Copper Coins Chapter 24: Bone (1)

It was suddenly dark all around, and everyone's footsteps were stunned.

Jiang Shining and Lu Nianqi gasped for breath, and they hurriedly and briefly blocked their throats. They didn't dare to exhale.

A gust of cold wind rushed out from the stone door that was pushed open, with an unspeakable unpleasant smell, damp, rotten, and cold enough to make one's scalp numb.

Even Xue Xian, who was being boiled, felt a little bit, but such a cool wind was not offensive to him, who was so hot that he was delirious. It's just a little bit of a soup to stop the boil, and it's of little use to treat the symptoms but not the root cause. As soon as the gloomy wind passed, he was scorching hot again.

Ordinary people are so hot that their brains are basically a decoration. Xue Xian was no exception. He was dangling back and forth in his pocket, sleepwalking pondering how to get himself out of the dark pocket, even if he could breathe. At this time, he didn't care about being shameless, and only complained in his heart why Xuanmin couldn't put his fingers in and let him cool down for a while.

Because the brain is already a decoration, this ancestor did not keep his mouth idle when he complained in his heart, muttering non-stop. He probably said those subconsciously that he was thinking about in his heart, but he was so confused that his mouth was not so neat.

As soon as the cloudy wind passed and the flames went out, Jiang Shining and the others held their breaths, stiffened into coffins, and naturally fell silent.

Then his grumbling voice came out vaguely, accompanied by a shivering yin wind, which had a different taste.

"What is this sound?" Lu Tianqi's voice trembled, "Where did it come from?"

"Master, can you light another fire?" Jiang Shining asked anxiously.

The sudden darkness hid everyone's figure, as if everyone was swallowed up, only myself.

It is said that when the night is extremely quiet, the senses will be confused, and the distant sounds seem to be ringing in the ear, and it is difficult to judge the distance and direction.

When Xuan Min first heard the faint humming, his hand touching the talisman paper also paused. After a while, he realized that the dreamy voice was coming from the secret pocket around his waist.

What the **** is this evil doing?

Xuan Min frowned and turned his ears to distinguish it for a while, only to hear the evildoer muttering one word over and over again - a bald donkey, buzzing like a wild bee.

Xuan Min: "..." What happened to him?

He was probably quite helpless, too lazy to deal with it any more, but took out a new talisman and planned to light a fire again.

As soon as the flames were lit, they squeaked again and went out.

"Don't bother, I can't light it." Lu Shijiu said calmly, and with another force, the entire stone tomb door was completely pushed aside.

With the dark background around everyone, there were some glimmering glimmers of light inside the tomb door.

The light was extremely faint, as if a thin layer of frost had been sprinkled on the charcoal wood, barely able to outline the silhouette.

Lu Shijiu, who was walking in front, stopped saying hello and walked in. Xuan Min patted the muttering master on the waist, and said to Jiang Shining and the others without turning his head, "Follow." After saying that, he also lifted his foot and entered the tomb gate.

Jiang Shining and Lu Tianqi didn't dare to stay at the end of the team alone, so they hurriedly followed.

The moment the two entered the door, Lu Nianqi felt that the soles of his feet did not know what kind of stone he stepped on. He hesitated for a while, and then heard a loud bang, and the stone door of the tomb slammed shut. I was terrified, I just wanted to turn around and run.

Although there is a shimmer of light in the tomb door, it is still generally dark. I can't even see how big this place is, what's under my feet and around, if my head is—

"Wait, are those holes on the top?" Jiang Shining suddenly spoke up, pointing up.

Is it a hole?

Is it a hole?

What

…

There were several layers of echoes in one sentence, Jiang Shining immediately stood there, maintaining a gesture of pointing to the sky, shrinking his neck and not daring to move.

Lu Shijiu let out a low "shhh" and said in a low voice, "Lower your voice."

His words were like a whisper, and the echo was much smaller, not as hollow as before.

Xuan Min looked up and saw seven tiny holes directly above.

He stretched out his hand to feel a little in the void, and said, "It's not a hole." If it was a hole, the overcast wind in this place wouldn't be in this direction.

"Night Pearl." He looked at it for a while, then said coldly: "It happens to be seven, and it's located right on the Big Dipper."

After he said this, Jiang Shining and the others were a little bit stunned. The seven round ones really didn't look like the entrances of the caves, but they were really bright pearls lined up in the sky.

The cool white light of the beads is much colder than the sky outside, and it sprinkles lightly from the top.

"There are seven luminous pearls hanging, but it's still so dark in front of you. It can be seen that this is a bit high..." Jiang Shining muttered.

