeth, when he suddenly heard Wu Xie calling him.
"Dog thing...huh?" The fat man suddenly felt something was wrong. He looked down and realized that the dog tooth he was holding in his hand was actually Wu Xie's finger.
"Innocent?" The anger on the fat man's face froze, and he was a little confused. "What's going on, where is the dog? Where is the dog that jumped up and bit the fat man twice?"
"Hurry up and let go, my hand is about to break your joint." Wu Xie showed his teeth in pain, "It's just you and me here, where's the dog?"
The two climbed down from the grotto. The fat man looked left and right, and finally came to his senses. He muttered: "Fat Master thought we had already reached the bronze door, but I didn't expect that we still stayed in the same place after walking for a long time."
Wu Xie briefly told the fat man about his hallucination. When the two of them put it together, they found that the scenes they experienced in the hallucination were roughly the same. In other words, it was very possible that their minds were mixed at the time. together.
Wu Xie thought about it: "It's not clear yet what exactly caused us to hallucinate. It's likely that there's something weird about those stone statues, or it might be something else that's hard for people to detect, which made us hallucinate unknowingly. Got it."
"Where are those two guys?" The fat man turned on the lamp and looked around for a long time. When Zhang Haixing and Feng were nowhere to be seen, he immediately became angry. They just left each other and ran away."
"It's broken. They won't take away all our food." The fat man's face changed drastically. He hurriedly checked their backpacks and saw that the canned dried fish was still inside. He snorted coldly, "Forget it. They still have some conscience.”
Wu Xie put away the big white dog's legs and patted his shoulder comfortingly, "Each one is his own master. Since we have been robbed of the opportunity, we must hurry up."
The two set off immediately and trotted along the gravel beach. A few minutes later, they encountered the stone grass covered with corpse grass.
Wu Xie was surprised, "Coincidence?"
"That's quite a coincidence." The fat man smacked his tongue, "How did this hallucination come about? It's so magical that we can even predict the things we will encounter later."
"Innocent, tell me, that bronze door really didn't have a big hole, right? Zhang Haixing and the others might have blown it open." The fat man said angrily.
Wu Xie shook his head, "It's hard to say. You have to see it with your own eyes to know."
The two of them immediately did not dare to delay any longer, and speeded up their pace through the corpse-head grass. When they were about to reach the end of the rocky beach, they stopped at the same time.
At the end of the stone beach, there is indeed a large irregular hole, but it is just on a dark green wall that emits a faint light. In other words, the end of the crack at the bottom is not a bronze door.
What appeared in front of them was an extremely tall arc-shaped meteorite wall, like a magic sword falling from the sky, inserted straight into the middle of the mountain. There were countless twisted and complicated threads on it, one after another, much like the ancient The patterns on the mysterious sacrificial vessels.
When Wu Xie came closer and looked at the lamp, he knew that the meteorite wall was purely natural, with no trace of artificial processing at all.
This is a large jade meteorite vein. Although the composition is a bit mixed, its research value is beyond imagination. It was directly dropped on the mountain by a huge high-temperature meteorite. Under the influence of the earth's gravity, it carried the epoch-making stone with it. The momentum forcefully split the rocky mountain apart.
The body of the burning meteorite was continuously cooled and solidified by the icy snow-capped mountains during the fall, and finally stayed in the middle of the mountain. After tens of thousands of years or more, it took tens of thousands of years or more before it became what it is today under the influence of geology, climate, silica, etc. The magnificent sight seen.
After listening to Wu Xie's explanation, the fat man said quietly, "Fat man suddenly had the illusion of returning to his hometown in a dream, so I asked casually, is this thing valuable?"
Wu Xie nodded and said: "Common jade meteorites cost about a thousand yuan per gram, but the scientific research value of such a huge jade meteorite vein like this is immeasurable. It is roughly estimated that one gram will cost at least 50,000 yuan."
