Chapter 5 Chapter Five Crocodile King

In the dark hole, I held a flashlight in one hand and a medicine shovel in the other. I just stood there, do you want to follow?After hesitating for a moment, I still decided to follow. I just gave up. I was really not reconciled. In the dark hole, there is still wet and rotten mud. I stepped on the mud with a deep foot and a shallow foot. I don't know where this damn hole leads to? Suddenly, under the dim beam of my flashlight, a figure stood vaguely in the hole, and I could vaguely smell the stench of rotting corpses in my nose. I couldn't help frowning, clenched the medicine shovel tightly, stared at the figure, and asked in a low voice, "But Matsushita Doji?"

Some rare medicinal materials mostly grow in barren mountains and old forests, and belong to ownerless things. Naturally, everyone can pick them——under normal circumstances, most of the medicinal herbs go into the mountains with one or two people. A lone traveler like me and Not often. Most of the rare medicinal materials are hard to find. In order to avoid disputes, if colleagues meet and happen to fall in love with the same medicinal material at the same time, then they will act according to the rules of the rivers and lakes, and the meeting will be divided into half. This is an old rule handed down from ancient times. It is impossible to verify when it started. Of course, it is really rare for people to abide by such a rule. In most cases, murderers and drug hunters abound.In the deep mountains and old forests, the sun is out of sight, even if they really do murder and rob goods, no one will find out.

The man stood quietly without saying a word. I frowned. The rotten smell in my nose got worse. It seemed to come from the person in front. Could it be that—— My heart trembled, and I vaguely knew that something was wrong, isn't this thing a living person?In this seemingly ordinary ancient tomb, there are murderous intentions hidden everywhere? But now that I've come in, I can't help but take a few steps forward, getting closer, and I can see clearly that the man's back is facing me, I can't see his face clearly, and he exudes a disgusting smell. The stench of the cave - the entrance of the cave is only as high as one person, and the width is less than one meter. I was blocked by that person, so I couldn't go through it.

"My friend, excuse me!" I said in a low voice, and the dim light beam of the flashlight, as I got closer, I could see clearly. Corroded and definitely not modern. "Quack quack -" the man made a tooth-piercing sound, and then he turned his head stiffly. In an instant, I stepped back several times in a panic, I really couldn't tell, what kind of face was that?Two eyes bulged out abruptly, like the blister eyes of a toad, and there was something like fish scales all over the face, and the mouth protruded and opened wide—it was obviously a crocodile mouth. "Quack quack - quack quack -" the man let out another strange squawking sound, which made his teeth ache, and there was a kind of fear from the bottom of his heart.

I stepped back again, this is definitely not a human being, although his appearance is somewhat human. At this moment, I felt my feet stumble, and when I looked down, I was frightened out of my wits. I don't know when, a corpse crocodile was wrapped around my feet. This kind of corpse crocodile is different from ordinary crocodiles. They have sharp teeth like ordinary crocodiles, but they have a slender body like a snake. They also have four claws. They are amphibians. I kicked that one vigorously. The corpse crocodile kicked it out, looked up, and suddenly paled in shock, the ground and walls of the black hole were covered with corpse crocodile densely.

Is that King Crocodile? I didn't have time to think about it, turned around and ran away, what kind of golden blood orchid, including that ghost, even if that ghost is really a herb picker, I don't bother to care about it, now, it's important for me to escape, otherwise, I will be surrounded by these corpse crocodiles, I can't guarantee it at all, they only eat rotting corpses, not fresh flesh and blood. As soon as I moved, I stretched out my hand to the smelly crocodile king, and with the sound of the wind, it rushed towards me viciously. I didn't even look back, just listened to the wind to identify the position, and just swung a medicine shovel over.

At the same time, I ran towards the outside quickly, and several corpse crocodiles jumped on me, biting my clothes—the sharp teeth directly tore my clothes. There was a sharp pain in my leg, when I looked down, I saw a small corpse crocodile, since it tore off a piece of flesh from my calf, it was devouring the flesh. The corpse crocodile, which smelled blood, became even more restless, and kept rushing towards me. I slapped the corpse crocodile that bit me to death vigorously. Ignoring the blood dripping on my left calf, I quickly ran outside—fortunately, I was still agile, although a few corpse crocodiles pounced on me. But I was shot to death, waiting for me to run across the water swamp, the crocodile king behind him didn't catch up, even the ordinary corpse crocodile stopped.

