Chapter 36: White Jade Bell (Part 2)
This is a spacious hall.
Stepping into this place means you have officially entered the core of the underground palace. The ground beneath your feet is paved with blue bricks, and the walls are elegant Qin Dynasty painted bricks. On them are continuous descriptions of the great achievements of the Qin Emperor in conquering the six kingdoms and unifying the Central Plains. Every five meters, there is a wall lamp extending out. Above your head is a relief of a giant dragon hovering, with extremely exquisite carvings.
There are huge dragon-shaped pillars standing in the hall. The hall is endless and probably thousands of meters in size. The giant pillars are like towering old trees, and the hall is like a dark forest. The dim lights, the desolate murals, the interlaced light and shadows... The heavy historical atmosphere blows in with dust. When you are in it, you can't help but feel insignificant.
But everything was ruined by the high technology scattered around.
Guns scattered on the ground, open backpacks, broken bones... Everything was so clear that if you closed your eyes, you could see how these people struggled with all their might. They opened their backpacks and took out their guns in a panic, but in the end, only the senior from the Chongxu Sect walked out. But he was trapped and died in the long river of mercury.
Jiang Xian walked to a pillar. The stone pillar collapsed more than two meters away, leaving only the upper and lower parts, and the center was missing. And right next to the stone pillar, the blue bricks on the ground were cracked. There was even a headless skeleton lying there.
"It was smashed from right to left." Ling Xiaozi quietly walked to Jiang Xian's side, looked at the traces of the broken stone pillar, and said in a deep voice: "It is definitely not human power. No one can do this."
Jiang Xian retracted his gaze and looked towards the deep hall, his eyes narrowed slightly: "It's not just people... its shattered height is about two meters. Judging from the size, the thing that broke the stone pillar... is probably more than two and a half meters. Moreover, these stone pillars are carved as a whole. They are not hollow. To break them... the force of the puncher... is more than one ton, no! At least two tons!"
Behind him, everyone gasped.
No matter how good your kung fu is, if you are touched by this monster, your bones will be broken!
"Is there such a thing... in nature?" Hong Si Niang said in surprise.
Jiang Xian squatted down, looked at the skeleton, and said in a deep voice: "Some large creatures such as elephants can easily reach this distance. But they can't hit this distance. I have a guess about what can do this."
His eyes darkened, and he said word by word: "King Kong gorilla. Also known as the silverback gorilla."
"An adult silverback gorilla can be up to two meters tall. Its punch can reach two tons, which is more than enough to break stone pillars ."
"Why is it King Kong?" Ling Xiaozi frowned and said, "Bears can also reach this level of strength..."
Before he finished speaking, Jiang Xian looked at him like an idiot. Ling Xiaozi swallowed the second half of his sentence and coughed, "Of course it's because this is the tomb of the Qin Emperor. If it's a silverback gorilla, then it can explain what the monster in the Wowo Pit is. And the other party has the power and motivation... Don't look at me like that, just argue... just argue..."
Jiang Xian retracted his gaze and nodded, saying, "In nature, the only creatures that can hit at this angle and have the ability to break such stone pillars are gorillas and bears. But in the Qin Emperor's Tomb, considering their movements and body shapes that I have seen through the tent, they are most likely gorillas. But..."
"There are no gorillas in China." Hong Si Niang said faintly, "The gorillas in Asia are all red-haired orangutans, which are smaller in size. The silverback gorilla you are talking about only grows in Africa."
The Eight-Armed Arhat continued, "Besides, when the Emperor Qin went out to sea, he went eastward, not westward. How did you introduce the silverback gorillas in Africa?"
Jiang Xian shook his head. This was also something that puzzled him.
In the history of biological changes, two thousand years is too short. Usually, a stage is tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years. In the past, fossils could be used to infer what kind of creatures existed in what place and at what time, but super-giant gorillas have never appeared in Chinese history.
There's no reason to suddenly appear. At least there should be some traces.
"Let's move forward first." He retracted his gaze and breathed a sigh of relief: "No matter what the mystery is, we will always find clues if we break into this underground palace."
The hall was very quiet, which made everyone who had fought for their lives all the way here feel uncomfortable. The flashlight broke through the darkness and shone forward, but nothing was found.
Time passed quietly in the dead silence. The hall was surprisingly large, and the group walked for a full twenty minutes. Jiang Xiancai raised his hand and pointed forward.
The sound of water...
In this vast space, the sound of water suddenly appeared!
The sound of water meant that the entrance could be found by tracing the source! Everyone's eyes lit up and they quickened their pace in an instant.
Getting closer and closer... After running for a few minutes, rows of caves five meters high and four meters wide appeared in front of everyone. The caves were polished very smoothly. There were only oil lamps on both sides as decoration. And outside the caves... there was actually a trace of moonlight!
"Something's wrong." While running, Hong Si Niang approached Jiang Xian and said in a deep voice, "If this is the exit, then what are the mercury wall and the underground palace in front of us trying to hide? There's nothing inside, but they are trying their best to prevent us from moving forward? And there's a natural exit in front of us?"
