Chapter 37 Chapter Four Bronze Blood Five

Asule stepped back in horror, stepping into the water. A strange laughter echoed in the huge cave: "Hehe, hehe, hehehaha, hehehehe..." It's like thousands of people laughing together behind stalactites, but there is only one person who really laughs.He was hanging there upside down, like an old ape in an ancient forest and a remote mountain. His beard and hair seemed to have never been trimmed all his life, hanging down with moss growing densely inside.He grabbed the two slender iron chains with both hands, turned upside down in the air, and he didn't know what method he used to hang quietly behind A Sule. The only slight sound came from the iron chains and the bell. The friction of milk rock.

It would have been a pleasant surprise to meet people here.But Asule's heart was full of horror.At first glance, it was impossible to tell whether he was a man or a beast.His whole body was almost naked, only a few pieces of decayed animal skins were thickly wrapped around his waist and legs, and his whole body was glowing emerald green under the fluorescent light.He looked very old, but hanging himself upside down with two thin iron chains, that kind of strength is definitely beyond the reach of ordinary people. His exposed torso is unusually thin and solid, and a trace of muscle is like an iron rope Twist up tightly.

The old man laughed like crazy, the laughter was sharp and piercing, as if a needle had been pierced in Asule's head. He turned his head and wanted to escape across the river, but the laughter suddenly disappeared.Silence returned to the cave, and Asule could only hear the sound of his treading water, as if he was the only one here.He thought he had met a ghost, or a hallucination, he didn't dare to move, he felt like a paper doll being pinched in the palm of a monster, his blood was going cold. He held back his fear and turned his head little by little.The old man was already on the ground with his feet on the ground, standing quietly behind him, his eyes became gentle and energetic, staring at Azule, there seemed to be a smile on his mouth covered with white beard.

After a long time, the old man stretched out his hand to him, with a piece of golden baked naan in his hand. Asule's gaze was firmly caught, and there was a growl in his stomach. Asule swallowed the last piece of baked naan, picked up the cold water from the river and rinsed his mouth. I don't know how long I haven't eaten. When I eat the baked naan, there is a hint of sweetness that almost makes my tongue bite off.When he first got the piece of baked pancake, he suspected that it was the magic trick of the demon, but it was just a stone thrown at him.Such golden and crispy naan, which is also wrapped in pepper, dried meat and fennel, is only available in the Golden Tent Palace.After taking the first bite, he couldn't bear it anymore, chewing so hard that he almost bit off his fingers.

The old man squatted not far from him, throwing over one piece of naan until the last piece, he clapped his hands, meaning that there was no more. Asule rubbed his belly, looked around, the old man was squatting like a big monkey beside the stalactite rock far away.His face was full of sharp wrinkles, he stared at the fluorescent light reflected from the ceiling of the cave, and smiled dumbly.The curled nails on a pair of big hands were longer than fingers, and he bit them over and over again.The two thin iron chains were connected to the heavy iron cuffs on his hands, but the other ends were nailed into the rock.The iron chain was quite long, and he could walk within twenty feet, but he couldn't go any further.

Asule calculated the distance, shrank in a corner where he couldn't touch him, and looked at him quietly.The old man noticed it and turned to look at him.The two of them were silent like this, the water in the river splashed, and it was the big fish rolling on the ground close to the river surface. "Grandpa, I'm done eating." Asule whispered. The old man beckoned to him, meaning to let him pass.Asule looked hesitantly at the iron chains on his wrists, but his feet did not move. The old man cracked his white teeth, made a gesture of biting, and then pointed to the underground river behind Asule.He suddenly raised his foot, and Asule felt a chill in his heart. The first half of the old man's left foot was gone, as if he had been bitten off by something.

The quiet river suddenly became full of danger in Asule's eyes. He tremblingly hugged his shoulders and approached the old man. Approval flashed in the old man's cloudy eyes, and he nodded vigorously. "Grandpa," Asule boldly rubbed over, "Why are you here?" The old man's eyes followed him, and when he looked carefully, the old man's eyes were more or less white than black, and there was nothing in them, like the eyes of dried fish on the seashore, lifeless.But the pair of dead fish-like eyes followed Asule around, and he couldn't help but not be afraid.

