Chapter 18 Chapter Eighteen

Xinhong and Chen Jing jumped down from the stone wall one after another. They walked to Paul's side. After looking carefully, they really couldn't understand how Paul died suddenly.Xinhong checked Paul's body but found no wounds, nor any signs of illness.Could it be that the villains are really dealt with by God?This should be unlikely.The endless wood was still burning next to Wang's bones, it looked a bit eerie, and it also had a strong stench.I can't believe I'm not dreaming that such a big king suddenly has only a skeleton left.If those Yinlihongs come back here again, we will end up in the same fate as Wang.

"How could Paul die suddenly? It's too strange?" Xinhong was still looking at Paul's body carefully. "Is there really a ghost here?" I immediately became scared, and I said, "Or how could Paul have died like this for no reason? He just stayed on it!" "Look what that is!" Chen Jing suddenly shouted. Xinhong and I hurriedly looked up, because the light here is not so sufficient, we just vaguely saw a group of dark things flying out of the stone wall.After flying a few times around the apse, this thing flew towards the female tree.I wondered if this could be a bat in the cave, but the speed of the flying thing was very slow, not like the speed that a bat should have. Paul was still holding Jiusuihe in his hand, I struggled to break his hand and pulled Jiusuihe out of his hand, this time the ape-man was saved.

"Chen Jing, you kicked Bu Mou over here." Xinhong's tone was a little hasty, maybe he had discovered something. Chen Jing walked over obediently, and kicked Bu Bu Mu carefully. If I asked Chen Jing to go over and kick Bu Bu Mu, she would definitely not follow her. This girl is quite powerful.After Bu Bu Mu rolled to our side, Xin Hong slowly checked Paul's body by the light of the fire.I really don't understand that people are already dead, what else is there to check, Xinhong must be too careful.We are people from the museum, not forensic doctors. I was already terrified of a dead man, and he was still moving around. I really don't know what Xinhong wants to do.That fierce Chen Jing didn't know what was going on, and she was also blindly joining Xinhong's side. If it was still when we first met, Chen Jing would have left us and fled for our lives.I sat alone on the wet and smelly ground, wondering what the main hall of the Tianshan Temple would look like?The front hall and the back hall are exactly the same, so will the main hall be as simple as these two halls? Which god is it dedicated to?You really can't see it from the front hall and the back hall.

"Look quickly, dark red spots began to appear in his eyes." Xinhong gently opened Paul's eyes with his hand. "Could it be that he was bitten by Yinlihong before?" I leaned forward a little and glanced at Paul's eyes. "How is it possible, do you see it clearly!" Chen Jing immediately refuted me, "He only has dark red spots on his head, but he doesn't have any on his body!" After listening to Chen Jing's small-scale roar, I opened my eyes and took a closer look at Paul's head. There seemed to be many dark red spots on it. This is indeed not a symptom of being bitten by Yinlihong. .I leaned over and complained, "But what does it have to do with us? Do you need to figure it out?"

Xinhong raised his head and frowned: "Paul stayed up there just now but died without warning. We figured it out just in case! Do you want to die in such an unclear way?" "Then why don't you wrap your hands with something, just touch the corpse like this, in case some kind of poison comes out, won't we die together?" I gave Xinhong a blank look. Suddenly, there was a loud cry from the female tree.Those who came down from the female tree had only one day to live, and they were eaten by the snakes as soon as they were born. Their fate was really miserable.After a while, the noise began to slowly decrease. It was said in ancient books that the female tree would stop giving birth to babies at night, so it must be night now.After Yinlihong ate up Nushu's people, she actually swam back to our side.After hearing the ear-piercing sound made by the red snakes being entangled together, I immediately jumped up and dragged Xinhong and Chen Jing into the hole.Yinlihong devoured Paul's body in an instant, and I suddenly had a very complicated feeling but couldn't express it.I was still holding Jiusuihe tightly in my hand, so I had to give it to that ape man as soon as possible.

"How did you run back? We just ran out of this underground cave, and now you are dragging us back?" Chen Jing was depressed and panicked. "There is no other place to escape there. Do you still want to climb up the rock wall and die like Paul for no apparent reason?" I gasped. We have been in the dark since we entered this temple, and I don't know how long we have been in.I just feel tired and hungry and thirsty and wish I could find a way out soon.If you really can't get out, at least save that ape-man first.We ran away in a panic according to the way we came, but Xinhong saw Paul's big dog next to a stone protruding from the ground.We were dispersed by the crowd just now, and we haven't found any trace of the two big dogs. We didn't expect one of them to be here.I was about to rush over to take that big dog away with me, but Chen Jing pulled me hard.

"Don't go there, it seems to be dead!" Chen Jing said in a low voice. "Dead? How is it possible? It was still fine just now..." I whispered more and more, thinking in my heart, could it die suddenly like Paul? "Don't stop, let's run!" Xinhong urged us. I turned my head hesitantly and looked at the big dog lying motionless on the ground, a little unwilling to leave.Xinhong grabbed my hand and dragged me to the ape-man cave.We ran back to the dark cave, and the ape-men were still there.I quickly tore Jiusuihe into pieces, and hurriedly stuffed it into the injured ape-man's mouth.It struggled in fear and stopped moving. It probably knew that this was its life-saving grass, so it chewed very hard.The ear-piercing voice came behind us all of a sudden, and Yinlihong really followed the human spirit to chase after us.