The fat man gasped, rolled up his sleeves, and stretched out his arms in front of Wu Xie, "Tianzhen, do you want to stop pinching me? I feel that we are probably still in the illusion now."
Wu Xie pushed his arm away and sighed, "No need to pinch. The places where meteorites fell are marked on the Warring States silk books. Although this kind of situation is rare, it is normal if you think about it."
"This dream is so wonderful that Fatty doesn't even want to wake up."
The fat man wiped off the suspicious water stains on his mouth with the back of his hand. He ran to the bottom of the jade meteorite wall with the back of his hand. With his eyes like searchlights, he searched the pile of rocks for more than a dozen jade meteorites without cracks and stuffed them into the pile. In the backpack.
Wu Xie waited for him to finish pretending before he spoke, "Zhang Haixing and the others have been in there for a long time. They are probably close to getting the contents inside. We have to speed up."
"Oh chicken neck open!"
The fat man picked up two more small pieces, ran back and stuffed them into Wu Xie's hands, muttering something in his mouth: "It's been a long journey across mountains and rivers, so I have to get some souvenirs to take back."
The hole in the meteorite wall is as big as half a small truck head and more than three meters above the ground. The fragments of jade meteorites that fell on the ground should have fallen when the big hole was dug.
Wu Xie looked at the stacked stones at the base of the wall, which should have been stepped on by Zhang Haixing and the others. He then asked the fat man to bring a few more stones from the surroundings and pile them on top. Then he stood up and said, "I'll climb up first and take a look." look."
The fat man gestured OK to him. Wu Xie nodded, took off his backpack and let the fat man hold it. Then he bent his knees slightly, jumped up with both legs, and grabbed the edge of the hole the moment he jumped up.
Wu Xie exerted his strength with both arms and had just climbed half of his body up. Before he could see clearly what was inside, the hot breath that hit him staggered him and he almost fell back down.
When the fat man saw that the situation was not good, he immediately dropped his backpack and raised his hand to support his butt, "What's wrong, Tianzhen, what's up there?"
"It's not clear yet, but I feel a little dangerous." Wu Xie replied to him, supported his body with his elbows, held his breath and climbed up with all his strength.
There was a short tunnel above. Wu Xie looked forward, and all he could see was large areas of dark green, red and yellow colored jade light.
He seemed to be in a splendid heavy-color heavy industry oil painting. The scorching firelight shone through from the end of the tunnel, giving him the illusion that he was standing in a kaleidoscope burned by flames.
The air that hit his face was hot. Wu Xie reached out and touched the side. The meteorite wall was frighteningly hot. He suddenly had a very ominous premonition.
The fat man was still waiting underneath. Wu Xie turned around and asked him to throw their backpacks up, and then dragged the fat man up.
"What the hell? Why are people burning like this here?" The fat man shouted as soon as he put his head in, touched the meteorite wall, and wondered, "Did we two brothers suddenly be transported to the legendary Flame Mountain?"
Wu Xie glanced at him silently, "Maybe... sort of."
"Why do you look like you're constipated? Could it be that there's something really big behind it?" the fat man asked.
Wu Xie sighed and said melancholy: "The situation is more difficult than I expected before. There is probably a large magma pool behind."
"What the hell?" The fat man plucked his ears and couldn't believe it. He threw his bag on his back and walked forward. Wu Xie quickly followed.
The two walked quickly through the five to six meter long tunnel and stood at the edge of the tunnel entrance, looking at the raging and boiling red magma below, which occasionally spewed out cones of fire. The two looked at each other and saw it in each other's eyes. fear.
After just standing on the edge of the cliff for a short while, the gas masks on their faces showed signs of being softened, and they hurriedly retreated back into the tunnel.
Wu Xie took off the old gas mask that had expired. The hot air had no barrier and hit his face. His skin was instantly red by the firelight, as if he had been scalded by a red-hot iron.
