【Kuan Xin】Snake and Venom

Yuan Zhongxin held back the trembling in his heart, and slowly helped Wang Kuan up. His movements were extremely gentle, as if he was treating a rare treasure in the world, and he was afraid that Wang Kuan would be broken if he made a wrong hand. Staring at Wang Kuan for a moment, the emotions in his eyes were buried deep and intricate, and in the faint flickering firelight, his expression was hard to hide his paleness.

Looking at the cautious Yuan Zhongxin, Wang Kuan didn't feel happy, but felt uneasy. He held Yuan Zhongxin's hand, and as expected, there was a coldness under his palm. He frowned tightly and said worriedly: "Yuan Zhongxin ,What’s wrong with you?"

Wang Kuan's nervous look was deeply reflected in Yuan Zhongxin's eyes, and the sadness in his heart was like a river rushing endlessly. Yuan Zhongxin secretly bit the tip of his tongue, pretending to give Wang Kuan an angry look: "Can you speak well?" , I’m sorry for saying nothing for no reason, I’m very depressed now, what do you think should I do?”

Wang Kuan was stunned, quite at a loss: "You don't like to hear it, so I won't talk about it in the future, okay?"

Yuan Zhongxin raised his eyebrows, and his tone was full of warning: "This is what you said, and you will do what you say."

Wang Kuan nodded quickly, and almost raised his hand to swear, "I won't say anything in the future."

Yuan Zhongxin breathed a sigh of relief, took the water bag beside him and handed it to Wang Kuan: "Drink first, Fan Zaizhi and my brother took Zhao Jian and the others to explore the road, and it will probably be soon came back."

Hearing this, Wang Kuan obediently drank a few sips, his eyes scanned the surroundings, there was an endless darkness all around, except for a few sporadic fires, only himself and Yuan Zhongxin, he asked : "Where are we?"

Yuan Zhongxin pondered for a moment and said: "The water flow here is quite slow. I guess it should be in the downstream of a certain river. Walking along the water flow, it may be where the exit is located."

At the same time, the 19 people who went out to explore the road came back one after another, and they were relieved to see Wang Kuan awake.

Zhang Xu found a dry place to store a bundle of dry firewood, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and sighed: "There are so many small streams in this place that we can't even count them, and there are short branches and broken firewood everywhere. There are not many of them."

Yuan Bofin glanced at the crowd with the dim light of the fire, and said: "Zhang Xu, pick out a small bundle of dry firewood and light a fire. It's very cold here, and the children's clothes are soaked. If this continues It's easy to catch cold."

Hearing this, Zhang Xu ignited a small fire quickly with his hands and feet, and everyone sat around.

Yuan Zhongxin asked: "How are you doing exploring?"

Hearing this, Zhao Jian and the others looked at each other in blank dismay, hesitated to speak, and their expressions were quite dignified.

Yuan Zhongxin glanced at the crowd, suddenly an ominous feeling rose from the bottom of his heart, and his face suddenly became solemn: "What happened?"

Yuan Bofin sighed softly, and explained: "We did find a way out, but it's not a road, but a chain bridge."

Wang Kuan was puzzled: "Iron cable bridge?"

Zhao Jian pursed her lips and frowned, recalling the scene she saw just now, she felt goosebumps all over her body: "Actually, it's not really a bridge. It was far away at first, so I couldn't see it clearly. At first glance, it looked like a bridge." , but when we got closer, we found that there were only three iron chains there, the thickest one was at the bottom, and the other two were thinner in comparison. Hold on to the thick one at the bottom, and then walk over with the two thin ones."

The three iron chains are so crudely stretched between the mountains, swaying and looking terrifying, not to mention Zhao Jian and the others, even Yuan Bofin, who has killed countless enemies on the battlefield, will be terrified. Cold, my heart trembled so hard to breathe.

Wei Yanei wrinkled his face bitterly: "The two of you haven't seen it with your own eyes. How penetrating that scene is, I'm scared out of my wits just looking at it, let alone walking on it."

Fan Zaizhi and the others frowned, helpless, obviously agreeing with Wei Yanei's words.

Wang Kuan stared slightly, and asked thoughtfully, "Is there no other way than this chain bridge?"

Yuan Bofin shook his head: "No, if you want to get out of the bottom, you have to either go forward or climb up. Although we can't see the surrounding situation clearly, I can be sure that there are steep cliffs everywhere, even though we have many Ropes, but it is basically impossible to climb up with our strength alone."

In other words, now, the only way for them to get out of the dungeon is to go to the chain bridge.

Yuan Zhongxin lowered his eyes and pondered, the light in his eyes flickered with the flames, he frowned slightly and said: "In this case, we have no choice but to go and see first—Brother Luo, the remaining dry food There are many?"

Luo Ying, who was in charge of managing the dry rations they had traveled along the way, thought for a moment, and then said in a deep voice: "It can probably support us all for another eight days. After falling into the water, some dry rations were washed away by the river, and more have been washed away It was soaked so completely swelled that it couldn't be eaten at all."

Xue Ying said lightly: "I have a small appetite, and I can be full just by drinking water. I don't need to eat much."

Wei Yanei quickly raised his hand: "Me too, I'm very full now, I don't need to eat."

