The three of us walked to the mound of soil we had dug out initially and started searching together. This process was not difficult, because the soil we dug out was basically soft, and we soon found the strange thing in the soil near the bottom. But when Qin Bukong picked it up with a handkerchief, I discovered that it was not a yam, let alone a ginseng, but a large insect as thick as a thumb.
If you include the part I cut off, the worm is almost as long as my hand. Although it is in the shape of a worm, it is just a mummy. The epidermis has been severely dried out, but the cut surface looks like a bitten apple, with a small amount of water exuding, giving it a slightly moist feeling.
Qin Bukong frowned and told me that this discovery was not a good sign, because among the insect poisons he was good at, there was a set of techniques that were very similar to what he saw in front of him, but this kind of insect poisons were mostly used to infect people. curse. This kind of insect is called "pig bug" in the southwest region. In summer, it appears on trees with relatively large leaves such as sycamore trees. It is the larvae of a large moth. There is a small single horn on the head, the whole body is emerald green, and its shape is somewhat similar to that of a silkworm, but it is more than twice as big as a silkworm. The body is full of green and white serous fluid. If you are accidentally crawled by such an insect, you will immediately develop a rash and become extremely itchy.
Don't ask me why I know this, am I going to tell you that I used it to scare girls when I was a kid?
Qin Bukong said that when this kind of insect poison makes a spell, it will choose the shade of a tree and put a nest of forty-nine insects into a jar to cut off the conditions for them to pupate, so that they can only live in a small place. Kill each other in the environment until you reach the last inventory. The surviving one has eaten its own kind until no limbs are left, so this insect can be the mother of the poisonous insects. And because the insect was buried underground while it was still alive, even this last insect will eventually starve to death. Its corpse is both a kind of curse and a thing that has strong suppressive power against other evils.
Qin Bukong said, since we have dug up this thing, it means that there must be a very evil thing suppressed nearby, which is most likely the "魍" guarding ghost. Songzi asked in confusion, but Senior Qin, didn’t you say that the forty-nine items were canned together? But now there seems to be no earthen jars in the soil we dug out. And this is a living creature after all. Even spiritual things are dependent on the physical body. If so, how could it be stored in moist soil and turn into a mummy after a thousand years?
Qin Bukong shook his head and said, "It's hard to say. We have come here and many common sense things have become very reasonable. Although we are not sure whether this insect Gu is a thousand-year-old thing, it must appear here." It has something to do with this "evil". I took Qin Bukong's words and said, looking back now, I was indeed normal before I shoveled this thing, but after that, I gradually realized that something was wrong, and I felt a little dazed. It was indeed from this time on of.
After some discussion, there was still no accurate result, so Qin Bukong wrapped the insect corpse with a handkerchief and put it away, saying that we should continue digging, but after what happened, everyone must be more careful. , as long as something goes wrong, withdraw immediately.
Right now it seems like this is the only way to go. Seeing that after I slept for a day and night, Qin Bukong and Songzi had dug the hole to a depth of more than four meters. The color of the soil became darker than the ground, which meant that there was gradually more moisture in the soil. It also means that we are getting closer to the truth. After being carried by Songzi "Yao", I felt a lot more energetic, so the excavation work fell on me again. I jumped into the pit and continued digging, and then I was always vigilant and kept blessing my body with golden light spells in my heart.
The whole afternoon passed quickly, and I dug to a depth of about five meters. According to the previous plan, we need to dig downwards diagonally from now on, and the direction of digging is aligned with the direction of Tiji Well. Due to my nightmare, the progress was originally delayed a lot, so after checking ourselves and finding that there were no other abnormalities in our bodies, we planned to seize the time and continue digging.
I asked Qin Bukong and Songzi to eat something first, and then take over from me after eating. About half an hour later, Qin Bukong and the others came back. Qin Bukong also jumped into the cave and told me to go and eat. The food in the Taoist temple was indeed as we expected, bland and tasteless, so I just ate a little. But in the middle of the meal, Songzi suddenly ran to the side room in a hurry and said to me anxiously, Situ! Stop eating, come and save people!
