Chapter 18: Darong Village (Part 3)
At the moment the bamboo tube appeared, Jiang Xian had no time to shout and instinctively held his breath. The next second, a faint wisp of light blue smoke drifted out.
One minute... two minutes... three minutes later, the bamboo tube slowly retracted. Zi Ya... When the wooden door sounded again, ten seconds later, Jiang Xian rushed to the door in one step. The five people in the dormitory stood up at the same time. They rushed out quickly, and only started to breathe deeply when they reached another room.
"What the hell is that?" After more than ten seconds, Chu Ziyi stood up, panting: "Is that a person?"
What is hidden in this village?
"It doesn't matter whether he is a human or not." At this moment, Jiang Xian spoke thoughtfully: "Master Chu, call all the team members immediately! Send a group video request."
Chu Ziyi was a little surprised, but still did as he was told. However, five seconds... ten seconds... twenty seconds, thirty seconds, a full minute later, Chu Ziyi hung up the phone with a sullen face: "No one answered."
This is unscientific. Shenzhou's exploration team is known as the elite in the country. Although it is impossible to reach the level of Jiang Xian and his team, basic vigilance can definitely be maintained. Now that they didn't answer the phone, it can only mean one thing.
"Everyone is bewitched." Hong Si Niang rubbed and fiddled with her bright red nails, and said faintly: "In other words, there are secret passages in all the rooms. We didn't see these people appear in the village. This Darong Village... there is another world underground."
Jiang Xian gently rubbed his temples, his thoughts racing: "Second question, why did they knock us out and leave right away?"
"What are they going to do?" Ling Xiaozi knew what they were going to do and immediately asked, "It must be something they don't want us to find out. And... this thing is probably very close to the village, so they have to do this? Are they afraid that we will find out when we are not asleep?"
In the King's Game, thoughts connected as fast as lightning. As soon as this sentence came out, everyone's mind lit up at the same time, and they rushed to the crack of the door and looked towards the dark village.
It’s very close to the village… I’m afraid they’ll find out… which means these weird villagers are likely to go out!
Only if everyone fell asleep would they not notice their gathering so close.
Almost at the same time they turned around, there was a slight, teeth-grinding sound of wooden doors opening, as if a demon had opened a coffin. All the doors of the remaining rooms in the village opened as if by agreement. A green light shone through the dark cracks in the doors, as if a ghost had returned.
"Fuck..." Ling Xiaozi touched his arms with both hands, and goose bumps appeared on his arms. He cursed in a low voice: "Is this a ghost village? Why is it so creepy? There is a gloomy atmosphere everywhere."
No one responded to him, and everyone was concentrating on watching the incredible scene before them.
"This is a lamp." Jiang Xian narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice: "This color... why does it look familiar? It seems like I saw it not long ago..."
Under the moonlight, faint green lanterns were tilted at an angle and poked out from the rooms that looked like tombs.
The lantern was very simple, supported by a bamboo stick. The stick was shaking, as if the person carrying it was not a person, but a corpse. However, when Jiang Xian saw clearly what was on the lantern, his pupils shrank sharply.
Glowing plants...
The object on the lantern turned out to be the luminous plant he had seen in Wowokeng!
Hula... The fierce mountain wind blew up the sea of trees, becoming a demonic sound that surrounded the entire village. The mountains seemed to come alive, roaring for this group of monsters that looked like neither ghosts nor humans. Dots of green light slowly moved out of the room. There were six or seven of them. When their figures were fully revealed in the moonlight, even the well-informed people couldn't help but gasp.
These "villagers"... don't look like humans at all!
They were wrapped in black cloth. Maybe the cloth was not originally black. But it had been wrapped for too long and the original color could no longer be seen. What was even more terrifying was that some of them had three arms! Some had two heads! Some even had several tails!
Some are over two and a half meters tall, while others are shrunk into a ball, less than one meter tall... Deep in the mountains, lonely villages, they are like evil spirits walking at night under the moonlight!
“This is fucking…” Chu Ziyi only felt his lips dry and his palms cold. He opened his mouth several times before muttering, “Is this… still a human?”
"Deformed people." Jiang Xian said in a deep voice: "Perhaps it is precisely because of this deformity that they have never been seen. And the crazy teacher was probably scared crazy by them. Si Niang!"
Before he finished speaking, a box of rouge had been placed on Hong Si Niang's lips. His cheeks suddenly bulged, and the whole cheeks swelled bigger and bigger, and even his eyes bulged out bloodshot. Then he blew suddenly.
Huh… the box of rouge was like sand in the wind, instantly rushing through the crack of the door and floating towards the villagers. The strange thing was that with such great force and the people around so close, they couldn't hear a single sound of the wind. However, the sand on the ground outside the door was rolled up for no reason by one meter and then dispersed in the wind.
"Taiji Youxian Jin..." Chu Ziyi looked at this effeminate man with fear and whispered, "When you reach the top level, you can spit out a three-foot-long sword. That's great skill."
Hong Si Niang yawned lazily: "This is a special firefly scent sachet made by someone. After sticking it on, wherever I walk, it will leave a scent that only I can smell. Don't worry, they can't run away."
Jiang Xian nodded and turned his attention back to the village.
The villagers didn't even feel that they were stuck by the firefly sachets. They dragged their bodies as hard as they could and slowly walked to the dry well in the village. Then they put down their lanterns and knelt down together.
Their movements were slow, but they were filled with an indescribable piety. They knelt three times and kowtowed nine times, not missing a single one. Just after they knelt for five minutes, suddenly, a beam of green light gushed out from the bottom of the well!
