Countless "monkeys in the mouth" pounced on me and bit my muscles. I struggled violently, determined not to give up until I had used up my last bit of strength. However, despair had already settled in my heart. Under such circumstances, even if a god came, he could not save us.
We were fighting desperately when suddenly there was a shock all around us and we all fell down. The monkeys holding on to me were stunned for a moment, and in an instant, all the monkeys slipped off us and desperately ran towards the exit of the gap.
I turned around and saw the same scene on the fat man's side. All of the "monkeys in his mouth" instantly retreated from the gap, as if they had seen a ghost.
The fat man was covered in wounds and was also confused. We looked at each other, and the fat man said to himself: "What's wrong? You don't want to eat what you got? Do you think I'm too greasy?"
The commotion of the "monkeys in the mouth" had not yet ended. The monkeys surrounding the gap climbed back into the mouth of the giant bird with a human head without stopping. The giant bird with a human head began to move, flew up one after another, and quickly disappeared, as if it had received some instructions, or saw some terrible natural enemy, and fled madly.
I gave the Type 56 to Fatty and asked him to load the bullets. Then I carefully came to the opening of the gap, not daring to go out. I stuck my head out to take a look and was immediately stunned. The strange birds with human heads flew into the sky one by one. Soon there was not a single one left around us. They all ran away. The surroundings suddenly became quiet, with only the two of us left.
This is really fucking weird, I called the fat man and motioned him to come out, we looked around, feeling a little uncomfortable with the sudden turn before death. I thought to myself, God, even if you really don't want me to die, you have to find a better reason.
I said to myself, "What are they afraid of? This monster actually has a natural enemy?" Before I could finish my words, the fat man patted me on the shoulder. He saw something.
I turned my head and saw that the human skin sealing one of the giant bronze doors had all burst and fallen off at some point. The two giant bronze doors had actually moved a little outward, and an extremely dark and tiny gap appeared between the two doors.
My heart was in my throat and I was sweating. Such a huge door actually opened by itself. The huge shock just now must have been the reaction of the door opening. Who opened such a heavy door? Who was inside?
From Wang Canghai's narration, this huge underground gate was portrayed as a passage for the evil god to travel between hell and the ancient world. There was eternal evil inside the gate, and it was definitely not a good thing. Now that the gate was open, could it be that the evil god in hell was preparing to come out to walk his dog?
This was a completely unpredictable scene. My mind raced for more than a dozen times in an instant. Was it a monster or a zongzi? Should I run or wait and see? If I ran, where should I run?
My thoughts were extremely clear at this moment, and I began to admire my tortured mind.
But after the door opened, there was no movement, and the door did not continue to open, and nothing came out. After standing there for a long time, the fat man asked me, "Do you want to go over and take a look?"
But if we enter and the gate is closed, such a huge bronze door cannot be pushed even by a thousand people, and we will definitely be trapped inside. So what is the value of knowing the secret?
It's really a choice between leaving here safely or taking a risk to get the answer.
After weighing the pros and cons again and again, I still couldn't stand this mystery that had tormented me for almost a year. I had to go in and see what the magic realm was like that Wang Canghai saw back then, and what kind of mysterious power was behind this secret that had lasted for thousands of years and involved three generations of our family.
I looked at the fat man and he felt the same way as I did.
The fat man gave me the Type 56 and picked up his M16. He took out a few magazines from the corpses on the ground, then wiped the blood off his face and motioned for me to come over.
The gate was too big. It looked like a gap from a distance, but when close up, a truck could almost drive in. The force required to move the giant gate weighing ten thousand tons this distance was incalculable.
I suppressed my excitement and walked to the huge door. I smelled a strange smell coming out of the gap, and my heartbeat suddenly accelerated. A feeling between tension and anxiety became stronger and stronger. Our hands were full of cold sweat, and even our feet were a little weak.
The fat man first used a flashlight to shine, and the flashlight disappeared completely when it was within the huge door, illuminating nothing. Wang Canghai mentioned that when the Dongxia people brought him here, the section just after entering the door was a void, and a strange lighting tool called "real fire" had to be used. We speculated that it must be a rhino horn candle to see the situation inside.
When I thought of this, I was stunned and thought to myself, that's not right, we don't have such equipment, so even if we go in, all we see is darkness. I wonder if we can pass through that empty space and reach the devil's realm?
The fat man hadn't thought of this yet. Seeing that I wasn't moving, he thought I was scared again and asked me, "Do you want to leave?"
I was about to speak when I suddenly saw several lights on in the darkness inside the huge bronze door. It seemed that something was coming out. I was about to pull Fatty to see, but Fatty pulled me too. I turned around and saw a light blue mist rising rapidly from the cracks in the rocks under the rift valley. It was like a cloud wave.