In the midst of her thoughts, He Siniang walked over from behind. Seeing the grim-faced Taoist priest looking at the bridge in a daze, she handed him a piece of pancake and whispered, "Do you feel that the road ahead is difficult?"
The Taoist priest with a grimace came back to his senses and took the pancake, and replied: "The road has never been easy, but the poor Taoist has never been so worried... I can't describe the feeling."
"I'm afraid that your uneasiness is not entirely due to the unpredictability of the road ahead." He Siniang sat down next to the grim-faced Taoist priest and said: "In the past, we only had to fight with all our strength to break through the barrier. No matter how dangerous we encountered, we still had to fight with the dead tomb owner. The battle between the two is different this time. In addition to the numerous mysteries at the bottom of the valley, there are also a group of cunning enemies in the dark. They obviously know more than us. Such a group of cunning and well-informed ideas are constantly changing. They are always thinking about us, and this is what the Taoist priest is really worried about."
"Hey! It's better that Fourth Mother understands Pindao. It would be great for such a caring person to marry Pindao."
"Sleep well, don't turn over and wake up from your dream." He Siniang gave the Taoist a white face and said, "I was talking to you seriously, but you immediately talked about something else."
"Pindao, don't you want to lighten the atmosphere?"
"I've never seen a hooligan act to lighten the mood. Don't be impatient. Tell me what to do next?"
"What can we do? Just take it one step at a time."
"Isn't it like being a stupid wife? What if Li Tianwen ambush us in front?"
"There are two of them, Li Gouzhi, to ambush the five of us. An ant sleeps with an elephant? Are you crazy?"
"you…"
"Okay, okay, let's stop talking." The grim-faced Taoist took a bite of the fried cake and said, "I just analyzed it and found out that Li Gouzhi still wanted to enter the valley at all costs even though he knew that his way back would be cut off by us. , so there are only two possibilities, either there is a way out at the bottom, or the 'thing' he is looking for is so attractive that he doesn't even think about going back."
"Li Tianwen is very calculating and doesn't look like someone who cares about the future. The second possibility is unlikely, right?"
"It's really not big. This can be seen from the threaded cap of the secret passage mechanism. Even if the cap is destroyed, it will not be thrown away, but just put aside. Doesn't it look like it's anxious? It's obviously to make us angry on purpose."
"That means there is a way out at the bottom of the valley, so he is not in a hurry... Then it is our turn to be anxious. Once he escapes, won't we be in trouble? You are still in the mood to eat cake!"
"Didn't you give the cake to me... Si Niang, you don't have to panic. Li Gouzhi has his own purpose in entering the valley. How can he give up if he doesn't achieve his purpose? And with his arrogant character, he probably thinks that we are still trapped in the tunnel. Woolen cloth."
"We can't take it lightly. I think it's best for us to leave now."
"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you. We'll leave as soon as Pindao finishes this bite."
Under He Siniang's urging, everyone quickly got back on the road. At this moment, a red light suddenly flashed at the bottom of the valley, and another burst of hot magma gushed out from the volcano in the far north.
The volcanic eruption shook the valley floor, and everyone hurriedly steadied themselves on the stone bridge. Fortunately, the stone bridge was very strong, and the bridge deck was wide enough. Although it felt like the vibrations were felt in all directions, it was not enough to knock everyone away. Swinging down the bridge.
The grim-faced Taoist priest was the first to come to his senses and said in surprise: "The damn volcano erupts too frequently. With this eruption method, the whole mountain will collapse sooner or later?!"
"Taoist priest, don't be so talkative!" Luo Laoqi interrupted: "It's too late for this kind of thing, don't rush it too early. When we get out, it will collapse as it pleases."
"You two, don't talk about the other. When it comes to crow's mouth, neither of you is bad. I advise you to hurry up and concentrate on your journey. I have seen too many things with you two."
"Good fellow, let Si Niang tell you, it's as if we've already opened our mouths. We won't talk too much after we're on the road. I'll go ahead to explore the road. The bridge is very fast. You should spread out and follow."
After the grim-faced Taoist priest finished speaking, he walked straight forward. He Siniang was worried about his safety, so she quietly winked at Luo Laoqi and signaled him to come back, and then she quickly followed him.
The stone bridge is a typical span-girder bridge. Although there are no handrails on both sides, there are as many piers and pillars as there should be. Even as you walk, some strange statues appear on the bridge pillars.
A pair of those statues will appear about ten steps away. They are arranged on the pillars on both sides of the bridge. They are nearly a person tall in size and have almost the same shape. They have the appearance of a rat but have wings on their shoulders. At first glance, they look like a kind of statue. Large winged cricket (bat).
As soon as this kind of statue appeared, the attention of the grim-faced Taoist priest and He Siniang couldn't help but be attracted to it, because these statues are not only strange in shape, but more importantly, each one has three eyes on its face. In addition to the normal eyes in the eye sockets, there is also an evil vertical eye standing on the forehead.
Seeing these vertical eyes, a flash of lightning flashed almost subconsciously in the grimace Taoist priest's mind, and he suddenly remembered the eye patterns left by the Di people in the tomb of King Hui.
A pattern of vertical eyes appeared at the entrance to the Golden Palace of King Hui’s Mausoleum and inside the palace. There was not much decoration, not even eyelids, but a very sinister and weird vertical eye was depicted with just a few strokes. Shen Yun now looks almost exactly like the third eye of the statue in front of her.
"Damn it, can't it be a coincidence?" The Taoist priest with a grimace was slightly surprised.
He Siniang turned her head when she heard this and asked in confusion: "What coincidence? Did the Taoist Master discover something?"
"Don't you think that the eye on the forehead of the statue is similar to the pattern we found in the Tomb of King Hui?"
"Eh? What the Taoist said seems to be true!"
"What are you two talking about?" Xia Houyun asked in confusion: "Could it be that this kind of statue also appeared in the Mausoleum of Prince Hui before?"
"It's not a statue, but a pattern of eyes." The Taoist priest with a grimace knew that time was tight and he couldn't explain the whole thing in detail, so he simply replied: "There was a vertical eye pattern in the tomb of King Hui. We were I suspected it was the ethnic totem of the Di people until I saw these cricket statues..."
"Are their eyes similar?"
"Um."
"This is strange. Is there any connection between this place and the Di people?"
"I can't say for sure, but since one of my seniors has half a copy of "The Record of Nine Provinces' Spirits and Monsters", can he tell what kind of strange beast the stone statue is?"
Xia Houyun shook his head and replied: "There is no record in the book. Qin Nachuan is just a mortal after all. Some mistakes and omissions are normal. Besides, I have only read half of the book."
"Then there's nothing we can do. This stone statue looks weird. If we can't find out its origin, we won't be able to deduce the origin of this place. It seems we can only take one step at a time and wait until we catch up with Li Tianwen and take revenge. Then we can go It’s not too late to crack the secret of this place.”
