Song Siyuan said: "The fish pendant is definitely a must. If we don't take the fish pendant, wouldn't it be a waste of time along the way? I was wondering if there is a way to avoid disturbing these vines and still keep it." I can take away the fish pendant.”
This idea is just a thought. Since the fish pendant can be placed in the copper plate, it must be a very important thing. The vines surrounding the bronze lamp also prove that they seem to be protecting things. These plant vines are like capillaries. It's like a blood vessel network. A single move affects the whole body. As long as one place wakes up, someone's presence will be felt everywhere.
They want to get the fish pendant, but actually they can easily get it, but how to escape is the most difficult thing!
Yue Guanchao paused for a moment and his eyes lit up: "There is another desperate way."
That is to kill the things in the tower first, so that the mycelium and vines attached to him will have no use. If you want to do this, you must open the door, no matter what is inside Everything must be faced directly.
"I agree."
Keli took a step forward, nodded and said: "After we disturbed the vines, it is very likely that the thing in the tower will also wake up. These wooden towers are not made of stone, and they may not be able to withstand these things. In the event of a collision, these wooden towers are likely to be broken through directly. In fact, it is no different from us taking the initiative to open the door."
Keli's words also made everyone determined to open the door. They returned to the door and carefully observed the copper plate.
The two doors are interlocked with each other, shaped like a bow-shaped groove. These copper plates directly protrude many copper tongues and pierce into the door opening. After twisting, the copper tongues are twisted into a spiral and completely fixed together. The force of the tongues twisting each other directly fastened the two doors completely, leaving no gaps. Only the cracks below were slightly cracked by vines.
With this major premise, they no longer need to violently crack. Yue Guanchao and Keli each picked up the engineer pickaxe, went to the left and right sides of the copper plate, and inserted the engineer pickaxe into the gap created by the copper plate and the stone door. As long as the two of them moved toward Follow the spiral twisting direction of the copper tongue, and then turn it back in the opposite direction, and the copper plate lock tongue will be removed.
With a bang, they pushed the stone door completely open. The inside was as dark as the outside, and nothing could be seen at all. Everyone turned on their flashlights and shone through the door, and then they could clearly see what was inside the tower.
In the tower, huge stone pillars stand from the ground to the top of the tower, just like a support pillar, completely supporting the entire tower. Various beam skeletons extend from the stone pillars to support the stability of the oval tower body, thus creating an A tower that is both huge in space and extremely stable at the same time.
The things stored in the tower also revealed their true identities in the flashlight!
The entire semicircular tower dome is full of huge nests similar to honeycombs, as if the stone walls of the dome are covered with gray-brown messy bird's nests.
The dead leaves of these bird's nest branches are intertwined with each other to form a loose and porous structure that spreads from the semicircular dome to the four walls of the lowest tower. It has completely occupied all the space except the top of the tower, as if Many withered coral-like shrubs grew out of the walls, looking weird and bizarre.
From the ends of these shrubs, various vines grow and are tied to the ground. These vines extend out into a network and are connected to the vines outside.
Song Siyuan carefully observed the connection between these shrubs and canes, and explained to everyone: "I guess this should be a wall-climbing plant. Their companions will become soft and tough during the seedling stage, which is conducive to climbing and finding prey. It will gradually harden into adulthood and form the shrub-like structure we see. After hardening, these canes intertwine with each other to form an appearance similar to a bird's nest."
Speaking of this, her eyes became more and more serious: "The fact that they can grow so big and completely occupy the entire semicircular dome means that they have absorbed a lot of nutrients. For living things, it is truly highly nutritious. I'm afraid they are the corpses of animals or people. From this point of view, when the capital fell a thousand years ago, the people were pulled into the soil, and they were probably absorbed by these vines."
Yue Guanchao's face became solemn: "If that's the case, does it mean that the entire underground of the Imperial City has been completely penetrated by this kind of vine? Not only does this kind of thing exist in the tower, but even the underground outside the tower seems to have There are these vines lurking.”
"Yes, that's the case. Thousands of years ago, corpses could be completely pulled into the mud. Now, after one or two thousand years have passed, the number will become more and more. In a sense, the imperial city we see It is no longer the imperial city, but the lair of a certain vine monster, and we are standing at the heart of the lair."
This sentence seemed careless, but it had revealed the dangerous situation around them, and their hair stood up unconsciously.
Yue Guanchao thought for a moment, then looked down at the flashlight in his hand: "How much kerosene do we still have?"
They each searched their own backpacks. When they came, they brought kerosene lamps, two bottles of kerosene and lighting flashlights for the convenience of lighting tools underground, to deal with some places that are not suitable for lighting. Along the way, They all used flashlights, so kerosene was saved. Each person had two bottles of kerosene, which was quite a lot.
"You want to use kerosene to burn all these things."