Asule held back his fear: "Grandpa, I want to go back...do you know how to get out?" There was still no answer. Although he was close at hand, the old man was still staring blankly. Asule lost the confidence to talk to him, and wanted to back out, but the old man suddenly shook his head forcefully. Asule's heart was confused: "Get out...won't you get out?" The old man nodded affirmatively.Pointing to pointing, his eyes have turned like a child's nimbly.I don't know how he exerted his strength. He turned from squatting to somersault in the air, and stood upside down with his hands supported. He laughed wildly in his mouth and made a sound like an ape. It was clear whether he was ecstatic or terrified.

Asule was terrified by his madness, but he didn't dare to move, he could only watch blankly as he tossed and turned for a long time, then suddenly calmed down again, regained his gentle demeanor, and silently shook his head at Asule , there seemed to be pity in the eyes. Asule's legs went limp, and he sat down feebly.Looking at the old man's beard and hair, as well as the rotting animal skin, the heart that had just relaxed was full of despair. "Grandpa... have you been here for a long time?" After a long time, he asked in a low voice. The old man stared blankly at the top of the cave, but there was no further movement.

Without sunlight, day and night cannot be distinguished. I don't know how long it took, but tiredness came up.After he was full, he was no longer cold. Asule found a high and dry ground to lie down on. He looked up at the top of the cave silently. The faint fluorescent light danced like starlight, and he might never see it again. The sky outside, tears streaming down his face and drying up, he curled up like a kitten and fell asleep. When he woke up again, he was awakened by Ding Ding's knocking sound.He fumbled with the sound in fear, and returned to the river.Walking around a huge stalactite, he saw the old man squatting in front of a stone wall as bright as a mirror.The old man was holding a sharp stone in his hand and was chopping something on the stone wall.

"Grandpa, what are you doing?" The old man didn't turn his head back, he just chopped his head down.Asule leaned over carefully, only to find that there are thin white marks everywhere on the wall of the entire stone cave, every five hooks together, densely engraved on the entire stone wall.He stretched out his hand tremblingly and counted the white marks, the more he counted, the deeper his despair became, and finally he retreated step by step as if he lost his strength. He doesn't know how the old man calculates the time, but if each trace represents a day, there are no less than tens of thousands of traces here, which is almost thirty years.The old man has been here for thirty years! "Fake! Fake!" he cried desperately, "it can't be true! You have naan, you have naan!" Asule suddenly remembered, how could there be exquisite baked pancakes in such a closed and uninhabited place, where does the wheat grow?Where is the fire and barbecue? "Fake! Fake! Where did your naan come from?" As he shouted, the old man also threw the stone and shouted. He jumped up and down on the stone wall with his hands on the ground like an old monkey, beating the stone wall like crazy.When that bright stone wall was knocked on, it actually made a roar like a war drum, which almost deafened Asule's ears for a moment. The roar of the old man and the roar of the stone drum echoed together in the entire stone cave, like the roar of an unknown ancient giant beast. Asule was stunned, but not because of fear.He stared blankly at the old man, only to feel that there was an indescribable sadness in his madness. A loud "bang" came from the stone wall behind him, he turned his head in shock, and vaguely saw the stone wall not far behind shake, as if something had smashed from it.The old man stopped beating the stone drum, and ran towards the stone wall on all fours, the length of the iron chain was just long enough for him to get there.He stretched out his hand and pulled, and the two-foot-square stone wall was lifted up by him. It was a rusty cast copper square plate, and behind the square plate was a deep black hole.The old man took out an iron box from the black hole, threw the whole iron box on the ground, and the iron box rolled out with clangs, and the round, golden-yellow baked naan rolled along with the iron box. He walked over tremblingly, and the old man silently lifted the square board and waited for him.Asule looked at the deep black hole, it was a slender stone path of unknown depth, leading to the top where there was no end. "this is……" He heard his own voice echoing in the thin stone cave, as if many people shouted together: "This is... this is... this is... this is..." He understood that this was a cage.