"Where do the Eight Blue Dragons live?"
"I remember that we met them in the Qiangshui area."
"What about the 'Di people' legend that Pindao told you before? Where did it first spread?"
"It's also Qiang...ah! Is there some kind of connection between them?"
"It's very possible that two unrelated pieces of information won't appear out of nowhere. Pindao trusts his own intuition, but this will all happen after we go out. We should still look for other clues now."
He Siniang glanced behind her after hearing this: "The pattern on the stone tablet is gone. Should we continue searching into the cave?"
"Of course I do, but don't go in. Stay at the entrance of the cave and keep an eye on Pindao. Pindao will go in first and take a look."
After speaking, the grim-faced Taoist priest came to the first hole on the left, nodded to He Siniang, and walked in holding a torch.
The cave is very dark. This darkness is different from the darkness of a confined space, but a dense fog-like shadow. It seems like there is a dark net covering the ghost-faced Taoist priest, and the torch in his hand is equivalent to a barrier against the black net. To protect him from being completely swallowed up by the darkness.
This feeling has been experienced by Taoist Ghostface. If the walls of a narrow corridor are painted with light-absorbing paint, this is the feeling of depression it will produce. But the surrounding rock walls didn't seem to have been tampered with, and the grim-faced Taoist priest didn't feel any difficulty in breathing. So where did the sense of depression in the cave come from?
The grim-faced Taoist priest kept walking, thinking constantly as he walked. At this time, he was about twenty steps away from He Siniang, and there were no detours in the cave. However, He Siniang could no longer see the ghost-faced Taoist priest at the entrance of the cave.
He Siniang felt something was wrong, so she immediately hooked the Eagle Lock on the cave wall, then grabbed the rope and rushed into the cave quickly.
After running for about ten steps, He Siniang soon saw the back of the grim-faced Taoist priest, but the strange thing was that he stood motionless, staring straight ahead, not knowing what he was looking at.
"Taoist?" He Siniang called to the grim-faced Taoist in a low voice from behind.
Hearing the sound, the grim-faced Taoist priest hurriedly moved his hands back, making a gesture of stopping, and then turned sideways to give He Siniang some visibility.
He Siniang immediately looked around and saw two red lights floating in the darkness deep in the cave, both the size of fists. When she saw this scene, she stood up with a chill. In this situation, she But after experiencing it too many times, I realized that the light was not a lamp at all, but the eyes of some kind of beast - there was a beast staring at the two of them in the cave!
This time it was He Siniang's turn to be stunned.
The Taoist Priest with a grimace pushed He Siniang with his hand, telling her to get out quickly, but there was no response after pushing twice, so he had to turn his head and whispered: "Don't be stunned! Let's go quickly! I am a poor Taoist queen."
He Siniang came back to her senses and just about to take a step forward, the sound of sharp claws scratching the rocks was heard in the cave.
The two of them held their breath.
At this moment, the floating red light suddenly went out, and when it came back on after a blink of an eye, a giant face appeared in front of the two of them.
"Rat!" the grimace Taoist blurted out after seeing the monster.
The monster does indeed look like a mouse, but its size is much ridiculous. It is taller than the Grimace Taoist when standing on all fours, and its width is so wide that it almost blocks the cave.
Isn't this exactly the kind of giant beast painted on the stone tablet that the Yemu clan is hunting?
Whatever grandma is afraid of! The grim-faced Taoist cursed secretly. He just said casually, "The strange beasts in the painting are extinct." Why did he come out and slap the poor Taoist in the face right away?
The giant rat gradually walked towards the grimace Taoist priest. This time, the grimace Taoist priest didn't know whether he was frightened or stunned. Uncharacteristically, he did not turn around and run away. Instead, he just stayed there and let the giant rat come to him.
This giant rat was also very strange. It showed no attack since it appeared. When it came to the grim-faced Taoist priest, it sniffed at him, and then showed a look of confusion.
He Siniang, who was behind, saw the giant rat getting closer and closer to the Taoist with a grimace, and her heart was filled with an ominous premonition. However, she found that the Taoist with a grimace was still dazed. She finally couldn't hold it back and shouted: "Run away!" She stretched out her hand to pull him away. The Taoist priest held the grimace on his wrist and ran away.
The Taoist Priest with a grimace reacted and flicked the torch in his hand at the giant rat's face. He and Siniang let go and started running wildly. The giant rat was also angered by the actions of the two and after flicking away the flames on his face , grinned and chased after him.
The grimace Taoist saw that this giant rat seemed to be afraid of fire, so he took out the fire oil can from his backpack while running, and when he rushed out of the cave where the stone tablet was, he smashed the fire oil can to the ground.
The fire oil tank shattered at the sound. Upon seeing this, He Siniang immediately set it on fire with a torch. In an instant, there was a huge fire, and a wall of fire lay directly in front of the entrance of the cave.
As expected, the giant rat stopped and kept roaring at the two ghost-faced Taoist priests through the wall of fire. The grim-faced Taoist priest grinned and cursed: "If you are brave enough, you will rush over here. I will burn you to death even if you are covered in hair!"
The grim-faced Taoist scolded him, but he also knew that pretending to be a big-tailed wolf could only be faked for a while. After the fire was out, there would be no such conditions. The top priority now was to inform Luo Laoqi and the others to clamp their tails and quickly get out of the way.
The two of them hurried out again, and when they were halfway there, they suddenly heard yelling and cursing in front of them. After hearing this, the Taoist priest with a grimace said anxiously: "No! Did Lao Qi get into trouble with the grandson and grandpa?!" Then he and He Siniang looked at each other, and then ran quickly towards the entrance of the cave.
The yelling and cursing got louder and louder. As we approached the exit, the swords and swords in front of us were all in chaos. It felt like the scene was not something that could be fought by three people, but that the whole door was on fire. What was happening outside? How could a fight be accomplished? so?
When they arrived at the place, the grimace Taoist priest and He Siniang suddenly turned pale. The three of them were not fighting among themselves, but were fighting with several giant rats. The scene looked extremely dangerous. Xia Houyun had even been attacked by the giant rats. He fell to the ground, only two legs that were kicking around were exposed.
"Hey! Help!" The grim-faced Taoist priest swooped forward and crashed directly into the giant rat pressing Xia Houyun. However, he missed the collision and fell to the ground instead.
The Taoist Priest with a grimace cursed and got up, took out the Longming Knife and stabbed him. He didn't have the strength to stab the giant rat with his own eyes. He watched the blade of the knife sink into the giant rat's belly before he stopped. Then he tightened the handle of the knife and turned it in a circle with all his strength. The giant rat was so stirred that its intestines and liver were severed, and its heart and lungs were about to burst.
The giant rat was in pain, and finally abandoned Xia Houyun and attacked the culprit. The Taoist Priest with a grimace hurriedly pulled out the Long Ming Dao, rolled back in a circle, and at the same time slapped the wrist crossbow mechanism away, preparing to stand up and use the wrist crossbow to defend against the enemy. .
He Siniang saw this gap, threw out the Eagle Lock, hooked Xia Houyun's ankle, and tried her best to drag him out of the battle. Xia Houyun struggled to lean against the rock wall. His whole body could no longer be described as miserable, but he still tried his best to remind everyone: "It's a rock-opening beast! This beast eats meat!"