When Song Siyuan saw Yue Guanchao collecting the kerosene bottles, a strange color flashed in her eyes.
Yue Guanchao nodded in agreement and spoke of his idea: "These hardened vines have basically lost all moisture. They are dry and easy to burn. If this kind of interconnected structure is ignited in one place, the fire will spread. If we go to other places, the entire dome will be completely burned, and no matter what is inside, it will be burned to death by such a big fire, so there is no need for us to kill it."
"What do you think?"
Everyone knew that using fire attack was the most labor-saving method, and they also felt that Yue Guanchao's proposal was promising. They found cotton cloth strips and wrapping bags, soaked them completely in kerosene, and fixed them under the arrow.
As soon as the fire was lit, Keli and the others released their bows and arrows, and the bows and arrows flew towards the dome with a few whooshes, bringing the flames to the dome.
These guys all carry bows and arrows, and they go around with arrowheads soaked in kerosene, spreading fire to various locations on the dome. The dome is all attached to vines and shrubs that have completely dried up and hardened. The entire dome is equivalent to being filled with dry straw. The flames flowed behind the bushes and quickly burned into a huge fire ball.
These fireballs spread outward along the withered vines that are intertwined with each other, like flowing fire snakes. In just a short while, they have burned the entire dome with turbulent flow. The entire dome seemed to be completely covered by flames, making the tower bright and hot. The creaking sound caused by burning resounded throughout the room.
They took this opportunity to get out of the giant tower. Yue Guanchao came to the copper plate and got the Yin Fish Pendant. He tore the fish pendant directly among the many vines and put it into his backpack.
"Let's go, we have to leave."
When Yue Guanchao was about to move, the Queen's withered bones under his feet suddenly moved his fingers, and then stood up slowly amid the flow of vines.
A corpse that had been dead for nearly two thousand years stood in front of everyone. Everyone was so shocked that they took a few steps back. The guys drew their bows and shot them directly at the corpse. The bows and arrows stabbed into the head, and the shocked corpse took a dozen steps back.
Yue Guanchao also took this opportunity to jump off the altar, but no matter where he went, the corpse seemed to smell the smell of blood and followed him all the way, trying to climb up and tear his body, as if he had spotted something on Yue Guanchao's body. , doesn't care about other living people at all, and has no interest in other living people at all.
This situation has attracted everyone's attention, and they also understood that it might be because of the fish pendant that the corpse followed him closely. Klee picked up the horizontal knife, took three steps and two steps at a time, and quickly stepped forward to chop the corpse's arm. Go ahead and cut off the corpse's arm completely with two swipes.
At the same time, he rolled on the ground a few times, and all the vines implicating the body were cut off.
For just a moment, the corpse seemed to have lost its vitality and fell straight to the ground with a loud bang, causing dust to fly on the ground.
Yue Guanchao and he were afraid of having long nights and dreams, so they directly carried the body and threw it into the doorway. They burned the body and the vines until they creaked, as if the body was moaning continuously, and the hair on the back of the body was soaked.
They knew that it was not a good place to stay for a long time, so they took the fish pendants down from the gate of the Grand Palace and ran towards Yuchuan in the direction they came from. Only when they got out of the gate of the imperial city did everyone dare to take a breath.
"Don't you think it would be too easy for us to escape?"
Yue Erpao said while running and gasping for breath.
"What's wrong? Do you want to run a few more laps?"
Yue Guanchao had been observing the situation in the imperial city when he spoke. With such ridicule, he had indeed noticed something strange. They burned all the vine nests and no living creatures came out. If the vine nests were really alive, There was no way he would allow outsiders to harm it without any reaction even after it was almost burned out.
As they were talking, the city tower collapsed with a rumble. At the same time, the surrounding ground began to undulate, as if it were liquefied soil. It was very moist and fluffy when walking around. This state clearly indicated that something was coming out of it.
With quick eyes and quick hands, they quickly walked up the rock slopes, followed these slopes to the front of the Tamagawa River, climbed along the rope to the gap in the Tamagawa River, and stood at the end of the underground river.
With the effort of their front and back legs, they could already see many rotting corpses manipulated by rattans appearing at the end of Tamagawa, crawling towards them, like dragons and snakes that kept wandering, swimming up the slope of Tamagawa.
Because the Tamagawa slope has been eroded by running water and has become very slippery, and groundwater has poured into the slope, making it completely impossible to walk on the slope. If they had not pulled these ropes, they would definitely not be able to walk up. If these vines tried to swim up the slope, they would be The water washed down and piled up at the end of the Tamagawa River, making it impossible to walk even half a step up.
They were afraid of long nights and nightmares, so they placed a lot of gunpowder in bamboo tubes near the gaps in the Yuchuan River, lit fuses and directly detonated the Yuchuan River. They completely blew up the jade pieces and blocked the slope. They quickly followed the underground river to the top of the cave entrance and escaped.
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