Panting heavily, I stared at them—and that weird crocodile king, with a human body and a crocodile face, somehow mutated?Was it a combination of human corpses and corpse crocodiles, or did corpse crocodiles eat more rotting human corpses, and ended up like this? These underground creatures should be invisible. I stood in the golden well, took out the zip line from my backpack, and threw it up. Hastily climbed up along the zipline.I don't know if those damn corpse crocodiles are poisonous or not. If they are poisonous, I really lose more than I gain tonight? The more I thought about it, the more depressed I became—and that damned black shadow, who didn't know if it was a human or a ghost, actually snatched away the golden blood orchid I got.

Waiting for me to climb out of Jinjing and stand in front of the coffin, panting heavily, I must find a place as soon as possible, get some clean water to wash the wound, and then apply medicine, otherwise, once it becomes infected, I will be in big trouble. Thinking of this, I didn't care about anything else, so I could leave. In a hurry, I couldn't help but glanced into the coffin again—I couldn't help being stunned by this look. In the coffin, the white bones that had rotted into mud had disappeared at this time. Who has been here?I was stunned, could it be that when I fell into this golden well, someone came in again, but why did this person dig up the bones in the coffin?

No, judging from the remaining soil in the coffin, this is clearly not a trace of someone digging it up, but it seems that the corpse got up and ran out by itself. This place is really weird, so I shouldn't stay longer——I felt cold in my heart, and hurriedly turned around and left. It wasn't until I climbed out of the entrance of the ancient tomb that I finally let go of my breath. The damn golden thread and silver toad were all provoked by it. Otherwise, I would sleep on the Red Lotus Temple, so why would such an innocent disaster happen?Although I picked a bloodline Polygonum multiflorum, and inadvertently obtained "Materia Medica Ghost Doctor Chapter", I almost gave my life in it.

Walking out of the entrance of the ancient tomb, the cold wind blew, and I couldn't help shivering. Then I remembered that not only was a piece of flesh bitten off by a dead crocodile on my calf, but my whole body was still covered with wet and rotten mud. I can't see what I look like, but when I think about it, I'm no different from a mud ghost. It's not yet dawn at this time, if someone sees me, they will definitely not treat me as a human being. I have to quickly find a place to wash off the rotten mud all over my body and bandage my wounds, yes—I'd better go to Honglian Temple, that place is near here. Honglian Temple is still the same as before, even the temple gate is not closed, so there is no need to worry about recruiting thieves in this dilapidated small temple.It's just that the only candle on the altar is about to go out. I searched, found half a candle beside the altar, lit it, and put it on the altar, then picked up another bag I had just abandoned by the altar, found a dry battery from it, and gave it to the flashlight. After changing the battery, the flashlight became brilliant in an instant. I took a backpack with a few clothes I washed and changed with me, and then walked around the altar and walked to the back of the small temple. Although the small temple is dilapidated, since there are candles and incense, it must be inhabited, it should be There are wells. Behind the altar, the black lacquered coffin was still there, looking unusually abrupt - I took a flashlight and took a picture of the coffin. It was a very ordinary coffin. The top is smooth and tight, so it can be seen that this place is often cleaned, otherwise, it would not take long for a layer of dust to accumulate on the coffin. The door at the back was ajar, and it was not closed. I opened the door and walked out. It was like an ordinary temple, with a small courtyard behind it, a well in the east, and meditation rooms on both sides.It's dilapidated, and I don't know if anyone lives there. I went to the well platform and took a photo with a flashlight. I didn't expect that in this small ruined temple, the well had a lot of history, and there were several pre-Qin Dingwen-Suolongjing inscribed on it. I have an old friend who once told me that this Zhong Dingwen has a great background. It is hard to say when it started, and it is almost impossible to verify, but it has been used for a long time, until Qin destroyed the six countries, unified the world, and then unified Writing, this kind of Zhong Ding Wen was abandoned. The most prosperous period of this Zhongdingwen should be the Zhou Dynasty, because it was engraved on the Zhongding, so it got its name-not to mention a doctor like me, even if I am a well-educated Confucian, I am afraid that I can’t recognize a few Zhongdingwen. My good friend is a strange person, who studies ancient prose, once told me about the legend of Suo Longjing, and wrote it for me in this Zhong Dingwen, otherwise, when I came across these three words, I would definitely have a double eye discredit. In famous mountain temples, this Suolongjing is often seen, but I have never seen anyone write it in such a Zhongdingwen. Could it be that this well is from the pre-Qin period?No, if this is the case, isn't the Red Lotus Temple built later?The origin of Buddhism is much later than Taoism. Thinking of this, I shook my head. Maybe the person who built the Red Lotus Temple, like my old friend, liked to show off his knowledge, dig a well, and deliberately wrote Suolongjing in Zhong Dingwen——If it was really a thing from the pre-Qin period, how could it be possible? Perfectly preserved to the modern day?