Monument of Life and Death

Chapter 1157 Black-Eyed Snake

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Xiao Lan woke up in total darkness.

 She rubbed her eyes and sniffed.

Are you still in a dream?

 Or...already awake?

Xiao Lan groped around, trying to find some evidence that could prove his current state.

Xiaolan grabbed a handful of sand and rubbed it on her fingertips.

 Moist, finely divided.

 It seems that I have arrived somewhere, but where is this place?

Xiaolan was about to lift her finger to the tip of her nose to smell it. Suddenly, something quickly scratched the back of Xiaolan's hand, and Xiaolan retracted her hand in shock.

what is that?

Xiaolan hugged her right hand and sat there breathing quietly.

 Just now... it seemed to be a living thing.

Just as he was thinking about it, the rustling sound of friction came from all directions of Xiaolan almost at the same time.

Xiaolan didn’t know which direction to look in, so she simply stood up.

 There was a chill on the top of my head.

Xiaolan stretched out her hand and blocked the top of her head with her palm.

A sharp pain hit the back of her hand, and Xiaolan couldn't help but gasp.

That thing bit me.

Xiaolan stretched out her left hand and touched the thing attacking her.

 Caught.

That thing is long and slender, with a smooth and moist surface, something like...

snake.

Thinking of this, Xiaolan's scalp suddenly started to feel numb.

 Caught a snake by myself.

The snake swayed leisurely in his hand, showing no intention of struggling, and of course, no intention of letting go.

The strange thing is that since the snake bit me, the rustling sounds around me seem to have gradually receded.

Xiaolan grabbed the snake and didn't know what to do.

 Should you pull it off?

But…

To be honest, after I got used to this snake biting my hand, I don’t know why, but I actually... felt pretty good.

Although it bit her, Xiaolan felt that the snake had no ill intentions.

On the contrary, Xiaolan stroked the snake's skin, feeling an inexplicable sense of intimacy in her heart for some reason.

 Why is this happening?

 Before he could think of the answer, the snake made a move first.

 It gently let go of Xiaolan's hand.

Xiaolan lowered her head and looked at it.

It’s too dark and I can’t see anything.

But Xiaolan knew that it was also looking at her.

With a creak, a ray of light suddenly burst in from the front.

Xiaolan narrowed her eyes and looked forward.

 The door is open.

Xiaolan walked towards the door.

 Outside the door, several people were looking at him expectantly.

 For Xiaolan, they are all unfamiliar faces.

 The attire they wore was also unfamiliar to Xiaolan. It was not the attire of modern people.

 After seeing Xiaolan’s appearance, the person closest to him took the lead in cheering.

 “It’s done!”

 It’s done?

 “It is finished!…It is finished!…”

People cheered one after another.     What...is done?

 Could it be...

Xiaolan raised her hand and looked at her left hand.

The snake was still lying quietly on his hand, Xiaolan looked at it in the light.

 It was a pure black snake.

 Xiaolan heard her heart thumping in her chest.

Black Snake raised his head and met Xiaolan's eyes.

 This snake has a pair of black eyes.

Like myself, pure black eyes.

  Distant memories suddenly rushed towards me from those eyes.

Xiaolan felt some hot liquid flow out of the corner of her eyes.

no.

Xiaolan panted desperately and closed her eyes hard.

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After the greetings, Qin Yin hugged Wen Ling, and the two fell into silence again.

Although the two finally met,...

 The future is still bleak.

"So what should we do now?" Qin Yin scratched his head, "We can't stop, we have to find the Taoist priest and the others."

“Speaking of which, I still don’t know where this place is,” Wen Ling’s tone also deepened, “If my eyes can still see, I should be able to find a way out...”

“It’s okay,” Qin Yin touched Wenling’s head, “If it doesn’t work, I can open the gap and we can go somewhere else together.”

Wenling raised his head hesitantly, "Xiaoyin, are you strong enough?"

"Let's give it a try," Qin Yin grinned, "I won't get stuck halfway."

Wen Lingye smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if we are stuck, as long as we are still together."

Qin Yin nodded, "It's just that, Wen Ling, the space here is unknown to me. Maybe... I will send us to some places we don't know."

"If you don't know me, you don't know me," Wenling took Qin Yin's arm and said with a smile, "It's the same thing, as long as we are together."

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"Dead person?" Luo Jiutian looked more surprised than the others, "Who is it?"

“You can’t tell this yet,” Lao Luo looked at the compass for a while, then shook his head and said, “If we want to know this person’s identity, we have to dig it up ourselves.”

"Dig it out?" The fool stepped on the ground under his feet, "Do you want to dig up this hill?"

“If it’s an ordinary mountain, just dig it,” Luo Jiutian said with a wrinkled face, “But this is Lu Xiang, it’s not easy to dig...”

“What will happen if we know the identity of the corpse?” Baomu asked.

“Perhaps the key to cracking this formation lies in the corpse,” Lao Luo mused. “If we know the identity of the corpse, maybe we can rescue them.”

 “Can’t Baomu smell anything?” The Taoist turned his head and asked.

 Baomu shook his head in embarrassment, "It's all the smell of Lu Xiang, and you can't smell the stuff inside at all."

what to do?

"Lao Luo... can't you get in?" The fool hesitated, "After all, you are a spirit body, are you different from us?"

Lao Luo thought this funny statement was funny, but Lao Luo didn't laugh and couldn't laugh at all.

"Even if it's a puff of smoke, my dad can't get in now," Luo Jiutian said helplessly, "It's hard to tell whether there is a gap here."

“How about using your zhanglong ruler to measure things more accurately?” the fool asked.

“It’s very difficult,” Luo Jiutian sighed, “Even a Zhanglong ruler cannot enter the interior of the mountain. This accuracy is already the limit.”

"Is there no other way now?" the fool asked.

"Unless..." Lao Luo turned his head and looked at the upper edge of the platform, "If there are insects, maybe we can use them to detect whether there are any gaps inside the cavity."

 “Insects?” The fool responded, “Are they the insects from Four Summers?”

 Lao Luo nodded, "Insects are small in size and can see many things that we can't see."

"But Xia Ni hasn't woken up yet, and what if Xia Ni uses psychic powers and is caught in the stone pillar?" Luo Jiutian asked.

 At a dead end again.

"Looking at the current situation," the Taoist Master finally said after a long time, "otherwise, Xia Ni must wake up, or...we must find other people who can control insects."