Xiaojing echoed: "I'm a girl, so I can't eat much. I only eat a small piece of cake a day."

The rest of the people looked at each other, and the meaning in each other's eyes was self-evident. The current dry food can last for eight days. If they endure it, they can last for ten days at most.

After a stick of incense, Yuan Zhongxin and Wang Kuan finally saw with their own eyes how thrilling the chain bridge that Zhao Jian and the others were talking about was. Holding torches, the two looked at everything in front of them in astonishment, their hearts beating in shock and their breathing stiff. .

The boundless darkness magnifies the deepest fear in people's hearts infinitely.

Looking around, everything he could see was dim. Even though there was fire around them, the overwhelming darkness swallowed up the flames. No matter how far Yuan Zhongxin stretched out the torch, he still couldn't see anything clearly. Things can only vaguely distinguish the appearance of the iron chain.

Under the iron chain, the overwhelming darkness and coldness are overwhelming, penetrating to the bone and blood, chilling the heart, the whistling cold wind is mixed with the slightest horrified whining, hitting the crumbling iron chain, making a frightening "clang" The sound, even the air was filled with a cold and forbidding smell, like sharp nails scratching at the tip of the heart, the hair stood on end, and it was daunting.

This end of the iron chain is deeply embedded in the stone wall of the hillside, but no one knows what the other end is connected to. Looking from a distance, there are clusters of deep and gloomy mist, which are lingering in an extremely slow manner. The posture drifted away, and the moment of looking at it with the wrong eye gave people the illusion that the claws of a hundred ghosts were tearing three souls and seven souls.

Yuan Zhongxin frowned, holding a torch and wandering on the hillside, struggling in his heart, he didn't know whether the chain bridge should be walked or not.

They couldn't see the end of the iron chain at all. If they really stepped on the chain bridge, there was probably no turning back, but who knew how long the iron chain was?

If they had to walk for three days and three nights day and night, how could their physical strength and spirit be able to endure it?

Wei Yanei withdrew his gaze tremblingly, and looked at Yuan Zhongxin pitifully: "How about it, should we go this way?"

Yuan Zhongxin leaned against the mountain wall, his hand holding on to the torch was exhausted, and he propped himself on the stone wall. He raised his eyes to look at Wei Yanei, and then turned his eyes to Wang Kuan who was standing beside him: "What do you think?" Woolen cloth?"

Wang Kuan and Yuan Zhongxin looked at each other for a moment, then Feng Qingyun said calmly, "I think we can try."

As soon as these words came out, it was like thunder on the ground. Except for Yuan Zhongxin, who pursed his lips and smiled lowly, the expressions of the others were shocked and stunned.

Zhao Jian hesitated and said, "But, we don't know too much about the situation. If we go over there rashly, wouldn't it be too risky?"

Wang Kuan said calmly: "Entering the dungeon is inherently risky. If we remain stagnant, we will never find a way out." He shifted his gaze to Yuan Zhongxin and said meaningfully: "More What's more, this iron chain can't appear here out of thin air, it must be made by people, if people can build it, it will more or less prove that this chain bridge should exist for people to walk - try it , is better than waiting here."

Yuan Zhongxin just smiled and said nothing, every word Wang Kuan said hit his heart, he stood up straight, was about to speak, but suddenly stopped, his eyes widened instantly, and he shrugged his nose in a daze, Zhuangruo said to himself: "This is... what kind of smell?"

When everyone heard this, they were confused and stared at Yuan Zhongxin for no reason.

Yuan Zhongxin shrugged his nose again, and he said in surprise, "Wang Kuan, can you smell it? There seems to be some kind of fragrance."

Wang Kuan concentrated, all his attention was focused on the scent floating in the air, and he really smelled something unusual, he frowned, started to walk slowly along the scent, and muttered in his mouth: " This seems to be, is it rosin?" He turned to look at Yuan Zhongxin: "What did you just do?"

Yuan Zhongxin was stunned for a moment, pointed to the mountain wall behind him and replied, "I didn't do anything, I just leaned against this mountain to rest."

Wang Kuan came to the mountain wall that Yuan Zhongxin was pointing at, his eyes flickering, he put his nose against the rock, sniffed for a long while, and said suddenly: "Zhongxin, the torch."

Yuan Zhongxin immediately handed the torch to Wang Kuan.

Wang Kuan's eyes shifted, he took a few steps back, the torch was placed against the rock, the flame jumped rapidly, and clung to the rock wall. After a while, there was a crackling sound!

The next moment, all the people present were suddenly suffocated, looking at what happened in front of them in shock.

The flame climbed up sharply, winding up the stone wall, and climbing forward, a big fire ignited on the surface of the mountain wall, and the flames soared into the sky impressively!

Wang Kuan's figure suddenly flashed, and he rushed to Yuan Zhongxin quickly, holding him in his arms and backing away steadily, away from the stone wall where the temperature suddenly rose a few feet away.

However, the fire did not simply stay on the stone wall of the small hillside. The flames flowed like a river of stars and quickly flowed towards the mountain wall in front. One after another, the stone walls between the mountains, the totems with circle patterns, the majestic mountains and rivers, galloping all the way, never stop moving forward!

In an instant, the whole valley was brightly lit by the fire dragon, bright and brilliant!