After taking it off for only a short while, his face was already unbearably hot. Wu Xie hurriedly took out a new gas mask and put it on to block the heat.
When I was freeing my hand, I accidentally failed to hold it firmly. The old gas mask fell straight into the abyss of fire below like a bird that suddenly died while flying in mid-air. Before it could fall into the magma below, it fell. It had been reduced to ashes in the gushing heat.
Seeing the gas mask die in front of his eyes, the fat man's lips trembled uncontrollably, and he swallowed hard, "They say that if you survive in hell, you will never see the light of day."
"Innocent, we are really standing at the gate of hell this time. The Lord of Hell has probably already taken the Book of Life and Death and sent two seductresses to wait for us at the station entrance."
There were big beads of sweat on Wu Xie's forehead. He licked the dry skin at the corner of his mouth and gritted his teeth and said, "Even if we have to walk on the Naihe Bridge, since Zhang Haixing and the others can get by, we will definitely be able to walk across it."
He raised his hand and pointed upward, "Look, the Naihe Bridge is right above."
The fat man looked up and saw a dozen bronze chains as thick as buckets hanging in the air above the cliff, straddling the meteorite cliffs on both sides.
There are many smaller chains wrapped around the large bronze chain, climbing on it like vines. Every once in a while, a pear-shaped black thing falls under the chain, which is tightly wrapped by the thin chains, like a The cocoon of a butterfly.
Wu Xie squinted his eyes and took a closer look, and found that those "cocoons" were actually iron cages, but they were deformed by the scorching heat here. There should be something heavier inside the cages, and the chains were wrapped in black. , and can’t see clearly.
The heat was so intense that the fat man put his hands together and placed a lens tube in front of his eyes.
Suddenly, he didn't know what he saw. The fat man didn't care about the heat that made his eyes hurt. He pointed at the top of the bronze chain and shouted: "Zhang Haixing, graveyard, hey, those two bastards are walking on the Naihe Bridge."
After hearing what he said, Wu Xie quickly moved his position and imitated the fat man's posture to look up. Sure enough, he saw two black figures above the bronze chain. One was thin and the other was strong. They were walking on top of the chain with difficulty. But they went up early and were almost at the other end.
"Quick, quick!" Wu Xie urged, "Let's get on the bridge too."
After saying that, he turned around and looked behind him, and sure enough he saw the pitons laid by Zhang Haixing on the meteorite wall.
Wu Xie and Fatty grabbed the pitons and climbed up. In a short time, they climbed to the same height as the bronze chain.
The two of them stood on the chains one after another and looked down. A wave of dizziness hit them uncontrollably. Although the two of them were not afraid of heights, under the threat of such a height, coupled with the dangerous situation below them, they could die every minute. Magma, the two of them could not control their legs shaking, almost succumbing to the chains, and immediately stepped back.
The fat man cursed a few curse words to embolden his courage, and said to Wu Xie: "Fat man, let's go first. Tianzhen, you go behind. If it's too late, let's lie down on it and crawl over. At most, our knees will be burned and the skin will be bald, so it doesn't matter."
The two changed positions. The fat man took a deep breath, carefully stepped on the chain, opened his arms to maintain balance, and always focused on the front. It was not difficult to walk.
The chain was very wide. When I got closer, I discovered that the thickest bronze chain was actually made up of several thinner chains twisted into one, like a twist, with many thinner chains wrapped around it. Be careful. You won't slip and fall when you walk on it.
The fat man has been walking ahead for a while, and his progress is getting smoother and smoother.
Wu Xie closed his eyes to cheer himself up and said in his mind, "There is water below, there is water below." After several times, the fear in his heart was indeed relieved a lot, and he quickly stepped on the chain.
Zhang Haixing and Feng, who were at the front, had already reached the end. They looked back and did not show any surprise at the Wu Xie duo who were catching up.
Zhang Haixing waved his hand casually, then turned around and walked into the meteor cave opposite with Feng.
