Chapter 4: Immortal Wall (I)
"Everyone, please stay absolutely alert for the rest of the journey." After putting away the map, Jiang Xian walked to the front: "We have walked more than three thousand meters... This is beyond the hunting range of most creatures. I am very confused... Where is the other party's lair?"
There was no trace of the Black Death Butterfly either. This was even more impossible! Ancient tombs could not have been buried so deep!
In the darkness, time passed by second by second.
As they went deeper, the cave became wider and wider, so that the light from the flashlight could not clearly reflect the scenery at the end. Just after an hour and fifteen minutes deep into the Wowo Pit, everyone stopped at the same time.
Ahead of them was a corner.
It’s a very sharp corner, but…behind the corner, there’s a ray of light!
The green light was like a ghost fire in the darkness, but it didn't flicker. It was like... it was like there was an evil ghost holding a lantern behind this corner, and behind it was the passage to the Netherworld!
"What the hell is this Gadamasi stuff?" The thin man Xijing couldn't help but blurt out the words, but he involuntarily lowered his voice to the lowest level.
Click... Jiang Xian turned off the flashlight, and the other team members immediately followed suit. After a minute of adapting, he opened his eyes, touched his arms, and then froze for a second, unable to help but curse inwardly.
"Leader, what's wrong?" The faint light seemed to draw out the deepest fear in people's hearts. Even Song Lianshi lowered his voice and spoke.
"I came out in too much of a hurry. I thought I was here to help collect the bodies. I didn't take anything with me." Jiang Xian said "and" irritably, and at the same time, he pulled out his gun without hesitation.
Kakaka... In the darkness, the sound of gun bolts rang out. Jiang Xian carefully picked up a stone and threw it around the corner.
Roll... Roll... In the silence, the only sound could be heard of the stone rolling down. After more than ten seconds, it seemed as if it hit something and finally stopped.
No one moved. All the police officers beside the wall outside the corner held their guns, stared at the exit, and pressed against the wall tightly. Even their breathing was suppressed to the minimum. They were just unfamiliar with exploration, but their experience in fighting the enemy was not bad.
After three minutes, Jiang Xian nodded slightly to Captain Song. Without any hesitation, the other party took a deep breath and rushed over.
At this time, it was reflected whether the team had good cooperation or not - just after Captain Song rushed over, three seconds later, the young police officer followed without hesitation. Finally, it was the thin man and the burly police officer.
Everyone entered at about the same speed, exactly three seconds after the last person. Jiang Xian was left alone outside the stone wall at the corner, his fingers gently twirling the ring. He put his ear against the stone wall, listening carefully to everything inside.
However, there was dead silence.
After a moment, finally, four shocking voices rang out at the same time.
"Oh my god..." "Where on earth are we?" "Is this... the underground world?"
They were so shocked that they didn't even bother to hide their voices. Jiang Xian's eyes moved slightly, and then he rushed in.
The moment he entered, even he couldn't help but be stunned.
Inside, there is a large space, probably as big as a football field, about seven or eight hundred meters.
The flashlight could not clearly show what was on the other side, but it could clearly show... about seventeen or eighteen meters ahead of them, there was a huge cliff!
A faint green light emanated from the bottom of the cliff. Jiang Xian walked quickly to the front of the cliff and exclaimed in disbelief.
This is not a cliff.
This is an extremely steep slope, probably about 70 degrees, and on the slope, there is an extremely untidy white staircase.
It was about one meter wide, extending from the top of the cliff straight down, and was estimated to be 20 to 30 meters deep. Most of it was covered by rock layers and soil. And just around the white stairs, there were clumps of green plants of unknown origin, emitting faint fluorescence.
It was probably the size of two adult palms, and looked like a cabbage. But the edges were purple-black. It was hard to tell whether it was a flower or a plant. Most of it was in full bloom, and the leaves were like the finest jadeite. The faint fluorescence was emitted from the leaves. In the center, there were three fluffy stamens that looked like enoki mushrooms.
Looking around, the two sides of the white stairs look like a road decorated with emeralds. At the same time, the white stairs are dotted with fluorescent dots. Like a fragile dream galaxy, leading to the unknown darkness.
It was unknown how long it took before Captain Song shuddered and reacted. His voice was a little shaky as he said to Jiang Xian, "Captain...what is this? Avatar? Pandora ?"
"I don't know." Jiang Xian said these three words for the first time. He looked deeply at these "cabbages" that looked like flowers but were not flowers, and murmured: "It's not that there are no self-luminous plants. For example, the false honey fungus, and the star chrysanthemum... I have never seen a self-luminous plant like this..."
After saying this, he took out a flashlight, pointed it downwards, and suddenly turned on the switch.
Brush... The light of the flashlight reached the bottom of the pit, and it could be clearly seen that below the slope was an endless green ocean, covered with this kind of green plants. However, just after those "cabbages" were bathed in the light of the flashlight, they suddenly had an incredible reaction!