Dazzling and dazzling.
The soft green light bloomed inch by inch, as if there was an emerald beauty living at the bottom of the well, taking off her clothes piece by piece.
It became brighter and brighter! Five minutes later, it actually rushed out of the wellhead five meters away! The surrounding area of dozens of meters was enveloped in a dark green light.
"This thing... is destined for me..." Ling Xiaozi's eyes widened. Even an idiot would know that there must be some treasure at the bottom of the well. However, before he could finish, a soft "bang" sound dissipated into the darkness.
Along with the sound, there were also stars all over the sky! Countless fluorescent lights flew up like fireflies on a summer night, beautiful and magnificent, rushing directly into the sky for more than ten meters before exploding and turning into a green Milky Way!
Swish! Behind the door, Jiang Xian suddenly stood up straight. His eyes widened, his hands pressed tightly against the door, almost opening it.
His action was so abrupt. There was not an idiot present. Ling Xiaozi was stunned for half a second, then reacted immediately and gasped. He looked at Jiang Xian, then at the wellhead at the entrance of the village where green light was gushing out, and the emerald green Milky Way spreading over 20 meters above. He said in a trembling voice: "This, this can't be... the kind of thing you are talking about?"
Before he could finish, the darkness suddenly began to boil in all directions.
The dark rain turned into clouds, and this silent darkness... came alive.
Countless flapping sounds of wings rang out, blocking out the moonlight in the sky. Finally, it turned into a torrential rain, falling madly on the surroundings.
That's... hundreds and thousands of bats!
With the naked eye, the houses and trees not far away were all black, and scarlet eyes opened in the darkness, staring at the expanding Milky Way with fascination. But... not a single bat screamed.
It's like a pilgrimage.
Everyone was shocked to see this incredible scene through a door. One minute... two minutes... five minutes later, the green light began to slowly fall, drifting in all directions. The bats that covered the entire village suddenly took off, like a jet plane soaring into the sky, rushing madly towards the green galaxy.
The demons were dancing wildly, and the scene outside could not be seen clearly through the crack of the door. Of course, no one wanted to open the door. Jiang Xian had already sat down, with his legs apart, his hands on his knees, staring at the ground in a trance, his thick eyebrows furrowed. The others were all lost in thought.
It was unknown how long it took for the outside world to calm down. Jiang Xian finally raised his head and said, "At least our guess is correct. There is an inseparable connection between here and down there."
"What else?" Ling Xiaozi asked solemnly. As the only person who had been there, Jiang Xian now had the absolute right to interpret.
Jiang Xian rubbed his temple fiercely. Then he took out a cigarette, lit it, took a deep puff, and said in a deep voice: "I can be sure of one thing."
"In this well, there is a huge luminous plant. It may be the mother of all luminous plants. The green light we saw before was the scene when it bloomed at night."
He looked at everyone. "It is completely different from any luminous plant I have ever seen. It does not glow all the time, but blooms in the middle of the night. However, the spores it sprays are hundreds of times more than any luminous plant I have ever seen! Even thousands of times!"
"This place is less than two kilometers away from the banyan tree. According to my experience in Wowokeng at that time, only the land below the banyan tree has space for bats to enter and exit. I didn't think much about it at the time, but now I suddenly have a guess..."
There was no gold or silver in the room. The Eight-Armed Arhat took a deep breath and squinted his eyes and said, "Do you think...they flew out because they were attracted by the mimicry of the plant's spores?"
"That's right!" Jiang Xian bit his cigarette holder hard and gritted his teeth, "The spores emitted by this plant made the bats think they had found food. But... they eventually became nutrients for the plants. They brought these spores back to the nest pit, and eventually formed a chain of luminous plants + bats to kill each other."
He paused, raised his head and looked at the ancient well with great vigilance: "Those small plants in the pit are enough to make an adult unconscious. And this big one..."
"I'm afraid it can really turn people into 'winter people and summer grass'."
"Master Chu." He suddenly looked at Chu Ziyi and said, "Didn't your team members find the problem under the dry well yesterday?"
“No…” Chu Ziyi frowned deeply: “It’s not too deep down there, but it’s pitch black, as if it’s covered with decaying things. No one would have thought… there would be something like this hidden there!”
No one spoke.
Everyone knows the meaning of this information: the tomb owner's tomb covers an extremely large area, and there are many schemes above and below the ground. This is a murderous scheme that has lasted for thousands of years, and the longer it goes, the harder it is to crack!
Looking around the entire Qin Dynasty, who has such means? Who has such qualifications? Such energy?
And they will face this challenge that spans the past year.
"I suspect I have learned a fake history..." After a few seconds, Ling Xiaozi spread his hands and said with a wry smile: "What on earth is buried underneath? This kind of work, this kind of courage, this kind of scale...especially this kind of IQ, is in no way inferior to the imperial tombs I have seen."
The Eight-Armed Arhat was also a little stunned. After a few seconds, he looked at Jiang Xian and said, "I don't want the money anymore. Can I leave?"
"Don't worry! Shenzhou will give you a price that will absolutely satisfy you!" Chu Ziyi's face turned red, and he said through gritted teeth, "Please help us, this place... we'll go and reserve it!"
Something that took so much effort to cover up must be extraordinary!
"We must solve the secret of Darong Village." Jiang Xian put out his cigarette, patted his butt and stood up: "The deeper we look into the contents of Wowokeng, the more bizarre it seems. If we go down rashly, we'll probably die. And Darong Village... is the only place that can give us clues."
"Tomorrow at 12 noon, we'll start!"
