Chapter 32: Crossing the Galaxy (Part 3)
At the moment when the two figures jumped down, Jiang Xian and Ling Xiaozi squatted on the ground at the same time. They had already taken out the nail guns from their backpacks. With two clangs, the two nail guns flew to the battlements on both sides. With a bang, they stabbed in.
At the same time, Hong Si Niang and the Eight-armed Arhat landed steadily on the nail gun rope. Hong Si Niang was fine, but the Eight-armed Arhat bent the rope directly. Almost close to the river surface. Ling Xiaozi's forehead veins bulged, and he said with trembling teeth: "Tanyue...you are overweight..."
Hong Si Niang wanted to turn around and give him a cold look, but she didn't have the chance to do so in the current situation. She secretly made a note of Ling Xiaozi's exposure of her power, and then she tiptoed forward again.
The black umbrella was like a dead leaf in the roaring Yellow River. With each fall, it sank heavily. Chu Ziyi was terrified and took out a piece of cardboard from somewhere. Whenever there was mercury, he would scoop it out immediately. The few people cooperated very well.
After a few jumps, Hong Si Niang and Eight-armed Arhat had already reached the groove of the battlement. Because of the existence of the groove, the Mercury River naturally has the lowest point, which gave the two a place to land.
The steel nail was right in front of him ... Hong Si Niang nodded to Jiang Xian. He received a nod from him. He took a deep breath, his arm muscles suddenly bulged, and the veins on his palms were exposed. He grabbed the steel nail and pulled it, and actually pulled it out steadily!
In an instant, the black umbrella fixed at both ends was swaying in the wind and rain. Jiang Xian shouted: "Keep your balance, don't roll into the mercury! Even the gods can't save you!"
Chu Ziyi held the umbrella handle tightly and looked at Jiang Xian and Ling Xiaozi with envy. The two of them knelt on the black umbrella like stone sculptures, and no matter how their long black hair bumped, they kept the nail gun rope stable.
"I'm getting old..." He sighed secretly.
No one paid attention to Chu Ziyi's little thoughts. Hong Si Niang and Babi Luohan almost simultaneously circled the battlements with the nail guns and reinserted them into the holes they had made before. Jiang Xian breathed a sigh of relief and shouted, "Pull!"
The two men stood on the battlements, shouted loudly, veins bulged on their foreheads, and pulled hard in both directions with all their strength. The black umbrella actually floated forward half a meter!
"Yes...it's feasible!" Chu Ziyi stood up suddenly and his voice changed tone.
Like a tug-of-war, their progress was arduous. Not to mention that this underground Great Wall was hundreds of meters long. However, compared to the despair that oppressed people and made them unable to breathe when the long river of mercury rushed over, they could now see the dawn of hope!
"Don't panic!" Jiang Xian kept half-kneeling and shouted, "Hold on, don't panic! The purpose of fixing the two horns is to make our advance more stable. If Hong Si Niang and Ba Bi Luo Han don't have enough strength, fix the nail gun and then Ling Xiao and I will take over. Divide into two groups. If you all have no strength, take a rest. Mr. Chu, you take care of the logistics and see how much stuff we have left!"
Chu Ziyi's lips moved, but he said nothing. He opened the bag and looked at it, then said, "The pot is filled with tea. Each person will have a box of tea leaves. Each person will have ten carrots. No problem!"
Since it was confirmed that Darong Village was related to the mausoleum, Jiang Xian immediately asked everyone to bring enough tea and carrots - this was to eliminate the mercury poison.
"Okay." Jiang Xian breathed a sigh of relief : "Now, everyone, it's our show time."
Dang...dang... With the sound of nail guns, the Black Umbrellas moved forward slowly but steadily. With their strength, they rested every half an hour. And every half an hour, they could move forward about 30 to 40 meters.
Time passed minute by minute, and two hours later, they had advanced more than 160 meters. Just as they turned a corner, everyone was stunned. Chu Ziyi suddenly stood up, pointed his finger forward, and said in a trembling voice: "It's gone... It's gone!!"
