chsdbacks Chapter 474 Python
Chapter 474 Python
"Brother Li, what's going on?"
Fatty Lin took the first step, and once he moved, Lao Fang and Meng Guizi followed suit.
"Come and see for yourselves!" Li Donglin replied.
When we arrived in front of Li Donglin, we saw the situation clearly.
Behind a pile of gold bricks, a person sat cross-legged.
The man was dressed in a tattered Japanese Shinto robe, his hair was gray and tangled, his face was ashen and as dry as a zombie.
Judging from appearances, this person must be an Onmyoji (a type of Japanese shaman) left behind by the Kwantung Army to guard the treasury.
"Dead?" Fatty Lin asked.
"Chirp!"
Little Ba tilted its head, looked at the person, and called out twice.
"Xiao Ba said that it's not breathing anymore, and you can't smell its soul anymore. It's completely dead!" Long Nier said.
"Dead already?" Fatty Lin was a little incredulous. He took out his peach wood sword and walked over.
"Be careful!" I said.
"I know!"
Fatty Lin waved his hand, walked up to the man, and poked the man's face with his peach wood sword, making a rustling sound, just like scraping a wall with putty.
"My face is dry and quite stiff!"
"That's what Fatty Lin said."
After saying that, he looked down, nudged the man's hand forming a seal with his peach wood sword, and said, "The seal he's forming looks a bit like our Soul-Suppressing Seal. What is he trying to suppress?"
"Something's not right!" Li Donglin said, frowning.
"Brother Li, what's wrong?" Fatty Lin asked.
"According to the notes, before the Japanese devils left, they killed many laborers and used their blood to set up a large array in the secret vault where gold was hidden, to protect the gold. But now, have you seen any trace of this so-called array?" Li Donglin asked.
"Didn't see it!" We shook our heads almost simultaneously.
"Apart from that infant ghost, there's nothing else that's an obstacle!" Fatty Lin said after thinking for a moment.
"That's why it's not right!" Li Donglin's brows furrowed even deeper. He pointed at the Onmyoji who had been dead for who knows how many years and said, "Look, he sacrificed himself for the formation, using himself as the core of the array. Once someone enters the secret vault, unless they utter the Onmyoji's secret code, they will be attacked by the living souls sacrificed here!"
"But is anyone attacking us now?"
Li Donglin looked around and asked.
"No!" We shook our heads again.
"Not only is there none, but besides the slimy, cold, worm-like aura that Xiao Ba mentioned, is there a ghost here?" Li Donglin asked again.
"No!"
At this point, we all realized that something was wrong.
"Xiao Ba, you said you smelled the scent of snakes, is it still there?"
Li Donglin thought for a moment and looked at Xiao Ba.
"Chirp!"
Xiao Ba nodded first, then shook his head, his little eyes full of confusion.
"What do you mean?"
Li Donglin looked at Long Nier.
"Xiao Ba said that the smell is still there, and not only is it there, it's everywhere. She's also wondering why there's such a strong snake smell," Long Nier said.
"Chirp chirp!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Ba seemed to remember something, pointed at the Onmyoji on the ground and shouted, his voice urgent and crisp.
"Xiao Ba said that this Onmyoji didn't die of old age; his soul was eaten and his body was taken over!" Long Nier translated.
"retreat!"
Upon hearing this, Li Donglin's expression hardened, and he immediately raised his hand, signaling us to retreat.
Old Fang and Meng Guizi, who were lagging behind, hesitated for a moment, but after seeing us retreat, they followed suit.
After retreating less than five meters, the iron gate behind me suddenly slammed shut with a bang.
As the door closed, the Onmyoji opened his eyes, revealing a pair of vertical pupils.
"Grass!"
The moment I saw those eyes, a chill ran through my body.
"Imperial Edict!"
Fatty Lin reacted the fastest, flipping his hand and striking the Onmyoji with an exorcism talisman.
The moment the talisman struck, it emitted a loud bang and transformed into a ball of flame.
"hiss!"
Perhaps because he was hurt, the Onmyoji opened his mouth, but instead emitted a snake-like hiss.
"What are you yelling for?"
At this moment, the blind man on the left suddenly darted out from the side, and with a wave of his hand, a thin rod about twenty centimeters long pierced through the Onmyoji's eye socket and out through the back of his head.
Holy crap!
This scene startled me, and I instinctively shrank back. I never imagined that the Dragon Probe Needle could be used like this.
"hiss!"
The next moment, a slightly angry hiss rang out.
With that hissing sound, the two piles of gold collapsed.
"retreat!"
Li Donglin realized something was wrong and immediately shouted.
Without a second thought, the blind man dragged the Dragon Probing Needle behind him and turned to run.
"Chirp!"
Xiao Ba also let out a cry at that moment.
As Long Nier and I retreated, we aimed our flashlights at the two collapsed piles of gold bricks. With the help of the flashlight's strong beam, I saw a snake's tail as thick as an adult's thigh, or perhaps a python's tail would be more accurate.
"Damn, Hachi's right, there's a snake here! This Onmyoji not only had his soul eaten, but his corpse was also controlled. The Eighth Secret Vault is being controlled by a snake!"
Fatty Lin also saw the python, and he shouted as he backed away.
boom!
As soon as he finished speaking, another pile of gold bricks collapsed, and countless gold bricks rolled down, making a series of crisp sounds, and sparkling gold under the strong beam of the flashlight.
In the golden light, the python slowly stood up and raised its head.
We all shone our flashlights at the same time, and met a pair of vertical pupils.
Unlike any snakes or pythons I've seen before, this python has a golden line between its vertical pupils. The golden line is very obvious and can even reflect light.
Besides its vertical pupils, its body was also longer than we expected; the section we saw was over two meters long.
Besides being long, it's also very thick, almost like a bucket.
What's most unsettling isn't its length, its thickness, or even the golden lines in its two vertical pupils, but rather its jet-black scales, resembling a human face.
"Damn it, it not only devoured the souls of the Onmyoji, but also the souls of the laborers who were sacrificed!"
"Lin the Fat Man shouted."
Upon hearing this, I understood everything. That's why there were no obstacles after entering, except for that infant ghost.
The reason is simple: the Japanese troops' arrangements here were completely destroyed.
More precisely, it was all swallowed up by the python.
This situation was unexpected not only by the Japanese who initially planned it, but also by us.
Without this python, we would probably have been facing a massive army of Japanese ghost soldiers ever since we entered the second basement level.
This is a classic case of being too clever for one's own good, ultimately leading to one's own demise. After plotting for so long and killing so many people, in the end, they were all swallowed up by a python.
This is both a good thing and a bad thing for us.
The good thing is that we no longer have to face our compatriots who have been sacrificed and turned into ghost soldiers.
The bad thing is, we're now facing this python that has devoured Onmyoji and countless spirits.
"Oh shit!"
Looking at the tightly closed steel door behind me, I clenched the Demon-Slaying Seal. This was a big problem.