Swish... It was visible to the naked eye that all the "cabbages" curled up, from the outside to the inside, layer by layer, as if they were greatly stimulated, and the speed was very fast. Then...
Wave--!
Pop pop pop! A series of tiny sounds rang out, and all the "cabbages" that were illuminated opened up again, suddenly emitting a emerald-like fluorescence!
Under the flashlight, the bottom of the pit was like a brilliant green firework that kept lighting up. It was three meters high! Jiang Xian sighed, and the flashlight continued to move forward until it could no longer be seen.
In an instant, with the sound of "pop pop pop" incessantly heard, a green ribbon like a long river floated in the air at the bottom of the slope!
It was as if you were standing in the sky on a summer night, looking down to see the brilliant Milky Way. The uncanny workmanship of nature and the mysterious cenotes shocked everyone so much that they were speechless.
beautiful.
But this kind of beauty carries a chilling magic that makes people shudder, as if... the gate to hell is ahead.
"Unbelievable..." Jiang Xian breathed a sigh of relief and was about to put away the flashlight, but suddenly his eyes paused and abruptly moved to the opposite wall.
This is a cliff, so there are naturally two walls. Just now, they were attracted by the long white ladder and the green galaxy in front of them, and did not notice what was on the other side. It was not until the green galaxy below completely exploded that he suddenly saw...
On the opposite wall, there is something...
It just flashed by, as if... as if it were... a few words?
A bit like...Qin...small seal script?
He shone the flashlight in his hand towards the rock wall, and this sight made his pupils shrink severely.
The entire search and rescue operation had completely deviated from the original track. Now all the team members didn't know what to do, how to search. Subconsciously, they had regarded Jiang Xian, who had given important clues along the way, as the backbone, so when Jiang Xian's flashlight shone over there, the other flashlights followed suit.
Dead silence.
Everyone's eyes suddenly widened, and several team members' mouths opened into an O shape. The young police officer couldn't help but take a few steps back, and after five seconds, he trembled and said, "What the hell is this place!!"
"Oh my God..." The thin man gasped and wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything. He could only open his mouth and felt his lips were cracked.
"Damn it..." Captain Song swallowed his saliva, his hand holding the flashlight trembling a little: "I never dreamed... that I could actually see the things in the science and education films..."
On the rock wall opposite, three big characters were written in Qin Xiaozhuan: Shenxian Cliff!
It is unknown how much time has passed, and it is not even known whether there was any paint on it at that time. However, each of the three characters is ten meters in size! Each stroke is one foot deep! They have left immortal marks on this rock wall!
Someone has been here...
More than 2,000 years ago, the Qin people came here! Moreover, they spent a lot of manpower to carve these three words.
However, this is not the most horrifying thing.
What shocked everyone was that... on this rock wall, there were hundreds of hanging coffins of various sizes!
It is unknown how long they have existed, and most of them have decayed. Only dark outlines can be seen. The three majestic characters of Shenxian Cliff, combined with the decaying hanging coffins, give people a deep chill. It seems to tell everyone... Anyone who wants to become an immortal will die here.
Why?
These three words kept echoing in Jiang Xian's mind, and as his flashlight shone brighter and brighter, he saw... a black death butterfly symbol engraved on the top of the Immortal Cliff!
found it!
At this moment, his blood was boiling. Even his mind was buzzing. However, before he could say anything, the young police officer's voice sounded in confusion: "Huh? What's this?"
Following his flashlight, everyone immediately followed. But they were shocked to find that...behind each coffin...there were actually hidden words!
The marks are equally deep, but not very large, each one is only about one meter long.
"What is that... in the sky?" The young police officer immediately changed his position. Not only him, but everyone kept changing positions to make it easier to see the words on the rock wall. The burly man frowned and said, "Now is not the time to look at these. This place is too weird! I suggest that we go find Er Ganzi immediately. This is a life!"
"No!" Jiang Xian interrupted him as he finished speaking, saying in a deep voice: "Everyone... we have now stepped into an unknown secret. We don't know what is buried here. If we want to find Er Ganzi, we must first ensure that we can survive."
"And according to my experience, all unknown secrets must not miss any clues. Otherwise... you may not want to make your wife and children at home cry."
"The leader is right." Song Lianshi nodded and said, "Details determine success or failure. Our goal is to rescue Er Ganzi, alive or dead. This is our duty. However, we must also protect ourselves. Only when he is alive can we find him."
"I know!" At this moment, the voice of the young police officer suddenly rang out, and he said excitedly: "In the White Jade Capital in the sky, the Nine Palaces and Twelve Cities, the immortals stroked my head and gave me immortality!"
"Nice poem...who wrote it?"
Jiang Xian's eyes suddenly lit up, staring at the young policeman: "Read it again. The second sentence!"
"Nine Palaces and Twelve Cities, what's wrong?"
Everyone looked at Jiang Xian curiously. He pondered for a moment, turned his head and looked deeply at the stone wall where the second sentence was engraved. After a long while, he said slowly: "This is Li Bai's poem."
“But it was carved wrong.”