"You can hear the echo just by listening to it." Lu Shijiu said from the front, "The road ahead is a bit difficult to walk, you have to be careful, don't step on the wrong stone, let alone fall." /

The foot that Lu Twenqi had just stretched out shrank back intact: "No, what does it mean to step on the wrong stone? What does it mean to not fall off?"

"Especially you." Lu Shijiu added, "Don't look under your feet."

Lu Twenty-seven: "..."

This requirement is not a thing. In this kind of place where you can barely see the outline of your fingers when you reach out, you can't see your feet when you walk, so how do you go? Can't even walk!

During the conversation, everyone has gradually adapted to the darkness, and the outlines of some scenes have finally gradually emerged——

The place where they stood was a stone platform that resembled the shore. It was said to be narrow, but at least two rows of people could stand in front and back. It was said to be wide, and Lu Jiujiu and Xuan Min, who were standing at the front, only had to take a step forward. , it should fall off the edge of the stone platform.

Jiang Shining recited several times in his heart, "A wild ghost, I can't die a second time anyway." Then he dared to take a half step forward, one shoulder behind Xuan Min, and barely saw the scene in front of him. I saw that this stone platform was a huge pit ahead. There were bright waves in the pit. It seemed to be full of water, but the water could not see the depth or source. No re-emergence.

The strange thing is that at intervals in this water, there is a round thing floating, like a heavy melon, only a rough outline can be seen, and it is not clear whether it is stone or something else. Go, like an array, there are hundreds of them at least.

And in the black water in front of Lu's nineteen feet, there are slender and high stone platforms, each one step square at the top, independent of each other. Different plum blossom piles extend from this head one by one...

This is the only way they can go.

Jiang Shining took a look and found that he couldn't see the edge on the other end.

How long is this? !

His legs suddenly became weak, and he couldn't help turning his head to look at Xuan Min.

Xuan Min looked at this place, frowning slightly, wondering what he was thinking. Because of the darkness, Jiang Shining could not see the expression on his face except for the slightly raised eyebrows.

Lu Shijiu warned again: "I don't need eyes, I see anger, I'm more stable than you, so be sure to follow closely. You can't go too slow on this road."

After speaking, he quietly raised his feet to the first stone platform.

Old man Liu followed closely behind. He rocked the boat all the year round, his back was slightly arched, and his outline was squat, showing an indescribable old-fashioned look. People of this age have never uttered a word, not even breathing, and are extremely calm. Jiang Shining felt that he was not too afraid.

Xuan Min waited for a while, until Lu Shijiu and Liu Laotou had taken three steps before slowly raising their feet.

Jiang Shining and Lu Twenqi had no choice but to follow behind him.

It's a little scary to watch from the side, let alone actually stand on this stone platform. Jiang Shining finally couldn't help but glance down and saw that the stone platform was tall and slender, and it was terribly narrow in one step. . The surface of the water was about ten feet away from the soles of their feet.

Just this one glance, Jiang Shining felt a "buzz" in his head, and he felt dizzy.

The stone platforms they stepped on seemed to be very particular. Which one could be stepped on and which one should be avoided, all depended on the road led by Lu Shijiu.

However, Jiang Shining actually had some doubts in his heart. Lu Shijiu and Old Man Liu were about two feet away from Xuanmin. Xuanmin could really see which stone they were stepping on?

After walking about seven or eight steps off and on, he discovered something that made him even more dizzy-

"Why do I feel that the water is rising?" Jiang Shining's voice was so empty that he seemed to be dying.

"Water?!" Even though Lu Twenqi, who was walking in front of him, froze for a while, he didn't move, "Is there water below?"

"Don't look down!" Lu Nineteen's voice came from the front.

Broken...

Jiang Shining remembered Lu Jiujin's previous advice, but unfortunately it was too late.

He watched as Lu Nianqi suddenly squatted down, crawled on the stone platform, and refused to take a step forward: "I... I'm not going, I want to turn back, I want to turn back."

He swerved and turned in a direction, raising his foot to go back. The latter stone platform was occupied by Jiang Shining. He was panicked and stepped directly on the one next to Jiang Shining.

"Don't step on it!" Jiang Shining subconsciously wanted to grab him, but he still didn't have time, and almost fell off the stone platform.

Cracked stones rolled past the feet, rolled off the edge of the stone platform, and fell into the black water.

"Pop Tong" made a small splash.

Xue Xian, who was huddled in Xuanmin's secret pocket, suddenly felt that something in his body jumped, as if a heart suddenly grew out of his chest.

