Chapter 1263 Such a Vicious Person
The mechanism in this passage seemed to be designed with a good understanding of people's minds. It had calculated clearly how someone would avoid and escape after entering. Therefore, countless sharp spikes broke out of the ground where Xiao Lanyuan avoided.
No one knew what that thing was made of. It was pointed and glowed blue, and it was obviously poisoned.
If it gets punctured even a little, it will definitely cause poisoning and death.
There is no need to be stabbed in the vitals.
Fortunately, Xiao Lanyuan's martial arts skills had reached the pinnacle. He was still in mid-air and had not fallen to the ground. A moment before those sharp spikes pierced out, he immediately kicked the wall next to him, and then his body rushed forward flat.
People are only an inch away from those sharp thorns.
When he was about to fall, he had an idea again, and in a flash, he slapped the wall with his palm, using the force to make his body fly forward a little further, and then fell quickly.
Sure enough, just as he passed by, several iron rods suddenly stabbed down from the top of the place just now.
If he had landed there just now, he would have been strung up in an instant.
"Your Majesty!"
Qing Yi and others who were staying in Dongshan were so frightened that they broke out in cold sweats.
They didn't dare to make a sound just now, for fear that if the prince was distracted, he might be attacked.
Now that they saw that the prince had finally landed safely, they felt relieved.
"Come over slowly, I will break all the mechanisms first."
If he hadn't come to this kind of mechanism, many lives might have been lost.
With Xiao Lanyuan breaking through the barrier in front, Qing Yi and the others could only follow shamelessly from behind, with the prince clearing the way for them.
When they finally finished walking through the passage, they felt their whole bodies were drenched in sweat.
Xiao Lanyuan came out of the passage and saw the situation ahead, his expression changed slightly.
There was a relatively flat hillside ahead, but there were more than a dozen wooden stakes on the hillside, and a person was tied to each stake.
Now, it seems that it is not quite correct to say that it is a human being.
It should be said that it looks like a mummy.
The clothes were weathered and tattered, and the corpse's hair was a mess.
But even until they became mummies, they were still tied tightly to the wooden stakes, probably having been exposed to wind, rain and sun.
They must have been sprinkled with a lot of preservatives, and they looked covered in a layer of white gray.
So, it became a mummy and did not rot.
"Who are these people?" Qing Yi and others came in and their faces changed when they saw this scene.
"Could it be some enemy of Master Zuo?" Eleven said.
"Then his way of revenge is too cruel."
How cruel it is to tie people up here and not allow them to rest in peace. Moreover, these people were tied here to deter outsiders who would break in later.
If a timid person saw this scene, he probably wouldn’t dare to go in again.
"No matter who it is," Xiao Lanyuan said, "catching Master Zuo is the most important thing."
Now is not the time for them to feel pity for the dead.
"Your Highness, it would probably be poisonous if we walk past here," Sixteen guessed.
Although they couldn't see any poison now, it was impossible that Master Zuo put all these things here just to scare people.
"Step over the wooden stake." Xiao Lanyuan looked for a while and said this.
What?
Qing Yi and others were a little shocked.
Stepping over the wooden stakes was like jumping over the heads of the mummies. It was a bit creepy, and there was something indescribable about it.
"Your Highness, how about I go first?" Qing Yi stepped forward.
These wooden stakes were a little close to each other and arranged irregularly. On the left and right were some dense and tall thorny vines. The ground looked muddy and wet, and you wouldn't know what would be found if you stepped on it.
They really could only pass through those "mummies forests".
But those people might have died in great pain. Now the skulls are tilted, slanted, or half-hanging in various postures. Some are hanging down, with black and gray hair scattered in front, and some are facing straight forward, with their black eye holes, mouths, and nostrils facing each other. If you were to pass in front of them, you would be very close.
Of course, Qing Yi and the others just felt it was a little scary, but they were not so courageless that they didn't even have that much courage. After all, they were all people who had experienced life and death and were knowledgeable.
They just felt that the way that Master Zuo arranged this place and tied these people up and turned them into mummies was probably more than just visually scary.
So we must be cautious.
Xiao Lanyuan shook his head. "If you don't want to alarm others, you can only jump over the wooden stake."
The road below is difficult to walk on.
Eleven was a little confused, "If the road is difficult to travel, then where did they pass by?"
Xiao Lanyuan glanced at them and said, "They just jumped over the wooden stakes. If there was something to be transported, these wooden stakes would be moved away in advance. But if they were to be moved away, the noise would be too loud."
They don't have to.
Xiao Lanyuan observed that these wooden stakes must have been moved, because the soil did not fit the wooden stakes tightly when they were buried in the ground. There were traces of soil on one or two wooden stakes, indicating that they had been moved and not nailed back to their original positions when they were nailed into the soil.
The ground was now covered with a thin layer of grass, with no signs of anyone having walked on it.
He noticed with his sharp eyes that one of the wooden stakes was covered with mud and sand.
It's very likely that someone jumped up there and got involved.
Xiao Lanyuan didn't say anything else. He pointed his toes, leaped onto the nearest wooden stake as light as a feather, and then quickly leaped towards the one in front of him.
With a few leaps, he left no trace and reached the other side in the blink of an eye, then landed on the ground with one leap.
During this period, there was no movement at all, and no mechanical poison powder or anything was triggered.
"Your Highness is right. It really came from above." Qing Yi said.
Sixteen couldn't help but curse inwardly, "Is this Zuo Jiaozhu sick? He actually set up such a path."
Who among ordinary people could have imagined this?
I guess everyone would walk carefully among those mummies.
"Let's go now."
They all quickly jumped onto the wooden stakes and rushed over.
It was thanks to Xiao Lanyuan's wit and strong observation skills, otherwise many of them might have been injured at this level, leaving behind scars that would be difficult to heal.
Because those mummies were filled with explosive poison.
As long as someone passes by, it will explode instantly, and there will be no time to dodge. Even if their life is not in danger, they will most likely be left with wounds all over their face and body, and their appearance will be disfigured.
Xiao Lanyuan waited for them to arrive before continuing to climb the mountain.
After passing these two levels, there were fewer traps in the back, and instead there were just a lot of poisonous weeds, which they were able to deal with one by one.
Just when I could see the eaves in the distance, I heard some movement in the woods ahead.
Everyone quickly hid themselves, and saw a young girl walking out with a bamboo basket.
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