"Okay now, you still brought us back, where are you going to escape now? The entrance of the cave is blocked by Yinlihong!" Chen Jing angrily bumped me with her shoulder. I knew it was my fault, so I didn't argue with her.Yinlihong swam down from the cave in groups, but strange things happened again.When a large group of Yinlihong was about to approach the ape-man's nest, they stopped collectively like the previous few times, and they all stared at us from one side.These are exactly the same as the situation in the mud cave. Yinlihong stopped suddenly when he was about to approach us. What is going on?Is Yinlihong afraid of something?Chen Jing was also relieved when she saw that Yinlihong had stopped.Xinhong told us to get close together, sit down and rest for a while, anyway, we can't go anywhere now, so let's just sit here first.

"These Yinlihongs are really real. If we want to eat them, we should be more refreshed. Isn't it the same feeling as the death row prisoner waiting to be executed?" In fact, I am glad that these snakes have not eaten us now. "What do these snakes seem to be afraid of?" Xinhong said, staring at the group of snakes. "Whatever they are afraid of, we don't know," Chen Jing began to complain again: "I only know that this place is very smelly. Why do these apes defecate here, it stinks to death!" There was an ape-man in the corner, I felt embarrassed and turned my head to the side, anyway, it can be regarded as a half-human, and I shouldn't peep at their convenience.This picture has been stagnating in my mind, as if reminding me of something that has been neglected.

"Zou Xinhong, don't you know if I can get out alive?" Chen Jing suddenly said calmly. "I don't know either. The snakes haven't eaten us now, I think we still have a chance to get out." "I went to fortune-telling when I was young, and the fortune-teller said that I could live a long life! I won't die here." I comforted myself. "Then if you find an exit now, will you go out immediately?" Xinhong asked Chen Jing. Chen Jing was silent for a while and said, "I don't think I will go out because..." "Is it because you have to do your ritual when you come here?" Xinhong asked.

"You are too stupid," I said disdainfully, "What kind of ceremony is not a ceremony? If you come here alone, no one will know if you don't do it. I still remember you said that people from your clan come here to do it." Didn't the ceremony never go back?" "Actually, I'm also an orphan." Chen Jing's tone began to be filled with sadness. I thought to myself, where is this going? I don't know if I'm an orphan, but it has nothing to do with whether I do any rituals or not.What is Chen Jing rambling about?Just when he was about to interrupt Chen Jing, Xinhong bumped me lightly with his shoulder.I knew he was telling me to listen, so I swallowed the words that had reached my throat. "I'm actually not from the Hongya tribe at all. I was just adopted by them." Chen Jing propped her chin with her hands and said quietly, "I also listened to what the people who adopted me told me. It's been more than 20 years. A few days ago, a Chinese couple came to the place where our Hongya people live now, which is a small village in Africa. At that time, the Chinese woman was pregnant, and they lived with us for a while. No one knew where they went What did he do? The man left early and returned late. He didn’t know where he went. Every time he came back, his body was dirty. Later, the woman gave birth and gave birth to a boy and a girl. Wait for that After the woman recovered, the Chinese couple went out to play with the boy in their arms, and the girl stayed in the village to be taken care of by a family. At that time, everyone in the village thought they would come back soon. But since then, the couple The Chinese couple never showed up again." "Is that girl you?" I whispered, thinking it was too easy to guess. "Because everyone is of Chinese descent, the people of the Hongya tribe took me in. In fact, they never told me about my life experience. It was not until the adoptive father who adopted me came here for a ceremony a few years ago but did not come back again. My adoptive mother took me in. This incident told me. For more than 20 years, my adoptive parents have loved me very much. I can't let him die outside for no reason. So I took the initiative to ask the people in the village to come here by themselves. of." After I heard about Chen Jing's life experience, I also felt a little sad.When I was 10 years old, my parents also went out to do research and never came back. It was Uncle Zou who took me in.But now Uncle Zou seems to have died because of something here too, and we don't know how he died.Xinhong and I came here because we wanted to know how Uncle Zou died, but we didn't expect Chen Jing's life experience to be somewhat similar to ours.No, it should be said to be similar to nine point nine. "Actually, I lied to you about one thing." Chen Jing lowered her head guiltily and said. "You lied to us? What did you lie to?" I asked again before Xinhong could speak. "You even want to save an ape-man and a dog. I don't think I should hide some things anymore," Chen Jing said with her head down, "Actually, I didn't come here for a ceremony. People told me to come here to take something back." "Is it the god you said?" Xinhong asked.Seeing him as if he knew it a long time ago, no wonder he was not surprised at all. "I took this thing back to repay the kindness of the Hongya clan for raising me, not for anything!" Chen Jing might be afraid that we would misunderstand that she had some bad intentions, so she hurriedly explained. "I know what you're thinking, but it's very dangerous here, and the people who came in before didn't go back..." Before Xinhong finished speaking, the ape-man who was convenient in the corner made a loud fart sound.I quickly covered my nose, and secretly scolded that ape-man for being too impolite.Xinhong and Chen Jing also looked dumbfounded.This picture has stagnated in my mind again, trying to remind me of something.The scene of walking out of the mud hole with the ape-man before and the present scene are constantly overlapping.I finally figured it out!I exclaimed in surprise: "I know, I know why Yinlihong didn't dare to come over!"