Everyone stared blankly ahead. Just fifty meters away, the Mercury River finally bottomed out!
Time seemed to stop for two seconds.
Ling Xiaozi rubbed his eyes, Jiang Xian raised his head and sighed, and sat on the black umbrella. For the first time, the muscles of Hong Si Niang and the Eight-armed Arhat relaxed. Two seconds later, cheers shook the sky!
“It’s out… it’s out! Hahahaha!” “God will not abandon me, Ling Xiaozi… I knew it, how could I, the Taoist priest, die in this damn place?” “Heh…” “Keep going! Go ahead! The last fifty meters!”
This is a slope, with a gradient of less than 20 degrees, very slight. It is only because of the long distance and the accumulation of potential energy that the mercury can surge with the same momentum as the Yellow River. However, just because it is a slope, it also has an inevitable flaw - water flows to the lower place.
I don't know how long the Great Wall is, but as long as it is a slope, water will only concentrate in the lowest place. Now, they have reached the critical point of mercury accumulation.
Jiang Xian let out a long sigh, and fatigue came over him like a tide. For two whole hours... everyone was concentrating, not letting up for a moment. The close contact with mercury had already made their temples ache and their eyes swollen. But no one complained of being tired.
It's not time to rest yet... He knew the principle of "a journey of a hundred miles begins with a single step". He gritted his teeth and mobilized the little strength he had left. He took out the telescope and looked forward.
Click, click... As the telescope adjusted its focus, the scene a hundred meters away quickly appeared in Jiang Xian's eyes. However, the moment he saw it, his eyebrows raised fiercely and he snorted softly.
Underground palace!
The beacon fire on the tower was slowly burning. With the help of the dim light, one could barely see that there was a huge underground palace a hundred meters away!
No... it's not appropriate to call it an underground palace. The first thing Jiang Xian thought of was World of Warcraft, a game he was addicted to. This underground palace is almost exactly the same as the dwarf city Ironforge in the game! Except for the architectural style.
It was not a palace complex built in an underground cave. Instead, the entire mountain wall was cut flat. Relying on this sloping mountain wall, countless dark square holes were carved out. Neat and tidy.
It's so magnificent that it's breathtaking.
"It doesn't look like a window..." He licked his lips and put down the telescope. "Instead... it looks more like a battlement."
As far as he knows, there is only one building in the world that is built in this way, and that is the Potala Palace in Baima Province.
After a few seconds of hesitation, he put down the telescope and shouted to everyone, "Continue. After passing here, there is only a hundred meters ahead, and it is the main area of the tomb."
"Don't worry." Chu Ziyi panted and waved his hand, saying, "Let me rest for a while. It's hard to compare..."
Ling Xiaozi looked around thoughtfully, and suddenly said, "Why don't we just go to the battlements?"
"Everyone, separate and walk through the sunken areas, and walk through the convex areas by stepping on the battlements. Now the mercury can no longer reach the sunken areas of the battlements, so we can walk this way."
Jiang Xian looked at him with a half-smile, and suddenly shone his flashlight in front of him: "If it's so simple, why didn't the laborers who participated in the construction of the tomb do it?"
"They are more familiar with the underground palace than we are. Why would they choose to run on the Great Wall instead of climbing the battlements?"
Ling Xiaozi was speechless.
"Be safe, don't test the law." Just as Jiang Xian was about to take the flashlight back, he paused as the light flashed past, then flashed past fiercely.
It was still in the mercury, but it was at the end of the Mercury River, and under the wash of mercury, a dark shadow was vaguely revealed below.
It seems like... a backpack?
"What is this?" Others also saw this. Jiang Xian frowned and said, "Sister Luo, throw a lamp stick over there. I hope it gets stuck on it."
The Eight-Armed Arhat nodded and fumbled in the backpack for a moment. With a wave of her hand, a beam of orange light spun and flew towards the backpack. However, just as she threw it out, she took a deep breath, frowned, and rubbed her fingers.
Pulling the nail gun rope for a long time made her fingers sore. This was the first time she missed since entering the underground palace. The warm light stick happened to hit the concave part of the wall, and it bounced out of the wall with a ding ding ding sound.