He was not the only one who was confused. Everyone looked at Jiang Xian. He shook his head and was about to speak when suddenly a slight "boom" sound entered his eardrum. He stopped abruptly.
Swish! Everyone stopped at the same time, then instinctively rushed to the surrounding pillars and hid behind them, staring at the cave entrance.
Dong... It was not an illusion, and then the second sound was heard outside the cave.
The hall was suddenly silent. Only the dim light was flickering. Everyone looked at each other. Everyone could tell that something was coming... something extremely huge, slowly approaching here.
Dong... Dong... The sound became clearer and clearer, as if stepping on people's hearts. An inexplicable sense of oppression and crisis was like a cocoon, wrapping more and more tightly until it was impossible to breathe. Jiang Xian gritted his teeth and whispered, "Climb up."
No one answered, but they all climbed up the pillar with the slightest sound and the fastest speed. Almost at the same time, a head as .
"Roar..." A deep voice resounded through the passage like thunder and was transmitted into the hall like a loudspeaker. The moment they saw the head, everyone's backs went cold and they tried their best to climb up.
This... is probably the culprit that caused all the tragedies here.
With such a large head, the body must be about four or five meters long! Pistols have little effect on them, unless they have submachine guns. However, they only have pistols and swords!
Dong, Dong... The heavy footsteps were getting closer and closer. No one dared to look down and climbed up desperately. Along with the heavy footsteps, there was a short roar of "roar, roar". The moment the sound entered the hall, everyone stopped moving.
The sound of crackling lights bursting could be heard occasionally, and the hall returned to dead silence again. A huge monster had already walked into the hall leisurely.
On the four pillars around it, none of Jiang Xian and his four companions climbed to the top. Not being able to make any noise meant not making any big movements, and not making any big movements meant that the climbing speed would not be too fast. So... Jiang Xian only climbed to seven meters.
The monster was less than ten meters away from them. As the monster approached, everyone adjusted their movements slightly and hid in the monster's blind spot. No one wanted to rush up and fight, because... it was more than five meters tall! Almost as tall as two floors!
"Fuck..." Ling Xiaozi's teeth were trembling. Every time the monster raised its legs and stepped down, it was time for them to adjust their movements. They didn't need anyone to teach them. This was an instinctive life-saving action. Everyone did it. They were cautiously entangled with the death god who was less than ten meters away, like dancing on the edge of a knife.
Boom, boom—the huge hand fell to the ground, even raising a circle of dust around it. The huge body slowly approached. The oppressive force was indescribable. As it got closer and closer, everyone could see clearly. It was indeed an orangutan.
A species never seen before!
Its body is similar to that of an ordinary gorilla, but it is covered with silver hair. And... it has a row of extremely sharp teeth in its mouth!
It gently stretched its forearms and crawled on the ground. Its sturdy hind legs followed in a very rhythmic manner, and its human-like palms occasionally gently scratched the stone pillars beside it. Its sharp nails even made a harsh "sha..." sound on the hard stone pillars.
As if engraved on people's hearts.
The nose, like a black hole, twitched desperately, as if it was smelling something. The two huge fangs on the lower jaw were like wild boars, and saliva dripped onto the ground as it walked. It was like blood dripping from a butcher's hook. Just when he walked to the center of the pillar where the four people were, he suddenly stopped moving.
No one dared to speak.
Everyone held their breath, and could only hear their hearts beating wildly in their ears. Jiang Xian took a quick glance and immediately cursed in his heart.
He himself had only climbed to seven meters, while the most difficult Eight-Armed Arhat was only five meters high!
As long as the gorilla-like monster throws a punch, he can directly grab the Eight-Armed Arhat without even raising his hands!
Not only him, but also Hong Si Niang's eyes were red. His hand had already grabbed the pipe behind him. If anything happened, he would probably be the first to rush out.
Time seemed to freeze. The gorilla's huge head looked around for a while, as if it was unsure. Then it turned around slowly.
Just when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, it suddenly jumped and rushed towards the pillar where Ling Xiaozi was!
"Fuck you!" Ling Xiaozi was about to scream subconsciously. However, at the critical moment, he suppressed his instinct. At this critical moment, his hands suddenly loosened, his body hung upside down, and then he slid down from the pillar like a gecko, clinging tightly to the shadow of the pillar.
A series of smooth movements made Jiang Xian and Hong Si Niang retract their raised hands. Three extremely nervous eyes stared at the stone pillar where Ling Xiaozi was. Their hearts beat wildly and almost burst out of their chests.
Under the shadow of the stone pillar, Ling Xiaozi raised his head tremblingly. He looked at the two huge gorilla feet above him. The trembling feeling of surviving a disaster made goosebumps all over his body. If it happened again, he was afraid that he would not be able to do that step just now.
He felt his scalp explode and his hair stood on end. He formed a seal with one hand and opened and closed his mouth rapidly, muttering silently: "Wulian Tianzun... Sanqing Patriarch..."
On the other side, his hand had already pressed down the whisk.
Death was less than one meter away from him!