I was stunned and asked who to save? What happened? Song Zi said, Senior Qin! He fell into the hole! After I heard this, I immediately put down the bowl and chopsticks and rushed out with the pine nuts. As I ran over, I thought to myself, is there any hole here that someone could fall into? We have been digging the hole diagonally since dinner. If so, how can we fall in all the time? But time was running out at the time, and I didn’t have time to ask Songzi until I ran to the cave and took a look. I saw that there was a small auxiliary hole at the bottom edge of the deep pit we dug. The hole was not big. If a person bent over If so, you can still get in. And when I crawled to the bottom of the pit with a flashlight, I heard a sudden "Hi..." sound coming from the small hole.
This sound was the sound I heard in the "Sighing Dragon Well" before, but it was separated by the well water and the well wall. The tone of the sound now is almost exactly the same as before, but it seems much louder, as if it is coming directly from the cave. The same. Now I was a little scared, because the sound I heard clearly at this moment conveyed to me a very clear sound: this was definitely not the sound of waves, let alone the sound of a dragon sighing, but like a giant hiccup. the sound of!
The small hole in front of him seemed to have collapsed because Qin Bukong dug too hard. There was a larger space underneath, because when the sound of "hiccups" came, there was a very thick echo, like in a cave. However, when Qin Bukong fell from here, it seemed as if he fell directly into the mouth of the hiccupping monster.
You can see soil in an area less than three feet inside the cave, but beyond that there is a black hole. I shouted towards the entrance of the cave: "Qin Bukong! Qin Bukong!" It felt like this. It was like standing in front of a loudspeaker and speaking. The huge echo shook my skull and resonated with it, but I couldn't hear Qin Bukong's reply at all. This means that Qin Bukong slipped and fell, and I'm afraid it would be very unlucky at this moment, otherwise If so, even if you are hurt, you should respond to me.
When my face is close to the entrance of the cave, I can feel a wave of slightly warm and moist air blowing in front of me. This proves that there should be a source of water under the dark cave. But it is underground after all, so it is more likely that this is an underground cave with accumulated water. When I thought of this, I felt a little anxious. Qin Bukong's life or death was uncertain, but I couldn't do anything to help him.
Songzi asked me what was going on down there, and I told him anxiously. Songzi was much calmer than me when dangerous situations occurred, so he calmed down and thought for a moment and then said to me, "Don't worry, just wait for me!" Before I could answer, Songzi ran away. Since I was at the bottom of the pit, I didn’t know which direction he ran to, so I could only wait anxiously. While waiting, I leaned into the hole, slowly moved to the edge of the deep hole, and hooked him with my feet. Outside the hole, to ensure that I wouldn't fall down too. When my eyes were dark and I couldn't see anything, I felt a moist feeling in my nose, and there was another deafening sound like some monster burping. After it came, I heard the sound of dripping water.
I thought to myself that it was probably just as I guessed, this was an underground cave. Thinking of this, I turned on the flashlight and looked inside. This view confirmed my idea. This is a small space, about the size of our two rooms combined. When the flashlight light shined in, I found that it was about six meters vertically downward from the entrance. Seven meters away is the pitch-black water.
Where the water surface meets the shore, there are some small stones, and there are also some slight waves washing the shore. This shows that this water is living water, and it is the source of water for the well in Changchun Temple! At this height of six to seven meters, if you lose your footing and fall, as long as your head doesn't hit the ground, you shouldn't be dead. The most serious injury is a broken arm or leg. But based on the path of the fall, when Qin Bukong fell, there were a lot of people around him. There were no obstacles, which meant there was nothing he could climb or hit to change his path. But where he was supposed to fall, I didn't see Qin Bukong, not even the slightest trace. not see.
Could it be that this person just disappeared for no reason? Even if I am a magician, I still don’t believe that such a situation will happen! So I started to shine the flashlight and search around in this underground space. Strangely, after the light flashed, I found Qin Bukong near the center of the small pool below, with his head hanging down and his back leaning on a protruding surface of the water. On the black stone, there was blood on his forehead, as if he had fainted.
As the saying goes, if you are alive, you will see people, and if you are dead, you will see corpses. Qin Bukong's current position is almost five meters away from where he should have fallen, and since he is leaning against a big rock, it means that he may have been injured when he fell and struggled to get up. While resting, he fainted due to his injuries. At this moment, it seemed that this was the most likely possibility.
At this time, Songzi's voice came from behind me. I quickly crawled out of the cave, only to see that he was holding a long rope in his hand, which was made of many torn sheets knotted and spliced together.