As a matter of fact, at this time, he was just a touch of true spirit, without a substance, and naturally it was impossible for him to have a heart at all.

He grunted in a daze, before quickly slipping into a more chaotic consciousness.

The movement of the stone falling into the water shocked Lu Twenty-seven. Lu Twenty-seven did not know what to think. When he trembled, his voice became even more panicked, "I—"

As soon as he had time to spit out a word, he heard the calm and boundless black water under his feet suddenly become turbulent, as if a dead thing suddenly swindled the corpse, the big waves roared and whistled, and rushed towards everyone unceremoniously.

Wow——

There was a loud bang, and everyone was immediately drenched.

"Bang-"

With another heartbeat, Xue Xian felt that he seemed to have blood vessels all over his body, and the hot blood was running up his waist and up his back.

Only soon, the feeling was submerged in the endless heat and dryness.

"Hurry up!" Lu Nineteen's voice came over in the roaring waves.

Jiang Shining was clinging tightly to the edge of the stone platform, and before he could respond, he felt a slap on the back of his neck, and immediately turned back to a slap in the face.

He watched Xuanmin pinching him, then picked up Lu Twenqi, who was screaming in fear, and strode forward.

The black waves still did not mean to stop, and the water surface rose rapidly.

In the midst of the sky-shattering splashes, Xuanmin's footsteps did not stop at all, fast and steady.

Lu Shijiu was still shouting in front: "No, we have to go faster! The water rose too early, much earlier than the last time, I wonder if we can make it to the end! Hurry up!"

Before the words were finished, it was another big wave.

Lu Twenqi drank several sips of water, and his body was soaked, and his nose was full of the rotten and damp smell. But the big waves didn't stop at all, and they still flooded in wave after wave. In the blink of an eye, the surface of the water had covered the soles of the feet and then the calves.

As soon as he finished wiping the water on his face, he was splashed again, and it seemed that he would never be able to wipe it off, and he would never be able to struggle out of the water, as if he was about to drown here at any time.

This feeling was so familiar that he even felt a sense of confusion, as if he was back in the river eight years ago...

Xuan Min frowned and glanced at the young man writhing in his hands. The rolling waves seemed to evoke Lu Tianqi's terrified memories. The whole person shouted like crazy, which was really a burden.

He raised his hand without saying a word, and was about to slash at the back of Lu Twenqi's neck.

"Bang-"

With another sound, the drowsy Xue Xian was shaken sober for a moment. He only felt that there was an indescribable feeling in the spiritual body, as if something familiar was drawn to him from the depths and sucked into the body. Swimming along the blood vessels that do not exist, fever, swelling.

Damn...

Xue Xian secretly complained: Is this the steamed bun or something?

He felt like he was about to fill up the gold beads.

"Bang-"

"Bang-"

"Bang-"

The voices sounded one after another. This time, not only Xue Xian could feel them, but even the few people who rushed to the other side heard them.

"What, what's going on?" Lu Nineteen clearly walked through this road, but it seemed that this was the first time he had encountered such a scene, "Something is hitting the stone platform!"

Xuan Min's figure was also stunned, and then he stepped faster: "Go quickly."

Lu Shijiu's words were not wrong. Something was really hitting the stone platform. It was as if something had been awakened in the depths of the black water and was restlessly hitting the foundations of these stone platforms. Every time it was bumped, the stone platform trembled, and the already tall and thin stone platform instantly became unsteady, and the shaking became louder and louder, making it almost impossible to stand on it.

"Bang-"

A louder crash sounded again, all the stone platforms trembled, and then the "click" sound appeared one after another, not only the stone platforms under his feet, the front, the rear, all the stone platforms didn't know at that moment. Why did it stop. The crowd fell into the water before they could even struggle.

At the moment when the water swept over his head, Xuan Min vaguely heard something in the hidden pocket around his waist making a "Zi--" sound, as if he had thrown a spoonful of water on a rolling iron.

I don't know what the black water is, and it's very uncomfortable to open my eyes in it, and it hurts my eyes.

He blinked twice, and finally could barely see something, but just happened to see a naked object rolled out from his waist, as if it weighed a thousand pounds, and fell straight into the depths of the black water, as if alive To fall directly into the ground.

Xuan Min was quite speechless: Who said that one can be honest without hands and feet?

He didn't say a word, he raised his hand and went to fish.

The moment he wrapped the golden beads in his palm, a great falling force fell on his hand. As if he was not picking up some beads, but a whole Mount Tai.

So, before he even had time to react, he was smashed into the bottom of the water by the gold bead.

Xuan Min: "..."