"Are you okay?" Hong Si Niang's voice came faintly. The Eight-Armed Arhat shook his head: "I need to rest for a while..."
At this moment, from below the Great Wall, a huge roar suddenly rose into the sky!
“Sizzle!!!!”
It wasn't particularly clear, and didn't sound like the roar of a wild animal. Instead, it sounded like... the sizzling sound of some organ rubbing against each other.
The sound was so loud that it was like thunder rolling through the cave, and even the rocks above were falling down with a click. Almost at the same time, everyone crouched down, not daring to breathe.
There is something...
There is a huge monster hidden underneath!
Ling Xiaozi's back was covered with cold sweat. He finally understood why those civilians didn't dare to climb outside. Because... facing the long river of mercury, they thought there might be a glimmer of hope. But facing the monster outside... there was no chance at all!
He couldn't imagine what kind of creature could shake a cave hundreds of meters in radius with just a roar?
What kind of huge body could produce this kind of feeling just through the flesh... making one feel like sitting on a thundercloud?
Tick-tock... a drop of cold sweat dripped down. His eyes searched everywhere... No, not only him, everyone's eyes were desperately searching. Because... the sound did not stop.
The Great Wall is like a dragon's spine, built on a solitary peak, with bottomless abysses on both sides. A dense rubbing sound came from underground, which made people feel electric all over. Chu Ziyi's teeth, which were clenched tightly, couldn't help but tremble. Then... they saw a scene that they would never forget.
A huge tail, probably ten meters thick, rose up from the abyss like a demon. It was pitch black, covered with scales, reflecting the light of the flames. Like a whip of death, it then... smashed hard at the place where they had just entered, which was the last section of the Great Wall!
Boom! Boom! That section of the Great Wall collapsed with a loud bang, as if it was made of tofu! Bricks and tiles flew everywhere, and countless mercury turned into silver-white stars in the sky, which exploded dozens of meters high and then fell down with a crash.
"Zi--!" It was as if the smell of mercury displeased the monster below, and then... both tails stood up at the same time! Like a giant pillar collapsing, it slammed towards the Great Wall frantically!
It is looking for the source of its discomfort.
The loud noises continued. The bricks on the surface of the Great Wall and the machinery inside collapsed instantly as the monsters hit them. Countless parts, along with bricks and dust, fell down like an earthquake. The entire Great Wall was shaking!
“Fuck you…!!” Jiang Xian cursed in a low voice, then stood up without hesitation and rushed forward with all his might.
In five minutes at most, this monster would destroy all the walls they passed and reach where they were now.
As the tail was destroyed, the mercury that had been spreading here slid backwards like a waterfall, and the bottom was reached in an instant. As he ran, the people behind him woke up as if from a dream, and ran forward at full speed.
This is a real race against death!
Boom boom boom! ! The sound of collapse behind him continued. Who would care if there was mercury under his feet now? Jiang Xian gritted his teeth and his hair flew backwards because of the excessive acceleration. However, when he rushed out 50 meters, his heart suddenly felt cold.
The underground palace a hundred meters ahead came alive.
Swish... On that wall that looked like the Potala Palace, the first light came on. Then, the second, the third... and the tenth light!
Fifty lamps, one hundred lamps, one thousand lamps, ten thousand lamps!
In an instant, the underground palace was ablaze with lights, just like a sky full of stars, with thousands of lights swaying and reflecting their tiny figures.
Next to every "window" stands a shadow.
I couldn't see what they were, but I could vaguely see that they were squatting. I raised my hand and faced the Great Wall.
"Squat down!" Jiang Xian couldn't care less anymore. He suddenly opened his black umbrella and squatted down desperately.
That is... Qin Nu!
It can be called the automatic rifle of the Qin Dynasty!
This distance...this number...the next second, with a clang, thousands of arrows were fired!
Tens of thousands of sharp arrows, accompanied by the sound of violent wind, formed a dark tide and rushed straight towards the Great Wall!
